[AWR]

Maaaann, this why you need adventures and adventurers!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...wed-by-a-hippo

[Chinney]

Yes. To do it for you, so you can read about it, but not have to do it yourself. No part of being in a hippo's mouth appeals to me!

[drewprops]

CNN fakes a satellite interview!


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[addabox]

Kai the axe wielding hitchhiker wanted for murder via "blunt force trauma.".

If you missed the original hilarity, watch here. Central casting stoner/surfer relates how he took down a madman with his trusty hatchet.

Interesting thought: maybe the guy's just a straight up hatchet murder enthusiast and he happened to kill a bad guy, for once.

[709]

Originally Posted by addabox Interesting thought: maybe the guy's just a straight up hatchet murder enthusiast and he happened to kill a bad guy, for once.

I really really want this to be true.

Though, with that mindset, watching the video again and hearing his first lines about "No matter what you've done" etc. made him just that much more sinister. And lovable.

[addabox]

Originally Posted by 709 I really really want this to be true. Though, with that mindset, watching the video again and hearing his first lines about "No matter what you've done" etc. made him just that much more sinister. And lovable.

I thought the same thing. Somebody needs to make a horror movie with a Kai type as the relentless killer. So when he has has the last babe cornered, he gives a little speech, his eyes twinkling and casually tossing his axe hand to hand:

"You're boyfriend totally did not want to play. I think he needed to get some more board time, bro. SMASH! SM-AAAASH!" (Pantomimes head staving, chuckles. Suddenly turns earnest) "But dude, everybody needs to get their skin harvested, you know? Just, you know, let it rip. RIP RIP RIP!" (Laughs, lunges)

[Kickaha]

Shaun White of the Dead?

^_^

[Moogs]

Originally Posted by AWR More shit balls. That's a pretty significant 'accident'. Weren't prepared for tragedy giving a 5-year-old a loaded gun? What the hell are some people thinking? (No, video does not show shooting) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vide...er-rifle-video

I'll leave the rest for the 2nd Amendment thread but what a dumb-ass white trash POS who bought his / her five year old a rifle for a present. Had to make a real "freedom statement" there, huh bud? NRA is proud to call you "brother". Hope it was worth it. You just killed your daughter and scarred your son for life. Nice job.

Whoever gave it to them... state's attorney should bring reckless endangerment charges. Not even checking to see if the fuckin' thing was loaded... but yah SURE... just hand it right over to the little guy. Inbred douche. Shit balls, indeed. Someone tell me again I'm cruel for wanting to ban reproduction for certain classes of individuals. Just give me the all-reaching reproductive enforcement powers... I'll handle it. Trust me. ™

[AWR]

Storing a gun properly is not difficult. What drives me nuts generally is the mentality that because this is the way we live/do things anything can be acceptable, be it guns around five-year-olds, restricted access to birth control, burqas....

[FFL]

Stupid drunk redneck asshole throws a half-full vodka bottle at the stage at a free music festival in Virginia.

Headlining artist, reggae legend Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals, is taken to the hospital with a gash on his face and possible concussion.

One asshole in a crowd of over 10,000. That's all it takes.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/la...a4bcf6878.html

From the Facebook page of one of the guitar techs for another band that was there:

I just witnessed the most unsettling thing I have ever seen in all my years in the music business. I was watching toots and the maytals from the side of the stage at the Dominion River Rock festival. 10's of thousands of people were getting down to "country roads" and some dumb redneck threw a half full glass vodka bottle at the stage and hit toots in the forehead. Busted his head wide open, he is on his way to the hospital. Probably has a concussion. I just don't even have the words. What is wrong with people? And yes, they got the guy. The crowd grabbed him and passed him up to the police, who have him in custody. He was identified by a member of the audience and also by one of the guys on toots' crew who witnessed it from the stage

[curiousuburb]

Hope they provided some mosh pit justice on the way to the stage.

[Eugene]

"Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam"

Not compelling news, just an amazing headline. Well played, LA Times.

[pscates2.0]

Originally Posted by FFL Stupid drunk redneck asshole throws a half-full vodka bottle at the stage at a free music festival in Virginia. Headlining artist, reggae legend Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals, is taken to the hospital with a gash on his face and possible concussion. One asshole in a crowd of over 10,000. That's all it takes. http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/la...a4bcf6878.html From the Facebook page of one of the guitar techs for another band that was there:

This is part of the reason I no longer go to concerts or any larger, live music-oriented gatherings/festivals. I'm surprised this crap doesn't go on more, frankly. I've given up on trying to enjoy certain types of events anymore. Because you're right...all it takes is one, and I'll be damned if he's not there every single time.

[Moogs]

In scary news, the child moles.... the ice cream man is driving around our neighborhood again with a catchy new song to attract vict.... children.

(The ice cream truck guys around here are so frickin shady looking it literally makes me want to photograph them all from a distance and send in anonymous tips to the FBI crime prevention unit. Maybe they'll run a sting operation and round up all the slimy looking ice-cream truck guys and replace them all with a neighborhood kiosk...)



This is definitely one part of the economy that should have robots replacing humans, with no regrets by anyone.

[FFL]

Update: seems Toots will be OK and continue with his tour. He's not known as "the hardest working man in the reggae music business" for nothing.

The vodka bottle apparently wasn't smuggled in, but was stolen from a "hospitality area" serving mixed drinks.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/lo...a4bcf6878.html

From what I was told, the "crowd chant" referred to was "Fuck That Guy!", and the cops held him backstage till the crowd dispersed for his own safety.

The band's road manager asked the police if he could give the guy a quick look at the inside of the tour bus, but was politely refused.

You can see the bottle fly through the air and hit Toots at around the last 30 seconds of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpLRr8agNBY

[curiousuburb]

How about showing him the inside of a Grizzly bear's mouth.

GoPro meets Grizzly (with audio, but thankfully no smell-o-vision)

[709]

Holy crap. I was away from any kind of connectivity for most of the day, and I turn on the teevee to see a city in OK wiped out completely... wtf?

I was in a large D&W earlier this afternoon grabbing eats for the week, and it got so dark and rainy I had to scurry out to the car and loaded it up completely soaking wet. 5 minutes later the bigger hail came (I saw some bounce off the car the size of quarters) and Anna freaked the fuck out. By her estimation it was positively biblical. And it kind've was... I've never been so concerned about sunroof glass in my entire life.

But then I turn on the tube tonight and holy gods... the footage of entire blocks and blocks of homes wiped clean off the face... just, gods. Truly terrible. My love expressed concern about the pets that may have been left inside the homes and then promptly went upstairs saying something along the lines of "this is too terrible to contemplate"

Indeed. For everyone and everything involved. Just horrible.

[billybobsky]

terrible to wake up to...

[Moogs]

Agree. Photos of scene are brutal. Reminds me of Greensburg, Kansas (I think that was the name), a few years ago. These mega-storms seem more common now though I'm not going to blindly chalk it up to global warming or whatever. I just don't recall reading about these kinds of storms with the monsterous tracks (mile wide, travelling on ground for 30-40 minutes, etc) going back to the 70s and 80s but it's possible I just forgot some of the nastier ones. Seems like back then storms didn't last as long or cut as wide a swath of damage as they do now.

[pscates2.0]

Moogs, I think so much of it has to do with coverage and the instantaneous, "you are there now, and know/hear everything" brought about by 24/7 cable news and the Internet (and camera/video-equipped cell phones). Back when I was a kid, you got the news twice a day...6:00 and 11:00. If something really big or bad happened, the networks might bust in to report it. So you had that and the newspaper. You weren't completely snowed under, and you could actually breathe and take time to digest/understand things because they weren't coming at you from all angles at 500mph like they are now.

I'm sure many of those storms and tornadoes 20-30 years ago were awful...we just didn't get bombarded with live reports, Tweets, cell phone pics, satellite or aerial images hours after the fact, amateur video, animated infographics, etc. of it all, 24/7 and without pause. We notice these details/numbers (mile wide, 40 minutes on the ground, etc.) simply because now it's all being shot out at us non-stop, day in and day out.

I don't think these things are worse now, no. I just think awful, horrible events - Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, Oklahoma tornado, etc. - are made even bigger/worse by the endless coverage and more detailed, up-close cover viewing we get now. Unless you're in Newtown, Boston or Oklahoma, WTF are you needing to know - hundreds or thousands of miles away - at every minute following the initial 1-2 days of the story breaking?

And, honestly, I don't think it's necessarily an improvement, or "better". I truly miss the days of "here's what you need to know...6:00 and 11:00", and then you get on with your life. 1,000 years from now, anthropologists (or aliens) are going to look at us and say "they were doing okay up until the late 20th and early 21st century...then it just all kinda went to hell and got ridiculous; seems cable news and the Internet cornholed them royally, over time. They became more stupid, combative and attention-starved/shameless...and every one of them seemed to forget how to read a map and became such GPS-dependent pussies."

[Moogs]

Probably right on the money AFA media biasing, Paul. Certainly has an effect.

[709]

So where's Robo's review of Microsoft's new cable box? The one introduced today that will maybe be able to play a game eventually. Someday. I need to hear it from him!

[drewprops]

He's tweeting the heck out of it right now - hop over and take a looky


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[PKIDelirium]

Those aerial photos look a hell of a lot like my city did after the 1974 F-5...

[709]

Originally Posted by drewprops He's tweeting the heck out of it right now - hop over and take a looky ...

I need paragraphs, not characters!

[FFL]

Originally Posted by PKIDelirium Those aerial photos look a hell of a lot like my city did after the 1974 F-5...

Yeah, I remember that.... it was the same year that an F4 effectively wiped out Cherokee Park in my hometown of Louisville. I was half a block away from the park, huddled and terrified in the corner of the basement with my mom and sister.

[Moogs]

And so it begins and the lines begin to blur. "Not specifically targeted." OK.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us...e-strikes.html

Saw some testimony the other day by ACLU guy and a couple academic law professors on drone use in our country, 4th ammendment, etc. Was not entirely encouraging. Very few of the congressional questioners seemed to be taking a "Constitution first" attitude. Instead taking more of a "but what if we need them" attitude, offering up far-fetched examples, etc. These things are going to get the Patriot Act treatment IMO. Sadly. Security from vague, unknown threats first, freedom and adhering to the Constitution only when convenient.

[Moogs]

Here's a video that's hard to believe is real. Like's it's from a bad made-for-TV movie or something. If nothing else I guess I prefer the guy who stands around and waits for the police than the guy who runs all day and hides in people's back yards.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-...oolwich-scene/

[billybobsky]

Did you see that Obama is limiting drone strikes to Tea Party, Associated Conservatives?