Executive summary: Dude robs a Brink’s truck, sets off speeding, gets his tires whacked by a spike strip, runs into a house to take hostages. Hero cop hurtles into action, kicks down the door, empties his high-cap mag into the choirboy. End of story.
No calls for backup, no dithering, just takes action and the story ends.
Frigging hero.
Okay, given that most advertising shows EeewChoob videos seem to be A.I. creations, treat this video with the usual circumspection because I don’t know how much of it is true and how much just cheap sensationalism. (When I look up “Clarkson” and “Bill Gates” together, the video seems to be the only source — yeah, call me cynical and suspicious. On the other hand, Clarkson hasn’t repudiated the report yet — something he’s never slow to do if it’s a load of crap, so maybe there’s actually something to it.)
All that said, if this item is indeed true, then it would seem that the Greatest Living Englishman has managed to resist the advances of the dreadful billionaire Bill Gates (purveyor of shit software since the 1960s).
As to what Gates is trying to do by buying thousands upon thousands of acres of British agricultural land: your guess is as good as mine. But given the Seattle dwarf’s track record, it can’t be A Good Thing.
And harking back to the previous post, it seems as though for every decent billionaire (e.g. Elon Musk), there seem to be too many scumbags like Gates and George Soros.
Via The Divine Sarah (posting at Insty), I see this little treasure:
More than 70 years after he took part in the longest dogfight in Navy history, scoring four aerial victories, Royce Williams might finally get the Medal of Honor.
Over the weekend, Congress released the text for the compromise National Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense policy bill outlining spending plans and goals. This year, it is a record $901 billion. Nestled into the large defense appropriations bill is Sec. 591, which would upgrade Williams’ Navy Cross to the Medal of Honor for “acts of valor during the Korean War.”
Those acts involve taking on seven Soviet MiG-15s in a 35-minute dogfight almost singlehandedly, in a battle that was kept under wraps for years despite Williams’ achievements.
Read the whole article to get the full delicious flavor of the thing.
Yes, Royce Williams is a true American hero and yes, he deserves the MoH, bigly.
What impressed me almost as much was the fighter jet he flew at the time, the Grumman F9F-5 Panther:
If there’s a nicer-looking aircraft than that baby, I haven’t seen it yet. Sleek, torpedo-like yet compact… be still, my beating heart.
That Royce Williams overcame a whole bunch of supposedly more-advanced Commie MiG-15s in that beauty should come as no surprise, especially as the MiGs were pig-ugly in the way that only Commie-built things can look. (No pic, I don’t want to spoil this post.)
Let’s honor Royce Williams’s heroism, and let’s appreciate the gorgeous aircraft he performed it in.
(This article posted at a time close to the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Greenwich Mean Time.)
We will remember them.
If this one doesn’t make your blood boil, we can’t be friends.
An 11-year-old boy in Michigan did something most adults would hesitate to do. He saw a classmate pull out a loaded gun in a school bathroom, and instead of freezing in fear, he lunged, disarmed the student, and prevented what could have been another tragic headline.
Nazzo fast, Guido.
The Lansing School District announced that the child will face “disciplinary action” for his bravery. Why? Because the district’s beloved “zero tolerance” policy doesn’t distinguish between a kid wielding a gun and a kid taking it away to save lives. Bureaucrats love to tell us they’re “keeping schools safe.” But in reality, they’ve created a system where blind adherence to rules matters more than actual safety.
And the philosophy behind this bastardy is quite simple:
The message to this boy, and to every other student paying attention, is clear: Don’t be brave, don’t take risks, don’t step in to help. Just sit down, stay quiet, and hope someone else will save you. That’s the lesson public schools are drilling into kids: obedience over courage, paperwork over principle.
My personal opinion is that the school administration — every single member who voted for this expulsion — should be stripped naked and flogged in the school gym, in front of the entire school.
I don’t just want pain, I want humiliation for these bastards as punishment for trying to turn our kids into quivering cowards — into Europeans, if you will — and even worse, punishing heroism instead of rewarding it.
Feel free to suggest your own ideas in Comments. Be as creative as you want.
So apparently there’s a Good Guy With A Gun involved in the taking down of our loony stabber in Traverse City MI — not that you’d ever read or hear about it in the Messed-Up Media, of course.
Here’s Our Hero, and that’s the situation he found himself in.
Now good for him, in that he restrained himself from ventilating the nutcase. (I’m not quite sure what’s going on with that hold on the gun, mind you, but whatever.)
Apparently, he told the loony to drop the knife “several times” before the asshole saw the light of reason and dropped the knife
I have to say that if I were in his situation, standing what looks like three or four feet away from the nutcase, I’m not sure that I would have acted the same.
He’s standing very much in range of a stabbing lunge, and as we all know, that’s way too close for comfort.
I may or may not have issued a “Drop the fucking knife!” order, but I sure as hell would have popped three into his chest after the first refusal to do so. Standing close to a nutcase holding a bloodstained knife, with the screams of his victims echoing all over the place…
Like I said, the man showed admirable restraint. Others might not have.
Oh, and semper fi, Marine.