Let’s hear it for the folks in Fort Worth:
Texas Crowd Stones Gunman to Death After Fatal Shooting
A man allegedly opened fire and killed at least one person at a Fort Wort, Texas, party on Monday morning, prompting the other attendees to reportedly stone the alleged shooter to death at the scene.
I’m just surprised that he wasn’t shot, this being Fort Worth, but I guess that we could call this a Righteous Stoning…
Thanks to several people for sending me the link.
I think I’ve told this story before, but anyway…
When I was at The Englishman’s cottage in Cornwall, I had the rare pleasure of hanging out with the Sorensons (Mrs. Sor is “The Catholic” in Comments) for a couple days. I walked down to the kitchen one morning to find Mrs. Sor sitting alone drinking tea.
“Where’s Himself?” I asked.
“Down by the harbor, feeding Tesco plastic bags to the seagulls.”
He hates seagulls, and so do I.
When I read this sorry tale, I just shook my head.
Monique Sveinsson, 46, from Cambridgeshire, was on a mini-break with her friend Emma Wilshaw when she was attacked by the hungry seagulls at Brighton beach on August 3.
The mother-of-two, who runs her own planner and diary company, described how the aggressive birds circled above her before launching themselves at her food and flying away with the chips.
There is a way to deal with these airborne rodents, and anyone who is going to the seaside (or anywhere seagulls are in abundance, e.g. the Great Lakes) should avail themselves of this advice.
I had to live in San Francisco for a couple weeks on a client assignment, and my walk to the office from the hotel took me through a couple parks. The fucking crows and seagulls didn’t just annoy me, they attacked me, pecking at my head.
So on the way back from the client I stopped at a junk store and bought a racquet. Then when I went to the park the next day, the little bastards attacked me again. Miraculously, however, they stopped attacking me after I’d popped three of them out of the sky. (It’s just a little more strenuous than playing badminton.)
Some stupid Karen took offense and called the cops on me. When the cop asked me what I’d been doing and I told him, he stifled a laugh and said, “I’m going to have to confiscate that weapon.” Then he winked at me and said, “I’ve been wanting to do what you did for ten years. Enjoy your stay.” And he walked off, swinging the racquet like a billyclub. I think he was daring the birds to attack him.
As with all my advice given on these pages, there’s a “you’re on your own if you follow it” warning.
But I have to tell you, it’s almost as much fun as shooting them with a shotgun.
I see that the cops charged with riot control both Over Here and Over There are being encouraged to “take a knee” (i.e. kneel down before the rioters, to express sympathy for The Cause).
Well, of course that’s all a load of old bullshit. Reader Quentin (who is a Brit) has this suggestion:
…whilst The Englishman takes a more old-fashioned view:
…but I, of course, prefer a still-more old-fashioned knee-taking (for the Brits, that is):
As for us Murkins, we generally prefer to do things with mechanised equipment:
…but for those who do want some human interface, we could always borrow this idea from our Brit cousins:
(I like the thoughtful touch of adding a trough-shaped flash deflector, so as not to set fire to the driver’s hair when shooting at Nazis, fuzzy-wuzzies, Commies, college faculty members [some overlap] and other assorted filth.)
Additional suggestions in Comments.
You all have one, right? Right?
Here’s a decent video of the history thereof.
Admission: I don’t have a full-sized Ka-Bar, just the shorter “USAF Survival” version.
But I think I’ll be looking at one of the full-sized ones, maybe as a “suggested” birthday present from the kids. Here’s the USMC model:
Anyway, enjoy the movie.
The other day, a friend asked me to give him advice about crossbows — specifically, serious hunting crossbows, not the recreational (toy) type — as he’s been invited to a bowhunt for wild turkeys (I think) later on in the year, and for various reasons, a “regular” bow wouldn’t work for him.
It irked me that I couldn’t tell him anything — my interest in launching deadly projectiles has always involved gunpowder — so I turn to you, O My Readers, for advice.
He doesn’t have any budgetary constraints (lucky bugger), so he’s looking for the best you can get, with all the info related thereto: bow brands, draw weight, the proper arrowhead type for turkeys, sighting device, etc.
In Comments, please.
Some time ago, I was pondering the state of our air power in terms of its being able to police Third-World conflicts. Frankly, it made no sense to me (and still doesn’t) that we would need to spend x million dollars to send a jet fighter (or even an Apache chopper) just to drop a missile on an Afghani wedding party, when even a simpleton like me could see that the same job could have been executed by a WWII-era P-51 Mustang for about a jillion dollars less.
Seems like someone in the Pentagon has been having similar thoughts:
US Special Operations Command is moving forward with its armed overwatch plan, independent of the Air Force’s light attack experiment, inviting industry for a briefing on a proposal to buy an estimated 75 aircraft.
SOCOM will hold Industry Days March 4-5 for the Armed Overwatch program, which will “provide Special Operations Forces deployable and sustainable manned aircraft systems” that will be used for “close air support, precision strike, and SOF intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in austere and permissive environments.”
And here are the stats on one of the bad boys they’re considering.
My only question is: why only 75? Why not five hundred and seventy-five? I mean, instead of sending a few missiles from one plane onto a target opportunity of fuzzy-wuzzies, why not go Full Dresden and rain a hundred missiles or so on their turbanned asses? I’m not talking of big, expensive missiles here; just some little Radio Shack-type sweeties that can get the same message across for far less money.
And let’s not forget the magic word “jobs” (pilots and navigators/fire-controllers) which would flow from this expansion — one more stat God-Emperor Trump can add to his next employment report.
By the way: I love the paint job on these planes, although in today’s .dotmil, they’ll no doubt be outlawed because they frighten the enemy too much. Don’t get me started.
Oh, and one last thing: “deployable and sustainable aircraft systems”? Whatever happened to simple expressions like “aircraft” or even better, “airplanes”? Fucking nimrods.