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Alien Arcana posted:There was a judge in Alberta a while back who ran into one of these kooks in a divorce case. This was a fascinating read. I love how when it's all broken down, the legal argument of those people effectively amounts to "well nuh-uh because I said so!" The judge who wrote that thing should be deified. I can't imagine wanting to wade through all that nonsense. Good stuff.
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Palpek posted:A skater decides to spice up his sweet trick video and sets himself on fire: From following a few related videos after that one I found some "Idiots with Fireworks!" compilations like this video which is  for dozens of people loving up by sticking fireworks in their mouths or butt cracks or firing them at friends and injuring themselves. Apparently filming yourself doing stupid things with fireworks and putting it on youtube has been a thing for a while, there's dozens of these videos. Most of the clips on the video I linked to don't show the injuries the morons must have sustained but the very last clip has photos of the pins and staples the guy had to get to reconstruct his foot when the fireworks went off when he was standing next to them and it looked as if the doctors attached a whole meccano set to his foot.Happy 4th of July!  
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Jan 13, 2014 15:37
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:people loving up by sticking fireworks in their butt cracks  "I just had a few beers with the boys and let off a few firecrackers... and I put one in my arse."
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Jan 13, 2014 15:49
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Palpek posted:A guy tries to burn the Icelandic flag on a bonfire helping himself with a gasoline tank: That same thing happened to my cousin's wife when we were killing fire ants in alabama. She dropped it and ran instead of making a show of it though.
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Jan 13, 2014 17:03
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BioMe posted:Who has a problem with Icelanders anyway? Sea Shepherd, probably.
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Palpek posted:A skater decides to spice up his sweet trick video and sets himself on fire: Stop,
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Hydrolith posted:Apparently we have the legal nutters in Australia, too. This is a pretty funny court transcript on that note. The best part is Wilson no doubt counts that entire exchange as a win.
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Jan 13, 2014 20:08
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Yay Pudding! posted:Was it crime college? Was there a serial killer investigation major? I imagine it costs more, but pays off if you get a job after. Where is crime college? I kind of want to go. Every time the subject comes up, I get a little E/N schadenfreude. It's really the coolest employment field that you'd never, ever, ever want to work in if you have two brain cells to rub together. Gasoline Spirograph is the coolest thing ever.
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Jan 13, 2014 20:22
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On the sovereign citizen stuff, when it came up in another thread someone mentioned that the idea of law involving "Magic Words" does have some *historical* precedent, as in medieval Europe (England I think) there were indeed very specific things you had to say in court and very prescribed wordings for things and if you got the terminology or some other detail wrong the case would collapse, even if you were clearly in the right. Thing is, this made the law impenetrable to regular people and modern legal systems are specifically designed to avoid this sort of thing. It hasn't been relevant for hundreds of years even in places where it once was, which I don't think included America anyway.
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BioMe posted:Was this posted here yet? The guy's clearly a dickhead, but that official seemed very quick to yank out his taser and drop him without any warning.
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Stoatbringer posted:The guy's clearly a dickhead, but that official seemed very quick to yank out his taser and drop him without any warning. Given all the plainclothes personnel present and the fact that we start in media res I get the feeling there might have been a bit more warning and back and forth before the video starts.
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Jan 13, 2014 21:35
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Why do those freemen idiots seem to think a court room is the same as a ship? They talk about entering the vessel when they go in and abandoning ship when someone leaves.
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Jan 13, 2014 21:47
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Has something to do with gold fringes on the flag making it a maritime jurisdiction where the captain has absolute authority. I don't know, it makes no sense to me either.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:From following a few related videos after that one I found some "Idiots with Fireworks!" compilations like this video which is The funniest video I have ever seen was some drunk idiot who decided to launch a bottle rocket with the stick in his rear end cheeks. Turns out when you get hot sparks sprayed on your butt, you clench up. The rocket didn't lift so much as just sort of stand there and spray his butt with sparks while he screamed.
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Jan 13, 2014 22:45
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Idiots destroying their cars doing/attempting burnouts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI7h_LBifIM
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The funniest video I have ever seen was some drunk idiot who decided to launch a bottle rocket with the stick in his rear end cheeks. Turns out when you get hot sparks sprayed on your butt, you clench up. The rocket didn't lift so much as just sort of stand there and spray his butt with sparks while he screamed. Butt Rocket. NWS for bare, scorched rear end.
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Jan 13, 2014 23:20
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I watched my former roommate (an Ivy League student no less) do the exact same thing. I was in the room as she stood there as boiling water and flaming pasta grew higher and higher and froze in fear. Turn off the gas, blow out the goddamned flame. Jesus Christ, get a brain morans.
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There's a good write up on freeman on the land on the rational wiki. Some choice quotes:quote:Freemen believe that an individual has two personas. One of them is a physical, tangible human being, and the other is their legal person, personality, or strawman: a legal fiction created when a birth certificate is filed with what would normally be considered someone's name (e.g., JOHN SMITH), capitalization being a particular obsession.[28][24] They believe their birth certificate is their legal person, and will attempt to present it in court when said person is called for, rather than identifying themselves as that person. quote:Freemen see a distinction between (what they call) common law and statute law, which they refer to as "admiralty law," "law of the sea," "maritime law," or the "universal commercial code" (a distortion of the US-only Uniform Commercial Code) — something that only applies to corporations, e.g. legal persons, not flesh-and-blood humans.[24] They see admiralty law as being the law of commerce, the law of ownership, citizenship, and indeed anything else ending in "-ship." They see evidence of this in various nautical-sounding terms used in court, such as "dock," "birth [berth] certificate," "-ship" suffixes and any other fancy word they think might have a vaguely naval sound.[35] Freemen will take this further by referring to the court as a "ship", its occupants as "passengers" and claiming that anyone leaving are "men overboard." This gives their legal arguments a hilarious nautical theme.[24] The best part though is this http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land#Freeman_successes is pepsi ok has a new favorite as of 23:41 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Smiling Jack posted:Given all the plainclothes personnel present and the fact that we start in media res I get the feeling there might have been a bit more warning and back and forth before the video starts. They had previously cleared the courtroom because of this moron's antics prior to the start of the video if I recall correctly (can't verify it since they don't list the moron's name on the video and I don't remember it off the top of my head).
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Apparently, holding rockets with your mouth/butt/vagina is a thing. Low quality but  , just to be safe.
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Palpek posted:Idiots destroying their cars doing/attempting burnouts: That's one expensive hobby. Serious question, what's the best case scenario when you do a perfect burnout? You have to buy two new tires? This was a result for "successful burnout" and the guy filming even says that there are new tires on the car. Are those new tires finished, or does it barely even take any rubber off? Blistex has a new favorite as of 00:00 on Jan 14, 2014 |
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that canadian judge posted:Members in the OPCA community appear surprisingly unified by their methodology and Holy poo poo is that true? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_861_argument says he tried to use some argument that his money didn't count as taxable, somehow, but it didn't say he declared himself a moorish freeman on the land.
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Snipes took "tax advice" from a bunch of freemen on the land, and served about three years for it.
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Not only do we not know what he expected to happen, we don't know what is happening or what happened before that. What is this?
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A guy who didn't realize he could bring his arm in at an angle other than 'straight up'? 
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Blistex posted:That's one expensive hobby. Some people see their cars as recreational and don't mind spending money on things like brakes, tires, and aftermarket upgrades.
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But then why did he go in face first?
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Morkyz posted:But then why did he go in face first?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumAUSxS074 Short, but sweet.
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I'm still reading that PDF, but I have never seen such a beautiful burn as this in any written document:quote:V. Indicia of OPCA Litigants, Litigation, and Strategies
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:There's a good write up on freeman on the land on the rational wiki. Some choice quotes: Persona, eh? That would make a lovely Shin Megami Tensei spinoff if instead of fighting the Shadows of mankind and your inner shadows, you used your Persona to fight parking tickets and child support payments. lovely Argument has awakened from the sea of your soul! The Fool Social Link imbues it with.. well, no power whatsoever.
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Blistex posted:That's one expensive hobby. It looks loving awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfFTOUfhOu8 And it's not like you have to start with new tires. When it's time for new ones, get rid of the old ones like my friend does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3nCU6QfTw It's no doubt ridiculous but, well, sometimes ridiculous is fun.
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Butt Wizard posted:I'm still reading that PDF, but I have never seen such a beautiful burn as this in any written document: No-one in the world gives better  than a judge. Incredibly intelligent people who spend their entire lives arguing professionally - both with other incredibly intelligent people and with an endless cavalcade of idiots.A few of the "intelligent design" cases resulted in hilarious verdicts where the judges just slammed their bullshit for page after page 
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Gorilla Salad posted:No-one in the world gives better A PYF of your favorite legal smackdowns might be a bit too narrow, but my favorite is Judge Walker's opinion in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (known on appeal as Perry v. Brown, then Hollingsworth v. Perry), the prop 8 case. The judge gives a right thumping to the pro-8 side, essentially calls their experts thick as pigshit, and set up the model for other district court judges to use. http://documents.nytimes.com/us-district-court-decision-perry-v-schwarzenegger Teddybear has a new favorite as of 04:26 on Jan 14, 2014 |
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Fatkraken posted:On the sovereign citizen stuff, when it came up in another thread someone mentioned that the idea of law involving "Magic Words" does have some *historical* precedent, as in medieval Europe (England I think) there were indeed very specific things you had to say in court and very prescribed wordings for things and if you got the terminology or some other detail wrong the case would collapse, even if you were clearly in the right. I snicker a little bit whenever I'm in a courthouse and I hear someone say "O-yea, o-yea, o-yea" when court is in session, along with all the other weird things they're mandated to say and do. Because seriously, that's dumb as hell and nobody knows why anyone says it and the courtroom isn't going to fall apart if you don't. As much as I hate to agree with the idiots who try to point out courts are all fake bullshit, the ways we go about law and practice traditions that have no meaning anymore are extremely silly. \/\/\/Sports are a bit different than a court of law, methinks. sticklefifer has a new favorite as of 11:58 on Jan 14, 2014 |
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sticklefifer posted:I snicker a little bit whenever I'm in a courthouse and I hear someone say "O-yea, o-yea, o-yea" when court is in session, along with all the other weird things they're mandated to say and do. Because seriously, that's dumb as hell and nobody knows why anyone says it and the courtroom isn't going to fall apart if you don't. As much as I hate to agree with the idiots who try to point out courts are all fake bullshit, the ways we go about law and practice traditions that have no meaning anymore are extremely silly. And before ball games, everyone stands up and they sing a song. What's up with traditions, man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkM3Hc9Opxg&t=350s See what happens when you don't say Oyez to introduce the opening of a court of law?!?
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The bailiff in one of my courts pronounces it "oh yes." We then pray that justice be done in the eyes of the law and our lord Jesus Christ. Rural Appalachian courts are fun.
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English courts started a mandate a while ago to remove the Latin, wigs and all other superfluous poo poo from the system. 2 seconds of googling makes it look like Ireland is doing the same: long PDF I ain't gunna read In Australia we seem to have removed all of that stuff a long time ago as last time I was in court (approx 16 years ago) it was a thoroughly modern and easily understandable procedure. Which made my think before this thread we didn't have any 'freemen on the land' in Aus :facepalm:
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Do not overtake turning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpc1pnKbuQ The attack happened just yesterday. Article: Animals vs bushveld idiots quote:Warning signs given by elephants include flapping of the ears or a mock charge where the ears are fully spread with its head down. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 07:20 on Jan 14, 2014 |
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