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In lieu of ghost planes, how about ghost boats? In the last couple of months, about a dozen derelict boats manned by decaying corpses have been washing ashore in Japan. Most likely explanation is that they're North Korean fishing boats that have desperately ranged further out to sea than they should to shore up the DPRK's food supplies.
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Have an Australian incest cult also while we're waiting for ghost planes. Had never heard about this before today. Completely  story.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_clan_incest_case http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...h-1226780575248 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521752/Children-incest-cult-living-deformed-mute-Australian-valley.html
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nockturne posted:Have an Australian incest cult also while we're waiting for ghost planes. Had never heard about this before today. Completely "A spokesperson for the Department of Family and Community Services said the children were now safe and living with foster parents. The department declined to explain why it had taken two years and seven risk-of-harm reports before the children were removed." Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nsw/children-removed-after-generations-of-incest-20131206-2ywrt.html#ixzz3t99Ux2E2
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nockturne posted:Have an Australian incest cult also while we're waiting for ghost planes. Had never heard about this before today. Completely  That would give Appalachian hill folk a run for their incest money.
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CodfishCartographer posted:Oh, are we talking about fires? How about the 1911 Triangle Fire in NYC? This story is everyone's first 'regulations are actually cool and maybe we should be thankful for them." These lines destroyed me when I first learned about it in school, even if that first one kinda sounds made up. quote:The first person to jump was a man, and another man was seen kissing a young woman at the window before they both jumped to their deaths. William Shepard, reporter posted:I learned a new sound that day, a sound more horrible than description can picture -- the thud of a speeding living body on a stone sidewalk.
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Something local for me. In 1928 in West Plains, Missouri a dance hall over an auto-garage exploded. Thirty-nine dancers died in the explosion. I found out about this because there's a large monument in a local graveyard to the unidentified corpses. Also I dunno if Cannibal Corpse wrote this article or what, but... http://howell.mogenweb.org/article/wp_dancehallexplosion.htm Howell County MoGenWeb posted:Thirty to 40 couples were dancing when the blast came. It was the regular Friday night dance of West Plains' younger set. Among the merry makers were many of the prominent young men and women of West Plains. At 11:30 the dance was at its height. The three piece orchestra was nearing “Home Sweet Home,” MISS DIMPLES MARTIN, at the piano was pounding out the strains of a popular melody – nobody remembers the name. At that moment J. N. WEISER, owner of the building, opened the back door of the garage on the floor below. A motorist had called him from his home to supply some gasoline. As the garage door swung open there was the thunder of a terrific explosion. The floor of the dance hall above was lifted almost to the ceiling. A moment of terrible silence followed. The the floor crashed in fragments into a raging gasoline fed furnace below. Into it went the forms of a score of humans who a moment before had been carefree dancers.
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nockturne posted:Have an Australian incest cult also while we're waiting for ghost planes. Had never heard about this before today. Completely I'm sorry, but I'm cracking up at the fact that "kangaroo was sleeping on one of the children's beds" is like a major noted point at the top of the second article.
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You might remember the chimp attack a few years ago, where Travis ripped off a woman's face and hands. There is an article from about that time about his upbringing, I guess you could say. The thin line between animal intelligence and wild animal instincts are a bit disturbing. Of course there is the whole matter of his owner's attachment to him. quote:Sandy and Jerry invited Travis to join them at the table for meals. He ate oatmeal with a spoon every morning. At their favorite Italian restaurant, Pellicci’s, she read him the menu, offering him choices. His favorite food was filet mignon. He also enjoyed lobster tail. He preferred Lindt’s chocolates. He liked Nerds candy and taffy, and he loved ice cream, hooting and pulling at Sandy when the ice-cream man came down the street. When he was thirsty, he swung his body up onto the counter and took out a glass, opened the refrigerator, and poured himself juice or soda. The article does not go into much detail on the victim's injuries. She apparently lost a lawsuit against the state a year ago.
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Scathach posted:I'm sorry, but I'm cracking up at the fact that "kangaroo was sleeping on one of the children's beds" is like a major noted point at the top of the second article. One of the children was later found to be a human/kangaroo hybrid.
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MonoAus posted:One of the children was later found to be a human/kangaroo hybrid. Now that is unnerving.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:You might remember the chimp attack a few years ago, where Travis ripped off a woman's face and hands. https://youtu.be/wLHCuzW3-uA
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MonoAus posted:One of the children was later found to be a human/kangaroo hybrid. 
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MonoAus posted:One of the children was later found to be a human/kangaroo hybrid. Joey?
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RC and Moon Pie posted:You might remember the chimp attack a few years ago, where Travis ripped off a woman's face and hands. Man that poor lady was hosed in the head quote:Over the course of Jerry’s weeks-long stay, during which his doctors tried to arrest his rapidly spreading stomach cancer, Sandy spent virtually every minute at the hospital. One night he said he wanted to talk to her about Travis. He asked her what she would do if he were to die—if it were to become just her, alone with Travis. As much as he said it pained him, he urged her to send Travis to a sanctuary. He told her Travis was too much for her to manage alone. He said it was best for both of them. quote:For four years, Travis never left home, and Sandy only sporadically did, aside from compulsive shopping trips: She spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at stores like T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, stuffing bags of clothes in dozens of plastic bins that filled almost every room of the house. She and Travis relegated themselves to the kitchen and the suite in the rear of the house. In early 2008, construction was under way on a gigantic new addition that Jerry had designed for Travis years earlier. Travis, by this point, no longer bore much physical resemblance to his former self. He was 14 years old, five feet tall, 240 pounds, and morbidly obese. His hairline had receded dramatically, and his center torso had gone gray. His face was black and wrinkled. His chest sagged. He spent the majority of his days snacking, watching TV, playing on the computer, and roaming the house. (Are they talking about a chimp or your average goon here?) quote:Sandy was alone. quote:Two-forty-one Rock Rimmon Road remains almost exactly as it was the day Sandy left, held in limbo by order of the court. Rumors abounded after Sandy’s death that along with jewelry, antiques, and other valuables, somewhere in the ramshackle house she had secreted $80,000 in cash, and burglars broke in five times in the first two months. The gigantic addition is frozen in mid-construction, exactly as it had been that February day, its windows still glassless, so that leaves and small drifts of snow blot its unfinished floor. The life-size stuffed chimpanzee still sits in the oversize chair in Travis’s room, gazing out the window to the backyard and the woods beyond it. So, I'm sure this has been discussed to death but what did set Travis off that day? Was is the medicine, the hair change, or the simple fact that he's a loving chimp? Edit: jfc http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/nyregion/25chimp.html?_r=0 quote:
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Nckdictator posted:Man that poor lady was hosed in the head The Xanax probably didn't help, but really the simple answer is Travis was a wild god drat animal. It doesn't matter if he was raised by people. Chimps have not been bred to coexist with humans and their behavior can be unpredictable, especially considering their remarkable calculating intelligence. Primates make really horrible pets. It's hard enough to raise a wild parrot for the same reasons, but the big difference is that parrots aren't going to literally dismember you when they throw a tantrum. Everything surrounding Travis and the people around him is incredibly tragic. If I hadn't known better I'd say the article was a weird short retelling of Cujo, except about a chimp instead of a St. Bernard. That's a warning if I ever heard one: adopting a pet chimp may actually turn your life into a Stephen King novel.
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I don't recall if it's been posted previously, but here's another good article about a chimp attack: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a5609/chimpanzee-attack-0409/
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Mak0rz posted:The Xanax probably didn't help, but really the simple answer is Travis was a wild god drat animal. It doesn't matter if he was raised by people. Chimps have not been bred to coexist with humans and their behavior can be unpredictable, especially considering their remarkable calculating intelligence. Primates make really horrible pets. It's hard enough to raise a wild parrot for the same reasons, but the big difference is that parrots aren't going to literally dismember you when they throw a tantrum. I watched a TV program about this and found myself feeling the same way. I felt, believe it or not, like the chimp was the victim in all this (aside from the poor woman who had her face and hands ripped off).
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spite house posted:It reminded me of those unnerving-rear end videos about how to recognize when someone is drowning. It doesn't look like you'd expect; there's no hysteria or thrashing or yelling, just freaky immobility with a couple of critical tells that are hard to spot unless you know what you're looking for. Something disturbing I remember reading a while back was an article by a woman describing how when she was a young child her father and younger sister drowned in an apartment pool when she was right there. There was no one else swimming that day, just the three of them. One minute she was holding onto the side doing practice kicks, the next minute she turned around and they were both floating facedown, dead. No splashing or screaming or anything.
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FourLeaf posted:Something disturbing I remember reading a while back was an article by a woman describing how when she was a young child her father and younger sister drowned in an apartment pool when she was right there. There was no one else swimming that day, just the three of them. The one time I nearly drowned, it looked like I was just bobbing my head in and out of the water. Luckily a family member was there and she knew what that meant. I thought I'd been screaming at the top of my lungs, "BOAT, GET THE BOAT," but people who were 10 feet away couldn't hear me because I didn't have any breath. Once I got back to the dock I clung to it for most of an hour before the adrenaline died down.
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Yesterday, I heard a story that some gun-rights group is planning to stage a mock mass murder at the University of Texas. I was so appalled that I started wondering whether I was remembering correctly that UT-Austin was the site of the first mass shooting in American history. I wasn't wrong, and I found this excellent 40th anniversary story in Texas Monthly when researching. They tracked down and interviewed dozens of people who were there.Texas Monthly posted:On the morning of August 1, 1966, not long before summer classes at the University of Texas at Austin were about to let out for lunch, an architectural engineering major named Charles Whitman arrived at the Tower dressed as a maintenance man. He would be described the following day in the Austin American as “a good son, a top Boy Scout, an excellent Marine, an honor student, a hard worker, a loving husband, a fine scout master, a handsome man, a wonderful friend to all who knew him—and an expert sniper.” Claire James posted:My boyfriend, Tom Eckman, and I were drinking coffee at the Chuck Wagon when we decided that we’d better put another nickel in the parking meter. We were walking across the South Mall, holding hands, when all of a sudden I felt like I’d stepped on a live wire, like I’d been electrocuted. I was eight months pregnant at the time. Tom said, “Baby—” and reached out for me. And then he was hit. AP reporter Robert Heard posted:As soon as I hit the pavement, I sat up. I was wearing a white shirt and blood was cascading down it. Some people in the Biological Sciences Building yelled, “Lie down! Lie down!” Either they or another group of students—I never knew who they were—ran out into the street, knowing they could be shot, and dragged me under the trunk of a Studebaker. Ernie Stromberger called in to the Times Herald and said, “Tell the people at the AP that they no longer have a man on the job.” John Pipkin posted:I’d left Scholz’s and was sitting across the street from the Chi Omega house when this Texas Ranger walked up carrying a pair of binoculars and a rifle with a scope on it. For some reason, he picked me out of the group of kids sitting on the curb. He said, “Son, you ever done any hunting?” And I said, “Yes, sir, I’ve been hunting all my life.” He said, “Well, take these binoculars. I need for you to calibrate me.” And I said, “Okay.” Whitman would stick his rifle out through one of these drainpipes on the observation deck every once in a while and shoot at someone. The ranger would shoot back, and I’d say, “You’re an inch too high,” or “Bring it over to the left a couple inches.”
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pookel posted:Yesterday, I heard a story that some gun-rights group is planning to stage a mock mass murder at the University of Texas. I was so appalled that I started wondering whether I was remembering correctly that UT-Austin was the site of the first mass shooting in American history. I wasn't wrong, and I found this excellent 40th anniversary story in Texas Monthly when researching. They tracked down and interviewed dozens of people who were there.
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pookel posted:some gun-rights group is planning to stage a mock mass murder at the University of Texas What the gently caress
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pookel posted:some gun-rights group is planning to stage a mock mass murder at the University of Texas AnonSpore posted:What the gently caress
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Looks like they're being forced to change the location to right next door to campus: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/gun-rights-groups-to-stage-mock-mass-shooting-at-u/npf38/
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The location is not the problematic part of pookel posted:some gun-rights group is planning to stage a mock mass murder at the University of Texas
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yeah, who plans their big events at UT of all places?
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All these god drat Nazis "protesting" that mosque in Irving while open carrying, and busting out windows in refugees houses in Plano, is both unnerving and infuriating. It's no longer protesting when you're holding a gun in someone's face, it's loving terrorism. These assholes need to be stomped out of our society.
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Reading this, all I can think of that it will start as you will expect, if overly dramatic. Some guy comes in with a fake rifle, a bunch of plants get shot, squibs go off (but more likely they'll just throw a bucket of blood on them). The people dying probably over act, but hey, they've never had to die before. But then all of the sudden twelve Tacti-Cool™ doing all sorts of cool tactics and strategies. Then more terrrorist come out shouting "Ally Ackber", and guys are throwing hand grenades, some dude is diving, one does a flip. At some point a guy says he's bringing out his bazooka, and then Billy says he can't, that's not in the rules. And it goes back and forth does not, does too. Eventually they start slapping each other. Jerry does a cool slo-mo Matrix dive. Eventually everyone gets bored, satisfied they kept America safe.
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Didn't they already do this and like 11 of the 12 concealed carry people were outright killed by the gunmen and the only one that survived did so because she ran away instead of trying to fight them?
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radiatinglines posted:It's no longer protesting when you're holding a gun in someone's face, it's loving terrorism. Does that apply to these guys? http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_capitolmarch.html
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AnonSpore posted:The location is not the problematic part of Almost none of the coverage I've seen about this has bothered to mention Charles Whitman, which I find deeply disturbing.
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Phanatic posted:Does that apply to these guys? I know you're trying to prove a point here, but the people in your article are also terrorists. The difference is the mosque isn't full of lawmakers, they're just people trying to go to church. These people aren't being oppressed by the government, they're trying to intimidate people because they're racist. I don't why you are trying to play devil's advocate here, these people are literally the KKK. Did you just spend a lot of money on your gun and gun accessories or something?
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There's a world of difference between members of an oppressed group protesting at the oppressors' seat of power and members of an oppressing group protesting at the oppressed's place of worship. IIRC the Panthers never concerned themselves with white churches or businesses.
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Literally Kermit posted:I just got an alert that Arkansas has a live shooter right now. I wonder if it has anything to do with this upcoming event, which I think is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived.
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It's literally on the same page, man.
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