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Ms Boods posted:Delaware native here, and yet another reason to despise (the) bloody DuPont(s). Everyone knows the story now, but I when I went to college on the east coast, the "Foxcatcher" story was a bit of an open secret on our campus. Our basketball arena still had visible holes (in '06) where "duPont" had been removed from the exterior.
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Yeah. I think the DuPonts as a whole fit this thread.
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Does anybody still have that post about the Soviet gently caress up where after a foreign plane was got through their airspace the rule was changed so the radar systems were never allowed to be off and all maintenance had to be done live or in like ten minutes. Then one day some engineers are working on a radar dish when a higher up visits mission control and demands a show/test run so the engineers had to just jump in a truck and drive out as fast as they could before the systems could power up but they don't make it. Being Russia then they they weren't even mercy killed, just forced to keep going until their bodies gave out so the scientists could study the effects of microwaves on the human body. I would have sworn I'd read it here, but I can't find it here, in my history, or anywhere else online. (I did find a post by someone else looking for it)
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HelleSpud posted:Does anybody still have that post about the Soviet gently caress up where after a foreign plane was got through their airspace the rule was changed so the radar systems were never allowed to be off and all maintenance had to be done live or in like ten minutes. Then one day some engineers are working on a radar dish when a higher up visits mission control and demands a show/test run so the engineers had to just jump in a truck and drive out as fast as they could before the systems could power up but they don't make it. Being Russia then they they weren't even mercy killed, just forced to keep going until their bodies gave out so the scientists could study the effects of microwaves on the human body. I read about that here very early on in this thread (or was there a previous one?) and it was horrifying.
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HelleSpud posted:Does anybody still have that post about the Soviet gently caress up where after a foreign plane was got through their airspace the rule was changed so the radar systems were never allowed to be off and all maintenance had to be done live or in like ten minutes. Then one day some engineers are working on a radar dish when a higher up visits mission control and demands a show/test run so the engineers had to just jump in a truck and drive out as fast as they could before the systems could power up but they don't make it. Being Russia then they they weren't even mercy killed, just forced to keep going until their bodies gave out so the scientists could study the effects of microwaves on the human body. This post permabanned posted:Before I start, I would like to say that the events described in here have really happened, though the names of the unfortunate victims are changed by the author. permabanned posted:[...part 2...] permabanned posted:A psychiatrist, a neurologist and an urologist were called, and after this extraordinary council have determined the best medication and therapy course, our driver's condition started to improve quite quickly. Cystitis was cured with little effort in no more than a week. For some time the driver would present those strange symptoms, reminiscent of
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 23:01 |
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Thank you so much
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 23:17 |
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A grand jury report has just been released on priest (and monsignor!) child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnston, Pennsylvania. A lot of the details are sadly now routine-- priests offending, upper management being most concerned about the church's reputation and shuffling abusing priests around, pressure on the victims to say nothing, cash payoffs. Altoona-Johnston had a couple of special new twists. The district is very, very solidly Catholic, which means that most police officers, politicians, prosecuting attorneys, and so on would also be Catholic. At least once, when a group of parents banded together and talked to the District Attorney, the district attorney reported back to the diocese, and agreed with the bishop to drop the case if the monsignor were moved out of town. The police also conspired to cover matters up. In one case, a priest left the state just ahead of a case being filed. The police claimed that they didn't know where he was and anyway the "400-day rule" kept them from pursuing the matter. The grand jury pointed out that there was, legally, no such rule, and that if the case had been filed they could have requested a federal warrant for his arrest. Here's the capper, though: in at least one town the Bishop appointed the fire chief and police chief. Literally. The mayor sent the Bishop a list of candidates, the Bishop interviewed them, and then the Bishop sent the Mayor a recommendation. Imagine living in a place where, if you wanted to report a crime committed by the church, the police chief owed his job to the church. The other special twist is that when victims directly spoke to bishops, at least one of them threatened the victim with excommunication. Finally, the Diocese made a payout chart for dealing with victims. Victims fondled over their clothes were to be paid $10,000 to $25,000; fondled under their clothes or subjected to masturbation, $15,000 to $40,000; subjected to forced oral sex, $25,000 to $75,000; subjected to forced sodomy or intercourse, $50,000 to $175,000. No mention, of course, was made of prosecution. The grand jury has called for the statute of limitations on child abuse to be lifted, so that the few surviving perpetrators can be prosecuted. Post-Gazette summary of grand jury report Contents of an attorney's letter sent in 2002 to three different district attorneys with specific charges
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 23:27 |
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Saw another Toynbee tile in the wild today: St. Paul and Centre Sts, Baltimore. Pretty sure it's fresh, I walk by there multiple times a week and never noticed it before.
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# ? Mar 9, 2016 23:30 |
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Sooo...what's a Toynbee tile
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 02:36 |
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8 Ball posted:Sooo...what's a Toynbee tile Woah ho ho! Man, what isn't a Toynbee Tile. I'm not even sure how I can describe it! Yeah I don't know either.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 02:39 |
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Ah, sorry about that, thought they'd been discussed already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles Basically they're cryptic tiles that are driven into the pavement in cities around the country, and into South America, since the 80s. It's doubtful they're the work of one person, but they all have a remarkably similar style set and "message". No one has ever claimed responsibility, to my knowledge. There's a good documentary about them that used to be on Netflix, called Resurrect Dead, not sure if it's still up. Not so much unnerving, but certainly bizarre.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 02:52 |
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I like to imagine they're from a Banksy esque artist, but after seeing how Banksy turned out, Toynbee artist decided it's better to stay in the shadows.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 03:11 |
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Basically dead people's atoms travel to Jupiter when they die, and eventually we will have the technology to reconstitute them completely from those extraterrestrial particles. This is all explained in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The documentary is extremely fascinating.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 03:16 |
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These are two other ones that I've seen around town, I hear there are others. Apparently some areas of Philly are crawling with them.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 03:31 |
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Crow Jane posted:Saw another Toynbee tile in the wild today: super loving jealous right now
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 03:43 |
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JFC.
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Crow Jane posted:These are two other ones that I've seen around town, I hear there are others. Apparently some areas of Philly are crawling with them. this is super true, or at least was in 2010 when I was last there
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Rusty Staub posted:this is super true, or at least was in 2010 when I was last there Depending on which way I go to work, I walk past at least one every day.
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Crow Jane posted:These are two other ones that I've seen around town, I hear there are others. Apparently some areas of Philly are crawling with them. Recipes for Disaster, published by CrimethInc, has instructions on making and placing these.
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I've seen two of these in the wild and was super stoked about it, one was pretty fresh and one was so old it was getting hard to tell what it was.
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 22:43 |
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Just noticed that this tile has some bonus text: toynbee tile posted:HITMAN FROM VENEZUELA + CUBA FAILED TO MURDER ME TWICE SO THEY SENT A human being CELL TO MURDER MY MOTHER
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china bot posted:Just noticed that this tile has some bonus text: ... Archer?
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:... Archer? Oh god, now I'm going to read all toynbee tiles in his voice and it is AWESOME
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# ? Mar 10, 2016 23:24 |
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There are a lot of copycat tiles out there going under the name House of Hades. Here's one in Nashville on Broadway that I've walked past 100 times.
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Dylanthulhu posted:CrimethInc that's a blast from the fuckin past right there, goddamn
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Crow Jane posted:Saw another Toynbee tile in the wild today: How long do they usually hang around, might take a ride up there to check it out this weekend.
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I just dug out my copy of Recipes for Disaster. They're made of vinyl composition tile, linoleum, tar paper, and asphalt crack filler. I'm assuming whoever is making the new ones is probably using the CrimethInc directions. Apparently one of the original Toynbee tiles had some tips on making them. edit to avoid double posting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Boys is an article I found in the "Unsolved Mass Murders" category on wikipedia. Five South Korean boys aged 9-13 go off to catch frogs on election day in 1991. They're reported missing. The area is searched over 500 times. At one point "300,000 police officers" are sent to look for them. (Holy poo poo, Korea.) The bodies are found close to their homes in an already-searched area eleven years later by a man searching for acorns. Some of their clothes are knotted and the police try to say they wandered off, got lost, and died of hypothermia. Forensics showed all but one died of multiple blows to the head. The other boy was killed with a shotgun. UwUnabomber has a new favorite as of 12:28 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:There are a lot of copycat tiles out there going under the name House of Hades. Here's one in Nashville on Broadway that I've walked past 100 times. Why would you wanna punish the mall?
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Plinkey posted:How long do they usually hang around, might take a ride up there to check it out this weekend. The other ones I know of have stuck around for years, thankfully the city has other priorities. In fact, one of the other ones I posted (the one about the Venezuelan hitman) is just a block over on Charles and Centre, by the Walters, and has been there for at least a couple years. Both are on the Northwest corners of their intersections. Traffic can be heavy, so be careful if you're taking pictures. Plenty of awesome places to eat and drink around there as well, in case you wanted to make a day of it.
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Silky Slim posted:Why would you wanna punish the mall? Maybe they closed the Cinnabon?
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Dylanthulhu posted:edit to avoid double posting: The craziest thing about this is that the statute of limitations(for quintuple murder!) ran out after only like fifteen years, so someone could literally confess to the crime without fear of prosecution. For brutally murdering five children. What the hell?
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 17:12 |
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What kind of backwards rear end place puts a statute of limitations on murder
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 17:33 |
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EX250 Type R posted:What kind of backwards rear end place puts a statute of limitations on murder It's been mentioned before but as of this past summer these guys are in the free and clear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers Statute of limitations on some crimes is kinda crazy.
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Dylanthulhu posted:I just dug out my copy of Recipes for Disaster. They're made of vinyl composition tile, linoleum, tar paper, and asphalt crack filler. I'm assuming whoever is making the new ones is probably using the CrimethInc directions. Apparently one of the original Toynbee tiles had some tips on making them. At the time of the crime one boy said that he'd heard a scream in the area where the bodies were later found but the police disregarded it out of hand.
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# ? Mar 11, 2016 18:56 |
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Whats the logic behind having a statute of limitations on murder? Is it that its super rare to convict someone so far after the fact? Because I seem to rememeber not too long ago a murder being solved after like 40 years or something because of DNA testing.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Whats the logic behind having a statute of limitations on murder? Is it that its super rare to convict someone so far after the fact? Because I seem to rememeber not too long ago a murder being solved after like 40 years or something because of DNA testing. Maybe the thinking is that any evidence discovered 30 or 40 years after the fact is unreliable. Even a confession I guess? Who knows, I'm struggling to figure that one out.
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Basebf555 posted:Maybe the thinking is that any evidence discovered 30 or 40 years after the fact is unreliable. Even a confession I guess? Who knows, I'm struggling to figure that one out. I'm guessing they just have a general statute of limitations for all crimes and simply haven't made an exception for murder, perhaps because having one for murder means you get pressure to have a different one for aggravated assault, and if you have one for that you have to answer why you don't have one for rape and so on.
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ArchangeI posted:I'm guessing they just have a general statute of limitations for all crimes and simply haven't made an exception for murder, perhaps because having one for murder means you get pressure to have a different one for aggravated assault, and if you have one for that you have to answer why you don't have one for rape and so on. Ah yes, a slippery slope argument. Those are always the best.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Whats the logic behind having a statute of limitations on murder? Is it that its super rare to convict someone so far after the fact? Because I seem to rememeber not too long ago a murder being solved after like 40 years or something because of DNA testing. The argument I've heard goes something like this: "By having a statute of limitation we give the murderer a chance to come forward, this giving the grieving family closure. Not knowing what happened to their loved one is worse than knowing the murderer got away with his crime."
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Since we're talking about unsolved murders in South Korea, I have to mention the movie "Memories of Murder", about a true story of a slew of killings in the 1980's. Definitely worth a watch.
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