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Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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I don't think the hatchet man for Stalin is going to approach even "okayish".

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Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Lam's obviously having some kind of episode. The people trying to find paranormal tie-ins are pretty lovely. For actual scary hotels we have Hotel Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Carter_%28Manhattan%29

Some "highlights":

quote:

George R. Sanders of Brooklyn, New York jumped from the 14th floor of the hotel on March 13, 1931...

In July 1999 a clerk murdered a co-worker during a brawl near the front desk.

An infant, twenty-five days old, was beaten to death at the hotel in November 1983. Her father, Jack Joaquin Correa, a hotel resident, was charged with murder and child abuse.

On August 31, 2007, a housekeeper found the body[43] of Kristine Yitref, 33,[44] wrapped in plastic garbage bags and hidden under a bed in Room 608.

...and it goes on. Bonus, super creepy video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBE1L8_WUs

Sad Mammal has a new favorite as of 00:51 on May 26, 2014

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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...but I liked Tropic Thunder, and Oblivion, and both Mission Impossibles...

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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RCarr posted:

I'm trying to wrap my head around how you could manage to swallow bleach before realizing what it was(not). I guess if you are real thirsty and just went to slam some water it could happen. Jesus that would suck :pwn:

A friend's dad once told a story about how a guy chugged bleach because he heard at work there would be a random drug screening and (dumbfuckily) thought drinking bleach would clean out his urine.

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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It's intended as comedy, but a website on ways of destroying the earth physically gets into universal death toward the end: http://qntm.org/destroy

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Getting tested is one thing, paying for it is another.

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Noisycat posted:

I would imagine the FBI would be fine paying for it, I mean other than the anecdotal evidence, the first death was in the same small community he lived in.

Call me cynical, but, considering rape victims have to pay for their own DNA testing, I don't see feds going out of their way to foot the bill.

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Josef K. Sourdust posted:

For gruesome and pointless caving deaths, check out the post-Everest season chat on the Everest climbing thread. That is also a good thread for weird mountaineering deaths: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3626517&perpage=40&pagenumber=48#pti34

Is there a place that collects weird mountaineering deaths that dials back on the nauseating toxicity and cool-internet-iconoclast-guy schtick?

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Josef K. Sourdust posted:

It doesn't bother me so much but yeah, I understand where you're coming from. It does have some experienced climbers who post and a lot of people have seen the documentaries/read the books. I suggest that if you would prefer to read something less GBS then perhaps start a thread on mountaineering and/or caving on the Ask/Tell board. The ancient history thread there has been a mine of fascinating facts and intelligent debate without the GBS attitudinal stuff. An alternative is starting a thread on the Book Barn, which would be book centred. I started a thread on polar/arctic exploration books: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655083

Admitedly it got better after the first few pages. There's only so much "ha ha dumb bitch should have seen it coming" I can take.

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Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

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Baby's Day Out is WAY more intense in real life.

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