Khorne posted:

Much safer than it looks except for the fireworks/petrol part. What he's launching it with appears to be fairly well made. I'd definitely have worn some goggles personally.

Thermite is not explosive at all, and it takes a significant amount of time for it to ignite using a magnesium strip like it appears he is. As long as he puts the gun down and walks away immediately if it malfunctions or delays he should be safe.

Airborne Viking posted:

Helicopter pilots are loving crazy

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The arrangements will affect 15 military and civilian staff working their regular shifts at a communications centre at National Defence headquarters over the May long weekend. The building will be without electricity as part of regular maintenance.

Generators will be used to temporarily power the communications systems, which is used to keep in touch with overseas military missions.

The workers will be issued with headlamps and batteries so they can find their way around the darkened building. A floodlight will be used to illuminate one area of the communications centre.

“Without electricity, the fire alarms and suppression system will not work but it is also nearly impossible there will be an electrical fire,” a Canadian Forces officer told staff in an email.

The workers on the 11th floor won’t have access to water or toilets during the shutdown because of low water pressure.

They will be given bottled water. Toilets up to the sixth floor of the building will continue to function.

“This is absolutely ridiculous,” said John MacLennan, national president of the Union of National Defence Employees. “Everything about this violates every health and safety law there is.”

My Q-Face posted:

Antitank mines require 2-300 lbs of direct pressure, compared with antipersonnel mines which only require 15-30 pounds.

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This liquid steel then burst through the windows and door of an adjoining room five meters away where workers had gathered during a change of shifts, engulfing that room entirely

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"When the steel hit, it felt like being beaten by iron bars -- my brain went blank. I would be dead if I had turned my head".

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A 32-year-old Sanford man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly burying his boss — Perry A. Byrd, 57, of Orlando — in dirt with a front-end loader and beating him into unconsciousness, a report said.

Erick A. Cox was arguing with Byrd at the construction site of the new Wal-Mart on U.S. Highway 17-92 in DeBary about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday when a witness said Cox dumped a load of dirt onto the site superintendent's head, according to a report.

The witness told Volusia County deputies that the dirt pinned the JEL Site Development, Inc. boss to the ground, so when Cox went to dig up another load, Byrd could not move. Cox then unloaded another pile of dirt onto Byrd, covering almost half of his body, according to a report.

"Please hurry, somebody come out here. He just hit him with a loader and is about to kill him," a witness told dispatchers in a 911 call. "The guy is trying to kill him on my job, please come out."

That's when Cox hopped out of the front-end loader, picked up a 6-foot aluminum level and started whacking his pinned boss in the head with it, according to a report.

Byrd was eventually knocked unconscious and the witness saw Cox "standing over [him] cussing and laughing about the situation," according to the report. Byrd suffered a "large" cut to the back of his head that required stitches.

The witness then hollered for his other coworkers to come help dig their boss out of the dirt, according to the report.

Cox told investigators a different story — one of verbal assaults and Cox as the victim.

Cox said when he got to work that morning at 6:30, he and Byrd began cussing at each other, according to the report.

When Cox climbed into the front-end loader and began moving dirt, he said Byrd continually yelled profanities at him, then threatened to beat him up, according to the report.

Cox said after Byrd swung a fist at him and spit in his face, Cox tried to leave. That's when Cox claimed Byrd threatened to "cut" his "head off" and reached into his pocket, according to what he told officials.

Byrd later ended up on the ground, where Cox claimed he accidentally buried Byrd's leg in dirt when he "bumped the bucket control-lever as he was reaching for the keys," according to the report.

Cox was booked into the Volusia County jail on a charge of aggravated battery, according to the report. He was released shortly after on a $5,000 bond.

JEL Site Development did not return a message.

Cox, whose alias is "Pork Chop" has a criminal history dotted with aggravated battery, domestic violence and battery convictions stemming back to 2003, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

G-Mach posted:

You'd better to use an actual army manual.

http://militarynewbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/TM-31-201-1-Unconventional-Warfare-Devices-and-Techniques-Incendiaries.pdf

SpacePig posted:

Is there any way to tell from this video what it is that they're dumping?

Detective No. 27 posted:

Caught this at QT today:

ExecuDork posted:

How do they count guns in the USA? Other countries have registries, but my impression of the NRA is that they'd never let a government database of gun ownership happen.
Has anyone taken the fairly obvious step of using the NRA's membership registry?

Phanatic posted:

Friends don't let friends buy Taurus.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/239m-final-settlement-approved-taurus-195300447.html


Brazil builds firearms like they build everything else.

As for the video being fake, reporting on the firearms blogs is that a Brazilian police force in Sao Paolo recalled 98,000 Taurus PT 24/7 pistols and sent them back to Taurus for repairs. The video's originally from a Brazilian news station (which of course doesn't mean it's *not* fake, but it's entirely possible for a gun to be just that lovely).

Jonny Nox posted:

Meanwhile in Calgary...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lightning-strike-calgary-airport-injuries-1.3715722

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Four people working on a metal roof and a fifth person in the same area near the Calgary airport were injured by a lightning strike Wednesday afternoon, according to paramedics and firefighters.

Lightning struck a building at 580 Palmer Road N.E. around 2 p.m., said Carol Henke with the Calgary Fire Department.

Four workers were assessed on scene, and Henke said their injuries were not life-threatening, with three listed in "green" condition and one in more serious "yellow" condition.

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The roofing crew was wrapping up their patching project on Palmer Road when the storm rolled through the area. Daniel Ludwig was one of the crew members injured.

"There was a flash and I hit the roof deck," Ludwig told Metro News. "The other guys were on the roof deck and we hauled rear end and rain."

All crew members were able to climb down the roof to safety, according to Ludwig.

"It felt like somebody cracked me in the head with a baseball bat," he told Metro News.

Prior to being struck on the roof, Ludwig was hit by lightning before on a fishing trip.

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2. Leaking fuel could turn pilots to jelly, particularly if the plane flipped over.

RO: pilots, me included, survived overturned Komets, and an overturned ship would not necessarily leak fuel into the cockpit. When fuel contacted organic material, including skin, it ignited after only a few seconds. Our protective nylon suits would not ignite but were porous, and fuel could sop through to the skin.

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According to the book Der streng geheime Vogel Me 163 by Major Wolfgang Späte (ISBN-13: 978-3895551420) an accident happened on December 30, 1943 at the former Rostrup airforce base at Bad Zwischenahn. A rocket piloted by Oberleutnant Josef Pöhs of Erprobungskommando 16 spun around during a skid landing and flipped, causing a fuel to rupture and the remaining T-stoff to spill into the pilot compartment.

From the accident investigation as recounted by Späte, who was commander of the airforce unit at the time of the incident:

"The medical officer continued with his precise, technical presentation, 'After we recovered the wreckage, we attempted to put the pilot's remains in a casket. Even though he was wearing a protective suit, his entire right arm had been dissolved by T-Agent. It simply wasn't there. There was nothing more left in the sleeve. The other arm, as well as the head, was nothing more than a mass of soft, amorphous jelly.' " At that point, Späte says he interrupted the doctor, telling him to just shut the hell up. He didn't want the other pilots to become demoralized, because the H2O2 had done that to the victim in less than a minute's time.

If you know how reactive and exothermic 3% hydrogen peroxide is when you apply it to a cut or wound, consider that the strength of the peroxide in the T-stoff was 98%.

Sanctum posted:

Some guy where I work is overzealous with tagging stuff out. I was laughing when I saw a bicycle with a missing wheel that he tagged out. Following procedure to the letter like that is kind of funny. I'm struggling to imagine someone attempting to operate a bicycle with a missing wheel and injuring themselves in the process.

Phanatic posted:

No. Frank Piasecki had plenty of experience in building helicopters. His name's right up there with Sikorski in that arena. It was just a lovely design done on a shoestring budget.

Effective-Disorder posted:

Edit: "Thoughtless hunters" look a lot like domestic terrorists.

Robot Lincoln posted:

Must be an instinct ingrained in film school. I wonder how many photographers' last words have been "This is gonna be a great shot!"?

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During the Apr battle the need for a second MG was felt, as angry little men climbed on the top of the tks and beat on the hatches with fists and rifle butts. One answer was to charge through a mud house, but this was NOT thought to be the real answer, as it increased the shortage of houses already made obvious by zealous gunners. It was thought further that it was better to stop people getting on in the first place. Therefore .30 BROWNINGS were obtained, rumour has it at high cost (in gin), and mounted on the comds cupola. This has a dual advantage in that it solved the problem of the angry little men, and also prevented crew comds from being garrotted by signallers, with their customary homicidal tendencies towards tk men. The fury of the R. Sigs knew NO bounds as their now harmless tight wire traps were time and again swept serenely aside by the advancing tanks. Personally I cherished NO animosity towards the Sigs and contented myself with merely immobilising 3/4 of Seouls tram car service by laying claim, vi et armis, to some 200 yds of overhead wire, which I took with me for some four blocks. Fortunately for me someone preceding me had touched the same wire and blown the fuze, or I might have got summary justice. It was hanging low anyway.

Lime Tonics posted:

edit : As a delivery was being made on Fridaymorning, sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid were mixed accidentally, creating a chlorine cloud

PittTheElder posted:

I really want to know what would happen if you plugged that into something. Like, how fast would the ethernet end just melt together and start shorting?

Mierenneuker posted:

You probably end up standing quite a distance away from the crash as a safety measure since you've got debris flying everywhere.

Jabor posted:

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Sydney truck drivers continue to be ‘stupid cowboys’ by getting stuck in the city’s tunnels, despite more warning signs being put in place and an increase in penalties and fines.

In 2015 there were 25 incidents where oversized trucks tried to squeeze themselves through the Harbour tunnel, the M5 and the Airport tunnel.

This year there has already been five trucks stuck in tunnels, leading to traffic chaos throughout the city, the Herald Sun reported.

New South Wales Roads Minister Duncan Gay blames the cowboys in the industry who continue to ignore changes including alerts, warning lights, infra-red height detectors and layby areas for trucks to pull over before entering tunnels safely.

‘Not to mention introducing hefty fines and penalties, yet there are still stupid cowboys that give it a crack.’

Platystemon posted:

In August a water slide decapitated a boy.

GotLag posted:

But then you get idiots stopping their trucks across the tracks.

Free Cheese posted:

Axle Wheelpaste