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moneypenny20 May 9th 2019 12:31 pm

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 12681696)
This is more of an OMG! than a WTF? and it isn't quite what you might think from the headline, but it's still an OMG! :eek:

If it was stuck in the ground and he backed into it, how did the pointy end end up in his lung? :confused:

chawkins99 May 9th 2019 12:47 pm

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 12681896)
If it was stuck in the ground and he backed into it, how did the pointy end end up in his lung? :confused:

Both ends are pointy.

moneypenny20 May 9th 2019 1:28 pm

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by chawkins99 (Post 12681903)
Both ends are pointy.

Are they? It's been a fair few years since I lobbed one. I'll let him off then. ;)

Anian May 10th 2019 3:22 am

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Common injury shown on Casualty, someone falling onto a javelin - never being skewered by a thrown one. Sometimes they'd fake you out by showing the javelin PE lesson but the injury is caused by a rogue discus. "Guess the injury" was always the best part of Casualty.

SultanOfSwing May 10th 2019 4:13 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Anian (Post 12682124)
Common injury shown on Casualty, someone falling onto a javelin - never being skewered by a thrown one. Sometimes they'd fake you out by showing the javelin PE lesson but the injury is caused by a rogue discus. "Guess the injury" was always the best part of Casualty.

Second only to 'guess who's going to snuff it before the end of the show'.

spouse of scouse May 10th 2019 4:26 am

Re: WTF in America
 
Good grief

More that 1,000 guns seized from Los Angeles home
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us...s-angeles-home


SultanOfSwing May 10th 2019 4:28 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12682151)
Good grief

More that 1,000 guns seized from Los Angeles home
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us...s-angeles-home

Tonight, on Hoarders :blink:

Brings up an excellent question though, would you rather deal with 1,000 gun-sized bobcats, or 1 bobcat-sized gun?

scrubbedexpat091 May 10th 2019 4:41 am

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I was a bit surprised it was in Bel Air, and the LA times article is a little interesting.

He isn't in trouble for having 1,000 guns though, that isn't illegal under any law, he only got in trouble for selling/possessing illegal guns as some in his stock are not legal under state or federal law.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...509-story.html

(forgot to quote the post above, this is a reply to the original.)

Pulaski May 10th 2019 5:13 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12682159)
I was a bit surprised it was in Bel Air, and the LA times article is a little interesting.

He isn't in trouble for having 1,000 guns though, that isn't illegal under any law, he only got in trouble for selling/possessing illegal guns as some in his stock are not legal under state or federal law. ….

It doesn't even say that - I don't see that any of his inventory was illegal per se and he has a Federal Firearms License, which as an almost unrestricted license to buy, sell, hold, repair, modify and manufacture small arms up to .500 calibre, including fully automatic weapons, but it says that he didn't have permits under CA law for the fully automatic weapons. It sounds to me primarily like a paperwork and recordkeeping issue. …. As he was operating in a residential area there may also have been a zoning violation. :lol:

scrubbedexpat099 May 10th 2019 5:20 am

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https://pluralist.com/teacher-decide...taff-bathroom/


According to the lawsuit, in April 2018, the teacher at Nellie Muir Elementary School became concerned that the 8 year old was using the staff restroom. Assuming he must secretly identify as female, she allegedly developed a lesson plan “in an effort to promote [him] becoming transgender.”

In reality, the boy and his parents had arranged for him to use the staff restroom because he had a digestion-related medical condition.

Yet on at least three occasions, the teacher kept the boy during recess and showed him videos and books with the message that “it is acceptably to become transgender, the lawsuit said. She allegedly required him to watch episodes of the reality TV show “I Am Jazz” and read the “I Am Jazz” children’s book, both of which star transgender girl Jazz Jennings.

Pulaski May 10th 2019 5:59 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Boiler (Post 12682176)

Holy "jumping to conclusions", Batman! :blink:

spouse of scouse May 10th 2019 5:59 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Boiler (Post 12682176)

Ah well, no one's ever said that the world's idiots can't include members of the teaching profession!

zzrmark May 11th 2019 12:13 am

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12682202)
Ah well, no one's ever said that the world's idiots can't include members of the teaching profession!

And there are quite a few of those, hardly surprising when you consider that they are paid peanuts.

Speaking of which, my good lady pointed out that the state now allows her to carry a gun in the classroom but that peanuts are banned!

scrubbedexpat099 May 13th 2019 12:35 pm

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Monsanto must pay couple $2bn in largest verdict yet over cancer claims

https://www.theguardian.com/business...roundup-couple

The plaintiffs’ attorneys estimate that there are now 13,400 similar Roundup cancer cases pending in state and federal courts in the US.

I realise it will go to appeal but this sort of award even if it will never be paid is a WTF.

Pulaski May 13th 2019 1:20 pm

Re: WTF in America
 

Originally Posted by Boiler (Post 12683388)
Monsanto must pay couple $2bn in largest verdict yet over cancer claims. ……. I realise it will go to appeal but this sort of award even if it will never be paid is a WTF.

For all intents and purposes that is approximately zero compared to the tobacco settlement. :nod:


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