Weird News Thread Part III

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  1. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Smartass soldier cuts straps to Humvee parachutes. Several Humvees get dropped & go BOOM. Soldier in deep doo-doo.

    Relatable: you’re in the U.S. Army, you’re in charge of safely air-dropping the Humvees out of a C-130 Hercules, and every now and then you wonder, “What would it look like if these things just fell without a parachute?” But you’re not supposed to actually do it. That would be bad!

    The Army agrees it’s bad, and this week one of its courts convicted a soldier who did exactly that during an exercise in southern Germany in 2016, according to news reports. NPR reports that Sgt. John T. Skipper, 29, was convicted in a court martial this week of deliberately cutting the parachute straps on three Humvees. The trucks were destroyed when they hit the ground.

    https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/u-s-soldier-deliberately-cut-parachute-straps-on-humve-1825953800
     
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  2. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    sounds.jpg
     
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  3. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    At least he was smart enough not to do it in ‘Murica...
     
  4. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    All I have to say to Sgt. Skipper is, "pics or it didn't happen."
     
  5. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    You didn't read the article did you? There's video. Wonderfully narrated by some dumb ass who thinks the whole thing is quite funny.

    Also, the guy was discharged, but not dishonorably, and he while he could have had a decent prison sentence, he basically walked. A non-armor plated HMMWV probably cost $75,000 per.

    WTF?
     
  6. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    That means we need to cut some food stamps funding for West Virginia...
     
  7. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Stop getting ahead of yourself. We have to replace the whole fleet of Hummers first then you steal from other parts of the government to make up the deficit.
     
  8. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    That’s when you have a Democrat Congress. Republican Congress doesn’t care about deficits...
     
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  9. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Embedded video rarely loads on my device. I'll try to remember to check it at work.
     
  10. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  11. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
  12. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    It happened to us once, accidentally though. We parachuted in and on the next pass we were supposed to receive our Land Rover and trailer. Boom!!!
    It didn't work too well after they dug it out.
     
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  13. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Christian Ronaldo has competition.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

    The infamous Cristiano Ronaldo sculpture now has some company.

    United States Women's National Team legend Brandi Chastain was recently inducted into the Bay Area Hall of Fame. And while the induction alone is an incredible honor, receiving a plaque should only add to the accomplishment.

    Should.

    Take a look at Chastain's plaque...

    Twitter is a great place:

     
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  14. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    For the Lost in Translation files....

    I was listening to the Beeb this morning and they were doing a piece on the vote of no-confidence that Mariano Rajoy suffered and which lead to the elevation of Pedro Sanchez as Spain's prime minister. I guess Sanchez has the mother of all coalitions to build and the commentator, of whom I suspect English is her second language, was talking about the profiles of the various parties. I'm pretty sure she meant to say "ideologies" but instead she talked about the parties' competing idolatries.

    Or, maybe, she was just prescient....
     
  15. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  16. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Movie about NY triplets separated at birth (1 to working class family, 1 to middle class & 1 to wealthy parents) so psychiatrists could perform a long-term nature vs nurture study.

    The triplets were born to a teenage girl on July 12, 1961, at Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, NY. Split up at 6 months by the now-defunct Manhattan adoption agency Louise Wise Services, the boys were raised within 100 miles of each other. None of the adoptive parents knew of the other brothers.

    Before the babies were placed in their adoptive homes, the agency had told the prospective parents that the children were part of a “routine childhood-development study.” The parents say it was strongly implied that participation in the study would increase their chances of being able to adopt the boys.

    For the first 10 years of their lives, the siblings were each visited by research assistants led by Dr. Peter Neubauer, a prominent child psychologist who had worked closely with Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna.

    https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/these-triplets-were-separated-at-birth-for-a-twisted-psych-study/
     
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  18. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    So, they 'experimented' on three babies to see what would happen?

    Mind you, the 50's and 60's were the 'wild west' of psychology as the article says.
     
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  19. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Yes and there were more adoptions of multiples run through that agency
     
  20. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
    Club:
    AS Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44623399

    France: Butchers demand protection from vegans

    Shops have been stoned or defaced with anti-meat graffiti and stickers, the French Federation of Butchers says.

    Over the last few months, 15 shops were splashed with fake blood.
     
  21. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Sad! Hipsters run amok sweating the small stuff.
     
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  22. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    This may be depressing news depending upon your POV. But we might be all alone in the universe.

    Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that has rankled philosophers and scientists for ages, but for the last half-century answering this question has been the exclusive purview of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a scientific enterprise dedicated to looking for traces of alien intelligence in the universe. Since the beginning of modern SETI in 1960, things have seemed hopeful. There are something like a billion trillion stars in the universe, and we now know that most of these stars probably host planets. The odds that at least one of these planets was home to an alien civilization seemed good—it was just a matter of finding them.

    Yet nearly 60 years after Project Ozma used a radio telescope to search the universe for alien messages for the first time, we have yet to find any evidence that we’re not alone. Some SETI researchers like Seth Shostak are optimistic that first contact will happen any day now, but according to new research from Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, it might never happen because there’s a good chance we’re the only intelligent creatures in the observable universe.

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-in-the-universe-fermi-paradox-drake-equation
     
  23. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    ********. I hate it when that happens.
     
  24. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    Shoot one of the vegans with a bullet dipped in real pig’s blood. That will solve the problem.
     
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