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
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?
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.
Dude uses standard US Postal Service change-of-address form to "move" UPS headquarters in Atlanta to his apartment in Chicago, which works for months on end.
Correction officer's stinky dong trips him up. (NSFW) https://nypost.com/2018/05/14/guard-with-huge-stinky-penis-found-guilty-of-abusing-inmates/
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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.
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: Congratulates to Cristiano Ronaldo and Brandi Chastain on their recent engagement pic.twitter.com/3eYZfv43wi— 𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗬 𝗛𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗘𝗦 (@TommySledge) May 22, 2018
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....
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/man-died-saving-little-leaguers-hid-dark-past-40-years-165010988.html Man who died saving Little Leaguers hid his dark past for over 40 years
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/
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.
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.
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