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VIEWS
American Sniper: Kyle Kollar Q&A
April 26th, 2008
As the weather begins to warm up and everyone wakes up from their long winter hibernation, we begin to truly appreciate our neighborhoods, landscapes, and surroundings. This year, as we take our first barefoot steps on the budding grass, remember all it takes to make sure that we can enjoy our homeland so securely and all of the men and women who protect us from afar. This month, we bring you a special interview with United States Sniper, Kyle Kollar, call sign “Shadow 4.”
There are obviously the typical questions like…
STLD: What is your longest shot taken? What is your weapon of choice? How crazy is the adrenaline rush while the OP is going down?
SHADOW-4: My personal longest shot at a person was 600 meters with the M-24 Sniper Rifle. It’s a Remington 700. If I had a choice I would be using the Chey Tac .408. It’s the baddest rifle out there right now. It remains supersonic up to 2,500 meters which means it’s accurate enough to hit a human target. Unfortunately my battalion hasn’t ordered the $14,000 weapon yet, so the M-24 it is. We also have a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle.
STLD: I've read that Snipers are the most economical weapon the Armed Forces has in their artillery; what do you think of this and is it accurate
Full Story Here
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NEWS
"Yes your honor, I stole a Wii controller, a hair trimmer and an alligator."
April 17th, 2008
An ordinarily routine traffic stop for one state trooper becomes a wildlife exhibition when he notices an unusual passenger in the back seat of a suspect's car. Steven Stanfield, a trooper for the Texas Highway Patrol, chased a blue Buick at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday along State Highway 35 near State Highway 288. The driver made a deliberately slow U-turn in front of his cruiser and continuously applied his brake, causing his rear lights to flicker.
After the driver almost hit another vehicle, Stanfield stopped William Johnson, 30, and noticed that an alligator was lying freely in the back seat of the car without any type of restraint placed on it.
The trooper had Johnson take a field sobriety test which he passed, despite the smell of alcohol on his breath. Johnson told Stanfield he was lost.
Stanfield searched Johnson and found he had a Nintendo Wii controller and a hair trimmer in his pockets.
After a Brazoria County sergeant and a Texas game warden intervened in the traffic stop, the trooper learned that Johnson's vehicle matched that of a burglar who decided to steal his boss' large-screen television and several other items.
Brazoria County Sheriff's Department later learned that Johnson followed the alligator into a ditch and wrestled it into the back of his car.
Johnson allegedly asked his supervisor's neighbor to help him move the TV since he was purchasing it. The neighbor was complying with Johnson until he saw the alligator and dropped the TV, leaving it damaged.
The controller and trimmer were also stolen from the home of Johnson's supervisor.
Johnson is now in custody of Brazoria police while the alligator is in custody of the Texas Game Warden.
This is the part that kills me: "Brazoria County Sheriff's Department later learned that Johnson followed the alligator into a ditch and wrestled it into the back of his car."
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NEWS
Attention whores claim discrimination
February 24th, 2008
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us...tty.to.fly.wtsp
These ladies claim they were discriminated against for "being pretty".
Discriminated against for being pretty. Really?
I'm baffled that someone is stupid enough to make such a claim, when they had a confrontation with another passenger. I'm also baffled that CNN thinks this is worthy of front-page video news. |
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EVENTS
NAIAS 2008 Gallery up!
January 29th, 2008
Yep, that's right. We are still here and on the scene.
Gallery Here
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FUNNY
Man accused of soiling laundry room
January 22nd, 2008
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis.—Repeated discoveries of human feces in clothing and other items left in an apartment building's basement laundry room led to charges Thursday against a 19-year-old man.
Authorities said Ronnie A. Ballard was arrested after a woman whose laundry had been soiled chased him back to his apartment in an adjoining building.
Residents also reported finding feces in shoes and boots in an apartment hallway and in washing machines where it soiled a comforter, baby clothes and other items that had to be thrown out.
Ballard was charged with three counts of disorderly conduct, three counts of criminal damage to property and one count of bail jumping. Court records showed he also is facing charges of lewd and lascivious behavior in Waukesha and Lincoln counties.
Ballard was jailed in lieu of $1,400 bail.
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EVENTS
New Years Eve: Champagne Explosion in Novi
December 11th, 2007
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NEWS
Holy smoke! Police find weed in nunnery
December 4th, 2007
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, officers raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed garden. "Two unknown men had told the two elderly nuns in the nunnery they would like to help them with the garden and then proceeded to plant the cannabis," a police official told Reuters. "The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants," he said.
Police did not arrest the nuns and have launched a hunt for the culprits. |
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FUNNY?
10 of the worst pick-up lines
November 28th, 2007
1. Can I buy you a drink, or do you just want the money?
2. I'm new in town, could I have directions to your house?
3. You have to tell me your name, because last night in my dreams, I could only call you 'baby'...
4. I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your Bed Rock...
5. Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?
6. At the office copy machine "Reproducing eh? Can I help?"
7. Hi I'm conducting a feel test of how many women have pierced nipples...
8. Hi, the voices in my head told me to come and talk to you...
9. I may not be the best looking guy here, but I'm the only one talking to you...
10. Have you ever played naked leap frog? |
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NEWS
Stripper spanks teen in surprise blunder
November 8th, 2007
A teenage schoolboy was pulled around his classroom on a lead and spanked by a stripper after a birthday surprise blunder.The pupil's mum had ordered an agency to give her son a "surprise" on his 16th birthday - and the teacher had even agreed to film the prank.But it all went wrong when the unnamed company sent a stripper dressed as a policewoman instead of a "gorillagram" - in what it called a booking error.One witness told reporters: "She asked the lad to stand up, which he did, and told him he had been a very naughty boy because he hadn't been doing his homework."Then she put on some Britney Spears music and got out a collar and lead from her bag and told him to put them on."
After walking the boy round the classroom and spanking him with a whip - the action turned even more blue."She took off some clothes until she was down to her bra and pants, pulled out some cream, put it on her buttocks and told him to rub it in," the source said.It was at that point the shocked teacher - who had not been told what the surprise was - called an end to the show. A spokeswoman for the local education authority, Nottinghamshire County Council, said they were investigating how the incident happened. She confirmed nobody had been suspended from Nottingham's Arnold Hill School and Technology College and the police were not involved.The spokeswoman said: "We and the school are investigating into the situation."
Rub it in, little man. |
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NEWS
Monkeys attack Delhi politician
October 21st, 2007
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys. The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by. The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year.
Solution elusive
One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests. But the problem has persisted. Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts. Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat. Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
Larger more ferocious monkeys are the solution? Really?! |
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