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Category: Darwin Awards

  • Reasons why we can not have nice things.

    JBLM soldier playing with handgun shoots girlfriend, police say

    A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier playing with a pistol shot and wounded his girlfriend Tuesday in Lakewood, according to Pierce County prosecutors.

    The 21-year-old was charged Thursday with one count of third-degree assault and released on his own recognizance with orders to live on base.

    The soldier is a specialist within the 7th Infantry Division, division spokesman Lt. Col. Roger Cabiness said.

    According to charging documents:

    Police and West Pierce Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched Tuesday night to a report of an accidental shooting at an apartment in the 8100 block of 83rd Avenue Southwest.

    First responders found the solider applying pressure to a wound on the right side of his 21-year-old girlfriend of four months. She told police they had just returned to his apartment after getting dinner when she heard a gunshot and fell to the ground.

    He ran to her and began administering first aid and called 911.

    The woman told medics her legs were tingling and she could barely feel her toes, but the extent of her injuries are unknown.

    The man gave a brief statement at the scene, saying the couple had just gotten back to his apartment from dinner. He always has a pistol with him, and thought he cleared the rounds from it when they returned.

    He said he didn’t realize it was loaded until it went off and the bullet hit his girlfriend.

    He gave a more detailed interview later, admitting he was playing with the gun and pointed it at his girlfriend, joking he was robbing her. He pulled the trigger, thinking the gun wasn’t loaded.

    It was loaded, and the gun went off and shot his girlfriend, he said.

    I can not envision what would happen if I pointed a weapon at the Soviet.  There are several different things that make her legs tingle and there are even brief moments when she can barely feel her toes.  However, I never play “Point the Gun” with her.

  • A Very Special Feel Good Story

    This was forwarded by Skippy. As a “feel good story”, I thought it deserved its own space.

    Before you go any further, put down whatever beverages you are indulging in, get some kleenex to wipe the tears from your eyes. and if you easily become short of breath, be warned: this is not for the faint of heart to read.

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    A Las Vegas sociology professor is facing felony gun charges after he reportedly shot himself in the arm in protest of President Trump.

    The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Tuesday that College of Southern Nevada sociology professor emeritus Mark J. Bird, age 63, was charged with the unlawful discharge of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and the possession a deadly weapon on school property for his role in an on-campus shooting last month.

    In the bathroom after Bird had exited, campus police said they found a $100 bill that had been taped to a mirror in addition to a note reading: “For the janitor.” Campus police also reported finding a .22-caliber pistol on the bathroom floor and a spent shell casing.

    There is a preliminary hearing for Bird scheduled in the Las Vegas Justice Court on Sept. 17.

    The college’s lack of transparency seems to be bothering the president of the college’s faculty union. Well, I’d let it go. The professor is apparently distressed about Trump.

    It’s a shame that while he was in the bathroom with a gun, he didn’t neuter himself.

     

  • Nike and the NFL ‘Just blew it….’

    From the pen of Poetrooper, another fine essay:

    I’ve been a Dallas Cowboys fan for a half-century, even when my career took me long distances from Texas.  All that long time, I’ve stuck with them through good and bad, through the glory years of multiple Super Bowl victories and the long, disappointing drought since.  Living in New Orleans and the Redneck Riviera of the Florida Panhandle for many years, I also became, and still am, a fan of the New Orleans Saints.

    Like most NFL fans, my support for both teams has been mostly through television-viewing, with an occasional live game attendance.   Nevertheless, for more than five decades, I have been that dedicated viewer so counted on by the NFL and its advertisers, sitting there for hours on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, whenever, if either the Cowboys or Saints were playing, soaking up their commercials and even, on occasion, buying their advertised products.

    Being now an old man in frail health, I have been reluctant to join the boycott of the NFL over the flag protests because watching football is one of the few pleasures remaining to me.  Not being a baseball or basketball fan, I live for football season, both collegiate and professional.  The problem is that as a Vietnam combat veteran, I can no longer watch NFL games without a sense of guilt.  I am not totally unsympathetic to the complaint of blacks that the justice system is not racially blind.  Having lived in the Deep South for more than a decade, I have witnessed firsthand a dual system of justice that favors those with the means to pay their way out with fines, while those without those means go to jail.  That said, I do not agree in the least with a sports entertainment venue such as the NFL being exploited by wealthy players as a legitimate setting for social protest.

    So my unresolved feelings of guilt were there throughout the season-opening games this week, and they blossomed into a sense of indignation when both the NFL and Nike chose to rub my nose in the issue by running commercials featuring Saint Colin Kaepernick, with his hirsute halo, the instigator of all this heightened racial and social dissension, piously telling me, a veteran of ground combat before he was even born, about moral courage.

    I simply could not believe that the NFL was so clueless.  Here they had been fairly successful in quelling the demonstrations by black players, of tamping down the outrage of patriotic NFL viewers, and now they chose to give a big middle finger to those millions of fans and slap them and me across the face with that scorning glove of social justice, as if challenging us to a mortal duel.  Airing that provocative commercial during these games was stunning in both its arrogance and its total tone-deafness.  Clearly NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is both contemptuous and ignorant of his fan base, a fact underscored by the substantial decline in television viewers for the NFL opening games this year.

    You can take it to the bank, Roger: your viewing numbers are going to decline even more rapidly if you insist on airing that insulting, confrontational commercial during games.  You may think you can project a super-fro’ed, haloed Kaepernick into our homes to lecture us on courage, Roger, but you forget that we hold those tens of millions of all too readily clickable TV controls upon which your advertising revenues depend.  As for being sympathetic to your multi-millionaire athlete who claims to have sacrificed all for the cause of social justice, there are millions of Americans who reserve their compassion and respect for those who have truly sacrificed all.  As Daniel John Sobieski recently and poignantly summed up that attitude in an essay at American Thinker: “[t]hose who would take a knee to protest the American flag likely have never been handed a folded one.”

    I would wager that that includes you, Commissioner, and the tone-deaf execs at Nike who “Just blew it.”

  • The more they shout and point….

    There are a couple bits of interesting news that have come up in the past week or two.

    For starters, that impromptu gun ban by the mayor of the village of Deerfield, IL, back in May was overturned before it went into effect, when two separate lawsuits were filed  to stop it.

    https://patch.com/illinois/deerfield/judge-blocks-deerfield-assault-weapons-ban-it-takes-effect

    Per the attached article: Associate Judge Luis Berrones found that Deerfield’s 2018 ordinance was unenforceable, that it was not an amendment of the village’s previous ordinance regulating assault-style firearms and that – contrary to the village’s repeated claims – its recent ban does not ban large-capacity magazines.

    “We moved swiftly to challenge this gun ban because it flew in the face of state law. The village tried to disguise its extremism as an amendment to an existing ordinance. The ordinance bans possession of legally-owned semi-auto firearms, with no exception for guns previously owned, or any provision for self-defense,” said Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb, in a release. “Worse, still, the ordinance also provided for confiscation and destruction of such firearms and their original capacity magazines. It was outrageous that the ban would levy fines of up to $1,000 a day against anyone who refused to turn in their gun and magazines or move them out of the village. This certainly puts the lie to claims by anti-gunners that ‘nobody is coming to take your guns.”

    There is recourse for gun owners with pre-emptive strikes like this. And we do have to remember that Illinois has probably the most restrictive gun laws in the entire country, but they also have a self-defense section, including self-defense in home invasions, that allow gun owners to defend themselves without repercussions. Furthermore, anyone with a brain could argue correctly that there is no specific definition for “assault-style weapons”, particularly when everything in my house can be used that way, including my flagpole and the keys to the front door, and that alone makes the ban invalid. “Assault-style weapons” is incorrectly and constantly used by ignorant, self-serving twits. Them’s fightin’ words.  They should be taken down a peg or three for it.

    I’m quite sure that all these politicians who want weapons out of the hands of private citizens have some absurd fantasy that someone wants to shoot them, even if they deny it. Unfortunately for their delusional fantasies, there is not one politician on the planet, including an ex-president and a prior political candidate, who is worth the cost of a single bullet.

    The other event, which you may have heard about, was that Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, was told by the owner of the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, VA, to take her family and leave.  The owner’s political opinions of people seem to carry more weight than running a profitable business. So Ms. Sanders and her party left.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/live-white-house-briefing-june-25-2018-live-stream/

    A savvy business owner would welcome the party and give them good service, but not this restaurant owner. She was “concerned” about the effect on her employees. Baloney.

    There is an unfortunate side effect to this nonsense. The owner of the Lexington, VA, Red Hen Restaurant apparently thought her restaurant name was unique. Again, this clearly demonstrates the ‘me first and  me only!’ mind of the left side of the fence, because other Red Hen restaurants have been getting enormous flack for the Virginia Red Hen owner’s rudeness to a customer.  One of them is in New Jersey.

    https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2018/06/post_145.html

    The other is in Collingwood, Ontario – yes, in Canada. Apparently, some people think Canada is in Virginia. (If these links don’t work, just copy them to a search block.)

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/collingwood-restaurant-gets-hate-from-trump-supporters-1.4721521

    Shades of the 1950s and the Deep South!

    I have a long memory that allows me to recall when black people were told they could order food but not eat it in a restaurant, had to use “colored people” restrooms and water fountains, and were not allowed to vote. Does this mean we’re going to have another “Mississippi Burning”? If this isn’t a throwback to those days, then what is it?

    The so-called liberals are about as liberal as a locked door. They haven’t changed at all, not in over 85++ years, and frankly, with their ridiculous notions about guns and their colossal (and growing) social moron behavior, I don’t think they will.They’ll wake up some day, find out that they’ve turned 45, and they aren’t “cute” any more.

    These are only two fine examples of the sheer stupidity and ignorance that inhabit the leftred side of the political fence. I’m sure there are more, such as that fat checker from Hahvahd who had to quit her media job because she insulted a disabled veteran for no valid reason. Her level of pure ignorance backfired on her. I know that there are many, many more, such as the antifas being unwilling to face down anyone unless it’s twelve of them ganging up on an old lady – something like that.

    It’s like the ignorance about the solar cross: American Indian tribes used that in pictographs for many centuries, long, long before the Nazis under Hitler stole it and used it as a symbolic threat. There were many versions of it, including the cross in a circle and the broken circle.  It bears zero resemblance to the Maltese cross on that vet’s left arm. https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-symbols/cross-circle-symbol.htm

    These generational social morons have no manners. They can barely read and write and do simple arithmetic. Their knowledge of anything from the past is minimal, and comics are literature. They think their half-baked opinions are golden, but don’t realize that it’s fool’s gold instead.

    They think there are no consequences to anything they say or do.

    They should keep this stupidity going for as long as possible, and make it as public as possible. And they should continue to be as loud and obnoxious abut it as they can.

    We need to know who they are and how empty-headed they are, so that we can persuade those currently on the middle of the fence to lean to the righthand side in the voting season, and approach it in a reasonable way.

  • Thursday Morning Feel Good Stories

    I see that the Platoon Sergeant has been busy ferreting out the whats, whys, wants and warrants on one of the better-known rascals in the AO of This Ain’t Hell, so the following is the regular Morning Feel Good stuff, courtesy of one Dave Hardin. (There can be Only One!)  Enjoy it, and if you have a story of your own that you would like to share, please feel free to post it here so that others may enjoy it, too.

    A man was charged with aggravated robbery in Columbus OH.  The suspect became especially aggravating to the off duty Police Sergeant who happened to be home at the time.   Seeing the intruder coming through the window, the officer executed his FPF.   The intruder was identified a short distance away as the man who was screaming, “I’ve been shot”.

    The next case comes from afar but deserves some recognition.  First of all, I love the URL name of this story.  Second, the title leaves us wondering how many times the suspect was killed.  Last but not least, you have to admire a man that uses a shotgun as a sniper rifle to save his daughter.  Even the Hans guy from that Christmas movie would be proud.

    Southern justice is not known to be verbose.  In Hartsville SC, somebody shot one of several intruders.  As  Buford Pusser was known to say, “Well… I told ya to stop.”  If y’all head to the Deep South, I’ma suggestin’ that  ya mind those words when ya hear ’em.

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    Thank you for your support.  And if you have stories of your own, as I said, please feel free to post them.

     

  • Wednesday Morning Feel Good Stories

     

    Here are a couple of Feel Good stories to start the day. Thanks to Dave Hardin for sending them.  And remember, crime does not pay.

    It seems Houston, TX has had an outbreak of people wanting to shop for Guns during the wee hours of the night.  Evidently, a few employees of one Gun Shop decided to hang around the FEBA.  Whad’Ya Know, they nabbed a couple of bandits trying to break in, the rest of their compadres  amscrayed most riki-tik.  There was no evidence at the scene that the would be robbers had completed the proper paperwork required to purchase a firearm.

    A home owner in Slidell, LA heard noises outside his home.  He observed a man beating on his vehicle and screaming.  It appears when the homeowner asked the crazed trespasser to leave his property, the soon to be DRT loon decided to charge at him.  I guess merely showing someone who is chemically removed from reality a gun doesn’t always stop them.  A proper site picture almost always does.   

     

     

  • Darwin Award Friday

    While not successful in his quest to join the illustrious Darwin Award nominee brigade, this gent, who comes to us courtesy of the Pekin (IL) Times was clocked doing 140 mph on a motorcycle. For whatever reason, he stopped after blowing through a red light and attempting to evade when the police finally caught up to him:

    Maybe Adam Lester really had to go to the bathroom.

    That’s what Lester, 26, told the police officer who had just clocked his motorcycle at 140 mph Tuesday night on the McNaughton Bridge, police said.

    He had to wait until the officer took him to police headquarters under arrest for speeding more than 40 mph over the limit and fleeing and attempting to elude police, both misdemeanors, as well as other traffic violations.

    The officer also cited Lester, of 18384 Thompson St. in rural Pekin, for endangering the safety of a minor, the 16-year-old girl who clung to him as his passenger on the high-speed ride. That charge, however, was not included among those a prosecutor filed Wednesday in Tazewell County Circuit Court.

    County court records show Lester has been cited for speeding three other times since Sept. 11. He also was convicted of speeding three times, along with other traffic violations, between 2008-10, records show.

    Yup–bathroom break. Now personally, while he’s facing several charges, none apparently felonies at this point, if that were my 16-year old daughter, after I got done with her for hanging out with such a loser I’d be doing a little wall-to-wall counseling on his dumb ass.

    Young men and speed is nothing new–hell, I don’t know how many guys we lost when I was but a young nuke in Orlando many years ago, and the resulting safety courses that came about as a result. More recently, a co-worker who SHOULD have known better was going home from work with a female passenger in excess of 120 mph in Exeter when he failed to negotiate a curve. The police started to give chase but failed to notice he hadn’t made the curve, and the bodies of he and his girlfriend weren’t even noticed until the next morning. If you feel so inclined to turn yourself into a greasy spot on the road, by all means, be my guest. But when you do it on a public road with other people on it, with a passenger, not only are you an idiot, you’re an asshole too.