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  • You Hear Talk About “Weapons-Grade Chili” . . . .

    . . . but this is the first time I’ve ever actually seen an account that actually might qualify.

    A customer at a restaurant in Australia was disturbed about the bill for his meal.  So he decided to take matters into his own hands.

    After an arguing with restaurant employees about his bill, he went behind the counter and attempted to get money from the cash register.  One of the employees went to another part of the restaurant to call authorities.  The second tried to restrain the man.

    The man struck the second employee in the chest, and tossed the cash register on the floor.

    Bad move.  The second employee – 27 y/o Joanna Tarnosk – defended herself by throwing a vat of hot chili in the man’s face.

    Apparently it really was weapons-grade chili.  The man was still on the floor when police arrived.

    The man was arrested, taken to a hospital, treated for minor burns – and then was arrested and charged with assault and “intent to steal”.

    The chili sauce was said by employees to be “a secret recipe and a specialty at the restaurant”.

  • The truth about Discovery’s Dual Survival’s Joe Teti

    The truth about Discovery’s Dual Survival’s Joe Teti

    A few weeks ago, we wrote about David Canterbury, a member of the cast of a survival show on the Discovery Channel, “Dual Survival”. At the time, someone brought up Joe Teti, the other fellow on that show. So being the cynics that we are, we got Teti’s records, too. Here’s what Teti claims on his website;

    Joe Teti Bio

    Most of that is true. He was indeed in the USMC’s Force Recon. He spent less than 4 years in the Marines and here’s his records of assignments;

    Joe Teti USMC Assignments

    Joe Teti FOIA USMC

    And his schooling;

    Joe Teti USMC records

    He was also in Special Forces – National Guard Special Forces- for five years, ending on May 1st, 2000.

    Joe Teti NG FOIA

    Joe Teti 2-1 NG

    Joe Teti Awards

    So that’s where his military records end, so he could hardly be a “combat veteran of OIF and OEF” as he claims in his bio in the way that most of us understand the term “veteran”. However, he did participate in those wars as a contractor.

    I spent about an hour or so, total in about four phone calls with Joe yesterday. He stands by the “veteran” tag in regards to the war against terror, although your opinions may be different. He tells me that he didn’t reenlist after 9-11 because he was already in the pipeline for a contractor job, which seems reasonable to me, and I have no evidence to the contrary.

    I don’t disparage his service because he certainly accomplished more in his nine years than I did in my two decades, well, school-wise, anyway. There are rumors about him flying around the internet and I won’t engage in hearsay. Joe has sent me volumes of his records that I have promised that I wouldn’t post. Of course, all of it reflects well on him as a warrior.

    I also understand that he became a target as soon as he took the job at the Discovery Channel, for whatever reasons, that’s the downside of being a public figure. I found him to be an affable fellow, even though he called me ‘sir’ more times than I was comfortable with. And he called me a “smart guy” several times – if only he knew.

    So, I may be accused of being star-struck, but, without some real evidence to the contrary, I’m inclined to come down on Joe’s side. We thought that we had a real story here when we first started out, because the first set of records we got were of another Joseph Nicholas Teti who was a helicopter mechanic in the Army back in 1983, the same time Joe said he was in the USMC, but I got a little suspicious of that first set of records, which took us back for another shot at it, and sometimes, they are who they say.

  • Five Young Men

    In the Northeastern US, five boys grew to be young men.  Their families were of Eastern European heritage.  They, however, were all born in this country as first-generation Americans.

    Three of them were brothers.  Two were not related – either to the brothers or each other – at the time.  They would later come be related to the three brothers, and to each other, by marriage.

    All of them were born relatively early in the 20th Century – during the 1910s and 1920s.  They grew up during the Great Depression.  All of them were young men on 7 December 1941.

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  • “Unclaimed” still a fraud

    The International Business Times reports that 76-year-old Dan Tan Ngoc, the guy who claimed to be SGT John Hartley Robinson, a POW who escaped his North Vietnamese captors to live among the local population for five decades, has admitted finally, that he’s fraud;

    Under interrogation, he is said to have subsequently admitted that he was not Robertson but a Vietnamese citizen.

    In 2008, he was taken to the US embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he was fingerprinted.

    A February 2009 report by the FBI confirmed that that Ngoc’s fingerprints did not match those in Robertson’s official records.

    The revelations come hours after the release of Unclaimed, which alleged that a vet hero had been discovered over four decades after his apparent death.

    I know there are millions of people who want to believe Ngoc, and they will continue to believe him no matter what proof is unearthed that he is not SGT Robinson. They want to blame Nixon or Johnson or Bush, but that’s not the way this is shaking out folks. Of course, there are people who still think that 9-11 was a setup, that FDR planned Pearl Harbor, that we have a weather weapon that Darth Chaney used on New Orleans, but sometimes you have to believe the most reasonable answer, otherwise, you’re just an ignorant flake.

  • “Unclaimed” is phony

    A number of you have been sending us links to the story about Army Sergeant John Robertson who was lost over Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades. Some Hollywood director made a movie about how they found him, still living with his Vietnamese family and supposedly left behind and forgotten by the US government.

    Wringing out the details and talking to Robertson’s American family seems to have been a gut-wrenching affair. The children whose names he couldn’t recall declined DNA testing at the last minute with no explanation.

    None of that mattered to Roberston who says he fulfilled his wish of coming to America and seeing his kids one more time before he dies.

    Yeah, well, among us skeptics, the story sounds like so many other tales we’ve been told. TSO tells us that a DNA test was finally done and it’s been proved that whoever this guy is, he’s not Sergeant John Robertson. Mary at Fake Warrior Project has spent years on this, so you should read what she’s assembled.

  • Ranger Up Presents: The Damn Few Episode 12: Gun Control

    The latest in the series from the Ranger Up guys this one on gun control. Because it’s Ranger Up and this is TAH, there’s a LANGUAGE WARNING;

  • Send Laughing Wolf away

    Our buddy, Laughing Wolf of Blackfive is trying to get to Normandy to cover the D-Day events there. He needs some scratch to get there. So toss in a couple of bucks.

  • Today’s Feel-Good Story – With A Twist

    A man in Millcreek, UT, once again demonstrated the benefits of an armed citizenry yesterday. But this incident was a bit different from the norm.

    Kent Hendrix was awakened yesterday by his son pounding on his bedroom door. His son advised him that someone was being mugged outside.

    As a good citizen, Hendrix threw on some clothes. He then grabbed a weapon and wen to assist.  Several other neighbors did so as well.

    There was indeed an altercation in progress. A woman – a neighbor of Hendrix’s – was being assaulted by a male acquaintance.  Hendrix intervened, drawing his weapon.

    Hendrix’s weapon was a bit unusual, though: a samurai sword (katana) with a 29″ blade.  Seems Hendrix is a martial-arts instructor and trains with swords regularly. He reportedly owned this particular sword for 20 years and keeps it by his bed at night.  He’d grabbed it as he was leaving his bedroom.

    The man reportedly was stunned when he saw Hendrix draw his sword and come towards him. (No word on whether or not he wet himself.) The attacker immediately fled, dropping a Chap-Stick as he did so.

    Hendrix was barefoot, and thus unable to catch the attacker. But he recovered the Chap-Stick, and got close enough to get the license plate number of the attacker’s car as he drove off.

    The attacker later turned himself in to local police.

    Well done, Mr. Hendrix et al. Well done.