GORDON posted:

About a month after 9/11 another plane exploded in the air over NYC while coming in for a landing with pieces raining all over a neighborhood, but the fact it was a surface to air missile was covered up and now it has been largely forgotten.

Carwash oval office posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKYxzlqLOs

WHAT are you doing?
You walked in here naked, to have sex with a 14 year old and her cat?

TheWeepingHorse posted:

One of the victims of that crash had been a student at my law school. IIRC, he was at home, and he died from the plummeting plane pieces. Now the SBA room is named after him.

People forget all the weird terrifying poo poo that had immediately followed 9/11. Hey, remember when they caught the Anthrax guy? Of course not, because they didn't..

Godholio posted:

Most people in this thread probably weren't close to being born yet, but PA State Treasurer Bud Dwyer shot himself during a tv press conference. It wasn't broadcast live, but it was recorded and somehow found it's way to youtube

This is the setup that cuts off after he reads a speech about his corruption and bribery charges, then hands out envelopes to coworkers and friends. Then things get interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT8lW73jexU

And here's the part that followed.

TheWeepingHorse posted:

One of the victims of that crash had been a student at my law school. IIRC, he was at home, and he died from the plummeting plane pieces. Now the SBA room is named after him.

People forget all the weird terrifying poo poo that had immediately followed 9/11. Hey, remember when they caught the Anthrax guy? Of course not, because they didn't..

a hole-y ghost posted:

That's not true

univbee posted:

Like everything else, Japan did it first, with a 1960 televised assassination by katana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM&t=65s

It, too, had a Pulitzer-winning black & white photograph.



The 17 year-old assassin also went out in a pretty metal way. In prison while they were figuring out what the gently caress to even do with him, he wrote “Seven lives for my country. ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor!" on his cell wall with toothpaste and water, and hung himself.

Inzombiac posted:

Didn't Bud Dwyer end up being innocent but was so terrified of his family not getting his benefits while he was in jail that he killed himself.
My recollection of the details is not great but he may have just wanted to protect his family

quote:

Throughout Dwyer's trial and after his conviction, he maintained that he was innocent of the charges levied against him, and that he had been framed. Decades later, it was misreported that the prosecution's primary witness,William T. Smith, whose testimony was largely used to obtain Dwyer's conviction, admitted in a documentary about Dwyer that he had lied under oath about Dwyer taking a bribe in order to receive a reduced sentence.[6] In fact, Smith acknowledges, as he did at Dwyer's trial, that he had lied in his own earlier trial when he testified that he had not offered Dwyer a bribe. He admitted that he testified against Dwyer in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence and to spare his wife from being prosecuted for her role in the conspiracy, and expressed his regret for that decision and the role it played in Dwyer's death.[7]

criscodisco posted:

hosed up if true.

univbee posted:

Centripetal Horse posted:

I came back to this tab with the above picture scrolled halfway off the top of my screen, and I thought it was the photo of Ruby assassinating Oswald.

Celluloid Sam posted:

still absolutely flabbergasted that all this thing have happen?

Sharzak posted:

Everything happens so much

SciFiDownBeat posted:

HEB will always live on in my heart

Phthisis posted:

On the topic of weird modern katana incidents, this reminds me of the famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

In 1970 he attempted to stage a coup, taking a commandant hostage and delivering a speech to the soldiers at the military base. It completely fell flat and the soldiers mocked him, so he returned to the commandant's office and committed seppuku.

Sharzak posted:

What did the story end up being with that? Last I heard they were like answering phones or some poo poo for some event? Or am I thinking of the pronunciation guide

criscodisco posted:

Young Freud posted:

You're not selling it enough. Mishima pretty much knew his coup attempt was going to fail, it was basically a planned suicide by making a statement because that's how he rolled.

Also, his lieutenant who did the beheading part of the ritual was his homosexual lover. He also hosed up cutting off Mishima's head, taking three swings at his neck but failing to completely cut his head off. It took the intervention of another one of the soldiers in Mishima's private army (oh, did we neglect to mention that Mishima had a private army) took the sword and finally beheaded Mishima. Then he acted as the second to the lieutenant's seppuku ritual.

Also, Mishima had totally did a test run of his suicide when he made the film adaptation of his short story, "Patriotism", where he graphically simulates the ritual.

cuck cuck im gay posted:

And even more relevant to the thread, Geico insurance even got in a dig on him:

kaschei posted:

Too lazy to find a link but this happened: at the memorial for nelson Mandela, the south African government cheaped out on a sign language interpreter and got a guy with schizo, no knowledge of sign language who spazzed out and claimed later that he saw angels descend into the stadium

Ryoshi posted:

I don't know how you can claim that when the caveman sitcom one of their campaigns inspired was a thing that actually happened.

Macasaurus posted:

a friend showed me a fruit rollups commercial from the 80s and it was a bunch of monkeys in a school bus and at the end it said try the new watermelon flavor

kaschei posted:

Too lazy to find a link but this happened: at the memorial for nelson Mandela, the south African government cheaped out on a sign language interpreter and got a guy with schizo, no knowledge of sign language who spazzed out and claimed later that he saw angels descend into the stadium

mobby_6kl posted:

And of course this, which is recent enough to hopefully not need a reminder, but enough to deserve one:

quote:

Moore-McQuillan: Thank you for being an arsehole and thank you for being prejudicial and thank you for being a oval office.
His Honour: That’s enough from you.
Moore-McQuillan: Hope you have a good loving retirement you stupid loving idiot. Thank Christ we are getting rid of a loving oval office like you.

quote:

Moore-McQuillan: Listen, you just shut the gently caress up and loving sit down and don’t be a dickhead and instead of loving turning around and dictate the terms—-
His Honour: That’s—-
Moore-McQuillan: I’m talking to you and I don’t need this fuckwit interrupting.
His Honour: That is enough, Mr Moore-McQuillan.
[snip]
Moore-McQuillan: I don’t think so. Why doesn’t Downs tell us what his loving instructions to—-
His Honour: Mr Moore-McQuillan, stop it.
Moore-McQuillan: You lying piece of poo poo. Now, sit down, you dick-face.

quote:

Moore-McQuillan: We've still got loving things to fix before Zulu [Dr Salu] gets up - and if he gets up I will loving stand on my feet and I will knock him down. You were a failure of the Supreme Court, and you are a failure here. You couldn't be loving bothered, and all you do is stick up for your own loving kind, so there you go. You will be the next one loving six feet under.

The hearing, to allow Moore-McQuillan to seek compensation for a workplace injury, continued on for a few minutes until Moore-McQuillan's behaviour worsened.

The trial was told that as the judge left the bench, Moore-McQuillan was "purple-faced and enraged" and continued with his spray.

Moore-McQuillan: I wish you'd have a heart attack between now and then, and then we can have loving justice done once and for all.

The court heard he then turned his attention to Dr Salu and his instructing solicitor, James Bruun.

Moore-McQuillan: If you don't want to turn up again little fellow, loving feel free not to come because you're a fuckwit, and if you can't handle it, go away. And if you want me to come around to your place, I will, the same as you used to do to me, and Zulu [Dr Salu] knows that because he loving organised people to come around as well. Don't forget I know where you live as well.

quote:

Moore-McQuillan: I, Your Honour, am not a loving lying piece of poo poo like these other people you're used to talking to. You are not interested in the truth, the only truth you're interested in is what this lying piece of poo poo can produce to you. What you've actually allowed done is allowed them to use dishonest and illegal methods to produce evidence that you consider honest, and that's because he's a filthy loving little rear end in a top hat.

mind the walrus posted:

The Geico ad people have been consistently baller for at least two straight decades now. I bet they're pretty cool dudes.

mind the walrus posted:

The fact that an insurance company's advertisement inspired a TV pilot at all is my rebuttal.

bluetail posted:

Donald trump raped a 13 year old girl in 1994 with his billionaire pal Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender

Macasaurus posted:

a friend showed me a fruit rollups commercial from the 80s and it was a bunch of monkeys in a school bus and at the end it said try the new watermelon flavor