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A CRUNK BIRD posted:Sorry but the orchestrated extermination of millions isn't scary because it couldn't happen to me while I wait in line for big deals on amiibo and HDTVs Remember, if you have trouble contemplating the horrors of the Holocaust... 
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gentle pete posted:In 1947, an F5 tornado killed 185 people but spared young Joan Gay Croft. As she was sheltered in a hospital basement, she was abducted by two men and never seen again.. Freaky mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Why would two men take her? A pedophile would likely work alone and would not announce to everyone there that he was there to pick her up. They were dressed in khakis and were not recognized by the local nurses. Why was she taken, and where did she go? Did Glenn Beck Rape And Murder A Young Girl In 1947? Find Out Using This 1 Weird Trick!
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:and of course if you live in dallas you know you're doomed when the lewisville dam inevitably gives way The Coming of the Dallas Enema.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I don't know what's worse; dying in a fire or dying at a Great White concert. As The Onion opined... "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert..." http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/the-great-white-tragedy-14451
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Mr. Flunchy posted:A man is found dead in a locked hotel room, apparently from natural causes. But during the autopsy, a mortician discovers that his organs are crushed and he bears all the signs of suffering a violent beating, yet there's no external marks or signs of anyone else being in the hotel room. Everyone is baffled. That was a good find, a really amazing detective story.
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Gripen5 posted:I feel like between this thread and the Everest/Mountain Climbing threads, the biggest lesson is to never trust Italians when cold and snow is involved. Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line either.
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Feb 18, 2016 22:06
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Terrible Opinions posted:The bad guys? No. Definitely one of the bad guys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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Travis343 posted:This is right next door to the JFK Memorial "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Oswald was a fag."
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whiteyfats posted:Was he a goon? Yeah, he used to make a lot of really disconcerting posts.
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joshtothemaxx posted:My gf and I are historians. She writes about riots/uprisings with racial elements. I often write about Southern lynchings and honor killings. Our work talk is really truly awful and depressing. This was an interesting book, it might be right up your alley. http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Marylands-Eastern-Shore-Politics/dp/1596290773
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May 18, 2016 21:49
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Looking at the Piper Alpha story and thinking about fire at sea brought up this memory from USN boot camp: the classic Trial By Fire, about the USS Forrestal and the horrendous fire onboard during Vietnam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwoHyUvOqI
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Phanatic posted:In 1975 the cruiser Belknap collided with the carrier John F. Kennedy, cutting open the carrier's jet fuel transfer lines and pouring burning fuel down over the cruiser. It's pretty amazing that only 8 people died, and it's testament to the Navy re-learning a lot of lessons during the Forrestal fire. After the fire was out, the Belknap looked like this: Holy poo poo, I knew about the Forrestal, Enterprise, and Oriskany fires, but never about that.
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May 24, 2016 18:19
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Jack Gladney posted:
Excellent post / avatar combo. Aversion therapy seems really hosed up.
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May 30, 2016 22:44
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genetic_knockout posted:I also recommend The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a series of clinical stories about some of the weirder things that can go wrong with the brain. This is a great book, there are some really atrocious things that go wrong in the brain.
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Holy poo poo, looking at a temperature vs. distance map, it's shocking how hot things got even 10-12 miles away. http://www.columbian.com/mount-st-helensvictims/
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Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF unnerving article or story: PATULOUS ANUS: ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE
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Aesop Poprock posted:If you haven't heard of it before, the Mossdale caving disaster is pretty horrifying. It was the world's most fatal caving expedition with all 6 of the teen-early 20s cavers getting trapped and drowning when the tunnel they were in flooded. One incredible set of caverns, I get the shivers even thinking about going into something like that. http://cavemaps.org/cavePages/Great%20Whernside__Mossdale%20Caverns.htm
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And in the creepy headlines department, over in India and SE Asia there is a tradition of "kite fighting", using kites with glass-encrusted strings, where the object is to cut your opponent's kite string. Apparently that's not the only thing that can get cut... Glass-laced kite thread slices man’s throat, kills him http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...tm_content=link
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Josef bugman posted:This one isn't Weather related but was linked in another thread on this site. Jesus, that's hosed up to even have to contemplate.
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AlbieQuirky posted:I was just talking to someone who found an old dining-room table wrapped in plastic buried on their property. Underneath it were several tractor tires stacked one on top of the other. Cheap and stupid way to cap a retired septic tank. That's just the most stupid thing. People drown in old septic tanks occasionally because of retarded ideas like that. Bad mine capping sucks too..
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A guy got convicted for killing his wife 54 years ago. Bonus: he seemingly killed another wife and a girlfriend as well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nally-on-trial/
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:10 year old girl injected with meth, raped and murdered in New Mexico. That kind of people should go right in a car grinder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQf3gsZSTw
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That drat Satyr posted:
The dudes are all like  and they should have the "I ain't even mad" meme applied
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warning: there are photos of mummified, dessicated, but shockingly well preserved bodies in here.
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The North Tower posted:I want my remains to be spread at Disneyland. But I don't want to be cremated. A helicopter-borne wood chipper seems best for your funerary procession.
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Oh well, this means that it would really suck to be Keith Richards' father.
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8 Ball posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Ince#Murder_or_natural_death_debate I vaguely remember what Nckdictator mentioned, and I don't think that this is it. Maybe I'm wrong, though. ed: Found it! Walter and Aloha Wanderwell! http://www.alohawanderwell.com/unsolved-wanderwell-murder-mystery/ http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/who-killed-captain-wanderwell/ Pigsfeet on Rye has a new favorite as of 23:52 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Wasabi the J posted:I feel the death penalty should be reserved for clear cases of danger to society, and should be less freely administered than it is. There needs to be a higher level of scrutiny, nearly eliminating all doubt of culpability, far beyond reasonable doubt. The time is coming... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:This could be unnerving or no, depending on the balance of your opinions between environmentalism and animal rights. That guy is a serious hero for taking action like that. Invasive animals and plants can really devastate ecosystems.
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DogonCrook posted:Given the user name I'd like to point out the obvious bias here. Oh poo poo, I didn't think of the name and AV. Mods, change my name to pig killing ornithologist.
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bean_shadow posted:The horrible case of Clive Wearing. A British man who has the worst kind of amnesia known in history, after the herpes virus somehow crossed the blood-brain barrier in 1985 after a bout of flu, destroying his hippocampus. His memory is, at best, 30 seconds long and at worst 7 seconds. He forgets what one is talking about mid-sentence. And yet he CAN remember, in a sense. For example, ask him where the kitchen is or ask him to show you where the kitchen is and he is hopelessly lost. But ask him to make some coffee or tea and he'll go into the kitchen and rummage around the correct drawers and cabinets. Have him watch a movie enough times and, although to him he won't remember a thing or ever remember knowing of the movie, can predict certain actions before they happen. As the years have gone by he has become less depressed and his conversations are less repetitive. His journal entries are especially frightening: Yeah, it's really disconcerting that memory is so fragile. Oliver Sacks wrote of a similar case in his book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", in which a former sailor named Jimmie G. developed Korsakov's Syndrome, apparently due to alcohol abuse.
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Nckdictator posted:The biggest rear end in a top hat in the Antebellum South? I don't know about the biggest rear end in a top hat; the Harpe brothers were major league pieces of poo poo as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpe_brothers "Micajah "Big" Harpe, born Joshua Harper (before 1768 (probably, c. 1748) – August 1799) and Wiley "Little" Harpe, born William Harper (before 1770 (probably, c. 1750) – February 8, 1804), were serial killers, murderers, highwaymen, and river pirates, who operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi, in the late eighteenth century. The Harpes' crimes appear to have been motivated more by blood lust, than financial gain. They are most likely the United States' first known serial killers, reckoned from the colonial era forward.[2] The Harpe Brothers are credited with having killed thirty-nine people, and may have killed as many as fifty."
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Dachshundofdoom posted:I'd like to think he was crystallized in it, like a prehistoric Piss Christ. FTFY
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DogonCrook posted:The trick to getting out of jury duty is to not show up. There is no enforcement. Showing up to lie is dumb, risky, and a waste of everbody's time. I missed a jury notification due to moving out of state the prior year, did all the paperwork updates and everything. The jury office tracked me down in my new state to inquire why I hadn't gone to the jury call. I had to send them a scan of my new license before they would believe that I was ineligible.
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turntabler posted:One thing that freaks me out is the idea of cars windscreens before the invention of laminated safety glass. Interesting article on auto glass. Originally flying glass was a huge hazard. http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/windshield-history.cfm
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flosofl posted:Exactly. I had Terms of Enrampagement in mind as I was watching. poo poo, that was a great episode. I really loved the game show part.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for "Trial of the century" and ran across a case I don't think we've covered here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw . He was a wealthy socialite who point-blank murdered another rich socialite at a play in Manhattan, claiming that the man had raped his wife years ago, and it kicked off OJ-levels of weird courtroom drama and lurid media. Yeah, it's an interesting case, it winds through the novel "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctrow. Good story.
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That was a really disturbing episode.
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? Because you can be whacked right out of your skull and act it and everybody just takes it in stride as another Florida day.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Death of a thousand cuts looks pretty bad depending on where they start. And that one actually has photographic proof from the early 1900s. Internment is probably terrible too but way longer. I can't find out any information about THAT image of the Mongolian woman in a box but it's haunting as gently caress mongoliangloryhole.jpg
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