I wore out two BB guns as a kid, if I had had that thing I would have driven my parents into bankruptcy buying ammo for it.

Kind of amazing how one cop can take being directly threatened by a struggling suspect and continue to be professional, while another reacts to a calm statement by a driver he pulled over by wetting his pants and firing half a magazine into him.

Charcoal burner?...

So pretty similar to the history of the M16.

I looked it up and since 1995 Iowa has gotten somewhere north of 17 billion in corn subsidies. Over 26 billion in total farm subsidies. they’re #2 in the nation for such largess. (#1 is Texas of course of course.) But yeah, those urban poor are the real problem.

Forgotten Weapons is a fun site, their Youtube videos are well done, often fun to watch and informative.

Which makes you wonder WTF happened with the first iteration of the SA80...

Oh yes, it was definitely a gun designed for a fairly specific tactical environment that doesn’t really exist anymore, but it’s still cool.

This seems like as good a place as any to remind people that a Vickers gun once fired 5 million rounds without breaking down. It took 7 days.

My old barber had to keep two different drapes for his customers, the new one that was a pattern with pink in it, and the old one that was grey. He had to do this because some of his male customers wouldn’t wear the pink one for fear of being seen as feminine. One guy literally stated “I’ll get beat up if I wear that.”

I realize that the news always has to be careful to say “suspected” and “accused” when they’re reporting these sorts of stories, but it’s still pretty hilarious in context. No he wasn’t impaired at all, he rationally thought “Hey, you know what would be a good way to advance my career and life in general? Crashing my…

Yeah I’m not in love with the original color, but you’re right that the craftsman design is better than the generic porch they stuck on.

Holy shit that’s amazing. Followed.

He probably expects praise because he didn’t eat the kid like a lion does to the cubs that aren’t his.

So basically it’s snuff, but chocolate instead of tobacco. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

Jesus, that makes the light in Venus’s direction even shorter, that’s nuts. Barson had to have been anticipating the light changing, probably based on driving the road a lot and knowing how short the cross light is. As I commented to another poster, I bet this isn’t the first time she blew through right at the change,…

I have to wonder if Barson drove that road a lot and knew how short the crossing light was and so was anticipating getting the green and thus not slowing down. Based on her speed I’m willing to bet that this isn’t the first time she pulled that stunt either, it’s just the first time there were consequences.

I was appalled to learn that other states have their traffic lights set up with no delay between one going red and the other going green. A few seconds delay to allow traffic to clear makes so much sense I can’t believe anybody would do it any other way. The first time I was driving in (IIRC) michigan and noticed the…

Half the time placing yourself in the intersection on the yellow and waiting until it turns red is the only way you’ll ever be able to make a left turn at all.

They were absolutely anticipating the green light and failing to slow and look to make sure the intersection was clear.