Random/Interesting News Stories

[Bahr]

Originally Posted by Hetfield

You know what, sorry to take this thread a step backwards, but why the fuck was the 8 YEAR OLD CHILD, handed a fully loaded, fully automatic machinepistol?! Bad fucking news man. the parents should be fucking shot!

-Hetfield

I actually wasent expecting respons like this. I thought there would be alot of new members saying that they shot fully atoumatic weapons when they were 8. I now know that people on here are way more mature than some people i know.

[Macaveli]

Well speaking of pirarcy.

Hijacked Ship Holds $100 Million in Oil

[headcase]

Originally Posted by Bahr

I actually wasent expecting respons like this. I thought there would be alot of new members saying that they shot fully atoumatic weapons when they were 8. I now know that people on here are way more mature than some people i know.

Any parent who gives their 8 year old child an automatic weapon without allowing for the possibility of dangerous recoil is an irresponsible parent. No matter how unlikely, it's a dangerous situation and it's an 8 year old. Let the child fire then gun, fine. Don't let it fire the gun unattended for their first time. The stupidity boggles the mind.

On the subject of bad parenting, I bet you're feeling starved of news coverage of that McCann kid, whatever her name was (in fact I think they're on Sky News right now for buying a pint of milk exactly 624 days after the disappearance). Again, leaving your young children alone in your hotel room in a foreign country while you go drinking = bad parenting. I'm not saying any of these parents deserved what they got, but they certainly allowed for it. While my political views tend to meander between authoritarianism and libertarianism, I'm really starting to think that the qualification needed to become a parent is finding someone equally stupid and ugly as you, isn't quite enough.

Speaking of bad parents and missing kids, possibly the most brilliant piece of tragic-comic literature ever written (what's that, it really happened?), The Disappearance of Shannon Matthews. I do feel honestly bad for the child but she'll have a much better life removed from that scumhole. I want to list the highlights of the story, but everything is the highlight.

[Bahr]

Headcase. Thats pretty fucked up. The parents and other relatives of that kid should be shot. She would be better off.

[Hetfield]

Ahhh Madeline Mcann.......

And thats where my thought processes grind to a halt. Basically, the coverage of that was like the opposite of a lubricant in the cogs of my brain.

It HAD all evaporated but headcase brought it back up again. question is, DONT GIVE A FUCK! (although it would be nice if she were).

Sharon mathews, that is some really fucked up shit. It's awful, but I really wanna know why they treated her so badly. Why did they drug her for fucks sake. If all they wanted was the cash, then hell, they could have just grounded her at her uncles house! some people just shouldn't be parents!

The real media storm over here is the "Baby P" story. Fucking shocking.

Baby P death sparks national child protection review | Society | guardian.co.uk

But, currently there is a naming and shaming thing going on.

I got this text sent to me before by somebody:

The papers may be banned from naming and shaming the cruel vile killers of baby P but I aint. They are tracey Connoly & Stephen Barker of Penhurst Rd, Tottenham. Jason Owen is the peado living with them. I urge everyone to pass this on so everybody can name and shame them. Also pls sign the sun paper petition to have justice for that poor little boy. Rest in peace little man. Thanks.

That is the text in all, with TXT SPK and spelling and grammar mistakes intact.

The sun newspaper bit just fucks me off though. It really makes my blood boil the way tabloids dive on stories like this and put their own stupid quasi heroic spin on this!

Does anybody remember the brasseye special paedogeddon?

well, I remember the sun reported about it and how sick it was, while, on the VERY SAME PAGE, they commented about how childhood singing sensation Charlotte church had grown fantastic breats........She was 16 at the time!

http://www.garbledonline.net/starbrass.jpg

That is the largest image I could find, well there was one other on the google image search that was readably big BUT it was out of order! dammit!

Anyway, thats my rant over with!

-Hetfield

[headcase]

Tabloids feed on sensationalism though. It's the public desire for gaudy headlines is the issue. I have no real problem with it; I just don't buy tabloids.

That said, I support the name-and-shame campaigns (whatever their real motive) because a lot of the time it's deserved. Case in point; using a baby as a punchbag. Likewise, remember the Soham murders? Maxine Carr is a free woman now. Wouldn't it make your day if you read that some vigilante nurdered her after a Sun-supported name-and-shame campaign? It would make mine.

I've never seen Brasseye but it sounds genius.

[Macaveli]

I agree with that. I don't like tabloid's either. They get so wrapped up in someone's life that shit start's to become fanasty material. I do read the paper everyday though.

Did any of you hear about that teen who killed
himself on live feed a couple days ago?

Originally Posted by Fox News

A 19-year-old Florida man committed suicide live on a Web cam, encouraged by those who were watching, according to reports.

Abraham K Biggs, of Broward County, took an overdose of pills while broadcasting himself on Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site.

Biggs used the Web site to stream footage from his bedroom and told users he would be committing suicide and invited them to watch live.

He posted a suicide note, where he said he had hurt other people and hated himself for being a failure.

The teen then took several pills before lying on the bed with his back to the camera.

Forum members reportedly continued to insult him, believing his actions were staged. Members eventually managed to contact the local police who broke down the door, found Biggs' body and turned off the camera.

Biggs’s death was reportedly confirmed by the Broward County medical examiner.

Report taken from Breaking News | Latest News | Current News - FOXNews.com

[Shepherd]

I have to agree with you, handing a child an automatic weapon is stupid. I am sorry for the child, but have to be relieved that the fathers' genes have been removed from the pool.

"I've seen your gene pool, and it is shallow and somewhat murky." Anon.

Sorry, I thought that the comment that I replied to was the end of the thread. I didn't mean to break the line of thought.

[Anarchist]

Thats messed up Mac, I don't think you should insult people who you think are going to commit suicide, even if you think they're joking.

[Bosco Jones]

[Sorry this is in the middle of a new topic, I just posted this reply when I was on the first page of this thread forgetting the fact that there's a second page.] This is a major problem. Because of a few irresponsible idiots such as those parents handing their child a gun like that and psychotic murderers killing people, people think that guns are bad. Cases like this are exploited in order to make more laws destroying the freedom of the rest of us who use our guns safe and responsibly. And they don't realized that guns aren't even the problem, the problem is in the mindset of the people in charge of the use of the gun. It goes back to the false statement that "Guns kill people." Guns do absolutely nothing without someone using them. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. If a psychotic murderer wanted to kill someone, he would find something to replace a gun if he wanted one and didn't have access to it. People always try to blame something for their fallacies, when in reality, the fallacy is in themselves.

[Macaveli]

Originally Posted by Anarchist

Thats messed up Mac, I don't think you should insult people who you think are going to commit suicide, even if you think they're joking.

Yeah, It just goes to show how idiotic and sick some people are. If I had been watching I would have informed the cop's immediately, because if it was a prank then guess what no one died and seeing as everyone thought it was a prank, a young kid did die. It is literally a fucked up situation and everyone's IP should be documented and pressed charges against for inciting the kid to do. I believe that would fall under Involuntary Manslaughter if I'm not mistaken.

[Beyond]

Originally Posted by Macaveli

Yeah, It just goes to show how idiotic and sick some people are. If I had been watching I would have informed the cop's immediately, because if it was a prank then guess what no one died and seeing as everyone thought it was a prank, a young kid did die. It is literally a fucked up situation and everyone's IP should be documented and pressed charges against for inciting the kid to do. I believe that would fall under Involuntary Manslaughter if I'm not mistaken.

An IP does not represent a person. That's like wanting to file murder charges on a gun owner. It's always been a "loose" part of prosecution as it's damn near impossible to prove who was using the IP address at the time.

[Steve_TPF]

By now most people have probably heard that US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy got caught on film perving on a young woman. Picture below.




A video clip of the incident gives Obama plausible deniability: he was assisting a woman down the steps and may in fact have been looking at he floor the whole time. Sarkozy on the other hand was actively leering, even stepping behind Obama to get a better view.

A couple of other pictures show that Sarkozy is definitely an admirer of the female form.







Sarkozy's a stud. I wish we had a PM like him instead of Kevin Rudd, who famously apologised for going to a strip club. Loser.

[Random]

Originally Posted by Steve_TPF

By now most people have probably heard that US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy got caught on film perving on a young woman. Picture below.

Does anyone else think of The Matrix when they see that picture?

[Steve_TPF]

No...

I don't see the connection.

[shetlan]

Originally Posted by Steve_TPF

I love that picture.

"Hey baby, I've got a "stimulus package" for you."

Incidentally, no, I don't see the connection to the Matrix.

[that guy]

Originally Posted by shetlan

Incidentally, no, I don't see the connection to the Matrix.

Oh man... I didn't get it at first either. hehe YouTube - The Matrix "Red Dress"?

[Steve_TPF]

Yeah, I thought of that one later. Somehow I can't see Sarkozy as Neo though...

[Steve_TPF]

Originally Posted by News.com.au

A SWAZI man was stoned to death by a mob of schoolchildren after he stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death with a spear and wounded 12 others at their school.

The 25-year-old man stormed into one of the classes on Thursday (local time) carrying a spear and ordered the pupils to leave their room at Ncabaneni high school, 60km south of the capital Mbabane, a police spokesman said.

After the children saw one of their classmates was dead, they stoned the man to death, he said.

"Our investigations have revealed that this man is a local resident and he was a dagga (marijuana) addict who was said to be a quiet person who was not violent. Residents of the area got the shock of their lives," the spokesman said.

School principal Roosevelt Nkonyane said teachers had tried unsuccessfully to stop the students from killing the man.

He urged the government to beef up security by installing a fence around the school.

Ten of the 12 injured were treated and discharged at a local hospital, he said.

Two were still undergoing treatment after suffering stab wounds.

If american students were a little more like this perhaps there wouldn't be so many school shootings.

Also from the fun-loving folk in Swaziland comes a suggestion to brand the buttocks of HIV-positive people to help prevent the spread of AIDS.

I'm so glad I live in Australia.

[shetlan]

Originally Posted by Steve_TPF

If american students were a little more like this perhaps there wouldn't be so many school shootings.

Bravo for those kids.

On a side note: there was a time when every high school in America had a gun club. Teenagers would bring their shotguns and rifles to school, keeping them in their lockers until after school when they could go target shooting.

Amazing isn't it, for almost 60 years hundreds of kids brough guns to school on a daily basis - and there wasn't a single school massacre. Then schools where declared "helpless target zones" (otherwise known as "gun free zones").

[heroofhere]

it was in 1927 when schools had to tighten security more. a school had been bombed. also in 1968 in texas tech (back then texas university) a massecre. also in recent news the india farmer suicide death toll has reached 138

[Steve_TPF]

Originally Posted by Hetfeild

I got this text sent to me before by somebody:

The papers may be banned from naming and shaming the cruel vile killers of baby P but I aint. They are tracey Connoly & Stephen Barker of Penhurst Rd, Tottenham. Jason Owen is the peado living with them. I urge everyone to pass this on so everybody can name and shame them. Also pls sign the sun paper petition to have justice for that poor little boy. Rest in peace little man. Thanks.

To my surprise, this is actually correct.
I have wondered about that for a while.

[_Th0r_]

Originally Posted by Steve_TPF

To my surprise, this is actually correct.
I have wondered about that for a while.

My father told me the names of the kid and one of the abusers months back. I suspect someone who is in his position (Senior NHS official.) leaked it to the vengeful public or a neighbour leaked it.

Personally I don't understand why you'd put a court order preventing the names of the defendants being published when they're a) In protective Police custody and b) When you're going to allow them to be published later on.

Alas.

[Steve_TPF]

This is a monumental stuff-up.

Originally Posted by The Australian

AUSTRALIA'S supreme military disciplinary body has been ruled illegal by the High Court in a decision that has thrown military justice into turmoil.

The government has been forced to rewrite the military justice system after the High Court blocked the prosecution of a leading seaman charged with indecent assault for placing his genitals on a sleeping colleague's forehead -- a practice known as "teabagging" -- and declared the Australian Military Court unconstitutional.

The High Court said the attempts to "improve" the system in 2007 had backfired because the court was exercising judicial power in breach of the Constitution.

The Australian government created a court of law that isn't legal. You seriously have to wonder where they get their advice from.

[archleone]

Originally Posted by shetlan

On a side note: there was a time when every high school in America had a gun club. Teenagers would bring their shotguns and rifles to school, keeping them in their lockers until after school when they could go target shooting.

Amazing isn't it, for almost 60 years hundreds of kids brough guns to school on a daily basis - and there wasn't a single school massacre. Then schools where declared "helpless target zones" (otherwise known as "gun free zones").

Yeah, back in those good ol' days when blacks and whites went to separate schools, ahh I have fine memories of those days, and native americans were sent to boarding schools and were not allowed to speech their languages and women had a different curriculum than men, fine days.

[blank stare]

Jay Leno said it best:
The economy's in the toilet, we're at war and everything's on fire. Is this really the best time to take "under God" out of the Constitution?

[shetlan]

Originally Posted by archleone

Yeah, back in those good ol' days when blacks and whites went to separate schools, ahh I have fine memories of those days, and native americans were sent to boarding schools and were not allowed to speech their languages and women had a different curriculum than men, fine days.

So you're insinuating that desegregading the schools caused all this?

If that wasn't suppose to be the point of your post, them I have no idea what it was.

[archleone]

Originally Posted by shetlan

So you're insinuating that desegregading the schools caused all this?

If that wasn't suppose to be the point of your post, them I have no idea what it was.

My point was that schools used to do things that we now recognize as being not the best ideas.

[shetlan]

Originally Posted by archleone

My point was that schools used to do things that we now recognize as being not the best ideas.

Really?
So we went from not having school shootings to having another one every year - and that's an improvement?

Interesting logic there archleone.

[Steve_TPF]

Guys this thread is "Random/Interesting News Stories". We already have a thread for School Shootings.

In fact, we have two.
The second is more focussed on the gun control aspect.

Either one would be a good place to continue this.