Ridiculous News of the Day

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1    That is the Gods honest truth.  I have honestly fallen on the floor laughing several times reading that book.  The man was a marvel!  I miss him and his writings.  RIP Pat McManus.

FACTS 

[verga]

Nah. I will be buying the full rack. As it turns out, I was not aware of his continuation... The first boxed set is what I knew... And there's another other boxed set after that, and then some! So I have a happy 'catching up' to look forward to - And it's all your fault. 

And yeah, reminisce is right... He's over in Idaho, which is spitting distance around here... So if you rub off the humor, that's my life he's talking about. I lived it too.

like the soapbox airplane and the barn roof... Not quite the same, but we built a long ramp out of snow so we could sled from the top of the barn roof, across the barnyard, down the hill and across the pond...

I experienced that same exhilaration he described, sitting there on the barn peak with my Flexible Flyer... I too came oh-so-close to mishap, though unlike him, I DID complete my run successfully, just the one time, to include not falling off the side of the ramp (ice by that time), and shooting the gap, remembering to duck under the propped up barbed wire, so it only tore the back of my winter coat to shreds, and wholly deprived me of the ass of my pants and underpants, as I shot through at 247 miles an hour... leaving grooves in my butt that the old man could use for measurement as he applied my soon-to-come whoopin.

It seems the roof of the barn was made of tin type... A very thin aluminum cast-off from news-printing back in the day. And it seems a robust young lad, on a Flexible Flyer with sharpened runners, is not considered a warrantable use of a tin type roof, and it turns out, is a mass quite beyond the  shear strength of four roofing nails and easily transgresses the mil thickness of the thin aluminum... rending it and rendering it useless as a roofing product - that is, where it did not just tear away altogether. 

That is how the barn got a brandy-spankin new corrugated tin roof at top-dollar prices, and I got a brand new parka and pants to cover my freshly paddled butt.

Ah, those were the days, right? 

[Bigun]

Until now, I'd never heard of "Rancid Crabtree."  Not sure if that's good or not.

@Gefn  How was your Yom Kippur?  Did you get things set straight for the next year?

I read the short stories in Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines for years but don't think I've ever seen a McManus book.

[Wingnut]

I read the short stories in Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines for years but don't think I've ever seen a McManus book.

[mountaineer]

 Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT

A Colorado golfer nearly died on the 17th hole of a course Saturday ... after an elk rammed the man's cart and gored him straight through his back with its horn.

The story is insane ... Megan Bornhoft says her husband, Zak, was finishing up a round at Evergreen G.C. in Evergreen, Colo. with his buds -- when disaster struck at around 6:30 p.m.

Megan says an elk charged Zak's golf cart ... and speared the man in "the right side of his lower back" with its horn.

Megan says Zak was rushed to the hospital ... and after doctors checked him out -- they found some horrific injuries.

"His kidney was cut into two pieces," Megan said.   ...

TMZ
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.

[verga]

Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT TMZ
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.

Friend of mine in Park City Utah, has moose.

[Wingnut]

Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT TMZ
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.

Damn I thought Chubbs Peterson had it bad.....

[mountaineer]

Who knew the folks in India were so fanatical about oral hygiene?

Toothbrush removed from man’s stomach after he swallowed it while brushing
 Jen Mills
Tuesday 22 Sep 2020 5:35 pm
Full story at Metro News

A bloodied toothbrush had to be removed from a man’s stomach after he swallowed it while cleaning the back of his throat.

Doctors removed the 19cm-long brush within 24 hours, fearing that leaving it any longer could have been fatal.

The patient, 39, whose name has been withheld, was brushing his teeth on September 15 when it slipped. He rushed to a nearby health clinic, which quickly referred him to a hospital more than 100km away. ...

An X-ray and further tests couldn’t locate the brush in the man’s throat – leading doctors to conclude it was in his stomach. A minor operation was performed a short time later and the brush was removed.  ...

[Free Vulcan]

I can see that. I nearly swallowed a lit cigar one time.

[mountaineer]

I can see that. I nearly swallowed a lit cigar one time.

I hope you flossed.

[mountaineer]

A Skull Sat on Fireplace Mantel with Sunglasses on It — and Now Police Say It Was Missing Man
October 27, 2020

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office has been informed that a positive identification (through DNA testing performed by Knox County Regional Forensics Center and the UT Department of Anthropology) has been made of a human skull that was found allegedly in March of 2019 by an individual in the Gobey area of Morgan County.

Someone subsequently placed the skull on a fireplace mantle where a pair of sunglasses were added. The skull remained there until the Sheriff’s Office was informed of its existence.

 The MCSO retrieved the skull and sent it for testing using DNA from family members of Junior Willie McCann who had been missing since September 2012. The DNA from the family members and the skull were a match. ...


Full story at Breaking 911

[mountaineer]

Man’s wife sells his PlayStation 5 after she discovers he lied and said it was an air purifier
by: Char'Nese Turner and Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   / Updated: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   

(NewsNation Now) — A Taiwanese man was lucky enough to score the newest Playstation 5, but his time with the device was short-lived because his wife sold the console when she found out it wasn’t an air purifier like he’d told her.

The buyer, Jin Wu, shared the experience on Facebook. Wu said he arranged to meet up with the seller in person and even called to verify the purchase, but was met by a female voice, who he said didn’t sound like she was much of a gamer. ...

After a short exchange about where the device was purchased, the husband admitted that he tricked his wife into thinking the game console was an air purifier.

“It’s my wife who wants to sell it,” the Facebook post read. “I went silent after seeing the look in his eyes. I could feel his pain.” ...

Full story at FOX8

[mountaineer]

WATCH: High School Football Player Gets Ejected, Delivers Vicious Hit on Referee
by Clint Lamb about 12 hours ago
Outkick

Football is an emotional game, but there is a such thing as too much emotion.

A perfect example of that occurred during a high school in the state of Texas. Edinburg was taking on Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (or PSJA) High School when Edinburg’s best defensive player, Emmanuel Duron, was ejected for a late hit and unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

Not a big deal, right? Well, unsportsmanlike behavior wasn’t done, apparently.

Duron came off the sidelines and shockingly went after the referee who had just ejected him. One user on Twitter with the name Santiago (@_7santiago) posted a clip of the violent hit. ...

The thread from Andrew McCulloch, a journalist from The Monitor News, included a lot more detail into the exchange, but the referee was apparently down for an extended period of time.

After originally bringing out a cart, the ref was eventually able to get off the field under his own power, but he was being evaluated for a concussion. Duron, on the other hand, was escorted out of the stadium by police. ...

Videos, etc., at Outkick

[Gefn]

Man’s wife sells his PlayStation 5 after she discovers he lied and said it was an air purifier
by: Char'Nese Turner and Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   / Updated: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST    Full story at FOX8

So are they still together?

[Wingnut]

"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."

Might be correct since he did this before.  Had he not...being a member of a protected class...he might have go a pass.  Play at a JUCO for a few years then transfer his riod raged ass to the SEC.

Duron was suspended for the remainder of the 2019-20 soccer season after a similar incident occurred during a match on the pitch last year against crosstown rival Edinburg Vela.

FYI the school forfeited the game.

[mountaineer]

"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."

This kid is a potential resident of death row.

[catfish1957]

"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."

Might be correct since he did this before.  Had he not...being a member of a protected class...he might have go a pass.  Play at a JUCO for a few years then transfer his riod raged ass to the SEC.



FYI the school forfeited the game.

Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?

[Cyber Liberty]

Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?

Black Privilege seems more likely.  He got special favors his whole life because of oppression, and likely has an attitude that it's proper to body-slam a ref.  He'll do the same thing to a cop, too.  Then he'll get shot, and we'll have another batch of riots starting in the shithole city in which he lives. 

[sneakypete]

This kid is a potential resident of death row.

@mountaineer

Providing someone doesn't pull his plug before he rises to that level.

[Cyber Liberty]

@mountaineer

Providing someone doesn't pull his plug before he rises to that level.

@sneakypete

His is the Thug Life, and that road leads to many destinations.  Life is cheap.

[PeteS in CA]

https://notthebee.com/article/new-covid-rules-for-ohio-high-school-wrestling-says-students-can-wrestle-but-they-cant-shake-hands

New Covid rules for Ohio high school wrestling say students can wrestle but they can't shake hands.

It's 'rastling season and to try and limit the spread of Covid officials with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) have done the responsible thing and released some updated requirements for players and coaches.

The students are still being allowed to wrestle. In fact, they don't even have to wear face masks while they do so. But they will no longer be allowed to shake hands before and after the match.

[Smokin Joe]

Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?

You just aren't supposed to do that from the bench. Just have to wait for an opportunity during play...    (which may or may not present)

[Cyber Liberty]

You just aren't supposed to do that from the bench. Just have to wait for an opportunity during play...    (which may or may not present)

He couldn't, he was ejected from the game for Unsportsmanlike Behavior.  He just felt like it was the thing to do, for whatever reason.

[verga]

WATCH: High School Football Player Gets Ejected, Delivers Vicious Hit on Referee
by Clint Lamb about 12 hours ago
OutkickVideos, etc., at Outkick

I hope to God that his parents let him spend at least one night in the Gray bar motel.

[Cyber Liberty]

I hope to God that his parents let him spend at least one night in the Gray bar motel.

It's more than likely they won't, and probably never have shown him any discipline.