Why not another thread dedicated to cool things? We have "Dead in 2007". We have "Good Riddance". This one is for random people who do really cool, heroic things (no military stuff to keep the petty bickering out).
I'll start.
U.S. tourist kills would-be mugger in Costa Rica (http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/02_24_CostaRica_TouristMugger)
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - An American woman thought a would-be robber was joking until the masked assailant held a gun to her head. She then watched as a fellow tourist, a U.S. military veteran in his 70s, used his bare hands to kill the mugger in Costa Rica.
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Suddenly, one of the tourists, a U.S. military veteran trained in self defense, jumped out of the van and put the gunman in a headlock, according to Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.
Hernandez said the American, whom he refused to identify, struggled with the robber before eventually killing him. Police identified the dead man as Warner Segura, 20. The other two assailants fled.
:-D
20 year old punk got PWNED!! by a 70+ year old!! :yay
[Heroes]
Pat Tillman
Just to piss Dio off.
Firefighters.
morris dees
Jet Li?
Superman
Godzilla
sometimes
Sun Mo, you're my hero.
Halliburton!
Brett Myers
Carl Weathers
Spuds McKenzie
Whoever waxes Jessica Alba's Hoyda hair is my hero.
If you look at this thread really quickly it looks like 'Real Herpes'.
So....who's got'em?
Muhammad Ali, Melville's Ahab, Bill Hicks, Milton's Satan, Bob Dylan, Conrad's Marlow, Cole Porter, Steve Albini, my mother, Valentino Rossi, Malcolm X, Larry Flynt, my aunts, Woody Guthrie, Archimedes, Mike Hailwood
You know, I don't think I have any real heroes. That's probably a problem.
It's probably a good thing. Icons are bad.
The thing is, once I think I find a hero...I do some digging. When I learn more, I'm infrequently impressed by the whole picture.
Hunter S. Thompson.
Ian McKaye.
Peter McWilliams.
Patrick Henry.
Maybe Richie Sambora. Average looking guy (at best); average talent (at best)...yet managed to bang both Heather Locklear and Denise Richards. That's aspire-worthy.
I'm with you Z.
I don't have any Heros either. I don't think that way or grew up to think that way...'to have a hero'.
But I guess the closest thing would be Kirk Gibson at this point.
The guy could do nothing good for the rest of his life and he'd still be awesome. He could rape children, kick puppies and eat transfat and he'd still make my Hero list....the list of one.
Quote from: Diomedes on February 27, 2007, 09:17:54 AM
Icons are bad.
Quote from: Diomedes on February 26, 2007, 09:15:21 PM
Muhammad Ali, Melville's Ahab, Bill Hicks, Milton's Satan, Bob Dylan, Conrad's Marlow, Cole Porter, Steve Albini, my mother, Valentino Rossi, Malcolm X, Larry Flynt, my aunts, Woody Guthrie, Archimedes, Mike Hailwood
Do you think you caught me out or something? Taking lessons from Wingnut?
Icons are bad, but I turn people into them nevertheless. Mostly because I'm weak I suppose.
Claire Bennett
Not really trying to call you out on anything. I just thought it was a bit funny/odd that you'd say that Icons are bad after you listed a few people who are pretty solid examples of "heroes."
I don't think having heroes is a bad thing or makes you weak. I think everyone needs someone to look up to. It's just a matter of how high do you put a particular person on a pedastool and for what reason. That's where most people's hero list is flawed.
I was poking fun at myself..the obvious contradiction should have tipped you off.
Carry on then.
Quote from: Diomedes on February 27, 2007, 11:41:07 AM
Do you think you caught me out or something? Taking lessons from Wingnut?
Icons are bad, but I turn people into them nevertheless. Mostly because I'm weak I suppose.
Off the jock,
Doi
i forgot rick tocchet
(http://tastyny.com/sandwich_hero.jpg)
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 24, 2007, 10:09:31 AM
morris dees
(http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic/main/index/billyray2.jpg)
Center wins justice for Billy Ray Johnson
April 20, 2007 — A civil jury in Linden, Texas, today awarded approximately $9 million in damages to Billy Ray Johnson, a mentally disabled black man who was taunted, knocked unconscious and dumped along a desolate road by four white men in September 2003.
The Center brought suit on his behalf in 2005 after the men responsible for the crime received only light jail sentences — 30 days for three of them and 60 days for one.
"On behalf of Billy Ray Johnson, we thank the jury — the conscience of Cass County — for returning a just and fair verdict," said Morris Dees, the Center's founder and chief trial attorney, in a statement to the media after the verdict.
"The defendants in this case treated Billy Ray like trash. They broke his body and threw him in a ditch alongside a deserted road. The jury told all of Texas and, indeed, the entire country that Billy Ray is a human being who deserves to be treated with dignity, that the life of each of us — rich or poor, black or white, abled or disabled — is truly precious. It's a message, I hope, that we always remember."
Johnson, 46, who suffered serious, permanent brain injuries from the attack, will require care for the rest of his life.
The case exposed deep racial fault lines in the East Texas community. Many blacks viewed the episode as a vicious hate crime, but predominantly white juries acquitted two of the defendants of felony charges. Many whites in the town expressed sympathy for the defendants and indifference to Johnson's injuries.
After a four-day trial that began on April 17, the jury of 11 whites and one black deliberated less than four hours before returning a unanimous verdict finding James Cory Hicks and Christopher Colt Amox responsible for Johnson's injuries.
Two other defendants, Dallas Chadwick Stone and John Wesley Owens, earlier reached confidential settlements in the lawsuit.
Jurors said afterward they hoped the verdict sends a message to children in their community and to the nation as a whole.
"Billy Ray is not an 'it,' like one of the defendants said," one juror said. "He is a human being. We hope that our verdict sends a message to the nation about this community."
Another said, "No one — no one — should have to go through what this man went through. And no amount of money can fix that."
All four men were at a "pasture party" on the night of September 28, 2003, when Johnson — 42 at the time but childlike and naive — was picked up from town and brought to the party, where about a dozen people were sitting on tailgates drinking beer.
After a period in which they teased and taunted Johnson, the defendants began talking about beating him up. Amox, who had been a high school pitcher, punched Johnson in the face, knocking him unconscious. Instead of taking Johnson to the hospital, the men threw him into the back of a pickup truck and left him by the side of a remote rural road.
The Cass County juries that heard the criminal cases against Amox, who was 20 at the time, and Hicks, then 24 and a jail employee, acquitted them of serious felony charges and instead handed down lesser convictions with a recommended sentence of probation.
Stone, then 18, and Owens, then 19, were allowed to plead guilty to an "injury to a disabled individual by omission" charge. They testified against Amox and Hicks.
A judge sentenced Owens, Stone and Amox to 30-day terms in the county jail and Hicks to 60 days.
Johnson, who had no criminal background, history of violence or trouble of any kind, lived with his mother and brother before the assault. Now he lives in a Texas nursing home.just a great organization...educate yourselves
http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
That sure is one rich invalid.
Quote from: Diomedes on February 26, 2007, 09:15:21 PM
Bill Hicks
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Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration ... that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
QuoteIt's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times.
:yay
They need to get on the case of that dude in GA who is locked up for raping a 17yr old girl. He was 18 and she gave him a blow job, consensually, and he got like 40yrs in the can.
And East Texas is racist as hell. That is where Jasper is and Jasper is where John William King, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Berry chained James Byrd Jr. to the back of their truck and dragged him until his head and arm fell off in 1998.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 23, 2007, 03:36:15 PM
They need to get on the case of that dude in GA who is locked up for raping a 17yr old girl. He was 18 and she gave him a blow job, consensually, and he got like 40yrs in the can.
Most definately. That is such a farged up story, especially since the kid that got locked up was like an all-state type athlete and an honors student as well. Kid definately had a bright future. He still will when he sells his story for a few million.......he just may have to wait a few years to collect.
theres been uncountable stories exactly like that kids in id say the last ten years or so...and it always happens in the south
what i cant believe is the prosecuter in this case didnt even hide the fact that he got the kid locked up for ten years on a blowjob for no other reason than he "believed" he was guilty of rape...forget the fact that he was found innocent
That fat motherfarger from Georgia who prosecuted that kid was a white sheet pointy hat wearing piece of shtein. I saw the interview he gave and you could tell he just wanted to say "I got that stillupfront good" and be done with it.
Sickening.
It happens alot everywhere, not just the south. The problem is, and I just wrote a paper about this for school, is the fact that the judicial system is farged up from the top on down. The fact that public defenders, which most people have to use, are shoddy doesn't help. Overworked, underpaid, nowhere near the budget as the prosecution has and many other things that put indigent people in jail sometimes even if they are not guilty.
There needs to be more accountability for prosecutors too. Nifong and the dickbag who prosecuted this kid in GA are two high profile examples of this crap.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 23, 2007, 10:39:12 PM
It happens alot everywhere, not just the south.
Seems to me that half the time I read about a modern day lynching, if it's not in Texas, it's in Vermont?
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 23, 2007, 10:39:12 PM
The fact that public defenders, which most people have to use, are shoddy doesn't help. Overworked, underpaid, nowhere near the budget as the prosecution has and many other things that put indigent people in jail sometimes even if they are not guilty.
You're absolutely right and you've just identified the problem with America's public school system as well.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-junk-mail22-2008nov22,0,42692.story
best mailman ever
Dumbass should have just thrown it away instead of hording it
It's hard to throw that much junk mail away without it getting noticed. Just imagine if your mailman kept everyone's junk mail every day...that's tons and tons of paper.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 22, 2008, 10:51:20 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-junk-mail22-2008nov22,0,42692.story
best mailman ever
That guy used to deliver to my house. Now that I think about it, my junk mail has increased a lot recently.
write a letter in support of him to someone then
first amendment shouldn't guarantee the right to pollute and waste and annoy with unsolicited mail
Find me the best recipient and address (email or snail), and I will gladly write an eloquent letter in his defense.
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 25, 2008, 07:57:48 PM
Find me the best recipient and address (email or snail), and I will gladly write an eloquent letter in his defense.
The internet is useful sometimes (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_you_contact_the_Postmaster_General_of_the_US_via_email)
Send them a large box full of a month's worth of junk mail.
ha, good idea
I still occasionally send credit card companies torn up pieces of paper or little notes like "go farg yourselves" or "eat me, dickbags" in their postage-paid envelopes. It feels like a little victory every time.
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 26, 2008, 08:31:41 AM
I still occasionally send credit card companies torn up pieces of paper or little notes like "go farg yourselves" or "eat me, dickbags" in their postage-paid envelopes. It feels like a little victory every time.
i just add those to my collection
You're the devil.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Hunter+Thompson+brutally+honest+Canadian+request/3606508/story.html
link explains the context of the following letter, penned in 1958 by Hunter S. Thompson to Jack Scott, maverick editor of a paper and to Hunter's mind at the time, possible employer:
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TO JACK SCOTT, VANCOUVER SUN
October 1, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City
Sir,
I got a hell of a kick reading the piece Time magazine did this week on The Sun. In addition to wishing you the best of luck, I'd also like to offer my services.
Since I haven't seen a copy of the "new" Sun yet, I'll have to make this a tentative offer. I stepped into a dung-hole the last time I took a job with a paper I didn't know anything about (see enclosed clippings) and I'm not quite ready to go charging up another blind alley.
By the time you get this letter, I'll have gotten hold of some of the recent issues of The Sun. Unless it looks totally worthless, I'll let my offer stand. And don't think that my arrogance is unintentional: it's just that I'd rather offend you now than after I started working for you.
I didn't make myself clear to the last man I worked for until after I took the job. It was as if the Marquis de Sade had suddenly found himself working for Billy Graham. The man despised me, of course, and I had nothing but contempt for him and everything he stood for. If you asked him, he'd tell you that I'm "not very likable, (that I) hate people, (that I) just want to be left alone, and (that I) feel too superior to mingle with the average person." (That's a direct quote from a memo he sent to the publisher.)
Nothing beats having good references.
Of course if you asked some of the other people I've worked for, you'd get a different set of answers.
If you're interested enough to answer this letter, I'll be glad to furnish you with a list of references — including the lad I work for now.
The enclosed clippings should give you a rough idea of who I am. It's a year old, however, and I've changed a bit since it was written. I've taken some writing courses from Columbia in my spare time, learned a hell of a lot about the newspaper business, and developed a healthy contempt for journalism as a profession.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you're trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I'd like to work for you.
Most of my experience has been in sports writing, but I can write everything from warmongering propaganda to learned book reviews.
I can work 25 hours a day if necessary, live on any reasonable salary, and don't give a black damn for job security, office politics, or adverse public relations.
I would rather be on the dole than work for a paper I was ashamed of.
It's a long way from here to British Columbia, but I think I'd enjoy the trip.
If you think you can use me, drop me a line.
If not, good luck anyway.
Sincerely, Hunter S. Thompson
If there is a God then hopefully Hunter is busy writing an expose' on His seeming absentee stewardship of the universe.
there isnt and hes not
hunter is dead and thats the end of it. go take your fairy tales somewhere else, old man.
^^^ proof that hitler wasn't all bad. ^^^
hitler would have had to eliminate mds for that logic to work out
simply killing off others who share a strand or two of his family tree does us no goddamn good
Quick piece by a former Soviet dissident. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/opinion/16iht-edsharansky.html?_r=2&ref=global)