The Wikipedia thread

[General_Failure]

He's done movies and television. If he's half smart with his money, he should be rich.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Link to this article was on the main page:

The Caspian expeditions of the Rus were military raids undertaken by the Rus between 864 and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores.[1] Initially, the Rus appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as spandex wearing assbangers along the Volga trade route, having sex with children, animals, and slaves. The first small-scale rapes took place in the late 9th and early 10th century. The Rus undertook the first large-scale rape in 913; having arrived on 500 ships, they raped Gorgan, in the territory of present day Iran, and the adjacent areas, molesting slaves and touching children. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and defeated by homophobes in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga.

[Cerevant]

So, this is actually the Wikipedia vandalism thread?

[Diomedes]

You're posting at

only high brow here

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Happy birthday, Jon-Erik Hexum

Hexum died after shooting himself in the head with a prop gun loaded with blanks on the set of the CBS series Cover Up, a program about a pair of fashion photographers/models who were actually secret agents. Hexum, who played a weapons expert, was said to constantly be playing with the guns as if they were toys and once angered Jennifer O'Neill so much that she chastised him on-set for his carelessness.[6]

On October 12, 1984, after finishing a scene in which he fired several blank rounds from a .44 Magnum revolver, Hexum's character was supposed to unload the gun and reload it with inert dummy rounds, which was required for the next scene in the script—a procedure that Jon-Erik was not familiar with, and which was usually done by the prop masters. The shooting of the next scene was delayed several times. While waiting for the prop masters to unload the blanks from the gun, Hexum jokingly put the gun up to his temple and allegedly said,

    "Let's see if I get myself with this one."

Hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range, especially if pointed at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull,[7] the wad struck him in the temple with enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain.

According to a crew member on the set:

    "Jon smiled and pulled the trigger. There was a loud bang and a bright flash, then black smoke. Jon screamed in agony, then looked kind of amazed as he slumped back onto the bed with blood streaming from a severe head wound. It was horrible."

Hexum's assistant ran to him and wrapped his head in a towel. An ambulance was called, but before it could arrive, Hexum slipped into a coma, prompting crew members to carry him to one of the studio's station wagons and drive him to Beverly Hills Medical Center. Hexum went into surgery as his family and girlfriend, actress Elizabeth Daily, were notified of his condition. Initially he was listed as being in "serious" condition, but after five hours of surgery, doctors changed the condition to "critical". Hexum was intubated and connected to a respirator, and lingered for six days before doctors pronounced him brain dead. With his mother's permission, Hexum was flown to San Francisco and taken off life support so that his organs could be donated.[8]

[mussa]

loaded unloaded or blanks, real gun, paintball gun whatever kind of gun, you always treat it as if it were loaded. this fargin guy deserved it. jackass

[Diomedes]

fine candidate for the good riddance thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Certainly, he is.  But even though I just heard this story for the first time today, it's old news.

[Cerevant]

Darwin Award.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Definitely.  All-time Darwin Award HoF.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Do a Wiki search for "Buttsecks". Nice.

[rjs246]

The old timey pictures of dudes nailing each other are hot.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

I so had hoped that if one person actually followed through, it would be you, plot buster.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Man, this guy was farged up

Robert Blake played List in a 1993 movie.  That's a wacky coincidence.
Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, used List as the inspiration for character Keyser Söze.  Nifty.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Cool page - list of "unusual" deaths