# Man trying to burn his Nikes Burns down house \[Hoax\]. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920 "2018-09-07T00:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/41 "2018-09-07T19:45:25Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > Almost apropos of nothing . . . > > I was in the jury pool for the trial of a guy who was accused of burning down his house to collect the insurance money. His lawyer was questioning the roomful of potential jurors: > > “How many of you have ever lived paycheck to paycheck?” > > About half of the people raised a hand. > > Lawyer, growling sarcastically: “And how many of you burned down your house because of that?” This is the same fallacious unconditioned probability that OJ’s lawyers used. The probably that a husband kills his wife is one in a thousand! The probably that a husband killed his wife _given that we know she has been murdered_ is more like 50%. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/42 "2018-09-07T21:06:12Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’ve seen some Nike ads (on Facebook) along the lines of “How to Safely Burn Our Products” but I have not bothered to check whether they were actually produced by Nike or whether they were just random people being funny, because frankly it doesn’t really matter. I have never understood what this type of “protest” is supposed to accomplish. Same as burning Beatles records back in the 60s. These people are destroying stuff _they already bought_, so the companies don’t lose anything, and if they got them for free the company isn’t out money if they are burned either, so… good job ruining your own stuff? If that’s not a clear indicator of the (lack of) brain power behind these types of things, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/43 "2018-09-07T21:59:07Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I have never understood what this type of “protest” is supposed to accomplish. Same as burning Beatles records back in the 60s. > > These people are destroying stuff _they already bought_, so the companies don’t lose anything, and if they got them for free the company isn’t out money if they are burned either, so… good job ruining your own stuff? > > If that’s not a clear indicator of the (lack of) brain power behind these types of things, I don’t know what is. Or like burning The Rutles records, after the infamous “the Rutles are bigger than God” comment: > [@All You Need is Cash](#): > > Many fans burned their albums. Many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales sky-rocketed. People were buying them just to burn them. And some burned their houses. (Maybe) ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/44 "2018-09-07T23:09:02Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m saying that I can’t see how you can deepen the divide between a typical liberal and a typical Trump supporter any more than it already is. Russia’s been working racially divisive issues as a major focus of their disinformation campaign going back to 2015. [The majority of suspicious](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/13/17349670/facebook-russia-ads-race-house-democrats) ads purchased on Facebook that appeared to be part of the campaign targeted racial issues. Many of those are strongly linked to Russia. Those ads targeted both left and right. There’s a correlation between their focused attempts to deepen the racial divide and it’s growth up to this point. Maybe they can’t deepen the divide further and just wanted to keep us distracted with it. Alternatively, they might be hoping they can deepen that divide further. Relatively recent history shows just how much worse things can get. 51 years ago, [Detroit saw National Guard tanks](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcTZJ9vPrR9hJ7-CpFc0ktcAlbZx8GfCetgwSrv5dV5Hwt3Y51Pspg&sp=826a6eb3bddebaed393583a7d6428cae&anticache=468882) being used to suppress a declared insurrection in Detroit. Many other large cities saw large riots about racial issues in the late 60s. It really can get worse…much worse. Our cities aren’t burning with tracers flying through the night sky. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/45 "2018-09-08T15:24:24Z")
Get ready for burning pickups! > **[Ford: We respect the right of NFL players to protest](https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/25/news/ford-nfl-protests/index.html)** > > Ford, a sponsor of the National Football League, said it supports free speech in response to days of protests by NFL players. > [@](#): > > Ford: We respect the right of NFL players to protest ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/46 "2018-09-08T17:24:54Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Get ready for burning pickups! > > [Ford: We respect the right of NFL players to protest](https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/25/news/ford-nfl-protests/index.html) That makes Ford sound like they agree with the player’s position. If you copied the whole sentence you get this: “We respect individuals’ rights to express their views, even if they are not ones we share,” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/47 "2018-09-08T18:06:49Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > That makes Ford sound like they agree with the player’s position. If you copied the whole sentence you get this: > > “We respect individuals’ rights to express their views, even if they are not ones we share,” Right, but simply agreeing with their right to protest will bring on the wrath of the Trumpists. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/48 "2018-09-08T19:30:13Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Right, but simply agreeing with their right to protest will bring on the wrath of the Trumpists. No it won’t. And you clearly believe Republicans are the only ones who find the kneeling insulting. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/49 "2018-09-08T19:38:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > You may find yourself > Living in a suburban house > And you may find yourself > With a pair of Nike shoes > And you may find yourself > With a match and a can of gasoline > And you may ask yourself > Well, should I do this? > > Letting the days go by, let the fire burn me down > Letting the days go by, shoes burning in the garage > Up into smoke again the house is burning down > Once in a lifetime, I think I burned my house down > > And you may ask yourself > Where is my beautiful house? > And you may ask yourself > Where is my beautiful car? > And you may ask yourself > Was I right? Was I wrong? > And you will say to yourself, “My God, what have I done?” > > Same as it ever was That’s “Once in a Lifetime”, my favorite video from day one. Here’s a new parody. SFW. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nSuregWhlWk/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump vs Talking Heads - Swedemason") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/50 "2018-09-08T20:18:05Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > No it won’t. And you clearly believe Republicans are the only ones who find the kneeling insulting. I never said that only Republicans are upset about it. I’m sure that there are some non-Republicans who don’t like it as well as some Republicans who don’t care. There are all kinds of people in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920/51 "2018-09-09T13:12:51Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Get ready for burning pickups! > > [Ford: We respect the right of NFL players to protest](https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/25/news/ford-nfl-protests/index.html) Not news worthy as Ford has had issues with burning vehicles in the past…spontaneously burning vehicles! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-trying-to-burn-his-nikes-burns-down-house-hoax/820920.md?page=2)