# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 122
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2430 "2022-02-10T14:34:26Z")
> [@BBC story](#): > > The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation. That’s just lazy journalism. How about: > The police have their eyes on a suspect > The police have a suspect in their sights > Authorities are drawn to a particular individual in this case ? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2431 "2022-02-10T14:43:01Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > > [@BBC story](#): > > > > The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation. > > That’s just lazy journalism. How about: > > > The police have their eyes on a suspect > > > The police have a suspect in their sights > > > Authorities are drawn to a particular individual in this case - > > ? Eyes, eyes, baby. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2432 "2022-02-10T15:53:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And completely opaque, making faceting it pretty silly. They facet all manner of opaque stuff. I have seen faceted jet, ffs. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2433 "2022-02-10T16:17:24Z")
> **[Pat Sajak walks off set after unprecedented 'Wheel of Fortune' win](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pat-sajak-walks-off-set-after-unprecedented-wheel-of-fortune-win-080301939.html)** > > It has been a historic week on "Wheel of Fortune," as Wednesday marked the first three-peat in bonus round history. Soooooo…a rough day then? Or, is this for good? Heh. “I’m outta here,” Sajak muttered. “That’s it. I’m through.” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2434 "2022-02-10T16:38:06Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > [‘Wheel of Fortune’ win too much for Pat Sajak: ‘It seems impossible, doesn't it?’ - Yahoo News Canada](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pat-sajak-walks-off-set-after-unprecedented-wheel-of-fortune-win-080301939.html) > > Soooooo…a rough day then? > Or, is this for good? > Heh. > > “I’m outta here,” Sajak muttered. “That’s it. I’m through.” Our local NBC affiliate carries Wheel of Fortune each weekday evening at 6:30 pm. Of course, this is the week that NBC is carrying the Olympics, so we have not seen any of these three shows this week. Of course, I could get up really early and watch WOF at 4:00 am, but probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2435 "2022-02-10T17:19:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > They facet all manner of opaque stuff. I have seen faceted jet, ffs. Oh, yeah! > **[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk)** > > The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, subsonic, twin-engined, stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). It was the first operational aircraft to be designed with stealth technology. > Work on what would become the F-117 commenced in the 1970s as a means of countering increasingly sophisticated Soviet surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). During 1976, the Defense Advanced Research Proje... ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2436 "2022-02-10T17:58:51Z")
> **[Unruly passenger forces Frontier flight from NYC to divert to North Carolina](https://abc13.com/flight-diverted-frontier-airlines-unruly-passenger-rdu/11550711/)** > > Passengers said it all started when a man claimed the woman behind him was sticking him with a needle to steal his DNA, and things escalated from there. > It started when a passenger began loudly complaining, claiming the woman in the seat behind him was sticking him with a needle to steal his DNA, according to a passenger onboard. > > He became more agitated and allegedly began threatening other passengers, including a baby, and said he would kill everyone on board. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2437 "2022-02-10T18:32:22Z")
> **[Ottawa convoy protest: Group circles city's airport, police warn of effort to...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ottawa-convoy-protest-airport-protesters-911-covid19-160445928.html)** > > Truck convoy demonstrators in Ottawa headed to the city's airport on Thursday, as an expansion of the occupation near Parliament Hill that has being going on for two weeks now. > [@](#): > > Additionally, Ottawa police alerted the public that they are aware of a “concerted effort” to “flood” 911 and the non-emergency reporting line. “This endangers lives and is completely unacceptable,” a tweet from Ottawa police reads. Yep - this is now the level of reprehensible scumbaggery these weak-minded fucking podunks are up to. > [@](#): > > "It is a crime to unnecessarily call 911 or our non-emergency number (613-236-1222). **We track calls and will charge anyone deliberately interfering with emergencies**. Cool, although I’m guessing the losers will block their calls or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2438 "2022-02-10T18:59:03Z")
You can’t block 9-1-1. Your phone GPS is also always available to 9-1-1, too. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2439 "2022-02-10T19:02:50Z")
Heh. TIL. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2440 "2022-02-10T19:03:56Z")
I do find it curious that those who support the massive disruption and intimidation caused by these truckers, are also the same ones who feel that a union going on strike for better working conditions is unmitigated evil. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2441 "2022-02-10T19:08:34Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > It started when a passenger began loudly complaining, claiming the woman in the seat behind him was sticking him with a needle to steal his DNA, according to a passenger onboard. Lemme guess ,PCP? too much coke? Psychotic or just Qanon? This looks like what we used to get admitted to the psych ward on weekends, including the 6 people needed to restrain. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2442 "2022-02-10T19:09:18Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > It started when a passenger began loudly complaining, claiming the woman in the seat behind him was sticking him with a needle to steal his DNA, according to a passenger onboard. This one really sounds like it could be someone having a psychotic break or other genuine mental health crisis, rather than just the endless stories of ignorant entitled assholes disrupting flights. Although I guess if it turns out to be drugs they deserve no compassion. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2443 "2022-02-10T19:18:37Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > This one really sounds like it could be someone having a psychotic break or other genuine mental health crisis, rather than just the endless stories of ignorant entitled assholes disrupting flights. Agreed ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2444 "2022-02-10T19:30:11Z")
That’s a click-baity headline if ever I saw one. As the article says, this was the third game in a row where someone won the top prize of $100,000 in the bonus round. After it happened, Sajak jokingly walked off the set briefly, in a sort of “Well, now I’ve seen everything” way. He wasn’t upset, and he certainly didn’t quit or anything. He was back onstage for the wrap-up at the end. The clip is on YouTube if you want to watch it. In this case, I’d say the only “stupid MFers” are the headline writers. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZfFIB5H8nCE/maxresdefault.jpg "THIRD $100,000 WINNER IN A ROW! | Wheel of Fortune") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFIB5H8nCE) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2445 "2022-02-10T19:40:10Z")
Ah, thank-you for posting that. Didn’t cross my mind to follow up on that, figuring that the yahoo article would have reported things correctly, which, indeed, it sure didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2446 "2022-02-10T20:36:11Z")
I’m sure they think nothing of killing people indirectly by flooding 911. These are the people who set an apartment building on fire & taped the doors shut because the residents were complaining about their horns/noise. > **[Police arson unit probes Ottawa downtown apartment fire allegation in heat of...](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/police-arson-unit-probes-ottawa-fire-allegation-in-heat-of-anti-mandate-protest)** > > Police are investigating what appears to be an attempt to start a fire in the lobby of a downtown Ottawa apartment building, where tenants say they have been… ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2447 "2022-02-10T21:02:48Z")
From that article: > The building manager showed him surveillance video, which he said appears to show two men light a package of the bricks in the lobby and secure the front door handles together before leaving through the side door around 5 a.m. Sunday. > > The video also shows a different man enter the building and put the fire out a short while later, he said in an interview. (The “bricks” were firestarters, not construction bricks.) I wonder whether the arsonists bragged to some other\* member of the convoy, who had slightly more sense or compassion, and so went in and put the fire out? (\* that presumes that the arsonists were themselves members of the convoy; which does seem likely but as far as I can tell isn’t (yet) proven.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2448 "2022-02-10T22:35:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > (\* that presumes that the arsonists were themselves members of the convoy; which does seem likely but as far as I can tell isn’t (yet) proven.) You known darn well they were sooper sekrit Antifa agents trying to make the convoy heroes look bad. ![](https://c.tenor.com/aa0NF8eyEsEAAAAM/spy-animation.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2449 "2022-02-10T23:24:42Z")
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