# 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:** 214
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4270 "2022-08-30T14:19:00Z")
YMMV but Crocs with little fake balls on them. I’m not googling “Croc & balls” at work but trust me, it’s a “new fashion trend.” ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4271 "2022-08-30T14:30:08Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > YMMV but Crocs with little fake balls on them. I’m not googling “Croc & balls” at work but trust me, it’s a “new fashion trend.” - Do those come as a package deal with “Truck Nuts”? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4272 "2022-08-30T14:36:09Z")
I know that was tongue-in-cheek, but I live in truck nut land. Truck nuts are still a thing around here and might actually be enjoying a bit of a resurgence in popularity. I haven’t noticed the guys in their lifted trucks, with truck nuts, wearing Crocs. Typically it is slip on boots of some sort, or Whites/Nicks boots. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4273 "2022-08-30T17:26:36Z")
[New Jersey banned plastic bags. So, people are stealing grocery store shopping baskets (yahoo.com)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/jersey-banned-plastic-bags-people-132723185.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4274 "2022-08-30T17:55:53Z")
The city of Lakewood, New Jersey is tackling homelessness by cutting down all the trees in its town square. > **[Lakewood cut down Town Square trees to deter homeless](https://www.app.com/story/news/local/jackson-lakewood/lakewood/2022/08/29/lakewood-nj-town-square-trees-cut-deter-homeless/65420495007/)** > > Lakewood mayor said the decision was made after a recommendation from the Police Department which was triggered by numerous complaints from residents. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4275 "2022-08-30T18:02:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > square. I find it appalling that a land mass as resource-rich as the US and Canada can’t muster up the will to come up with a decent and humane way of dealing with homelessness and poverty, especially since (from what I heard several years ago) something like 10% of the homeless are schizophrenics. And who knows how many others have other mental illnesses. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4276 "2022-08-30T18:04:40Z")
It would be un-Constitutional. ‘Promote the Corporate Welfare’ and all that… ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4277 "2022-08-30T18:11:05Z")
Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure I’ve read that the Founding Fathers really disliked corporations, and thought they should be illegal or at least severely constrained. Assuming that’s true, I’d love for someone to write up a brief to some new form of _Citizen’s United_ and watch Alito do his originalist dance to try and refute it. Also, assuming that the Democrat’s hold the House and get one or two more seats in the Senate, I’d like a one-line law that says “Corporation’s are not people, no matter what Mitt Romney says.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4278 "2022-08-30T20:38:41Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Also, assuming that the Democrat’s hold the House and get one or two more seats in the Senate, I’d like a one-line law that says “Corporation’s are not people, **no matter what Mitt Romney says**.” Wouldn’t the bolded part make it a Bill of Attainder?\* Better strike that bit. \*(I know that it wouldn’t. It’s a joke. Cool y’all damn jets.) ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4279 "2022-08-30T23:30:36Z")
And that’s why you always leave a note! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4280 "2022-08-31T01:45:29Z")
Quote from the article : One student started a petition called “Let’s kill Eleri Irons,” according to the lawsuit, which said that after teachers found out about the petition, they didn’t notify Irons’ parents, resulting in “significant physical and psychological trauma.” > **[El Segundo school failed to stop bullies who started petition to end teen's...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/el-segundo-school-failed-to-stop-bullies-who-started-petition-to-end-teen-s-life-jury-finds/ar-AA11gMvx?ocid=MSNHP_U646&pc=U646&cvid=b9e7c8eeb2654ca6a1656a1da3e488aa#comments)** > > A Los Angeles County jury found the El Segundo school district negligent and ordered it to pay $1 million to a bullied teenage girl. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4281 "2022-08-31T02:05:57Z")
Ya know, even in the far flung year of 1980, I would have been suspended, maybe expelled for circulating a death threat for signatures. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4282 "2022-08-31T18:59:06Z")
This seems …off. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/black-volleyball-player-went-viral-after-claiming-fan-pelted-her-with-racial-slurs-but-surveillance-video-shows-otherwise-report/ar-AA11jKHP?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=ec7e34d88d87486dbbcaae67ed907e5d](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/black-volleyball-player-went-viral-after-claiming-fan-pelted-her-with-racial-slurs-but-surveillance-video-shows-otherwise-report/ar-AA11jKHP?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=ec7e34d88d87486dbbcaae67ed907e5d) Sounds horrific, if true but there are inconsistencies. > “When we watched the video, we did not observe that behavior from him,” he said. The [original story](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/sport/rachel-richardson-father-says-daughter-was-afraid-spt-intl/index.html) has no quotes from other players in the game. Which I find strange. If the player serving heard it, then all the others heard it. Doesn’t it seem like a journalist would have spoke with a couple of players or the coaches before posting the story? And the story here has no quotes from anyone else involved in the game or who was watching the game in the stands. The hell? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4283 "2022-08-31T21:48:33Z")
[This account](https://abcnews.go.com/US/duke-volleyball-player-subjected-racial-slurs-hopes-college/story?id=89061135) from ABC News seems to have more detail: > The fan, who was not a student, was sitting in the BYU student section, and was identified by Duke during the game, according to BYU. The fan has since been banned from all BYU athletic venues. > “To say we are extremely disheartened in the actions of a small number of fans in last night’s volleyball game in the Smith Fieldhouse between BYU and Duke is not strong enough language,” BYU said in a [statement](https://twitter.com/BYUCougars/status/1563616547880329216?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet). “We will not tolerate behavior of this kind. Specifically, the use of a racial slur at any of our athletic events is absolutely unacceptable and BYU Athletics holds a zero-tolerance approach to this behavior. We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student-athletes competing last night for what they experienced.” The athlete has claimed that officials and BYU staff were aware of what was going on but didn’t do anything about it during the game. I wonder if other people did not want to be interviewed because they might have been asked why nothing was done, or why the people around the offending person didn’t tell him to shut up. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4284 "2022-09-01T22:45:24Z")
[calmest passenger ever](https://jalopnik.com/even-death-wont-save-you-from-a-tsa-pat-down-1849479411), no fear of flying, at all > [@](#): > > … this absolutely bananas report … starts off with an almost unimaginable encounter recounted by former Transportation Security Officer Jai Cooper. A passenger passed away after check-in, but the family still brought her through Cooper’s security as they wanted to get their loved one out of the country they were visiting. It turns out, the dead body could still fly…but the underpaid, overworked Transportation Security Officers would need to “follow protocol”: > > Her colleagues checked the corpse according to the official pat-down process. With gloves on, they ran the palms of their hands over the collar, the abdomen, the inside of the waistband, and the lower legs. Then, they checked the body’s “sensitive areas” — the breasts, inner thighs, and buttocks — with “sufficient pressure to ensure detection.” > > Only then was the corpse cleared to proceed into the secure part of the terminal. > > Not even death can exempt you from TSA screening. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4285 "2022-09-01T23:08:01Z")
Wait a minute. You can drag a dead body through a TSA checkpoint? Ummm… what? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4286 "2022-09-01T23:15:18Z")
Only if the death occurs after check-in. That had to be confirmed by security tapes. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4287 "2022-09-01T23:46:44Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You can drag a dead body through a TSA checkpoint? Just put sunglasses on it and move it like a puppet, we’ve seen it work before. [![](https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2019/07/Weekend-at-Bernies-crop.jpg) ](https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2019/07/Weekend-at-Bernies-crop.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4288 "2022-09-02T00:09:01Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Wait a minute. You can drag a dead body through a TSA checkpoint? Ummm… what? > [The family might not have known](https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland) it, but they had run into one of air travel’s many gray areas. Without a formal death certificate, the passenger could not be considered legally dead. And US law obligates airlines to accommodate their ticketed and checked-in passengers, even if they have “a physical or mental impairment that, on a permanent or temporary basis, substantially limits one or more major life activities.” In short: she could still fly. It looks like if you want Weekend with Bernice, the airlines prettymuch have to get you there. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4289 "2022-09-02T00:19:42Z")
Wouldn’t the passenger’s disability prevent her from evacuating the plane in the event of an emergency? And surely giving her an exit row seat was a mistake? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=213) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=215)