# 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:** 232
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4631 "2022-10-07T03:47:25Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > He would have been on there for close to two hours. I wonder how much longer he could have held on. Back when he was young and ~~immortal~~ stupid my father hopped a passenger train and ‘ride the blinds’ – between the tender and baggage car – to what he thought would the next town about twenty minutes away. Instead it was an express and it was more than an hour and a half at speeds much higher than he wanted. When he finally got off his legs were jelly and he had to lie down for a while before figuring out how to get back. He stuck to freights after that, and not often. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4632 "2022-10-07T05:01:24Z")
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a car is a good guy with a car. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4633 "2022-10-07T09:18:44Z")
Are you Vin Diesel? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4634 "2022-10-07T09:20:31Z")
Wayne “Diesel” LaPierre ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4635 "2022-10-07T13:10:54Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > He would have been on there for close to two hours. I wonder how much longer he could have held on. > > Back when he was young and ~~immortal~~ stupid my father hopped a passenger train and ‘ride the blinds’ – between the tender and baggage car – to what he thought would the next town about twenty minutes away. Instead it was an express and it was more than an hour and a half at speeds much higher than he wanted. > > When he finally got off his legs were jelly and he had to lie down for a while before figuring out how to get back. He stuck to freights after that, and not often. In college, I caught a freight on the tracks that go through NC State. The railroad goes through the middle of campus at a .5% incline about a mile from the depot, so the train is going slow enough to catch. I held on for about ninety minutes until Greensboro. That was hard and scary enough. I can’t imagine holding on at highway speeds for a couple of hours. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4636 "2022-10-07T15:17:17Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > [@DesertDog](#): > > > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > > > He would have been on there for close to two hours. I wonder how much longer he could have held on. > > > > Back when he was young and ~~immortal~~ stupid my father hopped a passenger train and ‘ride the blinds’ – between the tender and baggage car – to what he thought would the next town about twenty minutes away. Instead it was an express and it was more than an hour and a half at speeds much higher than he wanted. > > > > When he finally got off his legs were jelly and he had to lie down for a while before figuring out how to get back. He stuck to freights after that, and not often. > > In college, I caught a freight on the tracks that go through NC State. The railroad goes through the middle of campus at a .5% incline about a mile from the depot, so the train is going slow enough to catch. I held on for about ninety minutes until Greensboro. That was hard and scary enough. I can’t imagine holding on at highway speeds for a couple of hours How’d you get back to Raleigh? That’s too far to walk. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4637 "2022-10-07T15:29:18Z")
Called the fraternity house from a payphone. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4638 "2022-10-07T15:40:14Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The railroad goes through the middle of campus at a .5% incline about a mile from the depot, so the train is going slow enough to catch. A big advantage freight trains back then was the doors on box cars were easier to open, inside and out, so you could ride inside the car. Modern cars with their plug doors are fussier to open from outside and if closed completely so as not to be noticed, cannot be opened from inside. The thing nowadays is to hitch on the end platform of a covered hopper. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT5DGepL-t84UE0FcWedRBJdFa-qoyumSNTrw&usqp=CAU) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT5DGepL-t84UE0FcWedRBJdFa-qoyumSNTrw&usqp=CAU) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4639 "2022-10-07T16:14:59Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > How’d you get back to Raleigh? That’s too far to walk. Called Andy. Or maybe Barney. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4640 "2022-10-07T16:17:29Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Called the fraternity house from a payphone Fraternity house? That explains it. Was beer involved in this incident in any way? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4641 "2022-10-07T16:18:37Z")
Not this particular instance. When we bought thirty tubs of Crisco and greased the rails, OTOH. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4642 "2022-10-07T16:19:21Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > > [@Kron](#): > > > > This asshole needs to have his driving privileges revoked, _permanently_. > > That’s not going to stop him from driving. We have to be committed to putting people in jail for extended periods of time or they’re just going to continue to drive illegally. I agree, hence my followup statement 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4643 "2022-10-07T17:04:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 36 1/6 detainees are demanding to be transferred to Guantanamo and complain that critical race theory is being forced on them. Read this quickly and was like “huh? How are we detaining one sixth of a person?” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4644 "2022-10-07T19:14:15Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > He would have been on there for close to two hours. I wonder how much longer he could have held on. he must have been sitting on the mansfield bar ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4645 "2022-10-07T19:18:44Z")
Amazingly NOT Florida Man or in Florida. But, tragic consequences… > **[Report: Akron man dies after falling off Myrtle Beach hotel balcony while...](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/akron/report-akron-man-falls-to-death-during-hurricane-ian-myrtle-beach-attempting-handstand-hotel-balcony/95-196e61ad-9158-4c7f-bbe6-32a2746b9b58)** > > Markell Hope fell from the 15th-floor balcony of the Patricia Grand Hotel last Friday. Truly, a sad part is we can’t ask him how “doing a handstand on the 15th floor balcony during a hurricane” became something to try. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4646 "2022-10-07T19:23:26Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > doing a handstand on the 15th floor balcony during a hurricane So, is this a hurricane-related death? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4647 "2022-10-07T19:30:40Z")
No, he was going straight down, not sideways. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4648 "2022-10-07T19:43:38Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Truly, a sad part is we can’t ask him how “doing a handstand on the 15th floor balcony during a hurricane” became something to try. When I was a kid, some genius decided to climb the [Regency Towers](https://www.vrbo.com/144050) in Myrtle Beach, going balcony to balcony. He fell. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4649 "2022-10-07T19:55:29Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Amazingly NOT Florida Man or in Florida. But, tragic consequences… I assume you’re not familiar with Ohio’s nickname being “[Florida of the North](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-named-3rd-worst-state-in-the-country-by-travel-website/)”. They’re actively [trying to become Florida](https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/04/new-ohio-house-bill-combines-parts-of-floridas-dont-say-gay-with-prohibition-against-teaching-so-called-divisive-concepts-about-race.html). ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4650 "2022-10-07T20:41:28Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > When we bought thirty tubs of Crisco and greased the rails, OTOH. How did that end? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=233)