# 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:** 372
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7431 "2023-05-25T07:28:22Z")
That also happens on the coast in Monterey County, California. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7432 "2023-05-25T13:49:19Z")
“Think of it as evolution in action.” ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7433 "2023-05-25T14:00:34Z")
Can’t say I wouldn’t have reacted in the same way. From the article, it sounds like the calf was struggling to cross a river and the man assisted it. I get why they don’t want people to interact with the animals, but I doubt I could have just watched it drown, even if there are personal consequences. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7434 "2023-05-25T14:05:03Z")
The calf wound up dead anyway. And what if its mother had reacted violently? “Stay the hell away from the buffalo” is not a restriction (however worded) that anyone not an expert in wild buffalo ought to be violating. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7435 "2023-05-25T14:15:41Z")
Yellowstone buffalo Yelloswtone buffalo buffalo buffalo Yellowstone humans. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7436 "2023-05-25T14:29:32Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Officials at Yellowstone National Park say they were forced to put down a newborn bison calf An NPS spokesperson said “We had no choice but to put it down. It was really heavy.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7437 "2023-05-25T14:45:04Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > From the article, it sounds like the calf was struggling to cross a river and the man assisted it. Decades ago I was camping at Assateague. A foal was wandering around, separated from its herd. Park policy is not to intervene ever with the herd. People kept approaching the rangers about the situation, but were told it was park policy. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7438 "2023-05-25T15:16:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > At low tide, the estuary is known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks. At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years. Many more have been rescued, including someone who was fishing there last month… Don’t know if it’s the same location but I read a detailed account of that happening to a young woman while her fiance watched helplessly. Their truck got stuck and she got out to push and ended up buried in this silt that turned cement hard when the water came in. The worst part about it is they had a rescue crew trying to dig her out before the water went over her head, and they gave her a plastic tube to breathe through once her head went under…I can’t even imagine the terror, but yeah she lost the tube and drowned. At night when my thoughts turn dark, I wonder what it was like to die that way. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7439 "2023-05-25T16:11:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Decades ago I was camping at Assateague. A foal was wandering around, separated from its herd. Park policy is not to intervene ever with the herd. People kept approaching the rangers about the situation, but were told it was park policy. My Wife used to work animal control. Got a call one time that a horse was laying down and the other horses looked ‘Very Concerned’. I get it, but horses do lie down once in a while. The Concerned horses is sort of funny though. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7440 "2023-05-25T16:14:32Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The Concerned horses is sort of funny though. Apparently, they do have facial expressions. > **[The Face Says It All: Horses’ expressions give clues to state of mind and health](https://www.tsln.com/horse-rodeo/the-face-says-it-all-horses-expressions-give-clues-to-state-of-mind-and-health/)** > > Emojis allow the internet world to see the gamut of facial expressions for humans, but what about horse expressions? Studies conducted in Italy, Germany, and England showed that horses can express pain through facial expressions.... To me, though, every horse just looks like it’s saying, “Huh?” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7441 "2023-05-25T17:31:11Z")
I think they’re all saying, “Try me.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7442 "2023-05-25T17:46:10Z")
“Why the long face?” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7443 "2023-05-25T17:49:08Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I think they’re all saying, “Try me.” - You know why ponies are so quiet? They’re a little horse. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7444 "2023-05-25T18:14:37Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Apparently, they do have facial expressions. Boy, do they ever, as well as lots of other body language. My late horse Nick had been abused by a previous owner, and just touching him in certain places would trigger an “I want to kill you” face. Over time with kindness and patience I got him mostly desensitized to being touched in those areas, but I could still evoke the rage face with the right light stimulus. ETA: This in such a gentle, kind-mannered horse that little kids could ride him bareback with a halter and lead rope. What kind of stupid MFer could treat him so badly as to permanently impress that reaction upon him? Still makes me mad, decades later. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7445 "2023-05-25T21:03:39Z")
11-year-old calls the police because his father was threatening his mother. The police shot the boy, but released the father > **[11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by responding police officer after...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/mississippi-police-shooting-11-year-old-boy/index.html)** > > An 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help is recovering after being released from the hospital, according to his family. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7446 "2023-05-25T21:22:21Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > 11-year-old calls the police because his father was threatening his mother. The police shot the boy, but released the father - > > [https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/mississippi-police-shooting-11-year-old-boy/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/mississippi-police-shooting-11-year-old-boy/index.html) From the article. > The boy was given a chest tube and placed on a ventilator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He had a **collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver** because of the shooting, his mother said. He was released from the hospital Wednesday. CNN has reached out to the hospital. He got sent home after five days? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7447 "2023-05-25T22:08:23Z")
I don’t have any jokes for that one. Poor kid. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7448 "2023-05-25T22:54:39Z")
In a sane world that cop would be charged with attempted murder and sitting in jail awaiting trial. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7449 "2023-05-25T23:21:44Z")
“Forget it, Jake, it’s C̶h̶i̶n̶a̶t̶o̶w̶n̶ Mississippi”. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7450 "2023-05-27T16:53:43Z")
Guy buys a bunch of “Trump Bucks”, apparently falls on hard times, takes the Trump bucks to the bank to exchange for USD, is shocked to find out that they are worthless. > **[‘Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bucks-promise-wealth-maga-loyalty-lose-thousands-rcna84965)** > > The products are advertised online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trump’s 2024 bid and make the “real patriots” who support him rich when cashed in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=371) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=373)