# 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:** 463
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9251 "2023-11-06T14:25:24Z")
My great-grandparents fled from Poland just in time to avoid the horrors of the holocaust. Since it was 1876 and they were not Jewish, they were able to slip away undetected. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9252 "2023-11-06T14:34:33Z")
I survived the Holocaust by being born 20 years later. And in the US. Of course, as for the upcoming American Taliban Republican Holocaust 2.0, who can say. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9253 "2023-11-06T14:41:17Z")
My great-grandparents avoided the purge of all german speaking folks in what is now Croatia after WW II by coming to America in 1900 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9254 "2023-11-06T14:44:16Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > My great-grandparents fled from Poland just in time to avoid the horrors of the holocaust. Since it was 1876 and they were not Jewish, they were able to slip away undetected. That’s when my great-grandparents fled Poland/Russia, but they were Jewish. I’m not sure how detected they were, but their names were on the ship’s manifest. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9255 "2023-11-06T16:27:14Z")
Some folks did indeed flee to Brazil from Germany after WW2, but they’re probably not who George is thinking about here. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9256 "2023-11-08T11:51:42Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Oh, and Ukraine’s in a war so it’s hard to verify information? How convenient. “I have a grandfather but he lives in Canada – you don’t know him.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9257 "2023-11-08T21:48:09Z")
> **[Guests at Bored Ape event in Hong Kong struck by vision problems](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/06/guests-bored-ape-event-hong-kong-vision-problems)** > > More than a dozen attenders of NFT group’s festival, which used ultraviolet light, complained of ‘eye burn’ on social media > The company behind the Bored Ape crypto art craze is looking into reports that people have been suffering from eye burn, extreme pain and impaired vision after attending one of its events, which was lit by UV lights. > > The ApeFest festival is held every year for members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, AKA Bored Apes, who have invested in a collection of 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring computer-generated profile pictures of cartoon apes… Other reports suggest that one likely explanation is that, instead of UV-A sources (the relatively benign “black light” used to illuminate fluorescent posters and suchlike), they lit the event with UV-C sources (i.e. the borderline between ultraviolet and honest-to-goodness ionizing radiation, generally used to sterilize an area _after getting everybody the hell out_). 😲 ---
**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:** [November 8, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9258 "2023-11-08T21:54:50Z")
I read about the Bored Ape parties in the book **Number Go Up.** A bunch of idiots trying to impress each other with their dumb-ass NFTs. That is a crowd full of DMFs. (The author of said book bought one just so he could go to a party. His was about $40,000 and he was snubbed the whole night for not having one of the best ones.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9259 "2023-11-09T02:02:06Z")
See also > [@Oopsy! Wrong kind of UV lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oopsy-wrong-kind-of-uv-lamp/992715): > > Apparently organizers of a Hong Kong event used UV-C sterilization lamp bulbs instead of the UV-A used for black lighting: ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9260 "2023-11-09T02:36:02Z")
I figured the ugly-ass cheap-looking computer-generated monkey cartoons would be enough to hurt people’s vision already. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9261 "2023-11-09T16:10:59Z")
> **[Woman jailed after paying undercover FBI to kill a rival](https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/hitman_for_hire_jail/)** > > 18 months in the slammer no laughing matter, but the rest... maybe Huh! I thought it would cost more than $1,000 to have someone killed. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9262 "2023-11-09T16:17:11Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Huh! I thought it would cost more than $1,000 to have someone killed. It’s the economy. Inflation. Too many killers chasing too few victims. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9263 "2023-11-09T16:23:08Z")
Maybe the price was kept low so that she’d actually pay and they’d be able to charge her. Also, this is an old story, right? I’m nearly positive I’ve heard of rentahitman dot com a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9264 "2023-11-09T16:23:40Z")
This must be what I’m thinking of. > [@People respond to a "Rent a Hitman" website, web guy turns them in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-respond-to-a-rent-a-hitman-website-web-guy-turns-them-in/956065): > > People want to [rent a hit man](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/hireahitman-website-cracks-crimes-cec/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3e6RgFJLzB8_bWDolm4kH2W29M__AIfuiNdttm4NYRPw7mP0SnVyCFy6I), and the fellow who runs the site calls the cops. This seems like entrapment to me, and I’m surprised that police don’t ask for the web site to be shut down. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9265 "2023-11-09T17:24:51Z")
Entrapment, indeed…oh, wait; worried about being sucked in, are you? Dan ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9266 "2023-11-09T17:41:35Z")
I don’t think that is entrapment. I think, and I’m no sort of law enforcement, that entrapment has to be a lot more proactive than a public website you go to by your own volition. IMHO ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9267 "2023-11-09T17:58:02Z")
Also not a legal professional, but my understanding is that entrapment is a situation where a person would not have committed a crime without the intervention of law enforcement. If a person had originally not intended to commit a crime, but was persuaded to do so by someone in law enforcement who had proposed the idea in the first place, that would be entrapment. Also, the web site in question is a parody site by a private citizen, not a law enforcement honeypot. It was created as a joke and the person who made it never expected anyone to take it seriously since the entire concept of a website that lets you solicit murder the way you’d order takeout from DoorDash is absurd. But when someone treats it seriously and he gets a request that seems legitimate, the guy who runs it will pass it on to law enforcement. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9268 "2023-11-09T18:40:28Z")
Wouldn’t that be deflation? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9269 "2023-11-09T18:56:02Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wouldn’t that be deflation? Probably. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9270 "2023-11-09T19:29:13Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Huh! I thought it would cost more than $1,000 to have someone killed. Nah, it’s $1000 to _not_ have somebody killed. The FBI is going to want a lot more than a grand to actually whack somebody. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=462) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=464)