# 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:** 488
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9751 "2023-12-18T02:44:26Z")
What else did you and that bison discuss? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9752 "2023-12-18T03:02:23Z")
A quick Google search of “bison vs cattle in a blizzard” will reveal a lot of sites that agree with what has been expressed in this thread: that bison will face the storm head-on, while cattle will turn tail. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9753 "2023-12-18T03:38:46Z")
Eh, I often find myself on my bike literally riding like the wind, and doing things like staying in a five-minute lull in a storm for the full 30-minute commute home. And bovines are capable of about the same speed I am. So cows trying to move with a storm wouldn’t have to deal with much relative windspeed, but they’d stay in it nearly indefinitely, while those moving against would face only half the duration of a stationary animal. In other words, going directly against a storm to get through it quicker sounds completely plausible to me. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9754 "2023-12-18T04:07:44Z")
Maybe for a thunderstorm, which generally both moves fast and doesn’t cover much ground. Blizzards can last for days and can cover multiple hundreds of miles at any one time. Whichever direction they’re walking, they’re still going to be in a storm like that for pretty much however long that it lasts. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9755 "2023-12-18T07:11:20Z")
What it felt like to be bi, son. The conversation was with the rancher I referred to upthread. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9756 "2023-12-19T03:32:37Z")
[Robbers’ ride rustled](https://www.yahoo.com/news/dude-where-getaway-car-suspects-232100962.html): > An armed robbery in Colorado turned awry for the alleged perpetrators when police say someone stole their getaway car in the middle of a heist. > > Three masked and armed individuals allegedly robbed a check cashing service in Commerce City on Saturday morning, according to the local police department. No injuries were reported. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9757 "2023-12-19T06:19:53Z")
It took all 3 of them to rob the place? _One_ of them could not stay with the car? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9758 "2023-12-19T07:15:15Z")
What, and miss out on the glory? Please. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9759 "2023-12-19T13:14:40Z")
Comment #1: [pedant mode] Things don’t “turn awry”; they “go awry”. Stoopit newspaper people. [/pedant mode] Comment #2: I actually prefer it if all the robbers go do the deed. I understand the logic behind statutes that hold getaway drivers and similar assistants (“accessories” in the law) as fully liable for the crimes they facilitate. But it still sits wrong with me to convict them as fully as the dudes waving guns, shooting people, etc. It smacks of us creating a law that’s easy to prosecute, rather than one that’s effective at preventing social ills. IMO it’s just a hair’s-breadth away from “Round up the usual suspects.” Comment #3: Some city names just scream “crime-ridden shithole.” “Commerce City” is one of those names. You do have to love a place so wildly unlawful that an empty running car lasts mere seconds unstolen. If the robbers had had a lick of sense they’d have robbed a store in at least a _little_ nicer town. You’d expect that they, of all people, would have had a sense of just how lawlessly dangerous Commerce City is. OTOH, maybe they were expecting a little professional courtesy and were gobsmacked when it wasn’t forthcoming. 😁 Comment #4: I also think that’s the first time I’ve seen Musk’s messaging service X referred to just as plain “X” in the wild, rather than as “X (formerly known as Twitter)”. It seems mainstream media is finally getting over the rename. Whether for good or ill. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9760 "2023-12-19T13:45:16Z")
Or Elon sent them a letter. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9761 "2023-12-19T13:53:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Some city names just scream “crime-ridden shithole.” “Commerce City” is one of those names. It does sound like it’s next to Metropolis or Gotham City. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9762 "2023-12-19T16:09:09Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You’d expect that they, of all people, would have had a sense of just how lawlessly dangerous Commerce City is. When you think of yourself as a wolf you expect everyone else to be a sheep and forget that there are other wolves out there. Also, if you steal a car you’re not concerned about it because you’re just going to ditch it soon anyway. So you’re not thinking about protecting it the way a normal person who owns a car would. It’s easy to forget that the car is still _temporarily_ important to you. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9763 "2023-12-19T16:30:34Z")
I was mostly trying to make a funny, but yeah. Both those observations fit well. Plus of course the fact that most robbers are not the most thorough thinkers out of all god’s critters. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9764 "2023-12-19T21:12:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Comment #4: > I also think that’s the first time I’ve seen Musk’s messaging service X referred to just as plain “X” in the wild, rather than as “X (formerly known as Twitter)”. > > It seems mainstream media is finally getting over the rename. Whether for good or ill. Maybe the article was written by AI? That could explain the “turning awry” phrase…which also annoyed me. And why it referred to plain ol’ X. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9765 "2023-12-19T21:33:22Z")
I kinda doubt it was AI. The bit at the end where the article quoted a comment from the police “You can’t make this stuff up” seems a pretty subtle literary idea for the current state of the AI art. The whole thing was lighter than the usual leaden prose I see from most AI. But that is an interesting theory. Might have been mostly AI\< including the awkward parts, with a quick human brushstroke or two to make it “hand painted”. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9766 "2023-12-20T17:42:54Z")
A school allegedly had a “spontaneous and unplanned roleplay” reenactment of Rosa Parks being arrested, featuring a 2-year-old being handcuffed. The school says no handcuffs were in evidence and the administration wasn’t aware of the event. Still, why did anyone think it was a good idea? > **[NAACP criticizes Florida day care for Rosa Parks ‘role-play’ exercise with...](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article283236923.html)** > > A representative for the school said the allegations were false and the child was not handcuffed during the reenactment. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9767 "2023-12-21T12:07:29Z")
And on a lighter note (I suppose): At least he wasn’t trying to hide them in an occupied diaper, right? Because those bullets would have been difficult to retrieve if he had to be a “hero” on the flight. > **[TSA officers catch passenger hiding bullets in a baby diaper at NY airport](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/passenger-hid-bullets-baby-diaper-new-yorks-laguardia-105824515)** > > The Transportation Security Administration says security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper at New York’s LaGuardia Airport ---
**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:** [December 21, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9768 "2023-12-21T15:02:40Z")
I remember times when my kids would have explosive diarrhea which led to a diaper blowout, so this is particularly dangerous. If you change the diaper it’s like reloading a magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9769 "2023-12-21T15:22:24Z")
A Kentucky helicopter pilot has pleaded guilty to flying an air ambulance while drunk. He was transporting a patient and medical staff from eastern KY to Lexington when the helicopter started flying erratically and losing altitude. “The crew members shouted at Wiljanen over the intercom on the helicopter and after several tries got his attention. They convinced him to land at the Central Kentucky Regional Airport in Richmond, telling him that a crew member was sick, according to the plea. Wiljanen made a non-standard approach to the airport, forcing to other aircraft to take evasive maneuvers. The patient was transferred to a ground ambulance for the trip to the UK hospital, and Wiljanen was taken by ambulance to Baptist Health Hospital in Richmond to be evaluated. A blood alcohol test performed on Wiljanen at 2:19 p.m. showed a concentration of 0.35%, according to the plea agreement.” > **[Kentucky pilot pleads guilty to flying air ambulance while under influence of...](https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article283309598.html#storylink=cpy)** > > Their was a patient and fight crew on the helicopter at the time. The crew got the pilot to land after seeing him slumped in his seat. With a 0.35 BAC it’s no wonder he’d be semi-comatose. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9770 "2023-12-21T15:44:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > With a 0.35 BAC it’s no wonder he’d be semi-comatose. If I wasn’t already dead, at least I couldn’t move my feet with that much alcohol in my system, but flying and landing a helicopter without even crashing? That guy must be a _very_ experienced drinker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=487) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=489)