I was a taking night-time walk, and met a bicyclist with a white LED headband lamp, a white LED headlight on his bike, a red tail-light, and wearing a vest with medium-bright multi-colored tube lights front and back. No one was hitting him and saying “I couldn’t see him in the dark”.
Maybe it’s just my particular area of Florida, but I’ve encountered (and successfully avoided) plenty of nigh-invisible night cyclists. Beats me how they can even see where they’re going half the time.
I’ve seen a couple of unlit cyclists about in the early hours. (I’m lit up like a Christmas tree and wear neon yellow. I don’t want the last thing I ever hear to be, “But I didn’t see him!”) Mostly, I see early morning joggers on the streets wearing black; that just boggles my mind.
Yes, but was it Rainbow Fentanyl?
*snerk* ‘Randy Johnson’.
Why don’t they just state the weight? An ounce, or 21 grams, or whatever. I can say that my jar of Planter’s Peanuts is enough to kill 85 severely peanut allergic children, but describing it as a 12 ounce jar is more meaningful.
And less impressive. 3mg is enough for a fatal dose. That would make the amount seized 12,000mg or 12kg.
Per the article, they seized 8 grams, apparently using 2mg as a fatal dose.
(I think your math is off a bit)
Might be more efficient if you just threw the jar at them.
I plead before coffee.
Indeed, few of us can personally remember much of what happened in times BC
Trust me, there were quite a few jokes about that name (don’t get beaned by the Randy Johnson). Just look at this guy, he looks like a “Randy Johnson”.
He was one heck of a pitcher though, and he’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame. This guy threw a perfect game at the age of 40 for crying out loud.
They also called him “the Big Unit”, which I guess those in the know would know.
He always said he felt bad about the bird.
He used to get invited to sit in the broadcast booth during Dbacks games. He doesn’t come across as a bad sort. He just can’t stop talking. A single anecdote could run to two innings!
Who cares about the hall of fame: he got named dropped in a Law and Order episode!
Second in career strikeouts to Nolan Ryan; I’d sure expect him to be in the Hall of Fame.
Doesn’t ring a bell. Which episode?
In this episode the cast shows:
Michael Alexander Jackson as Randy Johnson
My motorcycle instructor was showing the class his safety gear because someone mentioned his white helmet. He had a white jacket, white gloves and a white helmet. Another student mentioned that they saw him the other day and joking said he looked like a marshmallow cruising down the road, he replied ‘but you saw me’.
I always assume that number is exaggerated anyway. If a gram of something can kill 1000 people and the police seize an ounce, the headlines are going to say they seized enough to kill ‘over 20, 000 people’. And while the actual drug, in it’s pure form, might be that lethal, the fentanyl or cocaine or whatever is almost certainly nowhere near pure.
Unless the journalists are writing those headlines based on lab reports, I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers should be considerably lower.
I just checked the math and it’s exactly that.
The article says the seized 8 grams of fentanyl. Wiki says " The LD50 in humans is unknown,[80][81] but it’s estimated that the lethal dose may be as low as 2 mg in some people"
8000mg/2mg = 4000 people.
Do we really think that guy is running around with pure, pure fentanyl in a baggie in his pocket?
What about those folks I refer to as Mary Poppins? They’re out in force in Beijing whenever it rains. These are the folks who are cycling with one hand on the handlebar and the other hand holding an umbrella. Of course, the hand on the handlebar is the hand for the front bake. And jus think about the wind.
That oil was stopped over 130 years ago, you idiots.
I’m generally leery of the death penalty, but sometimes it’s deserved.
During the protest at the National Gallery, Ms Plummer said: “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting? Or the protection of our planet and people?”
If only we knew that it was one Van Gogh painting causing all of the environmental damage in the world. I wish someone would have had the foresight to Heinz tomato soup away all of our problems long ago!!!