# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 141
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2801 "2024-10-26T10:48:15Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > In general yes, although (snip) And laws, of course, have to be about the general case, not the particular. This law seems to have been drawn with the intent to protect people (handicapped, elderly) who might be expected, in general, to be more vulnerable, less able to defend themselves. One effect, though, is to give prosecutors more leverage in cases where they want to use it, and more discretion when they don’t. That probably works well with prosecutors who have competence and integrity, not so much in other cases. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2802 "2024-10-26T14:09:28Z")
For those of us who have had to deal with shady towing companies, this is a decent bit of news. And fuck Oregon as well for sucking up 70% of the punitive damages. It that common? Edit: also fuck Oregonlive for making this story available for free through Google News, but subscriber only when shared. > **[Wrongful tow escalates when Retriever Towing manager slugs customer. Now...](https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/10/wrongful-tow-escalates-when-retriever-towing-manager-slugs-customer-now-theyll-pay-12m.html)** > > “You think you’re big enough to stop me, big man?” Found a free source: [Video: Disabled veteran beaten up by tow yard worker in Portland | kgw.com](https://www.kgw.com/article/money/business/retriever-towing-million-dollar-lawsuit-verdict/283-bf7f7f24-aa47-4149-8f32-81cea28af6c3#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20Salem%2Dbased%20Retriever%20Towing%20has,trial%2C%20according%20to%20his%20attorneys). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2803 "2024-10-26T16:32:39Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > As someone in my early 60s, I work with an American who is 67 and in much better shape than me. He plays tennis daily, lifts weight and does other exercises. No amount of being in better shape is going to change the fact that one’s bones break more easily when old. (Nutrition through one’s life, and genetics, can affect the degree; but it’s still going to be a factor.) So punching an old person is, on average, more likely to do damage than punching a young one; and this is true whatever the age of the puncher. – any exact age set is of course going to be arbitrary. Some 70 year olds will have stronger bones than some 50 year olds. But any law on the subject needs to pick an arbitrary age. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2804 "2024-10-26T19:25:13Z")
Public health official heed advice of anti-vaxxers and stop offering COVID-19 vaccines to area residents: > **[Southwest Idaho Health District Board pulls COVID vaccines from its clinics](https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/health/2024-10-23/southwest-idaho-health-district-covid-vaccines)** > > Residents in the Southwest Idaho Health District will no longer be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at district health offices. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2805 "2024-10-26T20:21:32Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > You have another think coming. Was that a intintional or a good typo? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2806 "2024-10-26T21:56:33Z")
[Intentional](https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/another-think-coming-vs-another-thing-coming/#:~:text=Rather%20than%20being%20a%20freestanding,clause%20is%20essential%20for%20the%20%22). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2807 "2024-10-26T23:01:06Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Lawmaker drives into a dry pool > You’d think that his head would be split > But good luck was with him that morning > He fell in a big pile of > > SHAVING CREAM > Be nice and clean > Shave every day and you’ll always look keen Gawd, I don’t think I’ve heard that song in at least 30 years. > [@Monty](#): > > A 17-year-old chess grandmaster was charged with assault and expelled from a championship tournament after he hit a woman when he lost a match in St. Louis last week, officials said. At first I read that as “he bit a woman” and hoped he wasn’t rabid. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2808 "2024-10-26T23:38:17Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Gawd, I don’t think I’ve heard that song in at least 30 years. I’ve never heard that verse. The way I heard it was that a baby fell out of a window. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2809 "2024-10-26T23:41:40Z")
There are multiple verses. Even new ones being created today! 😁 ---
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2810 "2024-10-27T00:07:28Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > For those of us who have had to deal with shady towing companies, this is a decent bit of news. And fuck Oregon as well for sucking up 70% of the punitive damages. It that common? Similar is the car dealership guy who was convicted of carjacking. > **[Miami Jury Finds Hollywood Car Dealership Employee Guilty of Carjacking Customer](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/miami-jury-finds-hollywood-car-dealership-employee-guilty-carjacking-customer)** > > On Oct. 8, a federal jury found Erik Hadad, 58, guilty of carjacking a customer of the car dealership his family operated.   ---
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2811 "2024-10-27T02:35:28Z")
Snake enthusiast who is especially allergic to snake bites dies in entirely surprising and unexpected way: > **[Dingo Dinkelman Passes Away After Snake Bite: YouTuber Honored by Family...](https://thedirect.com/article/dingo-dinkelman-snake-bite-passes-away)** > > This big-name reptile YouTuber sadly passed away after coming face to face with a dangerous animal. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2812 "2024-10-27T03:58:15Z")
Sorry for his kids losing their father but FUCK that guy has to be one of the biggest dipshits ever. His wife with her stupid ass posts is almost as much of a dipshit. If something may cause you to have a severe, life threatening reaction - STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM IT. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2813 "2024-10-27T12:15:35Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > So punching an old person is, on average, more likely to do damage than punching a young one; and this is true whatever the age of the puncher. I already said that it’s true in general and then gave a counter example because this is the Dope and we pick nits. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2814 "2024-10-27T21:32:59Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > If something may cause you to have a severe, life threatening reaction - > STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM IT. Never heard of him, but judging from the photos and his poses in them I saw in an article about his death, he looked like he was a Steve Irwin rip-off personality. Jeesh, he didn’t need to copy Irwin _completely._ ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2815 "2024-10-29T01:15:41Z")
[Here is an update on the Chiefs’ Mess case.](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/18/navy-confirms-just-one-more-chief-officer-punished-illicit-wi-fi-network-warship.html) (The link goes to [Military.com](http://Military.com).) > The [Navy](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/18/military.com/navy) said Friday it has punished just one additional chief petty officer – out of 18 sent to Captain’s Mast – and an officer from the USS Manchester more than a year after it caught a group of chief petty officers running an illicit Wi-Fi network aboard the ship. > > The acknowledgment from the Navy, which comes after the ship’s command master chief was sent to a special court-martial, suggests the majority of the sailors involved avoided significant punishments, despite concern over the incident. The commander of the Manchester’s squadron, Capt. Douglas Meagher, [said in the investigation results](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25200339-uss-manchester-wi-fi-ci-report) that he had “never seen such heinous and egregious conduct by [a] command master chief and an entire CPO Mess.” There’s more at the link. If you’re really interested, [here’s a PDF link](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25239803/marrero_g-njp-documents.pdf) to the special court-martial record of trial of now Chief Petty Officer Marrero. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2816 "2024-10-29T03:02:07Z")
Those crazy Nova Scotians. > **[Deputy fire chief apologizes after group attends N.S. Halloween party in KKK...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/deputy-fire-chief-apologizes-group-181746260.html)** > > NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. — A volunteer fire department in Cape Breton apologized Monday after a group said to be unaffiliated attended a Halloween party at the local firefighters club dressed as Ku Klux Klan members. buddy’s looking so _DOH!_ ---
**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:** [October 29, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2817 "2024-10-29T15:42:29Z")
Well, they’re right that that’s scary - - ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2818 "2024-10-31T15:16:50Z")
> **[Russia fines Google more than the world's entire GDP](https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-fines-google-more-worlds-130459445.html)** > > $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is the number a Moscow court wants the YouTube parent company to pay for blocking Russian media outlets. It is a sum “filled with symbolism,” the Kremlin told NBC News on Thursday. Sounds like a number a five-year-old would come up with. ‘I’m gonna fine you 20 million bajillion glagillion squillion dollars!’ ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2819 "2024-10-31T15:18:39Z")
Should have fined them a Googol if they wanted symbolism. ETA: I see the article discusses this as well. Okay, fine them a Googolplex! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2820 "2024-10-31T16:09:23Z")
Pay the fine in installments. $1 a day. Might get out of pocket change before Putin dies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=140) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=142)