# 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:** 249
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4961 "2025-07-10T22:00:36Z")
Why the hell would anyone worship such a wimpy and ineffective deity? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4962 "2025-07-10T22:05:52Z")
Because if I don’t, they say I’m going to hell. So it’s a hedge. I’m outsmarting god, got him by a loophole. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4963 "2025-07-10T23:10:37Z")
Some storm god if his creations are able to influence the weather with radar and space lasers…. “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water. The mountains quaked at Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.” From judges some chapter or another… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4964 "2025-07-11T02:46:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > asking why a police department of a half-dozen officers policing a town of 2,600 people would need 1.5 million rounds of belt-fed, Armor-Piercing, Incendiary ammo. > > He was playing a hunch. Sometimes a hunch pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4965 "2025-07-11T03:21:33Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Heavenly Father loves to slaughter people, even His worshipers, with floods (hi Texas!), hurricanes, and tornados. This was in Oklahoma so you can pretty well scratch hurricanes but triple down (at least) the tornadoes. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4966 "2025-07-11T23:20:18Z")
Here’s a pretty good compendium of recent stupid MFers in the news who also came to the attention of the legal industry: > **[Assorted Stupidity #169](https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/07/assorted-stupidity-169.html)** > > In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4967 "2025-07-11T23:28:26Z")
Oh, that Chinese Espionage one was good! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4968 "2025-07-11T23:32:07Z")
I subscribe to that blog. But he was the guy who told me “I have to share this with the Dopers!” Just _tooo_ good to pass up. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4969 "2025-07-11T23:33:48Z")
I just signed up. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4970 "2025-07-11T23:34:39Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Oh, that Chinese Espionage one was good! - Even better, the lawyer who did a live performance of “Liar, liar, pants on fire”. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4971 "2025-07-11T23:40:43Z")
See, fire breaking out at any time could happen to anyone. My client was totally innocent. Just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4972 "2025-07-11T23:53:22Z")
[Walter the ~~Magician~~ physical therapist dies in his “practice’s” hyperbaric chamber.](https://www.aol.com/physical-therapist-dies-inside-hyperbaric-131150674.html) > [@](#): > > A physical therapist died after a flash fire broke out inside an oxygen therapy machine at his Arizona medical facility on Wednesday, officials said, marking at least the second such fatality in the U.S. this year. > > Dr. Walter Foxcroft, 43, was found dead inside the hyperbaric chamber by firefighters who responded to his office, Navasu Health and Hyperbarics in Lake Havasu City, after a report of a fire just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday, [the fire department said.](https://www.lhcaz.gov/news/article/flash-fire-in-hyperbaric-chamber?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) > > When first responders arrived, crews found smoke billowing throughout the building and “an intact hyperbaric chamber that appeared to have had a flash fire in the chamber with one patient inside,” the Lake Havasu City Fire Department said. > > The man inside, identified as Foxcroft, was pronounced dead at the scene. > > A hyperbaric chamber is a sealed tube that is pressurized with pure oxygen and helps treat various illnesses or wounds. Here’s more information about the practice. > [@](#): > > Foxcroft founded Havasu Health and Hyperbarics in 2024. According to a [press release](https://www.einpresswire.com/article/747827289/lake-havasu-city-welcomes-arizona-s-first-integrative-naturopathic-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-center?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) at the time, the center offers a range of services, including personalized health consultations, nutritional guidance, rehabilitation programs and biohacking treatments that optimize health. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4973 "2025-07-12T01:12:13Z")
Here was the first such death from earlier this year: a mother watched her small boy burned alive while being “treated” for an incurable condition (ADHD) for which hyperbaric oxygen treatments have no effect. > **[Four charged after oxygen chamber explosion kills 5-year-old](https://www.koat.com/article/detroit-oxygen-chamber-explosion-charges/64146820)** > > Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber at a medical facility in suburban Detroit. This happened very near me and I have a friend who was scheduled to be treated at this location who nearly shat himself when this happened. The article omits some of the crazy. The chambers hadn’t been inspected, but had been tampered with to indicate that they had. The kid wasn’t given a grounding bracelet, there were no trained personnel on site, and the moment the little boy died, the owner of the business grabbed her laptop, fled the scene and attempted to have her teenage son wipe it. This failed. She was later found to have texted things like, “I’m just saying, if I was on fire I would have at least tried to put myself out” as well as openly gloating about how many people she’d fleeced for conditions and treatments she knew wouldn’t be helped. Pretty much everyone involved has been charged. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4974 "2025-07-12T02:15:39Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > A hyperbaric chamber is a sealed tube that is pressurized with pure oxygen and helps treat various illnesses or wounds. Imagine the sales pitch: “astronauts practiced for space flight in pure, high-pressure oxygen and now you can too!”. [What could go wrong?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1). ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4975 "2025-07-12T22:16:50Z")
That’s one for [List of inventors killed by their own invention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention). My favorite is the physicist Richmann who had read Ben Franklin’s papers on lightning and electricity, and built a device to bring lightning indoors. He played with lightning… and lost. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4976 "2025-07-13T03:14:05Z")
That seems to be a slight misrepresentation of what happened. The one that struck me as sort of ironic was Francis Edgar Stanley who, in turning to avoid wagon traffic taking up the road, drove his eponomous automobile into a woodpile and died. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4977 "2025-07-13T13:41:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Walter the ~~Magician~~ physical therapist dies in his “practice’s” hyperbaric chamber.](https://www.aol.com/physical-therapist-dies-inside-hyperbaric-131150674.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > A physical therapist died after a flash fire broke out inside an oxygen therapy machine at his Arizona medical facility on Wednesday, officials said, marking at least the second such fatality in the U.S. this year. > > > > Dr. Walter Foxcroft, 43, was found dead inside the hyperbaric chamber by firefighters who responded to his office, Navasu Health and Hyperbarics in Lake Havasu City, after a report of a fire just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday, [the fire department said.](https://www.lhcaz.gov/news/article/flash-fire-in-hyperbaric-chamber?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) > > > > When first responders arrived, crews found smoke billowing throughout the building and “an intact hyperbaric chamber that appeared to have had a flash fire in the chamber with one patient inside,” the Lake Havasu City Fire Department said. > > > > The man inside, identified as Foxcroft, was pronounced dead at the scene. > > > > A hyperbaric chamber is a sealed tube that is pressurized with pure oxygen and helps treat various illnesses or wounds. > > Here’s more information about the practice. > > > [@](#): > > > > Foxcroft founded Havasu Health and Hyperbarics in 2024. According to a [press release](https://www.einpresswire.com/article/747827289/lake-havasu-city-welcomes-arizona-s-first-integrative-naturopathic-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-center?ftag=YHF4eb9d17) at the time, the center offers a range of services, including personalized health consultations, nutritional guidance, rehabilitation programs and biohacking treatments that optimize health. The practice promotes hyperbaric ozygen therapy for, among other things, autism, and claims it will “reverse the biology of aging” by fixing your telomeres. Safe, too! [From their website](https://havasuhealth.com): > [@](#): > > Our team works diligantly to provide hospital levels of hyperbaric care in the clinic setting by staying up-to-date with the latest hyperbaric regulations, advancements and treatment Maybe not quite “diligant” enough. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4978 "2025-07-13T13:45:41Z")
I suppose that’s a portmanteau of “dilettante” and “elegant”. They might’ve taken a dilettante’s approach to their equipment design and maintenance, but the outcome was less than elegant. I haven’t seen pix, but I’m gonna bet. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4979 "2025-07-14T23:58:37Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > She was later found to have texted things like, “I’m just saying, if I was on fire I would have at least tried to put myself out What. The. Fuck. 🤯 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/4980 "2025-07-15T00:07:40Z")
Hey, it’s right there in the thread title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=250)