# 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:** 278
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5541 "2025-09-10T15:16:15Z")
It reminds of a similar mishap in Germany from maybe 20 years ago I already shared on the Dope: > [@Funny Miscommunications Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-miscommunications-thread/1000627/4): > > Not a personal experience, but a funny incident that was reported in German media some years ago. A couple from Saxony wanted to book a flight to Porto, Portugal via telephone. Now the Saxon accent is famous for pronouncing hard consonants very softly, so what the person on the other end heard was “We want to book a flight to Bordo”, “Bordo” being homophonous with “Bordeaux”, a city of course in France. Guess where they landed… ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5542 "2025-09-10T15:26:18Z")
Not recently, but in the same vein. I took someone to the wrong airport, because they assumed that it was the correct one since it was an international departure. Fortunately, we had arrived 3 hours early and therefore I had time to drive the hour it took to get to the other airport and there were no issues getting on the correct plane on time. Since them, I am very careful to ask for confirmation from whoever it is what airport they are leaving from. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5543 "2025-09-10T15:32:54Z")
> [@icon](#): > > Not recently, but in the same vein. I took someone to the wrong airport, because they assumed that it was the correct one since it was an international departure. Fortunately, we had arrived 3 hours early and therefore I had time to drive the hour it took to get to the other airport and there were no issues getting on the correct plane on time. Since them, I am very careful to ask for confirmation from whoever it is what airport they are leaving from. Was it by chance a confusion between Frankfurt International Airport and Frankfurt/Hahn? Because Frankfurt International is one of the biggest European airports and international hubs and actually in the city of Frankfurt/Main, while Frankfurt/Hahn is a misnomer, a provincial airport in the middle of nowhere of the Hunsrück, with no big city nearby, 125 km away from Frankfurt. Many people have made the experience of expecting to arrive in a metropolis and wondering why they landed in the boondocks. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5544 "2025-09-10T17:00:29Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > It reminds of a similar mishap in Germany from maybe 20 years ago I already shared on the Dope: I remember this one from 40 years ago. [A man returning to his hometown of Oakland, CA got on a flight to Auckland, NZ instead.](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-02-mn-19265-story.html) > AUCKLAND, New Zealand — An Oakland man mistook a flight to “Auckland” for one to his hometown and added 12,000 miles to his journey from a holiday in West Germany, customs officials said Tuesday. … > > Not until Tahiti was mentioned during an in-flight announcement did Lewis realize his predicament. According to the article, he returned from West Germany on an Air New Zealand flight and just followed the crowd in Los Angeles. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5545 "2025-09-10T17:02:12Z")
I once dropped someone off at the airport just in time to see their flight take off without them. We had been off camping, and this was before smart phones, so we completely missed Daylight Saving Time. So I’m completely on the side of weird things can happen. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5546 "2025-09-10T17:02:26Z")
In this modern era on which we live in, can we be sure the whole “Tunis/To Nice” wasn’t deliberate so they can get views? I trust no one… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5547 "2025-09-10T18:54:38Z")
Charlie Kirk (who somehow only appears once in this thread despite being a “stupid MFer in the news”) has apparently been shot in the neck at an event he was holding just a few minutes ago. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5548 "2025-09-10T19:09:44Z")
Charlie Kirk: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.” Not that he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5549 "2025-09-10T19:14:53Z")
Well, damn, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! (Unfortunately, no - nicer guys get shot every day. But you know what I mean.) Guess someone exercised their First Amendment right to free expression by exercising their Second Amendment rights. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5550 "2025-09-10T19:29:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Not that he’s dead. Having seen the video… I wouldn’t be so sure. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5551 "2025-09-10T19:30:58Z")
Tots and pears. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5552 "2025-09-10T19:34:28Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Having seen the video There’s a video? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5553 "2025-09-10T19:37:52Z")
Of course there’s video (although I haven’t seen it yet). These days there is always a video. It’s entirely a matter of how accessible/censored it is. Latest report I saw was that Kirk is at a hospital so presumably still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5554 "2025-09-10T19:38:11Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > There’s a video?. There are many videos, some extremely close up and disturbing. He was speaking in front of a crowd of thousands of terminally online college students… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5555 "2025-09-10T19:40:34Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Latest report I saw was that Kirk is at a hospital so presumably still alive. I saw the same reports but even if he’s a lost cause they still might be trying to resuscitate him. Based on the amount of blood and the pose he took on his way down, I’d be extremely surprised if he survived. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5556 "2025-09-10T19:44:28Z")
Of course they’ll try to revive him. ER’s and Trauma Centers don’t make value judgements on whomever is brought to them, all are (or should) be treated equally. Not clear if one of the videos I saw was a person being taken into custody for this, looked like an older/middle aged White man but like I said I can’t be sure. Haven’t found any un-blurred/un-censored video on line so far so I’ll just have to take your word for it. Although one eyewitness described a “fountain” of blood so that doesn’t sound good. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5557 "2025-09-10T19:49:00Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Of course they’ll try to revive him. ER’s and Trauma Centers don’t make value judgements on whomever is brought to them, all are (or should) be treated equally. Lol, I meant a _medically_ lost cause, not _morally_. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Not clear if one of the videos I saw was a person being taken into custody for this, looked like an older/middle aged White man but like I said I can’t be sure. I heard that the shooter was arrested, yeah. No info yet on who the shooter was that I’ve seen. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Haven’t found any un-blurred/un-censored video on line so far so I’ll just have to take your word for it. I won’t link it but I’ll tell you that if you really want to find a close up video you should check Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5558 "2025-09-10T19:50:11Z")
I’m not on Twitter nor do I care to join, but thanks for the tip. It could also help others. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5559 "2025-09-10T19:52:26Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I’m not on Twitter nor do I care to join, Me neither, but a Twitter link came up when I googled “Charlie Kirk shooting video” that had what I was looking for. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5560 "2025-09-10T19:55:08Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! My dad would say, ‘It couldn’t have happened to a _more deserving_ guy.’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=277) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=279)