# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657
**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
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6421 "2026-02-04T00:35:52Z")
> **[How Many Five Year Olds Can You Beat Up](https://www.gotoquiz.com/how_many_five_year_olds_can_you_beat_up_1)**
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### Author:  [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6422 "2026-02-04T00:54:00Z")
Oh, that would have been awesome. Third graders with baseball bats. And nasty dispositions.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6423 "2026-02-04T00:55:30Z")
This quiz does not take into account that I own a “sawed-off” bardiche.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6424 "2026-02-04T01:36:09Z")
So, an axe?
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6425 "2026-02-04T01:56:04Z")
Mostly, but the very nice “stabby” part makes it much more handy than a more standard axe.
[ ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Bardiche%2C_axe_-_17c_-_Nizhny_Novgorod_Kremlin.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6426 "2026-02-04T14:54:25Z")
Authorities identified the man involved, unsurprisingly named Chad Watts. He’s been charged with two counts of assault with body injury.
> **[Man arrested in connection with physical altercation during Buda high school...](https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/02/04/man-arrested-in-connection-with-physical-altercation-during-buda-high-school-student-walkout-police-say/)**
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> A man was arrested in connection with a physical altercation during a high school student walkout, according to the Buda Police Department.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6427 "2026-02-04T15:40:13Z")
Since he has been arrested, can we assume that’s a mug shot from this arrest on this news site?
If so (and that’s a big “if” all around), it looks like he immediately shaved off his facial hair and trimmed his head hair way down from the way he looked in the original video. Makes me wonder if he was hoping to escape further notice that way.
Just some idle speculation about how far over in the stupid spectrum he really is.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6428 "2026-02-04T16:06:50Z")
Or was that long hair look a disguise so he’d not look like a raging MAGA and the RW crowd would assume he was a lefty hippie radical antifa?
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6429 "2026-02-04T16:23:32Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Makes me wonder if he was hoping to escape further notice that way.
That seems to be the most logical inference to draw.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6430 "2026-02-04T17:02:18Z")
Another photo from a _Newsweek_ article:
[ ](https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DocumentFragment_22696532-Cropped.v1.jpg?w=1600&quality=80&webp=1)
I believe that was from his arrest, as speculated, as you can still some minor injuries on his face from the fight.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6431 "2026-02-04T17:16:06Z")
Now that he’s been arrested I wonder if KXAN-TV will mention it.
I also wonder if pigs will fly.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6432 "2026-02-04T17:27:53Z")
It’s on their website but they certainly aren’t emphasizing it.
The bigger local news is Greg Abbott is threatening students for ICE protest walk-outs and the schools/teachers where it happens. Also the asinine (and confusing) rollout of the Texas school voucher program
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6433 "2026-02-04T17:32:45Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#):
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> The bigger local news is Greg Abbott is threatening students for ICE protest walk-outs…
Threatening them with what; can the Governor of Texas give out detention?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6434 "2026-02-04T17:35:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Threatening them with what; can the Governor of Texas give out detention
Send truancy officers out to arrest them?
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6435 "2026-02-04T17:38:50Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#):
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> Greg Abbott is threatening students for ICE protest walk-outs
I don’t think he’s directly threatening the students; rather, he’s threatening to withhold state funding to those schools that ‘permit’ students to walkout.
> **[Abbott threatens to strip schools' funding after student anti-ICE walkouts,...](https://www.fox7austin.com/news/greg-abbott-school-funding-threat-student-walkouts)**
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> Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to strip funding from schools after hundreds of students walked out in protest of ICE operations and immigration policies.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6436 "2026-02-04T18:14:07Z")
Yes, **indirectly** threatening them by targeting the people around them.
He’s craven, not stupid. He wouldn’t risk the optics on directly enforcing any fiat decisions on minors when he can get local districts to do it, instead
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6437 "2026-02-04T18:22:01Z")
> [@Railer13](#):
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> I don’t think he’s directly threatening the students; rather, he’s threatening to withhold state funding to those schools that ‘permit’ students to walkout.
Around here, if you walk out you are truant and it’s treated no differently than someone who skips school to hang out with friends. And I live in a very blue county. They say they respect kids’ freedom of expression, but don’t support the walkouts and don’t give exceptions to the rules for them. The kids do it anyway, of course. What was in the article is similar to what the schools around here say:
> In a letter to parents, AISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the demonstrations were not sponsored or endorsed by the district and that the district wants to have students in class during school hours.
Does Abbot expect the schools to put kids in cages? How do they stop someone from leaving?
> In a letter to parents, AISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the demonstrations were not sponsored or endorsed by the district and that the district wants to have students in class during school hours.
Frankly, I think Abbott is just talking shit and posturing to satisfy his base. You can’t stop protests by punishing schools and I think he knows it. But hey, if he wants _more_ protests he can try.
Also, I think this discussion should be in the “Fuck Texas” thread, not this one.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6438 "2026-02-04T19:28:07Z")
Armed truant officers wearing masks and camouflage gear will scare those kids straight.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6439 "2026-02-04T19:40:43Z")
Correction:
… will scare _the survivors_ straight.
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6440 "2026-02-04T19:46:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> Does Abbot expect the schools to put kids in cages?
The school _is_ a cage. At my kids’ school, there’s only limited access into and out of campus. On the last walkout day, the school barred the gates so no one could leave.
This is in SoCal and the school admin is very protest friendly, just not during school hours. Some kids just skipped school entirely, or waited until release, to protest.
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