In a March 17, 2024, post on X, Cundari wrote, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming,”
“I sure hope NOBODY leaves a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings, glass and nails, filled with diesel fuel and fertilizer, with the over pressure safety valve disabled, near a natural gas line. That would be VERY sad and VERY unfortunate,” read the post, which was made in reply to a separate post by an anti-LGBTQ organization, according to the complaint.
Sounds like a real pleasant fellow.
Cundari, a Wheaton resident, met with an FBI agent the next day and admitted to making the social media posts but insisted the comments were made as a “joke,” prosecutors said.
Apparently 25mm explosive rounds are not allowed on aircraft.
Quote from article:
A U.S. Marine was detained at the Palm Springs International Airport on Monday after he allegedly tried to bring a live explosive round through airport screening, according to Riverside County officials.
Quote from Palm Springs Police:
During the investigation, the suspect told officers he had found the ordnance in the field approximately a year earlier and kept it, believing it was not live. Due to extensive rust and corrosion, the round’s original identifying paint markings were no longer visible, making it difficult to determine whether it was an inert training munition or a live explosive device.
I’m wondering how the authorities quickly determined it was live if the Marine could not. For sure better for them to assume it’s live than not and confiscate it accordingly. Aged UXO is not something to play with.
Which also makes me wonder how thoroughly that airport was able to comply with the appropriate safety procedures once they’d taken possession.
This time it was a “Barbie Dream Fest” in Ft. Lauderdale, where people paid up to $250 for tickets to a sparsely decorated convention center with traffic cone walkways, an allegedly all-ages bike track where the only bikes available were kid-sized with training wheels, promised goodie bags that were never delivered, the opportunity to spend another $400 for a photo op with Serena Williams, and multiple attractions that were closed, broken, or made of cardboard.
The last part of the quote seems especially bizarre to me. Everything in the photos look so simple that I feel like they should have been able to easily just exclude everything “closed” or “broken.” Why set those up at all?
I just checked. There have been several variants of Barbie VW bus / Vanagon toys over the years. Including fairly recent models. See here for more: Barbie VW bus - Google Image Search.
I was surprised to see that among the many pix of toys, there are a few pix of a customized real bus that’s almost certainly the same customized bus seen at the recent Barbie show. It also appears the real one is not a detailed copy of a toy one, but rather captures the general idea of the various toys.
Maybe in the USA, but not as much in Germany, where authentic looks are preferred. I have two close friends who are VW enthusiasts, one has a T2 from ca. 1976, an original Westfalia camper, and the other a T3 from ca. 1982, and both look like they just got released.
ETA: that was in response to @Chronos. With das Barbie, I’m not so sure about authentic looks.
I heard that described once as a 27-window bus, for the 27 different pieces of glass involved.
I had a '69 Westphalia camper years ago. Fun little beast, it was. I don’t know if VW makes a camper version of their new bus, but I’d love to see one.
