As they say in Scotland*, “There’s a moose loose aboot the hoose!”
*Disclaimer: may not actually be said in Scotland.
Maybe for YOU - consider your poor fans.
Dan
Chipmunks fight back!
Who the fuck shoots chipmunks?
There may have beer involved, but a bunch of buddies and I were camping at a state park and this chipmunk (knowing that he was untouchable) kept running around looking for food, jumping on the picnic table and our chairs.
My buddy Jake took a long fork (suitable for roasting marshmallows), threw it at the rodent and actually skewered it.
Indeed. We feed the ones around our house and relocate any snakes gorging on them down to around our barn where they can eat mice/rats.
Chipmunk in question.
Someone who heard that fucking Christmas song one too many times?
Chipmunks watch carefully before crossing the highway. I saw them doing this. You cannot kill them accidentally with your car, so you have to resort to more deliberate means. Because, kill things (especially if they blow up real good from regular bullets).
"They was too damn cute. They needed killin’
Peanut feeder was empty this morning. Look who is on the porch complaining.
“There I was, minding my business, when I heard this little guy. Damned if he didn’t swim up behind me…”
Not guns but explosives:
A major explosion in South Los Angeles on Wednesday evening damaged homes and injured 17 people, including police officers, as a bomb squad attempted to safely detonate improvised explosive devices that had been seized from a home along with about 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks.
An LAPD bomb squad transferred the improvised devices into the iron chamber of a semitruck that’s meant to contain such explosive material, he said. Police detonated the devices at 7:37 p.m., believing that the vehicle would be able to contain the explosion, but there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle,” Moore said.
Note the explosion was just the improvised devises, not the 5,000 pounds of fireworks.
I saw an aerial shot of that truck last night. That was a specially designed armor plated LAPD bomb disposal truck.
Now? Its smashed flatter than a coke can.
Oh geez. They took the explosive materials and made a giant pipe bomb out of it.
If the explosives fit inside, it must be rated to handle them, right?
It would probably have worked fine if they detonated a few at a time–but instead they detonated the whole pile.
Video:
I think the bomb squad generally knows what they are doing, and that the amount that they put in the truck would have been safe.
I don’t think that it was the quantity, but the makeup of these devices that was the problem. I assume that they were of a much more potent explosive than expected.
This happened about a mile and a half from City Hall. Basically, downtown LA, more or less. I mean, I can see if they were facing a bomb with a ticking timer, but these were essentially inert explosives that were not really a pressing danger. They easily could have been transported to an area with not as many people, where the danger of damage/injury would much less. Like, nearby Disneyland.
I would assume that they were concerned that transporting them may set them off.
How do we know that they were inert explosives? They were home made devices of unknown composition. They very well could have been sensitive to a number of environmental factors, including the shock and vibration of being transported to another location.