Open house

Posted on November 9, 2014 by KG

Where’s Darwin when you need him?
‘Night up wrong mountain in yoga pants’

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29 Responses to Open house

  1. Odakyu-sen says:
    November 9, 2014 at 19:47

    Some guy completely closes down the Hastings Police Station by bringing in a hand grenade he claimed he found in his garden. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11355749

    I didn’t realize that a regional city police station could be disabled so easily and for such a lengthy period of time.

    • Ronbo says:
      November 10, 2014 at 00:33

      What do you want to bet it’s one of those old WW II dummy training grenades you can buy at any Army-Navy store in the USA for a $1.98 :?:

      Nice going, brave cops :!: :mrgreen:

  2. Ronbo says:
    November 10, 2014 at 01:03

    About the Darwin Award Finalist who climbs mountains in yoga pants, sneakers and a hoodie sweatshirt, I remember climbing Maine’s tallest mountain back in the 1970s during the summer well kited out in study climbing boots, heavy blue jeans, plaid wool shirt and jacket. Did I mention a day pack with military rations,compass, map, bug juice, emergency blanket and medical kit :?: Be Prepared, heh :?:

    Anyhow, I get to the top by staying on the well marked trail, take in the view and start down. About half way down the mountain I hear women crying…so I do a recon off the trail and only about 100 feet into the bush and find three crying college age gals who looked like they’d fought a black bear and lost :!: :shock:

    Long story short, they were city girls going to a small private college in Massachusetts and decided on a whim to go to Maine and climb a mountain. Rule Number One – NEVER LEAVE THE TRAIL. Well they did, thinking to take a short cut down the mountain and got lost in short order. This was on Saturday morning. So for the next day they wandered around and around the mountain, totally lost with no food, water, or the necessary hiking equipment dressed in blue jeans, sweat shirts and wearing canvas deck shoes.

    Needless to say, the bugs ate them up, they fell over (lucky for them!) small cliffs, banged into trees, ran in panic from nothing during the night, etc; however, none had serious injuries, so with all my food from my backpack, all my water, a little medical first aid and with me as a guide, I got them back to the parking lot and their car.

    My reward was three heart felt “thank you’s” and they took my picture :!: :mrgreen:

    I noticed The Three Darwin Award Finalists turned right out of the parking lot heading north to Canada instead of south to Massachusetts. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

    • Darin says:
      November 10, 2014 at 03:57

      :mrgreen:
      I have never had any trouble with land navigation,never been lost,never the least bit worried about where I was going.My middle brother on the other hand could get lost in a Phone booth and was a cross country truckdriver :roll:

  3. Michael in Nelson says:
    November 10, 2014 at 14:07

    Well KG, when you have a Corrections Department that lets things like this happen, the lack of planning by the police can be lumped into a dysfunctional Justice System.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11355912

    • KG says:
      November 10, 2014 at 14:12

      :roll: Bloody typical. I had an acquaintance who escaped to Holland from NZ many years ago, and the picture on his passport looked nothing like him.

      • Flashman says:
        November 10, 2014 at 15:40

        Fear not!!!

        A multi-departmental enquiry will be held over many long months.

        “Lessons will be learned”, “internal investigations” pursued, “apologies extended” from the safe height of ten thousand feet up Mt Olympus’ summit and “processes reviewed” but…

        …not one single damn bureaucrat will be exposed for gross negligence, fired and lose pension entitlement.

        Not a fricking one.

        • KG says:
          November 10, 2014 at 15:44

          “…not one single damn bureaucrat will be exposed for gross negligence, fired and lose pension entitlement.”
          Well of course, Flashy – our rulers are a protected species.

  4. mistress mara says:
    November 10, 2014 at 15:53

    People should be sacked and the entire system should be changed. But that will not happen; we are too busy genuflecting before the UN. I will not live long enough to see any significant push-back to this. And lets not talk about Islam

    • KG says:
      November 10, 2014 at 15:56

      “I will not live long enough to see any significant push-back to this.”
      Me neither, Mara, unless the West erupts in civil war soon.
      In which event, bureaucrats will have a very hard time indeed. :lol:

  6. Darin says:
    November 10, 2014 at 23:36

    Whew!It’s a good thing global warming is still in effect :roll:

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-42-states/37049255

  7. Darin says:
    November 11, 2014 at 13:24

    Rare Bird,North American XB-70,probably the most sophisticated aircraft ever built,capable of Mach 3.0 @70,000ft.

    Only one of two ever built left on display at the Air Force Museum.

    http://youtu.be/fCORwUxlNQo

  8. Oswald Bastable says:
    November 13, 2014 at 18:25

    DAD, ABOUT YOUR WILL
    A man was telling his buddy…
    You won’t believe what happened last night…my daughter walked into the living room and said;
    Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, forget my college tuition loan, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out the window, take my TV and my laptop.
    Please take any of my jewellery to the Salvation Army or Cash Converters.
    Then sell my car, take my front door key away from me and throw me out of the house.
    Then disown me and never talk to me again and don’t forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to any charity you choose.
    “Holy Smokes,” replied the friend. “She actually said all that?”
    “Well, she didn’t use those exact words. Actually she said…
    “Dad, meet my new boyfriend – Mohammed”.

  9. Darin says:
    November 13, 2014 at 23:18

    Is that a Chainsaw in your pants,or are you just happy to see me? :mrgreen:

    http://fox59.com/2014/11/13/man-steal-chainsaw-stuffs-it-down-his-pants/

  10. Yokel says:
    November 14, 2014 at 07:08

    Just come across the writings of a Dr Koenraad Elst. He is a Belgian Indologist, pronounces himself to be a former Roman Catholic and announced secularist, but reads to me like a Hindu convert. I am not yet sure of what to make of his views, but they certainly start differently from most that you hear in the West.

    On the British Muslim problem for example he wrote:
    http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/irin/PakiComeHome.html

    And as an introduction to a book that he co-wrote about the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002:
    http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/fascism/godhra.html

    In the same stumble round related sites I also came across a study of Jihad from a Hindu perspective:
    http://voiceofdharma.org/books/jihad/
    I haven’t read it all through, but the author doesn’t distinguish Islam from Christianity in a number of places that I have chanced upon.

    Although we can count the numbers who are against Islam, it doesn’t mean that we know the numbers on our side.

    • KG says:
      November 14, 2014 at 07:56

      “Although we can count the numbers who are against Islam, it doesn’t mean that we know the numbers on our side.”
      Quite so.