Kevin O’Brien Monthly Archives: October 2016 In one of the creepiest mass-murder rings in American history, some 50, or 100 — no one knows the real number — poor Italian immigrants were murdered for money in the late 1930s by a ring organized and managed by cousins Herman and Paul Petrillo. Both would go to the electric chair …
Monthly Archives: August 2016 Anything can kill a person, even things intended to be life-saving. An elderly Pennsylvania woman found out the downside of hanging a medical alert gadget around your neck — the hard way. Roseann J. DiFrancesco was found dead in her bathroom on Feb. 15, according to the report from the Cumberland …
Let’s play with found data, shall we? In an interesting commentary that accompanies the third in an ongoing series of videos he did on Winchester’s also-ran G30M rifle and related prototypes, Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons reports these results from the 1940 Marine Corps tests of then state-of-the-art M1 Garand and Johnson semi-automatic rifles. Ultimately the …
There is a lesson in this nameless tragedy: two men went out in a canoe, and only one came back, but this isn’t the close of Godfather II. The survivor, too, came back without the canoe. He and his father had been fishing on a Sunday morning (22 May 16), and they capsized their canoe. …
Monthly Archives: April 2016 Octopus: best not swallowed whole. (Yeah, we’re one of the holdouts for the original Greek plural. Most correct in English is likely Octopuses, but we got your attention, didn’t we?) In any event, an octopus seems to have been used as a weapon in a homicidal assault in Wichita. (Octopus? Wichita? We’ll …
Monthly Archives: December 2015 …and we came across this, the Gunsmith Special of high-end aviation projects — a one of a kind, Mach 2.2 swing-wing fighter jet. The ad at Barnstormers.com said this: Ex RAF Tornado F2A ADV. MACH 2.2 Fast Jet Interceptor. Very rare. The only F2A Tornado aircraft in existence. Twin Stick trainer …
Monthly Archives: October 2015 It’s the rumble in the jungle… ah, rumble where tumbleweeds tumble? On 5 Dec 15 on John McHale’s ranch in Mason, Texas, there’s going to be a shooting competition the likes of which you’ve never, ever seen or heard of — with a million dollars on the line. And there’s a …
Monthly Archives: September 2015 Heather Leavell-Keaton. Not the Mom Of The Year. Meet Heather Leavell-Keaton, living (for now) proof that the Wicked Stepmother isn’t just a fictional trope or figment of Grimm history. They’re really out there, and the Brothers Grimm had no idea just how wicked they could get. Heather Leavell-Keaton was sentenced to die by …
Monthly Archives: July 2015 Mr Bison says, “It takes a special kind of stupid to crowd me, and then turn your back on me.” Buffalo demand respect. So what happens to today’s tee-ball narcissus generation? You know, the ones for whom life has been a constant featherbed of praise without challenge or accomplishment? The Unique …
How to make a cannon, in two easy steps: Start with a large piece of steel Cut away everything not part of a cannon. Now, why didn’t we think of that? That’s pretty much what Imgur user TickTock34 did, winding up with a 3/4 inch caliber, smoothbore, black powder cannon. Best of all, he photographed just …