Yeah. Late, late, late. But we finally finalized the That Was The Week That Was post and stuck it up here: That was the week that was: 2013 Week 38. We use these ourselves, admittedly a little haphazardly, to track what we’ve promised you and what we’ve delivered. Sometimes we go back through them looking for things …
A shattered lid from a 6 liter pressure cooker. Part of one of the Marathon bombs. Image: FBI It’s been a while since we looked in on Flashbang and Speedbump, the two brain-dead Chechens who sought fame, fortune and a big body count at the Boston Marathon. (They’ve been frequent subjects here: let us google …
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have fire pits Words you don’t often hear together: “fire pit explosion.” FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Police say a man standing near a fire pit at a North Carolina home has died after an explosion. A news release from Fayetteville police says the explosion occurred Saturday night in the …
Why are cops jumpy on domestic calls? We’ll tell you why. It’s because things like this happen. Indianapolis’s Rod Bradway acted boldly and decisively — and received a fatal wound for his efforts. The guy who shot him was shot dead by Rod’s backup. The victim, who’d called for the cops’ help in the first …
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have fangs We really don’t recommend edged weapons for dangerous game. The ancients had no options. Mindset, mindset, mindset, people. Here’s a case from Vancouver, Canuckistan. Lots of people in the wilder areas of the Great White North have rifles and shotguns, but this guy didn’t. He faced …
Air Force snubs Vietnam KIAs; vets and civilians step up James Sizemore, RIP James Sizemore and Howard Andre were either busting trucks or supporting a SOG recon team along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos on 8 July 1969 — the records aren’t clear — when their B-26 was hit by ground fire and …
Terrence V. Hartley. Courtesy Portsmouth NH PD. He wasn’t content to beat a man with the pipe. He wasn’t even done when he beat a woman. He also had to tune up a dog. There’s wrong, and there’s vile, and this guy came across the Vile Gap, swingin’ a pipe. No word on whether the arresting officers gave him a …
Che Guevara has assumed ambient temperature Our opinion of the celebrated revolutionary and incompetent guerilla, which can honestly be described as snake’s-bearing-surface-low, has been reported in these pages before. We’re not sure if we’ve recounted our experiences with one of the strange deformities around the periphery of the weird and wonderful herd of cats that …
People always are attracted to guns associated with history. Enough so, that when the historic gun is not available, people will replicate it. This gun, now available on GunBroker, is one of those replicas. We could say a lot more about it, but the description from the auction is actually pretty comprehensive: An exact copy …
We’re belatedly putting up the post we thought we set up yesterday for Sunday morning. It’s out there somewhere…. This week, we start off with the inventor of the World’s Deadliest Rifle. (Well, that’s what the magazine headline says). We ave atque vale a great friend of the special operator, whose Mach 2.5 thunder rends the air …