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July 27, 2013

Botched Assassination Attempt Used Machine Guns Hidden Behind Car's License Plate
— Ace

Now that I've made it seem cool in the headline, I can reveal to you it actually wasn't very cool. The car was stationary; the assassin intended to activate the guns as the target walked by (as part of his morning routine) via remote control.

So it wasn't a DB-5 machine-gunning the scenery at 130 mph.

The guns did fire but failed to hit the target. In fact, they failed to even upset the target.

As Uproxx notes, the intended target's blase attitude about this -- "All my life is like James Bond stuff" (no really he says that) -- is cooler than the Kill-Car.

via @gabrielmalor.

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM | Comments (141)
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1 Doesn't matter what you put in the headline, Ace. We eat it up no matter what.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 27, 2013 12:20 PM (IXrOn)

2 I've built better stuff than that on the kitchen table.

Posted by: Ronster at July 27, 2013 12:21 PM (uVpT5)

3 I don't give a damn whether the car was moving or not. Machine guns behind the license plate? Remote activation? Freaking awesome.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 12:22 PM (GEICT)

4 A guy named Radovan with an armored S-class Mercedes? My guess is he's probably not an Amway distributor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 12:23 PM (7e3KP)

5 The bike ramps we all built back in the day were always awesome, but no bike ever left the earth.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at July 27, 2013 12:24 PM (ndlFj)

Um....Wile E. Coyote couldn't have come up with a better assassination plot.

Beep-Beep

Posted by: Your Real President at July 27, 2013 12:25 PM (aqX2A)

7 Next we'll learn that he made the thing himself in his garage.

Posted by: JimK at July 27, 2013 12:25 PM (ZhFuF)

8 This guy is Boris The Bullet Dodger.

"Why do they call him Boris the bullet dodger?"

"Because he dodges bullets."

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 12:26 PM (doBIb)

9 Or, is this just some elaborate ruse to cover up another Chevy Volt fire?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 27, 2013 12:27 PM (IXrOn)

10 Kroicir, Radovan Kroicir. Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:27 PM (AO9UG)

11 yah dudes russian crime for sure

Posted by: Chris at July 27, 2013 12:27 PM (WjMgb)

12 Dentistry in Russia is not for meek.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:28 PM (AO9UG)

13 Did the car have scanners? Tony Montana is asking.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 12:28 PM (nymIx)

14 What an amateur.

Posted by: James Bond at July 27, 2013 12:28 PM (Aif/5)

15 Looks like he a fugitive. He's on the run from Czech authorities for tax fraud.

And this part, "The bulletproof Mercedes Radovan Krejcir was driving probably helped the situation substantially."

This guy is expecting shit like this.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 12:29 PM (doBIb)

16 I don't expect to be told why, but I would like to know where and who this guy is.

Posted by: Filner at July 27, 2013 12:29 PM (tXGg/)

17 Now he is going to order a few dozen families be tortured an killed.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:29 PM (AO9UG)

18 Countdown for calls for gun control from LIP (low info pols) despite the fact that it wasn't in the US, machine guns have been illegal for decades, and it is virtually impossible to buy one here unless you can find a real black market arms dealer.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 12:30 PM (lZvxr)

19 Now he is going to order a few dozen families be tortured an killed.

Don't get me started.

Posted by: Liam Neeson at July 27, 2013 12:30 PM (7e3KP)

20 President Obama has this criminal on the run!

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:31 PM (AO9UG)

21 You know, a radio with scanners... to pick up flying saucers, stuff like that.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 12:31 PM (nymIx)

22 Countdown for calls for gun control from LIP (low info pols) despite the fact that it wasn't in the US, machine guns have been illegal for decades, and it is virtually impossible to buy one here unless you can find a real black market arms dealer. --------------- But Sons of Guns makes it look so easy!

Posted by: Dianne Feinstein at July 27, 2013 12:31 PM (Aif/5)

23 Her womb... is so polluted.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 12:33 PM (nymIx)

24
I have a set of

skills.

Skills

that allow me to track the makers of custom kill-cars.

Skills

that permit me to find and dispatch people like you.

Skills

that will make you curse your own birth.

Skills

Skills

Skills.

Skills

that I have. I have

Skills.

Posted by: Liam Neeson, Poet of Skill at July 27, 2013 12:33 PM (/IWYB)

25 What, no vodka in a chalked circle, sign saying Free Vodka?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2013 12:33 PM (BAS5M)

26 Beating Insty to it: People said if I voted for Romney there would be assassination attempts using remotely-controlled machine guns mounted in parked cars.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:33 PM (AO9UG)

27 But Sons of Guns makes it look so easy! Posted by: Dianne Feinstein
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Am I the only one who is amazed that those guys *ever* get anything to work? It's like The Three Stooges of gunsmithery.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:34 PM (aDwsi)

28 We're sorry, but this type of damage isn't covered by the warranty.

Posted by: Volkswagen of Croatia at July 27, 2013 12:34 PM (7e3KP)

29 Next thin you know hackers will access OBD ports and enable higher caliber bullets. And crossbows.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2013 12:35 PM (eHIJJ)

30 Obviously this guy got on the wrong side of somebody in the slug porn industry.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:35 PM (AO9UG)

31 Fuck, I got nothing...

Posted by: The Most Interesting Man in The World at July 27, 2013 12:35 PM (doBIb)

32 She'll take another quaalude, and love me again.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 12:36 PM (nymIx)

33 Your women. How much? We want to buy them.

Posted by: Radovan Krejcir at July 27, 2013 12:36 PM (7e3KP)

34 The shooter's boner got in the way of his track-and-shoot telemetry computer.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 12:36 PM (bWoh5)

35 Next time it will be a giant spring-loaded boxing glove.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:37 PM (AO9UG)

36 In Soviet Russia, car shoots you!

Posted by: Yakov Kroicir at July 27, 2013 12:37 PM (eHIJJ)

37 A Golf. I always thought it would be a BMW.

Posted by: Tom Hagen at July 27, 2013 12:37 PM (7e3KP)

38 "Turn left. Turn fucking left. Are you fucking deaf, TURN LEFT."

Posted by: Tony Soprano's GPS at July 27, 2013 12:38 PM (nymIx)

39 I don't like violence. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense.

Posted by: Radovan Krejcir at July 27, 2013 12:39 PM (7e3KP)

40 Posted by: Liam Neeson, Poet of Skill at July 27, 2013 04:33 PM (/IWYB) That's almost as bad as that shit Rick Tempest posts.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 12:39 PM (GEICT)

41 All you want to do is be a good car, be reliable, not too bad on gas and then someone shoves a machine gun up your ass.

Posted by: Volkswagen at July 27, 2013 12:40 PM (Aif/5)

42 Wait, are you trying to tell me Ace showed up on a Saturday to put up a post on his own blog? Ace. Short guy, looks like an ewok and smells like a vodka factory. That Ace? What's going on here? This isn't the blog I thought I knew.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 27, 2013 12:40 PM (V1ZIU)

43 The machine gun worked, but the giant catapult loaded with a boulder just sat there.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:41 PM (AO9UG)

44 This guy owes me some money. I'm going to collect.

Posted by: Niko Bellic at July 27, 2013 12:41 PM (doBIb)

45 15 Looks like he a fugitive. He's on the run from Czech authorities for tax fraud.

And this part, "The bulletproof Mercedes Radovan Krejcir was driving probably helped the situation substantially."

This guy is expecting shit like this.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 04:29 PM (doBIb)

**************

Currently slumming in South Africa. Irony -- rumor or not -- fast car nut, one of his deals was/is Gemballa Sports Car franchise.

Posted by: gracepmc at July 27, 2013 12:41 PM (rznx3)

46 Next time it will be a giant spring-loaded boxing glove. Posted by: eman
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LOL...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:42 PM (aDwsi)

47
Fucking Rusky amateurs.

Posted by: Zeta Puta Local #475 at July 27, 2013 12:43 PM (pJF+c)

48 For cryin out loud. Front sight. Rear sight. Some assembly required.

Posted by: richardm mcenroe at July 27, 2013 12:44 PM (qVj2p)

49 I didn't realize I had actually been shot until I took a shower that night.

Posted by: Radovan Krejcir at July 27, 2013 12:44 PM (p+XhY)

50 Bet he's got an ACME safe-proof rollbar in that car as well!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2013 12:44 PM (XdnQT)

51 Next they'll be putting trained slug in his track suit pocket.

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 12:44 PM (z9HTb)

52 She'll take another quaalude, and love me again. Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 04:36 PM (nymIx) Say hello to my leeetle fren'!!! No, my OTHER leeetle fren'!!!

Posted by: Bill H at July 27, 2013 12:45 PM (3sZO1)

53 Pfft. Well what do you expect from VW?

Posted by: ACME at July 27, 2013 12:45 PM (eHIJJ)

54 "Who's this, asshole number 1? Put asshole number 2 on the phone." Posted by: i like chunks at July 01, 2010 03:20 PM (uFokq) i like chunks?? I have no recollection on why I had that name.

Posted by: soothie at July 27, 2013 12:46 PM (nymIx)

55 I hope his umbrella is strong enough to deflect anvils.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 27, 2013 12:46 PM (p+XhY)

56 Actually, a bullet-proof car isn't a bad idea for *anyone* living in S. Africa. Headline: "Apartheid Ends! Murder Rate Soars!" Oops..., sorry, that last part isn't normally mentioned..., you know, like Chicago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:46 PM (aDwsi)

57
Don Vito, I can help your friend?

Posted by: Luca Brazi at July 27, 2013 12:46 PM (pJF+c)

58 All that trouble when a standard car bomb would've done the trick.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 12:46 PM (ZshNr)

59 Next time a clown will throw spiders at him.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:47 PM (AO9UG)

60 This guy just shrugs off a hit like a boss. A remote machine-gun hit to be exact.

Wow...

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 12:47 PM (doBIb)

61 The owner of the VW was cited for excessive lead emissions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 12:47 PM (7e3KP)

62 Next time it will be a giant spring-loaded boxing glove.

Posted by: eman

Next time...a 16 ton weight!

Posted by: Monty...Monty Python at July 27, 2013 12:48 PM (1EJ2w)

63 Hmm. How about the False Tunnel Gambit? Evidence from France suggests that even S Class Mercedes can not survive that...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:49 PM (aDwsi)

64 In perusing the Net today, came across a column by a reporter (and he is actually a good old-fashioned reporter, if biased), saying the "tea party preferred confrontation over patience." I must admit his statement left me confused. Oh, not because he did have not much in the way of an argument to back up his generalization, though he might have his reasons for saying what he did. No, I was confused because this was the same reliable reporter (and he is actually a good old-fashioned shoe-leather man, rather than a trendy hipster)--well, back in the winter he said the "Tea Party" (capitalized back then) was a fever that was basically over, so I find it hard to understand how it could be choosing confrontation in strength today, since just a few months back he was proclaiming its death. Summary: I become increasingly convinced that to lose liberty we need do nothing. As far as losing the old United States itself--it is already essentially gone, only the echoes remain, to fade over time. If we wish a new America like the old, we will have to build it ourselves, brick by brick. Through patient confrontation, patient and *nonyielding* constant confrontation. And seperation if needs be.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 12:50 PM (xpGLI)

65 Bet he's got an ACME safe-proof rollbar in that car as well! Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2013 04:44 PM (XdnQT) Good thing he isn't driving a Morris Marina. He'd have to have one that was piano-safe.

Posted by: Bill H at July 27, 2013 12:50 PM (3sZO1)

66 Afrikaners in the RSA are becoming more and more like Romans in Gaul in the 200s-early 300s: Isolated fortified outposts strung together amidst increasingly dangerous barbarians

enjoy ( and there's only 2 'a's in Afrikaner )

Posted by: Holden Caulfield at July 27, 2013 12:50 PM (omBWL)

67 Meh. The other day I was walking my dolphin and they sent an Orca after me. More than anything, it's just tiresome rather than worrying.

Posted by: Radovan Krejcir at July 27, 2013 12:51 PM (eHIJJ)

68 Afrikaners in the RSA are becoming more and more like Romans in Gaul in the 200s-early 300s: Isolated fortified outposts strung together amidst increasingly dangerous barbarians

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A preview of things to come, I fear...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:51 PM (aDwsi)

69 He should have ordered from Amazon Acme - still tax free you know. And shipping free if over $25.

Posted by: The Cayote at July 27, 2013 12:53 PM (lZvxr)

70 IMO the workmanship on the machine gun is subpar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 12:53 PM (7e3KP)

71 Second look at exploding / poisoned cigars?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2013 12:54 PM (BAS5M)

72 Wait? Ace on a weekend? WTF??? NYC must be boring this weekend.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 12:54 PM (wR+pz)

73 The only thing that I worry about? The Barrel.

Posted by: Radovan Krejcir at July 27, 2013 12:54 PM (eHIJJ)

74 mhm its beginning to make sense now. .http://tinyurl.com/36nass

Posted by: Boris Badenough at July 27, 2013 12:55 PM (N3Al8)

75 66 Afrikaners in the RSA are becoming more and more like Romans in Gaul in the 200s-early 300s: Isolated fortified outposts strung together amidst increasingly dangerous barbarians

They can always use Ace's time machine and come get us.

Posted by: Arturias and his Salmacian Knights at July 27, 2013 12:55 PM (lZvxr)

76 >>> there's only 2 'a's in Afrikaner True, but there a three 'a's in Afrikaaner.

Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2013 12:55 PM (z9HTb)

77 There's been a break in the pouring rain, so I threw some beef kabobs from Harris Teeter on the grill. If the rain holds off for 15 more minutes, I win.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 12:56 PM (ZshNr)

78 and five a's in raaaaacist...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 27, 2013 12:57 PM (yh0zB)

79 He saw the BARREL! Guess he should jump in?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 12:57 PM (wR+pz)

80 I hate to ask, but was the machine gun firing slugs?

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2013 12:57 PM (XdnQT)

81 These guys never heard of the old polonium umbrella trick?

Posted by: Vlad "The Impaler" Putin at July 27, 2013 12:57 PM (7e3KP)

82 I'll teach YOU to park in MY parking space again Radovan Krejcir!

Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 27, 2013 12:58 PM (ecN6u)

83 They can always use Ace's time machine and come get us.

Posted by: Arturias and his Salmacian Knights at July 27, 2013 04:55 PM (lZvxr)

Isn't that supposed to be "Sarmatian"?

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 12:59 PM (doBIb)

84 He's in South Africa? Ninja lions, bitches.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 12:59 PM (AO9UG)

85 Well, with an accent that bad, he deserved to be shot.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 12:59 PM (wR+pz)

86 Ot- Two movies I watched out of utter boredom on Netflix and liked. Charlie Bartlett and Lunopolis. Small movies, but decent entertainment. I need suggestions.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 12:59 PM (ZshNr)

87 74 mhm its beginning to make sense now.
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Good call Boris. It has all the earmarks of a ghey mafia hit.

As an aside..., let me get this straight (a pun!)..., the gheys are going to pour vodka out in protest? That's some weird reasoning at work..., very queer logic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 12:59 PM (aDwsi)

88 As far as the "gun" goes, it looks more like a series of roman candles. That fired through the bumper.

If it was designed that way, that's a pretty asset-heavy throwaway "gun". Must be an agency that uses $500.00 hammers.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2013 01:00 PM (eHIJJ)

89 If it wasn't for those young hot teenagers and their twitters, I would have gotten away with it.

Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at July 27, 2013 01:01 PM (Pr6hk)

90 I suggest HERE COMES THE BOOM.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:01 PM (nymIx)

91 mhm its beginning to make sense now.

He's Czech, not Russian.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 01:01 PM (doBIb)

92 Has there been any attempt so far to link the Volkswagen to Tea Partiers?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2013 01:01 PM (7e3KP)

93 Isn't that supposed to be "Sarmatian"?

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 04:59 PM (doBIb)

I was too lazy to Bing anything to get correct spelling.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:01 PM (lZvxr)

94 An A Bomb? A for Ace? http://tinyurl.com/7aek6gp

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 01:02 PM (wR+pz)

95 I was too lazy to Bing anything to get correct spelling.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 05:01 PM (lZvxr)

Come on, Vic! You rode with these guys back in the day! You know them!

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 01:02 PM (doBIb)

96 This is a cover story. He was really attacked by a T-888.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:02 PM (AO9UG)

97 86 Small movies, but decent entertainment. I need suggestions.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 04:59 PM (ZshNr)

Try Arturias and his Sarmation Knights. Known as King Arthur.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (lZvxr)

98 How tough could it have been to build your own drone with a gun with off-the-shelf technology???

Posted by: Barky McBamastain at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (Pr6hk)

99 >>>IMO the workmanship on the machine gun is subpar.<<<

Even as we speak, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is preparing to beat this assassin like Cato on a heroin bender.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (bWoh5)

100 Try Arturias and his Sarmation Knights. Known as King Arthur.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 05:03 PM (lZvxr)

Good movie, killer soundtrack.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (doBIb)

101 Ot- Two movies I watched out of utter boredom on Netflix and liked. Charlie Bartlett and Lunopolis. Small movies, but decent entertainment. I need suggestions. Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 04:59 PM (ZshNr) Chocolate. It's about an autistic kid who kicks Kung-Fu ass. The fight scene at the end should not be missed.

Posted by: eman at July 27, 2013 01:03 PM (AO9UG)

102 New OBD code "K3D7" - your machine guns have malfunctioned.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at July 27, 2013 01:04 PM (S3yfV)

103 He's Czech, not Russian.
Posted by: EC
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Truth and reality that interfere with mockery have no place on this blog, it's in the StyleGuide..., oh, wait..., wrong StyleGuide, I picked up the HuffPo piece by mistake.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (aDwsi)

104 I just watched the trailer for Here Comes the Boom, thanks, I'll put it on my list. Goon is another Netflix flick hat totally cracked me up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (ZshNr)

105 100 Good movie, killer soundtrack.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 05:03 PM (doBIb)

I knew it would be good because the critics hated it. I have watched that one over and over. Just about every time I get drunk if not watching Tombstone.

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:05 PM (lZvxr)

106 How would like like to help me 'loosen my bullets'

Posted by: Bob Filner at July 27, 2013 01:06 PM (Pr6hk)

107 Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal: "Well, with an accent that bad, he deserved to be shot."

But with diction that good, he deserved to be a lawyer first.

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at July 27, 2013 01:06 PM (eHIJJ)

108 81 These guys never heard of the old polonium umbrella trick?
Posted by: Vlad "The Impaler" Putin

Probably not, but the banana in the tailpipe trick might have worked.

Posted by: pep at July 27, 2013 01:06 PM (6TB1Z)

109 Yes, it's a mess for white farmers in South Africa: http://tinyurl.com/a8tnqoj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2013 01:06 PM (GTpeb)

110 Would you care to see my hidden 'machine gun'

Oops, it's not so hidden

Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at July 27, 2013 01:07 PM (Pr6hk)

111 Noted, and noted. Thanks.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 01:07 PM (ZshNr)

112 youll recognize a couple of landmarks in Here Comes The Boom if you're familiar with Rte1 Saugus.

Posted by: soothsayer went to phoenix az all the way to tacoma at July 27, 2013 01:07 PM (nymIx)

113 So, at your service. http://tinyurl.com/d9u2wl4

Posted by: Edward Snowden at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (wR+pz)

114

Am I the only one who is amazed that those guys *ever* get anything to work? It's like The Three Stooges of gunsmithery.

Where they the guys that made the punt gun? A bunch of professional gunsmiths specializing in repro muzzleloaders about had a fit (combo frustration and mockery) online about that episode.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (uSqr3)

115 I would have thought a hidden claymore would have been a lot more effective

Posted by: Agent Orange at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (Pr6hk)

116 I'll keep an eye out.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 27, 2013 01:08 PM (ZshNr)

117 Well, apparently there's an incident not far from me. Reports are sketchy. I've seen "Major roadway in St. Augustine shutdown, non American screaming threats at everyone, bomb squad, canine, full emergency setup."

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at July 27, 2013 01:10 PM (GEICT)

118 115 I would have thought a hidden claymore would have been a lot more effective Always works for us.

Posted by: Hammas Lebanon at July 27, 2013 01:10 PM (wR+pz)

119 Yes, it's a mess for white farmers in South Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/a8tnqoj Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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A very revealing article. Put's one in mind of Rhodesia.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (aDwsi)

120 Ace on fire w/ another new one

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (lZvxr)

121

He's Czech, not Russian.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 05:01

Whew crisis averted. Natasha! drinks for everyone. "Za vashe zdorovye!"

Posted by: Boris Badenough at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (N3Al8)

122 And in regards to my "the old United States is already dead"-- This afternoon I perused the websites of the history departments of two major universities in my metro area. Though somebody may have escaped my attention, not *one* of the faculty (and at both schools they actually are in the multiple tens) would I care to study under, because not one of them actually specialised in the sort of "main-spring driver" history you will find on the shelves of any bookstore. I really have a hard time believing these people don't believe in "intelligent design", because otherwise I have no idea how they or their students can explain how the America that the black females they study so intently lived in ever came into being besides divine act, because they sure as heck don't study the main thing called "America" anymore. Not the main thing. In any time period. And as to specific subjects: Certainly for a nation founded on war and preserved by one you would, if you went to these schools, have no idea such a phenomena as war (much less the 1775 or 1861 version) was of any importance at all. Judging by faculty research, that is. And yet I have no doubt some of these people probably thought themselves experts on the subject of war 2003-7.

Posted by: T. at July 27, 2013 01:11 PM (xpGLI)

123 @109 A link to a pay wall? Get in the fucking barrel.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 01:12 PM (wR+pz)

124 GreyFox - I have only watched one or two episodes..., as entertainment..., kind of like Pawn Stars. It is impossible to take seriously. Of course those guys are laughing all of the way to the bank.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 01:13 PM (aDwsi)

125 I think 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' is on Netflix.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at July 27, 2013 01:13 PM (kxSZr)

126 A link to a pay wall? Get in the fucking barrel.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 27, 2013 05:12 PM (wR+pz)

No pay wall here.

Posted by: EC at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (doBIb)

127 89 If it wasn't for those young hot teenagers and their twitters, I would have gotten away with it.

Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at July 27, 2013 05:01 PM (Pr6hk)

Makes me wonder if Weiner doesn't see himself as a political version of Carlos the Jackal. Makes me wonder who hired him.

Posted by: underground vulgarian at July 27, 2013 01:14 PM (TI6nB)

128

Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 27, 2013 05:05 PM (aDwsi)

What is this 'truth and reality' you speak of ?

Posted by: Boris Badenough at July 27, 2013 01:15 PM (N3Al8)

129

Afrikaners in the RSA are becoming more and more like Romans in Gaul in
the 200s-early 300s: Isolated fortified outposts strung together amidst
increasingly dangerous barbarians

Except that the Gauls were Romans by that time, legally and culturally, and provided an awful lot of legionaries. Also, a lot of the "barbarians" were pretty Romanized - in the twilight years of the Western Empire some of the staunchest defenders of the old order were the German immigrants.

Rome c. AD 300 wasn't anything like the Empire of AD 100 and nothing like the popular conception of Rome, nor were the barbarians anything like they commonly portrayed.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 27, 2013 01:17 PM (uSqr3)

130 109 Yes, it's a mess for white farmers in South Africa: http://tinyurl.com/a8tnqoj Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2013 05:06 PM (GTpeb) That will be us in a few generations at the rate things are going.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2013 01:19 PM (sdi6R)

131 Yes, it's a mess for white farmers in South Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/a8tnqoj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2013 05:06 PM (GTpeb)

I'm guessing their government doesn't allow them to be armed. Because, you know, that always ends well...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 27, 2013 01:22 PM (yh0zB)

132 Rome c. AD 300 wasn't anything like the Empire of AD 100 and nothing like the popular conception of Rome, nor were the barbarians anything like they commonly portrayed.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 27, 2013 05:17 PM (uSqr3)

Lots of Myths out there about that time frame. And there are some new theories, such as Rome never really collapsed. It simply divided up among different outposts as the Empire could no longer support the army once they lost North Africa (wheat supply).

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 01:24 PM (lZvxr)

133 Since you put it that way, Grey Fox, ISTR that we used to agree on several things about that general period. I'm always reminding folks that a couple of plagues changed everything for Rome -- they're only used to thinking of plagues in the Middle Ages.

But, all those Vandals and Ostragoths and Visigoths were really just illegal immigrants, and some of them weren't all that illegal either. I don't know which is more apt: muzzies in G.B., or if all the hispanic-named soldiers in the US armed forces turned out to be LaRaza reconquistadors, but, it was kind of like that.

Posted by: comatus at July 27, 2013 01:30 PM (JNUY4)

134 The guy is on the run. Wonder if he can find someone to cache a small Czech.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 27, 2013 01:33 PM (pxDth)

135 And there are some new theories, such as Rome never really collapsed. It simply divided up among different outposts as the Empire could no longer support the army once they lost North Africa (wheat supply).

Posted by: Vic at July 27, 2013 05:24 PM (lZvxr)

This would make sense, as the power of Rome declined the local warlords/governors assumed the powers and responsibilities. Politics, as nature, abhors a vacuum, and someone is going to be in charge. (I keep having to tell the anarchists this, given the chance people don't just treat each other fairly; society devolves back down to the strongest man in charge model.)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 27, 2013 01:40 PM (yh0zB)

136 Note to self: If someone ever tries to assassinate me, pull out a cigarette and calmly tell the reporter who does the interview: "...meh, this sort of thing happens all the time in my line of work. What do I do for a living? Insurance."

Posted by: Bets at July 27, 2013 02:37 PM (tDvvM)

137 The bomb does not go off when you start the car only when you put it in drive.

Posted by: Trevor (@TJexcite) at July 27, 2013 02:38 PM (c6tHt)

138 Remote activated BMW Mini fires machine guns on man in Mercedes.

And the middle class....

Posted by: Mr Wolf at July 27, 2013 02:39 PM (UIAT6)

139 I dont always drink beer, but when I do......Radovan Kroicirwhen.

Posted by: Dathi at July 27, 2013 02:47 PM (zey3C)

140 I used to work at a place that sold, besides it's full line of firearms and firearm accessories, a briefcase that contained a machine gun with a hundred round drum magazine and suppressor. I always wanted one of those, though I don't know what I would do with it. **cough*murder*cough**

Posted by: tobias danger at July 27, 2013 04:35 PM (QupBk)

141 .

Posted by: soothsayer at July 28, 2013 01:45 PM (vyPsz)

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