But Illinois' finest are here to stop it:

COPS GUN DOWN EMU

That's the Rasputin of Emus there. I salute this bird.

By invitation of a well-known official, I visited the Navy-Yard yesterday, and witnessed the trial of some newly-invented rifled cannon. The trial was of short duration, and the jury brought in a verdict of "innocent of any intent to kill ( Read more... )

Where the worlds of pants-filling terror and head-throbbing annoyance meet: ACTION MOVIE MARKETING:

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb ( Read more... )

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New Launches has a fairly terrifying/neato post about the latest death gadget from real-life Qs: The Phone Gun, via techeblog.


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Deep digger falls out of the sky, sticks in the ground, and then uses a cannon to chew through concrete before it explodes. It can grind through at least 10 meters of concrete while reporting its progress and coordinating with other burrow bombs to meet and greet and blow up.

I think it's behind me right now.

As several people have pointed out, there ain't no such thing as an accidental shooting. If you shoot someone, the best you can hope for is a verdict of negligence. The first law of firearms is: Yes, the gun is loaded.1 You keep your finger off the trigger, you don't point at your friends, you don't point at things behind which you have friends ( Read more... )

1:04 : ignatzmous : al'Powar-point: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1537040Read more... )