Boomershoot videographer, Jason, has captured the KING 5 Evening Magazine broadcast of the Boomershoot and is already featuring it at his site RecreationalExplosives.Org along with a number of other very cool vids.
Joe also has the transcript of the video from the KING 5 website here.
I don’t see a PayPal button, but I’ve written Joe to see if there is a fund to help pay for Jason’s bandwidth and will let you know what I find out.
Things haven’t been good this week. Please excuse me if I ramble a bit.
Wednesday at the major recycling/recovery plant in town, a 55 year old male who had worked for the company for 32 years was killed when a Volvo L90E loader came around a corner at a high rate of speed and the bucket 3ft off the ground cut his legs off, severing both femoral arteries and then crushed him.
The loader operator had worked at the plant for less than a year and had been warned numerous times to slow down. The guy who was killed was required to wear heavy ear muffs and the OSHA folks figure he didn’t hear the loader on the other side of the wall. This particular facility has killed a person a year for the past five years and if they hadn’t gotten someone to the hospital quickly in February, this would be their second this year (and it is only May!).
Just a reminder folks, be careful out there. You may work in an office or out of your home, but just take your time and be careful. It’s Friday the 13th, today. Watch yourselves and those around you.
Last night’s happenings weren’t nearly as serious. But they could have been.
Around 0130 last night, I got a call from one of my commercial trash drivers. He said that there were two men in a Nissan King Cab truck that had been following him around, stop to stop, for an hour or so. At first he thought that they might be lost but he took some evasive maneuvers and they kept following him. They were now sitting across a parking lot from him, pointing a flash light at him and turning it on and off.
But that wasn’t the freaky part; they were both wearing platinum blonde costume Tina Turner wigs.
He said he couldn’t get close enough to them to get a license plate and wondered what he should do besides call 911 and have them tell him that there is nothing the police could do.
I asked him if he felt threatened and he said he didn’t. I told him that he might want to hold on while I drove over to his location and while he held their attention I could try and sneak up on them and got their license number and called 911.
My first thought was of thieves. Here is why; After September 11th, 2001, the FBI paid my facility a visit to inspect our security. Security at the garbage truck parking lot, you ask? Yes. My company had to spend $10K in fencing, gates and pavement so as to make it even more difficult than it was before to steal one of our trucks
If you remember what happened in Oklahoma City, domestic terrorists packed a moving van with homemade explosives and essentially took out a building. Now imagine that explosion with twice the amount of explosives (30 cu yds) and more than twice the punch (wrap an charge tighter and you get a bigger bang) that can get into the parking garages of the local federal and state buildings with barely a signature.
I have two guys in costume following one of my drivers around. They don’t have to worry about getting into the parking lot and then getting the truck out, here is one running in the middle of the night with no one around but a lone driver.
I asked and made sure that he had his doors locked and that he had his sledge hammer with him. He confirmed that he did, but that he didn’t want to stay in one spot for too long and wait for me to come over.
He then decided that it would be a good idea to tell me about something that happened to him last week. Some guy in a white Isuzu Trooper followed him into a dead end ‘T’ style alleyway and then parked, blocking him in. The guy waits until my driver is turned around and trying to exit the alley and then proceeds to step out of the Trooper and masturbate in the direction the driver.
Needless to say, this floored me and I had to hold back so as to not chew his ass over the phone for not telling me this last week.
I am now pissed off enough to tell the guy he has two options: He can limp around his route for a bit and wait for me to come out to his location or he can drop his two ton forks and charge them.
He knows what is going to happen if I show up out there; first I’m going ambush and hog tie those two bastards and then chew his ass while we wait for the cops. So he turns his truck around, lowers his forks and runs through his gears in their direction.
Their little truck weighs 3,200lbs, his weighs 48,000lbs. Needless to say, they did the boot-scoot and boogie on out of there.
We never did get a plate number, but I am working on freeing up some of my office time so that I can put in some road op time in the next couple weeks.
So I guess that the moral of this rambling little post is be careful out there and don’t ever let me catch anyone fucking with my drivers.
Although, I’m thinking that the criminal would have preferred that it was.
Car Thief Picked The Wrong Car To Steal
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says the owner of a Camaro and his roommate put a would-be car thief in the hospital in critical condition.
It happened in Graham before 4 o’clock Wednesday morning.
Deputies say the car owner saw the thief, which police later identified as 27-year-old Edward Zanassi, inside his white 1967 Camaro. He approached Zanassi and witnesses say they started fighting. His roommate noticed the struggle and joined in.
Originally, witnesses told deputies say that’s when the men beat the suspect unconscious.
Troyer says they will be investigating whether Zanassi might have been on drugs, and whether a combination of drugs with the fight and chokehold all led to his injuries, or if it was just the chokehold.
Troyer added that Zanassi is well-known to police as he’s a suspect in five identity theft cases and a recent car theft, in addition to drug charges.
Investigators also believe the Zanassi did not act alone. There was a newer black Acura seen speeding away from the scene that they believe was a getaway car.
Another stolen Ford Taurus was also found dumped down the road. Detectives towed it away as evidence.
Police took the car owner and his roommate in for questioning. They were not arrested. It will be up to the prosecutor whether or not to file any charges.
First off, this is the very least this thief deserved. My word on my property is that EVERYTHING I own is worth a criminal’s life. If he plays it cool, he might be allowed to continue walking for the rest of his life. If he throws a punch he’ll be a paraplegic at the very minimum. If he swings a blunt weapon, edged weapon or projectile weapon, I’ll be calling the meat wagon and not the police. His next of kin will be very lucky if I don’t send them a bill for the ammo and weapons cleaning fee.
As for his possible accomplice, I’m always up for a two-fer.
If the car owner and roommate aren’t charged, this will be the last we hear of it. If they are, I’ll let you know if the case is otherwise.
But hanging is too good for him.
Galloway was given Iraq oil allocations, says Senate report
Actually, I’d settle for dropping him off in Mosul and see what the Iraqis do to him. 
Kevin at The Smallest Minority has a tale that is a real tear jerker.
Did You Ever See Moscow on the Hudson?.
The scene where Robin Williams’ expatriate Russian character goes to a New York grocery store for the very first time? He’s there for coffee, and instead of standing in line for the one size of one choice, he sees shelves stacked three high and three deep, lined with brand after brand; Maxwell House, Folgers, Chase & Sanborn, in choices like Columbian, Arabica, French Roast, Dark Roast, etc., etc., etc.
He hyperventilates because of the sheer volume of choices.
I can relate.
I made a pilgrimage to the Mecca that is known to Houstoninan gun nuts as Collector’s Firearms. YOWSA!
Sniff! Go read the rest. Sniff!
If you didn’t see this poll from the DUMB at LGF yesterday, go take a look now.
(Throwable Object Removal Alert is in full effect)
First up, if you live in the western Washington area and can get to a television and then an ISP this evening at 1900, please email me as to how the Evening Magazine segment on Boomershoot went. Or use this post as a forum.
Secondly, you may have noticed that I have started adding GIFs to certain posts (bandwidth be damned). Professor Booty noticed and sent me one he will be putting at the top of his posts from now on so as to notify y’all that said post is probably NSFW.
Kewl!
And in case you missed it over the weekend, the Professor is asking for your help in selecting his new secretary. So go here and here, take a look and either leave a comment on those posts or send the Professor an email.
And as he would say, Have a good humpday!
My Boomershooting partner, David (now an official RNS contributor), has sent me pics he took at Boomershoot. All pics supersize.
Here is Boomershoot instructor Virgil, attempting to hit boomers at 380 yards with the Baron du Toit’s Swedish Mauser, Pricess Inge.
If you look in the background on the left hand edge you’ll see the Baron himself taking a potshot with the always impressive S&W 500 Magnum.
Next up, we have the Son & Heir getting spotting info from Virgil while also trying to hit boomers at 375yds.
Here’s a pic of the firing line during a break on the first day of the Precision Rifle Clinic. Notice the gun pr0n in the forefront.
For more Gun Pr0n, take a look at this.
And of course, I have to include a pic of my rifle. Taken during a break while I was cleaning the barrel.
Thanks for the pics David!
Yoko Ono addressed the UN on the subject of nuclear proliferation.
I am so shocked into disbelief that all I can do is agree with DANE:
“How serious can the UN be about anything if they let Yoko speak on any subject… what’s she gonna do? Break up North Korea?”
When the idea that there was such a thing as a “Hate Crime� became law.
Faked hate crimes are happening regularly enough that La Shawn Barber is going to be tracking faked hate crimes at her corner’s FakeHate.com.
Oliver Willis (Occupation: Tool) pulls his “Like Superglue to Stupid� act and says the following:
“Those Wacky Righties, If they expended half the energy investigating real hate crimes as they do “fake” ones, we’d be so much further ahead.â€?
Actually Oliver, if people would quit using the special classification as a tool to make themselves out to be victims (like you did in your post), just think how much farther along we’d be.
But thanks for trying to fire up those brain cells, Ollie. Keep at it, you’ll get ’em going soon.
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