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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:55 pm

Researchers told CNN that the giant shark species would have grown up to 18 meters (59 feet) in length and weighed about 48 tons, which is larger than any other shark known to have existed and more than twice the size of a great white shark.
18m and 48 tons is quite significantly more than twice the size of a great white. A large white might weigh 2.5 tons. Deep Blue (when she was preggers) was probably pushing 3 tons. I know the length-to-girth ratio of modern great whites increases at a sort of exponential rate as the shark grows, but it slows significantly towards adulthood. 48 tons is the size of a fin whale, which is substantially longer than what they're saying for megalodon and comprised of huge amounts of fat.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:08 pm

Multiple boats sink at Trump boat parade on Texas' Lake Travis


:lol:

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:20 pm

#Dumbkirk

Evidently larger boats disregarded smaller craft and swamped them in their wakes.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:24 pm

Foreshadowing at its finest.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:29 pm



Make the dolts who started it pay for it all.

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Postby dodint » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:22 pm

I am 100% for that.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:43 am

Yikes


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Postby robbiestoupe » Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:37 am

A friend and a coworker both went to Trinity. :|

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:10 am

I like how even in the official correspondence they say it was a "hacker".

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:14 am

I like how even in the official correspondence they say it was a "hacker".
Straight from the Trump tweeting playbook. All they needed is a handful of randomly capitalized words and it would be perfecto.

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Postby Ad@m » Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:25 pm

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. — Charges have been filed in relation to a hit and run in Penn Township that happened in April and left one person dead.

Christopher Hort, 53, is facing a felony charge of accidents involving death or personal injury.

On April 17, John David King, 23, was killed in a hit and run incident along State Route 45 in Penn Township.

King, who is Amish, was on a non-motorized scooter when the accident happened at 8:36 p.m., according to police.

King was wearing a reflective safety vest at the time of the incident and surveillance video from Burkholders Store confirmed that he was wearing reflective clothing prior to the crash.

The Centre County Deputy Coroner ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.

Less than a week later, police said they located Hort’s vehicle, a Holda Pilot. According to police, the vehicle had damage on its right-front passenger side and fled westbound on Route 45.

Hort told police that he was traveling by himself after fishing in the areas of Elk Creek and Pine Creek and thought he might have hit a deer. Hort said he didn’t want to stop because he was afraid he would get a flat tire, noting that his hood buckled and his windshield was smashed.

Police said that in a search warrant, they found that Hort’s vehicle had deer hair in the passenger headlights but none in the grille or undercarriage, and that it looked like part of the vehicle’s exterior was wiped clean.

Police also said that paint consistent with the paint from King’s scooter was found underneath the vehicle and that injuries to the victim are consistent with the damage observed on Hort’s vehicle.

A contusion found on King that was discovered during the autopsy matched the shape of the hood bracket on Hort’s vehicle. A paint chip that was found in King’s hair during the autopsy is consistent with the paint from Hort’s vehicle, according to the report.

Hort stated that after the incident, he only called his wife. A police examination of his phone shows a series of text messages and calls right after the crash, with at least six calls placed or received in a 45-minute time span after the estimated time of the crash.

In an interview with police, Hort said he saw the first news account of King’s death on the evening of April 18 and that he believes he had no connection to the event because the news account identified the timing of the collision as 9 p.m., where he was just arriving at home in State College at that time.

During a search on Hort’s phone, police discovered geo-locational information that placed Hort’s phone in close proximity to the scene of the incident at 8:29 p.m.

According to the report, a search of Hort’s browser history showed that at 4:48 a.m. on April 18, he searched the internet for the Centre Daily Times, going to the “local news” section and the “crime” section before going to an article about the hit and run.

After viewing that article, Hort went to the Twitter page for Pennsylvania State Police Troop G, PIO and accessed a post about the hit and run, according to police.

The charge of “accidents involving personal injury or death” is a second-degree felony, with a maximum prison sentence up to 10 years and a maximum fine of $25,000.
Christopher Hort‘s FIL was JoePa

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:47 pm

It’s not just the animals that can hurt you in Australia.


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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:56 pm

It’s not just the animals that can hurt you in Australia.

Oh yeah, I learned about the gympie gympie tree a couple of years ago. That honestly sounds worse than just about anything else there. There's a story on Wikipedia about a guy shooting himself because of the pain

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Postby MR25 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:06 pm

The guy who killed himself after touching it, i believe, wiped his ass with it.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:07 pm

Damn Australia, you scary.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:37 pm

The guy who killed himself after touching it, i believe, wiped his ass with it.
Wtf

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:44 pm

Both of my shins are covered in fingernail-sized scars from spider bites. I don't know if my legs are made out of spider candy or what, but it sucks.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:06 pm

Anyone keeping up with this brain-eating amoeba story in Texas? It was found in the damn water supply, and has already killed a 6 year old boy. Eight cities are under water advisories, with most telling customers to boil all water, both for drinking and bathing.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:23 pm

Go home, 2020, UR drunk.

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Postby Ad@m » Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:16 pm

“Cake Boss” star Buddy Valastro is at home recovering from multiple surgeries following a gruesome bowling accident that left his right hand impaled.

Valastro was bowling with his family when there was a malfunction with the bowling pinsetter. During an interview on the TODAY show, Valastro explained how the accident happened.

“The machine was stuck … and I went behind to fix the machine,” Valastro told the TODAY Show. “Before you know it … I turned my head for a second, and my right hand got wedged between a fork. And then this other rod that goes through the fork … pierced through my middle finger and my ring finger. And it was not a sharp object. It was blunt … it just blew out half my hand.”

The 1-1/2-inch metal rod impaled his hand three times. :shock:

“There was blood everywhere … and I was stuck,” Valastro said. “The machine … was going back and forth. But something told me to stay calm. And I told my sons … you got to get me off the machine.”

Valastro then told his sons to go get a saw and pliers. Valastro’s brother, who is a fireman, and Valstro’s two sons used a saw to cut through the metal rod and free Valastro’s hand from the machine.

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Postby grunthy » Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:38 pm

Ouch.

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Postby dodint » Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:40 pm

Bloody hell.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:43 pm

This was an excellent feature done by the New Yorker. It's crazy that ridership is down 90% but suicides have stayed the same.


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Postby PFiDC » Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:05 pm

It’s not just the animals that can hurt you in Australia.

Oh yeah, I learned about the gympie gympie tree a couple of years ago. That honestly sounds worse than just about anything else there. There's a story on Wikipedia about a guy shooting himself because of the pain
That was a fun rabbit hole to go down. That tree can **** off.

Interestingly enough they are now finding specimens without the toxin anymore and they think it very well may be because humans are actively trying to make it extinct...

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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:33 pm

It is very much a Cake Boss thing to have your hand mangled in a tragic bowling incident.

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