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[gotbeer]

Kristi Yamaguchi To Nancy Kerrigan No Bad Blood Over 'Break a Leg' Tweet

It's funny how up tight people are.  But, OMG, the responses to her tweet were hillarious.  Maybe I just am a Tweet noob and got a edited version.  But for the responses, the people just ran with an idea in AW.com fashion.  It's worth a look.

 

[Blarg]

Some people are just dumb.

[Tank]

What an awesome tweet. LOL.

[JAHV76]

8 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Kristi Yamaguchi To Nancy Kerrigan No Bad Blood Over 'Break a Leg' Tweet

It's funny how up tight people are.  But, OMG, the responses to her tweet were hillarious.  Maybe I just am a Tweet noob and got a edited version.  But for the responses, the people just ran with an idea in AW.com fashion.  It's worth a look.

 

I'm sure she was just horsing around

[Redondo]

Best water park wave pools around the world

[gotbeer]

And you thought your day at work sucked.

Indonesian man's body reportedly found inside python

[Tank]

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

And you thought your day at work sucked.

Indonesian man's body reportedly found inside python

It's tough to recover from something like this.

[Slegnaac]

6 hours ago, gotbeer said:

And you thought your day at work sucked.

Indonesian man's body reportedly found inside python

If only he hadn't been so dehydrated. 

[Redondo]

Couple saves drowning children at beach they weren't meant to visit

On any given day, you'll find Jamie Griffin feeding llamas and goats on his family farm in Helena.

It's a long way from the beaches of Fort Walton where, earlier this month, he and his wife, Amy, rescued three children who were drowning in a rough surf about 20 yards off shore under a double red flag warning.

“He was bobbing up and down and Amy said he's in trouble,” Jamie Griffin said. “They were not where they needed to be at all. Six to eight-foot waves, it was very rough.”

“I can’t help but assume the parents must not have known they had gone into the water,” Smy Griffin said.

Jamie Griffin immediately dove in and went for the boy in trouble.

“The undertow was really bad, it was pulling us back, he recalled. “On the way back in, his brother was going under as well and I knew I couldn't go back. I'd be spent. So, I grabbed him as well and made way back.”

While Amy took the boys, Jamie went back and got the little girl as well.

Here's the thing: The Griffins ended up at Ft. Walton because of a bad hotel room in Panama City and they only walked that beach because they couldn't stand sitting in the windy sand.

“By chance, fate, we were walking by at the right time,” Jaime Griffin said. “We are very blessed and if there’s a chance to give back, we do so.”

[arch stanton]

I know it's not cool to make fun of people who save drowning children but, Jamie and Amy? Really? I wanted my wife to have a rhyming name too but my name is Rich and she refuses to go by Witch, Bitch, Snitch, or Glitch

[Tank]

4 hours ago, arch stanton said:

I know it's not cool to make fun of people who save drowning children but, Jamie and Amy? Really? I wanted my wife to have a rhyming name too but my name is Rich and she refuses to go by Witch, Bitch, Snitch, or Glitch

what about stitch?

you're welcome.

[gotbeer]

Witness: Driver in crash admitted texting before collision

12 dead because this jackass was texting and driving. 

[Redondo]

Hunters Kill 15-Foot, 800-Pound Alligator Believed to Have Attacked Cattle

A pair of Florida hunters bagged a 15-foot, 800-pound alligator Saturday and photos of the massive specimen have gone viral.

Lee Lightsey, the owner of Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, and hunting guide Blake Godwin discovered the alligator in one their cattle ponds while on a guided hunt. They believe the gator had been feasting on the farm's cattle.

"We ... discovered the remains what we determined to be cattle in the water. We determined that he was in fact attacking our livestock as they came to drink," Godwin told Fox13.

The guide said Lightsey shot the gator as it surfaced about 20 feet in front of them. Godwin said the animal was so big that the pair had to use a farm tractor to pull it out of the water.

Photos posted on the farm's Facebook page showed the alligator dangling from the tractor.

[Redondo]

Why the tallest mountains in America are almost all the same height

Every tall mountain in America is basically the same height. As a result, mountaintop measurements could be wrong by hundreds of feet and that matters a lot in the continental United States. Due in part to coincidence and in part to a geologic process called the "glacial buzz saw," which limits how high mountains grow, all 30 of the highest peaks in the lower 48, from the Cascades of Washington to the Rockies of Colorado to the Sierras of California, are within just 500 feet of each other in height.

For example, Washington's Mount Rainier was measured at 14,408 feet in 1914, while California's Mount Whitney was originally believed to be 14,100 feet. This would make Colorado's Mount Elbert, at 14,433 feet, the highest mountain in America.

Due to mismeasurements, many atlases and gazetteers listed Rainier as the nation's highest point well into the 20th century. Other sources placed it behind Whitney (correctly), Shasta (incorrectly), and several of the Rockies (both correctly and incorrectly). Its gradual demotion annoyed Alden J. Blethen, publisher of The Seattle Times, who wrote an angry front-page editorial accusing the other mountains of cheating by "starting" at such high-altitude bases.

Thanks to today's better surveying, the order is clear: Whitney, then three Colorado peaks, then Rainier. But Alaska statehood made the whole battle moot. Denali is over a mile higher than any of them.

[Redondo]

Nearly naked California woman claims she's a mermaid

FRESNO, Calif. – Local authorities are asking for help identifying a nearly naked woman found wandering down a Fresno, California street Tuesday morning.

The woman’s hair was wet when she was found around 3 a.m., and she told officers that she was a mermaid, and that her name was Joanna, according to the Fresno Police Department.

The woman, who has two webbed toes on both feet, told officers that she had been in the water, but replied “I don’t know” to “most questions,” police said.

She is 5-foot-4, weighs about 150 pounds and has brown eyes and brown hair. She was found walking down the middle of Millerton Road across from the Eagle Spring Golf & Country Club, about a mile south of Table Mountain.

[Redondo]

Dirtiest place in your home

[JAHV76]

For those of you who travel or stay at hotels the remote control for the TV is one of the dirtiest things. I always look for the plastic bag in the ice bucket and put the remote in it when I travel. 

[gotbeer]

30 minutes ago, JAHV76 said:

For those of you who travel or stay at hotels the remote control for the TV is one of the dirtiest things. I always look for the plastic bag in the ice bucket and put the remote in it when I travel. 

You should see what I do to the ice bucket.

[Tank]

12 hours ago, JAHV76 said:

For those of you who travel or stay at hotels the remote control for the TV is one of the dirtiest things. I always look for the plastic bag in the ice bucket and put the remote in it when I travel. 

I often carry disinfectant wipes when I travel for that very reason. Doorknobs and the phone need to be wiped off, too.

[Redondo]

 

‘Mowgli’ girl found living with monkeys in India forest

[Tank]

2 hours ago, cezero said:

 

Damn straight!

[gotbeer]

United passenger forcibly removed from flight after refusing to give up seat

[Blarg]

Booting paying customers to accommodate the airlines staffing screw up is just wrong. The cost in poor public relations and the insuing law suit is going to cost them more than either putting their staff on a competitors flight or booking them a private fight.

[gotbeer]

OH HELL THE FUCK NO!!!!!!

Footage captures scary view from Houston's 'sky pool'

 

 

[Tank]

4 hours ago, gotbeer said:

United passenger forcibly removed from flight after refusing to give up seat

holy stupidity, batman!

"United had overbooked the flight and was looking for four volunteers to leave the plane in order to send four United crew members to Louisville. Passengers were allowed to board and United offered $800 to anyone who gave up their seat, but when there were no volunteers, United said a computer would randomly select four passengers. The man in the video claimed to be a doctor who had patients to see in the morning and refused to leave, at which point airport security dragged him off the plane.

The United Contract of Carriage lays out specific policies for passengers who are not allowed to board overbooked flights but doesn’t cite policy for removing passengers who are already seated on such flights."

how is it remotely legal to forcibly remove this guy?