The commentary, intro, and intermission on these video’s is annoying as all get out. But the actual competition is fun to watch. I think the shooting sports would be more popular if more people tried this sort of thing.
This is the shotgun challenge….
And this is sub machine gun challenge…..
You can see links to more challenges here.
Forget the “Dukes of Hazard.” In the eastern German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on Sunday night, a 23-year-old driver speeding through the town center lost control of his vehicle, launched off an embankment and ended up smashed into the roof of the village church some seven meters (23 feet) up. And far from driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, as Bo and Luke Duke favored, the man was behind the wheel of a modest Skoda Octavia station wagon.
Just how the driver, who was evacuated out of the church attic and taken to the hospital with serious injuries, ended up flying so high remains something of a mystery. Police officer Knut Wagner told reporters merely that “the driver took off due to unexplained circumstances, flew some 30 meters (98 feet) through the air and ended up seven meters up in the church roof.”
You know the guy has got to be good when he can do something that you know is hard and make it look easy. Not too many people have the skills to make a consistent product by hand the way this guy does. Most people would have to have depth guides and such.
The ban on disabled people joining the army should be scrapped, according to Britain’s human rights watchdog.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has told the Ministry of Defence that the current ban is descriminatory and that all three armed forces should allow disabled people to serve.
But defence chiefs and government ministers are opposing any moves to relax the rules, saying recruiting disabled people would impact on morale, operational effectiveness and would create a two-tier military organisation.
The EHRC has written to the MoD to demand that it meet the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Person with Disabilities, which Britain has signed.
Alabama was colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina and Florida shivered through a brush of Arctic air blast that deadened car batteries in the Northeast and prompted scattered Midwest power outages.
As Southerners awaited an expected weekend thaw, the Northeast persisted under the bitterly cold air from Canada that sent temperatures plunging in some places below minus 30 degrees and left even longtime residents reluctant to venture outdoors.
Good thing heating oil prices have dropped so much or people would really be hurting.
A shepherd who allowed his wayward sheep to intimidate his neighbours has admitted breaching an Asbo which banned the flock from the village.
Reading the article closely, it seems that the real problem is that the shepherd had the legal right to let his sheep roam freely, but this legal right caused problems for the people of the town. So it seems that they used laws designed to limit the movement of wife beaters and such to force him to keep his sheep away from where he had the legal right to let his sheep roam.
Still, the headline of people in the U.K being intimidated by sheep seemed like such a good representation of the character of the modern inhabitants of England that I just could not pass it up.
Guy ski’s off a cliff on the wrong spot by accident and sets the world record for a cliff drop. After they dig him out of the snow, Ski’s away. Doctor’s evaluation: You mildly damaged your liver. Take it easy for a few days.
Fred Syversen 107 Meters Cliff Drop
Speaking of drops, I bet this guys heart was in his throat as he broke this record (watch for the ending):
Robbie Madison’s Amazing Record Jump – Watch more Sports Videos
Not a regular feature but perhaps it should be. From In The Pipeline…
One of my favorite parts of the paper is the mention (found in much of the recent high-energy materials literature) that high-nitrogen compounds are worth investigated as “green” explosives, which makes me think that the whole environmental-rationale business must be reaching its end points. The notion of a more environmentally friendly way to blow things up aside, I have to salute the paper’s authors.
You have to read the whole post to really get why that is so funny. Somebody was really reaching to come up with a worthwhile justification for some really dangerous stuff.
Alarming surveys have come in that indicate that most people failed to get the reference in the latest Pearls Before Swine Comic strip.
So here is the reference….
Apologies to those who don’t follow Pearls Before Swine.