Today's Random News

[No One]

Man, I've never even heard of that place until now. That's some sick shit.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

You're doing it wrong, No One.
You're supposed to be all "hurr durr they're floridians who cares" and "herp derp got what they deserved."
Be more cool damn you.

[Yoshi]

I don't really understand what difference that would make, other than making you feel better in some nebulous way. When has "I shot a cop in self defense" ever actually panned out?

Edit: That's not to say I don't agree that cops are often douchebags, you just tend to bring up gun control whenever the police are discussed, like it's common sense that they should be threatened or shot when they abuse their authority.

The second amendment doesn't exist to protect our right to hunt deer. If we should reach the point where it's really needed, what holds up in court will be completely irrelevant.

[Hubbitron]

Oh Fuck. I agree with you.

[No One]

The second amendment doesn't exist to protect our right to hunt deer. If we should reach the point where it's really needed, what holds up in court will be completely irrelevant.

Don't misunderstand, I agree with the sentiment. I also live in the real world, where we continue to get fatter and dumber and that uprising you're implying is probably never going to happen. Even if it's totally justified (and in a lot of cases it absolutely would be), shooting a police officer is, at best, a one-way ticket to life in prison.

Edit:

[Josh]

Oh Fuck. I agree with you.

It's always a bummer when that happens.

[Type Ryan]

...shooting a police officer is, at best, a one-way ticket to life in prison.

Or certain death.

The radar image from that reform school is pretty disturbing.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Fucking dumb Southern American ruins 600 year old statue.

An American tourist has drawn the ire of Italians after he reportedly knocked a finger off a 600-year-old statue at a museum.
The New York Daily News reports the 55-year-old man from Missouri accidentally snapped the pinky finger off the statue, called “Annunciazione,” at Florence's Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
The man was reportedly trying to measure the statue and put his own hands on it. A security guard noticed too late to stop him.
"In a globalized world like ours, the fundamental rules for visiting a museum have been forgotten; that is, 'Do not touch the works,’” the museum’s head, Timothy Verdon, who is also an American, told the New York Daily News.
Museum officials tell the paper they are not sure how long the restoration should take, but it should be a fairly simple procedure. The finger was not the statue's original.
The tourist, who was there with three other people, apologized and was reportedly “very disappointed.”

[kedawa]

It was an aftermarket finger anyway.

[Anthony]

Probably a chinese make finger.