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The A-Team has the best of both worlds: Lots of evil fully-auto weapons AND no one ever gets hurt.

My pool picture ban over paedophile fears

An amateur photographer was told she could not take snaps of an empty paddling pool because she might be a paedophile.

Taking pictures of an empty swimming pool means you might be a pedophile just like taking pictures of kids tearing up your neighborhood means you might be assaulting them.

Sad sad sad.

Not coincidentally, the Gotham City of the two most recent Batman films is based on Chicago, not New York City. This makes some sense, because Chicago residents are severely restricted in their methods of self defense. Masked vigilantes might be the only answer.

Seems to be a pretty unreasonable situation, but the reaction is good.

xkcd is awesome.

Please stop breaking into my car:

UPDATE: The image I had linked to was pulled (obviously all the traffic I sent swamped their servers) so I found it elsewhere and posted here. Thanks to the reader for the tip that it was down.

Someone just emailed this:

My new Nail Gun, made by Dewalt. It can drive a 6-D nail thru a 2 X 4 at 200 yards.

This makes construction a real breeze...you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence. Just get the wife and kids to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back, relax with a cold beer, when they have the board in the right place just fire away. With the hundred round magazine, you can build a fence with a minimum of reloading.

After a day of fence building with the new Dewalt Rapid fire nail gun, the wife will not ask you fix or build anything else. Available for a little more is the "band-aid magazine" for those near misses when fence building.

It seems that I've seen this picture in the past, but I'm not sure. Still funny, though.

"Terrorist bread?" It's in Hezbollah's zone, so that probably helps move sandwiches.

Murdoc's guess is that they won't be importing any "terrorist meat" from Iraq or Afghanistan...

Wyoming:

CHEYENNE - A magistrate in Sweetwater County has sentenced a Tennessee man to serve 100 days in jail and pay $6,000 in fines and restitution for shooting a doe antelope several times with a semiautomatic rifle last weekend. Officials say the case is only the latest in a disturbing pattern of out-of-state energy workers wantonly killing Wyoming wildlife.

Tori Stephen Bowman, 23, of Cookeville, Tenn., pleaded guilty Monday to wanton destruction of a big-game animal.

In addition to imposing the jail time, fines and restitution, Magistrate Stephen K. Palmer forfeited Bowman's rifle to the state and revoked his hunting and fishing privileges for five years. Palmer also fined Bowman $350 on his guilty plea to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge, court records show.

Forfeiture of a firearm and a $6,000 fine seems pretty steep, never mind the 100 days in jail. Then again, shooting a lactating antelope doe for the hell of it is ridiculous beyond reason, and it's tough to really argue hard with any sentence.

The rifle was an AK.

Via GunPro.net.

Jared Allen craves the thrill of the hunt

Defensive End Jared Allen, traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Minnesota Vikings in April, is featured in a Sporting News article out on a bear hunt with Gary Stueve's 3 Heart Outfitters in northern Idaho:

Allen, who led the NFL in sacks last season and then moved to the Vikings in the biggest trade of the offseason, is an accomplished hunter. He has bagged numerous deer and pheasant in the Midwest, a red stag in New Zealand, even a wild boar--with a knife, no less--in Texas. But this is his first bear hunt, and he's stoked...

Allen, a vacuum cleaner for information, peppers Stueve with questions. Are bears creatures of habit? (Yes.) Do bears travel in packs, or are they loners? (Loners.) What do you call the male and the female? (Boar and sow, just like hogs.) Can I finish off the bear with a knife? (Yes, but it sounds like a really bad idea.)

All in all, an interesting article.

But the reaction on SN's web site is quite something to behold.

From Not Always Right, which features conversations with customers:

Customer: "Yeah, I got my kids guns for their birthdays!"

Coworker: "How old are they?!"

Customer: "In their 20s."

Coworker, shocked: "But guns kill people!"

Customer: "Well, they may need to protect themselves someday, you know."

Coworker: "From what? Wild animals?"

Customer: "No, from Democrats!"

I guess if you look at it from the perspective of "I'm giving my kids guns now so that they can protect themselves in the future even if Democrats manage to make it too difficult to buy guns", it makes perfect sense.