After taking that kind of fall, he poses for a photo while straddling a barbed wire fence!?! FTW??>> ^KnivesOut:

Related: WARNING GRAPHIC

Video description from YT for the curious:

SUMMERVILLE, SC (WCSC) -

Dash cam video released Thursday from a stolen Summerville, South Carolina police cruiser shows a suspect fighting a police officer then crashing the stolen car into a landscaping truck at a high rate of speed.

According to police, the incident started last Friday when 38-year-old Arthur Lee Thompson attempted to steal a computer from a Summerville Wal-mart. When confronted, Thompson allegedly punched the store's loss prevention officer in the mouth. Authorities then put out an alert for Thompson's green Jeep.

Officers were able to spot the vehicle and made a traffic stop on Cedar Street near 9th Avenue. Dash cam video from the stolen police cruiser shows Thompson exiting his Jeep, disobeying the officer's commands and then attacking an officer.

According to the incident report, the officer tased the suspect twice, first when Thompson started fighting him and again once he was in the police cruiser, attempting to steal it.

Thompson wasn't affected by the taser and video shows him pulling out the stun-gun barbs and then continuing to fight with the officer. Thompson then drove off in the stolen car at speeds of over 100 mph.

The dash cam video shows Thompson weaving in and out of traffic, running through several red lights and making erratic maneuvers. The high-speed chase ended when Thompson crashed the cruiser into a landscaping truck attempting to make a left hand turn. The video shows the cruiser slam directly into the truck on North Maple Street near Elks Lodge Lane, three miles from the original traffic stop.

Thompson is then heard and seen trying to escape from the wrecked police cruiser. He shattered a window in the car in an attempt to escape, but failed, and was arrested. The victim in the landscaping truck was taken to a hospital. Thompson was transported to MUSC for treatment. Neither had serious injuries.

A toxicology report shows that Thompson tested positive for cocaine base. While at MUSC, Thompson became extremely violent, a police report states. Thomspon allegedly yelled "You are all racist," as people walked by him, and "If you don't get these (restraints) off me, I'm gonna hurt myself and turn this bed over."

Thompson then began violently throwing himself around on the bed in an attempt to overturn the bed. An officer then tried to secure his right hand when Thompson spit in his direction.

According to the incident report, Thompson admitted to police that he had "smoked crack" earlier that morning and was very high. Thompson then asked police if he "made the news."

Later, while being processed at the Summerville Police Department, police say he looked at every officer in the booking area and made derogatory comments to all of them. Thompson then allegedly bragged about stealing the police car saying, "You should've seen how big the officer was that I worked. He was like 280 pounds."

Thompson repeatedly looked down at his fists and said "I need to retire these things," the report states.

Authorities charged Thompson with strong armed robbery, failure to stop for blue lights, assault on a police officer while resisting arrest, grand larceny, possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a crime of violence and throwing bodily fluids on a law enforcement officer. Police say Thompson has an extensive criminal history.

Thompson was also charged by the South Carolina Highway Patrol with reckless driving in the collision. Authorities are continuing the investigation.

Also, this is a great opportunity to mention Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine

The New Road to Serfdom
Christopher Hayes, In These Times, November 9, 2007

In the early ’80s, as Margaret Thatcher attempted to hack away at England’s substantial public sector, she found a frustrating degree of public resistance. The closer she got to the bone, the more the patient wriggled and withdrew. Thatcher doggedly persisted, yet her pace wasn’t fast enough for right-wing Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek, her idol and ideological mentor. You see, in 1981, Hayek had traveled to Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, where, under the barbed restraints of dictatorship and with the guidance of University of Chicago-trained economists, Pinochet had gouged out nearly every vestige of the public sector, privatizing everything from utilities to the Chilean state pension program. Hayek returned gushing, and wrote Thatcher, urging her to follow Chile’s aggressive model more faithfully.

In her reply, Thatcher explained tersely that “in Britain, with our democratic institutions and the need for a higher degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable. Our reform must be in line with our traditions and our Constitution. At times, the process may seem painfully slow.”

The Hayek/Thatcher exchange is one of many revealing historical nuggets unearthed in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein’s ambitious history of neoliberalism. Hayek isn’t the star of The Shock Doctrine—that dubious honor goes to his protegé and fellow Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. But Klein’s totemic, capacious and brilliant alternate history of the last three decades of global political economy can best be understood as a latter-day response to Hayek’s classic right-wing manifesto, The Road to Serfdom.

More of this review here: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/reviews/new-road-serfdom

>> ^ponceleon:

The problem is that people don't understand the mentality of the lunatic fringe. Evidence is not evidence for them, it is just "proof" of a coverup.
Basically, if they don't get the answer they want, they just continue to complain that it is all a conspiracy.


I think Obama knows this isn't going to satisfy fringe "birthers". They have long since immunized themselves against evidence; it's always been a faith-based position.

What it is going to do is make any Republican presidential candidate who persists in questioning his birthplace seem completely out of touch with reality, or like they're pandering to idiots. Mostly that was already the case, but Sarah Palin's lighter conspiracy theory that there was maybe "something embarrassing" on his original birth certificate almost seemed reasonable just by contrast with the distilled insanity of other theories. It IS a relief to know the president wasn't born with a barbed tail. I'm sure the doctor would have noted that in the comments section.

blech. a nasty board accompanying an interesting video...


@shinyblurry; try not to take the barbed comments personally. Your comments have the feeling of judgment, by you, on the people who don't share your beliefs. Its natural to be defensive when someone who doesn't know you says you're ignorant.

A good number of the non-religious have arrived there through questioning and struggling with a faith they were born into, so its hard for them to abide comments that they are ignorant and haven't thought things through.

Congratulations on your Ruby Red Barb Decoration.

Excellent.

>> ^BoneRemake:

The tow truck would of have/should of have had Tire chalks, he could of have put those in place and used his winch to pull the front end loader. And yes they have chalks for mud and snow, they grip into the snow/ice/mud like fish hook barbs, and resist the truck from being pulled backwards via the winch.

The tow truck would of/should of had Tire chalks, he could of put those in place and used his winch to pull the front end loader. And yes they have chalks for mud and snow, they grip into the snow/ice/mud like fish hook barbs, and resist the truck from being pulled backwards via the winch.

Yeah it looks to me like the cups are actually bottomless at the start. The lid is hidden inside the "filler"--which might be a small gimmick to either try to hide the method or make it look spiffy. Not so sure it'd actually have to be designed that exact way; could be a necessary design element though.

When she pushes one down you can notice that the "filler/holder" turns red (It's still in the glasses, afterward). There could be magnetism involved, but it seems more efficient (and a lot less expensive plus eco-friendly, unless they went to great lengths for recycling) to put a lid on via suction then clipping it into position as she takes it off. Think of it being like a fish hook or barbs (just not sharp ).

The lid is pre-positioned under top of the filler/nozzle (red barb/cap), she pushes down on the cup the filler opens (probably moving outward, while bending the cup slightly) the hole and "barbing" lid are pushed up into place via the system or just the beer's flow pressure. Then when she pulls it off it bends back and the hole is covered.

I'm guessing here, I didn't look at the site, but that's probably the type of way I'd do it.

Upper is useless now and wrong, but fun for an idea so I'll smallify it. Must remind myself to always WTFV; usually it's just RTFA.

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Actually, @divurr looks completely right. The video of them pushing the cap off afterward plus the ring left (and the fact the system has "MAG" right in it) at the bottom really says magnetism is at play here (little side note: could be some sort of self adhesive as well). It looks like the cap is bent or rolled then injected after they fill it while they pull up which releases it or bends the bottom just enough to put it right in. Probably the latter. If it's a self adhesive you could then keep the cap, but with magnetism I would think they may want those back . (Like I said before: cost. With "MAG" being a throw off.)

I'll go with magnetism and a trade in system for the caps. Give them three back, they give a free drink, etc...

Can someone throw an ^engineering at this.

Amusing.

If the godless liberals made this man wear a helmet, and the unions, which steal corporation's earnings so that they have to skimp on manufacturing more durable products, this guy wouldn't have been able to do gymnastics at all! Did you see how small that truck was? Government must have bought GM.
Gay people were probably watching Platoon when this happened!
Let's hope he has insurance, because Obama may let this guy get past the US' borders, which have no mine fields, barbed wire or moats filled with snakes and alligators, and make babies! These babies would surely grow up to blow up Oklahoma and bankrupt hospitals.
This is the kind of thing that wouldn't happen if the TEN COMMANDMENTS were etched into every public school's drinking fountains!

If the godless liberals made this man wear a helmet, and the unions, which steal corporation's earnings so that they have to skimp on manufacturing more durable products, this guy wouldn't have been able to do gymnastics at all! Did you see how small that truck was? Government must have bought GM.
Gay people were probably watching Platoon when this happened!
Let's hope he has insurance, because Obama may let this guy get past the US' borders, which have no mine fields, barbed wire or moats filled with snakes and alligators, and make babies! These babies would surely grow up to blow up Oklahoma and bankrupt hospitals.
This is the kind of thing that wouldn't happen if the TEN COMMANDMENTS were etched into every public school's drinking fountains!

.027kJ of force applied to 1" diameter of surface area needed to break skull bone. This is 1.25kJ. Even considering the drop off due to distance and air resistance, it would definitely crack a skull and would likely lodge itself in someone's brain. The temple is one of the few places where a small puncture can kill someone. Ergo: Don't build this then shoot someone in the head with it.

>> ^chicchorea:

LMFAO...cafe everywhere.
Of course, a GRF(Gibsonesque Rail Fletcher),...I want....
>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^chicchorea:
With the energy demonstrated, except for shot to temple at close range perhaps, not lethal.
Still, with refinement....

I formally disagree.
You can poison tip the end, give it a barb or two, assemble some fashion of exploding tip.
Or make the projectile more sleek and pointed to go through or between a rib.
or bleed out... gangrene..
lots of ways to die from this thing, I wish not to count thee ways though.

LMFAO...cafe everywhere.

Of course, a GRF(Gibsonesque Rail Fletcher),...I want....
>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^chicchorea:
With the energy demonstrated, except for shot to temple at close range perhaps, not lethal.
Still, with refinement....

I formally disagree.
You can poison tip the end, give it a barb or two, assemble some fashion of exploding tip.
Or make the projectile more sleek and pointed to go through or between a rib.
or bleed out... gangrene..
lots of ways to die from this thing, I wish not to count thee ways though.

>> ^chicchorea:

With the energy demonstrated, except for shot to temple at close range perhaps, not lethal.
Still, with refinement....


I formally disagree.

You can poison tip the end, give it a barb or two, assemble some fashion of exploding tip.

Or make the projectile more sleek and pointed to go through or between a rib.

or bleed out... gangrene..

lots of ways to die from this thing, I wish not to count thee ways though.

Dressage and jumping, how excellent, and very impressive to me. I'm sorry to hear about that which caused the cessation of your riding.

Finland. Sounds incredible. What mounts did you sit. The impressive Finnhorse of which I have only read, and a long time ago at that?

The preponderance of my riding was Western. Quarter horses primarily, Morgans, and a Moroccan Barb. Tack was Spanish/Mexican style ropers, Texas double rigged with swell fork, Spanish parade/show. Used a snaffle uniquely among my friend's and family. I liked the crazy horses. Rode English a little. Best friend and neighbor had tack. I liked it. Jumped a little. More on western rig. My Quarter horses hated it when I would set them up to have to jump, rough with a swell and horn.

I thought I would always ride....

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This was back when I was in Finland, started when I was 10, and had to quit around 18 after my dad died. I have never tried riding western style Would be awesome to try it, though.

I did some dressage, but show jumping was my passion. I wasn't successful at the national level, but in local shows I kicked some butt!

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