Category: WTF
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Three shot dead at Auburn pool party
Two former Auburn University football players and another man were shot dead and three people including a current player were wounded when an argument at a pool party at an off-campus apartment complex escalated, police said on Sunday. Read more here on Reuters.
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Red faces for Aussie bosses as other gun pictures emerge
Wow, an embarrassing double standard has been exposed as Swimming Australia is today set to sanction Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk over gun photos the other day. Eamon Sullivan has highlighted the hypocrisy of how the federation organized an AOC-sponsored pre-Beijing bonding session at a Canberra rifle range in 2007, and behold, here is a…
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D’Arcy and Monk apologize for their gun photos
Olympic swimmer Nick D’Arcy has apologized after posting a photograph of himself and team mate Kenrick Monk posing with guns on Facebook. According to SwimNews, the Australian Olympic Committee will punish them by sending them home as soon as the swimming program ends mid-way through the Games, and they will be banned from using social…
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Raising kids in the Faroese cliffs
The traditional way, but gee, many safety issues here, me thinks.
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D’Arcy and Monk in hot water for posing with guns
According to the Herald Sun, Aussie ‘bad boys’ Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk “have sparked outrage after they posed with high-powered weapons in a US gun shop”, to the point where Swimming Australia demanded pictures taken off Facebook and issued this statement, promising a talk with the athletes upon return to Australia: “Swimming Australia became…
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Phoenix police kill man barred from swimming pool
Phoenix police yesterday shot and killed a young man who became belligerent after having been turned away from a city swimming pool, threatening people and then charging the officers with with a baseball bat. AZ Central via USA Today.
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Pool attendant turned Hulk almost unable to un-Hulk himself
35-year-old Paulo Henrique Dos Santos had decided to paint himself green for Rio de Janeiro’s Challenge For Peace run, a big hit last year but this year his local paint store was out of his usual brand. So he tried an industrial brand, commonly used for painting ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines, it worked fine,…
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Crazy Russian gymnasts working out on a construction crane
Totally in the ‘Can you do this?‘ category, but please don’t !! Via Neatorama