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Post by phil on May 5, 2006 11:27:41 GMT -5
Louisiana's cruelty to animals law bans dog fighting, but a 1982 state law excludes cockfighting from the cruelty law by declaring that fowl - chickens, ducks and turkeys - are not animals, "which raises an interesting question of what they are," Lentini said. "They're not vegetables or minerals," he said.
They're not animals ... They're meat !!
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Post by rockysigman on May 5, 2006 11:27:48 GMT -5
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported. According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out. The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return. According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home. The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave. I had that happen to me once. |
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Post by Fuzznuts on May 5, 2006 11:29:56 GMT -5
a 1982 state law excludes cockfighting from the cruelty law by declaring that fowl - chickens, ducks and turkeys - are not animals, This is disturbing on so many levels. |
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 11:39:14 GMT -5
Aye, it's severely fucked up. But that last line about "they're obviously not vegetables or minerals" had me rolling. It amazes me how fucking backwards people can be.
I'm honestly surprised that dog fighting is even illegal in some places around here.
On the plus side, we ARE one of the very select few states that sanction cage fighting. But now that California's caved in, it's only a matter of time before New York does at well, and then you'll see legal cage fighting all over North America.
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Post by phil on May 5, 2006 11:44:33 GMT -5
I'm honestly surprised that dog fighting is even illegal in some places around here.
Which doesn't mean that those repugnant events don't take place ...
On the plus side, we ARE one of the very select few states that sanction cage fighting. But now that California's caved in, it's only a matter of time before New York does at well, and then you'll see legal cage fighting all over North America.
Now those are animals ... !!
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 11:47:32 GMT -5
Winnipeg already caved in; once New York does, it'll be all over North America. It's a thousand times safer than boxing, in both the short and long terms, which is why any law against it is just fucking silly. Besides, if two grown human beings want to beat the shit out of each other in a cage or a ring, it makes no sense to me why you shouldn't let them go at it.
As for dog fights, they happen all over the place here. Some of my wife's students didn't even realize they were illegal until local law enforcement started an initiative to crack down on them a bit more. But yeah, that shit happens all over the place.
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Post by rockysigman on May 5, 2006 11:54:07 GMT -5
I think the big argument against it is that if it's legal, like in boxing, there will be some jackass promoters who exploit fighters who are skilled but less than bright. The exploitation angle can be pretty disturbing with some of those underground boxing circuits, and I really see no reason to think it wouldn't happen in the same way for cage fighting.
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 12:01:29 GMT -5
You're always going to have the underground circuits, though, whether things are legal or not. If anything, the legalization of boxing under a unified set of rules helps people pick out the "real stuff" from the garbage. It's the same with cage fighting- everywhere in North America that's adopted it uses Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, which was made up by the New Jersey commission and is the reason that UFC is legal in Nevada, New Jersey, California, Louisiana, and Nova Scotia, but PRIDE isn't.
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Post by phil on May 5, 2006 12:02:59 GMT -5
Besides, if two grown human beings want to beat the shit out of each other in a cage or a ring, it makes no sense to me why you shouldn't let them go at it.
HÉ ! That's why we got hockey ... ! ;D !
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 12:10:32 GMT -5
Hockey needs more guys punching each other in the face, less guys skating around with sticks. I feel like I'm watching NASCAR when I'm watching hockey- bored senseless but eagerly anticipating something violent and disastrous.
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Post by Galactus on May 5, 2006 12:27:32 GMT -5
Hockey needs linebackers...guys who don't even have sticks, they just skate around tackle people.
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 12:43:52 GMT -5
That would slay.
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Post by rockysigman on May 27, 2006 0:50:22 GMT -5
Oh man. This is great...
Robertson Says He Leg-Pressed 2,000 Pounds
By Associated Press
Fri May 26, 3:46 PM
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds. The feat is recounted on the Christian Broadcasting Network Web site, in a posting headlined, "How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds." Robertson founded CBN and is host of its flagship television show, "The 700 Club."
Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.coms online magazine called the assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that the leg-press record for football players at Florida State University is 665 pounds less.
"Where in the world did Robertson even find a machine that could hold 2,000 pounds at one time?" Travis asked.
CBN spokeswoman Angell Vasko said Friday that Robertson was not available for comment because he was "out of pocket" for the long holiday weekend.
Vasko said she has not seen Robertson leg-press 2,000 pounds but that it's not "a huge shocker" that he could.
"Pat is so healthy," she said. "This is something he trained for over an extended period of time. He lives a very healthy, regimented life."
Vasko released photos to The Associated Press she said showed Robertson leg-pressing 2,000 pounds on Feb. 1, 2003, when Robertson was almost 73. He is now 76.
Vasko said she did not know why the digital date stamp in the lower right corner of one photo is 1994. She said perhaps the date was not set properly on the camera. She did not know who the photographer was.
The photos were taken at the fitness center at The Founders Inn on the campus of Regent University, which Robertson also founded.
According to the CBN Web site, two men loaded the leg-press machine with 2,000 pounds "and then let it down on Mr. Robertson, who pushed it up one rep and let it go back down again."
Several people witnessed Robertson's leg press, the site says. The site also provides a link that CBN says shows Robertson performing 10 repetitions of a 1,000-pound leg press.
Vasko said she did not know whether this was the only time Robertson has leg-pressed that much weight, but said, "I doubt it." Nor did she know whether he can leg-press 2,000 pounds today.
Another posting on the Web site says "One of Pat's secrets to keeping his energy high and his vitality soaring is his age-defying protein shake." The site offers a recipe for the shake, which Robertson developed and filled with "energy-producing nutrients."
Andy Zucker, a strength-training coach at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, said leg presses of more than 1,000 pounds represent "a Herculean effort, and 2,000 pounds is a whole other story."
"If he was able to lift that much weight, I take my hat off to him, but the numbers suggest that people who lift that much weight are few and far between," Zucker said. "One would have to see what type of leg press it was on and under what parameters it was done."
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Post by rockkid on May 27, 2006 18:42:45 GMT -5
One could only hope he ruptures something & soon.
Fucking loony.
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Post by shin on Jul 3, 2006 14:27:49 GMT -5
Don't know where to post this story, but I though you'd all enjoy it so here goes:
Yesterday I was at a friends for July 4th and we were setting off fireworks and Mentos soda bombs in his driveway, while his 4 year old son was driving around in his motorized mini Hummer. He drove by me and I suddenly dove onto the hood of his toy car, preventing it from moving, and started shouting "NO BLOOD FOR OIL! NO BLOOD FOR OIL!" Keep in mind that I'm at least twice as big as the car itself, let alone the hood.
Hilarity ensued.
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