The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

Dude sets fire to nuclear sub to get out of work; causes ~$400M damage and gets 17 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/us/navy-submarine-lost/index.html

Well, hey. It worked. He won't have to work for 17 years.

[Jacob]

Well, hey. It worked. He won't have to work for 17 years.

I think they make them do work in prison these days...? 

[crazy canuck]

DOH!

[Liep]

There'll be a cabinet reshuffle tomorrow. The grossly incompetent Annette Vilhelmsen is swapped out for the rocker loving, but more suiting, Henrik Sass. Hopefully Holger K., the most boring man in Danish politics, will also move out.

Pia Olsen Dyhr new minister of transport, I'm sure she can't be worse than the previous: the Highway Gang, Asphalt Hans and I-haven't-heard-of-that-Kristensen

[Malthus]

Well, hey. It worked. He won't have to work for 17 years.

I think they make them do work in prison these days...? 

So are you saying his cunning plan had a flaw? 

[Capetan Mihali]

Well, hey. It worked. He won't have to work for 17 years.

I think they make them do work in prison these days...? 

You can refuse to work.   At the peril of losing good-time credit and parole eligibility, but I figure this is federal prison time anyways, so a 15% reduction is the best you can get anyways.

[MadImmortalMan]

Well, hey. It worked. He won't have to work for 17 years.

I think they make them do work in prison these days...? 

I hope the prison has good fire insurance...

[Jacob]

I hope the prison has good fire insurance...

Too bad the navy didn't have it for the submarine.

[Ideologue]

I'm not sure any company would insure a warship, especially if the prospective liability were $400m.

[derspiess]

My mom bought me moonshine when she was in Tennessee a few days ago.  I know moonshine is legal & plentiful these days, but it's funny to thnk of her bootlegging 'shine up I-75.

[jimmy olsen]

This month in PCP... 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/08/02/the_month_in_pcp_a_stolen_ambulance_cigarette_ashes_for_breakfast_and_a.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

So CdM, ever run into anyone hulked out on angel dust?

[CountDeMoney]

Oh yeah, lots of times, once had a guy so dusted out on greens, he didn't even notice the chunk of scalp that was pulled off when I stepped on his hair and got it caught in the gurney frame while we were fighting with him in the back of an ambulance to get him into the ER, oops.  Saw a guy break his leg chains off, twisted the chain right off the cuffs.  Had one guy so dusted out the only way to calm him down was to grab the sides of his head, look him in the eyes and keep telling him "resistance is futile" over and over, only way to keep him calm.  Had to do that for 10 minutes. 
Yeah, fun times.

[Ideologue]

LOL Officer Locutus.

[jimmy olsen]

Had one guy so dusted out the only way to calm him down was to grab the sides of his head, look him in the eyes and keep telling him "resistance is futile" over and over, only way to keep him calm.  Had to do that for 10 minutes. 
Yeah, fun times.

Those Star Trek conventions must get wilder than I thought

[CountDeMoney]

LOL Officer Locutus.

Always fun fucking with people like that, just to see what they would do.  Tried it once and it worked, and then I stopped and he started freaking again.  So guess who wound up holding his fucking head and saying it over and over again until the medics showed up.  Go fig.