The Sad But True Pictures Thread

[GodFearinGunTotin]

They're afraid of ebola over there too, huh?

Scenes from the 2014 Beijing marathon:

 

[BogWalker]

Chinese M55 gas mask. Would like to add that to my collection.

 

[Bucky623]

 

[Bucky623]

 

[HoughMade]

That, is indeed, sad but true.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Got this in the mail.

Sorry you've been driving a car that could potentially kill you. Here's a $25 gift card.

 

[warthog]

Does this one work?

 

[Doug]

Got this in the mail.

Sorry you've been driving a car that could potentially kill you. Here's a $25 gift card.

The sad part is they have to give the gift card to get people to come in to get the repair done.
I want to know how heavy the keys had to be to turn off the switch. 4 pounds? 6 pounds?

 

[Bucky623]

 

[Bucky623]

My niece posted this on her FB page. Yikes, really?

 

[pudly]

Nice imagination. Still have to live in the real world.

 

[RockofStrength]

Nice imagination. Still have to live in the real world.

Indeed. I'm curious as to how forcing everyone to have one ideology, one government, one national boundary etc removes resource scarcity and the general human bent towards self-destructive behavior.

 

[sharkey]

 

[CathyInBlue]

Gotta love brain dead corporations with their slavering devotion to the almighty mailing list.

 

[calcot7]

Mother of "For"?

 

[cmr13]

Mother of "For"?

And "she herself in 12 hours later".

 

[Doug]

Mother of "For"?

And "she herself in 12 hours later".

I guess Photoshop doesn't include spelling and grammar checkers.

 

[mrjarrell]

 

[Hoosier8]

Fascinating. Had to look this up. From Wiki.

[h=3]Murder of Deputy Alfred Jackson Pate[/h] Williams began operating an illegal distillery near Godwin, North Carolina. On July 22, 1921 the Cumberland County Sheriff and five deputies seized the still and product after the workers fled. While transporting the evidence away from the scene the deputies came under gunfire from the woods. Riding away from the scene on the police car sideboard Deputy Sheriff Alfred Jackson Pate was struck by two bullets and died at the scene. Williams was arrested for the murder the following day.
Coroner’s Inquest testimony on August 1, 1921 followed by the arraignment on August 2, 1921, revealed a total of five shots had been fired at the deputies from a single location. One of the deputies present at the shooting identified Williams as the person who fired the rifle at Deputy Pate. Williams was held to answer for First Degree Murder with the possibility of a death sentence. Attorneys representing Williams then notified the court Williams could not be tried for the charges against him due to insanity. Williams and five black workers he hired to run the still were charged with operating the still.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP]
On October 11, 1921 a 12 man jury was impaneled to hear the testimony and decide the issue of Williams' sanity. Testimony started on October 12 and continued for four days. Williams was again identified by the deputy sheriff as the person who shot at Deputy Pate. All five workers employed by Williams testified that as the deputies approached they ran in a different direction than Williams and the gunshots came from the direction in which Williams had run. The hearing ended in a hung jury (11-1 for sanity).[SUP][6][/SUP]
On November 22, 1921 his attorneys withdrew the insanity plea and Williams entered a plea of guilty to murder in the 2nd Degree. Immediately afterwards Williams and his five workers pled guilty to the charge of Making Liquor.[SUP][7][/SUP]
On November 25, 1921 Williams received a sentence of a “term of Thirty Years at hard labor, to wear felon stripes” for the murder of Deputy Pate. On the same day one of the workers employed by Williams, Ham Dawson, was indicted and tried in Cumberland County Superior Court on the charge of Secret Assault on Deputy Pate. Williams testified during the trial that he had fired the first couple shots but didn’t intend to kill the deputy. Williams gave the rifle to Dawson who fired the remaining shots with the intent to kill the deputy. The same day the 12 man (all white) jury voted 12-0 for acquittal and Dawson (black) was released.[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][10][/SUP]
[h=2]Prison years[/h] Early carbines created while in prison


While serving time at the Caledonia State Prison Farm in Halifax County, North Carolina, Williams (who, up until then, spent his days working in the chain gang) related that the superintendent, H.T. Peoples, noted his mechanical aptitude and allowed him access to the prison’s machine shop where he demonstrated a knack for fashioning his own tools the shop lacked. He began servicing the weapons used by the guards at the prison. His skills in the machine shop permitted him to stay ahead of his assignments and allowed him time to develop his ideas for self-loading firearms.
He would save paper and pencils and stay up late at night drawing plans for various firearms. His mother sent him a drafting set, technical data on guns, and eventually provided him with patent attorneys contacts who were unable to help him as long as he was incarcerated.
Williams designed and built four semi-automatic rifles while in prison. All four used the high pressure gas within the breech as a cartridge was fired to operate their semi-automatic actions. The means used to accomplish this was a floating chamber containing the cartridge that channeled the gas at the front of the chamber to force the floating chamber backwards into the bolt with sufficient energy to operate the action. Rearward movement of the chamber was limited to a short stroke to impact the bolt face, in effect making the floating chamber a short stroke gas piston. All four rifles are part of the permanent David Marshall Williams display in the North Carolina Museum of History.

MORE David Marshall Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]