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Started 3 months ago by onederfullone
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/04/boy-in-center-alabama-hostage-standoff-released-source-says/

six nights in a rat-hole, the boy is free.

Why six nights?

'hey...dude...we know you are a deranged psychopathic killer...and yeah...maybe you've got some reasons to distrust anything federal...but seriously, we need to find some reason to justify our budget...so if you can just hang out there for...like a week...yeah, okay, so here's a twix bar...he wants what?...let me check...wow, okay... turns out mom can't fit down this tube....so...talk to you in a few days'

flash, bang.

We need stupidity control in this country (not that it will begin anywhere near here.

Posted 3 months ago #
Edog

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Anyone else find it ironic that a rant that stupid the ends with a comment about "stupidity control"?

Posted 3 months ago #
Ernie

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Of course onderfulgun, un-questionable expert on every subject, has a better plan than the professional law enforcement officers. Please, do tell.

lol.....<yawn>.....fwiw.

Posted 3 months ago #
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Clearly, he would have head-shot the dirtbag. In the underground bunker. Without any risk of harm to the kid. From 50 paces. In his Lamborghini. With his wife, Morgan Fairchild! Didn't you know that Oneder was not only a member of the Olympic shooting team, but also an FBI hostage negotiator?

Hint to Oneder: check the outcome of the Algerian gas plant hostage situation (or Branch Davidians, for that matter) to see how your plan ends. I'd prefer a live hostage, negotiation, and giving the guy a few Twix bars to going in guns blazing and killing a bunch of people.

Posted 3 months ago #
onederfullone

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flash. bang.

I know it means nothing to you facebooking morons.

Yes, if you were aloud to survive (which is very selective), you might experience a temporary ringing in your ears, clear to white blotches in your vision.

I hope you enjoyed your twix bar, asswipe is dead. tyvm.

Sorry it took so long for us to find our balls. (budgets, blah media blah Hillary blah can't find our balls blah)

Maybe somebody with a clue will chime in...

Posted 3 months ago #
boatgeek

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Maybe somebody with a clue will chime in...

How exactly did you come to be better at this than the FBI Hostage Rescue Team? Was your teacher Rambo or John McClane? Are you trying to look stupid, or does it just come naturally?

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onederfullone

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"How exactly did you come to be better at this than the FBI Hostage Rescue Team?"

...good question.

A better question would be to ask how exactly they became worse.

But to answer yours, I was fortunate, born with a spine, connected to balls and a brain. Just lucky, I guess.

My teachers are too numerous to mention, none of them play hero on a silver screen, so you clearly wouldn't be interested.

Posted 3 months ago #
eric

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what is your problem? you can make a statement without constantly referring to everyone as "morons" etc, can't you? what is the point of your little tirade exactly?

you are generally an extremely off-putting character, and really offer little besides negative, self righteous venom in the majority of your posts.

very childish and unnecessary. imo, fwiw.

Posted 3 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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oneder

I am starting to think you are Archie Bunker & Ted Nugent's love child.Methinks you have a personalized recliner with a gun rack built into it

Posted 3 months ago #
MidWest

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Angrrrfullone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9l-Wp4itQ

Posted 3 months ago #
Cate

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"Archie Bunker and Ted Nugent's love child"

Snicker, snicker.
That is one of the funnier things I've read on her.
I can just see Archie and Ted waving their rainbow flag over a crib.

Posted 3 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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heHe

He probably has a Donald Trump rainbow colored hairpiece;)

Posted 3 months ago #
stopgo

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i'm glad that situation is over with and the boy is ok.

Posted 3 months ago #
GAM

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I hope the boy is OK. This won't be easy to get over.

Posted 3 months ago #
pennygirl

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Echoing stopgo and GAM.

Posted 3 months ago #
boatgeek

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Interesting story here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/05/171141408/dramatic-end-to-alabama-hostage-standoff-took-careful-planning

Part of the time was spent building a mockup of the bunker nearby and practicing. They didn't go in until the hidden camera showed the kidnapper getting more hostile.

Thanks to the pros who saved a child from a terrible situation.

Posted 3 months ago #
wally

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Boatgeek for the win.

BH - second prize.

Ted & Archie's love child - loser.

Posted 3 months ago #
Edog

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I can't take this thread seriously as a place to express my joy that Ethan is eating, laughing, and with his family.

The OP started from a bad place. Its not about the rescue of the boy, its about how it was too fast, or that it took too long, or was not violent enough, or was too violent, or that it was the governments fault, or that I'm too dumb to know what a flashbang is (never mind that I know). The OP is simultaneously an anti-government rant and a big FU to people who don't think more armaments are the answer to life's problems, and it manages to accomplish these two things while being offensive in ways I no longer want to dwell on.

Posted 3 months ago #
MidWest

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Quite articulate, Edog. Very well spoken.

The boy is safe, and that's what matters.

Posted 3 months ago #
Compass Rose

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Agreed, Edog. Thankfully the child is safe.

I'm curious about how they managed to get a camera in there.

Posted 3 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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The child is physically safe but I can't stop thinking about the permanent mental damage that was done.

Posted 3 months ago #
Compass Rose

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BH, people are always saying that kids are incredibly resilient. Look at Elizabeth Smart. I hope the little guy isn't permanently traumatized by this.

Posted 3 months ago #
iPlod

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Kids are way more resilient than the popular press would have you believe, Compass Rose.

From personal experience, I can relate going for a ride in Uncle Charlie's car when I was four but all I can remember about it is that Uncle Charlie had brown shoes.

I never saw or heard about Uncle Charlie ever since and none of my family had ever mentioned his name until I brought it up at a reunion in 1995. Well, you should have seen all the eyes go wide, faces turn white, subjects changed, barbecues suddenly attentively turned to.

Gist is, whatever happened back then didn't appear to affect me much. I'm not a criminal, never been in jail & have always gotten along with everybody, and I mean everybody, I've ever met. Period.

Just as long as they don't wear brown shoes.

Posted 3 months ago #
Corvus

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OK.. who wants to share next?

Posted 3 months ago #
Cate

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Interesting research on Families and resiliency that looked at how children who were at high risk because of trauma, loss of family members or poor family situations were doing at age thirty. Turns out 50% (more or less) were doing fine and 50% were struggling (see the work of Fiona Walsh). What can scar one child for life will be a minor incident for another. There are ways to build resiliency in a child or family but a lot has to due with a child's inherent temperament. I wish this child and family well, but the truth is who this child and family were before this incident are the best predictors of which 50% he will fall in.

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