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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/21/texas-police-warn-motorists-caltrops-made-rebar-roadways/5483761002/

A weapon used for centuries is endangering motorists on a major roadway in Texas.

Caltrops, sometimes called "stop spikes," have been recovered by police in the state along Interstate 20 throughout July. The Smith County Sheriff's Office on July 9 reported more than 30 were recovered over a week. The sheriff's office confirmed to USA TODAY more were found Tuesday morning. 

In all, about 300 caltrops have been located, SCSO spokesman Sgt. Larry Christian told USA TODAY in an email. Some were found before the sheriff's office was made aware of the situation, he said...

 

...According to the CIA, "A caltrop is a device—usually made out of metal—with four spikes arranged in such a way that when any three spikes rest on the ground, the fourth points upward."

The agency added, "Caltrops are very useful in slowing the advance of troops attacking by vehicle or animal — horses, camels, and war elephants."

Even in the absence of war elephants in The Lone Star State (so far), caltrops are "a dangerous road hazard," according to the Smith County Sheriff's Office....

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I was planning on cutting a swath of destruction across the gulf coast at the head of a band of rapacious cavalrymen - leaving behind only burned corpses and smoldering wreckage.

This will be but a pitiful gesture to delay your impending doom. 

 

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On 8/19/2020 at 6:44 AM, crash_davis said:

who had The Plague in their 2020 Bingo card?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-tahoe-california-bubonic-plague-resident-tests-positive/

Health officials have confirmed a case of plague at South Lake Tahoe - the first in California in five years. El Dorado County officials said Monday that the California Department of Public Health notified them of the positive test of a local resident who is under medical care while recovering at home.

Plague bacteria are most often transmitted by fleas that have acquired it from infected squirrels, chipmunks and other wild rodents. Dogs and cats may also carry plague-infected fleas.

Health officials believe the South Lake Tahoe resident may have been bitten by an infected flea while walking a dog along the Truckee River corridor or in the Tahoe Keys area on Tahoe's south shore.

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But that was in Jina so it was kinda expected. 

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19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s 2020.  It’s going to hit us.

No, it’s 2020.  Half the nation is going to see the empirical astrophysics of the asteroid and realize it will avoid us due to geometry and calculus.  The other half will credit a fellow human for redirecting the asteroid away from our planet.  
this is 85 Ditka level power over dominion kinda shit.  

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16 hours ago, Parliament said:

For the umpteenth time, would somebody tell the “China sent us a virus” crowd to quit fucking opening packages from fucking China.  That weird seed, murder hornets, these worms, who knows what the  fuck else.  The dumbest fucking people in our country are opening up boxes with mandarin characters on them like “oh, it must be a Christmas in July gift from my uncle Wang in Beijing.”   

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28 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

It's wives. They get so much shit shipped via Amazon etc. they just assume they ordered it. 

Fucking this.

I can pretty much put up a sign by our front door that says "0 days since this house has had a package sitting on the front porch," and just leave the fucker up there.

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watching/listening to 4-star General Vincent Brooks this morning discussing what happened 19 years ago today on his watch, and how he sees what is the new threat to America.  Very eye-opening.  My god, our enemies no longer come from without, but rather from within.  Powerful stuff.  We haven't learned a fucking thing.  They couldn't do it from outside, so we're doing it from within.  

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-laura-mosquitoes-kill-livestock-louisiana/

Clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick in southwest Louisiana since Hurricane Laura that they're killing animals, including horses and cattle. The vast number of bites leave horses and cattle anemic and bleeding under their skins. 

 

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Not quite the celebrity death pool thread yet, and here's hoping he avoids it.

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On Feb. 17, 2020, everything changed drastically in our world.  Michael was in Vancouver participating in a Battlestar Galactica convention, and at dinner following his day’s work, he fell and hit his head. Hard. He went to bed that night not realizing that the impact had caused a massive brain bleed.  He was unable to be woken the next morning and was taken to Vancouver General Hospital and emergency surgery performed. It took 57 staples to close the part of his scull they had to remove in order to reach the damage.
 
The accident left him with complete paralysis on his left side, memory loss, cogntivie impairment and an inability to swallow.  
Then things became incredibly more difficult during the COVID pandemic with visits by family being restricted then denied and no care team (physiotherapist, 
OT, speech therapist, etc. ) allowed in.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/michael-hogan-fund

 

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