Every year, one of the larger Norwegian TV stations rallies the masses to give money to a good cause. Many people volunteer to knock on people’s doors and collect money in small, sealed buckets. I’m not sure what they are called in English, but if you’ve ever seen one, you know what I’m talking about.
Today was that day of the year, but it turned out to be a really shitty day for one of the volunteers, a woman in her forties, when she was mugged by two masked men who threatened her with a knife and ran off with her bucket. The police was quickly notified about this and started sent units to the closest subway stations to look for people matching the very vague description the woman gave, a K9 unit was called in to track down the two men down from the scene of the crime.
When the woman decided to change the description of the weapons used during the robbery to a gun and a saber, two units from the armed task force were called in to assist the unarmed units. After about an hour of dicking around, the police, surprisingly enough, were able to catch the two guys. How do I know all this? I’ve once again found a site that streams police scanners live on the interweb. And there’s a lot of surprising and interesting things to hear. Continue reading "01 Delta 31."
Posted 17:01 CET Oct 12th, 2008 (40 days ago).
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As I guess you already know, the world is going bankrupt. Banks all over the world have been living the good life over the past 10 years, lending money to everyone who wanted some without really thinking ahead. The issue now is that the people they gave money to is unable to pay it back. That, combined with high commodity prices and an increasing unemployment rate, made the US economy start to crumble and it was only a matter of time before it would spread to Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. The US has already fallen and both Europe and Asia are not far behind with banks either going down with man and mice or being put under gouvernement administration.
One of the worst set European countries is Iceland and the Icelandic króna (ISK) has lost 40% of its value compared to the Euro in 2008. The three major banks on the island had a total debt several times higher than the country’s GDP, making it impossible for the government to find the money to save them all. Among those who have now lost all their savings are 300 000 Britons and this has resulted in the UK gouvernement taking legal actions against Iceland to make sure that the tea-drinkers will get their money back. Continue reading "Freakonomics."
So, not surprisingly, it’s happened again. A frustrated, young man gets his gun and opens fire in a crowded, public place. This time it was in USA. That’s where it usually happens, but during the intermissions, other countries take over. Last time it was Finland.
There are a lot of common factors if you compare the three latest cases of public shootings.
The shooters were all young males.
They had few or no friends.
They had a hard time fitting in.
They were all crazy to do it, but not insane when they did it. Everything was planned and prepared.
They intended to die and take as many people with them as possible. To literary go out with a bang.
And they all wanted to get noticed.
Actually, with only a few exceptions, all of the above are common factors for most public shootings. Another interesting fact is that the shooters have begun to refer to each other as well. Continue reading "Boom, Boom."
You hear a lot of stuff about the environment these days. The polar ice caps are melting faster than anyone thought they would, millions of tons of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere as the Russian tundra melts and the plant mass decomposes, probably increasing the speed and effect of Global Warming. Some scientists have been warning us about this for a long time.
“It’s not our concern, when the shit hits the fan, we’ll be dead anyway.” This has been the general consensus. I have even heard parents with small children saying it and I found that somewhat surprising, to be honest. People in general have used the Ostrich approach and put their heads into the sand.
It didn’t work in South Park - so it won’t work in real life, morons.
You can do a lot of things on a personal level that will reduce the amount of manufactured energy you spend during the day, thus reducing the amount of green house gasses emitted into the atmosphere. One of those things is environmentally friendly browsing.
