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That dude is apparently youtube famous for destroying cars on purpose.

[ndv]

must be nice

[mr.yuck]

 

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[Mercer]

Which one of you MF's did this?

 

 

[LUGR]

3 hours ago, Mercer said:

Which one of you MF's did this?

 

 

 

Thats definitely either @Deine Mudderor @ndv.

[One Man Banned]

I got my $ on that's @Mauler5150snatching a copilot for his van.  She'll be riding shotgun in the next update.

[One Man Banned]

[Mercer]

[Schnitzel]

 

[mr.yuck]

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Imagine if instead of creating a humanitarian crisis, and killing a bunch of people by dropping weapons systems like this, they instead responded to humanitarian crises, by dropping of container full of hoes with extra thicc bush.

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Les Paul was a BMF.

[Mercer]

Dude had his arm set to permanent guitar mode, and still killed it.

 

 

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In the late 1940’s, Les Paul’s career was starting to soar to new heights. He had been successful breaking into the Los Angeles music and radio scene; building up his reputation, his professional contacts, and continuing to invent and improve sound/music techniques. By January 1948, Les Paul and Mary Ford had been together for two years and he decided it was time for her to meet his family. Making a road trip out of their time off from Capitol Records, Les and Mary hit the road out of California for Waukesha, Wisconsin.

 

 

By the time Les and Mary stopped in Flagstaff, Arizona, it was clear that Les was running a fever. Les went in to see a few doctors, but they could not give an accurate diagnosis of his fever, so Les decided to wait till he could get back to Hollywood and rest up. Their visit to Waukesha went well; however, even though Les usually did all the driving, Les was too ill to drive home. Mary would have to make the long trip to California, through a January winter, with Les lying in the front seat. They ran into a winter storm and came to an area where a railroad track crossed under a highway, between the cities of Davenport and Chandler Oklahoma, when Les heard Mary scream and felt the car swerve. Les quickly shot up from his seat, kicked Mary’s foot off the brake and managed to straighten out the car a bit, but it was too late. The last memory Les had of the accident is saying to Mary, “This is it,” and throwing his right arm around Mary to protect her face. News articles reported that the car went off the side of a railroad overpass and dropped 20 feet into a ravine. There were no seatbelts and Les, Mary and all their music equipment went through the roof of the convertible as it dropped down to the frozen river below, landing upside-down. In this case, Les believed that the lack of seatbelts may have helped them survive the crash. Since the car had also downed telephone and telegraph lines, the phone company sent out work crews which then came upon the car accident; otherwise, there might not have been help for Les and Mary for a long time in that storm. Even still, Les and Mary had to wait in the snow eight hours for help.

 

 

Mary was thankfully not seriously injured. Les, however, had six broken ribs, a fractured pelvis, broken vertebrae, a punctured spleen, a broken nose, and hurt collarbones and shoulder. His right arm, the one he protected Mary with, was shattered along with a crushed elbow. He had also contracted pneumonia. Les Paul was in bad shape; he nearly died. Most doctors may have amputated the arm, but Les’ doctor, Dr. Robert Knight, was determined to save the arm. At this point, after several dark first few weeks in the hospital, Les decided to persevere and not listen to those who told him that he may never play guitar again. After several surgeries, Les was flown back to California to see a bone specialist. In Ca, Dr. McKeaver replaced Les’ right elbow with a piece of bone from Les’ leg, but there would be no elbow joint; meaning that once Les’ arm was set, it would stay in that position. So Les told Dr. McKeaver, “Put my forefinger in my bellybutton when you set it. That’s how I hold the guitar, and I’ll still be able to play.” The doctors still were telling Les that he may never regain full use of his hand, but he wasn’t listening. Les was determined to be able to play again, and after over a year of recuperation and adapting to the change in his arm, Les was not only able to play guitar, he went on to hit the top of the music charts with Mary Ford.

 

 

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[Schnitzel]

2 hours ago, Mercer said:

 

 

 

Imagine if instead of creating a humanitarian crisis, and killing a bunch of people by dropping weapons systems like this, they instead responded to humanitarian crises, by dropping of container full of hoes with extra thicc bush.

I've always been impressed by this sort of stuff.

Often thought that would be a cool job in the defence forces. packing stuff up pre deployment working out how it fits together and how maximise the space

that video actually got me stoked to see the impact cushioning cardboard underneath the hummers/bushmasters.

 

[LUGR]

36 minutes ago, Schnitzel said:

I've always been impressed by this sort of stuff.

Often thought that would be a cool job in the defence forces. packing stuff up pre deployment working out how it fits together and how maximise the space

that video actually got me stoked to see the impact cushioning cardboard underneath the hummers/bushmasters.

 

My old buddy became a Load Master in the Air Force. Pretty sure that’s the stuff he was doing.

[Fist 666]

3 hours ago, LUGR said:

My old buddy became a Load Master in the Air Force. 

 

 

 

I thought that was a Navy thing?

 

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[Mercer]

2 hours ago, Fist 666 said:

I thought that was a Navy thing?

 

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My man was busting straight ropes at 20,000 feet that almost made it across an entire C5. As far as I know, nobody has witnesses that kind of bussin in the Navy past 1945. If so it's probably classified/only known to the seamen in the nuclear sub program.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2023 by Mercer

[LUGR]

2 hours ago, Mercer said:

 

 

If so it's probably classified/only known to the seamen in the nuclear sub program.

 

 

I know one of these guys too. Real cool dude!

[LUGR]

2 hours ago, nicklesndimes said:

I no longer believe shit like this is “real” and is  just actors playing a role for likes and views. But, the 8 hour wait time was pretty funny.

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The fact they kicked they/them out makes me even more  than I already was.

 

 

 

 

 

[ndv]

 

 

 

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[LUGR]

4 hours ago, ndv said:

 

 

 

What about those 7.62’s though?

[ndv]

8 minutes ago, LUGR said:

What about those 7.62’s though?

 

I am sure the suit could hold up.

 

As for the suit being bullet proof to certain extent and considering I am not a physist, I imagine the impact from velocity has to be pretty painful.

[Mercer]

Assuming they're not leaving anything out, the suit is most likely only bulletproof to regular handgun calibers, probably not all handgun calibers like .44 magnum/etc. though. I'm guessing I'd say the highest caliber if I was bragging about my product.

 

7.62/5.56 would def penetrate and/or kill you. The only bullet proof setup rated for those calibers is level 4 plate armor, which requires a hard cast plate, either of steel, but these days they're normally made of a special ceramic materiel designed to break apart, and also fragment the bullet into smaller pieces before the fragments hit the materiel that stops them.

 

A flimsy materiel like that bullet proof suit, without plates might technically be able to prevent the bullet from penetrating it, but the materiel itself would just be sucked into your body along with the bullet meaning you'd be penetrated by both. I'd imagine most of the heavier handgun calibers like 10mm, .357, .44 magnum etc. would have enough rear deformation to seriously injure, or kill you from a direct hit.

[mr.yuck]

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

The fact they kicked they/them out makes me even more  than I already was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm so confused. Is that theys wife with the open shirt rubbing them shoulders near the end of the video?

[Mercer]

 

2 minutes ago, mr.yuck said:

I'm so confused. Is that theys wife with the open shirt rubbing them shoulders near the end of the video?

 

I thought so.

[Mercer]