Epic WTF

what I'd say has been my most common experience of crime.

Your most common direct experience of crime. We all experience, every day, the indirect effects of a society where workers are illegally expoited, driving down wages, industrial scale fraud and tax evasion squeeze public services, and the behaviour of the super rich entrenches health and social inequalities, maintaining the existence of an underclass with poor health and economic outcomes, placing further strain on public services, and creating the conditions for the anti-social behaviour and petty crime you have described. Locking people up is expensive and makes them worse.

Thank you, that is genuinely interesting.

That happened to me in the 1990s.
I still have after effects.
It’s not funny or a joke that you get over.
I’d be happy if an American gun nut had shot and killed the guy who hit me.

Cheers. Those sound like sensible options.

I totally agree and was in no way being funny.

Yeah. I just don't see it in those terms. I don't relate to them or people who were trying to burn asylum seekers. I also think those people have always existed, but in the past would have been off fighting in a battle somewhere.

Fwiw I'm all for judicial reform. But I think society still need to excerpt punishment, and I don't think it's all the billionaires fault.

But genuinely I wasn't.

Aye, tracing back I can see you were more shooting past me than at me. I don't think you had to be worried that the opinion that triggered you was being widely supported on the thread. If it were a widely supported view, Kimmo wouldn't have it.

If it were a widely supported view, Kimmo wouldn't have it.

Hm, let's see

• The world would be a far better place if it was run by my favourite comedians
  
  

I guess it checks out

Not exactly epic, more mildly wtf but I just discovered my partner had never heard of the tv classic Bullseye.
She’s the right age, northern af and her dad plays darts.
Flintoffs hosting the Xmas reboot. Unless he’s smoking tabs and handing out wads of cash it’ll be a pale imitation of the original.

Will the consolation prize bus fare home be administered via a pre-paid card?

It's on every night on Challenge TV at 11pm. Jim Bowen is rather handsy with the ladies.

Not exactly epic, more mildly wtf but I just discovered my partner had never heard of the tv classic Bullseye.

She’s the right age, northern af and her dad plays darts.

Definitely epic wtf material

the ladies.

"The glamour" I think was his favourite phrase when there was a female team.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bpcfwvNYvB8?si=xsqqwyicthDfPidf

I would hope FF does a little better

This is crazy. Three years ago a Dad takes his 3 kids under the age of 10 (at the time) and disappears into the NZ wilderness. Not spotted again until last week. All the kids are safe, luckily. Just bonkers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/fugitive-father-filmed-with-children-in-nz-wilderness-three-years-after-disappearing-ntwnfb

They have been spotted a few times in the meantime, but yeah it's wild. Poor kids.

Pretty sketchy to say the least.

https://twitter.com/CanLager/status/1844357555755102475

On the return bus from a recent year’s DunRun we had a similar situation with the driver who got lost and then had a full on panic attack / breakdown, scraping multiple parked cars, running red lights, nearly getting stuck under a bridge. Some of the passengers said they feared for their safety and that the guy drove “like he was on crack”.

Not really epic, but the Post Office now sending parcels with Evri.

This happened locally a year or so ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-63881999

There are some videos online of the lorry smashing into anything in its way

Super, smashing, great.

You get nothing for two in a bed.

Trigger: extreme disregard for life, drug use, abuse, nightmare fuel.

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Gonna x-post this in US news because it tracks with how the US is devolving into a pseudo-country where only money matters. Here’s possibly one of the most epic wtfs in recent memory:

Better coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/18/organ-donor-came-back-life-doctors-prepared-remove-heart-21819184/amp/

The article doesn’t do the story and the victim justice but it’s better than the Guardians pathetic attempt, which downplays the seriousness of it all.

In a paragraph: A middle-aged drug user has an overdose and is taken to hospital by his family. He’s declared braindead and the family agree to organ donation, including his heart. The patient is prepped for surgery and the family notice his eyes opening and tracking their specific movements, but they’re told it’s only reflexes. The patient starts “thrashing” about during a preparatory procedure, so medical staff sedate him. The patient is taken to the surgical ward and is seen crying. A transplant doctor has a minor breakdown, and both transplantists refuse to do the surgery. A representative from KODA, a for-profit transplant admin agency, calls their boss from the hospital to tell them the situation, and the boss demands they find a replacement doctor because the transplant needs to go ahead. The patient is eventually declared living and the surgery is aborted. He currently lives with his sister and has some cognitive and memory issues following the episode.

Basically, multiple people employed in the medical profession thought they could get away with killing a drug addict and taking his organs. Guy is alive by pure luck.

I read about this elsewhere.
I can still hear the echo of the sound of my jaw dropping to the floor.

Don't you think the story is a bit overdone? It goes on and on about being alive during surgery, but there was no surgery.