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LAPD officers fatally shot an unarmed suspect after a lengthy high-speed pursuit that ended in a violent crash in downtown Los Angeles Friday night. After leading police on a chase for nearly an hour, 51-year-old Brian Newt Beaird smashed his Corvette into another vehicle in the middle of an intersection. Beaird abandoned his badly damaged […]

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“Riot police fire rubber bullets at demonstrators during clashes near Guanabara Palace where Pope Francis met with President Dilma Rousseff in Rio de Janeiro on July 22, 2013.” Nothing says the party’s over like a face-full of rubber bullets. Except maybe that water cannon off to the left side of the shot. Ya. I’m pretty […]

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An Ohio teenager accidently lodged a dart from a blowgun in his throat, reported Mail Online. The 15-year-old male found a set of “how-to” instructions on the internet and promptly began making his very own blowgun and darts. Anxious to test his new project, the teenager pressed the makeshift blowgun to his lips and inhaled. […]

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An Alabama homeowner stands his ground against a would-be burglar. Mobile Police were dispatched to a house in Theodore, Alabama, last Wednesday morning on report of a shooting. Police said the resident on Old Military Road shot at the burglary suspect, Jackie Ruffin, with a shotgun after he attempted to steal his television. According to […]

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Do you know what we like about Joerg Sprave?  Some guys make a chainsaw launcher, see that it is good and call it a day.  But not Joerg.  Give this crazy kraut another two weeks and you’ve got the Dennis the Menace 2013. This fully automatic slingshot minigun is in the Gatling style, powered by […]

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The German Army was equipped with the “IFEX Hand-Water-Pistol”. The pistol uses a new “impuls technologie,” that works like this: – one liter water is pressed into the water tank with six bar – the pressure chamber is filled with air up to 25 bar – the shot is fired by a high-velocity valve that […]

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By and large, Germans aren’t generally considered to be the most compassionate of breeds.   Two world wars have pretty much cemented them as stoic, cruel and authoritarian in the imaginations of many.  Yet sometimes history can paint a seemingly different story and while already able to pocket a

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