HUMOR - Crooks who bit off more than they could chew!

• A man attempted to mug a 77-year-old Air Force veteran, who beat his attacker off with a Pepsi bottle after being shot in the balls. Apparently he's okay except for a slight limp.
• In 2008, two men with machetes tried to rob a club in Australia. Inside were fifty members of a motorcycle club, who promptly grabbed the bar stools, chased down the thieves and hogtied one of them.
• In 2010, three men in South Africa, armed with a firearm and and knife, attempted to rob some schoolchildren. The schoolchildren responded by stoning one of the assailants to death.
• The outlaw Jesse James came to grief when he and his gang tried to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota in 1876. Unfortunately for Jesse, he had forgotten that he was no longer in his usual hunting grounds of eastern Kansas and western Missouri... and the locals not only did not include any sympathizers of his, but had their life savings in the bank he was targeting and no sense of humor about losing those savings. Oops... Save for James himself and his brother Frank, the entire gang was killed or arrested during either the robbery or the ensuing manhunt, effectively ending his crime spree. He himself was killed by a member of his own gang six years later to collect the bounty on his head.
• An April 2011 incident in Britain had 3 burglars in for a shock when they broke into a house only to find out it belonged to a soldier who, completely naked, gave chase to one who tried to make off with his car, complete with breaking open the driver's window with his bare hands!
• Two teenage thieves broke into a van parked in a council estate in Manchester, only to find that inside there were four SAS men on a night-time counter-terrorism training exercise. 
• An example out of Ferdinand von Schirach's Verbrechen (a book of cases he precided over as a lawyer). Some skinheads decide that a wimpy looking man in a neat suit would be a nice diversion. They ended up dead. It was hinted later, that the guy in the suit was a contract killer on his way home. He had no papers on him, no mark that could identify him - he didn't speak a single word. They had to let him go because they had no evidence and the thing they had on him was clearly self-defense - there were several witnesses to clear him.
• One such incident has become fondly-recalled lore in the Society For Creative Anachronism: After a Society event in New York City, a lady who uses the name "Sir Trude Lacklandia" was walking home late at night and assaulted by several muggers. When she refused to hand over her cash, one tried to stab her with a six-inch knife - only to have the blade turned by the chainmail she was wearing under her woolen cloak. She then drew her (very real) sword, said "I'll see your six, and raise you thirty-five!" before chasing the muggers off. A bard in the SCA afterwards wrote a humorous song about it, which has become quite popular.
• A middle-aged, five-foot-seven Asian man was accosted by two armed, six-footer African-American muggers in late 2011. One mugger was admitted to a hospital with cracked vertebrae and the other had his arm broken in several places. The uninjured Asian man waited for police to arrive while eating takeaway yakisoba on the curb next to the muggers' unconscious bodies. The Asian man was later identified as a fourth-dan Aikidoka.
• In 1999, a thief stole the wallet of who he thought was a tourist in Seville Airport and ran. That "tourist" was Maurice Greene, World Champion sprinter who set the world record for the hundred-meter dash. The thief didn't get very far.
• In 1971, legendary boxer Jack Dempsey was taking a cab home with his wife, and was accosted by a mugger. Apparently, the mugger never knew what hit him. Dempsey was 78 at the time.
• This video linked on Badass Adorable is security footage capturing a man attempting to abduct a little girl in an elevator. He really had no clue what was going to happen next.
• In 2010, a group of forty train robbers stormed a train in West Bengal and started taking valuables from the passengers. One of the robbers then decided to rape one of the women on the train. It turned out that one of the train's passengers was Bishnu Shrestha, a corporal in the 8th Gurkha Infantry. And Bishnu objected, sternly, resulting in him killing several of the robbers by himself with just his kukri and sending the rest fleeing for their lives.
• To read more - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MuggingTheMonster/RealLife

ENTERTAINMENT - The 9 Most Powerful Lessons Punk Rock Teaches You

“To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.” – Patti Smith

Justin Abarca

2. Question everything, especially authority.

For many, punk rock is their intro into politics and corruption, mostly through reading Dead Kennedys lyrics and then having their minds blown by bands like Discharge and Crass. More importantly, punk shows us that not just politicians are to be questioned, but everyone in authority, including your parents.

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3. You don’t have to be perfect.

The beauty of punk rock is that it is pure, raw emotion, an exposed nerve that doesn't need to be slick and polished to get its point across. I mean, Sid Vicious was probably the world's worst bassist but did that stop the Sex Pistols from making history? Hell. No. All punk asks is that you give it your all, and if you make a mistake then even better.

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8. There is more out there than just punk rock.

Punk is the perfect gateway to other genres of music, since its family tree is thick with branches — some that lead to metal, some that lead to ska and reggae, some to hip-hop, etc. Diving into punk really means diving into music in general.

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9. You are not alone.

The greatest gift punk rock offers is the fact that there are other people like you out there. There is nothing worse than feeling isolated, feeling like no one understands, and then — BAM! — here's this music and this community that instantly gets you. It's the reason you fell in love with it, and the reason that no matter what, you'll always be punk at heart.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinabarca/things-punk-rock-teaches-you

HUMOR - Groupie Accidentally Sleeps With Bass Player

 

MY LIFE - 50 For My 50th Day 14: "Ever Fallen In Love" by The Buzzcocks and other songs that describe my first marriage

For an explanation of "50 For My 50th", go here - http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com/2013/08/entertainment-50-for-my-50th-50-days-of.html

There's no two ways around it. The first marriage was a big, huge mistake. The only good thing to come out of it was my daughter.

It was the outcome of my psychological issue and my romanticism. I was desperate to have someone and prove that I was worthy of having someone.

So I got engaged to someone the first night I met her.

Then I broke up with her five years later!

Then I met my second wife a couple of months after that. Married her four months later.

Yeah, I had issues.

And if I had gotten to know here better, I would have realized what a mistake it was.

Instead I fooled myself, and as I slowly learned my mistake, I blamed myself and tried harder to make something that never should have happen work.

Eventually, ten years later, I learned my mistake. But more on that later

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn2SencrSL_0ujzefX_Bfc_j-KJhKJzSUTDJi3CiQs8/edit?usp=sharing



A playlist of songs about how I felt in my first marriage including The Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love":

Click the link below to listen to my monstrosity of a playlist, OlderMusicGeek's 50th B-Day, on Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/user/127676752/playlist/1bRKV8LHJIL3JQih1ZSq76

HUMOR: Hilariously Ironic Newspaper Headlines

http://mommyhasapottymouth.com/hilariously-ironic-newspaper-headlines-6062/

HUMOR: New Year pics and jokes

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Lies about transgender people (and how to spot a rubbish journalist)

Ever been kicked in the face? I have. Violence is common towards children who display gender difference. Poofter, they used to call me. AIDS victim, they’d whisper. Walk like a man, boy, or get a clip ’round the earhole. That last one came from my father. Still, as one matures, so does the nature of the bullying. Instead of gossip and ciggies behind bike-sheds, badmouthing is done by respectable journalists in national newspapers. Take the Telegraph’s Ed West, for example, who seems perfectly comfortable belittling the existence of “transphobia” (hatred towards transgender people). His quotation marks, not mine. Guess he’s never had a kick in the head. In fact, I doubt he has any subjective experience of being trans, and nor will many of his readers. That’s the trouble.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/lies-about-transgender-people-and-how-to-spot-a-rubbish-journalist/

HUMOR: Oh dang! I'd like to try some too!

CULTURE/SOCIETY and HUMOR: Interesting Way Of Paying Your Bills

I found this via Twitter. It's from Geekologie. I admit that I edited out some of the profanity. To read the original, click here. - OlderMusicGeek

Good Idea!: Man Submits Drawing Of Spider Instead Of Payment For Overdue Account

MORE: art, awesome, clever, communication, email, funny, good idea, good job, good work, internet, money, picture, spiderman, trickery, tricky, wow

David Thorne didn't have the $233.95 to pay an overdue account. So what did he do? What any other budding young genius would do, he submitted a picture of a spider he drew instead. Unfortunately, Jane Gilles, wouldn't accept it. So what happened next? I'll give you a hint: time travel! And also, David's account not getting paid.
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead [beyond]

Thanks to Kenny, who knows a good drawing of a ninja turtle can settle any debt.

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9. Alex - November 13, 2008 6:17 PM
Pfff, that's not worth 233,95, it only have seven leg... it's abstract, it's worth at least 1000$!

26. kraney - November 13, 2008 6:49 PM
When she sent back the drawing, she said she *copied* and pasted it. That's a violation of copyright. David should demand a settlement in the amount of $233.95

40. AlejandroLestad - November 13, 2008 7:50 PM
FAKE, shadows are wrong, it is obviously photoshopped.
As it Resembles the movie, never back down where the main character fought against a giant spider and cut it's 8th leg

87. David Thorne - November 14, 2008 10:33 AM
Sigh. linkjacking at it's finest. and not even a link to my original page. I guess we would not want the web any other way... guess I should have a copyright notice on my... oh wait I do...

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

By the way, it is 2am here in Australia and I have just finished replying to over a hundred emails about this stupid spider.

Regards, David

89.PLEEEZE! - November 14, 2008 10:47 AM
Here you go: Now famous spider needs to be copyrighted and patented. The seven legged one should fetch a higher price as original blemishes usually do. Sell said spiders on ebay. Pay your debt to the nice person you owe money to. Easy peasy and should only cost you a few hours (oh, and several hundred for the copyright and patented). If you sell high enough you will cover your costs, pay your debt, and possibly make some beer money.

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