Now I know why Osama had that pained look on his face in the last picture ...
Poison dart tips, a Brazilian woman's keepsakes laced with deadly frog secretions, were stolen from an office at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Authorities said the bizarre theft of tips, a bow, an arrow and a tribal necklace, poses an extreme danger to public safety. The poison dart tips, some 20 years old, were used by tribesmen to hunt tree monkeys and other South American prey. The items were taken late Wednesday or early Thursday from the office of Coal Oil Point Reserve executive director Christina Sandoval. "It's one of these strange things," university police Sgt. Mark Signa said.
"We don't get a lot of poison dart tip thefts around here. It's not like in San Francisco, or someplace like that..."
"We need to find them to keep anybody from getting hurt." Sandoval said the purloined items were keepsakes from her time as a master's degree student in her homeland of Brazil. They were gifts from natives she met while she was a student at Universidad de Campinas.
"Poison dart tips? For me? Oh, you shouldn't have!"
"The were just meant as a decoration piece, a memory," she said. "I hope it's not just a kid that is playing with it. It just would be horrible. Those are not toys."
"That is not a toy! Put it down and go play outside!"
The 10 to 20 dart tips were kept in a brown pouch. Native South Americans apply secretions from several species of frogs to poison arrow tips, which then are used to hunt howler monkeys, spider monkeys, capybaras or other medium-sized to large mammals, she said. Mucky, where were YOU on the night in question?
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*Sigh*
I won't dicuss my design for a discarding Sabot round, using a piano wire penetrator, I tried to interest Whamoo! in some years back. They judged it non-patentable and were slightly afraid of a blow-gun whose round easily penetrated 1/4 plywood. It was a great defeat for me. I embarked on a life of crime and became a utility lobbyist.
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Could I get a copy of that blow-gun design Shipman? I have this annoying owl outside that I swear keeps calling out "Vietnam".
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sounds like somebody's been licking frogs
Oh, come now, Frank. I'm confident that Ship's got more class than to go about slurping the French. As to his adventures with cane toad lollies, I'm far less certain.
A Saudi woman shot her husband in the wake of a domestic dispute between them, Al-Watan reported. The wife shot him dead after locking him up inside the house located at Bani Amer Center. The woman, the man's first wife of 19 years, fired the shots through the window of the room she had locked him in. Police were still investigating the incident. Sources close to the dead man said that he had married a second wife after he had seven children in the first marriage.
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I hope that somebody makes a hoax webpage of "Moslem women against male oppression", that advocates Moslem women hurting and killing men that beat, rape and otherwise abuse them. (Maybe even with several fake "Lorena Bobbit" anecdotes added.) It would be funny as hell to see Imams issuing fatwas against it, and railing against women defending themselves. "...and then when my husband started to beat me, I grabbed my knife and cut off his manhood. He is now not a real man any more, and he must live on the street as a beggar."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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