All the other bad things happening in 2020: mega thread

[Al_4_ISU 12463]

Cedar Rapids is a tough fucking town.  Mother Nature keeps trying to wipe it off the map, and they just say "fuck you".

[tantric superman 4667]

This is where we go just about every summer and we were there last month, feeling proud of ourselves for braving the Covid, hiking right where all the fire is (Pt. Reyes National Seashore).

 

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/21/texas-police-warn-motorists-caltrops-made-rebar-roadways/5483761002/

A weapon used for centuries is endangering motorists on a major roadway in Texas.

Caltrops, sometimes called "stop spikes," have been recovered by police in the state along Interstate 20 throughout July. The Smith County Sheriff's Office on July 9 reported more than 30 were recovered over a week. The sheriff's office confirmed to USA TODAY more were found Tuesday morning. 

In all, about 300 caltrops have been located, SCSO spokesman Sgt. Larry Christian told USA TODAY in an email. Some were found before the sheriff's office was made aware of the situation, he said...

 

...According to the CIA, "A caltrop is a device—usually made out of metal—with four spikes arranged in such a way that when any three spikes rest on the ground, the fourth points upward."

The agency added, "Caltrops are very useful in slowing the advance of troops attacking by vehicle or animal — horses, camels, and war elephants."

Even in the absence of war elephants in The Lone Star State (so far), caltrops are "a dangerous road hazard," according to the Smith County Sheriff's Office....

Edited August 20, 2020 by clapclapclap

[Brisketexan 105139]

I mean....my last-ditch strategy for dealing with this shitty year involved me going ape-shit from astride a war elephant.

Now they’re taking THAT away from me? Fuck this year.

[Sawbonz 27562]

Problem solved

[ztejas 43449]

I was planning on cutting a swath of destruction across the gulf coast at the head of a band of rapacious cavalrymen - leaving behind only burned corpses and smoldering wreckage.

This will be but a pitiful gesture to delay your impending doom. 

 

[bolverk 29672]

Photo of the Year:

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — More than two dozen major fires were scorching California on Thursday and taxing the state’s firefighting capacity, sparked by an unprecedented lightning siege that dropped nearly 11,000 strikes over several days.

https://apnews.com/b7f6ffc940c843b937d5573b58e2bda7

[Superhero 8830]

On 8/19/2020 at 6:44 AM, crash_davis said:

who had The Plague in their 2020 Bingo card?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-tahoe-california-bubonic-plague-resident-tests-positive/

Health officials have confirmed a case of plague at South Lake Tahoe - the first in California in five years. El Dorado County officials said Monday that the California Department of Public Health notified them of the positive test of a local resident who is under medical care while recovering at home.

Plague bacteria are most often transmitted by fleas that have acquired it from infected squirrels, chipmunks and other wild rodents. Dogs and cats may also carry plague-infected fleas.

Health officials believe the South Lake Tahoe resident may have been bitten by an infected flea while walking a dog along the Truckee River corridor or in the Tahoe Keys area on Tahoe's south shore.

Post #59.

But that was in Jina so it was kinda expected. 

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Clark Gregg and Jennifer Grey are getting divorced.

Wait, that means Jennifer Grey is single.

[Paper_jam 831]

Small asteroid making close approach on Nov. 2. Article says it "probably" won't hit us. (And it's only ~6-7 feet in diameter anyway). 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

 

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6 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Small asteroid making close approach on Nov. 2. Article says it "probably" won't hit us. (And it's only ~6-7 feet in diameter anyway). 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

It’s 2020.  It’s going to hit us.

[Guest Lobo]

19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s 2020.  It’s going to hit us.

No, it’s 2020.  Half the nation is going to see the empirical astrophysics of the asteroid and realize it will avoid us due to geometry and calculus.  The other half will credit a fellow human for redirecting the asteroid away from our planet.  
this is 85 Ditka level power over dominion kinda shit.  

[Superhero 8830]

Steeling from the Guitar Pr0n thread. 

[Parliament 14260]

Not a bad thing yet, but unstoppable intergalactic bacteria IS on my 2020 shitshow bingo card.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/world/earth-mars-bacteria-space-scn/index.html

[Buzzrock 14920]

“Unsurvivable” sounds like a challenge.

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Edited August 26, 2020 by clapclapclap

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[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Background vocals by Linda McCartney. 

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[Parliament 14260]

Asian jumping worms are invading America.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/31/invasive-jumping-worm-leaps-into-minnesota

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16 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

From another thread

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16 hours ago, Parliament said:

Asian jumping worms are invading America.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/31/invasive-jumping-worm-leaps-into-minnesota

For the umpteenth time, would somebody tell the “China sent us a virus” crowd to quit fucking opening packages from fucking China.  That weird seed, murder hornets, these worms, who knows what the  fuck else.  The dumbest fucking people in our country are opening up boxes with mandarin characters on them like “oh, it must be a Christmas in July gift from my uncle Wang in Beijing.”   

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

For the umpteenth time, would somebody tell the “China sent us a virus” crowd to quit fucking opening packages from fucking China

It's wives. They get so much shit shipped via Amazon etc. they just assume they ordered it. 

[Brisketexan 105139]

28 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

It's wives. They get so much shit shipped via Amazon etc. they just assume they ordered it. 

Fucking this.

I can pretty much put up a sign by our front door that says "0 days since this house has had a package sitting on the front porch," and just leave the fucker up there.

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Holy fuck this is a nightmare.  People were being told to go into the water if necessary.

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by atomheartbevo

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Fresno Fire PIO

@FresnoFire

Currently 10 FFD units and one Clovis Engine are on scene at the airport, initial reports stated possibly 63 patients inbound, 20 potentially critical, Blackhawk helicopters are transporting 20 patients at a time to be transferred to EMS care and taken to local hospitals.

[Parliament 14260]

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2020/09/05/bubonic-plague-warning-issued-in-lake-tahoe/

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John Daly has bladder cancer.    Not what I expected to take him out.  I figured it’d be a jealous husband or some previously-unknown STD.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/golf/john-daly-bladder-cancer-diagnosis-spt-intl/index.html

[Guest Lobo]

watching/listening to 4-star General Vincent Brooks this morning discussing what happened 19 years ago today on his watch, and how he sees what is the new threat to America.  Very eye-opening.  My god, our enemies no longer come from without, but rather from within.  Powerful stuff.  We haven't learned a fucking thing.  They couldn't do it from outside, so we're doing it from within.  

[workswithseed 2107]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-laura-mosquitoes-kill-livestock-louisiana/

Clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick in southwest Louisiana since Hurricane Laura that they're killing animals, including horses and cattle. The vast number of bites leave horses and cattle anemic and bleeding under their skins. 

 

[Parliament 14260]

Which of the 7 Biblical plagues was that?

[workswithseed 2107]

30 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Which of the 7 Biblical plagues was that?

The one before the frog, obviously.

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1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

The one before the frog, obviously.

Well, if they get a frog plague, that's about the best place for it to happen - they'll be eating well for weeks.

[Brisketexan 105139]

The one before the frog, obviously.

Not ironically....Rayne, La, one of the places hit hard...is known as “Frogtown, USA.”

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[Parliament 14260]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/us/new-mexico-birds-died-migration-trnd/index.html

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

White Sands is right near Area 51 so I’m guessing the Venusians are responsible

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We are sending more troops into Syria, including armored vehicles, as well as more radar systems, and increasing our air presence over Syria.  That maybe the least crazy thing happening right now.

[Parliament 14260]

https://www.livescience.com/asteroid-2020-closer-to-earth-than-moon.html

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Not quite the celebrity death pool thread yet, and here's hoping he avoids it.

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On Feb. 17, 2020, everything changed drastically in our world.  Michael was in Vancouver participating in a Battlestar Galactica convention, and at dinner following his day’s work, he fell and hit his head. Hard. He went to bed that night not realizing that the impact had caused a massive brain bleed.  He was unable to be woken the next morning and was taken to Vancouver General Hospital and emergency surgery performed. It took 57 staples to close the part of his scull they had to remove in order to reach the damage.
 
The accident left him with complete paralysis on his left side, memory loss, cogntivie impairment and an inability to swallow.  
Then things became incredibly more difficult during the COVID pandemic with visits by family being restricted then denied and no care team (physiotherapist, 
OT, speech therapist, etc. ) allowed in.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/michael-hogan-fund

 

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[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Only Godzilla can save us.

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Rick Moranis got beat up on a morning walk.

Dude is 67, dropped out of acting in the 90s to raise his kids after his wife died, nice guy.

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[Scheiss Meister 8407]

What kind of hoser attacks Rick Moranis?

[Hate 20108]

I don't want to jinx it, but it kind of seems like it's been a while since we've had an earthquake.  2020 seems like the perfect year for that kind of calamity.

[InkaUtexas 25941]

2 minutes ago, Hate said:

I don't want to jinx it, but it kind of seems like it's been a while since we've had an earthquake.  2020 seems like the perfect year for that kind of calamity.

And with all the swarms in California lately ya just never know.