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Mark Twain with his Colt 1903 he purchased after his house was robbed, 1908.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
The equipment worn by Philips and Matasareanu at the LAPD museum.
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Note the nice bullet hole right between Philips' eyes on his mask.... he truly got what was coming to him.

The amazing thing that makes that shoot out destined to become part of American lore was the fact that those 2 deaths, were the 2 robbers.

There were injuries aplenty, but, when the smoke cleared, the only ones dead were the robbers. It's a story you just kinda have to hear every now and again when the world seems to be falling apart around you that reminds you, we are not, on the whole, bad people. The good guys do, occasionally, win and win gloriously.
 
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And thankfully it still exists! It's nice when establishments still thrive to this day.
http://www.theclevelandarcade.com/
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And it's right down the street from my favorite New Haven style pizza joint and brewpub in downtown Cleveland, Saucy Brew Works.

TowinKarz said:
Note the nice bullet hole right between Philips' eyes on his mask.... he truly got what was coming to him.

The amazing thing that makes that shoot out destined to become part of American lore was the fact that those 2 deaths, were the 2 robbers.

There were injuries aplenty, but, when the smoke cleared, the only ones dead were the robbers. It's a story you just kinda have to hear every now and again when the world seems to be falling apart around you that reminds you, we are not, on the whole, bad people. The good guys do, occasionally, win and win gloriously.
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According to The Dollop Podcast, the LAPD intentionally let Matasareanu bleed out. But who wants to listen to the opnion of a couple of ChapoTrapHouse hangers-on and their Marxist agitprop bullshit?
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
According to The Dollop Podcast, the LAPD intentionally let Matasareanu bleed out. But who wants to listen to the opnion of a couple of ChapoTrapHouse hangers-on and their Marxist agitprop bullshit?
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His family sued making that claim. They not only lost but were ordered to pay the legal costs of the LAPD.

Now the LAPD is shit (but did good in this particular incident), but that's pretty unusual. As plausible as the claim seems and as much of a motive as they'd have to do that, they didn't remotely prove it, and it's not like California is a place where you can't get a huge civil verdict against cops for shit like that.
 
That suit was one of the most brazen "gibs me dat" suits I've ever seen, and that was at a time when lawsuits weren't half as seemingly abused as they are now.

The reason he bled out is the cops wouldn't let an ambulance into the perimeter until they were sure a 3rd gunman wasn't on the loose. He's got no one but himself to blame for the fact aid couldn't reach him in time. Even if the cops "helped" him along a bit.



On a much happier note - the "Cornfield Bomber"

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February 2nd, 1970. While on routine training maneuvers, Air Force Capt. Gary Faust's F-106 Delta Dart fighter entered into a deadly flat spin. Despite all attempts to recover, including cutting the throttle to idle and throwing out the plane's landing drag chute, he had no choice but to eject as he fell below 15,000 feet. Amazingly, the force of the ejection seat firing, and subsequent loss of weight, shoved the aircraft's nose down hard enough that it recovered from the spin on it's own. With the throttle set all the way back, and trimmed for landing, it made a relatively soft belly-flop on the Montana prairie below. An incredulous farmer stumbled upon the surreal scene: a pilot-less jet, with it's engine still idling, slowly pushing itself across his fields. He called the Sheriff, who in turn called the Air Force who advised him to just stay back and let it run out of fuel, which it did some time later. Faust was picked up unharmed when he reached the ground, and a team sent out to recover his plane found it nearly undamaged. After light repairs, it returned to service and would continue to fly until being retired in 1988, whereupon it was enshrined at the Air Force museum in Dayton.



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Curious onlookers mob the wreckage of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) after the US Navy Zeppelin broke apart in rough weather over Ohio in 1925, eventually coming to rest in three major sections. Fourteen of her crew were killed in the crash. It would be the first of three major airship crashes suffered by the Navy in the 20's and 30's that caused them to give up on the idea of the Zeppelin as a practical military vehicle. Unlike German craft that used explosive hydrogen for lifting gas, Navy airships used helium, so there was no post-crash fire.
 
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Samuel Bartram (22 January 1914 – 17 July 1981) was an English professional footballer and manager.
Bartram was involved in a well reported incident when thick fog closed in on a game he was playing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

"Soon after the kick-off," he wrote in his autobiography, "[fog] began to thicken rapidly at the far end, travelling past Vic Woodley in the Chelsea goal and rolling steadily towards me. The referee stopped the game, and then, as visibility became clearer, restarted it. We were on top at this time, and I saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadily."

The game went unusually silent but Sam remained at his post, peering into the thickening fog from the edge of the penalty area. And he wondered why the play was not coming his way.

"After a long time," he wrote, 'a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. "What on earth are you doing here?" he gasped. "The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field's completely empty".'
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Few more images of Black Saturday bush fires
Koala given water by a CFA volunteer, the koala died a few months after the photo was taken:
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Smoke covering the suburb of Narre Warren South:
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Gravel road in Strathewen (Next to Kinglake, where the fires were the most destructive IIRC), still closed a month after Black Saturday:
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