We can hope.

I assumed it's the combination of big sky and dash cam prevalence.

Gotta have dash cam where the cops are crooked.

And insurance scams are big business.

Bow wowsers!

Today begins the Year of the Dog.

Lift a leg.

That would be something for the This Day In The Present thread.

I figured you'd know the difference between history and the present. You know everything else.

Shit. I did the same thing with that "Today is What-The-Fuck-Ever-Day" shit, didn't I?

Dammit, even when I get the chance, I can't Zing! worth a damn!!!

I don't know shit.

Ima shut up for a while.

It's both since the year of the dog has been happening every 12 years.

March 3

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

March 6

Today is The Day Of The Dude,

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celebrated by adherents of Dudeism.

1836 - Remember the Alamo? I mean, Remember the Alamo!

1975 - 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film

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of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

I have that sweater.

If I didn't hate sweaters, I'd have one, too.:)

See this cable car? Well, what's left of this cable car...

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There were 44 people in that cable car when it fell 660 feet down a mountainside, then skidded another 330 feet before finally coming to a stop. Sometime during that fall, a 6,000 pound carriage assembly fell on top of the car, crushing it.

Of those 44 people, the only survivor was a 14 year old girl from Milan.

Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)

March 17

1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea, the DSV Alvin

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finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah,

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over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy

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is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

1985 – The "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.