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[BrianR]

For $50, anyone can get clear, color video these days. That grainy footage you see? Either older equipment or improperly installed. Many places now offer you a monitor so you can see yourself. Check out the video quality for yourself.

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by BigV

I saw that movie... wasn't Denzel Washington in it? He had to make a great show of staying under roofs/awnings etc. And there was a master tech geek located in a dance club/strip club etc that got him... some slack... what the hell movie was that??

That would be "Enemy of the state" with Will Smith an Gene Hackman.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

That would be "Enemy of the state" with Will Smith an Gene Hackman.

Damm. Are you sure. I thought it head lined Obama as the Enemy of the State.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by BrianR

For $50, anyone can get clear, color video these days. That grainy footage you see? Either older equipment or improperly installed. Many places now offer you a monitor so you can see yourself. Check out the video quality for yourself.

I was referring to the footage, they showed on the news, that the feds used to nail that guy.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I was referring to the footage, they showed on the news, that the feds used to nail that guy.

probably it had been down-res'd a bunch of times, you know a copy of a copy of a bad xerox of a photostat of a copy of a copy of a copy.

[classicman]

Vietnam surgery removes tumor twice man's weight

(CNN) -- A Vietnamese man is recovering in the intensive care unit Friday, a day after surgery that completely removed from his right leg a tumor twice his body weight, according to the hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

The growing tumor had rendered the patient, Nguyen Duy Hai, virtually immobile until his surgery.

The excised tumor weighed 180 pounds (82 kilos), according to the hospital, a bit less than the 200 pounds (90 kilos) estimated before surgery.

Hai, 31, of Da Lat City, has Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis, said Dr. Jean-Marcel Guillon, chief executive officer of FV Hospital, where the 12-hour procedure was performed.

The autosomal dominant hereditary disorder is the same disease that contributed to the extraordinarily large head of Joseph Merrick, whose story was dramatized in the 1980 film, "The Elephant Man," explained Guillon.

The tumor "may return," Guillon wrote in an e-mail to CNN, "but we can operate him again, and it won't never reach such a size anymore."

Doctors expect that Hai's cardiac and pulmonary functions will return to normal during the next 10 days. After that, Hai faces rehabilitation, physical therapy and possible help from the hospital's clinical psychologist to deal with issues pertaining to body image, Guillon said. "This patient lived all his life with this tumor. It was part of him."

Hai also needs to learn how to do things that his body had forgotten, including using the leg he had never used normally, Guillon added.

The tumor was first discovered when Hai was four years old and had grown to its enormous size since then.

Hai had undergone a surgery to amputate his leg -- and with it the tumor -- in 1997, but in 2001, the tumor grew, and no doctors agreed to operate on him, according to the hospital.

Furthermore, his family could not afford surgery, and very few surgeons in Vietnam can treat neurofibromas, Guillon said.

CNN

[footfootfoot]

yeah, I saw that too. My WTF meter has redlined

[infinite monkey]

Excuse me, I'm going to go puke until my face falls off. Then I might dig into my brain through my ear and try to remove that image. Because O.M.G.

[plthijinx]

just when you though it was safe.....he said "hay wilbur, i want hay not tube steak!"

A south Texas man was arrested after being accused of having sex with horses at two different ranches in Hidalgo County

Cirilo Castillo, 41, was arrested on two counts of cruelty to animals and two counts of criminal trespass in Edinburg, about 10 miles north of McAllen. He was held on $60,000 bond at the Hidalgo County Jail

that is a weird bunch down there in south texas. i was down there for 8 months. unfortunately.

here's the link

[ZenGum]

Politicians from Darwin (think, Crocodile Dundee territory) are far more manly than those from down south.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-0...arrest/3762880

"When he realised I wasn't going to let him go he punched me several times in the face, so subsequently I took necessary action to stop him from doing that and sat on him essentially until the police arrived," he said.

"I hit him back, basically, he fell over. The owner of the car keys assisted me in apprehending this fellow.

"The other fellow also received his injuries so it's now up to the courts to decide if he's guilty for assault."

Legend!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Bad link Zen.

[classicman]

worked for me - just in case
try this one
ETA - sorry, same link as his.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Now they both work.

[classicman]

wanna just delete my post then?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, it makes it double good.