Lucky
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Anyone have a copy of the onion article with the wife taking out a restraining order on her sniper husband?
Hilarious "news" story from the Onion.
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MT GUNNY
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Does anyone Know if this is a Left Leaning organization? or is strickly Satire!
sarduy
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that's a joke man....
Enginetech88
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After a little research..... Steelhawk is an airsoft company. Makes it that much funnier. http://www.steelhawkairsoft.com/ 
Kind of Blued
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I can't watch the video with sound right now, but I read every store of every Onion article (printed version anyway). I'm guessing due to their liberal slant that this article is meant to make fun of gun-owners more than it makes fun of the media. If they wanted to do their job correctly, i.e. "mainstream media satire", they would have ran some sort of "Local Man Found to Possess Huge Weapons Cache and Bunker Full of Ammunition".
The weapons cache would be a .22LR rifle and a handgun, the bunker his finished basement, and the ammunition would be one box of each caliber.
Of course, you can't really make fun of the media if you don't write stories that are dumber or more ridiculous than ACTUAL news stories, can you?
The weapons cache would be a .22LR rifle and a handgun, the bunker his finished basement, and the ammunition would be one box of each caliber.
Of course, you can't really make fun of the media if you don't write stories that are dumber or more ridiculous than ACTUAL news stories, can you?
Pulse
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it is the Onion, it is there job to be against all and everything out there, that includes gunowners.
and it is still funy as hell.
Former Marine Sniper Slapped With 3,000-Yard Restraining Order
MACON, GA—Citing Emily Holman's right to feel safe traversing vast open spaces, especially when within visual range of clock towers, parking structures, and tall buildings, a judge awarded the 28-year-old a 3,000-yard restraining order yesterday against her former boyfriend, retired Marine sniper Gordon Lee Blackwood. "When we broke up he started calling me 10 times a day from his job," said Holman, who realized Blackwood's office building, which had an open, flat roof, was only 1,800 yards away. "He had me flinching every time I saw sunlight glinting off any surface within two and a half miles." Blackwood would not comment on the judge's decision, saying only that he still loved Holman and was trying to understand the distance and crosswinds that separated them.
and it is still funy as hell.
Former Marine Sniper Slapped With 3,000-Yard Restraining Order
MACON, GA—Citing Emily Holman's right to feel safe traversing vast open spaces, especially when within visual range of clock towers, parking structures, and tall buildings, a judge awarded the 28-year-old a 3,000-yard restraining order yesterday against her former boyfriend, retired Marine sniper Gordon Lee Blackwood. "When we broke up he started calling me 10 times a day from his job," said Holman, who realized Blackwood's office building, which had an open, flat roof, was only 1,800 yards away. "He had me flinching every time I saw sunlight glinting off any surface within two and a half miles." Blackwood would not comment on the judge's decision, saying only that he still loved Holman and was trying to understand the distance and crosswinds that separated them.
DesmoDucRob
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Eh... I don't take offense to it. It reminds me of some of the BS that my more experienced (read old) pro-2A buddies say to the kind of guys who want a gun, because they saw one in a video game.
Humorous that they used Jim Pruett's shop in the background of one of the shots. His shops tagline is "Your Anti - Terrorist Headquarters".
http://www.jimpruett.net/
http://www.jimpruett.net/
Justin
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They've made fun of antis before.
Peace Activist Has To Admit Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Is Pretty Cool
Regardless, The Onion has always been about the satire first and foremost. It's what makes them funny, even when they're goring my sacred cow.
Peace Activist Has To Admit Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Is Pretty Cool
Regardless, The Onion has always been about the satire first and foremost. It's what makes them funny, even when they're goring my sacred cow.
1KPerDay
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Hilarious. "The lung-shreddingest bullets on the market."
LOLOLOL
LOLOLOL
Matt-J2
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Thanks for the link, Justin. Just one more reason to read the Onion. The last line clinches it.
Just one more reason to read the Onion. The last line clinches it. maksim
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hehe, awesome. And it was a local plug for a NJ Range, the Bullet Hole in Belleville, NJ
catspa
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KOB:Of course, you can't really make fun of the media if you don't write stories that are dumber or more ridiculous than ACTUAL news stories, can you?
That right there is a tough job.
Parker
That right there is a tough job.
Parker
I was going to pick up one of them there .233 rifles but I could not find one in stock. They kept wanting to sell me a .223. But I want a .233. Every gun shop I called just laughed at me. Go figure. When I asked them about the SteelHawk recall. They just laughed some more.
LightningJoe
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I like the way the entire cartridge flies through the air and hits the guy in the animation.
malblackbelt
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MACON, GA—Citing Emily Holman's right to feel safe traversing vast open spaces, especially when within visual range of clock towers, parking structures, and tall buildings, a judge awarded the 28-year-old a 3,000-yard restraining order yesterday against her former boyfriend, retired Marine sniper Gordon Lee Blackwood. "When we broke up he started calling me 10 times a day from his job," said Holman, who realized Blackwood's office building, which had an open, flat roof, was only 1,800 yards away. "He had me flinching every time I saw sunlight glinting off any surface within two and a half miles." Blackwood would not comment on the judge's decision, saying only that he still loved Holman and was trying to understand the distance and crosswinds that separated them.
I could not stop laughing when I read the end line "trying to understand the distance and crosswinds that separated us"
I could not stop laughing when I read the end line "trying to understand the distance and crosswinds that separated us"
Lucky
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lol ya thx pulse, I'll save it this time.
Rezin
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Yup, it sure did.....
....& I laughed my @$$ off!
lanternlad1
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The Onion is great. Even the Chinese believed them.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/08/MN129538.DTL
(06-08) 04:00 PDT Beijing -- An embarrassing gaffe by China's usually staid state-run media has left a popular newspaper with onion on its face.
Readers of the Beijing Evening News, the capital's largest-circulation newspaper, learned this week that the U.S. Congress had threatened to move out of Washington unless a fancy new Capitol was built.
"If we want to stay competitive, we need to upgrade," House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat, was quoted as saying. "Look at the British Parliament. Look at the Vatican. . . . Without modern facilities, they've been having big problems attracting top talent."
If a new building with more bathrooms and better parking wasn't erected, the article said, then U.S. lawmakers were prepared to pack up and move to Memphis, or Charlotte, N.C.
The story seems newsworthy enough. Trouble is, it was lifted straight from the Onion, the satirical "news" publication based in New York that has caused countless American readers to double over with laughter at its weekly spoofs on current events.
Its story on the Capitol appeared in its May 29 edition, alongside such headlines as "Sexual Tension Between Arafat, Sharon Reaches Breaking Point" and "Man Blames Hangover on Everything But How Much He Drank."
A writer for the Beijing Evening News apparently picked up the item from the Internet, reworked the opening paragraphs and submitted it to his editors, who then published it as a straight news story, without citing a source.
Yu Bin, the editor in charge of international news, acknowledged Thursday that he had no idea where the writer, Huang Ke, originally got the story. Yu said he would tell Huang to be more careful next time.
But he adamantly ruled out a correction and grew slightly obstreperous when pressed to comment on the article's lack of truth.
"How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story?" Yu demanded in a phone interview. "How can you prove it's not correct?"
For the record, an aide to Gephardt said the congressman never made the remarks attributed to him.
And John Feehery, the spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said his boss never called the Capitol a "drafty old building . . . no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch," as the Onion and the Beijing Evening News reported.
"He likes the Capitol just fine," Feehery said.
The Onion parody featured an architect's rendering of a proposed futuristic Capitol complete with a retractable dome, a "Dancing Waters fountain" and "55 more luxury boxes than the current building." The Evening News reproduced the entire illustration without crediting the Onion. There wasn't even a caption explaining what the drawing was.
Robert Siegel, editor-in-chief of the Onion, which bills itself as "America's finest news source," said he was amazed at the Evening News' gullibility.
"Wow, even journalists now believe everything they read," Siegel said from his home in New York. "If I were a reporter in Beijing and found an item like that . . . I might want to follow up and check my sources. Readers fall for that kind of thing all the time, and maybe I was naive, but I thought reporters would be smarter."
Though still under the thumb of the government, the media in China have become more freewheeling in recent years and also more competitive, forced to duke it out for market share and turn a profit.
Chinese readers have more options to choose from than ever before, including the Internet, and are no longer captive to such hoary publications as the Communist Party's flagship, the People's Daily.
The Beijing Evening News, which boasts a circulation of about 1 million, is fighting off challenges from a raft of other newspapers and magazines.
Many papers now rely on contract freelancers to provide all sorts of content, including international news. This has given rise to a slew of young, Internet-savvy, English-speaking writers who freely lift stuff from the Web and submit it to editors who adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude toward the material's origins.
Huang couldn't be reached for comment Thursday. He or she -- the name is androgynous and most likely a pseudonym -- appears not to be one of the paper's longtime contributors. An electronic archive search on the paper's Web site yielded Huang's byline on only two stories in the last two years.
Both appeared in Monday's edition. One was the Onion rip-off. The other, on the same page, was a longer investigative piece about the lack of security screening for most private charter flights in the United States.
But a little checking showed that this story, too, was cribbed: It was a direct translation of a front-page article from Sunday's Washington Post.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/08/MN129538.DTL
(06-08) 04:00 PDT Beijing -- An embarrassing gaffe by China's usually staid state-run media has left a popular newspaper with onion on its face.
Readers of the Beijing Evening News, the capital's largest-circulation newspaper, learned this week that the U.S. Congress had threatened to move out of Washington unless a fancy new Capitol was built.
"If we want to stay competitive, we need to upgrade," House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat, was quoted as saying. "Look at the British Parliament. Look at the Vatican. . . . Without modern facilities, they've been having big problems attracting top talent."
If a new building with more bathrooms and better parking wasn't erected, the article said, then U.S. lawmakers were prepared to pack up and move to Memphis, or Charlotte, N.C.
The story seems newsworthy enough. Trouble is, it was lifted straight from the Onion, the satirical "news" publication based in New York that has caused countless American readers to double over with laughter at its weekly spoofs on current events.
Its story on the Capitol appeared in its May 29 edition, alongside such headlines as "Sexual Tension Between Arafat, Sharon Reaches Breaking Point" and "Man Blames Hangover on Everything But How Much He Drank."
A writer for the Beijing Evening News apparently picked up the item from the Internet, reworked the opening paragraphs and submitted it to his editors, who then published it as a straight news story, without citing a source.
Yu Bin, the editor in charge of international news, acknowledged Thursday that he had no idea where the writer, Huang Ke, originally got the story. Yu said he would tell Huang to be more careful next time.
But he adamantly ruled out a correction and grew slightly obstreperous when pressed to comment on the article's lack of truth.
"How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story?" Yu demanded in a phone interview. "How can you prove it's not correct?"
For the record, an aide to Gephardt said the congressman never made the remarks attributed to him.
And John Feehery, the spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said his boss never called the Capitol a "drafty old building . . . no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch," as the Onion and the Beijing Evening News reported.
"He likes the Capitol just fine," Feehery said.
The Onion parody featured an architect's rendering of a proposed futuristic Capitol complete with a retractable dome, a "Dancing Waters fountain" and "55 more luxury boxes than the current building." The Evening News reproduced the entire illustration without crediting the Onion. There wasn't even a caption explaining what the drawing was.
Robert Siegel, editor-in-chief of the Onion, which bills itself as "America's finest news source," said he was amazed at the Evening News' gullibility.
"Wow, even journalists now believe everything they read," Siegel said from his home in New York. "If I were a reporter in Beijing and found an item like that . . . I might want to follow up and check my sources. Readers fall for that kind of thing all the time, and maybe I was naive, but I thought reporters would be smarter."
Though still under the thumb of the government, the media in China have become more freewheeling in recent years and also more competitive, forced to duke it out for market share and turn a profit.
Chinese readers have more options to choose from than ever before, including the Internet, and are no longer captive to such hoary publications as the Communist Party's flagship, the People's Daily.
The Beijing Evening News, which boasts a circulation of about 1 million, is fighting off challenges from a raft of other newspapers and magazines.
Many papers now rely on contract freelancers to provide all sorts of content, including international news. This has given rise to a slew of young, Internet-savvy, English-speaking writers who freely lift stuff from the Web and submit it to editors who adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude toward the material's origins.
Huang couldn't be reached for comment Thursday. He or she -- the name is androgynous and most likely a pseudonym -- appears not to be one of the paper's longtime contributors. An electronic archive search on the paper's Web site yielded Huang's byline on only two stories in the last two years.
Both appeared in Monday's edition. One was the Onion rip-off. The other, on the same page, was a longer investigative piece about the lack of security screening for most private charter flights in the United States.
But a little checking showed that this story, too, was cribbed: It was a direct translation of a front-page article from Sunday's Washington Post.
cmccmc
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love it
I <3 the Onion.
I <3 the Onion.
Carlos Cabeza
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I'd use.................... a hammer ! CLASSIC !
If I wanted to kill someone without completely destroying the body
I'd use.................... a hammer !
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