Be Ungovernable
Three-legged bear named ‘Tripod’ breaks into Florida home, guzzles three White Claws
A three-legged bear who wanted to join in on the Labor Day weekend festivities was caught swiping White Claws from a Floridian family’s outdoor fridge.
Shocking video shows the black bear — affectionately known in the neighborhood as “Tripod” — nonchalantly sauntering Sunday across the screened-in patio in Lake Mary, a city roughly 20 miles north of Orlando.
Joseph Diglio, 13, was watching TV inside the home when the family’s dog, Bruno, erupted into chaotic barking.
“This is, like, once in a lifetime …” the astounded teenager can be heard saying in footage he snapped on his cellphone shared with WESH.
“There’s a literal bear in our patio … Oh my God, I’ve never been this close to a bear.”
Godspeed, Tripod.
Nathan Earl Hughes, 34, was arrested on Aug. 30 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on felony and misdemeanor charges.
According to the Biden Department of Justice, Hughes, spotted wearing an “Infowars”-branded Space Force shirt in the vicinity of the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the Capitol on Jan. 6, allegedly “helped other rioters physically fight police in an attempt to breach the line and enter the U.S. Capitol building.”
Extra to his social media posts, the Arkansas Times indicated that the FBI was able to identify Hughes on the basis of the “distinct notches at the top of his ears.”
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“Nate was raided by the FBI and arrested at gun point. His girlfriend (who just had a miscarriage) was held at gun point and put in handcuffs. The FBI turned off his security cameras, unplugged his internet, and flipped his house upside down in a search,” stated the Hodgetwins account. “The feds called the manufacturer of his Liberty Gun Safe and got the passcode to get into it too. All for protesting at the Capitol over 2 1/2 years ago.”
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Just over 24 hours after the Hodgetwins detailed what had happened on X, Liberty Safe confirmed in social media posts on Instagram, Facebook, and X that the company provided the FBI with the pass code.
“On August 30, 2023, Liberty Safe was contacted by the FBI requesting the access code to the safe of an individual for whom they had a warrant to search their property. Our company protocol is to provide access codes to law enforcement if a warrant grants them access to a property,” said the statement. “After receiving the request, we received proof of the valid warrant, and only then did we provide them with an access code. Liberty Safe had no knowledge of any of the details surrounding the investigation at the time.”
Notwithstanding its apparent eagerness to crack its own safe for the benefit of the state, the company noted, “Liberty Safe is devoted to protecting the personal property and 2nd amendment rights of our customers and has repeatedly denied requests for access codes without a warrant in the past. We do not give out combinations without proper legal documentation being provided by authorities.”
Tripod would never do this. Liberty Safe isn’t even as trustworthy as a drunk three-legged bear.
Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
A Florida man was arrested after trying to “run to London” across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.
The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.
Officials said the 44-year-old marathon runner refused to leave the vessel for three days.
Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
The makeshift contraption he was using is shaped as a wheel, with paddles that are designed to propel it forward as the wheel revolves.
“Based on the condition of the vessel – which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys – [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage,” the criminal complaint says.
Mr Baluchi’s voyage began as officials were preparing for the arrival of a major hurricane.
Officials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.
This is a buncha bullshit. Let the man do what he wants. Tripod would.
Q: Who was in my room last night?
A: Tripod. And he was a perfect gentleman.
So he had six claws?
Technically, 18. 15 on his feet, three in his soft-furred bear tummy.
What does the law say if they have a warrant?
They can seize it and cut the hinges off.
The Bud Light Safe Company will either re-name themselves or go into chapter 11.
Complying with the FBI is one thing – I may not agree but I understand.
Blabbing about it on social media seems really stupid.
So, the owner didn’t reset the password away from the default? Otherwise, how would liberty know?
Liberty voids the warranty of a safe whose lock is changed and Liberty isn’t notified by the locksmith of the change.
However. It appears Liberty has backdoors as well.
This. By all accounts Liberty gave them the back-door to bypass the lock.
Well, I don’t own liberty. Now I never will.
From “passcode” I assume he had the membrane keypad lock. Maybe there is a “backdoor” code that the owner can’t change, that Liberty keeps nominally to save forgetful customers? Or he just didn’t change the presumably random-ish code that the safe shipped with, and Liberty had that written down.
I would say, he should have bought from a company that expressly does not write down the combinations to the locks they sell. But if the fibbies want in, they’ll get in, and damn the property damage. It’s not like they’re paying for it.
Model 7228
Um…kinda spendy, dude.
Liberty Safes have always been massively overpriced. They’re kinda crap, too. I recommend AMSEC and a mechanical lock.
Also, I would never suggest keeping all your powder and primers in the safe. That would be dangerous.
Steel is expensive, I guess.
I had a Liberty, I think it was the Presidential 50. It would have taken someone with an angle grinder and a cut off disk 5 minutes to remove an entire side panel. It was only 16 or 18 ga. steel. You need to install those bolted to a concrete floor with something, ideally more concrete, protecting the back, sides and top. At that point, you may as well just pour a vault and buy a quality door.
After the tragic boating accident, I sold that safe as surplus to requirements.
So much military fellatio at Brown Safe.
Advertising something as “military-grade” just rubs me the wrong way.
I miss the 80’s when it was cool to mock the military.
I dunno, I have never stopped.
They should have told the Feds to get their power tools ready & hung up the phone.
They also shouldn’t have backdoor codes.
They should not. I just installed a keypad deadbolt, and in the instructions the first thing it requires is for you to change the master code. I should hope they don’t have a secret override.
Any backdoor codes/combinations will leak.
They always do.
I would expect every electronic lock to have it.
I have a Liberty. It’s intended to keep my kids out and my friends honest.
A Liberty safe is not going to protect anything from a pro, and definitely not the Feds, they can get into anything. I knew that when I bought it.
But it is amusing to watch a company that sells a shitload of safes at Tractor Supply immolate itself in real time. Dumbasses.
So Liberty’s able say “…we received proof of the valid warrant, and only then did we provide them with an access code…”, which is them just covering their asses.
While everybody knows that BS warrants get rubber-stamped all the time.
Which means that functionally, Liberty’s actual policy is that they’ll give any cop the access code once they get that rubber stamp, regardless of legitimacy, Constitutionality of the warrant, etc. They ought to at least gum up the process by insist on a warrant for their own data, alleging they’ve committed some crime, etc.
They’re also not required to give up the info, warrant or no warrant.
Wouldn’t it require a subpoena?
Yes, and human filth sheriffs will blast companies that tell them to do their constitutional duty. Because once companies get big enough, they should be forced to surrender their constitutional rights.
They have to. I understand that. I also understand Liberty safes is a dead business walking. I’d go antique gun safe over a new one that has a code kept at the factory.
They do not have to
The issue is that they have a code at all. They shouldn’t.
Someone needs to come up with a more original name for three-legged animals.
Hervé Villechaize referred to himself as “The Tripod.”
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1514277/Roger-Moore-Bond-star-Herve-Villechaize-sex-maniac-dwarf-midget-how-die-Man-Golden-Gun
The fact that Roger Moore wouldn’t touch him made me like Hervé even more.
I was a little surprised that Tonio didn’t get a shout out as a three legged bear that keeps his gentleman partner happy.
We had the Try-ote when I was stationed at FT Irwin.
He lived off the LT’s pizza boxes in the BOQ.
Stoolie?
Drei, for the dogs humor.
Austerity trap
If China hopes to turn its economic fortunes around, it will have to be more faithful to its communist roots, Paul Krugman said.
“China’s an odd place ideologically. It’s not actually a communist society by any normal measure,” the Nobel economist said in a New York Times audio essay. “On one side, they don’t like to just giving people money. They don’t like people being financially independent, because they still want the government to be in control.”
But Beijing’s refusal to provide its consumers and businesses with some kind of aid, such as through a large stimulus program, means that its current economic challenges are free to expand.
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“China is facing a major economic crisis, and they’ve run to the limits of the things that’s been doing to keep its economy afloat,” Krugman said. “Unless the Chinese government is willing to face up to the need to do something very different, then China is headed for a very nasty fall.”
Some of the government’s wariness around stimulus is also a reflection of President Xi Jinping’s own ideology. Despite leading the Communist Party of China, Krugman says the authoritarian leader seems more aligned with a conservative Republican, citing how Xi has condemned the “dangers of welfarism.”
While this “puritanical attitude” has not been an issue during periods of high growth, Beijing has to allow its populace some spending independence if it wants to revive its economy, Krugman argues.
Radical right wing communism.
Okay Krugabe.
LOL OMFG. He literally has no idea about China.
China has *never* been the dreamy cradle-to-grave loving care of Kruggy’s dreams.
You know, like the U.S. currently is.
I think there might be a link trap, too.
Liberty Safe:
a) was not legally obligated to provide the info, with or without a warrant
b) voids the warranty if you get the lock changed and you don’t use a locksmith or the locksmith doesn’t report it to Liberty.
There is no excuse for what they did.
That is why they are a dead company. Won’t even take a few months. A) is dubious. That would have to go to trial. The safe company might win, or they might get an Obumble judge. B) is stupid. I would rather void my warranty and have nobody know the combination. Just does not make sense to hold that kind of thing.
A) has already been litigated. By Apple, of all companies
I’d rather have the warranty on a several thousand dollar item that is used to store other several thousand dollar items. Unless my homeowners insurance would cover any damage to the safe’s contents. But the homeowners insurance may not cover it if they learned the warranty was void.
I have a firearms rider on my homeowners, mostly due to some of them being of a higher than normal value. There are requirments (safe), but nothing other than that.
Was looking at a Liberty Safe a few months ago at Tractor Supply. Now they are a big no-go.
I’ll say like a Crowder meme today:
“The FBI is just a modern, better funded version of the NKVD or Stasi. Otherwise, there is no difference.
Change my mind”
I can’t
I don’t think they have destruction battalions yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised to be proven wrong.
Ain’t no law, Tripod!
Tripod-centric lynx are just what I needed.
Thanks, SF!
You are very welcome.
I was hoping for Geocities-centric lynx myself.
Silly question, but why does a safe company retain the ability to open your “secure” storage? Can that code be reset?
BTW, fucking Apple refused to unlock a user’s phone with a warrant. The Feds had to do it themselves.
Apple. Let that sink in.
Yet a company called Liberty gave it up just like that.
Some irony in the naming, one feels.
I wonder if the owner was at J6, and they were holding it over his head?
The issue here is did the court issue a warrant to allow the FBI to access the safe without the owner’s permission or cooperation, or does the warrant name Liberty safes explicitly and compel them to assist the feebs.
Also,
https://twitter.com/TheQuartering/status/1699471827863482773
“I have confirmed with Liberty safe that ALL safes have a master code. You changing it will not matter.”
Wouldn’t that be a subpoena? I think subpoenas are more difficult to get?
So each safe has a unique master code? Or one master code unlocks them all?
My money is on the latter… because that’s just the kind of screwed up security companies do — and then it leaks.
Bonus points if it is “012345” or some other luggage combination for President Skroob.
I’d almost forgive them if the password turns out to be P0desta.
It’s most likely a pattern through the keypad that’s memorable.
I would bet on there being a serial number, and a database with the numbers.
I would not count on it.
Play the sad trombone for Liberty Safes.
I forget who it was this morning when this was brought up… but that this is apparently such a general warrant that it includes “search the gun safe” for actions taken two years ago in a different location seems questionable as well.
Does Liberty even make their electronic locks in-house? I’d be very surprised if they did.
Repeat after me: “MECHANICAL LOCKS ONLY!”
This right here.
You still have to re-code them.. with a magic “we won’t sell you the tool” device. I’m sure they retain the original code (for the convenience of our customers)
What are the odds Liberty thinks they re protecting a lot of cop equipment contracts by being so co-operative?
That is a good point.
Very good point. Had not thought of that.
That also means they keep all the combinations to those cop safes somewhere in their computer network… Oh dear…
There’s a lot of overlap on a Venn diagram of 2A aficionados and law-and-order-types. I bet Liberty is hoping to hang on to the people in that overlap. If so, it’s a bold move, Cotton.
Martyr Made speaking truths.
It’s a nice, non-humid afternoon in the shade. I’m a little bit zooted. I’m watching the last of the hummingbirds. The dog is chillin.
I’ve got this one.
Summer removes its magnifying glass from DFW on Saturday morning. I can’t wait. Might even get rain Monday.
“A California sommelier has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he flew to Texas to torture a young human trafficking victim to get her to engage in sex work.
Ian Justin Ranney, 35, responded to an ad posted by a federal agent in Dallas posing as a human trafficker asking for an ‘experienced sadist’ who would be paid $6,000 to ‘break’ a young woman.
The San Mateo resident was arrested last November outside a North Texas warehouse with tools of torture such as restraints, rope and batons. He pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping and possession of child pornography in February.
Ranney planned to bind and waterboard a 21-year-old woman for four days, dousing her genitals with a chemical irritant and subjecting her to complete sensory deprivation…
He posted images proudly showing off his Tesla, vaccine card and voting records on Facebook.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12487639/ian-ranney-sommelier-sex-trafficking.html
CWAA
Yokes. Bring your own twist-offs to that restaurant.
er, yikes. Zoiks. Whatevs.
Jinkies!
I’m sure there’s a lot of this going on, but paying attention to it would mean admitting there is actually a problem at the border.
OMG the pedo-smile hits you before even reading any of that.
*shudder*
Voting records lol wtf?
Gotta prove he’s D. You know, for the implication.
I would have thought the Tesla and vaccine card said it all.
Its the Implication.
It takes a whole lot of crazy to be that evil. Dont try to figure it out.
On the one hand, this is entrapment which stinks. On the other hand, he seems like a real sick SOB.
On the gripping hand, he’s got a picture of himself with that stupid open-mouthed smile, which is worthy of a prison sentence all by itself.
Stings aren’t automatically entrapment.
Yeah, that’s what strikes me about a lot of these stings. Clearly these people are shit. I know/used to know a guy who got busted on one of these things. Federal charges of crossing state lines to engage in sex with a minor (he was 50-ish). The only person he ever communicated with was a fed. The person he met when he got to a pick up place was a fed who was not a minor. Still charged and took a guilty plea. Yes, he was a shit, but, all was intent.
How does that work in other cases (genuine question): if I decided to rob a bank and cased it for a month, turned up with a ski mask and gun, but drove off before doing anything – is that a crime?
if I decided to rob a bank and cased it for a month, turned up with a ski mask and gun, but drove off before doing anything – is that a crime?
Unspoken conspiracy!
He’s vaccinated, the man is damn hero! Leave our heroes alone!
I did not know prisons faced mental challenges…./*rising star*/soaring music/*The More You Know…
What?
Put that sick fucker in genpop.
This. I hope within an hour of his arrival some dude that looks like he could break railroad ties barehanded walks up to him and says…”Ya know that last girl. you broke? She was my sister.
Mental Challenges? Oh, yeah, “sommelier.” We know wine drinkers aren’t that sharpe.
I am in Louisiana but even here I sometimes get funny looks ( no comments ) because I am never without a gun.
“EXCLUSIVE: Trans teacher Kayla Lemieux shows up dressed as a MAN with no Z-cup breasts on first day of school as it’s learned he now identifies as male and uses real name ‘Kerry'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12487171/Trans-teacher-Kayla-Lemieux-shows-MAN-day-classes-new-Ontario-school.html
He was never trans.
I knew it was a troll when some media outlet interviewed him and he insisted they were not prostheses. LOL
“I have confirmed with Liberty safe that ALL safes have a master code. You changing it will not matter.”
Is that ALL or “all electronic keypad safes”?
Isn’t there a story that if your small electric safe’s battery goes dead all you have to do is drop it from about six inches ande it will pop open?
FBI: We need to get into your safe. What’s the combination?
Safe Co: You don’t need a combination. Just kick it.
“Denver approves $4.7 million payout to 300 BLM agitators arrested for violating curfew
Plaintiffs argued officers’ actions amounted to “violent suppression of free speech.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/denver-approves-4-7-million-payout-to-300-blm-agitators-arrested-for-violating-curfew
“American cities ordered to give over $68 million to Antifa, BLM agitators after 2020 riots caused $2 BILLION in damage
Major cities across the country saw over $2 billion in damages in the wake of 2020’s Antifa and BLM George Floyd riots. Property was damaged, officers attacked, and at least 30 people lost their lives. In the years since, these same cities have paid out millions of dollars to the same people that participated in this unrest.
In September of 2020, it was revealed that over $2 billion in property damage claims arising from the riots were made over that summer, marking the costliest riots in US history. The Foundation for Economic Education suggested that this total was likely higher, as the $2 billion figure looked only at insured businesses, and 75 percent of businesses are under insured. Around 40 percent of small businesses have no insurance.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/american-cities-ordered-to-give-over-68-million-to-antifa-blm-agitators-after-2020-riots-caused-2-billion-in-damage
Now do J6.
And that is how you money launder.
Welcome to Russia, circa 1915.
It’s telling to me that the CIA “underestimated” the Russian response to the US’s “calibrated” weapons shipments to Ukraine prior to the war breaking out. They’ll probably do the same thing in Taiwan because the incentives to be stupid are all there.
The IC is underestimating what will happen here if they push too far. The relative economic safety has kept things calm so far. Take that away and the entire game changes,
‘Too much to lose’ is a powerful disincentive to war. The commie dunces running things now do not understand that gauging by not only their foreign policy but their domestic policies as well.
Prosecutors will seek Hunter Biden indictment before Sept. 29, court filing says
Federal prosecutors plan to ask a grand jury to indict Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, before Sept. 29, they revealed in a court filing.
The filing comes six weeks after a planned plea deal for Hunter to resolve charges of tax and weapons crimes fell apart when a judge in U.S. District Court in Delaware questioned its conditions.
Hunter ended that hearing by pleading not guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income taxes on income of more than $1.5 million annually in 2017 and 2018.
September?
Oh, after the convention, of course.
Here comes President Newsom
Here comes Biden, he will fail
Hopping’ down the campaign trail,
Hippity, hoppity,
Newsome’s on his way.
Bringing’ every dick and gash
Baskets full of Ukraine Cash,
Things to make your
Election bright and gay.
More stories about the “hottest summer ever!”
Leaving aside the rather suspect quality of the data, the sample is so small in “global” terms it can’t be anything but noise.
Fortunately, we still have plenty of checks
The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to about $2 trillion for fiscal year 2023, roughly double what it was in the previous fiscal year, according to a government watchdog group.
The surge stems largely from a sharp decline in tax revenues, coupled with an increase in mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and interest payments, as well as in other areas. It follows a sharp drop in the budget shortfall in fiscal year 2022 after two years of giant deficits swollen by record government spending on Covid-19 pandemic relief measures.
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The growing deficit could further complicate the fraught discussions over funding federal agencies for the coming fiscal year, which starts October 1. Congress has until the end of the month to pass the spending package or, more likely, a short-term deal to keep the government operating. But House GOP hardliners are pushing hard for budget cuts, with several saying they don’t fear a government shutdown.
The nation’s fiscal imbalance remains a concern even though lawmakers agreed to a debt ceiling deal that is expected to reduce budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. But the package will do little to address the nation’s enormous financial challenges, experts said.
It’s those crazy ultra-MAGA Republicans’ fault.
Trump tax cuts are responsible!
Even more notable, spending on interest on the public debt skyrocketed 34%, mainly because interest rates are much higher than they were in the first 10 months of fiscal 2022.
Interest rates on Treasury securities are at or near 16-year highs and are higher than the CBO projected in February, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Even if interest rates drift down to the CBO’s estimates, the national debt is on track to reach a record share of the economy by 2029, and the US will have to shell out $10 trillion in interest payments over the next decade, according to the committee. That would add to the pressure on Congress to cut spending or increase taxes.
“We made a lot of economic policy assuming that interest rates would always be low and assuming that revenue would be strong,” Goldwein said. “That can change quickly, and when it does, you can’t undo past decisions.”
Free money drives bad decisions. No shit, Shirley?
Who could have foreseen rising interest rates? Apparently neither Silicon Valley Bank nor the federal government.
They could foresee it but why worry? Fedgov will bail you out.
The party was going to last forever, just like it has in every other communist country.
SVB’s job was to be a patsy while handing out the money. Nothing more, nothing less.
Unless you are willing to spend car money, you will not get a safe that can stand up to someone with power tools.
Just get one that is sufficiently fire/waterproof, and then spend up to get niceties.
Also: do not install your safe in the garage next to your power tools.
I just bought a mechanical lock floor safe. Only problem is now I have to drag out a core drill and 12 inch core bit to make the hole.
Used car price drops incoming.
https://twitter.com/GuyDealership/status/1699481980587630655
Wild. Delinquencies are through the roof, as well.
I wouldn’t bet on it.
Sensei-
An update on the doors for the Toyota Century.
https://www.theautopian.com/hold-up-is-the-new-toyota-century-with-the-sliding-doors-a-minivan/
I’d be interested to see thr warrant for even looking in the safe? What are they looking for in connection to a illegal trespass or were there BS weapon charges too? Seems like another general warrant.
Obviously Liberty should have just gone the IRS route and said sorry all drives that retain backdoor codes to our safes have been destroyed and all current customers should immediately offload their safes to Craigslist
A Florida man was arrested after trying to “run to London” across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.
He was in America, and then he left America….
Habi-Trail, or Halibut-Trail?
I posted a meme on Facebook (a pic of Jimmy Buffett with lyrics “If you like piña coladas…”) and I keep getting comments about how that’s not a Jimmy Buffett song.
Yathink?
Neat. I guess Amazon won’t carry it?
https://www.rokronline.com/products/rokr-thompson-submachine-gun-toy-3d-wooden-puzzle-lqb01
Ever shoot a Thompson? The damned thing feels like it weighs 20 lbs. Hell, the drum magazine fully loaded weighs more than some rifles I had.
“Liberty Safe is devoted to protecting the personal property and 2nd amendment rights of our customers and has repeatedly denied requests for access codes without a warrant in the past. We do not give out combinations without proper legal documentation being provided by authorities.”
Whatever. Have fun BRCC-ing yourselves.
A three-legged bear who wanted to join in on the Labor Day weekend festivities was caught swiping White Claws from a Floridian family’s outdoor fridge.
Everyone has a right to bear arms.
White Claw though. I guess that was bearing loaded arms.
Arm. One was missing.