Scary…
A woman who was shot in the stomach with an arrow on a New York City street is recovering at a hospital.
The 30-inch arrow struck Denise Delgado-Brown, of Yonkers, on Sunday afternoon as she was dropping off parishioners at a nursing home in the Bronx.
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I know nothing at all about The Chap magazine, but check out what’s in the Autumn issue; there’s not a thing wrong about any of this:
• An explanation of the history, tenets and practical applications of Bartitsu - the gentleman’s martial art devised in 1899 by Edward Barton-Wright
• The stirring biography of George Hangar, 18th [...]

Seriously. People still pay to see this?
Fans packed the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium for the event Sunday night. Fire officials say the fireworks flew into the crowd.
Fireworks Injure Dozens at Wrestlemania[AP]

This video has been viewed 26 million times on YouTube, so I’m probably the only one of us who hasn’t seen it, but it’s worth throwing another copy up just in case. It’s eight minutes long, but worth watching the whole thing.
Previously • Great Men: Peter Hathaway Capstick, Hunter and Writer [Dethroner]
• Dangerous Jobs: Big [...]

Oh the times I have wanted to hit the eject button! Perhaps to launch a rocket and destroy the slow jerk in the Caddy? Or to vaporize the small woman in the RAV-4? Seems such cool gadgetry is available outside of Q’s labs — you just need the disposable cash of a drug runner.
Mexican soldiers [...]

Rachel Papo worked for a photographer in the Israeli Air Force for a couple of years, documenting a “rigorous institution where her individuality is temporarily forced aside in the name of nationalism.” Thank you, Nationalism! Few things in life are hotter than Israeli girls with guns.
Gallery Page [SerialNo3817131.com via Cool Hunting]

Simo Häyhä, a Finnish sniper operating during the Winter War between Finland and Russia just before WWII, had over five hundred confirmed kills using iron sights.
The unofficial Finnish frontline figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä’s sniper kills at 542. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for [...]

There is some cursing, but besides that it’s safe for work, as an on-vehicle camera captures what happens to an Iraqi road when an IED is detonated underneath.

Ric “The Nature Boy” Flair, former pro wrestler, has opened up his own finance company, specializing in the “Figure-4 Process.”
Their tagline: “We compete so you don’t have to. Woooooo!”
Company Page [RicFlairFinance.com]

Because the “Sticky/Stickly Bomb” had a tendency to occasionally stick to its thrower instead a target, Capt. R.S. Gammon, a British paratrooper, invented an updated model towards the end of World War II that bore his name:
The basic design was to use a fuze, already available in the 69 Grenade, which was then inserted into [...]

I’m normally okay with the creativity and dedication it takes to participate in cosplay, but this instance just pisses me off. I’ll give these fighting Tetris cosplayers some props for originality, but there are some big problems. First, it is at an anime convention. Second, the T-block has four blocks, not five. The T-shape is [...]

See also: “How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once? [2+2]
[via B3TA]