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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• 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 century rake and eccentric colonel
• The 2008 Goodwood Revival – a photographic encounter with well-dressed motoring enthusiasts
• Amateur Warfare – Donald Twain on the continued popularity of this ancient pastime, despite the progress of technology and science
• The Sartoracle- our new gentlemen’s adviser, Savile Row’s Patrick Grant, on trouser pressing, tweed caps and waistcoats
• Robert Chilcott gets James Mason’s view on London in the swinging sixties
• Professional Dress: the changing fashions of a priest-about-town
• Rum Coves: Neil Ridley on the history and naval connections of Caribbean rum and its spicy neighbours
• The campest cast member of the original TV series of Brideshead Revisited, Nickolas Grace, tackles the Chap questionnaire
• Kipper & Grape’s World of Sport compares Twenty20 cricket with its more traditional ancestor
• Plus: Boris Johnson, Benjamin Disraeli, Pyjama theories, Jay-Z and Am I Chap?

Disraeli! It may be an affectation but it’s one I can get behind.

Latest Issue of Chap Magazine [TheChap.net]

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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]

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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 Game Hunter; Capstick’s “Death in the Long Grass” [Dethroner]

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Mexican soldiers battling a violent drug gang and corrupt local police confiscated a sport utility vehicle decked out with extras worthy of a James Bond movie.

What kind of cool tricks did the drug runners install? Nothing nearly as cool as we’d like — I need a rocket booster, lasers and the Mach 5’s tree trimmers — plus a Spy Hunter oil slick. I guess Mexican drug runners lack the same cash-reserves of say Columbian drug runners.

Following a shootout with the gang, soldiers said they arrested four municipal police and confiscated an armored Jeep Grand Cherokee equipped with a smoke machine and spike sprayer meant to deter pursuers

Oh well! I remember years ago when there was a South African car equipped with flame throwers…

Mexico army confiscates James Bond truck from gang[Reuters.com]

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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]

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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 the Finnish snipers. Häyhä used a Finnish variant, M28, of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle (known as “Pystykorva” rifle), because it suited his small frame (5 ft/1.52 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise their head higher when using telescopic sights) and aid concealment (sun reflecting off telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper’s position).

Besides his sniper kills, Simo Häyhä was also credited with as many as two hundred kills with a Suomi M-31 SMG submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705. However, the latter claim has never been substantiated. All of Häyhä’s kills were accomplished within 100 days prior to injuries caused by an enemy bullet. Häyhä’s record of an average of 5 kills a day, almost one kill per daylight hour of the short winter day, is unique.

Simo Häyhä [Wikipedia via Reddit]

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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.

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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]

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The basic design was to use a fuze, already available in the 69 Grenade, which was then inserted into the mouth of an elasticized stockingette bag. This bag could then be filled with up to 0,9kg of moulded plastic explosives which was part of the paratrooper’s normal equipment. The amount of plastic explosive varied according to the job for which it was designed. Priming of the detonation occurred when a steel ball dropped on the action of the bomb being thrown. Upon impact the bomb exploded. The fuze setting was originally a four second one through a weighted tape unravelling from the fuze after being thrown. Ordnance ‘boffins’ were appalled at the shortness of fuze, and the quantity of explosive that the bomb could contain, and accordingly ordered a seven seconds delay in order to ensure the thrower’s safety. However, most users preferred the shorter tape, irrespective of the danger involved, and cut the tapes back to a four second delay.

The Gammon Grenade ended up being terrifyingly effective:

During the invasion of Southern France in 1944 members of 5 Parachute Bn, in order to prevent movement from, or to, the beachead, took up positions in overhanging trees above access roads. Half-charge Gammon bombs, filled with road tarmac-mixing stones for anti-personnel purposes – in place of the customary plastic explosives – were dropped into open troop carrying vehicles with considerable effect.
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In military history it is renowned as being the only officially issued ‘do-it-yourself’ grenade.

The Grenade with Instant Fame [RapidTTP.com]

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

[via B3TA]

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Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.

He immediately grabbed the person’s wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.

I went to look up the famous Buzz Aldrin punch (thrown into the face of a man who called him a “coward and a liar” for faking the moon landing) and it ended up being the first item Google suggested in my Firefox search when typing in “Buzz Aldrin.” Dude walks on the moon, but his old man punch is going to end up being his legacy.

Ex-Marine teaches pickpocket a lesson [News.Yahoo.com/AP]
Buzz Aldrin punches guy in the face [Youtube]

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Von Rosen specialized in noble lost causes. Way back in 1938, when he was just a kid, he volunteered to fly for the Finns in their ultra-cool, hopeless fight against the Red Army. The Finns had no bombers so von Rosen just grabbed a civilian airliner, loaded it up with bombs and dropped them on the Reds from the passenger doors. … The Fleas turned their weaknesses into advantages in true guerrilla style. They were so slow that they had to fly real low — which made them almost impossible to hit in the jungle, since you never saw them till they were on top of you. The low speed made for better aim: almost half the 400 68mm rockets they fired hit their targets, which is an amazing score for unguided AS munitions. (There used to be a joke in the USAF that if it wasn’t for the law of gravity, unguided AS rockets couldn”t even hit the ground.)

Biafra: Killer Cessnas and Crazy Swedes [Exile.ru via MeFi]

(Image via Surf City)

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Because you never know when you might have to do a high kick into the face of the checkout girl who won’t take your coupons, Chuck Norris Action Jeans “won’t bind your legs.” Of course, you might want to skip the slick-bottomed cowboy boots, unless you’re Chuck Norris, who does not interface with friction like a normal material object.

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Mamand Mamandy, a Kurdish Iranian who sought asylum to Norway in ‘99, was back in Iran visiting his mother when he was spotted outside at a BBQ drinking two beers. (Yes, I am ignoring the head-scratcher about an asylum seeker going back to Iran.) Police spotted Manandy, took him into the station, and administered 130 lashes.

I mean, seriously*, what the fuck is wrong with these people? It’s not like Mamandy was smoking a joint, then righteously hauled off to prison for several years to protect the feeble-minded citizens. All he was doing was enjoying a mild adulterant in the comfort of his family’s home. These Iranians are crazy animals! What rational government would do something so awful to a man who wasn’t hurting anyone? We better invade and teach these monsters the wisdom of Western justice.

Whipped for two beers [Afternposten.no] (Warning: The picture is pretty graphic.)

_{* Not seriously.}

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Danny Sullivan’s program is more interesting to me as a product-based business. Ever since reading The Four-Hour Work Week I’ve been keeping a sharper eye on these sorts of infomercialesque products. Sullivan sells his set of DVDs for $50, which include “five exciting workouts on four DVDs.” The manufacturing cost for the DVDs is obviously negligable, ignoring the initial production expenses, so he’s still probably making a pretty good return on just the DVDs. But then he’ll sell the kickboxing equipment set for an additional $300, which I very much doubt costs him much over $50 to produce. By having the DVDs as a separate option he makes them seem almost affordable, while I’m certain they also serve as advertisements for the more expensive and profitable equipment sets. Smart!

Product Page [RealKickboxing.com]

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