Oh Shoot

Here ya go, first report (I woke up too early, going back to bed :)):   Just a little blurb: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/jul/16/body-discovered-in-vacant-lot-near-downtown/   KnoxNews links change a lot, so:   "KNOXVILLE — No obvious signs of foul play were found in the death of a homeless man discovered in a vacant lot near downtown Knoxville on Tuesday. A passer-by happened upon the body in the overgrown lot shortly after 5 p.m. while walking along Dale Avenue near Cowen Street, according to Knoxville Police Department Sgt. Sean Hejna. “Right now, it appears to be natural,” Hejna said. It was not immediately clear how long the victim had been dead, he added. An autopsy is expected to determine the cause of death. More details as they develop online and in Wednesday’s News Sentinel."   - OS

  My Military was socked down tighter than it needed to be. I was able to loosen it just a scooch to where there was still zero horizontal blade play.   Also I hit it with CLP. Opens toot sweet with flick of tip of thumb in hole but added slight wrist flick makes real sure.   - OS

  1351 doesn't apply to city/county parks. No carry in parks has to have been either grandfathered in or posted. Assuming state law is followed.   - OS

Not to worry. It might melt your Glock, but the ammo won't go off.   - OS

  Well, still, any dead mammal smells same to me. When I was a little kid a nearby farmer let a dead horse just rot in a field. And of course I made nearly a daily trek over there to check on the progress of the decomposition, fascinating. But the smell was 'bout same as all the other ripe mammals I've smelled since, including Bass's human stiffs over at the Body Farm, or that poor feller today.     Yeah, and not to mention that it's right next to Rohm & Haas, or Dow, whatever it's called now, that has made killer stuff for 75 years or whatever. But, and not meaning to be flippant about any enviro risk with anything, when you get to be my age after growing up playing with mercury and carbon tet, getting noxious stuff all over you, a few teaspoons of which would kill the biggest hardwood in the forest, and etc, you tend to not worry much about minor stuff like the berries.   Btw, I was just putting the rest of them in the fridge and there were two Japanese beetles in there I picked along with them. :)   They were sooo sweet, I put some milk over them, and they even made the milk taste like it had been laced with sugar.   - OS

  Yes, a good point, and an obvious one that I completely missed, duh.   - OS

  Didn't see any sign of blood, and not shot in the head from what I could see, but was laying on his side and couldn't see everything --  but figure this happened at least 24 hours ago, and maybe about 36 if it happened at night. Don't think in this heat would have been much earlier than that, and of course possibly less. Trying to remember if it rained since then, we've had so much seems every day for a month, but I'm thinking not for the last 36-48 hours, at least nothing heavy.     Pretty good, but you know the dead mammal smell. I'd cuddle up under the bridge with the worst wino in Knoxville before I'd do it with a ripe corpse.   I haven't smelled human rot that much, like some of you may have with military experience, but what I have, it just smells like any other animal to me. I often hear folks say there's nothing else like the smell of human decomposition, or maybe they say that about burning, but anyway, from my experience I disagree as far as the rotting. I've photographed at the Body Farm some back when too, where the corpses were really ripe, and it just smelled same as decomposing dog or cow or whatever to me.   - OS

Yeah, I went into ghoul-think briefly, thought about taking some while I was waiting on the troops, but just didn't seem quite palatable or "right" somehow, so bagged the idea. However, here is what I have left of the berries after eating about half of them. And yeah, there are plenty more on the vine over there, might need a dang ladder to get most of them, very tall bushes growing alongside an abandoned Rohm & Haas parking lot. - OS

So, on today's walk to the downtown Y, I take one of my shortcuts which takes ya well down below the interstate median for several hundred yards, and what do I behold but a whole line of blackberry territory in prime bloom. Noted it for trip back.   Then about 3/4 of the way there, damn if I don't find a corpse, not more than 15 feet off the street I'm walking, can actually see it from the street. (Dale Ave. before the downtown overpass and Valarium for you Knox folks). Black guy, hard to say, maybe 45-55, no obvious cause of death, but I didn't do much of a forensic, was already getting a bit ripe (first noticed the smell, matter of fact). Pretty much looked like homeless guy, but not for sure, didn't look as rough as many I see.   Called it in and waited for the troops, pretty quick, fire engine, ambulance, couple squad cars. Gave 'em my info and took off, only about 15 min late to the Y.   Oddest thing in retrospect was one cop holding my DL asked me "where are you staying"? I indicated the address on the license. It's a CDL, so maybe he thought I was on the road or something, or then again, maybe figgered I was a street person myself, what with my backpack and the fact I'm grimy with sweat and of course don't dress too much better than many urban outdoorsmen on these treks either.   So, at the Y, now that I have officially entered Full Geezerhood via a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage plan, it also gives me the exalted Silver Sneakers status, and was able to switch over from my normal membership, which means instead of costing me 51 clams a month, it's free! Meaning, thanks guys for helping pay for it!   So I particularly enjoyed the water aerobics with all the (mostly) fat babes, my harem.   And though I don't usually walk the same route both ways, the blackberries summoned. Body of course gone, and nobody poking around the vacant field or anything. So I carry on to the berry lode and pick maybe two quarts of berries, and probably could have done 10, may well go back tomorrow. First time I've walked that route this July or could have been picking them since first of the month I reckon. Just absolutely as sweet as any I've ever gathered, el primo.   So anyway, 2 outta 3 ain't bad all in all for a more unusual than most tramp. And before you rip me for the mild rather than wild workout at the Y, I've got a crummy back, an elbow I dislocated (again) about a month ago, and the walk is 8 miles roundtrip, okay? :)   - OS

Been hearing about this other controversial case that Corey prosecuted. Unclear if it ever went before a grand jury either.   Jacksonville lady, never in trouble before, mother of three, fired warning shot against abusive husband, nobody hurt, got 20 years. A man who was convicted of actual murder shortly before only got 15.   And she's black. Where's the mass outrage regarding this? Where's Al and Jesse and BHO?   http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57433184/fla-mom-gets-20-years-for-firing-warning-shots/   http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/07/15/marissa-alexander-stand-your-ground-george-zimmerman   - OS

  Without UT, we wouldn't even have Scruffy Little City status. :)   - OS

  It's not now. Sig calls it "elasto-polymer".   - OS

  Yep, couldn't hit broad side of a barn at 20 paces with that setup. Everybody says so.   - OS

  877

Interestingly, apparently the only actual ATF letter regarding this thing is to Alex Bosco, for his prototype version, before he sold rights to Sig to manufacture it. It's in the second page of this original thread on ArfCom: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=122&t=592191 Or direct links to the images of the letter: http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag159/alessandrorbosco/ATFApprovalLetter1-1.jpg http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag159/alessandrorbosco/ATFApprovalLetter2.jpg The device apparently looked like this at the time: Some other early writeups: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/11/robert-farago/sb15-ar-15-pistol-forearm-stabilizing-brace/ http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2012/11/29/making-an-ar-15-pistol-suck-less-and-helping-disabled-veterans-in-the-process/ - OS

  Even Lucifer himself probably makes a slip of the tongue now and then -- I keep hearing that only God is perfect. Or the whole Trinity. Or something.   - OS

Guy who designed it and people that have them say it's much too floppy to be at all effective as a shoulder stock. You'd still be just using the extension tube as the real point of contact. And of course, it doesn't extend the tube either.   And if you beef it up, it's something else than the approved product, and then you've made a stock.   A rubber cane or walker tip is an ATF approved addition for pistol, just use that if you want something else against your shoulder.   It was actually created by a semi-handicapped vet who made if for one armed folks, but of course once sold to Sig, they market it as a must have tacticool device.   - OS

  I hate him on every level. I see him as just plain evil, perfectly fiting the role of what you Christians postulate the Antichrist to be.   By the way, I hated Duyba too, but not on every level nor as intensely,  and he was too dumb to be an Antichrist.   - OS

  At-will employment. (Right-to-work has to do with union relationship).   - OS

  ATT's fastest stuff is "U-verse", which is fiber, not DSL.   - OS

  Well, unless there's more to it, that phrase doesn't prohibit an employer from firing someone for it.   - OS

  Yeah, but he intimated they'd have to go to court and get a special order of immunity or some such. Didn't simply mention the state law on the matter. Was confusing to me when I heard it.   - OS

  Of course. Lots of guns owners, me included, would consider 6K rounds merely a decent start.   - OS

  I fully expect him to be on media again, but again, still a matter of survival. When you have your normal life taken away, you have to do whatever you can to make do.   To claim some sort of "media whore" intent you'd have to show he was that way pre-Trayvon.   - OS

I don't see anything he's done after the incident to be indicative of "media whore", rather just survival. Unless you think he shot TM just to become one.       IC, thnx.   - OS