{"id":481,"date":"2008-01-02T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-01-02T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T13:49:47","slug":"guns-and-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Guns and fog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend in America sent me a link to follow up the post from last week about a man who tried to change a tyre on his car using a shotgun to loosen the nuts<\/a>…<\/p>\n

This time we have a couple of guys were looking to get tattoos of a magnum, so they were tracing around a real one which was, of course, loaded. Hand and arm wounds later, there are two 22 year-olds who now have a permanent reminder of how cool guns really are. (Slightly more info here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Those guys were American, but just to show that stupidity with guns is not only a US policy, a referee at a football (soccer) match in Kuala Lumpur was mobbed after showing a red-card to a player. He was a policeman, so he then went to his car, got his gun, and fired shots in the air to calm the mob. Personally a referee with a gun would not make me feel any more calm, but that’s just my perspective on this. Perhaps gunshots are considered calming over there; it’s one of those cultural things… Or perhaps not. The man was arrested, although it wasn’t stated whether the charges were ‘being a bloody idiot’. (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Two more quick interesting\/cheerful links:<\/p>\n

Fog machines are now being used as anti-burglary devices, filling a pharmacy with thick clouds in seconds and preventing theft because no-one can find anything. How very cool. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A wedding dress shop owner held onto a dress from a cancelled wedding for fifteen years and then the original purchaser eventually wore it down the aisle. “I knew you’d be back for it,” said the owner. Aww.<\/p>\n

DiCarlo had stuffed the bow and the sleeves with paper so they would hold their shape, and wrapped the gown in plastic. She left it hanging in a corner of her basement storeroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that’s just a bit creepy… But sweet. Possibly. I have a horrible vision of the room filled with shaped wedding dresses, like some kind of uber-Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations<\/em>. Scare yourself here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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