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The Case of the Missing Rocket Belt
Anonymous Coward writes "ABC News is running a very interesting article about the story behind those rocket belts you've seen in some movies. Apparently there are only three known to exist but one of them has gone missing leaving a trail of death and intrigue in its wake. From the article: 'One of its developers was found beaten to death in his Houston home, another is a suspect in the killing, and a third faces a possible life sentence for kidnapping the second and holding him hostage for seven days with a hood over his head.'"
I think they were all drunk at a going away party.
There go 1/2 of the dupe stories.
The top 3 stories on Slashdot, one of which is several hours old, have NO comments listed for them on the front page.... and I get modded down for bringing it up? Nice.
Maybe Slashdot needs a general, day to day message board type thing where people can start their own topics? They could have different sections, like General Discussion, Site Problems, Suggestions, etc.
It just seems ridiculous that we can't have a discussion ABOUT Slashdot on Slashdot anywhere without being labelled "Offtopic".
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I think they were all drunk and stoned at a going away party.
this has nothing to do with the story whatsoever, but where else can I put this?
In your journal.
What's really funny (to me) is that some people actually read this. I got some AC flames on my only two journal entries. Took me by suprise that anyone cared to look.
The funny thing is, your post about stuff being modded offtopic got modded offtopic!
I'm joining the experiment. Hey! I just noticed your post where you mention that a post about stuff getting modded offtopic that got modded offtopic just got modded offtopic!
Thank you, thank you. QED.
I guess that's how the whole darn human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself, down through the ages, westward in the wagons, until...aw shoosh, look at me, I'm ramblin' again.
Maybe Slashdot needs a general, day to day message board type thing where people can start their own topics? They could have different sections, like General Discussion, Site Problems, Suggestions, etc.
That already exists (although it's totally fscked right now because of whatever's going on here). It's just not well advertised.