Woman nearly impaled by a spear thrown through her car's windshield (video)

Ok, so I wasn’t the only one who noticed this.

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I have a hunch there was some backyard mechanical device some idiot was making for a Youtube video and they mis-aimed… but a lot of my hunches, these days, are “social media.”

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Yes, I have trouble even reading the headline. How is that not on purpose?

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I hope the headline and phrasing within this article are soon changed @beschizza
The author needs to think about having done this.

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“Yeeted” is its past tense, not “yote.”

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I believe they’re using the Dative case, so the correct form is “Done gone went and yote.”

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I can’t even read the actual article, having been traumatized by a similar event in a Steven Weber TV movie in the 90s. I always get out from behind trucks that are carrying rebar or other long skinny things because of it!

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The spear looks well made. It’s hard to tell from the images exactly what the construction is but it’s not just a knife gaffer-taped to a broom handle. It looks too heavy and ornate to be a javelin.

Presumably there are people in the USA who like to own such weapons for atavistic hunting purposes.

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It’s this:

(Found via the site @Mister44 mentioned earlier)

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Wow! Great find – Thank you!!

$139.00 on their website. OMG I am beginning to regret looking there. A lot of it is for people who think a zombie apocalypse would be a cool chance to deploy their tactical war spoons.

M48 Conflict Cleaver With Vortec Sheath

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Four hours at three seventy five in an oven, basting as needed. You can open spitroast as well, but getting a turnstyle that large is difficult and it takes longer, Plus I recommend the basic oven recipe for overall quality of the seared fender meat, just use a really good BBQ sauce for best flavor.

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Cool! But how does it work thin slicing beef for bulgogi?

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I’ve also seen something very similar at Academy Sports and Outdoors for $55. They also carry a modern gladius-esque sword. They’re tucked in next to the pepper spray and discount stun guns, just down the aisle from the tiny archery supplies section.

I confess I kind of wanted one of those spears, but not enough to drop $55 on an impulse buy. I was reading some post-apocalypse sci-fi at the time, though. Yeah, I think I’m over it now.

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Im guessing I should not google this.

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Wow. A gladius is a very specialised sword for fighting in a tight formation with the aid of a large infantry shield. It is absolutely useless as a machete. What a stupid product.

Especially because they chose to adapt the late Fulham style of gladius (on top in the image below). They could at least have chosen a Mainz gladius (the lower one in the image), which has a broader blade and a leaf shape, making it at least a little bit more useful as a machete…


But then of course, this isn’t supposed to be used as a machete. It’s for mall ninjas to swing around in front of the mirror and dream about the day a person with the wrong skin colour breaks into their apartment.

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Baby Driver would like a word: you probably don’t want to see what happens to Bats (bad guy) in the final heist!

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Exactly why I never saw Baby Driver! I had heard about it ahead of time!

(See also final destination)

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No bottle opener. Pass.

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@pesco

Might wanna reword the title of this article.

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If you had a war spoon, or military ladle as they are also known, you would simply beat the meat thin

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