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The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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Video: https://youtu.be/otKc7zzd4fA

After the guy with the package has the girl who tried to steal come back to his porch, he tells her to get a job while weilding a gun and she lists off excuses why she doesn't. Perhaps she made excuses for her own self-preservation, but I feel like that part really shows how they practically live in different worlds. It's scary, and I know people who feel similarly to her. I wonder, what structures exist to help such people get into the workforce?

To be clear: I'm not excusing her actions (they were very deliberate and wrong), nor am I saying thieves are all just victims of circumstances. But I do think that bridging the gap between those two worlds would be helpful for both of them.

Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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The publicity for all this nonsense is getting a little bit silly. Especially considering all the fanfare of the drone delivery vaporware announced prior to Holiday/Christmas 2016 season, which still has only extremely select, limited, niche pilot zones, mostly taking advantage of weather and isolation in desertified areas.

So we're arriving at a place where usage saturates norms beyond their capacity for civilized utility, much like in 1999 when file sharing suffered, all because the unprepared entertainment industry unleashed a violent backlash and counter campaign against Napster. From which, arguably, file sharing in general has never recovered (due to willful poisoning with malware, and fear/doubt spreading with highly publicized, yet rare child pornography pursuit and prosecution, which was then subsequently incentivized with paid informant programs leading to evidence fabrication, and perpetrator/suspect framing, no less), was destroyed, and now, we have a handful of centralized, moderated, controlled streaming services instead, all watching our every move.

So, what will this drop-off delivery arms race bring? Glitter bombs? Shotgun shells? Partially automated remote control (and over-hyped) quad-copter delivery? What else?

Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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Video: https://youtu.be/otKc7zzd4fA

After the guy with the package has the girl who tried to steal come back to his porch, he tells her to get a job while weilding a gun and she lists off excuses why she doesn't. Perhaps she made excuses for her own self-preservation, but I feel like that part really shows how they practically live in different worlds. It's scary, and I know people who feel similarly to her. I wonder, what structures exist to help such…

He would have been better off chasing her off the porch with a 12 gauge shotgun, firing blanks into the air. You basically have to make it super painful for them so they won't try to do it again.

Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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Video: https://youtu.be/otKc7zzd4fA

After the guy with the package has the girl who tried to steal come back to his porch, he tells her to get a job while weilding a gun and she lists off excuses why she doesn't. Perhaps she made excuses for her own self-preservation, but I feel like that part really shows how they practically live in different worlds. It's scary, and I know people who feel similarly to her. I wonder, what structures exist to help such…

Still think we need a jobs board that can someone parse all of the available jobs in each city that do not do drug tests. (and ones that hire even if you have felony record)

Along with added info for bus routes to this job, daycare near this job with hours, closest place you could afford to live if you had this job. Government assistance you qualify if you had this job, how long it takes to get all that.

there is obviously a need for workers and a need for employers. Job board tech has gotten better in a few ways, yet it still does not serve the undeserved as well as it could.

Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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Video: https://youtu.be/otKc7zzd4fA

To clarify this video isn't linked in the article (at least not anymore). It really turns this guy from a sympathetic figure to a douche IMHO. FTR I'm a staunch supporter of gun rights and the US 2nd amendment (I believe it guarantees a certain level of decentralization, but that's irrelevant to the point I'm about to make), but this guy coming out and yelling at her while holding a shotgun is totally inappropriate, as is him posting this video of her on the internet presumably without her permission. True he didn't point the shotgun at her (at which point she would have been justified using deadly force, should she have been carrying a weapon herself), but simply holding it is a douche move meant to intimidate unnecessarily. No reasonable person would think she posed an imminent physical threat to him (therefore justifying the calling forth of his weapon). She was trying to flee and he called her back! Posting to the internet also isn't going to help her problems finding a job.

It does have a mostly happy ending, but he's lucky she wasn't armed herself.

Re: The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

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It’s very loud but technically harmless, Barrow said.

A 12ga shotgun round, when fired, emits a sound of about 165 dB SPL, re 20 uPa.

That is more than enough to cause immediate and permanent damage to anyone close by who is not wearing hearing protection, so I’m calling BS on this claim.

This is not so much a prank or deterrent device as it is a very justified lawsuit waiting to happen. I’ve watched the assembly video and there’s no evidence of any baffles or other noise intensity reduction devices, so this sure looks like someone’s getting the full noise level whenever it goes off.

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