ShivaX
1937
At least $3 million went to Ted DiBiase, a retired professional wrestler.
Apparently Mississippi thinks you literally need to just give the Million Dollar Man millions of dollars for existing.
LockerK
1938
The most offensive part of that schedule is that itās not in chronological order.
How do you expect to hold the cleavage contest BEFORE the corset fitting?!
Why are they called Renaissance Fairs in particular? To me the Renaissance says Da Vinci and other clever Italians. These things look more medieval.
JMR
1941
Someone stole a King Air and is threatening to crash into a local Walmart.
Live track here:
Isnāt this a situation where the USAF scrambles a couple F-16s and shoots the dude down when heās over an unpopulated area?
Timex
1943
Blowing up all aircraft over a populated area is also generally not desirable.
Itās a domestic threat, so I donāt think the military would get involved? Obviously it happens in the movies, but in real life I doubt this would happen.
Now if the guy was threatening to blow up a nuke or perhaps a dirty bomb, thatād be a different scenario. But one disgruntled 29 year old in a twin engine plane is more properly handled by the local authorities.
The thing being, local authorities have no ability to prevent this guy from harming someone. How do they āhandleā it? EDIT: Apparently now heās just circling over a national forest, which if true means the issue doesnāt come up.
I assume the Walmart has been cleared of workers and customers. If he crashes it now itās just destruction of property and loss of his own life. Thatās probably a better outcome than shooting him down.
Yep, the Walmart he was threatening has been closed and evacuated, according to CNN.
Honestly, I have no idea how the locals would āhandle itā, other than monitoring his location and warning people when heās in their area. But asking the Air Force to start lobbing missiles at the dude doesnāt seem like the proper response in this particular situation.
JMR
1948
Back in 2018 a ramp agent stole a Q400 and lived out his Flight Simulator dreams for about an hour before crashing it. They scrambled F-15s in that instance.
What about the missiles that shoot giant nets so that the plane will be disabled safely?
JMR
1950
According to those listening to a Broadcastify stream, he landed in a field and has been taken into custody.
Thank you Wrestling News Pro for the photo.
Those who know, use Wrestling News Pro!
My initial read of this was that someone had wrestled a service called News Pro to acquire a photo.
Admittedly, I havenāt had coffee yet todayā¦
Apparently many are nominally set in the 1600s, which was known as the English Renaissance?
In actual fact, I suspect itās just because the first/biggest one was called the Renaissance Faire, and that name kinda became a generic.
Maybe itās supposed to be, uh, a Renaissance of old medieval-style Faires?
Miramon
1955
In my experience, while of course totally anachronistic in every conceivable way, Renaissance fairs are generally focused on medieval times, which is to say more like the 1200s than the 1600s.
RichVR
1956
Well, letās be real here, they arenāt there for historical accuracy. More for boobs, drinking and eating. And there is nothing wrong with that. Like sci-fi conventions arenāt there for for actual science. Just for fun.
