Man who was ‘captured by UFOs with grey leathery skin and crab claws’ 40 years ago reveals how it changed his life the headline proclaims at dailymail.co.uk. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Why would a UFO have grey leathery skin and crab claws? Wouldn’t that mess-up the craft’s aerodynamics? Then again, you need air for aerodynamics. In the vacuum of space you can turn your space ship into an intergalactic art car without paying much of a penalty in terms of speed. Although there could be interstellar taste police (crab claws are so five billion years ago). Anyway . . .
“one of two men who claim that they encountered an unidentified flying object and its inhabitants 40 years ago on the banks of the Pascagoula River has said that he has never come to terms with the extra-terrestrial encounter.” The other one’s dead. All of which could have been avoided if either man had pushed away from the dinner table.
Tell me you didn’t expect an alien to pop out of Calvin Parker Jr.’s pot belly right there on the porch, even after all these years. Who knows what the incubation time is for a leathery extraterrestrial semi-crustacean? As for Charles Hickson, I imagine he saw a psychologist at some point. Standard alien abduction treatment protocol: exercise, lose some weight, sleep eight hours a night, lay off the booze and step away from the microphone.
But seriously folks. If the co-workers had been packing heat on that fateful night they would have avoided their date with the crab-clawed alien proctologist. The question is, what gun would have sent the strange visitors from another planet packing? Assuming they weren’t crab-clawed Kryptonites. Kryptonians? Kryptons? Yeah, that’s the one.
We’re talking about 1973. So neither man would have had access to as-yet-uninvented handgun currently favored by upmarket illegal aliens: the strangely calibered FN FiveseveN. By the same token, Gaston Glock didn’t design his polymer pistol until 1982. As Calvin and Charles don’t strike me as the 1911 types, they would have had to rely on a revolver. Preferably a .357 magnum. I don’t care what solar system you’re from, that cartridge will blow a hole through you that even Dr. McCoy can’t repair.
Then again, maybe I’ve seen too many alien invasion movies and TV series. Maybe the NASA eggheads who sent a map to Earth out of our solar system are right: aliens have evolved beyond warfare and aggression. Charles Hickson said as much (although he said it after the alien huggers put money in his pocket).
Hickson would go on to appear on talk shows, give lectures and interviews, and self-publish a book in 1983 titled ‘UFO Contact at Pascagoula.’
He reported three more encounters in 1974, and said the aliens communicated to him that they were peaceful.
Hold on. Peaceful? In 1974? That’s the year India detonated their first nuke. Muhammed Ali knocked out George Foreman. Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst dressed-up as Tanya X and shot up a bank. The only alien preaching peace that year was John Lennon and he appeared on stage with Elton John so how culturally relevant is that?
In fact, why would Hickson—or us—believe the aliens’ story? We come in peace! Yeah? Well, you’re gonna leave in pieces! I say shoot them all and let Warrant Officer Ripley sort them out. We didn’t get to the top of the food chain by being nice to saber toothed tigers and, let’s face it, each other. It should have been a defensive gun use. For sure.
People going around telling stories of being abducted and probed by crab people should probably not have anything more lethal than a nerf gun in their arsenal.
And since we’re on the subject. How do aliens with crab claws build spaceships to travel the galaxy in? How do crab claws handle wrenches and other tools? How about a computer keyboard?
At least the aliens in Battleship had opposable digits. They could build with tools. What do crab clawed aliens do? Subcontact the work out to other aliens? And what do they pay for the work with, crab meat?
In theory, any sufficiently dexterous opposable appendage could create tools with which to build machines, as well as user interfaces designed around such appendages (assuming the owners of said ‘hands’ were intelligent enough). Since crab claws fit that definition I don’t see how it isn’t feasible.
Not sure if trolling?
I would go with S&W model 29. Hickson to Alien: “Seeing that this is 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the galaxy and can blow both your heads clean off…”
I took a class last weekend at Aysmmetric Solutions (Farmington, MO) thanks to a Living Social deal
As one of the people out there who thought I didn’t need any formal training and could pretty much teach myself how to use a firearm by spending time at the gun club punching holes in paper and watching YouTube videos, I can say without any doubt at all that I could not have been more wrong.
Now that I’ve taken quite a number of training classes in both pistol and carbine I realize how foolish my attitude was.
I’d say check out the background of the instructional staff wherever you go. Watch out for the guys who are training you based only on the fact they have taken a lot of training classes themselves [Yeager anyone?].
If you can find instructors who have actual, real-world experience using a firearm to defend their life and stop a threat, I’d say that would be a good start. They check out their class offerings. Try to find people who have taken training from them and listen to what they have to say about the classes.
All the Canadians and Australians have to do is look to Mother England and see whats in store for them. Now England is banning certain kitchen knives. I am not sure, but I believe the pocket knife I carry would get me four years in Prison in England.
Greetings to all, I just bought my first Ar15 an SRC made by Windham Weaponry. It was a real bargin for what I consider to be a very good quality AR and only $850.00. It does pay to shop around though because there are always places that will sell the rifle for between $200, even $400.00 more. If you don’t have the cash the next best thing and get an SKS, the cheapest thing going as far as I know for a semi automatic rifle. I have a 60 year old Russian version and it’s a blast to shoot it. You can pick one of those up here in SOCAL for between $350 and $ 400. I know a lot of you got them cheaper, some as low as $60.00, but that’s the reality today and still a good deal for a great rifle.
A very flawed man, Archie. But in the end you could count on him to do the right thing.
It’s not my first time to go to see this site, i am browsing this web
site dailly and obtain pleasant data from here every day.
I don’t think he pointed his gun at the cop. He is a righty. When the biker surrenders, the jacker tucks something into his waistband. He uses both hands to lift the bike. It is quite hard to operate a bike without both hands. I doubt he became a lefty shooter in 5 seconds.
That cop was cold. Deservedly so.
Is he sure they weren’t Crab People? They live beneath the earth.
It’s simple. There’s only one training venue i know of that wouldn’t require an overnight trip.
Archie did more to advance the conservative cause than all of Lear’s other characters combined did to advance the progressive cause. The reason is that when it comes to an argument of ideas, even an ignoramus like Archie made a hell of a lot more sense than an educated liberal like Meathead. Progressives live off of personal attacks and euphemisms. It’s not gun “control” anymore, it’s gun “safety” and by safety they don’t mean forward to fire they mean confiscation. It’s not an abortion (itself a euphemism), it’s a “choice” or “women’s health”. If someone won’t speak in a straightforward manner they are dishonest. And if there was one thing Archie was it was honest.
Its amazing what some people think is a quality AR
What gets me is how many people think that if they give control to the government it won’t abuse the power, but then those very same people some how do extensive mental excercises to ignore all the atrocities, botched jobs, and straight out tyranny that the government has and still does today.
I think why some people, even those who lived through things like war & still be an anti-gun moron is that
1) some people have such distaste for humanity they don’t think anyone is trustworthy of having a weapon.
2) they believe in the class system & that only the elite (who are arbitrarily chosen) are the only ones to have the opportunity to self defense, everyone else are sheep who need protecting.
3) they did so for the state. not for freedom. they aren’t necessarily upset that atrocities happen, just that their people were on the receiving end. (I’m not referring to any specific ethnic/political group either as I’ve seen this with a variety of people. )
It is a Trejo .22 pistol, but not a “machine pistol”. A full automatic version was available, but the examples that came in through commercial channels were semi-auto only.
A number of selective fire versions were illegally imported. Some were equipped with silencers, but I’m not sure if those were original to the pistols.
The People’s MSR and the economy of Capitalist mass production
Correction. The pistol in the photograph is the selective fire version with the selector switch on the right side, and should be stamped ‘Tipo Rafaga’ on the left side. This one also appears to have a barrel adapter for a suppressor. Looks like a fun gun to me!
It is easier to lose a case of Herpes
(in best mocking Churchill mime) you have gained shaaame and shall get criiime!
Tom
how long would it take to send one to northeast Arkansas? very interested!! is there a return police?? Thanks Ang
Okay, this is what I don’t understand. The main argument in point 5 is primarily that mass shootings are not the problem because, the death rate of mass shootings are quite small compared to the overall death rate from gun violence. However, to some people, this somehow justifies not having restrictions on guns. Whenever people hear the words “restriction” and “gun” together they freak out and start shouting out the 2nd amendment. I don’t think that criminals should be allowed to have guns. It’s a pretty simple concept. In fact, 40% of mass shootings were related to domestic violence, in which 6 of the 17 shooters already had been charged for domestic violence. Now, why were these people allowed to have guns, if they were charged for domestic violence? Sure, I guess you could say if person A really wanted person B dead that badly, they would figure out a way. So does that also mean we should make killing person B as simple as possible? Guns are way to accessible by way to many people. In some countries (e.g. Australia) most guns are not permitted. The only type of gun there that is permitted is “private possession of handguns (pistols and revolvers) is only permitted subject to stringent conditions.” Now I understand for some of you that might be a hard concept to grasp. But, gun-related deaths are comparatively low (2010: 236 vs. 1995(year prior to implementation of gun laws):470). Furthermore, they have not had a mass shooting. What I’m getting at is that American society is so hung up on our freaking gun obsession, that we don’t even want to give up any part of our priveleges for the betterment of humanity. It’s pride combined with ignorance which is creating an awful outcome.
I too think it’s in poor taste to hold a rally on the anniversary of a tragedy. Yes, law abiding gun owners aren’t mass shooters, etc etc ad nauseum — it doesn’t matter. People not already on one side or another are going to see this as bad taste, and maybe as proof that pro-2A people are wackadoos. There are 364 other days in the year, where the Bloomberg acolytes don’t get to take that particular cheap shot.
Come on guys, he is a jackwagon, but he is NOT breaking the law. Possession does not equate to “holding” at a gun show. The legal term equates to “dominion”..the same concept that applies in regards to so called Class III items e.g. letting your buddy shoot your legal/stamped machine gun in your presence.
There are plenty of real things to focus on, and this kind of stuff takes the eye off the ball.
They NEVER will grow up. They simply run on emotion only, no logic.