The Funny/Weird/Interesting Picture Thread

[BigNorm]

wait.................... not done yet.

 

[BigNorm]

almost....... nope, more pics.

 

[BigNorm]

nooooo! more pics!

here's some more.

http://www.myimgs.com/data/mastercartman/ytmnd.gif
http://www.myimgs.com/data/mastercartman/gman.gif

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

One Fingered Salute from the U.S. Military

This pic has a bit of a back story. Read on.

The Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant in the picture is Michael Burghard, part of the explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team that is supporting 2nd Brigade 28th Infantry Division Pennsylvania Army National Guard. I heard the below story first hand last Saturday during a video teleconference between his Brigade Commander and the 28th Infantry Division Commander. I thought that others should hear it as well, as I think it demonstrates the true spirit of most of our troops on the ground (from my experience).

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.

Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5 ft deep and 8 ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 in knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt. Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt. Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents, who had blown him up, a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round, but I'll be back next week'."

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col.John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt. Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

 

[MistressValerie1]

That was a fascinating story, IL2T; thanks for posting it along with the photo!

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

Here's some more fun pics.
Fun with body paint.

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

T-shirts that really send you a message, hmm?

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

last one for the day.

 

[Kalamos]

last one for the day.
http://www.tickletheater.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=65494

What I find "questionable" about pic #5 is, her mother wore the very same shirt and stuff as her daughter's...

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Well, make it her niece maybe...

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😉

 

[Hungarian21]

Dunno if these were posted here, too lazy to check...just yell if they were. 😛

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

Dunno if these were posted here, too lazy to check...just yell if they were. 😛

I haven't seen them, and they are truely funny!

 

[BigNorm]

i like this blue screen of death shirt posted by ilove2tickle. i can't count how many times i've seen that when i had windows 98. now the blue screen is actractive.

 

[BigNorm]

and if you wanna see something really funny, watch this little clip protesting ebaumsworld.com

http://www.ebaumsworldsucks.com/

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

And now for some funny kid pictures.
1 - check the kid in the upper left. Talk about timing.
4 - going down a slide like that would make you want to barf... oof.

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

1 - grumpy kid! :weird:

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

1 & 2 - Now who would dress their kid up in a shirt like that? :weird:
Last ones for today.

 

[Hungarian21]

*tear*they grow up so fast...

 

[BigNorm]

i've come across so many hilarious photos recently, i think i'll just post 5 a day or 2 so i don't seem to spam this thread.

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

street artwork.

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

more fun pics.
#2 - who'd want to take that delivery? 😉

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

Some rough landings ahead...

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

from rough landings to COLD weather.

 

[ILove2Tickle1]

And finally, some interesting paint jobs on a few military helecopters.

 

[Hungarian21]

OH YEAH! 😀 I've got a folder full of those pics; damn, now where are they?....*looks at all tha pointless folders*...this....might take a while. 😛

 

[BigNorm]

And finally, some interesting paint jobs on a few military helecopters.

those last 3 pics with the choppers, those are Hinds, russian made attack chopper, it's half troop transport half attack chopper, FYI.