Thursday Night Open Thread: Sometimes Things Just Spiral Out of Control

Who hasn’t been to one of these parties?

Police: Garden Gnomes Hurled, Gunfire Exchanged After Parents Escalate Fight Between Kids
WAND TV | 1/19/2021 | Staff

MATTOON, Ill. (WAND) –

Adults from both parties got involved. Police said the fight was escalated by the adults to the point where they were throwing ceramic garden gnomes at one another.

Police said men from both sides pulled handguns and started firing “indiscriminately.”

Correction: males, not men.

They were probably gnome to the police.

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Tilting at Windmills: Low-Tech SJWs Battle Better-Financed Ones

IMAO News (California) – Dozens of semi-focused, semi-bathed, and (unfortunately for them) semi-armored Medieval Renaissaince LARPers charged at windmills in a Nevada County valley yesterday, with rainbow-colored plumes flying and visors lowered.

* It was estimated that some 60 percent of the participants had headed to Nevada instead.

* Some of their visors had holes cut in them to aid in vision and respiration. Most had masks.

It was a miscalculation, as all of the windmills were on the very high mountains that surround the valley. Their attack plan was, after considerable consultation, modified.

“No Jousts, No Peace!” they predictably chanted as they charged up North San Juan’s hills.

Their cuirasses were deemed hate speech, and shattered into large fragments upon contact with the reinforced windmill shafts, occasionally creating electric arcs upon encountering severed power lines.

The survivor vowed he would return on the anniversary, after attending Burning Man next year.