President Chen Shui-bian shot -- part 3

[cranky laowai]

Please continue.

[cranky laowai]

What did Lee have to say today?

[Mr He]

All those oddball stories you hear... The thing with the gun in the briefcase takes the cake for me so far.

[daltongang]

All those oddball stories you hear... The thing with the gun in the briefcase takes the cake for me so far.

look where that came from.... it's sad.

[Interlocutor]

Daltongang wrote:

Mr He wrote:
All those oddball stories you hear... The thing with the gun in the briefcase takes the cake for me so far.


look where that came from.... it's sad.

Sad but hilarious at the same time. Did anyone happen to catch that press conference with “Miss Fu” in her fishing hat and sunglasses. Pure theatre continues on and on.

[AWOL]

Most have probably read this, but...

I have a confession to make.

I shot the president.

Now, it is no easy task to hit a man-sized target moving at a speed of 30kph from a distance of greater than 10m.

I know, because I have done it many times. As a former sergeant in the US Marine Corps, I was required to maintain proficiency in -- and received training with -- a variety of weapons. I won't pretend to be a super-marksman, nor was I ever trained as a sniper or a hit man. But I do reckon myself a fair shot, and so did the US Marine Corps, which awarded me its highest marksmanship designation.

This, coupled with the highly-respected tradition (Lee Harvey Oswald fans will appreciate this) of using former Marines in presidential-assassination plots, was all it took to spur the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) into action.

So when they came to me a week before the election and asked me if I could wing President Chen Shui-bian (???) while he stood in the back of a Jeep moving 30kph from 10m with a handmade 8mm two-shot pistol using homemade ammunition, I replied, "Why the hell not? Any requests for where exactly you would like me to flesh-wound the target?"

But perhaps you don't believe me....

There is only one valid response to those who still believe these idiotic conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on the president: Prove it.

From A-bian's shooting? It was me.

[Spack]

scroll, scroll, skim read, scroll, ah ha - an interesting bit at the bottom caught my attention:

As the astronomer Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

There is only one valid response to those who still believe these idiotic conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on the president: Prove it.

Carl Sagan was a bad choice. This was a guy who loved using double negatives to make a point. He was fond of saying things like: "We have seen nothing that excludes that possibility." It infuriated the hell out of other astronomers because with that kind of logic you can justify all manner of far-fetched claims.

[AWOL]

SpacK "scroll, scroll, skim read, scroll, ah ha - an interesting bit at the bottom caught my attention"

piss, moan, whinge.... provided the link if that somehow makes reading the full article a simpler process... sheeeesh

[daltongang]

A nutcase with an 8mm pistol tried to shoot Chen -- for whatever reason. As the pistol was either homemade or poorly maintained and the ammunition was homemade, the nutcase only succeeded in wounding Chen before his weapon jammed.

Perhaps that is a little too far-fetched for anyone to believe. After all, how realistic is it that some unhinged fruitcake would make an amateurish attempt to kill a prominent and controversial political figure?

Who dreamed that up? They obviously haven't spent much time in Taiwan.

[Rascal]

After all, how realistic is it that some unhinged fruitcake would make an amateurish attempt to kill a prominent and controversial political figure?

Happened before all over the world, not restricted to "controversial" figures though.