Katrina: Four years ago

They're not winning

A policeman puts his hand in a bag containing dozens of spent bullet casings that he helped collect from the Morro dos Macacos slum after a shootout between drug gangs, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 17, 2009. A police helicopter was shot down by the gangs when it tried to intervene in the battle, leaving two policemen killed and two injured in the crash. (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes)

The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks "the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)", and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As drug-related violence in Mexico appears to continue unabated, and crackdowns in Afghanistan are being made against its massive opium crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the rough world of illegal drugs across the globe. (37 photos total)

CSI in 30 seconds

Coworker #1: There was a barn fire just outside of town. The whole barn was destroyed. The farmer was missing at first, but they found his remains in the barn. They are sending the remains to Toronto to figure out the cause of death.
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: Excuse me?
Coworker #2: Burnt.
Coworker #1: You are a sick fuck, know that?

Waterloo
Canadia

Overheard by: Meesh

via Overheard in the Office, Oct 15, 2009

Styx wrote a song about you people

More here

Awesome!

Just sayin'

Attendee at Microsoft event: So what's a Zune?
Zune rep: It's a music and media player that...
Attendee: So, it's an iPod?

--Cooper Union

Overheard by: Peter Pentacostle
via Overheard in New York, Oct 9, 2009

Killdozer!

Marvin Heemeyer

Have you dreamed this man?

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

thisman.org

Sounds about right

Well, what about tomorrow?

Man selling glasses on the street: Would you like a piercing today?
Woman on phone: Hang on... What?
Man selling glasses: Would you like to get a piercing today?
Woman: Would I like a...? No, I would not like to get a piercing today. (back into phone) I love New York.

--St. Mark's St

Overheard by: Logan
via Overheard in New York, Oct 13, 2009

To serve and protect... and stuff...

Cop to guy in handcuffs: I swear to god I won't arrest you if you do 10 push-ups right now. Swear to god.

--28th & 2nd


via Overheard in New York, Oct 7, 2009

Bath!

Hand in hand

Winning their hearts and minds

We've come so far...

Black woman, looking at costumes: For Halloween I'm gonna be a slave.
Black man: For real?
Black woman: Will you be my master?

--3rd Ave & 25th St

Overheard by: Ivonna
via Overheard in New York, Oct 9, 2009

Hacking roadsigns

Mommy will protect you

Looks about right

Yes you do.

Girl to boyfriend: I mean, when someone says they're throwing an "Iowa State Fair"-themed wedding, you don't think twice about going!

--30th Ave, Astoria


via Overheard in New York, Oct 7, 2009

The Berlin Reunion

Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by "land and sea monsters". The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart.

Via Boston.com

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