Why would you DO that?

infinite monkey • Sep 21, 2011 11:30 am
Why the heck would anyone choose the Iran/Iraq border for a hiking jaunt?

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/2nd-iranian-judge-signs-off-on-hiker-release-attorney-says/?hpt=hp_t1

In fact, I googled best places in the world to hike, and I don't see any bombed out 500 million degree desolate warzones whatsoever listed on it.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21/2nd-iranian-judge-signs-off-on-hiker-release-attorney-says/?hpt=hp_t1

Attention whores? The thrill of the action? The bombs bursting in air?

Maybe they should've joined the service.

Dudes, it's a free country. The world? Not so much. :facepalm:
Trilby • Sep 21, 2011 11:41 am
Their compass wasn't working??
glatt • Sep 21, 2011 11:42 am
Some people want to see the world, and are attracted to weird places like that. When I was in HS, my family went through Checkpoint Charlie and walked around East Berlin. We wanted to see it.

I think this is sort of similar. But it's crazier than going through Checkpoint Charlie.
infinite monkey • Sep 21, 2011 11:43 am
They took a wrong turn at Albuquerque?
infinite monkey • Sep 21, 2011 11:44 am
glatt;757450 wrote:
Some people want to see the world, and are attracted to weird places like that. When I was in HS, my family went through Checkpoint Charlie and walked around East Berlin. We wanted to see it.

I think this is sort of similar. But it's crazier than going through Checkpoint Charlie.


WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY crazier, glatt. Way.
Trilby • Sep 21, 2011 11:45 am
I LOVE that bugs!

remember the Partridge family? They had a song about Albequerque....so effing kewl!
infinite monkey • Sep 21, 2011 11:48 am
OMG, no I didn't remember that, but here it is! :notworthy

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tw • Sep 21, 2011 3:37 pm
Only Bugs Bunny would take a vacation at Pismo Beach (California).
Spexxvet • Sep 21, 2011 3:43 pm
infinite monkey;757453 wrote:
They took a wrong turn at Albuquerque?


LOL. I luv Bugs.

They are definitely CIA operatives. ;)
infinite monkey • Sep 22, 2011 9:38 am
tw;757556 wrote:
Only Bugs Bunny would take a vacation at Pismo Beach (California).


Spexxvet;757558 wrote:
LOL. I luv Bugs.

They are definitely CIA operatives. ;)


You people rock. ROCK, I tell you! :)
Spexxvet • Sep 22, 2011 9:54 am
One of my favorites

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infinite monkey • Sep 22, 2011 10:03 am
Hahahahhaha! I forgot about that buzzard.
tw • Sep 22, 2011 11:12 pm
The voice of all those characters comes from one man - Mel Blanc. He can be seen in a Jack Benny rerun. Jack is buying Christmas presents. But after buying that wallet multiple times, the clerk (Mel Blanc) goes berserk - in a Looney Tunes fashion. Clerk eventually he kills himself.

TV was not worried about being politically correct when Bugs and company dominated the airwaves.
ZenGum • Sep 22, 2011 11:22 pm
That era of WB cartoons are awesome. There is some very sophisticated humour and cultural references in there, as well as the cross-dressing slapstick between Elmer and Bugs.


Those "hikers"?
I can't decide my opinion on those. As a hiking trip, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to (a) choose that location and then (b) balls up your navigation, yet still fairly competant to even get there. As a CIA mission, it seems pointless and ameturish. Why go there? see something? Ha, send an aerial drone. Meet someone? there are much better ways than trying to sneak across a border undetected.
Neither standard explanation makes sense. I guess they were up to some kind of shenanigans, but not CIA. Something private, possibly political, possibly regualr crime such as drugs.

Shrug.
TheMercenary • Sep 23, 2011 6:18 am
According to the reports they were actually only next to the border with Iran when motioned over by a guard and then arrested. I don't think they even knew where the border was actually located. There was no fence and it was in a hilly area. I think they were duped.
Pete Zicato • Sep 23, 2011 4:36 pm
Brianna;757455 wrote:
remember the Partridge family? They had a song about Albequerque....so effing kewl!

I was in serious lust with Susan Dey at one point in my teens.