http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

Cicada 3301 is a name given to an enigmatic organization that on three occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public. The first Internet puzzle started on January 5, 2012 and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 5, 2013, and a third round is ongoing following confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 5, 2014. The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved, each in order, to find the next. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, and steganography

more info here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSh2Ujarg1I

Wow that's awesome, thanks!

crazy how far back that davidian movement went. i recently went to hte okc memorial (highly rec), dunno if that woulda happened regardless of whether waco did, but it was the reason that mcveigh gave for doing it, which is even more fd up

This flower smells like a decomposing mammal and takes 7-10 years to initially bloom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum

good one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

The Hum is a phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. Hums have been widely reported by national media in the UK and the United States. The Hum is sometimes prefixed with the name of a locality where the problem has been particularly publicized: e.g., the "Bristol Hum" or the "Taos Hum".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

brain eating amoeba with 95% mortality rate

Machines taking over the world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle

Maybe nsfw. Might have been posted already too. My apologies if so. NM prison riot.




http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_M...y_riot#/search

brutal

prisons must be like hell on earth

A guy I worked with spent 5 years in federal prison. (Drugs) He hated prison of course, and I'm sure it sucked, but his description didn't sound terrible. Read and play sports.

Not one terrible story.

Yeah i imagine it depends what prison you go to. I have a buddy (I use that term loosely) that did time in Nevada for stabbing a guy in the eye. He acted like it was kind of bad. He's full of **** though.

Subbing

https://news.vice.com/article/police...rabant-killers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers

The Brabant killers ("De Bende van Nijvel" or "de Bende" in Dutch, "Les Tueurs du Brabant" or "les Tueurs fous du Brabant wallon" or "les Tueurs fous du Brabant" in French) is a group or groups thought to be responsible for the "Brabant massacres", a series of violent attacks that occurred mostly in the province of Brabant in Belgium between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and over 20 others were injured.

The killers carried out armed robberies of restaurants, stores, supermarkets and one weapons depot. What set the gang apart was their readiness to commit murder for no reason and their apparent lack of a normal criminal orientation towards stealing the maximum amount of money for the minimum risk. This led to suspicions that it represented an effort to destabilize the country coming from disgruntled members of the Belgian Gendarmerie ("Rijkswacht" in Dutch, "Gendarmerie" in French), a paramilitary police force then supervised by the Belgian Minister of Defense. Some of the weapons used to carry out the murders had been stolen from a Belgian Gendarmerie arsenal in 1979.

According to the survivors' eyewitness testimony, the gang was composed of three recurring gangleaders, assisted by a larger group of changing people.

The three gangleaders were commonly called:

the Giant,
the Killer (who killed 23 out of the total 28 victims) and
the Old Man.

However some of the earlier crimes are mainly linked by the weapons used or stolen which leaves open a possibility of the guns having been previously rented or sold and hence stolen and used by otherwise unconnected criminal gangs or individuals before passing into the hands of the actual Brabant killers.

The identity and the whereabouts of the killers remain unknown.

Yeah that's really interesting, I'm a bit too young to remember exactly what that was about but remember it getting mentioned quite a bit growing up.

"December 23: armed robbery of a restaurant in Beersel, Belgium. Coffee and wine were stolen. One person was tortured to death."

Who the **** tortures someone to death during a robbery and how?? Not to mention over some coffee and wine! Some sick stuff.

Did a little research and the guy they tortured was 72 and lived above the restaurant. It had been robbed before and he had slept through it, this time he likely heard them. They ended up tying him to his bed and putting cigarette butts out on him and emptied their gun on him.

All these robberies had such ridiculous amounts of violence for no apparent reason, it really isn't clear whether the motives were money, thirst for blood or terrorism. Police also completely botched the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_killings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Wa...chool_massacre

Sad world

I find the brabant killings incredibly interesting in that they seem so ridiculous and over the top that it defies robbery being the primary motive.

It's also a bit odd to have a "group" of habitual killers like this remain unidentified for so long. You'd think over time one of them would slip up or snap and out the others.

Just very bizarre.

edit: apparently the statute of limitations is up in 2015. would be nuts if one of them came forward.

I just watched a documentary about their last crime, which was robbing a supermarket in Aalst. They didn't get all that much money, but they killed 8 people and they actually shot children at point blank range. Just pure evil.

Statute of limitations on torture and murder?

SMH

Gotta get them on a continuing conspiracy charge?

Belgium...

Reading about the mess they made of the investigation is infuriating, losing all sorts of evidence or not even collecting it in the first place.

Remember, this is the country that let the most wanted man in the country, who was on trial for raping and murdering underage girls, escape from a courthouse in the middle of the day.

Not exactly an unknown submission here, but this guy is essentially a living version of Stalin if everything in the article is true

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov