Raiders of the Lost Blog

Check out this site. There are a number of abandoned subway stations here in NYC, plus unused platforms and more. Pretty interesting that there’s so much extra infrastructure out there for our subway system.

Not what you think!

I did a google for my name today and found some interesting stuff, this was the most interesting. Here’s a quote:

Tom is the founder of Elephants Balls, Ltd., inventor of Elephant Practice Balls and Beautiful Balls…

Ok, this is CRAZY! Mike Tyson holding up a Free Kobe sign. Check out the original picture & article at Yahoo News.

Freakin’ finally!

You can now buy the Indiana Jones DVD box set. It includes all 3 Indiana Jones movies, plus a 4th disc of features.

Now I don’t know if they all have this, but when I bought mine at Best Buy it included a free 5th DVD with a Raiders of the Lost Ark featurette from the 80’s. Pretty damn cool actually. So check the ones you’re buying to see if they include this free fifth disc!

Crazy story from The Guardian:

Martial arts expert kills two raiders

Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian

A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.

The 28-year-old man, known as “the doctor” for his practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two knives carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the ferocity of his reaction.

Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.

The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a Chinese hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.

The hairdresser, her assistant and “the doctor”, who operated from the same premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.

Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.

At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.

Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the heart, sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the street from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a punctured lung.

The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.

Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the burglars after they had fled.

This is even worse than the guy who tried to carjack a championship judo team’s van last year.