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 RandalFlagg
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 The "Badass" awards 
#5436204 - 03/23/06 10:19 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Who do you nominate for the title of most "Badass Person" ever?
Here are my nominations:
1. Gary Gordon & Randall Shughart
These two were U.S. Army Delta Force snipers who fought in Somalia in 1993. They fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members of a downed Black Hawk helicopter.
Shughart and Gordon killed an undetermined number of hostile Somalis while traveling the perimeter and protecting the downed crew. Both Gordon and Shughart were killed as Somalis overran their position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gordon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_First_Class_Randall_Shughart_%28US_Army%29
2. Chuck Yeager
Yeager quietly took a specially engined F-104 Starfighter up to the edge of space, experiencing engine failure, bailing out and getting burned by the rocket of his ejection seat, and then calmly walking with his parachute bundled in his arms, his face blackened, away from the flaming wreckage toward the ambulance. The sequence (in the movie "The Right Stuff") appears reasonably faithful to the actual events as described in the Tom Wolfe book on which the screenplay was based.
http://www.voicenet.com/~lpadilla/yeager.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5436249 - 03/23/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bernie Goetz
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RandalFlagg
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That dude who shot those four robbers in NYC in the 80's? Yeah, he can claim "badass-ness".
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PLUR, LOL said:
Bernie Goetz
haha FUCK YEAH.
I've never heard of that guy before.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5436413 - 03/23/06 10:58 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Goetz saw Cabey moving on the bench and later confessed to approaching Cabey and saying, "You don't look too bad, here, have another," and then attempting to shoot Cabey again in the stomach, with an empty gun.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5436422 - 03/23/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5436430 - 03/23/06 11:01 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I nominate Survivorman.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Silversoul]
#5436444 - 03/23/06 11:02 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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You guys should include brief descriptions of your nominations. A lot of people are going to have no clue who these people are.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Silversoul]
#5436449 - 03/23/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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i nominate me!
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5436484 - 03/23/06 11:09 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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How about that one guy that cutoff his own arm when he became trapped while rock climbing? That's pretty badass, I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5436486 - 03/23/06 11:09 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Chuck Norris wins them all.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5436497 - 03/23/06 11:11 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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terry o'reilly 
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Quote:
McKennaDMT said:
How about that one guy that cutoff his own arm when he became trapped while rock climbing? That's pretty badass, I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
That's definately badass.
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"All of the men have committed serious crimes since the original incident, except for Cabey, who remains paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair as a consequence of being wounded during the incident. Soon after being released from the hospital for the treatment of his gunshot wound, James Ramseur commited another crime with an associate: he was later convicted of raping, sodomizing, beating and robbing a pregnant nineteen year old woman on a building rooftop in the Bronx, and in 1986 was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison. Although he was released on parole, he subsequently violated parole and the court reincarcerated him in November 2005."
Too bad those weren't all headshots.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Jadian]
#5437884 - 03/24/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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2 votes for chuck
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 Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5438007 - 03/24/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Clint Eastwood
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Quote:
McKennaDMT said:
How about that one guy that cutoff his own arm when he became trapped while rock climbing? That's pretty badass, I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
This guy wins. I bet he would put a good fight with Chuck Norris, even.
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: CherryBom]
#5438033 - 03/24/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Goetz doesn't sound like a badass to me. I read his article and he sounds like a scared little man who was afraid. It was the third time people were mugging him, the first two he was no badass.
It doesn't take badass-itude to shoot someone, especially some guys without weapons out. He only got ballsy once they'd all been incapacitated.
The Climber guy, hells yes hes a badass...
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5438038 - 03/24/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mick Foley - I'm not really a big pro wrestling fan...but that dude is seriously badass.
"You would have a tough time finding a professional wrestling fan who could argue with the insane badassitude of Mick Foley. A long time veteran of the ECW, WCW and WWF/WWE, Foley was well-known for being a total crazy bastard who went out there and put his body on the line every single night, doing the craziest shit you could ever think of and risking serious physical pain and permanent bodily damage purely for the sake of entertaining fans who might never fully appreciate it.
Mick Foley got his start wrestling the ECW circuit in the late 80s as Cactus Jack, where he spent much of his time being backdropped onto barbed wire boards and face-planting tables. During one match, he suffered severe second-degree burns when he was thrown into some explosives that went off in his face. He won the Tag Team Belt once in ECW, and in 1995 defeated Terry Funk to win the title of "King of the Death Match", which is probably the most badass title you could think of. It sounds like something out of The Running Man or something.
After a brief stint in WCW, Foley burst onto the scene in the WWF in 1996 wrestling as the mentally-deranged Mankind. His humorous persona and complete lack of any sort of self-preservation instincts led him to become a huge crowd favorite, and during his career he would win the Tag belts eight times, the WWF Championship three times and would be the first ever WWF Hardcore champ.
The thing that really set him apart from the other wrestlers was that he was fucking crazy and constantly put himself in situations where he could have been seriously hurt or killed. At King of the Ring in 1998, he battled The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match, which would go down as one of the greatest wrestling matches in history. Towards the beginning of the match, Foley was fucking thrown from the top of the ten-foot cage, past the mat and through the Spanish Announcer's table on the floor. Later he would be chokeslammed through the top of the cage, an event which was NOT scripted, and would receive a concussion and be knocked unconscious when he hit the mat. He claims in his book to not even be able to remember the bout. In this match he received bruised kidneys, bruised ribs, a dislocated shoulder, several missing teeth and quite a few stitches in his lip, but it didn't even slow him down. A few years later he went back and did most of the same stunts AGAIN in his retirement match with Triple H, when he was also Pedigreed onto some fucking thumbtacks. He did this sort of shit all the time, all for the sake of entertainment.
After he realized that he had to stop taking serious blunt trauma to the head on a weekly basis, Foley released his autobiography, Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks. The book topped the New York Times bestseller list and contained thoughtful insight into his wrestling career, and many people learned that in addition to making a career out of being a human pinata, Mick Foley also had a brain in his head and a gift for writing. Since the success of his autobiography, Foley released a follow-up book, a couple of children's books and two full-length novels, all of which have found success.
During his career, Mick Foley received eight concussions, had part of his ear ripped off, lost most of his teeth and required over three hundred stitches for wrestling-related injuries. The guy sacrificed his body for the sport, and left everything out on the mat. He gave it all and did it with a smile on his face, and that's the mark of a true badass. "
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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Rono]
#5438044 - 03/24/06 11:52 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah Mick Foley really is a badass.
Have you seen the documentary Beyond the Mat? He really gave it his all.
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