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The "Badass" awards
    #5436204 - 03/23/06 10:19 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

Bernie Goetz



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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #5436268 - 03/23/06 10:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

That dude who shot those four robbers in NYC in the 80's? Yeah, he can claim "badass-ness".


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #5436407 - 03/23/06 10:57 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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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, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

:headbanger:


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5436430 - 03/23/06 11:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I nominate Survivorman.



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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Silversoul]
    #5436444 - 03/23/06 11:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

i nominate me!


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5436484 - 03/23/06 11:09 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

Chuck Norris wins them all.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5436497 - 03/23/06 11:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

terry o'reilly :rockon:


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5436519 - 03/23/06 11:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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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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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #5436599 - 03/23/06 11:30 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

"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, 10 months ago)

2 votes for chuck


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5438007 - 03/24/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Clint Eastwood

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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5438022 - 03/24/06 11:44 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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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





:eek:

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, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

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, 10 months ago)

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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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5438097 - 03/24/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yeah...that movie was pretty fucked up.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Rono]
    #5438098 - 03/24/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

The most fucked up part was definitely Jake the Snake smoking crack. :crazy:


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5438106 - 03/24/06 12:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

"Who do you nominate for the title of most "Badass Person" ever?"

Another one..."Grizzly Man" Tim Treadwell...Anyone that can live with Wild Grizzlys for 13 summers is a badass in my books...Although I think the fact he was insane may have contributed to his badassness.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5438110 - 03/24/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

mick foley rocked. those matches they use to have on ECW were fucking insane.. explosives,4 story high stacked tables, barb wire ropes... man that shit was awesome


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5438111 - 03/24/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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The most fucked up part was definitely Jake the Snake smoking crack. :crazy:




I know...poor bastard.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Silversoul]
    #5440631 - 03/25/06 10:53 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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I nominate Survivorman.






Holy shit! This guy is hardcore. I am watching the "Costa Rica jungle" episode. He's just walking through the jungle and he has no idea where he is.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5440634 - 03/25/06 10:54 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Son of a bitch, i want to see that so bad but dont get the channel


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Psychoslut]
    #5440741 - 03/25/06 11:34 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

my nomination for badass award is a guy we call Uncle Garth, sometimes Funky G. He isnt my uncle, but that is just what everyone calls him. He is a 50+ boat captain who just a few years ago was the first person ever admitted to the malaria ward in the biloxi hospital.
He contracted it while in Nigeria, where he had to negotiate some sort of deal between a tribe and the owner of the boat/merch because his first mate was drunk and hauling ass at night in a little boat and ran over a village girl fishing, who drowned.
That night they snuck on the boat, captured the first mate, and decapitated him and held it for ransom.

He beat malaria too.

Also, I have watched him not flinch when a meth head pointed a gun at him. I have personally been in the car with him 3 times when he has ran from the cops, and I have never seen or heard of him being caught!

I have watched him in so many fights, it seems people are just drawn to fighting him, he honestly rarely ever starts or provokes it. Even as a 50+ year old, I would still put him up against any UFC fighter.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #5440755 - 03/25/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Damn....he sounds like a real man.

This girl I know has a father who just had a heart attack. After being in the hospital for a couple of days he signed himself out, is ignoring the doctor's orders, and he is pretending nothing ever happened. I'd like to meet this guy and buy him a beer.


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    #5440781 - 03/25/06 11:48 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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    #5440847 - 03/25/06 12:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

the stupid thing about that story is that there were no survivors.... who told the story?


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #5440980 - 03/25/06 01:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Marvin Heemeyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer_%28bulldozer%29

Killdozer has been used as a nickname for the armored bulldozer constructed by Marvin Heemeyer and used to demolish a significant portion of Granby, Colorado in the United States of America on June 4, 2004. There is no evidence that Heemeyer ever planned to name his creation, and no one was killed or injured in Heemeyer's rampage.

Heemeyer's Killdozer was a Komatsu D335A bulldozer (some sources say it was a Caterpillar D9, but local newspapers are specific on the model) fitted with makeshift armor plating covering the cabin, engine and parts of the tracks. This made the machine impervious to small arms fire and resistant to explosives; three external explosions and over 200 rounds of firearm ammunition fired at the Killdozer had no effect on it. [1]

In places, the vehicle's armor was over one foot thick, consisting of concrete sandwiched between sheets of steel to make ad-hoc composite armor. For visibility, Killdozer was fitted with three video cameras linked to monitors mounted on the vehicle's dashboard. Onboard fans were used to keep Heemeyer cool while driving and to blow dust away from the video cameras. Food, water and life support were present in the almost airtight cabin. Heemeyer had no intention of ever leaving the cabin once he entered; the hatch was permanently sealed.

Killdozer was stopped by the failure of a radiator. As soon as Killdozer came to a halt, Heemeyer shot himself dead with a pistol he had brought into the cabin specifically for that purpose. His body was subsequently removed by police with a crane. Despite the great damage to property (13 buildings were destroyed, most requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to be replaced), no one besides Heemeyer was injured; observers noted that Heemeyer appeared to go out of his way to avoid injury to bystanders.

On April 19, 2005, it was announced that the Killdozer was being taken apart for scrap metal. Individual pieces of Killdozer will be dispersed to many separate scrap yards to prevent admirers of Heemeyer from taking souvenirs. [2]


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: wwonka]
    #5441015 - 03/25/06 01:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Man he must of had that thing really protected with some tough stuff. A 7.62x39 round will pierce through one inch thick cast iron like its butter.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Scott Bennett]
    #5441162 - 03/25/06 01:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

In the video, dont remember where >.<, they show cops shooting it with some rifle and it hardly dents the armor. He also just shoves some pavement scraper out of the way like its a three year old kid...


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Scott Bennett]
    #5441193 - 03/25/06 02:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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the stupid thing about that story is that there were no survivors.... who told the story?




http://www.uscg.mil/news/PerfectStorm/Realstorm.html




still no one really knew the story of the movie as it really happened.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5441272 - 03/25/06 02:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

That was a crazy scene in Black Hawk Down. Such an amazing movie.

My badass nomination is to Joe Simpson. Don't know how many of you have ever seen Touching The Void (no it's not cheap porn) it's a mountain climbing movie about 2 guys that attempt to scale and descend a mountain that noone had been able to conquer, ever. They get UP it with no problem, but they're coming down and all hell breaks loose. Here's a synopsis from Wikipedia.

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

Although previously attempted, Yates and Simpson were the first people to ascend to the summit of Siula Grande via the almost vertical west face. Disaster struck, however, on the descent. Simpson slipped down an ice cliff and landed awkwardly, smashing his tibia into his knee joint and breaking it. The pair, whose trip had already taken longer than they intended due to bad weather on the ascent, had run out of water and gas (which could have been used to heat ice and snow) and needed to descend quickly to their base camp, about 3,000 feet below.

They proceeded by tying two one hundred and fifty foot long ropes together and then tying themselves to each end. Yates dug himself into a hole in the snow and lowered Simpson down the mountain on the 300 feet of rope. A second disaster struck however when Simpson was lowered over a 100 foot overhanging cliff and left dangling in mid-air. Yates could not see Simpson, but felt all his weight on the rope, very slowly pulling Yates down the mountain. He held on for about an hour but was eventually forced to cut the rope, dropping Simpson into a crevasse.

The next morning Yates descended the mountain alone, and found the cliff. He realised what must have happened to Simpson and to his horror saw the crevasse below. He was certain that Simpson must have died in the crevasse and descended the rest of the mountain alone, itself a very dangerous feat.

In fact, Simpson had survived, despite a 100 foot fall and broken leg. He eventually abseiled from his landing spot on an ice bridge (which broke his fall and therefore presumably saved his life) to the bottom of the crevasse, and crawled out back onto the glacier via a side opening. From there, he spent three days, without food and only splashes of water from melting ice, crawling and hopping five miles back to the base camp. Almost completely delusional, he reached the base camp a few hours before Yates intended to leave the camp to return to civilisation. Yates had burnt Simpson's clothes and many of his other possessions.

Simpson's survival is widely regarded by mountaineers as amongst the most amazing pieces of mountaineering lore in history. Debate raged in the community for several years about whether Yates was right to cut the rope. Simpson, however, continues to maintain that Yates had no other option in the circumstances.


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Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.




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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: Liz]
    #5442132 - 03/25/06 08:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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That was a crazy scene in Black Hawk Down. Such an amazing movie.




It is a good movie.

A lot of people think that the scene and the "story" that portrays the actions by Gordon and Shughart were embellished to make them look more heroic or like they took down more people. In fact, the scene is very accurate. When those two Delta snipers requested to be inserted they knew that there was a very good chance that they would die. Also, the guy who wrote the book about the Battle of Somalia went to interview some of the Somalis that were on the ground that day. He interviewed one Somali who watched as his armed friends all ran towards the downed helicopter. This Somali went up later and took a look only to see that all of his friends were lying dead on the ground. Gordon and Shughart took out a lot of enemy combatants before they got taken down.

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My badass nomination is to Joe Simpson.





Hell yeah. I saw a Discovery channel show on that whole ordeal. It was absolutely nuts.


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Re: The "Badass" awards [Re: CherryBom]
    #5442193 - 03/25/06 08:42 PM (17 years, 10 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





:eek:

This guy wins.  I bet he would put a good fight with Chuck Norris, even.




not with one hand he wouldn't.


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