Wednesday Night ONT - July 29, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Dr. Pepper. Sorry. But each patron gets a free restroom token as compensation.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Everyone probably needs a cleanse from Fifth Amendment Fauci, so let's stipulate that he is an evil, narcissistic fraud and avoid letting his existence burn any more of our brain cells.

Lots of ugly out there. Hold fast to what is right and true. May the Horde find common cause, comfort, and refuge from the maelstrom in the AoS corner of the interweb. Prayers for all among the Horde. Your admission to the ONT is authorized. Welcome.

Puppies!

Impressive skill at an impressive building:

Probably apocryphal, but there is story that goes something like this:

Young German tour guide at the Cologne cathedral: "It was a miracle that the cathedral stood through the bombing of the city during World War II!"
Seasoned American voice from the back of the group: "Ahem. We left it standing because it was a visible way point into Germany and back home for our bombers. It was not a miracle."

If you visit, say hello the Three Wise Men. They are reportedly resting at room temperature in a gold box behind the altar.

Anyone ever get a traffic ticket in McBee, South Carolina? Not naive to think this kind of thing doesn't happen, but it is egregious in any time and place. Shows how badly things can go wrong when some people get access to power. Predators that abuse public positions of power deserve tar and feathers. At least roadside bandits don't pretend to uphold the public trust.

Multiple current and former members of the McBee Police Department turned themselves in to agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on Monday morning in Chesterfield County.

One person who did not surrender Monday was former Officer Jerriell Wright. Wright contacted Queen City News Chief Investigative Reporter Jody Barr in December 2024, just three months after he was shot at 62 times in an ambush following a Sept. 19, 2024, traffic stop in town.

Wright provided months of text messages between himself, former Lt. Greg Block, and McBee Mayor Glenn Odom - messages that Wright said provided evidence that the mayor and former McBee Police Chief Mike Irvin implemented a 10 tickets per shift quota in the one-stoplight town.

Wright's messages also showed the mayor was critical of Block's lack of ticket production. To satisfy the mayor, Wright said McBee Town Councilman Robbie Liles and current MPD Chief Timmy Knight ordered him to help Block by taking time out of his shift to write tickets using Block's login credentials to access the state's computerized electronic ticketing system.

Wright had text messages to underpin a lot of what he alleged happened. His months of text chains with the mayor showed Glenn Odom's lust for traffic tickets and the $440 fine variety, according to Wright. The mayor, he said, was never satisfied, no matter how high his daily ticket totals climbed.

"Basically, he was saying I ran a red light, which I never passed through the red light. He said I was speeding... I never passed through the intersection," Jackson told me in a March 2026 interview at his jobsite in Longs, S.C. I showed Jackson the same photographs I showed every other person we contacted.

"I was explaining to him I never passed to the light. And he said, I'm not going to argue with you. I can impound your vehicle and take you into custody and stuff. So, I just let it be and kind of went on and took the tickets and paid the tickets," Jackson said.

Read the full bizarre story here.

Bastards.

Mandatory Maiden

Let's change the tone to something more upbeat. Where Eagles Dare is a great drumming songs. Who better to explain how it works than Nicko McBrain?

ONT Movie Night

You can have the Odyssey movie (or most anything else that Hollywood makes). I'll take Airplane.

Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Uncanny Expeditions. Anders primarily devotes his channel to going as far as legally possible on public land to see activity in an around Area 51 and 52. He has traveled to locations around the Mojave and New Mexico as well. His journeys often attempt to debunk or resolve rumor and myth rather than amplify them.

He is not afraid to drive, hike and camp well off the beaten path. He researches the history of specific facilities to explain when they were built, how they developed and what they were used for. His approach is one of curiosity and tangible evidence. For example, rather than just reading about a crash location in a remote location, he travels to see what remains after the clean-up.

His videos often include glimpses of helicopters, fighter jets, Janet flights and even F-117 flights.

Yes, the "authorities" are very aware he exists.

His channel has over 206k subscribers and some of his videos attract over a million views. Some of the footage isn't dramatic but documents activity or lack of activity. It also illustrates just how vast and rugged the landscape is.

The Pittsburgh police scanner is back! Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

Ella Langley for the big ONT finish:

Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored on grounds of Fifth Amendment privilege. Are you lurking ????

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