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Old Elmer

Elmer Mc Curdy was a human remnant of the old west and not exactly a wealth of science

In 1911 he attacks a train together with his gang but uses so much explosives to blow up the safe that nothing remains of the loot.

A few months later his escape ends with the police riddling him with gunshots, thus ending his life but not his adventure.

The funeral home that had been entrusted with the body couldn’t find anyone willing to pay for Elmer’s funeral, so they embalmed him, gave him a hat, a rifle and turned him into a local attraction that could be visited for a fee. .

Soon the rumor spreads that putting coins in his mouth brings good luck, so every day visitors fill Elmer with change which is extracted from his body in the evening.

In 1916, 5 years after his death, some relatives showed up to collect the body, but they weren’t real relatives, just some guys who had decided it was the easiest way to take over the local tourist attraction and turn it into a show for their circus. traveling.

Even though Elmer was embalmed, he still showed the signs of aging, so 10 years after his death he underwent a restyling in which he was covered in wax and made up, to be exhibited together with real wax statues in various traveling crime museums to which he was gradually surrendered.

In 1933 it was sold to the producer of an anti-drug film: “Narcotic!” by Dwain Esper who used it as a drug addict’s props for advertising purposes.

In 1949 he takes a break from show business and rests for more than twenty years in a Hollywood warehouse without anyone knowing that he isn’t a real wax figure.

In 1967 he made a cameo in David Friedman’s masterpiece She She’s Freak.

In 1970, now worn out by time and neglect, he was deemed worthless and sold to a house of horrors in Long Beach as a mannequin.

On December 8, 1976, an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man was filmed in that house of horrors.

For stage needs, an assistant director is sent to move Elmer who is hanging from the ceiling.

And one of Elmer’s arms is left in his hand.

He notices that mannequins aren’t usually filled with real bones, real muscles and real cartilage so he decides that maybe it’s time to call the police.

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The Unkillable Tax Man By Will Dabbs, MD

Truman Everts was a 19th-century American public servant who took stewardship of money to some fairly impressive extremes.

 

Wilderness survival. A river of ink has been spilled on that thorny subject. “Survival Experts” of a variety of stripes have eked lucrative livings out of eating vile stuff on television in the name of besting nature. Reality is a bit different.

I spent more than my share of time in the boonies back when I was a soldier. On a couple of occasions, a handful of mates and I airlifted into the wilds of Alaska to spend a week living on Arctic grayling, ptarmigan, and whatever else we could scrounge. Don’t be impressed with that. Alaska in the summertime makes that pretty darn easy. If nothing else, the entire state is covered in a thin patina of berries.

I completed the Army’s Northern Warfare Mountain Survival course and the USAF Arctic Survival School. They called the latter “Cool School.” I would more accurately refer to it as the “US Air Force Food Appreciation Course.” I actually got hungry enough to eat a boiled rabbit, but that’s a story for another day.

The typical human can actually make it about 30 days without food. However, that’s in a safe, controlled environment. Do that in the 19th-century American wilderness, and something is going to eat your emaciated butt for dinner. Now, hold that thought …

Truman Everts’ wilderness adventures captivated America. This is an image from a period article on the subject.

The Guy

Born in 1816 in Burlington, Vermont, Truman Everts was one of six brothers. His Dad was a ship’s captain. During the American Civil War, Truman earned a position as assessor of Internal Revenue for the Montana Territory. Abraham Lincoln signed his appointment. He served in this role from 1864 until 1870.

I guess as a sort of retirement gift to himself, in 1870, Everts struck out as part of an expedition led by Nathaniel Langford and Henry Washborn into what would eventually become Yellowstone National Park. On September 9, Everts fell behind for some reason. In short order, he lost his packhorse along with most of his grub. Now bereft of both sustenance and equipment, Everts trekked along the southern shore of Yellowstone Lake in an effort at locating his comrades.

Meanwhile, Langford and Washborn were actively trying to find the lost tax man. They fired their weapons into the air and built giant fires. They had a pre-established rendezvous point. However, once the expedition arrived, there was no sign of Everts. Eventually, they just gave up.

Mount Everts in Yellowstone National Park named after Truman Everts.

A Serendipitous Turn of Events

On October 16, some 37 days after Everts wandered away from the group, a pair of local mountain men — George Pritchett and “Yellowstone Jack” Baronett — happened upon this half-dead tax assessor. The poor man was delirious, frostbitten, and burned from hovering around natural geothermal vents in an effort to keep warm. He weighed a mere ninety pounds.

Baronett and Pritchett had actually been dispatched to recover Everts’ body. Imagine their surprise when they discovered him wandering about, delirious, some 50 miles from where he had first become separated from his party. One of the two rescuers stayed behind to help nurse Everts back to health while the other trekked a further 75 miles to get help.

Everts had subsisted mostly on raw thistle roots. This particular plant was subsequently named “Everts’ Thistle” in his honor. Henry Washburn later christened a mountain peak near Mammoth Hot Springs “Mount Everts” in recognition of his remarkable feat of survival. Everts penned a book titled “Thirty-Seven Days of Peril” that gained him some modest notoriety. However, all was not unicorns and butterflies for Truman Everts.

Everts harrowing adventure still available in print.

 

Those two mountain men weren’t out hunting Everts’ moldy old corpse just for giggles. There was a reward for his recovery. However, Everts himself insisted that the reward not be disbursed. He claimed that he had been fine and would have successfully walked out under his own steam if only they had let him be.

Given his fame, Everts was offered the position of first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. While this was a prestigious thing, Everts turned down the offer as it paid quite literally nothing. He instead took a job in a post office in Hyattsville, Maryland. This unkillable guy eventually succumbed to pneumonia in his home in 1901. In the end, Truman Everts was indeed ever the tight-fisted tax man.

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The Bataan Death March

Eighty four years ago, The Japs defeated the US Filipino Army at the Bataan Peninsula & were shocked at the number of POW’s captured. They were not prepared for this and they also held that anyone who surrendered were lower than Whale shit.

So they marched these exhausted, starving, sick men 65 miles to some hell holes called “prison camps”.  During this hike that the survivors called it. Anyone falling out was bayoneted by the Japs or if the guard just did not like you. Also any rings like West Point, College Rings & other jewelry were stolen by them.

The Japs also would shoot at Civilians who tried to give food or water to the marching prisoners. So it really was a time of Hell on Earth.

What really got me was the fact. That almost none of the surviving guards except for General Homa were punished for this. Thanks to General MacArthur basically giving amnesty to the Japs after we defeated them.

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How we got our man back

This is from the California Post – The US rescued a missing F-15E airman deep inside Iran with an incredibly complex and daring mission that involved SEAL Team 6, a CIA ruse, a hastily constructed forward air strip in hostile territory, and patrols of friendly aircraft that gave the Air Force colonel cover.
A life-or-death race between US and Iranian forces to find the “seriously injured” weapons officer outside Isfahan over two days culminated in the crew member’s extraction by America’s most elite commandos and a firefight with local militias that were hunting for him.
The unnamed officer, who was shot down on Good Friday in southwestern Iran, hid out in the Zagros Mountains and managed to climb a 7,000-foot ridge to evade capture for 36 hours with just a handgun for defense while American MQ-9 Reaper drones pounded nearby Iranian forces with missiles if they got close to his position.
A US Air Force landing strip was set up close to the city, which houses many of Iran’s missile and army bases, nuclear facilities, and the last of its fleet of F-14 fighter jets.
Two of the aircraft — believed to be MC-130J Commando IIs, specialized, high-tech transport planes — became stuck at the forward airfield in Iran, and three more aircraft were dispatched to pick up the US forces left stranded there, according to the Times.
The two MC-130Js — each worth around $100 million — were demolished in place so as not to fall into enemy hands.