Someone sent Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin a package of horse manure for Christmas
Published 9:30 am, Sunday, December 24, 2017
A bomb squad was sent to investigate a suspicious package sent to Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin's neighborhood in Bel Air.
The package turned out to be full of horse manure.
It also contained a Christmas card with negative references to Mnuchin, President Donald Trump, and the massive tax bill Trump signed into law on Friday.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
That's funny. Mnuchin probably thought it was his lunch delivery by private courier.
However, mix a couple of pounds of fertilizer with a couple pounds of ammonium nitrate and you get a bomb that can deliver devastating results. The Sterling Hall Bombing was the result of this mixture.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
RayThom wrote:That's funny. Mnuchin probably thought it was his lunch delivery by private courier.
However, mix a couple of pounds of fertilizer with a couple pounds of ammonium nitrate and you get a bomb that can deliver devastating results. The Sterling Hall Bombing was the result of this mixture.
Sterling Hall? That was in 1970. You're showing your age, Ray. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Pure poop manure *can* spontaneously combust, but not explode.
This is really the best story I’ve read in weeks - I sure hope the sender doesn’t get in any trouble.
A psychologist for LA County who thinks President Trump’s tax bill stinks to high heaven likened himself to Jesus when he admitted delivering a crappy Christmas present to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
Robby Strong told AL.com he dropped off the box of horse manure at Mnuchin’s house as an “act of political theater” to hammer home the point that “Republicans have done nothing for the American worker.”
“What I did, I would like to compare to what Jesus did when he went into the temple and overturned the tables of the money-changers, who were exploiting the people financially in the name of religion,” Strong told 89.3 KPCC.
“I feel like that’s what the GOP has done to the American people,” added the psychologist with the LA Department of Mental Health.
Strong — who said he was an organizer for the Occupy LA movement — sides with critics of the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul who say it favors corporations and the wealthy, CBS Los Angeles reported.
He told KPCC that he “borrowed” some poop from a pal who owns horses and gift-wrapped it in a festive box.
Strong added a card addressed to Mnuchin and Trump.
“We’re returning the ‘gift’ of the Christmas tax bill. It’s bulls—. Warmest wishes, The American People. P.S. – Kiss Donald for me,” he wrote.
On Saturday, the bearded man posted several images on Facebook, one of which shows him posing with a shovel next to the box, and another that shows the box full of what appears to be dung.
“I need someone to ride along and document my Secret Santa project. I’m going to hand deliver boxes of horse s—t to Steve Mnuchin over in Beverly Hills,” he added in a message.
“No disguises, no fake names. Totally owning this one. You’re only powerless if you do nothing!!!” he wrote.
Strong said he delivered one box to a home Mnuchin owns in Beverly Hills, and another to his mansion in a tony Bel Air neighborhood where the LAPD’s bomb squad responded to.
Mnuchin was not in Los Angeles when he received the putrid presents, CBS reported.
He said he realizes his stunt might have put his job at risk – and that he was surprised he has not been arrested by the Secret Service, which questioned him at his home.
“I just got interviewed by the Secret Service and I’ve now joined some of my heroes like Timothy Leary and Martin Luther King,” he told AL.com. “[The agents] just showed up in my yard.”
The LAPD, Secret Service and Treasury Department have not commented on the probe.
Strong pooh-poohed suggestions the prank could have alarmed Mnuchin or his family.
“LOL!” Strong wrote on Facebook. “It was pure organic horse–, just like everything that administration’s done so far. Bomb scares certainly were not my intention, but maybe they should be a little scared, eh.”
Strong insisted that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights.
“A few years ago when [a Supreme Court ruling] said that corporations are persons and money equals free speech, that is so absurd and my rule of thumb is now that if corporations are free speech, then so is horses—t.”
He also said he didn’t violate laws about mailing hazardous waste.
“It was a gift-wrapped package of poo,” Strong told AL.com. “I kind of dodged that whole issue. Is there a law that you can’t drop off a box of poo? Not really.”
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
for those who hang around a race track or farm, used horse feed, or bull feed, does not smell particularly bad. Now the liquid waste from a modern hog farm is another matter.
Burning Petard wrote:for those who hang around a race track or farm, used horse feed, or bull feed, does not smell particularly bad. Now the liquid waste from a modern hog farm is another matter.
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Mrs Mc's brother says he shipped about 3/4 million hogs to market over a 42 year period. He retired from the smell a couple of years ago, saying that it was more profitable to raise the feed, and let someone else run it through the pigs.
I took a short tour of my BIL's hog operation about 25 years ago. He warned me that the smell would cling to my clothes. He suggested that we not go into the hog barn until we were ready to leave. Hundreds of sows, each with several piglets. It's the kind of thing the PETA folks hate to see. My younger son took the tour too. The rest of the family had a problem with us in the car. Sort of like a continuous 80 mile fart.
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
My wife's relatives had a small farm in Puerto Rico with assorted livestock--cows, chickens, and pigs. The smell around the pig pen (and there were only 6 or 7 big pigs and a few babies) was deadly for 25 yards--I can't imagine hundreds in an enclosed space. Her aunt told me you get used to the smell, and I'd imagine you'd have to or no one would raise pigs (and we'd have no bacon).
He was smart enough to put his three hog barns half a mile east of his house. There were also large "lagoons", filling with hog poop, with each barn. The wind seldom blows from the east here.
When the industry decided to market lean pork several years ago, the pigs were sent to slaughter at 125 pounds. More pigs per year, more stink, more profit.
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
