Hostage situation at Discovery Channel HQ

LibraryLady said:
I'm betting disgruntled employee.


I've driven past there a few times. :(
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Nope. Apparently, this seriously disturbed individual has harbored a grudge against the Discovery Channel for a long time, but has never worked there. He has an online manifesto with his grievances and demands, but the site is unavailable right now (no doubt because of high traffic).

http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com

I'd like to be able to explain why he has a problem with Discovery, but I can't in a way that makes any sense at all. I just hope this can be resolved without any innocent people being hurt.
 
I'm betting a disgruntled viewer.

That channel used to have legitimate documentaries.

Now it's all 'Canada's Worst Driver', 'Canada's Worst Handyman', and 'My Husband Weighs 1200 Pounds'.
 
Captain.Sassy said:
I'm betting a disgruntled viewer.

That channel used to have legitimate documentaries.

Now it's all 'Canada's Worst Driver', 'Canada's Worst Handyman', and 'My Husband Weighs 1200 Pounds'.
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Come on, aren't you interested in how the 1200 pound man gets around?
 
Captain.Sassy said:
I'm betting a disgruntled viewer.

That channel used to have legitimate documentaries.

Now it's all 'Canada's Worst Driver', 'Canada's Worst Handyman', and 'My Husband Weighs 1200 Pounds'.
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I can honestly say I've never seen any of those shows aired on Discovery. ;)

Their current obnoxious trend in the States is a bunch of obnoxious (and repetitive) wilderness survival shows.
 
A caller from One Discovery Place, the channel's headquarters, called police about 1 p.m. to report a man with a gun and possible explosives, said Angela Cruz, a police spokeswoman.
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Mythbusters crew looking for a raise?
 
Cleon said:
bunch of obnoxious (and repetitive) wilderness survival shows.
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No disrespect to the dead, but I blame the crocodile hunter.

Nature documentaries used to be about some zoologists, biologists and camera operators sweating for years in the jungle to bring you a two hour special on ant colonies or salamanders.

Then the crocodile hunter came along with his gonzo approach to nature programming where nature was something to be caught and tormented, not studied from a distance (my 'favourite' was when he cornered a cobra or monitor lizard or something and started poking the hapless reptile with a stick until it tried to bite back in self defence, to his exclamation of 'CRIKEY! LOOK HOW AGGRESSIVE IT IS!!!')

Nowadays most 'nature' shows seem to be more about the film maker than about the animals or plants, and / or you're hard pressed to find one that doesn't personify the animals or give them their own theme music.

Also many of them look staged.



TV could be so great but instead it's so bad. NOVA is OK.
 
Originally Posted by Captain.Sassy
I'm betting a disgruntled viewer.

That channel used to have legitimate documentaries.

Now it's all 'Canada's Worst Driver', 'Canada's Worst Handyman', and 'My Husband Weighs 1200 Pounds'.
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themusicteacher said:
Come on, aren't you interested in how the 1200 pound man gets around?
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I believe Canada's Worst Driver drives him around town in a trailer built by Canada's Worst Handyman.

See it tonight at 9:00 on the Discovery Channel.
 
If you get a chance, read the guy's list of demands.

To summarize his views:
1.) Humans are "the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around"
2.) Civilization is disgusting and comes from horrible religious-cultural roots.
3.) He's against global warming
4.) He's against Anchor babies and all immigration.
5.) He's a supporter of Malthus and Darwin.
6.) He's anti-War.
Yup, he is a dyed in the wool left-wing wacko.
 
joobz said:
If you get a chance, read the guy's list of demands.

To summarize his views:
1.) Humans are "the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around"
2.) Civilization is disgusting and comes from horrible religious-cultural roots.
3.) He's against global warming
4.) He's against Anchor babies and all immigration.
5.) He's a supporter of Malthus and Darwin.
6.) He's anti-War.
Yup, he is a dyed in the wool left-wing wacko.
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Great, and he's now just handed the right-wing wacko's years worth of propaganda.
 
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Achán hiNidráne said:
Great, and he's now just handed the right-wing wacko's years worth of propaganda to help hamstring environmental efforts.
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Let's not forget the anti-evolution crowd a talking point to add to the "evolution=holocaust" argument.

Well, regardless of all that, I hope no one gets hurt.
 
Captain.Sassy said:
I'm betting a disgruntled viewer.

That channel used to have legitimate documentaries.

Now it's all 'Canada's Worst Driver', 'Canada's Worst Handyman', and 'My Husband Weighs 1200 Pounds'.
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Well, there's Bad Universe. :)

Captain.Sassy said:
No disrespect to the dead, but I blame the crocodile hunter.

Nature documentaries used to be about some zoologists, biologists and camera operators sweating for years in the jungle to bring you a two hour special on ant colonies or salamanders.

Then the crocodile hunter came along with his gonzo approach to nature programming where nature was something to be caught and tormented, not studied from a distance (my 'favourite' was when he cornered a cobra or monitor lizard or something and started poking the hapless reptile with a stick until it tried to bite back in self defence, to his exclamation of 'CRIKEY! LOOK HOW AGGRESSIVE IT IS!!!')

Nowadays most 'nature' shows seem to be more about the film maker than about the animals or plants, and / or you're hard pressed to find one that doesn't personify the animals or give them their own theme music.

Also many of them look staged.



TV could be so great but instead it's so bad. NOVA is OK.
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I'm sorry that he died so young and needlessly, but boy that man irritated me. I don't think he created the mess of nature shows today, just rode in on the first wave.

Why can't there be more Meerkat Manors?

And I hope this guy manages not to kill anyone. :(
 
Rika said:
I don't think left-wing wackos are against immigration. Why don't we just try wacko.
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I think that there are some factions of the hard-core environmentalist movement who are anti-immigration mainly because of the pollution and population concerns caused by moving one group of people into another

Don't quote me on that though. It's been a while since I paid attention to environmental extremists, and that was only because I was global warming/ozone-depletion denier and was looking for dirt to use in debating the ecologically-minded.
 
Rika said:
I don't think left-wing wackos are against immigration. Why don't we just try wacko.
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Do you deny that the others fit the left wing wacko motif?
read his anti-immigration stance and it's clear he isn't tea-party motivated.
 
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