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Kickass Facts Part 20: Ultra Long. Sorry for the huge wait, have a job and Fallout 4 now. Extra extra long post as apology. Happy Thanksgiving, post what you ar

Sorry for the huge wait, have a job and Fallout 4 now. Extra extra long post as apology. Happy Thanksgiving, post what you are thankful for in the comments.

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#8 - gibusernamepls (11/26/2015) [-]

Why is a security company allowed to deny the cops access to an area after they've received an emergency call from there?

#148 to #8 - msamnesia (11/28/2015) [-]

i live in clearwater florida, i pass that hotel every day on my way to work

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#56 to #8 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

The Fort Harrison Hotel is used by the Church of Scientology as an area in which to feed, train and house visiting practitioners.[4] It provides both accommodations and "course & auditing" rooms, for Scientologists studying at high levels of Scientology. The Fort Harrison is joined by a walkway bridge over South Fort Harrison Avenue to the Flag Building on the other side of the street.

The hotel also is used for the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), a program used to punish members of the Church of Scientology Sea Organization for "serious deviations." Members of the church in this institution are subject to prison like conditions, forced labor, and many more acts against human rights.[6] Hanna Whitefield's affidavit described the situation:

“Some of us slept on thin mattresses on the bare cement floor. Some had crude bunk beds. There was no place for clothes, so we lived out of suitcases and bags which were kept on bare floors. Some privacy was maintained by hanging sheets up between bunk beds and between floor mattresses. The women and men had separate bathrooms and toilets but they were small. We were not allowed to shower longer than 30 seconds. We had only to run through the shower and out the other end. There was no spare time for talk or relaxation. We awoke at 6:30 A.M. or earlier at times, did hard labor and heavy construction work and cleaning until late afternoon. After [a] quick shower and change of clothing, we had to audit each other and 'rehabilitate' ourselves until 10:30 P.M. or later each evening. There were no days off, four weeks a month. We ate our meals in the garage or at times in the dining rooms AFTER normal meals had ended. Our food consisted of leftovers from staff. On occasions which seemed like Christmas, we were able to prepare ourselves fresh meals if leftovers were insufficient.”[7]

In December 1926, daredevil Henry Roland scaled the building blindfolded.[8]

The Fort Harrison has been the site of at least three suspicious deaths since 1975, most notably the death of Lisa McPherson, who died on December 5, 1995, after spending 17 days in room 174[9] of the building.[10] The officially reported cause of death was a blood clot caused by dehydration and bedrest. This was later challenged in court.[11][12] In 1997, a church spokesman acknowledged that McPherson died at the Fort Harrison, rather than on the way to the hospital. The church later retracted its spokesman's statement.[13]

In February 1980, prior to McPherson’s death, a Scientologist named Josephus A. Havenith was found dead at the Fort Harrison. He was discovered in a bathtub filled with water hot enough to have burned his skin off. The officially reported cause of death was drowning, although the coroner noted that, when he was found, Havenith's head was not submerged.[14]

In August 1988 Scientologist Heribert Pfaff died of a seizure in the Fort Harrison Hotel. He had recently stopped taking his seizure medication in favor of a vitamin program.[14]

In 1997, Clearwater police received over 160 emergency calls from the Fort Harrison Hotel, but they were denied entry into the hotel by Scientology security.[14][15]

Like. What. The. **** .

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#78 to #56 - mjdjoy (11/27/2015) [-]

why is this allowed?

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#123 to #78 - ciacheczko (11/27/2015) [-]

As my father always said: if you don't know what it's about, it's about money.

If no one has busted this mad circus yet, then someone, somewhere, is making enormous money off of it. No tricks, no catches, the more money it is about, the more human lives become insignificant.

#126 to #123 - trollzoll (11/27/2015) [-]

They should send a SWAT team there.

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#68 to #56 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

Lets set the place on fire.

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#106 to #56 - lordlolland ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

Time for a letter~~writing~~-bombing campaign

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#90 to #56 - darkisfire (11/27/2015) [-]

WHAT THE ****

#141 to #56 - theasexualgamer ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

Time to start a ~~peaceful~~ violent ~~letter writing~~ Molotov Throwing campaign.

#142 to #56 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

Les get those ************* !

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#9 to #8 - aquareefer (11/26/2015) [-]

I live in Clearwater, Fl - The Scientologists pay the Police chief for incidents like this; when the police respond, they call the chief and boom, he gets on dispatch and tells them leave premises. **** is happening in that hotel and no one knows what it is.

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#32 to #9 - anon (11/26/2015) [-]

That sounds absolutely horrifying

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#91 to #9 - thepizzadevourer (11/27/2015) [-]

And of course, terrorists bomb parades and buildings instead of places like this.

#140 to #91 - lskovfoged (11/27/2015) [-]

That's because they actually want to cause shock and fear to westeners, not help by taking out something we don't like.

#12 to #9 - ifightdragons (11/26/2015) [-]

i used to live in clearwater i never heard about this i wouldve liked to check it out

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#15 to #12 - aquareefer (11/26/2015) [-]

We need the Doctor.

#103 to #15 - snekebekeliek (11/27/2015) [-]

Hang on Rose! I'm coming!

#136 to #15 - arreatface (11/27/2015) [-]

the Doctor against scientology
would make a hell of an episode, I bet you could cram the Master somewhere in this

#93 to #9 - kfreddy (11/27/2015) [-]

The scariest part is whenever I drive by there, my phone loses reception and my radio gets really fuzzy.

And these guys own 2/3rds of the city of clearwater...

#81 to #9 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

The one time Isis could be useful -.-

#85 to #9 - supahsayin (11/27/2015) [-]

Dude, you should call internal affairs about that **** .

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#13 - smitherysam (11/26/2015) [-]

If a man bought 365 Starbucks gift cards.... doe he really receive a free drink?

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#60 to #13 - TheBobby (11/27/2015) [-]

but if he gets a free drink every year from it then it will pay itself off after the first year

#89 to #60 - smitherysam (11/27/2015) [-]

seems counter-productive if using the gift cards costs as much as buying the drink with cash at the end of the year

#95 to #89 - phenact (11/27/2015) [-]

i think he gets to use it more than once though.

#129 to #89 - TheBobby (11/27/2015) [-]

he only has to register for the card once and he will get a free drink every year. so he pays for the card and then gets a free drink every year after

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#28 to #13 - comicironic (11/26/2015) [-]

I don't think he paid for the cards, I think it's some sort of loyalty card system that you sign up for for free, and they check your birthday and give you a free drink.

#51 to #28 - iflirtwithanyone (11/27/2015) [-]

The loyalty card system at Starbucks is done using gift cards. You could use any gift card and make it your loyalty card. However, I believe that it still has to be activated as a gift card at some point, and we couldn't do less than 5 dollars when I worked there. You might be able to use a card that has never had money on it though, not sure.

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#4 - thelizardlord (11/26/2015) [-]

Thank you Ford

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#2 - xskullgirlsx (11/26/2015) [-]

Now serial killers have to bee afraid of their patterns

Heh

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#48 to #2 - alfrsa (11/27/2015) [-]

#122 to #48 - yoddle (11/27/2015) [-]

**yoddle used "*roll picture*"**
**yoddle rolled image**witch episode?

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#102 - nsfwanon ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

> Hitler sending condolences for a gas leak

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#49 - lennylorenzo (11/27/2015) [-]

France has been with us from the beginning, we will stand by our french allies no matter what

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#3 - pinecest (11/26/2015) [-]

My father was actually one of the trekkies who wrote to nasa.

he was also a cop, worked at nintendo, was a sniper in the marines who had over 300 confirmed kills, and blew up alderaan.

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#6 to #3 - kiaserzerg ONLINE (11/26/2015) [-]

did he also take an arrow to the knee?

#96 to #6 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

he seems like quite the adventurer so i would guess no

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#52 - mattygosling (11/27/2015) [-]

are they not most needed because they are donated the least?

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#107 to #52 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

"Among" which implies there are other "most needed" items, which if I were to guess some other items also among the most needed would be underwear...and maybe gloves. Usually when I donate, I give things like old sweaters, jeans, jackets but old underwear I throw out because...that's nasty. Didn't even occur to me about socks.

If anything needs to be edited here, it is your original post because for ***** sake do you even know how to write a proper sentence structure? "Hurr durr but den if ppl become aware of dat fact den it won't be the most needed, and dat makes me angry *chimpanzee noises*"

Inb4: "oh I was too drunk/tired/mentally retarded when writing my original post"
Inb4: "English is not my native language"

*******

I'm not even sorry

#145 to #107 - mattygosling (11/27/2015) [-]

mate, i dont even care

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#108 to #107 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

Further more I forgot to add, a "most needed item" can in fact also be a "most donated item" depending on the circumstances. An example could be sweaters and jackets could be mostly donated (just an example I don't know the true stats on these items) may seem a bit useless during spring and summer but come winter time, homeless people will want to grab a jacket/sweater come fall and winter making those items "the most needed" for that circumstance and yet luckily "the most donated". Hope that clears your confusion if that was what you were implying.

#58 to #52 - fuzzysixx ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

I think a lot of people don't realise that clean socks are the most important part of a wardrobe.

#59 to #58 - mattygosling (11/27/2015) [-]

im not doubting that, just the fact itself is a bit stupid
if everybody donated socks theyd no longer be the most needed item, it would be whatever is second least donated no?

#62 to #59 - fuzzysixx ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

Yes, but also I'd say there a a varying level of need. You can live fine without deodorant, but dirty socks and no jacket in the winter you won't.

#64 to #62 - mattygosling (11/27/2015) [-]

yeah agreed, i think the wording just annoyed me a little but i guess it makes people aware so thats good

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#16 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

"How do you strive to make others happy?"

And who gets the judge such a subjective answer for dolling out such an insane amount of money?

#18 to #16 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

It sounds like your basic question you'd get given if you wanted to enter an Oxbridge uni.

#19 to #18 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

K.

The concern is what criteria is used in judging one answer over the other. Sincerity? Insight? Integration of complex implications? Being a sassy ************ ?

#20 to #19 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

Like I said, it sounds like the kind of question you'd get asked if you wanted to get into an Oxbridge uni, which are asked in order to judge your evaluative skills and in general see how you think; they don't care about your answer, they care about how you got that answer, what your reasoning is -- your working.

#21 to #20 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

That has an even more controversial criteria for judgment, though...these guys are dolling out 25g's for craps sake...

#22 to #21 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

It's not controversial, it's just subjective. And it's done by the most prestigious universities in the world, too.

It's their 25 grand, after all.

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#23 to #22 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

> You need to login to view this link
> "one of the most prestigious universities"

I think we have a his understanding here.

#24 to #23 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

Oxbridge form the two most prestigious universities in the UK and among the most prestigious in the world. They let people in after they answer questions very similar to these (one, for example, was "what is best about fish?"). Pornhub is not without precedent, and I am suggesting that the reasons behind their question is similar for the reasons behind Oxbridge's.

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#25 to #24 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

Then the reasoning can't just be "because we said so!" There is a criteria for it, even if they're going to admit that it's a full sham to make people think there's some criteria and they really just wanna give money out to who the **** ever.

#26 to #25 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

What do you mean by "criteria"?

Because "we want to find out how you think about **** and the guy who thinks about **** the best" seems like criteria to me.

#27 to #26 - lolollo (11/26/2015) [-]

Because if only one guy gets to win the money, who gets it, and why?

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#10 - psychadelicace (11/26/2015) [-]

I missed these

#77 - anon (11/27/2015) [-]

The more I hear about Scientology, the more dangerous it sounds.
If they're receiving 911 calls from their gatherings, the FBI should force their way in guns drawn as they have for other dangerous cults.

#29 - iamnuff (11/26/2015) [-]

Pretty sure that's not how it works.

If someone calls the police, you can't just refuse them entry, right? Interfering with police-officers responding to an emergency call is a crime, isn't it?

#36 to #29 - victhree (11/27/2015) [-]

Appearently, they bribe the police so they turn away when they arrive.

Whatever's happening in there, it seems absolutely horrifying.

#41 to #36 - iamnuff (11/27/2015) [-]

Not sure who you'd have to bribe to ensure that over one hundred and fifty calls didn't get logged or recorded anywhere. (and clearly they did.)

#44 to #41 - victhree (11/27/2015) [-]

It's Scientology. They've got people in places.

#69 to #41 - angelusprimus (11/27/2015) [-]

Clearwater is basically Scientology central, they pretty much own the chief of police.
Scientology has a nasty habit of destroying anyone who opposes them with hundreds of lawsuits (not ment to win, just to financially kill you), killing your pets, blackmail etc.
In Clearwater officials pretty much gave up.

#146 to #69 - iamnuff (11/27/2015) [-]

You'd think that if they were THIS blatant about it, the clearwater chief of police would have immediately been fired and replaced with someone with no tolerance for their ******** .

Can't you fine people for filing frivolous lawsuit?

#147 to #146 - angelusprimus (11/28/2015) [-]

Well, to replace police chief only person having that authority is the mayor. Cretekos seemed to be ready to take them on in 2007 but suddenly backed off and stopped even mentioning them. Guess is, they found dirt on him and made him back off.
Only other way is to get Feds involved, but since Scientology is a business masquarading as a church, they start screaming Freedom of religion, whenever gov tries anything.
And since people calling for help are members of scientology...
Yeah.

You can. They don't care. They have money to burn, and destroying problems is more important.

www.xenu.net/ good site to read up on them. They have been trying to shut it down in legal and illegal ways since it opened.

#149 to #147 - iamnuff (11/28/2015) [-]

Yeah but... If you fine them for frivolous lawsuits, and they have to pay for the lawsuit itself, then they're burning money from both ends. See if there's a way to make them pay your legal fees too, then it costs you nothing.

As for Feds...

You can cry about freedom of religion as much as you like, but if people are literally calling for help from inside this building, then they're clearly doing something illegal. Even if it's "merely" illegally detaining people. No religion has the right or freedom to do that. Thus, having the FBI kick their doors down and investigate the place is entirely legal.

If the local authorities are too corrupt or incompetent to do anything about it, then someone above the influence should deal with it.

I mean, for ***** sake, Germany of all places managed to give them the boot. Unless they personally have Obama's ear, there's no excuse for them getting away with this **** in america, not when they're clearly not hiding any of their illegal activities anymore.

I mean, random people on the internet know all about it, the evidence is our there. The idea that no legal effective action has been taken against them yet is absurd.

#114 - itskennyandjosh (11/27/2015) [-]

Damn, how does one person kill people with 11 arms!

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#127 to #114 - trollzoll (11/27/2015) [-]

I'm more impressed that the lead singer of Korn could achieve such a feat.

#84 - miia ONLINE (11/27/2015) [-]

holy **** .

that ******* guerilla though.

anyone who goes that ******* hard deserves to escape anything.

#97 to #84 - baconhero (11/27/2015) [-]

Some say he's on the run to this day.

#14 - acebuck ONLINE (11/26/2015) [-]

>hey that looks like the nuclear cars in Fallout
>Oh

#17 - hongkonglongdong (11/26/2015) [-]

These two facts seem somehow connected...

#67 to #17 - angelusprimus (11/27/2015) [-]

Its more complex than that.
In a local shelter where I used to help out they got asked for socks so often that even if they got three times as many socks as t-shirts (the most donated item) there would still not been enough.
Its actually better in California, its so warm here most of the year a lot of homeless goes barefoot or with flip flops a lot of the time. Still, demand outstrips the supply by a wide margin.