Bad juju stuff.

[Arik]

Wow. I looked at pics online and it looked like a sleepy little village. So that makes me wonder if my rifle was indeed used in some actual crime fighting.

I put the Google pin in like a dozen random places and none looked that good! Not saying there isn't a better part but ....

[Doc Safari]

I put the Google pin in like a dozen random places and none looked that good! Not saying there isn't a better part but ....

The pics I saw looked like the average small town around here: a main strip of old brick and mortar buildings and not much more.

[Sam]

You could feel the sorrow at Dachau. I couldn't feel an evil there just the sorrow.

The house I live in now, and have for the last 20 years, the previous owner committed suicide in the attic. He hung himself and wasn't found for 3 days afterwards. There is still the stain in the floor where his bowels released after he died. When my wife found the house there was a lot of unusual things about the situation. I was in Dallas working and she called me up about it. She said she had found a house and wanted to tell me about it. She said it was perfect for our family, we were having another kid, but something happened there. I said what. She said the previous owner had committed suicide there and did that bother me. I said no as long as he isn't haunting the place. If he is as long as he isn't throwing can's and crap at us and wants to be a friendly ghost no big deal. She wrote the check for the earnest money deposit and it was on her birthday. 10/26. The check number was 1026. The street number was the same as our previous one. Our insurance agent was his agent and lastly my wife had been set up with the previous owner on a blind date a few years before we got married. Every now and then when I'm in the attic and getting something out of storage and I see the stain below where he hung himself I get a bit creeped out. Thankfully though I've never felt his presence there. Regardless I'm careful to do anything in the house that may open the door to something negative coming about.

Sheesh, I wouldn't have bought that house. Glad it doesn't bother you.

[Watrdawg]

Sheesh, I wouldn't have bought that house. Glad it doesn't bother you.

He's moved on and it's been a great happy home for us. Maybe all of that positive energy has been good.

[sundance435]

Anyone get the hebbe jebbies at the Roman Coleseum? Roughly a million people killed on a couple of acres there over the centuries- to cheering crowds no less.

Did you do the underground part? That was kind of surreal. I didn't get weirded out, but I was awestruck trying to imagine it in all its splendor, especially as a gladiator making an entrance. It's truly one of the few sites that met and exceeded my expectations - the rest of Rome, not so much.

[Pi3]

"What are some of the places and things that have given, at the individual level, a generally bad vibe. I.E; the bad juju.
For me, Things:Anything Nazi marked. Especially guns. won't shoot, handle or even let them in my house. Couldn't pay me to take one. Epitome of bad juju in my world. judge me as you see fit."

Funny, It seems like military collectors are especially drawn to the Nazi WWII era, perhaps only matched by the American civil war period. Not just the weapons, but just about anything war related. I heard an exhibitor at a show talking about how he went to Germany and purchased war era stuff from a lady's attic that her father had left.

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

In the summer of 2004, a man at my church told my brother in law and I that he thought his place was being watched, and that he felt like someone was entering his home while he was away. A little back story, Jim had brain cancer twice, both times requiring surgery, chemo, and radiation. His thinking could be a little off at times so we thought maybe he was imagining it. He was around 60 years old, and his health had left him thin and frail. I was young at the time, 24 years old, but I offered to stop by and look around the woods by his house. I found some old soda cans and other trash, but there were kids who lived in the area so I didn't think much of it. I recommended he get some cameras and notify the sheriffs department, he did not do the former and I don't think he did the latter either.

In March of 2005, the Pastor of our church stopped by to visit Jim and found him beaten and stabbed to death. A day or two later a man was arrested in possession of a few of Jim's firearms. Turns out he was a transient that Jim had fed, clothed, let him shower, even let him sleep on his couch a few times. Jim had caught him stealing a few bucks outta his wallet, so he told him he wasn't welcome back. Jim was a creature of habit, and did certain things on certain days every week like clockwork. The POS had been returning on the days he knew Jim would be out for several hours, and entering the home using the spare key that Jim kept outside. He'd take a few sodas and some snacks, knowing when Jim left on those days. It's believed Jim either broke routine and didn't leave that day or he came home early and found the guy in his garage and was killed. He's been tried and convicted 3 times now, the first two being overturned due to technicalities. He ended up getting 36 years.

I've carried around some guilt ever since, feeling like there was maybe something else I could have done for him, even though deep down I know there probably wasn't. He had no family around, just his friends from church and a ham radio club he belonged to. Whenever I drive by his place, now occupied by someone else, it hits kinda hard.

[ralph]

I work in the welding supply industry. Working with compressed gases, and the like. I see Nazi cylinders, typically from Linde, almost daily. When the allies captured them, they turned the swastika into what looks like a window, for example;
2019-03-26_02-05-10 by Willis, on Flickr

I am still amazed at how many of these are still in circulation. Can't help but think they were used for much worse than just oxy fuel cutting and so-on.

I was a pipefitter for 32years... I've handled 100's of bottles in that time..I've heard that bullshit story over and over..I've seen the same mark on Linde bottles from the 50's, 60's. If you look on your pic, the earliest date on the bottle is Febuary, 1959.. A little late for Nazi Germany. Very probably, that was when the bottle was made, and inspected, 5 years later, just like they're supposed to be, we see it was inspected again in April 1964, and then it took a little vacation, and showed up again in June 1974...I've seen bottles that went back to 1912, The story about the Linde bottles and the window like mark is just pure horseshit... More than likely, any bottles that had any Nazi markings were ground off a long time ago..

[sgtrock82]

I was a pipefitter for 32years... I've handled 100's of bottles in that time..I've heard that bullshit story over and over..I've seen the same mark on Linde bottles from the 50's, 60's. If you look on your pic, the earliest date on the bottle is Febuary, 1959.. A little late for Nazi Germany. Very probably, that was when the bottle was made, and inspected, 5 years later, just like they're supposed to be, we see it was inspected again in April 1964, and then it took a little vacation, and showed up again in June 1974...I've seen bottles that went back to 1912, The story about the Linde bottles and the window like mark is just pure horseshit... More than likely, any bottles that had any Nazi markings were ground off a long time ago..

That and Germans didnt just apply swasticas to every bit of gear in sight and never that large. Being a tested an inspected item a gas clinder MAY have been marked by the reich but even the waffenamt on the breech of an artillery piece isnt even half that size

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[Firefly]

Does this patch creep you out? Anger you? Make you offended?

Is it some neo-nazi alt right insignia? A division of the Waffen SS?

It’s the 45th Infantry Division who used it to honor the Native Americans who, like many people esp in Asia, used this symbol in religion and ceremony

A graven image in and of itself is not good or bad. But the people who appropriate it is another matter.

I don’t believe in iconoclasm. Because one day your innocuous logo may be deemed “problematic”


ETA. We should have kept it, went to Europe with it, and let them know who was right and who was wrong with it.