Funny pictures

[aahorn]

that is the single greatest article/funny picture ever
general black jack.. you are a bad ass

[Cman]

What is this?

[asmo]

Not a funny picture, but I didn't know where else to put it.

I hate to be that guy, but this picture has been around a long time. The photograph does not depict a tsunami wave nor was it taken in Sumatra. In fact, the "wave" shown in the photograph is a large dust storm that hit the town of Griffith, NSW Australia in 2002. Besides the houses in Sumatra don't look like that.

The photograph is featured as part of a Sydney Morning Herald news article that was re-posted on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website in November 2002. The photograph includes the following caption:

The residents of Griffith rushed to seal their houses at dusk yesterday as a fierce dust storm raced into the town with warning, propelled by winds of up to 90 kilkometres (sic) an hour. The dust cloud moved across the state and into Sydney today. Photo: Denis Couch

The original photograph has a date stamp of "12.11.2002" (November 12, 2002). The prankster who launched this hoax apparently removed the date stamp because it would have immediately destroyed the illusion that the photograph was taken during the 2004 tsunami.

[Ridge]

Not a funny picture, but I didn't know where else to put it.
This picture was taken on the banks of Sumatra Island
(the height of waves was of approx. 32 m = 105 ft).
It was found saved in a digital camera, after the disaster.
We cannot know for sure, but very likely the one who took the picture is not alive any more (it was just a matter of seconds).
Today we can see the last image he/she saw before ending life on Earth!

That's not a wave. Waves do not get to be 105 feet. That is a dust storm, similar to the one pictured below from Iraq in 2005.



http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm

[Irving]

Wasn't Sumatra devastated by a volcanoe a couple thousand years ago? Or am I thinking of Hercularium?

[Cman]

Well bummer on that wave thanks for setting me straight!

[GilpinGuy]

This is so kick ass. I've heard that in Israel, they put jugs of pig parts on busses to deter terrorist pussies from blowing themselves up for fear that some of the parts might touch the asshats during the explosion, rendering them usless in the promised land of virgins.

Probably an urban legend, but sounds like a reasonable way to deter unreasonable savages. Use their own beliefs to defeat them.

[Ridge]

[Ridge]

[tmleadr03]

I will take the bottom left please.