Re: Fallout 4 Honey Badger
Antipas Zorn
The trap caught the honey badger and, being the creature it was, things rapidly went pear-shaped. The animal attacked the trap with extraordinary force. Even lions, it has been noted, are afraid of honey badgers. The trap, being made for lesser creatures, was in danger of coming apart as the furious creature lashed and clawed against its confinement.
Johnson and Brink tried to shore it up with bricks and rocks. Cape Nature, when contacted, told them to throw a blanket over the trap to try to calm it down. Any thought of removing the cage seemed out of the question because of the state of the cage and because anyone touching it was liable to lose their fingers.
At some point, the police were called and the story gets murky. One version is that a policeman shot the badger. Another version, purportedly corroborated by a resident, is that the policeman refused to fire his 9mm service pistol in a built-up area, so Brink grabbed the weapon and shot the animal. Neither version has been confirmed and inquiries are ongoing.
Are there consequences? The CHA is furious and may be considering charging Johnson under the Animal Cruelty Act. Cape Nature and the SPCA have asked for and been given a report and are considering the options.
The long and short of it is the men were scared of being mauled so they shot the animal. Johnson should have first informed the CHA but went directly to Brink. He set the trap without informing his superiors.
People like Johnson should not be staying in a National Park.
He should be in nice, safe, built-up, brick and concrete-covered suburbia with all the lights on behind a big electric fence with his birds in their little house.
Get him back where he belongs. Keep him and his kind out of wilderness areas.
Both Johnson and Cape Nature are to blame. It is disgusting that such an incredibly beautiful and clever wild animal should have been shot to satisfy some wealthy persons desire to keep pigeons in a nature reserve.
Get the pigeons and Johnson out of there. Johnson should be ashamed of himself!!
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Being back in NYC has been great. Six months of airplanes, AirBnB's, and the constant push-pull of "are we going to actually move to Houston or not" made for a lot of stress in a marriage of two career-people types, each with their own child getting an education in a different place (for my son, boarding school. for my wife, trying to manage learning-from-home in this perpetual nightmare).
So being able to hold down the household while Anne packed her schedule to the gills with interior-designer-minutiae like site visits, client meetings, etc., is a really nice thing to be able to do. I can honestly create, direct, and direct creatively from virtually anywhere with WiFi and a laptop, and on this particular day I was doing it from the friendly confines of our New York City home. It's summer, so the directive for child care is the relatively simple "keep them alive" doctrine.
Now, without lapsing into the all-too-familiar generational trope of the parent saying, "god damn, our kids are just not prepared to go out into the world"? They aren't. I'm not sure whether to blame myself, iPhones, Fortnite, Afghanistan, or crypto-mining, but that day I experienced this one pivotal, if not hilarious, moment that laid bare the fact we really need to start brushing up on the whole "man, they need to really learn how to turn off a light switch" pre-launch phase.
It being one of those 90+ sort of days (and anyone living in NY will tell you that prewar apartment buildings do NOT have central air conditioning) I retreated to my room for a half hour brain-break with the window unit set to "meat freezer". Determined to just relax for a few minutes, I fell into the YouTube rabbit hole for a bit of diversion.
If you couldn't tell from my personal iconography, I've a weird fascination with the honey badger. It's my spirit animal. They'll fight an entire Serengeti's worth of much larger predators and win. And yes, I've seen that "Honey Badger Don't Care" video, too. Yes, it's funny and no, that was not the impetus for the brand. You can just like dogs without having seen Old Yeller.
Anyways, there's a pair of Honey Badgers on a nature preserve in Africa who are somewhat famous amongst YouTube's enthusiasts: Stoffel and his son, Stompy. They're cute if you like predatorial skunks who'll break into your house, eat your cereal, then pee on your floor. But they're also smart. How smart? That's what this particular video was assessing. Dolphins and octopods are two other members of the animal kingdom who have demonstrated particular intelligence with their ability to problem solve, fashion tools, and retain functional memory.
The elder Stoffel was being put through a series of situations to gauge the Honey Badger's intelligence. Given a challenge, he'd quickly figure out how to unlock doors, escape confines, and use available surroundings to complete a task. Pretty fascinating stuff actually, and I always adore seeing what these bizarre little killing machines are capable of. Yes, it's inspiring. You are free to get your inspiration from wherever you like as well.
A few minutes into the video, as I was watching Stoffel trying to reach an object far out of reach, one of my kids interrupted my pixellated bliss to ask me to get something down from the pantry. "Use the step stool," I replied, "it's right next to the fridge". Stoffel was meanwhile pushing his pet carrier to a wall and flipping it sideways. My son however, was not. "I can't find the step stool!" "Well, look for it". Stoffel was two feet closer to lunch by now. "I don't know how to open it!", my human child wailed from across the apartment. "You just unfold it along the hinge!"
Stoffel by now had achieved his goal and was gnawing on some sort of Honey Badger reward. My child was nowhere close, coming to the bedroom now a fourth time, needing an explanation on how to somehow unfold something. I was unmoved, but did feel the need to point out that an animal that objectively possesses one fiftieth the intelligence had summoned the ability.
You'd think it would have been inspiring... or at least that kind of embarrassing that motivates children to crack the riddle. It wasn't. And in the end, I was benevolent and showed him the quantum mechanics behind a concept like "folding", all the while wondering if maybe there's some summer camp where I could donate these kids to the same nature preserve. Maybe with NatGeo's cameras and the critical eye of YouTube's comment section upon them, they could learn to feed themselves.
The AAC Honey Badger is an AR-pattern personal defense weapon, designed primarily for use in a suppressed configuration. It is chambered in .300 AAC Blackout and was originally produced by Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC).[2] The weapon is named after the honey badger.[3]
In 2013, AAC began focusing their efforts on the production of suppressors. "We made the decision that we are getting out of the rifle-making business", stated Jeff Still, Director of Accessories and Silencers at Remington Outdoor Company. "We are going to focus all of our efforts on silencers and related accessories".[4] In 2017, Kevin Brittingham founded a new company named "Q, LLC". Along with suppressors and a bolt-action rifle of their own design, Q has also developed and marketed an improved Honey Badger.
On October 6, 2020, the ATF sent Q a cease and desist letter, asserting that the Honey Badger pistol was a short-barreled rifle.[5] Though Q tried to resist this claim, they ceased production of the weapon, and confirmed this in an official statement on the 14th.[6][7] On October 15, the ATF gave their cease and desist a 60-day suspension, but Q chose not to resume production of the Honey Badger until the ATF made a definitive decision, as they believed "the ATF could arbitrarily withdraw the suspension at any time."[8]
Both the rifle and the cartridge used were developed in close co-operation with American Special Operations units to create a suitable and effective replacement for the HK MP5 and similar close quarters combat weapon systems. The rifle is designed to be very convenient for military use where M16s are issued and in common use, since many similarities would exist in the fire controls, weapon manipulation, and magazines. The weapon is suppressed and it can be made even quieter by using heavy subsonic .300 Blackout ammunition.
The Honey Badger was developed with a standard M4 upper and lower receiver, a short barrel with a very short gas impingement system and fast rate of rifling twist, a large conventional detachable silencer, and a proprietary buffer tube and collapsible stock featuring two prongs.[10] Whilst with the added silencer, it is 7.62-15.24 cm longer than the MP5SD, the mass is nearly identical unloaded.[9]
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