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Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader Jeff H. wrote to suggest this instructional video: Arc Welding with Three Car Batteries [1]

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“Excessive Force” doesn’t begin to describe… Dramatic helicopter shootout and car chase in Rio de Janeiro [2]. (A hat tip to Ol’ Remus [3] for the link.)

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F.G. suggested: Used AK Buyer’s Checklist [4]

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Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large [5]) found this link: Why Vultures Devoured Hiker’s Body in Minutes [6]

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As if on cue… Two days ago I asked rhetorically,: “Is a magazine capacity of 16 rounds inherently more evil, criminal or sinister than a capacity of 15 rounds?” And then came yesterday’s news headline: New York Man Arrested for Having Two Extra Bullets, Violating State’s Seven Bullet Cap [7]. This is just as arbitrary as Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on high capacity soda cups, but has much more serious implications. (Thanks to reader J.B.G. for the article link.)

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I wonder what Joe Dassin [8] would say, if he saw his favorite boulevard now? ‘The Champs Elysee is a battlefield’: Riots on the streets of Paris as thugs hijack David Beckham’s team’s open-top bus title celebrations [9].