As a part of Lion Forge’s Catalyst Prime series that kicked off last week with Noble, Superb will tell the story of Jonah, a young man struggling to find his place. A Discovery Channel reality show star ended up behind bars at this year’s “Cash Days,” an illegal street racing competition held in Dallas Fort Worth. Trump's Plan to Screw Over National Monuments Is Mirrored By This Government Flickr Page. On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order that opened up a review of 2. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to resize or even revoke their protected status. Trump decried former president Obama’s designations as a “federal land grab,” while environmentalists worry the order is a precursor to expanding coal mining and oil drilling on America’s wildlands. Neither Zinke nor Trump has confirmed this is the case, but in a sad bit of irony, The Wilderness Society noted yesterday that the official Bureau of Land Management Flickr account has radically shifted its focus away from, well, land, and onto fossil fuel development. The BLM page has dozens of stunning albums full of wildflowers, paleontology, endangered species, and renewable energy initiatives. And yet the recent focus now is on harmful drilling practices, at the exact moment that Trump is deregulating the EPA and now, signaling that he wants to scale back protections on national lands. Here’s a snapshot of the current Flickr: And here’s what it looked like in March: Speaking to press on Tuesday, Zinke said he wouldn’t “predispose what the outcome” of Trump’s new executive order will be, but noted that the order was necessary because “some of these areas were put off limits for traditional uses, like farming, ranching, timber harvest, mining, oil and gas exploration, fishing, and motorized recreation.” Millions of acres of land in areas like Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Utah could potentially be impacted. Environmental groups and tribal coalitions, along with members of the more traditionally conservative outdoors industry, are vowing to oppose changes to the national monument designations. ![]() Let’s hope the sad synchronicity between BLM Flickr account and the executive order isn’t a sign that those changes are near. Watch A Jackass From . And it was all caught on video. Each year, a guy who goes by “Limpy” runs an illegal street racing pot for Oklahoma and Texas. Cash Days, as the pot is called, is widely publicized on a private Facebook group and on Limpy’s own page, and this year, it didn’t go well. Thirty- Two heavily modified cars competed for a pot of $1. Cash Days history, according to You. Tuber 1. 32. 0video. At the finale on Sunday morning, only two racers remained: “Black Bird Vega” and “The Probe,” the latter of which Jerry Bird from Discovery’s Street Outlaws piloted. But no winner ever came of that race, and the two racers were forced to split the pot 5. Black Bird Vega and The Probe At The Finish. In the clip above (whose accuracy the Bird Boyz Facebook page confirmed with me over messenger), one of the guys at the starting line attempts to wave the race off after likely hearing about police officers at the end of the road. But he is too late. The two racers blast down the street, and in short order, the Rozzers turn on their reds and blues. The Vega turns off and drives into its trailer, but Jerry in the Probe heads straight into the trap. The police arrest him for—and this is a direct quote from the police report—“All Traffic Code Violations except DWI,” and impound his car. Here’s a look at the arrest via one of Larry’s relatives’ Facebook page: After a short stint behind bars, Gerald “Jerry” got out, as you can see in the video below that his friend posted to Facebook. A few days after his release, the police let Bird take the Probe from the impound lot, as Jerry’s brother Darryl shares with us on his Facebook page: Jerry doesn’t seem too bummed about any of this, though, as he changed his profile picture to one showing what happened on that fateful night: In fact, nobody really seems bummed about the outcome. All across the brothers’ Facebook pages, you’ll find jovial videos of friends laughing and joking about Jerry’s arrest and the Probe’s seizure, and you’ll see tons of comments from people praising Jerry and his brother as legends. It’s the strangest thing, considering how seriously dangerous and idiotic street racing is. I spoke with Limpy, the self- proclaimed “Godfather of street racing” over Facebook Messenger to learn more about Cash Days. Limpy, whose organization, Dallas Fort Worth Street Society—or DFWSS—organizes the street racing event, told me Jerry’s arrest was only the second under his watch since he started the event in 2. And he was pretty bummed about it, issuing an apology on his Facebook page not only for the arrest, but for the poor roads he had to choose for the races. For a more recent example, consider the disturbingly cheerful pop song by Foster the People, "Pumped Up Kicks," which deals with a school shooting. Land Animals That Would Fuck You Up In Hand-To-Hand Combat, Ranked. The president’s confusing, concerning, and ultimately crazy week continued on Thursday with a prickly Time cover package. It contained an unnerving interview. Lifestyle, Auto, Food & Drink, and Home & Garden online news and information. Commenters received his apology with understanding, and many even praised him for the hard work he does to organize the event: A bit confused at how such a widely publicized street race could possibly fly under the police’s radar, I asked Limpy how he avoids the Five- Oh. He told me: Its hard at times but, you’ve got to plan ahead and always try and be 3 steps ahead of the game. Its definitely a full time job. And they think it’s even cooler to get arrested like Jerry did. It’s pathetic, really.
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