Bullying A Dragon / Real Life

Real life Professional Wrestling examples can be found in the pro wrestling BAD page.

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Nature

• In this video a hyena matriarch who had orchestrated repeated attacks on the pride of Ntwadumela - a lion whose name translates as 'He Who Greets with Fire' - aggravates him despite him repeatedly warning her to respect his territory. Eventually, the lion and one of his leading lionesses decide enough is enough, and the results are what you might expect.
• This tiny fennec fox harasses a wolf-dog (in a cage) several times its own size. According to the description, the owner keeps the two separate from each other because the wolf-dog might kill the fennec fox, by accident, and the wolf-dog could easily break out of the cage it is in if it really wanted to.

  The Dro: "Scout, she can swallow you whole. Be nice."

• Small animals such as geese, small dogs, insects, and such that are any combination of too aggressive, territorial, or stupid to realize that hassling a human being is a bad idea.
  • Watch this video and count off how many times this guy picks this goose up by the neck and chooses to simply toss it from the boat rather than actually harm it.
  • This horse, however, wasn’t nearly as patient. Sure, the title may say the goose merely passed out, but horses kick with ~2000 psi of force, and the goose went flying. We all know what really happened to the annoying avian...

Ancient to early modern

• During the second and first century BC, the Cilician Pirates had taken advantage of Rome battering down the great naval powers of the Mediterranean and not really caring for naval power to effectively take over the whole sea while Rome looked the other way (it helped that Rome found them a convenient source of cheap slaves)...up until they started threatening Rome's grain supply, at which point Rome chased them out of their Cilician bases in 102 BC, and then again in the 79-74 campaign, though they didn't finish them off. What did the pirates do? They built up, reinforced the fortified cities and small countries they controlled, and then cut off Rome's grain supply and raided Ostia, Rome's harbor, thus proving themselves an actual and existential threat worth of Rome giving unprecedented military, political and financial power to Pompey. Pompey's Pirate War saw the Cilician Pirates destroyed, never to rise again, in 89 days.
• Of all the people Caligula had to mess with, he had the stones to bully the original Praetorian Guard too. He'd done it for so long, and with so many humiliating things such as embarrassing passwords, and raping their wives that it would eventually lead to the Praetorians plotting his death, and succeeding.
• Sultan Muhammad II of the Khwarezmian Empire and his uncle Inalchuq thought doing this to Genghis Khan of all people was a good idea. Inalchuq, governor of the Khwarezmian city of Otrar, accused a Mongol trading caravan of being spies, executed all the Mongol merchants, and seized the caravan's contents for himself. When word of the massacre got back to Genghis, he sent three diplomats, two Mongolian, and one Muslim to Muhammad to demand reparations and that Inalchuq be punished; Muhammad responded by having the Mongolian diplomats publicly humiliated before making them carry back the decapitated head of their Muslim comrade. Ironically, Genghis hadn't been interested in clashing with the Khwarezmian Empire (he was already embroiled in a bloody war against the Jin Dynasty in China and had hoped to establish trade routes with the Khwarezmian Empire), but by torturing and killing his envoys, violating a taboo Genghis considered sacred, they provoked Genghis into abandoning his war in China to launch a wholesale invasion that effectively wiped the Khwarezmian Empire off the map. Inalchuq was captured and brutally executed by the Mongols during the invasion via having molten silver poured into his eyeballs, while Muhammad died of illness while on the run after the Mongols sacked his capital city.
• Famed Spanish soldier Diego García de Paredes had several of those stories. The first of them involved Paredes being insulted by a squad of the Papal Guard in Rome while the Spaniard and his gang were playing to a throwing rod game, which led to the Spaniards (with Paredes not wielding his sword, but the rod itself) wiping the floor with the twenty or so guards, killing five of them. In another, some thugs and their molls insisted on messing with him while in an inn in Coria, which Paredes answered to by knocking out one of them with the bench he was sitting in and throwing the rest of them, men and women, to the inn's hearth fire. You did not mess with this guy.
• In 1515, a gang of thugs tried to mug a plain-looking guy in the streets of Santo Domingo. Said guy turned out to be Alonso de Ojeda, a retired conquistador and sword virtuoso, who promptly unsheathed and forced them to run for their lives.

Modern examples

• Friends of Bruce Lee claim that a man once snuck into Lee's home in order to challenge him to a fight. Supposedly, Lee put the man in the hospital with one kick.
• Casey Heynes was being picked on by Richard Gale, a kid two-thirds his size, because Heynes was overweight. When Gale began throwing some vicious punches, Heynes took a few blows, but eventually had enough. Heynes lifted Gale over his head and slammed him down onto the concrete floor of the hallway, a move that would earn Heynes the nickname 'Zangief Kid'. Gale got up but was clearly in no condition to fight anymore, heavily favoring one leg and barely managing to stay on his feet. The story was captured on video, with Heynes appearing on multiple talk shows in the weeks after it happened.
• A man by the name of Frank "Rocky" Fiegel who lived in Chester, Illinois was known throughout the town for being the local scrapper. One tale mentions that several young men took him out to the woods with the intent of ganging up on him and beating him up. He came back without a scratch while the men out in the woods needed medical attention. To further illustrate this man's fighting ability, he was the inspiration for a certain cartoon character with a noted love for spinach.
• Nikolai Valuev is a 7-foot-tall, 320-pound professional boxer with a record of 53-2-1. Yet, a 61-year-old man STILL decided to cuss out his wife over a parking spot. The first punch literally knocked him several feet through the air.
• World War II:
  • The attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII is considered one of the biggest strategic blunders in the 20th century. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, according to legend, saw what had happened with the attack and said "I fear we may have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve". Yamamoto may or may not have actually said that, but what we do know for sure is that he mentioned his misgivings regarding this to his superiors.
    Yamamoto: In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
    • While whether or not he said the "sleeping giant" phrase is debatable, what is verified is that during a meeting where plans to attack Midway were being discussed, Yamamoto flat-out told all the assembled officers that America's industrial might would crush Japan. This stunned all of them, as they firmly believed in their own superiority and defeat was unthinkable. Yamamoto, however, had no such illusions and knew their only chance was to inflict so much damage on the Americans that they sued for peace. Yamamoto also knew that would never happen, and that America would curb-stomp Japan, but he was between a rock and a hard place; if he didn't attack the United States then Japan would never be able to get to vitally needed resources (in short, the Phillipines were in the way of their best potential oil supply in the Dutch East Indies) and their campaign would embarrassingly stall out within the year, if he opened with anything but a devastating sneak attack Japan would be curbstomped even faster, and while he personally might be in favor of withdrawing from China as the Americans demanded the rest of Japan's extremist government would never have agreed. While Yamamoto would live to see the war turn against the Japanese just like he predicted, he never saw his country's final defeat as the Americans learned of a flight he was going to be taking and ambushed him, shooting down the plane and killing Yamamoto.
    • It bears mentioning that at this time, the United States had already tipped the First World War over, and despite its non-interference with the second one's beginnings, is still stupidly bigger to the point of several individual states being the size of Japan, and having originally been the nation to use Gunboat Diplomacy to bring Japan into the international community kicking and screaming.
    • Even worse is that in hindsight, the very idea to attack the US Pacific Fleet while they are docked to cripple the base and navy in one fell swoop was a bad idea in the long term even if the Japanese dealt the expected intended damage. Not only did the close proximity to land save many sailors and some ships from a watery grave (Nevada and Vestal both beached themselves to avoid sinking), but the fleet's three main carriers were out at sea when it happened which prevented them from getting damaged- albeit that this was partially due to prudent planning (The USN never had its carriers in the same port at the same time) and blind luck (USS Enterprise would have been docked, but had been delayed by bad weather on the way and so was still some distance out). As the carrier mindset wouldn't be adopted by the US Navy after Pearl Harbour, a hypothetical interception of the attack would've actually got the US Pacific fleet scuttled at sea and the IJN would have control over the Pacific. So... task failed successfully?
  • Germany's attack on the Soviet Union (with whom they had a previous nonaggression pact) didn't turn out any better. What makes it this trope is that any idiot should be able to look at population numbers and know that for Germany, losing half a million men out of their army would be a disaster, whereas for the Soviet Union sacrificing one million men to kill half that many Germans would be a victory.^note In reality, it was not so simple. With hindsight, we know it was a mistake. But at the time, no one believed in the Russians and their ability to fight; no one took the Red Army seriously, to the point that the Allies themselves were debating whether or not they should attack the Russians. So to the Nazis and most strategists at the time, it was not such a horrible, terrible mistake as we know now.
  • Germany declaring war on the United States after the Pearl Harbor attack is generally considered the second-biggest blunder of the war, or at least tied with invading the Soviet Union. Hitler wanted freedom to have his U-Boats attack American ships that were delivering supplies to England, so he declared war. All that did was give Roosevelt the excuse he needed to put Germany squarely in America's sights and to demonstrate to the entire world that America, unlike Germany, was fully capable of fighting two major wars on multiple fronts simultaneously. Basically, all Roosevelt did was tell the Army and the Atlantic Fleet to handle Europe and let the Pacific Fleet and the Marines handle Japan.
• Audie Murphy in Hollywood. Wannabe macho types would take one look at this wiry little five-foot-five man with the babyface and the soft, high-pitched voice and say: "That's the most decorated American soldier of WWII? I bet I could take him." Murphy had been a scrapper in school and in the Army due to his hot temper, small size and Embarrassing First Name, and practiced boxing and judo in Hollywood. He also earned most if not all of his decorations the hard way: By killing swaths of foes in a lonesome rampage while sitting in a raging firestorm, seriously injured, and sick with Malaria several times. He invariably curbstomped his attackers with anything that was handy, ranging from riding crops to lead pipes to bricks. Eventually, he got tired of having to deal with these clowns and finagled a concealed-carry permit from his friends in the LAPD. After that, he would usually just pull a .45 service pistol on the troublemakers and make them back down without a fight, which saved considerable wear and tear on his knuckles and their faces.
• Tim Langdell (owner and sole employee of Edge Games) made a career out of bullying dragons — he had numerous dubious trademarks on the word Edge and would force settlements out of companies to use the word, using doctored evidence to make it look like he was maintaining the trademarks (and they were thus valid) when he actually wasn't. Amusingly, his downfall came partially from picking on someone his own size — although it was ultimately the biggest, nastiest dragon he tangled with (one Electronic Arts) that humiliated him in court and forced him into a settlement that was very much in their favor (including forcing him to withdraw many of his trademarks), their legal case was based in large part on evidence gathered by indie game developers and enthusiasts after they bullied small independent developer Mobigame, having their title Edge removed from the iPhone App Store and threatening them with legal action if they tried to reinstate it.
• John "Totalbiscuit" Bain, throughout his life, had several problems with indie game developers putting copyright strikes against his YouTube channel after he gives their games extremely scathing reviews, only to back down after TB or his fanbase tore them apart. One of them (the makers of Guise of the Wolf) actually threatened to sue, only to back down when Totalbiscuit encouraged them to do so, knowing that no sane prosecutor would willingly take a losing case (as reviews are constitutionally protected) as well as having Polaris's lawyers at his back.
• North Korea, while having a very large military in personnel and having the highest percentage of military spending to GDP (25%), still falls under this trope since their army is generally poorly fed, equipped with outdated weapons, and spends a lot less on its military than South Korea does (which spends almost as much on its military as North Korea has a GDP). Yet they still have broken the cease-fire agreement with the South many times and constantly reiterate their wish to crush South Korea & the US. They get away with it because they're basically holding South Korea's population hostage: for decades, they've had enough conventional artillery aimed at Seoul, South Korea's capital, to level it and kill millions of people before anyone can stop it, and more recently they've built a small nuclear arsenal. The United States would still win any war, but they could do enough damage before they're defeated that it's never been worth the risk. Also, China has (on paper) pledged to defend North Korea, and it prefers to keep North Korea's government intact to avoid both having American bases uncomfortably close to their borders and a wave of North Korean refugees causing problems. Even this is a bit downplayed, as China is generally uninterested in backing North Korea beyond the bare minimum to keep the country afloat and will often pressure the North Koreans to tone down the posturing to avoid getting in the way of China's trade with the States.
• Burt Reynolds tells a story of meeting Rocky Marciano. Reynolds sized up the former heavyweight champion boxer and thought to himself that he could probably take him. Rocky immediately leaned forward and said, "Don't even think about it!" When Reynolds asked how he knew what he was thinking, Marciano simply replied, "I always know." Apparently, Marciano had trouble with people thinking they could best the champ.
• Aaron Barr of HB Gary Federal publicly bragged on the Internet about how he was going to take down Anonymous (yes, that Anonymous) using social engineering after having done "research" on potential criminals — in reality, mostly innocent people who passively supported them, which pissed Anonymous off to a huge degree. It... didn't end well for him. After the resulting digital Curb-Stomp Battle, he was forced to resign in disgrace. Stephen Colbert said it best:
  Stephen Colbert: "Now, to put that in hacker terms, Anonymous is a hornets' nest, and Barr said, 'I'm going to stick my penis in that thing'. (cue laughter from the audience) Because, faster than you could say, 'Get these hornets off my penis!' Anonymous took down Barr's website, stole his emails, deleted the company's backup data, trashed his Twitter account, and remotely wiped his iPad."
• Duncan Ferguson is a Scottish footballer. He is often known as Duncan Disorderly. Despite this, he has been burgled twice — while he was home. The end result, the burglars get the crap beaten out of them.
• Angry crowds can be dragons too. Akku Yadav was a criminal who had been committing rape and murder in the Indian city of Nagpur for over a decade, and getting away with it due to police corruption. When he was brought into court for a bail hearing, over two hundred local women showed up. He spotted a woman in the crowd he had raped and called her a whore. The women, suitable enraged, brutally lynched him on the spot, taking turns stabbing him for fifteen minutes, even after he died, as well as somebody cutting off his penis. When the police went to arrest the women responsible, all the women of the community claimed responsibility.
• A group of thugs reportedly sized up Chuck Norris, not believing his badassery to be real (memes aside, Chuck Norris is a highly skilled martial artist with multiple black belts, including one in a style he invented himself). When the police showed up a few minutes later, Chuck was leaning amicably against the wall and the thugs' arms were broken so badly the police were afraid to handcuff them lest their injuries become even more severe. That and the cops were laughing themselves sick at the whole situation.
• Recent stories of police harassing motorists call to mind an Urban Legend alleged to have taken place during World War II. According to this admittedly apocryphal account, some soldiers were transporting important material for the Manhattan Project cross country, via Army truck. The material was classified, and absolutely no one unauthorized was to see it. During the trip, the truck was stopped by a couple of policemen, who demanded to search the contents of the truck. The soldiers protested that they were transporting military secrets and that their orders were that no one unauthorized was to see the contents of the truck. The police replied that they didn't care and that the soldiers were to open the damn truck right now. The soldiers opened the truck, which contained the classified material — as well as a couple of armed MPs who, acting on standing orders, immediately shot and killed the policemen. The soldiers then contacted Washington and were ordered to dispose of the bodies in an unmarked grave.
• In the 1980s, there was a rash of hostage-taking by terrorists. Some terrorists had the bright idea to take hostages from the Soviet Union, ignoring the fact that, at the time, the USSR was a global superpower with limited respect for human rights or international law. The result: the KGB in turn abducted family members of the hostage-takers and returned them to the terrorists — one small piece at a time. It was a long time before anyone attempted to take Russian hostages.
• Numerous YouTube videos showing tourists going a bit too far in teasing British Royal Guards. They end up quickly discovering that you don't really want to mess with them. Despite their infamous reputation for not responding to anything, they're still trained soldiers who are carrying high-powered rifles with bayonets. Specifically, they are ordered to stand at attention at all times unless they are marching back and forth, but are in fact allowed to move to deter a "nuisance" (such as the dumb-ass tourist taunting them). And if they are marching, they will shout a warning to move, and kick you to the side if you don't. The part about "standing perfectly still" really gets on their nerves if you try to test that, and will earn you an aggressive "STAND BACK FROM THE GUARD!" and likely a loaded rifle pointed at you. And if you still don't get the message and leave the guards alone, they'll be more than happy to detain you or push a button in their sentry booth to summon other guards to do it. Here's an example of someone pestering a guard. It goes as well as you'd expect.
• In early 2013, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, which had a $499 price tag and DRM that would effectively screw over the used games market by limiting how many times one could install a second-hand game. Thanks to this, the Xbox One also required an internet connection to check in every 24 hours to make sure the console was "legitimate". When asked how people with poor or no internet connection were supposed to play the console, Microsoft responded with a message that essentially said "Don't buy the Xbox One". Fans were incensed about these policies. Sony took full advantage of this at E3 2013, announcing a $399 price tag for their upcoming PlayStation 4, and that they wouldn't be implementing the DRM or used game policies Microsoft was implementing, to thunderous applause. Some time later, despite saying that they couldn't just flip a switch and turn these new policies off, Microsoft effectively flipped a switch and turned these new policies off before the Xbox One launched.
• Jim Rome's infamous Talk2 interview with Jim Everett. For years, Rome had nicknamed him "Chris Everett", a play on the name of women's tennis legend Chris Evert, and prodding of Everett infamously curling into the fetal position to avoid a sack. He decided to continue this in a face-to-face interview. Naturally, a 6'5" retired NFL player is more than a match for a 5'9" sportscaster. As Rome discovered when Everett flipped the table and knocked him over.
• This video shows a Nile crocodile attacking a fully grown African elephant. At best, a crocodile is even at its largest less than a quarter of the size of an elephant, and an elephant is fully capable of killing a crocodile merely by stepping on it. The elephant's power is shown when it lifts the crocodile out of the water while it's holding onto its trunk but appears to settle for just shaking off the crocodile instead of crushing it.
• Judge sets bail to a girl. The girl said 'Adios' as she left, which the judge found a bit too sassy and had her bail increased. What brought it to this trope is when the girl flipped the judge off (with the requisite 'fuck you'), causing the judge to sentence her for contempt.
• Edmund Kemper's mother, according to his own account of events, made a lifestyle out of verbally harassing and tormenting him. This despite the fact that he was six-foot-nine-inches tall and had spent time at Atascadero State Hospital for murdering his grandparents at age 15. This turned out about as well as you could expect it to (CAUTION: Article contains some serious Nightmare Fuel).
• This housecat challenging a lioness, much to the horror of the human filming. Thankfully for all parties involved, the lioness was in an enclosure and the small cat wasn't.
  • Subversion: there are several viral videos of housecats successfully intimidating bears and chasing them away.
• BRIAN BLESSED recounts in his autobiography being at a party at The Bristol Old Vic in the 1950s celebrating the launch of a play by Harold Pinter, who drunkenly went around picking fights with people. Blessed's friends looked to him for protection, because he was The Big Guy and had boxed in his youth. Pinter came up to Blessed and said, "You're that big lad everyone's going on about, let's have a go". Pinter threw a punch that Blessed easily dodged and then Blessed responded with a hook that knocked Pinter flat on his arse. In conclusion, not only did Pinter pick on the wrong guy, but decided to face a Gigantopithecus who's not only widely known for his largely over-the-top performances but also one that's also known for being a former fighter.
• Rapper Remy Ma is a victim of this. This is the same rapper who went to jail for 6 years for attempted murder, and yet a woman attempted to attack Remy Ma. She should be lucky that all Remy did was just punch her.
• Possibly the dumbest thing the Khmer Rouge did once they took over Cambodia following the end of The Vietnam War was attacking their own former ally and neighbor Vietnam. Take into account that the North Vietnamese were the same people who had been supplying them with weapons and providing training to their forces during the war in the first place. Also, the latter were far better equipped than the former were, with a professional army trained, supplied by, and advised by the Soviets- and if that wasn't bad enough, these were the same Viets who sent their French colonial masters running home to lick their wounds by beating them in a straight confrontation, and caused the US a massive headache for almost two decades afterwards, eventually outlasting them by continuing to fight even after nearly a million soldiers dead. Also, the Vietnamese Communists in the north had just concluded a long and brutal war with the anti-communists in the South; the ARVN alone in the mid-70s was over ten times the size of the Khmer Rouge's regular military in 1979, and much better equipped. The Vietnamese military of 1979 consisted of both that army and the one that beat it. This is in contrast to the Khmer Rouge's mostly ragtag guerrilla army composed of Child Soldiers and farmers and peasants given guns, with only a bare handful of divisions of actually regular military forces, which even per man were inferior to the Vietnamese. To wit, the standing army of Vietnam was 615,000 men with 900 tanks, 2,000 armored vehicles, and 300 combat aircraft, while Cambodia had just over 70,000 men with 200 armored vehicles and no notable numbers of tanks or aircraft. You can probably guess the Khmer Rouge did not last long after pulling off this stunt...
• In the spring of 1916, the baseball team of Cumberland University, located in what's now the Nashville suburb of Lebanon, Tennessee, played Georgia Tech. Cumberland destroyed Tech 22–0... with a team allegedly filled with professional players posing as students. Tech's head coach John Heisman (yes, as in the Heisman Trophy) took note. That fall, Cumberland was scheduled to play Tech in football... a Tech team coached by the same John Heisman. Cumberland had actually decided not to field a football team that season for cost-cutting reasons, but it forgot to tell Heisman beforehand, and he demanded that the game be played. Since not playing would likely have led to a legal judgment that would have bankrupted the school, a student manager rounded up 14 of his fraternity brothers to travel to Atlanta to play the game. The score? 222–0. In later years, Heisman himself wrote that he had decided to run up the score partly as revenge for the baseball game.
• This is what ultimately torpedoed the career of Mr. Red Scare himself, Joseph McCarthy. Opinion was already turning on McCarthy as 1954 dawned, but he'd avoided any major publicity SNAFUs by targeting persecuted outsiders like communists and the LGBTQ community (social acceptance of LGBTQ was much less prevalent back then). Then he went after Fred Fisher, who was your ideal example of a 1950s man: young, Caucasian, patriotic, and worked for the Army. The following Army–McCarthy hearings made him look like a paranoid and spiteful bully, which completely killed McCarthy's reputation, in turn permanently killing his career. As a result, he would drink himself into an early grave in 1957.
• Daring Sony of all companies to sue you can only end one way, as Dbrand found out the hard way.
• The same can be said when Soulja Boy "released" a brand of consoles that were just marked-up emulation boxes from China that were loaded with games from Nintendo's 8-bit and 16-bit eras. When it was pointed out to him that emulation is a legally dodgy area at best and supplying copies of the games is definitely not legal even when distributed for free, let alone sold, Soulja Boy responded "Nintendo ain't gonna do SHIT!" and mocked Reggie Fils-Aime (the at-the-time CEO of Nintendo of America) and their legal team. Just a friendly reminder for anyone out of the know: Nintendo fiercely defends their copyrights, goes after the emulation and mod community all the time, and is even known to demand takedowns of Lets Plays. It didn't take long for Nintendo to do shit: their lawyers kicked the judicial man-shit out of Soulja Boy, put a swift end to his career as a "game developer", and, to rub salt in the wound, even ordered him to redirect his website to Nintendo's online store for an indeterminate period of time. Oof.
• As described by comedian Christopher Titus, he learned the hard way that challenging your dad to a fistfight is this. A fight that ended with Titus waking up in the hospital.
  Chris: I thought my dad was lazy. Turns out he was just resting up.
• Richard Lawrence, an unemployed Englishman suffering from what we would today recognize as a type of psychotic break, somehow got it in his head that the source of all his woes was the President of the United States. It was the president's fault, he reasoned, that United States banks would not pay him the money he was owed because he owned English estates. He also believed he was King Richard III of England, who had been dead and buried under the floors of Greyfriars Church for 350 years at that time. He resolved to fix the matter by assassinating the president so that the replacement would surely launch a national bank that would give him money. Unfortunately for Lawrence, he failed to consider the character of the man he intended to kill—Andrew Jackson, war hero, serial duelist, and overall seething cauldron of anger issues. Jackson had already been shot over a dozen times previously, having killed several men on the battlefield and another one off it into the bargain. Undeterred, Lawrence approached the President shortly after a state funeral, but Lawrence's pistols failed to fire despite his best efforts and square aim, whereupon Jackson realized he was being targeted for an assassination attempt. This enraged Jackson. Lawrence was summarily bludgeoned senseless by his would-be victim, as while Jackson did not have a pistol ready himself, he did have a walking stick. Rescue arrived just in time to prevent Jackson from beating the unlucky assassin to death where he stood. Considering Jackson's fearsome reputation and Lawrence's own irrational and erratic behavior even at trial, the latter was found not guilty due to his clear insanity. Remarkably, the president was 67, suffering from respiratory illness and lasting pain from his old gunshot wounds, and was already tired by the time he encountered Lawrence—one can only imagine what a young and healthy Jackson would've done to him.
• During the Korean War, the battleship USS Wisconsin was performing shore bombardment when it was engaged by North Korean artillery. One 150mm (5.9") shell actually managed to hit (a seriously large amount of explosive by land battle standards, but verging on destroyer-grade firepower by naval standards), but the ship's armor confined the blast to superficial damage on the deck. The ship then gracefully turned all nine of its guns towards its attacker, adjusted its aim, then fired a full broadside of nine 16" shells at the enemy artillery position, reducing it to a series of craters. Shortly afterwards, her escort - the destroyer USS Duncan - used its signal lights to flash the message "Temper, temper, Wisconsin."
• MachineGunKelly decided to release a Diss Track targeting fellow rapper Eminem. To put it gently, Eminem‘s response “Killshot” blew Kelly’s track out of the water and gave the former a Career Resurrection, while Kelly was left to become a Memetic Loser.
• At the Goat Island Lodge in Australia, there was a terrier named Pippa that would repeatedly snap at, bully and chase a large saltwater crocodile named Casey back into the river. This lasted for 10 years until one day Casey decided enough was enough.
• In 1992, the Colombian far left guerrilla group FARC kidnapped the daughter of a prominent Cali Cartel kingpin for ransom. The Cali Cartel responded by abducting 20 FARC affiliated politicians and a sister of a FARC commander. The Cali kingpin's daughter and the FARC commander's sister were exchanged, but the 20 politicians were never heard of again.
• In 1992, in the run-up to the Summer Olympic games in Barcelona, the Men's Basketball team (aka, the Dream Team) were holding a week of practices vs. a team of college stars. After a strong opening outing vs. the Dream Team, Rodney Rogers of Wake Forest shouted to Larry Bird "Hey Larry! You haven't hit a jumper since '84!" Bird is an NBA legend who not only was an equally legendary trash talker, but someone with a rep for destroying those who tried show him up. Not helping Rogers was this exchange was also overheard by Magic Johnson, Bird's friend and fellow legend. The next scrimmage, Magic made a point to feed the ball to Bird, who sought out Rogers every time. And every time, Bird would describe exactly what moves he was about to make ("One dribble pull-up, going left") and then exectue them perfectly. After about eight straight such plays, Bird said to Rogers "Young fella... Feels like '84, huh?"

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