One ambitious Californian by the name of Bill Warren, who has spent decades hunting, but never really finding, treasure at the bottom of the sea, has declared that now Osama Bin Laden’s body, not gold, is his everything. Warren has been looking for the body of Bin Laden for about a year, and told the newspaper El Mundo that he now knows exactly where the Navy SEALs “threw” Bin Laden’s body “away” like so much McDonald’s drive-thru trash on the side of a highway. Per Gizmodo, Warren is now “trying to rent Russian deep diving equipment to locate his payload.” “Payload.”
The point really seems to be that Warren doesn’t actually think this is Bin Laden’s body. It’s just some double, or it’s just a SOLID GOLD MANNEQUIN. So he’s going to find hundreds of thousands of dollars to use equipment to dive down to the body, run some DNA tests on it, and then declare “victory,” probably by selling his fake story to newspapers and then acquiring that treasure, instead of letting unemployed journalists have it. In any case, Warren says he has “pinpointed the drop point from photos recently released by the US Navy.” Yes, this particular little patch of ocean looks exactly like some patch of ocean over which Warren once sailed on his way to the Goonies shipwreck.
Says Warren:
I’ve located where they threw him away. I’m the only one with this information. He’s 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat.
Warren is currently an employee of the government of Azerbaijan, and will take a little break starting on June 1 to go look for Bin Laden. Oh, and here’s why someone would prefer to hunt for the rotting body of a sociopath instead of gold-filled shipwrecks: Warren has his eyes on political office! He ran for Congress, unsuccessfully, in 1998 and 2002, according to El Mundo, and ran for president as an independent in 2008. So, if Warren can just find the body, prove it’s not Bin Laden, the Republicans will all leap up and down and begin to cry, and nominate Warren to be president in a brokered convention in August, and it will be great, because they will all finally have a purpose again (looking for Bin Laden). [Gizmodo]
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There's a market for shark poop?
Get Bin Laden's Birf Ceticafat!!!!!!!111111one
Here's Bill Warren in 1991
Bill Warren likes to think of himself as a modern-day Indiana Jones. He's really a part-time nightclub singer who runs a sea urchin fishing boat off the Ventura County coast, but he is obsessed with the idea of finding sunken treasures.
Seems legit.
He occasionally performs in Los Angeles area nightclubs, using the stage name Michael Valentino.
I'll bet he does a mean version of 'That's Amore'!
A moray! Emphasis on the dipthong.
brilliant!
COTD
That's a moray! And that's a sea star! And over there, that's a sea urchin…
Um, you have to hunt for sea urchin? Cuz, you know, they, uh, don't move very far or fast…
If you can shoot at it you can hunt it. This afternoon I'm going hunting for shiitake. Got the ol' 12 gauge all oiled up and everything!
So, over 35 years of doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Sounds completely sane.
a modern-day Indiana Jones –that would be the 4th movie, right?
The market here is for ready-to-eat TV trash as seen on the Discovery Network – The Hunt for Osama's Body
I bet they find Geraldo's missing vault first.
But will they find Geraldo's missing sense of dignity?
He lost it when he changed his name from Jerry Rivers.
The Hunt for Red Osama?
Nah, I'll just keep watching Mythbusters ad nauseum. More entertaining, and even vaguely scientific.
I for one would like to point out that Amelia Earhart's body was never found and alot and alot of people have been looking for it for a long time.
She must be still alive. Alive. And plotting…..
Bacon, sharks love crashed airplanes: Crunchy on the outside while chewy in the middle.
Too soon!
I've located where they threw him away. I'm the only one with this information.
Well then, cadaver or GTFO. Or STFU. Or both.
Stiffs or GTFO
He reminds me of the local nutjob who is constantly emailing the local mayor and claiming that he, and ONLY he (there's LOTS OF CAPITALS in his emails) has the VERY IMPORTANT knowledge the mayor requires to win re-election. Oh and the governor too. Oh and Obama too.
ONLY HE knows this valuable information.
Orly Taintz?
Is his name Newt?
Didn't McCain know the only way to get Osama in 08???
Next up on E-Bay… a piece of Osama in a tuna can…
Is that like 'Ghost in a Jar'?
Poseidon corpus?
Habeas corpus
The more time this knucklehead spends at the bottom of the ocean, the better.
Wait… " because they will all finally have a purpose again (looking for Bin Laden)."
What about the 7 years Dick and Dubya had to find him. As i recall History and its' librul bias, it was not a priority. So excepting exposing the BIG LIE Hopey is perpetrating about personally skull-fucking Bin Laden in his "Wreck Room" (Thank you NY Daily News) then the only purpose these jobs-creators will have is closing post offices and keeping roads and bridges from being built in the US America.
He's not just going to find the body. He's going to release pictures. Then he's going to put the body up on display, –enshrined, if you will– He will build an amusement park around it and charge two bits a gander.
I got a quarter.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Gene Pool
Voyage to the Bottom of the Shallow End of Gene Pool
fify
Vulture of the Sea.
"I'm the only one with this information…but I'm willing to share it with you if you'll chip in to help with the recovery. A ten thousand dollar investment will return to you tenfold so don't hesitate! Paypal accepted."
I heard this joke just about a year ago:
A man walks into a bar and asks for a Bin Laden. The bartender says "oh, two shots and a splash of water".
I was in a bar in NYC the weekend after binnie L got whacked. The dude promoting the music would get on the mic between every band and say that.
It was told to me by a douchey investment banker while in the elevator at work. Thankfully I only had to hear it once. Sorry!
Not to be picking a nit here, but isn't "douchey investment banker" redundant? And repetitious?
Oh, yeah, I know where it is (gesturing vaguely to the east) its that way. Now someone give me some money.
Did they not stick a GPS up his ass before they turned him into Sponge Bob Hammer Pants?
he’s been in the barometric pressure chamber one time too many. Now his oxygen is missing a brain.
So, he's planning on searching a square mile or two out of 139 MILLION square miles, not finding anything, and then calling it what, exactly?
These fuckwits really aren't even trying now, are they? How many years did it take to find the Titanic? How many ships (which a substantially larger than OBL) are yet undiscovered? I'm looking forward to the ultrasound results of all the scavengers in the region.
I think it is forbidden for fishes to eat a Muslim. So it might still be there.
I get the sense Mr. Warren closes all of his correspondences with "I AM NOT A CRANK!"
"Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot."
Um, just a thought. Does he know what happens to bodies in the sea?
He saw The Little Mermaid so he is fully aware.
I'm pretty sure the salt water preserves them practically forever, and the sharks swim around the perimeter just to make sure no predators start feeding on them. That's my biology knowledge kicking in.
did you say that to me on Tuesday at the museum? If one more person asks me if the squid is dead or if it is floating in water……
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Oh, but he DOES know–that's why, when he finds a large rock instead of a body, he can proclaim that there never was a body, because, look, large rock!
" I’m the only one with this information. He’s 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat."
Hey Einstein – better make that " I was the only one…"
I've got my topographical maps out already. Dummy – why would he spill the beans like that?
Do self-aggrandizing delusions count as information?
When he finds the "body," he should check its pockets. No doubt Bammerz hid his transcripts in there.
We wouldn't be worrying about this sort of thing if President Obama had followed my entirely reasonable suggestion involving horse sodomy, hungry pigs and a flower garden.
I need to go dive with this dude. I can't even find my way back to the boat with a compass. He can find a body under hundreds of feet of water from a photograph
Yes, because finding a mannequin, or human remains that are not OBL's, somewhere in a large ocean conclusively proves that OBL is nowhere in that ocean.
Wingnut logic at it's finest, people.
"If I don't find it he's still alive" AKA "Tide goes in tide goes out" proof.
Yeah, what the hell — Mount Ararat was getting crowded with people looking for the Ark anyway.
Wouldn't his time be better used looking for Dick Cheney's horcruxes?
Two upfists, if I could.
I’ve located where they threw him away. I’m the only one with this information. He’s 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat.
Nice jerb keeping your giant secret secret, Einstein.
Well it's not like the Indian/Pacific ocean is THAT big.
fuck you talkin about. the MURICAN ocean is the big one.
Hey Mr. Warren,
I lost a bracelet while swimming at the beach in Kauai about 5 years ago. Can you go find that for me, too?
Smooches!
MissTaken
When I worked in St. Thomas, we would spend our lunch hours crusing the reef off Honeymood Beach on a Sunfish, looking for a nylon jacket with a brand new Rolex and a couple of hundred in cash in the pockets. A hotel guest had lost it while sailing.
We never did find it – kinda like Mr. Warren.
Bill Warren, 2012's George Flotsam?
Not that this goober cares, but there are a few things to consider:
* It's doubtful the Navy marked the exact spot where the body was jettisoned. The BEST guess he could possibly make would be no better than within a mile.
* If you've ever tried to find something underwater, even with GPS coords good to within 3 meters, you can begin to fathom (heh heh) the difficulty of finding something at the bottom of a square mile of ocean.
* The body, the shroud, and everything else is long, long gone courtesy of the circle of life.
* Even birthers wouldn't be stupid enough to donate to this fool's errand.
Even birthers wouldn't be stupid enough to donate to this fool's errand.
Talk about your starry-eyed idealism!
Yeah. I was with him up to the last point.
I hope he finds Wilson too. Wilson carried that movie on his back.
He did however find his waterproof porn
'stachestash.Just wait a little while.
…a Harley-Davidson that drifted to Canada after being swept out to sea in the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-1792704…
Get the body, and then get the DNA , and then clone an entire army of Bin Ladens and then you can conquer the world.
He's going to make a great candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission.
So long as he does not pee on any electric eels.
When the oil producing nations in the rest of the world wanted for formalize their monopoly, they looked around for a business model.
OPEC is structured along the lines of the Texas Railroad Commission. It regulates oil in Texas because the product moves through pipelines, just like a railroad runs on tracks.
I know you may find this a wee bit hard to believe, but I'm not making it up.
Really.
Wouldn't it be like totally freaky if he finds bin Laden and they peel back like a mask on his face and it is Barry Soetero! And then we are all like 'so who is this guy posing as Obama anyway?' Totally. Freaky.
Finally! A wingnut I can laugh at without being overcome with uncontrollable rage at the same time! Ahhh…….
Thar be death in them thar waves.
So correct me if I got any of the following details wrong. To date, there is:
* No tangible evidence of Bin Laden's burial at sea.
* No tangible evidence of Bin Laden's capture by Obama.
* No tangible evidence of Bin Laden's presence in Tora Bora in US Marine raid of 2007.
* No tangible evidence of Bin Laden's existence since Bush gave up the search in 2005.
* No verified video of Bin Laden since the fake Bush re-election videotape in 2004.
* No verified audio of Bin Laden since his 2001 denial of involvement in 9/11 attacks.
* No tangible evidence of any terrorist action directed by Bin Laden since 9/11.
* No tangible evidence of any direct involvement by Bin Laden in the 9/11 attacks.
Fine. You figured it out. bin Laden was just a fabrication of Halliburton to up their profits and to allow Dick Cheney to become president of the United States.
He always did remind me of Max Headroom.
No verifiable tangibles, also, too.
And no credible claims ever made by 9/11 truthers, ever.
JOOZ DID 9/11!!1!!
From the LA Times article thoughtfully linked by Fukui-san, Warren's first treasure was $11 million in Aztec gold! Now Warren can't be killed, and you really don't want to see him in moonlight.
Russian diving equipment?! Since when is Russia noted for quality anything?
Makes you wonder about the quality of Russian life insurance policies.
Possibly referring to the russian submarine Kurst?
Vodka.
Don't drown, fool.
Memo to Liz:
In this world there are a whole lot more treasure hunters than there are treasure finders. Real treasure finders don't put there names in the papers – and they never compare themselves to Indiana Jones.
The failure rate increases dramatically when they start looking in salt water. And, those expeditions have a burn rate in the tens of thousands of dollars per day.
We bought a metal detector for about $30-we used it on the beach during family vacations- we found absolutely nothing- but it did get the kids to walk farther along the beach than otherwise.My current rather successful treasure hunt method- I look down occasionally when I am walking and find a penny. Last week, I found a dime!
Lots of people find watches, jewelry (often rings), etc. at the beach and at playgrounds. It's so popular here, the local park maintenance guys scatter steel washers under the swings to discourage folks with metal detectors.
A $30 machine isn't going to find much, if anything. But for a couple of hundred bucks you can get an excellent coin finder – and it really doesn't take too long to earn that back with what you find.
Most people who find class rings do their best to return them to the (former) owners.
It's good exercise, as you point out. Learn the rules and where you can and can't hunt. And you do have to be careful and look out for yourself – but that's true of just about everything in life.
Around here people still find silver reales from the sunken 1715 treasure fleet. And by "people" I mean people who aren't me. I don't have the temperament for it.
The late, great Kip Wagner found a fortune in about ten feet of water, a hundred yards or so from shore.
I'm told that after a hurricane, those coin beaches look like Coney Island on the Fourth of July. Far more Spanish silver (and a little gold) was lost than has ever been found.
Please, please, for the good of the country, take Orly Taitz along as your diving companion.
Damn … now this guy's gone and stole my idea for an updated remake of "Thunderball"…
While you are at it, sir, see if you can come up with Amelia Earhardt, Judge Crater, and Big Pussy.
He knows where the body is like Rummy knew where the WMDs were.
It will really put Obama's campaign over the top if he gets to kill Bin Laden twice!
No doubt Allen West will be joining this quest.
I'll bet that he's got some really bitchin' gear in the Batcave. Or at least a whole bunch of wetsuits (and dildos, he added, parenthetically).
but Camo Dildos, my friend; let's not forget who we're talking about here.
Will this be followed by Bill Warren finding the body and weeping over it:
"I'll never let go, Osama… I'll never let go."
Mongo-Lloyd Bridges
Short Bus Silver.
With Mitt Romney as Flipper
Captain Jean Puke Retard
Well, that goes to show you. I guessed that if "retard" is now OK, I could try using that word naming the part of a gun that is pulled, usually by the index finger.
DENIED!
Arbitrary and capricious, I tells ya!
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