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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Florida man opens fire during argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay: police

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Peter Riera, 44, opened fire in Port St. Lucie, Florida, during an argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay, according to witnesses.Master Sergeant Dominick Mesiti told WPBF that Riera fired four shots from a .45-caliber Glock at three people who he thought were trying to con him outside Harper...
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    Harper’s Pub

    All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking.

    For God’s sake, the British developed technology to deal with this some time back. The Guinness Book of World Records was originally designed to resolve disputes between bar patrons. Just put one in the bar instead of resolving them via homicide.

    https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70781-most-prolific-chicken

    Most prolific chicken

    White Leghorn (No. 2988)

    United States

    The highest authenticated rate of egg-laying is 371 in 364 days, laid by a White Leghorn (No. 2988) in an official test conducted by Prof. Harold V. Biellier ending on 29 August 1979 at the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, USA.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

    Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955.[3]

    https://gwrstore.com/en-us/collections/guinness-world-records-books

    $21 per copy from their own store.

    https://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Records-2025/dp/1913484564

    $23 on Amazon.

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      British

      Guinness

      Oooooh, them’s fighting words!

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        The family’s been at least partially London-based since Victorian times, and some of them hold British titles of nobility.

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        well the guy whose idea it was and the MD of Guinness was South African so it gets worse

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      I think you’ll find the British invention to solve this was deportation to America.

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      But then we’ll never get a new record for ‘number of dumb questions asked before somebody got shot’

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        Most or fewest?

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