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Stomp Clap Step on a Landmine—This Week On VICE: Members Only

Behind the paywall this week, a conflict journalist tells us about the time he trod on a “toe popper,” and Jack White wades into our hipster music discourse.

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Who among us has not stubbed a toe on a table leg or the side of the bed and been instantly possessed by a red mist that drives you to commit a terrible act of violence against yourself for being so fucking stupid? Yeah, well, you know what’s worse? Standing on a landmine when you know you’re walking through somewhere that is likely to have landmines, and you are desperately trying not to stand on a landmine, because that would suck.

This is what befell Collin Mayfield, an American journalist who has covered conflict all over the world, from Ukraine to Haiti. He was on a reconnaissance........

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