[WAPO] Gene Emory Dacus often sacrificed his own comfort for that of others.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he was one of many young men who shipped off to Korea, fighting a war half a world from his home in Georgia. After the war ended in 1953 and his three sons -- one of whom is disabled -- finished school, he moved with his wife, Earnestine, to Birmingham, Ala., to care for his grandparents. There, he was embraced by his neighbors, for whom he often cut the grass -- even at 85 years old -- to keep the neighborhood looking tidy.
As his neighbor Helen McComb told AL.com, "He’s been here forever. People here loved Mr. Gene. He was very sweet to all of the children. He kept our neighborhood clean."
After his wife passed away in 2005, he cared for his now 60-year-old disabled son in the house, alone.
"Good man. Uncomparably good man," Robert Stanley, a relative, told WBRC.
His son Gary Dacus credits his own success to his father’s example.
"He taught me good rules and I have a lot of my father in me," he told AL.com. "I’m a successful person for that ... He was the most kindhearted gentleman you ever met. He never met a stranger, and he helped anybody he could."
On Wednesday, neighbors alerted Stanley, a neighbor and relative of Dacus’s, that they smelled smoke and saw fire coming from the back yard of Dacus’s house. They thought maybe his RV had caught fire, or that someone had set fire to it -- police said witnesses had seen a young black man running through a nearby alleyway with a red gasoline jug.
Stanley sent his son to investigate.
But the camper wasn’t on fire. What he found was far more shocking and horrifying.
It was Dacus’s body, in the back yard of the home he lived in for more than 50 years, engulfed in flames.
"My son was the one that found him," Stanley told WBRC. "The neighbors said they thought the camper was on fire. He went around back to see if the camper was on fire, and it was Gene."
McComb, a neighbor, saw Stanley’s son emerge from the yard.
"I could see something burning," she told AL.com. "Then a guy ran out yelling somebody had burned up Mr. Gene."
Dacus was pronounced dead at the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue, WCMH reported.
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On Thursday, police charged 18-year-old Didna DuNuffin Thomas Sims with capital murder in the case, meaning that he could potentially receive the death penalty. He is being held on no bond, according to AL.com. It is unclear if he has a lawyer or if he has entered a plea.
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An east Texas man told police he fell off the roof of a home while he was having sex with his neighbor's wife. He told the officer he had sex with her because his wife had cheated with the woman's husband.
A police officer in Lufkin, Texas, came upon a naked man covering himself with a piece of carpet. The man had bloody scratches on his body and seemed "paranoid and twitchy," the ArkLATex news reported.
The police officer approached the naked man and asked him about his condition. Officers said the man told him he had fallen off the roof of a house while having sex with a woman who was not his wife.
The police report states that Ricky Dale Brimer, Jr., 31, admitted to police that he had done methamphetamine and the synthetic marijuana K2 earlier in the day. It appeared he was still under the influence of the drugs at the time. Police arrested Brimer, who has a long criminal history according to records obtained by Breitbart Texas from the Angelina County District Clerk’s Office. Those charges include family violence with bodily injury, drug possession, sexual assault of a child, engaging in organized criminal activity and drug possession.
The arrest report states that Brimer claimed he had revenge sex with his friend’s wife on the roof of the home "because his friend had sexual relations with his wife," the Houston Chronicle reported.
Police officers reported that a witness did not see a woman on the roof of the house with Brimer. The neighbor brought Brimer a pair of pants to wear before he was taken into custody.
Brimer was checked out medically and then taken to a local jail where he faces a new charge of public intoxication.
Not posted to gloat. The young woman is not gloating. There is nothing about which we would gloat. A young robber is dead. Taking a life is never easy. The perp made the decision to rob, and he decided that a petite woman would be an easy mark. She defended herself -- properly -- and I have no qualms at all about what she did. The only good news is that the young woman defended herself and is safe. But I bet she's going through a lot in her mind right now, and she's not wrong. Only an amoral person with no conscience whatsoever would "never feel bad" about having to kill someone.
GLENDALE, AZ. - Carolann Miracle is 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 85 pounds. She’s a petite woman who seems like an easy target, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“I was scared, at first. I thought, ‘Am I really getting robbed?’” Miracle told ABC15.
Miracle said she was leaving the Circle K near 59th Avenue and Camelback Road with her family early Monday morning when the suspect, Frank Taylor , tried to bum a cigarette. She told him that she didn’t have one, and then seconds later, Miracle said, she could feel the barrel of the gun against her skin.
“He put the gun up to my neck and said, ‘It’s loaded, don’t move,’” Miracle said. ”I think he thought, ‘She’s a little girl. Maybe she doesn’t know how to use her weapon.’”
Miracle said, “I dropped my soda, released my gun from my holster and cocked it. I shot him and ran in the opposite direction."
She must have a quick draw, and the perp must have been ... inattentive...
There were people in the parking lot and she didn’t know whether they were accomplices in the holdup. So, she ran home to call 911.
Miracle, who became emotional when she later returned to the gas station, said that she is struggling with what happened and will for some time.
“I feel bad, I didn’t mean to kill him. I feel bad for his mom. I feel bad because I just found out that he has a 1-week-old baby. I didn’t mean to do it, but I had to protect myself,” Miracle said.
The case has been handed over to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. They will determine whether Miracle will be charged, which is standard procedure in these types of cases.
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Inline that is for sure - victim may never get over this. Wifey shot a knife-wielding home invader 30 years back, not fatally, still has nightmares tho - bastard was laying there going "bitch wtf you shot me you crazy"
- still she is here and he is still in prison (got out after 8 years and did the same stupid ass shit again and pulled life)
I never shot anyone. I'd like to think I would just shrug it off as righteous. I cannot console her even after all that time when the bad dreams come.
She is with me still. Thank you Lord and a handy .357
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Forced to do the job the government won't. There is no perfection, just trade offs. Gun grabbers would rather glow in their arrogant virtue and the gal dead or raped. Tell me who is the true evil.
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She might feel remorse, but she needs to shut the hell up. She may get off on any charges, but she will get sued in a civil court. I wish her the best in dealing with the realities of taking a life, remember even terrorists have moms. Its tough. Arizona is a gun state, armed robbers are fools in this state...
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I like how the news channel put quotes around "to protect herself". She should have talked him out of it, that's the civilized way. At least, that's what my betters tell me.
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he's DRT. She's alive. Another day of life and this POS is gone to his great reward. I feel no sympathy or sorrow for him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. God bless her
I await the Didna Dunuffin and "turning his life around" comments from the rest of his fambly
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From the "global warming and ocean acidification will kill everything, forever" and the "nature always finds a way" department comes this inconvenient truth.
Back From The Dead: Giant Coral Reef That ’Died’ In 2003 Teeming With Life Again
In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead.
On the floor of a remote island lagoon halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, the giant reef site had been devastated by unusually warm water. Its remains looked like a pile of drab dinner plates tossed into the sea. Research dives in 2009 and 2012 had shown little improvement in the coral colonies.
Then in 2015, a team of marine biologists was stunned and overjoyed to find the giant coral reef once again teeming with life. But the rebound came with a big question: Could the enormous and presumably still fragile coral survive what would be the hottest year on record? This month, the Massachusetts-based research team finished a new exploration of the reefs in the secluded Phoenix Islands, a tiny Pacific archipelago, and were thrilled by what they saw. When they splashed out of an inflatable dinghy to examine Coral Castles closely, they were greeted with a vista of bright greens and purples -- unmistakable signs of life. ‐Karen Weintraub, The New York Times, 15 August 2016
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Of course the coral rebounded, nature didn't survive this long by being a wimp. It amazes me that folks that worship nature think it is so delicate.
Of course most think of nature as a useful tool to implement Communism more than anything else.
The Nigerian navy used its “superior firepower” to foil a pirate attack on a British-flagged freighter and rescue the crew in an encounter off the west African coast, a spokesman said.
Commodore Christian Ezekobe said the navy deployed a warship after receiving a distress call on Wednesday that pirates were about to hijack the MT Vectis Osprey 20 nautical miles off Bonny in southern Rivers state.
“NNS Nwamba engaged the attackers on approaching the vessel which made them abandon their mission due to superior firepower,” he said. “To this end naval special forces on board the warship embarked and rescued the crew who locked up themselves in a citadel in the merchant tanker.”
Ezekobe said both the crew and cargo of the vessel were safe while an investigation had been launched.
Ship hijackings have become more frequent in waters off Nigeria since President Muhammadu Buhari took office in Nigeria in 2015 and announced plans to wind down an amnesty to former militants in the delta region.
Previously payments were offered in exchange for an end to the violence, which included the kidnapping of oil workers and sabotage of pipelines that plagued the region in the 2000s.
A new militant group the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has been blamed for a wave of deadly attacks on pipelines since the beginning of the year. The NDA has said it wants more wealth for residents of the region in addition to self-determination and political autonomy.
On Thursday the Avengers, who have rejected a government peace offer, threatened to secede by pulling the oil region out of Nigeria.
You might ask the Biafrans how well that worked...
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in the oh-so-icky colonial times - 1800's ya know - a role reversal would have been the norm.
But hey, changing times, fundamental transformations, thinking in new ways; it is whst it is - so thanks Nigeria but how come I hsve not heard from you lstely - the spam must flow!!!
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Mexico’s federal police arbitrarily executed 22 people on a ranch in the western state of Michoacán last year, the country’s human rights commission said on Thursday.
Slow day at the Mexican narco-coppe shoppe...
National Human Rights Commission president Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez said there were also two cases of torture and two more deaths caused by excessive force.
“The investigation confirmed facts that show grave human rights violations attributable to public servants of the federal police,” Gonzalez said.
One police officer was killed in the confrontation on 22 May 2015. The government said the dead were drug cartel suspects who were hiding out on a ranch in Tanhuato near the border with Jalisco state.
The commission also threw doubt on the government’s explanation of what led to the clash in the first place. Federal police had said they encountered a truck and took fire from its passengers before being led to the ranch. The commission’s report said the government did not produce evidence that supported that account.
The lopsided death toll of 42-to-1 had led to suspicions of extrajudicial killings. The commission’s investigation found that 40 of the civilians killed were shot. One died in a fire and another was run over.
The government had refused to release the autopsy reports of the victims. The government’s transparency watchdog earlier said there was no evidence to indicate human rights violations.
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Small numbers indeed compared to the last Mexican civil war.
Kum Thae was a typical teenager. He went to a school in Acton, west London, used Facebook and WhatsApp, and enjoyed basketball. But after taking his A-levels (double maths, computer science) this summer something odd happened. He vanished.
“We tried his phone. It was blocked. He disappeared from Facebook and social media. We were very worried,” said his friend Louis Prior, 19.
The mystery was solved this week when it emerged that Kum’s father, Thae Yong-ho, a high-ranking diplomat and minister at the North Korean embassy in London, had defected. He had slipped out from the embassy’s suburban semi-detached house in Ealing, taking his family with him.
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Sort of wonder if the movie 1-2-3 comes to play. The Russian says,"If I defect they will kill my wife , my mother in law, my brother in law, etc. Ok I'll do it."
[ABC] Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned from the campaign following the hiring of new leadership and reports last week questioning Manafort’s ties to Russia.
"This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign," Trump confirmed in a statement. "I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process. Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success."
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Ukrainian officials say that Manafort's name appears in "black accounts" linked to the country's former pro-Russian president. Manafort hasn't publicly commented on the ledger but has called the notion that he received cash payments "unfounded, silly and nonsensical."
Somehow I'm not so sure these are reliable sources of information.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
From the "global warming and ocean acidification will kill everything, forever" and the "nature always finds a way" department comes this inconvenient truth.
