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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley caught on prison bodycam 'exhibiting sporadic, disturbing behavior' one month before hearing to determine if he will spend life in jail for killing four of his classmates and wounding seven others
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Looking a little 'girly' there Ethan. How's the prison food?
  • He pleaded guilty to killing four of his classmates and wounding seven others in a shooting on November 30, 2021

  • Ethan Crumbley, 17, will find out if he will spend life in prison in a sentencing hearing scheduled for July 27

  • His recent alarming behavior was highlighted in a court document on Thursday and at a routine monthly hearing Friday in Oakland County court
The teenager, who was 15 at the time, opened fire at Oxford High School outside Detroit with a semi-automatic handgun that his father purchased for him as a Christmas gift days before the massacre.

Separately, his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, face involuntary manslaughter charges. They're accused of ignoring their son's mental health needs and making a gun accessible at home.
Wikipedia summarizes:
According to prosecutors, Crumbley's only friend moved away at the end of October 2021, and the family dog died, causing him to become depressed. As early as March 2021, he started sending his mother "disturbing texts about his state of mind", which included claims about "demons" and "ghosts" inside the home. He also reportedly videotaped himself torturing animals, made Molotov cocktails, and drew a sketch of himself committing a school shooting, which he also joked about with a friend via text message. At one point, Crumbley allegedly kept a baby bird's head in a jar, which he later placed in a school bathroom. His parents allegedly never sought therapy for him after any of those incidents.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 07:06 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "15 at the time"

"The teenager was charged as an adult and first-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Michigan."

Justice in this country is twisted beyond belief.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/25/2023 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr. DooDah, I hope you are not attempting to hurt Madame Whitmore's feelings, Komrade.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2023 13:36 Comments || Top||

#3  In the before condition he was making Molotov cocktails and keeping baby bird heads in a jar. What could he be doing now that would represent a degradation?
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 he didn't get to plead Biden?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2023 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Box Office Analyst Estimates Disney Lost $890 Million on Last Eight Theatrical Releases
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2023 10:30 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2023 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  "Well begun is half done". Let's finish the job.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/25/2023 14:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Oldsmobile, Schwinn, Roy Rogers.... Disney.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||

#4  The are producing bad movies. Additionally, they are destroying everything valuable that they own including the parks. Likely, the next step will be a reboot of the Mickey Mouse Club with trans Annette and gay Cubbie.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 14:44 Comments || Top||

#5  In the new order, you will be commanded to go to the parks, watch the movies and eat the bugs.

And you will be happy!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||

#6  I would be happiest if I was sure that none of my retirement accounts included Disney stock. With the mandatory Hulu buyout next year they will likely have to sell their now distressed assets including: Lucas, Marvel and their overseas parks.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Actually, Disney is doing a prequel to the prequel trilogy of Star Wars. This will feature a trans character and a gender fluid character.

As Han Solo might say, "I have a bad feeling about this."
Posted by: lord garth || 06/25/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Trans Solo
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 17:23 Comments || Top||

#9  All Lucas Film projects not already shooting are frozen in carbonite until after the sale of the division. The thoughts are that the highest bidder might actually be sane or at least Muslim.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 18:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Their steaming is awful too. Secret Invasion looks like garbage. They are using Dial of Destiny's Child to sell subscriptions.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2023 19:08 Comments || Top||

#11  As long as woke teachers pension fund exploiters are funding the loss the other shareholders are screwed. Guess who'll be asked to bailout those pensions?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2023 19:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Oooh, do it some more!
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2023 19:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Gray church ladies prayed undismayed
As their grandkids evaded a raid...
[[organ: Yakety Sax] up the aisle, round the ambulatory, couple of laps of the apse, and out]
"Thank goodness the thugs
All lose money on drugs
Or we'd need to create a crusade!"
Posted by: Jiggs Jins6580 || 06/25/2023 22:50 Comments || Top||

#14  For "gray church ladies," please read "tie-dyed hippies," not present company.
Posted by: Jiggs Jins6580 || 06/25/2023 22:54 Comments || Top||


'We're here, we're queer and we're coming for your children': Topless drag queens spark outrage with inflammatory chant at NYC Pride march
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Drag queens and LGBTQ activists marched through Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park on Friday, as part of a weekend of Pride celebrations

  • Some were heard chanting: 'We're here, we're queer and we're coming for your children'

  • The chant was met with widespread revulsion, and comes amid angry protests at drag queen story hour, held at libraries to make reading fun
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Tompkins Square Park

Dammit, there's never a crazy gal running amok with a beer bottle (or whatever it was) when ya need one.
Posted by: Jiggs Jins6580 || 06/25/2023 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  So it has been openly stated now.
The mentally ill drag queens seek kids.

Wouldn't a old normal person call this a Pedophilia based agenda?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/25/2023 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  It's about being "in your face."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  ^100% with all the nudity and vulgarity they can muster, which is why the controversy over who is actually saying said offending phrase (person if offscreen) doesn't matter. It's bringing the filth to your face that is enough to see who these creatures truly are - and hell no, they can't fokkin' have the children.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/25/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  If they come for our kids in my neighborhood, I recommend they wear Kevlar.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 14:09 Comments || Top||

#6  They want to normalize their insanity.

I think a whiff of the grape would cure them.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/25/2023 15:03 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Airport worker is killed after being 'INGESTED' into the engine of a Delta flight taxiing in San Antonio in the latest shocking aviation incident in the US
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Apparently an engine's hunger is seasonally agnostic.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 06:56 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Second instance in recent memory; a regional aligned /American saw a worker ingested after she violated a safety zone set up to allow main engine ops during turnaround due to inop APU.
Details on this Delta incident lacking.
Regardless, tragic for all concerned.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/25/2023 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  You know there is actually an ICD-10 medical code (will verify that you are 'human') for the effects of being sucked into a jet engine:

V97.33XD is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.

Well I guess it's useful after all...
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 06/25/2023 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Wonder if it was a result of work habits like the refueling guys in Fifth Element.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone trying to make an honest living. Very sad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2023 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  There's just something not right with the airline industry as a whole, everything from pilots with heart issues to computer problems to passengers going full retard on the plane or at the airport.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/25/2023 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Secretary Pete Buttplug is right on it
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2023 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  I am informed that the term among military ground crews is "get Hoovered up".
I wonder if this is a by product of the shift to turbofans, which pull in a great deal more air the the older turbojets. 'Cause that's what gives them more propulsion.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Duty in a hazardous work environment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2023 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if this is a by product of the shift to turbofans

Or just extended shift hours for the reduced workforce.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 12:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Before you had a choice of burial or cremation. Looks like we added a juicing option.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Makes the wood-chipper seem kind of quaint...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 14:49 Comments || Top||

#12  or just slower
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||

#13  You know there is actually an ICD-10 medical code (will verify that you are 'human') for the effects of being sucked into a jet engine:

7th Digit Billable Code 7th Digit Specifies
A W22.02XA initial encounter
D W22.02XD subsequent encounter
S W22.02XS sequela

Posted by: || 06/25/2023 17:31 Comments || Top||

#14  ^^twas I
Posted by: Beavis || 06/25/2023 17:32 Comments || Top||

#15  Well part of my first comment didn’t make it.

“There are 3 ICD codes for walking into a lamppost”

I miss the old days of CPT codes
Posted by: Beavis || 06/25/2023 17:55 Comments || Top||


Train derails into Montana's Yellowstone River
[FoxNews] A train derailment was reported Saturday in Montana near Columbus.

The train reportedly went off its rails and into the Yellowstone River amid a bridge collapse, according to local outlets.

"I’m monitoring the train derailment in Stillwater County, and the state is standing by to support as Montana Rail Link and county officials assess their needs," Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte wrote on social media Saturday just before noon.

Multiple cars plunged into the Yellowstone River, and the wreck is reportedly leaking fuel into the river, authorities say.

"Currently Stillwater County Emergency Services, Sheriff's Office, Commissioners, Columbus Fire & Rescue are on scene with Montana Rail Link and other State agencies. Additionally, Stillwater County and Montana Rail Link are coordinating with Federal Response Agencies. We have formally established a unified command and are using the incident command system," a statement attributed to Stillwater County Disaster and Emergency Services reads.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Pete's got no time for trains.

Buttigieg warns airlines to finish retrofitting planes to avoid interference from 5G signals
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ "I need not guitar, nor yet plectrum,
But a flute of the finest electrum
That toots soft and clear...
And fits snugly up here
As I sing this cute song about spectrum!"

Fun fact: Traditional folk music of Malta is Għanal (silent għ, rhymes with McConnell). Who knew?
Posted by: Jiggs Jins6580 || 06/25/2023 2:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Have to wonder about this timing; reports that bridge was washed out and then train ran off it; unless it was unsignalled (dark) territory there should have been indications at dispatcher’s office. Such indication might haveprovided time to notify train crew.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/25/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Tank cars of asphalt and molten Sulphur.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 13:03 Comments || Top||

#6  There have been quite a few train derailments over the last couple of years. Particularly in the Northwest. Crazy environmentalists usually. I wouldn’t rule out sabotage.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/29/activists-sabotaging-railways-indigenous-people

Posted by: Sholuque Glusorong8783 || 06/25/2023 18:40 Comments || Top||

#7  One crazy enviro was actually charged and (maybe) convicted of Dr sabotage in WA or OR a few years ago. Farther back - Arizona sabotage.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/25/2023 18:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Rats! RR sabotage, not Dr.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/25/2023 18:57 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
12-year-old loses life as sacrificial animal goes out of control in Karachi
[GEO.TV] A 12-year-old lost his life on Thursday after he got severely injured when a sacrificial animal the minor had taken out for a stroll went out of control, dragging him for a kilometre in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.
My guess is that Allah doesn't want that sacrifice.
In the video of the ghastly incident that emerged on social media, a cow could be seen running with the boy entangled in the rope while several people chased the animal.
"Help! Help! There's a cow on the loose!"
According to police, 12-year-old Ibrahim, a resident of the Sector 11-G area of New Karachi, met his untimely demise while taking the cow for a stroll.
"Why dontcha take the cow out for a walk, sonny?"
As the child attempted to escape, the halter became entangled around his legs. The animal dragged the child for a kilometre, leaving him severally injured.
"My legs! Oooch! Ow! Ow-ow-ow-ow!"
Eyewitnesses
"That's right. I seen the whole thing."
said that upon witnessing the incident, people from the surrounding area sprang into action, chasing after the animal in an attempt to rescue the child.
"Grab the kid!"
"I got his leg!"
"Well, grab the rest of him!"

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
it was only after the animal — with the boy in tow — had covered a considerable distance that they managed to intervene and release the boy from the strap.
"Heel! Heel, Bossy!"
The injured child was promptly rushed to a nearby hospital; however, he succumbed to his severe injuries.
[rattle!]
I know it ain't funny. I have no idea why I'm snickering. Except that you never hear about this happening to Lutherans.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The cow was obviously a drag queen.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 06/25/2023 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  She was roped into it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  A cow running? Did anybody ask the cow where's the fire?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/25/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||



Four Residents Killed, 166 Houses Submerged, 26 Vehicles Swept Away In Abuja Estate
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, about those flood plain building permits...

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Three Texas police officers charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman, 46, having a mental health crisis when cutting fire alarm wires in her apartment building
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • San Antonio Police Sargeant Alfred Flores, Officer Eleazar Alejandro, and Officer Nathaniel Villalobos were the three officers involved in Friday's incident

  • The woman, Melissa Perez, was having a mental health crisis around 2am on Friday, and was holding a hammer at one point

  • San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the use of force 'was not reasonable' and not consistent with department policy, per a Friday news conference

  • After the showdown, the officers rendered first aid to Perez before paramedics arrived. She was pronounced deceased by medics, shortly after

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2023 06:23 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Friday sounds like it was a fun day in SA.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2023 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  All these people with last names like Smith and Walters.

Makes you wonder.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  More to the story:
'It appears Ms. Perez was having a mental health crisis,' the police chief said.

The officers who arrived at the scene first attempted to help Perez and walk her to a patrol unit, but she ran back inside her apartment and locked the door and the situation escalated.

Officers tried to speak to her through an open window, but she threw a glass candle at the one of the officers, the police chief said.

Two officers were seen leaping on top the patio area while Perez was holding a hammer and swinging it inside the home in the direction of where the officers were standing.

The hammer ended up hitting and shattering one of the windows but none of the officers appeared to be hit by the hammer.

One of the officers responded by opening fire, but it doesn't appear that Perez had been hit by the round of bullets.

She then attempted to go back outside where the officers were standing, with hammer in hand, and that is when the officers again opened fire and she was fatally struck by gunfire.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Mental Health Crises, or extra meth'd up?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somaliland forces shell SSC positions in Laas'anod as fighting rages on
Outside challenges being scarcer than heretofore, Somalilanders have turned on one another rather than get on with improving their lives.
[GOOBJOOG] Somaliland forces reportedly shelled a neighbourhood in the battle-hit town of Laas’anod Saturday morning in a continuing conflict despite local and international calls for an end to the fighting.

Sources in the town said the shelling hit areas occupied by the SSC forces destroying buildings in the area.

The Sool Sanaan and Cayn (SSC) faction comprising mainly of the Dhulbahante clan allied to Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
is opposed to the Somaliland administration in the region.

Fighting has been going on since last December following the killing of a local politician. The UN Security Council early this month called on Somaliland to withdraw its forces from Laas’anod. On Thursday, the UN Security Council reiterated its call for an end to the fighting in the contested region.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Delay, Chaos Mar Presidential Election In Sierra Leone
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maricopa County missed an opportunity if they didn’t send observers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/25/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||



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