This is a weird and sad story. Condolences to her friends and family.
Amish Community Stunned by Shooting Death of Girl
By Jack Shea Fox, 8 News Reporter | http://www.fox8.com | December 17, 2011
FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio—
Members of a close knit Amish community gathered Saturday night to mourn the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was shot to death under circumstances that are shrouded in mystery.
David Zuercher, a friend of the family of 15-year-old Rachel Yoder, told Fox 8 News, “Just total disbelief and shock. I just couldn’t believe it. I thought it was a joke, that it was not so.”
Relatives initially believed that Rachel suffered a head injury while on her way home from a Christmas party for employees at a produce shop.
The girl was discovered on the ground near her buggy Thursday night at the family farm in Fredericksburg, but when she was flown to Akron City Hospital, doctors discovered the teenager had been shot in the head.
Whooops! This ladies and gentlemen is a near textbook example of a Freudian slip.
Out of respect for the alleged victims, I will show an empty space in a mural where Sandusky once was.
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer cites gay phone sex line in stating case
http://www.suntimes.com | December 14, 2011
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s decision Tuesday to waive his preliminary hearing shifts the focus in the child sex-abuse scandal to two Penn State administrators accused of failing to properly report suspected abuse and lying to the grand jury investigating Sandusky.
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz face their own pretrial hearing on Friday in Harrisburg, and although the charges are much different, with far less severe potential penalties, their cases could hinge on a man also expected to be a prime witness against Sandusky: assistant football coach Mike McQueary.
The suspect was “too broke” to buy the ingredients to make meth at home so she just used the materials at the store in the store. Things are tough all over.
Oklahoma woman allegedly mixes meth in Walmart
KFSN | December 09, 2011
FRESNO, California (KFSN) — A woman was arrested at an Oklahoma Walmart for allegedly mixing chemicals needed to make methamphetamines inside the store.
Elizabeth Halfmoon reportedly told police she was too broke to buy the chemicals.
The chemical mixture was so toxic, it ate some of the paint off of the shelf.
“When I saw her she had just finished mixing-she had just finished up the mixing process of some sulfuric acid with starter fluid in a bottle, and was in the process of taping the cap onto the bottle,” said Officer David Shelby with the Tulsa Police Department.
One officer suffered chemical burns to his hands. No one else was injured.
Police say they arrested Halfmoon last month in another meth sting. She had just recently been released.
Whoops. This could have very easily killed or injured someone. I am glad they will not be airing the footage.
‘MythBusters’ hosts: Sorry about that cannonball
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer | San Francisco Chronicle | December 8, 2011
The special-effects gurus who host the television show “MythBusters” were cast Wednesday in an ignominious role: visiting a home on a quiet street in Dublin and apologizing to a family for firing a 30-pound cannonball through their front door a day earlier.
“Come in,” said Hitha Shetty, 39, ushering show hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage across a floor still speckled with paint and plaster.
Behind Shetty was damage more likely to be found on a pirate ship than a two-story tract home. A round hole scarred an interior wall and, beyond that, another hole showed where the cannonball had exited the upstairs master bedroom as Shetty’s wife, Seema, napped with the couple’s 2-year-old son.
After assuring Shetty, his two children, his wife and her parents that they would never again blast a home with heavy ordnance, Hyneman and Savage said the incident was the worst thing that had happened during thousands of experiments over eight years on the Discovery Channel show.
They also promised they wouldn’t air the footage they had filmed of the near-catastrophic cannon shot.
Hooray for the kids! “I don’t want to die today”either.
Random drunbk bus driver image from www.karmasurfer.com
Kids’ text messages about drunk N.J. school bus driver saved the day
Friday, 11 November 2011 | —ANNE-MARIE COTTONE | NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Imagine waiting for your child to get home from school and receiving this text message from him: “Mommy I think our bus driver is drunk she’s not driving right.”
Police in Westampton Township, Burlington County, say they were called after parents received text messages from their children about their driver swerving and falling asleep at the wheel, the Associated Press reported.
Claws for thought: Sue Vanwyk with colleague Jacqui Ward and a model lobster at Martin Hobbs fishmongers
That’s a fishy tale, sir! Police arrest man for ‘kill and stab’ threat on Facebook after buying lobsters for dinner
By Craig Mackenzie | 26th November 2011 | www.dailymail.co.uk
A shopper landed in hot water with the police after he bought two lobsters for dinner.
They swooped when he wrote on Facebook about his plan to go into town ‘to kill’ and ‘stab something in the neck’.
Four officers in bullet-proof vests handcuffed the suspect outside the Martin Hobbs fishmongers in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, let the Christmas season begin! Is this excessive force? Was a canine unit really needed at a holiday parade?
In this Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, photo, Kevin Walsh is seen dressed as Frosty the Snowman during the celebration of the arrival of Santa Claus at Fountain Park in Chestertown, Md. Walsh was arrested Saturday during the annual Christmas parade in Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He's accused of scuffling with police and kicking at a police dog. (AP Photo/The Star-Democrat, Kevin Hemstock)
Happier days... Frosty the Snowman pilots his small boat down the Potomac River on Christmas Eve December 24, 2010, at Maryland's National Harbor. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
Frosty's Mug shot. Image thesmokinggun.com
Inside the Frosty meltdown in Chestertown Arrest is the fifth this year for longtime parade participant
By Tricia Bishop | The Baltimore Sun | November 28, 2011
Joan Zellers says her granddaughters will forever remember this year’s Christmas parade as the one when “Frosty got busted.”
They were standing Saturday morning on High Street in Chestertown, watching the annual holiday parade march by, when the big fluffy snowman came their way. Lilly, 9, and Maddie, 11, dutifully posed as Grandma snapped a photo — one of the last taken of Frosty as a free man.
Within minutes, two police officers had the so-called jolly, happy soul face down on the sidewalk in front of the Compleat Bookseller, raising a ruckus as his hands were cuffed behind his back. The round, white head lay forlornly at his feet, top hat and carrot nose still in place.
The image was “very unsettling” for the girls, Zellers said Monday. “They’ll be talking about this parade for a long time.”
Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel holidays in the United States and this year AAA predicts more people will be traveling than in years. Alas, for some drivers on the venerable Pennsylvania Turnpike things took a turn for odd and awful thanks to a leaky tanker truck.
A rental car sits in the parking lot of the Fairfield Inn in Cranberry. Hotel staff spent the morning cleaning up a tar-like substance from the parking lot, hotel carpet, floors and more following a chemical spill last night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Tom Fontaine | Tribune-Review
A car with its wheels covered in driveway sealant sits in a parking lot in Harmar, Pa., after exiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night, Nov. 22, 2011. A flood of the gooey material dropped from a tanker truck disabled more than 100 cars and damaged an unknown number of other vehicles along a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Turnpike, officials said. (AP Photo/Valley News Dispatch, Erica Hilliard) PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE OUT; BUTLER EAGLE OUT
Sticky mess: A vehicle's tyre is covered in a black substance on Wednesday near Oakmont, Pennsylvania, after a flood of gooey black muck dropped from a tanker truck disabling about 150 cars
Leak: Corporal Mike Corna, of the state police barracks that patrols the pike near Pittsburgh, said the truck driver will be cited for not properly securing his load
Pa. Turnpike estimates hundreds of cars damaged by sticky mess
By Myles Snyder | Nov 23, 2011 | www.abc27.com
PITTSBURGH -The holiday rush home came to a sticky stop Tuesday evening in western Pennsylvania after a tanker truck leaked driveway sealant on 39 miles of the Turnpike from New Castle to the Allegheny Valley Exit.
Turnpike officials said they estimate the sticky muck damaged hundreds of cars when the tar-like substance covered their tires and wheels.
Drivers told WTAE-TV that they couldn’t see the substance on the eastbound lanes because it was dark when the spill occurred at around 7 p.m.
“We got on the Turnpike and we noticed all these cars pulled over,” Lynn Snitzer said. “Our car was driving rough and it was like it was going in to a flat.”
“It’s been a long day for me,” Bruce Kephart said. “I’m a little frustrated and I wish I was home with my kids, but I’m sitting here in the rain looking at tar on my tires.”
Turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo said maintenance crews used snow plows along with sand, salt and cinders to clean the substance from the lanes.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has found a defining image in the pepper spraying cop meme you’ve probably seen floating on the intertubes lately. The casual, nonchalant use of pepper spray against seated and silent protesters at UC Davis is referenced in dozens of images where unlikely and similarly peaceful targets also get pepper sprayed.
If you haven’t, please take a moment to view the original video of the protest and police response. It is shocking.
To help flesh out the backstory below are definitions of meme and a blurb of what happened on the UC Davis campus.
Wikipedia – The term Internet meme (meem)[1] is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet.[2] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.
dictionary-meme |mēm| noun Biology
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
FACTS & FIGURES-from presstv.com
On November 18, UC Davis campus police used pepper spray against students protesting social inequality and tuition hikes at the University of California, Davis. wsws.org
The sticker price of studying and living on campus at the average public university has risen 5.4 percent for in-state students, or about $1,100, to $21,447 this fall, the College Board estimated. Tuition at the average public university has jumped 8.3 percent to $8,244. Chicago Tribune
The Occupy Wall Street movement that started in New York City on September 17 is protesting the income gap between Americans with the highest incomes and those with lower incomes and criticizes the greed of the nation’s wealthiest people. Occupytogether.org
Below are a few of the dozens of images of the pepper spraying cop meme that have been culled from random sources. Click to embiggen.
Man Arrested for Boosting Butts With Cement, Fix-A-Flat
abcnews.go.com | Nov 18, 2011
Florida police on Friday arrested a man suspected of administering dangerous and illegal butt-boosting shots – injecting at least one woman with a cocktail of substances including cement, glue and tire sealant.
And, believe it or not, that man is the person pictured above.
The man is 30-year-old Oneal Ron Morris.
Police could not release an official report on the incident, noting that the case is still under investigation. However, Sgt. William Bamford of the Miami Gardens, Fla., Police Department said that the procedure took place in May 2010, after the as-yet-unidentified victim met with Morris to discuss the procedure.
“They agreed on the price of $700 for the procedure, which was intended for cosmetic purposes,” Bamford said.
What the woman got for her money was a series of injections containing a bizarre concoction of cement, super glue, mineral oil and Fix-A-Flat tire inflator and sealant, police said.
Bamford said that the procedure was conducted not in a clinic, but in a residential setting in Miami Gardens, and that shortly after the substance was injected into the woman’s body she developed what Bamford termed “severe complications.”
When one examines the time line carefully it certainly seems probable that Sandusky’s actions HAD to be known to someone. The true extent of the cover-up may never be known.
Artist Michael Pilato paints over the image of Jerry Sandusky in his mural, "Inspiration," in State College.
A mother of one of the young boys alleged preyed upon by Sandusky called the artist and requested he alter the mural.
A long history in Penn State child abuse case
By Kristina Cooke, Edith Honan and Ben Berkowitz | Reuters | Nov 13, 2011
STATE COLLEGE, Penn. (Reuters) – Until a few days ago, Jerry Sandusky’s face smiled down on students from a mural in downtown State College, the home of Penn State University, where football players and coaches are treated like royalty.
On Wednesday, the creator of the mural painted over Sandusky. The former assistant football coach was charged a few days earlier with sexually abusing eight boys over more than a decade.
“I got an email yesterday from one of the victim’s mothers saying simply, ‘Michael, can you please take Sandusky off the mural,’” said Michael Pilato, a local painter who created the “Inspiration” mural in 2001.
It will not be so easy to wipe out the stain on Penn State’s reputation from the alleged abuse and what critics see as a cover-up by university officials who were told that Sandusky was seen raping a young boy in a shower in 2002.
Sandusky, who played football at Penn State and then coached for 32 years at the school, has denied the charges and has been released on bail.
The case has drawn comparisons to the child abuse scandals that rocked the Catholic Church, whose top officials are also accused of covering up child abuse over decades.
In this tight-knit town where the university is everything, Sandusky was known as a church-going family man and a philanthropist. “Jerry was just held in very high regard. It’s definitely a shock to hear something like this. This has kind of blindsided everyone in town. He was the definition of Penn State,” said Nick Savereno, who grew up in the university town, attended Penn State and now owns a sandwich shop near campus.
This makes me wonder what the FBI thought of the Grateful Dead’s myriad “transient or homeless” fans that often engaged in drug use and sharing.
Random search image for Juggalo.
Random search image for Juggalo.
Random search image for Juggalo. A female juggalo is a juggalette. I do not know what a pregnant juggalette is called.
FBI Classifies Juggalos as Gang Threat
Insane Clown Posse fans have engaged in criminal behavior in 21 states
By Matthew Perpetua | rollingstone.com | November 3, 2011
Juggalos, the passionate, face-paint-wearing fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse, have been classified as a gang in the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. According to the report, Juggalos have only been classified as a gang for exhibiting gang-like behavior and criminal activity in Arizona, California, Pennsylvania and Utah, but have engaged in gang activities in 17 other states.
The FBI report states that most Juggalo-related crime is “sporadic, disorganized, individualistic” and involves “simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft and vandalism.” A subset of the Juggalo community have been known to engage in felony assaults, robberies and drug dealing. The threat assessment also indicates that many Juggalos are transient or homeless individuals.
