Stupid people of the week
Ann Arbor Police Officers Ordered To Stop Making Traffic Stops For ‘Minor’ Offenses
Drivers who commit so-called “minor” traffic violations in Ann Arbor no longer have to worry about being pulled over by police, thanks to a unanimous vote by the Ann Arbor City Council on Monday.
The council fully backed the “driving equality ordinance,” which blocks law enforcement officers from enforcing traffic violations such as expired registration, cracked taillights, or a cracked windshield, among other offenses, The Michigan Daily reported.
Councilmembers have accused Ann Arbor police of using such infractions to target people of color and those with disabilities.
“Historically, slave patrols in the antebellum south have the responsibility of apprehending runaway slaves and throwing them to jail,” Councilmember Cynthia Harrison declared during the meeting, according to The Michigan Daily.
“After the Civil War, these patrols were done under a new name, transforming it to what we recognize today as formal police departments,” Harrison continued. “We know that the history of American policing is not a relic of the past, but an ongoing narrative.”
Ah yes. Michigan was famously one of the deep south slave states during the Civil War. More drivel and idiocy at the source.
Source; Police Tribune
Man jailed for performing sex act while kneeling over captured seagull
A man who admitted performing a sex act while kneeling over a baby seagull that he had captured has been jailed for 24 weeks.
David Lee, 40, held the bird between his legs while he carried out the act on himself.
He was watching pornography at the time.
The incident, which took place in a backstreet in Sunderland in August last year, was caught on CCTV.
When Lee was arrested at a nearby takeaway, he claimed he was trying to help the seagull because he believed it was hurt.
He denied that he was watching pornography at the time, and claimed instead that he was searching for a vet’s phone number.
However, police checks later revealed he was looking at adult websites.
Lee, of Sunderland, appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in April, when he pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the bird.
Magistrates handed him an immediate 24-week jail term and banned him from keeping animals for 10 years today.
A psychiatric report found he suffered from an unstable personality disorder and was detached from reality.
He was also a pathological liar whose lies served no purpose, the court heard.
Annalisa Moscardini, defending, said Lee was a heavy drinker who experienced blackouts.
“He accepts he must have done this act but he didn’t have a good recollection of it,” she said in explanation of his initial denials.
“To some extent he cannot explain what happened.”
Source; Sky News
Shark attack video in Florida Everglades shows man being bitten, pulled from boat
Shark attack in the Florida Everglades! pic.twitter.com/SQoxemqvEw
— Animal Smackdown (@animalsmack) June 24, 2023
A video appeared to show a man being bitten and dragged out of his fishing boat Friday by a shark while in the Florida Everglades.
The video ? which was shared with WPLG Local 10 news station in Southeastern Florida ? shows what appears to be one fisherman dipping his hand near a partially submerged shark before the predatory fish lunged at the man, causing him to fall into the water.
Other fishermen in the boat could then be heard exclaiming, “Get him!” as they worked to rescue the man from the shark-infested water.
WPLG reported that park rangers responded to the scene and treated the man for a hand injury. He was then airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel, per the station.
No other details were released regarding the severity of the man’s condition.
It is unclear which species of shark bit the man, but one species of shark known to inhabit the Everglades is the bull shark ? a mid-size predatory shark that can inhabit both freshwater and saltwater habitats. Bull sharks are often considered to be the most dangerous sharks to humans because of their aggressive tendencies, according to the National Wildlife Foundation.
Source; Yahoo!
Janitor attempting to turn off beeping noise destroys decades of scientific research, causes $1M in damages
A janitor cleaning in a laboratory at a university in Troy, New York, is accused of damaging at least $1 million in scientific research after shutting off the storage freezer while trying to turn off a constant beeping noise, according to a lawsuit.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed the lawsuit against Daigle Cleaning Services, the outside firm that employed the cleaner, The New York Post reported.
When the cleaner shut off a circuit breaker on Sept. 17, 2020, the freezer was storing cell cultures, samples and other research elements at minus-112 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature reportedly rose to minus-25.6 degrees Farenheit after the freezer was turned off – damaging or destroying all of its contents, the lawsuit alleges.
A sign on the door to the lab’s freezer allegedly explained the source of the alarm and included instructions on how to silence it if necessary.
“This freezer is beeping as it is under repair. Please do not move or unplug it. No cleaning required in this area,” the sign allegedly read. “You can press the alarm/test mute button for 5-10 seconds if you would like to mute the sound.”
RPI’s attorney, Michael Ginsberg of the law firm Pattison, Sampson, Ginsberg & Griffin, told the Times Union in Albany that it will take an estimated $1 million to recreate the research on photosynthesis.
“People’s behavior and negligence caused all this. Unfortunately, they wiped out 25 years of research,” Ginsberg told the outlet.
Professor K.V. Lakshmi’s lab is located in the research center, where her materials were stored in the freezer at a temperature of minus-112 degrees Fahrenheit. Alarms were set to go off at minus-108.4 degrees Fahrenheit and minus-115.6 degrees Fahrenheit as a swing above or below those numbers could damage or destroy the samples.
The freezer alarm went off on Sept. 14, 2020, when the temperature rose to minus-108.4 degrees Fahrenheit, but Lakshmi determined that the cell cultures, samples and research were not being harmed, according to the lawsuit.
After the beeping sound continued on, the professor contacted the freezer manufacturer to request emergency repairs, which were ultimately scheduled for Sept. 21, 2020.
Lakshmi’s graduate research staff discovered on Sept. 18, 2020, the day after the cleaner cut electricity to the freezer, that the temperature had risen. Her staff attempted to save the research materials, but “a majority of specimens were compromised, destroyed and rendered unsalvageable demolishing more than 20 years of research,” the lawsuit claims.
The cleaner told RPI’s public safety staff that he heard “annoying alarms” and went to the open electrical box to stop the incessant beeping. The cleaner mistakenly believed he was turning on the electrical breakers when he had turned them off instead.
The investigation conducted by the safety staff determined the cleaner made an error in reading the electrical box.
“At the end of the interview, he still did not appear to believe he had done anything wrong but was just trying to help,” the report stated.
Daigle had a $1.427 million contract for the 2020 fall semester to clean the school’s facilities, the Post reported. The deal included a chemistry-biology research center called the Cogswell Building.
Source; Fox News
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime, WTF?
34 years of COPS TV episodes
down the drain, at least in Ann Arbor.
It won’t take long for Michigan DOT to notice,
when no one in Ann Arbor bothers to renew their license plates anymore.
I sure as hell wouldn’t. They just set a new standard.
In over 80 percent of the vehicle stops in these cop reality shows I have watched, the officers find evidence of other illegal activity, including drugs, outstanding arrest warrants, and illegally possessed guns.
Showing all the misses would make a rather boring show, yes?
The only mistake was dragging that kid back into the boat. Now there is a chance he might breed.
Not the stupidest thing I’ve seen done with a shark. The stupidest was a video I saw years ago of divers flipping over I think nurse sharks and giving them a kiss on the nose. It was all fun and games until one of them messed up the flip (which apparently put the sharks into some kind of inert trance) and the sharks bit his lips off.
The forever kiss. The kiss by which all others will be judged. So good he will never have another of it’s equal.
Ditto for the guy abusing the baby seagull. They should neuter both these stupid clowns.
Some people are just born stoopid…others are (s)elected for it.
Man, I hate victim-blaming but I’m heading in on this one!
So counselor, we are to believe that your clients had a cool ‘mil’ ‘worth’ of ‘scientific research’ in a refrigerator that had no; off-site or alternative storage, substandard condition alarm apart from the main circuit, in-person routine monitoring as part of a checklist, isolated electric panel with limited access, etc?
Calling bullshit.
If RPI valued what was in that reefer they shouldn’t have let it go out in that short dress, to that bar, at that late hour. /super s
A ‘scientist’ should understand risk, ffs.
(below RPI’s risk mitigation specialist?)
When they say, on the thing, how to silence the alarm if it’s annoying and the dude still does something else that f*cks stuff up…
Apparently, the ability to see the red/green tabs on the breaker, or the “on/off” labels, was far above his comprehension…
“On Full Force”
Let he who has not performed a sex act while kneeling over captured seagull cast the first stone. 😳😜🤔
Stone cast.
Stone or 9 mm round through the temple?
It’s times like these that I wish I knew how to impose an image of sniffy getting a wiff of seagull from behind.
Shot out!
Define “seagull.”
Refuting him is usually sufficient.
“The council fully backed the “driving equality ordinance,” which blocks law enforcement officers from enforcing traffic violations such as expired registration, cracked taillights, or a cracked windshield, among other offenses, The Michigan Daily reported.”
“Councilmembers have accused Ann Arbor police of using such infractions to target people of color and those with disabilities.”
I’ve been pulled over for a cracked windshield and got cited. I’m white and not disabled. WTF?
Police are human too, they make mistakes.
Usually a warning is issued, so….usually, no big deal.
At least, no big deal to the average responsible, job working, tax paying, citizen that has NOT self-imposed themselves into permanent welfare.
Pretty sure that a local government can’t forbid a duly sworn officer from enforcing a law. That would actually be a violation of the law. It’s actually forcing the officer, certified by the state of Michigan, to commit the crime of nonfeasance.
How about if the officer, instead of citing local ordinance in stopping a vehicle for an equipment violation, cites the matching state law covering that violation? Is the council actually going to write him up for doing something they have no control over? What if it’s a Washtenaw County deputy, or a Michigan State Trooper? Do they think they can take action against them?
And, the idiots running Ann Arbor really ought to hop in a patrol car and do a ride-along. If you’re behind a car, especially on the night shift, you can’t tell the race of the driver. All you know is that the driver has defective tail or brake lights or no plate, or an expired plate. What happens when one of the pot heads neglects to fix his defective exhaust system and dies while warming his car up in the winter? Do the survivors get to sue any officer that they want to pick out, or just sue the PD for damages?
A good post there, but you made one error there. You are injecting intelligene, common sense, and reality in a situation where a bunch of trendy hip liberals are making random rules. Blows the whole thing up.
The guy with the bird is lucky he didn’t take it to another region. He would have been busted for transporting a gull across state lines for immoral purposes.
Yeah, that would be a federal beef. The fan belt inspectors would have to investigate that. It might even be a hate crime if that seagull identified as gender queer.
50 years ago Ann Arbor, land of the 5$ fine for marijuana possession, was known as the Berkley of the Midwest. I see they’ve stayed right on that path.
What a brilliant idea: The police can’t stop anyone for failure to renew their vehicle license and registration. Well, guess no one in this community will bother to renew, and they won’t get insurance either. What could go wrong? Surely, there won’t be an increase in auto accidents where one or more of the involved parties are uninsured. Won’t this lawlessness be wonderful. I will save about $3800 per year in insurance premiums and registration fees when they enact this auto ownership “equity” here.
How can you ignore all the intergenerational impact of systemically racist police? Someone’s great-great-great-grandpappy may have been trying to find the nearest Underground Railroad depot only to get nabbed by the local posse for a cracked windshield before he could purchase his ticket.
Plus this… Left/libtards’ electric vehicle “transformation” (wanted or not) ain’t working:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/britain-risks-becoming-guinea-pig-050000500.html
Anonymous,
And.. Wait for it in the USA.
Several states that are pushing electric vehicles
are now pushing to TAX them twice over….
with a quasi gas tax on the new electrical charging stations
AND
taxing MILES on the odometer at annual vehicle registration time.
Looks like Ann Arbor will be causing Michigan DOT to miss out on that boat, too.
Not to mention what your electric bill will be when you charge the voltage hog at home.
HERE’S another cute bit od shit about the glorified golf carts aka electric cars, the more that people buy and use them, the less MONEY will be collected from Road Use Taxes on gas and diesel fuel, so what’s next, a new Road Tax on electricity? Maybe those charging their electric cars at home will now have to have a meter on the charger to calculate what they owe in road use tax? Let’s not forget how libtard pols and bureaucrats “cream their jeans” every time they see another opportunity to tax and control people.
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Regarding the sea gull incident. Why doers it seem he is directly related to the biden family? It certainly seems he has the same behavior characteristics of hunter and the mental, shall we say gymnastics, of joe. It certainly makes it look like joe had a fling in Britain and hunter has a sibling he doesn’t know about.
Yeah, back in the day, Michigan was CRAWLING WITH “Pattyrollers”, ones who looked for Slaves who either had run away or had left the Plantation without a pass, – NOT!
AS TO the lab, I can picture the Want Ad now, “HELP WANTED: Janitor who can read plain instructions, …