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Woman Found Living in Supermarket Store Sign with Computer and Coffee Maker for a Year, Police Say
Police in Michigan say a woman was recently found living inside a grocery store sign, where she seemingly had been staying for a year.
Contractors were working on the roof of a Family Fare Supermarket in Midland on April 23 when they discovered the woman and her living space, according to the Associated Press and USA Today.
Midland Police Officer Brennon Warren said the department has dubbed her “the Roof Ninja,” MLive.com reported.
“She essentially made it home,” the officer added.
The woman had made herself at home inside the top portion of the triangle-shaped sign, which was accessible through a small door, according to the AP and USA Today.
Warren said there appeared to be “some flooring that was laid down” and “a mini desk” as well as clothing, a Keurig coffee maker, a printer and a computer.
It is unclear how the woman continually accessed the roof. She told officers she had been living there for about a year, MLive.com reported.
“People would see her from time to time and then all of a sudden she would vanish,” Warren said, per USA Today. “No one really knew where she went but no one ever indicated or thought that she would be up on top of the roof.”
The woman reportedly agreed to leave shortly after police confronted her about her living situation. She was advised not to return and was escorted from the property.
Police said they offered her information about services for unhoused individuals, but she declined, per the reports. No charges have been filed.
The woman at the center of the story is reportedly employed, but not at Family Fare. SpartanNash, the parent company of Family Fare, said in a statement that store employees responded “with the utmost compassion and professionalism.”
“Ensuring there is ample safe, affordable housing continues to be a widespread issue nationwide that our community needs to partner in solving,” spokesperson Adrienne Chance said.
SpartanNash did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Source; People
Rapper Shoots Himself in Head While Recording Social Media Video
A teen rapper from Virginia accidentally shot himself in the head on May 15 and the incident was caught on video.
Aspiring rapper Rylo Huncho was found lying dead in his mother’s home in Suffolk, Virginia, and investigators said he died of an “accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound” to the head, the New York Post reported.
While the police would not confirm the rapper’s identity, fans and friends began circulating the video online which showed Huncho playing around with a handgun before a loud pop is heard and he drops out of view of the camera.
Many at first thought the video was staged. But after news broke, it appears to have been confirmed.
The teen’s mother set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for his final arrangements.
“He was her only son!” the teen’s cousin wrote. “She was a single parent but took care of her son the best she could.”
“It was always her and her son,” the cousin added.
Some, including his cousin, are also still wondering if the rapper intentionally ended his life as some of his posts on social media seemed to hint at despair and violence.
Regardless, the death came as a shock to Huncho’s friends and family.
One friend, Twin Porter, lamented the teen’s death, writing, “And to get a text saying he passed away is heartbreaking and to hear mean things y’all are saying about Railey is so wrong on every level please god gave his mother the strength to deal with the devastating pain she’s in.”
Hip Hop Vibe also added that Huncho’s death “sparked conversations about the responsibilities of social media platforms and the influence they have on young users.”
Source; Breitbart
San Diego Police officer resigns after getting locked in the backseat with female detainee
A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women’s Detention Center.
In adherence to California Law, San Diego Police released its internal investigation into then-Officer Anthony Hair and the events that took place on Aug. 15, 2023. The investigation resulted in Hair’s resignation the following month.
On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest.
SDPD Officer Hair was asked to take the woman to police headquarters and then to the Las Colinas Detention Center in Santee.
Minutes into the transport, Hair and the woman began to speak. Their conversation was picked up by Hair’s body camera that was attached to his uniform.
Woman: “Are you married?”
Officer Hair: “Why are you asking that?”
Woman: “You’re not too bad. What’s it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That’s the way I see s—t.”
Hair continued driving towards police headquarters. Minutes later the body camera microphone picked up moans coming from the backseat.
Woman: “Are you single?”
Officer Hair: “Yeah. But you’re not.”
The conversation then turned illicit.
Woman: “I’m down to f— right now.”
Hair: “Don’t say that right now…Don’t say that right now because everything is being recorded right now.”
For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat.
His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.
According to the GPS tracking system inside Hair’s police cruiser, Hair’s car quickly slowed to seven miles per hour before turning down a dark residential street just blocks away from Las Colinas.
At 1:34 a.m., Hair’s police cruiser stopped.
More than twenty minutes after the police cruiser stopped, Hair called a fellow officer asking if he had a master key for the patrol cars.
In a subsequent interview, the unnamed officer described the conversation to internal affairs investigators.
“I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice,” said the officer. “I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me…I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood… I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed.”
After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.
At 2:40 a.m., after more than an hour in the backseat with the woman, a supervisor arrived and opened the door.
Throughout the investigation, Hair maintained that he was checking on the woman and the car door accidentally shut on him.
As for his body camera being turned off, Hair told investigators that he knocked the camera off of its clip while getting out of the cruiser.
Investigators later interviewed the woman who said that nothing inappropriate happened in the backseat of the cruiser. The department did test Hair’s clothes for semen and found traces on his belt.
Hair resigned on September 14, 2023, less than a month after the incident.
Source; CBS8
City Defends Cop Who Shot Man’s Blind, Deaf Dog After It Wandered Into Neighbor’s Yard
If you’re a dog lover, or just a person that doesn’t have the mentality of a concentration camp guard, do not click through the link and watch the video. Your blood pressure will spike dangerously high.
City officials in Missouri are defending a police officer’s decision to fatally shoot a man’s blind and deaf Shih Tzu after the small dog escaped from his backyard.
Disturbing body camera footage obtained by ABC 17 News shows the officer repeatedly shooting the small dog, named Teddy, as it stumbled around a woman’s open backyard in Sturgeon, located north of Columbia, on Sunday evening.
“I’m at a loss,” Teddy’s distraught owner, Nicholas Hunter, told HuffPost by phone Friday. “It still hasn’t kicked in, the reality of it.”
A homeowner who lived near Hunter found Teddy in her yard. Fearing he was lost and in distress, she called the city and took photos of him sitting by a water bowl, which were shared on the city’s Facebook page.
Hunter said he rushed to the scene after getting a call from a friend about Teddy’s escape while he was out with friends.
“The dog drank water from a bowl I provided and licked my arm and leg. He was in no way a threat,” the homeowner, who declined to share her name publicly out of fear of retaliation, told HuffPost. She said her interactions with Teddy had been anything but dangerous.
When Hunter confronted the officer about the shooting, he said the officer threatened him with a loose dog citation. In a later conversation, he said the officer told him that his dog was killed not because Teddy was a public threat but because he looked injured or abandoned.
“I thought the dog was hurt so it was the humane thing to do, to put him down,” Hunter said the officer told him, referring to Teddy’s unusual appearance and movements.
“He carried his head sideways and he walked funny because he can’t see or hear. The vet diagnosed him with a neurological issue, which was the cause of him going deaf and blind,” Hunter said of Teddy, who was 5.
In the body camera footage, Hunter is seen emotionally confronting the officer, who defends his actions, saying the city doesn’t have “a humane society” and that he was responding to the situation with limited information.
In a statement Thursday, the city said it is standing by the officer’s actions. Officials have reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage and believe “the officer acted within his authority” to protect citizens from the dog causing injury to others.
“The dog’s strange behavior appeared consistent with the dispatch report of an injured or possibly sick dog,” the city said, after initially claiming in a separate post that the officer feared it had rabies. It added that it would send its officers to a local county animal control facility for training and education “in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again.”
The police department and mayor did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment Friday.
The woman identifying herself as the homeowner who called for help told HuffPost that she repeatedly told dispatch that the dog did not appear to be aggressive or a threat. If anyone’s a threat, it’s the gun-toting officer, she said.
“The officer should not be allowed to be an officer. He struggles with power,” the homeowner told HuffPost.
In a letter addressed to the city’s mayor on Monday, she demanded that the officer be relieved of his duty.
“I cannot stress enough that this animal was in no way a threat to others!” she stated in the letter, a copy of which was shared with HuffPost. “I was concerned the animal would be hit or wander off without locating its owner.”
The woman, who said she’s had to comfort her 17-year-old daughter who witnessed Teddy’s shooting from a kitchen window, said she later got a brief call from the mayor who confirmed that his had office received her complaint.
“The mayor called me but stated he didn’t have time to talk. Nothing more,” she said.
Hunter said he also filed a complaint and requested a call from the mayor, but as of Friday afternoon, he hasn’t heard from a single city official.
“The goal is just to, at this point, for the city to take responsibility and to take actions so this doesn’t happen again to another family,” he said. “I don’t have kids, so my dogs are my family.”
Source; Yahoo!
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime, Police, Stupid Criminals
Let’s not make fun of the SDPD Officer who found himself in a hairy situation when his body camera inexplicably went dark.
The woman was complaining of chest pains, fever and choking, her life was in danger. After a full chest exam and using best practices to clear her throat he was able to get a core body temperature and give her an emergency injection to lower her body temperature.
The orificer went through a Hair raising experience. Oh….that wasn’t Hair’s hair that was raised?
RIM SHOT
America’s finest. It says so on their cars.
A bad hair day.
The worst excuse for shooting a dog. Ever.
The po-po and mayor had best not ever go out to a bar for a drink…..or two…..
“Oh, I shot them because they were carrying their head sideways, and walking funny. I thought they might have rabies.
we don’t have health facilities to treat that, so I thought it was the humane to do, to put them down.”
Too bad the neighbor didn’t bring the dog into her house, that would have saved everyone a lot of grief.
I don’t even have a dog and that was bullshit. He literally called the dog to him and then BLAM!
“It defied me– muh training kicked-in!”
On the dog news site there are two videos, one showing a canine officer taking a suspect into custody and the other, about half way down the page casually killing a little Shih Tzu for no reason. Can’t see any reason that had to happen.
Yeah, not watching that video, can’t afford the BP spike… bag of shit should find a new job cleaning porta-shitters….Prayers up for the pup and his family
Same here, Fyr. The more I learn about “people” the more I love my fur babies. A real man looks after old folks, kids, and critters ’cause they can’t look after themselves. Drunks, fools, and stupid mofos…they’re on their own. Darwin Rules.
“I was a-feared for muh life– until I found out the dog was blind and deaf, then I was protecting the community from a sick dog that might possibly could’ve been rabid or something and therefore dangerous.”
This is an above and beyond kind of stupid. They say they don’t have a “humane society”, but their official village page promotes supporting your local animal shelter. It’s literally the first “ad” that pops up.
Are they really that tone deaf, or just don’t see the irony on their home page. Apparently, despite having a state university nearby (University of Missouri, Columbia), the education offered there hasn’t reached to the nearby town of Sturgeon.
https://sturgeon-mo.org/
There is also a pic of a little dog with a ball in his mouth. Their contact page is down….wonder why?
I dunno, probably got tired of reading what a POS their city management/police department are. I’m assuming the phone numbers are still valid.
Would a phone call informing them of their shit status, as long as you weren’t vulgar, or mentioning how the cop should be stomped into a mud hole, be considered threatening or harassing?
Asking for dog lovers.
Contact Front! Contact Front!Shots Fired! Shots Fired!
Beyond stupid to evil… no excuse whatsoever for what he did. And the mayor etc should face the music for supporting him.
Agreed
He probably liked having such folk.
Shitbags that abuse animals often graduate to abusing humans.
That piece of shit cop got frustrated that the little dog was avoiding him. So he shot it. What would he do to a loud mouth?
That dog was disrespecting his authoritie.
If you can’t watch the dog video, maybe this one is not as aggravating.
https://youtu.be/M6dWG18HnOo?si=f8xzeFiIrzHoPGH6
The woman living in the sign was not stupid.
Her set up was pretty clever. The base of the sign was fairly large. Enough to almost stand. She was employed. And she used a gym for exercise, showers, and personal hygiene.
She was getting by as best she could. Housing is expensive. Even for people employed of they are on minimum wage or near minimum wage.
She does seem to have trust issues with people. But therapists are expensive too.
IDK? How much are you paying for yours? I’m gonna lead by saying it’s too much whatever it is.
Remember, the Bay Area is prime real estate. Only brainwashed Fox News viewers and MAGA cultists believe the stories about businesses leaving en mass.
Because you are watching skewed reporting on Fox News.
San Francisco is ranked 27th out of 200 ranked cities nationally with respect to economic growth.
It was ranked 35th last year. So it has been in the 20% and among the best performing cities during the Fox propaganda bullshit.
Brick and mortar are closing stores nationwide, a continuous unbroken trend since Amazon and other online retailers has come to dominate retail sales.
But SF retailers are NOT closing at a high rate than the national average.
Walgreens was highlight after Walgreens execs tried to blame retail theft for why they were closing rather than acknowledge sales issues. It backfired when their own shareholders called them out for their bullshit after seeing their financials. In fact Walgreens closed a higher percentage of stores nationwide than they did in the Bay Area and their theft claims were exaggerated.
The reason those stores closed was not because of theft.., it was because the Bay Area work from home movement has made fewer people visit the locations that they had in the downtown office space areas. Stores that had no parking because they relied on office workers who parked in nearby office parking garages or took the subway.
When the office workers started staying home downtown business that relied on office workers suffered.
This despite overall economic growth in SF.
Also, Bay Area unemployment has been steady at 3.5%. Lower than the national average.
There was a lot of reporting about Bay Area companies moving to Texas. Austin in particular. Austin even climbed to the top ten cities in America.
Well that trend reversed. Austin fell back out of the top ten and companies that rely on high skill labor are closing and fleeing Texas.
These companies realized almost NOBODY with the education these companies need want to live in Texas.
Texas is ranked dead last. 50 out of 50 in the national personal freedom index. Its power grid is shit…
It’s like pulling the string on an old talking doll. The same response every time. Totally predictable, yet so much fun. It’s like fly fishing. Toss out the right fly, hook a big one, and release. Repeat. And the best part? You don’t even realize you’re being played. You just swallow the hook. I guess that’s what makes you such a good liberal stooge. Now have yourself a great day.
Just scrolling through the comments and I wonder what does any of this have to do with a sweet looking yellow and black Z/28? Did I miss something?
Wow, you sure have been active on here the last few days sock puppet Lars.
I just looked it up and your statement about Texas looks to be inaccurate. Everything I just read on 4 different sites has Texas at around 26-27. California at 49th and New York at 50th
No excuse to shoot the dog.., and I am tired of cities defending shitbag cops.
We agree on that.
This alleged scheme seems pretty stupid.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/politics/former-second-in-command-us-navy-arrested-bribery-charges/index.html
Commissar,
I put up a similar link to this story yesterday in Weekend Open Thread.
I thought VG might pick this up for a stand alone article.
Perhaps they will.
This will be a sign that after people reading about the sign incident will get ideas about living in signs and building owners should check their signs for sign squatters and maybe work out a deal for them to pay rent and have a sign in sheet at the sign door. Maybe sign makers can de sign better signs for living conditions. Well, time to sign off on my comment and not by de sign, I’m starting to show signs of fatigue after typing out this comment. See you later alligator..
It’s a sign of the times.
I’d like to see what you said in sign language.
Maybe I should re sign from the punny comments.
Never, but that is a nice sign off.
How about in braille
..:.;..***: …::’.
I would like to wish everyone a happy Public Nudity & Masturbation Appreciation Month (formerly June)
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It sure is during the Folsom Street Fair in San Fran Freakshow, even if it’s September.
I wonder if Pride Pox will make a return?
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If I had shot a blind deaf dog, I’d be facing animal cruelty charges. But the cop did a good thing putting it out of its misery. Because he feared a Shih Tzu, Might attack him or be rabid. I can imagine this cop facing a toddler with a popsicle stick, put down your weapon or ill shoot.
Waiting to see uf they file criminal charges against the ex -deputy. The Sheriff fired him saying “….the use of deadly force was not reasonable.”
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-deputy-shot-black-airman-022034005.html
Mike
USAF Retired
I thought there was ample time to discern that no threat existed when the airman answered the door. It’s not a war zone, can’t shoot someone for possession of a firearm. The deputy was not threatened. I wasn’t there and could tell no threat existed watching the video. This is why you train good guy bad guy. Gun pointed at you Shoot. No gun pointed at you Don’t shoot. Sometimes good guys have guns too!
Additionally, the young Airman asked “who is it” several times. Why did the deputy not identify himself?
A HUGE amount of stupidity involved in this case.
Good.
My lab, nicknamed Bark Obama in honor of his First president, is about to turn 14-1/2. If someone took those 110 pounds of overweight black dog as a threat, I’d personally “educate” them however I deemed necessary. My cur, who finally learned the command “sit” after over five years is a little demanding. I get home with groceries, and she insists on knowing what treats I got her and the lab. The lab ventures out of his slumber and get his share, unless he’s too lazy and the cur nags him into submission. Fortunately, Johnny Morris has blessed us wage slaves with 50% off Signature Steak Strips (made by Jack Links), so between those and Walmart, there’s usually something for them to enjoy/take for granted.
Regardless, dogs are another level beyond us. Shooting a dog, even under the guise of showing mercy, should be punishable by eternal damnation, unless proven necessary in the eyes of Dogkind. 🐶🐕🐕🦺
Concur…..
We have a female Siberian Husky named Katya and a male Alaskan Malamute/Siberian Husky mix named Charlie.
IF anyone, tried to shoot, or did shoot one or both of them. I’ll shoot the SOB without blinking an eye, and then take my punishment like a man.
Shooting one of our fur monsters is akin shooting one of our kids or grandkids. No matter how you slice it or what you call it, it’s wrong period, dot, end of the discussion. Our fur monsters are so laid back, neither one has an evil bone in them.
Mike
USAF Retired
“Children with fur”
Fur babies, fur monsters, fur kids, four legged kids…….Call ’em what you will, but in the end they’re family, and a hell of lot more loyal than most people!
Mike
USAF Retired
We seldom deserve our dogs.
A shooting buddy (RIP) was a defense attorney. The only cases he wouldn’t take were animal cruelty.
Once upon a time, he was summoned to a cell. The miscreant admitted his guilt, with specifics, and demanded to be sprung.
Counsel for the dog promptly beat the living shit out of him. Guards took their sweet time unlocking the cell and restraining counsel for the dog.
Someone else defended the miscreant. No one ever again called my buddy for an animal abuser.
That teenage “rapper” was a stupid hood rat.
His last words, recorded for posterity, “F y’all, n word (plural)
Class to the end..
And this year’s is…
According to the Department of Labor, the most dangerous career field in America today is “Aspiring Rapper”, followed by “Aspiring Basketball/Football Pro”.
As a big supporter of LEOs, the above are several examples of what causes the hard working, decent members of an honorable profession, to receive a bad name. I currently have a nephew by marriage that is a police officer in a rather large town. I e said many times that there is no way at all that he should have a badge. With the way he treats his wife and kids, I’m quite sure he treats strangers on the street horribly.
Regarding the wrapper: I home that he purchased that gun after an extensive and comprehensive background investigation. In accordance with common sense gun laws!
I just looked it up and your statement about Texas looks to be inaccurate. Everything I just read on 4 different sites has Texas at around 26-27. California at 49th and New York at 50th
Wrong place