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Man accused of deadly stabbing found not guilty on all counts
FRESNO, Calif. — A man accused of murder was found not guilty by a Fresno County jury Thursday afternoon.
Eric Smith admitted to stabbing Anthony Romero last May. He said Romero stormed into his girlfriend’s house, went right past her and straight to Smith and started punching him.
Smith says he pulled a knife off a table in self-defense.
Smith’s defense team brought up Romero’s arrest a couple of months earlier for domestic violence against the same girlfriend.
A sheriff’s deputy said she didn’t want to give details because she said they couldn’t protect her from Romero.
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Read the article in its entirety here: ABC 30
St. Leonard Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Stabbing in Lexington Park
7/16/2019: On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at approximately 8:35 p.m., Trooper Opirhory, from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to Yorktown Road, in Lexington Park, for a reported stabbing.
Upon his arrival, he noticed an adult male victim, in the middle of the street, his left upper arm sustained an open bloody wound. A male witness had used his belt as a tourniquet around the victim’s left upper arm to help control the bleeding. Police requested an ambulance to respond to the scene and told the victim to sit on the curb until EMS arrived. During that time the victim advised, “I do not know what happened, I was just walking down the street when this kid approached me starting s##t.” he continued, “Then out of nowhere he stabbed me.” The victim then refused to talk any further with police about the incident.
An ambulance arrived on scene and the victim was transported to Trooper 7, where he was flown to an area trauma center for further treatment, due to life threatening injuries.
Police spoke with a witness who would only say, she saw the victim walking towards her residence on Yorktown Road, with a bloody arm, at that time, her and the male witness ran up to him at the intersection of Yorktown Road and Suwanne Place, and they did not observe anyone else.
The female witness refused to record a written statement or talk with police any further about the incident. The male witness verified the female’s statement and also refused to record a written statement or talk with police about the incident.
Police spoke with another male witness who advised he noticed an altercation south of the intersection located on Yorktown road at Suwanne Place. That witness told police he observed an altercation between the victim and an unknown African American male, he described the male wearing all dark clothing (black shirt and black pants) and having “long dreads”. He said the suspect was with a “black girl walking an all brown medium sized dog (30/40 lbs.)”. That witness also refused to record a written statement.
The Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division (CED) was notified and responded to the scene. The victim told police at the hospital, that he knew who the female was who was with the suspect.
Further investigation revealed that Eugene Terrill Harris, 25 of St. Leonard, was involved in a burglary in 2017 with the female. The victim was able to positively identify Eugene Harris from his MVA photograph as the man who stabbed him.
Police located Harris and the female in the area of Yorktown Road, and noticed Harris had an opened bloody laceration to his right index finger, during a search of Harris a knife was located in his front pocket.
Eugene Terrill Harris was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, first degree assault and second
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Not Southern Maryland’s proudest day. The entire article may be viewed here: Southern Maryland News Net
Florida Man Flubs Carjacking Because He Can’t Drive a Manual Transmission
By James Gilboy
Does this headline sound familiar yet? Another attempted carjacking has gone south because the perpetrator hasn’t been able to make heads or tails of a manual transmission.This comes via an arrest report released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office of Florida—not California, where they revealed the new Chevrolet Corvette last night. According to the report, an unidentified senior was loading his walker into the trunk of his Honda this past Tuesday when he was approached by 25-year-old Jaylen Alexander, who allegedly tried to slam the trunk on the elderly man. Alexander then hopped into the driver’s seat of the running car to make his escape, but was unable to operate the Honda’s manual transmission. He reportedly stalled the car a number of times before fleeing on foot.
When police responded, the senior indicated the direction in which Alexander fled, which matched up with the area from which a vehicle was stolen shortly thereafter. Law enforcement intercepted said stolen vehicle, detaining its driver, whom the unnamed senior identified as the same man who assaulted him. Alexander was jailed on charges of grand theft, carjacking, and battery on a person over 65 years of age.
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Hat tip to Poetrooper for the link. Read the rest of the article here: The Drive
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
—JAMES MADISON
Category: Feel Good Stories
Y’all wake up! I would holler FIRST, but it don’t really count.
Story 1, dumbass got his stupid self killed over the p^ssy. Boys if she don’t want you go find another one. They out number us.
Story 2. PDRofMD. Gang related? Black on black, again?
Story 3. We could cripple an entire generation by going back to stick shift, cursive writing, and analog clocks.
Nice long distance hand cannon you got there squiddy. Modern day Mare’s Leg?
Note to self: next car you buy, make it a stick shift, period, even if the EPA dorks don’t like it.
Also, make sure the doors lock automatically once you’re sitting in the driver’s seat. And get the heated seat and heated steering wheel things, too.
I guess it’s an escalation thing.
Bringing a fist to a knife fight.
Bringing a knife to a gun fight.
That kind of thing.
Oops. Don’t know how that happened. Should have been a separate remark, not attached to yours. Sorry, Ex.
(I can only blame high blood levels in the caffeine stream)
🙂 🙂 🙂
It’s the PDRoM. I wouldn’t want to talk to the po-po either.
The County Deputies are fine here, because our Sheriff Tim is a good man.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya! No one is putting manual transmissions on new cars anymore.
Better gas mileage, simpler to maintain and repair, more fun to drive.
You’d think the manufacturers were deliberately looking to sell gas guzzling, higher maintenance, more costly cars.
^THIS^ Many of us grew up on stick shift/manual trannies. Oops my bad, a triple sexist remark. O well, it’s work in a clutch. Guess I shoulda said standard shift gear box. Had several “3 on the tree” way back yonder that I converted to floor shifter when the linkage on the firewall would go tits up. (damn another sexist remark) Would wear out.
Gots me 2 floor mounted shiftable gear boxes. ’07 Saturn ION Redline, 205 hp Supercharged 5 speed 26 mpg 4 cyl. 145K and Sassy runs like a scalded dog. Little Josey (my gray rider) is a ’13 Nissan Juke Nismo. 197 hp 6 speed turbo will haul ass AND a good load of cargo. He gets a solid 30 mpg. And no, neither one of them are for sale.
I was looking at a new F350 Super duty.
Manual tranny no longer available.
It’s all fly by wire now.
Gimme a Mack B61 with a quadruplex.
Gotta keep both feet and arms working.
No cell phones back then.
“…looking at a new F350 Super Duty.” Yep, that’s about all I could do is look. Them that ARE rather spendy. Did you find the old proverbial pot at the end of the rainbow? Even back in ’05 when I got Big Red, my F150, the only way you could get manual shift was special order. Our big T-40 placing trucks were auto, the line trucks were 10 speed with the transfer button on the shifter. Only a handful of the crew could drive the line truck. It was a company policy that all the Construction Drivers had to have a Class A GA DL. They’d cheat by sending the driver to take the test in one of the automatics. State let Ma Bell get away with it. We used to use the line/winch truck to drag the big T-40 bucket trucks thru the off road right of ways to get to some of the pole string. Grind thru mud up to the axles and keep going. Beat the hell out of hooking a 60 foot green pole. The young’uns would laugh at “The Old Man” til I throwed ’em a set of gaffs and said “Have at it!” Didn’t take but about once pulling several thousand feet of 900 pair 22 gg copper cable thru the brush and then hooking the poles for them to see the light. Been there and had done that. Good Times.
There’s a list of cars and some trucks that come with stick shifts, but it’s engineered for a 6-gear shift, not a 4-gear shift.
The 2019 Dodge Challenger looks like a copy of the late 1960s Pontiac Firebird. (And who did NOT want one of those!)
There’s a list of 40 cars for 2019 that have stick shifts: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g20734564/manual-transmission-cars/?slide=40
It includes one Jeep model.
Nothing like a stick shift 4 on the floor or a 3 axle truck with 20 gears utilizing the split axle pop up button on the stick. We used them when doing a Fed bank run up in the Catskill mountains. I forgot the suicide knob on the car steering wheel plus the floor dimmer switch, starter switch, one long front car seat and curb feelers. Any of you gear jammers know if those pop up split axle shifters were called road ranger split shifters?? I forgot. Been retired since 2007.
Had a 53 International R-180 with the stick mounted two speed axle shift. It was an electric solenoid mounted on the axle but I don’t recall the name. The axle was Eaton but the shift gismo was another name.
The multifuel duece and a halfs in Nam had a two speed auxillary that was a hoot to split shift going up but going down was scary.
Had a 67 MGB/GT with overdrive. I mounted the switch on the stick and split shift 2nd and above by double clutching. First was a spur gear and needed to be gently used.
Some of the guys were able to shift without clutching/double clutching by getting the RPM’S up to speed then the gears used to mesh with no clutching. I used to speed shift and bypass the 5 low gears and into high range. After the loss of the Fed Bank Catskill runs, the 1st-5th gears were not needed so the 3 axle trucks we used had a strap around the lower range split axle shifter.(road ranger)
Jeff some of the memory banks are overdrawn, but IIRC Road Ranger was the company the developed the split shift system. The RT 110 was a 10 speed and the RT 113 was a 13 speed. Papa was a mechanic way back yonder and one of the things he did was go to Philly about 3 times a year with some of the very early car hauler rigs I do remember that one was a 10 and the other was a 13 speed. This was during the mid 50s and early 60s. I also remember sitting in his lap as a lad, steering and shifting while he worked the pedals. Most of the vehicles I’ve owned were sticks. I keep Sassy as my really fun to drive toy and Little Josey is the commuter/hauler/go see the chil’rens baby work horse. For serious work I go to Big Red.
Very few dealerships even stock a standard shift even tho the models are in their line up. Last hard figure I saw was only 7% of vehicles sold are sticks.
Down to 3%, I hear. Stick shift Forte gets 360 miles on a 9 gallon fill up.
The new Corvette Stingray is out, and it is auto-only.
That is like “new coke” wrong.
Love the Wichita’s, but I fell more for the T/C Contender. Between the great accuracy, and the ease of changing barrels and calibers for much less than a whole new gun, there is nothing to NOT like about Contenders. Heck, half the fun is collecting as many caliber barrels that I can carry to the range!
Have a G1 Contender with a few bull barrels.
The .22 is fun with CB shorts. Very Quiet!