Duke Bushido Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Damn it! Every time I forget that long enough to think "Hmm... I haven't done a Dragon Con since the 80s..." Something reminds me of it. I mean, thank you, to be sure! But still: I live in the southeastern US. It is the _one_ Con I have any hope of ever attending...... 7 hours ago, Hermit said: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amber-guyger-found-guilty-murder-trial-fatal-shooting-neighbor-botham-n1060506 A police officer murders someone and actually is found guilty. So many folks are surprised that it appears that a cop has faced the same consequence a non police officer would have in the same situation. Surprised?! Dude, I am, as we speak, hunting a third source (not just a passover from a wire service), just to be sure this is real. Cancer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 10 hours ago, Hermit said: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amber-guyger-found-guilty-murder-trial-fatal-shooting-neighbor-botham-n1060506 A police officer murders someone and actually is found guilty. So many folks are surprised that it appears that a cop has faced the same consequence a non police officer would have in the same situation. 10 hours ago, Old Man said: I’ve found that Female Cops’ Lives Don’t Matter Quite As Much, in practice. 7 hours ago, Zeropoint said: I'm one of them. This makes me wonder what made them so quick to throw her under the bus allow justice to be served. I don't think any cop with a brain would view eating ice cream in your own apartment as an appropriate cause for an (off-duty) officer to use deadly force. And the ten-year sentence is ludicrous. She should have gotten at least twenty. And if what she had posted on her Pinterest account was any indication, no rational police department should have let her anywhere near a firearm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 28 minutes ago, Michael Hopcroft said: no rational police department should have let her anywhere near a firearm. You'd be surprised just how many cops you can apply that to. My (now ex) brother in law-- decades before he married my sister in law-- and I were roommates. He was a cop, and through him I met so many other cops..... There seems to be something about the job itself-- perhaps it's the "I get to carry a gun openly and anywhere and anytime I want" aspect (I always figured that was a big appeal for a lot of them); I don't know. But law enforcement seems to just _attract_ was more lunatics, violence-prone people, and outright bully mentalities than anything else I've ever seen. It's stinkin' _frightening_. Don't get me wrong: I thoroughly enjoy firearms myself. But the only times in my life I ever actively wished I was _carrying_ one were instances when I was talking to off-duty _cops_! At any rate, as soon as I found a better roommate situation (that is: finished rehabbing the house I had bought the previous year), I eased my stuff right out the door.... Thought I was done with him, too. Till my sister in law discovered him a couple decades later and _married_ him! Here's the _best_ part: they met on a conspiracy theory website, in a thread about how the politicians were secretly in league to take firearms from the citizens, and all the ways to make sure you had your guns and ammo hidden well enough that they couldn't be found, and how and where to acquire unregistered weapons, etc, etc, etc. And they loved to tell the story about how they were already flirting on some doomsday preper site before finding each other on the conspiracy site. And I swear to you, with one exception, all the cops I've ever met fit that mould. (The other one was just a thief. No; not making that up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 RIP Jessye Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Gandhi's ashes have been stolen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-49922319 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 The Tribble Party campaign is ramping up in the UK: pinecone and Cygnia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 10:19 AM, Hermit said: So many folks are surprised that it appears that a cop has faced the same consequence a non police officer would have in the same situation. I think a civilian would have gotten manslaughter in that case. She was made an example of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Somebody told me Tom Petty has died of a heart attack CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, csyphrett said: Somebody told me Tom Petty has died of a heart attack CES In 2017. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 3, 2019 Report Share Posted October 3, 2019 Florida event...but not quite a Florida Man/Woman facepalm situation https://www.abc4.com/news/national/authorities-woman-62-died-in-portable-toilet-explosion/?fbclid=IwAR1IyiTnDum7OgUs5JypUIwUoOGqDP2YQn1cFKUemxoc8rsM8qrRnqIAOJg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Hmm. Lethal exploding outhouse traps. Hmmmmmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Poker Player Accused Of Cheating On Low-Stakes Live-Streamed Cash Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 13 hours ago, Ternaugh said: In 2017. Some people are slow on the uptake CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 I got caught in the same way when a thing on the BBC popped up showing Muhammed Ali's obituary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 22 hours ago, Old Man said: The Tribble Party campaign is ramping up in the UK: Boris Johnson reminds me of a cross between Zod and Otis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 RIP Diahann Carroll Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 23 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: I think a civilian would have gotten manslaughter in that case. She was made an example of. I hope a civilian would have gotten murder as well. You walk into someone else's apartment and completely fail to recognize none of your furniture, decorations, things are present and then instead of going, "What the f*ck are you doing in my place?" you blast the guy? Like, how far gone do you have to be to not only walk into the wrong home, but fail to notice that you've done so before you shoot someone? Painful to think that an armed and eager-to-shoot police officer would be so painful oblivious to what is happening around them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 The article didn't really go into specifics. Some of the lesser murder charges are similar to manslaughter in their requirements for conviction. From what details I've seen so far, it looks more manslaughter level circumstances, but it'd be interesting to see some actual details in an article, rather than glossing over the legal stuff to get into the racial components of the case. As far as I can tell so far, she seems like a flighty dipshit rather than someone with intent. And, yes, there are people who are exactly that oblivious. Tunnel vision and auditory exclusion when in fight or flight mode can make someone who's in a panic hyper focus on what they believe to be the threat. Though to be honest, when I first found out about the case, I thought there'd be something on her blood screen. I'm kind of surprised there wasn't. It's a colossal act of stupidity at the very least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 How much of dip, PG? I worked with a woman who couldn't get anything done because she was always trying to figure out what was going on. One time she just walked by food slicing itself to pieces without a thought CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 46 minutes ago, csyphrett said: How much of dip, PG? Apparently, quite a big one. Some people cannot be trusted with weapons or in any kind of stressful environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 Bear cubs lock themselves in a Gatlinburg van, then honk until a human let them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 OK, I've read a few more articles on that TX case. Looks like they didn't prove malice sufficiently to me, but used some of her social media posts to establish it with the jury. They seem to have simply stacked the jury and swung for the fences with the charges to avoid a race riot here. This is the sort of thing that would have normally been a manslaughter charge, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 elephants die in Thailand trying to rescue each other https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49944885 US diplomat's wife leaves Britain before answering questions about a car crash in which she was involved that left a 19 year old dead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-49945461 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: Apparently, quite a big one. Some people cannot be trusted with weapons or in any kind of stressful environment. And it sounds like this police officer may belong in that category. Which should have been established before she was ever given a weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 5, 2019 Report Share Posted October 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: And it sounds like this police officer may belong in that category. Which should have been established before she was ever given a weapon. No doubt her department has some liability in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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