December 9, 2021

Legendary comic artist George Perez opts for no treatment..will let "nature take its course" 😢

wonder woman artist https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/george-perez-artist-cancer-1235058463/

December 8, 2021

CA inmate firefighters believe their release dates were postponed to have them fight more fires

California inmate firefighters win change in release date rules after months of complaints

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article36818133.html

Firefighter inmates have complained since May that changes in good-conduct credits appeared to have added months and sometimes years to their projected release dates without explanation, and some complained they believed prison officials were trying to keep firefighting inmates longer to help deal with the California’s siege of wildfires.


“The previous proposed changes, while well-intentioned, created a lot of unnecessary operational challenges, as well as confusion in both our population and their families, because they were getting release date calculations at the end of every month, instead of at the beginning of their sentence,” CDCR Secretary Kathleen Allison said in a statement Wednesday. “We listened to these concerns, and made the decision to revert the credit-earning calculation so that people can see their release dates up front.” The original change in how credits were calculated resulted in fire camp inmates suddenly seeing their expected release dates pushed out without explanation, inmates and family members said.

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Inmate Donnell Marin was housed in a fire camp in Sylmar and was told in April that his projected release date was July 23. After the regulations took effect May 1, his release date was changed to April 2022 and, later, to September 2022. Inmate Sean McGivern had a similar complaint, telling The Sacramento Bee in September that his paperwork showed he had “zero days remaining” on his sentence but was still in custody and could not get an explanation of why he had not been released. McGivern said that after inmates raised complaints and The Bee began inquiring about the issue fire camp officials began using Wite-Out to obscure the “time remaining” line on paperwork. Both inmates have since been released, CDCR online records show.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article256428806.html#storylink=cpy

December 8, 2021

search for customer who slaps restaurant manager HARD when credit card doesnt process correctly

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/customer-smacks-restaurant-manager-in-the-face-for-credit-card-misunderstanding/vi-AARzVHr?ocid=msedgntp

December 8, 2021

substitute teacher sets up disco lights and sings with Karoke machine. relieved of duty early

A substitute teacher brought a karaoke machine to school for his classroom performance, a Texas school district said, leading to his early dismissal. Now, Austin Independent School District is “reviewing the incident to determine his future in our substitute system,” according to a statement provided to McClatchy News.

“The substitute, who was in our system and had completed basckground checks, showed up at BowieHigh School) without an ID,” the district statement says. “After getting a temporary ID, he preceded to his class but failed to identify himself properly to his first class, leading some to believe he was not approved to be on campus.


The sub then began to sign using a karaoke machine he had brought with him.”

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article256407416.html#storylink=cpy

December 8, 2021

electrical wiring to keep bears out

Across the Tahoe Truckee region, a new trend in home design has become more popular in recent years. Door by door, window by window, pairs of wires are strung between brackets and hang across the threshold. On the front door, a yellow sign hangs with a warning about an electric voltage.

Electric wires like these give bears just enough of a shock to make the bears not want to come back or try to break into the house.

A decade ago, the electric wires were nonexistent. But now, in some Tahoe neighborhoods, the vast majority of homes are outfitted with them. The wires serve a very practical purpose: They prevent bears from breaking into homes.

Ryan Welch, who is the founder of Tahoe Bear Busters, is so busy installing electric wires on homes in Tahoe that he’s been booked solid for months. He’s been turning away work since September, because he was booked all the way through December. Now, he’s finishing up the last of his projects before winter arrives.

In the 10 years that Welch has been doing this work, he’s outfitted about thousands of homes with bear security systems, using the electric wires that he designed. The technology comes from electric fencing often used on farms or ranches to keep animals in.

Welch’s goal is the opposite. He wants to keep bears out. His method works.

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/From-umbrellas-to-electric-fences-the-weird-16670052.php

December 8, 2021

toons

December 8, 2021

Fresno homeowner saddened as video shows small child stealing package from doorstep

A Fresno homeowner’s security cameras captured video showing a small child taking a package from the porch of the home. Videos sent to Storyful, a news and video service, by homeowner Sierra Zamora show the November 26, 2021, incident. The footage can be seen above. “It was just sad to see,” Zamora told Fresno ABC30.

One angle shows the child, who appears to be wearing pajamas, approaching the home. The child looks back toward the street, where an adult person is standing, before picking up a package and walking away

A second camera angle shows a vehicle stopped on the street outside the home and an adult person walking on the sidewalk. A child exits the vehicle and approaches the adult person before walking up the front walk of the home.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256402101.html#storylink=cpy

December 8, 2021

Crumbley has another son

December 8, 2021

73 year old woman killed by a sheep at MA animal therapy farm

Kim Taylor, 73, was caring for livestock in Massachusetts on Saturday when a sheep charged at her.
She was severely injured and died after going into cardiac arrest, police said.

The incident happened at an animal therapy farm in Bolton, Massachusetts.

A 73-year-old volunteer at a Massachusetts animal therapy farm died over the weekend after a sheep repeatedly rammed her in a livestock enclosure, police said.

Bolton Police Department Chief Warren Nelson said in a statement shared with Insider that volunteer Kim Taylor was caring for livestock at Cultivate Care Farms on Saturday when the sheep charged at her.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-volunteer-at-a-mental-health-therapy-farm-died-after-one-of-the-sheep-repeatedly-rammed-her-in-a-livestock-enclosure/ar-AARztuD

December 7, 2021

Rittenhouse pushes back on praise for killing "probably two of the worst on the planet"

Rittenhouse Rethinks Trip to Kenosha
Teenager retreats from interviewer's praise for killings


The recently acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse says that, in hindsight, the trip from his home in Illinois to Wisconsin during protests in August 2020 was "probably not the best idea." Rittenhouse, then 17, took an AR-15-style rifle with him and shot three people; Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were killed. On a Monday night episode of the podcast "You Are Here," Rittenhouse said he can't change the decision to travel to Kenosha, NBC reports. "But I defended myself and that's what happened," he said. Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges, including homicide, last month.

Rittenhouse pushed back at praise from the interviewer for the killings. "Of all the people that you shot at, you killed probably two of the worst on the planet," said Sydney Watson. Rosenbaum and Huber had criminal records. "Congratulations," Watson told the teenager, per the Hill. "Good job, you." Rittenhouse answered, "It's nothing to be congratulated about." Rittenhouse has said he went to Kenosha to protect property during the protests against police violence against Black people. "Like, if I could go back, I wish I would never have had to take somebody’s life," he told Watson.

https://www.newser.com/story/314230/kyle-rittenhouse-going-to-kenosha-wasnt-the-best-idea.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top