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I guess I like clowns because a friend of mine used to have what she called 'a clown club'. Several of my friends were in it and they went to parades, nursing homes and schools, wherever someone asked them to go. They asked me to be in it but I had kids at home at the time and it wasn't easy for me to get away to do things like that. My friend is now in an assisted living facility. She has a heart of gold and I cant imagine anyone being afraid of her.
I saw that. Unfortunately, it doesn't really provide an answer to the case. The guy may be related, but no further info on the other aspects. It's a start, though.
GAAA! Don't scare me like that, K.A.!And speaking of scary, a banner at the bottom of the screen while I was watching today's weather report on the car-dealership TV said that the Detroit Medical Center has to pay for consultants who are going to come in and make sure that their surgical instruments are sterile. They said that whatever the consultants find, the report will not be open to the public. Appendectomy, anyone?
Just the other day there was a local news item about a woman driving home at night when she came upon a person with a clown mask standing in the middle of the road. When she stopped, he started running towards the car. She backed up as fast as she could and took the next street. She then run into a group of them all wearing masks and standing in the middle of the road. She was able to get away. Is that scary or what?
See, some of this sounds like baloney to me. Seriously, whatever way you turn your car there are clowns? That's horror-movie stuff, and pretty much physically impossible. If there are folks running around in clown masks (in the month of Hallowe'en) it's probably teens taking advantage of the fact that so many people are freaked out by people in clown masks. Why wouldn't the woman have honked her horn? Or waited until the clown got to her car to see what he would do? It's not like he could magically get in there, despite movies. She could still drive away then. It just sounds like so much fantasy to me. I realize I'm weird, but I would have opened my window and shouted, "What the @$%^ are you doing? Get out of the road before you get run over!"
It was the same group of kids/people who ran through the yards to block her on the next street.And you are probably right. It's a bunch of kids. BUT would still scare the heck out of me.
Not a killer-clown story, but a guy I went to high school with told a story about how his grandmother was in her car and found the road blocked by a mob of malevolent-looking hobos who were clearly bent on surrounding her vehicle. She put the car in drive and floored the gas, steered directly towards the bums, who (sensibly) scattered like bowling pins. That's how you handle it when you're facing down killer clowns, as far as I'm concerned. Bear in mind there is a lot of overlap between the two groups:
Interesting crime-related stat I came across. There is approximately 1 gun for every man, woman and child in the USA, but only 22 percent of the nation owns a gun. It says here that of the 265 million guns extant in the country, 130 million are in the hands of only 3% of the population.
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Tomorrow I have jury duty. Fun stuff.
My mind playing games with me, I pronounced it 'and get coffed up' in my head after reading about your cold. (Hope you're feeling better)
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Left for Boston last Friday. I was back Monday, but so tired from the bus ride I went to bed. Woke up Tuesday with a horrible cold, still suffering from it but recovered enough to sit up at my comp..."Hope you are feeling better and hope you get an interesting case for your jury duty. Is your jury duty just one day?
Koren wrote: "No more Nancy Grace. Is anyone sad? http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/nanc..."
I liked Nancy Grace but sometimes I just had to laugh. I remember after the DC earthquake she kept going on about Panic and Terror in DC and all that when everyone was calm and just all figuring out different ways to go home. (I walked out of DC, caught a pedicab for a couple miles, then walked some more to the airport, then caught the train to garage to get my car). I saw no panic at all and she kept going on and on and it was creating drama where there was absolutely none.
We'll always have the Coral Watts trial, Nancy -- sob!
Fishface wrote: "We'll always have the Coral Watts trial, Nancy -- sob!"She may show up on some other show.
She already has! Dancing With The Stars!
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I think that's Nancy Grace, not a marshmallow peep.
Fishface wrote: "She already has! Dancing With The Stars!"
Too funny!
I binge-watched "O. J.: Made in America", an inclusive documentary and fair and well made, I think. I can't put into adequate wording how nauseated and angry it made me feel, not so much the early stuff about his youth and young adulthood, (though I have to say he was never really all that to me: he was a superior jock, but I personally have no respect for people who play games as a career). Anyone who feels he has or had charisma is just plain wrong, in my view.
But O. J. as an adult is gross, arrogant, entitled, and now blowsy and dissipated. I'm no expert, but his demeanor in an interview with Chris Meyers made me think he suffers from borderline personality disorder, and would score highly on the Psychopathy Test.
The trial was a farce, of course, whether he is guilty or not.
Funny how a big bank account can create a sort of sham charisma. Of course, charisma is a bit of a sham in itself -- Charlie Manson sure has charisma, but where has that gotten him other than San Quentin?
Oh, joy! I just talked to a fairly new co-worker, who said she is dying for something to read, and said that aside from wanting to read about Relational Frame Theory -- which I have not a single book about -- she is hoping to get hold of some TC. "I can fix you up there!" I said...
Fishface wrote: "Oh, joy! I just talked to a fairly new co-worker, who said she is dying for something to read, and said that aside from wanting to read about Relational Frame Theory -- which I have not a single bo..."LOL
True Crime books are not ones my friends and family generally want.
That said, if anyone wants Kathrine Ramsland's The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers. PM me and I will send
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From the article: In school, Juliet Hulme developed an intense friendship with Pauline Parker, and the girls became inseparable. When Hulme was to leave for South Africa, following her parents’ split, Parker wanted to come along. Her mother, Honora Rieper, said no, and a plan to remove the obstacle was hatched. In June, 1954, Rieper was killed by the girls while out for a walk together on a remote trail. The murder weapon: a half-brick in an old stocking, brought over to Parker’s house by Hulme.
Watching Nancy Grace (which I did every once in a while I must confess) was like watching sports. Sounds like from the video there's future plans coming.I am grateful a bit for Nancy and do have to give OJ a nod about one thing: if I didn't watch the trial during the day I definitely did at night and then I discovered CourtTV, which I really miss. I had to retire quickly due to major issues, so I'm around during the day & became fascinated with evert trial I watched. Now I've figured out I can go on YT & see videos of trials of Bundy, .......
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Has anyone heard of this book? The Search for Anne Perry. It is not a true crime book, it is a biography about Anne Perry who in 1954, as a teenager committed a murder. Linky She we..."I've certainly heard of it but never read it.
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Just FYI, if you comb through the remaining "unanswered" questions, there are some that have been answered correctly and are awaiting their bells.
OK, now for a really important question: What's everyone being for Halloween? I decided seconds ago to go as a witch doctor, after finding a rockin' witch-doctor hat with the dreadlocks already attached. It will go perfectly with any of my skull masks. It's not every day a girl gets to put her hair up in pigtails and walk around feeling like Baron Samedi.
Fishface wrote: "OK, now for a really important question: What's everyone being for Halloween? I decided seconds ago to go as a witch doctor, after finding a rockin' witch-doctor hat with the dreadlocks already att..."Love it. I'm not dressing up for Halloween.
Not doing Halloween either. I'll be wiped out Monday after spending all weekend at dog trials. By the way, by dog Carter got a title today in competition, along with a big ribbon. He scored 100% with no faults, although he won't break any speed records. He is now officially a Nosework 1 dog.
Fishface wrote: "OK, now for a really important question: What's everyone being for Halloween? I decided seconds ago to go as a witch doctor, after finding a rockin' witch-doctor hat with the dreadlocks already att..."Great costume idea!
Wait, your dog is on trial? Did he do what he's accused of?And is Carter appearing in costume?
Aaaagh! that's a great costume! Chihuaberus!Dog trials are almost as much fun as human ones. In dog trials, the perpetrators get big ribbons rather than jail!
They get so many treats during the trial that it's quite common for dogs to blow on the way home in the car.
I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it doesn't sound good at all.
I figured it was, you know, either one end or the other.
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