It’s not every day that being found dead next to a life-sized sex doll isn’t the most embarrassing part of such an event, but here we are.
Investigators say Ryan Smith, 41, and a colleague were dispatched last week to a home at the Rock Creek Apartments in Omaha to collect the body of an individual who died there.
“Near the body on the bed was a very real life size” sex doll, an investigator reported.
Police allege that Smith subsequently called the property manager and claimed that the local sheriff had asked him to remove the sex doll “to collect swabs for biopsy.”
Smith’s “strange request” was denied by the manager, who later returned to the apartment to discover that Smith was inside the unit (which had been locked with a deadbolt and chain).
After Smith exited the home with his shirt untucked and his pants in “disarray,” the property manager called cops, who later busted Smith on a felony burglary charge.
Something, probably the whole pants in disarray thing, prompted cops to take a closer look at the doll, which they described as “sticky”. They also observed that it appeared as though something had been rubbed on its inner thigh area.
That second one seems a little dubious to me since that’s kind of her whole thing, but it turns out there was more than enough evidence for a Judge Cox of all people to send Ryan Smith away for 90 days.
I remember the first time I heard about those AI services that could summarize your inbox and send emails for you.
“What a stupid idea,” I recall thinking. “I’d spend more time cleaning up after it than I would getting anything else done, and I’m sure it would wind up missing a bunch of important shit that I’d just have to go back and read anyway.”
That was years ago, and my opinion has changed 0 percent since then. Granted I don’t have your average business person’s boring ass inbox, but even if I did, I still care enough about what I’m putting out into the world that I’d never be able to not handle that stuff myself.
Plus there’s always a chance that this could happen.
“I wanted to create a space where people could talk about the public washroom experiences that they’re having in Waterloo Region,” she said.
Perry launched the group at the end of April. Members can post pictures of washrooms as long there are no people, or anything they’ve left behind, in the image.
“We really discourage photos of really gross toilets,” Perry said. “No one needs to see that as they’re just scrolling through their feed.”
Perry has a history of chronic illness and a child with autism. She said for her, finding a suitable bathroom is more than a convenience – it’s critical.
“I just know that I’m not the only person walking around with some anxiety around bathrooms,” she said.
I don’t know if there are thoughts of taking this beyond a Facebook group, but I hope there are. There are plenty of people (myself among them) who aren’t on Facebook and have no plans to be there. It would be nice to be able to browse and submit reviews on an actual website that’s open to everyone.
Segrest said the investigation by local and state law enforcement, combined with autopsy results, determined that Folds “was strangled” – and “it appears [Robbins] was attempting to dispose of [her] body in a remote location” when he died.
Segrest said the truck near the bodies of Robbins and Folds was still running and the driver’s side door was open when deputies arrived to find them.
The tailgate was down, he said to AL.com, and there were drag marks in the dirt into the woods where the couple were found.
Segrest told the outlet that investigators suspected Robbins killed Folds as an act of domestic violence. The prosecutor added that he believed everything had happened the previous night, citing the fact that the truck was still running.
According to Folds’ obituary, she had a “heart of gold”. Robbins, meanwhile, should have maybe been more mindful of his heart of Kerrygold.
Given this fellow’s apparent condition and the results of the subsequent police search I feel like the presence of the potato might be some kind of drug thing, but I don’t know. I don’t know and I kind of don’t want to. It’s so much more fun to imagine that buddy just happened to have a potato handy.
According to Guelph police, they responded to a crash just after 4 a.m. on Tuesday in the city’s east end.
When officers arrived, the man was sleeping behind the wheel of his SUV after crashing while pulling a trailer.
Police woke him, asked him to hand over his keys, and he handed the officers a potato.
After obtaining the keys and getting him out of the car, they also found multiple narcotics pipes in the vehicle.
When a few infants started to cry about having to face the consequences of their actions, political opportunist Doug Ford saw a chance to score some cheap points. And so it was that he banned municipalities from using the speed cameras that had been allowed a few years earlier by that absolute working man hating idiot…Doug Ford. Assuming that your brain works like at all, I bet you can figure out what happened next.
A new report shows Toronto has seen a dramatic spike in speeding in the months since the Ontario government scrapped automated speed enforcement cameras.
The report, which Toronto city council is set to consider at its meeting this week, shows the percentage of drivers travelling at least 16 kilometres per hour over the posted limit on some streets surged over 400 per cent after the cameras were removed last November.
Vehicle speeds increased at 101 of 104 locations with comparable before-and-after data, and the proportion of vehicles travelling 11 km/h or more over the posted limit increased from two per cent to 8.1 per cent, the report shows.
The increase in speeding was “generally more prominent” on streets with a posted limit of 30 km/h, it says.
So school zones, essentially.
The government has promised what it calls more effective speed enforcement measures that will be rolling out over time. So far, though, the highest profile idea they seem to have come up with is to increase the speed limits that people routinely ignore on the province’s already dangerous highways. Makes sense once you realize that making things worse and more dangerous while cutting off much needed revenue has pretty much been the Ford way in almost every situation all along.
Rogers Sports and Media up and murdered six radio stations yesterday. Sportsnet 650 Vancouver, Sportsnet 960 Calgary, 660 NewsRadio Calgary, 1130 NewsRadio Vancouver, 95.7 NewsRadio Halifax, and most important to us living around here, 570 NewsRadio Kitchener.
They did it for the same reason that all these cunts say they have to do it. I’m so sick of writing it that I’m just going to copy and paste some of what I wrote when CHML shut down to save myself the effort. Just replace Hamilton with Kitchener as you read and you’ll be fine.
The reasons for its demise should be all too familiar to anyone who pays attention to this stuff. Overly large company wants to own everything, but doesn’t much care for the part where it has to pay to run it.
They also blamed Canada’s unfavourable regulatory environment, because that’s what you do when you’re a private company that historically gets whatever it wants from the CRTC and the government but still don’t think it’s enough.
I hate to have to go on this rant again, but if anyone should be complaining about the regulatory environment, it should be the people of Hamilton who just lost a nearly century old radio station because of shareholders who have probably never been there or listened to it. If we hadn’t spent decades allowing the rampant media consolidation that creates monsters like Postmedia, Bell, Rogers, Corus and the like, chances are we wouldn’t be seeing this sort of thing happen over and over again at the pace it’s been happening in the last five-ten years. Those companies exist solely to wring every bit of value they can out of assets and then discard them. They have zero interest in running properly scaled, sustainable businesses or in the communities that those businesses are supposed to serve.
Nailed it.
What makes this one extra insulting is that Rogers, unlike Corus, still has gobs of money. Gobs enough that right before they committed this massacre, they dropped billions of dollars in order to complete their quest to monopolize Toronto sports. The fact that the good people of Waterloo Region now have no station on which to listen to any of those sports would almost be funny were it not so extremely goddamned off pissing.
570 failed us a lot because Rogers never much cared for putting sufficient resources behind it, but make no mistake, its loss is going to be felt here for a very long time. During the hours it was allowed to function properly, it filled a need that no one else in town has truly filled in years. If you needed ongoing traffic or weather info, that’s where you went. Wondering why your hydro went out? That’s where you went. Promoting a community event or need to talk up an important issue, that’s where you went. And now, with the stroke of a greedy asshole’s pen, it’s all gone.
Yes, there are other stations, but most of them are automated to absolute death. The CBC has a very good morning show, but that’s about all it has. Once the clock hits 8:37, it’s pretty much useless from a local perspective. Nothing against Q or The Current, but they’re not what I need when I’m ass deep in snow and wondering if I’ll ever get out.
But speaking of the CBC, this feels like a fine opportunity to make an argument I’m sure I’ve made before. It needs an afternoon show. There is absolutely no reason why our local drive time programming should be coming out of Toronto. There’s more than enough going on around here to fill another three hours each day. And especially after the events of this week, it shouldn’t be super difficult to put a team together. As it was it was a missed opportunity, but as it is now there’s absolutely no excuse for not doing it. If the CBC is truly serious about being relevant to Canadians and their communities, let’s get going.
Rogers, for its part, says that while the radio station may be gone, the 570 website will continue to cover local news. But if you think that commitment is going to stick around for the long haul, I currently own a bridge you should come take a look at. Keeping promises really isn’t their thing.
The City of Waterloo will stop using X (formerly Twitter) because it sees it as a bad place to be and fewer people are using the platform.
“We’ve had feedback from citizens that they don’t feel X is a welcoming space that reflects their values,” said Stacey Abbott, manager of corporate communications.
City hall is displeased with how the social media platform moderates hate speech and abusive language.
“We just don’t have shared values around inclusivity,” she said. “There’s a lot more bots, misinformation, disinformation and distorted narratives that concern us.”
Abbott is confident city hall will communicate effectively with people through other social media and websites.
City hall researched other organizations that have left X and “nobody had any negative implications from leaving X and so we’re comfortable and confident it’ll be the same for us,” Abbott said.
As of July 6th, The city will be posting announcements on its websites, as well as the other social media channels it’s already been using. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo appears to be the list at this point. The Twitter account won’t be going away, but it’s only going to be used to help direct people to those other places.
This is historically the sort of thing I would tear a strip off of idiots for getting sucked into, but I’m not sure I can do that anymore. Not because this particular woman is old, old people are vulnerable and making fun of vulnerable people is wrong, though. To hell with that nonsense. I don’t care how old you are. If you still have some of it left, use your brain. Check with people you trust. Google it and look further than whatever AI garbage it shits out near the top of page one. You’ll almost certainly find that the old saying about things that look too good to be true is most often accurate.
But, and this is a pretty big but, the standard advice about politicians not openly endorsing financial products or products in general doesn’t apply in the same way it used to. Donald Trump, shyster that he is, has done his best to shoot all of that straight to shit. He has his own crypto. He sells overpriced bibles. His name is on cell phones that may or may not exist. He shilled Teslas…sorry, I mean “Teslers” on his front lawn.
I could go on and on all day, but I’m sure by now you understand.
Yes, everything Trump is selling is a scam as well, but his scams are unique in that they’re also real. Real in the sense that there’s NO AI fakery required. So when someone tells a friend or family member they’re being taken for a ride because the Prime Minister or whoever would never do that, that person can counter with “Oh really? The president does” and be absolutely right. And that’s if they even bother to ask in the first place. Because if Trump does it, why wouldn’t others? It’s normal now. No need to check in. Just take my money.
I hate this, but it’s true.
Watch out for your loved ones, everybody. Be as annoying as you need to be if something doesn’t seem right. It might cause some strain, but they’ll surely thank you when they still have money in the bank and a place to live, so it’s worth it.