A Schenectady man has been charged with assault after investigators said he was part of a group that struck firefighters who were attempting to put out an illegal campfire.
Schenectady Police said the fire department responded to Central Park on Thursday, May 21 around 6:19 a.m. for a report of an open burn.
Fire Chief George Burns said firefighters were assaulted by several individuals at the scene when attempting to put out the fire., which was in violation of a city ordinance. Additional personnel responded to the scene.
Police said Samuel Toomer, 57, struck one of the firefighters in the face with a closed fist. The firefighter had a cut on their chin, bloody nose and other pain.
Toomer was charged with three counts of second-degree assault and a violation of the city ordinance against open burning.
And just in case you don’t get the reference in the title.
Do people young enough not to know who George and Gracie are still read blogs?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but it sure seems to me like there have been an awful lot of little league home runs in the major leagues this year. It feels like I’ve been waking up to at least one or two a week. I don’t know if that’s true, but there have definitely been tons of them this week alone so I’m just going to say I’m right and let you enjoy this amusing compilation of them.
I don’t know which one is my favourite, but this one courtesy of the Giants and Diamondbacks is up there because it’s not every day you see a guy get drilled in the bean, then dust himself off and make it anyway.
Giants center fielder Harrison Bader got a decent bounce from Carroll’s first-inning drive deep into left-center, and launched the ball toward third base. The relay throw, made nearly from the infield dirt, was accurate in a sense: Carroll, who had lost his helmet after rounding first base, received the ball directly to the back of his skull. As the ball rolled away, he rallied and scored easily.
I was struggling to understand what and why the hell any of this was happening until I read down to the part where the fellow had previously been arrested for possession of LSD and 27.92 grams of marijuana wax. I don’t know what that second thing is exactly, but it must be the black sheep[of the marijuana family, the one who does weird stuff like share candy instead of eating it all himself.
Investigators say that Tristan Stetina, 19, walked into a Mankato eatery Friday afternoon and “began throwing Skittles at employees and customers.”
A woman identified as “Victim 1” in a court filing told police that she was “hit in the back with a Skittle which caused a stinging pain.”
Upon arriving at the restaurant, a cop “noticed Skittles all over the gound and a bag of Skittles near the garbage.” The suspect, “Victim 1” told police, had a “heart shaped tattoo under his eye and another tattoo on the side of his face.”
Based on the description, police knew who they were after and quickly tracked him down at a nearby business. He allegedly fought with the officers and tried to trip one before being taken in on a charge of misdemeanour assault.
Oh, and one other thing. Please tell me that the words “hit in the back with a Skittle which caused a stinging pain” are just part of a dramatic, in the moment description, because they sure read to me like somebody’s campaigning for a starring role in a reboot of the Stella Awards.
I try to avoid thinking about people and their stupid ass trends as much as possible, but this is pretty much what happens when I’m forced into it.
Gen Z’s “maxxing” trend has gotten way out of hand. As looksmaxxers like Clavicular hype the benefits of smashing your face with a hammer, and self-described nothing-maxxers achieve new levels of doing jack s**t, Lewis Black can’t help but wonder: What the f**k is happening?!
Believe it or not, I actually know a couple of guys who tried to pull off the old switch places during a traffic stop thing once. They were both drinking, but decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the one that didn’t have a driver’s license was in better shape and thus less likely to get them into trouble out on the roads. I don’t know what it was that caused them to get pulled over, but of course they did. And it was at that point it dawned on them that the first part of the sentence “license and registration, please” is license, and that the guy who had a valid one ought to be the one providing them. This all worked out as well as you’d figure, and the two of them ended up heading to the tank until some people who are far too nice came down and bailed them out.
Dumb as that was, though, it was a Mensa meting compared to this. At least the guys in my story were A: alone together and B: both human beings.
Springfield Police Chief Clay Klipfel conducted a traffic stop on a driver who was going 52 mph in a 30 mph zone about 11:30 p.m. Saturday near West 7th Avenue and Main Street in the Town of Springfield, according to police.
The driver attempted to switch places with his dog, which was in the passenger seat of the Dodge Challenger – a process that Klipfel watched as he walked toward the car, police said.
The suspect – who had clear signs of intoxication, according to police – got out of the passenger side of the car and told the chief that he wasn’t the one driving. When Klipfel asked whether he’d been drinking, the man tried to run away, police said.
The suspect’s getaway attempt was cut short about 20 yards from the car when he was apprehended.
A man and a woman who were sober were in the backseat. The car belonged to the woman, Klipfel said.
This idiot better have credibly threatened to kill those other two people, because otherwise they’re no smarter than he is. There are two of you. Both of you are sober. One of you owns the car. Make better choices, for god’s sake!
the driver was arrested on a couple of warrants, plus charged with driving under the influence, driving while ability impaired, driving under suspension, speeding and resisting arrest.
The dog was released into the custody of the sober people, who were allowed to continue on their way rather than be sent for mental health evaluations that they could probably have used.
I may be the only one, but I was fully prepared to give Doug Ford a pass for buying that government jet.
Part of this is a me thing, because I hate travelling. In a perfect world, wherever I’m going should never be more than an absolute maximum of an hour and a half away from wherever I am. There are many reasons why you’ll never see me running for public office, but one of them is most definitely looking at campaign itineraries and politician schedules in general. “Wait. They’re in how many cities today? And they’re taking a bus? And they’re still expected to be nice to people? Does Trump’s cognitive test guy know about this?”
But my own travel preferences aside, it does sincerely make sense to me that if you’re regularly expected to be all over the damn place like government officials often are, that you should be able to be as flexible as possible about it. If you’re needed in both Waterloo and Ottawa on the same day, for instance, and you can make that trip in two hours rather than six, why wouldn’t you? And just as importantly, why wouldn’t we want you to?
Should Ford have made this case to the people? Of course. Explaining how things are currently done and outlining the time and cost savings you expect over time by spending what looks to be a lot of money up front would have taken more effort than “you bought me a plane, bitches! Surprise!”, but there’s no excuse for not doing it. Would he have gotten some blowback? For sure! But that’s part of being the public face of decisions. It might not have been super popular, but it might not have turned into a whole thing that’s going to dog him for years like it has now, either. He might have even gotten to keep it! And then whichever government came next could have used it too and hoped that we all forgot about how they used to call it the gravy plane to score some cheap political points instead of just being honest for once and saying “you know what, that really isn’t the dumbest idea…especially not the dumbest one this guy’s ever had.”
The $28.9-million private jet the Ontario government purchased — and Premier Doug Ford has now committed to sell — would only have been able to fly in and out of about 10 per cent of recognized airports in the province, according to a CBC News analysis.
Bombardier’s technical specifications for its 650 Challenger jet show it requires a distance of 5,650 feet to take off at its maximum weight, which means it couldn’t use the vast majority of airports in Ontario at full capacity, as they have runways shorter than that, according to runway dimension data from NavCanada. (Aviation industry standard is in feet, rather than metres.)
Those limitations raise questions about how the private jet would have helped the premier travel around northern Ontario — one of his justifications for needing the jet — and how the plane would have fulfilled other government uses Ford described at Queen’s Park on Tuesday.
“Sending firefighters up north to fight wildfires, or if we had floods, or if we had to bring people when we evacuate First Nations communities and we had to get them down and we would do that,” Ford said.
“Right now we’re chartering planes, and when you evacuate, you want to evacuate the elder, the children. I know it’s small, but if you can take two or three trips.”
CBC News cross-referenced a list of Ontario airports recognized by the federal aviation authority with runway data from a copy of NavCanada’s Canada Flight Supplement from 2021 to determine the longest runway at airports across the province. After removing airports that have closed from the list, CBC found the province’s Challenger jet would only have been able to use 19 of Ontario’s 179 operational airports based on the distance it needs to take off at its maximum weight and the length of available runways.
Not only that, but Ford also admitted that there are places in the north where it wouldn’t have been able to land no matter what because of dirt runways. That raises even more questions, because the province already owns more than one plane that can.
So much for the benefit of the doubt. Tell me again why these guys are the smartest, most responsible choice to run the province.
If you’re planning to tool around town with three pounds of cocaine, there are certainly worse ways of disguising it than making it look like a great big pregnant belly. On paper, at least. Unfortunately, life isn’t lived on paper. If it were, it wouldn’t matter that you drive like an idiot. Or that you and your pregnant friend can’t decide when she’s due. Or that neither of you knows where you’re heading today. Or that your little oven bun isn’t taped to her nearly as securely as you thought.
Public Information Officer Shale Remien told ABC News that the stop was predicated on Miller’s erratic driving. He allegedly weaved through multiple lanes and nearly collided with a semi-trailer truck, Remien said.
Miller and Mitchem behaved nervously during the stop and volunteered that Mitchem was pregnant, according to Remien.
“The first red flag began when the two gave conflicting information about her ‘due date,'” the release from the office said.
Remien added that the two offered different information about their destination. Deputies also found marijuana in their vehicle, according to Remien.
Mitchem fled from the officers as they grew increasingly suspicious of the “conflicting story” offered by the couple, according to police.
“Mitchem immediately took off running and very quickly drugs fell from the fake rubber stomach,” the release noted.
Both were charged with drug trafficking and could face up to 30 years if convicted.
When I was a kid it used to annoy the crap out of me when a band was described as a one-hit wonder even though I knew damn well that they had another song! I considered it a point of pride when I could name that song when no one else could. So with that in mind, I was pretty confident that I would be acing this 1980s one-hit wonder follow-up songs quiz. But friends, I am here today to tell you that I did not.
I started out by getting one wrong, then going on a bit of a tear. Unfortunately, I immediately followed that up by tearing off in the opposite direction. When all was said and done, I wound up with just 40%. That’s right. Mr. What’s Wrong With You? Do You Even Music, Bro? over here failed the freaking test! Maybe I should have paid better attention during Bobby McFerrin lessons.
More than once in these pages I’ve mentioned that something said by George Carlin wasn’t just a bit to me, but also a life lesson. This, however, is not one of those things.
If only I could have explained that to Christopher Everson here before everything went all to hell for him.
On April 11, just before 11 p.m., a man driving a Nissan sedan east on State Road 574 in Seffner, Florida, crossed into the westbound lane and crashed head-on into a Volkswagen car being driven by a 17-year-old, Tampa Fox affiliate WTVT reported, citing the Florida Highway Patrol. As the vehicles came to a stop, Everson — driving a Ford F-150 — allegedly struck the Volkswagen.
The driver of the Nissan was identified by the regional outlet as Garry Baptiste, and he was reportedly hospitalized and cited for careless driving.
The teenager was also hospitalized with serious injuries, and he later died.
Everson, however, did not go to the hospital, according to authorities. Instead, with his 8-year-old son in tow, he allegedly walked away from the crash site and bought an Uber ride to his St. Petersburg home.
He is currently being held without bond on charges of leaving the scene of a crash with death and operating an unregistered vehicle.
The whereabouts of the son were not reported, but hopefully he’s with someone who can explain to him that it’s ok if he never listens to his dad again.
I enjoy these Ryan George videos because he takes things that I’ve often spent far too much time wondering about and then actually makes something useful out of them because he’s, like, funny and stuff.