Month: April 2018

New member of the family

Say hello to my new baby.

Yes, it’s even the same color.

After 15 years, and three months of waiting for my special order to be delivered, it’s new truck day.

In 12 years, my son will turn 16 and I’ll hand him the keys to it and it will be time for daddy to buy himself something new.

The Country Formerly Know As Great Britain is the Florida Man of Europe.

Seems like I wrote this before. Remember the 78-year-old London man who killed a home invader in the wee hours of the night, got arrested for murder and then was released? You are not gonna believe what is happening.

A shrine to a dead burglar has been set up yards away from the home where he was stabbed – as its pensioner owner is forced to stay away under police protection.
Dozens of flowers have been attached to a fence just 20 yards away from Richard Osborn-Brooks’ home in Hither Green paying tribute to Henry Vincent.

The career criminal died after being stabbed while breaking into the home last week where the 78-year-old owner lived with his wife Maureen.
Mr Osborn-Brooks was arrested on suspicion of murder but has since been released and faces no charges.
He and his wife have been forced to stay away under police protection and today officers were seen removing clothes and belongings including Roses chocolates and a phone charger.
A group of seven women arrived at South Park Crescent in London to add to the cards, balloons and flowers already left over the weekend.

Shrine to dead burglar near to house where he was killed as homeowner forced to stay away under police protection

Get your popcorn, folks. If we are lucky the London will become a full-fledged urban combat zone and we will see the best of hand-to-hand combat since the gladiators.

Impunity. It works very well for Brit criminals and their loved ones as it  worked for Stoneman Douglass shooter Nikolas Cruz, for the BSO deputy that hid rather than face Cruz, for the School Board that covered all the craziness and felonies committed by Cruz and to Sheriff Scott Israel.

Hat Tip Rob R.

In Response To Growing Number Of Fistfights, London Mayor Bans Hands – Babylon Bee

LONDON—In response to a recent outbreak in fistfights, London mayor Sadiq Khan announced Monday a sweeping ban of hands in the city, effective immediately.

 “No excuses: there is never a reason to have hands in a modern, civil society. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law,” Khan said at a press conference announcing the new policy during which he revealed that he has had his own hands surgically removed as a good-faith move to jump-start the new regulations.

In Response To Growing Number Of Fistfights, London Mayor Bans Hand.

Babylon Bee is a satire website and that “Fauxticle” is funny as hell, and it brought to mind this:

The way things are going in England, truthfully I would not be surprised if it happens.

Hat Tip Kevin C.

Not The Onion: “Top doctor: Ban deadly blades from our kitchens”

ONE of Scotland’s leading doctors has called for a ban on “killer” kitchen knives.
Dr John Crichton, the new chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, wants the sale of pointed kitchen knives to be banned to help reduce the number of fatal stabbings.
He first suggested the move three years ago, but his proposal did not win enough support from policy-makers. Since then dozens of people, including schoolchildren, have lost their lives as a result of attacks involving bladed instruments.

Dr Crichton, who took on the role of chairman in June this year, is championing a switch to so-called “R”-bladed knives, which have rounded points and are far less effective as weapons.

He said that research shows many attacks, particularly in households where there has been a history of violence, involve kitchen knives because they are so easily accessible.

Dr Crichton believes a switch from sharp-pointed, long-bladed knives to the new design could save lives.

“Top doctor: Ban deadly blades from our kitchens”

England has become a caricature. That hacks like Crichton are even given lines in a publication confirms that.

Bladed instruments without a point? The first thing that popped to my mind was the murder of Lee Rigby who was chopped to death with a cleaver back in 2013.  And we know it was a cleaver because video was taken of murderer while holding the weapon.

Dr. Crichton makes two dumb assumptions, 1) round knives will guarantee a reduction in the number of wounds by forcing everybody to switch to rounded point knifes: it simply won’t, but you will get is an increased number of throat slashes that will be even deadlier and 2) You have not prohibited grinders which can be used to create a point in the blunt knife.

And the question remains: What are you going to do with the millions of pointed knives already in circulation? Just because you can make them illegal does not mean the tips will magically fall off.

Madness and stupidity mixed in equal parts. Shaken, not stirred.

PS: It just occurred to me: you really do not need a sharp point to stab somebody in the eye and drive the blade all the way inside the brain.

Hat Tip Robb A.

 

From the “but he’s a Democrat” files

Reagan Stevens, a deputy director in the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and two young men were arrested for illegal weapons possession while sitting in a double-parked car near the scene of a Saturday night shooting in Queens, cops said.

A loaded, 9mm semi-automatic pistol with its serial number defaced was hidden in the car’s glovebox, and there was a spent shell casing on the floor near Stevens’ feet in the rear of the 2002 dark red Infiniti SUV, law enforcement sources said.

An unlicensed handgun in New York City might be something the Mayor could pull some strings over.

A defaced serial number is a hard time, get pounded in the ass in a federal prison, type crime.  I’m not sure how de Blasio will be able to fix this.

Oh wait, he’s a progressive Democrat, no egg will be anywhere on his face. 

Those rules are for little people like us, not like him and his appointees.

Good thing the people who want to take away our guns are so law abiding with them themselves.   I’d be worried is our moral betters were just corrupt, self serving, thugs.