Miguel sent me this article:

Charges in NYC chokehold death may hinge on ‘reasonableness’

The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train might depend on whether a “reasonable” New Yorker would have acted similarly.

Oh well, he’s fucked.

The problem isn’t what he did, the problem is New Yorkers are emotionally damaged people who have been beaten down by life in the Big City.

Outside of New York, a crazy vagrant threatening people in a train car from which there is no escape is a real danger, and reasonable people will defend themselves from that.

In New York City, that’s a normal day on the subway and just be sure not to stand too close to the platform edge so he can’t easily push you on front of a train.  If he scares you and you feel the need to defend yourself, you’re just a pussy and not a real New Yorker.

What’s reasonable everywhere is isn’t reasonable in New York because New Yorkers are unreasonable.

This story:

Homeless man charged with hate crimes for defecating on two LGBTQ+ Pride flags: NYPD

A homeless man has been charged with several hate crimes for defecating on an LGBTQ+ Pride flag and wiping his behind with another at a Manhattan restaurant, according to the NYPD.

Fred Innocent, 45, walked into Buceo 95, a tapas bar on W. 95th St. and Broadway on the Upper West Side, on April 15 at about 10 a.m. as the day crew was setting up and grabbed two rainbow flags off of a table, cops said. He relieved himself on one of the banners, according to police, then cleaned himself with another.

Innocent, whose address comes back to a Harlem shelter, was charged with burglary, harassment and trespassing, all as hate crimes. He was also hit with additional trespassing charges and burglary, not as a hate crime.

He was arrested in Midtown and was awaiting arraignment as of Wednesday evening.

“If I’m asked to go to court, I’m going to press for the maximum charge possible,” she said.

He wiped his ass with a Pride flag and they elevated that to a hate crime.

Had he just stolen something, the NYPD would have done nothing because they don’t prosecute people for shoplifting anymore.

But he got shit on a Pride flag so they are going to throw the book at him.

This, however, is free speech:

I don’t see the NYPD arresting anyone and charging them with hate crimes.

You can desecrate an American flag but not a Pride flag in New York City.

Tell me that Pride is the state religion without telling me it’s the state religion.

Sheriff’s deputy died protecting son from dog attack, MCSO officials said

A longtime Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy, described as tiny in stature with a big heart, died Tuesday night after officials say she was protecting her young son during a dog attack in her home.

Tamieka White, 46, was pronounced dead shortly after Indianapolis police responded to her home in the 1700 block of Forsythia Drive near East 16 Street and North Franklin Road on the city’s east side. The dog attack was reported about 7:45 p.m.

White’s 8-year-old son also was bitten and is recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.

Indianapolis police said the attacking dog was fatally shot by a responding officer, who fired when the dog charged at them.

A spokesperson with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the attacking dog was not owned by White, and police have identified the owner. They declined to release further information about the dog’s owner.

In a statement, Indianapolis Animal Care Services said workers impounded the deceased dog, three additional dogs and a cat from the home. The department said they cannot confirm the breeds without a DNA test, but said all the dogs appeared to be a “pitbull-type.”

This woman was a sheriff’s deputy, so it can be reasonably assumed she was in somewhat decent physical shape and had some training in hand-to-hand confrontation.

Still, a pit bull was able to inflict fatal injuries on her.

The dog was shot, but clearly not soon enough.

At least she managed to protect her child.

I keep saying it, bring a pit bull around my kids and I’m going to shoot it.

BREAKING: A rough commute today, as an eyewitness tells us a seemingly deranged man with a butcher cleaver slashed a fellow BART rider today, triggering a car-to-car exodus.

From @jrivanob

H/T @jtemple https://t.co/BYfkda5tgE

— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 10, 2023

A man wearing a balaclava and pacing up and down a BART train this afternoon slashed a fellow passenger across the back with a meat cleaver, and caused more than a dozen other riders to scurry away in fear, according to a witness to the scene.

James Temple, a journalist who was in the car with the suspect, said the the victim was taken away on a gurney, seemingly in good spirits.

Temple described a man holding a rectangular butcher cleaver pacing up and down a BART car on an eastbound train in the Transbay Tube. He said he initially saw a passenger at the end of his car “jump out of the way” of the cleaver-wielding man, and then “all kinds of people trying to jump away.”

“Everyone started running through the cars, trying to get as much distance between themselves and this guy as possible,” he said. Temple said people were cowering in their seats, “trying to get as close to the edges of the BART cars as possible” as the man walked back and forth in the aisle.

“I jumped out of the way once and landed partially on a woman who was sitting,” he added. “I was just trying to get away.”

Good thing nobody put the man with a cleaver in a choke hold, that would have been bad.

A crazy man with a big fucking knife slashing people on the subway is totally normal according to big city people.  That’s just the kind of local flavor that you get in major metropolitan areas that provincial flyover country rednecks don’t understand and are pussies for wanting a gun to defend themselves from.

This is why I avoid major cities in Blue states, because if I see a crazy guy with a big fucking knife slashing at people, I’m going to shoot him.

Then again, I’m just a dumb provincial redneck from Alabama.

This has been floating around the internet.

Never wear a butt plug to your MRI appointment. My god… pic.twitter.com/qdA6sV3mKE

— Dread Pirate Bradius ?‍☠️ (@DreadPirateZero) May 9, 2023

The issue is the metal, and more specifically, ferromagnetic metal core.

MRI machines use an alternating magnetic field to polarize the water molecules in your body.

When they do, they give of radio waves.

An MRI has a field strength of about 15,000 gauss.  Compare that to the magnetic field strength of the earth, which is about 0.5 gauss.

Anything ferromagnetic will get pulled into the center of the MRI and then the alternating field will induction heat it to red hot almost instantly.

This is why all medical implants, stutre needles, and hypodermic needles are non-ferromagnetic, usually austenitic stainless steel, titanium alloys, or cobalt chrome (Stellite) alloys.

That way, if you have one inside of you and you need an MRI, it won’t turn into a red hot bullet in your flesh.

Where people get into trouble is accidentally having metal on them.  I’ve seen this with machinists who have chips on their body.

This person, I gather, didn’t know his butt plug had a ferromagnetic core.  Had the butt plug been actually 100% silicone rubber, he would have been fine.

The radiologist who wondered what the fuck was up his ass would have emotional damage, but that’s neither here nor there.

That’s my expert witness testimony on this matter.

The other day I described what I called Battered New Yorker Syndrome.

Because the universe likes to prove me correct, a New York Times writer had to put her opinion in online for the world to see.

The Venn diagram overlap between men who amass an arsenal of guns and talk about being a brave alpha male, and won’t take the subway in NYC because they once saw a homeless person peeing there and declare it “unsafe” is a perfect circle

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) May 8, 2023

I’ve lived here for 23 years and grew up with guns in the nearly equal amount of time I spent in rural Alabama. I’m also 5’1” and some of you have pets that weigh more than me. And I am not afraid of the subway, big bad dudes.

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) May 8, 2023

Where to begin with this.

According to Bloomberg News: NYC Subway Crime Jumps 30%, Defying Surge in Police Patrols.

So subway crime is, in fact, a real problem.

Moreover, according to local news:

REPORTS OF FILTHY NYC SUBWAY CARS FURTHER DEGRADE MASS TRANSIT CONDITIONS

Reports of unsanitary conditions in the subway, including everything from feces and blood to garbage, are grossing out riders of New York City’s transit system and creating another deterrent — along with crime — to getting the Big Apple back to normal.

I’m just a dumb redneck from Northern Alabama, but I dont want to go into an underground tube, with few or no points of immediate egress (once that train starts moving, you’re trapped on it),  surrounded by filth, violent criminals, and insane vagrants.

Im not used to seening homeless mumble to themselves and piss in public in Alabama.

I used to live in South Dakota, where we had a large homeless population of Native Americans.  When they got drunk and started peeing in public, the police arrested them.  It wasn’t ignored.

We have an expectation that our municipal agencies would keep the public places relatively clean and pleasant for the working taxpayer.

We also don’t have a stigma against self defense.  In fact, the opposite is true.

We preach that you are your first and last line of defense.  You are ultimately responsible for yourself and your safety.

Perhaps because rural America understands that sometimes the nearest cop is 20 miles away, you are on your own and can’t be expected to rely on the system.

In New York, that’s flipped and been pathologies.

It’s a big city, don’t defend yourself, call the police.  The police don’t come because they are over taxed and under staffed, the response time us long.  Rather than revert to the rural position of be prepared for self-defense, they say just accept the danger or you’re a coward.

Only pussies want to protect themselves, real, tough New Yorkers just put themselves in dangerous situations and accept that they might die, and console themselves by saying that at least they aren’t scared rednecks who have little dicks and feel the need to carry guns anywhere.

Then her New York self righteousness really kicks in.

So no, I don’t see a homeless or mentally ill person and assume they’re gonna murder me and put them in a chokehold, (which my Army veteran big sis can do even though she’s tiny like me, so don’t start with sexist shit)

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) May 8, 2023

There’s a reason why homeless people often find a way to get to big cities – they think they’ll be better taken care of. Which is an indictment of people who insist the best Christians live in rural America. The most vulnerable don’t think so,

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) May 8, 2023

The NYC Department of Homelessness Services has a budget of $2.2 billion.  Mayor Adams spent another $171 million on homelessness services.

NYC spends over $60,000 per homeless person per year, yet the problem doesn’t go away.

The problem is two fold.

First, the money is largely wasted on the Homeless Industrial Complex bureaucracy.  It pays the salaries and expense accounts of people who deal with the homeless, not on the homeless themselves.

Second, the city imposes no restrictions on the homeless.  They subsidize drug use, alcoholism, and don’t encourage the homeless to get clean.  That’s not compassion, all that does is exacerbate the system.

The homeless are flocking to New York and California because they can get free food, free needles, can shop lift with impunity, and do drugs and OD at safe injection sites.  That’s literally the opposite of compassion.

Funding a homeless drug habit while bureaucrats grift off the taxpayer isn’t Christian, or even morally superior to what the Alabama Christians are doing for the homeless.

To be this obtuse to reality and think New York and New Yorkers are superior is just pathological.  These people are insane.