Under a Gibbous Moon

Megan Barnes was in a car accident. She rear ended a pickup truck. She did this apparently because she was shaving her “bikini area”. This story has all kinds of wrong.

• She was shaving because she was on her way to see her boyfriend
• Her ex-husband was in the car with her
• He was steering
• She was driving (sort of) on a suspended license

At least she wasn’t talking on her cell phone too.

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When Jordon Miles was walking home one night, three men got out of a car and approached him. Miles tried to run but fell. He was then beaten and handcuffed.

That much is agreed upon. The men claimed that they identified themselves as police officers. Miles claimed that they did not. To me, it is irrelevant.

According to the police, the three plain clothes officer say Miles walking and that they considered his appearance to be “suspicious”. That is vague as hell.

They had no real reason to suspect anything. He wasn’t driving erratically. No one had phoned in a complaint. He wasn’t running from the scene of a crime.

Even if they did identify themselves, there’s not reason he should have to stop to talk to them, unless they were willing to put him under arrest then and there. I find the whole “he ran” thing to be a pathetic excuse. Unless you have a damn good reason to arrest me. It should not matter. If I don’t want to talk to you, I don’t have to. See my lawyer and while your at it, try the 4th Amendment.

We do not live in a police state. Stopping someone just because they are walking down the street is just plain wrong.

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From CBS News, an Oklahoma woman, Donna Jackson shot and killed Billy Riley after he forced his way into her home. She had heard him trying to break in. She called 911 but there was no chance of the police being able to get there before Riley was able to break in through a glass door.

She had a shotgun though and when the intruder came in, she shot and killed him. Below is a recording of the 911 call that she made.

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According to ABC, a witness named Salvador Rodriquez, 21, said:

People say, ‘Why didn’t I call the cops,’ but at the same time, I live in Richmond, a neighborhood like this, snitching is something you don’t do, you know…

Of course it’s not just him apparently. Another unidentified 16 year old witness said:

I feel like I could have done something but I don’t feel like I have any responsibility for anything that happened.

So it seems that’s what wrong with people who grow up in this “Urban Culture”. If it isn’t happening to them or someone they know it’s not their problem. Losing “street cred” and being called a snitch is what worries them more than what happened to this 15 year old girl.

Too bad there’s no crime that they can be charged with. Of course they might just take that as a badge of honor.

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Man Stabbed Self to Keep Job

Go ahead, read it again. That’s actually what it says. Apparently, one Aaron Siebers ripped his work issued pants while skateboarding feared that he would lose his job and so stabbed himself and made up a story about him being assaulted by three Hispanic males.

Either he really needed that job or Blockbuster must be the best place to work. Ever.

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