Shit Just Got Real 10

Heather sent me this story where there is video showing a bus robbery taking place. Well, it kinda sorta did. On a Seattle Metro bus 19 year old Trevonnte Brown (these names, these names...) put on a nylon mask because he must've just watched a film about crimes in the 1960's and decided that it would be a great idea to start stealing shit from people.

So here he is with his gun and walking up to passengers snatching their cell phones from them. What bothers me besides the fact that a person needs only one phone, two at most so there's no need to be taking so many, is that people are fucking oblivious to what is happening around them. I have never been surprised by something happening suddenly on the bus because I get into full meerkat mode when I'm on it. Nothing is getting past me unnoticed!

I see you, bitch!

Everyone is just like “Oh, la la la! I'm on the bus and its just me there is no one else in the world but me and who I am talking to on the phone!” Asshats. So he is just walking down the aisle and taking shit. And since there is sound I know that people were fine with having their shit taken because no one was like “This muthafucka is phone snatchin'!” Nope. They jut laid there and took it like dirty, dirty whores. Oh, you like that, don't you? Yeah. Just take it.

Man Fights Dog

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Police in Colorado say shots were fired at TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and a bail bondsman when they tried to apprehend a man whose bail was revoked on an attempted murder charge. Colorado Springs police Sgt. Roger Vargason says the two were attempting to take 35-year-old Hoang Nguyen into custody at an apartment complex Tuesday night when Nguyen shot at them at least once with a handgun and fled on a motorcycle. No injuries were reported.

Vargason says initial reports showed Chapman and the bondsman were armed only with paintball guns. Police said Chapman apprehended Nguyen early Wednesday. He was due in court Wednesday afternoon.

Paint ball guns? Are you kidding? I know Dog has been in trouble ever since he went off the Mexico to catch that murdering make up guy, but a paint ball gun? At least bring a knife. Hell, even some brass knuckles. Ooh, or some nunchucks! Man, if someone came after me with some nunchucks I would throw my wallet at them.

The thing about find funny about Dog (one of many things) and other bounty hunters is that they look like bounty hunters. Close your eyes and picture one. What did you see?

Leather vest.

Jeans.

Cowboy boots.

Tattoos.

I think I just describe bounty hunters, Mad Max villains, and bikers. If I did some bad shit and knew someone was looking for me, I am on the look out for anyone in leather. If they came at me trying to take me in I’d be like, “Fuck you! Where’s the cops? I’m not going anywhere with you!” How legal in bounty hunting anyway?

In the United States legal system, the 1872 U.S Supreme Court case Taylor v. Taintor, 16 Wall (83 U.S. 366, 21 L.Ed. 287), is cited as having established that the person into whose custody an accused is remanded as part of the accuseds bail has sweeping rights to recover that person (although this may have been accurate at the time the decision was reached, the portion cited was obiter dictum and has no binding precedential value). Most bounty hunters are employed by a bail bondsman: the bounty hunter is paid about 10% of the bail the fugitive initially paid. If the fugitive eludes bail, the bondsman, not the bounty hunter, is responsible for the remainder of the fugitive. This is a way of ensuring his clients arrive at trial. In the United States, bounty hunters catch an estimated 31,500 bail jumpers per year, about 90% of people who jump bail. Bounty hunters are also sometimes known as "bail enforcement agents" or "fugitive recovery agents," which are the preferred industry and polite terms, but they are still sometimes called "bounty hunters".

Oh. I guess its pretty legal.

Rockets.

Hot In The City Tonight...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An exotic dancer was set on fire outside the club where she worked early Thursday, burning more than 60 percent of her body, police said. They were searching for two suspects.

A woman and a man called the 27-year-old dancer outside around 1 a.m. and then doused her with a flammable liquid next to the Babes & Beer sports club in the San Fernando Valley, police said. The dancer ran back inside and patrons came to her aid, police said.
Police identified the suspects as Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Marquis Petrillo, 22, both frequent patrons of the club. They were being sought for investigation of attempted murder, police said.

"Given the condition of this victim, they may be responsible for ultimately her murder," Deputy Chief Michel Moore said. "This is a terrible, terrible attack."

Moore said the dancer, a mother of two, was in grave condition after being burned over more than 60 percent of her body. Her identity was not immediately released. A sign at the club indicated it was a sports bar. A message left at the club was not immediately returned.

Seems someone took Nelly’s lyrics to heart. “Its gettin’ hot in here! So take off al your clothes!” I know that’s not funny. What could’ve happened to make them set this chick on fire?

I’ve been mad before. I imagine slapping a wrestling hold on someone. A Canadian Destroyer or something but I don’t think about setting them on fire. And who walks around with shit that can set folks on fire anyway? “Good thing I brought this butane with me to the strip club!” People are losing their damned minds. I say this as I hear sirens fly by for the fourth time in five minutes. The fucked up thing is that after a day or so we wont even hear about this story or what happened. Who cares what happens to some stripper? I love how the news kept referring to her as an exotic dancer? Is she from Thailand or something?

There’s nothing else to this story yet but I will try and keep track of it. I swear I feel like The Question sometimes when I try to follow up on crazy shit like this. Rockets.