RUPERTKBD Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 Just now, CBH1926 said: Terrible event for sure! Helicopters are like death traps imo, so many crash all the time all around the world. I don't know what the stats are, but it does seem that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Mail carrier shot and killed by man waiting for a covid cheque: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/usps-worker-shot-killed-by-man-allegedly-upset-over-failure-to-receive-stimulus-cheque/ar-BB13tV6A?ocid=spartandhp " A Indianapolis delivery worker was shot and killed on Monday after a man was reportedly upset about a stimulus cheque. In a statement released by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, officials say responders found 45-year-old Angela Summers, a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee, suffering from gunshot wounds just after 4 p.m. on Monday. Summers was taken to the hospital, but died later that day. READ MORE: ‘Lived life 200%’ — Teacher killed in N.S. shooting remembered for her infectious personality According to the local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), per Fox 59, Summers expressed concerns about people living at the home of the man arrested. The union believes the person inside the home wasn't receiving a stimulus cheque in her deliveries, said Paul Toms, president of NALC Branch 39. “The mail had been curtailed from what I was told very recently,” Toms told the broadcast station. “On April 12 or 13, the curtailment of mail letter was sent to them.” Summers also alleged that she delivered several dog notes, which asked the homeowners to keep their small dog away from her while she delivered mail. “There was a history on this for quite a while, as I understand it. Dog letters had been sent. That’s a form to the patron when a dog is a nuisance or a danger or vicious," Toms explained to Fox 59. "Three dog letters, one to warn them, a second one (as) a second warning, and then a curtailment of mail. That’s what they had proceeded to there.” According to an affidavit sworn by a U.S. postal inspector and filed in federal court, an altercation on a neighbour's porch occurred after Summers bypassed the man's home. The affidavit says that when the man approached her, she sprayed him with mace, at which point he allegedly pulled a gun from his waistband and fired one shot. According to a statement provided to police and cited in the affidavit, the man claimed the spray bothered him because of his asthma. The affidavit says the man had never spoken to Summers and only wanted to scare her, not kill her. Tony Cushingberry-Mays, 21, was arrested on Monday. He has been charged with murder, assault, and discharging a firearm during the commission of an offence, according to documents filed in the U.S. federal court for the South District of Indiana. A GoFundMe has been set up to help Summers' family pay for her funeral expenses. It's so far collected more than US$15,000 of the $16,500 goal. On Tuesday, USPS offered a US$50,000 reward for information about Summers's death. — Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 2020 just keeps on 2020ing..... https://globalnews.ca/news/6901007/giant-asian-murder-hornet-canada/ Nature is serving up another reason to stay indoors in 2020 with the arrival of the so-called Asian “murder hornet,” an invasive species in the U.S. and Canada with a nickname that puts “Africanized killer bees” to shame. The nickname comes from the way the giant insects can slaughter entire colonies of honeybees, though they’ve also been linked to a few dozen human deaths each year. The Asian giant hornet, as it’s officially known, is the biggest, meanest hornet in the world. It’s a AA battery-sized juggernaut on wings, with a massive, toxic stinger, an armoured body and a penchant for biting the heads off bees. It also packs a nasty sting for humans, although it usually doesn’t attack unless its nest is threatened. The Asian giant hornet typically lives in countries like Japan and China, but several specimens were found in British Columbia and Washington state late last year. Wildlife officials are now investigating fresh reports of the insects on both sides of the border, as the giant hornet queens come out of hibernation to venture out for food. Asian giant hornets, or Vespa mandarinia, are basically the pirates of the insect world. A handful of hornets will show up at a honeybee hive and go into “slaughter mode,” killing tens of thousands of bees before stealing their young and carrying them back to the hornet nest for food, leaving a pile of headless corpses in their wake. “They’re like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face,” Susan Cobey, a bee breeder at Washington State University, said in a recent story for the school’s website. A Japanese researcher described the insects as “murder hornets” in a recent story by the New York Times, and that nickname appears to have kicked off a flurry of interest online. The New York Times story sparked concern and horror across the internet, especially as photos began to circulate of the oversized hornet. “The term ‘murder hornet’ is not the true name of this pest,” the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) said in a statement on its website over the weekend in response to the New York Times story. “It is most frequently called the Asian giant hornet.” Many insects, including bees and hornets, are named after the geographical region where they’re found. Experts worry that the Asian giant hornet could be disastrous for European honeybee species in North America, which are already on the decline due to pesticides and colony collapse disorder. The last thing the bees need is a supersized predator capable of killing a whole hive in an afternoon. “This is our window to keep it from establishing,” Chris Looney, an entomologist at the WSDA, told the New York Times. “If we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.” Several YouTube videos show the Japanese giant hornet, a coloured variant of the species, in action. One such video shows 30 hornets wiping out 30,000 honeybees with Terminator-like efficiency. More in the link..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 hour ago, RUPERTKBD said: 2020 just keeps on 2020ing..... https://globalnews.ca/news/6901007/giant-asian-murder-hornet-canada/ Nature is serving up another reason to stay indoors in 2020 with the arrival of the so-called Asian “murder hornet,” an invasive species in the U.S. and Canada with a nickname that puts “Africanized killer bees” to shame. The nickname comes from the way the giant insects can slaughter entire colonies of honeybees, though they’ve also been linked to a few dozen human deaths each year. The Asian giant hornet, as it’s officially known, is the biggest, meanest hornet in the world. It’s a AA battery-sized juggernaut on wings, with a massive, toxic stinger, an armoured body and a penchant for biting the heads off bees. It also packs a nasty sting for humans, although it usually doesn’t attack unless its nest is threatened. The Asian giant hornet typically lives in countries like Japan and China, but several specimens were found in British Columbia and Washington state late last year. Wildlife officials are now investigating fresh reports of the insects on both sides of the border, as the giant hornet queens come out of hibernation to venture out for food. Asian giant hornets, or Vespa mandarinia, are basically the pirates of the insect world. A handful of hornets will show up at a honeybee hive and go into “slaughter mode,” killing tens of thousands of bees before stealing their young and carrying them back to the hornet nest for food, leaving a pile of headless corpses in their wake. “They’re like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face,” Susan Cobey, a bee breeder at Washington State University, said in a recent story for the school’s website. A Japanese researcher described the insects as “murder hornets” in a recent story by the New York Times, and that nickname appears to have kicked off a flurry of interest online. The New York Times story sparked concern and horror across the internet, especially as photos began to circulate of the oversized hornet. “The term ‘murder hornet’ is not the true name of this pest,” the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) said in a statement on its website over the weekend in response to the New York Times story. “It is most frequently called the Asian giant hornet.” Many insects, including bees and hornets, are named after the geographical region where they’re found. Experts worry that the Asian giant hornet could be disastrous for European honeybee species in North America, which are already on the decline due to pesticides and colony collapse disorder. The last thing the bees need is a supersized predator capable of killing a whole hive in an afternoon. “This is our window to keep it from establishing,” Chris Looney, an entomologist at the WSDA, told the New York Times. “If we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.” Several YouTube videos show the Japanese giant hornet, a coloured variant of the species, in action. One such video shows 30 hornets wiping out 30,000 honeybees with Terminator-like efficiency. More in the link..... Great. Plague, Pestilence, (we’ll get the War once people realized how &^@#ed the economy is) just looking forward to the famine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 12:55 PM, RUPERTKBD said: Really BIG news! Hide contents Woman's breast implant deflects bullet, saving her life A woman who survived a close-range gunshot wound to the chest was saved because of her silicone breast implants, doctors believe. In a case study published to the SAGE medical journal last week, doctors described how a silicone breast implant deflected a bullet away from a 30-year-old woman's vital organs. The incident, which took place in 2018 in Toronto, Canada, is one of only a handful of instances recorded in medical literature where a breast implant played a role in saving a patient's life, and the first recorded instance of a silicone implant doing so, surgeon Giancarlo McEvenue told CNN. Doctors noted that the silicone implant was likely responsible for deflecting the bullet's trajectory -- ultimately saving the woman's life. Hear that ladies? It's a matter of life and death! Git 'er done! Time to convince the wife to get some implants. "No....! This isn't about me wanting you to have bigger boobs, like getting G-cups or something.... I just want to make sure you're safe in this hectic and chaotic world...." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 If you're finding that parenting is more difficult during the Pandemic, take heart......you could be this kid's mom or dad: I Want a Lambo! Quote A 5-year-old boy with $3 in his pocket was pulled over by Utah police while driving his parent's car to California to buy a Lamborghini. The boy left in the SUV after arguing with his mother, who said she would not buy the luxury car for him, Utah Highway Patrol said on Twitter. A trooper spotted the vehicle weaving on Interstate 15 at 30 mph, the Utah Highway Patrol said. Troopers told CNN affiliate KSL-TV they initially thought the boy was an impaired driver. "How old are you? You're 5 years old?" Trooper Rick Morgan says in dash camera footage of the traffic stop. "Wow ... Where did you learn to drive a car?" Morgan told KSL-TV he had to help the child get the SUV into park. "He was sitting on the front edge of the seat so that he could reach the brake pedal to keep the car stopped while I was standing there," he said. Once he was pulled over, the child told the trooper he had intended to drive to California to purchase a Lamborghini for himself. He had $3. The starting price for a new Lamborghini is around $200,000. Morgan says no one was hurt, and it will be up to the local prosecutor to decide whether to file charges against the parents, who had left the boy in his sibling's care while they were away from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Key contractor on Site C dam hit with $662K WorkSafeBC fine https://globalnews.ca/news/6925326/site-c-dam-contractor-fine-worksafebc/ For the third time in as many years, a major contractor working on the Site C dam project has been hit with a six-digit WorkSafeBC fine. The safety regulator imposed fine of more than $662,000 on Peace River Hydro Partners (PRHP) ....... --------- The people in control just not giving AF about the workers up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 10 minutes ago, bishopshodan said: Key contractor on Site C dam hit with $662K WorkSafeBC fine https://globalnews.ca/news/6925326/site-c-dam-contractor-fine-worksafebc/ For the third time in as many years, a major contractor working on the Site C dam project has been hit with a six-digit WorkSafeBC fine. The safety regulator imposed fine of more than $662,000 on Peace River Hydro Partners (PRHP) ....... --------- The people in control just not giving AF about the workers up there. sure seems like a bit of a cowboy culture for sure. They seem to be pushing hard for early completion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Iran doesn’t really need outside enemies, they are doing a good job on their own. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iranian-warship-hit-by-missile-in-training-accident-killing-19-sailors/ar-BB13SOHr?li=BBnbfcL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Strome Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 A Canadian snow bird plane crashed near Kamloops in their cross Canada tour. https://trib.al/9MhwNca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 Just read that Brian May had a heart attack a couple of weeks ago. Luckily, he seems to have recovered after having 3 stents implanted to clear artery blockages. So glad to hear this.....I couldn't handle losing another one of my heroes.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Another African American is dead because of yet another POS cop..... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52806572 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van40 Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 2 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said: Another African American is dead because of yet another POS cop..... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52806572 Not a peep out of the national media despite all this going on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 10 minutes ago, Van40 said: Not a peep out of the national media despite all this going on I saw a report about it on CNN (Chris Cuomo) tonight.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van40 Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 9 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: I saw a report about it on CNN (Chris Cuomo) tonight.... Can't find anything on their website or Cuomo's twitter account. National media is super quiet. Funny how it all works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Just now, Van40 said: Can't find anything on their website or Cuomo's twitter account. National media is super quiet. Funny how it all works. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/26/george-floyd-family-intv-ctn-vpx.cnn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van40 Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 23 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/26/george-floyd-family-intv-ctn-vpx.cnn I was talking about the coverage of the protests in Minneapolis and the police retaliating with smoke grenades and rubber bullets etc... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toews Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 12 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said: Another African American is dead because of yet another POS cop..... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52806572 Immediately thought of this and I was glad to see others have already picked up on it. The below was a response to the above but the right has spent an inordinate amount of time complaining about Kaepernick while not even acknowledging the reason for his protest. "Get that son of a bitch off the field" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 8 hours ago, Van40 said: I was talking about the coverage of the protests in Minneapolis and the police retaliating with smoke grenades and rubber bullets etc... Yeah, not sure about that part....could be you saw it on Twitter right away, because it's such an immediate medium. Takes a bit longer for the networks to get their stuff together. Either way, there's no hiding this. The segment I watched on Cuomo's show yesterday had Amy Klobuchar as a guest. She isn't satisfied with the firings....she wants charges laid against these cops, as do most reasonable people..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I never understood destroying your own neighborhood mentality in people. Yes, you are angry, trying to get attention, fight inequality, change things, tired of peaceful protests etc. But at the end of the day, you still will have to live there. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/a-list-of-the-buildings-damaged-looted-in-minneapolis-riots 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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