- Everyone
- literally, everyone - seems to be packing heat in the Lone Star State. That
includes 74-year-old grandmothers who are sitting down to do what all old
people do in the early evening, namely watch their local TV news broadcast.
Enter Rebbie Roberson, a Bowie County resident who was settling into her
favorite chair to watch another clichéd half hour of house fire, animal rescue
and convenience store shooting stories when an armed intruder wearing gloves
and a mask broke into her home. "And when I started to get up, he was in
here on me with a gun facing me right to my face,” Roberson said. "So I
had to walk right out in front of him. I didn't know if he was going to kill me
or what." As it turned out, the would-be robber wasn’t paying close enough
attention to his mark because had he been, he would have seen that Roberson had
her own weapon on a table nearby. "I reached over there and grabbed this
gun. And when I swerved around, I pointed it at him and he ran,” Roberson
recalled of having her .38-caliber pistol in hand and squeezing off several
round at the fleeing criminal. She left plenty of bullet holes in the walls of
her home, though she admitted after the incident that she wasn’t sure whether
she hit the man or not. Investigators don’t believe the intruder was wounded,
but not for lack of intent by Roberson. "I tried to kill him. Anybody
break in on me, I'm going to kill them. He's going to kill me or I'm going to
kill him,” she said. The wisest words came from Bowie County Sheriff's Chief Deputy
Jeff Neal, who broke the situation down thusly: “It could have been worse for
both individuals, both the victim and the suspect.” Well said, deputy……..
- Thank
you for saying what we all already knew, Michael Keaton. Keaton, who starred as
Batman in 1989’s “Batman” and 1992’s “Batman Returns” (both of which were
directed by Tim Burton), smartly chose not to be involved with the third film
in that trio. Until now, not much has been known about why Keaton turned down
the title rile in the 1995 film “Batman Forever,” but his explanation should
surprise no one. “I can simplify it all for you: it sucked,” Keaton said of the
project. “The script never was good. I knew it was in trouble when [director
Joel Schumacher] said, ‘Why does everything have to be so dark?’ I replied:
‘Okay, well, [Batman] witnessed the death of his parents.’ But [Schumacher
said] physically it had to be brightened up too.” When Keaton passed on the
role, Val Kilmer took on the role of the Caped Crusader and turned in a
thoroughly forgettable performance to cap off arguably the three worst Batman
movies ever made. “If Tim [Burton] had said, ‘I want to experiment with
something’, I would have been way open to it because in this guy’s hands, who
knows?,” Keaton added. “I just couldn’t do it. Not that I’m above it or an
artist or anything… I just don’t think I could do it without blowing my brains
out.” If a job paying millions still makes you want to shoot yourself in the
head, that’s generally a good call on taking a pass. Keaton was more recently nominated
for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in “Birdman” in 2014, so he seems to
still be making wise career decisions even later in his run as an actor………
- Stay
ignorant, residents of Third World nations stuck in a bygone era where death by
poisonous ants is still a thing. Keep doing moronic sh*t like taking a woman
you’ve mistaken for a car thief and tying her to a tree overrun with poisonous
ants, leading to her death and your likely prosecution as murderous ghouls.
This sad story happened in the town of Caranavi in Bolivia, around 100 miles
north east of the capital La Paz, where an unidentified woman was rescued by
police after going to help her son, who had been bound to the tree by angry
vigilantes who accused them of trying to steal a car. The woman, her son and
her daughter all received the same punishment, but only the mother died in the
wake of the incident, passing away in the hospital from breathing problems
caused by severe throat swelling after her windpipe was bitten by the insects. The
three victims were allegedly beaten and burned before being tied to the tree
and pictures have surfaced of two of these three people blindfolded and bound
to the tree while villagers, including a woman with a child in her arms and a
schoolboy kneeling on the ground, looked on from a few feet away. Props to
those timid and indifferent souls who stood by and did nothing while the woman
and her two adult children were tied to a Palo Santo, a mystical tree growing
on the coast of South America which is the favorite haunt of colonies of
Brazilian fire ants known for their extremely painful bites. According to
police, the trio had traveled to the area from La Paz to recover a debt. “We
managed to rescue all three people but one of them, the 52-year-old woman, was
in a bad way and had to be taken to hospital, police chief Gunter Agudo said. “She
died at 3:30 p.m. Initially the investigation was opened as a probe into an
attempted car theft, but now it has been changed to a murder and serious
assault investigation.” Amazingly, only one person has been arrested on a
paltry charge of suspicion of inciting locals to commit their shocking act,
although the authorities have confirmed others took part………
- It’s
beginning to look like Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang is not a
good dude. That will happen when you were interviewed by Chicago police last
summer as a "person of interest" in a sexual assault investigation -
no charges filed yet - and now you’re facing a possible indictment after being
arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence back home in South Korea,
your third DUI since 2009. While its unclear how the Pirates will respond to
this latest ugly incident from their third baseman, Kang has been cut from
South Korea's national team for the upcoming the World Baseball Classic, a move
South Korea manager Kim Kyungmoon announced largely due to the fact that public
opinion against Kang turned ugly following the arrest becoming public
knowledge. "As we all know, Kang has had some issues," Kim said.
"So our coaching staff made this call [to drop him]." Seoul police announced
that they have handed over to prosecutors the results of their investigation
into Kang's arrest, during which he was also charged with leaving the scene of
an accident. Not a great look for anyone, especially a guy with a .273 average
and 36 home runs in two seasons with the Pirates. South Korea wasn’t going to
win the WBC with or without him, but now the team has one less headache
entering the tournament, to be played March 6-22 in multiple cities…….
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