Homeless Man Found Badly Beaten by Highway 253
From Fox Carolina:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A homeless man was found severely beaten in Greenville County by a man Tuesday morning, Greenville County deputies said.
Deputies said that 55-year-old Terry White was found lying facedown and unconscious with cuts and bruises on his face near the intersection of Cedar Lane Road and Highway 253. They said White was found injured by a man he was working for who had come to pick him up.
White is in critical condition and police are not sure where the attack actually took place. White may have made his way to where he was found looking for help. Anyone with information call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME
Army Worms Invade South Carolina!
A mighty army or worms is rampaging across the lawns of our fair state. Arm yourselves!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I hate to be an alarmist and I hate to be a doomsayer. Unfortunately, today I am going to be all three. The Upstate is undergoing an invasion from a menacing horde. That horde is in the form of a little caterpillar called an army worm.
Army worms are about an inch and a half long and they have green and black stripes running lengthwise down their bodies. These caterpillars have voracious appetites. The fact that they congregate by the millions only adds to their ability to cause serious damage.
Army worms eat the foliage of grasses. They eat Bermuda and fescue, but seem to leave zoysia alone. They also have the ability to distinguish between weeds and desirable grass. Weeds are not part of their diet.
Perhaps the most alarming concern with army worms is simply the rapid rate at which this menace can completely destroy a healthy and beautiful lawn. The damage is literally done overnight, and it is becoming increasingly prevalent in the Upstate.
Today I looked at a large fescue lawn in an upscale subdivision off of Fairview Road. This lawn literally went from nice and green to brown and dead in a matter of 24 hours. To walk across this lawn gives one a sense of vertigo. It’s moving, like a mild earthquake is occurring. The movement is the slow, pulsating crawl of army worms.
That last part actually is pretty freaky. Anyone have video of that?
It’s time to declare a war on worms.
“Strange Man” Following College Girls Around at Clemson
Three different women called authorities when a man in a red or maroon pick up followed them. No one knows what he’s up to so I suggest women arm themselves (I suggest bear spray, it’s hotter than regular pepper spray and made to spray at longer distances) and remember this simply plan.
Never go anywhere with a assailant, no matter what. Even if they have a gun stay where you are and do not comply with demands to go anywhere else. In those cases he’s taking you to what’s called a secondary crime scene but you can just think of as where you’ll be raped and murdered. If he shoots or stabs you on the street you may survive. If you go with him to the woods or wherever he’s comfortable you definitely won’t.
Be careful out there ladies.
Shooting Suspect With Badly Misspelled Name Found Hiding out in Greenville
He came for the nightlife, and stayed for the hideout. I’m told he was a big fan of the “hip” and bustling downtown.
He’s also a fan of shooting teens:
A man wanted for his alleged role in a Burlington shooting on Aug. 21 was arrested in Greenville, S.C. last week.
Alamance County Crime Stoppers received a tip Thursday that Damieon Damonte Jeffries, 28, was in Greenville, S.C. The Greenville Sheriff’s Department was notified about where Jeffries was staying, according to a Burlington Police Department news release.
At about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the Greenville Sheriff’s Department located Jeffries, and he was taken into custody. He will be extradited back to North Carolina.
Burlington police have been looking for Jeffries since a shooting at 11:40 a.m. Aug. 21. Jeffries allegedly shot 17-year-old Ranferi Mendoza of Ashland Avenue, Burlington, in the leg. Police found Mendoza inside El Gallo Giru on East Webb Avenue. He was taken to UNC Hospitals for treatment.
Good riddance. And “Dameion?” Really? Are you sure you didn’t mean to name him “Damien?”
Victimless Crime File: Kid Has Heart Attack After Smoking K2
A lot of stoners have been claiming my original post about K2, where I point out that the man who invented it says smoking it is stupid, is just me overreacting to them because I’m a a square or something. Part of their argument is that I “don’t know nothin” because I haven’t smoked it so I can’t judge people that do. Of course by that logic you can’t judge necrophiliacs unless you’ve raped a corpse.
As an aside, only morons (and drug addicts) claim that you can’t judge people based on their behavior unless you engage in that behavior yourself.
The main thrust of their argument is that this substance which was never meant to be smoked and is known to cause accelerated heart rates and increased blood pressure just can’t be harmful. In Dallas, however, K2 is suspected to have triggered a heart attack in at least one smoker:
Meanwhile, Dr. Colin Kane, a pediatric cardiologist with Children’s Medical Center, says he doesn’t know for certain that marijuana substitutes like K2 are dangerous, but he’s got reason to be suspicious.
In the past week, he says, he’s cared for two high-school-aged boys who came in separately with chest pains and heart problems, and who said they’d been smoking K2.
The first boy who came in had chest pains for several days and a low-grade fever.
“We initially thought that he had a viral illness that was affecting his heart,” Kane said. While in the hospital, the boy had another event with severe chest pain. Tests later showed that he suffered a heart attack.
“It was only after more questioning while we talked to him that it came up that he had smoked k2 the day before this all happened,” Kane said. “So am I positive it’s related? I can’t say positive, but it’s pretty suspicious that he smoked something for the first time the day before he started having all these problems.”
Kane said its unclear whether the boy will suffer permanent heart damage.
“We’re going to see him again and follow him for a while,” Kane said. “It’s hard to say what kind of long term damage he’ll have.”
I say triggered as opposed to cause because frankly I’m sure the kid has some other condition that meant his heart was weak. That still doesn’t mean the people who sold some fat kid a substance that increases blood pressure aren’t partially to blame for his condition.
The same paper noted that some of the K2 smokers have been mixing the substance with “spike” which they think is an energy drink. Needless to say smoking a substance that increased blood pressure and heart speed with another substance that contains large amounts of sugar and caffeine is a recipe for disaster.
But it can’t happen to you guys, right? I’m sure none of you are fat, old or otherwise unhealthy. You just send me comments at 3:00am about how awesome it is to get high because you like to get a two hour warm up for your 5:00am run.