Fox Carolina Reporting Oddly Raceless Suspect on the Loose in Greenville
A man robbed a Greenville Citgo this morning and Fox Carolina would like you to be on the look out for him. You’ll know him because he has a sweat shirt and is of average height and build:
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – Greenville County deputies said an armed man robbed a Citgo store in Greenville about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday and they were searching the area for the suspect.
Deputies said the robbery happened at the Citgo gas station at 2020 N. Pleasantburg Drive when a male wearing a dark bandana walked into the store, showed a weapon and demanded money from the clerk.
The man left the store and possibly got into a vehicle, according to investigators. He was about 5’6″ tall and 140 pounds wearing a black hoodie and a white shirt over it, tan pants and gray gloves.
There is also no description of his vehicle. So when you’re out there be on the alert for every young guy.
I’m not for racial profiling, etc but when you’re alerting the public to a dangerous person on the loose you should probably put in as much detail as possible – including race.
Waffle House Shooting or Foiled Waffle House Robbery?
Article by Evan Will
This past Sunday, The Greenville Times Union headline read, “Man Fatally Shot a tWaffle House. ” When it really should have said “Waffle House Armed Robbery attempt halted by Armed Citizen.” Or something to that degree, wouldn’t you all agree? I mean if you’re a sensationalist newsman, doesn’t that sound infinitely more exciting than “Man Killed at Waffle House. Well, it’s just another prime example of the media sympathizing with a deceased thief rather than either (A.) Empathizing with the poor souls who were terrified and held hostage or (B). Highlighting the swift justice from armed citizens. Ok, now I know that last part is stretch. But why wouldn’t our community be thrilled to know someone decided to not be a victim. And maybe shed light more often to the crime element that “Don’t Start No Stuff, Won’t Be No Stuff.” Or as my Mom used to day “crime does not pay.”
If you don’t have your permit, go get it. I can assure you once you carry it around for a couple months there’s not a lot more comforting. And oh, remember something else you heard someone’s mom or dad say in the past – “nothing good ever happens after midnight.”
Rotten Reporting: WSPA Tries Spinning Shooting of Home Invader
A Spartanburg couple who had a house on the market were told by their realtor that someone might have been squatting on their property. The couple went to check on the condition of the house and smartly armed themselves to do so. When they arrived the squatter, a homeless man named Gregory Wells, attacked the couple and the wife shot Wells in the face.
Wells survived his injury and the couple emerged unscathed. Good news all around, right?
Not to WSPA who originally titled the story on their website something along the lines of Homeless Man Shot in Face by Owner of House he Was Staying At. The updates story is titled NO Charges Filed Against Homeowners who Shot Homeless Man Staying at their House.
I sense an agenda here. See, claiming he was staying at their house implies he was a guest. He was not, he was a criminal entering another person’s home. A trespasser. When he was caught in the home he attacked the owners.The headlines are intended to create the perception that the homeowners did something wrong. They did not, they defended their lives and property from predation by one of those in our society that lack the moral compass which keeps us from hurting others, physically or financially.
Why would WSPA go through such convolutions in their headline to paint this as some sort of tragedy? Well, it could be the media’s coming “war on guns” that was spurred by the failure of Fast and Furious. Some readers may not be aware that many liberal journalists organize online – with the leftist political structure – to decide what spin to give stories. one of 2012s big pushes in the media will be the “evil” of gun ownership in America. The influx of Northeaster Liberals into the Carolinas is creating momentum for this view on the ground and the liberals in the media are going to stoke the fires so that Obama can push through the draconian gun control measures the left has been pushing for.
Don’t fall for it.
Rotten Reporting: WYFF and the “Un-Armed Robber”
So WYFF is reporting on a masked bandit that hit the Kangaroo gas station on Haywood Road and they point out that the mysteriously raceless criminal (though we assume he’s White since he has blue eyes) didn’t brandish a gun. Thus they conclude he was un-armed.
Really? I assume the journalist who wrote this piece knows the criminal involved and can tell us for sure he wasn’t carrying a gun in his pocket, or a knife or some pepper spray, or hiding a steel pipe up his sleeve, etc. I know that they don’t require you to take logic courses in journalism programs but it seems to me that the idea that if you didn’t see something it isn’t there would raise eyebrows even at WYFF. You don’t see the air for example. Do we live on an airless planet?
This is important because this person is potentially armed and dangerous but the reporters are turning him into a joke. The next clerk may recognize him and decide he’d rather rough up this kid – then get shot in the face.
There’s one thing and one thing only blogs and news sites have in common. we both exist to get the word out to people. For years “journalists” have abandoned that mission in favor of political agendas. Or in this case out of sheer ineptitude.
Rotten Reporting: Fox Carolina Discovers Sky is Blue
While investigting drug use and gang activity at a couple of “Oriental” massage parlors Anderson county deputies stumbled onto prostitution. Casey Vaughn of Fox Carolina was just shocked by this and wrote it up with the headline Deputies: Women offer sex, not massages at spa parlors. Because no one knew that massage parlors were bordellos until this story broke.
ANDERSON, SC (FOX Carolina) – Deputies arrested two women in a sting operation at Anderson County spa and massage parlors.
According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, the operation was conducted by Narcotics Investigators and Gang Task Force officers at two different parlors in Anderson.
The two female employees were arrested on Nov. 3 after they attempted to solicit prostitution for money with undercover officers, according to deputies.
Deputies said they began the investigation after several complaints about illegal activities were occurring at the businesses.
Myoung Hee Tucker, 54, of Atlanta, worked at Bella Spa on Community Park Drive in Anderson. Xiang En Jin, 42, of Flushing, NY, worked at Spring Sauna Spa on Will Pine Road in Anderson. Both were charged with prostitution.
Yeah, call me old fashioned but maybe a couple of vice cops could have just randomly walked in, looked around and had the place shut down. But hey, who am I to deny detectives their dream of going undercover in a massage parlor.
Does anyone else wonder how these bordellos get business licenses in the first place? And why only certain “spas” get shut down? Hmmmm.