Transvestite Robs Fabric and Paint Store
Fox Carolina is reporting on what has to be the world’s dumbest caper, complete with the perps having their car and video taped in front of the store. But they don’t mention the most interesting thing. The above surveillance pic seems to show a young man dressed up like Norman Bate’s mother breaking into a fabric store. I would just think this was an interesting tid bit that a report might mention:
Greenville Police said that officers responded to a front glass break alarm on Oct. 13 at about 4:23 a.m. at the Glidden Professionals store at 101 Verdae Blvd. in Greenville.
Police said the right front door’s glass was broken out. After searching the business, no suspects were found.
According to an incident report, the store owner’s said the only thing missing was the cash register’s money drawer containing approximately $50.
Video surveillance from the neighboring BILO store did not show a suspect vehicle arriving or leaving the scene.
According to another incident report, officers were called to the Hancock Fabrics store in the same shopping center on Oct. 13 at 6:30 a.m.
A fabric store employee said that nothing was missing and the safe was still locked, but the front left door’s glass had been shattered, according to the report. The cash register had been tampered with but the report did not say if any money was stolen.
The incident report said that a surveillance video from the fabric store showed a suspect pulling up in front of the store in a blue or dark color four-door vehicle around 4 a.m.
The video showed a suspect striking the door with a baseball bat and handing it off to another person before entering the store through the opening in the door.
The report said the suspect wearing dark gloves and a light brown stocking cap looking for something to take but leaving when he did not find anything of value.
Police said the suspect appeared to be driving a dark-colored, early 90s Nissan Maxima.
OK, it could be a pair of baggy shorts and a blue sweatshirt. But I’m telling you that looks like a blue house dress to me. And he/she seems to be wearing the kind of slippers my great-grand mother was fond of. Strange stuff.
Rotten Reporting: GasBuddy.com is Not a Legitimate News Source
Don’t get me wrong, GasBuddy.com is a great resource but if you are going to run a story about how gas prices are dropping in the area you might want to make sure they don’t then spike up by 10 cents or so the next day. That’s what they did by me today. I kind of knew they would go up for to reasons. 1) Gas prices partially reflect moves in the market that happened a while ago and 2) Gas prices respond to commodities markets. If the intrepid reporters at Fox Carolina are going to get into gas price reporting business they’re going to need to do more than hit a website. Since commodities markets are international you could get up around 2:00am (like I do) and check out the numbers on the financial networks, just as an example.
Anyway, while prices had been dropping they are up again, and will probably move up again, drop, then move up. The days of cheap gas are over so get used to it and don’t let the media tell you being a few cents down here or there is good news.
Rotten Reporting: Police Looking for “Several Men” in a Black Car
More crime is being committed by ageless, raceless and maybe even faceless assailants according to WSPA’s crack reporting. We are being warned to keep on the lookout – for people who no description:
Deputies said four men entered the restaurant through the back door with guns, robbed the place, and escaped out the back door.
The second robbery happened at Pasteleria Y Panaderia El Nino on 1127 Cedar Lane Road.
Deputies said one male entered the restaurant while another male stood outside the restaurant on the look out.
Investigators said there was also a black 4-door car that the men got out of that sat in front of the restaurant that had 2 other males inside the black 4-door car.
Then, someone saw the man inside attempting to rob the restaurant so they called 911.
The man standing outside the restaurant took off and left the suspected robber inside.
There is a better description of the car than the robbers! WSPA goes on to report that cops have one robber in custody – so they probably have a description of the others since most thugs roll on their friends within an hour or two. But I guess until that’s released here’s what to look for:
Victimless Crime File: Hailee’s Sports Bar Shooting Proves Drunks Suck
Police are searching for a man who pulled into the parking lot of Hailee’s Sports Bar and Grill and fired 13 shots into the crowd. The Mauldin bar was open late to cater to people in the “service industry” which people claim to mean waiters and the like but in most cases you’re talking about strippers, tweaked out truck drivers and professional bar hoppers.
The shooting happened at 4:50am.
Call me crazy but people who work the night shift usually go home and get some sleep afterward. There aren’t many stable people who are getting drunk at 5:00 in the morning and heading to their cars to drive home. Drunk.
But I digress. The shooting, as the almost intrepid Paul Alongi of the Greenville News fails to point out, was a bar fight gone bad with a stranger no one seems to know. An altercation earlier in the night led to the shooter getting tossed out. Like any good belligerent drunk he didn’t take kindly to that and mayhem ensued. Three of the shooting victims are expected to pull through but police have no description of the man or his car, so I expect him to be on the loose for awhile.
Why bars are built in places only accessable to cars is a mystery we’ll never really figure out – though I expect it has to do with city planners factoring in DUI fines for upcoming budgets. But for those of you who don’t know why this crime happened let me enlighten you.
Drunks suck.
The only thing worse than a drunk is a room full of drunks, or what we call a bar. Bars are caverns of misery where unhappy people go to pretend their lives are still worth living – which is why there’s so much sex in the bathrooms. If you don’t want to end up in a fight with someone who might come back and bust a cap in you your first step will be to stay out of bars that serve drinks until 5:00 in the morning next to a highway.
I’m sure Hailee’s is one of the nicer places that gets people buzzed before putting them in their cars so they can kill the rest of us in “accidents” but even the nicest bar is a place people gather whose lives are not where they wanted them to be. Happy people don’t need to get drunk, angry people do. Angry people who drink tend to get angrier.
So if there is one lesson to be learned here it’s that drunks really suck and you should stay away from anyone who thinks it’s fun to drink until they vomit, blackout and wake up with a warrant for attempted murder.
Hmmm. Odd, alcohol is legal yet there is crime and social ills related to drinking. But I thought once something was legal crime and abuse disappeared? Libertarians I’m looking at you.
Rotten Reporting: Greenville Official Sets Off Internet Conspiracy Theory
Stay classy John Liston. There’s no better time to weave a conspiracy theory than when a little boy is killed in tragic accident. Someone sent me a link to a Daily Mail article that claims that the horrible fatal accident in Spartanburg Park was potentially sabotage.
Sabotage! Where would people get that idea:
Sabotage could have played a part in a horrific miniature train derailment which left a six-year-old boy dead and 28 others injured, officials said.
The sinister twist came as a memorial service was held for Benjamin Easler, who died in the crash, at the church where his father is the pastor in Charleston, South Carolina.
Neighbouring Greenville county, which runs a similar miniature train at one of its parks, said that the crash was not an accident.
Greenville’s recreation commissioner John Liston told MailOnline for the train to come off its tracks on its own would be unlikely.
‘It doesn’t go that fast. It would take an act of sabotage,’ he said.
The lead agency investigating the weekend crash of a miniature train at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg says there is no evidence of “sabotage.”
Capt. Art Littlejohn with the Spartanburg Public Safety Department said investigators have found no evidence of that, adding that Saturday’s crash was a tragic accident.
“We don’t have any indication that it was foul play whatsoever,” Littlejohn said.
Talk of sabotage appears to stem from a quote given to The Greenville News by a Greenville County Recreation Department commissioner. That quote has led to a firestorm of speculation on the Internet by national and international media outlets.
In other words John Liston, aided by the awful Greenville News, spread a conspiracy theory that came straight out of his ass. Nice.
Go ahead and Google this moron’s name, there you’ll see hundreds of hits for people who are still spreading this hokum. I’m sure that when the grieving family runs across this stuff later in life they’ll appreciate Liston’s words of wisdom.
Nice job checking into whether or not Liston was talking out his ass before helping him kick off this firestorm Richard Walton. It’s just a story about a dead kid so why tread cautiously.