Word on the Street: Don’t Use Your Credit Card at Travelers Rest Wal-Mart
I got an email from a tipster who says her debit card number was stolen and used last Tuesday. She found charges she didn’t make for a company called Voxox as well as a PC game charge. Voxox is a cell phone and calling card company that does a lot of overseas business including in the scam capitol of the world – Nigeria. This is especially troubling since the feds just broke up a cigarette smuggling ring in Columbia that was using the proceeds to finance Islamic terrorists. Since many African states (including Nigeria) are struggling with rising Islamic militancy scams that funnel funds or equipment to those states are likely ending up helping the Jihad. Disposable cells, like Voxox use,are used in the construction of improvised explosive devices.
The tipster is adamant that she had only used the card at the Travelers Rest Wal-Mart prior to the theft and several people in the last few months have told me the same thing. Aside from reporting this to the police I advise people to get cash from somewhere else and shop at Wal-Mart without using your cards. You could be inadvertently funding suicide bombings.
Inside the Haywood Triangle – Jeepers Creepers Peepers.
Inside the Haywood Triangle is a new series by Evan Will, a contributing freelance writer from the Greenville area.
A continuing series on identifying and editorializing crime and the goings-on in and around the Haywood Mall area. We all know there’s always some crazy stuff happening over there. Like…
Per the Greenville Police Department: “A second incident of “Peeping Tom” has been reported at Haywood Pointe Apartments January 17th at 10:45 p.m. The suspect is a white male. In the latest incident, he is described as 20-40 years old with brown hair, slender build, 5’08″-6’01″, 160-190 lbs. and was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt.”
What wasn’t stated is whether or not this male was actually trying to peak in a woman’s window or a man’s window to get his kicks. I suppose it doesn’t matter, but could help the public zero in on the suspect. We just assume it was woman reporting the incident.
Nevertheless, I never understood why someone would personally put themselves at risk of being labeled and jailed for antics that could just as well be solved with an issue of a Playboy. Or an imagination heaven forbid. But then again – that’s me as a semi-productive member of society. Some people don’t have the “common sense.”
It’s also possible this person was casing apartments for valuables. Though that is just conjecture on my part. But it almost seems more likely. Anyway you look at it…creeping around peeping in windows is crazy. And dangerous. Are there support groups for people like this? Now my brain hurts.
The following are some safety tips you can take at your home (per GPD). Thought I’d add a few tips in bold, that I think will put your mind at ease.
1. Keep curtains and blinds shut tightly, especially at night in private areas of your
home. (say to yourself in whispering voice “if I don’t see them, they’re not there”)
2. Set up potted plants or plant vegetation near side and rear windows and patio
doors, but keep shrubbery trimmed so that Peeping Toms can’t hide.
3. Install a motion detector system with a light in vulnerable areas outside the home.
4. Keep windows and doors locked at all times.
5. Talk to neighbors and share information about unusual visitors or loitering in the
neighborhood.
6. If any witnesses are present, get their names and phone numbers.
7. Detail the suspect’s appearance for the responding officer.
8. Detail how the suspect flees the area – on foot or by vehicle. Describe the vehicle
for police.
9. Write down tag numbers of suspicious vehicles and provide these to police.
10. If you see someone looking in your window, try not to panic. Call 9-1-1
immediately and stay inside until an officer arrives
11. In case they come through your window, be prepared with a firearm.
12. Don’t hesitate if you feel your life is threatened
13. Take a breath…squeeze.
OK I’m not proposing you kill anyone. Unless you have to in order to save your life. But if you live inside the Haywood Triangle, don’t keep your head in the sand.
Word on the Street: L.A. Arsonist Part of OWS
The L.A. Arson wave has destroyed more than 40 cars, damaged several buildings and seems to be escalating. Authorities are on the lookout for a White male driving a white and tan 90s model Lexus ES300, though I suspect this is more of a group effort than a one man war on cars.
The prevailing wisdom is that this is the work of some OWS protesters and many are using the fact that the local media are being pretty sparse on important details like who the victims are, what kind of cars are being targeted, etc as evidence that the left leaning journalists are trying to keep speculation away from this being attacks on the dreaded 1%.
Of course, since OWS is a loose association of various cranks like communists, anarchists, Anonymous and Paulnuts the chances that a serial arsonist in California won’t be found to have at least been sympathetic to OWS are about 0%. It’s almost unfair to pi this on OWS because it’s like pinning cocaine addiction on tiny mirrors and razor blades – they’re simply accessories people use. OWS is the tiny mirror of nihilists and sociopaths.
Anyway, when they catch the guy get ready for some right on left Internet blame about this case. If you’re interested I’m betting either Muslim extremist (burning cars is popular in Muslim sections of France) or radical green
Word on the Street: Escort Gets Robbed, Refuses to Call Cops
Which is odd since there have been several cases recently when escorts did go to cops after being robbed, but maybe those girls got charged quietly after the publicity died down. Anyway there’s a rumor that one of the online working girls showed up at an appointment where the john was waiting at a motel with a gun and surrounded by drugs. He drew down on her and demanded her money and she fled, thankfully without getting shot. I’m told she took to the Backpage and other “adult” sites to expose the number he used – but since he probably stole that phone I’m not sure how that helped.
I won’t publish the supposed phone number, but it’s a guy calling himself Deshaun and he’s a Black guy with a thug complex. This is the reason so many hookers in the area won’t service Black guys.
The cops weren’t contacted. This is asinine because the hooker could just call in an anonymous tip and cops would find a gun toting drug user sitting around in a hotel so he’d be in jail regardless. Ladies – the anonymous tip is your friend. Not going to the cops is ensuring this will happen again and next time he’ll be bolder.
Word on the Street: Jessie Dawn Royal in Trouble … Again?
A few days ago Jessi Dawn Royal was arrested in a meth lab in Simpsonville along with Julie Leigh Wilder and Christopher Charles Frey. All three were charged with manufacturing meth, and Royal was charged with unlawful possession of a prescription drug.
Rumor has it that Royal shouldn’t have been out on the streets in the first place since she killed someone while driving high. Sure enough a quick check of the Greenville County public records shows that in 2010 a Jessie Dawn Royal pled guilty to 0395-DUI / Felony driving under the influence, death results. If this is the same Jessie Dawn why is she not only still on the streets, but cooking meth and buying scripts? Because she got some serious hug-a-thug treatment with probation and a license suspension.
This time let’s keep her in the joint.