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A 21-year-old northeast Ohio man has been found guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide and driving under the influence after being accused of running over the former Cleveland State University police chief as he changed a tire on the side of a freeway outside Cleveland in February.

He was drunk and driving at a very high rate of speed. Good thing he didn’t have a gun! Also good thing drivers need licenses and cars need to be registered!

I can’t have too much sympathy for her, but also I can’t muster my usual disdain for murderous mothers.

As darkness was falling Monday, according to a police affidavit, **KILLER**, 34, parked her car at the north end of the picturesque Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Ore., took her son in her arms, carried him to the middle of the span, and threw him to his death in the water below.

Then she dialed 911 on her cellphone.

“I just threw my son over the Yaquina Bay Bridge,”

Horrible, what was her motive?

confirmed Tuesday that his sister-in-law had written an appeal on YouCaring.com, a crowdfunding website. In it she described caring for her autistic son and her husband, Matt, who has been unable to work at his business doing email campaigns since developing multiple sclerosis and a mass on his brain stem.

The appeal ended eight months ago, after raising $6,831 toward a goal of $50,000.

My daughter is not only very healthy, but super easy to care for as she seems to have a natural understanding of rules, a very easy-going attitude, and sleeps VERY well, and even with this I don’t know how I could do this alone, or if I was caring for a sick relative.

Still she could have easily just surrendered her boy to child protective services, or called 911 and tossed herself off the bridge. All of these things would still allow the innocent child to be alive.

I would have sympathy for her if she hadn’t murdered her boy, but that’s what she did, so in stead I’m disgusted and disappointed. Still the antis don’t care, because this, like many, are “Gun Deaths”.

H/T Wallphone.

This is a sad and preventable one:

A man delivering drywall to a New Jersey construction site was killed Monday when a tape measure fell 50 stories, striking him on the head, authorities said.

The 1-pound tape measure became dislodged from the belt of a worker on the 50th floor and struck construction equipment about 10 to 15 feet from the ground, according to Carly Baldwin, a spokeswoman for Jersey City’s Department of Public Safety. It then ricocheted and struck **Victim**, 58, who had just stopped to speak with another worker who was in a pickup truck just before 9 a.m. in the city’s downtown section.

…**Victim** was not wearing a hard hat, but had one in his truck at the time, according to the police report.

SO first up EVERYBODY sees the signs. I’ve never worked or set foot on a construction site in my life, but I’ve walked by hundreds of them in my life. At every entrance, and on trailers and equipment it says “Hard Hat Area” and something about EVERYBODY with no exceptions must have one. Growing up my neighbor was an architect, and he went to work every day in a nice car wearing a suit…but in the back window of his car was a hard hat, because sometimes he had to inspect his work at the cite, or help with questions on his drawings.

An other thing I heard from a story of a man who worked on tall ships. He told a story of a screw driver falling out of the tool belt on a man working in the rigging. It stuck into the deck like a dagger. Because of that most tall ships have a rule that ALL tools have lanyards affixed to the tool belt. Same goes for when crews are working on trees. Even their chainsaws have lanyards.

I assume this construction site had a rule like that as well, just like they had a rule for hard hats. Funny how that works, even if safety rules are mandated, people don’t always follow them.

Still, not a “Gun Death”, so let’s just move on.

H/T Nancy

Now I’m constantly asking people to point out people getting killed over alcohol after the 21st Amendment was ratified. Well it DOES happen:

A 16-year-old Texan has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man with a car after he refused to buy the youth alcohol, police in Abilene said on Monday.

So really it’s STILL a prohibition story, as people who are 16 can’t buy booze.

Either way, like Capone bombing a speakeasy, this is NOT a “Gun Death”