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Gross!

Hernando County sheriff’s investigators concluded Thursday that a “very unusual death investigation” was the result of a suicide.

Workers cleaning out a home at 6527 Treehaven Drive in Spring Hill thought they found a mannequin hanging in the garage on Thursday morning and took it with of a pile of debris in the back of a pickup truck to the dump, said Hernando Sheriff Al Nienhuis.

Employees at the West Hernando Transfer Station, 2525 Osowaw Blvd, questioned the workers about the body but were told it was a mannequin, Nienhuis said.

They called authorities and deputies found the “somewhat mummified” remains of **REDACTED**, 33, in a bin at the landfill, Nienhuis said.

Authorities found a suicide note scrawled on the wall at the home on Treehaven Drive that **REDACTED** shared with his then girlfriend and several children before they broke up and were evicted. They believe **REDACTED** hung himself in the garage and had been dead for several weeks but not more than a 1 1⁄2 months, Nienhuis said.

Nasty! Good thing he didn’t shoot himself! That would have been a “Gun Death”.

H/T Wallphone

Yeah, don’t deal with stupid people doing stupid things:

An Illinois woman who helped lure two men to a drinking session to rob them for money for cigarettes, gasoline and cocaine, was found guilty on Friday of six counts of first degree murder after her friends allegedly strangled the two men.

…errance **DEPARTED**, both 22, were robbed and strangled in a duplex in Joliet – a town outside Chicago – in January 2013.

The killers did this for cash. Remember, the antis say don’t carry a gun because what you have isn’t worth killing for, but what if what you have is worth it to the criminals to kill for?

Also they were killed for cocaine money. The antis want to make guns as illegal as cocaine. How well do you think that’ll work?

Fireworks are banned in several states, but really they aren’t very dangerous. Still accidents can happen:

One person died and another was injured after an explosion in a suburban garage in Arlington.

Arlington police said two men in their 20s were tampering with fireworks in a garage Thursday night around 11 p.m. on Hedgeapple Court. Emergency personnel on the scene described the explosion as a quick flash fire.

The New Year is coming, and shooting off fireworks is a fun way to ring in the New Year. Still, be safe out there!

H/T Bob

Now I hate the elevation of certain simple weapons to some horrible deadly weapon. Be this the Hollywood overplayed switchblade, the sap and blackjack impact weapons, or the stupidly simple brass knuckle:

Two California women have been arrested in the beating death of a 65-year-old man at a train station in Los Angeles two months ago.

Investigators said **REDACTED** approached the 65-year-old bystander and began arguing with him.

The verbal dispute quickly escalated and turned physical, with the 24-year-old **REDACTED** allegedly using brass knuckles to beat up the stranger without any provocation.

Now brass knuckles or knuckle dusters are illegal to carry in California, as well as many other states. Still acquisition of these items are stupidly easy, from buying them through the mail with the agreement that it will not be used as a weapon, or through places that sell “novelty paperweights” that just so happen to be shaped like the simple weapon.

Either way, it would be silly to blame the tool for this vicious murder. Still the peddlers of “Gun Death” want to do just that, but only for guns because guns are different…somehow.

H/T Bob

There’s more to this story than what is given:

The mother and great-grandmother of a 15-month-old who died of a drug overdose pleaded guilty to the young girl’s death.

…According to the police report, the girl was in the care of her great-grandmother, **REDACTED**. Howard told police she gave the baby a bottle of soy milk before bed and that nothing seemed unusual.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled Riley Mackey died of acute oxycodone intoxication. Police did not say where the child got access to the narcotic painkiller.

They don’t say how the kid got the opiates in her system, but there were a pair of guilty pleas, so I assume the both of them had a good idea.

Really sick, but not a “Gun Death”.