Weer'd World

In this day of reality TV people are DESPERATE to get their 15 mins:

A young filmmaker is believed to have frozen to death while making a documentary about sleeping rough on the streets as he tried to impress television bosses.

Lee Halpin planned to spend this week on the streets of Newcastle experiencing and filming what life is like for those who are living rough.

In a video explaining his project, he claimed he was applying for a position on a Channel 4 investigative journalism programme.

He said that as he had to show the channel he could be ‘fearless’ – a key ‘value’ of the broadcaster – he planned to spend a week ‘immersed’ in the world of homelessness, and wanted to ‘sleep rough and scrounge for food.’

But three days after embarking on the project talented Lee, who lived with his family in Heaton, Newcastle, was found dead in a boarded-up hostel on Westgate Road, Newcastle.

It is not yet known how he died, but it’s feared the 27-year-old may have succumbed to hypothermia.

I’m sure the executives were impressed, and if there is any video to be had on his corpse or cloud-based storage, I’m sure his estate will make some money in producing a documentary on his final days.

I don’t think this is what he hoped for. Still, no gun!

h/t Bob

Boston, home of some of the most strong gun control in the country, and ruled by MAIG’s second in command, Tom Menino. Works great!

A 17-year-old Boston woman charged with stabbing her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend who was pushing a baby stroller along a city street has been ordered held on $50,000 bail.

Sigh….

Insane!

A man in a large red sedan hit two cars in the parking lot of a San Jose Walmart before ramming the car through the front of the store then assaulting customers inside, officials said. The attack injured four people, one of them seriously.

The man crashed the Oldsmobile Cutlass through the storefront near the pharmacy Sunday and collided with a beer display before stopping, police and witnesses said.

The unidentified driver then got out of his car and used a blunt object to attack people, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said. The driver was arrested when officers arrived.

A certain loser from Oregon runs a blog compiling gun violence in Wal Mart, many of the attacks are less damaging than this one, yet this gets no mention.

Oh yeah, because only guns and “Gun Death” count to them…and they have no shame, and no souls!

and Jay

Lovely!

A man has pleaded guilty to stabbing his mother to death in her St. Cloud home last summer.

Forty-year-old Chad Matthew Pulju testified Friday that he couldn’t recall the specifics of his mother’s death because he was drunk, but he admitted he killed her.

The St. Cloud Times reported that the plea agreement calls for him to spend no more than 25 1/2 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for early June.

Pulju was accused of inflicting at least 47 sharp-force injuries to his mother, Geraldine Bennett, in the early hours of Aug. 23.

Horrific. No guns used, yet a dead body. No guns used, so no self-defense.

Why are we still using the metric of “Gun Death”?

h/t Maddmedic

Horrific:

A toddler who slipped outside through a doggie door was mauled to death by her family’s seven dogs in the backyard while the attack went unnoticed by child’s mother and other relatives inside their home, a southeast Georgia sheriff said Thursday….Relatives told investigators the dogs that mauled the child were essentially family pets — a mother dog and six offspring from a litter she had about 16 months ago, the sheriff said.

The dogs had their own doggie doors that let them come in and out of the house as they pleased. The family told deputies the dogs had never attacked a person, though one of them might have killed a cat, Smith said. He said relatives insisted the toddler would play with the dogs and even “use them as pillows while watching TV.”

Smith said the dogs looked healthy and well-fed, and investigators found no signs they were being used as fighting dogs by their owners.

Very interesting story, given that the dogs don’t appear to have been abused, the reason there were seven dogs is that their bitch had pups, and the doggie door implies the dogs are socialized with humans, yet we have this.

Dogs, unlike guns can “Just go off”. Sad

h/t Bob