Apr 25
cracked commented on
Did Twitter Did NOT Kill This Young Man.
Yeh! See, the rumor mill, including me I admit, were totally right and blameless to spread this guy's name as a bomber. This is proved, proved!, by the FACT that he was already dead.
Apr 19
cracked commented on
Showdown Occurs After Drunk Man Attempts to Turn Off a Clint Eastwood Movie.
However, I'm guessing the choice to write an article about this drunken incident when there are scores of other similar incidents everyday is because the paid intern thought it would be edgy and ironic to report on the wet facility, but truthfully there is nothing more boring than a bunch of drunks hanging out together.
If Upaid Intern wanted to do something interesting, Unpaid Intern could interview the persons supervising the wet facility program for the city as to how well it is working. Last I heard, we were saving a bundle of tax money. (And we need that money to build the infrastructure our developer overlords want us to build to pad their pocket books).
Just think, out on the street an incident like this could have led to serious physical harm and an ER visit as well as an arrest. Here everything was out in the light and serious harm (and cost to the tax payer) was avoided.
Apr 19
cracked commented on
Showdown Occurs After Drunk Man Attempts to Turn Off a Clint Eastwood Movie.
@8 The most important thing is it keeps them out of the emergency rooms, so it is waaaaay cheaper for the public.
@7 They aren't fighting alcoholism with the wet living facilities - they are fighting the high cost of law enforcement time and emergency room visits involving alcoholic homeless. It is simply hundreds of thousands of dollars cheaper and less trouble for every body to give them a place to live.
Access to treatment is a bonus.
Somebody with more detailed knowledge I'm sure could explain it better than I have.
Apr 19
cracked commented on
"Stay Strong, Support the Boys!".
How is it the parents of these boys are so easily able to get themselves to believe that an ordinary 15 year old teenage girl would agree to be the fuck object to a group of boys?
@22 No, I think it varies from parent to parent, but an act like this is so horrifying, I can see it being hard to accept because a conviction puts the brakes on whatever hopes and dreams you had for them. The amount of parents' investment of toil and tears into their kids may be hard for non-parents to understand. The parents may even be sure that their child did rape, but be desperate to give them a chance to repent and put it behind them.
And, of course, there are even more people who do not want to accept that we have a rape culture, and would rather believe the world is crawling with the teenage sluts of their fantasies, who would readily agree to be abused by a group of boys. Why this is true is mysterious to me, but it is clearly true in a large number of communities.
Apr 17
cracked commented on
A Chastened Police Department Swears It's Prepared for Potential May Day Violence This Year.
Well, if they send their undercover law enforcement employees to bust up property this year, they are going to have to figure out a way to incite more non-police to participate so they can actually make some arrests of black mask vandals. There has to be a limit (I hope) to how gullible the public will continue to be at the lack of arrests when there is so much live footage of lengthy acts of property destruction.