[NYPOST] Two "crazy" dads have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly opening fire and hitting each other’s daughters in a terrifying road-rage shootout in Florida, authorities said.
Strangers William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, shot at each other’s vehicles with semi-automatic handguns during a high-speed "cat and mouse" chase late Saturday — and were finally busted when they got out and started brawling on the highway, according to cops.
During the shootout, Hale’s 5-year-old daughter was hit in the leg and
Allison’s 14-year-old daughter was shot in the back, leaving her with a collapsed lung, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said Monday.
"What’s scarier than one crazy driver with a gun? Two crazy drivers with a gun," the shocked sheriff said.
"Thankfully, no one was killed in this incident, but it could have very easily turned out that way because two people were acting stupid and let their tempers get the best of them.
The group of fraudsters included at least six additional co-conspirators now serving between two-and-a-half and six-and-a-half years in prison
The opulent homes targeted by the group are owned by elite Venezuelans who were sanctioned during the Trump administration over a number of misdeeds
The schemers were able to convince local lenders that they owned the houses and took out multi-million dollar mortgages against them
Ringleader Carlos Rafael Castañeda Mendez, 35, recruited fellow Venezuelan migrants to get in on the fraudulent scheme with him, including his romantic interest Genesis Martusciello, 29, and six others.
More user sentiment analysis tracking data for the FBI?
[BBC] Netflix has signed up to the TV ratings agency Barb, which means its audiences will be measured by an external, independent body for the first time.
The move makes Barb the first industry-owned ratings service in the world that Netflix has joined.
Previously, the streaming giant has only released snapshots of its viewing data, highlighting the success of its most popular shows.
Barb will begin reporting Netflix's viewing figures from November.
It is a significant move for the streamer, and will see the data being used by advertisers, competitors and journalists to ascertain the success or failure of Netflix properties.
Netflix is not the only streamer being included - any service which accounts for more than 0.5% of total identified viewing will be listed too. This means content from services such as Disney and Amazon is also likely to be included.
While BARB has been reporting streaming viewing at both a service and programme level since November 2021, only its underwriting organisations and those with a special license previously had access to Netflix's data.
Barb, which stands for Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, compiles audience measurement and TV ratings in the UK.
The agency will report Netflix's ratings in the same way it reports viewing for more than 300 other subscribing broadcast channels.
The networks currently covered by Barb include mainstream services such as the BBC and ITV to smaller channels such as Dave and E4.
Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old black man, was shot and killed after he fled an attempted traffic stop and fired a shot from his car during the vehicle chase
Police in Akron, Ohio, fired a barrage of gunshots at Walker on June 27, and he had 46 bullet wounds in his body
The eight officers involved - who have never been named - were suspended, but on Tuesday Akron police announced they were returning to work
Steve Mylett, the city's police chief, said they were being brought back due to a staffing shortage which threatened to leave Akron without services
Mylett said he appreciated that some in the community would be concerned, but the officers would be on desk duties, and not in uniform
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I tried to go to church in downtown Akron on Sunday this past summer, but changed my mind when I found the police had put up roadblocks all around the church, which is very close to the police station. Haven't been back there since. Ca. 1900 a would-be Akron lynch mob burned down on of the courthouses there.
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If I was one of those cops I think I would stand well back from actually enforcing law, at least against people who didn’t shine bright in the dark.
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NN2N1, space heaters will save you alot on that gas bill.
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Time to lay in vast amounts of firewood to make your bootleg hootch for the coming winter. Make sure the wood burns with no smoke so that the heavily armed newly hired 87,000 revenooers don't find you easily.
Amid record high inflation, Social Security beneficiaries will get an 8.7% increase to their benefits in 2023, the highest increase in 40 years.
The Social Security Administration announced the change on Thursday. It will result in a benefit increase of more than $140 more per month on average starting in January.
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Federal civil service and military service pension will also rise by 8.7%; Happily Medicare part B premiums will decrease slightly in 2023.
The pension increases will mean an additional $20 B or so in Federal Spending (my guess).
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That will help slightly to pay the extra 62% Quaker Old Fashioned Oats now costs me per 10 lb. box.
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...I'm grateful they didn't cut the raises for SS recipients, and actually somewhat surprised they didn't try to eliminate them entirely for the retired military.
And yes, I know what the law says - but they denied a raise for the retired military some years ago because we all had to do our part.
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SNAP benefits just went up 12.5%. Interesting difference. Guess folks on food stamps experience higher inflation rates than retirees - but what about when those populations overlap?
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Proving again my point: No demographic votes more regularly nor more heavily than old people. Politicians want to be SURE we get goodies just before an election.
And the decrease in Medicare Part B is also nice. But in this era of persistent inflation, I wonder how on earth (other than sheer, naked vote-buying) they justify it. Not that I'm complaining. I'm just curious.
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the SNAP benefit went up ~12% because the adjustment is based on the grocery index not the 'all products' index
and also the calculation year is different as the SNAP adjustment year ends on 30 June vs the SSI adjustment year that ends on 30 Sept.
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In an article about inflation, I noted
Gas: +18.2% Fuel Oil: +58.1%
Question: Can producers twiddle a barrel of oil to get more gas and less diesel and home fuel oils? Making gas cheaper but other fuels more scarce/expensive?
So my last gas was $3.39 because other uses (homes and truckers) are paying more? Another "win" for Brandon!
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Wait for it, there will be a SCIFI Horror movie storyline, using an accidental Lab incident and the release of this into the general public. Oh, that's right, we're actually living that now.
Seriously tho.
There needs to be stricter controls and penalties of these genetic experiments. There needs to be serious Prison or Death Penalty consequences as appropriate for all knowingly involved at any level (Janitor to CEO and even Gov. types)
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Re#4: If you could put Democrat genes in, you would be able to more readily locate and trap the critters: you would be able to eliminate the southern border as a possible location, since they do not seem to know where that is.
[BBC] The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers. And the risk is growing as microchip technology shrinks.
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These colors from outta space!
I'm at a loss, a là Nooni Rapace!
Neutrinos! Who'd a thunk?
Gumming up our RAMs, subatomic gunk.
Our tiktok's poor! War games? Pfft!
ALIENS! That's right! In boldface.
Bushmaster...well, she is shiny, Aussie and all. I just read the articles anyways.
Bushmaster, (genus Lachesis), an Amazonian venomous snake subdued by our soldiers that stings the enemy unexpectedly, painfully, and fatally. Thanks to our Australian wizards for the instruction manual.
Used to be a gentleman didn't tell, but today's culture likes to high-five every ride and conquest to the internet.
I'd bet Ms. November will be Hawkeye. She is a bit older, but she is long, lean, knows what she wants, has nice warheads, and doesn't like to be far from home.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
