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2023-07-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Barack Obama's personal chef is seen swimming laps with ease - as questions are raised over how he drowned in just 8ft of water while paddle boarding at ex-president's Martha's Vineyard mansion

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Double-vaxed and boosted would be my guess...the ticker just ain't what it's supposed to be. Brought to you by Pfizer.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-25 00:16|| 2023-07-25 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 There aren’t many situations where a person who is in shape “drowns” on a paddle board.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-25 07:17|| 2023-07-25 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 They could've just fired him. This must have been a statement 'to encourage the others' (quote translated from French)

Posted by Bobby 2023-07-25 07:25|| 2023-07-25 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Very likely he couldn’t swim.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-25 07:32|| 2023-07-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 ....wouldn't that be like sky diving without a parachute?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-25 07:46|| 2023-07-25 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Latest conspiracy theory

Posted by Mercutio 2023-07-25 07:48|| 2023-07-25 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Campbell, a longtime sous chef for the Obamas

Perhaps Barry tired of his buttered buns.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-25 08:26|| 2023-07-25 08:26|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Boom!

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-25 08:35|| 2023-07-25 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Skid for Snark o' the Day

Posted by Mercutio 2023-07-25 08:35|| 2023-07-25 08:35|| Front Page Top

#10 water temp off Marths's vinyard is probably only in 60s F

you can get sudden weakness

Posted by lord garth 2023-07-25 09:10|| 2023-07-25 09:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Could it be the Obama's have learned how to handle problems from the Clinton's?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-25 10:19|| 2023-07-25 10:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Any water in his lungs?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-07-25 10:35|| 2023-07-25 10:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Another Chappaquiddick autopsy?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-25 11:09|| 2023-07-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Baraq over the years has told so many lies and refused so many times to divulge the whole truth that when something like this happens we immediately assume the worst. In his defense, the Pfizer theory is at least plausible. Otherwise, this one is extremely suspicious.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-25 11:33|| 2023-07-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ So, now the same people who said vaxx causes heart problems was a "conspiracy theory" now rush to use it as a legitimate explanation.

Love it...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-25 11:35|| 2023-07-25 11:35|| Front Page Top

#16 It's called double think, Murcek, the ability to believe two or more contradictory stories. Even when logic tells you it's impossible, you must believe.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-25 11:45|| 2023-07-25 11:45|| Front Page Top

#17 "He was last seen struggling to stay above water."
Trans: "He was seemmed to be drowning but I just watched."
Wonder if he ever gave Epstein a Pop-Tart. Or vice versa.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-25 11:50|| 2023-07-25 11:50|| Front Page Top

#18 LeBron James' 18 year old sone hospitalized after heart attack

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-25 12:04|| 2023-07-25 12:04|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ that is news. I am scared to find out what a Pop Tart is slang for. I feel it may ruin my breakfast routine.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-25 12:28|| 2023-07-25 12:28|| Front Page Top

#20 He drown himself

Posted by Slaise Pherens5503 2023-07-25 12:49|| 2023-07-25 12:49|| Front Page Top

#21 Shades of Larry Sinclair. I'll venture to say this chef was another one of Obama's gay lovers.

So the official story is that chef and another person were out paddle boarding sunday night. That person saw chef fall/struggling/drowning in 8 foot of water, chef was incapacitated in that he could not use the paddle board as floatation device, a mere thirty steps (100ft = ~30 adult steps) from the shore. Instead of helping, the other person left the scene. Sounds like wet works to me.

Posted by mossomo 2023-07-25 13:06|| 2023-07-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#22 The family schedules a private celebration of life. Ashes spread at sea. Tox report? Of course not, it was a simple drowning accident.

More at 11:00.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-25 13:13|| 2023-07-25 13:13|| Front Page Top

#23 "... chef was incapacitated in that he could not use the paddle board as floatation device.."

consistent w hypothermia i.e. when your body temp goes down to say 94F after being in cold water your coordination decreases significantly and you get confused

Posted by lord garth 2023-07-25 13:25|| 2023-07-25 13:25|| Front Page Top

#24 Tuesday
Water temperature in Wasque Point (Chappaquiddick Island)
WATER TEMPERATURE
71 ºF

The USSS has to have awareness of people 100ft offshore of the Lightbringer's residence. So the question is, where was Tafari Campbell's residence? Was he part of an extended household in residence, or a day worker who resided elsewhere? If the latter, why was he offshore, on a paddleboard, at night, in proximity to another person offshore? I looked at the image of the property on goggle maps and there appears to be a storage site just off the beach for several boards and kayaks. Since Tafari was an adequate swimmer, what incapacitated him, a medical emergency or recreational substance? Did the reporting other paddleboarder have a Chappaquiddick moment, since they were close enough to see the struggling Tafari and yet apparently made no effort to rescue? Did they call 911, or was it the USSS? If the latter, who were they monitoring to have become aware? Somehow, the lack of significant media coverage and information has a slightly fetid odor, musky and perhaps already slipping into the deep memory hole reserved for very powerful people's detritus?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-25 13:47|| 2023-07-25 13:47|| Front Page Top

#25 It is tough to say that the other person did the wrong thing. You would have to know the lighting and the size and life saving capabilities of the other person. The victim sounds like a strong swimmer under normal conditions. I suspect that this was more like a heart issue unless he knocked himself unconscious on the board while falling from a standing position. A large unconscious dark gentleman with low BMI is not an easy save at night in a dark pond. Joe Delaney’s death comes to mind.
As for wet work, why do this near or on the property? Send him out for daiquiri ingredients and hold him up at the grocery store. It never makes the news.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-25 13:54|| 2023-07-25 13:54|| Front Page Top

#26 We live in the age of people calmly using their phone to video someone else's fatal event instead of helping out. Not saying that happened here, but it's the rule not the exception.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-25 14:08|| 2023-07-25 14:08|| Front Page Top

#27 In 2015, Chef Walter Scheib, who was hired by First Lady Hillary Clinton during President Bill Clinton's administration, also lost his life in a drowning incident in New Mexico.(MSN)

Posted by Enver Dingle4916 2023-07-25 14:21|| 2023-07-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

#28 In a statement, the Obamas said of one of the top chefs in the White House kitchen,...

When the food truck delivers to those kitchen's, is that how stuff gets into the WhiteHouse, etc. via the chefs? Thus, do they know too much?

Posted by Enver Dingle4916 2023-07-25 14:30|| 2023-07-25 14:30|| Front Page Top

#29 I think the Secret Service is cleaning house.

Posted by Enver Dingle4916 2023-07-25 14:43|| 2023-07-25 14:43|| Front Page Top

#30 He was a crappy swimmer. I watched it and he did 300 yards in 35 minutes, and he was wearing fins. He could have never made it to shore without a floatation device.

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-07-25 15:57|| 2023-07-25 15:57|| Front Page Top

#31 Then his life jacket should have saved him.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-25 16:20|| 2023-07-25 16:20|| Front Page Top

#32 Occam sez drugs

Posted by BrerRabbit 2023-07-25 17:51|| 2023-07-25 17:51|| Front Page Top

#33 If he was wearing a life jacket. He should have been, especially if he was not a strong swimmer. Surfers usually wear a leash attached to their ankles and the tail section of their surfboards so they don't have to swim all the way to the beach after a wipeout. Dunno if that's common practice among paddle boarders or not but in cases like this it might come in handy.

So, yes, if he had been following common sense safety practices he should not have simply drowned. And so, barring a medical problem, this case stinks. And whatever the medical examiner says, I wouldn't put much stock in it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-25 18:02|| 2023-07-25 18:02|| Front Page Top

#34 Maybe Big Mike got a little rough

Posted by Frank G 2023-07-25 18:47|| 2023-07-25 18:47|| Front Page Top

#35 He accidently saw Moochelle nekkid....and couldn't find the brain bleach in time.

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-07-25 19:15|| 2023-07-25 19:15|| Front Page Top

#36 The other reason that this is not some kind of a hit is that a marginal swimming sous chef doesn’t bring a paddle board to work. The owner of the paddle board has a problem if a dog paddle level swimmer is on the board without a life vest. If the man is wearing a life vest, there is no reason to abandon him even if he is unconscious.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-25 19:46|| 2023-07-25 19:46|| Front Page Top

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