Advice to colleges on attacks: Fight back – Education msnbc.com
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.
That sounds like money well spent, doesn’t it? I foresee a lot of false alarm laptop to the head injuries in their future.
As much as I’ve been complaining that the national media has not been paying any attention to the Giovanni Gonzalez story I received an e-mail today that restored my faith in humanity. The one national media outlet that is actually doing what it can for Giovanni is America’s Most Wanted. They have an extensive profile of the situation on their website.
Every week I and a lot of other crime bloggers receive an e-mail letting us know what’s on AMW that week. Hopefully, they’ll have Giovanni’s story featured on this week’s episode.
Lynn police scour evidence in disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez:
Unfortunately, police have come up empty so far in their search for Giovanni Gonzalez. Police say that they are scaling back on the physical search for Giovanni and are refocusing on the evidence they have so far.
Between this and the search of the cemetery, I don’t have high hopes at this point.
However, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett says that he is optimistic that Giovanni is still alive. He also announced that lab results from the bloody mop are back but he couldn’t comment on the results at this time.
“Columbine” Attack Thwarted in Boerne:
Former Student Accused of Planning Columbine-Style Attack:
Police: Boerne Teen Planned ‘Columbine-Style’ School Shooting:
18-year-old Allen Doelitsch of Boerne, Texas was arrested for threatening an attack against Samuel Champion High School.
Police say that Doelitsch sent text messages to a 14-year-old student of Champion High recruiting the 14-year-old into the plot. Here’s a transcript of the text messages.
14-year-old response to Doelitsch: “I’m down for columbine.”
Doelitsch: “That’s my boy,” and “Ya I know I hate my life now I just wana to kill people an Champion high school and then blow my head off.”
14-year-old: “hell ya bro shootout 2009.”
Just when I thought the mutant population was thinning out.
The 14-year-old went and told friends who immediately told school administrators.
Doelitsch was in previous trouble for writing threats in the bathroom at Boerne High School in 2006. Doelitsch graduated from Boerne this past May. Which again I have to say you made it out, why plan to attack a school that you never even went to?
Doelitsch has also been charged with enticing a child and burglary in separate charges. It seems that Doelitsch has a thing for 14-year-old girls and he stole a gun out of someone’s vehicle.
Doelitsch is in jail on a $500,000 bond.
Lynn’s Pine Grove Cemetery targeted in search for missing boy:
Yesterday Mass. State Police and police from Lynn, Mass. scoured Pine Grove Cemetery looking for missing 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.
Cadaver dogs were used but police insist that this was a search and rescue mission and not a recovery mission.
Giovanni’s story may even be featured on America’s Most Wanted this week.
24-year-old Daniel Brandtof New York City went to a Coney Island apartment to meet what he thought was going to be a woman he met on craigslist. Instead, Brandt was shot in the head and two men ran off. Brandt later died at the hospital.
Police say they know who the suspects are and are awaiting search warrants.
Thanks to Gothamist.
I got an e-mail over the weekend from a professional escort who we’ll call Mary. She pointed me in the direction of archive.org and their Wayback Machine. Now I was familiar with the Wayback Machine but I never thought to run craigslist through it until now.
Mary says that craigslist has been building their fame off the backs of hookers since almost the beginning but they don’t dare tell the public how long they’ve been doing it.
Thanks to Mary’s tip I went through the Wayback Machine and the earliest I found that craigslist had the erotic services section listed on the front page was October 29, 2002. So for most of craigslist’s life, they’ve been using prostitution to attract users. If anything craigslist should give the prostitutes a cut. Also, we now have a date to ‘celebrate’ the day that craigslist started dallying in child prostitution and human trafficking.
Getting back to Mary she says that craigslist has basically used the women to build their site and now they act like they have no clue of what’s going on. Mary also says that she has been harassed and stalked by craigslist users in the past and that craigslist does nothing to protect its users. She says she has posted warnings about stalkers and lost clients because of it so basically like I’ve been saying it’s the inmates who are running the asylum at craigslist. Mary finds it ironic that the stalkers get the last say since craigslist was built on the backs of hookers.
Do I think that Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster are pimps? Not in the least. Pimps at least pay their girls.
Craigslist the new marketplace for stolen goods:
Check out the video report behind the link from Oregon TV station KDRV.
It just amazes me how regulated pawn shops are but yet craigslist isn’t.
I got the following anonymous e-mail yesterday.
WHY YOU NEED TO SINGLE OUT CRAIGSLIST AS THE WORLDS BIGGEST CRIME PLAYGROUND IM NOT SURE BUT YOU NEED TO GET A GRIP ON REALITY. YOU WANNA BE A VIGILANT Y COME ON DOWN TO THE HOOD. CLEAN THAT UP WITH ALL THAT ENERGY. oh and if you are female and are married…SCREW your husband once in awhile that will keep him off craigslist.
It sounds like someone doesn’t like the work I do. I’m guessing either a pimp or someone who uses craigslist to sell stolen goods. First off I’m not a vigilante. I’m just a guy with a website and an opinion. Secondly, why should I clean up the hood? Why can’t the hood clean itself up? And lastly I’m male and I don’t need some skank on craigslist to get my rocks off.
Thank you and have a nice day. 🙂
Parents refusing to have their children vaccinated against measles have helped drive cases of the illness to their worst levels in a dozen years in the United States, health officials reported on Thursday.
Only 13 percent of the cases were imported, the CDC said, naming Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, India, Israel, China, Germany, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Russia. “This is the lowest percentage of imported measles cases since 1996,” the CDC report reads.
“Of the 95 patients eligible for vaccination, 63 were unvaccinated because of their or their parents’ philosophical or religious beliefs,” the CDC said.
Some religious groups refuse vaccination but many parents have fears that vaccines are unsafe or may cause conditions such as autism — fears the CDC says are unfounded.
Stop being asshats. This is the 21st century, not the dark ages. Vaccines do not cause autism and God would prefer it if your kids didn’t die from measles.