TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • The Winner and NEW Champion

    The Winner and NEW Champion

    Camden, N.J., Is Most Dangerous City:

    In your face, Detroit! Go, Camden. Go, Camden.

    Beating out Atlanta, St. Louis, Gary, Indiana, and last year’s champ and everyone’s perennial favorite Detroit, Camden, NJ is the county’s most dangerous city.

    For those of us who have lived anywhere near the area can tell you this is no surprise, and we’ve been saying it for years. How many Mischief Nights (Or Devil’s Night) have we watched Camden in flames? And yet, this is the city that the state decided to put The New Jersey State Aquarium.

    We used to joke that when they built the aquarium, they built it around the fish in the Delaware River. Wouldn’t it make more sense to put the State Aquarium in a beach resort town like Wildwood or Atlantic City, or even the Island Republic of Brigantine? I mean, Brigantine already has the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Instead, the state decided to put it in a crime-infested cesspool like Camden.

    Since it’s on the river, they call it “The Waterfront” now. Like, the Delaware River off of Camden is something to be romanticized. You can probably walk across it and it may be flammable. They even put the major regional outdoor concert arena on “The Waterfront”. It’s changed corporate sponsorship at least 3 times since it’s been open. Camden’s attempted revitalization is like putting a rose on top of a trash heap. Way to make New Jersey proud.

  • Grand Theft Assclown III

    Grand Theft Assclown III

    US lawyer links video game to murder plot:

    I’ve been telling you lately about the school attack plot that was uncovered in Massachusetts. Well, from out of left field comes Miami ambulance chaser, Jack Thompson. He believes that the video game Grand Theft Auto influenced Tobin Kerns into wanting to shoot up his school.

    This isn’t the first time that Jack Thompson has said this. Last year he sued the makers of GTA because of two idiot teenagers that shot at some cars on a Tennessee highway. Never mind that the parents of all kids involved let them play a game that is obviously meant for more mature audiences. That “M” on the box actually means something.

    Anyway, this is a ludicrous statement at best. In Tennessee, the parents left their guns unlocked. In Mass. the parents didn’t keep a close enough eye on their kid. A video game is not to blame. Personally, it sounds like to me that Jack Thompson either A. can’t beat the game so he’s decided to sue, or B. much like in real life, he can’t figure out how to get the hookers to get into his car with him.

    If any lawsuit against Rockstar Games is ever successful, it’s another deathblow to personal responsibility. And I don’t think it could take anymore.

  • Megan Kanka

    Megan Kanka

    Megan Kanka

    Megan’s Law mom ponders daughter’s legacy:

    Ten years ago today, Megan Kanka was killed. In case you don’t know who Megan was, she is the little girl who Megan’s Law was named for. She would be 17 if she were alive today. For any of us who lived in Jersey at the time of her death will never forget.

    Megan’s Law is the law that allows neighborhoods to be notified that there is a sex offender living there. Megan was killed by repeat child molester Jesse Timmendequas. The sad thing is that even though there is a national Megan’s Law that was signed into effect by President Clinton in 1996, it is not uniformly enforced from state to state.

    According to Megan’s mother, Maureen Kanka who runs the Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation, sex offenders will check to see which states have the weaker laws. This law does need to be enforced uniformly from state to state to try to prevent this from happening again anywhere.

    What also kills me is that even though Jesse Timmendequas was sentenced to die, he’s still alive. For those of you who think that executing a piece of scum like Timmendequas is cruel and unusual, read what he did. I’ll put it behind a cut as it’s very disturbing….

    Timmendequas lured Megan into his house, across the street from hers, offering to show her a puppy. Megan soon found that there was no puppy. After raping her, he slammed her head onto a dresser, put a plastic bag over her head, and strangled her with a belt. Blood came out of her mouth before she died. He raped her post-mortem after putting her in his car after he drove off. He then stuck her body into a toy box and left it in a nearby county park. A day later, he had led police to the body in the park.

    (Source)

    It won’t bring Megan back. It’s not supposed to. It’s supposed to punish the guilty. A scumbag like Timmendequas showed no regard for Megan’s life. Why should we show regard for his? At least Timmendequas had the luxury of a trial. Megan didn’t. Execute him now.

  • More on Nick Berg

    More on Nick Berg

    To my fellow bloggers and web surfers. Instead of providing links and searching for the Nick Berg video, why not send your condolences to his family instead.

    Company shuts down Web site showing beheading:

    At least they’ve shut down the source. It’s just too bad that clones are popping up all over.

  • U.S. Citizen Beheaded

    U.S. Citizen Beheaded

    Video Seems to Show Beheading of American:

    An Islamic militant extremist website has posted a video showing an American being decapitated in retaliation for the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq…

    After reading a statement, the men were seen pulling the man to his side and cutting off his head with a large knife. They then held the head out before the camera.

    To all you mutants that are already creaming your jeans looking for this video, I only have one thing to say to you. Fuck you.

    You are below the reaches of depravity. You should have your breathing rights revoked. That man had a name and it was Nick Berg. He had a family. Think about that the next time you go looking for that video, you sick freaks. I doubt that you will. You make me sick.

    My condolences go out to the Berg family.

  • Mepham: The Final Chapter

    Mepham: The Final Chapter

    Fourth player to get probation in hazing scandal:

    The fourth and final suspect in the Mepham hazing/sexual assault trial was sentenced on was sentenced on Wednesday, and again another one escapes with a cushy sentence.

    The mystery suspect only has to do 50 hours of community service, write a letter of apology to the victims, and compose an essay describing how the case has affected him and others. Why didn’t the judge just make him write “I will not shove pine cones in other people’s asses” on the blackboard a hundred times?

    I seriously do not understand what Judge Robert J. Conway was thinking. He closed of proceeding to the public, instituted gag orders for all those involved, tried none of the four as adults, and gave mostly light sentences to the offenders. It seems like he thought that this was just a case of boys being boys. That would be true if they were trying out for the football team in ATTICA!!!!!!!!!!!

  • All aboard the karma train. Next stop: France

    All aboard the karma train. Next stop: France

    Fugitive Commits Suicide In French Jail:

    The other day I told you about Paul Goldman, who killed his mistress then fled to France. The French government then told the US that we couldn’t have him back unless we took the death penalty off the table.

    Well, it seems that Mr. Goldman resolved the situation himself by taking his own miserable life in a French jail cell. Kind of fitting that he took the cowards way out in France.

  • Another Reason to Hate France

    Another Reason to Hate France

    France to Extradite U.S. Murder Suspect :

    Just like in the Ira Einhorn case, once again France refused extradition of an American suspect until the US took the death penalty off the table.

    Paul Goldman stabbed his mistress Fay Zonis seven times and left her to bleed to death. He then confessed the crime to his wife, who helped him escape prosecution by helping him get to France.

    As far as I’m concerned, Goldman deserves the death penalty. But now, since he fled to France, the French government wouldn’t extradite him until the Bucks County, PA prosecutors promised not to seek the death penalty.

    Not only should the French have no right to tell us how to prosecute our criminals, it sets a dangerous precedent. You can kill as many people as you want. If you get caught, just flee to France and you won’t be put to death.

    Leave it to the French government to surrender to every criminal that crosses their borders.

  • 1/26/04: From the Mail Sack.

    1/26/04: From the Mail Sack.

    I know. I know. It’s Monday and I haven’t gotten to the mail yet. Well, your hero was stranded in an undisclosed location due to the winter storm here in the Carolinas. We’re expecting some freezing rain, so I may be absent again. So to make up for lost time, here’s the mail.

    Can a week go by where I don’t get a comment or e-mail about Columbine?

    I think that you people aren’t looking at why people look at the boys are heros,alot of kids MILLIONS of kids are torcherd in school for being different,and no one not even a teacher does a damn thing. In school there was a girl who beat me up and consantly picked on me to no end. She sits in jail now because she murdered a women with her car repeatedly running her over. Or the girl who lied and said i called her a nigger so she could get away with busting my nose in class while I got suspended for something I would never say. Yu all seem like the type of people who tormented me and my friends in school,I ended up graduating a year and a half yearly to get away from those people.Out in the real world,I am considered a creative and artistic prodigy,who are you to judge what you don’t understand?

    you wanna bitch at me or tell me you think I am wrong with valide points (not oh you are a dmubass) email me

    Posted by: althea_farmer at January 18, 2004 07:22 PM

    Obvious spelling errors aside let me tell you something, Miss Farmer. I and many of my readers were harassed and tortured in school. BUT WE DIDN’T SHOOT UP A SCHOOL.

    I’m sorry you had such a rough time of it in school, but again, it’s no reason to kill 13 people. Those two little mutants were not heroes. They were cowards for hiding behind a gun.

    And let me just say to all the kids in school right now who are thinking about some kind of school violence. It’s not worth it. High school is just a blip on the timeline of your existence. Once you graduate, you’ll never have to deal with those people ever again. I hated high school. But once I got out, I got over it. And I haven’t seen anyone from there in over 10 years.

    This was from my entry about the Mepham football players being sentenced.

    I’m a teacher at Mepham and I stumbled onto your website. Do you really believe that if those boys were sentenced to an adult facility they would have been rehabilitated? As americans, we have to trust in our system and judicial system, and believe that they know what is right.

    Posted by: rather not say at January 19, 2004 09:57 AM

    See. This is what’s wrong with our public school system in America. Screwed up priorities. It isn’t about rehabilitating the offenders. It’s about punishing them. By all definitions, they raped these kids. I guess since they were the star athletes that it’s ok. If you really are a teacher at Mepham, you should hand in your resignation. If you were teaching my kids, I’d have them pulled out of your school.

    This one was from my entry from when Bowling for Columbine was released.

    hey u fuckers are dumb this shit u type on here is all bullshit get a girl friend and stop waisting your time looking up porn on the net and get a life

    Posted by: Jason at January 19, 2004 03:47 PM

    Um…I don’t know what that has to do with the movie unless this guy is a Michael Moore fan. That would explain a lot.

  • Mepham Sentencing

    Mepham Sentencing

    JUDGE SLAMS MEPHAM HAZERS:

    The 3 football players from Mepham High in Long Island were sentenced today for sodomizing younger teammates in a hazing attack with broomsticks, golf balls, and pine cones.

    One was sent to a boot camp, the other to a juvenile detention facility, and the third got probation after providing prosecutors with information.

    On the one hand, the punishment sort of fits the crime because in boot camp and juvenile hall they’ll be able to find out what it’s like to be intimidated by someone bigger than you or in a position of authority over you.

    On the other hand, the punishment isn’t enough. For all intents and purposes, they raped their younger teammates. Poetic justice would have been trying them as adults and putting them in a real prison where they can have a whole array of objects rectally inserted into them.

    These rapists will get out eventually. The victims have to live with this their entire lives. Hopefully, they’re in facilities like the one in the movie Sleepers.