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  • Grover Beach man charged with molestation

    MySpace relationship leads to arrest of Grover Beach man:

    30-year-old Michael David Gray has been arrested on charges of sexual molestation. Gray is accused of meeting a 15-year-old girl on MySpace and having a sexual relationship with her for six months.

    During the relationship, police say Gray provided the 15-year-old with methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. On one occasion, he also took nude photos of the victim and showed them to others.

    First of all what kind of scumbag not only engages in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl but gives her meth and coke on top of it. Secondly, where were this girl’s parents?

  • Apologies for Asa

    Uncle Says Gunman Upset With Teachers:

    Here we go. Cue up some more apologists for Asa Coon. First, let’s start with his uncle.

    The 14-year-old who opened fire at his high school had been upset with teachers, saying they wouldn’t listen to his side of the story regarding a recent after-school scuffle that got him suspended, the teenager’s uncle said Friday.

    Larry Looney, who lived upstairs from Asa Coon in a west side duplex, said the two were lifting weights Tuesday when he told him about Monday’s fight with another student and his three-day suspension.

    “He really didn’t want to talk about it,” Looney said. “He said he really didn’t do anything to start it. He said the teachers wouldn’t listen to his side of the story.

    “I just can’t believe he would do anything like that.”

    How do these kids make this leap in logic? This is what happens when we try to shelter our kids from failure. If we shield them from the real world they think that life is supposed to be fair. Then when they experience rejection they make stupid leaps in logic like shooting up the school.

    Now a school volunteer…

    Coon was ridiculed by classmates at SuccessTech. He had a tendency not to fight back when teased, but recently got into an after-school scuffle, was suspended and made threats that he would blow up the school or stab everybody.

    “This kid finally broke,” said Christina Burns, who volunteered at a school Coon previously attended. “He finally lost his mind.”

    Cry me a river. I guess he only slapped around his mom which makes him one of the worst kind of bullies.

  • Dissesnion in Dunbar

    Jail letters talk strategy in Dunbar Village rape case, records show:

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Dunbar Village rape case. In case you’ve forgotten that’s was when a bunch of teen thugs broke into this woman’s apartment, gang-raped her, and forced her to have sex with her 12-year-old son.

    It seems that there is dissension in their ranks.

    Deputies seized two letters from 14-year-old Avion Lawson, whose DNA was found on a condom left at the rape scene. A letter Lawson picked up in front of co-defendant Jakaris Taylor’s cell says “real niggas don’t take pleas,” but the writer urges Lawson to do so.

    “But they no you wuz in the house so just stick up to it bro … they really do got yo DNA,” the letter says.

    The letter is signed “Bean Boys,” Soulja and L’il Beast.

    A few weeks after that July letter, a jail deputy confiscated a second one from Lawson’s styrofoam food tray after a meal, a letter to an unnamed person. The writer claims he never had sex with the woman but knows who did. “Now if they trying to give me life for something I ain’t do … they goin’ wit me.”

    There is, though, a transcript of a phone conversation Lawson had while using a phone at the police station. In it, he complains that another suspect, a 14-year-old not charged, is ratting him out in the interview room next door. He says the female detective knew a lot details about the crime that she otherwise would not have known.

    It’s only a matter of time before somebody rolls on their buddies if they haven’t already.

    What I want to know though is when the other arrests are coming. Allegedly police have the names of other suspects but only four of the alleged 10 are in jail.

  • MontCo mutant’s MySpace and maternal misadventures

    Online musings bent toward guns, violence:

    It seems that our homeschooled mutant from yesterday had a MySpace and loved to flaunt his mutantcy.

    His username, in part, was “the killer.”

    His motto: “Mess with the best, Die like the rest.”

    His interests: “Shooting . . . war, the North Hollywood shoot-out, bank robbers, the Columbine massacre.”

    The North Hollywood Shootout? That’s a new one. For those of you who don’t know, The North Hollywood Shootout took place 10 years ago between armored bank robbers and the LAPD in which the LAPD were massively outgunned by the bank robbers. There’s a very famous video of one of the gunman just firing repeatedly into a police car. I tried to find it on YouTube but it was just filled with mutant-like tributes to the gunmen. But I digress…

    The ramblings, riddled with grammar and spelling errors, profanity and teen bravado, suggest the teen is deeply disturbed and fantasizes about hurting people. The Daily News is withholding his name because he is a juvenile.

    Nothing new there.

    “I love to blow s— up, and I’m a bit of a merc,” he wrote in the “About Me” section of his page.

    Yeah, because the world is just filled with 14-year-old mercenaries.

    In his latest blog entry, posted in March, the boy wrote: “I am pretymuch the posterboy for the person that rests upon the line between Geineus and Madman/Pycopath, (23 ppl just left the page . . . ) feel free to messege me, and dont tell me how carzy I am, belive me I know, I have to live with myself 24 f—— 7. welcome to hell!!!! O and as 4 my personal saying . . . if at first you dont sucseed, use the armor piercing rounds.”

    In precious few postings, he seems like a typical teenager. He admits he adores the singer Avril Lavigne and the movie “Star Wars.” He also inflated his age to 17.

    But in other posts he lists his heroes as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Colorado teens who gunned down 37 people, 13 fatally, in their high school in 1999.

    And, as other heroes, two bank robbers who got into a 1997 shootout with Los Angeles police, and two World War II snipers.

    He also posted videos – one with a song apparently titled “Stray Bullet” – showing fictionalized school shootings. One video shows a scowling young gunman hunting down victims, shooting some at point-blank range, in a school library, a cafeteria, a hallway and classrooms.

    Also posted is a link to a Web site memorializing Harris and Klebold.

    Of course, he did. All the mutants do.

    He describes himself as a soldier, writing: “Im a soldier, my favorit rifle is the AK-47, my fav handguns are the M-92-F Beretta, and the Colt.45-m-1911-A-1.”

    He also claimed to be leader of the I.C.A. Military Group, which he explains only as the “Imperial Cobra Army.”

    So now he thinks he’s Cobra Commander?

    We always ask where are the parents when something like this goes down. Well, in this case, the parents were almost accomplices.

    In December 2005, the boy’s father wanted to get his son a gun for his birthday. He went to Dick’s Sporting Goods on Chemical Road in Plymouth Township. He filled out an application for a .22-caliber rifle and lied about his criminal record, saying he had never been convicted of a felony.

    In fact, the dad pleaded guilty in 1981 to first-degree manslaughter for driving while drunk and killing someone in a collision in Oklahoma City. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and released in 1987. Ironically, according to court documents, the father was also a deserter from the Marine Corps.

    It seems the mutant doesn’t slink too far from the sewer.

    His father’s name is Frank E. Cossey. His Mom, Michele Cossey is also being charged.

    Michele Cossey bought her home-schooled son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.

    That’s some mighty fine parenting right there. Like I said before, it’s obvious that the kid’s homeschooling was suspect since these homeschoolers don’t have the best judgment in the world.

  • Plymouth Whitemarsh plotter ID’d

    Mother of teen allegedly planning attack on school is charged:

    I don’t know how but the suspect in the plot to attack Plymouth Whitemarsh High School has had his name released. His parents were previously identified as Michele and Frank Cossey. His name is Dillon Cossey. I don’t know why the media is releasing his name all of a sudden but there it is.

    TOF to DebG.

  • Home schooled kid planned school shooting

    Teen is accused of amassing weapons for possible attack:

    So let me get this straight. A homeschooled kid from the Philly suburbs felt bullied? From who? Anyway, because of this alleged bullying, the 14-year-old planned to attack Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. According to this article, police were tipped off when the suspect tried recruiting another teen.

    Police found a 9 mm assault rifle, air guns, hand grenades, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and violence-filled notebooks, prosecutors said. However, they found no ammunition for the most dangerous weapon, the assault rifle.

    What do you know? I think this is the first instance of a home-schooled mutant.

    The best part? It’s believed that his mom bought him the gun. Good job mom.

    Since all this was going on under the homeschooler’s nose I don’t think he was being schooled all that well.

  • Ignorance isn’t always bliss

    Ohio school shooter gave many warnings:

    When someone says I have a gun and I’m going to shoot up the school why in the blue hell do people continue to ignore it?

    “When he got suspended he said, ‘I got something for y’all,’ ” she said. “I thought he was just playing, because he, like, said that all the time. But I see that he was for real.”

    YA THINK?

    And it wasn’t just students the faculty of SuccessTech ignored it too.

    On CBS’ “Early Show” Thursday morning, student Rasheem Smith said the school’s principal, Johneita Durant, had not found time to discuss students’ concerns about Coon, The Associated Press reported.

    “I told my friends in the class that he had a gun and stuff,” Smith said. “He was talking about doing it last week. I don’t know why they didn’t say nothing.

    “We talked to the principal. She would try to get us all in the office, but it would always be too busy for it to happen.”

    A message left at Durant’s office was not immediately returned, the AP reported, and a phone call to her home was not answered.

    SuccessTech doesn’t sound very successful now, does it?

    Let’s cue up the apologists while we’re at it.

    “You get pushed and pushed and pushed, and sometimes you go over the edge,” a neighbor told CNN affiliate WOIO.

    “I ain’t justifying nothing,” said another neighbor. “I ain’t saying he did the right thing, but I am saying he got pushed for a long time and asked them people to help, help, help, help, but nobody helped.”

    Now, who exactly did Asa Coon ask for help? Was it the mother he slapped around or the judge whose courtroom he stormed out of? And who exactly pushed him? To do what exactly?

    Just another example of everyone trying to place the blame everywhere except where it should be. On Asa Coon.

  • Witness saw Coon load gun

    Witness saw school shooter loading gun in bathroom:

    In a stroke of pure idiocy, a witness at SuccessTech watched Asa Coon load one of his guns BUT DIDN’T TELL ANYONE. I’ve omitted the witness’ name.

    When the witness saw Coon load a gun, he left but didn’t tell a teacher.

    “I don’t know what I was thinking, he said. “I didn’t want him to shoot me.”

    Fifteen minutes later, the witness was eating lunch in the cafeteria, also on the fourth floor, he heard a loud sound. Yet, the witness, believing it was nothing more than a book slamming on a desk, didn’t react.

    Then the witness heard someone shout that a student had a gun. Just then the witness saw Asa shoot a teacher.

    I think Belch is right that SuccessTech isn’t the Utopian school they make it out to be because obviously, this kid wasn’t very bright. How do you not report someone with a gun? The witness should get on his knees and thank God that no one was killed.

  • More on Asa Coon

    Who was Asa Coon?:

    We’re so close to bestowing the M-title on SuccessTech gunman Asa Coon but we’re not there yet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has some more info on him and in the process, they try to get you to be sympathetic about him. We all know where you can find sympathy too. However, I have no sympathy for a kid who slapped around his own mother and talked about suicide.

    What started the whole mess is that Coon got into an argument with another kid about the existence of God. Coon said he didn’t believe in or respect God and that he worshiped Marilyn Manson and flipped off the other kid. A fight ensued after school and Coon got his ass beat. Both kids were suspended but Coon couldn’t let it go…

    “I’m going to get you,” he warned his tormentor. “I will get you.”

    Of course, some kids are saying that Coon was “picked on”. Those two words will be used by the criminal apologists of the world to try to excuse the shooting of four people.

    Not surprisingly Coon also told other kids that he planned to shoot up the school but as usual, no one took him seriously. Here’s another repetitive lesson from Uncle Trench kids. If someone is talking about shooting up the school don’t take the chance they’re “just joking”. Tell someone.

    Coon has a history of violence and mental issues.

    When he was 12, Asa was charged in Juvenile Court with domestic violence. His mother, Lori, had called the police and told them that Asa slapped her and called her a vulgar name. She had been trying to intervene in a fight between Asa and his twin sister Nicole.

    Once in court, a magistrate ordered Asa to undergo psychological testing and follow the orders of doctors. The magistrate also ordered the family to undergo therapy together.

    Asa immediately refused to obey probation rules. He threw the paperwork on the floor and charged out of the office, nearly knocking his mother to the ground.

    During one of his stays in a government facility, he was prescribed Trazodone and Clonodine so we should be hearing from the anti-psychiatry Luddites who think these medications must have caused the shooting.

    In 7th grade, he was suspended for trying to hurt another student.

    He fooled a home detention officer into thinking he was getting better.

    Last November, Asa had completed his counseling, anger management classes and community service. After five months without incident, he was released from probation.

    Sounds like he was just biding his time.

    Then the article goes on to detail how smart he was, and how special he was, and how he grew up in a rough neighborhood and a broken home. I’ve got three words for that. I DON’T CARE. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he shot four people because he was a selfish egotistical little twit.

    The most messed up part is that he killed himself before being apprehended. If he would have been caught he probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist since he was a juvenile and nobody died.

    But the question is going to come as it always does about how this could have been prevented. It’s simple really. Be better parents to your kids and take these kinds of threats seriously. That’s all there really is to it.

  • More Tarheel shenanigans in the Big Apple

    Craigslist pimp from Queens busted:

    Carlton “Privilege” Simons, 25, of Queens, and Shernett “Divine” Reevey, 24, of Charlotte, N.C., were convicted late Friday of luring the teenage student from her home with promises of money and introductions to rap celebrities.

    Once in New York, however, the 18-year-old woman was physically and verbally abused, forced to pose for provocative photographs later posted to Craigslist and to prostitute herself at hotels and at a “track,” or a location frequented by sex workers and their customers from Lexington to Park Avenue on 48th Street.

    Still think prostitution is a victimless crime?