Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 2

[KevanG]

Well now you're just encouraging them not to do it.

 

[Asgard]

http://deadspin.com/chicago-sports-radio-guys-take-to-twitter-to-discuss-re-1693807995

Matt Spiegel and Dan Bernstein work for 670 The Score in Chicago. Spiegel has a radio show; Bernstein has a column, a radio show, and hot takes on Derrick Rose. Wednesday night, the two took to Twitter to discuss CSN Chicago reporter Aiyana Cristal. The conversation started with Spiegel expressing perfectly fair criticism of Cristal's on-air work, and immediately developed into a discussion of her breasts and the effect they have on sad old men who look at them.

There's more at the link including all the offending tweets. These two geezers are nothing short of misogynistic pigs. Getting on twitter to publicly discuss the breasts of one of their colleagues has to be sexual harassment right?

 

[Greens]

Gotta say, I expected worse. I suppose talking about her in public like that is inappropriate, though.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

http://deadspin.com/chicago-sports-radio-guys-take-to-twitter-to-discuss-re-1693807995


There's more at the link including all the offending tweets. These two geezers are nothing short of misogynistic pigs. Getting on twitter to publicly discuss the breasts of one of their colleagues has to be sexual harassment right?

I think the comments have to be made directly to the person to be considered harassment, these guys are just stupid as f***

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Italian-American Museum to Evict One of Little Italy's Last Italians

A museum dedicated to preserving the history of Italian-Americans in New York City has decided to evict one of the few remaining descendants of Italian immigrants living in Little Italy, the New York Times reports.

The Italian American Museum owns six apartments in the building next door to the museum, including the one in which Adele Sarno, an 85-year-old American whose parents were born in Naples, has lived since the 1960s. Five years ago, after the museum warned Sarno that her rent would go up, Sarno recruited the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, an affordable housing non-profit, to argue on her case. It was then that the octogenarian learned that her rent was not eligible for rent stabilization. The Italian American Museum followed through on their warning and served Sarno with an eviction notice in November.

The museum claims that income from the six apartments helps fund its operations. In a conversation with the Times, museum spokesperson Joe Carella asked, "So the museum should be running a charity or providing residences at discount rates?"

According to the Times, a census in 2010 found that there were no Italian-born Americans living in the small Manhattan area defined as Little Italy. Sarno, whose rent is $820 a month (her upstairs' neighbors pay $4,500 a month), has been asked to leave within a few days, though she has been living in the neighborhood for her entire life. The museum founders do not seem to see the problem here:

In an interview, Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and director of the museum, rejected the idea that the eviction was at odds with the institution's mission.

Little Italy, he said, "is not a community of Italian-Americans any longer." He said at some point the population that gave the area its name would disappear entirely, but that "the legacy would still remain because we have an institution that does that."​

If Sarno is pushed out, she will be forced to move to Wisconsin to live with her only daughter.

"How could you throw old people out?" she told the Times yesterday. "I'm not going to be here that many more years. Let me die in my home."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/n...on=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

What a jerk move

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

FBI Arrests National Guardsman and His Cousin For Trying to Join ISIS

Federal authorities late yesterday arrested Spc. Hasan Edmonds, 22, a Illinois Army National Guard soldier, and his cousin Jonas, 29, for attempting to join the Islamic State's anti-Western jihad, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Hasan Edmonds, who is apparently a current reservist, was apprehended while attempting to board a flight from Chicago's Midway Airport to Cairo, Egypt, in hopes that he could link up with the ISIS terrorists and join their hordes in Syria and Iraq, authorities told the Sun-Times. Jonas was taken peacefully in his suburban home in Aurora.

The paper explains the alleged plot as it was related by authorities:

Hasan Edmonds planned to use his military training to fight on behalf of ISIL, while Jonas "planned to carry out an act of terrorism in the United States after Hasan Edmonds departed.," the feds say.

They met with an FBI undercover employee and "presented a plan to carry out an armed attack against a U.S. military facility in northern Illinois, an installation where Hasan Edmonds had been training," the feds say.​

ABC News, which says the pair "first came onto the FBI's radar in late 2014," reports that the pair will appear later today in a federal court.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/472333/national-guardsman-cousin-arrested-terror-plot

I guess all that NSA spying is paying off

 

[KevanG]

Except for when it isn't. Which is most of the time.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Why Is This Woman Smiling? Because She Just Set Fire to a Yoga Studio

Suzanne Duarte, grinning like a maniac in her mugshot, and was still smiling the next day when a local news station interviewed her in jail. And why not? She'd just set fire to a yoga studio. This is the face of a lady living her best life.

"Most people can't understand the smiling mug shot," Duarte told Dallas's CBS 11 Monday. Maybe this will help: She set fire to a yoga studio. That's the explanation.

Duarte said two men who worked at American Power Yoga had been harassing her for years and wouldn't stop. One of them "kept hitting on me and kept trying to make me the girlfriend on the side," she told CBS 11.

So she waited until Saturday night and, after she was certain the studio had emptied, tried to burn that mother down with matches and a can of gasoline.

She wanted to "set it on fire, just destroy it, get rid of the devil's temple," she said.

It sort of worked, forcing the devil's temple to close briefly before returning to scheduled classes later in the week. No one was hurt, and businesses in the adjoining shopping center weren't damaged.

The fire should be a powerful message to Duarte's alleged harassers, who nearly saw their livelihood go up in flames. How are they reacting to all of this?

"A spokesperson for American Power Yoga says the studio has been under new ownership since November, and until Saturday they were unaware of any dispute," CBS 11 reported.

Oh.

Well, at least she set a yoga studio on fire. No one can take that away from her.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/03/23/woman-explains-smiling-mugshot-after-arson-arrest/

Shine on you crazy diamond

 

[ThePhantasm]

Cornell Dean says ISIS is Welcome on Campus

A video sting operation shows Cornell’s assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an undercover muckraker posing as a Moroccan student.

...The undercover asked if he can invite “a freedom fighter to come and do like a training camp for students.”

Scaffido responds, “You would be allowed to do something like that. It’s just like bringing in a coach, to do a training, a sports trainer or something,” the Cornell official said.

What an idiot.

 

[Asgard]

Why Is This Woman Smiling? Because She Just Set Fire to a Yoga Studio

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/03/23/woman-explains-smiling-mugshot-after-arson-arrest/

Shine on you crazy diamond

Come on baby light my fire.

 

[Marvolo]

Italian-American Museum to Evict One of Little Italy's Last Italians

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/n...on=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

What a jerk move

I would agree if she didnt have somewhere to go, but she does and more than likely at her age she shouldnt be living by herself so far away from family anyways so this is probably for the best. And look at it from the business owners perspective. This woman is paying $820 a month, and her neighbors are paying $4500. Thats a huge monthly loss on a museum that likely has very little other income. And once you factor in upkeep and maintenance and property taxes of both the museum and the apartments the overhead cant be cheap. So I doubt any owner would let this continue. I wouldnt. They cant bankrupt their business or end up in the hole just to be charitable. Not in NYC. She is more than welcome to stay if she can pay the rent but she cant so she has to leave. Thats how it is anywhere you rent no matter age unless its one of those places that bases rent on income which this place isnt.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Lecturer Allegedly Hits Uber Driver, Tells Him to "Go Back to Slavery"

An Atlanta-area Uber driver says a belligerent passenger hit him in the face, used racial slurs, and told him to "go back to slavery," all because the driver asked the man to get out of his car. The driver later discovered his angry fare was a business lecturer at Kennesaw State University.

Part-time Uber driver Chiddi Stober, whose day job is teaching history, told Atlanta's WSB-TV that the attack happened while he was calling the cops on the unnamed rider. With his racist behavior documented in a 911 recording, the lecturer apologized through his attorney.

"The recording speaks for itself. When made aware of the statements made by him as heard on the recorder, (the client) was mortified. He is deeply ashamed and sorry for the derogatory language he used towards Mr. Stober during the episode," lawyer Jill Polster said in a statement.

No criminal charges have been filed against the alleged attacker. A spokesperson for Kennesaw State told WSB-TV the university is investigating and hasn't yet decided whether to take action.

Uber has apologized to Stober for what happened and permanently banned the customer from catching any more rides.

Pretty cool telling someone who drives for a company that's being sued over its labor practices to "go back to slavery." One can only imagine that this real peach of a man is excellent at his business lecturing job.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/ksu-lecturer-accused-assaulting-uber-driver/nkfff/

The South, ladies and gentleman

 

[C. Lee]

The South, ladies and gentleman

Ignorance is in all 50 states ladies and gentleman. Acting like it is only regional does no one any good except the ones trying to malign that region.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ignorance is in all 50 states ladies and gentleman. Acting like it is only regional does no one any good except the ones trying to malign that region.

I certainly agree Mr. Lee, but I'm from the south and can attest that racism runs rampant down here. It doesn't help when you have the SCOTUS claiming racism in America is dead

 

[C. Lee]

I certainly agree Mr. Lee, but I'm from the south and can attest that racism runs rampant down here. It doesn't help when you have the SCOTUS claiming racism in America is dead

Glad to hear here is no racism anywhere else in the United States

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Glad to hear here is no racism anywhere else in the United States

Well I can only speak for what I've seen with my own eyes and things I've reported around the net. Just seems to be more prevalent down here but I certainly don't doubt that it rears it's ugly head in all of the 50 states

 

[KevanG]

The thing that tainted my view of American racism being a mild thing was when I worked tech support for AOL doing tech for the USA. Sometime in the first month I got the question from one person calling in "Are you a darkie?". I was literally speechless. It took me a minute but I stammered out "I'm sorry, what?" He repeated the question and I said no and he was fine the rest of the call. It was the first thing he said after I did my whole intro and it threw me totally off. I asked my supervisor about it at the end of the call and she said 'Yeah, they get like that. Try to ignore it."

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Terrifying video shows just how distracted teens can be when they drive

Oh man, this video is absolutely horrifying. Put together by AAA, it shows how distracted teenagers are when they drive. You see drivers take their eyes off the road to text, people ignoring cars while they're on the phone and a lot of them just not paying attention at all. You get to see the side-by-side of what they're doing vs the dash cam footage of the car.

Of course, it's not just teenagers who get distracted when they drive but the study that AAA performed focused on them, as they have the highest crash rate of any age group. The data is numbing:

The unprecedented video analysis finds that distraction was a factor in nearly 6 out of 10 moderate-to-severe teen crashes, which is four times as many as official estimates based on police reports.

Researchers analyzed the six seconds leading up to a crash in nearly 1,700 videos of teen drivers taken from in-vehicle event recorders. The results showed that distraction was a factor in 58 percent of all crashes studied, including 89 percent of road-departure crashes and 76 percent of rear-end crashes.​

The video footage was so shocking that I almost didn't believe it was real but AAA says they were able to examine 6,842 videos of teenagers driving, footage provided to them by Lytx.

Here's the footage:

(Can't link due to language but search YT for: AAA video analysis provides shocking results among teen drivers )

Here's an infographic breaking down what causes the accidents:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/terrifyin...d-teens-can-be-1693889379/+kcampbelldollaghan

Damn it you stupid teens need to pay attention!

 

[ThePhantasm]

How the heck are you supposed to drive without looking outside the vehicle? That graph makes no sense.

And you can't look inside the vehicle either? **** this **** man

 

[JaD]

Just watched that video and wow, you've got teens literally staring at their phones for like 10 seconds while driving. I'm guilty of looking at my phone for a second or 2 here and there but I make a big effort to not text and drive.

But you'll never stop me from singing. Never.

 

[Greens]

No looking and no singing. Driving just got really boring.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Naked School Assistant Locked Herself in Classroom With Students

San Diego police arrested Linda Lira, an after-school assistant at Lemon Grove Academy, after she allegedly locked herself into a classroom Wednesday with 14 students and began undressing (and redressing) herself.

Police told NBC San Diego that around 4 p.m. Wednesday, Lira, 31, started behaving strangely, and shut herself and a group of students into a classroom. Frightened by her apparently erratic behavior, students used the classroom radio to call for help.

Authorities told the Los Angeles Times that the school's staff "fought with Lira to gain access to the classroom and remove children from her reach." When police arrived at the school, Lira had barricaded herself back into the classroom and "was throwing things, toppling over desks and putting on and removing her clothes over and over again."

Cops noted to the Times that Lira was exhibiting "multiple signs and symptoms of narcotics/hallucinogen use." After being evaluated at a hospital, police charged her with 14 counts of child endangerment and 14 counts of false imprisonment.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...-Took-Off-Clothes-in-Classroom-297744801.html

Sounds like she had a psychotic break

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man Forced to Sell His New House Because Comcast Lied to Him

A software engineer living in Washington state may have no choice but to sell the home he bought last December because, despite repeatedly checking with Comcast before he even considered buying the property, the company just can't (or won't) give him internet service.

Seth Morabito's thorough chronicle of how Comcast strung him along is some real Twilight Zone crap, and provides a grim cautionary tale about making any decision—let alone buying a house—based on assurances from the Worst Company in America.

Before he made the decision to move to rural Kitsap County, Morabito says, he called Comcast and Comcast Business to make sure he could get service—especially important because he works from home, and can't do his job without internet access. He says he was told it wouldn't be a problem, and Comcast Business even assured him a previous resident had an account with them.

That now seems unlikely, considering that the house isn't wired for cable, and Comcast's nearest connection point is 2,500 feet away. Poor Seth had to learn this hard way, after half a dozen visits—both scheduled and unscheduled—from Comcast techs who hadn't been informed about his problem and arrived thinking they'd just have to install a cable box.

Instead, wiring the house for Comcast access is a complex engineering project involving permits and buried cables, and it would cost between $56,000 and $60,000. Morabito only learned this after several engineering requests were opened and then automatically closed by Comcast's system because—and this is where things get truly nightmarish—someone had incorrectly checked a box indicating he already had service.

After all of that, Morabito was willing to pay his share of the wiring costs—moving out of a house with only three months of equity is pretty expensive, too—and even researched contractors who could do part of the work for less than what Comcast was charging.

Then he got some awful news:

Robert called and told me that Comcast will not do the extension. No ifs, no ands, no buts, they just won't do it. They wouldn't even give me the chance to pay for it. Too much effort on their part.

I'm devastated. This means we have to sell the house. The house that I bought in December, and have lived in for only two months.

I don't know where we go from here. I don't know if there's any kind of recourse. I doknow that throughout this process, Comcast has lied. I don't throw that word around lightly or flippantly, I mean it sincerely. They've fed me false information from the start, and it's hurt me very badly.

...

I don't know exactly how much money I'm going to lose when I sell, but it's going to be substantial. Three months of equity in a house isn't a lot of money compared to sellers fees, excise taxes, and other moving expenses.​

You may be thinking that this seems a little extreme, and there were probably steps our unfortunate homeowner could have taken to avoid getting screwed by Comcast, or alternate ways he could get internet access.

He addresses most of them in a FAQ on his blog:

Why didn't he get something in writing from Comcast? He asked, but was told they don't do that.

Doesn't he have any other options for internet service? DSL? Satellite? Not really—Comcast's only real competitor in the area, CenturyLink, has marked Morabito's area as "permanent exhaust," meaning they're not hooking up any new customers.

He also tried the local point-to-point wireless company and got the best, worst response ever: "We used to serve your area, but last year somebody built a building between our tower and Poulsbo. We lost a lot of customers. There's nothing we can do for you."

All of this leaves him no option but to do his work from mobile hotspot whose bandwidth limits aren't enough to last him a whole month, and go to Starbucks whenever he needs to transfer a large file.

The only reasonable suggestion I've seen that could have prevented this fiasco was to make the sale of the home contingent on an internet connection being successfully installed—Comcast still would have screwed him, but at least they would've done before he moved in.

Or, as Seth points out, Comcast could have just been straight with him in their initial phone calls:

This whole thing would have been avoided if only Comcast had said, right at the start, that they didn't serve this address. Just that one thing would have made me strike this house off the list.

...

So, good bye dream house. You were the first house I ever owned, I'll miss you.​

It's been six months since Comcast began overhauling its customer service and "putting customers at the center of every decision we make." How's that working out for everyone?

http://www.loomcom.com/blog/2015/02...accidentally-bought-a-house-without-internet/

Man Comcast sucks

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Woman Jailed for Incestuous Relationship With Father

An Oregon woman who had at least two children with her biological father was found guilty of felony incest and sentenced to jail this week, even though the pair reportedly had a consensual relationship.

According to the Register Guard, 25-year-old Chalena Moody did not meet her father Eric Lee Gates, 49, until she was an adult. (He apparently spent most of her childhood in and out of prison and was not a custodial parent.)

Cops reportedly began investigating when an elderly woman called police alleging elder abuse. Although the investigation yielded no charges, Moody and Gates apparently held themselves out as a couple and admitted to having at least two children together.

Under Oregon law, a person commits the felony crime of incest when "the person marries or engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a person whom the person knows to be related to the person, either legitimately or illegitimately, as an ancestor, descendant or brother or sister of either the whole or half blood."

Even so, a local detective tells the Register Guard he "can recall only one or two incest cases in the last 20 or 30 years in Springfield in which charges were pursued."

Moody was granted time served and won't have to spend any additional time in jail. According to the AP, a condition of her parole requires her to stay away from Gates, who is currently serving time for violating a similar parole condition.

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32889347-75/daughter-in-incest-case-pleads-guilty.html.csp

Ewww

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

7 Shot at Spring Break Party in Florida

Police say seven people, including several Alabama A&M University students celebrating Spring Break, were shot early Saturday morning at house party in Panama City Beach, Florida.

According to CBS, three of the victims are currently in critical condition. From NBC News:

Sheriff's deputies responded to multiple reports of a shooting at the home at 12:55 a.m. local time (11:55 p.m. ET). The deputies found a "chaotic scene" with seven people — all in their early 20s — suffering from gunshot wounds, Bay County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Ruth Curley told NBC News. Curley said one victim was found outside the house, three in the street and the remaining three in the home.​

Authorities have arrested the suspected gunman, 22-year-old David Jamichael Daniels, who is being held on seven counts of attempted murder.

"This is what we've been trying to warn people about," Sheriff Frank McKeithen told The Panama City News Herald. "It's been a rough time and there are two completely different elements of Spring Break. There are the college kids who are here for their Spring Break, and there is the group of people drawn here because of them."

http://www.wral.com/7-shot-and-injured-at-florida-spring-break-house-party/14545786/

Seems like you hear about something like this every year unfortunately