Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Ohio

Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide After Pickup Hits Minivan, Killing Mom and 4 Kids:

Reason to Blow Up the World…

TOLEDO, Ohio — A drunken driver from Michigan sped down a highway in the wrong direction for about seven miles before his pickup truck slammed into a minivan carrying a family home after a holiday trip, police said.

A woman and four children in the minivan, including two authorities say were from Michigan, were killed in the crash that scattered toys, stuffed animals and bits of gift wrap along the edge of the road.

Tests showed that the pickup truck’s wrong-way driver had a blood-alcohol level of .254 percent, more than three times the legal limit in Ohio of .08, police said.

Michael Gagnon, 24, of Adrian, Mich., was charged Monday with aggravated vehicular homicide. His speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol at the crash scene, according to a police report.

His truck was going north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 280 Sunday night, fire officials said.

Three of the victims were a mother from Maryland and her two children.

Bethany Griffin, 36, Jordan Griffin, 10, and Verde Griffin, 6 months, all of Parkville, Md., were killed along with Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10, both of Redford Township, Mich., near Detroit, according to the Lucas County Coroner’s office.

Both drivers tried to avoid each other, but the crash ripped a side door off the minivan, throwing out some of the victims.

An infant seat wrapped with pink baby blankets landed in the roadway.

And as usual in cases like this…

Gagnon also was taken to a hospital, but his injuries were not as serious.

5 family members dead just because this assclown wanted to get drunk. I wonder how many past DUI offenses he has.

New York

Queens boy in critical condition after being shot at his front door by thug:

Reason to Blow Up the World…

An 11-year-old Queens boy was shot in the chest Sunday night at the front door of his house by a cold-hearted gunman looking to take revenge on the child’s teenage brother, cops said.

Tyshon Falconer, who was in critical but stable condition Sunday night, answered a ring at the door of his parents’ Springfield Gardens home about 8:30 p.m. to find someone looking for his brother Tony, 16.

Tyshon said his brother wasn’t home and tried to close the door, but not before the man fired a shot that went into his chest and through his back, cops said.

Whoever can come up with a solution to get illegal guns off the street will be hailed as a god.

I present to you for the 7th year in a row the 2007 Trenchie Awards.

Best Movie: I really didn’t make it to the theater this year so I’m going by the DVD’s I rented this year that were actually 2006 movies. And the winner is Children of Men. That movie had me on the edge of my um…couch through the entire movie.

Worst Movie: Following the 2006 DVD principle the loser is Superman Returns. Kevin Spacey was great as Lex Luthor. Brandon Roushe was ok as Superman. Kate Bosworth sucked as Lois Lane. Not to mention there wasn’t enough actual Superman. Next time less talking and more of Superman smashing stuff.

Best Album: This was a phenomenal year for albums. We had The Dio Years by Black Sabbath, Dead Again by Type O Negative, and United Abominations by Megadeth. However the album that got the most play time in My Zen was Framing Armageddon by Iced Earth. It’s a shame that IE let Ripper Owens go. No offense to Matt Barlow but Ripper rules.

Worst Album: Black Rain by Ozzy. No question. It’s like your grandfather trying to act cool.

Best TV Show: Burn Notice. Again this was the only show that I made sure I was in front of the TV when it was on. Heroes lost out because if their crappy second season. But it wasn’t the worst show. That distinction goes to…

Worst TV Show: 24. Yeah, you heard me. I brought it’s jersey back from retirement so I could burn it. I stopped watching once they found the nukes because I could have cared less about Jack getting Audrey back.

Best Wrestling Moment: A rather lackluster year but I have to give it to the return of Y2J. I was hoping he would go to TNA but Jericho on WWE is better than no Jericho at all.

Worst Wrestling Moment: Chris Benoit.

Best Videogame: I only bought games for the DS this year. I’m staying away from the next gen consoles until the prices go way down. And it’s a tie between Puzzle Quest and Front Mission. Both kept me within arms length to my DS all year.

Worst Videogame: Final Fantasy XII. Too long and too boring.

Dumbass of 2007: Ron Paul supporters. Y’all are a whole bag of crazy.

Most Inane Political Agenda of 2007: All those like the Rev. Al Sharpton who are trying to get the kidnapping and torture of Megan Williams changed to a hate crime. Ms. Williams was dating one of her captors. Noto only that but the scumbags that did that to her will get more time on the kidnapping charge then they would on a hate crime charge.

Biggest Jackass Celebrity of 2006: Natalie Maines. She jumped on the West Memphis 3 bandwagon to support 3 convicted killers after watching the heavily biased Paradise Lost ‘documentaries’.

Have a safe and happy Amateur’s Night and hopefully will do this again next year.

And for more end of year goodness check out BelchSpeak’s Best of 2007.

Man reports stolen pot stash:

A San Diego man had his PlayStation 2 and his pot stash stolen that he reported to police.

The victim was at his house on Quince Street in the Swan Canyon neighborhood of San Diego with two men at 6:30 p.m. when one pulled out a handgun, police said.

I wonder which one he was more concerned about.

Man Biting Himself Tasered During 13th DUI Arrest:

49-year-old Wayne Wykof of Eastlake, Ohio was Tased after refusing to stop biting his own hand during his 13th DUI arrest. You can see the video by clicking the above link.

Of course we have the usual panties wadded stating that this was excessive force. First of all if this assclown has 13 DUI’s why is even still on the streets? Secondly if he was to have drawn blood on himself that puts officers in danger. Take it from someone who has taken OSHA training for the past 8 years. Any time there is any kind of biological spill, especially blood, you have to treat it like it’s going to kill you. So I don’t see the issue.