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Strange Crimes

More on the Moscow incident.

At least one person has been killed and one wounded in a shooting at the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russian media say.

A gunman, who opened fire with an automatic weapon in the lobby of the building, was killed by armed police. Security forces had cordoned off the area and moved bystanders into nearby buildings during their operation. The shooting came hours after President Putin's annual press conference.

Details are not yet clear, but unconfirmed reports in Moscow media said that three officers had been killed as a result of an attack by three gunmen. Two of the suspects were reportedly killed at the scene, while the third ran out into the street and barricaded himself in a nearby building.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50858949
 
Someone with a death wish. That's suicidal as well as homicidal.
 
Not just strange but a particularly nasty crime.

An investigative journalist who suffers from epilepsy was sent a video of violently flashing lights and patterns on Twitter, causing him to have a seizure.

The video appears to have been a co-ordinated attack on Kurt Eichenwald, 58, after he had made an inflammatory claim about President Trump’s mental health on the social media platform. Eichenwald said that he would have died if his wife had not walked into his study and found him. He suffered a seizure within seconds of seeing the video.

John Rayne Rivello, 32, who is accused of sending the clip on December 15, 2016, was due to appear in court this week on a charge of aggravated assault but the proceedings have been delayed until the end of January. The case at Dallas county district court is expected to lead to more legal action to combat cyberbullying.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...by-flashing-tweet-after-trump-claim-ppqwf0dgk
 
Particularly odd. It looks as if Reilly is a fantasist.

A police officer posed as an oil industry executive in a bid to dupe a colleague into quitting the force in the mistaken belief she had been accepted for a highly paid job offshore.

PC Amanda Reilly, 31, convinced PC Laura McWhirter to attend medicals in Aberdeen, learn to swim for offshore safety and buy an expensive Mercedes Benz car costing £319 per month because of the increased wages she would be making in the oil industry.

The pair met at Police Scotland’s treatment centre in Auchterarder, Perthshire, in 2016 and struck up a friendship.

Miss McWhirter, 32, told Reilly she was not happy with her job as a constable and wanted to change career. Reilly told her she had previously worked as an accountant in Aberdeen and knew a businessman called Peter Aird, who runs Kingdom Drilling.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...itting-force-by-lying-about-oil-job-fkdt02fb5
 
Yes, cause the Ruskies no mess about, they will drop the building to get him.
Here's the latest news.

Russian media have identified the man who opened fire at the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters in Moscow as a 39-year-old loner and gun enthusiast.

They named him as Yevgeny Manyurov from Podolsk, about 40km (25 miles) south of Moscow. He killed an FSB officer and wounded five others with an automatic weapon, before a sniper shot him dead. One of the wounded is a civilian.At the Kremlin, a couple of kilometres away, President Vladimir Putin was at a gala evening honouring the FSB.

The details about the gunman were reported by Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Friday, citing police sources. The shooting happened at the entrance of the Lubyanka, the FSB headquarters which used to house the Soviet KGB. The FSB is Russia's main domestic intelligence service.

On Thursday night police searched Manyurov's flat, which he had shared with his mother, and they detained her for questioning.Her son had worked as a security guard but lost his job recently and never had any visits from friends, Russian media quote her as saying. Police found five guns at the flat - legally registered and kept in a safe - along with a large quantity of ammunition. Manyurov once trained as a lawyer and did some legal consulting work, reports say.

He was single and practised shooting regularly at a gun club, which was a passion for him, his mother is quoted as saying. She also said she had heard him speaking English on the phone with some "Arabs", who had started calling him since he had lost his security job. When he opened fire, Manyurov "was shouting slogans typical of Islamic State", the daily Kommersant reports. It says the information came from a security source, who quoted witnesses questioned by police.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50864527
 
Wonder what the treatment is for?

“The charity provides two Treatment Centres where serving and retired police officers can receive treatment following an illness or injury with the aim of assisting their return to better health. The Centres are St Andrews, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and Castlebrae in Auchterarder, Perthshire.

Almost 4000 serving and retired officers attend the Treatment Centres each year and most receive intensive physiotherapy. Others seek support with stress-related conditions or anxiety and depression as part of our Psychological Wellbeing Programme.”

http://www.thepolicetreatmentcentres.org/about/

maximus otter
 
Just wanted to get some fresh air.

A 26-year-old woman has appeared in court accused of trying to open a passenger plane door during a flight from the UK to Turkey.

A cabin crew member was scratched as she tried to stop the door of the Jet2 flight to Dalaman opening on 22 June.

The plane was escorted back to Stansted Airport by two RAF fighter jets.

Chloe Haines, of High Wycombe, appeared before Chelmsford magistrates charged with assault and acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50492318

She pleaded guilty.

A woman has admitted trying to open an aeroplane door mid-flight prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled.

Chloe Haines, 26, of High Wycombe, also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door on the Jet2 flight to Dalaman, Turkey, on 22 June. Two RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex. Haines, who admitted two charges, is due to be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 24 January. She pleaded guilty on Monday to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50893117
 
Visine eye drops were murder weapon North Carolina man used to kill wife, cops say

A paramedic from Gaston County, North Carolina, is accused of using Visine eye drops to kill his wife last year for a hefty life insurance payout, according to the N.C. Department of Insurance.

The eye drops can cause heart failure when ingested in large quantity.

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Joshua Lee Hunsucker, 35, of Mount Holly, was charged with first-degree murder in a preliminary hearing on Friday.

Jordan Green, an attorney for the Department of Insurance, told court officials Friday that investigators got a breakthrough in the case when they learned vials of Stacy Hunsucker’s blood had been kept in storage by a private company involved with organ donation.

Her blood was tested by a medical examiner, Green said at the hearing, “and it tested (for) very high levels of tetrahydrozoline, which is one of the active ingredients in certain eye drop medicine that you would use to clear your eyes.”

The level of the drug in her system was “between 30 and 40 times the therapeutic level of tetrahydrozoline,” the Shelby Star reported.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article238654658.html

maximus otter
 
Santa Syndrome?

A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas then threw the money in the air and enthusiastically wished passers-by a merry Christmas, witnesses have said.

Police said "an older white male" robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs on Monday lunchtime.

"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place," witness Dion Pascale told Colorado's 11 News. "He started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!'"

Witnesses said the hirsute suspect then wandered over to a nearby Starbucks coffee shop, sat down in front of it, and waited to be arrested. In a particularly festive gesture, the passers-by are reported to have scooped up all the money from the street and taken it back inside the bank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50908018
 
A nasty/deranged person.

A woman has been charged with attempted murder after telling police in Iowa that she deliberately drove into a girl because she appeared "Mexican".

The victim, who is 14, sustained "numerous injuries" in the incident. Police say she was struck while walking to a local school, near Des Moines, on the evening of 9 December. They initially appealed for the public's help in identifying the hit-and-run before Nicole Marie Poole Franklin was arrested.

"Investigators determined that this incident was an intentional act, not an accident," Clive police said in a Thursday statement announcing the attempted murder charge.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Police Chief Michael Venema said he was "shocked" by the suspect's admission.

"Franklin told investigators that she ran the girl over because she was, in her words, 'a Mexican'," Chief Venema said. "She went on to make a number of derogatory statements about Latinos to our investigators. I want to say, in the strongest terms possible, that there is no place in our community, or any other for that matter, for this type of hatred and violence," he added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50875037
 
Police Hunt Toe-Sucking Home Invader


A 20-year-old man awoke last Tuesday to discover a male intruder at the foot of his bed sucking on his toes, according to a Florida police report.

Investigators say the victim was sleeping in his bedroom when the suspect somehow entered the locked Bradenton residence on December 24. When the victim awoke around 3:30 AM, his toes were in the creepy stranger’s mouth.
“The victim asked the suspect what he was doing,” police reported. Assuming that he was about to be robbed, the victim declared that he did not have any money. In response, “The suspect told him he was there to suck toes.”


The victim, who was alone in the residence, then began throwing punches at the intruder, forcing him out of the house and into the yard. As he was being driven from the home, the suspect “told the victim that he had a gun and then attempted to fondle the victim’s genital area.”

At this point, the suspect “punched out the glass” on the home’s front window and then climbed atop the victim’s car and stomped on the windshield until it broke.

The suspect fled before police arrived, and a “K-9 track” was unable to locate the intruder, who was bloodied by punches thrown by the victim.

The victim said that he hurt his hands beating up the intruder, who caused in excess of $1000 in damages to the residence and automobile.

Cops have not arrested anyone in connection with the home invasion, which they have classified as a felony “burglary w/aslt/bat” and a felony criminal mischief.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/police-hunt-toe-sucker-650249

maximus otter
 
Carjacker on meth abducts man and his pet goat from Missouri adult video store.

A man was arrested in Oklahoma after carjacking a truck from outside an adult store in Missouri — with a man and his pet goat inside, police say.

Two men stopped at an adult video store in Carthage early Wednesday, police said, according to KOTV. The driver of the pickup truck went inside the store while the passenger — and his pet goat — remained in the truck, ultimately falling asleep, the outlet reported.


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That’s when police say Brandon Kirby, 40, jumped into the truck and took off, allegedly taking meth as he drove the passenger through parts of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, occasionally pistol-whipping him.

The victim told police Kirby eventually let him and the goat go, dropping them off on the side of the road in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
Kirby was arrested and charged with kidnapping, pointing firearms and felony possession of a firearm.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article238889478.html

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An investigative journalist who suffers from epilepsy was sent a video of violently flashing lights and patterns on Twitter, causing him to have a seizure.

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Eichenwald said that he would have died if his wife had not walked into his study and found him. He suffered a seizure within seconds of seeing the video.

This sounds fishy to me. People with epilepsy are usually good at taking their meds and avoiding seizures. As soon as Eichenwald saw a single flashing light in the video he'd have known to stop it or just turn away or cover his eyes.

Also, a single seizure wouldn't have nearly killed him. There's no special type of strobe that will set off a particularly dangerous seizure.
Besides which, a person who has a seizure doesn't remember what happened immediately before it. He wouldn't have known what set it off.

There certainly might have been a flashing-lights video sent but unless someone saw it arrive and witnessed Eichenwald open it and look at it and immediately have the seizure, it's all, well, uncertain.
 
This sounds fishy to me. People with epilepsy are usually good at taking their meds and avoiding seizures. As soon as Eichenwald saw a single flashing light in the video he'd have known to stop it or just turn away or cover his eyes.

Also, a single seizure wouldn't have nearly killed him. There's no special type of strobe that will set off a particularly dangerous seizure.
Besides which, a person who has a seizure doesn't remember what happened immediately before it. He wouldn't have known what set it off.

There certainly might have been a flashing-lights video sent but unless someone saw it arrive and witnessed Eichenwald open it and look at it and immediately have the seizure, it's all, well, uncertain.

The case has been going on for a while and seems to be genuine.

I guess we'll have to wait and see but if it was a false charge then it would likely to have been dismissed by now. Maybe Eichenwald wasn't fast enough to avoid it. Not everyone experiences such fits in the same manner.
 
The case has been going on for a while and seems to be genuine.

I guess we'll have to wait and see but if it was a false charge then it would likely to have been dismissed by now. Maybe Eichenwald wasn't fast enough to avoid it. Not everyone experiences such fits in the same manner.

Yup, I'm not denying that sending a person with epilepsy a potentially triggering video is a nasty thing to do.
But there are lots of sites and pages on the 'net with similar effects. If Eichenwald's epilepsy is severe enough to be set off by a few seconds of a video he's in a poor way.
 
Yup, I'm not denying that sending a person with epilepsy a potentially triggering video is a nasty thing to do.
But there are lots of sites and pages on the 'net with similar effects. If Eichenwald's epilepsy is severe enough to be set off by a few seconds of a video he's in a poor way.

I follow him on Twitter and I remember when this happened, it did seem to trigger him in the genuine sense of the word.
 
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