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[Jack the Stripper]

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/things-in-australia-that-will-kill-you-animals-that-will-try-to-kill-you

[Zzzptm]

[Charger]

Well....YIKES.

https://loudwire.com/metal-album-cover-artist-jean-pascal-fournier-accused-disemboweling-father/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_5288477

I would have put money down he was a black metal album artist but no...

[Zzzptm]

Yeeeeeeesh, that was pretty grim, even just the URL...

OK, in Dallas (my town), we have a temporary hospital in our convention center that we expect to need to use in 2 weeks. Local hospitals are at 50% capacity and we are yet to peak with COVID-19 cases. Now, the state governor is saying if we're not using it right now, we don't need the emergency set-up and the aid that goes with it.



Thankfully, his decision isn't final and I think sense will prevail in the coming back-and-forth over the situation...

[Tyr66]

Nantes Cathedral in Fire this morning .
And this time , 3 fire starts clearly identified. The huge organ went up in smoke. Hoping that we do not close the case by talking about a badly extinguished cigarette as in Paris last year. However, they still have not explained how the fire broke out in one of the towers when the site covered only the roof of Notre Dame ... may be another cigarette ?

[Charger]

Oh no....

Those old cathedrals are so damn pretty...hate seeing them on fire...especially one of questionable origin...

[Zzzptm]

Everybody stop smoking, make fire investigation less frequent...

[Tyr66]

Nantes Cathedral in Fire this morning .
And this time , 3 fire starts clearly identified. The huge organ went up in smoke. Hoping that we do not close the case by talking about a badly extinguished cigarette as in Paris last year. However, they still have not explained how the fire broke out in one of the towers when the site covered only the roof of Notre Dame ... may be another cigarette ?

the Police investigation was carried out very quickly. The first suspect arrested two days after the events has just confessed. He's a refugee from Rwanda that the diocese had taken under its protection and had given him the keys to the cathedral. He lit 3 fires: the first to set fire to the large organ, the jewel of the building, another under the small organ and the last in an electric installation. The man's lawyer affirms that he regrets his gesture and that he didn't think that his act would become so widespread in the country.
One question: do these people have brains ?

[Tyr66]

An unprecedented wave of violence has swept through the country since deconfinement.
The first took place in Bayonne where a 58-year-old bus driver died after being beaten to death by two men ,22 and 23, already unfavorably known by the police services. Why ? He had just asked them to show their tickets before getting on the bus and to wear a mask that has become mandatory on public transport.
The second took place in Nice where so-called "young people from underprivileged neighborhoods" exchanged shots from automatic weapons with real bullets in the street during afternoon, controlling drug trafficking being the motivation.
Yesterday, a young lifeguard in Fréjus (Côte d'Azur) who controlled the swimmers of an aquatic center was beaten by young people (always the same) whom he had asked to make less noise and to respect the tranquility of other people around them. They waited for him at the end of his work on the parking of the establishment. An important detail: they were 8 against 1.
The most serious and horrible is this young 23-year-old nurse who was killed in Lyon after being hit by a car and dragged for 800 meters. The body lost one leg and its head during the events.
She just took part in an altercation in the street linked to an argument between occupants of a car which killed a dog from a passerby. Friends of these so "respectable" young ladies quickly arrived to join in the argument in another car which hit the unfortunate young woman.
Total indignation in the country, especially since the main national media waited almost 2 days before talking about it officially. Social networks and  RT channel were the first to talk about it. Faced with the insistent comments on the Net, they could not back down. The new Minister of the Interior has finally reacted and the new Prime Minister traveled to Nice yesterday with 3 other ministers.
This ultra-violence starting from nothing can not last.
Never seen before. Something is happening in the country right now. I have never seen the country so fractured: racial demands of blacks, deboulloning of statues, demonstrations prohibited but nevertheless maintained (which led to the deployment of another banner by an ultra-nationalist movement denouncing the rise of anti-white racism in the country), galloping indigenousism, Islamic proselitism insinuating itself into the associative and political organisations, acts of violence on the rise.
Now everyone agrees: words, wreaths of flowers, candles are good, actions are better.
The government is forced to respond. The next presidential elections take place in May 2022, in clear the day after tomorrow. The election campaign will start at the end of 2021, or in a little over a year. It's very short.
The return to school in September promises to be catastrophic in terms of unemployment due to business closures linked to the Covid-19 crisis. Macron will not be able to rectify the country before this date. The only aspect on which it can act is security. If he doesn't, the Le Pen family will pass this time. I don't hope that at all.

[Vyn]

The incomprehensibility of the violent motivations those people have automatically makes them seem less than human. Outrageous and sad at the same time.

[Jack the Stripper]

Sounds like some vigilantes are needed to take matters into their own hands and dispose of the garbage on the streets that senior authorities aren’t doing.

[Typhon]

Sounds like some vigilantes are needed to take matters into their own hands and dispose of the garbage on the streets that senior authorities aren’t doing.

  I have seen a few examples of that lately, here in the U.S.

[Zzzptm]

Speaking of local news...

... Googling on "Florida Man" never fails to deliver on a dumb criminal story:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2020/07/28/florida-man-buys-lamborghini-with-39-million-from-federal-coronavirus-loans-prosecutors-say/

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Googling "Florida Man Tries" brings up plenty of wierd and wonderful stories, or was that waht you meant?

[Zzzptm]

Yes. Never fails to entertain how the Florida Man fails!