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I’d have to see it in person. You can’t tell me a woman can’t be under 5 foot and look grown. Idk as a big dude(6’4 270), it does something to me when little chicks just walk up to me(and they know it too).
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Local officials in New York's Long Island say they have removed unauthorised vending machines dispensing drug paraphernalia.
The machines allegedly contained glass pipes and filters intended for smoking crack cocaine disguised as pens.
The officials said the machines were embedded in concrete without permission in public locations.
They said three had been found and encouraged locals to continue to report any more.
The machines required residents to insert $2 (£1.50) in quarters to dispense a product and were labelled with "pen", "s-pen" or "sketch pen".
It is believed they could have been modified tampon dispensers, The New York Post reports.
Image copyright TOWN OF BOOKHAVEN FACEBOOK
Image caption Town councillors brought one of the removed devices to a press conference on Monday
"You think you've heard of everything, I continue to be surprised by some of the audacity of those that would break the law in promoting drugs and drug paraphernalia," Edward Romaine, town supervisor of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, told the media.
He said some parents in the area had initially believed the dispensers were supplying pens for the start of a new school year, but a fire official had notified town staff otherwise.
A video of one of the vending machines was posted on social media earlier this week by a local resident.
Scott Malz told local media he had filmed and shared the video because he wanted the community "to see what was going on to see what was going on and try to get rid of it as quick as possible" because of the area's drug problem.
'Crack Pipe' Vending Machines Found in Long Island, NY
Image copyright SCOTT MALZ
Image captionA local resident shared a video showing one of the vending machines on social media
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45484856
any ny nters wanna chime in?
Nancy Crampton Brophy seemed to have a knack for writing about the murder of spouses.
The Portland, Ore.-based romance novelist wrote books about relationships that were “wrong” but “never felt so right,” often featuring bare-chested men on the cover. In “The Wrong Cop,” she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband.
In “The Wrong Husband,” a woman tried to flee an abusive husband by faking her death.
And in “How to Murder Your Husband” — an essay — Crampton Brophy wrote about how to get away with it.
She wrote the post on the blog “See Jane Publish” in November 2011, describing five core motives and a number of murder weapons from which she would choose if her character were to kill a husband in a romance novel. She advised against hiring a hit man to do the dirty work — “an amazing number of hit men rat you out to the police” — and against hiring a lover. “Never a good idea.” Poison was not advised either, because it’s traceable. “Who wants to hang out with a sick husband?” she wrote.
“After all,” Crampton Brophy wrote in the post, which was made private after inquiries from The Washington Post to the site’s administrators, “if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don’t want to spend any time in jail.”
In real life, she appeared to follow some of her own advice, at least according to police. Rather than hire a hit man, she allegedly pulled the trigger herself.
Crampton Brophy, 68, was arrested Sept. 5 on charges of murdering her husband with a gun and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy, according to the Portland Police Bureau. She was arraigned Thursday, appearing in blue inmate clothing, and ordered jailed without bail, court records show. She has not filed a plea, and her attorney declined to comment when contacted by The Post.
Police have not revealed the alleged motive. The story was first reported by the Oregonian.
“It’s a big shock. It’s a big shock,” Brophy’s mother, Karen Brophy, told The Post of her daughter-in-law’s arrest. “But we’re not making any statements.”
Busy day for me. blogging about how to murder your husband on See Jane Publish
Posted by Nancy Brophy on Friday, November 4, 2011
The killing puzzled police and those close to Daniel Brophy from the start. Brophy, a 63-year-old chef, was fatally shot at his workplace at the Oregon Culinary Institute on the morning of June 2. Students were just beginning to file into the building for class when they found him bleeding in the kitchen, KATU2 news reported. Police had no description of the suspect.
One day later, Crampton Brophy wrote an emotional post on Facebook.
“For my Facebook friends and family, I have sad news to relate,” Crampton Brophy wrote. “My husband and best friend, Chef Dan Brophy was killed yesterday morning. For those of you who are close to me and feel this deserved a phone call, you are right, but I’m struggling to make sense of this right now.”
Daniel Brophy was a beloved chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Colleagues considered him the institute’s “resident encyclopedia of knowledge” who had a “creative approach to teaching” and an “offbeat sense of humor,”as they wrote about him in memoriam. He sometimes made cooks who forgot their hats wear sombreros or spiky helmets instead, the Portland Tribune reported. And he liked to lead groups of students on “experimental field trips” into forests, perpetually hunting for new ingredients.
Hundreds of people came to celebrate and mourn him at a candlelight vigil held outside the Oregon Culinary Institute on June 4. Crampton Brophy came, too.
Busy day for me. blogging about how to murder your husband on See Jane Publish
Posted by Nancy Brophy on Friday, November 4, 2011
But as the weeks went on, neighbors told the Oregonian, something seemed off about Crampton Brophy. Don McConnell, her neighbor of six years, told the Oregonian that earlier this summer he had a conversation with Crampton Brophy about her husband’s death, wondering what the motive could have possibly been in the tragedy.
“I said, are [the police] keeping in touch with you?” McConnell recalled asking her.
“She said, ‘No, I’m a suspect,’ ” McConnell told the Oregonian. “I thought she must have been one tough woman to handle that the way she did.”
On Thursday, prosecutors and Crampton Brophy’s defense attorney said little as the defendant was brought before a judge to hear the charges against her. A judge took the unusual step of sealing a probable cause affidavit in Crampton Brophy’s case at prosecutors’ request, a spokesman for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office told The Post. Police declined to answer questions from The Post about the evidence justifying Crampton Brophy’s arrest or what led police to suspect her, citing an ongoing investigation.
In Crampton Brophy’s “How to Murder Your Husband” essay, she had expressed that although she frequently thought about murder, she didn’t see herself following through with something so brutal. She wrote she would not want to “worry about blood and brains splattered on my walls,” or “remembering lies.”
“I find it easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them,” she wrote. “. . . But the thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough.”
The couple had been married for 27 years, according to court documents. They had a “fabulous garden” in their backyard, where chickens and turkeys also roamed, Crampton Brophy wrote on her author website, where she promoted her steamy romance paperbacks. The couple “had our ups and downs,” she wrote on her author page, but there were “more good times than bad.” She said she knew she had fallen for him one night when she was taking a bath and called out for him to join.
“His answer convinced me he was Mr. Right,” she wrote on her author bio. She recalled him saying, “ ’Yes, but I’m making hors d’oeuvres.’
“Can you imagine spending the rest of your life without a man like that?”
Crampton Brophy appeared to be a productive writer, having published at least seven novels that mostly focused on secret relationships between, as she put it, “rugged men and strong women.” The lead male characters were almost always Navy SEALs.
When it came to Crampton Brophy’s own marriage, she wrote frequently about it on the Internet, sometimes with a dark sense of humor that her readers appeared to find amusing.
In one now-private 2011 post on See Jane Publish that drew laughs from readers, she wrote: “My husband and I are both on our second (and final — trust me!) marriage. We vowed, prior to saying ‘I do,’ that we would not end in divorce. We did not, I should note, rule out a tragic drive-by shooting or a suspicious accident.”
At the end of the post, she said she loved “the way he can make me laugh when I’m really angry,” and “how, when I least expect it, he can say the perfect thing.”
“But one last word of caution,” she wrote, “if I ever take a swan-dive off a high building, investigate. Investigate. Investigate.”
Idea for backwoods vending machine
When North Carolina got bad news about what its coast could look like thanks to climate change, it chose to ignore it.
In 2012, the state whose low-lying coast lies in the path of Hurricane Florence reacted to a prediction of catastrophically rising seas by banning policies based on such forecasts.
The legislation drew ridicule, including a mocking segment by comedian Stephen Colbert, who said: “If your science gives you a result you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.”
North Carolina has a long, low-lying coastline and is considered one of the US areas most vulnerable to rising sea levels.
But dire predictions alarmed coastal developers and their allies, who said they did not believe the rise in sea level would be as bad as the worst models predicted and said such forecasts could unnecessarily hurt property values and drive up insurance costs.
As a result, the state’s official policy, rather than adapting to the worst potential effects of climate change, has been to assume it simply won’t be that bad. Instead of forecasts, it has mandated predictions based on historical data on sea level rise.
“The science panel used one model, the most extreme in the world,” Pat McElraft, the sponsor of the 2012 bill, said at the time, according to Reuters. “They need to use some science that we can all trust when we start making laws in North Carolina that affect property values on the coast.”
The legislation was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature and allowed to become law by the then governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat who neither signed nor vetoed the bill.
The law required the coastal resources commission to put out another study in 2015, looking at expected sea level rise.
That report looked only 30 years ahead, rather than a century. It found that the rise in sea level during that time was likely to be roughly 6in to 8in, with higher increases possible in parts of the Outer Banks.
Some outside studies have offered more dire warnings. A report last year by the Union of Concerned Scientists said 13 North Carolina communities were likely to be “chronically inundated” with seawater by 2035.
The state’s stance has shifted under the current governor, Roy Cooper, a Democrat who took office last year.
Cooper announced last September that North Carolina would join the US Climate Alliance, a group of states that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris climate accord, even though Donald Trump pulled the US out of the agreement.
“We remain committed to reducing pollution and protecting our environment,” Coopersaid. “So much of North Carolina’s economy relies on protecting our treasured natural resources.”
But Orrin Pilkey, a retired Duke University coastal geologist, wrote in a recent op-ed in the News & Observer that the state has still failed to take the steps that communities in Virginia and New Jersey have taken, to prepare for rising sea levels.
“Instead coastal development flourishes as more beachfront buildings, highways and bridges are built to ease access to our beautiful beaches,” he wrote. “Currently the unspoken plan is to wait until the situation is catastrophic and then respond.”
Man opens fire on 'clowns' inside home, police say
READING, Pa. - A man could spend years behind bars for shooting at imaginary clowns inside his home in Reading.
Nathan Matthias was sentenced to between 22 and 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure.
Matthias, 35, fired a shotgun inside the home in the 1400 block of Birch Street on the morning of December 18, 2016, police said.
Matthias told RPD officers who responded to the scene that he was shooting at "two small clowns" who were running around his second-floor apartment.
"At first, they were curled up in a ball, but then they started to run around, so I tried to shoot them," Matthias told officers, according to the court paperwork.
Police said they searched the apartment and found no clowns or evidence of anyone else having been there. They said they did find Matthias to have an odor of alcohol on his breath and a bottle of vodka in his pocket.
Asked by police if he had anything to drink, Matthias replied, "Only a sip."
The funniest part for me was how everything went silence and you can hear all the crickets. I was dead.this got me dying rn