
Texas Jeff
Legacy Members-
Posts
1371 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Reputation
2533 Surly 10%Recent Profile Visitors
The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.
-
It was covered upthread, but I'll add a video here. He ran across the roof to a different spot where there was no staircase. Perhaps he felt it was out of view. It was so soon after the shooting that he probably could have gone back to the staircase and walked away. He dropped down to the ground while apparently carrying a bag, appeared to hurt his leg a bit on the fall, and limped away.
-
If you look at the building where he took the shot, it is connected via a roof-top bridge to the UVU Computer Science building. Using Google Maps, you can see a stairway that gets you up on the roof-top bridge. The bridge appears to be at the same height as the roof where he took the shot. It's possible that he assembled the gun somewhere near the bridge, walked up the stairs and jumped on the roof, then moved to where he took the shot. It looks easy to get from the roof-top bridge area to the roof of the building where he took the shot. The NY Times has some pics and maps up that show a likely path: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/12/us/tyler-robinson-manhunt-timeline-kirk-suspect-caught.html
-
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Texas Jeff replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
He also said that the deaths in the hill country flash floods this summer would have been lower if Austin did not have a black fire department chief. For anyone not in the know, the floods occurred about 120 miles from Austin. -
Texas Jeff started following Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper) and 2026 Texas Baseball
-
This is a big cause of the disconnect. Here's a 2016 Statesman editorial stating that 73% of the officers at the time lived outside Austin, and how that was a problem: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/04/public-would-be-better-served-if-austin-police-officers-lived-in-city/10061173007/ We all have our biases. Folks in hiring positions tend to hire people like them. If everyone recruiting and hiring is living in far off suburbs, then new hires are likely to live in far off suburbs. If police can drive into Austin four days a week, do their shift, and go home having never lived here, what incentive do they have to serve the local population well? They are not bad people, they are just doing what they have to do to get a paycheck. They are focused on their kids and their family and their community, and none of that is in Austin. The police department should try to build homegrown officers. They should be recruiting at LBJ, Akins, Navarro, Crockett, and all of the other schools within the city of Austin. They should be providing a pathway for interested graduates to get relevant experience and return when they are ready to enter the academy. And the city should provide financial incentives for officers to live within the city limits. Even if the homegrown folks eventually moved to the burbs, we would have police officers with local relatives or a memory of growing up in Austin, and perhaps they may feel more connection to Austin and be more incented to try to improve the city rather than just police.
-
I have a kid living in west campus and I'm happy the UTPD folks are around. They are on bikes and they are visible and able to get around and interact with folks. There is another crew that is going around cleaning and repairing stuff, on the drag and throughout west campus. Generally it looks better than it did a few years ago. West campus does not seem that dangerous. The students are a bit naive and inexperienced. Most spent years chasing a top 6% rating, then a year in the dorm, and now they are living in a quasi-urban place where everyone is 19-22 years old. The UTPD folks provide a bit of a handrail. The drag (aka Guad, somehow the name changed) is empty by mid-80's standards. I'm not sure what happened. It needs to be re-weirded.
-
A 66 year old Baton Rouge retired accountant always wanted to be in the LSU marching band. So he re-learned the tuba, worked out, enrolled in LSU so that he could try out for the band, and now he's a freshman tuba:
-
Interview with the guy that created the logo: https://www.fastcompany.com/91398484/how-pentagram-designed-austins-first-ever-logo He claims it was the ultimate design by committee. I believe him.
-
Some stuff I looked up: How much does an Austin Police Officer make? Base Pay: While in academy, $60,000 per year. After graduation, base pay rises to $70,644 After 1 year, base pay rises to $79,277 After 2 years, base pay rises to $87,498 After 10 years, base pay hits $100,176 .. and tops out at $118,132 Officers can earn overtime pay and other pay stipends based on language skills, certifications, education, etc. These might add $10,000 or so to base pay, for those that qualify. This job requires a high school diploma or GED, US citizenship, a drivers license, the ability to read, write and speak English, and either 12 semester hours of college credit or 2 years in the military or two years of work experience. You have to be 20.5 years of age to enter the academy. You can graduate high school, work two years somewhere, and you are good to apply. The job comes with health benefits and a pension. Officers get 150 hours of vacation, 150 hours of sick leave, 88 hours of holiday leave, three personal holidays and 16 hours of wellness leave. Officers work four 10 hour days in a row, then have three days off. At 10 hrs per day, they have about 43 days of leave per year, if you add up all of their vacation/sick/personal/etc. They can take an additional 120 hours for military leave. Most of my data is from here: https://www.austintexas.gov/apdrecruiting/pay-benefits How dangerous is it to be an Austin Police Officer? I could not find data on officer injuries, but the city lists 29 officers killed in the line of duty from 1875-2025: https://www.austintexas.gov/page/officers-killed-line-duty I count eleven that were killed by gun violence and fourteen killed in a vehicular collision. One had a heart attack. Three were killed by COVID in Fall 2021, which was after vaccines were rolled out. Either they didn't get the shot or were unlucky. The police department has about 1500 officers. It's possible to die on the job as a police officer, but it's not common. You are as likely to be killed in a crash as you are by a gun.
-
I asked ChatGPT to come up with a new logo for Austin, Texas and it coughed up this for free in 5 mins:
-
Meanwhile, in America:
-
Alabama must get their US reps out of an old white guy Pez dispenser.
-
Elect me president and I will rename it Starfleet and move it to San Francisco. Might as well get started on the future right now.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... COOKIE MONSTER!