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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Tack on 180 days and a $2k fine (that's what's allowed).  Hit him with everything you've got.

Of course, he's in Travis County, so even if charged, the DA will probably blow the deadline to try the case.

Oh, I don't know. He sure sounded and acted like a white fella with some means.  Seems like a target Garza might actually put some effort into.  If it happens, we should take the win.

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20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, this one made my blood boil. As someone who fished my entire childhood, and think it’s about as good an activity as a kid can be involved in…threatening to murder a kid for…fishing….pisses me off beyond belief.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/s/V68h5IXzgK

 

 

My 14 year old son was threatened in Onion Creek neighborhood for fishing
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Hope that this guy is charged both for the murder threat and interfering with a person legally fishing. And he’s doxxed and treated like the POS that he is.

What are you in for?

  Threating to murder someone...

Wow.

  Also I prevented a minor from fishing...

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32 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

He threatened to drown the kid. Is @Nicole44 catfishing us?

That  guy yelling at that kid and threatening him is an unhinged shit hole criminal POS.
 

Also, I am not a guy. I am a gal. Plenty of people know me from here. IRL.
 

Also, I don’t yell at nor do I speak to my prey. It’s better that way. 
 

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That's the type of guy who somehow snuck through life without ever taking an ass whipping, likely because he's only a dick to people who aren't a threat, like a kid.   
 
ETA: From that Reddit thread it looks like the parents found out who he is and are taking action with law enforcement.  Good.

Need to dox this cat.
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That  guy yelling at that kid and threatening him is an unhinged shit hole criminal POS.
 
Also, I am not a guy. I am a gal. Plenty of people know me from here. IRL.
 
Also, I don’t yell at nor do I speak to my prey. It’s better that way. 
 
   

Do you give spankings to unruly posters?
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On 10/25/2025 at 10:55 PM, bschoolprof said:

I’m gonna guess it’s a crazy homeless guy with a long rap sheet but little prosecution/jail time. Seems to be the pattern. 

Shocker:

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The suspect arrested for Saturday's library shooting was tied to another shooting on a city bus earlier that day, an arrest affidavit shows.

 

Harold Keene, 55, was arrested Saturday in connection to a midday shooting in a bathroom at the Austin Central Library that left one person injured, according to the affidavit. Keene is also accused of shooting another person on a CapMetro bus after pointing a gun at a mother and child.

Police responded to reports of a shooting in a sixth-floor restroom at the library just after noon on Saturday. According to the affidavit, library security footage showed a man in a gray hoodie leaving the restroom shortly after the victim fled. The footage then showed the man boarding a CapMetro bus headed westbound on Cesar Chavez Street. CapMetro reviewed security footage that showed the man exiting the bus at the Brodie Oaks shopping center and walking through the parking lot of the Olive Garden in the shopping center. Police located and arrested a man matching the suspect's description at 1:22 p.m. at 4006 South Lamar Blvd, near the Starbucks. The affidavit said Keene had a stolen handgun and initially identified himself with a false name and birth date, but police identified him as Keene after taking him to Austin police headquarters. They were also able to identify Keene as the man involved in a shooting on a CapMetro bus early Saturday morning.

According to the affidavit, just before 2 a.m. Saturday a passenger reported being on the bus with a man who was "mentally unstable." The passenger said the suspect, later identified as Keene, asked him for his Dr. Pepper, which the passenger gave to him. The passenger said Keene then started to "ramble on about the C.I.A. and conspiracies" before pulling out a pistol and pointing it another passenger and her daughter. The passenger said he confronted Keene, who then pulled out a bag "believed to be crystal methamphetamine" and ate it. The passenger alerted the bus driver, who stopped the bus near the corner of 32nd and Guadalupe streets. When the passenger got off, he said Keene was standing at the front of the bus pointing the gun at him. The affidavit said Keene fired a single shot, grazing the passenger's hip, and then fled the scene on a scooter headed south on Guadalupe Street.

 

In an interview with police, Keene confessed to using the stolen handgun to shoot both the victim on the bus and the victim at the library.

According to court records, Keene has an extensive criminal record going back decades. In April, Keene was charged with making a terroristic threat for allegedly pointing a gun at an employee of HireQuest, an employment agency in North Austin. In May of 2024, Keene was charged with assault while he was an inmate at the Travis County Correctional Complex in Del Valle. That charge stemmed from an altercation between Keene and another inmate, according to an affidavit. A sheriff's deputy who responded to the scene said security footage showed Keene and the other inmate fighting over a chess board in a common area. The affidavit says Keene punched the other inmate, who chose to press charges. Court records show that charge was dismissed because Keene was "receiving treatment through felony probation." 

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25 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

I fucking HATE what the homeless fucksticks have done to this city. Got damned so fucking sick of them. 

They are ASSWATER!!

When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.

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On 10/23/2025 at 2:49 PM, Brisketexan said:

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i have to admit, i am not some sort of fishing enthusiast despite having done it probably 50-100 times in my life (mostly in east texas). old white guys are often involved so, like golf, i'm sure there all sorts of pathetic unwritten etiquette rules, etc... that i am not aware of.

but why the fuck would someone give a shit if some teen was fishing in onion creek? why would it elicit such an unhinged response like that? i could understand someone being annnoyed/mad if the kid was fishing on their private property in some stocked tank (event then, threatening to knock him out and drown him would be completely insane) but i cannot imagine why the sight of a 14 year old standing and fishing by onion creek would make someone become completely unhinged like this. what the fuck am i missing? every time i walk/jog/drive by some rando fishing somewhere like town lake or a creek or whatever, i think to myself "hmm, that's nice. good for them." what am i missing that should make me ragey and go tell them they are going to die the next time i see them?

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2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

I fucking HATE what the homeless fucksticks have done to this city. Got damned so fucking sick of them. 

They are ASSWATER!!

I have equal hate for all the influencers who have moved here as well too. You can’t even walk at the lake without getting nearly trampled to death by a dude bro run club which people pay to be a part of. 

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10 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I have equal hate for all the influencers who have moved here as well too. You can’t even walk at the lake without getting nearly trampled to death by a dude bro run club which people pay to be a part of. 

I mentioned it on some post before -- the tech and finance bro contingent at F1 was insufferable.  I'm glad I went, but holy shit that crowd . . .

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When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.

Plenty of blame to be shared, including city management and police.

Name one major city “solving” homelessness. This is a regional, state, and national crisis. Hell, we have private and county prisons sending vulnerable pops to Austin and have been for decades. Cuts in public housing and hospitals have had a huge effect. As have our self-started opioid epidemic and policies attacking our middle class.

Stop talking about things you dont know anything about and focus on expanding Pflugerville’s strip centers and smoke shops.
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https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-seek-help-identifying-suspect-involved-in-baseball-bat-assault/

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department is seeking public help to identify a man accused of assaulting a person with a baseball bat in June.

Austin Police said the incident occurred on June 1 around 3 a.m. in the 300 block of Colorado Street. 

The department said the victim picked up a crown from the ground, which provoked the suspect who then assaulted the victim with the bat. 

The suspect is described as a black man in his early 30s, has short black hair and a mustache, police said. Images of the suspect are provided by APD below. 

Baseball-bat-suspect.jpg?resize=768,432

 

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9 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Found a Instagram profile where a guy with a drone records the going on’s at the SkyLite motel in south Austin.  Looks rough!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNIuLvftKoz/?igsh=OW94bW5hOWpmYmg3

Welp, you just determined what I'm going to do for the next few hours. I have no idea what the SkyLite Motel is. SkyLite Motel internet rabbit hole, here I come.

That Insta video looks like a rap video. 

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Of course it's off I-35. Also it has a 3.7 star review on Google. I need to recalibrate how valid to take star ratings on Google reviews.

TLI druggies and drug dealers write flattering reviews on Google.

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4 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Welp, you just determined what I'm going to do for the next few hours. I have no idea what the SkyLite Motel is. SkyLite Motel internet rabbit hole, here I come.

That Insta video looks like a rap video. 

Makes Ms. Hattie’s M&M Court motel of the 1960s on South Congress look legit.

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Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam.  They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well: 

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https://austinenergy.com/rates/residential-rates/other-line-items-on-your-bill

Other Line Items on Your Bill

Charges and Fees

 

Community Benefit Charges

The Community Benefit Charges include:

  • Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.

    Learn more about the Customer Assistance Program
     
  • Service Area Lighting — The Service Area Lighting component recovers the costs of street lighting (except for those maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation) and the operation of traffic signals in the City of Austin. Customers who live outside the City do not pay these charges.
     
  • Energy Efficiency Programs — The Energy Efficiency Programs piece recovers the cost of energy efficiency programs. This includes rebates offered to residential customers to make improvements to their homes to reduce their electric bills.
     
    • Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.

      Learn more about Austin Energy Rebates and Incentives
       
    • Solar — This component includes recovery of the cost for solar rebates to encourage the installation of rooftop solar systems. These systems help decrease long-term costs for Austin Energy and the ERCOT system.

      Learn more about rebates for installing a solar system in your home
       
    • Green Building — This component recovers the costs for Austin Energy Green Building, which promotes and implements policies and guidelines to increase energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and businesses.

If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

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Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam.  They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well: 
https://austinenergy.com/rates/residential-rates/other-line-items-on-your-bill

Other Line Items on Your Bill

Charges and Fees

 

Community Benefit Charges

The Community Benefit Charges include:

  • Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.

    Learn more about the Customer Assistance Program
     
  • Service Area Lighting — The Service Area Lighting component recovers the costs of street lighting (except for those maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation) and the operation of traffic signals in the City of Austin. Customers who live outside the City do not pay these charges.
     
  • Energy Efficiency Programs — The Energy Efficiency Programs piece recovers the cost of energy efficiency programs. This includes rebates offered to residential customers to make improvements to their homes to reduce their electric bills.
     
    • Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.

      Learn more about Austin Energy Rebates and Incentives
       
    • Solar — This component includes recovery of the cost for solar rebates to encourage the installation of rooftop solar systems. These systems help decrease long-term costs for Austin Energy and the ERCOT system.

      Learn more about rebates for installing a solar system in your home
       
    • Green Building — This component recovers the costs for Austin Energy Green Building, which promotes and implements policies and guidelines to increase energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and businesses.
If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

Cheaper than Houston or Dallas

https://quickelectricity.com/texas-electricity-rates-per-kwh-by-city/

Whats your deal?
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3 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

Cheaper than Houston or Dallas

https://quickelectricity.com/texas-electricity-rates-per-kwh-by-city/

Whats your deal?

First off, does the Price / kwh factor in fees?  Austin has a ton.  Second off, Houston is not a monopoly.  I can't speak for Dallas, but when I lived in Houston, we had the choice in power provider, so you can actually shop around.  Austin, on the other hand, has no choices, if you're in Austin or a large swath of Travis County, you're forced to use them and pay their fees that are back-filling the general fund of the City of Austin.  If you're "donating" this amount of money back to the general fund, it makes you wonder what kind of overcharging they're doing.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/why-does-austin-energy-transfer-millions-back-to-the-citys-general-budget/

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6 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

Cheaper than Houston or Dallas

https://quickelectricity.com/texas-electricity-rates-per-kwh-by-city/

Whats your deal?

Echoing this, that was my conclusion, too, after shopping around on an investment property we own in Houston.  
 

As long as they are cheaper I don’t really care what they do with their profits.  
 

That said, (and I brought this up to our CM) the energy rebate program kind of sucks in practice (it’s cumbersome, which rewards big firms that have staff to submit as an approved vendor with the city and punishes small businessmen, lots of them Hispanic, who can do the work cheaper, faster, and with a reputation for higher quality labor).  Plus, it’s out of step with the purported values the city likes to advertise about itself. 

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On 10/28/2025 at 12:30 PM, crash_davis said:

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-seek-help-identifying-suspect-involved-in-baseball-bat-assault/

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department is seeking public help to identify a man accused of assaulting a person with a baseball bat in June.

Austin Police said the incident occurred on June 1 around 3 a.m. in the 300 block of Colorado Street. 

The department said the victim picked up a crown from the ground, which provoked the suspect who then assaulted the victim with the bat. 

The suspect is described as a black man in his early 30s, has short black hair and a mustache, police said. Images of the suspect are provided by APD below. 

Baseball-bat-suspect.jpg?resize=768,432

 

June?! 

 

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1 hour ago, PvilleStang said:

First off, does the Price / kwh factor in fees?  Austin has a ton.  Second off, Houston is not a monopoly.  I can't speak for Dallas, but when I lived in Houston, we had the choice in power provider, so you can actually shop around.  Austin, on the other hand, has no choices, if you're in Austin or a large swath of Travis County, you're forced to use them and pay their fees that are back-filling the general fund of the City of Austin.  If you're "donating" this amount of money back to the general fund, it makes you wonder what kind of overcharging they're doing.

Well that's great and all but my bills in Austin are about the same or cheaper than they were in Houston in a "competitive market" for a two-story house vs a one-story house and I have 1,000 more square feet.  You can have your competitive market, I'll take the better rates.

 

1 hour ago, B00M said:

June?! 

Well, you know, that was regular season.  They were waiting for the playoffs to wrap up.

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Whoop! Vaccines are bad, mmmkay. I saw it on Facebook, mmmkay.

https://www.kut.org/health/2025-10-28/austin-isd-tx-lamar-middle-school-whooping-cough-pertussis

Austin Public Health says whooping cough likely spreading at Lamar Middle School

Austin Public Health has confirmed six cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, at Lamar Middle School this year. Those cases involve unrelated students from various grades and classes.

“It is difficult to confirm, but it is highly likely that pertussis is spreading at this middle school,” said Heather Cooks-Sinclair, epidemiology and disease surveillance manager for Austin Public Health.

Cooks-Sinclar noted that five other schools across various local districts also reported cases of pertussis this school year. Austin-Travis County has seen 115 reported cases of pertussis this year through September, 35% more than in all of 2024. More than half of those cases were in school-aged children. Cooks-Sinclair said this could be due in part to increased local testing and awareness of the illness.

The illness is highly contagious. Its signature symptom is a persistent cough that lasts more than 10 days and often worsens at night. Patients may hear a distinctive “whoop” sound when coughing or vomit after coughing. They may also experience a runny nose, sneezing and fever. Severe cases are often treated with antibiotics.

Whooping cough can be dangerous to young children and babies, who may struggle to breathe. Around one in three babies who contract whooping cough end up hospitalized, according to APH and other health experts.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm pretty sure I just caught an STD from that Skylite Motel drone footage.

yeah, same.  Some lady came out missing an arm, and that was enough for me.  

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