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17 hours ago, ScottS said:

Ohio, not Florida.  But I get the feeling that the only differenced between the two are the accents and the annual amount of snowfall.

 

If you’re gonna break into a store with a cape and tightly whiteys, why dollar general?

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On 6/13/2025 at 11:16 AM, RPM said:

 

Kentucky jokes write themselves. Those two are definitely siblings. IMG_1092.jpeg.5f8fcb528e64f18a9b0c874c3632d00d.jpeg

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Man allegedly admitted to killing neighbors at nudist resort over a hot dog

REDLANDS, Calif. (Gray News) – The man who is accused of killing a couple at a nudist resort reportedly did so over a hot dog, according to local reports.

Michael Royce Sparks, 62, was charged in September with two counts of murder with special circumstances in the deaths of Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband Daniel Menard, 79.

The couple had been reported missing in the desert community of Redlands and were last seen at their home on Aug. 24, 2024. They lived at Olive Dell Ranch, which is described on its website as a residential RV park and nudist resort.

Officials said they found the couple’s remains in bags in a concrete bunker underneath Sparks’ home.

According to the Press-Enterprise, in a court hearing Monday, a detective testified that Sparks admitted to another inmate that he killed his neighbors. He allegedly said the final straw was over a hot dog.

Redlands police detective Thomas Williams testified that Sparks told the other inmate that Daniel Menard had given him a hot dog, which he felt was a jab at him.

“He said Mr. Sparks felt that the hot dog was a jab at him, making him feel like he was worth only a dollar hot dog, and that’s what set him off that day,” the detective said in court, according to the Press-Enterprise.

Sparks is accused of brutally beating the couple with a rake, a hoe and a hammer.

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He also reportedly admitted to drowning the Menard’s dog, Cuddles, in a sink, Williams testified.

This undated photo, provided by the Redlands Police Dept., shows Cuddles, a dog belonging to...

 

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5 hours ago, Lhorn said:

A teacher who allegedly chugged booze and hurled curse words at students during a lesson that she interrupted to have them dance the Macarena has been fired.

Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging from a water bottle full of orange liquid which smelled of alcohol and blaring music from her laptop during the health class, one of her 16-year-old students told a hearing on Tuesday, reported the Telegraph.

She also called students “little s—ts” and “put her middle finger two to three inches” from another teen’s face during the “out of control” class at Ysgol Bro Caereinion school in Welshpool, Wales, in January last year.

The usually “reserved and quiet” teacher’s classes on alcohol and drug awareness were normally “boring,” a student told the hearing of the Education Workforce Council Wales panel.

But before the class, she was spotted swigging from a water bottle that had an “alcoholic smell,” the unidentified student told the hearing.

“She was very, very close to us. There was a slight alcoholic smell. She was very, very lively and quite animated and speaking with her hands. In other lessons, she was more reserved and quiet,” the student said, as reported by LBC.

“[She] asked the class to make the Macarena. She played music and we were not doing work,” the student said.

Ashton’s sloppy behavior came just four months after she had been convicted of drunk-driving, the fitness-to-practice hearing heard.

The “water” bottle Ashton had in her class was almost empty by the end of the class, the students said. 

Ashton “kept jumping up from her desk” and was becoming “irritated” as the class went on, at point getting right in an unruly teen’s face, the student said.

Ashton denied that she had sung or sworn at students in an internal school review, but multiple witnesses came forward to describe the chaotic scene.

“She got some students dancing to the laptop and speakers and it spiraled out of control,” a second teenager said.

CCTV footage from the class that day corroborated the students’ stories, the panel said.

“It is totally untenable to suggest the music is being played as background music,” presenting officer Lewis Harris said, as reported by LBC.

“The evidence is very clear that Miss Ashton did not remain at the front of the class. She invited pupils to dance.”

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She might be quite rude. A little hard to tell:

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43 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


“Summer Long Balls” was one of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s best songs. I’m pretty sure I’m remembering that right.

Thought it was David Allan Coe.

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A former southern Colorado jail commander viewed explicit videos of over 100 female inmates undergoing strip searches, saved photos of their faces and bodies and looked them up on social media over the course of five years, according to state investigators.

In a July 22 arrest warrant for Edward “Ed” Aber, Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials detail Aber’s widespread exploitation of confidential La Plata County Sheriff’s Office records from February 2019 to July 2024.

Investigators say Aber logged into an evidence website used to store videos of inmate strip searches more than 3,000 times, often for repeated late-night and early-morning viewings of body camera videos of female inmates being stripped naked and closely inspected for contraband as part of the jail intake process.

Aber, 62, resigned in July 2024 after the sheriff’s office launched an investigation into accusations of inappropriate sexual contact with inmates and sexual harassment from 14 female employees, investigators wrote.

That investigation was first reported by the Durango Herald, and Aber told the newspaper he was “blindsided” by the accusations from colleagues and that he resigned rather than go through an internal investigation.

He wiped all data from his iPad the same day the Herald interviewed him, according to the arrest warrant. The following day, sheriff’s deputies responded to Aber’s workplace because he was making suicidal threats.


The sexual harassment allegations were substantiated through the sheriff’s investigation, the Herald reported, but allegations of sexual contact with inmates were not.

The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office continued to look into Aber after his resignation, and in October found evidence on his work laptop, tablet and computer that he was looking up female inmates and colleagues on Facebook and had saved images from videos of female inmates’ strip searches.


Aber logged into the evidence website 3,166 times from when he first gained access to the files in 2019 – because of a 2018 promotion – until his resignation, sheriff’s officials told the CBI.

A “large number” of the videos were labeled as strip searches, while others were labeled as “suicidal” or “suicide,” which could show naked inmates being processed for intake or under observation.`

 

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