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Showing posts with label random violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random violence. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

A look at Yahoo News ...

These are some of the lead stories ...


Pregnant Woman Dies After Horrifying Medical Mixup

As far as medical mix-ups go, it's a horrifying one. In October 2011, a 32-year-old woman underwent an operation at Queen's Hospital outside of London; Maria De Jesus was suffering from appendicitis and needed to have her appendix removed.


Texting Driver Who Slammed Cyclist: I, Like, 'Just Don't Care'

Poor Kimberley Davis. The 21-year-old Australian woman was livid when she slammed into a bicyclist while texting late last year, putting dents in her car. The victim suffered a spinal fracture and would spend the next three months in a hospital,

NJ Mom Charged With Unthinkable Crime (video about woman trying to drown here three kids in a river)

Bear Attack Victim Left Horrifying Phone Message for Husband

The Florida woman who was mauled by a bear while at home Saturday unintentionally left a nearly six-minute voicemail message on her husband’s phone that captures the voracity of the attack. “There


Male Police Officer Dresses As Amish Woman To Catch Alleged Child Predator [PHOTO]

Police officer Chad Adams dressed as an Amish woman for nearly two months earlier this year, in an attempt to catch a man who Amish families in Western Pennsylvania

Study finds signs of brain changes in pot smokers

NEW YORK (AP) — A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a possible sign of trouble ahead, researchers say.

Two more charged in gang-linked kidnapping of N.C. prosecutor's father

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Two additional suspects have been charged in the gang-related abduction of a North Carolina man whose daughter had 

 And so it continues ... more random violence and scary stories about the world. And none of it provides any context whatsoever about things we need to know to meaningfully function in the world and/or avoid dangerous situations.


 

 


Monday, September 23, 2013

In the news today: Violence, crime, terrorism, mayhem

We live in an amazing time. A truly amazing time.

In most places in the world, violence is at an all-time low!

But you wouldn't know it from the news. Not most days. Certainly not today:
Watch this video

Army claims control of mall

  • 62 dead in Kenya mall attack
  • 2 terrorists believed killed today
  • Some posed as women
  • 3 attackers may be from U.S. FULL STORY

As if that is not bad enough, the mainstream news today continues to focus on the most random and obscure of violent acts. Like these:

2 adults, 3 kids found dead
Cops: Teens planned to eat mom's liver
Victim's family releases death video

These stories have consequences besides informing us about the world. They wear us down. They cause us grief. Fear. They make us retreat.

Most of all, they divert our attention from all the beauty that surrounds us, all the good that people are doing in our communities.

Friday, September 13, 2013

In today's random crime and violence stories ...

... we see these gems in the mainstream news:

4 found dead in car on rural road
13-year-old girl bitten by shark  13-year-old girl bitten by shark
Synthetic drugs' scary reality  Synthetic drugs' scary reality
Teens zap kitty in microwave, post it  Teens zap kitty in microwave, post it
Man plotted to eat kids, feds say
Cops: Home had child-size coffin  Cops: Home had child-size coffin
Students flee district after teachers defend molester
 
You wonder what the point of these stories is, don't you?

I mean, what do you gain by knowing that these things occurred, especially if they occurred nowhere near you or your town.

Is the point simply to scare the heck out of you? To divert your attention away from other, far more serious issues and harms?

What do you think?

Please tell me you're not letting your kids watch this nonsense



Monday, October 29, 2012

Think a "MONSTER storm" takes crime out of the news?

Wrong ...

CNN calls it a "Monster storm." And yet on its website here are some of the other lead stories:

See? Bad stuff. Random stuff. Accidents. Violence. Dead people. That's still the news.

Fox News calls it a monster storm too. But their lead stories are political, and of course, not biased at all.

Cartels, Lawmaker Warns

Lebanese terror group, whose leader is shown above, is gaining a larger presence in Mexico, lawmaker says