Important safety tip: Don't do dat. [NYPOST] A trained mixed martial arts fighter beat an intruder black and blue for entering his sister's Florida home — as the suspect claimed he mistakenly walked into the residence after a night of drinking. "Hey, you!"
"Who? Me?"
[LEAP! THUMP! KICK! GOUGE! WALLOP!]
"Yeah! You!"
"Ow."
Henny Rojas was sleeping at his relative's home in Wilton Manors, just north of Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday morning when his teenage nephew frantically woke him up to tell him there was an intruder in the living room, CBS12 reported. "Uncle Henny! Wake up!"
"Whu... whu... wazzup?"
"There's somebody downstairs!"
"Who?"
"I dunno. A burglar, maybe?"
"Oboy!"
The trained fighter jumped into action to defend his loved one and the home. "Hai! Ya!"
"Downstairs, Uncle Henny."
''I'm prepared. "I'll murderlize 'im!"
"It's not my first time; "Gentle ain't appropriate!"
"I don't feel pain. "Not unless it hurts!"
Nothing,'' Rojas told the outlet. ''I don't have guns; I wasn't looking for a knife — just God and my hands, that's it.'' "Wanna see me twist a horse shoe? Grrr!"
Rojas, who has been practicing MMA for roughly three years, confronted the intruder head-on, utilizing his fighting skills to engage the intruder, identified as Austin Carasani. Carasani had been practicing his drinking for nearly eight years, and had a black belt in bourbon.
The fighter subdued Carasani until police arrived to arrest him. "Haieee! Yah!"
"Ow! Please don't kill me!"
Rojas' sister, Patrizia, and his brother-in-law were away in Miami when they recalled receiving a terrifying phone call from their son, who told them that a stranger was in the home. ''He was screaming, 'Mom, call police, someone has broken into the house,''' Patrizia Rojas recalled. "Uncle Henny's dismembering him!"
Carasani, 31, appeared before a judge just hours after being taken down by Rojas, with welts covering his black and blue face. "How do you plead?"
"Pretty lumpy, yer honor."
Carasani told police he had been drinking at a nearby club and was allegedly trying to reach his friend ''Paul's house'' in the area when he mistakenly entered the home. "Did you knock?"
"No."
"Ring the doorbell?"
"Nope."
"Was the door locked?"
"Yeah."
"Use a crowbar?"
"Yup."
"Boy, are you dumb."
Rojas and his family said they'd never seen Carasani before and had no idea who he was when he broke into their house. "Who the hell was that guy?"
"A punching bag with feet?"
The alleged home intruder has been charged with home invasion and remains in jug at the Broward County Jail as of Tuesday, with a bond set at $20,000. "Is my cell locked?"
"Yeah."
"Yer sure he can't get in?"
"No. You're safe."
As for Rojas, he told CBS 12 that he was happy to be able to use his skills to protect his family and wouldn't change how he handled the situation with the intruder. ''Protect your family,'' Rojas said. ''There are a lot of crazy people [who] don't believe in God, who [are] only looking for damage.''
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LOVE the in-line! Thanks Fred.
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[NYPOST] The New Jersey teen charged with mowing down two 17-year-old girls, including one he was allegedly stalking, is a relative of the local police chief — who is also a close family friend and neighbor of one of the dead cyclists.
Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro distanced himself from his distant relative, who was charged with double murder in the killings of 17-year-olds Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas in Cranford, NJ, on Monday.
''While social media has made it known that the accused is related to me, he is not my son and not a member of my immediate family,'' Battiloro wrote in a statement on Facebook on Wednesday.
''I want to be clear, as loud and as firm as possible, that in NO WAY do my wife, children or I condone, defend, or excuse the actions that caused this terrible and tragic loss of life.''
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[NYPOST] Two twisted teens were caught on video waving massive machetes on a Brooklyn street in broad daylight — as cops revealed the toxic pair allegedly stabbed a young man and threatened another.
The footage — posted by the Boro ParkShomrim volunteer patrol
…a silent hint that’s a Jewish neighbourhood. Shomrim means guards or watchmen in Hebrew. Before the IDF there was Haganah. And before Haganah, the Palestinian Jews had Hashomer…
— shows one of the boys, wearing a red hoodie, with the long weapon at his side around 5:10 p.m. Monday before he's joined by a larger group at 43rd Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Borough Park.
It sounds like the lads went looking for an easy little sheep hunt, but found sheepdogs instead.
The group included a ruffian wearing a black hoodie who was also armed with a machete, the footage shows.
The boys can be seen running off into the street, apparently after being spotted by Shomrim members. At one point, one of the youngsters stabbed an 18-year-old man in the back during a dispute and slashed him on the hip, police and sources said.
The boys, 14 and 15, also allegedly menaced a 26-year-old man with a machete at 45th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, cops said.
Cops and Shomrim members eventually caught up to the teens — with footage showing NYPD officers cuffing the teen in red on the ground.
Both were arrested and charged with gang assault, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
Initiation prank or just having fun on their afternoon off from gangstering?
''Thanks to their rapid action, a machete was recovered, and two teenagers were arrested,'' the Shomrim said of its members.
The 18-year-old victim was taken to Maimonides Medical Center,
…another hint…
where he was listed in stable, pH balanced condition, police said.
Ouch. Looks like those Jooooos aren’t quite as harmless as all that.
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[Regnum] In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, surgeons performed an unusual operation and removed numerous foreign objects from the stomach of a 35-year-old man. According to The Times of India, doctors recovered 29 steel spoons, 19 toothbrushes, and two pens.
The man was taken to the operating room from a rehabilitation center where he had been undergoing treatment and frequently complaining of poor nutrition. He reportedly began taking spoons from the cafeteria, breaking them into pieces, and swallowing them with water.
A few days later, the man became ill and was urgently hospitalized. X-rays and CT scans revealed foreign objects in the patient's stomach, which required surgical removal.
Surgeon Shyam Kumar said the entire medical team was shocked by the amount of objects accumulated in the man's stomach.
Pica is the psychologically compulsive craving or consumption of objects that are not normally intended to be consumed. It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A massive explosion at an oil refinery in Los Angeles triggered a huge fireball that sent shockwaves through the city.
The blast took place just outside LAX airport and was seen for miles across the city after it ignited at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, police said.
Firefighters arrived to the scene at around 9:35pm local time, several minutes after people in surrounding areas reported hearing a loud blast.
Authorities said they have not received reports of any injuries. No evacuation orders were in place early Friday, but residents were instructed to stay indoors and shut their windows.
The El Segundo neighborhood is located just south of LAX. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass assured travelers that there was 'no known impact' to the international hub.
Officials also told the Daily Mail that flights weren't currently affected.
El Segundo Mayor Chris Pimentel praised the quick response to the fire while saying he was 'very concerned' by the incident.
'We were able to respond to the Chevron fire immediately, our station is about a .25 miles away from the gates of Chevron,' Pimentel said. 'Obviously, we are very concerned, and there is a lot of investigative work to be done to see what has happened.'
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The refinery has its own fire department, trained in the business of fighting refinery fires.
AFAICT this fire was brought under control pretty quickly and without injuries.
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[Regnum] A magnetic storm has been raging on Earth for the third day in a row, with its intensity remaining at a moderate level for most of the time. This was reported on Thursday, October 2, by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The magnetic storm has been ongoing for three days amid extremely high solar wind speeds. <…> The magnetic storm, which began on Tuesday morning, has now continued, with brief interruptions, for over 50 hours. The storm is in the G1–G3 range, meaning it remains at a moderate level for most of the time, with occasional strong peaks," the laboratory's website states.
According to scientists, there are no signs of stabilization yet. The main factor driving the ongoing magnetospheric disturbances is the exceptionally high solar wind speed, which remains stable near the red "extremely high" boundary at 700-800 km/s and occasionally peaks at 900 km/s.
The laboratory clarified that if there are no major solar flares or direct plasma strikes in the near future, then signs of improvement in the geomagnetic environment visible to the naked eye could appear within 1–2 days.
#1
Some IT Road Warriors mentioned yesterday that they had experienced ISP & Cell area outages across the lower SE 1/2 of the USA, lasting 60 to 90 mins.
[GEO.TV] Philippine authorities said on Thursday that search and rescue operations in quake-hit Cebu province have ended, as the current corpse count of 72 was not expected to go much higher and missing people had been accounted for.
Attention has now turned to delivering aid to survivors of the 6.9-magnitude quake that has become the country's deadliest in more than a decade.
Striking waters off Cebu's central island late Tuesday, the quake has caused more than 20,000 people to be displaced, while over 300 have been injured.
On Thursday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr visited Bogo, a city of some 90,000 that was the worst-affected, seeking to reassure evacuees and noting that relief operations have been complicated due to widespread damage to infrastructure.
"We are having some difficulty because we have nowhere to put the displaced families because we're unsure of the integrity of the evacuation centres," he told news hounds.
"We will make sure there is food supply, water supply and electricity—a generation set if needed. Whatever the people need, we will make sure we can provide.
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[FoxNews] September is forecast to be Disney World's slowest month as some people call it 'a tomb'
Walt Disney World logged its slowest three-week stretch of the year in September, putting it on track to be the quietest month since 2021.
Crowd tracker data for mid-August through mid-September shows average waits dropped to about 24 minutes per ride, even shorter than during the July 4 holiday, according to posted times from Disney's My Disney Experience app, aggregated by third-party tracker Thrill-Data and analyzed by Disney Tourist Blog.
On TikTok, some visitors described the parks as "ghost towns."
"I'm at Magic Kingdom right now, and this place is a tomb," one user said.
"There is literally nobody here. There is no wait time for anything. Space Mountain — walk on. Haunted Mansion — walk on. Pirates of the Caribbean — walk on. The longest I have even seen a wait time for … 30 minutes."
Financially, Disney paints a different picture. The company has reported mostly unchanged attendance, while its recent earnings show revenue growth.
Fox News Digital reached out to Walt Disney World for comment.
Some analysts and third-party trackers suggest that standby lines may have moved faster because Disney adjusted how many guests enter via Lightning Lane rather than standby, freeing up capacity in the regular queues.
A look back at the summer months may help explain the trend.
August was the slowest full month of the year to date, averaging 28 minutes per ride, followed by July at 30 minutes, according to Disney Tourist Blog's tracking data. Weekends in September were busier than weekdays, reversing past trends and adding 10 to 12 minutes of wait time on average.
To fill the traditionally empty weeks after Labor Day, Disney rolled out aggressive deals, including an $89-per-day three-park ticket that excludes Magic Kingdom, 50% off children's tickets and the return of free dining for certain dates and packages, according to multiple Disney blogs.
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It seems Disney seriously mis-judge the number of Families willing to subject their kids an/or themselves to the Perversions and Political BS that Disney has openly adopted.
#4
...Not the slightest sympathy for the House of Mouse. Seen several stories indicating that the only thing really holding things above water are the parks.
#6
I bet their financials are so moth ridden only the initiated know what is coming in and going out. Not the financials given to shareholders and reporters, we all know those are bullshit, the real works.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Fury has erupted in Brazil after lawmakers approved a law that would offer police large bonuses when they kill suspects or seize high-calibre weapons. Under the controversial law, officers could earn extra payments worth between 10 and 150 per cent of their monthly salary for 'neutralising criminals. State lawmaker Alexandre Knoploch said during debate that 'neutralise' in practice means 'kill.'
The so-called Wild West bonus was passed by the state assembly on September 23 with 45 votes in favor and 17 against. It now sits on the desk of Governor Claudio Castro, who has 15 days to veto it or let it become law. The measure was added to a wider bill that changes the career structure of Rio's civil police, the branch that focuses on investigations.
This is not the first time Rio has tried a Wild West bonus - a similar scheme ran between 1995 and 1998 and was scrapped after a huge spike in killings. Studies later showed many victims were shot in the back or neck while fleeing, raising evidence of extrajudicial executions. Former state congressman Carlos Minc, who helped end the practice at the time, recalled that many of the killings had 'no link to real shootouts.'
Despite the outrage, supporters argue the policy rewards officers who risk their lives fighting heavily armed gangs. But critics say it will worsen the racial and social bias already seen in Rio's policing. In 2024, Rio's military and civil police killed 703 people. Another 470 have been killed between January and August 2025.
Official data show that 86 per cent of those killed in 2024 were Black, far above their share of the population. Brazil already has one of the highest rates of police killings in the world, with more than 6,000 deaths each year. Most victims are young Black men from poor neighbourhoods on the edge of cities. In 2019, the first year of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, they killed more than 1,800 people, the highest total ever recorded.
But killings have since fallen, partly because of the introduction of body cameras. Cameras were finally brought in during 2023 after years of resistance from state officials and an order from the Supreme Court. Within the first year, deaths in police operations fell by 35 per cent. By 2024, the yearly toll dropped to 469, still more than one person killed per day, but the lowest figure in a decade.
Governor Castro is said to be leaning toward blocking the bonus, not only because of the damage it could do to Rio's international image but also because of its high cost. The state is still recovering from a financial collapse nearly ten years ago. With elections on the horizon in 2026, when Castro is expected to run for the Senate or Chamber of Deputies, opponents believe he will not want the stain of approving cash rewards for killing.
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The American system allows for states to try different ideas so that all the states can adopt the good one. This idea is so obviously flawed that I hope it is not tried by any state ever. This idea might as well be Death Race.
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Giving rise to a lot of "guilt determined after the shot".
Bounty hunter is the term used for someone who is given a reward or a fee for hunting down (capturing) a person or an animal. In the legal sense, a bounty hunter is someone who tracks down criminal defendants who have skipped bail, and turns them in. In the U.S., bounty hunters are mostly hired by a bail-bond company (bail bondsman) to track down a criminal defendant who has failed to appear in court in breach of the bail-bond agreement.
Historically, courts have given bounty hunters numerous powers for bringing fugitives to justice. These powers range from going after a fugitive in another state, arresting a fugitive at any time and, to enter a fugitive’s house to capture him or her without a warrant. At the same time, they don’t have immunities given to state agents like police officers in the exercise of their powers because bounty hunters are more like independent contractors and are not agents of the state.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered an emergency crackdown on breast augmentation surgeries claiming they are ''anti-socialist,'' according to a report. "Nat'chul mo' bettah, dat's right!"
Pyongyang City's Ministry of Public Safety issued the emergency orders against the ''rotten capitalist'' implants with perpetrators facing harsh sentences in the dictatorship's labor camps, UK outlet Metro reported.
''Strike teams'' were deployed to central areas, including Pyongyang, over the summer where federal agents in civilian clothing scanned for black market doctors and unnaturally buxom women, Daily NK reported, citing sources in the hermit kingdom.
Women suspected of having had surgeries could be subjected to physical examinations by Kim's public health goons, according to that report.
''Women or private doctors caught could face criminal punishment, including being sent to labor camps, on charges of anti-socialism,'' the anonymous source dished to the outlet.
The recent demand for boob jobs, eyelid surgeries, and eyebrow tattoos is a result of women in their 20s and 30s soaking in ''bourgeois ideology,'' the North Korean government contends.
In mid-September, one private doctor was put on public trial alongside two 20-something augmentees who all stood with their heads bowed for hours as they were excoriated by a prosecutor, Metro reported.
''Women living in a socialist system have been corrupted by bourgeois customs and have committed rotten capitalist acts,'' an unidentified prosecutor said, Metro reported.
Prosecutor's revealed at trial that those two augmented women were in fact subject to physical examination by government officials.
Illegal contraband displayed at the trial included smuggled silicone, medical tools, and bundles of cash which were seized by the North Hwanghae Province Security Bureau.
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...With God as my witness, I have no idea what to say next.
Willing to bet somehow the NK Commie Elite class don't get looked at.
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NN2N1,
I found it interesting that they were at least looking around for this in Pyongyang (AKA 'Fun City')- at least in theory, it's occupied only by approved party members. This could end up leading to some other purges - not like there's anything else to do there on Saturday nights.
The BLS report on September employment is postponed because of the federal govt shutdown.
The ADP company which processes payroll actions for over 10M employees reports a job loss for September. However, the 10M in their reports is a small fraction of the employment numbers that get reported to the BLS. Also, ADP has similar revision problems as the BLS (e.g, terminations that include a period of part time work, multiple jobs by the same employee).
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the G20 summit. This was announced by the president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, on October 2.
"One way or another, he will participate in the G20. In any case, Russia's participation will be at the appropriate level and as active as possible," Peskov noted at a briefing.
The Kremlin representative explained that Moscow is actively participating in all segments of the G20's work.
The G20 summit will take place on November 21–22 in Johannesburg.
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One of those headlines that in qualitatively true but may be quantitatively meaningless.
Hudson River can be 10k cubic feet per second at times. Dilution factor is enormous.
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They never say HOW radioactive the water to be released is. They also say people get their drinking water from the Hudson, which is true, but I am pretty sure that is all upstream of Peekskill.
Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: The situation in Myanmar as of 01/10/2025. This past month heavy fighting continued over a number of fronts as both sides tried to advance.
-Junta forces managed to recapture Kyaukme, open the roads to Myawaddy and Hpruso and extend their control in Bhamo… pic.twitter.com/6fZkR8t6iP
-Resistance forces captured the town of Banmauk, and held off a junta push from Magway towards Rakhine. By way of (partial) explanation, if you're not familiar with Burma: The Arakan Army (dark blue) is the Moslem bunch we've been seeing that caused the Rohingyas (Moslem Burmese) to get expelled. Basically their intent is to tear off the west coast of the country for their own Islamic Paradise.
The New Mon State Party: The Mon are related to the Khmers (Cambodians) and don't want to be ruled by a bunch of Burmans, since the Burmans aren't very good at ruling anybody.
The Kachins are a plurality in the Northernmost state of Burma, bordering China. Kachin troops formerly formed a significant part of the Burmese army. With the unilateral abrogation of the Union of Burma constitution by the Ne Win regime in 1962, Kachin forces withdrew and formed the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) under the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). The Kachin were promised independence in 1947, and took the promise seriously.
The Shan (green and yellow) are a Tai-speaking people, related to the Thai and the Lao. They would just as soon have their own state or accede to Thailand. They can figure that once they shut of the Burmans, a traditional enemy.
The Chin are Christian hillbillies living in Chin staling the border with India and Bangladesh. They speak often mutually unintelligible Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages, in the Sino-Tibetan group.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A trained mixed martial arts fighter beat an intruder black and blue for entering his sister's Florida home — as the suspect claimed he mistakenly walked into the residence after a night of drinking.
[NYPOST] Two twisted teens were caught on video waving massive machetes on a 
[NYPOST] He's the boob for the job.
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