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1. Kanawha sues to enter unkempt trailer park

County officials have been getting complaints about the Aultz Trailer Park near Sissonville High School since 2004, according to a court petition filed Friday in Kanawha Circuit Court. Officials have been trying to force owner Mary Aultz to clean up the park, which neighbors say is overgrown and rat-infested.

Nearly a dozen men ambushed a Citronelle trailer park carrying several weapons including a sawed off shotgun.

The bomb was found under a pickup truck that was on fire. Police were in the area of the Laurel Trailer Park when they were flagged down by someone claiming their truck was on fire. After putting out the fire police found a Mountain Dew bottle bomb, saying the cold temperatures helped keep it from exploding.

The Sheriff's Office says Bobby Joe Baker, 62, is accused of rape and incest against the nine-year-old victim, and attempted sexual assault involving the 10-year-old.

A man and his mother pulled their guns on two secret service agents two week ago in Chocowinity.

This time the controversy surrounds a flag with President-elect Barack Obama's image on one side and the Confederate flag on the other.

According to the complaint, white co-workers called Johnson "lazy," "fat" and "dumb" followed by a racial slur.

Williams said that the suspect was a slender white male who was approximately six feet tall. The suspect was wearing jeans, a gray hoodie with the hood up and a rebel flag bandana that covered his mouth and nose.

A maintenance worker for the Marshall Independent School District has been fired for reportedly attaching a picture which showed a black man hanging by a noose on a Christmas tree in the MISD maintenance department building, a school board member said.

"We were all standing at the end of the trailer," Looney said, recalling how she and relatives gathered together for safety when they heard bullets fly in the neighborhood off Danielsville Road.

"It was scary," she said.

Celebratory gunfire is fairly common in some Clarke County neighborhoods on New Year's Eve - a tradition that could leave someone hurt or killed as a wayward bullet hurtles back to Earth.

Dependents
1. Do they have dependents?
The dead body may not be your only victim just so you know. The ramifications of taking somebody out are usually fairly wide and involve more than just law-enforcement. If they have life insurance do you want these dependents to benefit? If the person you are after happens to be a good parent do you want to rob their child (who presumably you have nothing against) of that? Obviously these are things you need to decide on a case-by-case basis.

2. Might these dependents find you and seek revenge at some point?
Granted this is the stuff of movies, but technically it's possible. They might not come hunting for you with a gun, but if they know who you are you can be certain that they will never forget. They will testify at parole hearings as to how you robbed them of the most important person in their lives etc.. In short, they can be a major ass-pain.

3. Would these dependents actually be better off without their parent/benefactor?
Sometimes they would be, and if you decide that yes, they would be, it still won't matter to whoever they leave behind. People don't really care about the quality of their loved ones. I am saying that you should not expect to be thanked even if you did do them a favor.

Effort
4. Is it worth the risk of having your freedom and possibly your life taken away?
Is a moment's satisfaction for some minor wrong worth having something on your hands that would probably get you either imprisoned or killed? Weigh the risk versus the gain. Also, is it the kind of thing that is likely to happen again? If it is, then your choice is between learning to handle it peacefully or embarking on a career of killing people for slighting you.

5. Will you profit in any way from this killing?
Along with your satisfaction, is there money, or resumed safety or a clearly stated message to be had? Have you accomplished anything meaningful? Changed your life? If not then what was the point?

6. Are you smart enough pull this off?
Have you ever done anything illegal and gotten away with it? Something that requires keeping your head and not making mistakes while under the extreme stress of potential horrendous consequences. You probably should not jump straight to the big one without knowing how you could handle something else first.

Stomach strength
7. Can you handle the sight of a dead person?
It's pretty dramatic the first time and fascinating a few times after that. If you have no idea what a dead body looks like, you should probably go find out before you actually put yourself into the position of making one. If you are not familiar with them then there is a good chance that you will just freeze up and stare mindlessly at it thinking about the enormity of your actions, wasting get-away time.

8. Will you be overtaken by remorse/pity at some point in the act?
Are you a feeler of pointless emotions that come after they might have been useful? Well, you may either want to get rid of those or choose not to kill people.

9. Are you familiar with violence?
Let me give you a tip: it's not at all like in the movies. When you are in it it's surreal and fast and can hurt. You have to be willing, move without hesitation, and show no mercy. Can you do it? I would suggest familiarity with real-life violence first, just so you know what you are getting into.

Foresight
10. Are you good at planning things?
If you cannot look ahead and see how it's going to be then you will probably fail. It's about being ready, and knowing what to do when the time for action comes. You need plan Bs and escape routes. This is the kind of thing only fools do on impulse, and fools tend to get caught. Do you know how the police work? Do you know how to handle an interrogation when you are the prime suspect?

Image via WikipediaDo you think you are pure man-shaped awesome when in truth you are a tired journey-man actor who can't find the motivation to do real work if in deed you ever had any? Horatio Caine as played by David Caruso represents self-delusion to me and is a message to men as to what they want to avoid as they grow older. As you get older and are forced to settle more and more, the temptation is to think that you are cooler for what you have accomplished than you actually are. Caruso is not a handsome man, but you get the distinct impression that he thinks he is, you also get the impression that he has a set definition of "cool", himself being the embodiment of it.

Older guys, like Mr Caruso/Caine, like young chicks, not just because they are young and not a constant reminder of aging and death, but because they are usually broke. A broke woman is going to think you are relatively wealthy and a good provider and "successful" if, at 50 you make $45,000 and drive a new Tacoma. Older women tend to have slightly higher standards for success. Guys want something to fit into the self-delusion, not only do you get a girl that looks up to you, you get to pretend that you have upgraded.

It's slower, with fewer options, and a new operating system that you are not so familiar with, but the case is pretty and it's more user-friendly.

Horatio Caine as a written character is not particularly smart, he just happens to deal with really stupid suspects while armed with technology from 20 years in the future. You get the feeling that he thinks he is so smart he has the ability to read minds, when really all he has is the ability to read the minds of badly-written fools. This is another aspect of what happens to you when you get old. You get smarter, but only by default. Gus Frerotte is your real life example of this. If you survive in your job long enough you get to be decent at it just based on longevity alone. All the people who started out good have long moved onto better things, in the mean time you have learned how to get by well enough to keep your job and absorbed all kinds of things just by being in the same room rather than by actually trying to learn.

Paranoia
It's only a bad thing if the people around you aren't up to anything, then it's delusion, however, most people have at least one person around who is bent on their destruction, the key is figuring out who. If you are paranoid you already know this and probably know who you enemies are. Paranoiakeeps you from being caught flatfooted when hostilities are become open and keeps you from being vulnerable when attacks do happen. Sneaky assholes can't one-up you when you know exactly what they are.

A bad temper
The more explosive the better. Even people who aren't exactly afraid of you recognize how counter-productive it is to piss you off and avoid doing it, but most, especially those terrifiedof outright, aggressive confrontation, will be afraid of you. Ordinarily, being highly emotional does not serve you well, but if that emotion is pure, genuine rage, then it can useful when in certain situations, namely as a demonstration of you being willing to humiliate and/or kill anybody who crosses you. If it gets to the point where you literally, truly cannot control yourself all the better since the people around you will realize that even you can stop you from possibly bringing a gun to work one day. There is no "better nature" to appeal to.

OCD
Your house will be clean, and you will be a workaholic which makes it possibly the most useful disorder you can have in the 21st century. Workaholism, contrary to popular opinion, does not make for a wasted years and regrets in old age. If you have kids you aren't missing anything. It provides relatively instant gratification, and a diversion from the rest of your unsatisfyinglife.

On the other side:

Panic/Anxiety
It's humiliating for one thing, and it means that you are useless in certain situations. Uncontrollable panic leads to rash self-protective actions which usually have the opposite effect in the long run. It's so debilitating that you will at some point medicate and that usually makes you useless in other ways.

You get invited to a Christmas-party with actual celebrities. Scarlett Johannson is there. Somehow you two meet up after you have had some drinks in you and are actually relaxed enough to be charming with a famous actress. You wind up in her hotel room.

Creepy
She starts calling you daddy. It's a little strange, but it's Scarlett Johansson. And lots of women do that, right? She has a few issues, but maybe she will let you help her get over them.

CreepyX2
She goes into the bathroom and comes out wearing diapers and nothing else. Ok, weird, but the Internet has introduced to lots of fetishes that you did not know existed. You think of yourself as open-minded. This is her thing, and while you do not get off on it yourself, you do not rule out the possibility that an otherwise normal human being could be into it. Besides, it's Scarlett Johansson.

CreepyX3
She squats down and takes a takes a shit in the diaper then asks you, in a high-pitched little-girl voice to change it. Things now having become surreal, you continue on in a daze and do as she asks. Having wiped her ass you have completely lost your interest in sex. You decide to tell her that you will be taking a rain-check on the rest of the night's activities but before you can speak she asks you to feed her, to get her bottle from the refrigerator. Not sure how much weirder the night can get you decide to oblige. It is Scarlett Johansson, after all. In the refrigerator there is a baby-bottle full of what appears to be semen.

CreepyX4
You ask her, is this what I think it is? This looks like cum you say, not even wanting to be holding the bottle. Between slurps at the plastic nipple she says yes, that's exactly what it is. It's your semen. She has been stalking you for years, having her private detectives locate all your used condoms and emptying the sink traps at your mom's house. You were invited to the party earlier that evening for a reason. She has always loved you, madly, desperately, and now that you are finally together you never have to be apart ever again. Why? You ask, panicking slightly.

CreepyX5
You are her brother, that's why. You were meant for each other, to be with each other, like the Pharaohs and their sister-queens of ancient Egypt. Here is the proof. She hands you your real birth certificate and notarized adoption papers stating that you are, in fact, adopted, and she is, in fact, your sister. What's more she says, I have already impregnated myself with your seed. We are going to raise our child-nephew together. You turn and run for the door, certain that you are going insane. You feel the pinprick at the back of your neck, your hand goes to it and you feel the tranquilizer dart.

"You will come around. One way or another." You hear her say before you fade into unconsciousness.

John Wayne Gacy
"I'm just as lovable and jokeable as I was back then," Gacy said. "I don't sit around worrying about the death penalty and things like that…. If you believe you've lived your life the right way, then you do not have nothing to fear."

Ted Bundy
”I do. I can’t say that being in the Valley of the Shadow of Death is something I’ve become all that accustomed to, and that I’m strong and nothing’s bothering me. It’s no fun. It gets kind of lonely, yet I have to remind myself that every one of us will go through this someday in one way or another.”

Aileen Wuornos
"I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the Rock and I'll be back like 'Independence Day' with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all. I'll be back."

"I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too," Wuornos said. "There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system."

Joel Rifkin
”When I was arrested it was a great relief, I remember sleeping on the floor as soon as the interrogation was over. I slept for a couple of days in the lockup.”

Dennis Rader
"I know a lot of the police terminology. I know how they do things. So it yeah, it’s kinda a bonding type thing, you know.

"I enjoyed it. And once the confession was out and I admitted who I was, then, then the bonding really started. You know, I just really opened up and you know we shared jokes and everything else. It’s just like we were buddies."

Richard Ramirez
''You don't understand. You are not capable of it. I am beyond good and evil. Repeat not the errors of the Night Prowler and show no mercy.''

Craig Price
"I am being provoked beyond all endurable standards," he writes to me. "These people are fascinated with raw violence and I am absolutely sure these drama freaks are trying their hardest to coerce me into an unrestrained demonstration of brutality."

Arthur Shawcross
"I thought I was killing my mother.  The things I was eating, I thought it was my  mother."

Edmund Kemper
Interviewer: "What do you think, now, when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?"

Kemper: "One side of me says, 'Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, ‘I wonder how her head would look on a stick?'"

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