Done In By A Feral Animal
Up on my soapbox again – No, on second thought, no I won’t.
Jorge Arbaiza was killed at a Houston McDonalds with his wife and grandkids watching. Caught in a crossfire.
If you encounter a rabid animal, do not approach it and keep a safe distance. The immediate and most important action is to avoid any contact with the animal. Shooting is the first, quickest and safest option. The only weapon safe to use in populated areas is a 12 gauge shotgun, because of its low velocity. An adequate shell is a low brass target load with size 6 or smaller shot. If need be, contact local animal control or wildlife authorities for assistance in handling the situation.
RIP, Mr. Arbaiza … and I wish your story wasn’t so common.
Instead of going to prison in 2019, (Antoine) Ridge was sentenced to two years’ probation.
“He failed probation miserably. He didn’t do anything,” said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers.
Instead of revoking the probation and sending him to prison, Ridge was granted an unsatisfactory end to his probation.
In 2023, he was charged aggravated assault of a family member with a deadly weapon.
“He has been wanted since the middle of 2023,” said Kahan. “He was a fugitive for a violent felony.”
In 2024, Ridge is convicted of two felonies and a misdemeanor in Okalooska County, Florida. He gets probation, which means while Ridge is on probation in Florida, he was a wanted fugitive in Texas.
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/katy-texas-mcdonalds-shooting-march-2025-suspect-criminal-history
You already knew what it looked like.
What a POS. Why does this nation tolerate such?
Son and I went to the gun range today. Shot some AR in 300Blackout then a couple boxes of 9mikemike from the Glox 17 Jen2. I wish nobody harm, but screw with someone else.
On a completely different and happier subject, if there are any opera buffs in this site’s community, there is a wonderful video about the magic of La Scala in Milan. I was “subjected” to a lot of opera as a child by my dad who loved it. I came to love it only later in life when Pavarotti started to sing. Now I’m grateful to my father. The video is from the BBC but, when not being political, they still produce some very good stuff. Here’s the link for anyone who might be interested:
https://www.bbc.com/arts/arts-in-motion?id=p0kymp75
I like the piece of music that follows that video … on the Rolex commercial.
Watched em both. I’m pretty sure the background music in the rolex thing was the same stuff at the end of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, in the round place in the cemetery.
Yup, it’s good music from Ennio Morricone who wrote much of the music for spaghetti westerns. He was an amazing composer.
“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” is one of my all-time favorite movies. Aging myself, I remember seeing it when it first came out. Someplace around here, I have the 45 of Hugh Montenegro’s cover of the theme song. I believe the Rolex cut is from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Utube dot com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
Sounds like you have a great music collection. Hard to imagine life without good books and music to feed the soul.
I’d like to say I have too many of both … but how can one have too much music and too many books? What I don’t have is enough bookcases … but I’ve plenty of music to share on the site.
Believe it or not that paragraph reads like something Gerard would have written.
Last night I was puttering in the workshop and pulled a box down from the shelf wondering what was inside. It was all my Ayn Rand books that I hadn’t seen for a couple decades.
No matter how many book shelves we have we always seem to have even more of them stashed in boxes.
In boxes, under beds, piled vertically in bookshelves and horizontally on coffee tables and bed side tables, stashed in closets, I finally tackled mine that include many of my parents’ books. I donated multiple boxes to the church, mostly duplicates and paperbacks.
Now doing floor to ceiling, wall to wall shelves to create a proper library to house favorites but it will still be a struggle to find a place for them all. Then it will become a problem, albeit a more organised one, for the next generation. I can’t bear to part with them.
Currently I am rereading DRAW The Greatest Gunfights of the American West by James Reasoner.
At least a couple of these fights occurred in time only a few miles from where I live.