This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • 13-year-old Ohio student planned school shooting

    Mick sends us a link to the story of a 13-year-old Ohioan who planned a school shooting “bigger than anything this country’s ever seen”, but at the last moment, on February 20th, decided instead to kill himself with the .22 caliber pistol he’d brought to school.

    A portion of an entry [on his phone] dated Feb. 19 reads:

    “(T)his will be bigger than anything this country’s ever seen, … I’ve been planning this for a few weeks and thought about it a few months, I will never be forgotten I’ll be a stain in American history and the Simons history, it’s going to be so mutch [sic]. They won’t expect a thing.”

    He left the school’s restroom with gun in hand, then, inexplicably, walked back in the restroom and took his own life.

    Police have yet to discover any further evidence to what might have led Simons to change his mind from conducting a school shooting to taking his own life. It doesn’t appear anyone else was aware of Simons’ plans, the station reported.

    He claimed that he was fascinated by school shootings, especially the 1999 Columbine tragedy that happened during the Clinton-era “assault rifle ban”. I’m not naming the shooter on purpose to rob him of his anticipated fame.

  • Andrew Gaboury; phony wounded soldier

    Andrew Gaboury; phony wounded soldier

    One of our ninjas found this article about Andrew Gaboury, a history teacher at Coyle Cassidy High School in Taunton, Massachusetts. Gaboury claimed to school personnel and to students that he was a wounded war hero of the War Against Terror – an Intelligence Analyst with a Bronze Star Medal and two Purple Heart Medals – medals that he bought on the internet.

    It was a big deal at the school and he was featured in the student newspaper in an article headlined “Gaboury goes from military to history classroom.”

    “I’m so pleased to have a man like Mr. Gaboury to be on our staff. He had a lot of experiences and was well educated. He even served for our country’s military,” Principal Kathleen St. Laurent said in that article.

    Yeah, well, someone tipped off the local news that he wasn’t telling the truth, so they asked the National Personnel Records Center about Gaboury;

    Reporter Ted Daniel contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in St. Louis by phone and was told no record for him could be found.

    A more thorough search was initiated, but while awaiting the results Gaboury came clean in an email.

    “I made up time in the Army. Over the intervening years I added details as people asked. I am deeply sorrowful for this and did not see a way out,” he wrote.

    Well, one way out would have been to keep that BS off of his application for employment, but he didn’t, so the school canned his lying ass.

  • William George Huurman, Jr; phony SEAL

    William George Huurman, Jr; phony SEAL

    Our partner Don Shipley shares his work on this goofy-looking fellow, William George Huurman, Jr who is a bail bondsman in Kissimmee, Florida. He claims to be a Navy SEAL and that he served in Team 2, but that he represents SEAL Team 7 because that is where the Navy tosses all of their “SEAL Jews, Christians and Muslims that were disowned by SEAL Team for being religious.” There are tattoos involved;

    He’s wearing Tapout shirts so you know he’s legit. Huurman says that his SEAL code name is “Oakley-H” which is tattooed on his leg.

    When confronted, Huurman has a “Naval Confidentiality Agreement” because his DD214 is so classified (Mr Shipley assures us that there is no such thing as a “Naval Confidentiality Agreement” for service in the SEAL Teams). Huurman claims that he’s a “SEAL of God” and he tries to “save” the folks that he takes into custody before he turns them over to the police.

    Anyway, the Navy responded to the FOIA request with a resounding “Who?”

    Huurman says that he changed his name after his service, but no, there is no record of him changing his name.

    Mr Shipley recognized that Mr Huurman was too ugly to be a SEAL, so he asked the Army for any records. The Army responded “Oh, that guy”. Huurman had an impressive 21 days of service at Fort McClellan hoping, but failing, to become a Military Policeman;

    Mr Shipley tells us that the SEALs would never accept someone that ugly and with that stupid name in their presence.

  • Friday morning feel good stories

    Friday morning feel good stories

    From Lee County, Florida;

    The robbery happened around 6:28 p.m. on the 13000 block of Hampton Park Court, deputies said. The victim searched for the suspects and later found a red 2002 Honda Accord as the suspects seemed to be leaving from another attempted burglary.

    When the victim approached the vehicle he recognized his stolen gym bag inside and removed the keys from the vehicle so the suspects were unable to drive off, deputies said.

    A nearby homeowner, Brad Davidson, was alerted by his barking dogs, exited his home with a firearm in hand and ordered the suspects to remain until deputies arrived, deputies said. The suspects complied and remained at the scene.

    “I was holding them at gunpoint,” Davidson said. “They were pretty much scared, they weren’t going anywhere.”

    From Greeley, Colorado;

    The man who police say was shot by the resident of a Greeley home he broke into Feb. 19 now faces a felony charge as he continues to recover in the hospital.

    Timothy Fetters, 34, is charged with one count of burglary of a dwelling, a third-degree felony, according to a news release from Sgt. Joe Tymkowych of the Greeley Police Department. According to the release, the Weld District Attorney’s Office filed the charge Wednesday.

    The release stated that Fetters at 5:23 a.m. tried to break into a house in the 1700 block of 15th Street. The occupants of that home, Dorothy and Thomas Peterson, heard him break in and discovered he broke a window in the home. When they investigated, the release stated, they found Fetters in the back porch area of the house. Thomas Peterson held Fetters at gunpoint with his handgun while Dorothy Peterson called 911, according to the release. While police were on the way to the house, Fetters moved toward Thomas Peterson in an aggressive manner, the release stated, and Thomas Peterson shot him once in the torso. When police arrived, they found Fetters collapsed outside the home. They also found evidence that supported the Petersons’ account of the morning.

  • Canadians charge Peter Toth

    Canadians charge Peter Toth

    Our partners at Stolen Valour – Canada tell us that Peter Toth goes to court tomorrow to answer for parading about like a US Marine Corps hero on Remembrance Day last year. From Red Deer News Now;

    Peter Toth, 58, faces one count under Section 419 of the Criminal Code of Canada for unlawful use of military uniforms or certificates. The case is scheduled for a brief appearance in Red Deer court tomorrow.

    Toth is accused of impersonating a U.S. Military veteran by wearing attire and medals he did not actually earn to Remembrance Day ceremonies at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School, G.W. Smith Elementary and Aspen Heights Elementary last November.

    Stolen Valour Canada contacted rdnewsNOW with their concerns that Toth was not as authentic as he was letting on. The group pointed out several flaws with the uniform he was wearing in pictures from the ceremonies, including wearing unauthorized camouflage and having pins and rank badges in wrong places.

    “Based on our concerns, we contacted USMC experts, and they agree that this individual was likely never a Marine, and he is portraying one very poorly,” the group said at the time.

    SV-C tell us that they’ll have a few ninjas in the courtroom to keep an eye on things.

    From SV-C;

    UPDATE – BOGUS MARINE Peter Miklos TOTH – UPDATE

    The case has been adjourned ’til 21 March 2018 so, Mr Toth can confer with duty counsel as per the judge’s orders.

    The judge acknowledged the vets in the front row…

  • 67 shots fired in 15 seconds

    Fox News reports that seven San Francisco police officers fired 65 rounds at homicide suspect Joel Armstrong who was inside an RV at a homeless encampment. Armstrong fired back twice and no one was injured in the massive exchange of gunfire.

    The San Francisco Police Department said the shooting happened on Feb. 17 in the city’s Mission Bay neighborhood when officers confronted 31-year-old homicide suspect Joel Armstrong inside an RV at a homeless encampment.

    Armstrong allegedly shot two men the day before during a carjacking in the city’s Panhandle neighborhood, killing one of them…Armstrong eventually turned himself in to police, and has been charged with murder, carjacking and eight counts of attempted murder.

    The videos were released at a town hall meeting about the shooting, where residents expressed concerns about the number of homeless encampments in the area.

    Good thing that they didn’t kill or injure the murderer.

  • Brigadier General Norman Cooling suspended

    Brigadier General Norman Cooling suspended

    According to Military.com, Brigadier General Norman Cooling, who was until recently legislative assistant to Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert Neller, has been suspended from those duties for creating a “hostile work environment”.

    Brig. Gen. Norman L. Cooling was removed after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis received a request from Congress to investigate his behavior, according to a news release. The Senate Armed Services Committee asked Mattis directly to review the command climate Cooling had created during his tenure at the post, officials said.

    The office of the secretary of defense is now investigating the allegations.

    A Marine Corps spokesman, Maj. Brian Block, said the length of the investigation would be determined by OSD; there’s no defined time limit to Cooling’s suspension.

  • Allante Martanaze Arrington sentenced for bomb threats

    The Virginian-Pilot reports that Petty Officer 3rd Class Allante Martanaze Arrington was sentenced to 15 months in prison for making anonymous phone bomb threats on US Navy facilities;

    According to court documents, Arrington, who was most recently assigned to the dock landing ship Oak Hill, called in a series of threats Aug. 2 and Aug. 17 to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach and Naval Station Norfolk. Among other things, the boatswain’s mate claimed there were bombs on the Oak Hill, the Gunston Hall and the Whidbey Island.

    The Aug. 2 threats resulted in lockdowns and evacuations that affected ships and pier operations.

    The Navy later said none of the bomb threats was credible.

    I guess the phone companies cooperated to nail the little pogue;

    Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents were able to link Arrington to the calls with the help of Verizon Wireless, which handles Little Creek’s phones, and T-Mobile, Arrington’s carrier.

    Verizon provided investigators15 possible phone numbers, all of which were associated with T-Mobile.

    In turn, T-Mobile provided information about the exact calls, and that the caller used a special code to mask his identity.

    The Navy later identified Arrington as the cellphone’s owner. In an interview Aug. 17, Arrington acknowledged to NCIS he owned it.

    He made 12 calls over two days.