{"id":146573,"date":"2023-08-29T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146573"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:14:47","slug":"silly-stupid-malicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146573","title":{"rendered":"Silly? Stupid? Malicious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems this Tuesday holds many things…herewith a few that caught my eye:<\/p>\n

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First up, a mind-boggling adder to the ceiling fan bite – in this case, researchers at Dell Hospital in Austin, TX have a new safety suggestion:<\/p>\n

Researchers from Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas, are warning parents and caregivers not to toss babies and young children into the air in rooms with ceiling fans.<\/p>\n

Some 2,300 children were treated in U.S. emergency rooms for head injuries between 2013 and 2021, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics this month.<\/p>\n

The average patient age was 5, with spikes at less than 1 year old and at 4 years old. And children under age 3 showed double the risk of being injured when lifted or tossed into the air, the research showed.’]<\/p>\n

The data came from ER records from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) for patients under 18 years of age<\/u> who were seen for ceiling-fan related injuries to the head, face, eyeball, mouth or ear.<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NEISS? Really? We are spending taxpayer money to monitor kid’s ceiling fan whacks? Apparently they deplore that the data isn’t specific enough to identify ethnicity etc. of the injured kids, so it isn’t White Privilege to blame – yet. But:<\/p>\n

The published study includes recommendations for policymakers and the U.S. Product Safety Commission to re-evaluate building and electrical codes, to consider adding warning labels to ceiling fans and\/or bunk beds and to improve the quality and clarity of medical data reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am sure that fan label whirring around at speed will stop stupid folks from tossing their kids into a moving fan, right?<\/p>\n

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I know where this one belongs. A third New Orleans reservist has been convicted of theft of government funds by filing claims to have stood Honor Guard at non-existent funerals.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, former Sgt. Derrick Branch pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit theft of government funds, according to a Justice Department press release and court records. Stars & Stripes first reported Branch\u2019s plea. Two other former soldiers, Staff Sgt. Lynea Sanders and Spc. Chantelle Davis, already pleaded guilty and were sentenced in June.<\/p>\n

According to federal prosecutors, former Staff Sgt. Christopher O\u2019Connor, while serving as an Army Reserve pay technician, submitted \u201cfraudulent\u201d funeral honors pay requests to the Army between 2013 and 2016 for himself and six other soldiers from the 377th Theater Sustainment Command\u2019s 441st Transportation Company. The total theft exceeded $100,000, an indictment said.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors said the funerals for which O\u2019Connor submitted pay requests were not authorized and did not occur. They and the three troops who have pleaded guilty alleged that the pay technician received a portion of their pay each time he submitted a false request.<\/p>\n

Army Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anything less than a Big Chicken Dinner and jail time for all is a gross insult.<\/p>\n

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A car thief who had been pursued by police two years ago had his charges dropped Friday. While he was fleeing, the pursuing cop ran a red light and in the resultant accident\u00a0 hit a third car, killing Leneal Frazier. (The aunt of who shot the infamous George Floyd footage. How’s that<\/em> for a tenuous connection to notoriety?)<\/p>\n

Brian Cummings, the former Minneapolis police officer involved in the chase, was sentenced in July to nine months in the county workhouse, with eligibility for electronic home monitoring in three months, after pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide in the high-speed chase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

James Jeremiah Jones-Drain, the driver who in my opinion should have been charged with felony murder (the death occurred as a result of his felony, right?) is still in the pokey, as apparently he has several other crimes and charges pending.\u00a0 The perp gets charges dropped, an innocent life is lost, and the COP is jailed and has his life ruined. I used to look forward to business trips to Minneapolis… no way now, and I cannot imagine why a cop would waste his life there.<\/p>\n

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