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A man drowned a few miles away yesterday. Apparently he was jumping off some low cliffs into the river, then he couldn't swim back to shore. I wonder if he hit the bottom when he jumped in; the river is still several feet lower than normal.

 

Bit by bit, our childhoods disappear from our surroundings, replaced by the new...

 

A lot of right - wingers probably got all up in arms about it.

Meanwhile one of the deans at a local university still has his job after he made a now - deleted facebook post calling people who voted for Biden "Ignorant, Anti - American, and Anti - Christian."

Reminder, the former is an anchor man, the latter is in charge of Young Adults at a university.

 

They're enclosing the commons?! How are your pigs to forage? Do they want 12 of your 14 children to move to the city, become a permanent, semi-criminal underclass, write hostile nursery rhymes, and enable the rise of capitalism?

The feckless blackguards!!

Meanwhile, on my Nextdoor app, a strange car recently pulled up to a local house. An unseen person from within the car threw a cup of ice over a fence and into someone's yard. The ice was then immediately consumed by a pair of dogs, who proceeded to fall asleep during a time that they are usually awake. The yard- and dog-owners are reportedly "concerned and confused."

 

Update: The dean resigned.

 

They're gonna replace a super old highway bridge that's literally crumbling in my town. Meanwhile, they'll add pedestrian access routes underneath it that don't currently exist.

But people will still bitch because OH NO TWO MINUTE DELAY DURING RUSH HOUR.

 

Dead deer in of the street mine intersectd with ,a big buck. Took the county 4 hours to get a crew out to clear it. Cop sitting in front of the house for a couple hours.

Also the wawa i get my coffee at before work sometimes has been closed for over a week because an employee tested positive for Covid.

 

If the tracker can be believed, a DPD van will stop in front of my building between 1551 and 1651 UK time.

Update - delivery at around 1552.

 

That's very local

 

Also pretty impressive - getting the time down to an hour slot. Amazon UK usually gives me a 3 hour slot and actual delivery time is about 90 minutes into that. However the latter have the tracking screen so you know when the van is on your street.

 

We had a situation like that this past weekend with a tractor trailer turning over that was carrying wild hogs. Took about a day to reopen that particular road again.

 

Lockdown is the ultimate killer of local news

Breaking lockdown does create some. On Sunday afternoon, the backdoor of a bar close to my office saw, shall we say, a significant bit of activity. And since the city's police have their HQ located across the street from that bar, a patrol decided to knock at the backdoor and check whether they were "invited"

 

Yeah - delivery and supermarket vans are the most exciting thing happening in my neighborhood these days (especially if you are expecting something).

 

It's been seven months since my neighbors, Chicago attorneys Leslie Ann Jones and her husband Thomas Johnson were stabbed to death in their home. No leads in the case have ever been made public, and conspiracy theories abound, from an assassination by Chicago police to a corporate killing by coal mining companies in the vein of Michael Clayton. A disgruntled client? A vengeful adversary? No one seems to have a clue, in particular not local homicide investigators.

 

Sometimes murder investigations can end up lasting for decades without foul play involved with the investigation itself. Sometimes they end up never going anywhere. But the tightness of the lid on the ongoing investigations makes me think they do, at least, suspect inside involvement.

 

On a related note, an arrest has been made in what is perhaps Rockford's most famous unsolved murder. After 33 years the man suspected of killing Tammy L. Tracey has been taken into custody. I remember her disappearance and the subsequent discovery of her remains very well, and for a long time I was very wary of the park she disappeared at and the forest preserve where she was found. It would be fair to say this case haunted a lot of people in this area, and frankly I'm stunned that they caught the guy after all this time.
https://wrex.com/2020/11/19/suspect-in-tammy-tracey-murder-arrested-after-33-years/

 

We live in a time when technology has progressed enough to make old evidence speak in ways uninimaginable only a couple of decades ago.

Remember that bar I mentioned that got closed for disrespecting lockdown? Well, I found that one street away from there, there's a restaurant that's officially shut down but functions in a clandestine manner for police, judges and lawyers

 

Finally Austria's most famous village changes it's name

Spoiler

https://orf.at/stories/3191410/

 

RIP to a real one.