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posted by CoolHand on Monday July 27 2015, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the backpage-bada$$ dept.

The Washington Post reports that an internet escort in Charleston, W.Va., may have saved her own life and the lives of many other women, when she shot and killed an alleged attacker who showed up at the woman's home on July 18 after answering an escort ad she had placed on Backpage.com. Neal Falls showed up with multiple pairs of handcuffs and a Subaru full of weapons and tools, including a shovel, knives, a bulletproof vest, a machete, bleach, trash bags, sledgehammers and axes. In Falls's pocket, police said, was a list of names of potential future victims, all of whom are sex workers who advertised on Backpage. Investigators are trying to determine whether Falls is responsible for a string of slayings targeting sex workers in Ohio and Nevada. "We are entering his DNA profile into CODIS, which is a national crime DNA database, to see if it matches any previous submissions from anywhere in the United States," says Steve Cooper, the Charleston Police Department's chief of detectives. "If his DNA has been located in any other crimes and his profile was entered into CODIS, there will be a match."

From the moment Falls showed up at the home of his latest alleged victim, he turned violent. "I knew he was there to kill me," says the victim who asked not to be identified. Falls pulled a gun on her and began strangling her. "When he strangled me he just wouldn't let me get any air. I grabbed my rake and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him. I just grabbed the gun and shot behind me." Local authorities are treating the shooting as an act of self-defense. According to Cooper, "when we find multiple sets of handcuffs, a machete, an axe, a bulletproof vest and container of bleach, the first thing that comes to an investigator's mind is, 'This is a serial killer kit.'"


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:47PM (#214562)

    A bigot is a person that refuses to change beliefs, prejudices, and hatred when evidence to the contrary is provided. Person A makes a claim. Person B refutes them. Person A ignores evidence and continues their claim. Person A is a bigot. No ad hominem, in fact the opposite. I am saying that he is so hatefully irrational, he does not even recognize (or worse, accept) when proven wrong.

    This has happened several times in a row just on this thread. Note the lack of knowledge in markup language and "quoting" people with a ">". A clear signature as that is not a social norm on news sites. Using markup language is.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:15AM (#214611)

    A bigot is a person that refuses to change beliefs, prejudices, and hatred when evidence to the contrary is provided. Person A makes a claim. Person B refutes them. Person A ignores evidence and continues their claim. Person A is a bigot.

    And where are these claims, contrary evidence, refutations, and ignorings of claims? This is not an example of Poe's Law, I assure you. All I see is you attacking the other person because they disagree with you, in which case the term you're looking for is "SJW" not "bigot".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:41AM (#214628)

    > Person B refutes them. Person A ignores evidence

    You seem confused by the definitions of "refute" and "evidence." Random points that fail to address the issue aren't refutations or evidence, they are red herrings.

    Show me one video on youtube of a 9/11 conspiracy. Not a discussion, not reporting, not a re-enactment, a video of actual people committing conspiracy.

    Here's ten videos of crowds of people actually doing the USA chant, not re-enactments, the actual events. There are literally thousands more.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IoQ-qI81s#t=0m30s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrl7a6p7P5U#t=0m7s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpMxF20x5wk#t=0m8s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1YQDjpuY_U#t=4m50s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-axGnkX1g#t=2m18s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw4Q96tCc5U [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pfllMiLag [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0N58djs1HM#t=0m31s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8eUuBUOnjE#t=20s [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cu-Eyh-k0#t=40s [youtube.com]

    So, who is the one refusing to change their beliefs in the face of actual evidence to the contrary here?

    > Using markup language is.

    Assburger FTL.