Idiot of the Week: Woman Assaults Elderly Woman Over Parking Spot

Rowe stole Oulette's parking space

This week's idiot is from Salem, Massachusetts. Reporters found out that a woman named Donna Rowe has 83 adult arraignments against her... so it's no surprise she assaulted an elderly woman waiting for a parking space that Rowe took! Why Rowe assaulted the elderly woman reeks of mental illness. The elderly woman went and found another space and decided not to argue. Then she was hit in the head by Rowe. Here's the story:


DANVERS, Mass. (CBS) – It started over a handicap parking spot at the Market Basket in Danvers and ended with one of the women bleeding.

“I realize I was bleeding and I put my hand up on my head and there was just blood all over the place,” 72-year-old Elaine Moore-Oullette said.

Elaine Moore-Oullette hit in the head by Rowe

Moore-Oullette says her trip to Market Basket was a part of her Saturday to-do list and it was busy, so she waited for a spot.

“And this lady came booming around the corner and went right up to them,” she explained.

That’s when she says she tried to pull up to let 57-year-old Donna Rowe know she was there first. “And she gibbered and jabbered and took it. So I said I’m not gonna argue with her I’m gonna let her take it,” Elaine Moore-Oullette said.

She says she went to go into the store but only made it through one set of doors before she was attacked.

“She said something and I turned around this way and she just went … and hit me with something hard she bent my glasses the frame and everything,” she explained.

She says Market Basket employees rushed to help her.

Getting her a chair, paper towels, even a bag of frozen peas.

She says Rowe, left. According to court documents, a warrant for her arrest was issued.

Rowe was arraigned Monday on assault and battery charges. Court documents detail she has 83 adult arraignments.
(STORY and video: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/10/02/market-basket-parking-spot-fight-danvers/)

Serious Issue: President's Dangerous Rhetoric Against the Press Fueling Attacks

Attacks on the press continued as the President continued his tirade against all legitimate news organizations. (Fox News is NOT a news organization -it's a partisan farce).  He calls experienced Journalists "stupid," and "enemies of the people." - that's what dictators do. 

SAYING ABC NEWS REPORTER "DOESN'T THINK" -  On Oct. 1 When Trump called on journalist Cecilia Vega of ABC News during the Rose Garden press conference, he also denigrated her intelligence:

Trump Tells ABC Reporter 'I Know You're Not Thinking, You Never Do'

 WATCH THE SHORT VIDEO CLIP:  https://youtu.be/sTwyROCIbas


Here are MORE articles:

TRUMP CONTINUES ANTI-PRESS TIRADE On Aug. 30, President Donald Trump railed against the press during a campaign rally in Indiana, falsely claiming that TV crews at the event turn off their cameras when he attacks the media. His singled out The New York Times, CNN and NBC specifically — a continuation of his earlier tweetstorm in which he claimed NBC anchor Lester Holt doctored the tape of him admitting he fired former FBI director James Comey because of the Russia probe. During the event, a Trump volunteer tried to physically block a photojournalist from taking a picture of a protester. [HuffPost]

F.B.I. Arrests California Man After Threats to Kill Boston Globe Employees

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. said on Thursday that it charged a California man who threatened to kill employees of The Boston Globe after calling them the “enemy of the people” in a series of menacing phone calls.

Robert D. Chain, 68, was arrested on Thursday at his home in Encino, Calif. The F.B.I. said Mr. Chain owned several firearms and had recently purchased a small-caliber rifle.

Mark RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

Robert Chain left a Los Angeles courthouse after being released on bail

According to federal documents, Mr. Chain began calling The Boston Globe immediately after the newspaper announced on Aug. 10 that it would publish a coordinated editorial response to political attacks on the media. Prosecutors said the threats were in retaliation for The Globe’s leadership in the editorial campaign.

In one call to the paper’s newsroom, Mr. Chain threatened to shoot the newspaper’s employees in the head, the F.B.I. said. Three days later, in another call, Mr. Chain said: “You’re the enemy of the people.” Using profane language, he threatened to kill “every” Globe employee.

     Mr. Trump has embraced the phrase “enemy of the people.” Media executives have decried the expression, believing it a dangerous assault on the First Amendment, warning that it could incite acts of violence among the president’s most ardent supporters in the United States and embolden authoritarian political movements overseas.

On Thursday, the president once again used the phrase.

The F.B.I. said there were about 12 threatening calls made to the paper.

Calling Legitmate news Service CNN. 'fake news' again.

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Man accused of carrying out shooting at Maryland newspaper indicted

By Dakin Andone, CNN

Updated 2:33 PM ET, Sat July 21, 2018

(CNN)The man accused of carrying out last month's deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper has been indicted on five counts of first-degree murder, according to the prosecutor.

On Friday, an Anne Arundel County grand jury indicted Jarrod Ramos on 23 counts in connection with the June 28 shooting, State's Attorney Wes Adams said in a statement.

In addition to the five murder charges, Ramos faces a count of attempted first-degree murder and 17 other assault and weapons charges.

Ramos, 38, is accused of walking into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis and opening fire, killing five employees -- Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters -- and leaving two others wounded.

Jarrod Ramos, 38, has been indicted on 23 counts in last month's rampage.

The attack took place a few years after Ramos had unsuccessfully sued the newspaper for defamation. An article in the paper had chronicled Ramos' harassment of a former classmate on social media. 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/21/us/jarrod-ramos-indicted-capital-gazette-shooting/index.html 

Classic Novel: The Shadow #1: The Living Shadow by Maxwell Grant

I recently read a paperback novel from 1931 of the mysterious hero known as "The Shadow." - most people know him from old radio programs "The Shadow Knows..." He also had comic book lines from DC and other comics companies, though. The novel I read was  enjoyable and mysterious as the Shadow and those who work for him are- and you can appreciate the descriptions of things as they were in the 1930s when the novel was written.
   The Shadow rarely makes a known appearance,but disguises himself as others and appears in many scenes as a large shadow on a wall.  Worth a read!

ABOUT THE BOOK ITSELF: The Living Shadow was the first pulp novel to feature The Shadow. Written by Walter B. Gibson, it was submitted for publication as Murder in the Next Room on January 23, 1931, and published as "The Living Shadow" in the April 1, 1931 issue of The Shadow Magazine..

ABOUT THE STORY: The coin that meant death - or instant riches! Assisted by the fast legwork of young Harry Vincent and the efficient brain of Claude Fellows, the Shadow solves a series of seemingly unrelated murders and unmasks a ruthless arch villain. First episode of this legendary series

Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of a theater

Credit: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities

We love archaeology and recently learned that 300 ancient Roman gold coins dating back to 474 AD were found in the basement of a theater!
Here's the story:

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy.

The coins, at least 300 of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and were found in a soapstone jar unearthed in the basement of the Cressoni Theater in Como, north of Milan.


"We do not yet know in detail the historical and cultural significance of the find," said Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli in a press release. "But that area is proving to be a real treasure for our archeology. A discovery that fills me with pride."

Whoever placed the jar in that place "buried it in such a way that in case of danger they could go and retrieve it," said Maria Grazia Facchinetti, a numismatist -- or expert in rare coins -- at a Monday press conference.

"They were stacked in rolls similar to those seen in the bank today," she said, adding the coins have engravings about emperors Honorius, Valentinian III, Leon I, Antonio, and Libio Severo "so they don't go beyond 474 AD."

"All of this makes us think that the owner is not a private subject, rather it could be a public bank or deposit," Facchinetti added.

Archaeologists also uncovered a golden bar inside the jar. The coins were discovered last week, according to Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and were transferred to the Mibac restoration laboratory in Milan where archaeologists and restorers are examining them.

Darwin Award Winner: Man Dies atop an Electric Train

  This Darwin Award Winner recently happened in Boston. Sad and tragic, apparently, a baseball fan had too much to drink or he loved being a daredevil (usually what Darwin Award Winners are)... and made a fatal mistake. One no one should repeat.
 
DARWIN AWARD WINNER-  MAN DIES AFTER CLIMBING ATOP N.Y. TRAIN 

From Boston.com: 
    A New Hampshire man died Wednesday night after he climbed atop a train traveling through Westchester County, New York, and was apparently electrocuted by overhead electrical wires, officials said. 
   MTA Metro-North Railroad officials identified the man to Boston.com as Michael Vigeant, 24, of Hudson. A New Haven, Connecticut, bound train stopped around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday between stations in Larchmont and Mamroneck because of a power issue, according to MTA officials. A preliminary review of the scene showed a man — later identified as Vigeant — tried to climb atop the train and had come in contact with overhead wires.

    Vigeant was aboard the train with his brother, and the pair, together, both wearing Red Sox gear, attempted to get atop the car but a conductor was able to stop Vigeant’s brother, an eyewitness told the News.

A Great Netflix TV Show: Daredevil!

Actor David Cox who plays Daredevil

It's no secret that I love superheroes and recently found the TV show "Daredevil" on Netflix, and it's really, really well-done.
   My Comics Disclaimer: I only read comics about DC Comics heroes like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc. I do like Marvel superheroes,too, but don't read the comics but Marvel's Daredevil is a favorite. He's a blind attorney named Matt Murdoch by day and an agile fighting-machine at night with "radar vision" and incredibly heightened senses. He had a dad that was a prize fighter who died by not throwing a fight. He has the Catholic background thing and visits a church from time to time, reconciling battling thugs. He has some great supporting characters- Foggy Nelson the attorney he works with during the day, and Karen, their administrative/Office manager.

NEW 'DAREDEVIL' SEASON 3 PHOTOS RELEASED

The biggest baddest villain of the Marvel/Netflix connected universe is making his devastating return next month, and he looks more terrifying than ever in the newest teaser for Daredevil Season 3. Not to mention he's donning his most iconic look from the comics.

Daredevil in costume

 
 

DAREDEVIL SEASON 3 TRAILER:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-f7ryt_Qk
 

In the News: Police officer jumps off highway overpass to aid injured boy

Hastings-on-Hudson police officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo 

We support our police, firefighters and armed service members (just like all Democrats -despite what
is said) and have several friends who are some of the above.  It  seems like news usually only airs bad news stories about officers, so here's a good news story you  may not have heard about an officer!

Police officer jumps off highway overpass to aid injured boy

By CAITLIN O'KANE CBS NEWS August 7, 2018, 11:14 AM

A suburban New York police officer says she jumped from an overpass on Friday to save a 12-year-old boy's life, the Rockland/Westchester Journal News reports.

Officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo, of Hastings-on-Hudson, was on her way to work when she and other passers-by saw a boy jump off an overpass. He lay unconscious on the ground several feet below, and Ferreira Cavallo says she sprung into action. "Everything happened so fast and I think my adrenaline was pumping so high," she told the newspaper.

The officer says she immediately parked her car on the shoulder, grabbed first-aid materials and then jumped right off the overpass after the boy.

"I wasn't thinking too much," Ferreira Cavallo said. "He looked dead. I couldn't see anything other than blood. I thought to myself, 'He needs help. I need to help him.'"

She wasn't the only person to spring into action. An off-duty officer from a different department stopped to help, too.

The boy was unresponsive and the two women put a neck brace and splint on him and checked his airway. "Both me and her together, we were able to aid him and assist him," Ferreira Cavallo said. "We were talking to each other like we worked together," even though they'd never met before.

The other officer has been identified as Laura Yakaboski, a Yonkers police officer who just happened to be passing by at the right time, Yonkers Police Sgt. Jared Singer told CBS News via email.

Ferreira Cavallo says the boy opened his eyes but "wasn't really responding back" when she talked to him. An ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital for injuries were described as serious but non-life threatening. He suffered a broken arm, broken nose, and leg injuries, Westchester County police spokesman Kieran O'Leary told CBS News.

O'Leary said the boy fled from Andrus, which is a a private, nonprofit organization for children with severe emotional, behavioral and mental health issues, according to its website. Staff members ran after the boy before he jumped over a guardrail and off the overpass, which is about 35 feet high, O'Leary estimates.

Ferreira Cavallo told the newspaper that the risks she took didn't really hit her until the next day. "Friday, after this whole thing happened, I went to work and worked to 11 p.m.," she said. "That's when it hit me. I didn't realize how high it was. It seemed doable. It didn't seem that high."

"I thought I jumped over a brick wall, or a cement barrier. It was so fast. It was more like tunnel vision," Ferreira Cavallo said.

Ferreira Cavallo, 28, has received about six lifesaving awards in her seven years as a police officer, she says, and has also been recognized for undercover work with the FBI. After the weekend rescue, she said she was planning on visiting the boy in the hospital as he recovered. "I just want to give him a hug," she said.