Drunk Guy

Alright, so I know that I usually blog about criminal stories that I am sincerely concerned about because I feel that people should be aware of dangerous crimes that happen every day. However, this is kind of just for fun. Kind of.
As I was skimming through the justice pages on the CNN website, I found this bizarre story and I could not help but blogging about it. According to a report from CNN, man has been arrested with attempting to resuscitate a road killed opossum. Yes, you read that correctly, an opossum. Apparently, the man was highly intoxicated and was trying to save the animals life. The problem was that the animal had been flattened by a car and was already dead. It was not mentioned exactly how the man was trying to resuscitate the animal and I would rather not know the facts of the story. I can imagine that it was a pretty gross looking scene. He was charged with public drunkenness. I guess you really cannot be charged with trying to save the animal, but I am not exactly what the law is in regards to road killed opossums.
I guess I would have to say that the moral of this story is watching the amount of alcohol that you consume? Actually, I have no idea what the moral of this story is. There are some crazy people out in this world. Hopefully, the man sobered up and doesn’t attempt this again.

High School Drama?

In high school, I remember my biggest fears were what my plans were going to be over the weekend. There were no scandals involving teacher student relationships or sexting during classes. Whatever that means. These days it is impossible to open the CNN website with finding some horrible incident involving high school students. Kids are shooting up their school and bring illegal weapons to class with them. We never even worried about any of these things when I was growing up. The biggest news was maybe who was smoking a joint under the football stadium, but that was the worst of it.
Recently, I was reading a news article on CNN that involved nine students that were arrested for a nine month event that ended in a student committing suicide. She was found hanging in her parent’s apartment on January, 14, after an awful day of being harassed by her peers in school. Apparently the harassment was witnessed by other students and EVEN faculty members.
I remember that girls in high school were extremely brutal to each other, but this draws the line. Girls are constantly putting other girls down and diminishing their self esteem. It was been a problem for decades, but this is unheard of. This is not even the first case of a young female student that was committed suicide directly as a result of bullying.
The fact that faculty member witnessed the harassment and did not report it is beyond me. I think that these employees need to be held accountable of their negligent actions or lack of. It baffles me than a child can be so evil toward another human being that can result in this horrific event.

Walmart

A sixteen year old male was arrested on Friday after announcing on the speaker intercom that all the blacks in the store need to leave. I understand the right of people to express how they feel about others, but this just seems like an act of pure evil. I realize that many people are raised in racist families or discriminate because of an act of betrayal that was provided from a particular race, but this is ridiculous. It wasn’t noted whether the person was an employee or not, but I am assuming that he was not. I have heard my share of racial jokes and yes I have laughed at a few, but I don’t understand how people can discriminate against people that they can never meet. If you just think about all of the relationships that could be lifelong that they are missing out on. I have really never personally felt discriminated against and therefore cannot even imagine how awful it must feel. Hopefully the individual will be punished and it is still possible to change his mind about the way he feels toward people. This is just one of the dozens of times that Wal-Mart has been in the middle a discrimination case. There has been lawsuits against Wal-Mart presenting evidence that women employees where making less money than male employees with the same job title. Large corporations, such as Wal-Mart needs to be extremely careful when it comes to cases of discrimination because they can get very expensive.

Aruba Update

The F.B.I has reopened the Natalee Holloway case after five years with no new evidence. A couple that was on a cruise ship went scuba diving while the boat was dock in Aruba. The diving snapped a few photos under water and realized that one of the photos resembled the remains on a human. Aruban authorities never convicted anyone of the disappearance on Holloway and said there was no way of getting a conviction without a body to prove that she was murdered. Even after the main suspect admitted to the murder on camera twice, he was never been convicted. Hopefully if the remains are indeed the skeletal remain of Natalee Holloway, and then maybe the trial can be reopened and the case can be solved once and for all. I am a strong believer that the truth will always come out in the end. I can’t help but wonder whether or not the main suspect, Joran Van Der Sloot is panicky and what really happened that night. It is completely possible that the entire event was an accident that he panicked after Natalee died. I can understand how afraid a person can be in a situation such as this, but covering up a crime such as murder is a felony. In this case, it makes me believe that Van Der Sloot was the main cause of the murder. If the picture turns out to the legit and they are in fact the remains of Natalee Holloway, it would be like finding a needle in a hay stack and the truth was meant to be set free.

Spring Break

As it gets closer and closer to spring break, students are packing up their swimsuits and heading to the beach. College trips are a carefree time to hangout out with friends and drink a lot of beer. Many students are unaware of the dangers that lurk in every corner of the fun filled week off school. Living in Arizona, the closest beach we have in Rocky Point, Mexico. Many students gather in Mexico every year to stay on the beach and drink way too much alcohol. Not only are students putting themselves into a strange environment, most of them don’t know the language. If something happens to a student in Mexico, it can be extremely hard to translate the problem.
Recently, a California family has gone missing near the Mexican border. Joseph McStay, 40, his wife, Summer, 43, and their two children, Gianna, 4, and Joseph, 3, have not been seen or heard from since February 4. Police discovered the family’s SUV, two blocks from the Mexican border. The car was emptied and the police believe that a criminal act was involved. They don’t believe that the disappearance had anything to do with the Mexican drug cartel because the family had no link to them.
Whenever you are going on a vacation or are in a place that you are not familiar with, you need to take extra precaution to keep yourself safe. Especially if you are going into a foreign country with a completely different legal system. Danger is watching you and just waiting for you to stop watching for it.

Natalee Holloway

Many people remember the case of the missing teenager, Natalee Holloway, on May 30, 2005. Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with a teenage boy while on her senior trip in Aruba. The main suspect in the case was Joran Van Der Sloot, but he was never convicted of the crime. Since the disappearance, Van Der Sloot, has been secretly tape confessing to the murder and dumping the body in the ocean. When the tapes became public, he told prosecutors that he lied and that he was just trying to impress a friend. Impress? What kind of a friend would be impressed that a person had committed murder. After Van Der Sloot was arrested in the connection of the crime and I think that he has felt like he has become famous from it. All the publicity over the case has made him a national attention holder.
Recently, there has been a release of a television interview, where Van Der Sloot has admitted to the murder again. He tells reporters that he dumped Holloways body in a large swamp, just north of the island. Now prosecutors are skeptical to whether he is telling the truth. Because of the size of the swamp, investigators don’t believe that they will be able to solve the case of the missing teenager. Van Der Sloot has still not been charged.
I understand that there is an extreme lack of evidence in this case, but a confession is a confession. At this point, even if he is not guilt, he should be charged with something. Interference with a police investigation maybe? I feel that the court has information that they are with holding from the public and that this case should have been solved.