The football fan who hosted a party that ended with three of his friends dead at his Kansas City rental property was “asleep on the couch” for two days while their loved ones frantically tried to contact him, his lawyer said.
David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36 had gathered at a house rented by Jordan Willis on the afternoon of Jan. 7 to watch their favorite football team play their last game of the regular season.
The three visitors were found dead at the NW 83rd Terrace home two days later, and only after the fiancée of one of the victims broke into his home and found the bodies, according to a friend’s Facebook post.
“He was asleep. He was asleep on the couch. The last memory he has is of them leaving [out] the front door, he doesn’t know what happened, um, with them, until you know, when the police came Tuesday night to his house,” Willis’ lawyer John Picerno told The Post about the Missouri mystery.
He added that Kansas City investigators had said there was no foul play and they were not investigating his client in connection with the bizarre and inexplicable deaths.
“They’ve said that there is no foul play, they don’t suspect it, and it’s not treated as a homicide investigation,” the lawyer said.
“This case is 100% NOT being investigated as a homicide,” Kansas City police Capt. Jake Becchina told Fox News Digital.
The Carrot Invasion
Huckster continue to Hucksterate
‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth, for the second year running, is nearing apocalypse, a science-oriented advocacy group said, pointing to its famous “Doomsday Clock” that shows 90 seconds till midnight.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement Tuesday rating how close humanity is from ending. It cited nuclear threat in Russia’s war on Ukraine as well as the Oct. 7 attack in Israel and war in Gaza, worsening climate-related disasters and the danger of generative artificial intelligence.
“Last year, we expressed amplified concern by moving the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been,” said Rachel Bronson, CEO of the Bulletin group. “The risks from last year continue with unabated veracity and continue to shape this year.”
Starting in 1947, the advocacy group used a clock to symbolize the potential and even likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. After the end of the Cold War, it was as close as 17 minutes to midnight. In the past few years, to address rapid global changes, the group has changed from counting down the minutes until midnight to counting down the seconds.
The group said the clock could be turned back if leaders and nations worked together, and specifically noted powerful countries that have the capacity to do so, including the United States, China and Russia.
The Most Incredible Bigfoot Encounter Ever Told
Pie? I’m noticing a trend.
Sounds like drugs were involved. One guy asleep for two days, and the others passed out and froze to death.
I blame Taylor Swift.
All they had to do was stay.
(Inside, anyway).
I knew it was trouble when they walked out.
long story short it was a bad time — but I suppose tis the damn season.
at least they’re probably beer drinkers — so they didn’t end up with champagne problems.
Taking drugs and freezing to death in the backyard was better than the alternative:
Watching Blaine Gabbert play against the Chargers.
I bet those lads wish they could go back to December when it was warmer outside.
Does Mojeaux have an alibi?
I din do nuffin!
90 seconds to midnight
The hand that threatens doo ooo ooo ooom
Two minutes is way more catchy.
These doomsday clock people are embarrassing.
Why not 9 seconds to midnight? Let’s get it over with.
Big bada boom.
You know you’re going to get a telepathic mutant pseudo-alien teleported into NYC at this rate.
Said like it’s a bad thing.
Whether or not you see a problem with it is a bit of a Rorschach test, I suppose.
Should I look upon your works and despair?
You’re locked in here with me!
One thousand one… One thousand two… One thousand three…
Two! Minutes! To Midnight… .
Three.
I am surprised they are sticking with the same schtick they have been peddling for decades. Like global warning DOOM is always just around the next bend.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
Apparently, it works.
These the same guys making bank with tiger repellent rocks?
Kansas City Chiefs fan ‘was asleep on the couch’ for 2 days while friends lay dead in his backyard, lawyer says
He was dead tired.
Seems legit.
“Just one more thing…”
More people died in this guy’s backyard than at the Capitol on Jan 6th.
” In the past few years, to address rapid global changes, the group has changed from counting down the minutes until midnight to counting down the seconds.”
So milliseconds are next?
Yeah. Not much room to keep going as the decades roll on….
When they get to quecto it is serious.
“He was asleep. He was asleep on the couch. The last memory he has is of them leaving [out] the front door, he doesn’t know what happened, um, with them, until you know, when the police came Tuesday night to his house,” Willis’ lawyer John Picerno told The Post about the Missouri mystery.
He added that Kansas City investigators had said there was no foul play and they were not investigating his client in connection with the bizarre and inexplicable deaths.
Four dudes rent a house for a game-watching party, get absolutely shitfaced. The one who didn’t wander out into a blizzard survived.
They failed the first rule of friends drinking together. Get everyone to a place where they’re at least safe, or reasonably likely to get home safely.
I thought the first rule of friends drinking together was “Fuck your friends! Every man for himself!”
Naw, that’s Buddhism.
(🎥 🐠 💎)
I recall safe was touching your bunk otherwise you may wake up without eyebrows or worse.
The Carrot Invasion
Trippy.
“Arizona Republican chair Jeff DeWit RESIGNS over bombshell audio bribing Kari Lake to stay out of office
‘This morning I was determined to fight for my position,’ said DeWit, 51. ‘However a few hours ago I received an ultimatum from Lake’s team: Resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.’
He said he was resigning in the hope that it would end her attacks on him.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13002519/dewit-kari-lake-audio-bribe-resigns-arizona.html
So bribery vs. blackmail?
Idiot.
No money is needed to guarantee she stays out of office.
He was trying to get her to take a break from bashing the uniparty fraud he’s obviously deeply involved in. Instead, he gets to take a break.
She bashes whomever Trump tells her to bash because she’s a gutless buffoon.
Every politician is a gutless buffoon.
Different degrees though.
Association with Kari is a unique drag in votes and likeability. I’m unsurprised they would do anything to get rid of her.
She should release them anyway if she has them. It’d be funny if the additional recordings were a bluff though.
Wow. It’s like the curtain got pulled back just a little to show how everything works in our government.
I don’t know if he should resign. He tried to save the Republican party from Kari Lake.
Dude is a hero.
You leave Kari alone.
muhahaha
And yet he got outplayed by her. The man’s a retard and should know that bribes are handled by deniable appointments to lucrative positions but you never do a straight up quid pro quo either for a job or for money.
Good point.
Like junior high school?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY64_KG8Y
Also Nick Lowe
Hickory dickory dock
three scientists ran up the clock
the the clock struck one
and they all died of fright
“Last year, we expressed amplified concern by moving the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been,” said Rachel Bronson, CEO of the Bulletin group. “The risks from last year continue with unabated veracity and continue to shape this year.”
You people sound like a cult. And this sentence is strange.
I start feeling like the apocalypse is upon us whenever that Davos meeting happens.
Word-a-Day calendar?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S03E23/825805
Maybe they meant ferocity? That would at least make sense in that sentence.
…unabated veracity == Just as true this year as last year.
So, still not true. Sciencism.
“unabated veracity” == “we’re lying through our teeth”
Would anyone find this story compelling? Beets me.
I watched for a solid minute waiting for something exciting to turnip.
Was it created by a famous You Tuber?
^^^Agent of the Broccoli Imperium^^^
What about The Celery Stalks at Midnight?
Lettuce look upon what Shpip has done!
I thought it was corny.
Mel an me can will make you a dill, cantaloupe without a license
Unabated veracity? It’s bullshit, all the way down.
Unabated mendacity.
“EXCLUSIVEKentucky teaching aide Ellen Phillips – who is charged with raping nine boys aged 14 to 16 – made her victims t-shirts and stickers saying ‘I <3 Hot Moms'"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12996603/Kentucky-teaching-aide-Ellen-Phillips-charged-rape-boys-tshirts-hot-moms.html
These are just the ones who get caught.
Lose your virginity, get a T-shirt.
On second though, “I screwed the teacher’s aide and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” might not have been the best choice.
Oh, I like that.
[Stands and applauds.]
Better than crabs.
Well, they all used that dip.
Crazy.
One my coworkers wore that shirt to work one day. Our boss sent him home.
To her home?
Actual article quote: “I can’t even imagine the scenario of how this unfolded. What young boy isn’t going to gang bang a woman giving him alcohol and dip.”
They imagined it pretty well actually.
As a straight man who is totally straight…her husband seems jacked and handsome? I guess the problem was he was too old for her (gross).
TOO jacked. Ugh.
Barbells widow?
He’s flexing, seems to be the right amount of jacked.
Regardless, not the body type his pedo wife was interested in.
I wonder if she fits the type, not popular and confident enough to get stuffed by the boys in high school, so she went back to play “High School, the RPG” in God mode.
The sickest part is that she used her daughter as a wingman.
That picture tells me he might have been too gay for her.
Or steroid-induced penile side effects?
And you tell me over and over again that you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destructions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWGp3HQVjU
Eva Destruction would be a great roller derby name.
Now we know what happened after WALL-E.
That is good, I haven’t seen that one. Back in the day, I was good at coming up with the tag lines they read during intros.
It’s the End of the World Yeah I know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kLQ7yfY0I
And the Final Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mURRS5zYCb8
We’re doomed, Doomed I tell you.
It’s world destruction.
That’s just what it’s like when worlds collide.
Links will fail when the world ends?
Headline: Trump holds off Haley to win.
Right. She was right there with him, step for step, all the way.
When there was only one set of footprints by the water hazard at Mar-a-lago, she was carrying him?
Nikki Haley Announces She Has Won New Hampshire By Negative 12 Points
“It’s an honor to not be New Hampshire’s overwhelming pick to not run against President Biden this fall,” said Haley to an enthusiastic crowd of 12 Democrats. “Tonight we sent a loud and clear message to Donald Trump that we won’t not not be ignored!”
“The Smiths’ Johnny Marr tries to stop Trump using their song: ‘Consider this s–t shut down right now’
Trump’s campaign has played the legendary UK group’s 1984 song “Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” at several rallies over the years, including at a stop in New Hampshire on Monday.
But that appeared to be news to Marr, 60, who responded to a tweet with his former band’s hit being played at a rally in September.”
https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/johnny-marr-wants-to-shut-down-trump-using-smiths-song/
CWAA
He also forbade David Cameron to like The Smiths.
Don’t they always try this?
I don’t know the ins and outs of it legally.
Usually someone plays your song and the licensing agency tries to collect fees for public broadcasting. Artists don’t normally approve song plays ahead of time.
I think it falls into “we hate this politician, and don’t want our fans to associate them with us”
TDS has produced assholes all the way down.
Meh, his right to bitch.
I wouldn’t want Biden evil fingers all over anything I created, either.
Fuck The Smiths.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQos8yR17E
Not that I had huge respect for Trump. But he just went down three notches.
MORRISSEY MUST DIE!
Fuck The Smiths
THAT NOT HOW WORKS AROUND HERE, PARDNER
You mad, bro?
Trump’s rallies, once the primary attraction in the MAGA universe, have become awkward sideshows in his grander political drama, which is now unfolding primarily in closed courtrooms and six-page legal orders. (Just that morning, Trump had appeared in court in New York.)
But something deeper than distraction or fatigue plagued the former president’s appearances in New Hampshire. Trump’s speeches have always been rambling and directionless, but in 2024, they have the additional drawback of being inescapably monotonous.
Yeah, it’s more of the same. He just kinda says random shit and constantly stumbles over his words like he has dementia or something. But enough about Biden.
His rallies aren’t fundamentally different than they have been in past elections, but therein lies the problem: There’s little new substance or material in this year’s revival of the Trump Show. His core grievances — against the “radical left Democrats,” the deep state, the RINOs, the globalists, the media — are little changed since he first started running for president in 2015, and his schticks — spinning out new nicknames for his rivals, goading the crowd to boo the press — are all retreads. Trump may still be full of venom and fury, but his laugh lines feel wooden and rehearsed, his digressions lacking color and zing.
He should try threatening US citizens with being bombed by the government.
Sounds tedious, unlike Biden’s daily fresh takes on how Trump is Hitler.
He and Biden are both embarrassments to a functioning and admirable constitutional republic.
and even to this country.
That is the tiresome thing about propagandists. Long after their horseshit elicits little more than eye rolls they just keep hammering away. I barely pay attention to them anymore, unless a need a good laugh.
I wonder if Trump is paying them? That has to be it. Every time they spew this stuff his ratings go up.
Keep it up boys. Keep it up with my full encouragement and support.
They do this because every couple years a new generation of voters comes of age & the propaganda is “fresh” and “new” to them.
It’s in the bag, man
The United Auto Workers union on Wednesday endorsed President Joe Biden, a long-awaited announcement that is an important pickup for the president.
“Look, I kept my commitment to be the most pro-union president ever,” Biden said after receiving the UAW’s endorsement at the group’s conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday afternoon. “I’m proud you have my back. Let me just say I’m honored to have your back, and you have mine.”
The endorsement comes as the Biden campaign is making a full pivot to the general election, pointing to former President Donald Trump’s victory in the Republican primary in New Hampshire Tuesday as a clear sign that he is poised to emerge as the GOP presidential nominee.
The president and union leadership have long courted each other. Although it’s a key endorsement for Biden, the backing from union leadership may not convince all of the rank-and-file to vote for the president in November. Biden won the endorsement of the UAW in the 2020 campaign, even though many rank-and-file members supported Trump.
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“Donald Trump is a scab,” Fain said. “Donald Trump is a billionaire, and that’s who he represents. … Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union – as a society.”
The choice between Trump and Biden, Fain said, was clear.
Sean Fain, all American boy.
Christ, what a scumbag.
Such a shocker.
“a long-awaited announcement”
Yeah I was on pins and needles.
BTW, is his name really Sean Fain? That sounds suspiciously close to the IRA’s former political arm.
Who better to support the auto workers than Sinn Féin?
Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union – as a society.
Someone doesn’t like winning.
Rail workers unavailable for comment I guess.
The world was waiting with bated breath for that surprise announcement. 🙄
unabated breathlessness
Booger eating tankies are funny.
Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht
Oklahoma’s Boardwalk at Bricktown skyscraper was recently revealed as the upcoming second-tallest skyscraper in the United States. Designer AO is now aiming for even greater heights, however, and has carried out an ambitious redesign in a bid to make it the country’s new tallest building.
Assuming all goes ahead as planned, the supertall skyscraper, now named the Legends Tower, will reach a maximum height of 1,907 ft (581 m), instead of the originally planned 1,750 ft (533 m).
I give it two years after completion before an F4 comes its way.
Every single floor better be a Bass Pro Shop.
I have really been digging Scheel’s lately. I love Bass Pro too. I was sad when the attached restaurant closed.
I took the kids to that Scheels a dozen times over the summer just to get out of the heat. I probably should have bought something each time to show my appreciation, but I didn’t.
The Bass Pro here is insane. It makes Scheels seem piddly.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. That thing is never going to be completed in anything resembling that form.
Completed? How about “never started?”
All those low rise buildings around it shout, “inexpensive real estate where it is not cost effective to go that high.”
Is cocaine in vogue* again or something?
*not that it ever goes away
I see your position remains unchanged.
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal has dismissed the possibility of a two-state solution and said that his terror group’s devastating October 7 assault on Israel proved that liberating Palestine “from the river to the sea” is a realistic idea.
In an interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Ammar Taki last week, Mashaal, a former top leader of the terror group, said that there is “nearly a consensus” among Palestinians that they will not give up their rights to the land stretching “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” — that is, the West Bank, Gaza and all of Israel.
Mashaal noted that the slogan is also regularly chanted at rallies by “American students and in European capitals,” and said that the October 7 onslaught has “revived that dream.”
Yeah, there are a lot of scumbags in the west.
Assuming all goes ahead as planned, the supertall skyscraper, now named the Legends Tower, will reach a maximum height of 1,907 ft (581 m), instead of the originally planned 1,750 ft (533 m).
Let’s stick a giant skyscraper out in the middle of the prairie, where it’s really windy. What could possibly go wrong?
Van is smarter than he looks.
Even CNN’s Van Jones is telling Biden to stay in the basement.
“If I were Biden, I would stay hidden. He doesn’t inspire confidence. He’s not a great messenger for himself.”
Sounds like someone who should definitely be president.
Trump and Biden should probably both run basement campaigns. This would be so great for America too.
If we don’t re-elect a terrible president who doesn’t inspire confidence and is a terrible messenger, democracy will die.
But but but… Ol’ Potato Head promised us *No Malarky*!!
I know my local migrant updates have probably grown tiresome at this point, but this whole thing has gone too far. The community has been set upon by a clown…
https://denverite.com/2024/01/24/denver-migrants-clown/
Hostile foreign governments have to be involved. I fear the public’s reaction should they escalate to mimes. Also…
“He and his partner are in the process of moving out of the motel with a volunteer willing to house them in a larger space. His hope is to eventually start his own clown company, find more gigs to perform at and eventually do business back and forth between Denver and Venezuela, though it’s not entirely clear how he’ll achieve that.”
Sounds like a great candidate for asylum. You see your honor, he totally fears for his life in his home country, except that he’s got a whole slate of children’s birthday parties set up in Caracas next month.
Here in NYC the took 80 illegal mopeds off the road they were driving.
Means they have about another 4,000 to go. Naturally advocates are concerned.
…they escalate to mimes.
Wait, isn’t there a U.N. protocol against the use of mimes in warfare?
Random thought-
When I was a kid, scientists were heroes. They were problem solvers, looking for ways to make life better. Now, it’s all doom porn and panhandling for government grants.
Nerd, scientists were never heroes. – ’90s kid.
Me and others like me have been screaming at them about their deliberate trashing of the credibility of science for decades. They dont give a shit.
RIP Melanie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcpodt0YCU&pp=ygUVbWVsYW5pZSBicmFuZCBuZXcga2V5
Just for you Ted but, be warned, you might gag: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68069593
A “genius” who happens to be surrounded by the most expensive talent in world history everywhere he walks. 🙄
(I am less impressed with coaching in general than a sports writer is.)
Played that for my 30 yo daughter, she had no idea why a roller skate would need a key. I had to pull up an Ebay listing to explain it.
She may appreciate this version more.
I’m 54 and I had no idea about any of that. Huh.
Wut? Good Lord rhy….
That song was banned on the radio here. Everyone just went out and bought it on 45. I am sure she made more money from that than radio play.
Oh yeah…Afternoon Delight also caused hysteria and panic thus was banned.
I have heard a few comments recently expressing some disbelief about how things were ini some places.
Those commenters obviously did not grow up in solid Southern Baptist country in the ’60s and ’70s. They ran everything here.
Thank God people finally got enough of their puritanical bullshit around rock music, dancing, and halloween.
Afternoon Delight
I remember that one, fondly even. Very seventies.
“Skate keys” is a thing I only saw referenced on black & white sitcoms I watched after school, not in real life. I vaguely remember disliking the linked song. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haven’t you seen Boogie Nights?
Several times. I don’t recall the nature of Rollergirl’s skates.
The most ’70s video you will ever see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4b3w6a9cSk
By the way, That could very well be my brother….the second kid zipping by on a skateboard. It sure looks like him and we spent a fair amount of time at Cal-Tech in those days.
Ultimate 70s
Ultimate 70s
Midnight at the oasis / Send your camel to bed 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bjzuSO27fA
Now that got a rise out of me. I forgot about that one.
Best MM (with an Honorable Mention to her cover of the McGarrigles’ “Work Song” on the MATO album, a wonderful song that couldn’t be recorded today.)
Remember, the ones that had metal wheels? Those were a joy to run over the street.
I remember some that had some kind of insert in the toe that would make a shower of sparks on concrete. Those ones were banned at the roller rinks.
“He and his partner are in the process of moving out of the motel with a volunteer willing to house them in a larger space. His hope is to eventually start his own clown company, find more gigs to perform at and eventually do business back and forth between Denver and Venezuela, though it’s not entirely clear how he’ll achieve that.”
Patreon, duh.
Earth, for the second year running, is nearing apocalypse, a science-oriented advocacy group said, pointing to its famous “Doomsday Clock” that shows 90 seconds till midnight.
90 seconds? Rookie numbers. We can get it lower.
They’ve been running this gift since 1947, when it was allegedly 7 minutes to midnight.
How many times can they scream DOOOOOMMM til no one buys their scam?
How is it closer now than during the Cuban missile crisis, or early Cold War days when a not small number of generals thought we should just Nike Russia and be done?
Technically, we should Adidas Russia like their gopniks.
Famous and infamous are two different words because they have two different meanings.
Re: Biden. I’ve not been paying attention. Why was a Biden a write-in candidate? Did his flunkies screw up or something else. And 19% against an incumbent president seems a pretty significant number.
The DNC declared New Hampshire can’t hold its primary so soon. Biden sided with the DNC and didn’t register.
Ah, thank you.
The background is of course racial virtue-signaling.
Iowa and NH are too white.
Correct.
Biden hasn’t been in NH since the DNC announced the new primary/caucus schedule. The DNC has threatened to penalize any candidates that took part in primaries or caucuses that occur earlier than the new DNC issued schedule.
The DNS has also said they would not recognize delegates from any primary/caucus that occurs earlier than in the new DNC issued schedule.
Iowa’s caucus took place before the DNC wanted. The Iowa Democrats and the DNC came up with a compromise. The Iowa Democrat Caucus was for party business only. For nominations, the Caucus is the opening of a mail-in voting period. The period closes sometime in March. So in March we’ll see Iowa Democrat results.
NH uses a state-run primary. The legislature would not change the date.
The write-in campaign occurred because some Democrats were concerned about media coverage in the event Biden doesn’t come in first in the NH primary. I think they’re a bit deluded. I don’t see the media caring about the NH Democrat primary given the DNC’s marching orders.
One last addition: Municipalities have a week to report write-in vote breakdowns to the Secretary of State. All they had to report this morning was the total number of write-ins. So we won’t know who actually won the write-in votes for a little while. But, it’s a safe bet almost all Democrat write-ins were for Biden.
CNN. All in on telling you the Biden years are awesome.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/24/your-401k-gas-prices-and-homes-3-surprising-reasons-to-be-happy/
There’s an article on The Federalist today saying inflation is like an unexpected $900 expense EVERY MONTH. No I’m not f’n happy.
My impulse spending is way down.
I really should avoid these rabiit holes. I just dumped a bunch of money on Digikey on supplies and some more ICs.
I had some ideas for further things to do.
Awesome. Have fun and learn!
MAGA tricknology still has the average voter in its lethal grip.
Meat wave sounds like a good band name.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/23/news/moscows-meat-wave-tactic-litters-ukraine-battlefield-with-frozen-corpses-of-russian-troops/
I wouldn’t trust anything the NYPost has to say about Russia or Ukraine any further than I could throw the writers.
Cue Zapp Branigan from Futurama: “sending wave after wave of men at the killbots”.
Sexfully!
Five times through. Still funny.
@Rhy, in case you didn’t see this last night.
I don’t know who that is but she’s talking too fast for me to follow.
Hm, weird. I didn’t have any problems.
Didn’t somebody post their notice of intent to hire a couple wiener ambassadors a while back?
Looks like we have a couple winners. Yes, I am avoiding the obvious pun because I don’t hate myself that much.
And if I look carefully, I think I can detect why they were chosen.