# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/541 "2024-01-18T02:24:52Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > [Canadian climate conspiracy nut](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/climate/canada-conspiracy-theorist-arson-wildfires-intl/index.html) who claimed the government was setting wildfires pleads guilty to setting 14 fires. He was right but it’s still his fault for not wearing his foil hat to block the mind control rays. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/542 "2024-01-18T13:03:16Z")
North Korea sentenced two teenagers to twelve years of hard labor for watching K-drama. > **[North Korea: Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68015652)** > > Footage obtained by BBC Korean shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed and sentenced to hard labour. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/543 "2024-01-21T04:11:36Z")
Colorado pastor says God told him to start a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, defraud his parishoners, and use the money for home renovations. > **[Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he says he perpetrated at...](https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=indxcoin)** > > A Colorado-based pastor for an online ministry sold INDXcoin to his followers and others in the Christian faith. However, there was no way for buyers to cash out the tokens. Meanwhile, Regalado and his wife spent the money on a Rolls Royce, jewelry,... > **[Pastor pocketed $1.3M selling worthless cryptocurrency, state says](https://businessden.com/2024/01/18/pastor-pocketed-1-3m-selling-worthless-cryptocurrency-state-says/)** > > “The Lord brought this cryptocurrency to me,” Rev. Eli Regalado told investors. The state, meanwhile, claims the money went a Range Rover, boat rentals and snowmobile adventures and an au pair. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/544 "2024-01-21T04:26:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Colorado pastor says God told him to start a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, God **really** needs a more reliable messaging app. Whatever They is using keeps getting hacked. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/545 "2024-01-21T04:55:53Z")
> [@from one of the articles](#): > > “It was last October that the Lord brought this cryptocurrency to me. He said, ‘Take this to my people for a wealth transfer.’ It has been confirmed a hundred times since,” Because wealth transfer has always been one of the Lord’s top priorities. Ok, not exactly always. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/546 "2024-01-21T05:02:57Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Because wealth transfer has always been one of the Lord’s top priorities. I believe it’s Two Corinthians that says “Blessed art they whose memecoins hath gone to the Moon, for they shall inherit the kingdom of God, and on the day when the Son of Man (your favorite Messiah, me!) comes in His glory, He shall say unto those that HODLed not; depart from me, for thou art haters and losers who know nothing about “Mr. Christ”.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/547 "2024-01-21T06:18:26Z")
I think Job got rugpulled. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/548 "2024-01-21T07:46:15Z")
This forces me to seriously look sideways at the song [“Summer Girls”](https://youtu.be/N0Muxpj3Slo?si=qs7LdvJwQCNR6TVF) by LFO. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/549 "2024-01-21T10:06:21Z")
It’s listed on one of those tablets that Moses accidentally dropped. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/550 "2024-01-22T07:20:40Z")
[![](https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-22-2015/cYcxSU.gif) ](https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-22-2015/cYcxSU.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/551 "2024-01-22T15:11:57Z")
Not sure where this belonged, with a whole lot of stupid mixed in. > **[Prosecutors say Kansas couple lived with dead relative for 6 years, collected...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-kansas-couple-lived-dead-014645566.html)** > > Federal prosecutors alleged that Lynn and Kirk Ritter cashed in more than $216,000 from Michael Carroll's retirement benefits, according to documents. > [@](#): > > A Kansas couple has been charged with fraudulently collecting a dead relative’s retirement benefits while they hid his body in their home for more than six years. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/552 "2024-01-22T16:03:56Z")
Here’s a new one (I think). Kyte Baby is a baby clothing company based in Texas that declined a work-from-home request from an employee who adopted a baby still in the NICU after being born early (at 22 weeks) and fired the employee. The employee started a GoFundMe campaign for the NICU costs, adoption fees and legal fees and the employee’s sister posted on TikTok about the situation. The backlash was especially fierce given that the company claims to be mommy-friendly. The CEO posted two apology videos. [Here is a CNN story about this.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/business/kyte-baby-ceo-apology-marissa/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/553 "2024-01-22T16:24:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The CEO posted two apology videos. - Cheaper than posting a check. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/554 "2024-01-22T16:27:32Z")
My guess is that she’s trying to save her business. This sort of thing could drive customers away. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/555 "2024-01-22T16:35:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > My guess is that she’s trying to save her business. This sort of thing could drive customers away. - Firing the asshole(s) who denied the request would do far more. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/556 "2024-01-22T16:40:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Firing the asshole(s) who denied the request would do far more. Unless it was her. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/557 "2024-01-22T16:46:54Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Firing the asshole(s) who denied the request would do far more. > > Unless it was her. - Turns out it _was_ the CEO. Foot, meet shot. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/558 "2024-01-22T17:37:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Not sure where this belonged, with a whole lot of stupid mixed in. I’m not sure how evil this is. It was totally illegal, but stealing from the government and from insurance companies is a popular pastime all over this fair country of ours. It’ not like they hurt the old guy. Although after that long dead, who can say if they screwed with his meds or underfed him until he died? So killed him slowly via neglect. About all the coroner could say now is: “The body shows no obvious signs of a majorly violent end.” It was stupid, because once you start, how do you stop? One of these days you’ll have to admit to the death, dispose of the body all legal-like, and stop the gravy train of money. If you had a way to disguise the fact the body had been dead for years by then you could easily get away with it. But absent e.g. having a friend at a funeral parlor who would fake the DC as a fresh death for you before cremating the evidence, there’s no good way to pass a long-dead body off as fresh. Of course you could simply dispose of the body all amateur style out in the woods someplace 50 miles away, then wait a couple weeks and tell everybody the senile old man was gone when you both came home from work. Manhunt turns up nothing, it’s winter so unprotected survival is implausibly impossible, you go to court to get an adjudication of presumed death without body and now the gravy train stops, but you get to keep what you’d stolen undetected. These folks’ real problem was a) they’re stupid, and b) they were totally dependent on his money, so stopping the gravy train was unthinkable, much less too hard to accomplish. I do wonder that motivated the son-in-law to spill the beans when he did. I also find it interesting the old man died in 2016, it was Oct 2022 that they admitted to police they had the long-dead body, and it’s now 15 months later that they’re just being charged, not tried. The wheels of justice grind very slowly over there in Overland. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/559 "2024-01-23T12:34:37Z")
It’s obviously evil, but there is an element of black humor due to the alleged killer’s occupation. > **[Florida anger management specialist accused of fatally shooting homeless man](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-anger-management-specialist-accused-fatally-shooting-homeless-rcna135174)** > > Travis McBride is charged with premeditated first-degree murder, according to an arrest affidavit from DeLand police. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/560 "2024-01-23T13:36:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Turns out it _was_ the CEO. > Foot, meet shot. Absolutely. It could have been an incredible marketing campaign (yeah, I am cynical) for the company. “Our employee adopted a prem baby, and we sponsored his/her clothes, doesn’t he/she look cute!” all over facebook etc. versus “We fired our employee for adopting a prem baby” I think I know which route I would take. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=29)