When there’s an actual tornado coming through, you take measures in response. All of those measures have negative consequences, and some of those negative consequences can even be dangerous, but you do it because the negative consequences are not as bad as a tornado. But if you trick people into taking those responses, with their consequences, when there isn’t even a tornado, then that’s just all downside.
Maybe he just likes saying haboob. Although it would be failing to report one that would be dangerous. Do not drive in a haboob.
Granted. The guy is nothing but a vandal on society doing it for the lulz and/or advertising revenue. His license to access the internet should be revoked permanently with immediate effect.
I just thought @Love_Rhombus’s comment that he was going to kill somebody seemed over the top versus the actual risk posed.
So are his bad reports a fake habboob job?
I think worrying about very severe weather can make people stupid and panicky. You’re right, I probably did overstate it too much.
I’m sure he has other bad reports, but sure, I’ll take that pun.
When my middle son moved to Phoenix, the clay roof tiles in his subdivision were all dusty colored. He enjoyed saying that was because of the haboobs. Blown dust won’t show up the way it would on red tiles.
Another update about the case I mentioned earlier with the guy that dismembered a woman and dumped her body parts all over the city. If the informant is correct, he’d been planning this for a while.
“The (informant) states that Anderson told them he intended on bringing Robinson to his residence, pulling a handgun on her, and bringing her down to the basement of the residence,” the document reads. “He then planned on shooting Robinson and then dismember her body in the room that they were in.”
Anderson then planned on disposing of Robinson’s body throughout the city, the warrant said.
I don’t have any more info than what the article says. I have no idea why the informant didn’t report it before it happened or if they did and it was ignored or even the tiny chance they were involved and they’re throwing Anderson under the bus.
Did this informant have a hand in it?
He swears it was only the left wrist.
Not a pinkie swear?
Going into your basement is dangerous?
In Arizona, yes, because hardly any houses have basements.
Normally, however, taking measures to respond to a tornado are usually positive measures. Like going to a storm shelter. Much more dangerous to do nothing and hope for the best.
Ok, yes, if you try to force yourself into a basement you don’t have, I guess you can get hurt.
Remember, the weathermoron said it was a tornado WATCH, not a warning.
Entering a mad panic because you’re terminally stupid and easily suggestible, then driving at 60 mph through residential streets to “rescue” your children from school before it gets the Dorothy-in-Kansas treatment is dangerous. Mostly to innocent other people, since there is actually no threat other than a speeding family wagon.
Remember that this turd preys on the same fear-driven paranoids who’ve made Nextdoor into a meme.
Dumb people driven to panic do predictably unpredictable dumb shit.
You haven’t seen my basement. 
How low can you go?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/11/insurance-lobbyists-block-fiduciary-rule/
I won’t pretend to understand all the details because what I don’t know about investments and banking could just about fill that meteor crater in Arizona. But as far as I can tell the financial advisor lobby is complaining about having a fiduciary duty to the people they counsel.
From the article:
“What they’re saying is, the only way they can operate is by giving you advice that is not in your best interest,” said Bill Sweeney, the senior vice president for government affairs at AARP. “If they hung that on their shingle … no one would go to that financial adviser.”
Fun fact: in the UK they shut that shit down years ago. And cracked down on payday lenders, debt management companies and claims management companies that were screwing their customers.
But in the USA, money rules over all.
GOP candidate for North Carolina schools superintendent has a history of advocating for violent overthrow of the government, including live televised executions of Obama, Biden, and other Democrats:
She’s tried hard to cover her tracks, but this might be one of those situations where “the internet is forever” turns out to be a good thing. I hope she gets (figuratively) crushed in the election.
The problems start when she (and her ilk all over the country) don’t get crushed and instead are elected.
Sure, get kicked out of the strip club, what’s the best response? Ram your semi into the building and kill somebody.
Unsurprisingly, this happened in Florida.