Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

Or at least a cover sheet for their TPS reports.

So maybe they’ve turned over a new (fig) leaf?

Kentucky man in a spot of trouble.

The choice of victims alleged here was…unfortunate.

I sort of wonder, but definitely not enough to investigate, what the connection is between a website where “users degrade women” (or at least degrade pictures of clothed women & kids) and a porn website. Or rather, what does the first site description do that makes the second description also applicable.

But yeah, Boy howdy, did he sure show those cops! Didn’t he?

I mean, he showed their families at least.

Well played, sir.

It says he uploaded 18,000 pictures. Does the article say how long he’s been doing this for? For 18,000 pictures, the amount of time he could have spent on any 1 picture, or individual person, would be pretty small.

Can you really stalk 27 different people at the same time?

I’m assuming he downloaded and then uploaded them in bulk much of the time.

There are browser extensions that can download a bunch of pictures from a page at once, so he could potentially get hundreds in a fairly short period of time.

Needless to say, this still seems like a pretty disturbed person.

Wiki sez Grayson county KY has ~26K residents. So ~13K female residents. The article says that of his 18,000 pix “most of the victims were Grayson county residents”

So he could have had a few pix of damn near everybody or just found the couple dozen residents who a) photo-document their whole damn life on Facebook and b) don’t understand FB security settings.

I’m wondering if the dumbass was targeting law enforcement people or that was more a matter of selective prosecution as the prosecutor chose to emphasize those particular 27 victims out of potentially hundreds since the LEO connection will make getting a conviction in this overwhelmingly RW area much more likely.

Today I learned that Grayson KY is not in Grayson county. I suspect that bit of trivia will never come in handy.

N/M, irrelevant and borderline hijacking.

I know coffee is wonderful and the best part of waking up, but please don’t turn to beverages for your life advice. Dr. Pepper told me so, and he’s a doctor.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/04/26/greek-woman-files-for-divorce-after-chatgpt-reads-husbands-affair-in-coffee-cup/

Yeah, that marriage had problems already and that woman wanted an excuse. There’s no person willing to divorce solely over an AI psychic prediction. I don’t know what else is going on but I guarantee there’s more to the story.

Also gotta love this bit:

Meanwhile, seasoned coffee readers have weighed in, noting that real tasseography involves much more than just the grounds — skilled practitioners also analyze the foam and the coffee saucer.

Such a rigorously scientific approach must be commended.

Things you didn’t expect to have to explain when you went to law school:

His lawyer emphasized that the claims made by an AI chatbot have no legal standing.

Every time I think, “It can’t be, nobody’s that stupid,” it turns out that yes, somebody is always exactly that stupid.

I’m not going to say it’s impossible, but this is a couple with kids who’ve been together for a while; at least that’s the impression I got from the article.

People can be stupid but knowing human nature, I have trouble believing everything was perfect until an AI predicted her husband was cheating then that on its own prompted the divorce. As I said, I guarantee there’s a lot more to this.

… My Trump cultist friend starts ranting on adrenochrome. (Seriously. She did. Today.)

Of course it wasn’t perfect. He was married to a crazy person.

She’s been involved in more than her share of stupid, but this headline which appeared on my local newspaper’s website better fits the category of the fabled Rat’s Ass Awards (things about which I do not give a rat’s ass):

Gwyneth Paltrow Lets Her Kids Be ‘True to Themselves’ Even If She Disagrees

Didn’t click on it.

Stupid shipper sent hot sugar?

Several aspects of the package immediately raised my suspicions. It was wrapped in a plastic sheet and covered in dust or other debris. The primary shipping label was faded and largely illegible, and it displayed an incorrect phone number for the police department. Additionally, the package had been relabeled with a second barcode. A red-and-white “FRAGILE” sticker was affixed to the box—an uncommon designation for police department orders. A holographic sticker reading “Thank You for Shopping at My Small Business” was also present, which is unusual since department purchases are not typically made through small business vendors.

Ultimately, the package was found to contain eight 22-ounce canisters of sugar. A few of the canisters had broken open, accounting for the sand-like noise and feel when the package was moved. Although an order for sugar had been placed through the police department’s Amazon business account weeks earlier, the vendor and distributor associated with the delivery differed from those linked to the suspicious package. During a visual inspection on May 9, 2025, FedEx security partners concluded that the shipping label appeared to have been “washed” and deliberately altered.

[T]he altered label may have been used to obscure the true origin of the package—potentially to conceal that the contents were damaged, stolen, or expired goods.