The full quote is “DEFFNTELY NOT A BAG FULL (lacky spuge) FULL OF DRUGS”.
EDIT: And it’s the exact same picture in both articles. I’m betting on the original story being from WDRB, the local station, and being illustrated by a (bad) AI picture, and then Smoking Gun picked up the story from there, and assumed that the picture was accurate. Likely the “plastic baggie” mentioned in the Smoking Gun article was the only bag, and the caption was inscribed on it with permanent marker.
The increasingly Byzantine drama continues in Lexington/Fayette County (KY):
After the lawyer for embattled schools superintendent Demetrus Liggins threatened to “name names” unless his client was reinstated in his job, the school board essentially told him to stick that demand where the sun don’t shine.
So Liggins has filed a “whistleblower” complaint with an obscure state agency, in which the Name To Be Named is apparently that of the district employee he’s been feuding with and under whose office door he allegedly slipped a threatening faked e-mail.
Sorry, no lurid tales (yet) of school board members’ boozing it up and frolicking at the Sunset Motel on the taxpayers’ dime.
Nothing further mentioned about the golden parachute Liggins reportedly wanted in exchange for riding off into the sunset; now he’s the brave whistleblower punished for exposing malfeasance in the school district.
This unseemly wrangling is an unwelcome distraction from national accolades awarded to the Horse Capital of the World a.k.a. Athens of the West, including a spot in Livability’s 2026 100 Best Places to live in the U.S., which among other things cites Lexington’s “top-rated” public schools. 
My home town has been named “most livable city” a couple of times, and having grown up there, I wonder what the fuck they’re smoking.
#2 more recently (in the “coastal city” category):
Axios: Bremerton ranked No. 2 coastal city to move to in U.S. (August 2025)
I tend to view those rankings with some skepticism.
Next you’re going to tell me that the NYT Best Sellers list doesn’t involve books that sell the best?
If this guy does have some actual evidence of malfeasance by someone on the school board, he should have come forward with it at the time. He can try to portray himself as a bold reformer now, but that doesn’t excuse him from withholding information of wrongdoing that would have been in the public interest to reveal.
Nicholas Rossi, the American rapist who absconded to Scotland after appearing to fake his own death in an attempt to evade justice, has died in hospital in the US.
We’ll see.
This is an old story, but it just came to my attention today, and I’m honestly not sure if this was stupid or evil, but I’m leaning towards the former.
In 2013, a Chinese businessman decided to pay a hitman 2 million yuan (roughly $280,000 at the time) to take out a professional rival of his.
Except the hitman didn’t want to get his hands dirty, so he paid another hitman half of the money to to the deed.
Except that hitman didn’t want to get his hands dirty either, so he paid another hitman about a third of that amount to do the job.
And THAT hitman didn’t want to do it either, so he hired another hitman to do the job for about 10% of what the original cost of the hit had been.
And then THAT hitman paid half of the sum to a fifth hitman to do the job.
And that hitman decided he wasn’t getting paid enough to kill a man, so he contacted the intended victim and proposed that they fake his death and take pictures of him bound and gagged so that he could send them upstream to the original client in exchange for payment.
The victim agreed to pose for the photos - then reported them to police, and they’ve now all done prison time (though several of the sub-subcontractors have served their time and been released).
When doing something really stupid is just a little too much for you.
I swear, that story seems like it could have been a Shel Silverstein poem.
Decades ago there was a Sunday Wizard of Id strip where the Duke is reporting to the King, “The scout is reporting an enemy buildup on our northern border!”
The King replies, “That’s important news! Give the scout this reward,” handing the Duke two sacks of gold.
The reward gets smaller and smaller as it passes down the chain of command until a single coin is given a page. The page then tells the scout, with a couple arrows sticking out of his back, “The King salutes you!”
That’s a fun case. Thanks for bringing it up. I first saw it here:
This site as plenty of commentary about unusually stupid people, or crooks, or politicians, doing unusually stupid stuff.
Somewhat simplifed, it’s the plot of the 60s spy movie The Liquidator.
MI6 recruits Rod Taylor to be an assassin, and gives him an apartment and the lifestyle we all come to expect British super spies to have. Turns out, he doesn’t have the stomach to be a killer, so he farms out his hits to a real hit man. Taylor gets to be a “spy”, hit man gets paid, targets are killed. MI6 is none to wiser. Everyone is happy.
For a while…
Did he get half of the half of the 10% of the third of the half of the 2 million yuan in advance, and the other half of the half of the 10% of the third of the half after the job was done?
I’d never heard of that film, but it sounds fun: The Liquidator (1965 film) - Wikipedia.
To bring this back to the Chinese bucket brigade of hitmen, while searching wiki for the article on your movie, I stumbled on this other Liquidator movie: The Liquidator (2017 film) - Wikipedia. Made by a Chinese production company with all Chinese actors and set in China. About a convoluted series of killings.
Looks like it’s Liquidators all the way down.
Yes, that’s the one! I didn’t know there was another film with the title.
Title song by Shirley Bassey. Because, why not?
If you needed someone to belt out your theme song, they didn’t come any better than Dame Shirley.
And she’s not the only missing giraffe found recently.
and placed in a facility that specializes in giraffe care.
I’m guessing there aren’t many of these in Virginia.
Or anywhere else, outside of the African continent.