Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[HomogenousCow]

A couple days ago this guy I know asked on Facebook if anyone knew how to get a restraining order. He was being stalked and harassed by an ex-girlfriend.

Today he posts that she broke into his house last night when he was out and trashed thousands of dollars of stuff, mostly electronics. Then, she came back late at night when he was asleep and attacked him with a knife and tried to cut his member off.

He and his housemates restrained her and called the cops. She was still screaming insanely when the cops got there and took her away.

Then he said something mysterious, which is that a judge granted him an immediate restraining order today: he didn't have to go through the usual filing and wait. Now, what is mysterious to me is that he shouldn't need it now: she should either be in jail or undergoing psychiatric evaluation. I posted that, but he hasn't responded yet. What I'm afraid of is that he might not be pressing charges for the attack.

If there was an attempted deadly assault, shouldn't the police file charges?

 

[zoobyshoe]

If there was an attempted deadly assault, shouldn't the police file charges?

Well, it turns out I read his post wrong (it was a ginormous wall of text type thing, and kind of confusing). The incident with the knife was on thursday night, and the vandalism was Friday night. It seems they didn't even call the cops about the knifing, and she came back the next evening when they were out to dinner. His roommates got home first and found her vandalizing the place and they called the cops. She pulled a knife this time, too, but didn't stab anyone. The cops were there when my friend got home, but he hadn't called them, his roommates had.

Anyway, he responded to my query to say she was in jail at the current time. But earlier he said she was only being charged with the vandalism, presumably because he didn't call the cops about the knifing the previous night when it happened. I'm trying to get the story on why that would be.

He says she was fighting the cops, so they should be able to charge her with battery on a police officer, which I hope they do, but that's up to them, and is a completely separate crime than the ones committed against my friend.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

The word "foolish" sounds strange, I know its meaning but people I think tend to call the fools idiots more often. I think I am called so almost every day.

 

[OCR]

Then, she came back late at night when he was asleep... and tried to cut his member off.

Sounds like he wakes up kinda hard... lol

 

[Astronuc]

The Physics of Football

 

[zoobyshoe]

Remind me I have to change my oil today.

 

[Astronuc]

Remind me I have to change my oil today.

Change your oil today, Zooby!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Change your oil today, Zooby!

Doh!

Well, it's too late now. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[zoobyshoe]

There's a laundromat I pass often that has a sign boasting, "Every Wash is Sanitized!" And the more I think about it the less idea I have what the hell that's supposed to mean.

 

[thankz]

my schizo is going away. thanks to all of the people who helped me.

 

[JorisL]

Zooby don't forget your oil today!

 

[Borg]

Yes, don't forget your Zooby Lube.

 

[thankz]

you reminded me to take my oil, lol.

my new diet consists of:

a blender full of:
1 banana
3 cups water
3 cups milk
dextrose(fiber powder) about 4 tablespoons
one met-rx packet

10 mg dhea
one fish, flax & borage oil cap for omega 3,6 & 9

and a under 500 cal dinner

various teas and diet sodas sometimes

pickles or a sunbelt raspberry multigrain bar when I'm feeling like a snack

last time I checked (two months ago) I had lost 9 pounds

 

[DennisN]

"Sharpness is in the body of the beholder", said the castle guard who took an arrow on his duty.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zooby don't forget your oil today!

Yes, don't forget your Zooby Lube.

Mission accomplished! My oil is changed!

 

[Borg]

I have noticed a pattern on PF. It seems that the more I post in different threads, the more alerts I have. Still investigating the cause for this...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have noticed a pattern on PF. It seems that the more I post in different threads, the more alerts I have. Still investigating the cause for this...

Spooky!

 

[Enigman]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

 

[WWGD]

When I listen to a song in a public place, it seems the people there are part of a video for the song .

 

[Borg]

The gimbal holder for my web cam broke last week. I figured I would see if there were any ideas on the internet for fixing it. I did find enough to give me an idea. I drilled a hole through a brass gas cap for the gimbal to fit through. Inside the cap is a couple of washers to hold it in place and a thin piece of cork for friction. It's not pretty but it works great.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It's not pretty but it works great.

Good hack!

Are you using it to spy on things outside the window?

 

[WWGD]

Scared the hell out of myself. I had left out some food for a few days and ended up with a pretty bad fly problem. So I bought a few
packs of fly paper ( basically a piece of material with glue in it so that flies get trapped in it *), and placed it around the apartment.
One night, I woke up groggy and walked towards the door. I ended up ensnared with the fly paper, which I thought , being groggy, was a
person trying to attack me and I started "fighting back" (I won) . Good thing I did not have a camera like Borg's filming it , I would have looked ridiculous, as a sort of Quijote, fighting. against fly paper instead of windmills.
* It does not affect Jeff Goldblum, tho.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Scared the hell out of myself. I had left out some food for a few days and ended up with a pretty bad fly problem. So I bought a few
packs of fly paper ( basically a piece of material with glue in it so that flies get trapped in it *), and placed it around the apartment.
One night, I woke up groggy and walked towards the door. I ended up ensnared with the fly paper, which I thought , being groggy, was a
person trying to attack me and I started "fighting back" (I won) . Good thing I did not have a camera like Borg's filming it , I would have looked ridiculous, as a sort of Quijote, fighting. against fly paper instead of windmills.

There is a little known, Tarantino-esque, film from way back in 1997 called Flypaper.

Flypaper is a 1997 crime feature film staring Craig Sheffer, Robert Loggia, Sadie Frost, Talisa Soto and Lucy Liu. It was written and directed by Klaus Hoch.

Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. Three separate but interconnected stories, all set on a deceptively sunny day in California and centered on one million dollars in cash, inspire Hoch's quirky characters to commit acts both devious and depraved in an attempt to make the big score.

This doesn't have much to do with your post, however.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

It is probably better than turning blue on a twenty moon.

 

[Enigman]

It is probably better than turning blue on a twenty moon.

Oh, unimaginably better. Especially since I had a lot of blue to look at.

 

[Borg]

Good hack!

Are you using it to spy on things outside the window?

Thanks. It's pointed at a neighborhood common area that gets a decent amount of foot traffic.

 

[Lisa!]

Moderators:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/killing-all-the-lions-and-tigers.825469/page-7

 

[WWGD]

Finally tried a couple of things that had been intriguing me: bubble tea and this Argentinian drink Mate ( pronunciation: emphasis on the e ). Both pretty good. Next will be going to a Canadian restaurant and an Australian restaurant I saw, which seemed affordable. Just curious to see what they serve.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Mate ( pronunciation: emphasis on the e ).

Are you sure? I think it's supposed to be two syllables, but emphasis on the first syllable: MAH-te. Emphasis on the second syllable: mah-TE, would mean, "I killed.":

Both the spellings "mate" and "maté" are used in English.[6][7][8] An acute accent in Spanish indicates the stressed syllable in a word; an accent on the "e" sometimes seen in English is a hypercorrection used to indicate that the word and its pronunciation are distinct from the English word "mate". As the Yerba Mate Association of the Americas points out, with the accent the word "maté" in Spanish means "I killed".[9]

 

[lisab]

Harry Potter turned 35 today. As for me, turning twenty on a blue moon was quite interesting.

Happy belated Birthday, E-man!