Bizarrepediahttps://www.bizarrepedia.com/2018-03-15T15:00:00+00:00The unusual execution in Iran2018-03-15T15:00:00+00:002018-03-15T15:00:00+00:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2018-03-15:/unusual-execution/<p>Apart from China, Iran is on the front line when it comes to capital punishment. The country has garnered Western media attention and criticism for carrying out executions even of minors. Hangings are frequently held in public. 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh was hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran, on …</p><p>Apart from China, Iran is on the front line when it comes to capital punishment. The country has garnered Western media attention and criticism for carrying out executions even of minors. Hangings are frequently held in public. 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh was hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran, on August 15, 2004, on charges of adultery and <em>"crimes against chastity"</em>. The judge in her case personally applied the noose around her neck.</p>
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<p>In 2014, a young man identified only as Balal was due to be hanged for stabbing a friend during a street brawl.</p>
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<p>The family of the victim refused an offer of so-called blood-money -- 'diya' in Islamic law, is when victim's family want to compromise with the guilty party.</p>
<p>Sometimes, a murder victim’s family may participate in the punishment by pushing the chair from under a condemned prisoner.</p>
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<p>At the last minute, instead of pushing the chair, the mother of the victim decided to slap Balal’s face in an act of symbolic forgiveness. Such an act puts a stop to the execution, though the victim’s family does not have a say in any subsequent jail sentence.</p>
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John 'Pogo the Clown' Wayne Gacy.2017-11-27T00:00:00+00:002018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00Nick Rendertag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-11-27:/gacy/<p>This article will cover John Wayne Gacy Junior, the ‘killer clown.’ This writer notices that the novel, 'It' was published in 1986, that it also starts out with the murder of homosexual men, Gacy was perhaps the inspiration for Pennywise? Gacy was arrested on December 22, 1978, and for all …</p><p>This article will cover John Wayne Gacy Junior, the ‘killer clown.’ This writer notices that the novel, 'It' was published in 1986, that it also starts out with the murder of homosexual men, Gacy was perhaps the inspiration for Pennywise? Gacy was arrested on December 22, 1978, and for all intents and purposes was the evil central antagonist of King’s novel. Moreover, this article will be around 2000 words, so brace yourself, dear reader, because what is to come is definitely not pretty and sure as hell ain’t sweet. Only in America would you find a serial killer who dressed as a clown and called himself, ‘Pogo.’</p>
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<p>Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, the middle and only boy of three children, again Gacy-like many serial killers had a very troubled childhood, named John Wayne by his mother Marion, after her favorite movie star, Gacy was expected to be actually like the movie star, at least according to his father, John Wayne Gacy, World War One veteran and auto repair machinist. Gacy’s father was observed to be a functioning alcoholic who would go downstairs in the basement of the house and drink huge amounts of brandy. This man did end up beating his entire family with a razor strap. Sound familiar? Gacy would often see his father beating his mother, although his sisters have said how Gacy would cause his father to beat him because of the way he acted towards him, his sister has stated how Gacy would not cry when his father beat him, totally infuriating his father even more. The same sister would also state how Gacy’s father would not care where the blows landed as long as they did. Gacy’s father would openly belittle his son saying he was going to grow up to be a homosexual and called Gacy a cissy. Gacy’s father actually beat Gacy over the head with a broomstick, rendering him unconscious. All of this because Gacy wasn’t the hunting fishing type of man, he was closely attached to his sisters and mother and preferred gardening and baking cookies with his mother instead of those typical male activities. However, all throughout his life he wanted his father's stern approval, he also vehemently denied hating his father throughout his entire life. Moreover, Gacy was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, so his schoolwork obviously suffered from this.</p>
<p>In 1949, Gacy was molested by a family friend, the family friend would pick him up in his vehicle and then drive him around while fondling this child. Gacy was so embarrassed by this that he felt he could not tell his parents or especially his father, who would blame Gacy for this and label him as a ‘queer’. Gacy also began to have blackouts and would end up in the hospital, where is a father would often see this as a weakness and berate his son that he was ‘faking’ for sympathy. The cause of this condition where Gacy would have these blackouts would never be conclusively found, however, it would not surprise this writer if they were episodes of psychological disassociation. Moreover, it was when Gacy was hit in the head with a swing when he was 11 years old, that at 16 he was found to have a blood clot in his brain, he was given medication to remove the blood clot. Also, due to whatever Gacy was experiencing, he himself deemed him a sickly kid, spending a year in the hospital, which obviously did nothing for his ever-declining grades at school. Gacy was made even more of an outsider when he was diagnosed with a congenital heart condition, not being able to participate in sports, his father saw this as another weakness of course and this further reinforced his father's opinion of him as a cissy. What is disturbing about Gacy is he obviously had sexual fetishes in his troubled adolescent years, his sister speaks of how he had a brown paper bag in his closet that contained a pair of silk panties. In 1957, a friend saw Gacy’s father lose it with Gacy and began to beat him savagely. Although Gacy never fought back, raising his hands in defense and never striking his father.</p>
<p>Gacy dropped out of high school and went to Las Vegas, where he joined the ambulance service and ultimately became a mortuary assistant, Gacy would sleep at the back of the embalming room in a ‘cot’ to save money, he revealed how once went into the embalming room and got beside a male corpse and fondled it. However, alone and miserable Gacy saved up for 3 months and left Las Vegas, and moved back to Chicago, where he eventually graduated from Northwestern business college, after which, he sold shoes, Gacy then had finally discovered something that he was good at, the gift of selling, the gift of the gab, a gift that would serve him well in the future. By 1965, he was a member of the Junior chamber of commerce, also known as the Jaycee’s and rose to vice president of that organization in Springfield, Illinois. In 1966 he had moved to Waterloo Iowa, he also met his first partner, Marlynn Myers, whose parents would go on to give Gacy full management of the Kentucky fried chicken franchise that they owned and he insisted that his employees call him, Colonel. It was not until this period of his life that one of his sisters noticed that they didn’t really know the real Gacy, when she commented on his kinky personal life, that of having key parties, where if the reader does not know what those are, they were popular in the 60’s and 70’s, this is when married spouses would pick someone else up with the keys being randomly chosen in a glass jar and would go home with that different married spouse.</p>
<p>Apparently, though the Waterloo division of the Jaycee’s knew all about Gacy and his sexual escapades, he was even said to hold orgies to recruit new members of this organization. However, Gacy would take this behavior too far when he sexually assaulted Donald Voorhees. after getting this child drunk and forcing the child to have oral sex with him. Gacy was arrested shortly after the confession of this child, what he presumably, only learned from this experience that he was not to leave witnesses. It also left him feeling ashamed and this behavior left him isolated, his wife leaving him with his two children, who Gacy would never see again. His father also died while he was in prison, which obviously Gacy was extremely grief-stricken about.</p>
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<p>Indeed, Gacy got 10 years for this crime, the maximum allowed.However, like most psychopaths, Gacy fit well into the structure of prison, becoming ‘ the first cook,’ and only ended up serving 18 months, successfully using his gift of the gab to prove he wasn't a threat to society. This was after he caught 2 men engaging in oral sex and kicked one in the head for being ‘queer.’ After he got out of prison, Gacy then moved in with his mother and got a job as a short-order cook, hiding his criminal background until police started investigating him for the disappearances of young boys. By the time the reader gets to this point, it all seems that the police kept giving Gacy chances, for example, on February 12, 1971, Gacy was charged with disorderly conduct, a teenage boy claimed that Gacy picked him up in his car and tried to force the boy into having sex with him, although Gacy was saved from this incident when the young man did not appear in court over this matter. Yet another disturbing example of Gacy getting away with his sexual offenses was on June 22, 1972, when another young man said that Gacy flashed a detective's badge at him and forced him into his car to have sex with him, the charges were for some reason dropped? Is this writer actually baffled by this? Why yes, yes he is, a sexual offender is given so many chances without going back to prison? The first charge while Gacy was on parole and had a set curfew of 10:00 pm?</p>
<p>In 1972, Gacy formed his own construction company called painting, decorating and maintenance, (P.D.M.), in June of that same year Gacy married Carole Huff, who moved into his house with a four-foot crawl space. By 1975 however, Gacy’s marriage with Huff had deteriorated to the point where he openly left homosexual pornography all over the house. The Gacy’s divorced in March of 1976, this is after his wife had found driver licenses of younger men all over the house and Gacy had been out all night. Once Gacy’s wife had left, it was cruising time as far as he was concerned, Darell Samson vanished after he was last seen on April 6, 1976, 5 weeks later Randall Refett disappeared after walking home from Senn high school. Hours later after this event, Gacy proved himself to be a homicidal maniac by abducting 15-year-old Samuel Stapleton as he walked home from his sister's apartment. Both youths were found in Gacy’s crawlspace. Gacy would go on to murder 33 victims in his killing mania of 1976 to 1978. It may be that Gacy was bipolar and not just bisexual as he himself made a definite point of emphasizing. This is an individual that was so in denial that after the police dug up 29 bodies that were in his crawl space, he could not admit that he was a homosexual. How much in denial do you have to be about your own sexuality? To be found with 29 bodies of teenage boys between the ages of 14-18 years old, one victim being 25 years old, does that not give some indication that if you have tortured and murdered all of these young men, that you are possibly homosexual? Although, Gacy had his defensive arguments, that he wasn’t in the house at the time, ring extremely hollow and quite frankly this writer is not interested in them.</p>
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<p>An analysis of Gacy’s crimes would be that the reason that he kept all of those, 29, bodies in his crawlspace is that Gacy had a commodity fetish for these men, they were more like products that you would pick up from your local supermarket, he owned them, they were his, forever, moreover, that Gacy viewed these men as nothing more than flies he swatted after picking them up. Gacy also told, the late legendary FBI profiler Robert Ressler after his conviction that his victims were, ‘worthless little queers and punks.’ Ressler then asked Gacy ‘aren’t you a homosexual, too?’ Gacy apparently responded with that he was looking for quick easy sex with transient males. Gacy described these young men as ‘garbage people,’ and that was why it took him so long to be caught. Because, not unlike the serial murdering of Dean Coril, these young men were dismissed as runaways until Robert Pietz was reported as missing. You see, Gacy had become so uncaring and callous of his targets he eventually killed a real-life all American boy that was clearly and deeply loved and valued by his family, that is, that the Chicago police could not ignore the disappearance of.</p>
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<p>In fact, there is something downright compulsive in Gacy’s behavior, to quote the late neurologist, Dr. Jonathan Pincus, ‘the methodical compulsive aspect of serial killers and the sexual content of their motivation and actions set them apart from most ordinary killers. Each serial killer has a different method of operation that incorporates the crime details that have, idiosyncratic, sexual meaning.’</p>
<p>Also, ‘The prevailing motivation of the dozen or so serial killers I have examined is to dominate and control others…this obsessive-compulsive quality of serial killers may prevent them from being violent when they cannot,”do it the right way.” For example when they are incarcerated, the need for the right time, place and victim both stamps these acts as bizarre and protects fellow inmates from the serial killer's vulnerabilities to violent action. In this way they differ from “ordinary killers” but they are not normal people who suddenly become serial killers because they are evil. ‘</p>
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<p>All of this and a little more of a plot twist from a young man called Jason Moss, who claimed to be the last victim of Gacy, this writer just says, ‘give me a break.’ Moss would go on to release a book based on his written correspondence with Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. Pretending at least to Gacy that he was a ‘gay hustler,’ this writer has both read the book and seen the film, this writer would suggest that you read the book because the film is excruciatingly long and just downright cringe-worthy. Mainly because the main antagonist in the film is way, way too manly to be played as Gacy. Gacy was an effeminate weirdo who was in complete blanket denial of his own sexuality. Besides from that Gacy also saw a young man of a punk group called GG Allin, of the punk rock group, GG Allin, and the murder junkies, therefore Moss’s argument that he was the last victim is completely false and misleading.</p>
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<p>Gacy was executed by lethal injection on May 9<sup>th</sup>, 1994, his execution was not a simple one, however, the fluid that he was injected with unexpectedly solidified, so the curtains of his execution had to be drawn and then opened again, his entire execution took about 18 minutes. One of the prosecutors stated that he had ‘a much easier death than all of his victims.’ It was recorded that Gacy’s last words were, ‘kiss my ass.’</p>
<p>If this article gives you any sympathy for Gacy, please remember that he had 33 victims that were actually counted, how many he actually killed, who knows? Gacy surpassed the serial killer record until Gary Ridgway came along. As the prosecutor from his trial mentioned as he tore down the victim's photo’s of their faces, show him mercy? Because he never showed an ounce of mercy towards his victims.</p>
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'Lee Wuornos2017-10-15T14:00:00+01:002017-10-15T14:00:00+01:00Nick Rendertag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-10-15:/aileen-wuornos/<p>This article on Aileen Carol Wuornos is what the American media deemed as America's first female <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/serial-killers/https://www.bizarrepedia.com/serial-killers/" target="_blank">serial killer</a>, not true obviously. Below is her entire life as a very much abused child to becoming a mentally ill woman.Her story tragically and dramatically demonstrates the inequity that existed and still …</p><p>This article on Aileen Carol Wuornos is what the American media deemed as America's first female <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/serial-killers/https://www.bizarrepedia.com/serial-killers/" target="_blank">serial killer</a>, not true obviously. Below is her entire life as a very much abused child to becoming a mentally ill woman.Her story tragically and dramatically demonstrates the inequity that existed and still exists today in current American society and how one person can fall through the gaps in the larger western world. Her execution still sends a ghostly echo throughout our society and the ripples of that echo can still be felt today.</p>
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<p>Aileen Carol Wuornos had an awful childhood, one of the worst that this writer has ever read about, born in 1956 her father a child molesting schizophrenic was arrested for sodomizing an 8-year boy, Wuornos never even met her father who would go on to hang himself in prison. Her mother abandoned Aileen and her brother Keith when Wuornos was just four years old, leaving them with her Parents, Wuornos’ and Keiths grandparents. From an early age, Wuornos claimed that her alcoholic grandfather would sexually assault her, it was also rumoured that her grandfather was her biological father, as well as sexually abusing Wournos’s mother before her mother ultimately left. Moreover, having these sexual assaults happen to her and learning that sex was no big deal from her grandfather, she would often offer sexual services as young as 9, giving the neighbourhood boys oral sex for cigarettes. Even at this young age, Wuornos was known for her intense temper tantrums. This is a major cause of speculation that this was what had at least partially been caused by the very intense punishment sessions from her grandfather who would beat her and Keith on their bare bottoms with a razor belt. Keith and Wuornos would be forced to clean the belt afterwards. This lack of nurturing was probably what caused Wournos’s <a href="https://www.psycom.net/depression.central.borderline.html" onclick="fresas.outbound('www.psycom.net/depression.central.borderline.html');" target="_blank">borderline personality disorder</a>, (BPD). Her brother Keith was the only person Wuornos could emotionally latch on to, indeed they began a sexual relationship when she was only 11. This writer remembers a <a href="http://localhost:8000/documentaries/" onclick="fresas.outbound('localhost:8000/documentaries/');" target="_blank">documentary</a> about Wuornos where the female speaker states that she watched Wuornos and Keith having sex, but it was so innocent that it could hardly be called sex.</p>
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<p>Having so few ties with everyone around in her in the community, all of the other kids called her a whore and a slut and even threw rocks at her, Wuornos on top of everything else was raped by her grandfather's friend and became pregnant at the ripe old age of 14, while pregnant she was shipped off to a home for unwed mothers ultimately having her baby adopted out. It was at about this time her grandmother died of liver failure, yet another terrible thing to happen to Wuornos. Her grandfather kicked Aileen out of the house when she was 15, so Wuornos was forced to live in the woods in her small Michigan Rochester community, a place known as the pits, she lived in the Michigan woods for 2 years. There she used the only tool that she knew how, her sexuality, so she dropped out of school and became a prostitute What obviously needs to be asked here is where were social services when all of these negative events were taking place? Child protective services? With such an absolutely awful childhood, Wuornos would have been better off in a foster family than with her alcoholic grandmother and also alcoholic, pedophiliac grandfather? As Broomfield points out in his documentary <a href="https://www.netflix.com/ee/title/60033282" onclick="fresas.outbound('www.netflix.com/ee/title/60033282');" target="_blank">‘Aileen, Life, and Death of a Serial Killer,’</a> and who is also a very good example of ‘cinema verite.’ Broomfield goes on to state, ‘the idea that of a woman killing a man, a man-hating lesbian prostitute who would tarnish the reputations of all of her victims brought Aileen Wuornos a special kind of hatred.’</p>
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<p>Broomfield also says that because Wuornos was betrayed by all of those closest to her, he felt a certain sympathy for this serial killer. Wuornos never had a friend, mentor or lover, without sinister intentions. That lack of nurturing, the ability to trust someone, anyone at all, died permanently when her brother Keith tragically died of cancer of the esophagus, she was left with no emotional ties to anyone, completely alone in a seemingly constant brutal world. Sleeping in the woods with one blanket in winter, Wuornos actually shows her hands to Broomfield in ’Aileen, Life, and Death of a Serial Killer,’ and they definitely look like someone who has slept in the rough, Wuornos's hands looked discoloured and partially frostbitten.</p>
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<p>Unable to tolerate the cold winters of Michigan Wuornos set her sights on the much warmer climate of Florida, becoming a hitchhiking prostitute, however, she was briefly married to Lewis Gratz Fell, a man she met in Florida, he was 76 years old and president of the Keystone coal company, moreover, the marriage was quickly annulled when Wuornos beat Fell with his own cane, when he wouldn’t give her any spending money. So that inner rage of Wuornos had always been there. Individuals with BPD often illustrate exaggerated emotion, for example, if it’s rage then it’s extreme rage.</p>
<p>Later she would run into trouble, that of Richard Mallory, a sex offender. This man had spent 10 years in prison for intent to rape. In Broomfield’s documentary, ‘Aileen the Selling of a Serial Killer,’ Wuornos tells a horrific tale of being sodomized by Mallory and of him tearing her up inside in her vagina and rectum and then pouring alcohol in these wounds to torture her further, then spurted some alcohol up her nose, which you would expect to hurt very much, a total act of sadism, he was then claiming that the big finale was going to pour the alcohol into her eyes. This is some extremely compelling footage and if an act by Wuornos, her performance should get an Oscar. Basically, this incident would lead to Wuornos snapping and, becoming a total psychopath and Wuornos's insanity would have very grisly consequences because after this incident Wuornos began to kill her clients.</p>
<p>What is difficult about Wournos’s claims is that when she initially confessed, she said all of her clients were going to get ‘rough’ with her and either ‘beat her or screw her in the ass,’ however, this is not true, as portrayed in the film “Monster,’ Wuornos killed her victims because at least one got violent, but the rest were simply for the cash that they had on them and pawned any items that they may own, which would lead to her being caught because she left a thumbprint in a pawn store, that the police were able to track through her many previous arrests.</p>
<p>A Marxist critique of Wuornos suggests that this woman never stood a chance. The American belief that anyone can attain the American dream through hard work and desire is totally fallacious. This idea is almost played for laughs by the film ‘Monster,’ here we see Wuornos attempting to get a straight job, however as a ‘professional call girl,’ as Wuornos claims to be, she is barely educated and has no experience in the conventional working environment. So she is trapped in her dark prostitute world, the bars were all around her but made starkly visible within the environment that surrounded her. Michael McCarthy’s Freudian interpretation of her murders also does not work for this writer at all. That she was killing her father or grandfather every time she pulled the trigger on her hapless victims. Give us all a break, please. That is way too simplistic a reason for Wuornos murdering these men.</p>
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<p>Another thing that annoys the viewer is Wournos’s mother, who Broomfield manages to track down and interview, Wuornos's mother, who goes on to state how Wuornos was a frank breech birth, that is, she came out feet first and that is meant to explain Wournos’s behaviour? Yeah, right. It is because of this woman’s neglect of Wuornos, that Wuornos, was forced to sleep in the ice and the snow, the massive abuse that Wuornos was forced to endure due to this woman's total neglect of her. How can a mother totally neglect her child like this? Not even checking in on her to make sure that her child is alright? This kind of outright neglect just baffles. Moreover, Wuornos's mother asks Wuornos to forgive her, obviously, Wuornos does not ultimately forgive her mother, yet who can blame her? Although, the late neurologist Dr Jonathan Pincus, who helped create the homicidal triad, states that if the individual has specifically, frontal lobe brain damage, child abuse, and a major mental disorder, such as bipolar or schizophrenia, then you have a very dangerous individual, perhaps Wournos's impulsivity, and erratic violent behavior stemmed from frontal lobe brain damage.However, this would be difficult to prove because she has already been diagnosed with BPD, where impulsivity and erratic behaviour are characteristics of this personality disorder.</p>
<p>However, when Wuornos meets up with Broomfield again she obviously wants to die. After 12 years of being on death row, she is obviously fed up with being on it and obviously wants to be killed. For example, saying that the murder of Mallory was not actually self-defence that she needed his vehicle and he had the ‘right’ amount of money needed for Wuornos, however, how did Wuornos know about the amount of money that Mallory had on him? This story is largely thought to be a phoney. Wuornos in her final court hearings on death row objects to her own witnesses and is deliberately sabotaging her own defence. Wuornos also threatens her lawyer with dismissal after he said he would fight to keep Wuornos from execution.</p>
<p>Moreover, Wuornos is unsurprisingly angry at the media and the police, who in Broomfield’s documentary ‘The Selling of a Serial Killer,' did end up working together to make books and movie deal’s with the entertainment industry. To the point where one policeman was forced out of the police force and several were investigated on corruption charges. Wuornos's lover Tyria Moore, an accomplice, must have known what was taking place and she ran as soon as she found that the cops were closing in. She also became the main witness for the prosecution against Wuornos, Moore became an undercover agent of the police while Wuornos confessed over the phone to Moore. Moore, with the police, had also started to negotiate the film rights of her life with Wuornos. Again Wournos’s closest lover, the woman that Wuornos felt most close and most normal to be around, a nuclear family if you will, Wuornos being the husband and Moore being the wife, ultimately betrayed Wuornos.</p>
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<p>It is not until Wuornos is interviewed by Broomfield that her terrible anger begins to show, it erupts like a volcano, spewing forth with intense hideousness, illustrating her diagnosis of BPD, one cannot help wonder how the victims of this woman felt as she erupted into this terrible ‘monster.’ In prison, her paranoid delusions became much, much worse. Wuornos believed that sonic radio waves were penetrating her cell, that the guards were poisoning her food, obviously, the pressure of living on death row has devolved her mind into paranoid schizophrenia, just like her father. She speaks about how the cops, let her kill her other victims, that she left fingerprints in her first victim, Mallory’s car, which is not true, the police did not find any fingerprints on Mallory's car and assumed it had been wiped down. Also, Wuornos speaks about her delusions, saying that the prison staff had been using sonic pressure on her, crushing her skull. That behind her mirror was a device that was not unlike a computer causing this ‘sonic pressure.’ She also states how the guards were attempting to poison her and she had to wash all of her food off, given to her by the jail. She claims that when she didn’t wash her food off one time that she was sick for 3 weeks and almost died. She then goes on to state how the police were surveilling her the whole time she was out murdering these men. That helicopters were coming out of the sky, deputy sheriffs with decoys were picking her up 4-5 months before her arrest, and that, all of this, of course, was very unsurprisingly covered up.</p>
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<h2 class="toc" id="toc-the unsound mind?">The Unsound Mind?<a class="pos" href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/aileen-wuornos/#toc-the unsound mind?" title="Link to paragraph"><i class="icon-link"></i></a></h2>
<p>Wuornos, is obviously not well, not mentally competent at all, However, what does it take for someone to be diagnosed not mentally competent? Moreover, this is unsurprising that Wuornos was deemed to be termed mentally competent for execution, look at the case of convicted killer Ricky Ray Rector for example, who asked if he could have his dessert saved from his last meal, for when he got back? That case was disgusting and so is this one, where a mentally ill woman, a paranoid schizophrenic, has been executed. What adds insult to injury is that Wuornos was examined by 3 different psychiatrists and was still seen mentally fit to be executed. After Wuornos has her last rant at Broomfield, Broomfield tells Wuornos that he is sorry, indeed, the viewer also feels much pity for this woman, who if it had been different, without the endless sexual abuse and rape that Wuornos had to endure, she could have been a much more productive person in our society. The tragedy of Aileen Wuornos, is a tragedy not only for her and the people who loved her it is a tragedy of the Western legal system and child protection services, How could Wuornos fall through the gaps like this? How many Wournos’s exist in our prisons currently?</p>
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<p>As Fyodor Dostoevsky pointed out, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons.</p>
<p>The United States has a long way to go before it can be deemed a civilized society.</p>
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</div>The Voynich Manuscript2017-09-11T00:00:00+01:002017-09-11T00:00:00+01:00Edgar Jesus Martineztag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-09-11:/voynich/<p>The Beinecke MS 408, or mostly know as “The Voynich Manuscript,” has been a mystery since the moment it was discovered back in 1639 by Georgius Barschius. In a written letter Athanasius Kircher claims that he found a book with an unknown script and illustrated pictures of plants, chemicals, and …</p><p>The Beinecke MS 408, or mostly know as “The Voynich Manuscript,” has been a mystery since the moment it was discovered back in 1639 by Georgius Barschius. In a written letter Athanasius Kircher claims that he found a book with an unknown script and illustrated pictures of plants, chemicals, and stars. Since he couldn’t read the text, he was hoping that Athanasius could do it for him, but neither was he up to the task.</p>
<p>The book was passed from hand to hand and gaining the fame under the name of “Unknown book.” In 1912, a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich purchased from the Villa Mondragone in Italy. He presented to the public in 1915 and around that time cryptographers became interested in the writings. But no matter how professional or amateur they were, no one could understand the secrets behind it.</p>
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<p>The medieval book is handwritten, with illustrations of plants and astrology. It has 240 pages, approximately 10 of them missing. The people who have tried to understand the manuscript suggest that it is a cookbook with sections of cosmology. Some suggest that it has a too low information content to be an alphabetic (syllabic) representation of a human language. If true then it is almost certainly not "real writing". No one really knows, but the three most viable suggestions are:</p>
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<li>Early discoveries of the 13<sup>th</sup> century, written in an unknown language and code.</li>
<li>A rare prayer book of the Cathars, saved from the inquisition.</li>
<li>A complete nonsense, written by a medieval quack, trying to impress his clientele.</li>
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<p>The theories and superstitions are endless. The idea that the Voynich manuscript is a medical text seems plausible, but maybe it really is just a bunch of meaningless symbols and drawings.</p>
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<p>The Manuscript can be divided into 7 sections.</p>
<p>The herbal section covers more than the half of the book, filled with illustrations of plants, leaves, and paragraphs of text and symbols written carefully close to the illustrations. On the surface, it is similar to other early renaissance books, Voynich but features unique and original drawings that can’t be found in another source or book.</p>
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<p>The central mystery of the manuscript is that none of the plants in the herbarium besides sunflower and a pepper plant don't actually exist in nature.</p>
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<p>The so called astronomical focus on the sun, moon, and star spirals that might represent the galaxies. With only twelve pages, this is the shortest chapter.</p>
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<p>Cosmological chapter is full of complex and large drawings. One of the illustration is a six-page fold-out, consisting of nine connecting circles with four smaller items on the corners.</p>
<p>The Zodiac illustrations are one of the most famous parts of the Voynich manuscript. 30 small Nymphs holding stars and an emblem of the zodiac in the center. The astrological signs start with Pisces, which is actually rather unusual. Then Aries and Taurus. Capricorn and Aquarius are missing altogether.</p>
<p>The strange illustrations appear to be related to paranatellon -- a term used in the astrology for the angle of the zodiac (of which there are 30 per sign).</p>
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<p>The biology, or “Balneological", section, contains the drawings of the nymphs that leave the impression of being part of a chemical or natural process.</p>
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<p>The pharmaceutical chapter features large drawings of cannons, sometimes referred by researchers as containers and pipes, which don't make any sense the context.</p>
<p>And the missing pages? Well, those pages are from the very same section together with the index.</p>
<p><em>There are many crank analyses floating around the Internet. One that has some believability is the video analysis below. The linguistics think it is a real writing, likely related to Roma/Syriac, and they have some very convincing arguments.</em></p>
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<p>Why was it done? What was its purpose? And who wrote it? Most of these questions will likely never get an answer, the Voynich Manuscript may remain one of the biggest mysteries or hoaxes.</p>Chijon family: The Korean Cannibal Family2017-08-17T00:31:00+01:002017-08-17T00:31:00+01:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-08-17:/chijon-family/<p>Kim Ki-hwan was a South Korean ex convict who had so much grudge against the rich of the society in his days. He had an unprecedented intense hatred for the rich of society and was so begrudged against them that he would do anything to bring them down.</p>
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<p>With time …</p><p>Kim Ki-hwan was a South Korean ex convict who had so much grudge against the rich of the society in his days. He had an unprecedented intense hatred for the rich of society and was so begrudged against them that he would do anything to bring them down.</p>
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<p>With time, Kim Ki-hwan was able to liaise with six other people, who are either unemployed or ex convicts like himself. They all shared the same hatred and poisoned ideology against the rich. He had sold his ideology to them and they had bought it.</p>
<p>Kim Ki-hwan sort of made disciples of his friends who had come to believe in him.</p>
<p>Totalling eight in number, with one woman in their group, the gang set out in their quest on infliction of harm on the rich.</p>
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<p>In 1993 the gang was named Mescan by Kim Ki-hwan, of course the gang later came to be known as the Chijon family. A notorious gang that terrorized the South Korean rich living in Seoul.</p>
<p>The gang was dedicated to the kidnapping and killing of the rich in ways unimaginably gruesome.</p>
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<p>Anything that connoted wealth attracted them to hunt their victim. Fancy cars and expensive clothes and jewelries, attracted them to the one who had them on, and a general fancy lifestyle easily turns the victim into a fair game for the gang.</p>
<p>They would hunt such victim down until they abduct him or her and bring such unfortunate one to a painful end.</p>
<p>They were labelled the Chijon family by the prosecutors of the case.</p>
<p>The Chijon family as they later came to be known would abduct their rich victims and get in touch with their families to ask for ransom, and they were always paid.</p>
<p>But no matter how much these families and loved ones of the victims give away as ransom, these victims were never set free. They were rather treated in the most disrespectful of ways and finally killed.</p>
<p>In one of the cases, they were able to extort the lump sum of $100,000.00 from a particular victim's family at that time. Eventually, after collecting the huge ransom, they still killed and ate the victim.</p>
<p>The Chijon family derived pleasure from torturing their victims. Whenever they become bored with any of such victims and derive no more pleasure from torturing them, these victims were slaughtered, or shot, and burnt.</p>
<p>But these repulsive acts never stopped there.</p>
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<p>After slaughtering their victims, the Chijon family members would cook them and eat in the most bizarre <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/chikatilo/" target="_blank">case of cannibalism</a> at the time.</p>
<p>Their belief was that eating the flesh of their victims would give them courage, which is why Kim Ki-hwan named their gang <strong>Mescan</strong> in the first place at their formation, which was supposed to be for them, a Greek word that meant courage.</p>
<p>Of course one wonders why must have given them that idea or piece of information that the word Mescan connotes courage for there is no such word in the whole of the Greek vocabulary.</p>
<p>A point came when they decided they needed to be very sure they would make any mistakes in their abductions. By this time they had had a series of successful operations and collected a number of ransoms and had become more bold and daring. They had become the rich's undeserved nemesis in Seoul, South Korea.</p>
<p>So the Chijon family were able to secure the Hyundai garage's mailing list through a disgruntled and begrudged staff of the company who had sold out the comprehensive list to them.</p>
<p>It wasn't certain that the staff knew exactly what the list was gong to be used for in the hands of Kim Ki-hwan and his gang. But he gave it to them anyways.</p>
<p>The Hyundai garage Seoul, Korea, was a place for the elites and the society's richest and there was no more potent lethal tool to perfect the execution of their gory plans but the list in their hands.</p>
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<p>Hunting their prey among the rich who patronized Hyundai garage store became very easy for them, and so their evil acts once more prevailed.</p>
<p>This was because the list was an open collection of their perfect targets.</p>
<p>On the list were about 1,200 names of the most active patrons of the Hyundai garage store. These customers were topping the chart for those who used credit cards for their purchases. They became sitting ducks for Kim Ki-hwan and his gang.</p>
<p>And so they continued with their unpopular trade, collecting ransoms, kidnapping, torturing, slaughtering, maiming, killing of their victims and of course in eating their flesh. Their ignominious deeds also included rape.</p>
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<p>It would be noted that in their cabin, they had an incinerator. This they used in burning and cremating their victims. It is not clear from the eventual documentation of the case if they had at any time burnt any of their victims in the incinerator.</p>
<p>But it aided them to keep their tracks protected for every trace of remnant of bodies, corpses and incriminating effects were readily burnt to ashes in the incinerator.</p>
<p>In September 1994, the Chijon family abducted a woman who was taken to their infamous cabin for the same gruesome fate.</p>
<p>First of all she was viciously gang raped by the gang and forced to undergo a load of experiences that brought her emotional trauma.</p>
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<p>She was forced to shoot another kidnapped victim in the head, made to hold another while she was killed by suffocation with a plastic bag.</p>
<p>According to her, this woman eventually escaped by an act that was beyond sheer luck, somewhat close to a miracle.</p>
<p>I believe it was this woman who escaped their inevitable death delivery that opened the can of worms concerning atrocious perpetrations of the infamous gang and they were subsequent rounded up and arrested, and sentenced to court for trial and eventual conviction.</p>
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<p>On the first of November 1994, they were found guilty of murder, of burying a number of their victim's bodies on the hillsides, and sentenced to death for the murder of five people.</p>
<p>During their sessions of interrogation, one member admitted the fact that he ate a victim's flesh after having dismembered them. Of course he would not be the only one among the gang that practised cannibalism.</p>
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<p>However, in all their trials and in their subsequent conviction, the chijon family gang members never showed remorse for their atrocities and crime. They were brazen and made unrepentant statements with impunity.</p>
<p>The family of <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/serial-killers/" target="_blank">serial killers</a> summarily had just one regret; not having killed more victims and not having eaten more human flesh. That to them, would have given them more satisfaction and fulfilment than any other thing possible could have.</p>The History of Austin: Music Paradise Once Controlled by Gangsters2017-08-12T21:15:00+01:002017-08-12T21:15:00+01:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-08-12:/austin-gangsters/<p>Many people call Austin the "Live Music Capital of the World." A cosmopolitan city of politicians, enlightened college students, and free-thinking citizens, the city sits like an oasis in the heart of the otherwise conservative preferences of the state of Texas. Beloved for its creative edge, it might surprise you …</p><p>Many people call Austin the "Live Music Capital of the World." A cosmopolitan city of politicians, enlightened college students, and free-thinking citizens, the city sits like an oasis in the heart of the otherwise conservative preferences of the state of Texas. Beloved for its creative edge, it might surprise you to know that this thriving town wasn't always this way.</p>
<p>In the 1960s, Tim Overton, an ex-college football player, became known as the Godfather, for controlling a gang of unsavory characters from the wrong side of town. Local musicians, lawyers, and politicians became inextricably linked to their illegal activity because they all had a penchant for the same pastimes.</p>
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<p>The city's criminal past, along with the ever-present Texas football culture, surprisingly led to Austin's present-day musical paradise status, all converging in a way that wouldn't happen anywhere else.</p>
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<p>Tim Overton grew up poor on the east side of Austin. He was a successful athlete and a local champion at golden gloves and bare-knuckled fighting.</p>
<p>Like many small-town poor Texan boys, football became the way out of his family's social ranking. He was also a smart kid, good at math, and he possessed a keen wit. Classmates remember him as a charismatic and popular student at Austin High School.</p>
<p>After graduating in 1958, Overton received a full football scholarship to the University of Texas. He also began to moonlight as a facilitator of illegal activities. His status as an untouchable college football star was compromised after the police made one too many visits to investigate his behavior. Head Coach Darrell Royal cut him from the team, and the university expelled him. Overton then concentrated his efforts on becoming a major player in the Austin criminal underworld.</p>
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<p>Overton and his crew started by robbing small banks up and down the I-35 corridor, which runs north to south through the city of Austin. He went so far as to install a safe at his father's auto transmission shop to practice his safecracking skills.</p>
<p>His new criminal career resulted in a stint at the Huntsville penitentiary, where Overton spent 1961 after being convicted of safecracking.Meanwhile, the illegal funds from the thefts continued to bankroll the gang's criminal activity.</p>
<p>The group expanded their enterprise into prostitution, drugs, and petty theft. By 1963, Overton and his entourage of hoodlums settled into their roles as the <a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781626198401" onclick="fresas.outbound('www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781626198401');" target="_blank">rag-tag mafia</a> of the seedy Austin underbelly.</p>
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<p>By the mid-1960s, Austin bands began to play original music in bars like the Old New Orleans and Threadgill's near the University of Texas campus. Threadgill's had a long history of <a href="http://www.threadgills.com/history/" onclick="fresas.outbound('www.threadgills.com/history/');" target="_blank">hosting live music</a> since the Great Depression, but the former filling station-turned-bar became a haven for 60s folk singers, including the notable Janis Joplin. In fact, she perfected her brassy style while performing at Austin bars like Threadgill's.</p>
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<p>Overton and his gang of about 20 miscreants lived well on their ill-gotten gains. The criminals quickly became a multi-state operation while remaining firmly entrenched in their hometown. Primarily focused on bank robbery and prostitution, the group took advantage of their position to participate in any illegal opportunity to increase their cash flow. They became regular figures at a well-known South Austin brothel run by Hattie Valdes, which employed many of their wives and girlfriends.</p>
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<p>East Austin venues like Charlie's Playhouse catered to college kids drawn to the blues performances of talented Texans. Owner Charlie Gildon reportedly always saved the best table in the house for Tim Overton and his gang.</p>
<p>Tim and his boys partied hard at the Playhouse between bank jobs, robbing 13 banks in Texas, Kansas, and Missouri in 1965. The burgeoning music industry thrived, partly due to his gang's notorious patronage and fame.</p>
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<p>As the bar scene grew, more venues opened to host live music. The Vulcan Gas Company booked the best local blues and rock bands, like the 13<sup>th</sup> Floor Elevators. The band pioneered the psychedelic music craze of the era, playing shows under the influence while shaping the music scene in Austin and across the nation.</p>
<p>The band's fanatical following, along with the high-visibility and patronage of Austin's very own gangsters, added to the mystique and popularity of the city's booming music scene. People frequented clubs like the Vulcan Gas and Le Lollypop, hoping that they might spot Overton's crew. The crowds exiting at closing time could be volatile and unruly, and fights occurred regularly.</p>
<p>In 1968, it appeared the fun had finally ended for Tim Overton and his criminal enterprise when the Federal Government indicted Overton and 19 of his associates for conspiracy to rob more than a dozen banks. The trial lasted almost six months. The prosecution's case ended with a dismal six convictions.</p>
<p>Fortunately, however, the end of the trial also resulted in the end of Overton's reign of terror. After serving another short stint in prison, a rival gangster, Big Ted Jones, murdered him in 1972.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, the music scene in Austin continued to grow. It became apparent that combining rock with country outlaw music helped establish a unique and popular local sound.</p>
<p>Seasoned from a hard stint in Nashville, Willie Nelson came to town a bit older and wiser than many on Austin's music scene, and the town quickly embraced him. He shed his Music Row suit and short hair and assumed the laid-back Austin vibe. The red-headed stranger had an extensive body of recorded work, and he parlayed Austin's music catalyst through his Nashville connections.</p>
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<p>The Vulcan Gas Company, the scene of many raucous parties by the Overton gang, closed due to mismanagement, but it yielded a new spot that became an iconic part of the Austin music world, the Armadillo World Headquarters.</p>
<p>The Armadillo World Headquarters opened in 1970 in an old, neglected National Guard Armory building that had poor acoustics. Yet one historic performance left an indelible change on the music scene and set the course for Austin to become a musician's paradise.</p>
<p>Music experts point to Willie Nelson's <a href="https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2014/03/the-way-back-willie-at-the-armadillo/" onclick="fresas.outbound('alcalde.texasexes.org/2014/03/the-way-back-willie-at-the-armadillo/');" target="_blank">1972 performance</a> at the Armadillo as the moment the modern Austin music scene blossomed into a national focus. The unique blend of music and cultural harmony captured the soul of Austin, and it took on a life of its own.</p>
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<p>In 1974, the local PBS channel filmed the pilot for a live music series focusing on original Texas music. That pilot eventually led to the broadcast of <em>Austin City Limits</em> in 1976, <a href="http://acltv.com/history-of-acl/" onclick="fresas.outbound('acltv.com/history-of-acl/');" target="_blank">the longest-running music program on American television</a>.</p>
<p>Who would ever have guessed that such an odd, eclectic mix of gangsters, country singers, and rock & roll musicians could give birth to a city recognized as the Live Music Capital of the World? Still, to this day, Austin continues to make its imprint on music history on a national level.</p>Ruby Ridge: The eleven-day Siege2017-07-11T14:00:00+01:002017-07-11T14:00:00+01:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-07-11:/ruby-ridge/<p>When such stories are heard, it would seem it was one of those tales from the movies, but this is not, it is one of those incidents that came to play on the scenes of history; it’s the Ruby Ridge Incident.</p>
<p>Ruby Ridge is a place situated near Naples …</p><p>When such stories are heard, it would seem it was one of those tales from the movies, but this is not, it is one of those incidents that came to play on the scenes of history; it’s the Ruby Ridge Incident.</p>
<p>Ruby Ridge is a place situated near Naples in Northern Idoho, USA. Nevertheless, that’s not why the place is popular. What made it popular occurred on the property of the Weaver. It is no other than the eleven-day standoff incident which occurred between United States Marshals Service (USMS), the Hostage Rescue team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI HRT) and Randy Weaver, his family and a close friend, Kevin Harris. This incident led to death of a Deputy U.S. Marshal and two of Randy Weaver’s family members.</p>
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<p>The next question that comes to mind is, “what could have transpired between this two unlike entities?” It all started when Randy Weaver moved alongside his family to Northern Idaho so as to escape the failing state of the world that was already crushing. They acquired 20 acres of land on Ruby Ridge in 1983 and resided on a hillside on Ruby Creek without troubles until a clash came to be between Randy’s neighbour, Terry Kinnison over a $3,000 worth of land. The clash, which landed in court ruled in favour of Randy and Kinnison was asked to pay Randy some additional $2,100 for damages. Kinnison, feeling distasted with the turnout, wrote a letter to the FBI, Secret service and the county sheriff, stating a claim that Randy had threatened to kill the Pope, the President and governor, John V. Evans. Subsequently, without much ado, the FBI and the secret service plunged into an array of investigation connecting Randy to this claim. The Secret Service were hinted of Randy’s involvement with the Aryan Nations as well as being in possession of a weaponry; an allegation Randy denied.</p>
<p>So after, on the 6<sup>th</sup> of May, 1985, the Weavers made a legal claim stating that there seemed to be an existing vendetta resulting into an instigation to provoke the FBI into attacking his family. In their claim, they mentioned that a letter had been written to threaten the president and was sent under a forged signature. This did not, however, come to play as no letter of such intent was said to have been received.</p>
<p>There was one other intricate piece in this case that formed the plot of the story, it was Randy Weaver’s case with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Randy had been on the watch of the ATF after being associated with Frank Kumnick who was a member of the Aryan Nation, a political extremist group. Randy had earlier on being invited to an Aryan meeting by Kumnick in which he was spotted by an ATF informer. The ATF tried to recruit Randy to spy on Kumnick but the whole attempt failed and this led him to be implicated by the ATF concerning an illegal possession and sale of firearm in 1990. With the case at its imminent hearing, Randy was to appear in court but failed to do so, leading him to be filled a bench warrant. Although, it was later discovered that the letter that was issued him contained an incorrect date. </p>
<p>Normally, the judge should have withdrawn the bench warrant but had refused to do so on the basis that he wanted to be sure Randy would show up in court on the proposed date of the hearing which was on the 20<sup>th</sup> of March 1990; a decision the U.S. Marshal Service had also supported. But contrary to the process, something else came up: the U.S. Attorney’s Office set up a grand jury on the 14<sup>th</sup> of March, instead of the proposed date. Failing to appear, the grand jury indicted Randy for failing to show up in court.</p>
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<p>With all this in place, it was clear that Randy had become in the eye of the enforcement a runaway. But Randy wasn’t that kind of runaway. He maintained his stay in his home in Ruby Ridge and vowed to repel any attempt to take in using force by any enforcement agency. This was owned to several reasons: Randy didn’t trust that he would be given a fair trial which was perceived from the way he was issued a bench warrant, he was as well informed by his magistrate that losing the case meant forfeiting his land, therefore leaving his family homeless.</p>
<p>Randy’s heart was crossed, he would not surrender to any attempt by the enforcement agents to take him forcefully to court. This prompted the Marshals to put up some tactics to hinder Randy’s relentless quest. An operation code named “Northern Exposure” was set up on the 27<sup>th</sup> of March, 1992 and their first mission was to monitor closely the activities of the Weaver.</p>
<p>In April 18, 1992, there was another development. A fly-over helicopter belonging to Geraldo Rivera filed a report that shots were fired at it by the Weaver’s family. But contrary to this claim by the Rivera helicopter, the U.S. Marshals installing surveillance cameras on that day claimed to have seen the helicopter but didn’t record any fired shots, which in away, contended the authenticity of the claim. This claim by the helicopter was later received as false as the pilot, Richard Weiss in the long run submitted that the weaver never fired at his helicopter.</p>
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<p>Subsequent to that period, the operation “Northern Exposure” was suspended for three months, but the U.S. Marshals, didn’t however drop the case. On the 21<sup>st</sup> of August 1992, there was a scouting at the Weaver’s surroundings to determine ambush points to the cabin. During the scout, Roderick, the Deputy U.S. Marshals, threw stones that caused the dogs to bark out leading Sammy (on the right), Randy’s 14 year old son and Kevin Harris, Randy’s friend to check out what had gone wrong. This led to an encounter between Sammy, Kevin Harris and the Marshals and out this was born a shootout that led to the death of Sammy, the dog and Weaver’s dog. However, shortly after the shootout, Vicki, Randy’s wife was shot and killed by a sniper who had earlier fired at Randy. The bullet had passed through Randy’s body, escaping through his armpit. Randy was alive, but his wife wasn’t lucky.</p>
<p>The shooting at the Ruby Ridge steered into a court case where Randy and his friend Kevin Harris were charged with different offences and were jailed until their trial came to date. Randy was nonetheless discharged and acquainted. </p>
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<p>Indeed, what a story! A story that loosely resembles <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/waco-siege/" target="_blank">Waco</a> and <a href="https://www.bizarrepedia.com/jonestown-mass-suicide/" target="_blank">Jonestown Massacre</a> Ruby Ridge incident couldn’t just go pass the eyes of the CBS miniseries as it was soon adapted and aired. It later came out as a movie called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117523/" onclick="fresas.outbound('www.imdb.com/title/tt0117523/');" target="_blank">“The Siege at Ruby”</a>.</p>Suicide attack against the tax office2017-07-11T13:00:00+01:002017-07-11T13:00:00+01:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-07-11:/joseph-stack/<p>Andrew Joseph Stack III was a man who will not so soon be forgotten, and if forgotten, history and record will forever hold his hand firmly and hug him dearly.</p>
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<p>Joseph Stack’s early life was quite simple and was however purged of parental love as he lost his parents …</p><p>Andrew Joseph Stack III was a man who will not so soon be forgotten, and if forgotten, history and record will forever hold his hand firmly and hug him dearly.</p>
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<p>Joseph Stack’s early life was quite simple and was however purged of parental love as he lost his parents at the age of four and was left with his two brothers and two sisters. Joseph was taken in as an orphan by a catholic orphanage in Pennsylvania where he spent his childhood days. </p>
<p>But Like a bird with a damaged wing, trying to fly without giving up, Joseph got admitted into the Milton Hershey School and graduated in 1994, leading him to study engineering in Harrisburg Area Community College from 75 to 77 without graduating from the college.</p>
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<p>Married to Ginger Stack with who he had a daughter, Samantha Bell. The marriage however fell into a ditch of divorce. Joseph’s marriage life, notwithstanding, rose from the ashes like a phoenix in 2007 with Sheryl Housh, a divorcee like himself who already had a daughter from her previous marriage.</p>
<p>So what could have led Joseph Stack into deliberately flying an aircraft into the Internal Revenue Service field office in Austin, Texas? Was it to carry out a revenge or just an act to make newspaper headline? Well, prior to the event, Joseph together with his first wife, Ginger integrated Prowess Engineering in 1985. However, in 1994, Joseph failed to carry out a state tax return, but nothing really happened, not until after is divorce when Ginger, about a year later filed a Chapter 11, Bankruptcy which presented the company as bankrupt. This led to the revealing of the IRS liabilities amounting to around $126,000. Well, things fell apart and that brought an end to that firm.</p>
<p>Few years later Joseph started another firm called, the Software Service Corp, but it happened that the company was suspended by the IRS for non-payment of state taxes in 2004.</p>
<p>Before Joseph committed suicide he posted a suicide note on his website, embeddedart.com which was released on the morning of the crash. Using Microsoft word, Joseph composed the note two days to the attack on the 16<sup>th</sup> of February, 2010. The suicide note was shown to have been edited 27 times and the last was on the 18<sup>th</sup> at 12:42 a.m. CST.</p>
<p>In the note, joseph poured out his reasons for his attack. Expressing his discontentment and anger towards a list of entities from the government, the bailout of financial institutions, politicians, the conglomerate companies of General Motors, Enron and Arthur Andersen, unions, drug and health care insurance companies and the Catholic Church. He went on to describe in detail his emotional encounter with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, which was the effect of the Section 1706 of Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the independent contractor engineers, the September 11 attacks, airline bailouts that only benefited the airlines but left out engineers. He also lamented the insincerity of a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) he hired who appeared to have sided with the government to unfairly gulp extra tax money from him. But he didn’t end there, he went further and made some claims that brought in the names of the IRS and the issues that must have caused his continuous problems regarding taxes and debts. He noted that this was unrelated with the feud which for a long time had existed between the IRS and his organization.</p>
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<p>He finally ended the note with a short piece that seemed to be the climax of the whole note where he stated that insanity was continuously repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting the outcome to be different. “Well, Mr Big Brother IRS man,” he wrote, “Let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.” And before adding the finally full stop, he wrote out the communist creed, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” and added a mocking adaptation of the communist creed to suit and present his own idea and bitterness toward the ideals he summed up to be that of capitalism as follows, “From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.</p>
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<p>His threats which was only made known by his suicide note was carried out that day, 18<sup>th</sup> of February, 2010. Joe Stack, as his suicide note indicated, had in 1994 obtained a pilot certificate and acquired ownership of an airplane, Velocity Elite XL-RG, an American amateur-built aircraft along with the Piper Dakota, which was the very plane he drove into the IRS building. Joseph had set fire to his $230,000 house located on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin about an hour before the crash, after which he drove to the Georgetown Municipal Airport.</p>
<p><em>The full manifesto is below</em></p>
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<p>If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.</p>
<p>We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.</p>
<p>While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.</p>
<p>Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.</p>
<p>And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!</p>
<p>How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.</p>
<p>How did I get here? </p>
<p>My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.</p>
<p>The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.</p>
<p>That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.</p>
<p>Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.</p>
<p>On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.</p>
<p>The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.</p>
<p>In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.</p>
<p>Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.</p>
<p>For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).</p>
<p>SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.</p>
<p>(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:</p>
<p>(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.</p>
<p>(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.</p>
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<p>Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.</p>
<p>During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.</p>
<p>After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.</p>
<p>Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.</p>
<p>Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.</p>
<p>Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.</p>
<p>By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.</p>
<p>To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.</p>
<p>So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.</p>
<p>When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.</p>
<p>This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.</p>
<p>I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.</p>
<p>As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.</p>
<p>I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.</p>
<p>I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.</p>
<p>I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well. </p>
<p><strong>The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.</strong> </p>
<p>Joe Stack (1956-2010)</p>
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<p>Joseph’s blazing house had caused a bulk of City of Austin fire engines for that area to be unavailable because they had already been deployed to his house. It was only through the help of Travis County Hazardous Material Team, who happened to have assembled for training and heard the blast impact that initiated an attempt to stop the fire and a search-and-rescue. </p>
<p>The attack brought about several debates against the policies of the IRS. The IRS as a result of the attack also incurred a lot of expenses as they tried getting back on their feet as well as to secure other associated outlets.</p>
<p>Andrew Joseph Stack III took his life in his hands and exited the world in a way that brought horrors into the life of others, forever tainting his image and life records with a suicide attack. What a world!</p>MOTHMAN2017-07-11T12:00:00+01:002017-07-11T12:00:00+01:00Ashley Coleirotag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-07-11:/mothman/<p>On the evening of 12 November, 1966, a group of five men were digging a grave in a cemetery on the outskirts of Clendenin, West Virginia. The deceased was the brother-in-law of one of the gravediggers, Kenneth Duncan. Suddenly, they spotted a creature they later described as a flying, brown …</p><p>On the evening of 12 November, 1966, a group of five men were digging a grave in a cemetery on the outskirts of Clendenin, West Virginia. The deceased was the brother-in-law of one of the gravediggers, Kenneth Duncan. Suddenly, they spotted a creature they later described as a flying, brown humanoid rise up from the nearby trees and fly straight over their heads. They watched the thing fly about for a minute until it disappeared from view. This is widely considered the first canonical sighting of the creature that the media would later give the name <strong>Mothman</strong>.</p>
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<p>The so-called Second Sighting occurred in nearby Point Pleasant on the night of 15 November, 1966. This has become one of the more notorious stories in the Mothman legend. Point Pleasant would become the town most closely associated with Mothman and it is here where the story really kicks off. Two local couples (Roger and Linda Scarberry with Steve and Mary Mallette) were driving near Point Pleasant's McClintic Wildlife Management Area shortly before midnight. This is known to locals as the 'TNT area' as it was previously used by the US military to manufacture and store munitions.</p>
<p>As they drove past a disused power plant they spotted what they later described as a seven foot tall man with wings, big red eyes and light-grey skin flying through the sky. They estimated its wing span to be ten feet. It pursued their car as they attempted to make a getaway. They eventually lost the creature, but after composing themselves they decided to turn around and see if they could find it again.</p>
<p>It didn't take them long. This time the creature emerged near the National Guard Armory. It let out a loud, disturbing screech and attacked the car with fresh vigour. It seemed to be scared of light, because when the car's headlights shone in its eyes, it fled through a nearby field. The group instantly alerted the authorities to what they had seen.</p>
<p>The media caught wind of the story and it attracted widespread attention. Over the following thirteen month period, more than one hundred Mothman sightings and seemingly related phenomena occurred.</p>
<p>Enter: John Keel. Keel was a notable reporter specialising in the paranormal who was assigned the task of visiting Point Pleasant in December 1966 and following the Mothman story. He interviewed hundreds of witnesses over the next thirteen months. He linked the Mothman sightings with other reported bizarre phenomena in the local area including UFO and Men in Black sightings, poltergeist activity, psychic warnings, suspicious lights in the sky, widespread cases of cars stalling, televisions and telephones malfunctioning, animal mutilations and suspicious suicides. He believed Point Pleasant was what he called a 'window' – a magnet for bizarre and paranormal happenings. He would later write the influential book <a href="http://amzn.to/2uO8pum" onclick="fresas.outbound('amzn.to/2uO8pum');" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mothman Prophecies</a> based on his research and experiences.</p>
<p>Keel became heavily involved in the case to the point of obsession, even becoming a main character in the story he was telling. He claimed to begin receiving mysterious telephone calls and psychic warnings about future tragedies. He began preparations for a cataclysmic power outage and blackout he believed would hit the United States at 5:00 pm on 15 December, 1967. He got the time and date right, but not the event.</p>
<p>At 5:00 pm on 15 December, 1967, the Silver Bridge, which connected Point Pleasant to Gallipolis, Ohio over the mighty Ohio River, collapsed. It was full of peak-hour traffic at the time. Forty-six lives were lost in the disaster, some of them relatives of Mothman eyewitnesses. Two of the bodies were never recovered.</p>
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<p>Many people believed that Mothman was responsible for the bridge collapse. Indeed, several people claimed to have witnessed Mothman sitting atop the bridge just prior to it plummeting into the water on that day. The Mothman sightings abated after the bridge disaster, bringing a close to this bizarre and mysterious story.</p>KILLDOZER: rampage over zoning dispute2017-06-21T09:00:00+01:002017-06-21T09:00:00+01:00Liamtag:www.bizarrepedia.com,2017-06-21:/killdozer/<p>Sit tight as l take you on a short ride down history lane. This is an
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<p>Born on October 28, 1951 and died on June 4, 2004, Marvin …</p><p>Sit tight as l take you on a short ride down history lane. This is an
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<p>Born on October 28, 1951 and died on June 4, 2004, Marvin John Heemeyer was an American welder and an automobile muffler repair shop owner who was liked by a few, loved by kins but berated by many.</p>
<p>Marvin lived in Grand Lake, Colorado, about 16 miles (26 km) away from Granby in his early days before moving to town more than 10 years before his death. Heemeyer had no relatives in the Granby–Grand Lake area.</p>
<p>He never married neither did he had any kids. He was a man all by himself with very few friends and no association. Confident in his enviable welding skills and competence, Heemeyer managed his ruffle shop with jealousy and pride.</p>
<p>His profession captions the whole of his existence – welding was all you could know about this man. He was leaving satisfactorily and quietly by himself.</p>
<p>Aside his welding undertakings, no achievement nor attainment was documented or credited to John. The curiosity which however pops up is; “what could have influenced his mode of death”. Who could have thought a man that lived quietly all by himself with no affiliation will be embroiled in any gun related occurrence.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, he died by a self inflicted gun shot. What ensured this ironic reality? In 1992, Heemeyer laid the foundation for a new experience that deflected his previous life process and created a new story that overshadowed his former life by procuring a land with the aim of expanding his business.</p>
<p>He bought 2 acres (0.81 hectares) of land from the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal agency organized to handle the assets of failed savings and loan institutions. He bought the land for $42,000 to build a muffler shop and subsequently agreed to sell the land to Mountain Park Concrete to build a concrete batch plant. The agreed price was $250,000 but, according to a witness, Heemeyer changed his mind and increased the price to $375,000 and later demanded a deal worth approximately $1 million – a sudden greed that made the deal unsuccessful. It was believed the negotiation happened before the rezoning proposal was heard by the town council.</p>
<p>In 2001, in reference to the zoning ordinance, the zoning commission and the town's trustees approved the construction of a concrete batch plant which was opposite his Heemeyer’s shop. Heemeyer appealed the decisions unsuccessfully for many years, he had used the adjacent property as a way to get to his muffler shop. The plan for the concrete plant was sure to block that access. In addition to the frustration engendered by this dispute over access, Heemeyer was fined $2,500 by the Granby government for various violations, including "junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line". He had also bought a bulldozer two years before the incident, with the intention of using it to build an alternative route to his muffler shop, but city officials rejected his request to build it.</p>
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<p>The last straw he could pull was to petition the city with his neighbors and friends, but to no avail. He could not function without the sewer line and the cooperation of the town. He became a lone ranger. His world was taken away from him he thought. Heemeyer angrily leased his business to a trash company and sold the property to embark on his resolved way forward which was a revenge mission.</p>
<p>Heemeyer proceeded on the calculative revenge mission that took him almost two years to actualize by modifying his bulldozer, this was confirmed by the letter uncovered in his yard after his demise believed to have been written by him. These notes indicated that he held grudges over the zoning approval. "I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable", he wrote. "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things." He also wrote; "It is interesting to observe that I was never caught. This was a part-time project over a 1½ year time period." Clearly he was surprised that several men, who had visited the shed late the previous year, had not noticed the modified bulldozer "...especially with the 2000-pound lift fully exposed". "Somehow their vision was clouded", he wrote.</p>
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<p>Heemeyer modified his bulldozer with necessary jaw-dropping features to ensure his proposed mission. On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer drove his armored bulldozer through the wall of his former business, the concrete plant, the Town Hall, the office of the local newspaper that editorialized against him, the home of a former judge's widow, and a hardware store owned by another man Heemeyer named in a lawsuit, as well as others. Owners of all the buildings that were damaged had some connection to Heemeyer's disputes.</p>
<p>The rampage lasted 2 hours 7 minutes, destroying 13 buildings, knocking out natural gas service to City Hall and the concrete plant, and damaging a truck and part of a utility service center.</p>
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<p>Despite the great damage to property, no one besides Heemeyer was killed, much credit to the emergency staffs who were nimble at alerting residents of the affected buildings and property owners of the beckoning rampage due to the resistance of the bulldozer to firearms.. The rampage stopped as the bulldozer got stucked in a gamble hardware store where Heemeyer shot himself before authorities could get to him. The cost of the damage was estimated at $7 million. At 2:00am in the early hours of the following morning, Heemeyer’s body was recovered after tireless effort of the responding officers to cut through the steel plated bulldozer.</p>
<p>It turned out after all that his previous quiet life was a sham. The feud with the city council exposed the contents of his earth. He was a crafty welder but a monster within. He lived a regrettable life. He died leaving an unwanted history behind.</p>
<p>What a mission... What a man... What a life.</p>