Hot Fudge Old People Victims

[vlad the impaler]

TAYLOR: Elderly man dies at McDonald's drive-through

Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2012

By David Komer
Twitter: @DavidKomer_NH

TAYLOR — An 80-year-old man died Friday while in line at the McDonald’s drive-through, 23333 Eureka Road.

Employees gathered around the man, who was slumped over the wheel of his car, and called for help, a witness said.

It was not clear if the man died of natural causes or as a result of a health problem. Police said the man had a pacemaker installed but offered no further details.

“From what I heard from Police Chief (Dale) Tamsen was the man’s pacemaker was working but his heart wasn’t,” Mayor Jeffrey Lamarand said.

Susan Riddle, the City Council secretary, was getting lunch when she pulled her car into a long drive-through line around 2:20 p.m. She said cars pulled past the man to pay and pick up their food and thought employees were having a conversation with him. She then noticed a few of them on their cellphones.

The man’s chin was resting on his chest and his eyes were closed, she said.

“I knew he was dead,” Riddle wrote in an e-mail.

Lamarand said dispatch records indicated the first 9-11 call came at 2:29 p.m.

Cars pulled around him in line with many customers yelling at him to get out of the way, Lamarand said.

Lamarand said it was unfortunate that instead of calling 9-11 sooner, some customers were angry because the man had yet to pull up to the ordering area.

A store manager had no comment about the incident before hanging up when asked about it Tuesday.

HealthLink’s phone system was down Monday and no representative was available to answer questions

http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2 ... =fullstory

Poor guy. Here he keels over while waiting for a Mcfish sandwich and what do people do? They start honking and flipping him the bird. Go Taylor!!!

I don't know what it is, but there's something about drive-thru's that bring out the worst in us. Maybe it's because were hungry and having to suffer the fools-- the zit heads wearing the headsets who mess up every order, the soccer moms ordering for a van load of kids, etc. Whatever the reason, they're a bad experience 50% of the time.

A true drive-thru story for everyone: some years back, after a night of nickel poker and PBRs with high school buddies, we made a 3am run to Taco Hell for some of that south-of-the-border special goodness. The mope behind the window turned out to be a neighborhood bully from way back in the day, a little guy a couple years older who repeatedly made us the brunt of his agression- runts with a maladapted childhood can sure make the littlier kids suffer. By 11th grade he dropped out and it wasn't much longer before he was doing stints in county and the state pen. Now all of a sudden he's manning the night shift window at TB and a carload of drunk guys he used to backhand daily are flicking him shit about being a loser asshole and saying an ass-kicking is waiting for him in the parking lot, etc. Of course he gets animated and loud and that's when we unload the contents from the bag he just handed us-- big shit bombs like burrito supremes and bean and rice bell grandes-- right at him and they explode all over his polyester uniform, the cash register, the drive-thru glass, etc. I still laugh when I think about the incident and the stupid look on the jerk's face as he was getting pelted with greasy bean rice slurry.

[guest]

Burrito Supreme shitbombs? Mmmmkay, and you're criticizing some hillbillies for flipping off a geezer? It's just good that this didn't happen at Louie's at Mack and Russel. He'd still be waiting for his reuben on wonderbread and nobody would think anything was unusual.

[vlad the impaler]

Burrito Supreme shitbombs? Mmmmkay, and you're criticizing some hillbillies for flipping off a geezer? It's just good that this didn't happen at Louie's at Mack and Russel. He'd still be waiting for his reuben on wonderbread and nobody would think anything was unusual.

I criticized the Taylorites for being rude to an expired geezer blocking window #1 and then revealed a personal account of (dated) drive-thru madness to show how we all can be sucked into poor fast food behavior. Hypocritical? Perhaps. Or reflective and self-critical? Who cares. I just thought it was a good story to tell.

And furthermore, as anyone else with Downriver roots can attest, you can take the boy out of Melvindale (or Wyandotte, or Lincoln Park, or Southgate) but you can never take Downriver out of the boy.

[guest]

Burrito Supreme shitbombs? Mmmmkay, and you're criticizing some hillbillies for flipping off a geezer? It's just good that this didn't happen at Louie's at Mack and Russel. He'd still be waiting for his reuben on wonderbread and nobody would think anything was unusual.

I criticized the Taylorites for being rude to an expired geezer blocking window #1 and then revealed a personal account of (dated) drive-thru madness to show how we all can be sucked into poor fast food behavior. Hypocritical? Perhaps. Or reflective and self-critical? Who cares. I just thought it was a good story to tell.

And furthermore, as anyone else with Downriver roots can attest, you can take the boy out of Melvindale (or Wyandotte, or Lincoln Park, or Southgate) but you can never take Downriver out of the boy.

I get it, but they didn'y know that Grandpa's defibrillator was jerking his lifeless body. All they could see was that he was sitting in the way of them satiating their kid's need for Happy Meals and were getting increasingly twitchy every second they were delayed from getting home to their meth pipes.

[frank - up in grand blanc]

Turning the table on a former tormentor comes close to justice in my book, whereas teeing off of on an elderly stranger in apparent distress is just lousy.

I know that it's not very turn-the-other-cheek compliant, but I've encountered and gloated over the disastrous ends of many of my former peers and 'hood rats. Early on I became aware that there are two kinds of people: those who contribute to the maintenance of society and then those who prey upon it, and in my speck of the world there were tons of the later. OTIS and crime scene photos have demonstrated that comeuppance does come to those who deserve it, but then there have been those encounters similar to the one described by Vlad: awkward chance encounter with a character from the past, where said character has clearly risen to the height of their potential and the height ain't exactly of nose-bleed altitude. There was the guy who was working the drive-thru window at a McDonalds on Joy. And the other who worked the Taco Bell on Telegraph. The guy strung out. The one spotted on the side of the road with the hood up on a wreck of an old beater car. On and on.

[RoryKasel]

Turning the table on a former tormentor comes close to justice in my book, whereas teeing off of on an elderly stranger in apparent distress is just lousy.

I know that it's not very turn-the-other-cheek compliant, but I've encountered and gloated over the disastrous ends of many of my former peers and 'hood rats. Early on I became aware that there are two kinds of people: those who contribute to the maintenance of society and then those who prey upon it, and in my speck of the world there were tons of the later. OTIS and crime scene photos have demonstrated that comeuppance does come to those who deserve it, but then there have been those encounters similar to the one described by Vlad: awkward chance encounter with a character from the past, where said character has clearly risen to the height of their potential and the height ain't exactly of nose-bleed altitude. There was the guy who was working the drive-thru window at a McDonalds on Joy. And the other who worked the Taco Bell on Telegraph. The guy strung out. The one spotted on the side of the road with the hood up on a wreck of an old beater car. On and on.

Years ago when living in a smallish city I came across someone I tormented throughout school. He was my waiter at Pizza Hut. We both feigned happiness in seeing each other after so many years, but needless to say I switched my order 'to-go' and threw it away when I got home. With Pizza Hut no longer being an option I went to Big Boy a month later and there he was again, boasting of moving up in the world of servitude and of his 'classier' uniform. I was left with McDonald's and Burger King and figure that was my punishment. God sure works in mysterious ways.

[Amadeus]

Turning the table on a former tormentor comes close to justice in my book, whereas teeing off of on an elderly stranger in apparent distress is just lousy.

I know that it's not very turn-the-other-cheek compliant, but I've encountered and gloated over the disastrous ends of many of my former peers and 'hood rats. Early on I became aware that there are two kinds of people: those who contribute to the maintenance of society and then those who prey upon it, and in my speck of the world there were tons of the later. OTIS and crime scene photos have demonstrated that comeuppance does come to those who deserve it, but then there have been those encounters similar to the one described by Vlad: awkward chance encounter with a character from the past, where said character has clearly risen to the height of their potential and the height ain't exactly of nose-bleed altitude. There was the guy who was working the drive-thru window at a McDonalds on Joy. And the other who worked the Taco Bell on Telegraph. The guy strung out. The one spotted on the side of the road with the hood up on a wreck of an old beater car. On and on.

Years ago when living in a smallish city I came across someone I tormented throughout school. He was my waiter at Pizza Hut. We both feigned happiness in seeing each other after so many years, but needless to say I switched my order 'to-go' and threw it away when I got home. With Pizza Hut no longer being an option I went to Big Boy a month later and there he was again, boasting of moving up in the world of servitude and of his 'classier' uniform. I was left with McDonald's and Burger King and figure that was my punishment. God sure works in mysterious ways.

Try working as a CPS worker and going out to eat. Or grocery shopping. Or the gas station.

There's a reason I don't work and live in the same county.

[guest]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

[Ansel Rakestraw]

Burrito Supreme shitbombs? Mmmmkay, and you're criticizing some hillbillies for flipping off a geezer? It's just good that this didn't happen at Louie's at Mack and Russel. He'd still be waiting for his reuben on wonderbread and nobody would think anything was unusual.

I criticized the Taylorites for being rude to an expired geezer blocking window #1 and then revealed a personal account of (dated) drive-thru madness to show how we all can be sucked into poor fast food behavior. Hypocritical? Perhaps. Or reflective and self-critical? Who cares. I just thought it was a good story to tell.

And furthermore, as anyone else with Downriver roots can attest, you can take the boy out of Melvindale (or Wyandotte, or Lincoln Park, or Southgate) but you can never take Downriver out of the boy.

I get it, but they didn'y know that Grandpa's defibrillator was jerking his lifeless body. All they could see was that he was sitting in the way of them satiating their kid's need for Happy Meals and were getting increasingly twitchy every second they were delayed from getting home to their meth pipes.

Headed down Ford Road one day near Middlebelt and a car coasted through the red light, up on to the sidewalk, over some parking bumpers and comes to a stop against a tree with a slight bump. Another car with the green light spun out avoiding the coaster and put a small dent in the quarterpanel on a telephone pole. A jackhole tough guy in a Grand Am goes over to the coaster and starts yelling at the semi conscious driver, accusing him of being drunk & then yanks him out of the car. The dude falls flat on his face on the ground. I see the medi-alert bracelet that says he's diabetic and speak up. Jackhole yells louder at the dude. At the direction of a witness with who understood these things better than my 17 year old self, I ran to the drugstore that he nearly hit, grabbed some OJ that helped revive him somewhat him while the cops and paramedics were headed to the scene.

The jackhole tough guy was still (aggressively) claiming the dude was drunk to the cops while the dude was being treated on a stretcher. When I left, one of the cops had a "Maybe its time I run this clowns license and and give him a breathalyzer" look on his face. One of those moments where I fully realized the importance of situational awareness.

[RoryKasel]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

Quotas are for underachievers.

[RoryKasel]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

Carl Ericsson, 73, murdered classmate over bullying incident that happened half-century ago

In January, Carl Ericsson, a 73-year-old resident of Watertown, South Dakota, rang the doorbell at the home of former high school classmate Norman Johnson, asked Johnson to verify his identity, then shot him dead.

The reason? A bullying incident that took place when the two were high school classmates during the 1950s.

Ericsson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month, telling the judge he was motivated by "something that happened over 50 years ago... It was apparently in my subconscious."

Friday, Ericsson received a mandatory life sentence. During the hearing, the prosecuting attorney provided new detail about the half century-old bullying incident, saying that "back at a time when Carl Ericsson was the student manager for the sports team he said that a jock strap was put on his head," presumably by Johnson, who went on to teach and coach track for 30 years in Madison, South Dakota.

Johnson's eldest daughter, Beth Ribstein, told Ericsson she "can't blame you for being jealous of dad."

"In high school he was popular, he was athletic, he dated mom," she added. "They had 52 wonderful years together and two daughters that adored him, four grandchildren that worshiped their grandpa."

Referring to the fateful jock strap incident, Ribstein shook her head and said, "It was just goofing off in a locker room."

According to a psychiatrist who evaluated him in late January, Ericsson, a retired life insurance salesman, was mentally ill at the time of the murder. He suffered from "severe and recurrent depression that is, for the most part, treatment resistant," the psychiatrist wrote, adding that Ericsson's "thinking was irrational."

Indeed, during yesterday's hearing, Ericsson expressed remorse for acting on his more than 50-year-old grudge.

"I just wish I could turn the calendar back," he said.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012 ... ry_ago.php

Fuck......

[gullycanyon]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

Quotas are for underachievers.

You should post more often.

[guest]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

Quotas are for underachievers.

You should post more often.

Rory is regular commenter on the News and Freep sites. I'd pay a buck for their otherwise empty bundles of pulp if one of them gave him a column.

[RoryKasel]

something tells me that Rory filled his victim quota relatively early in his life

Quotas are for underachievers.

You should post more often.

Rory is regular commenter on the News and Freep sites. I'd pay a buck for their otherwise empty bundles of pulp if one of them gave him a column.

Actually I left those sites since they've gone to Facebook comments and I of course am banned from Facebook. WDIV seems to appreciate me though despite the fact that I've been forced to spoof my IP address several hundred times over the past couple years in order to keep posting there.

[Andy]

An elderly man was held captive Monday morning during a carjacking on Detroit's east side.

Detroit police said the 80-year-old man, an Alzheimer's patient, was being driven by a relative in the car when it was taken at gunpoint near Gratiot Avenue and Gunston Street.

A short chase ensued before police were able to get to the elderly man and arrest four people -- two men and two women.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Elde ... index.html