Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Camouflage 101 class failure."

Sunday, August 23, 2009

"Camouflage 101 class failure."

My thanks to typeay for this chuckle, which he entitles: A "Camouflage 101 class failure."

Robbery suspect spray-paints face for disguise, dies

Posted: Aug 21, 2009

Thomas James (Source: Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center)
Michael Thomas (Source: Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center)

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS-TV) - Richland County deputies say a man spray-painted his face in order to disguise himself during a robbery, but died after he had trouble breathing after the robbery.

Sheriff Leon Lott says on July 31 at around 7:00pm 23-year-old Michael Gregory Thomas and 24-year-old Thomas James entered the Sprint PCS store on Sparkleberry Lane, pulled out a guns and demanded money.

Lott says the two men stole wallets, purses and credit cards from employees as well as money from the store before ordering the employees into a bathroom while both men fled.

Lott says Thomas James spray-painted his face in order to conceal his identity during the robbery. Investigators later learned that after the robbery took place, James began having trouble breathing and died.

Witnesses from the store identified Michael Thomas as one of the robbers, and Thomas was arrested on August 17, taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center and charged with armed robbery.

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says they are running toxicity tests on James and are waiting for them to come back to learn James' cause of death. Watts said it will take a couple of weeks before the tests come back.

"This demonstrates the value of not being seen."

5 comments:

^Hawk^ said...: That is why we don't need warnings like these:

Do not put plastic bag over head, suffocation may occur.

Do not use this electrical device while in the shower, electrocution could occur.

Do not ingest this desiccant bag.

By stopping people from doing these things, we are diluting the gene pool with more idiots. These same idiots are voting guys like Barrack Obama into office.

So Adios Thomas James! You were a complete waste of oxygen, and the world is better off without you!

^Hawk^
III; August 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Loved it! Clean the gene pool.
Should this waste-of-breath get at least a nomination for the Darwin Award?

B Woodman
III-per; August 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Kent McManigal said...: Maybe someone should market such a product: "Krylon Felon- Spray-on face camo for the armed robber". Increase the toxicity, but put a warning label on it (which uses only multisyllabic words).; August 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Happy D said...: Do not ingest this desiccant bag.
Which just makes you want to eat them more.; August 23, 2009 at 10:31 PM
parapacem said...: Maybe a bit tangential but I recall a T-shirt which read,

"Sucking Chest Wound:
God's Way of Telling You
Your Camo Ain't Working "; August 24, 2009 at 6:33 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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