Is the US a dystopia?

Amazon has had security for executives for years.

This is a good week to be a corporate security consultant or contractor. CEOs can justify spending as much as they want on security.

The pay on those job listings kind of sucks if that’s the supervisor in charge of hiring people to take a bullet for the head of the Wage Theft Department.

its a good week for assassins to take those jobs

Would love to see the dead peasants insurance policies these companies would collect on, if the hired goons took a bullet for the big boss.

assassination bad but may at times be good

us not a dystopia but at times may be

what else

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

You've caught up well done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSRmQ6WiUU

TikTok kids should make that go viral

Avoiding the is-assassination-good discourse, I will say that it’s weirdly refreshing to have a high-profile shooting that seems like it has a rational motive. Gotten so used to delusional psychopaths obsessed with internet fame that old-fashioned political killing is a nice break.

Again, that dude that offed Shinzo Abe had some pretty solid reasoning.

all of this was predicted by Toto in their 1984 hit song "Stranger in Town"

A person of interest was nabbed Monday in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — busted possibly trying to use a fake ID in a McDonald’s, law enforcement sources said.

The man — who sources said is being eyed for the coldblooded, targeted execution in front of a Manhattan hotel last week — allegedly had a manifesto on him when he was taken into custody by cops in Altoona, Pa.

He also had a gun, silencer, four fake IDs and other items “consistent” with what authorities were looking for in the case, sources said.

awww, they got him.

The man who was detained at McDonald's showed the police the same fake New Jersey identification that the man believed to be the gunman presented when he checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Nov. 24, a senior law enforcement official said.

taking his mask down was so dumb.

I wonder why McDonalds needed to see ID

I didn't know you needed to be 21 and over these days to order a Big Mac?

The Grimace Shakes have vodka now

Grimace Shakes! Whatta band name

this guy not exactly jason bourne is he

fuck the Grimace Shake, that viral dance has nothing to do with the 80s classic

Trumps gonna pardon him

sonned by a fake ID in a McDonald's beef

its the fake beef youd imagine would be the priority

besides it wasn't a fake ID, these are 'alternative IDs'

new McDonalds commercial where the cops burst in to arrest the suspect but then everyone starts eating fries and bro-ing out and the Hamburglar sneaks the assassin out

Well that's disappointing. Any chance you think they have the wrong guy? It sounds kinda conclusive but otoh police lie.

that’s what you get for going to mcdonald’s instead of sheetz

new McDonalds commercial where the cops burst in to arrest the suspect but then everyone starts eating fries and bro-ing out and the Hamburglar sneaks the assassin out

With Mac and Me 80s dance party

taking his mask down was so dumb.

― scott seward, Monday, December 9, 2024 12:17 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah theyre not going to let you check into a hotel with a mask on shouldve slept in the park i guess

You don't re-use a burned ID, that seems obvious and I'm an idiot who's never plotted a heist or a hit before, but I've read books.

Instead or wearing a facemask, should have worn an actual prosthetic face mask.

Karl Havoc pulls off this crazy prank etc

not sure why he still had the gun on him, like was he planning to use it again

should've gone to Carls Jr., they don't card anymore

wait yea why did McDonald's need to see ID?

"gotta be at least 18 to eat these McNuggets, they're hell on baby teeth"

and with fluoride-free water coming soon we'll need those choppers

"tons of unidentified bodies from car wrecks....we can't identify by teeth anymore cos nobody has any"

According to the sources, customers at a local McDonald’s thought he looked suspicious and called police.

Boggles the mind to consider what one has to be doing in order to stand out as suspicious at a McDonalds in Altoona. Was he wearing a Harris/Walz t shirt?

ordered a salad iirc

According to NYT it was an "elderly patron" at the McDonald's who called in the tip.

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is that Chuck's cousin?

hey chuck i found that new sound youve been looking for *holds phone up to ceo assassination*

The Guardian:

The suspect was in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania and was recognized by an employee who then called local police.

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he had to have some level of expectation he'd be caught. yeah, cops are still inept and lots of crimes don't get solved because of this, but committing the 'perfect' crime is almost impossible nowadays. you'd have to do insane amounts of info-gathering in advance but in a way that doesn't tip anybody off that you're up to no good.

like anticipating where cameras would be present not just on the street you commit the crime on, or any building you set foot in, but in literally every other location you visit afterward....and nowadays if some stranger runs into you and thinks "omg I found the guy' they can take your photo and alert pretty much the entire world within seconds. have to pay cash for everything in a society where more businesses are going cashless (#onethread)...

i guess one benefit though is you can basically go on Twitter and see what everybody's amateur theory is while you're escaping

committing the 'perfect' crime is almost impossible nowadays.

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Monday, December 9, 2024 1:48 PM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, but i could do it

and of course it's a crapshoot. granted, this was 18 years ago, and things have definitely accelerated in terms of public surveillance, but boggles my mind that Jennifer Kesse's abductor literally drove her car back to her apartment, got out, and walked in front of a security camera in broad daylight, but the view was blocked by bars in the fence that the camera was behind so nobody could ever ID him.

he got away with it, fucked up as it was.

xpost lol

was recognized by an employee who then called local police

Mayor McSnitch

btw if you ever wanna see a hilarious movie about a 'perfect crime', The Next Three Days"

never meet your heroes

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