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Unhinged obituary (written by a relative no doubt) of a notorious local slumlord

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/madison/name/ray-peterson-obituary?id=34030193

MADISON - Ray Peterson, a World War II Navy Veteran (the Navy meant a lot to him) and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, ambitiously driven business owner who was still working running his rental business, 96 year old father of five children, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, faithful husband of Joy Curtis Peterson for 64 years, born December 16, 1924 to Alice and Russell Peterson, died December 15, 2021, a day before his birthday from cardiac arrest, four months after Pfizer mRNA vaccine acquired at routine appointment where Dr. said she would even give it to a 2 year old. He had been hospitalized for injury and suspected heart attack after being found on his floor at home December 6, 2021.

Ray was preceded by his wife, Joy in death and is survived by their children: Debbie (Hoppy), Dawn (Larry), Danette (John), Mark and David; grandchildren: Michele (Jorge), Kristin (Kevin), Amanda, Kenneth (Queenie), Hoppy Jr. and Shaun; great-grandchildren: Jaylin, Braeden, Bryce, Samantha, Kingsley, Makenzie, Makaila and Makyle. Ray's parents; brother, Ralph and sister, Barbara preceded him in death. His nieces and nephews are now numbering more than 50 and are increasing exponentially.

Ray's grandma, Ida Peterson guided him to purchase his first house at age 17, before he went to war serving in the United States Navy and subsequently graduated from University of Wisconsin that he and Joy married a month after. They had met at young adult dances and Ray taught ballroom at Arthur Murray Dance Studio. He and his dad built a ski jump in Michigan. Joy was once supposed to see Ray in a ski jump competition but he hurt his arm or shoulder in the practice run so he didn't compete. When Joy went to visit him in the hospital, she said she fell in love with his strong arms. He taught himself to play guitar and enjoyed playing it and singing Johnny Cash songs especially, he also loved diving off diving boards.

Ray's professional failing Madison marginal rental housing service directed toward the Madison homelessness, with Joy's stressful office management of her husband's business that when she retired their daughter, Danette, assumed and with him gone she was left to manage.

The acceptance of Ray's body was refused by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Anatomy Department, being his and Joy's final wishes giving to those they believed to be most in need, due to him dying with Covid he tested positive for upon hospital admittance without symptoms being their reason for not treating it, except to place in Covid ward not allowing any visitors and only began adding Covid treatment after being hospitalized for a week, though they stated as early as day after hospitalized he is confused and doesn't know where he is that's common with Covid. His breathing began requiring oxygen initiated December 12, followed by finally treating the Covid December 13 with steroids, besides Remdesivir that wasn't successful but instead detrimental, nor was our request pleading with them to try monoclonal antibodies or Ivermectin under Right To Try Act, as the Covid exacerbated after not startng treatment when diagnosed. When he was desperately ill December 14, he was still able to respond he wants any measures taken to keep him alive, sadly as he would have said his treatment was discombobulated. His hospitalist Dr. said of Covid vaccinated patients he treats who've had resulting heart problems, average occurrence of hospitalization is 4-5 months after Covid vaccine. Thankfully, the compassionate UW body donor coordinator picked up Ray's ashes, looked up the private area on campus of land restoration where Joy's ashes were placed he remembered handling and placed Ray's with hers.

His memorial service will be Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. at VFW Day Post 7591, 301 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716, followed by gathering for fellowship and food.

Helping families understand challenges and improve their ability to support their service member or veteran; NAMI works to educate, advocate, listen and lead to improve the lives of people with mental illness and their loved ones. nami.org.

96 year old gets covid vaccine, dies within a year. coincidence??????

don't be insensitive, who has ever heard of a 96 year old man dying from anything other than vaccine injury?

Some organisation has created a list of "registered frituristen" (it's a Belgian thing, a shop where you buy Frites/french fries etc) and the article about the ones in the city I live in has the most "You are only here because of the photo" look ever (sorry for cookies etc): https://www.hln.be/in-de-buurt/dit-zijn-de-32-erkende-frituristen-uit-de-regio-mechelen-en-de-kempen~a7b218ca/208836888/

That's an impressive fry shelf!

that's how they all look :-)

https://www.google.com/search?q=frituur&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Talkin' about this thing!

https://i.imgur.com/UriDnkw.png

yes, every frituur has that, is what I wanted to show with that google image link :-)

This is the fourth time in a year that this blind guy who lives in my neighborhood gets hit in the face by low hanging signs. They just don't follow procedure (= hanging them at least 2 meters high) - he describes the experience as someone punching him in the face.

https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/gFXrBsIfONUCo7eTmpCqhfZEKLI/diocontent/220181299/_fill/675/900/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/03/1120933654/pilot-threatens-crash-tupelo-mississippi-walmart

Mississi911

Plane is down now in a field near Ashland (north central MS).

I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.

— Willy Shakes (@IAM_SHAKESPEARE) October 4, 2022

The centre of the #galaxy tastes like raspberries, smells like rum, and is full to the brim with alcohol. We're not joking... @DMorris_Star investigates. #Space #Spacefactshttps://t.co/R2prHnzfMN

— Shropshire Star (@ShropshireStar) October 4, 2022

I meant to post this one a while ago. My old local booze shop:

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/07/28/brighton-shop-can-keep-selling-drink-after-court-backs-deal-with-council/

Featuring the classic excuse "he had been looking after 10 bottles for a friend and that they had mistakenly ended up on the shelves in his shop".

we all know this iconic photo, right??

https://i.imgur.com/gJvNLZi.png

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-halen-burger-photo/

The iconic photo of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth standing under the McDonald’s arches on a winter day has been installed in the place where it was taken.

Fans have become familiar with Richard Upper’s picture since it was shot during the two Van Halen members’ promotional tour of 1978. Upper had been sent to join them in a limousine as they capitalized on interest in the band’s debut album, released that year.

At the opening of a brand-new restaurant in the same location, Upper recalled the story, telling West Newsmagazine: “We were driving from KSHE down Watson and we saw the McDonald’s sign. We’re already hungry, and they said, ‘Let’s go, guys.’ So we did.”

He continued: “We got our meals and we were walking back to the limousine. I looked up at the sign and said, ‘Eddie, we can’t leave without taking a shot of this with you guys.’ So he’s rifling through his bag trying to eat ‘cause he’s really hungry, and he and David get perfectly right in the middle, under the sign, and I take a bunch of pictures. This was the best one.”

The current owner of the Crestwood franchise – national restaurant No. 71 – confirmed it was the first McDonald’s in St. Louis, in Missouri and possibly on Route 66 when it opened in August 1958. Nolan Ruiz explained that the original building had been replaced soon after Van Halen and Roth had visited. That building was recently knocked down to make way for a state-of-the-art establishment, with the famous picture on display.

He added that there was another point of local interest: “It’s how I met my wife and became the proud parent of four children.”

i like how the article hints that it was the famous picture of van halen that directly led to the current owner of that mcdonalds franchise meeting his wife. their four children have that iconic photo to thank, along with the support of mcdonalds nation

i'm forever trapped into clicking on the ultimateclassicrock.com articles on facebook, thereby granting facebook permission to show me ultimateclassicrock.com links every single day until i die, until i explicitly tell them to stop showing them to me. and i'm not going to do that any time soon, because the face is that ultimateclassicrock.com articles are a delightful mix of truth, myth, rumors, and substantiated but barely tangential anecdotes

Did the restaurant remember to take the brown M&Ms out of the McFlurries?

eddie expressly forbids pickles from the big mac

Unusually snowy for Saint Louis?

not so unusual. less so because of global warming and all that business, but still a heavy foot+ of snow is always possible

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fugitive-cows-in-quebec-escape-capture-again-and-again-1.6662107

lord keep you chrispas bagonza

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/africa/toddler-rescued-swallowed-hippo-uganda-intl-scli/index.html

https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/

lol ffs

Iron Eyes Cody Foundation needs a new President, hop aboard

That's the kind of shame that'll make you red-faced.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/colin-way-lawsuits-outer-battery-lights-1.6712977

when you're such a bad neighbor, your address is printed in national news

the thrilling conclusion. wonder how long they've been waiting to break out this headline.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/battery-lights-turned-off-1.6728439

https://www.kmov.com/2023/02/01/high-school-basketball-coach-posed-player-game-school-system-says

the footage is pretty great. it's just the assistant coach kicking ass in the game lol

lol I was just reading about that. i am mad that nobody has posted coaches statz yet

"wow this player that normally averages 4 ppg dropped 35 points!"

they were truly making it look easy out there

https://i.ibb.co/RSGd7bk/FB-IMG-1675708346499.jpg

All the times UFO have been spotted in south Essex

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23314511.times-ufo-spotted-south-essex/

"23314511 times ufo spotted south essex"

seems like it wasn't this many times despite the URL

https://i.imgur.com/Pt4SZKt.jpg

Godammit, never mind.

ThisPageIsSat✧✧✧@Sat✧✧✧.c✧✧

You ever wished so hard that something false was so true?

there is a bar/restaurant in Clermont, FL called the MoonCricket Grille. yes, a racist name, and yes, they're aware it's racist and have been told why and won't change it.

so today they're charging 49 cents for Bud Light, for the purpose of the customer to dump it out.

why 49 cents?

49 gay people were murdered at Pulse in 2016.

I wish the plague on this business.

A war of words has ignited between two Ayrshire takeaways over 'copycat' claims.

Popular restaurant Tempura, which has outlets in Ayr and Kilmarnock, accused a Kilwinning takeaway of copying their colours and their logo in a searing broadside issued from its Facebook page.

Tempura cafe and bar claimed it was a 'sad day' that the North Ayrshire eaterie, dubbed Tempura Kilwinning, had copied their look.

The Beresford Terrace-based operation went on to accuse their namesake of trying to "fool customers" and said that the business was nothing to do with them.

The full post reads: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

"A sad day when a business not only copies your name but even needs to copy the colours you use in your logo…

"We think they may be trying to fool customers into believing we are involved, please note that this business is nothing to do with us…"

But Tempura Kilwinning hit back at the claims and categorically said they were not intending to fool customers and are "in no way imitating" the Ayr venue.

The Station Plaza eaterie said they did not plan on "copying colour schemes" and "didn’t realise there cannot be business with the same or similar names that sell the same products."

Tempura Kilwinning's Facebook post reads: "Hi folks, we would like to put on the record that we are no way related to 'Tempura Ayr' and have seen the post regarding the situation, we are in no way imitating them and we do not intend to fool customers into believing so.

"We would like to have this on record and have not planned on ‘copying’ colour schemes either.

"We didn’t realise there cannot be business with the same or similar names that sell the same products.

"We have a completely different menu from Tempura - Ayr and as I said originally, we are not trying to imitate them. Thanks folks."

Tempura Kilwinning's Facebook page was only set up on Wednesday.

The dispute emerges after the same Kilwinning venue, also known as King Kone, saw its chef leave the premises last month.

Big Dibby confirmed: "Big Dibbys will unfortunately no longer be based in King Kone.

"However King Kone will still be open but it will not be my food that’s being served. Keep your eyes peeled folks for some exciting news."

But where is Big Dibby now?

never happy when chefs are saying "keep your eyes peeled"

Big Dibby cuttin cheese

Big Dibby planning to open King Klone

Northwest National considers moving on from state’s only moving sidewalk

The moving walkway was originally a "fix" because the elevation of the concourse was off when it was built and that resulted in a slight slant to the floor.

Fondano said the plan is to remove the walkway and fill the hole beneath it. The slant will likely remain.

Edinburgh Airport passenger 'only had seven minutes to down 5am pint' due to queues

When the couple tried to enter the airport and go through security they realised it was the security crew and they would be stuck in it for the next hour.

A fuming Edinburgh Airport passenger travelling through the airport has told how he only had seven minutes to down a pint after being stuck in security queues which were like being in a "rugby scrum."

Andy Campbell, 59, from Perth was jetting off to Corfu with his partner at 5am on Monday, August 28 and was shocked to see a huge queue snaking outside the terminal building but assumed it was to access transport into the city centre.

When the couple tried to enter the airport and go through security they realised it was the security queue and they would be stuck in it for the next hour.

Speaking to Edinburgh Live Andy said: "We arrived around 5.15am for our holiday flight and noticed the queue along the terminal building outside and assumed it was for bus pick up or something similar.

"But on entering the building we quickly realised that it was the security queue! It stretched from the bottom of the escalator to the door all the way along to the connecting bridge to multi-story then doubled back all the way along to the escalator.

"They were intermittently turning the escalator off to limit numbers in security but that didn’t work."

He continued: "It was a complete rugby scrum out in the corridor. This created a backlog which then merged with the people allowed up the escalators.

Finally, he said: "The woman manning the boarding pass scanners wasn’t exactly cheery or helpful either. It is an international airport trying to secure new routes and it has only six security lanes, one of which was out of order!"

The couple made their flight just in time despite security queues and told how they had just seven minutes to finish their pint before heading to board.

A spokesperson for Edinburgh Airport said: “A technical issue affecting a lane at security resulted in longer wait times for some passengers however this was rectified promptly and waits returned to levels we would expect a short time later.

“The priority of our teams is to ensure passengers pass through security safely and they work hard to ensure any wait times are kept to a minimum.”

During a TV interview with a railway guy about the dangers of not stopping at closed train crossings a cyclist rides through the closed crossing:

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/kijk/2023/12/04/fietser-door-slagboom-tijdens-interview-arvato-62231724/