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Alleged Bank Robber Takes Hostage, Slips and Falls on Ice, then Shot and Killed by Police
A bank robbery suspect, wearing a hood, a mask covering his face, a long parka jacket and gloves, walked up to a teller and demanded money at the Capital One Bank in Langley Park, Maryland on Friday Morning. A call was placed to the local police who surrounded the bank before the suspect could flee.
Ignoring requests in English and Spanish to drop his weapon, the suspect walked out of the bank with hostage.
As the robber left the bank with the female teller in tow, the dye pack exploded and he slipped on a patch of ice. The hostage ran away, as the robber followed with a pointed. However, the brief slip gave officers just enough time to get their shot. The robber who did not take any shots was shot and killed. See video above.
The teller who continued to run made all the right moves at the right time according to the 10 crucial safety tips supposedly written by a police officer. These tips made their way to febone1960.net by an email initiated by Rusty Cundieff. Cundieff is a black director who starred and directed the movie Sprung. Mr. Cundieff lastest gig the comedy Movie 43. He also directed the Wanda Sykes Show.
Take a look at this list. Just like the Capital One bank teller, it could very well save your life.
1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do : The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!
2. Learned this from a tourist guide. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM.
Toss it away from you…. Chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole
and start waving like crazy.. The driver won’t see you, but everybody else will. This has saved lives.
4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit
(doing their check book, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS!) The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR , LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE..
If someone is in the car with a gun to your head DO NOT DRIVE OFF.
Repeat: DO NOT DRIVE OFF! Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. Your Air Bag will save you.
If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it . As soon as the car crashes bail out and run.
It is better than having them find your body in a remote location.
5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:
A.) Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor , and in the back seat.
B.) If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door.
Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.
C.) Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side… If a male is sitting alone
in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out.
IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. (This is especially true at NIGHT!)
7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; and even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern!
8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP It may get you raped, or killed.
Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women.
He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked ‘for help’ into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.
9. Another Safety Point: Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last, and she called the police because it was late and she thought it was weird.. The police told her ‘Whatever you do, DO NOT open the door..’ The lady then said that it sounded like the baby had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over.
The policeman said, ‘We already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.’ He told her that they think a serial killer has a baby’s cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby.. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby’s cries outside their doors when they’re home alone at night.
10. Water scam!
If you wake up in the middle of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a burst pipe,
DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people turn on all your outside taps full ball so that you will go out to investigate and then attack. Stay alert, keep safe, and look out for your neighbors!
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Pinging a cell phone is finding out what cell tower their phone is in. This can be used to locate a person that you know has the cell phone. According to Patrick Baird, who claims to be a private investigator in Texas with 20 years experience, pinging is used by law enforcement on a regular basis.
If this is true, then why is Phylicia Barnes still missing?
Three weeks after the visiting honor student vanished in Baltimore, police are pessimistic, but her parents are holding onto hope.
Barnes who is pictured above is from the small city of Monroe North Carolina. Monroe is about 25 miles southeast of Charlotte. Phylicia disappeared on Dec. 28 while visiting her older half-siblings for the holidays. Since then, all calls to her cell phone have gone straight to voicemail, she’s been a no-show on her social media profiles and she hasn’t used her ATM card.
There is no information as to whether the missing teen’s phone was pinged. With pinging, the cell phone is constantly sending signals to the closest cell tower, even if the phone isn’t in use. The location of the cell tower will tell you that the person is within a certain range. When the person moves they can be tracked by which cell towers the signal is bouncing to. The information is provided by the cellular provider.
Eight days after she disappeared, police “pinged” 33-year-old Tanya Rider’s cell phone and were able to pinpoint her location just off a highway and 20 feet down a ravine. Rider had been in a car accident and she was stuck in her vehicle for more than a week. Trapped any longer, she might not have survived. During the eight days, the police had Rider’s husband take a polygraph test. They feared he might have caused harm to the missing woman. It appears that the police should have done both in a more timely fashion.
Today’s cell phones come with GPS so your exact location can be traced. This is true even when your phone is turned off.
There are some obstacles to pinging and GPS tracing. First, the ESN or phone number of the cell phone needs to be known. The cell phone provider can provide this information but you have to be allowed to have it, meaning you can get it if you are LEO (law enforcement officer), government agency and have a subpoena.
If no one knows your phone number or ESN (electronic serial number) then they can’t trace your phone by cell towers. And definitely not by GPS. This could present a problem with prepaid phones whereby the caller blocks their numbers when making calls. Since there is no name to associate with the number of prepaid phones, the service provider is unable to trace the phone by cell tower.
The Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 makes it illegal to sell, transfer, or possess confidential phone records. The Act defines confidential phone records as information relating to the the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, or amount of use of a service offered by a phone company. According to this law, the Cell Phone Ping is illegal because the “location” is defined as “Confidential Phone Records”.
These obstacles don’t appear to be in play in the case of Phylicia Barnes.
Baltimore police call it one of the strangest and most vexing missing persons cases they’ve investigated, and despite getting help from the FBI, they have few leads.
Barnes’ 17th birthday was Jan. 12. Janice Sallis, her mother remains confident she’ll be found.
“I’m going to wait until she comes home to give her a party,” Sallis said by phone Wednesday from Atlanta, where she’s relocated since her daughter’s disappearance. “I spent her day being happy. I was happy when she was born, and every 12th of January, I’m going to be happy because that was a happy day for me.”
Police alerted local media soon after Barnes’ disappearance, sounding the alarm that her disappearance was unusual because she had no history of disputes with her family or trouble with the law.
Investigators believe she may have been kidnapped and possibly taken out of state, and with no suspects or physical evidence, they fear the worst, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. More than 100 police officers combed a northwest Baltimore park a week after her disappearance, but found no signs of a body or clues to her whereabouts.
Barnes’ smiling face, in a photo taken from her Facebook page, greets motorists on billboards as they drive into the city. Police have gotten about 70 tips, but none has panned out, Guglielmi said.
Investigators are re-interviewing about a dozen friends and associates of Barnes’ 27-year-old half-sister, Deena Barnes, who saw the teenager in the days before she disappeared, and are hammering away at any discrepancies in their statements, Guglielmi said. Police have executed search warrants but haven’t recovered any evidence.
Sallis has expressed concern about the number of strangers Deena Barnes allowed into her apartment while Phylicia was staying there, but Guglielmi said there’s no indication those individuals were up to anything nefarious, describing the atmosphere at the apartment as similar to a college dorm.
Barnes is an honor student at Union Academy, a public charter school in Monroe, and she was on track to graduate early and had already been accepted to several colleges.
Two years ago, she reconnected with her half-siblings on Facebook, and she traveled to Baltimore several times to visit them, her mother said.
“I’m very family-oriented. I didn’t want her scale to be unbalanced, to know my side of the family and not know her father’s side of the family,” Sallis said.
But since Barnes’ disappearance, she regrets allowing her daughter to stay with Deena, who admitted allowing Phylicia to drink alcohol and was generally more permissive with the teenager than Sallis would have liked, Sallis said.
Deena Barnes could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Phylicia’s father, Russell Barnes – who is long divorced from Sallis and did not raise Phylicia – did not respond specifically to Sallis’ complaints but said Wednesday that criticism of Deena was unfair.
Russell Barnes has been in Baltimore since the day after Phylicia’s disappearance and said Wednesday he intends to remain in the city until she is found. He is organizing volunteer searches.
“We don’t believe she’s gone or anything like that,” he said. “We think somebody just has her.”
Deena’s ex-boyfriend was the last person to see Phylicia, according to police and the girl’s parents. Most of Phylicia’s clothing and shoes were left inside her sister’s apartment, and she didn’t have much money, Russell Barnes said – an indication that even if she left of her own volition, she didn’t plan to be gone long.
“She didn’t know anything about Baltimore city,” Russell Barnes said. “She would never leave her sister, really. She loves her sister.”
As the Barnes case has made the national media rounds, Guglielmi began describing it as “Baltimore’s Natalee Holloway case,” referring to an Alabama teen whose disappearance in Aruba became a cable news sensation.
The Barnes case has been featured on CNN’s “Nancy Grace” and NBC’s “Today” and “Nightly News,” among other programs. While it hasn’t gotten as much airtime as the Holloway case or other stories about missing teenagers, Sallis said she doesn’t feel slighted by the coverage.
“My daughter is not the only child that’s missing. Other children need their time too,” Sallis said. “I appreciate all that has been done for her and us thus far, and it’s quality, not quantity that’s important to me.”
If Barnes had been struggling with any troubles before the Christmas holiday, officials at Union Academy said it didn’t show through in her academics or extracurricular activities.
Hoping to study medicine or psychiatry, she had been accepted to several colleges already and was preparing applications for Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. In her spare time, Barnes had been doing community service at a daycare center and by tutoring fellow students in need of academic help.
“She appeared to be very happy, a very happy girl. No concerns. No red flags,” senior counselor Chrissy Rape said.
Barnes’ disappearance cast a heavy cloud over the beginning of the school’s second semester, but Rape said students and faculty alike were trying to maintain hope for her safe return and find ways to vent their frustration and fear.
Hundreds attended a prayer vigil as classes resumed for the spring term. More than 500 yards of ribbon in purple – Barnes’ favorite color – has been turned into ribbons worn by hundreds of students. Students can write messages to Barnes on posterboards hanging throughout school halls.
“When she does return, we’re going to give her all these things … and hope that it will help her when she comes home,” Rape said. “We hold out faith and hope that she will come home. We are very optimistic here at school.”
With all this being said the question still remains: Have You Pinged Her?
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The focus of late has been the horrific tragedy in Tucson Arizona. As you know by now, a 22 year old gunman by the name of JARED LEE LOUGHNER went on a shooting rampage at a public gathering for U.S.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford. Loughner managed to not only shoot Congresswoman Gifford in the head, but his deliberate act left 14 wounded and 6 dead including a Federal Judge. Another casualty was a 10 year girl who arrived in this world on the memorable day forever known as 9/11.
The despicable event has touched off a debate over whether mean spirited words emanating from Politicians, particularly the “Tea Party” movement, talk radio and/or cable news, played a part in LOUGHNER’s attack.
Gale King weighed in on the subject. King who is Oprah Winfrey’s BFF was hosting her radio show which can now be seen on The Oprah Winfrey Network (“OWN”) when she spoke on the power of words. The radio host cautioned her audience as to the power of their words, and the impact they can have on certain people.
In reflection we may not intend for our words to have a certain impact, but nevertheless they often do. This is true of all of us including Gale King.
During her show yesterday, Ms. King used the phrase Coo Coo for Coco Puffs. The phrase has a derogatory connotation in its description on people who suffer from mental illness.
In our status driven society where we strive for acceptance, mental illness is frowned upon and people suffering from mental illness are treated like they have a contagious terminal illness.
Although we are moving away from the past where we were embarrassed to admit to suffering from a mental illness or having family members who suffered from mental illness it is still a taboo subject. As a result, people who are in need of help will not seek it. Ms. King, being described as Coo Coo for Coco Puffs doesn’t encourage people to seek help either.
Hopefully the day will come where we will embrace the fact that mental illness is no different than a physical illness such as brain cancer or a stroke. All have an impact on the brain. The only difference is that with mental illness there is most likely a chemical imbalance. The same thing is true for diabetes which deals with the balancing of a chemical known as insulin.
It may not have been your intentions to be offensive to those who suffer from mental health issues, but perhaps now you can see the damage those words can do. At the same time they are avoiding being described as coo coo for coco puffs; they are missing out on the help which may allow them to live their best life. Further, those hurtful words coming from you, the BFF of media mogul Oprah Winfrey resonates with power twice as much.
This Blog is written with the best intentions. Unlike Sarah Palin, who fails to see the damage of her hateful words and therefore deny her responsibility, it is expected that you will own up to yours.
Now that you know better, you will do better. Let us all be mindful of our words so that we can all live our best lives.
You can listen to part of Gayle King’s discussion pertaining to this Blog above.
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