May 7, 2023

Neighbors Solve Mysterious NJ Pasta Dump Case

By NBC New York Staff and Brian Thompson

There are now some answers regarding a fascinating macaroni mystery in a New Jersey town that has captivated the internet.

It all started when hundreds of pounds of pasta was found by a city council candidate along the banks of the Iresick Brook in a wooded part of Old Bridge. Keith Rost, who lives nearby, said there was likely about 200 pounds of alphabet noodles and spaghetti just left there, with no explanation given.

No meatballs and no sauce were included, just mounds and mounds of pasta.

And while the pasta appeared to be wet and limp in pictures, it wasn't like that when it was dumped there. The pasta was raw, but then the heavy rains over the weekend came, making the mounds look like they had been cooked before being dumped in the in Middlesex County town.

More
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mystery-of-who-dumped-huge-mounds-of-pasta-next-to-a-stream-in-a-nj-town-is-solved/4305212/

According to the story, the pasta was dumped by a guy who was clearing out his late mother's house. The town public works department cleaned up the mess.

May 4, 2023

Four dead in killings in south Georgia town, coroner says

Source: Associated Press

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — Four people were killed Thursday in a small city in rural south Georgia, including a fast food worker and two relatives of a gunman who took his own life, the local coroner said.

The shooter killed his mother and grandmother at two neighboring homes and killed a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press. He said the gunman then killed himself.

Brock did not provide the identities of the shooter or victims. He said he did not know whether the gunman and the McDonald’s worker knew each other.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement only that there had been “multiple fatalities” at different crime scenes in the area.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-multiple-killings-mcdonalds-c4da2529ff38308a0b0bd5b4f6eca185

May 4, 2023

Hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta mysteriously dumped in New Jersey woods

CBS News
By Caitlin O'Kane
Updated on: May 4, 2023 / 2:38 PM / CBS News

Imagine going for a leisurely hike and stumbling upon mounds of pasta in the woods.

It seems highly unlikely, unless you were recently walking near the river basin in Old Bridge, New Jersey, where hundreds of pounds of cooked pasta were dumped in the area last month. Their origins remain a mystery.

Nina Jochnowitz, who is running for city council in the town of about 66,000 posted images of the piles of pasta in a Facebook group, thanking the public works department for cleaning up the estimated 500-pound mess.

In her post, she criticized the mayor, saying he ignored the situation. Jochnowitz is running on a platform of cleaning up the waterways and environment in the town and wants to improve waste and recycling services with new initiatives like bulk pickup. CBS News has reached out to Jochnowitz and is awaiting response.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pasta-new-jersey-mysteriously-dumped-in-old-bridge-woods/

Could this be a Pastafarian plot?

May 4, 2023

We've all heard about subliminal messaging, right?

Subliminal messaging in advertising has almost certainly been honed to a fine art since the early days of placing suggestive shapes in the ice cubes of drink ads.

Given the terrifying increase in gun massacres, I wonder whether subliminal messaging is being implemented in a way that encourages people to buy and stock guns, particularly the semi-automatic kinds. And whether this messaging makes susceptible individuals believe that using those guns to slaughter others will solve their problems.

There have to be reasons why so many people suddenly are using guns to kill for the most baseless reasons. There are mass shootings in the U.S. nearly every day. Other countries - at least those at peace - don't experience even a tiny fraction of the civilian death toll we have.

I'm sure there are many factors involved, but I would not be surprised to learn that internet sites and perhaps some right wing news organizations run undetectable persuasive tactics to boost levels of hate, rage and willingness to kill. The purpose is to spread fear and chaos ahead of whatever factions hope to stage a takeover of our government.

Any thoughts?

May 3, 2023

Land sharks!

May 2, 2023

Just what I needed!