Crime

Suspicious

The man who was shot dead by Secret Service agents after entering Mar a Lago armed with a shotgun at 0130 this morning had been reported missing by has family less than 12 hours earlier, and local police had notified the FBI.

Twelve hours isn’t even long enough for a missing person report, much less FBI notification. What else was known that made this necessary? Did he leave a manifesto or something?

Now all of the news stories I found from when he went missing have been scrubbed. The left is already claiming it to be a false flag designed to boost Trump’s numbers.

Too many more Trump assassination attempts, and i will have to create a blog category specifically for this.

By Divemedic, ago

Shooting

A Walmart in Poinciana Florida, an unincorporated community that spans Osceola and Polk County, had been hiring off duty Sheriff’s deputies as security. One of them confronted a group of “teens” who had been shoplifting. That’s when one of the youths decided to pull a gun on the Deputy, thereby changing his crime from misdemeanor larceny into armed robbery, a forcible felony.

The Deputy conducted an impromptu ballistics test of his .45 ACP caliber Glock, which performed as expected. The crowd became a bit irate because the deputy shot a “kid,” so another off duty deputy, along with an off duty firefighter, both of whom happened to be in the store and were armed, assisted the original deputy in securing the crime scene until others could arrive. I can’t post the link to the tweet with the video, because it’s been restricted. Click on the tweet below and take a look.

By Divemedic, ago

Scams

A reader recently wanted to know why people make money when owning companies that don’t ever make a product. Some companies are scams, that’s how. Look at this post from Twitter/X:

Believing that a 3D printed filter can eliminate 74% of the CO2 emitted by a car’s tailpipe is ridiculous. The chemistry alone is impossible. Plants don’t just convert CO2 to O2. They are doing so because they need the carbon atoms to make other things, but discard the unnecessary oxygen. The carbon gets turned into other things: cellulose, fructose, proteins, and all of the other things the plant needs. In other words, the plant gains in mass by taking in this CO2. The formula is one that is known and taught in high school biology courses.

CO₂ + H₂O + light → biomass (carbohydrates) + O₂

What makes this impossible is the numbers involved. Burning gasoline produces about 8.9 kg CO₂ per gallon. So at 30 mpg, that’s about 0.30 kg CO₂ per mile. To reduce CO₂ by 74%, you’d need to remove roughly 0.22 kg CO₂ per mile. At 60 mph = 1 mile/min → you’d need to remove ~220 grams of CO₂ every minute. That doesn’t seem to be too bad, on its surface. So why is this impossible?

At a conservative microalgae fixation rate of 4 g/L/day, you’d need ~106,600 L of culture. At 1 g/L density, that’s ~107 kg dry algae. That’s not all- that dry algae would need a water bath in order to function. Once the water is added, that amount of algae would have a mass of 107,000 kg- more than 100 tons. Fit in a plastic tailpipe adaptor. Obviously not possible in any practical sense. It’s like discovering your dog eats dog poop, so there’ll be no more dog poop if you just get your dog to eat its own poop.

So these kids are not the first ones to run a scam like this. There is the company website at https://www.gogreenfilter.com/ and they have corporate sponsors, including T-Mobile. They are marketing and selling these things.

Back in 2018, there was a post I did about a Canadian company claiming to be able to make gasoline from CO2. This is what I said then:

This company is hoping that those watching don’t understand the First Law of Thermodynamics. Carbon dioxide is NOT energy. Taking CO2 and converting it into hydrocarbon fuel USES energy. Thanks to inefficiencies in ALL chemical reactions (First Law of Thermodynamics) it takes more energy to create the fuel than the fuel itself contains.

I thought it was a joke, it was so stupid. I thought — it’s junk science, junk commerce, nothing makes sense about it. But look how pretty it is.

About a dozen years ago, there was another college concept where women could paint on a drug detecting nail polish that would change colors when exposed to date rape drugs. A woman could simply stir her drink with a fingertip and make sure the polish didn’t change colors. For numerous reasons this is impossible, but there are sill tons of people out there who are wanting to buy this stuff. I could swear I did a post on this years ago, but I can’t seem to find it. They were collecting funding to get the company off the ground. In other words, scamming investors.

The point is that there are tons of scams out there, and people will happily hand over their cash without bothering to check the claims of the person making them.

If you make a product while making claims about its performance, but you don’t test to make sure the product works as you claim, that is fraud or a scam. If I tell you that I have a machine that creates gold out of lead, then sell them for $10,000 each, but I never test to see if it actually works, that’s a scam. If I collect investor cash to develop this product, it’s a scam.

On the other hand, if I convince a company to fund my development of an idea for a product, or develop some technology with possible future value, that’s R&D. Sometimes R&D leads nowhere, and that is why companies have an R&D budget. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it leads to a dead end.

It’s a line to be drawn- if I tell you up front that this is research of concept, it isn’t fraud. If I tell you that I have a working prototype that I want to bring to market and I don’t, that’s a scam.

By Divemedic, ago

Not Evidence of Guilt

A lot of hay is being made about people whose names appear in “the Epstein files.” I have seen people screaming that, if someone’s name is on the list, they should be summarily tossed in prison for pedophilia. I think that is wrong on so many levels.

Simply knowing Jeffery Epstein is not evidence of illegal activity. Flying to his island on Epstein’s personal plane? Still not evidence that the person was breaking the law. Do you know what would be? Evidence of a person actually breaking the law by having sex with children.

The government, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, doesn’t have that evidence. Epstein maintained contact books listing hundreds of names—politicians, academics, celebrities, business leaders. Again, inclusion does not equal criminal involvement. Most names in Epstein-related documents appear because of:

  • Flight logs
  • Address books
  • Deposition mentions
  • Social contact

That is not the same thing as evidence of sexual conduct, criminal conduct, evidence of sex with minors. Even if they did have such evidence, there are some major issues with a case like this.

  • Being in flight logs or address books ≠ evidence of criminal conduct.
  • Epstein is dead → the central cooperating witness is gone, which is why he was killed to begin with, in my opinion.
  • Most alleged conduct dates to 2000–2005, so many potential state-level charges likely expired under 2005-era statutes of limitations.
  • Memories fade, witnesses die, evidence deteriorates.

High-profile people circulate in overlapping elite social networks. Presence alone proves proximity — not participation, knowledge, or criminal intent. Demanding punishment purely on that basis ignores:

  • Presumption of innocence
  • Burden of proof
  • The need for specific criminal acts

This entire Epstein debacle has become a political football, with each party using it as a cudgel with which to beat the other team over the head. It’s political theater, nothing more. There are hundreds of names on those lists, a who’s who of the rich, powerful, and politically well connected. Everyone who was anyone- from Ronald Reagan, to Cher, Princess Diana, Steve Bannon, all three of the Clintons, and even the Pope appear in those lists. It’s unlikely that all of them committed crimes. At the same time, it’s unlikely that none of them committed crimes. The rub is separating out which is which, and that is not ever going to happen.

Each side can highlight names inconvenient to opponents, ignore names inconvenient to allies, imply guilt through association without meeting evidentiary standards. That creates an information environment where association is framed as implication, lack of charges is framed as cover-up, and legal nuance is discarded for outrage value. That’s political theater dynamics, not prosecutorial analysis.

By Divemedic, ago

Ten Seconds Later

He becomes a “lessons learned” chapter in someone’s concealed carry class.

By Divemedic, ago

Gun Control Fails Again

Four men, two pairs of brothers, came to Florida to enjoy the state. One returned home, and the other three were standing in the yard of their rental home, preparing to head to the airport, when the man who lived next door shot and killed all three of them. Witnesses and police say that this was a random attack, and there had been no altercation before the shots were fired.

The man who did the killings was known to police. Ahmad Bojeh was arrested in 2021 for randomly firing a gun at people and traffic. He was acquitted due to insanity and released. He was charged with felony drug charges in 2015, and resisting an officer with violence in 2020, but again, charges were dropped. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office was asked whether there were any requirements or safeguards in place, given that he remained in the community and is now accused in a triple homicide. The sheriff’s office referred questions to the State Attorney’s Office, which released a statement saying it cannot comment beyond what has already been made public but will release information when it becomes pertinent.

In other words, the cops and courts didn’t do shit. Again. Our so-called justice system isn’t. It has become a jobs program for useless bureaucrats, and a green light for criminals.

The state claimed we needed red flag laws to stop people from having guns after they fell through the cracks. In other words, people just like this murderer are still killing people, even though the state now has the power to strip everyone else of their rights. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

By Divemedic, ago

Never Forget

Not only does NYC have a Muslim mayor, the entire state is celebrating Muslim heritage by lighting key buildings in green, even One World Trade Center, which wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for the contributions of the Muslim community.

By Divemedic, ago

Slap on the Wrist

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Over a year ago, I was involved in a case where a patient attempted to punch a pregnant doctor. I stepped between them and took the punch instead. I pressed charges. After a year’s time, where I was served with no fewer than 5 subpoenas and had at least two depositions taken, as well as giving a written statement, and a few calls and visits involving the police and the prosecutor’s office, the case is done.

One of the depositions was legendary. It went like this:

  • Did you restrain my client? Yes.
  • Were you aware that he is disabled? No.
  • Are you allowed to restrain patients? Yes, under certain circumstances.
  • What circumstances? If a doctor orders it, or if a patient is an imminent threat to themselves or someone else.
  • Did the doctor at any time ever ask you to restrain the patient? No.
  • Are you saying that you restrained my client using your professional judgement? Yes.
  • What are your qualifications? (We cover my licensure, college, training, and experience. It sounds rather impressive when listed like that, if I might say so myself.)
  • Is the training provided by your employer in compliance with Florida law? I don’t know.
  • Why don’t you know? You are asking me to draw a legal conclusion, and that isn’t my area of expertise. If you want to know about the compliance of this training with state law, I suggest you contact my employer.
  • Let’s get back to the subject. In your professional opinion, can you give me an example of a person who is presenting an imminent threat to someone else? Sure. One that comes immediately to mind is when a grown man is trying to punch a pregnant woman in the back of the head.
  • Ok, let’s move on to another line of questions. (I smirked. The prosecutor had to cover her face with her hands for a moment)

Since he was arrested in my incident, he has been arrested at least half a dozen times for attacking people, burglary, domestic violence, and flagging down a motorist to attack them. That doesn’t sound like he is too disabled to attack anyone. In fact, at the time of my last deposition, he was on probation for an assault charge from March of 2025.

Anyhow, the case has ended with a plea agreement. He got a year’s probation. He still has charges pending in another case, but we all know that nothing will be done to him. The courts have done nothing. Again, and again. Attack, arrest, probation. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Sooner or later, someone will punch this guy’s ticket. I just hope that it won’t have to be me. I don’t need the hassle.

I did learn an important lesson here. This case cost me hours of my time and was a major inconvenience. This guy? His lawyer was free, and he faced no real consequences. I won’t press charges next time, it just isn’t worth my time.

By Divemedic, ago

Social Media Lawyers

Why am I seeing so much of the “Where is your warrant?” bullshit on social media. Cops don’t need to show a warrant while arresting someone, especially not to anyone who demands to see it.

By Divemedic, ago