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  1. And now we know how... A California teen hacked into his school district’s computer system using a phishing email — all to mess with his classmates’ grades and give himself stellar marks, according to local reports. David Rotaro, a 16-year-old student at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, was charged last week with 14 felony counts, including unauthorized use of entering network. “It was like stealing candy from a baby,” he brazenly told KGO-TV. Reports of the hack first started trickling in two weeks ago when teachers in the Mount Diablo Unified School District started getting fishy emails. The emails contained a link that sent recipients to a fake website built to look like the school’s portal. The link prompted teachers to enter their user name and password. Once they did, the site would record their information. At least one teacher entered the information, allowing the student to access the district’s IT network — and the grading system, police said. Law enforcement officials looked up IP addresses linked to the site in the phishing email and traced it back to the teen. The tech-savvy student either raised or lowered the grades of between 10 and 15 students, police told KTVU. “He’s a young man from the high school and he seems to be very intelligent,” Sgt. Carl Cruz, the Concord police financial crimes supervisor, told the outlet. Rotaro said it took him about five minutes to create the email and that hacking into the system was “very easy, it was like beginner level.” He told KPIX he’s sorry, but hopes to move on from the charges and become “an IT type person at the top-notch level” someday. The teen, who was suspended from school, was released to his parents as he awaits a court date.
  2. Sad that the 2 youngest cast members are the only ones that are dead.
  3. A brawl that broke out at a Wisconsin water park on Mother's Day with people throwing chairs, garbage cans and food started when someone took a chair from another group's table. The melee at Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park was captured on cellphones and video of the mayhem over something so minor was posted on social media. Lake Delton police anticipate filing charges. Authorities were sent to Mount Olympus at 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The large water park features both indoor and outdoor pools, roller coasters, go-karts and other amusements. Its faux Roman Colosseum and huge Trojan horse are a fixture on the main drag through the popular tourist destination. A woman who answered the phone at the Lake Delton Police Department on Monday afternoon said Chief Daniel Hardman was not available to answer questions and directed media to a news release on the department's website. "Police learned that the fight started over something as ridiculous as a person taking a chair from a different group's table within the water park," according to the release. By the time police arrived, the fight was over. Officers talked to witnesses and looked at video shot by bystanders. It's unclear if there were injuries. The police chief said in the release that he was "disappointed that cooler heads did not prevail" and an argument over a chair escalated into a brawl at a family-oriented business. Mount Olympus officials are cooperating with police, according to a statement released Monday afternoon by Director of Safety Jason Hammond, who thanked officers for their quick response. "Mt. Olympus is very disappointed to have had an altercation between several of our guests this past weekend. Guest safety is always our first priority. We are thankful that no one was seriously injured."
  4. A Michigan boy found a way to make his mark on the occasion of his mother’s marriage proposal. Allyssa Anter said “yes” Saturday to the question popped by her boyfriend, Kevin Przytula. Video shows the bride-to-be and man on bended knee are blissfully unaware that right next to them, 3-year-old Owen Anter had dropped his pants to urinate in front of Bay City’s Ring of Friendship sculpture. They were alerted to the pint-sized proposal crasher by the giggling videographer, Przytula’s 11-year-old daughter, Kayleigh. Allyssa Anter says her son “stole the show,” and acknowledges his potty training is a work in progress. The video was shared Monday by WNEM-TV and The Bay City Times.
  5. Now he’s facing a long, hard stretch behind bars. A Brooklyn jail guard was found guilty of sexually abusing female inmates Monday — after the victims gave matching accounts of his giant, stinky penis. A jury found correction officer Lt. Eugenio Perez guilty on 23 counts for forcing four women at the Metropolitan Detention Center to perform oral sex on him and propositioning a fifth. He faces life behind bars. The 47-year-old, who bragged to the victims that his nickname is “caballo” — or “horse” in Spanish — pouted and teared up after the verdict was announced, while his wife and family members sobbed.
  6. Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon (who beat testicular cancer last year) is open to trying anything that will heal a cut on his middle finger and keep him on the mound, including urinating on it. Taillon told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he’s received that suggestion as a possible remedy. “I said if it helps, I’ll put a sign-up sheet and everyone can come and pee,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t care. I just want (the cut) to go away.” Taillon was forced out of his last start Friday against the San Francisco Giants after three innings because of the injury. Taillon wouldn’t be the first baseball player to urinate on his hands as a form of treatment. Both Moises Alou and Jorge Posada, who both didn’t wear batting gloves during their careers, have said they tried the practice to toughen up their skin. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill said in 2016 that he urinated on his hand to try to heal blisters. Taillon, who is 2-3 with a 4.08 ERA in eight starts, is scheduled to start Wednesday, but Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has indicated the team will be cautious with the right-hander. “We’d rather err on the side of conservatism and have him miss one start than risk missing a couple because it doesn’t heal properly,” Huntington told reporters, according to the newspaper. The Tribune-Review reported that Taillon currently is wearing a silver nitrate sleeve on the finger to try to speed up the healing process.
  7. Surviving (1985) 2h 23min | Drama | TV Movie 10 February 1985 Promising student Rick Brogan discovers that his father whom he idolizes is cheating on his mother. Heartbroken, he finds comfort in the arms of his old crush but her father opposes the relationship which pushes Rick over the edge. Rick (Zach Galligan) is the apple of his father's eye; smart, handsome, and idolized by his younger siblings (River Phoenix and Heather O'Rourke). By stark contrast, Lonnie (Molly Ringwald) is a troubled and withdrawn girl, struggling to put the painful memory of a failed suicide attempt behind her. Both teenagers are dealing with loneliness and family pressures when they begin to find solace in each other, and a young romance develops. As Rick and Lonnie's bond begins to grow stronger, and they become increasingly withdrawn from their friends and families, their protective parents begin to worry that the young lovers are becoming too involved and grow increasingly uncomfortable with the teenagers' relationship. Finally, when Rick's parents (Ellen Burstyn and Len Cariou) decide that Lonnie is a bad influence on their son, and Lonnie's parents (Marsha Mason and Paul Sorvino) decide that boarding school would be the best place for their troubled daughter, Rick and Lonnie, desperate not to be separated, make a tragic decision to take their own lives. In the wake of the young lovers' fatal suicide pact, the two devastated families are left to try and pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and must somehow find a way to go on. Ellen Burstyn ... Tina Brogan Len Cariou ... David Brogan Zach Galligan ... Rick Brogan Marsha Mason ... Lois Molly Ringwald ... Lonnie Paul Sorvino ... Harvey River Phoenix ... Philip Brogan Heather O'Rourke ... Sarah Brogan (they're heeeeeeere!) For years my ex-roomate & I would imitate Marsha Mason yelling HarVEY! when she discovered her kid's body.
  8. Carbon monoxide from keyless cars has killed more than two dozen people since 2006, as drivers unwittingly leave their vehicles running inside garages, a new report has found. Toyota models, including Lexus, were behind almost half of the 28 deaths and 45 injuries that were identified Sunday by the New York Times. In all cases, drivers unintentionally filled their homes with toxic fumes by leaving their cars on inside attached garages. Keyless ignitions use radio signals transmitted through a fob the owner carries to start the engine. But drivers run the dangerous risk of forgetting to turn off their cars before going inside. Fred Schaub was found dead last year in bed after parking his Toyota RAV4 in the garage and going inside with the fob in his pocket. The level of carbon monoxide in his home was at least 30 times higher than what humans can tolerate. “After 75 years of driving, my father thought that when he took the key with him when he left the car, the car would be off,” his son Doug Schaub told the Times. “The plants inside the house lost their leaves.” The keyless technology comes standard in over half of the 17 million new cars sold each year in the United States – yet there are no federal regulations on automatic engine shutoffs or beeping sounds to warn drivers the car is still running. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed three times to adopt regulations that would require car manufacturers to install external and internal warning beeps. Some brands – like Ford – have voluntarily implemented features where the engine cuts off after 30 minutes of idling if the fob isn’t inside the vehicle. There is no federal agency that keeps comprehensive records on carbon monoxide deaths related to keyless-ignition vehicles – so the exact number isn’t known and could be much higher than the 28 identified by the Times. Others have been left with severe injuries as a result of carbon monoxide from keyless cars. Timothy Maddock now lives with a brain injury after deadly fumes from his girlfriend Chasity Glisson’s Lexus flooded their Florida home in 2010. Glisson died. “It’s just been so hard,” said Glisson’s mother, Kimberlin Nickles. “All I’ve ever wanted is something to be done for the cars to be safer.” Fire officials in Palm Beach County, Florida — a haven for the older generations — have seen a spike in incidents involving keyless ignitions, so they started handing out carbon monoxide detectors and signs with the warning, “Carbon Monoxide Kills. Is Your Car Off?” “They were literally driving their own vehicles into the garage and closing the door,” said District Chief Doug McGlynn.
  9. Quick-thinking police officers came up with a novel way to rescue a family of ducklings swimming to their doom in a drainage pipe: a duck calling app. Officers played the app on their phone and lured the wayward ducklings back to safety where they were reunited with their mom. Fourteen ducklings fell into a storm drain Sunday morning in the Bay Shore community of Suffolk County, New York. Police said it happened near the Napa Auto Parts store on Aletta Place. The ducklings' mother was waiting nearby. Someone called 911. Officers removed the grate and grabbed four of the downy chicks. But the others swam deeper into the tunnel. Officer Steven Damico downloaded a duck calling app to his phone and played it. The ducklings responded to the sound and swam back into reach. Police were able to grab nine more of the ducklings, but one was unswayed by the quacking app. An emergency services officer arrived and retrieved the reluctant duckling with a net. All of the ducks waddled off with their mom.
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  11. MTM was married to Grant Tinker.
  12. Umm... https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/this-is-why-you-should-never-date-women.132063/ You even commented on this story already.
  13. Here's your scene. I wonder if Mary Beth knew... *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sd1_EVdlK0 *** Coincidentally, "Bobby" appeared in an episode of Cagney & Lacey the same year he made this movie. Small world!
  14. A South Korean nude model was arrested for taking a photo of a male colleague during an art class — and posting the snap online as revenge, according to new reports. The woman, only identified by her last name Ahn, admitted to police that she secretly took the photo and shared it on feminist site Womad on May 1,according to the Korea Herald. Both she and the male victim were modeling for fine arts students at Hongik University in Seoul and met for the first time at the school. She took the picture and posted it in retaliation for an argument the two had had over a rest area used by the nude models. The victim, who secretly worked part-time as a male model, was mortified that the photo went viral, and was seen far and wide — including by some of his relatives, according to the South China Morning Post. He was also left distraught by hurtful comments made on Womad about his body, and profession, including one that said: “Nude male models must have mental illnesses,” the outlet reported. Ahn became a key suspect after police discovered she deliberately threw away one of her two cell phones she used. She deleted the photo, telling police she didn’t think it would get “as serious as it has.” Ahn was arrested Thursday and charged with illegally leaking photos of a person’s body without consent – which is punishable with a fine of up to 50 million won – nearly $47,000 — or a year in jail, The Korea Times reported.
  15. Welcome Home, Bobby (1986 TV Movie) When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while his mother does try to offer support. Timothy Williams ... Bobby Tony Lo Bianco ... Bobby's dad Adam Baldwin ... Cleary Anthony Candell ... Donny Cavalero Nan Woods ... Beth Stephen James ... Mark Reed (the older man) John Karlen ... Geffin (Bobby's teacher) Gisela Caldwell ... Rose Cavalero John Pleshette ... John Hammill Welcome Home, Bobby is a made-for-TV movie that aired on the U.S. television network CBS in early 1986, and was one of the first TV movies in the U.S. to portray openly gay teenagers. The plot centered around a troubled high school student (Timothy Williams) from an old-fashioned Italian family, who, even though he has a girlfriend (Nan Woods) at school, falls in love with an older man in his mid-thirties, and then finds himself the object of ridicule, both at school and at home with his father, played by Tony Lo Bianco. The movie also starred Adam Baldwin, John Karlen and Moira Harris. Although the TV movie carried a message for the gay community and its acceptance into the mainstream, CBS only aired Welcome Home, Bobby once. It was filmed on location in Illinois in the spring of 1985.
  16. Rita Moreno has basically lived the life we all dream of; with roles in classics like West Side Story, The King and I, and more, her legendary performing career has spanned some 70 years (and she’s EGOT-ed – an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony or two all live in Moreno’s house). If the Puerto Rican triple-threat’s illustrious résumé wasn’t enough, she also had quite the love life. A love life that has involved two of the biggest sex symbols of all time: Marlon Brando andElvis Presley. That’s right. Rita Moreno, ever the icon, spent some eight years in a passionate love affair with Brando – and dated Presley, too. During an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show this week, Moreno got candid about her romances when questioned by Williams. After discussing her late husband Leonard Gordon, to whom she was married for 48 years, she got to “the boys”. “I cannot believe that this man slayed you so good,” said Williams, causing Moreno’s jaw to drop. “He slayed me good ’cause he was the king of everything. Eeeeeeverything,” she emphasized, raising her eyebrows. “He was the king of movies… he was really one of the most sexual men on Earth… It was one of those very tempestuous love affairs. It lasted eight years, on and off, on and off, on and off.” Moreno then admitted that she had wanted to marry him, but Brando had no interest in marriage – and had many affairs behind her back. “One time when I found some lingerie that was not mine, I just went home devastated, weeping and crying – and something wonderful happened the next day.” That wonderful thing? Elvis Presley had spotted her and “liked what he saw”, and wanted to meet her. With that underwear still on her mind, Moreno agreed, and she wound up going out with him – and much to her delight, it make Brando furious. “That man threw chairs – it was wonderful!” If these scandalous details weren’t enough, Williams then pressed Moreno to reveal who was the better lover of the two. “That’s like a 2-year-old and the king,” Moreno saucily admitted, acknowledging that Presley wasn’t so good between the sheets, even if he was handsome and sweet. “You know, Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando? Come on. Amateur night.”
  17. Smokers just can’t catch a break. First, we all learned of the obvious dangers of smoking cigarettes and then, not long afterward, the effects of second-hand smoke became a topic of heated debate. Eventually, science won out, demonstrating that second-hand smoke is dangerous to non-smoking individuals nearby. Now, a new study focused on the potential dangers of third-hand smoke has revealed that nasty chemicals and particles from outside of a non-smoking building can find their way inside on the clothing of people coming and going. Those particles, the study suggests, have a habit of finding their way into the air and circulation systems of large buildings, spreading all around despite nobody inside the building ever lighting up a smoke. This means that “smoke-free” areas aren’t necessarily immune to the effects of smokers, even if everyone is playing by the rules, and the research could impact future smoking restrictions and bans. “While many public areas have restriction on smoking, including distance from doorways, non-smoking buildings and even full smoking bans on campus for some universities, these smoking limitations often only serve to protect non-smoking populations from exposure to second-hand smoke,” Michael Waring, co-author of the study and associate professor in Drexel’s College of Engineering, explains. “This study shows that third-hand smoke, which we are realizing can be harmful to health as with second-hand smoke, is much more difficult to avoid.” The study began with an air sample from a non-smoking classroom. The classroom, which has had a ban on smoking for years, was actually filled with chemicals associated with cigarette smoke, and the researchers discovered that nearly one-third of the aerosol mass (the particles floating around in the air that we never notice) was made up of third-hand smoke chemicals. To help figure out how this could be true, the researchers set up lab experiments in which they tested the transport of third-hand smoke particles. They were able to demonstrate that even after fresh air has circulated through an area, the residue of the smoke remains and those chemicals have the potential to once again become airborne. “This means that our discovery was by no means unique to that classroom, in fact, it’s likely quite a widespread phenomenon,” Peter DeCarlo of Drexel University says. “What we’d actually uncovered was a new exposure route for third-hand smoke — through aerosol particles, which are ubiquitous in the indoor environment.” The work, which was published in Science Advances, is an eye-opening look at how even supposedly “clean” indoor environments can still be contaminated by those who pass through. Future research is expected to focus on potential solutions to the problem.
  18. Queens’ mail theft problem reached a new low this morning. Officers from the 112th Precinct stopped three men whom they caught red-handed stealing a blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox from a Forest Hills street corner early on May 11. According to police, the theft occurred at about 3:10 a.m. at the corner of Yellowstone Boulevard and 67th Road. Members of the precinct spotted a 30-year-old man working in concert with two unidentified males to move a USPS mailbox into the rear of a gray 2004 Honda Odyssey. The officers approached, and two of the suspects fled the scene on foot. The officers took the 30-year-old man into custody; law enforcement sources did not have immediate information on his role in the attempted theft. Charges against him are pending at this time. The NYPD Patrol Borough Queens North shared the news on Twitter on May 11, posting an astonishing picture of the mailbox — still in the back of the culprits’ minivan in the 112th Precinct’s Forest Hills parking lot. Cops across Queens have been battling mail theft for many months — although most bandits have taken to using makeshift devices to fish mail out of the boxes rather than stealing entire mailboxes. Last week, the 112th Precinct arrested two individuals who allegedly stole mail out of a U.S. Postal Service box in the area of 63rd Drive and Booth Street in Rego Park. The USPS, at the request of local lawmakers, has begun installing security devices on the mailboxes to prevent further thefts. Following Friday’s bust, 112th Precinct Community Council Heidi Harrison Chain took to Facebook and publicly thanked Deputy Inspector Robert Ramos, the precinct’s commanding officer, “for assigning the extra officers” during the midnight tours to help combat mail theft. http://2sei0v2s93y31n9ndy1lrzmh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dc6vG1IWAAAtCT1.jpg
  19. Actress and painter Kristin Harmon, the older sister of "NCIS" actor Mark Harmon and the ex-wife of former pop star Ricky Nelson, died April 27 of a heart attack. She was 72. Harmon's "sudden and unexpected" death was confirmed by her daughter Tracy in a touching Facebook post May 1. Tracy added that Harmon had also been put into a coma for an undetermined amount of time last year to treat a lung infection. "No one could blow the house down like she could. And no one could make something out of nothing like she could," Tracy wrote. "She knew where the party was, she WAS the party. She didn't just know the cool people, she WAS the cool people." Harmon was born in 1945 to 1940 Heisman trophy winner Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox. She was the older sister of actor Mark and model and "Bay City Blues" actress Kelly. The blonde met her future husband Ricky Nelson at just 12 years old, and they were wed six years later in 1963. That same year, she joined her husband's family's radio and TV series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," on which she appeared in 29 episodes as Ricky's on-screen wife. The couple, who also appeared together on screen in "Love and Kisses," had four children: actress Tracy, twin sons Gunnar and Matthew, who went on to form the band Nelson, and son Sam. But there was trouble in paradise for the two, whose marriage quickly descended into a drug-fueled spiral. "At first we were in it together. I tried to be one of the guys, to fix the marriage by going on the road and being involved in road stuff that is really not good for anyone. After a while we were totally messed up, both of us," she told People in 1987. "I got into therapy and so did he for a while but then he started not showing up… I knew that if I didn't leave, we would both die. I knew that I would just somehow try to make it for my kids. I couldn't help Rick anymore." Harmon filed for divorce in 1977, but the couple reconciled — only to split again in 1980. Their divorce was finalized two years later after years of he-said, she-said over drug and alcohol use. After Nelson was killed in a plane crash in 1985, Harmon entered rehab at the behest of her brother, Mark. She and her sibling's relationship was further strained when Mark and wife Pam Dawber were awarded temporary custody of a then-12-year-old Sam in 1987 amid accusations that Harmon's drug use had made her incapable of taking care of her son. Harmon later regained custody following a contentious war of words, though Mark won visitation rights. She was married again to Mark Tinker in 1988, and they split in 2000.
  20. With Ray Bradbury’s novel about a society where books are outlawed coming alive in HBO’s new film “Fahrenheit 451,” attention has returned to one of the most difficult real-life books to come-by in the United States. Stephen King is one of America’s most prolific authors whose countless stories and books can be found in almost any retailer in the country. However, there’s one novel that the author has decided to let fall out of publication due to the real-life crimes that spawned because of it. The average King fan may not be familiar with the 1977 book “Rage.” Originally published under his pen name, Richard Bachman, King wrote the novel in 1966 while he was still in high school. In it, a young man named Charlie Decker is called into the principal’s office of his high school after assaulting a teacher. He goes on an expletive-filled tirade for reasons he doesn’t understand, prompting his expulsion. Decker then goes to his locker to retrieve a semi-automatic pistol, burns the remaining contents and kills two other faculty members before taking his algebra class hostage. What ensues is a standoff in which the students who begin as hostages become unwitting accomplices as a sort-of Stockholm Syndrome sets in and they begin to identify more with their captor than those trying to end the conflict and return things to the status quo. King let the book fall out of publication in 1998 after real-life tragedies allegedly inspired by “Rage” and made him feel morally obligated to write it. The book existed for a time in a 1985 collection of novels called “The Bachman Books,” which also included “The Long Walk,” “Roadwork” and “The Running Man.” Eventually, prints of “The Bachman Books” dwindled from four stories to three as the author allowed “Rage” to die a quiet death in the publishing world. Today, curious readers can still get their hands on a copy, but they have to be willing to pay between $500 – $700 on Amazon to do so. As Business Insider notes, the novel was number two on BookFinder’s 2013 list of out-of-print books that are still in high demand. To this day, the novel is still considered one of the most controversial books in the U.S. Why then did King, the mind behind twisted and horrific stories like “Misery,” “It” and “Pet Cemetery,” decide to let this book fall out of print? The answer can be traced back to Dec. 1, 1997, at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky. 14-year-old Michael Carneal brought three guns to school and opened fire on a group of students standing in a prayer circle. Three were killed and five were injured, with one unable to walk again. According to a local report, Carneal then dropped his weapon and surrendered to the school principal. Police would later discover a copy of “Rage” in Carneal’s locker. It was the fourth school gun violence incident in which the authorities found the gunman had been exposed to, and possibly influenced by, the now out-of-print King novel. In 1996, 14-year-old Barry Dale Loukaitis killed his algebra teacher and two students before being disarmed by a faculty member he tried to take hostage at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Washington. He allegedly claimed that he was inspired by “Rage” and modeled his life after Charlie Decker. In 1989, 17-year-old Dustin Pierce took a classroom of 11 students hostage at gunpoint in Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky while reportedly trying to recreate the plot of “Rage.” After a nine-hour standoff, he surrendered to police. In 1987, Jeffrey Lyne Cox held 60 classmates at gunpoint at San Gabriel High School in California before being disarmed by some of the students. He was known to have read “Rage” multiple times The Los Angeles Times reported. Shortly after the 1998 incident, King is said to have called his publisher to demand the book be taken out of print. The publisher reportedly agreed. King did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request to discuss the book. However, shortly after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, King published a 25-page nonfiction essay titled “Guns” in which he explained his reasoning for pulling the novel. “It took more than one slim novel to cause (the shooters) to do what they did. These were unhappy boys with deep psychological problems, boys who were bullied at school and bruised at home by parental neglect or outright abuse,” he wrote in “Guns,” (via USA Today). “My book did not break (them) or turn them into killers; they found something in my book that spoke to them because they were already broken. Yet I did see ‘Rage’ as a possible accelerant which is why I pulled it from sale. You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.” The author, now 70 years old, went on to explain that he felt no legal pressure to pull the book, only a moral obligation that he extended to his fellow gun owners. “I was protected under the First Amendment, and the law couldn’t demand it. I pulled it because in my judgment it might be hurting people, and that made it the responsible thing to do,” he wrote. “Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces in this country decide to do a similar turnaround. They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability.” Today, “Rage” is only available to those with deep pockets and an even deeper curiosity — something King continues to support. Despite a library of stories based on fictitious murder and macabre, King is willing to let “Rage,” which happens to be one of his earliest works, rest in peace for fear that it will cause real-life murder, macabre and violence if made available again.
  21. A family of seven people, including four children, was found dead Friday in an Australian village in what is being considered the country’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, officials said. Police are treating the incident as a murder-suicide and said they were not looking for any suspects, according to Australian news outlet ABC. The children, whose ages were not disclosed, died with their mother and grandparents in Osmington, a village of fewer than 700 residents near the tourist town of Margaret River. Police responding to a phone call found the bodies and two guns on the property, Western Australia state Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said. “This devastating tragedy will no doubt have a lasting impact on the families concerned, the whole community and, in particular, the local communities in our southwest,” he added. A family friend told ABC that Katrina Miles and her four children were among the victims. Her parents, who are listed on the property title as Peter and Cynda Miles, also were killed, the friend said. Two adults were found outside and the other five bodies were located inside, according to the outlet. The mass shooting is the worst Down Under since 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people and seriously wounded 23 others in Port Arthur. Local lawmaker Libby Mettam said Friday’s deaths had already sent “significant shockwaves” through the community. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that will be affected by this tragedy, including those first responders,” Mettam said. Former local Councillor Felicity Haynes described the slain family as “caring neighbors.” “They were just such lovely people,” she said. Nearby resident Freya Cheffers said she was in shock. “Everybody’s just devastated … I just prayed that I didn’t know the family, as it turns out I kind of do,” she told ABC. Australia’s gun laws are widely regarded as a success, with supporters including former President Barack Obama saying Australia has not had a single mass shooting since they were implemented. The accepted definition of a mass shooting — four deaths excluding the shooter in a single event — has been met only once in Australia since 1996, when a farmer shot his wife and three children before killing himself in 2014. Under Australian law, farmers are allowed to own guns because they have a legitimate need to use them to kill predators or sick or injured livestock. But automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns are banned from public ownership. Samantha Lee, chairwoman of the Gun Control Australia lobby group, said rural areas were over-represented in Australian gun deaths, including suicides. “Regional and rural areas are particularly vulnerable to these sorts of tragedies, because of the combination of isolation, sometimes mental or financial hardship and easy access to firearms,” Lee said in a statement. “Although the details of this tragedy are yet to come to light, Australia has a tragic history of higher rate of gun deaths in rural areas,” she added.
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