The definition of IRONY

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A Georgia college student was fatally shot in a fight with a pal over a Bible verse on forgiveness, police said.

 

Jacquell Smith, 20, was gunned down Sunday after reportedly feuding with his friend Raekwon Pauldo over scripture at a Dublin home, news station WMAZ reported.

 

Police said that the argument started with the verse but “then that turned to something else.”

 

“Apparently two friends got into an argument,” Dublin police Chief Tim Chatman told WMAZ. “These are friends. They’ve been knowing each other for a long time. They were arguing over stuff that didn’t make any sense.”

 

The argument escalated when Pauldo allegedly shot his friend twice in the head, police said.

 

Smith was rushed to Fairview Park Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

 

Pauldo, 21, was later arrested on murder charges.

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A Tennessee couple died Saturday after the vintage car they were traveling in “accelerated rapidly” and crashed shortly after leaving their relative’s funeral, authorities said.

 

Troy Jenkins, 49, and Cameo Sanders-Jenkins, 38, had just left the parking lot of a church where they attended a cousin’s funeral when their 1968 Chevrolet Camaro slammed into a rock wall, the Nashville Metropolitan Police said in a news release.

 

The couple was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead, police said.

 

While the couple had been wearing their seatbelts, the ’68 Camaro had only lap belts because of its age, police said. The vintage car also didn’t have airbags.

 

Officers said “excessive speed” was likely the primary factor in the crash even though there were “signs of braking” before the Camaro hit the rock wall ahead of the Ashland City Highway intersection.

 

Amber Phillips, a relative, told the Tennessean that the Jenkinses had supported her and her young son “physically and emotionally” after his father was murdered two years ago — even helping her buy a house.

 

“They were amazing people,” Phillips told the paper. “I just can’t name one person they did not help in some way.”

 

Troy Jenkins worked in maintenance for a project management company, while Sanders-Jenkins had begun work as a real estate broker six years ago, the paper reported.

 

“She had a spark to her, and nobody pushed her around and nobody ran over her,” Daniel Miller, a fellow broker, told the Tennessean. “But she would also help anybody — her family, her friends — she was there for everyone.”

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A Georgia college student was fatally shot in a fight with a pal over a Bible verse on forgiveness, police said.

 

Jacquell Smith, 20, was gunned down Sunday after reportedly feuding with his friend Raekwon Pauldo over scripture at a Dublin home, news station WMAZ reported.

 

Police said that the argument started with the verse but “then that turned to something else.”

 

“Apparently two friends got into an argument,” Dublin police Chief Tim Chatman told WMAZ. “These are friends. They’ve been knowing each other for a long time. They were arguing over stuff that didn’t make any sense.”

 

The argument escalated when Pauldo allegedly shot his friend twice in the head, police said.

 

Smith was rushed to Fairview Park Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

 

Pauldo, 21, was later arrested on murder charges.

 

I wonder what the specific Bible verse was?

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Massachusetts man killed in plane crash while spreading his father's ashes

 

An Army National Guard pilot died Saturday in Massachusetts after his plane crashed en route to scatter his late father’s ashes.

 

Scott Landis, 34, of Hanson, Mass., was killed just outside the Cranland Airport in Hanson after the small plane he was piloting crashed into a pond Friday, according to ABC News.

 

His brother Patrick Landis, 29, was injured in the accident, and is reportedly in critical condition at Tufts Medical Center.

 

The siblings’ uncle Don Conway told local ABC affiliate WCVB that the brothers were spreading the ashes of their father. An obituary shows their dad, Richard Landis, died Aug. 7. The listing also shows Scott is also survived by his wife, Staci.

 

“He was on takeoff and the engine lost power, and he tried to turn and come back and it went in [the pond],” airport manager Peter Oakley told WCVB.

 

The crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

 

ABC reports Scott was on leave from his Army National Guard base in Kosovo.

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An Indian man was stabbed to death by his own rooster after he attached a 3-inch knife to its leg for an illegal cockfight, police said Sunday.

 

Thangulla Satish, 45, was stabbed in the groin last week when the bird he had just armed for the fight fluttered in panic, according to police in Lothunur village in Telangana state.

 

“Satish was hit by the rooster’s knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily,” police inspector B. Jeevan said Sunday, revealing that the victim died on his way to a local hospital.

 

Police are now looking for over a dozen other people involved in organizing the deadly cockfight, warning that they could face up to two years in prison if found guilty.

 

The rooster survived, with photos of it tied with a rope and pecking on grains at the police station went viral locally on social media.

 

“We may need to produce it before the court,” Jeevan said.

 

In the fights — banned in India in 1960 — two birds with a knife or blade attached fight until one either dies or flees.

 

Despite the nationwide ban, they remain common in the southern Indian states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, often under the watch of powerful, local politicians with big-money bets.

[TruthBTold]

I know that there is a difference between satire and irony and I am trying to figure out how to keep them straight (in the good way).

[JayCeeKy]

I don't want to make this political and thus verboten in the Lounge Forum, so I will make this as generic as possible, but I think it does illustrate the concept of Irony.

 

At a certain political rally recently a certain political perrson railed against "cancel culture" just before he gave a list of people he wants to have ostracized/cancelled from the Party.

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A California man was fatally struck by an alleged drunk driver — just after leaving an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, local reports said Wednesday.

 

Ray Galindo, a proud member of the program for the last 15 years, was killed on April 23 in Modesta when 22-year-old Braxton Howze allegedly ran into him,KOVR reported.

 

Galindo, 58, had been speaking to an AA newcomer outside the Living Sober Fellowship and sitting on the tailgate of his parked pickup.

 

That’s when police say Howze, who was allegedly wasted, swerved off the road and hit him.

 

“It’s like my heart sank in my chest,” one of Galindo’s AA group leaders, who was named as Mark G., told the TV-station.

 

“Ray was a standup guy, he was a very helpful person, he always wanted to lend a hand.”

 

He leaves behind three sons, two who are adults and a 9-year-old, according to the Modesto Bee.

 

“He was such a good dad,” Dee Dee Leslie, the child’s mom, told the newspaper about Galindo.

 

“He wanted (his son) to have a good education and all the stuff he couldn’t have.”

 

Howze, who was allegedly driving on a suspended license from a previous DUI, faces charges including hit and run, DUI, and gross vehicular manslaughter.

 

He appeared bleary-eyed, bloody and bruised in a mugshot released by the Modesto Police Department.

 

Howze was being held on a $1,000,000 bail. He’s due back in court May 11.