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COURTROOM BEHAVIOR 101

    Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller is a bit of a mystery.  He has worked both the prosecution and the defense side of the legal aisle.   First he worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Berks County and then in the late 1990’s he worked for the Lancaster County DA’s office.  He left for private practice and returned to the Lancaster DA’s office within the last year.

    To many in the legal field, this is a sure sign that he was not doing well in private practice where a good attorney can easily earn $200,000 and up a year.  To return as an Assistant District Attorney at a much lower salary level speaks volumes.  On top of that, Karen Mansfield of the DA’s office was the lead prosecutor in the Joy O’Shea Woomer case up until this past November, when Miller replaced her as the lead.   

    There is speculation that DA Craig Stedman lost confidence in Mansfield after the not guilty verdict in the trial of Owen Johnson for killing his baby daughter last January.  The District Attorney’s Office wanted the death penalty for Owen and instead he walked out a free man.

   Did Stedman get a better prosecutor in Miller?  No, he was not good at all in the Woomer trial.  In fact, I ran a headline on this site, “School Boy Behavior” about him after my first day attending the trial.  So how did he get a third degree murder conviction?  That remains a mystery and I will come to his closing argument tomorrow.

    When I first ran a small note about Miller repeatedly pulling up his pants in court, several commenters to this site cried “foul!”  No, it’s not.  When he is speaking in the courtroom all eyes are on him – and the constant, dramatic pulling up of the pants, application of Chap Stick and eye tics were over the top.  I did ask a woman who was a member of the general public and attended some of the trial during the prosecution’s presentation about the eye tic.  She said it had not been so noticeable then.  So maybe the repeated tic in his right eye was a sign of nervousness or lying – or maybe both.

   Very simply, maybe he can’t control the eye tic but someone should speak to him about the Chap Stick, the pulling up of his pants, his slamming his face down on the podium and the overall signs of nervousness he repeated over and over again.  It does not serve the DA’s office well and should be Courtroom Behavior 101.

    But that is not why I ran the “School Boy Behavior” headline.  It was his cross examinations of Dr. Michael Baden and Joy O’Shea Woomer that earned him that well deserved headline.

Please check back tomorrow…

WHAT’S HE SMOKING?

ADA Randall Miller

     Stands up….uses chap stick……pulls pants up really high tucks shirt in.  Pulls pants up really high again, cause they don’t fit right, or my belt isn’t tight enough.  Waits for Becky to post later today.  Blinks eyes a few hundred times and parades up and down in the courtroom blinking and pulling my pants up picking on a Sunday school teacher.

A comment in previously to this site about Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller in the Joy O’Shea Woomer trial.

Please check back later today…

MARV IS ALL WET!

    The idea that newspapers have gone the way of buggy whips and everyone gets the news from the Internet would be laughable, if not for the fact that this perception has taken hold. Don’t believe it. No media matches our reach.

Marv Adams in his stupid editorial today, “Cashing out during TMI.”

    You just keep repeating that, Marv.  Your front page, lead story headline is wrong, Marv!  How’s that for laughable?  Did anyone in your newsroom shovel any snow?  Apparently not!

    Talkbackers rushed to the article, “Walloped” by Larry Alexander to report that the snow was not “heavy” and “wet” as reported.  And one said:

    “Heavy and wet”? That was some of the lightest/dry snows I have seen in a long time. That stuff was a piece of cake to get out of. Wish they were all like that! 

    I wouldn’t say it was a piece of cake, but it was some of the lightest snow I have ever shoveled.  There was just so damn much of it!

    And this calamity in yesterday as a comment from my friend Hill:

    Just got a DUI… haha on farmville…. was driving my tractor and darn i missed the fields and crashed into a big bull… lol… next thing the farmville cops came so Im now in farmville Jail…. who will bail me out?

    A good friend came to her rescue and the last we heard from Hill, she had been released from the slammer and was heading out to do some four-wheeling with Mr. Hill.  We are anxiously awaiting your report, Hill!

     Maybe Marv and Larry live in Farmville!

** BREAKING NEWS **

    New Era editor Ernie Schreiber is apparently the only person in the LNP newsroom and has just posted this breaking story (click here):

    A massive snowstorm dumped 18 to 20 inches on Lancaster overnight, and wind gusts of up to 15 mph whipped drifts to six feet and higher.

    Do tell!  Who knew?  Thank you, Ernie!  Somebody watch him!  He’ll be pulling out his bottle any minute now!  Stay tuned to LIP News for updates on Ernie’s boozing!

[Thanks to “Concerned” for answering my question.  I would hire this dude to write for me if I had any money!]

TRANSCIPT OF ARRESTS!

From Becky “I am just saying I would like to hear the four youngsters’ accounts.”
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I got a transcript from the CCTV in that area. The area they were skateboarding was a parking lot belonging to a nearby apartment complex. The tenants all have dogs and they don’t have grass to walk them in, so they just use the parking lot. There was dog poop in select areas of the parking lot. The skateboarders were playing leap frog with the dog poop when the detective interrupted them:

Detective: HEY!
Skateboarder 1: Dude (mellow stoned voice)
Skateboarder 2: Dude (mellow stoned voice)
Skateboarder 3: Dude? (confused voice)
Skateboarder 4: DUDE! (pointing towards the cop to warn the others)
Detective: (Dressed in a three piece suit, presenting badge of authority) You kids can’t skate here, you have to move along now.
Skateboarder 1: Dude, that’s not cool
Skateboarder 2: Aww Dude
Skateboarder 3: Aw c’mon dude!?
Skateboarder 4: (looking towards the sky) Wow man, that cloud looks like Garfield Dude.
Detective: (Walking towards skateboarders) Will you just go…. (steps in dog poop)SON OF A!!!!!…. (kicks the dog poop off of his shoe. It lands on Skateboarder 1 and 2. It also hits the detective)
Skateboarder 1: DUDE, WHAT THE PHUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM, YOU RUINED MY VANS.. MAN..
Skateboarder 2: Dude, not cool… not cool at all.
Skateboarder 3: BWWHAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Skateboarder 4: Dude… (pointing to a tree) look man, it’s freaking batman.

(flys come in to feast on the poopie and swarms the detective and the two skateboarders)

Detective: (arms flying wilding to swat away the flys) AAAHHHH!!!!! Help me!!!! Bot flies!!!!
Skateboarder 1: DUUUUDDDDEEE!!!!!!! I’ll save you ocifer (swings skateboard to swat at flys BANG!!! hits the detective in the head) Oops dude.
Skateboarder 2: DUDE! The flesh eating flies are eating him alive!!!! We have to save him. (Using his skateboard to swat more flies he hits the officer in the leg) GOT’EM!!! Die flies, Die!!
Skateboarder 3: Dudes…. Dudes….. Dudes…. DUDES….. DDDUUUUUUDES…. He’s out man! We should call an ambulance or something.
Skateboarder 4: Dude… (staring off into space) you ever wonder what it would be like to fly…. like flies, dude? It would be like wow man…. like TOTALLY awesome dudes. Just buzzin around and schit, then like, you get the munchies, and dude…. there’s a pile of poop… let’s munch dude…. Wow… flies, awesome dude.

WILL ANGIE PUT THEM UP?

    The word is that CBS News has been spotted in Denver!  Yippee!  Now they better make a fast exit or they may be spending more time in Denver than they planned. 

    If you’ve seen anyone from CBS in Denver or nearby,  please let me know!

    Enjoy the snow and be safe - and as long as I don’t lose power – in more ways than one (!) - comments will remain open through the blizzard of 2010!

A LIFE CHANGING DAY

    Lt. Todd Umstead said the detective, who was on duty at the time of the incident, was not uniformed and was driving an unmarked police vehicle but “clearly identified himself as a police officer” when he approached the youths.

From this morning’s article, “City police: Teen struck detective with skateboard,” (click here).

    The detective was investigating “a possible trespassing” according to the official police press release (click here).    

    Were the four juveniles the ones who were trespassing?  The press release says they were on private property so whose property was it?  Were they doing something wrong?  Did he show them his badge?  Why was he going to arrest one?  And where the heck is this detective’s name?

    This is one of those stories that has Talkbackers outraged and talking about a breakdown in society.  But I think this story definitely has two sides – and I want to hear what the four boys have to say.  Where is this detective’s name?

Please check back later today…

YIKES AMIGHTY!

        Okay, folks, you guessed it: a big storm is a brewing to be followed by another one on Tuesday!  Yikes, amighty!  I need to fill the fridge and buy some beer!  I’ll be here this evening if anyone would like to chat – about the weather, that slut Angie, her rottweiler lawyer or her tail between his legs, pathetic husband, Randy, or how to get your neighbor to shovel your walk and clean off your car without giving all your beer away!    

    Now, out of my way and let me at those eggs…

LOVE THAT ANGIE!

    During the trial, an attorney representing Roseboro’s girlfriend, Angela Funk, said Funk also had agreed to speak to the CBS television reporters.

Today’s article by Janet Kelley, “CBS prepares for Roseboro segment,” (click here).

    Yes, Janet, it was published here over a year ago that Funk traveled to New York to meet with CBS producers!  Angie’s 15 minutes are far from over!  

    It was revealed to me recently that within days of Jan’s murder, police filled Funk in on some of the gruesome details and also Mike Roseboro’s other affairs.  The fact that Jan was brutally murdered by Mike didn’t seem to faze her – but she got plenty mad that he lied to her about having other women in his life!

    You just have to love that Angie!

Please check back later today…

HE JUST NEEDED A JOB!

Detective Joseph P. Geesey after the verdict in Joy O’Shea

 Woomer’s trial.

    Joseph P. Geesey was 22 and unemployed, with a wife and family to support, when he first walked into the Lancaster city police station looking for work.

    There was no message from God, I just needed a job, he said. Plain and simple.”

    The police hired him, trained him and put him in uniform.

    But police work soon became more than just a job to Geesey.

    It turned into a career in law enforcement and criminal investigation that he said still fascinates, excites and challenges him today - 50 years after he was sworn in on July 1, 1958.

The opening paragraphs from Janet Kelley’s July 5, 2008 New Era article, “Case Closed?  Not for this Guy,” available in the newspaper archives.

    The day the New Era printed this story - I published and it was true – that I received an email from my webhost that morning reminding me that my domain name, LancasterLynching.com, was due to expire.  I renewed it and the site remains up.

    I chuckle every time I read this.  I wonder what would have happened if a black man had walked into the police department looking for work in 1958?  I know what happened to a black man, Robert L. Henderson, Jr., in 1981 after he took Detective Geesey into Federal Court for violation of his civil rights.  I know Detective Geesey tried to have him killed in a most horrific way.

    I know the Lancaster Detectives never solved his attempted murder nor another one several months later committed by the same three men.

    I know that Detective Geesey has been the lead detective on two infamous, long ago unsolved murders of two young women, Lindy Sue Biechler and Christy Mirack.

    Someone recently sent a comment to this site saying I had “cooked-up” the story of the Lancaster Lynching and Detective Geesey.  Not quite.  As a 27-year-old journalist I stumbled onto this story and took a photograph.  A photograph that has haunted me ever since.

    I tried everything I knew for almost two years to get someone to act on the story, until fear and friends made me put it away.  I put it in a box.  I stopped writing.

    I found the box – and opened it – when I went looking for old letters from a boyfriend relating to the incest story. 

    In September of 2001, I published a special eight page paper edition of the Lancaster Independent Press entirely about the Lancaster Lynching story.  I distributed it in Lancaster two days before 9/11.  It was the second story to go on this site, after the incest story, in the fall of 2004.  I gave the story its own website in September of 2007.  This story is far from over.

    Whenever I see Detective Geesey’s name involved with a case, I sense trouble, deception and lies.  And so it is with the prosecution of Joy O’Shea Woomer six years after Brent Weaver’s death.

    He told me in person outside the courtroom as the closing arguments were about to begin, “They want me in there.”  And so 74 year-old Detective Joseph Geesey, looking like a kindly grandfather, sat by the prosecution’s table.

Please check back tomorrow…

REPORT ON THIS, LNP!

       Everyone-just wanted to make sure you saw Roz’s note: Justice for Joy Coalition will be meeting Tuesday, February 16, at 6:30 pm.  We will be meeting at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church on Columbia Avenue in Lancaster.  All are welcome, and your only ticket in is a love for Joy.  Hope to see you there!!

JusticeforJoy.org (click here).

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER NEEDED!

    This email in:

Hi Becky,
    I am a friend of Joy O’Shea’s and a member of her task force. I was wondering if you knew of any good investigative reporters who would be interested in blowing this case wide open. I wasn’t sure if you were an investigative reporter or not, forgive me if you are. The publicity you have given Joy’s story is remarkable. We thank you very deeply for that. I would appreciate any advice you may have. Thanks again.
    I will have more on this and Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller this afternoon.

NEWS THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS?

    And thanks to Artie See for posting this New York Times article on Lancaster Online (click here):

    At the outset, the paper, owned by a local company, Steinman Enterprises, will charge only readers outside its immediate area and only for reading obituaries, with a little green Press+ logo next to each headline covered by the system. It will allow a reader to see a certain number of obituaries free before a box pops onto the screen demanding a flat fee to keep reading, but the paper has not yet decided what that number will be, or how much it will charge.

    “We have news that no one else has, like these obituaries,” Mr. Schreiber said. “We would eventually take other sections of our online content into the system. I’m thinking local sports, perhaps.”

    The system may generate only a few hundred thousand dollars a year in revenue, he said, but “that’s enough to pay for a few reporters.”

    Good luck with that, Ernie!  They can go to the funeral home website and read the obit!

Please check back this afternoon…

*This has been a busy day with a lot of phone calls, so the ADA Randall Miller story will have to wait until tomorrow.  I will just ask, why does someone leave the District Attorney’s office for private practice and then return to the same District Attorney’s office?

Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller

 What a piece of work!

Please check back tomorrow…

“I DID NOT HEAR

 HER COMING”

    “I would have stopped at the Turkey Hill,” Joy O’Shea Woomer told the court under defense attorney Christopher Patterson’s questioning about the night of September 26, 2002.  “I would have bought a few ice teas.  That’s what kept me up at night.”

    Woomer was describing what she did just prior to going to Brent Weaver’s house.  She testified she got to the Weaver house about 10:45 pm – she was due at 11:00 – and entered the house about 10:50 using a key the Weaver’s left in the mailbox for her.

    She said she went through the utility room to Brent’s room and looked in on him.  She then went to the kitchen where his chart was on the kitchen counter and she proceeded to read it.

    “I didn’t anticipate seeing Mrs. Weaver that night,” she testified.  She said she was reading his chart when she heard her say, “Hello.”

    “I was startled,” Woomer testified.  “I was assuming she would be in bed.  I did not hear her coming.”

    Later in the questioning, Woomer was asked about household noises.  “In the laundry room the washer or dryer was going.  And the dishwasher came on – it must have been on a timer.”

    Patterson asked, “Did you see any individuals in the lower part of the house that night?” 

    “No,” Woomer testified.  “I was not looking.”

    “Did you hear anyone?” Patterson asked.  “No,” Woomer said.

    “Do you know if anyone came downstairs that night?” Patterson continued. 

    “I was not aware of anyone,” Woomer testified.  “Not that I know of,” she continued.

WOOMER IS STARTLED!

       Was Joy O’Shea Woomer too honest on the witness stand?  I find a startling fact in my trial notes. 

Please check back later today…

WHY WASN’T IT USED?

Pulse Oximeter

    “It would have saved his life that night – absolutely,” my friend and RN, Daisy Lee Myers, said by phone this afternoon.

    I called her to find out what a pulse oximeter is. This is one of the two medical devices Joy O’Shea Woomer testified were on Brent Weaver’s chart but that Mrs. Weaver told her, “we don’t use it anymore” and that it was in a closet.

    Woomer testified it was on his chart that she checked that night and “It was the doctor’s order to use it but [Mrs. Weaver] said they don’t use it.”

    A pulse oximeter clips onto a finger and measures the amount of oxygen in the blood.  Meyers said it absolutely would have gone off that night and emitted very loud beeps.  It would have saved his life.

Please check back later…

[Editor’s note: This site was down briefly this afternoon.  It is a problem with my web host’s server and hopefully has been fixed.  Please be patient.]

*NewsLanc.com has an editorial up about the Joy O’Shea Woomer verdict – click here.  Please click here for JusticeForJoy.org where new information is being posted.

A couple of notes today:

    The story below was almost immediately overshadowed by the breaking news in the Roseboro appeal yesterday so I am rerunning it.

    Last evening, Concerned, Hill and I wanted to have some fun and went under a serious topic to do it.  I apologize and it has all been deleted and the nonsense is directly above on the tab marked “Chat!”  I am working on a way to resolve this problem.

    This site, as noted several times, has a serious and a fun side.  I realize a format change is required to keep the items separated and that is being worked on. 

    The grand Trashback gala is finally here!  Are Hill and I going with the glam look, the school girl look or the Amish look?  You’ll only find out here!

ADEQUATE CARE?

    “I did not expect my patient to be dead,” Joy O’Shea Woomer told the court under cross examination by Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller as he questioned why she had not checked for life signs from Brent Weaver every hour of the night.

     Under prior questioning by her attorney, Christopher Patterson, Woomer testified she had never stayed outside of a patient’s room – she had always stayed in the same room as her patient.

    Woomer testified that she did verbalize her concern to Carol Weaver, but she did not make an issue out of it as Weaver had previously become very upset in a phone call. 

    When pushed hard by Miller, Woomer responded that the parents could refuse certain care because a patient has the right to refuse certain medical care.  Woomer also testified that a doctor had prescribed two medical devices for Weaver which she was told by Mrs. Weaver were not used and kept in a closet.

    Woomer’s trial was not about whether she was a competent nurse or provided adequate care.  She testified the mother did not want Brent disturbed.  She had a baby monitor in the room where she stayed.  There was absolutely no expectation that Brent would die that night.

    The trial was about whether Woomer intentionally and purposely injected Weaver with morphine knowing it would cause his death.

***BREAKING NEWS***

ROSEBORO - NO RELIEF

        Judge James Cullen has denied the post sentencing motion by the defense in the Michael Roseboro murder conviction.  In an opinion filed today, the Judge ruled there will not be a hearing with any jurors nor will Roseboro get a new trial.  The Judge has granted Roseboro no relief.

ADEQUATE CARE?

    “I did not expect my patient to be dead,” Joy O’Shea Woomer told the court under cross examination by Assistant District Attorney Randall Miller as he questioned why she had not checked for life signs from Brent Weaver every hour of the night.

     Under prior questioning by her attorney, Christopher Patterson, Woomer testified she had never stayed outside of a patient’s room – she had always stayed in the same room as her patient.

    Woomer testified that she did verbalize her concern to Carol Weaver, but she did not make an issue out of it as Weaver had previously become very upset in a phone call. 

    When pushed hard by Miller, Woomer responded that the parents could refuse certain care because a patient has the right to refuse certain medical care.  Woomer also testified that a doctor had prescribed two medical devices for Weaver which she was told by Mrs. Weaver were not used and kept in a closet.

    Woomer’s trial was not about whether she was a competent nurse or provided adequate care.  She testified the mother did not want Brent disturbed.  She had a baby monitor in the room where she stayed.  There was absolutely no expectation that Brent would die that night.

    The trial was about whether Woomer intentionally and purposely injected Weaver with morphine knowing it would cause his death.

Please check back tomorrow…

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

    “The motive? She wanted to ease his discomfort. It’s not a complicated motive, she just wanted him to get some rest. And she made a mistake on the dosage

    “There were many tears,” the juror said. “But that’s what we believed happened.

An anonymous juror quoted in today’s article by Janet Kelley, “Juror explains nurse’s conviction,” (click here).

    I’m not buying anything in this story for numerous reasons.  And there is not one mention of the JusticeForJoy website (click here) and the outpouring of support and her over 800 Facebook fans.  What a disgrace!

Please check back later today…

WHO WERE THE JURORS?

    Hi Becky, Just curious if you know the make-up of the jurors in the Joy Woomer case. Names, ages, occupations, etc.  I asked this question before but thought you may have missed my request. I would think this would be able to be made public. Will be awaiting your reply.

    This question came in as a comment several days ago and I apologize for being so late in getting back to you.

    I do know that there were seven men and five women.  I do not know their names, ages or occupations.  I do know that at least two of the women were quite young and they both had to go back to college the week after the trial.  This came from several very reliable sources who did not hesitate to tell this information to many people.  In fact, one was due that Monday, even though it was Martin Luther King Day, and the other was due on Tuesday.

    Their names absolutely can be made public, however, the only way I know to obtain them is to either be in court for the jury selection itself, or order the transcript of the jury selection (that is separate and above the price of ordering the transcript of the trial).  It is public information and I suppose if you knew the bailiffs in the case you could ask them.  I honestly don’t know if they would tell you – but once again – it is public information and it should be in a free society.

    In this case, I was not present during jury selection so I do not know any of their names.  It would be extremely interesting to contact the juror who cried during the verdict and was extremely upset.  I was also told by a very reliable source that one of the jurors, against the Judge’s orders, told family members early into the trial that he was leaning toward Woomer being guilty.

    I believe something very strange had to go on in that jury deliberation room.  As I have stated here before, the members of the press – many of whom attended more of the trial than I did – and two members of the public who attended when there was room for them in the courtroom - were all taken aback and shocked by the verdict - as was I.

    Another question that arose in the comments was whether Woomer had ever been to the Weaver house prior to the night of Brent’s death.  She did testify she had been there for about an hour prior to that night to meet him and learn some of his routine.  I will carefully check my notes this weekend and publish her testimony regarding this.

    If anyone has information about any of the jurors they would like to share, please send me an email and I will keep all information anonymous. 

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE

    We received $775 in the trust account today!! I can’t believe that we have 786 fans!! Thank you so much for your support. Tom saw Joy last night and she is holding up ok. She definitely feels your support. Thank you so much!

Posted on Joy O’Shea Woomer’s Facebook page on Tuesday (click here and click on the Facebook link).

    She has over 800 fans this morning.  Please click on the link above and donate if you can!

    The serious nature of his crime required that Poneros be removed from society for a period of time. The same should have been true for Clayton.

    Oh, there was one other similarity between the two: They were turned in by bank customers who became suspicious of their activities.

    How long, we wonder, would they have continued to steal had they gone undetected? When would they have had their epiphanies, if ever?

    Chances are they would have been happy to get away with what they were doing — all the more reason that both criminals, not just the one, were deserving of jail time.

Today’s New Era editorial, “Giving crooks a pass on jail time.”

    The New Era finally does what a newspaper is supposed to do – keep an eye on our judges and hold them accountable.  Judge Jeffrey Wright, who sentenced banker George L. Clayton to one year’s house arrest for stealing $900,000, should be watched like a hawk.  What an absolute disgrace and miscarriage of justice.

Please check back later today…

WALKER, RATS & PIGEONS!

    don’t pisss off the gang.  they will email en masse the boss to get you banned. the boss already posted that they are like kindergarteners and he doesn’t respect them for squealing like rats, but you have to remember this is lancaster county.
    a wit once said “lancaster county would be a great place were it not for the lancaster countians”.
    why do you think they elected bub walker for 20 years, because they are smart and kind?  that prick farted in their faces and they still suck up to him.

Posted on the Lancaster Online Trashback forum as they reacted to the banning of BigMac!

    What a hoot!  And the comment about Walker is classic and, oh, so true. 

    Yes, the fall-out from the BigMac banning continues.  The most sensible post about her alleged “self-banning” was this:

    You could simply stop posting and stop coming to the site.

    Give that poster an A+ for common sense!  But as it goes in the forum world, a poster came back and gave her three numbered reasons why someone might choose self-banning over simply not posting.  Do these people have lives?

    And apparently “Chance” has given up her little “I’m not Deb Fitzkee” routine because today she started a thread and began with this about Bob Barker:

    A TV icon is taking a stand for the pigeons of Pennsylvania.

    You know, I love pigeons as much as the next person(!) and pigeon shoots are obviously cruel and should be outlawed, but with everything else going on in this world, is this really where our priorities should be?   

    And a worried friend from Ephrata emailed today that she was concerned she lived nearby this overall nasty person.  Please be assured, she does not have to worry. The Deb Fitzkee - also known as “Chance” - is from Manheim! 

    Yesterday, she posted this on the forum:

    I’m busy checking my profile and blocking the little wee people that have been coming on it to check out my posts and PM me.

    “Little wee people?”  I hope a pigeon bites her on her stupid, arrogant nose!

[Editor’s Note:  This site needs two columns – one for fun and one for serious news.  I am working on it and hopefully will soon have a new format.  In the meantime, I swear that no matter what happens on “As Trashback Churns,” this site will be serious tomorrow.  (There’s always comments for the fun!)]

YOU AIN’T FROM AROUND HERE?

  “whoa, she’ a strange one… she must like cup cheese then awhile now unct.”

    Wow!  Late night last night!  Just like the old Denver chat days.  Check out the comments below under “As Trashback Churns!”    Thanks to Concerned and Hill for making my evening.  I’m off to have some coffee and cup cheese!

Please check back later today…

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

BIGMAC BANNED AGAIN!

    BigMac was banned from the Lancaster Online Trashback forum today.      

    Her roommate in Lititz came on to post and said:

    yes she was banned……at her request.

    But within a minute, the roommate went over to the “Word Association” thread where the last word posted was “demon” and she proceeded to post “Becky Holzinger” below it.  I wonder who that could be - and I thought you could only use one word!  I think that’s breaking the rules. 

    And it seems BigMac hasn’t entirely had her fill of forums because she immediately went to DenverPaOnline.com and signed up!  That site has been inactive since Beach Nut and her multiple personalities chased everyone away.

    How is a serious journalist supposed to keep up with all of this?  What about the grand Trashback gala?  Is it on?  Is it off?  This comes just as I was rethinking my outfit!

    Please stay tuned for updates on “As Trashback Churns!”  Lord have mercy on us hardworking journalists!

* BigMac has just posted this on the Lancaster Online Trashback forum:

    Fellow TB’ers and friends,
    It is with much regret that I bid you a fond farewell………I’ll see you guys Saturday!!! 

    LOL!  Again with the fond farewell?  Will it last 24 hours?  Time will tell…

ONE YEAR AT HOME!

    After stealing about $320,000, Clayton filled out loan applications using stolen customer information to obtain about $900,000.

    He then opened secret checking accounts, depositing and withdrawing the stolen funds, according to court documents, to try to cover up the theft.

    When one of the victims questioned a fraudulent loan in his name, bank officials began investigating the matter.

    …Wright sentenced Clayton to five years in the Intermediate Punishment Program, which includes one year house arrest, followed by probation and 400 hours of community service.

Today’s article, “Banker gets house arrest for stealing,” (click here).

    Who paid off this judge?  Get this judge off the bench!  This is simply unbelievable – and “reporter” Janet Kelley thinks it’s all just grand.  Someone investigate this judge and put him in jail – real jail – not house arrest!

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AS TRASHBACK CHURNS!

    Note to Deb Fitzkee, aka “Chance” on Trashback:  When you write a Letter to the Editor of the Sunday News and they print it with your name, and then you start a thread to thank Marv for not doing much editing and you write again about banning pigeon shoots, you have lost your anonymity on an internet forum.

    If that is too difficult for you to understand, let me try to make it simple for you:  You outed your own self and now are trying to deny it.  Is your boss beginning to wonder why you aren’t getting any work done?  Are you regretting going on ad naseum about wearing a g-string and jello wrestling at the grand Trashback gala?  Are you afraid your family will be embarrassed by the addition of whipped cream to this already horrific mental picture?

    In the continuing saga, “As Trashback Churns,” apparently a member sent her an internal email (PM) asking if it was her.  Her posted reply – “Nope.”  This woman is a genius!  And then one of her friends came on to back her up and said this:

    She must have you confused with someone else that used to write on here.   Haven’t seen her on here forever.

    That is so clever!  People on anonymous forums get all riled up and threaten to sue if someone dares to reveal their true identity.  That is what started this whole Trashback nonsense - when someone said a book was being written about the forum and BigMac blamed me!  What a hoot!

    It is not illegal and you can’t sue if someone names you.  Sorry folks!  I have a friend whose hobby is trying to figure out who posters really are – using only “legal” means of course!  She is extremely good at it and I have never known her to be wrong.  But in this case, the nitwit gave out her own identity and now is trying to backtrack.  A second hoot!

    And “ceejay,” who apparently has told people she is somehow related to me, is now identifying every new poster as a “troll” and thinks she’s a moderator – and a nasty one at that:

    Listen, TROLL.  Knock it the heck off. Take the crap elsewhere.

    And this comment in from my friend, Hill:

    Becky put on that party dress oh my, my oh hell yes… Off to the RED Carpet Gala this weekend.   Maybe the Big Mac will pay the tab… welfare checks will be in this weekend….

    Geez, Hill, I’m beginning to get a little worried.  These people are liars and they are mean and arrogant and there’s the whole jello wrestling thing and all!  Oh, what the heck?  I’m in!  Do you think she’ll take us to Vegas, too?

    Tomorrow this site will get serious and back to the Lancaster Lynching story.