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DDMS Episode 20: A Solemn Reflection on Protecting Home, Heart, and Humanity

January 01, 2024 Dane Episode 20
DDMS Episode 20: A Solemn Reflection on Protecting Home, Heart, and Humanity
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DDMS Episode 20: A Solemn Reflection on Protecting Home, Heart, and Humanity
Jan 01, 2024 Episode 20
Dane

As the holiday glitter settles, we're left grappling with the cold that's been nipping at our noses, and a Florida family's unimaginable loss—a stark reminder of how quickly joy can turn to tragedy. The stories in today's episode, from the lethal end to a brotherly spat over Christmas gifts to the chilling recount of a daughter's ex-boyfriend breaking into her home, are not just narratives; they are profound reflections on life's fragility and the complex dance between self-defense and the violence it can beget.

Navigating the thorny thicket of legalities surrounding stand-your-ground laws, we examine cases like that of young Ralph, whose life was snuffed out too early, and Nicholas, whose actions open a Pandora's box of moral and ethical questions. The episode is lined with stories that challenge us to consider where the line is drawn between protecting our loved ones and the repercussions that follow. Allie and her father's fateful encounter with an aggressive ex-boyfriend ignites a discussion on the true cost of safety in a world where home invasions are becoming all too common.

Celebrating 20 weeks of shared stories and growth, we look ahead to the infusion of fresh perspectives with future guests set to join our conversations. As the year unfolds, I urge you to join me in embracing vigilance and cherishing life beyond material attachments. Together, we'll continue to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of crime, self-defense, and the impact of technology on justice—a journey of open hearts and minds.

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As the holiday glitter settles, we're left grappling with the cold that's been nipping at our noses, and a Florida family's unimaginable loss—a stark reminder of how quickly joy can turn to tragedy. The stories in today's episode, from the lethal end to a brotherly spat over Christmas gifts to the chilling recount of a daughter's ex-boyfriend breaking into her home, are not just narratives; they are profound reflections on life's fragility and the complex dance between self-defense and the violence it can beget.

Navigating the thorny thicket of legalities surrounding stand-your-ground laws, we examine cases like that of young Ralph, whose life was snuffed out too early, and Nicholas, whose actions open a Pandora's box of moral and ethical questions. The episode is lined with stories that challenge us to consider where the line is drawn between protecting our loved ones and the repercussions that follow. Allie and her father's fateful encounter with an aggressive ex-boyfriend ignites a discussion on the true cost of safety in a world where home invasions are becoming all too common.

Celebrating 20 weeks of shared stories and growth, we look ahead to the infusion of fresh perspectives with future guests set to join our conversations. As the year unfolds, I urge you to join me in embracing vigilance and cherishing life beyond material attachments. Together, we'll continue to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of crime, self-defense, and the impact of technology on justice—a journey of open hearts and minds.

Support the Show.

Thank you all for all the support! I couldn't do this without everyone's support! Please have a great week and stay safe! Please check out our Patreon to support us and help us grow! https://www.patreon.com/DEPUTYDANE

Speaker 1:

Warning, warning, warning. This content may be sensitive to some. If you feel the need to leave, it is completely understandable. Content may contain examples of death, suicide, sexual content and other shit. We don't know what we're gonna get into. This is not to offend anyone or upset anyone on purpose. This isn't your typical deputy dane, so listen at your own risk. Sit back and enjoy.

Speaker 2:

Good morning everybody. Welcome to the deputy dane morning show. I appreciate all y'all for being here. We got some stuff to get into. I really don't know what we're gonna get into, but we'll get into something.

Speaker 1:

Sit back. Oh oh yep, there's the sirens. I think we're all gonna be detained. Sit back and enjoy the show.

Speaker 2:

Good morning everybody. Welcome to the deputy dane morning show podcast where we're gonna get into some stuff. I don't know, it's uh, Christmas is past, it's New Year's Eve. We were just doing the live this morning and I got blocked for jokes for misinformation. So I guess the jokes I could say that somebody would probably say that I did was along the lines of me making jokes about, um, I don't know, I guess me making jokes about the myclobe virus because of the coronavirus and stuff. It's all jokes and I guess somebody didn't like my content. So they're gonna cry in any way they can. So they got me blocked for a week or banned for a week from going live due to jokes about the myclobe virus.

Speaker 2:

But uh, it is what it is. Luckily we didn't touch too much on the Zima virus and talking about how we have to have our uh Jolly Ranchers for that one. Well, that being said, we got our week banned. I've appealed it. We'll see how it goes. I don't know, you know how these things go. You never know. There's always gonna be cry babies somewhere. But you know, like I said, Christmas has passed and hopefully people had an amazing Christmas with their family. Um, we've been doing good, besides us all battling this damn virus that we all have, that we don't know what it is and the whole country has it, but it's getting old. I'm tired of it Been hacking up for weeks. So I'm ready for this to be done and to be over with, but until it is I'm gonna be stuck with it.

Speaker 2:

But again, hopefully, had a great Christmas with your family. Our kiddos had a great Christmas. We went and visited my family in the city, did stuff there, got to see my dad, um, came back, visited with my wife's family and then kids just had a bunch of toys. They already have a bunch of toys. They really don't need as many toys. We're still working on getting them a playground for the house, but we'll get to there. We'll get to that point. But hopefully again, y'all had a great Christmas. A lot better than this Christmas for these people in Florida. All right, so what I'm getting is the older brother was getting mad that the younger brother had got more gifts bought for him in the amount of money Everything added up more for the 14 year old than what he got. So then they start pulling guns on each other to argue about their fucking Christmas presents when New Year's Eve they're at their grandmother's house and then they start pulling guns on each other because of Christmas presents, Like no bro, he's got one too many Pokemon cards. Okay, that's some bullshit.

Speaker 2:

All I got was some underwear. Well, when you get an adult, you start kind of enjoying underwear over other things and socks. You're like oh my God. I remember my aunt used to give me socks as a kid and I'd be like what the fuck was socks? She gave me coat hangers one time. I was like what is this? I look back now I'm like man, I could really use some new socks. That'd be freaking sweet. I got some underwear and some socks from my mom this year. I was like dude it's like you know me so well.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, mom, but this is what happens to this family. Let's listen to this. Okay, so that's not going to work. Hold on, let me see if I can't figure out how to make this work. Hold on one second. Okay, let's see if I make this work.

Speaker 3:

I was doing it, okay. Began pulling guns on one another.

Speaker 1:

Abrielle told Demarcus quote you all need to leave that stuff alone. Why are you trying to start it? It's Christmas.

Speaker 3:

They both had been fighting over Christmas presents with the 15 year old Darkish, jealous that their mom had spent more on gifts for 14 year old Demarcus. After Abrielle stepped in, demarcus pulled a gun and fired, killing her and sending her son and his nephew, an 11 month old, falling to the ground.

Speaker 2:

Listen to this. You are upset that you had gotten less gifts than your 14 year old brother. The 15 year old and the 14 year old start pulling guns on each other. Oh, darkish and Demarcus, I tell you those two, the double D's, they are a trouble Killing their 22 year old I think she's 22,. Your old sister is freaking absurd to me that you're upset about Christmas. You're gonna be wrong. We're all kids. We've all been there and you wanna complain a little bit. But the fact that you're gonna shoot your sister trying to break you all up for some Christmas gifts, it's awful. Now you have a little baby that doesn't have a mom. You got these. One brother's gonna be in prison forever. The other brother's gonna be in jail, probably, probably prison too. Then you got family that's just all screwed up on Christmas Eve. That's a sad deal, man. Anyway, you look at it. It's a sad deal and it's just crazy. Over what? Over fucking Christmas gifts. How in the hell does this make sense? I guess it really doesn't. But, man, hopefully I mean if you're listening to this podcast hopefully you're not in prison and you all's Christmas went a little bit better. That is wild to me that this is what happens, man? Sad deal, sad, sad deal.

Speaker 2:

Man, this whole episode is gonna be full of sad deals. Besides the cases I'm working, I'm still kinda working a few cases and they're terrible cases involving children. I can't really talk about those right now, just cause we've got the case that are ongoing, so we'll kinda leave those alone. But I started looking at some other cases that kinda piqued my interest and they kinda it brought me up with two other cases. This one case, so the one case I'm gonna originally talk about. It is a case of a South Carolina college student going out partying with friends and he ends up getting way too drunk. His friends send him home with an Uber. This kid had been living on the campus. He finally moved off campus, had an off campus home and his friends sent him home on an Uber.

Speaker 2:

This kid is 20 years old and had way too much to drink. It's a sad deal. So he has too much to drink. He's in a new house he doesn't know, and he goes up to a house and starts trying to get in the house. So the homeowners are telling the kid hey, wrong place, go away, please go away, go away. You're not the right. Go away. This isn't your house, go away, go away. This kid doesn't understand, cause he's extremely intoxicated. Again, he's 20, so first of all, that kinda sucks. He was part of a fraternity and you know how that can go. They were out there partying, having a lot of fun and shit happens and, unfortunately, instead of anybody making sure he gets home, they do the next best thing to get him an Uber. Well, this kid's in a new area Now.

Speaker 2:

He goes to a house on the same street that he lives on, and this happened back in August. Some people are kinda mad about it that the homeowners didn't get charged. So what happened was he goes to this house, he starts beating on the door trying to get in, and they're telling him on the ring camera go away, go away. Now on the ring camera you can see he's extremely inebriated, very drunk, all over the place. He even sits on their porch for a minute and trying to call a friend. It doesn't work out. So then he ends up breaking a window. The wife's on the phone or the woman, I don't know, they didn't really say because they're not being charged. So the woman in the house is on the phone 911, saying hey, he's breaking into her house, breaking into her house, the man in the house at this time goes to grab a gun. They're still screaming at the guy wrong place, you're not here, this isn't you. What are you doing? Stop, go away, go away, go away. You know, I don't know exactly what they're saying. They might even say in the wrong place because they don't know. They're like go away, leave us alone, go away.

Speaker 2:

So Nicholas breaks the window in the front door and starts reaching in to grab the handle. At one point they say he even manipulates the handle. So he's trying to get it. But he's drunk, you know, and it sucks, because this is what can happen. So the male comes back out and shoots through the hole in the window and hits Nicholas right in the head. So Nicholas falls down on the porch. Police show up and when they arrive he's bleeding out from his head on the porch and already deceased. Sad deal, hold on one second. Sorry, this damn virus is still getting me, I'm still wheezing over here and stuff. It's ridiculous. I'm getting better, but crap. So Nicholas is found deceased on the front porch.

Speaker 2:

Now some people are mad about this. Why aren't these people charged? All it was was he was drunk at the wrong house. He had no threat to them. Now, taking into mind the situation, the homeowners someone is trying to break in your front door, they're hitting their front door, they're doing everything to your front door. You're yelling at them, go away, go away, go away. And then nothing in it just keeps coming and coming to the point he breaks in through the little glass on the door and starts reaching in trying to unlock the door.

Speaker 2:

Now it sucks because I don't believe that Nicholas was a danger or Nicholas was meaning to do what he was doing. He was drunk in an area that he's new to. And it sucks because this young man was trying to do a lot of stuff. He was going to college trying to do everything right, but unfortunately things didn't go his way that day. But you can't really blame the homeowners, because the homeowners don't know this. They don't know who's at their door. All they see is a hand coming through a broken glass and they fire at the person because they keep breaking through.

Speaker 2:

So, with everyone mad at this, they compared it to another case. The case that they compared it to, and this was in Connecticut in August. Now they're trying to compare this to a case that happened back in April in Kansas City for Ralph Yarl Now, I don't know if a lot of you all remember this. So Ralph Yarl was a 16 year old boy that his mother had sent him to pick up his twin brothers I think they're brothers pick up his twin siblings at a house. So this young gentleman goes and rings the doorbell of the house that he thought he's supposed to go to At this point the homeowner ends up grabbing a gun, opening the door. So take in mind okay.

Speaker 2:

Ralph Yarl goes to pick up some kids. He rings the doorbell. The front door opens so he goes to grab the storm door you know that little glass door in front of the door goes to grab the storm door and as he's opening the storm door, the homeowner, andrew Lester, shoots twice. First one hits Andrew or hits Ralph in the head. The second one hits him in the arm. I believe at this time Andrew runs back in the house or go close the door and locks it up and Ralph Yard, who's a 16 year old Kid and I'm gonna say it's, he's a black kid and that's. I Don't know if that's what happened here, I don't know, but he goes around and some neighbors see him and they don't do anything. This is a 16 year old boy that's bleeding from the head, that's trying to get help. He ends up collapsing and some other neighbors see this and they run over and try to render aid and call 911.

Speaker 2:

Andrew Lester was charged in this with first degree assault Because at this point the 16 year old wasn't trying to break in. He ringed the doorbell and he's trying to eat. He thinks he's going to pick up his siblings now. What Andrew said is because he reached for the storm door. He thought he's about to be robbed. Now Andrew Lester is a I believe he's in his 80s, 84 year old man and of course you know the headlines are eighty four old white man shoots 16 year old black teenager. I Don't know if that has anything to do with it. I don't know if race has anything to do with it or if it just it just happened. Unfortunately it happened. You know, yaro was actually trying to go to engineering school, doing really good things, unfortunately went to the wrong house and that sucks because he had no. He had no ill will now. Nicholas had no ill will, but he broke a window trying to get in the house. So at this point the similarities are somewhat there because both of them are at the wrong house. Andrews ring in the doorbell or Rouse ring in the doorbell Trying to get his brothers and he thinks that they're there wrong house and unfortunately get shot in this now no point. Was there ill will now, nikola or Nicholas? There was no ill will there either, but Nicholas broke a window, scaring the homeowners to the point they think, hey, this guy's gonna break in and he's going to do something. He's highly intoxicated. We don't know what he's gonna do now. I See the similarities there. I do, but at the same time there was no glass broken, there was no door being hit with Ralph. Ralph was not Bangin on the door trying to get in the door as the homeowners yelling go away, go away, go away. So In this case I do believe Andrew Esther should be charged.

Speaker 2:

You can't just shoot somebody that's ringing on your doorbell Just because I don't know if it's a race thing or I don't know if it's just because you're scared. You can't just go shoot somebody at your door that's been trying to knock on the door, ring the doorbell and do everything and then, like any of us, if someone opens the door and you it, you think you're just going to pick up your siblings. Yeah, you're gonna grab the storm door because you're thinking they're letting you in. So that's a sad deal. Luckily Ralph has survived. He is still. He's got a long process ahead of my. To imagine being shot in the head can cost so many problems. And this kid and it sucks because this kid had a future ahead of him. You know he's going to engineering school. He wants to do this. He's 16 year old. That's really trying to do the best they can and going to pick up his siblings for his mom and then, bam, get shot.

Speaker 2:

Now, either one of them didn't deserve to be shot. I don't believe Nicholas deserve to be shot, but you can't really blame the homeowners in that situation. Someone's breaking in your front glass. I'm sorry. I'm gonna protect my family. I don't know their intentions. I don't know what they're trying to do now. Summer rings on the doorbell. I can't come to the door with a gun and go, bam, that's not. You can't do that. So Either way, sad deal Andrew Lester is awaiting charges still. I mean, this happened April 13th of 2023. The Nick one happened in South Carolina in August of 2023 and they've already deemed that they're not gonna release the name of the homeowners because there's not charges at this point. They had the standard ground law someone's breaking their house and they shot. Sad deal. But then it takes you back to August of 2022.

Speaker 2:

There was a case where a girlfriend was dating her boyfriend and the boyfriend ends up sending. So the girlfriend's dating this boyfriend, they break up and the girlfriend's scared of this boyfriend. He's done some weird stuff. She doesn't want to be around him, so she blocks his number, gets a new phone and everything. Well, then she starts receiving text messages from this boyfriend. You know this ex-boyfriend saying stuff like we really need to talk and he talked to you and they talked to you, so they go out. Let me pull up this case real quick. Hold on one second. So it's with the 20-year-old ex-boyfriend James. James is messing around with his ex-girlfriend, ali, so he leaves a voicemail. Let's listen to this voicemail real quick.

Speaker 2:

Then this voice message out of the blue, so out of nowhere, they start sending voice messages.

Speaker 3:

I Just wanted to Reach out to you because I I just wanted to See how you're doing.

Speaker 2:

James, she doesn't. So James shows up at the house. So Ali and Her mom go to have breakfast at a local restaurant. As soon as they come home they come into the house but they notice, as they're unlocking the door to get into the house, that there's a car pulls in the driveway. They immediately Go and lock the door. That's when the ex-boyfriend James comes up and starts ringing the doorbell. So one thing that they keep saying over and over is he had a blank expression on his face, he wouldn't give any attention to anybody else. So he comes up, starts ringing the doorbell and they're saying no, I don't want it. Her mommy even gets on there and says James, we'll hear it, listen.

Speaker 1:

I want to talk to you.

Speaker 3:

Allie never calls James back, and yet here he is, on her front porch.

Speaker 1:

the next day he's off my porch.

Speaker 2:

So the next day he shows up. So they're telling him through there, get off the porch, leave, leave, leave. The dad's telling him hey, you need to leave, get off my porch, she wants nothing to do with you. And he sees his daughter upset. I'm telling her right now, if I saw my daughter upset like this and she's scared of a dude who knows what's going to happen. So this guy's sitting at the door ringing the doorbell, there's a ring camera, perfect view of it, and they're telling him please go away. So let's listen, let's see if I can't pull up this 911 tape. Okay, let's listen to some of this 911, what's your emergency?

Speaker 1:

Hello, there's some guy on my front porch. You won't leave and your daughter's hand's behind his back and he's going to answer me on the ring. Okay, he left me a voicemail on my phone last night. Where are you at? What's your address? So 2902. Okay, so you're saying 2907?. Oh, he's trying to walk. I'm sorry he's trying to walk Dad.

Speaker 3:

No, don't answer the dad, so you can hear that they're telling him to stop no. You know who he is.

Speaker 1:

Hello.

Speaker 3:

Man.

Speaker 1:

Man.

Speaker 3:

We have gone 43. 43. Okay, he's trying to 29 and 7, north, south and North and South and something, and they're trying to get him to the door and they're like I'm sorry.

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry.

Speaker 3:

I'm sorry, ma'am. Yeah, what's going on? He broke through the door and my dad shot at him. Ma'am, he shot at him, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Do we know who he?

Speaker 2:

is. So at this point the daughter is like locked herself in like a room or closet and she's scared. So you can sense how scared she is. This man and the dad ends up doing what he has to do. They're telling him hey, stop, stop, stop, stop. The amount of violence that's going through him trying to break through the door is freaking wild. And he just keeps hitting it and hitting it. And they gave him a good amount of warnings. Let's see if I can't. So you can just hear the amount of him hitting this door.

Speaker 2:

So this starts at like a minute after he's been trying to like ring the doorbell and they're telling him no, the door. It's going to be kind of silent until you hear him start hitting it, because you can hear the family inside yelling at him to stop. They know he is James, no, no. At one point the dad even like goes around to the front of the house through the garage trying to get him away from the door and it doesn't do anything. He still doesn't care. He's very. If you watch the video you can just type in Ohio dad shoots daughters ex-boyfriend. He looks almost just not there. He's just very stoic, very just not going to pay attention to anything. So this is about a minute of him sitting there. Then you'll start hearing him hitting the door. So let's see if we can't hear some of that. Like I said, you can kind of hear the family, but this is from the ring doorbell outside. This is him trying to hit the door. So at this point he tells him James, no, I have a gun. James, no, he just keeps hitting it, just slamming into the door.

Speaker 2:

Daughter, if you think about it, your daughter is terrified, she's scared, she's in a closet. She doesn't have nothing to do with them. I don't know what their previous relationship was Like. Was he abusive to her? Whatever it is, she wants nothing to do with them. He finds her phone number and leaves her creepy messages. She doesn't respond. So he shows up at her parents' house the next day and does this.

Speaker 2:

James ended up losing his life this day. I don't know if he's intoxicated, I don't really look too far into it. It just kind of reminded me that these other cases kind of leaned up with this case. You can't really blame the father on this one. The father's doing everything the father had to do and what he felt is right. But it still sucks. I mean, james still lost his life. He kind of chose this one as his own. I don't really have as much sympathy for him as I do the other two. He went there not liking what his ex-girlfriend had to say. And if you remember some of the other times I talked about some of these men doing crazy things due to women and the power of women, this is a prime example.

Speaker 2:

This dude has just lost his mind trying to break through the front door and the dad says no, I coot us to the dad. I mean there's a bunch of interrogations I can bring up and if there's something that's interested in, I'll break this whole case down and I'll do a whole podcast just on this case, because there's interviews with the dad, there's interviews with the mom, there's interviews with the daughter. There's everything. At the point, you know the daughter's still hurt because she loved this man at one time. She scared of him. So she's hurt. But then at the same time you can hear later on telling her dad a hero and stuff, which I mean what was he going to do? You don't know. He's not going to just break the door and give her a hug. You don't know what's going to happen at this point. He's going to make her talk to him one way or another and unfortunately for him it didn't work in his way. Dad said nae, nae, son, it ain't happening here. So that one's a pretty crazy deal, but it just kind of linked up. You had the Nick Donafrio's case Sad Deal just partying and this happens he comes home, what he thinks is home, not his home, ends up breaking in, getting shot in the head and unfortunately passes. Then you had the other one with Ralf Yarl. Sad Deal goes to pick up his siblings, gets shot in the head. Luckily he survived. Like I said, he's going to have a long, long list of healing and injuries, I'm sure from that. And then you have James Ryle, however you pronounce it, but if you watch the video he's just got a very stoic look. He just doesn't even. It's like he doesn't even care. He just doesn't until he gets hit with lead and then he really cares.

Speaker 2:

But these ring cameras that we have now are so pivotal nowadays in law enforcement because almost everyone has them or they have some version of it. Cameras now are getting so accessible. I've recently used some cameras in one of my cases. Again, I can't talk about it, but they're becoming so easily accessible. I mean, even on my TikTok shop I have the ways ones. I have them at the house. I can watch my chickens any time of the day. I can just check on my house any time of the day. If a sensor goes off, they'll tell me something's moving. I had to turn that off because my fucking chickens are crazy and they're on my porch or off my porch everywhere. So I had to turn that off because that got a little bit excessive.

Speaker 2:

But these ring cameras are going to catch more and more of this and if you have, if you've looked it up, there's so many of these cases getting caught where, like, these people are coming home and they're being followed. So you have to watch what you're doing when you're going home. Make sure when you go to the door, get in that door, lock it be done. There's so many of these cases when these people they're seeing these criminals following these people in their house and falling right behind them and then that's when they hit, because that's when you're least expected. You're not in the house, you're not doing anything, you're not next to your guns, you're not next to anything. There's even ones where they're having fake UPS drivers and FedEx drivers coming up and then all of a sudden you open the door for them and then someone else charges. So if you haven't paid attention to these, look at them.

Speaker 2:

It's getting pretty crazy and how much these things are pulling up and how much they're helping law enforcement. Like I said, I've got plenty of just everything. It's crazy. It's just, it's just crazy. There's nothing. I mean these cameras. They're pivotal in so many ways and we're only going to keep seeing more and more. Let's see if I can pull up a funny one. Hold on one second. Well, I can't. Really it's not as funny on here, because I'm just describing it Well pretty much.

Speaker 2:

These door dashes like these people that would go behind UPS stealing all their stuff. The porch pirates they end up going ahem. The female gets out to go steal something. As she's walking back to car she slips and breaks her leg and they have this all on camera. That, to me, is fantastic. That's karma right there. You deserve that. You stealing stuff off people's porches. You don't know what that is. You don't know if that's medication. You don't know if it's insulin, you don't know if that person needs that. No matter what, that person spent their own money. I have no sympathy for thieves. Um, just, people spent their own money for this. They did their own thing. You know, I'm not going to lie. I did some stupid stuff when I was young around 15 and I learned from it. Um, and you just don't realize how much you're affecting someone just by the little stuff you know, like I always get.

Speaker 2:

People are saying, well, let people do whatever they want, whatever drug they want to use, I don't care if you want to use these drugs in your own house. That's on you, dude. You're trusting some dude that's selling some chemical. He doesn't have eating in a high school diploma and you're trusting them to make something for you. That's on you, dude. But what I can't stand is you go steal your neighbor's lawnmower to support that habit, because that lawnmower they need it. And some people like you come steal my lawnmower. I'm screwed. I can't afford another lawnmower right now.

Speaker 2:

A lot of us majority of this country list paycheck to paycheck and especially with inflation now we can't afford that. You know. So you're, you're going to go buy, steal this lawnmower and sell it for 30 bucks so you can get your next hit. It's ridiculous. That's when I draw the line. I understand there's a debt, there's addiction out there and I understand it sucks. I'm not going to downplay it, but I'm not going to baby you either. I'm not going to say it's acceptable just so you can get your neck fixed to screw over somebody else. Because it's not. It never is, it never will be. Buy your own stuff, work, go out there and work. I deal with so much that if some of these meth heads and these crack heads would spend the amount of ingenuity that they can do working a job, they would be so successful. But they won't. Instead they'll sit there and do all this crazy illegal stuff. And it's crazy.

Speaker 2:

You know, I had one guy. I get called to an area, one of my local fireman. He's the fire chief. He helps me out with kind of some stuff. I help him out. So they call me, say they're following a guy. That's a local known thief. He has a Four-wheeler Loaded up with stone stuff. So I haul ass down there. I end up getting to an area. So these people are following him. He ends up running in the woods. So I'm looking at his four-wheeler. This four-wheeler is filled with so much stuff it took me like 30 minutes just to get it all off. It's all stolen stuff. This dude had like wires that I haven't seen in 30 years, like those thin, flat wires you used to have for your rabbit ear antennas. He's got a roll of it wrapped around everything tied it down. If he would spend the amount of ingenuity he did just tying stolen shit to a four-wheeler, he would be extremely successful, but he's not. Now he's doing 22 years in prison, for I had a whole slew of cases.

Speaker 2:

I worked on him. He stabbed a dude, he stole a bunch of stuff. Now he's in prison for 22 years. He deserves it. One day he comes out of the courthouse after court and he looks at me. He doesn't realize I'm the one that arrest him because he's so tweaked out and he starts crying to me. He's like can you believe it, 22 years now?

Speaker 2:

I used to love my ADA, which is assistant assistant district attorney. He was not about patting people in the hands and go no, no, no, no. He was about you've done the crime, here's time to do the fucking time. And I and I loved him. He was let go when the new DA started just because they didn't like how strict he was, and I hate it. He was an amazing DA. He was one of the best in the state and he was released because he actually held criminals accountable.

Speaker 2:

And that's the sad deal. And that's the world we're coming into. You know people are getting let off with bullshit. So here we go, we're sitting there and this dude's crying to me. Can you believe 22 years? I'm too old to be in prison. I'm too old. I looked at I'm I go. You're too old to be doing the shit you're doing. You're too old to be out there stabbing people. You're too old to be out there stealing shit. You're too old to be doing all the shit you're doing. Don't come cry to me because now you're going to prison. You want to be too old to go to prison. You did it and then they always have a heart condition. I got a heart condition. Well, the meth didn't help that. So now that all of a sudden you stop doing meth it's not all of a sudden, it's just gonna get now it's really bad. But bro is it was bad when you're doing math Downside is his son's the same way.

Speaker 2:

He's worthless. His son's a thief. His sons. I've arrested the son several times again. Food pursuits with the son. Several times he hides. I end up getting him. He goes to jail. He's a. He beats his girl. He's just a piece of crap. He just fallen in his dad's past and that's what sucks is.

Speaker 2:

You deal with this generational shit. You know it's just like these rape cases. You work. You normally notice that it's through the generations They've been raped because someone before them was raped, before someone was in was raped and there's just a whole family of raping each other and it's a sad deal.

Speaker 2:

But if they would spend this amount of time doing shit, that would benefit others. How awesome would that be. Man, crazy these rain, can't guys? These cameras are so cheap. Get you some cameras, put those cameras up around your house. You know the ring camera? Yeah, the ring camera is nice and stuff. I live on the middle boonie so I ain't gonna help me much and plus, the internet sucks. But as I would get some of the cheaper cameras, even your cheaper cameras are being top-notch compared to what we're used to. I was watching some of my old videos and stuff like that I did way back on like vine and stuff. I was like holy crap, this is terrible. But you look and look how much things are getting better. And just your DNA, dna sequences and DNA Finding people with DNA is getting outlandish.

Speaker 2:

Just because we're solving cases from 40 years ago that we got DNA from, just because their great, great, great granddaughter Ended up going. I want to know if I'm Norwegian or not. So they send in their DNA to these things and you can do a genealogical chart and find out oh, this DNA belongs to so-and-so, we can narrow it down to two people Well, this person was born in the United States People well, this person was in the area during this murder. Oh, that's pretty much clue. And then you get DNA from the person. Go, oh, yep, he did it. Look how many times this is happening. If you look in the media and look in the news or look in all these cases, a lot of people are getting busted Off a DNA 30, 20, 30 years later because DNA wasn't a big deal. It's a cool deal, just the way technology is going in general, you know.

Speaker 2:

But these cameras being so cheap, man, why not get some, put them around your house or around things that you want? I can't tell you how many times I go to a house that they have no cameras. They have no serial numbers to anything that's stolen. If you don't have the serial number to something that's stolen, I can't guarantee I'm gonna get it back. I had a guy had a stolen chainsaw. I and he's explaining to me the chainsaw was orange and said, yeah, there's several brands that are orange. Yeah, well, this one has sawdust in it. Well, last time I checked anybody that uses their damn chainsaw, it's gonna have sawdust in it. Oh yeah, I bet they don't have this handle broke. Well, everybody that uses it a lot has that same handle broke. So if you don't have the serial number, I can't guarantee, because that would be me stealing from someone just because it looks like it's the same as yours. You can't do that.

Speaker 2:

So If you're listening this right now and you don't have the serial number to your TV, the serial number to your laptop or to anything that they can steal your guns, your firearms Make sure you have them all, because that's the easiest way for me to track them down. I can put them into a system and it can tell me if anybody ponded it just by that serial number. So please, for the love of God, if you get anything from this Work on catching up with technology, I'm still working. I used to be like I built my own computers and I did all the stuff and I was like, oh, I know what I'm doing, I this technology. Nowadays I'm like, oh, my god, you can do what now? Holy hell, that's crazy.

Speaker 2:

So make sure, go buy you cheap camera, get all your serial numbers and make sure everything's taken care of. And if you are leaving and coming home and you make sure you go in, quick Go and quick lock the door. Look how many times this this is happening. So please, everyone, be careful. Christmas is done, a lot of the shipping is done and if you haven't ordered anything, be weary of opening the door to a delivery person. If they don't look legit and you weren't expecting a package, be weary because you never know. This is the crazy time we're in and it's just getting worse. So everybody, just be safe, holy crap. And then make sure your threat house we learned the hard way make sure you're at the right house Because if not, someone's doorbell will catch you and the last moment of your life, which is sad. I know I make jokes about this sad, it really is.

Speaker 2:

Well, guys, we've been going for 37 minutes. I think that's a good place to end it. I got things I got to get to today. I appreciate you guys all so much. Thank you so much for all the support on tiktok patreon on here. I appreciate it. I'm trying to grow it. We're getting better. I'm hoping. I'm still kind of playing with some stuff to try to get these a little bit better. I'm throwing more clips in and stuff like that so we get audio clips. Hopefully they keep getting better and if there's anything I need to work on, please let me know. If you hear something I don't hear, if you hear feedback, let me know so I can figure it out. But again, guys, thank you for all the support on patreon, trauma, pebbles, connor Tanner, lady buck I, kylie, steve. Thank you guys so much for all the support on everything. I appreciate you and everyone that sends off the Amazon wishlist. Thank you guys so much. You guys Bless our family so much and I couldn't thank you enough. Guys.

Speaker 2:

This is episode 20. Hey, we're moving. That's 20 weeks that we've been doing this and we're growing. It's getting looking at. All the statistics are. Our stuff's still growing. We're still doing good, so let's keep it up and hopefully I'll start bringing people on. We can make this a lot more fun instead of just a rambling on everybody. Let's make this week a good week. Please be safe to well. It's already past the night. Drink here You're a liquid IV or Gatorade or stay hydrated. Don't drink and drive Everybody. Stay safe and happy new year. Let's make 2024 the best one yet.

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