Weaponized hair spray, drunken utility pole climbing among last week’s lows
Darn right Stinner Wimberly-shine, the woman who slapped a cell phone from the hand of a petition signature gatherer in Dublin, should face a charge of criminal damaging. The fight over efforts to overturn House Bill 6, the nuclear plant bailout, is bound to be fierce. But that’s no reason to bully those participating in democracy.
Our nomination for #Creepoftheweek: fired Canal Winchester nursing home staffers Makiah Chane’l Halsell and Roberta I. Bower, who laughed as they sprayed hairspray in the eyes and mouth of a wheelchair-bound 94-year-old resident and Snapchatted the video evidence.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the case in which a “swatting” — when a videogamer gets back at an online adversary by siccing a real-life SWAT team on him— resulted in police in Wichita, Kansas, fatally shooting a man who wasn’t even involved. But maybe the 15-month prison sentence handed to Casey Viner, the Ohio teenager who set the fatal prank in motion, will shock some sense into a toxic culture.
How cool that Columbus State Community College’s spiffy new Mitchell Hall, an 80,000-square-foot, $35 million temple of all things culinary and hospitality-related, is open to the public via The Mix, a schedule of recreational classes ranging from Knife Skills 101 to “Winter: The Season for Shellfish.” Sign up at mix.cscc.edu and be glad the students don’t have all the fun.
Good for 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden to grab all the attention she can while touring the U.S. for her cause and inspiring the youth movement to address climate change. We would all do better to stand with her #Unitedbehindscience.
We’re betting lots of Liberty Township residents will be glad when Trustee Melanie Leneghan’s bizarre eight-year tenure ends in December. Last week, she and likeminded Trustee Michael Gemperline voted on a property tax cut that will save homeowners about $15 a month but leave the fire department understaffed. No thanks.
Our review of the life of the recently passed “Grumpy Gourmet,” former Dispatch restaurant critic Doral Chenoweth, is positively upbeat. Thanks, Grump, for raising our awareness of the Columbus food scene even as you masked what a softie you really were.
Climbing up a utility pole drunk and touching the electrified top wire earns a down arrow for an Athens man’s stupidity, but even more shocking is that he was egged on by partying onlookers. Try a game of Twister instead, people.
Nice to see gun manufacturer Colt acknowledge it has flooded America with enough firepower that it doesn’t need to keep churning out AR-15S and other rifles for civilians. It will keep making military and law enforcement rifles, but a real win-win would be to buy back civilian AR-15S for government use.