strange behavior – Lee Duigon

A business owner from Absecon, New Jersey is facing criminal mischief charges after allegedly using a drone to drop green dye into neighborhood pools.

Doesn’t exactly invite one to dive in, does it?

A New Jersey man has been charged with criminal mischief for using a drone to dye the water in a motel’s swimming pool (https://abc7chicago.com/swimming-pool-pools-drone-faa/13743574/). The dye turned the water a bright neon green. This happened about a dozen times and cost the motel thousands of dollars to drain and re-fill the pool.

Police say he also did it to a neighbor in a private home.

WHY did he do it? Well, police aren’t sayin’ and neither is his lawyer. The FAA got involved, but they’re not sayin’, either.

People are definitely getting weirder. I mean, this was one hellacious prank for an adult human being to pull, over and over again. Maybe a couple of badly-behaved seventh-graders might think it was a cool thing to do. But we are supposed to grow out of that.

There seem to be a lot of stories in the news like this one. What’s going on? Have we debased our popular culture to the point where now it’s debasing us back?

Brawl breaks out at Wal-Mart over line cutting | (video) New York Post

We had to go to Walmart this morning to pick up our prescriptions. As soon as I entered the store, I heard what sounded like people screaming. I was wrong: it was only one woman screaming. It’s a huge store, and her voice filled it. And so many f-bombs, I couldn’t make out what this woman was trying to say.

Then I saw her–screaming into the face of some guy who was at least six-foot-eight. Employees came flocking to the scene. Some went frantically looking for a large employee to stand between the couple and prevent mayhem. They found a guy–who did not look happy with his new assignment.

A woman in the line behind me said, “This place needs an exorcism.”

I said, “What, are we in YouTube? This stuff happens on YouTube–not in real life.”

A checkout clerk said, “It happens all the time in New York. I’m from New York, I know. But not in New Jersey.”

Many years of my life went by before I saw anything like this scene enacted in any public place. Something changed in our culture. Should’ve paid more attention when people started allowing their little kids to run around in a restaurant dining room, yelling and shrieking. That should have been a tell.

Happily, the police arrived before any violence could ensue. Well, I didn’t want to spend any more time there–so if anything else happened, I missed it.