Our Culture: December 2008 Archives

"Cobrafast" describes what exactly?

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Here is a video of our former York City cop and suspected serial rapist/fugitive Mike Johnson standing on razor sharp swords and breaking boards over his head.

Looks like it was shot in front of his mom's house.

Here are a couple of other videos of "Cobrafast" in action:

Charlie Brown rocks!

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Charlie Brown gets down. Check out Snoopy on the guitar.


Bettie Page: RIP

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Bettie Page, the pin-up queen from the '50s, has passed away at age 85 in Los Angeles.

Bettie was an icon.

Read her L.A. Times obit here.

Her life was a grand adventure, starting from her humble beginnings in Tennessee to her world-wide fame as a sex symbol. Her later life was sad, as she suffered from depression and mental illness.

She was an American original.

Here is BR-549's country tribute to their hometown girl made good:


Shame on whom?

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Like a lot of you, I was confused by District Attorney Stan Rebert's comments in Thursday's York Daily Record regarding suspected serial rapist Michael L. Johnson Jr.'s fleeing.

Johnson, suspected of three rapes in which he posed as a police officer, which he used to be, was supposed to turn himself in to face charges in two of the cases.

He was out on $100,000 bail on charges filed in Maryland at the time.

He didn't show.

Now, it might just be me, but if you have a person suspected of multiple offenses, out on bail, do you call him up and say, "Hey, we're going to file some more charges so how about stopping by the police station?"

It seemed very odd. And it was very odd that authorities were surprised that Johnson took off.

Which brings us to Rebert. He said, "I don't like the fact that this guy got away. But he is the one who posted bail and ran. Shame on him, not us."

Shame on him?

I'm sure he's feeling pretty bad about being out on the loose. Shame on him for running and being, in the words of authorities, armed and dangerous.

Another thing: York Police had one case, a rape of an admitted prostitute and drug addict in which the victim got the license plate number of the person who raped her. The number matched that on the van that Johnson allegedly used in his crimes.

That happened in September. True, the van was registered to a friend of Johnson, but how much investigating would it have taken to tie that van to Johnson and eventually get an ID from the victim.

That's how Baltimore police cracked the case, tracing the van to Johnson and showing the victim a photo array that included Johnson's driver's license photo.

The Baltimore rape occurred in November. Could it have been prevented had York police caught Johnson in September?

Lots of questions.

Not many good answers.

Deer season begins!

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Your first day of deer season story comes from Indiana:

"MARKLE, Ind. (AP) -- Police in Indiana say five deer that wandered onto a highway overpass have jumped to their deaths on Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's windshield.

"Indiana Department of Natural Resources spokesman John Salb says the deer may have been spooked by cars as they were crossing the overpass Friday. They fell 20 to 30 feet onto the highway.

Police say the driver of the tractor-trailer rig struck by one of the deer was not injured."

The story says that deer season is stressful for the deer.

OK!

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