1. "How a Sabotaged Ankle Monitor Ended Bolsonaro’s House Arrest/Shortly before he was expected to start serving a 27-year sentence, Brazil’s former president took a soldering iron to his tracking device" (NYT): "Mr. Bolsonaro, 70, wasn’t trying to flee, his sons, allies and lawyers said. Rather, he felt unwell because of his medications." This happened "days before he was expected to begin a 27-year prison sentence for trying to stage a coup." "A day before the ankle monitor episode, his lawyers had asked the court to let Mr. Bolsonaro serve his sentence at home because of health problems, which he attributes to complications from a stabbing attack in 2018. His poor health, which includes frequent attacks of hiccups and vomiting, 'makes his safe stay in a prison environment impossible,' his defense said on social media.... At a hearing on Sunday, Mr. Bolsonaro told the court he had burned the ankle monitor because his medications had caused 'hallucinations' and 'paranoia' that the device might be used to eavesdrop."
3. "Innocent woman, 26, set alight on Chicago subway 'by serial criminal, 50' freed on ankle monitor by soft touch judge in horrific echo of Iryna Zarutska murder" (Daily Mail): "Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez (pictured) allowed Lawrence Reed, 50, to be released on an ankle monitor after he assaulted a social worker in August.... Reed is accused of setting fire to [Bethany MaGee, 26] around 9.24pm on Monday, which is outside of the hours he was allowed out of the house while on the ankle monitor."
4. "Charge against Melodee Buzzard’s mom dismissed, ankle monitor removed as FBI hunts for missing 9-year-old/Ashlee Buzzard no longer faces false imprisonment charge as FBI searches for 9-year-old Melodee" (Fox News): "... Brewer said Buzzard locked multiple deadbolts after he entered and appeared 'agitated and tense.' He testified that she sat across from him with a box cutter visible on a nearby tray. When he said he was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, he claimed she blocked the doorway and locked the front door.... The court... dismissed the felony charge for insufficient evidence and ended Buzzard’s pretrial supervision.... She is also no longer required to wear an ankle monitor."
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It's surprising how well an invisible fence works on a dog.
Soon, the Ankle Monitors will be a branch of the sharia police.
Bolsonaro used a soldering iron “out of curiosity” to remove the ankle tag. Not exactly falling off in bed…
You can understand why Trump wouldn't want presidents to be liable for coup attempts. But in the end the price of coffee mattered more.
“You can understand why Trump wouldn't want presidents to be liable for coup attempts. But in the end the price of coffee mattered more.”
Congrats, prof, on having a full TDS loon as a mascot. Kak really should be posting on the “For you…” thread on X. I call it the Arkham Asylum of social media.
I so hate it when my ankle misbehaves.
A woman behind me in line at the grocery store had an ankle monitor on. She was reasonably attractive and not out of my league. I’m a happily married man, to quote a Duane Allman song, but if I weren’t I might have chatted her up for coffee. This is a question for the guys: would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?
I'm at the point where I think our judges need to be wearing ankle bracelets. They are killing this nation from within.
By the way, Slender Man is out there.
Jim: "would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?"
Hey, at least you know if she steps out on you! CC, JSM
Apparently known in certain parts of Boston as "The Irish Rolex."
The same judge sprung lula from prison from a bribery charge
They give ankle monitors to violent criminals
If ankle monitors don't define criminality, how does removing them affirm it?
Temujin, don't tease us! Tell us more about Slender Man being out there. Have you seen him? inquiring minds want to know.
would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?
Maybe not if you're the kind of guy who likes the birds with broken wings?
You know, a Travis McGee type. I always wanted to find one of those. Unfortunately, I'm not a bird with a broken wing; I'm more that bird with the really irritating call who wakes you up too early and won't let you get back to sleep. So I found a man who is adept at tuning out that which need not be attended to. His calibration on that point is not perfect (which prompted me to exclaim yesterday, "Apparently sometimes even when you participate in a conversation, you're not actually listening!"), but it's very good.
"At a hearing on Sunday, Mr. Bolsonaro told the court he had burned the ankle monitor because his medications had caused 'hallucinations' and 'paranoia' that the device might be used to eavesdrop."
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you are wrong. Especially in Lula's Brazil.
If ankle monitors don't define criminality, how does removing them affirm it?
I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay!
Geyser now identifies as a man. I'm legit surprised that the story didn't switch her gender.
Apparently, if one is skilled enough, there is a way to remove an ankle monitoring device by using a soldering iron to jump the enclosed wires, before cutting it off.
I read that somewhere.
Can someone explain why one of the Mirror's pictures of the Chicago victim, Bethany Magee, is set within a Black Lives Matter logo?
robother said...
"Can someone explain why one of the Mirror's pictures of the Chicago victim, Bethany Magee, is set within a Black Lives Matter logo?"
Apparently, that was up on one of her social media accounts. It is being displayed to illustrate the naivety of young women.
'Slender Man' stabbing attacker taken into custody in Illinois after escape from Madison facility
"Madison Police: No longer a need to search for Morgan Geyser."
Whoops... I see this was in the post already.
Over at neo's place, she posted about "anarchotyranny" - a system in which those predisposed to obey laws are hit with more and more of them, greater and greater demands on their individual liberties, whereas the lawless live unfettered in a might-makes-right world that depends only on how little they care about things like "norms." This system benefits the powerful because the more anarchic the lawless places become the more restrictions they can justify on the lawful enclaves.
I just don't see what the endgame is. In this scenario, it seems to me that eventually you must inevitably have a showdown between the powerful who have facilitated the growth of this system, and the strongest of the lawless element. Point, I suppose, is that in this scenario, the powerful do not see themselves as part of the lawful enclaves.
It seems to me that this is much truer of both the Democrat "elite" and the so-called "globalists" than of Trump or his supporters, including (I think) Republican "elite" who are on board with him. And yes, I'm aware that I'm subject to confirmation bias, like everybody else. But who supports releasing violent criminals into the community, and who doesn't?
https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/22/its-an-old-story-elite-dictatorships-in-the-name-of-democracy-and-the-proletariat/
Ankle monitor = performative prop for progressive judges. Chicago attempted murder by arson is horrific, and true indictment of violent crimes empowered by progressive-liberal social-justice zero cash-bond walk-away-from-felony-charge chicanery. This Chicago criminal had 70+ felony arrests; two weeks previously, violently attacked nurse in mental-health facility where he supposedly resided, arrested and released, then set fire to Chicago City Hall last Sunday night, and set fire to this young woman one Monday night. Horrific crime is shared responsibility of Cook County failed court-system, where judges are more concerned about welfare of felony offenders than we law-abiding innocent folks compelled to serve as next available victim of those offenders' violent crimes.
“Opening our national borders, restricting gun ownership, providing shelter for illegal aliens, condoning urban lawlessness, refusing to punish criminals, and punishing self-defense all represent the left’s campaign to undermine the rule of law and create anarchy, chaos, and fear—leaving confused citizens clamoring for change. The left also seeks to create a constituency of moochers dependent on the welfare state, who will eventually demand socialism to provide for their needs. This is sometimes referred to as the Cloward-Piven strategy.
[Civil war] begins with epidemic crime.” Anon., 2025
The ankle monitors should come with stun-gun power with GPS boundaries. Otherwise, you just aren't serious about using it as a kind of detention.
If you are a young woman unarmed and alone on the Blue Line at night in Chicago, you are a fool.
The corrupt left in action in Brazil.. the commies had to take him out.
"would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?"
In the words of George Constanza, "you don't have to worry about the surprise pop-in."
As a member of the moron horde, naturally I have family and friends who have worn or are currently wearing an ankle monitor.
Some things I've learned about them as a result:
You can't "discombobulate the fucker" by sprinting from trailer house to trailer house to score some pot from the guy at other end of the court. Metal siding doesn't make you "invisible to the cops".
The Flintstones 'ankle monitor lizard' episode is even more hilarious if you're wearing an ankle monitor and it happens to come on.
Jim said...
“This is a question for the guys: would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?
Please point out where she falls on the map: https://i.etsystatic.com/6050741/r/il/b08e6f/3691438926/il_1080xN.3691438926_fw3w.jpg
Note: An ankle monitor automatically means she is in one of the top two ticks on the y-axis.
Jim,
You're trolling us.
"Apparently sometimes even when you participate in a conversation, you're not actually listening!"
Excuse me. I didn’t realize you were talking to me.
"would an ankle monitor be an automatic no?"
Never pet a dog that's on fire. But if it's just smoldering...
Should have put it around his neck.
"Apparently sometimes even when you participate in a conversation, you're not actually listening!"
Excuse me. I didn’t realize you were talking to me.
That is almost verbatim with my husband said to me!
Cook county judges = leftists. The funniest instance of their "soft on crime" approach was two men got into a fist-fight. when one was knocked down, the other took out a knife and stabbed him to death.
The Judge's verdict: No jail time. Mutual combat.
This is the Liberal/left lawyer position. Blacks/Browns shouldn't be put in jail. We need room for white people convicted of "insurrection" or "hate crimes". Crazy that 'muricans put up with it.
But peter navarro and steve bannon do for though crime
"Bob Boyd said...
As a member of the moron horde, naturally I have family and friends who have worn or are currently wearing an ankle monitor..."
One of the peripherals allowed work, church, 1.5 hours free time Saturdays, and home.
Was hoping he would get four or five years.
Maybe next time.
It seems that an awful lot of our justice system is based on the honor system. People are given ankle monitors, but nobody bothers to enforce it if the monitor is removed or if the person goes his own way. Illegal immigrants are given final deportation orders that they just ignore. Something needs to change.
The real crime here is giving someone a name that ends in *y*, and changing it to *ee*.
Teasing?
The Buzzard case in the last article is weird. The ankle monitor part is kind of a sideshow to the ongoing case, in which the formerly ankle-monitored lady's daughter is missing, after a cross-country odyssey during which, inter alia, mother and daughter wore wigs to help disguise themselves. The traditional suspect - the other parent - died long before any of this, so it's not a simple case. The mum may be genuinely paranoid, and so prone to things like falsely imprisoning her friend, because of the daughter's disappearance. Or she may have disappeared the daughter because she's paranoid. Or the paranoia may be an act to lay foundations for a mental-illness defense if she does eventually get prosecuted for disappearing the daughter. Or some other combination. Very strange. CC, JSM
I had to wear one years ago for a DUI. Not proud of it, and I certainly didn't go in public without it being incredibly inconspicuous. It can be done, even people at church didn't know. Baring it brazenly seems a marker.
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