Comments by jokers1

Written on For its 200th birthday, Evansville plans a six-month-long party:

So this is why the shooting last night downtown didn't make the paper. I knew there was a reason.

Written on Accidental gun discharge claims life of Illinois teen:

Three shot in downtown Evansville but don't plan on seeing it on this site.

Written on Man robbed at gunpoint outside his home:

in response to Ace_Dad:

Media, it is not smart to print the man's name and then say he identified the person. Now you have a situation where the victim may be targeted a second time to prevent him from cooperatind with the police and prosecutor. Please consider referring to the person as "the victim" and do not discuss whether or not he cooperated with police.

That's for people with the "snitch" mentality. Quit being afraid of the trash and stand up for yourself. If more people would say who did it, the trash in this city might actually be afraid of being caught. I applaud this guy for identifying the scumbag.

Written on Indiana Sunday beer sales request renewed:

in response to Mandrake:

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This is just an ignorant post made by someone who has no knowledge of this subject.
Liquor stores are favored in the law? Wow just wow. Only in supermarkets and and places like cvs can one 21 year old and 3 minors walk in and walk out with a liquor purchase. I've seen parents have their children walk down the Schnuck's aisle and grab mommy's beer(great training). What do you think happens if a minor is even let inside a liquor store? Automatic $500 fine. Did you know a liquor store cannot sell things like cold non alcoholic beverages(soft drinks), milk, lemons and limes and even sugar.
Trying to use "cold Indiana beer" as their crutch is shameful. The supermarkets, cvs's and gas stations absolutely already have the upper hand from the laws we already have. If anything we should be trying to remove some of the availability to alcohol from conveniece stores and wal-marts.


Look at all these people already standing in line with their hands out.

Written on UPDATE: Police searching for armed bank robbers | AUDIO:

in response to werallkidz:

Wondering how they got into the bank due to them not being open yet. Wonder if the Manager may have left a door unlocked for his employees to enter??? (Not saying the bank Manager has anything to do with this) Just trying to figure out how.

Read the story you will. Gives you the information you seek, it does.(My best Yoda)

Written on Police jail suspect in liquor store robbery:

in response to Renegadesezso:

This punk has evil in his eyes. He'll be a real mess if he lives to serve his prison sentence. I see a shank in his future as he'll mess with the wrong crowd.

You watch too many movies.


Randomly pick 288 people and give them each $1,000,000.

Written on Police: Children were living in cockroach-infested Gibson County, Ind., home:

in response to hope4:

Hooray for your husband. But I am talking about me, a single mother who doesn't have a man to go out and get a job to support me. And I really don't want that anyway. I'll bet you are a woman who doesn't work outside the home. How long has it been since You looked for a job? Trust me there is not much out there. Currently I work two minimum wage jobs. I would love to have a union job. I have no health insurance, no benefits.

Wow what a great attitude and outlook you have. I just can't understand why you can't find a job. If you really are applying to 5 places a week with no luck you are either trying to get into a dead profession and refuse to change or the problem is you.
What's wrong with being a SAHM? I like how you play the man thing like you don't really want one yet that's because you can't get one.

Written on Police: Drunk driver was going wrong direction on Lloyd Expressway:

Driving at almost 2 times the legal limit is only a misdemeanor?

Written on Colts' Peyton Manning says he hopes to start throwing soon:

in response to Cilios2:

I concur with most of what you said, excepting for your first sentence. He shouldn't play this season. He should practice and let the Colts figure our what he still has in the tank, but to put him into a game, after this much time off, would be counter productive to both his and the Colts best interest.

Exactly and you don't want other teams to know if he can play or not. It can lower his trade value. Yup, I said it. I think Manning will be traded. No love loss. He will go on winning games for a few more seasons and the Colt's will start anew.
This happens in sports and I will always be a Manning fan but if Luck is who they say he is it's for the better.

Written on Business dispute, truck reposession led to shooting, suicide in Evansville:

The only question I have about this story is why LEO's were acting as repo men?
People, this is not the fault of the economy, big corporations or desperation. The only person whose at fault here is the man that decided to shoot his gun because like other people, didn't feel he should be held responsible for his own actions.
Like a previous poster said. There is more to this case than this guy simply not paying for 2 cars.

Written on Workers push back against earlier holiday openings | POLL:

Non union, voluntarily working for the double money. I'm sure your union buds will be off for the holiday though moneymaker since they all chased their jobs away. Is collecting unemployment really a paid holiday for unions now?

Written on Roofless Church replacing 20,000 shingles one at a time:

in response to 3322:

Did you by chance go on a Monday? That is the day when most businesses are closed to make up for being open on the weekend. Also, people who live in New Harmony are proud of their history but are not wealthy. Classes being schooled in architecture and the trades could find a bundle of projects that would teach wonderful lessons and serve a wonderful community. This is not intended to be a "tourist trap". It is a living, and hopefully growing, small town with a past rivaled by few in the whole country. The disrepair is a sad commentary that needs to be jumped on and fixed. What class were you in when you made the trip? I did no know that Evansville had a school with an architectural major.

I'm not sure what day it was but it was for a class called "History of Architecture" as part of the Design Technology degree at Ivy Tech. Don't get me wrong, observing the private residences was wonderful. It's why we walked all of the streets after the tour. One lady working in her yard even stopped to talk with us about her house.

Written on Roofless Church replacing 20,000 shingles one at a time:

in response to GracePiranha:

New Harmony is full of treasures. Go on a sunny afternoon and just wander around. You'll be amazed.

We just went there last year as a class trip to study the architecture and let me tell you what amazed me. The disrepair of some of the buildings, including the Atheneum. Everything in the town of New Harmony is closed. Really, not one place was open for lunch. We were all very dissapointed.

Written on Tenured faculty walk off jobs at SIU-Carbondale:

in response to TheWratMann:

Yeah. That's why I'm the "go-to guy" for many issues in my company of 250 employees. I've had 35+ years of hands-on experience, which you can't get from any formal "education".

And I don't think an IQ of 138 puts me in the category of "idiot".

So you're simply a trained monkey that's been doing the same repetitive motion at your job for 35 years. I bet anyone could walk up and do your job with 6 months training. "Go to guy?" Keep telling yourself that big man. I like the part where you make up a number and say it's your IQ. That was the best laugh I had all day.
You're just a mad old fart with an ineriority complex, afraid of those with a better education than yourself.

Written on Indiana advocates take food stamp challenge:

I don't get why these cards are accepted anywhere but a grocery store? I was behind a lady a few days ago at Papa Murphy's who used her ebt card for two family size pizzas. I'm sure the money doesn't last real long with purchases like that.

Written on Police: Suspect killed 5 in Indiana drug dispute | UPDATED:

Maybe an investigation on the doctor that was giving out this oxycodone. Doctors need to be held more accountable for what they give people.

Written on Boonville, Ind., woman critically injured in truck-scooter accident:

in response to whadouthink:

Lets assume you crest that same 55 mph hill and a huge piece of farm equipment moving at 25mph suddenly appears in your lane. And I'm not speaking the hypothetical here, I'm giving you a real life scenario. Out here in the county, especially now during harvest, you have to be aware. Those things go to slow also but I don't hear any calls for their ban. Also, as I said, until more information is published we all will not know if anyone is to blame.

We already know who is to blame. The lady driving the scooter was driving illegaly on a highway. She is to blame. You tractor comparison is irrelevant since tractors can legally drive on the highways. For being someone "out here in the county" you don't seem to know a lot about it.

Written on Police: Man put officer in headlock at Fall Festival:

in response to memada:

The 2nd largest street festival in the United States and it is getting way too much bad press. These hoodlums ruin it for everyone. I am afraid when my grown up kids go down there because of the hoodlums.

Why is it, that one year Paul Harvey says it's second only to mardis gras in size and somehow this makes it true? Other than public forums I cannot find anything that says it is the second biggest. I once heard someone say it was in the guinness record book but never found it. Was Paul Harvey blowing smoke for the lemmings to march to or can someone actually prove this is true? Oh, and finding some guy on yahoo answers that says it's true doesn't count.

Written on Police say man pointed shotgun at crowd:

in response to object_timothy:

Funny how when something happens on" the southeast side" it gets several comments but when crazy stuff like this happens in "Jimtown" it gets no comments and a street name.

Funny how you post that comment first, after less than 20 minutes of it being put up. No life of your own?

Written on UPDATE: ONB announces plans to close Integra branches:

This story just reminded me that I still need to go close my account. Not mad that they bought it, I just don't like ONB's banking ways.

Written on As Newton murder trial gets under way, it nearly ends in mistrial :

I don't understand how the penalty would only be 45-65 years for such a brutal murder? I think he did it but I'm not on the jury and don't know anymore than anyone else reading this story(arm chair court). I do think if he is found guilty his mother and uncle should both be charged with at least accesory to murder.

Written on Lawsuit claims agency used UK tickets to lure docs:

in response to florida:

Hello this is nothing new!

Exactly. How do they think doctors get bought to prescribe the medicines they do. Tons of free samples and free vacations do a pretty good job.

Written on School progress reports a mixed bag for EVSC:

in response to fatdad:

A handful of schools make the grade and Miss Riley is pleased? Really!! Wake up folks. Why do the Parochial schools do so much better? Because the parents are involved. Millions and millions of dollars and this is all we get? Pitiful.

It doesn't hurt that parochial schools can pick and choose which students to accept and or keep.

Written on 'Survivor' contestant considers Indiana governor run :

I'm sorry but voting for a "reality" tv show fool would be worse than voting for Tom Cruise.

Written on Police: Traffic stop leads to meth lab discovery:

in response to RMikeM:

Maybe they should start stopping everyone for no other reason than a "Lab Check".

Where in the story does it say that? Oh wait, you just assumed that huh. But that must be it because the newspaper didn't give you every detail on what happened right. Do everyone a favor and go put your foil hat back on.

Written on Evansville police investigate possible arson:

Where's the "mysterious fire" story from Henderson? The one where the people had moved all of their belongings outside before the fire even started.

Written on Are stricter regulations needed for scooter drivers?:

in response to TholeJ:

I don't agree at all with mandating that we register and insure and plate scooters. Then, people with out a driver's license can't drive one. I do agree with stricter laws and regulations. We need to enforce and write tickets on the ones we have. Not make more and screw them up too. People that are uneligilble to recieve a driver's license should still be able to drive a scooter that goes under 40 mph. any scooter that goes 50 mph or above, i agree to make them have a driver's license and plate and insure it. but the scooters that go under 40 mph?, common now, we are screwing evansville up again. if we do that to scooters that go under 40 mph, then the market will drop. and the poor and people that can't have a driver's license won't have a better way to get around. and this put plates and licenses and insurance on scooters?, is just another way for the stupid freakin city & county government people to spend our tax dollars and waste them!!!, evasnville needs to learn how to manage money and not just go around saying, well, we need more money so why don't we do this?.....that is sooooo stupid!!!!!!!!

There is a reason those people do not have a drivers license. Why should they still be driving? They can ride a bicycle. What I found soooo stupid was your entire comment.

Written on Complaints about crop dusters rising in Indiana :

Why would you move next door to a farm then complain about it? If your going to be part of urban sprawl you're going to run into this. Come on, did these farms move next door to them? No, these people moved next door to a farm. Quit your bellyaching and move back to the city.

Written on If you could take anything from a hotel room without getting caught, what would it be?:

I guess it would really depend on what hotel you were at wouldn't it?

Written on What should the Indianapolis Colts do if Peyton Manning isn't ready to play by the time the season opens?:

in response to jpyle:

Letting Painter fill in is just like forfeiting the first 2 games.

I agree. I think we have seen enough of Painter and Orlovsky to know they don't have it. Hooray for Kerry Collins

Written on Pacifist Indiana college picks national anthem replacement :

This article said. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Blah blah leave a comment to show our adverts that we are still relevent. Blah blah. Clicks and comments are what makes the money.

Written on Owner: Colts agree to terms with quarterback Kerry Collins :

Whew. I was starting to think we would have to continue to suffer through the Painter, Orlovsky duo.

Written on Henderson police searching for Family Dollar Store robbery suspect:

in response to ragsfan:

Agree. You know you're down on your luck when you're robbing the dollar store.

That, or more than likely looking for crap to sell for another high.

Written on UPDATE: Recovered body identified as missing fisherman:

in response to BeAware:

You know I'm so glad you did your homework at a time like this...NOT!!! So what exactly was your point anyway?? I know what it have NEVER done anything wrong have you?

Prayers to the family and friends of this man!

I like how people like you come on here with the "you've never done anything wrong" line, when no one said that. However, I can say I myself have never done anything near as bad as holding someone hostage with a knife while my friends and I rob them.

Written on Birthright of Evansville closed by next-door fire:

They closed because of "debris"? It's called get a broom and a trash can and clean it up. If they use the front door I see no problem. The pic looks clear. 40 years of operation and they close because there are some nails on the sidewalk? I agree with mandrake. Sounds like they're just looking for a fundraiser. That or just some publicity.


I'll say it's fun there but just because some random website calls it the best doesn't make it true. This list doesn't have Schlitterbahn or Blizzard Beach on it which makes it suspicious to me. I'm not trying to put down Splashin Safari, like I said it is fun but both of those water parks top it.

Written on Woman charged with beating her former mother-in-law :

Okay I'm used to hearing class A,B or C when referring to crimes. What's a class X and a class 2? Are they more severe or less?

Written on Officials remain hopeful of reaching deal for IceMen to play in arena:

This isn't a city problem. It's Geary being geary and getting greedy. Wanting to rework a contract before the ink dries. No, bubbageek the arena does not need this team. This arena was not specifically built for the icemen. I say let them stay at swonder.


Wow all I said was "You're about three blocks away" and my comment was removed. I was not mean, hateful or cussing. Why was it removed? Warning don't google a street address and post it, it might get removed.


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Written on Integra closed by FDIC; ONB taking over assets:

Time to close my account. Don't like ONB.

Written on Wesselman Woods shade provides welcome relief from heat:

in response to chickie:

I have loved having a natural place with shade to walk this summer. It's wonderful having a local place to go for a walk in the woods. I just wish the trails were open in the evening so I could go after work!

I agree.

Written on Chief says officer's shooting of McKnight was reasonable, appropriate:

in response to Night_Owl_1959:

I will not condemn or condone the EPD's actions in this case. I am an average, law-abiding, middle class Evansville citizen, however I think the SWAT team is a little too anxious to execute the things they have practiced. Personal experience... I had a relative who was involved in a domestic dispute. He went to another relative's home that was unoccupied at the time. His girlfriend told police he had threatened her, had a gun and where he was. Not knowing any of this, we picked him up and took him to our house. Two hours later the SWAT team showed up at the house where he was supposedly located. The SWAT team ended up shooting tear gas in the house, storming it, breaking every door and window in the house and subsequently causing over $20,000 in damage. The official police report (necessary to justify their actions) stated the vehicle engine was still hot (not likely in the 30 degree temps at the time), someone had moved the curtains and looked out, a light came on in the house and then went off again, etc. None of this was true since as they found out, the house was empty since at least two hours prior to them arriving. It was as though they just wanted to execute what they had practiced.

That makes me wonder if this is not a similar case. Mr. McKnight certainly added to his own troubles here, but with all the SWAT team training, do they not have someone sighting the suspect through binoculars or a telescope? I think it would be easy to distinguish a cordless phone from a weapon with the proper equipment... even from a distance.

I hope the EPD SWAT team are not a lot of out of control cowboys who have been watching too many movies. Like I said earlier, I cannot condemn their actions, but I am not going to condone them either... too many questions left unanswered.

Thanks for letting us all know what wonderful stories you can make up. People like you are the ones watching too many movies, not the police. People like you that think the police are simply a bunch of rednecks looking to hold a gun are the problem. They are regular people trying to make a living. Since you obviuosly could do it better why not join and show them how it's done. Oh, that would mean you have to actually get up from your computer and(gasp) get some exercise.

Written on WOW! shifting to all-digital signal:

in response to Jlutin:

1000 bucks will buy you a 51" TV at best buy. I doubt you current TV is 51" or it would already be digital. More likely, you have a 30"ish or smaller screen. You can get a 32 inch at BB for 250. If your budget is smaller, then you can still get a decent TV. Surely in 2 years you can save up enough for a 200 dollar TV. If not, then you probably need to drop your cable for other reasons.

Another kid that thinks they have all the asnwers. I still own a tv bigger than 51 inches and its not digital. I just looked at best buy. No 32's for $250. But hey with all the crap that rip off store tries to add you'll be lucky to not be charged double what you thought the price was. What would you get anyway? 720p at 60 mhz? Not worth owning.

Written on Homeowner holds burglar at gunpoint until police arrive:

in response to Ace_Dad:

Vallar reacted the wrong way.

Vallar should have called the police before departing his work site.

Vallar then should have driven to his neighborhood and parked 2-3 houses away.

Vallar then should have waited for the police to arrive.

The only reason for Vallar to grab his gun and enter his house is if his wife or kids were inside. And then, some would say let the police handle it.

I know several homeowners who did the same and they were shot and killed or stabbed and killed or seriously wounded by the burglar. Property is not worth losing your life or ability to work.

The former Special Forces guy used poor judgement.


An old MP.

Here it is again. How is it someone always knows someone that did this or that? Let me guess these people you knew lived somewhere else and no one around here would know them?
I'm not saying what the guy did is wrong or right but some examples people use on the net to prove a point are about as lame as that one guy in high school who was dating that chick that lived in Canada. uh, huh.
Maybe I'm just picking too much but all I see on the boards lately are stories of "these people I knew" or "this is just like this one time". Nothing against ace-dad personally. Am I just being grumpy?

Written on Two East Side intersections are the county's most dangerous:

in response to Not_Gonna_Say_It:

Yeah thats what we need, more intrusion by our government on our personal lives. DA

You out driving on public roads is not just your personal life.

Written on Man in vehicle shot by unknown assailant in passing vehicle:

in response to concernedhoosier:

I was in Dallas a few years ago, and the news reported on a man that was opening gun fire on random cars travelling I35. We are somewhat sheltered in good ole Evansville.

I think you may be the one sheltered. Why is evryone has a story about this one time when they were at such and such and saw this or that? Like Dallas is the only place that has happened? I can think of several sories across the country about the same thing. This city is no different than any other. I can prove it cause a few years ago I was in Atlanta and....... oh, nevermind.

Written on EPD: Man who shot at officers killed during standoff:

in response to max1261:

i hope the nosy neighbor who called the law can live with themselves.

and to the officer who is supposed to be a member of swat, what, you don't have a scope in order to see what a suspect is holding in their hand?

and before someone lashes out at me, i do not condone the man firing his weapon at the cops. he obvously had personal issues, but wasn't there another way to handle this situation? for christ's sake he was at his own home!

You either watch too much tv or play too many video games. A scope? Are you serious? Nosy neighbor? If any of my neighbors ever saw someone forcing their way into my house I would hope they call the police. Of course I'm not a criminal so I won't be shooting at them when they arrive. Blaming the neighbor is simply a scumbag move. Being in your own home does not mean you get to fire a weapon out of a window. The nerve of people here to defend this, this person. You want another way to handle the situation? Don't shoot at the police.