Burning to Develop and leaving folks to die

Bidness as usual for the Fire Dept in both counties. In one breath they are performing a controlled burn of a long desired development site. Praises are being sung in exchange for crack.

In the next breath they're leaving a woman to die on the floor of the john while her daughter BEGS them to help her. Working together seamlessly with the first 'responders' (death star)
on site at the casino.

NOW I had missed that Anna Nicole Smith's documentation was all tied up because she died in a Hard Rock Casino. Indians do what hte fuck they want. No wonder I'm so independent. I am part indian. Geez. No wonder that old man was trying to get me to meet him there. LMAO. That's so going to happen.

Ray Lemme who was investigating the Bushes was found dead in a bathtub in Georgia, a bit off base from his home and job in Tallahasse. I'm figuring the reason for that was because there are no autopsies required in GA and so they called it a 'suicide' even though pictures clearly display a murder scene.

Now this poor woman died of a heart attack on the floor of the Hard Rock Casino bathroom two weeks after a physical pronounced she AND her heart in good shape. This is the same way that my sister was murdered. It feels like and gives off the appearances of a heart attack but really the person is overcome chemically *yeah I still have it, thank you !!!) and if they defib or provide oxygen correctly (and, of course it would have to be REAL oxygen not what they load up divers' tanks with when they want to divorce them from their lives) the person will snap right to and the fake heart attack will just 'go away'.

HOWEVER, if they can get the right deathbox murder medic from Tampa fire rescue on the scene the person will be DOA or properly ummmm 'medicated' .... like my fatherinlaw will say about children: "they'll help you RIGHT TO DEATH." yes they will.

First they burnt my sister's house down.

Now they're just getting sloppy. No time to waste with false diagnoses as they do with some. As they've TRIED to do with my family and I. At least five of us.

FUnny how the murder medics were on scene BOTH TIMES.

At any rate, stay the fuck out of Hard Rock Casino ... it's about the same as hopping in your car to drive a few blocks to work in Tally and ending up taking a bath in a hotel room in Valdosta. With a few of Bush's murderous friends.

MURDERERS !!!

Seminole Tribe mum in death at Hard Rock
While the Hard Rock casino buzzed with patrons, Annie Talley, 55, collapsed on a bathroom floor with cardiac arrest. She died 2 days later. The tribe's immunity allows it to keep records of her care private.
Previous stories: Coverage of the Seminole Tribe

Is that some bullshit or WHAT? You Indian folks SO OWE ME. It was my big fat idea to sue rather than sitting over there feeling taken advantage of. Yall should not have crawled in bed with the white man. Have you learned NOTHING from history?

Oh, I think there may be two reasons she is dead: (sometimes I type sentences in a hurry and later go ... OH MY GOD. Luckily I'm not paid much for this and no one can fire me so I fix them if I have time)

A. She was taking money out of the casinos. (it CAN be done)

B. She worked for the school system and they needed her out of the way.

UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF DEAD FOLKS IN THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE ELIA YEARS and since the year 2000. I mean they are shooting each other on campus, dropping like flies. Principals at least a half dozen have died and two from heart attacks. I mean 'heart attacks'.

They're battling for control of the schools, the utilities and the waterfront and the post above this points out the reasoning for this.

They've got the utilities and they're working on the waterfront. Killing and shooting people on the Hillsborough River and all along the gulf shores.



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Wow, if you'd strangle the woman you 'love' imagine what (besides STEALING) you would do to a person in the back of a death box.

Not sure if I've ever linked up the blog we replaced the first firemen stalking blog with when we realized there was a misspelling.

You have the Boston Strangler.

Now the PASCO FIRE RESCUE PARAMEDIC STRANGLER.

I bet she's jealous because he's always over here in Tampa stalking my fine ass.




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South Rising

I've noticed the Tampa Tribune and the St Pete Times planting sly comments about Yanks and etc.

Nice sowing seeds of hate for the haters MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS> The last one that I noticed was the death of ms. moody who proclaimed that her mother left NY to take the train to florida so she wouldn't have 'no yankee baby'.
Moody was larger than life at times, with a low, smoky voice like Bea Arthur's and an arch, biting sense of humor, said Dudley Clendinen, who featured her in his latest book.
"She was a kind of Auntie Mame," he said.
Moody was born in Tampa; her mother was living in New York but took a train to Tampa for the birth because she didn't want a "Yankee baby," Clendinen said. Moody later moved here and met her future husband.
The two became active in Tampa Little Theatre, Ashby Moody said, and Emily hosted a show for WFLA television. She read to the blind through WUSF's Radio Reading Service.
She was a charter member of the Chiselers, a nonprofit group dedicated to restoring the Tampa Bay Hotel.
Here's the latest:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article896242.ece#comments

Sounds like another big biker fest to me, anyway. How's this guy getting away with a block party?
I ask because when I owned a home in ybor city the same scumbag who still lives there terrorized folks out of their homes. Now I GET IT. Good luck with that repeat act, motherfucker.

I suggest folks who don't hate anyone write these jokes of newspapers and request that they stop placing ETHNOCENTRIC REMARKS in their NEWSPAPERS. It's fucking ignorant.

Oh, and oprah I AM watching the expected rise of the word 'racism' in all the dailies. Is this how it got started in Africa? Is that what the Ghana folks are here preaching about/?? I'm not fucking stupid. KNOCK IT OFF.
Rooster roundup raises hackles in Ybor City
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TAMPA — Tommy Stephens likes to think the wild roosters he feeds every afternoon are direct descendants of the ones whose cock-a-doodle-doos woke the bricklayers that built Ybor City in the 19th century.
For better or worse, roosters are part of Ybor tradition. Tourists photograph them. Gardeners scorn them.
And every November, hundreds of revelers flock to Stephens' back yard for a New Orleans-style funeral in memory of James E. Rooster, who met his demise 11 years ago, in the jaws of a neighborhood dog.
Buried in work, Stephens broke tradition this year and called the funeral off.
But Thursday night, after a trapper appeared in his yard, Stephens, 64, started planning a different kind of rooster gathering — a protest.
• • •
This Ybor City cock tale begins in 1987, when Stephens moved into the neighborhood and learned that his yard was already home to some wild chickens and roosters.
"Being a country boy," he said, "I just went and bought me some corn, and started feeding them."
Stephens, one of the founders of both Guavaween and the Historic Ybor Neighborhood Civic Association, became known for his wild parties.
So when his beloved rooster died, a festive funeral only seemed appropriate.
The rooster funeral is one of Ybor's most anticipated annual events. Last year's multi-kegger and street parade drew about 600 "mourners" in bright costumes.
Every once in a while, Stephens will get a visit from the city Code Enforcement Department because of the 30-some roosters and chickens that hang around his yard. Nobody has ever tried to take them away.
But this time, someone called a trapper with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the same agency that captures rogue alligators.
Stephens' girlfriend, Pam Vopper, came home to find a man in a khaki jumpsuit. He carried a cage.
• • •
Trapper Mike Martinez got the call two weeks ago. He won't say from whom, but someone complained chickens were strutting inside their businesses and scaring off patrons. "I guess some people have a fear of chickens," he said. He drove behind the site, and saw just a hen and some chicks, and decided to let them be.
But Thursday, Martinez returned to find the same hen and her babies dead, with no signs left by a predator.
Foul play? Martinez didn't know. But either way, he didn't want to start seeing roosters slaughtered.
That, he told Vopper, is what brought him to her back yard. He said he was rescuing them.
"Are you b---s----ing me?" Vopper asked. "Is somebody going to eat these chickens?"
Martinez said he planned on taking all the roosters and chickens he captures to rescue centers in Pasco and Polk counties, where they'll be kept within their social groups, tagged, cared for and fed.
Dozens of roosters are spread throughout Ybor, in its trees, behind its trash bins. Martinez will catch them little by little, not to stress them out.
He caught two that night, by hand, and told her he'd return another day, with a net.
Vopper hid Stephens' favorite little hen, Chik-Fil-A.
• • •
Stephens missed the whole episode because he was out of town on business. But he has some suspicions about the complainant: "It's probably a Yankee that's never seen a chicken."
Vince Pardo, president of the Ybor City Development Corporation, said the roosters are part of the community and haven't bothered anybody. But Ybor is growing. "Things that have been here, people move in and don't understand that," Pardo said.
Manny Alvarez has lived in Ybor for years, and he's got mixed feelings. The owner of Streetcar Charlie's and the historic Casa Lala property said roosters get into fights, tear up residents' planters and spread fleas.
"I don't mind a few around. It kind of adds to the district," Alvarez said. "We don't need as many as we have."
Pardo is looking into what other cities, like Key West, have done to legalize their famous rooster populations.
And Stephens is calling for all rooster lovers to gather at his house a week from Sunday, with covered dishes and signs that say "Up with chickens. Down with complaining neighbors."
Martinez said he will allow Stephens to choose a few roosters and a hen to keep around.
For the rest, Stephens said, "I just hope I get visitation rights."
Alexandra Zayas can be reached at azayas@sptimes.com or (813) 226-3354.
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by JIM
Nov 9, 2008 11:57 AM
Roosters are problem if you are a late sleeper. Trapping thugs, and sending them to the farm and feeding them, the prison farm that is, would be a lot more productive. The thugs are what hurt Ybor business not the chickens. Fix the crime.
by Mike
Nov 9, 2008 11:57 AM
"the roosters are part of the community and haven't bothered anybody" Get Your Ears checked!!! If they were not creating a disturbance No one would be complaining. Try to be considerate of your neighbors
by Tommy and Pam
Nov 9, 2008 11:57 AM
Please come and help us save Historic Ybor City chickens!! Please bring a covered dish, whatever you would like to to drink and lawn chairs for your comfort.
by redneck yank
Nov 9, 2008 11:57 AM
Hey,pls stop blaming yanks for this. I'd like nothing better than to have a few chix roaming my yard,but these town ordinances suck. My chix up north all died of old age and never saw a soup pot. A rooster crowing is Ma Nature's alarm. Great sound!
by patricia
Nov 9, 2008 11:56 AM
Keep the roosters get rid of the complainers.
by Jimmy
Nov 9, 2008 11:56 AM
Wild chickens are a delight to have around! However, like all wildlife, they sometimes need to have their population controlled. I believe the trapper is approaching this with sound environmental methods, and should be commended for his levity.


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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
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Make today COUNT.
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... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.

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another stellar fireman murderer drunk

The best among us sometimes prejudge others. I keep learning to NEVER do that. Always give someone that chance. Sometimes more than one. NEVER EVER believe you know what is in another person's heart. Anyway, when we are ready to stop this. WE CAN.

If you drive through the streets of Tampa and read the friggin paper you know all the same things I know. Only you don't click to them. I never did either until I realized one day that my family was being fucking MURDERED and made to look like accidents and natural causes.

McElroy Ave. Spokeswoman for TPD? McElroy

Jetton Ave (few streets away) Corporal Dennis Jetton who has been all through the news papers : FHP covering up murders and helping the 'grieving' widow collect over a half mill in life insurance then marrying her.

We have Joe Durkin working for TPD as spokesman for what? a hundred years?? And then he leaves to work for Brighthouse. This reminds me of ministers raising sons who hold god's shield in front of them while they are doing god's work killing fellow citizens as cops. Or sheriffs. And ministers leaving for the police force and vice versa. This brighthouse thing?? I mean.... let's see ... NETWORK SPYING. FORMER POLICE SPOKESMAN. Now this is purely conjecture but it just seems kinda weird. Now we have kevin doll leaving pasoc for another communications job. THe sheriff's spokesman leaving for something similar. Sorry kind of in a hurry. I get my news from the same sources that tampa residents do so if you're not famiiiar with what I'm talking about then READ.

It goes on and on. PAY FUCKING ATTENTION.

There are many others like that which is what led me to thinking about how small tampa once was and some of these folks developed a sense of ownership and when the rest of us gradually moved here they started treating us like sharecroppers.


The best (in someone's mind) jobs IN this city go to the same families over and over again. Not necessarily the highest paying because they don't NEED the money friend. They're the closest knit criminals murdering others and getting away with it that you'll ever live around. Maybe.

The firemen are corrupt, the cops are corrupt and the sheriffs are corrupt. With a few stellar exceptions.

BUT, the worst thing is that they'd come after your mother, sister, child or brother as fast as they came out after me. There is NO respect and it's totally out of control. If they want something from you the last thing they think about is paying you for it. LMAO. Why would they DO THAT??? They can murder you or threaten you or whatever .....

And this is what has PISSED ME OFF THIS TIME. Read Katie. Oh and my remark made it too. Becuase once I realized MY family was being taken out I started paying closer attention to deaths, accidents, obits ... you know ... the mob shit that I've always lived around and never paid much attention to other than the occasional hello and party .... lmao.

THey're BOLD. Most of my family deaths didn't make the paper other than the obits but these other folks are big news.

I won't mention any names but I HAVE communicated with each and every one of them.

And, I'm watching you. KNOCK IT FUCKING OFF

Another fireman murders someone and gets away with it. Sounds like he RAN too.

Awww the pressures of the job.

Incidenally .... as a side note. I've seldom even READ ABOUT bigger scumbags. Do yall really spend even five fucking minutes planning this stupid fucking shit you say and do???

YOu may notice how things are really swinging my way now but you're real clsoe to never walking away intact.

Right?
Do you see that?

Just checking.

Fuckin rats and snitches.


After wife's tragic death, a search for answers and justice
By Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer In print: Sunday, November 9, 2008
Heather and Seth Whalley are shown the night before they were struck by a van in April during a visit to St. Pete Beach. She died two days later.
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Seth Whalley visits the spot at 7732 Blind Pass Road where he and his wife, Heather, were hit. “We were walkers. Whenever we could, we went on walks,” Seth says.
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Delivery driver Ray Rigney helps Seth Whalley understand the accident scene on Blind Pass Road. Rigney witnessed the accident but had never met Seth. He happened to be making a delivery when Seth made his recent visit.
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ST. PETE BEACH — Seth Whalley approaches the palm tree in front of the pizza shop, searching for something that looks familiar. Anything.
For seven months he has stayed away from Florida and this spot on Blind Pass Road. Now he retraces the path he took with his wife, Heather, that sunny April day.
He knew her for 20 years, yet he can't remember the last time he looked into her green eyes, what they talked about as they walked, or even where they were headed that day.
It was here that a van jumped the curb and ran into them on the sidewalk. The driver had four prescription drugs in his system but never got so much as a ticket. To understand how that is possible, Seth had to come back.
"I just want the truth, and I want the truth to be judged," he says.
He circles the palm tree, where Heather's face smiles from a flowery memorial, and tears come to his eyes. He crumples into one of the pizzeria's chairs.
He wants to know: Why did he live when she died?
• • •
Seth Whalley is 34, a chemist, the father of three: Ashley, 12, Kyler, 9, and Julia, 4. The kids are back in Massachusetts with friends and relatives.
He met Heather in a high school art class in Massachusetts. She was 14 and he was 15. They married young and had their first child while he was still in college. She taught kindergarten but quit after two years to homeschool the kids.
A few years ago, they moved to Charlotte, N.C., after Seth got a new job. They looked forward to a warmer climate.
"We went from having a great marriage to having a storybook marriage," he said of the move to Charlotte. "I call it our last kiss goodbye. I know it sounds corny."
They traveled often to Florida to visit Heather's mother, Laura Kell, who lives on Sunset Beach.
On the last day of a visit to Kell in April, they decided to grill outside before Seth took their son to a Rays game. But first, they would squeeze in a walk to pick up food. They left around 11 a.m.
"It was supposed to be a relatively insignificant walk," Seth Whalley said, "and now it's defined who I am."
• • •
Ray Rigney stops his alcohol delivery truck in the middle turn lane of Blind Pass Road, puts on his flashing lights and jumps out. He crosses quickly to the sidewalk where Seth Whalley waits.
Rigney, 44, saw it all happen like a drive-through movie before him. He lives in Pasco County but his delivery route takes him to St. Pete Beach every day. He had pulled into the same turn lane on April 10, preparing to make a left turn to deliver some alcohol to a small store.
He saw Heather and Seth on the sidewalk in front of Fortunato's Italian Pizzeria. He saw Aaron Scott Rimar's Chevrolet van coming down the road behind them. Then the van just veered off the road, like a bowling ball headed for the gutter.
It jumped onto the sidewalk, heading straight for the couple. As far as Rigney can tell, Rimar never hit the brakes, never turned his wheel.
The van struck the Whalleys, then was stopped cold by the palm tree.
"I watched you fly through the air like rag dolls," Rigney tells Seth. "You ended up on this curb. She was over here on her back. Your wife was breathing and then she stopped, like she was gasping for air."
"Did she say anything?" Seth asks.
"No, neither one of you was conscious," Rigney replies. "Both of you had deep welts on your head."
Seth pauses. He wants to ask the question, the one that prompted this unlikely reunion, the one that keeps him up at night.
Heather died of head injuries two days after the accident. Seth was in a coma for several days but survived. Did he save himself at his wife's expense? Was that why she died and he lived?
Seth's question comes out quietly, "Did we know?"
Rigney does not hesitate.
"You guys were talking. You guys didn't see anybody," Rigney says. "I just wish I'd had time to honk my horn."
• • •
Aaron Rimar has received 21 traffic tickets in Pinellas County, for everything from speeding and careless driving to running a stop sign and driving on the wrong side of a divided highway, according to court records.
His last speeding ticket was resolved just a month before the accident that killed Heather Whalley. He also was charged as a teenager and young adult with a handful of crimes, including aggravated assault, shooting at an undercover officer (he said he thought the undercover officers were burglars casing the neighborhood) and possession of a marijuana pipe.
Rimar, 35, declined to be interviewed for this story. Public records show that he's affiliated with Gulfcoast Networks, a business a few blocks from the accident scene. He told police that the last thing he remembered before the accident was looking down at his briefcase. He woke up in the hospital.
There, police asked for a blood sample to see if he was intoxicated. They found prescription drugs, including butalbital, a barbiturate; oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller; diazepam, also known as Valium; and Nordiazepam, a sedative similar to diazepam.
Rimar told them he used the drugs for a shoulder injury.
St. Pete Beach investigator Robert Micklitsch, who interviewed Rimar two weeks after the accident, said he asked him if he was under a doctor's care. Rimar said he was not.
Jack Helinger, an attorney for Rimar, did not return calls seeking comment, but he has said his client has the "highest sympathy" for the Whalley family.
"There's no doubt this is a just terrible tragedy. It breaks everybody's heart," he said in August. "But there are accidents that are not crimes."
• • •
Seth Whalley stands next to his lawyer looking stunned.
"The decision has been made. They're not going to charge Rimar for anything," says Tom Carey, a civil lawyer Seth hired to file a wrongful-death lawsuit.
The two have just emerged from a meeting with a prosecutor from the State Attorney's Office at the courthouse in Largo.
Rimar had drugs in his system, the prosecutor said, but not in high enough quantities to judge him impaired. Two doctors, including an outside toxicology expert from Shands hospital in Gainesville, have said so.
Whalley and his attorney tried to convince the prosecutor that there was at least a circumstantial case. What about the fact that Rimar didn't turn the wheel or use his brakes for 50 feet? Wasn't that reckless driving?
"The guy was at or below therapeutic levels on these drugs," Chief Assistant State Attorney Bruce Bartlett said in a later interview. "We can't charge people because we don't like what they did."
Since witnesses say Rimar wasn't driving recklessly before the accident, prosecutors say they can't charge him with reckless driving.
"Did he black out or go to sleep?" Bartlett continued. "We don't know. We don't have any evidence."
Heather's mother takes the news hard outside the courthouse.
"I've been waiting for this day," she says, dissolving into tears. "I haven't been angry at the justice system because I was hoping they'd do their job. But I don't want to be angry. I'm afraid of my anger."
• • •
Seth flew back to Charlotte to pack up his house in North Carolina this past week. He is moving back to Massachusetts to be closer to family. As he sat among the boxes, he was overcome with how much he had lost.
His home. His wife. His hope for justice.
But he did gain something from his trip to Florida. He learned there was nothing he could have done to prevent it. And that was a relief.
Times researchers John Martin and Will Gorham contributed to this report. Leonora LaPeter Anton can be reached at lapeter@sptimes.com or (727) 893-8640. [Last modified: Nov 08, 2008 11:44 PM]
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by K
Nov 7, 2008 10:19 PM
Mr. Rimar's father is a well known business owner in St Pete Beach. I wonder if that had anything to do with him not being charged. I am just saying...
by JOLL
Nov 7, 2008 10:14 PM
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!! Hopefully the next person this moron kills he will be prosecuted. UNBELIEVABLE
by Legal
Nov 7, 2008 8:33 PM
There may not be criminal charges, but you can bet there will be civil. Just because he didn't break a law according to the police doesn't mean that he did not negligently take the life of another. He will pay...not in jail, but through the wallet
by Katie
Nov 7, 2008 8:32 PM
A firefighter from Bradenton hit and killed my step father in 2002 (left the scene) and got off because he thought he hit a mailbox (yeah,ok)..recently got another DUI and is only spending 10 days in jail. Our justice system sucks in this State.
by LYnda
Nov 7, 2008 8:31 PM
Once again the DA decides not to prosecute. The answers that were given did not add up. What does McCabe has to say about this??? PROSCUTE, or give a real reason why not to.
by Andrea
Nov 7, 2008 8:30 PM
Rimar should have been charged with driving under the influence. There is a warning on all the medication he was taking NOT to operate machinery. A car is machinery. This is ridiculous!
by RICK
Nov 7, 2008 8:23 PM
American {in} justice .Either the lawyers [liars] have determined there isn't enough cash or chance to get cash so they dont bother pushing it.Or somethings not right and someones been paid off because this whole thing smells like real bad!
by voxy
Nov 7, 2008 3:07 PM
ms. martin, EVERYTHING. Mr. Whalley it sounds like a property grab. They want your wife's mother to give up her property. It wasn't an accident. There are TOO MANY of these to believe they are accidents. Too many beachfront folks being taken out


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