Year: 2022

Fort Walton Beach, FL – A veteran Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot while responding to an armed standoff on Christmas Eve.
The series of events leading to the shooting began the morning of Dec. 24, when a woman reported having been assaulted by 43-year-old Timothy Price-Williams the night before, according to WPEC.
The woman told investigators Price-Williams shoved her and slapped her in the face during an argument, and that he stole her phone to prevent her from being able to call 911, according to police.

At least 37 people were killed in the prolonged winter storm over the Christmas weekend.
Hundreds of thousands were without power on Christmas Day.
This is more than the number of deaths caused by global warming – climate change combined this past year.
The existential threat of “global warming” is yet to claim a life in the continental United States.

Democrats are using global warming to fundamentally change America into a struggling country with unpredictable power grids and soaring energy prices.

A promising college basketball player was gunned down in a New Jersey nature preserve shortly before Christmas over a small quantity of marijuana, police say.
At around 7 p.m. on December 17, police arrived at the Hopewell Valley Nature Preserve, about ten miles north of Trenton, where they found Phil Urban, a 20-year-old basketball player at Post University, “slumped over” the wheel of his white C-class Mercedes. The car was parked on a preserve trail, and Urban was clearly in medical distress, having sustained a serious gunshot wound.

A man who seems to have been at the head of an eight-car pileup in San Francisco said that Tesla’s automatic breaking in the vehicle’s “full self-driving” mode led to the accident that sent two to the hospital.
The driver who was involved in the Nov. 24 accident, which occurred around 12:40 p.m. on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, claimed that he had his Tesla Model S in “full self-driving” mode, but the software malfunctioned causing the accident, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.

American service members stationed at an airbase in Kuwait have taken up an unusual mission.
The American personnel assigned to Ali Al Salem Air Base in the country have been hunting scorpions during nighttime operations.
The missions are so popular with the troops assigned to the base that there’s a waitlist to go on the scorpion hunts, according to Stars and Stripes.
The scorpions that live in the base’s vicinity can be dangerous.
The Arabian fat-tailed scorpion is one of the arachnids that lives in the desert surrounding the facility.

Good morning to all those who had to get up and work today
You didn’t think I’d leave you hanging without a piping hot, fresh new edition of Screencaps, did you? This is the perfect morning to get a post up. You guys are laying around in the recliner. Or not getting out of bed at all until noon when you’ll finally get moving to grab some breakfast.
This is my time to shine.
Let’s go over some Christmas Day highlights:

Kids were finally released to go downstairs at 6:45 a.m. The 5-year-old was up at 4 a.m. asking when it was time to open presents.