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Wild News Wednesday

14 Wednesday Dec 2022

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When I first read the headline of this article, my brain translated this nonsense into “did she claim the goose bit him?” So, I was compelled to do the thing that lost people hate these days.

I read the thing.

Turns out, in 1987, when authorities arrived at the Jarvis household following a domestic disturbance call, from Judith Ann Jarvis, the found Carl Jarvis, her unfortunate husband, naked on the bedroom floor.

With a gunshot wound to the back of his head.

When they questioned Judith about the obvious blood on her pajamas, she claimed it was from a goose bite. She apparently hoped they’d believe that she got bit by a goose in the middle of the night.

While his death was ruled a homicide (who tried to shoot them selves in the back of the head?) and her clothes were bagged as evidence, it somehow took them 30+ years to figure out that a goose did not bite her.

Obviously I have questions

Any normal person would.

  • Why did it take so long?
    • OBVIOUSLY she did it. That alibi for the bloodstains was bonkers.
    • Apparently DNA testing was first used in a criminal case in 1986, the year before the murder occurred.
    • The next year it was used to actually convict someone of murder.
    • I’m sure it was harder to come by back in 1986, but I feel like, had they tried, they might have gotten an answer to the Whodunit a lot sooner.
    • They also didn’t send the clothes they took for evidence off for DNA testing until 2022.
      • It took 2 years to process the DNA.
      • It probably only got sent off because either some poor soul was banished to Cold Case Duty, or they volunteered.
  • There was other evidence in the home. How did that not point the finger?
    • The .22 handgun, a bloody hand towel. THE DEAD NAKED MAN IN HIS BEDROOM.
    • I mean, yes, her fingerprints were likely all over the home but were there not prints on the weapon itself?
  • A goose bite? Really?
    • First, they could have asked to see the actual wound, then they might have been less inclined to believe it and maybe blame her.
    • Is that really all she could come up with? Did they have geese as pets or whatever one keeps them for? Is that what made it sound plausible? Not that I’m saying geese can’t leave a mark. I don’t know from personal experience but:
The stuff of nightmares. “Demon birds.” -The Kid, 2022

In conclusion

Judith Ann Jarvis, who is currently being held without bond until her Dec. 23 heading, is now 76 years old. I think it’s safe to say she got away with it. And if the investigators hadn’t dropped the danged ball on the case it might not have gone cold for so long.

Also, perhaps if she hasn’t lied about the goose bite and not tampering with her husband’s body, maybe she would have gotten away with it for permanents.

Either way, my guess is Jarvis has been a law abiding citizen after murdering her husband, and now her she will trade her Senior discount at the local Chinese Restaurant for the wheelchair wing of a minimum security prison. Oh well, murdering your husband is bad, but she’ll get free healthcare and a guaranteed meal. Not too notch I’m sure but what can you do.

Murdering your spouse is bad, friends. But if you get away with it for 36 years, well, go with the goose bite.


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Beauty & Body: Talc Troubles

14 Sunday Aug 2022

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If you’ve been here for a minute, you know that my day job is in Retail. While I never outright name my employer, I will say that I primarily work in the health and beauty area (at least that’s what I tell myself).

So, here is my attempt at connecting my day job to my website/thing I do late at night when I should be sleeping.

Powder Predicament

Over the last several months I’ve come to the realization that my store had practically no baby powder. I came to this conclusion because customers were asking about it, and we had none in the typical location.

Now, this lack of merchandise wasn’t just limited to Johnson’s. The store brand was out of stock for some time as well.

What is Talc or Talcum Powder

Talc or talcum, is a clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate. Talc, in powder red form, often combined with corn starch is used in baby powder.

Wikipedia

It is used in about a million applications in several fields. From todays topic, baby powder, cosmetics, food, ceramics, and metal coating, and so much more.

Talcum powder was invented in 1894. It is the powdered form of talc, a mineral with a value of 1 on the Mohs hardness scale. Talc in its natural form, had been be used for many years before that. And of course it was Johnson and Johnson that first started manufacturing and selling Talcum Powder.

J&J Baby Powder with Talc

When The Kid was an infant she had baby acne. Basically just tiny little bumps on her face, that looked almost like pimples, that came from moisture on her sensitive skin during feeding. I’d read that putting baby powder on it can keep it dry so the bumps would clear.

I posted about doing so on Facebook. I had a handful of people telling me that baby powder isn’t good for babies because they can breathe it in. The way I used it was gently brushing a small amount on her cute little cheeks, with minimal dust.

She never had any issues and I never really used it on her much after that. I have used baby powder in myself, since sometimes when it’s hot and you have extra dinner rolls in your basket, well it gets damp. But it was infrequent usage.

So why did Johnson’s Baby Powder with Talc disappear from RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT’s shelves?

The product was discontinued and pulled from shelves this year due to “tens of thousands” of lawsuits alleging that the talc based product was causing cancer.

Talc & Asbestous

Talc, in its natural form is found in close proximity to Asbestos, a naturally occurring but known carcinogen. Talc and Asbestos are both silicate minerals and therefore are often found having formed near each other.

So, mining one mineral, if one isn’t careful, could result and contamination by the other. It’s not the Talc itself that’s said to be causing ovarian cancer in women, it’s talc contaminated by asbestos.

J&J claims that only pharmaceutical grade Talc is used in their baby powder. They have strict standards, which, of course they would. The link above also discusses how talc can be found and many different products we use every day.

There’s a lot of information there, but as it is a website created for and by Johnson & Johnson, believe what you will.

While Johnson’s does push that their talc based products are safe, and that talc itself is not cancer causing, it is believed that product was not as quality controlled as they’d let you believe, and the product was contaminated with asbestos.

Conclusion?

Is talc safe? Well, it has been used for a more than a century and has found its way into products from chewing gum to cosmetics to industrial uses. If it caused cancer, wouldn’t more people have had cancer?

But there’s also the conspiracy theory that I literally just thought of and have not read anything about, that if it causes cancer and we’ve been using it for years, perhaps that’s the leading cause I’d cancer? Is talc the reason we have so much cancer?

But it would all have to have been contaminated by asbestos, right?

In 2020c Johnson’s discontinued the sale of talc based powders, and plan to stop the sale worldwide by 2023. This is said to be purely a business decision, and not proof that the product was ever unsafe.

The talc based powders have been replaced in stores, including mine, with corn starch based baby powder. And it’s not just the Johnson’s brand either. The store brand also contains no talc.

While these products have been removed from markets in the US, there are still countless products containing talc still on shelves. It remains to be seen if other companies will follow suit and preemptively remove their products. But the mass exodus of recalls flooding the market would leave little to no product on shelves.

It’s more likely that perhaps these uncountable companies will quietly work toward replacing talc in their products, before the cancer scare hits their profit margins.

I still find it unlikely.


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BMB: GIANT AFRICAN LAND SNAILS

08 Friday Jul 2022

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Day 8

What Do You Think of When you hear Giant African Land Snails?

If its something like this, we have a similar imagination. Snail image borrowed from Here. Image thrown together in Canva.

This morning, as I was avoiding going in to work, and reading news on Yahoo!, when I stumbled upon a very interesting article. This article is titled “Effort begun to eradicate giant African snails in Florida” and it is literally about snails that eat buildings.

The fact that my brain turned this:

(Image stolen from here)

Into the thing in the poorly made Canva clickbait above, well, that’s just who I be. And we don’t judge here. We are a judge free zone.

However, it is true that these guys do literally eat buildings. They apparently enjoy the delicious delicacy of plaster and stucco. They also, like a true multitasking invasive species, carry diseases.

The article specifically mentions something called the rat lungworm, which, I’m not going to think to hard about, because well, look what my brain did with a giant snail. I have a very literal mind. But the rat lungworm can cause meningitis in humans.

And guess whose to blame for this chunky shelled slug (yes I’m sure there’s a difference) being in our country and not where its native.

Yup.

Apparently we imported them as pets. Yes, I can imagine being bag-checked at an airport. First, they at some point had to ask someone, “do you have anything to declare?”

“Oh just a giant land snail.” And then they all laugh.

And then later, they check the bags and there’s a slimy shelled creature. Is it apparent I’ve never been on a plane?

But the problem with these dudes isn’t just that they eat buildings, or carry diseases, but they enjoy 500 other things to eat, that we eat too. Including but not limited to (cause these are hungry boys) peanuts, beans, cucumbers, and melons.

They also share a characteristic with rabbits. I’m quite sure you know what I’m talking about but just in case: they make a lot of babies. The giant African land snail can lay up to 1200 eggs a year.

Now I absolutely have to bring up the most ridiculous fact in this entire article: they had to mention that Nikki Fried (cool name BTW) who is commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is a Democrat. I’m not entirely sure what the importance of that was, maybe besides the fact that she’s running for governor. Maybe her determination to eradicate the snails again will help her win. But we don’t Politic here either, my dudes.

Yes, I did just gloss over the whole again part. It was for dramatic effect. Did I do it right? Yes, they had this issue not once but twice before. The most recent campaign—see what I did there since shes’s running for gov—took ten years and they captured 170,000 snails in Miami-Dade County. “I think they missed one or two” would be funny to put here, if the county of the current invasion, Pasco County, wasn’t several counties away.

A visual

So far, this go ‘round, they’ve managed to capture 1,000 snails in the area they quarantined (I know the snails hate that word as much as we all do). The snails were initially spotted by a homeowner, and the properties involved (meaning having their buildings gnawed on by snails) are being treated with a molluscicide bait. Hole up imma google that. A pesticide against slugs. There’s one called Sluggo 😂.

Available on Amazon

The slugs are illegal to own without a permit. The fact that you can get a permit for a snail, and own this thing, despite its obvious problems… well that just sounds like Florida to me. Its also illegal to move them or dirt out of the quarantine area. Floridians are expected to call 888-397-1517 if they see one of the distinctive snails. These bad boys can grow up to 8 inches long and “have a distinctive whirled, brown mottled shell.”

They are also not the escargot type of snail. Thanks for that.

Gross.

I had a vision one building-eating snails in my head all day, so, now you can too!


Thanks for reading. -C

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Stupid news of the day

03 Friday Sep 2021

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On today’s episode of “I read it so you don’t have too”

Austin Wallace an apparent “aspiring social-media star” , supposedly quit his $100,000 a year welding job in Ohio to travel to LA to ask Logan Paul for a job.

Right off the bat the article refers to him as “an aspiring social-media star”.

“When asked by Paul what he was “good at” Wallace said he could do TikTok dances.”

He also told him he didn’t have what it takes. Whatever that is.

Jake Paul basically told the dude nope, I got all I need on my team and told him to start making content on YouTube.

Long story short the dude knew he’d get rejected. He went for the Big Bang, knew he’d “fail”, but would reap the benefits of over 12.5 million views.

My guy already has a YouTube channel with blogs (did not verify). But he supposedly begged for his job back?

My guess is he never actually quit.

But I’m also writing this absolutely exhausted and ready for bed. Just thought this deserved a “stupid ‘news’” distinction!

Goodnight folks! Thanks for reading!

-c

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Stupid news of the day

03 Friday Sep 2021

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On today’s episode of “I read it so you don’t have too”

Austin Wallace an apparent “aspiring social-media star” , supposedly quit his $100,000 a year welding job in Ohio to travel to LA to ask Logan Paul for a job.

Right off the bat the article refers to him as “an aspiring social-media star”.

“When asked by Paul what he was “good at” Wallace said he could do TikTok dances.”

He also told him he didn’t have what it takes. Whatever that is.

Jake Paul basically told the dude nope, I got all I need on my team and told him to start making content on YouTube.

Long story short the dude knew he’d get rejected. He went for the Big Bang, knew he’d “fail”, but would reap the benefits of over 12.5 million views.

My guy already has a YouTube channel with blogs (did not verify). But he supposedly begged for his job back?

My guess is he never actually quit.

But I’m also writing this absolutely exhausted and ready for bed. Just thought this deserved a “stupid ‘news’” distinction!

Goodnight folks! Thanks for reading!

-c

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Stupid “News” of the Day

26 Monday Jul 2021

Posted by crashdlanding in celebrities, News, Rant, Stupid

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I read so you don’t have too.

In a word: yes. A dermatologist said something along the lines of up until puberty bathing your kids once a week is perfect. Once puberty hits, you’re gonna smell them so once a day.

Kutcher says “if you see the dirt, bathe them, if not you’re wasting you’re time.” Basically.

He’s not the only one, as Dax Shepherd and spouse Kristen Bell do the same.

The simple fact is this article is pandering to normal peoples’ desires to either live vicariously through or judge celebrities. We want a reason to hate them or to love them.

Personally I think they sound like normal people. “Im super busy so I’ll wash my kid if they smell weird but I ain’t got time for nonsense.

It puts the lotion on its skin or else it…loses its protective capacity.

Moisturize the kids (and adults) after bathing because your skin doesn’t do the thing it’s meant to as well as it should.

Wash your pits and your “junk” more frequently. Because… well… duh.

(In case you don’t know those get the stinkiest).


Thanks for reading

-c


My kid hates a bath. Until she’s in it and then she doesn’t want out.

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News

24 Saturday Dec 2016

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like it

ill never tell… if i dont get likes


Ha. Lol anywho… On another note…

I plan on removing Black Friday: A Zombie Story from all platforms in June 2017. My reasoning is “no ones gonna buy the cow if you can get the milk for free” is that how it goes. 

This was sort of a hasty decision. By then, it will be available for purchase on Amazon in paperback and kindle (and other possible sites) by then. 

So if you wanna read it but without having to spend money, do it NOW. 

On Crash Landing & On Wattpad. 

Thanks for reading. Or not, whatevs

-c

PS: Merry Christmas!

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October News & Updates

14 Friday Oct 2016

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I meant to do this a lot sooner, but illness, motherhood, and all manner of life postponed it. So, here we are. 

Scary Story

My goal is to write at least one scary story this month. And seeing as how it’s October, I’ve got great timing. According to Facebook, the things that scare people (my friends, mostly, not many others like my page) are: 

  • Spiders
  • Clowns
  • Ghosts
  • General “King-esq” creepy stuff

I also had a request for a vampire story. So I’m thinking a vote? A “like this picture” thing. So if you want to help choose the scary story, look for the opportunity in the next few days on the Crash Landing Facebook page. 

Bring Back the Fiction!


Come November I hope to bring back on of my previous features. Either Very Short Fiction, Fiction Me This, or If Words Could Kill. But I need help deciding. 

Fiction Me This: send me pictures and I’ll choose one (or have readers vote) and write a story about it. 

If Words Could Kill: like a picture and the “victim” will be randomly selected for their own fictional murder. 

Very Short Fiction: randomly selected person chosen to have their own story (not necessarily death). 

Good Cause

I plan to try and start a “Good Causes” feature. When you’re trying to get the word out, a signal boost is always good, no matter how small the signal. Thai tiny blog of mine doesn’t get a wide range, but given the right hashtag, we can get some attention. 

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News

22 Tuesday Sep 2015

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I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. For anyone that might have paid regular attention, I apologize. 

But I’m back now, again. For good, hopefully. I’ve learned that I need an outlet for things, when I can’t or won’t say them elsewhere. So here I’ll be. 

So let’s catch up. 

  • My day job, the place that’s supposed to pay the bills until my “big break” (ha) changed my position and I’m forced to work in a department I’ve despised since day one. And every other department as well. It has wore me down physically and mentally, and I’ve decided I cannot do it any more, the moving constantly or the forced upon do department. I’m going to request a change as soon as possible, or seek other employment. 
  • I’ve also decided to send “Black Friday: A Zombie Story” to an actual publisher. I’ve been told by several that it’s worthy. It’s currently going through a thorough revision from my friend “The Editor”. She’s literally a friend who outright volunteered! She’s also an English Major so I KNOW it’ll be thorough. 
  • I have been brainstorming ideas for “Black Friday: A Ghost Story”, though I have however hit several snags. One of which being Tiny Human’s demanding yet adorable existence. 
  • Before ANY significant work is done on BF2 I am determined to finish my last “Very Short Fiction, though I’ve written myself into a very deep hole. Like, rabbit whole depth. Yes. that rabbit hole. 

That’s all I’ve got for now. Stay tuned for hilarious outrages and fictions galore!

-c

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