Climber kills another climber with a hammer

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couchmaster

climber
Apr 29, 2016 - 09:01am PT
^^^Yup^^sounds like a total shithead. From the article: High on my list of unforgivable things--->
"frequently stealing equipment and clothing from other climbers."

"it was clear to everyone that DiPaolo, whose best friend seemed to be a wildly ungroomed dog named Caesar, had emotional issues that grew more pronounced as he aged and descended into a life of darkness, dominated by addiction to heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine. He supported his habits with some part-time construction work—acquaintances and authorities say he kept many tools in his van—a trust fund that provided several hundred dollars a month, and petty thievery. DiPaolo had several brushes with the law, in part, authorities say, because of his involvement with gang activity in Baltimore, and he drifted in and out of drug-rehabilitation programs.

It seems that every local climber has a story about DiPaolo: openly snorting cocaine at the base of a Carderock climb, staging the theft of his climbing rack to collect insurance money, and frequently stealing equipment and clothing from other climbers. His former climbing partner Matt Kull stopped climbing with DiPaolo in the late 1990s because of his drug use on the rock, his stealing, and his sloppy safety practices, which led to several incidents in which other climbers suffered severe injuries when DiPaolo dropped them on belay."

zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 29, 2016 - 09:27am PT
Well, it wasn't a hammer, but probably worse in the annals of punk-ass sheeit on the ocean.

Machain said he watched as Skylar Deleon grabbed an anchor and some rope, tied the Hawks to the anchor and brought them to the back of the boat.

"Then Mr. Hawk was able to lift his leg somehow and he literally tossed Skylar off his feet, knocked him on his butt … and right behind him the black guy [Kennedy] just takes a big swing at the side of his head and just, I'm pretty sure, he knocked him out." It was a final act of defiance by the powerful captain of the Well Deserved.



http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6803295&page=1
madbolter1

Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
Apr 29, 2016 - 11:23am PT
Prohibitions which for the most part work.

I said prohibitions on for-sale items for which there is a market. And I gave many examples. "Driving a car without a valid license" is not an item for-sale for which there is a market.

Of COURSE you can legally prohibit people. But if there is an item for-sale that people want, you are not going to stop them from getting it; all you will accomplish is to create a black market. And that market will always be fueled by the people ruthless enough to operate the supply side. The more desirable the item, the more thriving of a black market you'll have, and the harder it will be to prosecute any "war on" that market.

There is no "market" for "driving without a license," as there's no item for sale.

skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Apr 29, 2016 - 01:25pm PT
Hmmm, flip flop forgot "idol of idiot worshippers", one of my own personal favorites... Although "fusty nut with no kernel" is another one not listed. Going to have to see some summer Shakespeare....
overwatch

climber
Arizona
Apr 29, 2016 - 01:44pm PT
Man that is one messed-up story ZBrow

Mr Hawks was a warrior, we should all comport ourselves so well in a situation so dire

I like those too skreediesea.
zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 29, 2016 - 06:39pm PT
Quote Here - OK. "Yoou don't neeed a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."


"Driving a car without a valid license" is not an item for-sale for which there is a market.

Wrong. There most certainly is a black market [where money changes hands] for illicit licenses. Call it whatever you wish. It's a commodity which I don't track. Perhaps Reilly knows.

ovrW:

By and Large the good guys like Mr. Hawks are dominating our world, but one or a couple "foul lumps of deformity" can make for an overpowering stench that clogs up our perceptions of what the world is really like.



overwatch

climber
Arizona
Apr 29, 2016 - 08:58pm PT
I have trained and worked and been friends with many such men, honorable professionals out there for us every day. And humanity owes all of them a debt for if just one generation went by without such men the human race would cease to exist
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