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Yes he will get more tips. Ponder this thought……. Chapman says he is getting all of these tips, which is probably true although maybe exaggerated. 😀 Would the people giving him tips, be calling the FBI also? I could be wrong but I don’t think so. I don’t see most people saying, “ I think I just saw the guy by a campground, I’m going to call the FBI!!! Oh yeah, and Dog!!”.

At times, yes, in big cases like this. But 99.99% of the time they are false even if not intentionally so. After going to approximately 40,000 crime scenes and speaking with and sometimes interviewing over 100,000 witnesses, I can assure you that there are people that do not want to be seen or known talking to the police. Some will even talk if you can get them alone but they will not voluntarily come in to see you. I was the supervisor on scene of a murder few years ago (a very large crowd had gathered) and I saw a woman off to the side by herself. She made eye contact with me and then with her hand by her side made like a “come here” motion with her index finger. She walked away as if she was leaving the area so I waited and then finally went to where she was hiding. She said I’m not giving you my name and I said I understand. She then said the person you’re looking for is blah blah blah…… That is just a nature of the job. Some people will give you very good information if they think they don’t have to come forward and testify. The woman that talked to me even told me she knew recognized me which is why she was talking to me. She made a comment something like, I know you know the game. She was afraid of the younger officers trying to find a reason to put her in jail to get her name and also terrified of people seeing her talk to the police. So, it does not matter how many tips you get. What matters is that one correct tip. Maybe 15-20 years ago there were some big national search but before the days of instant social media like we have now. I can’t even remember what the guy’s name was or the actual case but he had committed a murder in Florida I think and was on the run. There was information that he might be heading to Mexico and blah blah blah. It was actually even more minute by minute stuff than this case. I had a friend who I trusted called me and said I swear I just saw that guy they’re looking for at a restaurant in Port Arthur. My friend said when I looked at him in the face he turned away and a couple of minutes later he and a girl got up and left. He followed them kind of discreetly outside and saw them leave I think in a white pickup truck and he got a partial license plate but what was interesting was it was from Alabama or Florida or something like that. My reaction was kind of, yeah yeah yeah… But, one of those tips from across the nation is going to be good, we just don’t know which one. So I called the lead investigator, I think for Tampa Bay Police Department but it’s been too long ago. It was a female Sgt and she I had a good time talking with with each other. She asked me if I believe the tip was true. I told her my friend absolutely thought it was true but being that I was about a 15 year (at the time) officer with detective and supervisor experience… uhhhhhh…… do I think he is in PA right now? She got a big laugh out of that also. Yes, on local cases but particularly a national cases like this, you get all kinds of tips. Actually to me this guy Laundrie has a fairly common face when he has about a three or four day beard going. I wouldn’t be surprised if 20,000 people think they saw him and would get on a polygraph to prove it. But with all that, I would bet there are people talking to Chapman that will not call the FBI.

Yes, it is a publicity stunt whether he finds the guy or not. Maybe he will get lucky but Chapman has no special investigative skills. I can guarantee that law-enforcement is pinging every family cell phone, every known credit/debit card, etc. Unless he is living completely off the grid, which is entirely possible, they are going to have more information than Chapman. If he is truly living off the land or getting help from someone but without using any kind of electronic device or card, then he could be anywhere or dead. The fact that Chapman was on scene for a few days and after getting a lot of camera attention, is now looking for a new reality show should be what law-enforcement calls, a clue. I hope Chatman finds the guy and we can get on with the next, missing white girl syndrome.

Oh the drama!! Actually I said nothing about the defense or either team at all. It would take reading comprehension skills to understand that however.

…. and if Chatman manages to get Laundrie (if he’s been out in the woods for several days, can we call him dirty Laundrie), great. The great mystery can end.

Of course it is the media so you have to take it with a grain of salt but I saw a story that came out yesterday. It said Chapman and “his team” which included dogs, searched some islands that a tip said where Laundrie was supposed to be. Chapman’s conclusion was, there’s no evidence that Laundrie had even been there. I think I saw where he made a comment that he was getting hundreds or maybe even thousands of tips. That means a lot of people and money was wasted on a “tip” that concluded that it had no factual basis. Maybe I will call in a tip that he is hiding in Kokomo in the Keys. Maybe his team can search for a few days before they find out that Kokomo is a fictional location. I will say this, it is easier for the average guy on the street to get a tip and not the police. It does not make you an investigator, some people just don’t want to talk with the police out of fear. Many times when we are investigating something, a witness does not really come forward. Other people however come forward and say hey, that girl with the red blouse standing by herself on the corner witnessed the whole thing. The police then go talk with that girl and sometime it is productive and sometime it is not but the point is, the person that actually knew what happened did not come forward. Word gets out on the street however and those people give tips to the police. A person like Chatman might get a tip direct because people might talk to him or anyone else because they are in fear of talking to the police and being made a witness. That is actually why crime stoppers was created. So there is a chance that Chatman could actually get a tip that would lead to something. By the same reason, a person could walk up to any of us and whisper something like, hey, the guy the police are looking for is buying a six pack of beer at the store across the street. If one of us was to go in and catch the guy, that does not make us a good tracker. It means somebody gave us a good tip. Chatman is hoping that someone gives him a tip and does not give law-enforcement the same tip.

Shocking. I thought the convicted murderer was actually concerned with helping law enforcement. I am heartbroken…..

I really don’t have much interest in this game other than it is certainly the game of the week in this district. But, 14.2’s comment makes perfect sense and it’s not apples to oranges. “Look as good” means today. Yes the new coach only has five games. That is all 14.2, can compare it to… not five years from now. The way I read it, as of today they don’t look as good as they did previously. In the future? Who knows? They might have the best defense in the state. This week game isn’t played sometime in the future but in about 40 hours.

You betcha…

That would be discrimination. We tried to pay one to come rain dance at Bulldog Stadium for MCM but none would. We had to resort to watering the field again….

Which way? 😀

Hater!! Nederland is easily the class of this area. I think Dave Campbell’s is basing their ranking off of the fairly deep run last year, beating Crosby in the final, reputation and then won loss record. Nederland might start 5-0 and end with 0-5. I really don’t see how they’re in the top 10 but it is interesting while it lasts.

I think that is the nature of the business. When Faircloth came over from Odessa, I don’t think he brought their staff with him but maybe a coach or two. He did bring in people he thought were good coaches from other programs, maybe that he knew personally, maybe that he coached against or knew their reputation. I can’t imagine a coach from some another far away school saying, this is my dream shot. I have been wanting all of my career to be a line coach at PNG while they’re being coached by a new unproven HC from Odessa. Yes that was intended to be silly but it’s true. I think coaches like he brought in are always looking to move up the food chain no matter the school or coach. It is likely that every coach that was brought in by Faircloth was thinking, this guy might do very good with a well-known program and it might be my ticket to be an offensive coordinator or head coach somewhere else. Again, that’s just the nature of the business. It is true that some people from an area might enjoy coaching in that area or school and not be looking to move up. Nederland, PNG and other programs certainly have coaches that are not looking to move and will remain with a district if allowed for the remainder of their careers. I would actually be kind of shocked if any coaches that came with Faircloth from out of the area were still with him. That would not be the same in a situation like with Matt Burnett or Monte Barrow where they were coaching at their alma mater and had a long time coaching staff with them. imo….

But looking at the UIL rules, I did not see any modification for the point after penalties.

I don’t know the answer of the penalty. I thought the UIL rules were, we go by NCAA rules “except”, and then they change a bunch of rules. Meaning, just because the NCAA does it does not mean the UIL approves it.

It is not technology. It is because there is no one there that is paid to do it. The local news media now is almost nonexistent compared to what it was. That is from regular news to sports to whatever. You can go to any of the local media Facebook pages and see dozens or even hundreds of comments about an incident. Then someone will ask, what about the details, which way did they run, what do they look like, etc. and why wasn’t that information in there? more than likely the reason is, the story was not from a reporter. It was likely from a news release from a police department and sometime copied word for word or it is rewritten saying the same thing. A reporter probably did not show up at the scene although I do see them on rare occasion. I have brought this up before usually in another forum. As a police officer when I used to show up at some kind of major incident (house fire, shooting, robbery, etc.) 30 years ago, once the scene was secured, one of the next steps was to set up an area for the media. They naturally wanted to get close to the scene where they could take pictures or talk to witnesses. I could show up at a large house fire at 2 AM and within about 30 minutes I might be talking to reporters from the Beaumont Enterprise and Port Arthur News and also from the three local television stations. So I would have at least five reporters asking questions and wanting to know details. I think they used to have at least one junior reporter listening to the police and fire scanners at night. I have had a few reporters called me and tell me that they just heard something on the radio and wanted to know if it was worth showing up at the scene. I would not be surprised if any officer that has less than 15 years of experience, has ever talked to or even seen a reporter at a major scene. They surely would not know what I was talking about if I walked up to one and said, where is the media area going to be. I believe it is the same way as sports. At one time the papers had full staffs of reporters for all kinds of new stories. I would not be surprised if newspapers have lost 80% or more of their reporters. I think the technology is what killed it. The news media no longer depends on hiring several persons to drive to locations to find out what is happening. That includes local sports. They have not completely vanished and there are still reporters but they have certainly been cut way back. In my opinion.

It looked to me to be pretty much an even ball game. Either team could’ve won by two touchdowns. They were really two keys to the outcome. 1. 2 turnover returns for touchdowns for Nederland 2. Kyndon Fuselier

Final 38-28

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PNG takes last timeout at 0:55

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Timeout Nederland 4-6 from PNG 35

Intercepted

4th quarter team

Fuselier only does… kickoffs, punts, wide receiver, running back and defensive back.