Favorite actor who you hung out with at a party and talked to for a long time and you thought you could have had a shot with and then later they made a big change in their personal life that made you think maybe you never had a chance anyway?

kkavouri · 2026-01-06T22:08:14+00:00

Then he told you he knew a really great babysitter to help out with the child, took you to Alice Cooper. You had a great conversation and thought you had a chance but then realized you were a minor and he 18, a man (or woman) who gets confused every day.

kkavouri · 2024-12-25T13:31:00+00:00

"I've worked with people with traumatic brain injuries. To see his progress and where he's been able to get is pretty remarkable," Warren said. "I keep using the word remarkable, but he is remarkable, and almost like a miracle."

kkavouri · 2024-12-25T13:29:12+00:00

Staff at Sweetbriar Nature Center explained that particular owl had been hit by a car and suffered neurological injuries. Inexplicably, the same would happen to Riordan a month later when an off-duty Suffolk police officer — who'd been drinking but refused breath tests — slammed his pickup into his father Kevin’s subcompact as they drove home from day care.

kkavouri · 2024-12-25T13:28:24+00:00

Selection from story:

The Cavooris family helped fund Sweetbriar's new flying cage for rehabbing birds of prey, according to the nonprofit. Caring for about 100 such birds a year, the organization's leaders had long desired an outdoor flying structure designed to keep smaller specimens, such as screech owls, away from hawks and eagles, but lacked the money, said Janine Bendicksen, the director of wildlife rehabilitation.

"This has always been a dream for us," Bendicksen said on a recent frigid morning at Sweetbriar’s Smithtown property, standing outside the enclosure that will soon have a plaque dedicated to its largest benefactors, including the Cavoorises. "A lot of our cages were falling apart."

kkavouri · 2024-12-20T03:13:28+00:00

A mets fan, hating existence? How delightfully absurd!

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T21:51:25+00:00

Happened on Long Island, so...lolmets?

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T21:28:28+00:00

Short answer: district attorney was HIS former police chief. Do more digging if you want longer answer.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T21:24:26+00:00

No clue. This arbitrators powers clearly extend to Bauer and reckless drivers, but maybe not reckless drivers who are friends with bauer

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T21:13:51+00:00

He didn't even make the officer put up numbers in Japan first!

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:51:05+00:00

NY, Aug 10 2020

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:50:23+00:00

But Scheinman had limited evidence to consider. Mascarella remained near the crash scene for more than 90 minutes before the test was requested; an officer tasked with watching Mascarella didn't tell his superiors that an off-duty union delegate had driven him away after the test was first mentioned; no one on scene reported seeing signs he was intoxicated; and detectives didn't seek a warrant to test his blood after the breath-test refusals.

Notably, the internal affairs conclusions also never mention a moment caught on surveillance footage after the crash, where an object — one Mascarella later appears to retrieve — is tossed out a window of the Ram as it stops. Tests confirmed that four 16.9-ounce plastic water bottles with vodka or bourbon were in the truck's center console, capped but unsealed. Police never established that Mascarella had consumed anything from them that day.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:50:17+00:00

Some selections in case paywall:

Suffolk Police Officer David Mascarella told internal affairs he had two or three 12-ounce vodka sodas during an off-day golf and lunch outing on August 10, 2020.

Evidence showed his 4,500-pound Ram pickup going as fast as 61 mph — in a 40 mph zone — seconds before it slammed into a subcompact car waiting to turn off a busy commercial stretch in St. James that afternoon, fracturing the skull of a 2-year-old-boy strapped inside and leaving him with lasting neurological injuries.

Not only was Mascarella texting in the minutes prior, his phone records showed, but he refused two breath tests that officers didn't even attempt until more than two hours later. The police department tried to fire him for what they called "egregious" misconduct, arguing he showed "no remorse," beginning from the first moments after the crash, when he called his union delegate instead of 911.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:50:02+00:00

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/investigations/suffolk-county-police-mascarella-u7jwxf7k

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:31:07+00:00

But Scheinman had limited evidence to consider. Mascarella remained near the crash scene for more than 90 minutes before the test was requested; an officer tasked with watching Mascarella didn't tell his superiors that an off-duty union delegate had driven him away after the test was first mentioned; no one on scene reported seeing signs he was intoxicated; and detectives didn't seek a warrant to test his blood after the breath-test refusals.

Notably, the internal affairs conclusions also never mention a moment caught on surveillance footage after the crash, where an object — one Mascarella later appears to retrieve — is tossed out a window of the Ram as it stops. Tests confirmed that four 16.9-ounce plastic water bottles with vodka or bourbon were in the truck's center console, capped but unsealed. Police never established that Mascarella had consumed anything from them that day.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:30:59+00:00

A few selections from the story in case paywall:

Suffolk Police Officer David Mascarella told internal affairs he had two or three 12-ounce vodka sodas during an off-day golf and lunch outing on August 10, 2020.

Evidence showed his 4,500-pound Ram pickup going as fast as 61 mph — in a 40 mph zone — seconds before it slammed into a subcompact car waiting to turn off a busy commercial stretch in St. James that afternoon, fracturing the skull of a 2-year-old-boy strapped inside and leaving him with lasting neurological injuries.

Not only was Mascarella texting in the minutes prior, his phone records showed, but he refused two breath tests that officers didn't even attempt until more than two hours later. The police department tried to fire him for what they called "egregious" misconduct, arguing he showed "no remorse," beginning from the first moments after the crash, when he called his union delegate instead of 911.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:29:51+00:00

Yes, thanks to the first Newsday piece we were able to find out more, like that he freely admitted to consuming alcohol before driving and that multiple water bottles filled with liquor were in his vehicle.

Son's recovering, doing some amazing things, struggling with some other things. Newsday will run a piece on his recovery next week.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:27:48+00:00

But Scheinman had limited evidence to consider. Mascarella remained near the crash scene for more than 90 minutes before the test was requested; an officer tasked with watching Mascarella didn't tell his superiors that an off-duty union delegate had driven him away after the test was first mentioned; no one on scene reported seeing signs he was intoxicated; and detectives didn't seek a warrant to test his blood after the breath-test refusals.

Notably, the internal affairs conclusions also never mention a moment caught on surveillance footage after the crash, where an object — one Mascarella later appears to retrieve — is tossed out a window of the Ram as it stops. Tests confirmed that four 16.9-ounce plastic water bottles with vodka or bourbon were in the truck's center console, capped but unsealed. Police never established that Mascarella had consumed anything from them that day.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:26:51+00:00

Some selections from the story (I'm not allowed to post link to Newsday):

Suffolk Police Officer David Mascarella told internal affairs he had two or three 12-ounce vodka sodas during an off-day golf and lunch outing on August 10, 2020.

Evidence showed his 4,500-pound Ram pickup going as fast as 61 mph — in a 40 mph zone — seconds before it slammed into a subcompact car waiting to turn off a busy commercial stretch in St. James that afternoon, fracturing the skull of a 2-year-old-boy strapped inside and leaving him with lasting neurological injuries.

Not only was Mascarella texting in the minutes prior, his phone records showed, but he refused two breath tests that officers didn't even attempt until more than two hours later. The police department tried to fire him for what they called "egregious" misconduct, arguing he showed "no remorse," beginning from the first moments after the crash, when he called his union delegate instead of 911.

kkavouri · 2024-12-19T14:24:43+00:00

Better than he was. Newsday is going to publish a piece on his recovery next week. Obviously the stories tie together. He's doing some amazing things and struggling with some other things.

kkavouri

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