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Things aren't looking good for the so-called friend...

 

You knew that was not going to end well, story was too off / weird.

Thoughts and prayers to the family, losing a child, oh man....

 

I gotta call fail on the search for that poor kid who probably (only my stupid opinion) got killed by his so called friend.
I've been on most of the perimeter of that park. It is not all that much area. If I was involved in a search for someone missing from that park; I would have made sure to cover every bit of the perimeter.
Report says the rain helped in recovery. To me that means either a very shallow grave or some brush pile or similar. Both of those should have been visible to searchers before the rain.
Maybe details will come out to prove me wrong later. But, I feel fairly confident in my assessment.
No matter how it went down, I feel really bad for the family and friends of the poor kid.

 

Poor kids. One life taken, one life ruined. Two families devastated.

 

"Friend" arrested... Both of my kids have ties to that park. I can't imagine. Can't.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01...dy-was-found-this-week-in-a-lake-forest-park/

High school friend arrested in case of Blaze Bernstein, whose body was found this week in a Lake Forest park
By Tony Saavedra and Scott Schwebke | Southern California News Group
January 12, 2018 at 3:19 pm

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Sheriff's investigators escort a suspect in the Blaze Bernstein murder case into their offices in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, Jan 12, 2018. (Photo by Ken Steinhardt, Orange County Register/SCNG)

SANTA ANA – A friend of slain pre-med student Blaze Bernstein was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with the death of the University of Pennsylvania sophomore, whose body was found near a Foothill Ranch park on Tuesday, a week after the 19-year-old disappeared.

Samuel Woodward, 21, was taken into custody Friday shortly after leaving his home in Newport Beach, according to a source with knowledge of the case. Woodward had told homicide investigators that he drove Bernstein to Borrego Ranch Park on Jan. 2, the night Bernstein disappeared.

Around 1:15 p.m., two sheriff’s investigators brought the handcuffed man to the Orange County Jail. He had on a sweatshirt that read, “Keep the peace.”

The suspect and the arrested man had attended the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana at the same time at one point.

“Finally,” Blaze Bernstein’s mother said on on Twitter. “My thoughts are: Revenge is empty. It will never bring back my son. My only hopes are that he will never have the opportunity to hurt anyone else again and that something meaningful can come from the senseless act of Blaze’s murder. Now Do Good for Blaze Bernstein.”

Woodward appeared nervous while being interviewed by sheriff’s investigators, before the body had been found, saying Bernstein walked into the park after exiting the vehicle and he didn’t see him again, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained earlier this week by the Southern California News Group.

According to the affidavit, Woodward said he left the park, visited a girlfriend and went back to look for Bernstein hours later in the early morning. Woodward’s hands were scratched and had dirt on them one of the times he was interviewed by detectives, the document says. He told them the scratches and dirt came from participating in a fight club.
Woodward, according to the affidavit, said he did not remember his girlfriend’s last name or where she lived. While leaving the sheriff’s facility during an interview, he covered his hands with clothing before touching the door knobs, the affidavit says.

Officials say they will talk about the case later this afternoon with the media.

This story is developing.

 

He's having a really bad day...not to compare to the dead student, but what the hell was he thinking?

 

I found a very small tick Crawling on my leg after a reverse Strawberry ride.
The trails are brushed back nicely but there is always something out there to run into or against.
It died a horrible death under the blade of a knife and above a granite countertop...POP!

 

Santa Ana makes the news!

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...visory-board-members-quit-disgust/1039551001/

9 of 12 members on National Parks Advisory Board resigned. I wonder if they will replace them with any board members of IMBA and if that would be good or bad at this point...

 

IMBA sounds like a 4 letter word.. I think I'd opt for some of these guys: http://www.sustainabletrailscoalition.org/#home

 

You sir are a tick magnet

 

I actually think I picked up that tick the day before I rode Strawberry. I was on a survey of a soon-to-be-open trail and got into way deeper brush and bushwacking. That little bastard was probably hanging out in my gear bag overnight just waiting to get some of that Rossage sweetness...

 

I'm thinking that you did in fact pick it up the day before. But after it got a whiff of you, it turned it's nose up and simply stayed on for the ride until something actually edible brushed by so that it could get off of you. I have never had sympathy for a tick until now.

 

You don't have to be a tick about it.

 

I'm tickled

 

Aren't we all waiting for some of that????

 

X-Infinity --->

 

Died a rocker's death. What a waste.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-pettys-cause-of-death-accidental-overdose-w515472

 

Sadness.

The opiate and the damage done. God damn the pusher man. Pharma is him.

 

Giant Factory Off Road Team 2018 is running DVO for this year.


My boy McKay's sweet ass Reign.

 

I'm pre-approved for an installment loan from an actual company at an APR of 189%. Does that sound like a good idea? I could get some carbon wheels!

 

The check cashing/payday loan industry is being forced to seek other means of ripping people off I guess. It’s about time they cracked down on those scams but then again, if you’re enough of a sucker than it’s your own fault. Crazy how much interest people will pay and they whine that it’s their only way to make ends meet. Maybe they should ditch the smartphone and eating out 4x a week first. Even people on the (soon to be dismantled) riverbed encampment have solar panels to charge their smartphones.

 

Best rate I have ever heard of (for the lender)!

 

And it comes with a 100% unconditional no pay back we break both your knees and take your house guarantee! Customers love it!!!

 

The pissing match continues between OCFA and OCSD

https://patch.com/california/sanjuancapistrano/helicopter-war-could-horrible-disaster-oc-supervisor-says

It's like Uber vs Lyft, they should probably just make a rescue app for your phone

 

Easy to fix. Since we already pay the taxes to provide this, remove any additional financial incentives such as charging the airliftee (is that even a word?) and watch how fast OCSD stops trying to get there first.

Just sayin

 

Seriously, what the hell is OCSD doing with medics?
If I was the Supes, I'd tell Hutchens to drop the medics and stay in her lane.
As a Supe, they control her budget for that.

 

Yup, just a money grab scheme from OCSD.

 

I wonder what Linda payed?? Or did she even have to?