The Detroit Free Press: Roseville man shot by police after rear-ending patrol SUV, pulling knife on officers
Yep, that is exactly how you do that.
If you ram a police car right outside the police station, and then get out and advance on the officers with a knife in your hand, and refuse to drop the weapon, you are pretty much guaranteed going to get shot.
Attacker is now in hospital with charges pending. No other info on the attacker released at this point.
The last 20 living Israeli hostages have finally been returned. The bodies of the dead have yet to be exchanged.
The Detroit News: Living Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are freed as part of Gaza ceasefire
Unfortunately the release of the hostages meant releasing 1,900 Arabs many of whom were in prison for mass murder and other acts of terrorism.
The exchange rate as demanded by Hamas was practically 100 Arab prisoners for each living Israeli.
This may signal the start of a ceasefire that may hold for awhile.
Well, it will likely hold until Hamas or the PA feel frisky enough to break it again, just as Hamas broke the last ceasefire that was in place on October 7 2023.
Since I was able to draw and hit the target at 7 yards in 1.17 seconds -- once, just once -- that means it is possible for me to do it.
So, I have decided that that is my current shooting skills challenge: A consistent hit on a 7-yard A zone in 1.17 seconds or less from concealment.
This will not be easy, at least not for me, hence a proper challenge.
So today, I set the timer for a part time of 1.5 seconds in an effort to start getting my draw time more consistently lower.
After clearing the room of ammo, which is easy as ammo is never stored in that room, I then triple checked the pistol was clear, holstered up and began to practice.
Spent 25 minutes doing draws on an A-Zone at 7 yards away, trying to make sure I had a good sight picture onn the target and touching the trigger before the second beep.
Sometimes it worked, sometimes I rushed and did not have a good sight picture.
Stopped after getting it down to a consistent draw under 1.5 ending with a the dot right on the target and finger touching the trigger.
Next, I'm going to start chasing the 1.4.
A decent bit of practice, and a step on the way towards the 1.17.
After the range I went home, dropped things off in a secure manner, and did a ruck today on the nature trail.
The leaves are a-changing.
Overcast, but it was a very pleasant day to get out and move about.
I did a 3 mile walk carrying 32 pounds in my ruck in the woods. I did it in an hour, with a varied pace, stopping or often walking at a slow and quiet pace to take the occasional snapshot of the wildlife.
Also got to see the ducks work on the synchronized mooning of passers-by.
It was a nice relaxing activity outdoors in very enjoyable weather.
I've been doing some dry fire practice this week, every other night after work to see if I can show some improvement.
Went to the range this morning to find out.
Best time was 1.51 seconds, worst was 2.19 from way over-confirming the target after a miss of the A zone into the C area of the target. Average of the 18 was 1.69, and four missing charlies, all off to the left of the A-Zone.
Then on to some Bill Drills.
Average time for 6 Bills was 3.57 with the fastest at 3.22.
Then back to some 1x7s.
18 of them. Fastest was a flow-state hit in 1.17! Everything just jelled for that shot - from reacting to the beep, to the draw, to the presentation felt amazing. That was rather happy-making.
Average of the 18 was 1.61 with 4 of the 18 being charlies. So I was showing some speed improvement in the second round.
My fastest times other than the solitary 1.17 were 1.40, with two of those smacking the A-Zone, and the best average time for an 18-shot 1x7 string was 1.57. Lots to work on there.
More Bill drills, with the best one of the day finally getting into the sub-3 second range with a 2.95 clean, which was nice.
So the dry fire is likely helping quite a bit as my times are down form before. Will track this a bit more as I continue to practice and we will see how it goes.
After finishing 200 rounds through the PDP, I switched to the Tavor TS-12 and practiced some ammo select drills. I worked on switching the ammo type form what was in the primary tube to a different ammo selection.
I now have the action sequence down to do Ammo Selection Drills for the Tavor.
The sequence goes:
1. Feed substitute ammo into a non-active tube.
2. Rotate non-active tube to feeding position.
3. Smack the shell carrier lever.
4. Work the action, which removes the current round from the chamber and replaces it with the substitute ammo into the chamber.
5. Fire the substitute round onto the target.
I find I am getting quicker with it with practice, and that adds to this shotgun's versatility.
It was a solid practice session at the range.
The Detroit Free Press: Detroit student stabbed by classmate whose mother snuck a knife into school, officials say.
A student was stabbed by a classmate during school Wednesday at Gompers Elementary-Middle School, according to officials.
The stabbing occurred after the child’s mother reportedly gave her child a “small knife,” said a statement from the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
How did the eighth grader get the knife in past the metal detectors? Mom.
The mother entered the school through a metal detector that went off, the district said. The school’s security guard did not search the mother, according to DPSCD.
Bit of a security lapse there, and the guard was suspended for that breach in security.
Meanwhile, mom and child were arrested for the stabbing.
Yet another set of attorneys are being properly sanctioned for using an AI tool that created fake caselaw and citations that the attorneys filed with the court.
The attorneys did not verify that the answer was actually truthful and the cited cases actually both existed and stood for the proposition the response claimed they did.
The citations in fact neither stood for that position nor even actually existed in reality as AI had completely fabricated them.
That is a problem.
Filing fraudulent cases then led to appropriate sanctions on the attorneys when court staff checked and saw they did not actually exist.
This is not the first time this has occurred, and you would think attorneys would have wised up by now and figured out that AI provides a response to your prompt, but that response is not necessarily going to be truthful and at times is completely fraudulent and it is incumbent on you to verify any answer it may give.
At this point if AI tells you the sky is blue, you need to stick your head out the door and verify it, otherwise you're going to miss the very visible oncoming storm that will bite you.
When you're filing a document with the court, it is on you to verify what you are filing is truthful and correct and crucially that the citation supporting your position actually exist.
Too many attorneys are taking shortcuts trying to save time and using AI tools that do not give valid and correct answers but are not just spouting answers it thinks you want to hear, but are actively producing fabricated citations to back up the false information.
Since AI is this provably bad at providing factual answers for legal questions, what other things are people relying upon and using it for that also will be shown to be fabrications and false?
So the visit concluded, I got ready to return homeward.
Weather forecast was good, all electronic border crossing stuff was done, and I went to the Island.
I checked out of the FBO, did the pre-flight and got ready to depart.
I had the more complicated departure procedure with transition and arrival procedure already filed as I figured they would give it to me anyways, so might as well.
They did.
So I did the run up and took off from Runway 26 and began the departure procedure, turning south over the Lake as I did so climbing to 2,000 feet which isn;t a lot when you're over the Big Lake.
However, Toronto Center soon climbed me higher and I was first cleared to 3,000 then 4,000 and finally up to 6,000.
The problem was a cloud layer that decided to be right at my flight level.
Yep, I was soon in IMC.
I would then be in and out of IMC for most of the flight, getting some light precip in the clouds and experiencing everything from mostly light chop to moderate chop, on to moderate turbulence and one episode of severe turbulence which was not fun as it put the nose up at a very high angle and my airspeed started rapidly dropping into stall territory until it let up.
Trying to cloimb out didn;t help, I climbed up to 8,000 and was free for a bit but then a set of clouds from 10,000-5,000 feet loomed ahead. so it was in and out of IMC for most of the flight.
On top of that, beverage selection was quite limited.
Finally by the border the clouds lifted enough so 6,000 was just under the worst of it.
A nice easy handoff to Selfridge ANGB controllers and across the border I went.
Then I got the ATIS at Pontiac and was handed off to Detroit Approach.
Detroit Approach then had to give me some delay vectors as everybody had chosen to arrive at Pontiac just as I was coming in qnd he needed to create spacing to handle all the planes coming in.
The controller at Detroit Approach did an impressive job perfectly sequencing all the traffic in for landing with excellent separation and I was soon doing a visual straight in approach to 27L, which I backed up with an RNAV approach for practice as well.
I landed with a great landing, very nice and smooth and where I wanted to land. I went to Customs, got cleared, and then taxi'd to the north side of the airport and shut down and took care of the plane.
That's 2.6 hours with .5 bouncing around in IMC, and a great landing.
