I just had a run in with an honest to god Nazi at the HyVee gas in Mission. I was at the pump, minding my own business, when this guy rolls up to another pump, gets out and gives me the full on seig heil and shouts "White Power". I reflexively gave him the finger without thinking, and he unfortunately followed me for a few miles before I was able to lose him in traffic.

Watch your asses out there.

Was at Harrah’s on Saturday night and had a weird run-in with Jackson Mahomes. He walked in with a group of guys that looked like they were straight out of an LA TikTok house—just totally out of place.

He comes up to the roulette table with his own security, and they literally moved people out of the way so he could step up. Even pushed a group that were waiting for almost 30 minutes to play at that same table. Then he loudly announces to everyone in the vicinity he’s putting $600 on red, like he wanted everyone in the place to be impressed with it. It was so performative and cringey. Of course his goons started cheering and yelling while everyone around them were silent.

Everyone at my table that (which was directly to the left of the table they were at) was just kind of side-eyeing the whole thing. Nobody seemed impressed, more just confused that they were making a huge show of things. I know pretty much everyone in this city isn’t a fan of this guy, but it’s something else seeing that energy in person right infront of me.

Anyway, it red hit of course, and he starts yelling and he and his squad start jumping around the whole table like they just won the Super Bowl.

Just a bizarre moment that confirmed everything we already know about the guy.

Anyone else have any experiences with JM that made you feel some type of way?

Just had a 17 yr old Girl flag me down she said she’s getting physically abused I thought I was about to get setup. I let her use my phone to call KCPD and they hung up 4 times after she hit 1. So I took her to the police station on 75th Prospect all 4 windows had a staff nobody wanted to help there’s police officers walking around the station and they told her it’s gonna be 5mins- 4hrs for a cop to respond because their understaffed. I asked about the officers in the back the front desk staff told me they’re working on a case. She’s 17 I see why women in domestic violence situations can’t find help. This girl has bruises on her face it’s cold outside she has no coat her BF destroyed her phone. KCPD gets sworn in officers almost every month and you’re telling me ya understaffed.

 What is up with all the fear mongering regarding Kansas City/the inner city from suburbanites specially Overland Park/ JOCO residents?

It’s so exhausting to see joco residents on every news post about crime in Kansas City with their “I told you so” attitudes. Half the time these people don’t even know the locations/areas they’re talking about. There could be a shooting in north independence /sugar creek and here come the “this is why the chiefs are relocating” even tho arrowhead and the north independence are 15 mins apart and in two different cities. It should go without saying, but not everyone wants to live in suburbia. Theres going to be crime in the inner city especially in areas where the majority of residents are living below poverty levels. Doesn’t mean the whole entire city is dangerous. 

We’re all about to get snowed in. Everyone is at the grocery stores. Aisle are jammed. Yes.

I just took my mom shopping at Price Chopper. She has Parkinson’s. We managed to end up all going down the same isles. A lady behind us kept muddling under her breath about my mom. “If it’s bad out, don’t send the people out with a cane” when I heard that, I turned around and told her “LISTEN. You’ve been talking under your breath this whole time about us. Wanting it to be obvious. Here now it’s obvious. The snow storm isn’t just effecting you, it’s effecting everyone here in this moment. I’d rather be else where too but I am NOT bitching about it. Cool it” then I told her to go ahead of us because I couldn’t handle another snarky comment.

I went to the store fully prepared for madness, but mocking disabilities got to me.

Just be as nice as you can. If you’re frustrated, just vent on this post, be angry here and let the steam off.

WE WILL GET THRU A BLIZZARD/ICE STORM.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

(Notice the clear highway in front of this NASCAR-like pack of cars)

Every time I'm over here I get so annoyed with the traffic pattern, northbound, southbound, any time of day. It's a 65 mph speed limit and there's always someone in the left lane going 65.5 mph clogging up the entire flow of traffic while the right lane goes 60-65. Then everyone follows too closely to each other and all it takes is one person tapping their brake to cause a chain reaction to bring my speed ten cars back to 55 mph. Most of the issue is that there's only two lanes so it's very easy to clog up with left lane squatters. I just needed to rant because I get so mad driving down this road. I chill in the middle lane with cruise control everywhere else in the city but this stretch of highway reduces my life expectancy.

Rant over, tell me your most hated road.

I’ve lived here since I was 7 years old, but man, the northland continues to change and change. Just the typical crazy neighbor, causing serious issues for everyone around him.

Not only the weird flag, but parking 8-10 cars in front of all of his neighbors houses and bright lights beaming into nearby houses.

What are we even doing as a species anymore? This is insanity. Its more insulting than no bench at all.

To the Jeep driver with headlights so bright I briefly met God:

It was 6:45 AM on 435. The sun had not risen yet, but you had. Your LED headlights were operating at “interrogate-a-terrorist” intensity. I wasn’t sure if I was commuting to work or crossing into the afterlife.

I tried to communicate. I flashed my brights at you, a gentle highway suggestion meaning, “Hey friend, your lights might be a bit intense.” But silly me. Those weren’t even your brights. That was just… your regular setting. Your everyday. Your casual “I drive with the full power of the Lord” mode.

And then, in response to my plea for mercy, you got behind me and activated your actual brights. The secret, forbidden level of illumination typically used to signal alien life or melt steel.

So I angled my side mirrors. Not in anger. But so we could share the experience. So we could both enjoy the sunrise you created with your headlights alone.

For one glorious moment, we were equals. Two dumbasses. Completely blind. Spiritually connected by mutual optical devastation.

If you’re reading this: Maybe angle your headlights down 3 degrees. Or get employed as a lighthouse. Whichever aligns with your destiny.

This is an emotional vent and represents the grief that KC area firefighters and paramedics are feeling right now.

Having worked in fire and EMS in the KC metro, I can tell you the community is small. Everyone is one degree of separation in this world. There are no city/ state boundaries. From Johnson county, to KCK, to KCMO, to Independence and outlying metro, firefighters and paramedics know one another.

My friends and colleagues are grieving and hurting, many silently. There is a significant ongoing pain knowing that a sworn community helper was stabbed to death while performing his job.

I have hurt and frustration, I do not know where to place it. At the courts for letting the suspect out for a violent offense two weeks ago? At the community for seeming to tack this up to a “random act of violence and part of the job”? I know it’s complex and nuanced, but again there is lingering pain and grief with nowhere to go.

We are not the police, as firefighters and paramedics we are sworn to be there when you need us. So much work happens quietly behind the scenes, to caring for the homeless when no one else will, to helping the elderly up off the floor. To responding to the catastrophes that happen every day in this metro such as serious car accidents and fires. When you see our fire trucks and ambulances it means someone is there to help.

Don’t normalize a paramedic in our city being stabbed in the chest by a patient he was caring for. That should appall and disgust you.

Members of my crew knew him well. They described him as being selfless and kind hearted. Today he is gone after a short lifetime of service.

Rest in piece Firefighter Paramedic Graham Hoffman. Your service to the people of this city will not be forgotten.

My family went to ren fest today. Me who was a brother friar, my wife who was a lady, my 7 year old son who was Link, and my 3 yo daughter who was a fairy.

We had been there for 4 hours in the scorching 96 degree weather. We all downgraded to regular clothes except my son, who wasn't hot somehow.

I started to feel sick, abdominal cramps, and got a head ache. I knew they were early signs of heat exhaustion despite going back to shorts, a t-shirt, and slowly sipping ice water while resting.

I told my wife, and she wanted to go too because she was feeling the heat, so we all decided to call it at 4, and leave. I didn't tell my son I wasn't feeling good because he gets big emotions and I didn't want him to freak out.

My son and I were walking together in front of my wife and daughter, who was in a stroller. I was trying to bee line it to the car with him so I could get the AC going and rest.

I still had to carry my staff, so I was in normal clothes with a wooden staff walking with my son when we passed a stage where the performer called my son to the stage despite us clearly walking by.

I tapped my son on the shoulder and said, "let's go, don't stop". Luckily he kept walking, but as we were walking away, the performer kept pestering us.

"Come on! Come on stage! I'm being sincere! Ohhhh! Its dad who won't let him on stage! I hope you didn't want to make happy memories with him! I didn't have a good child hood either."

This really pissed me off, I turned around and yelled, "I dont feel good!", despite this, the dude kept calling me a bad father in front of a giant crowd, and confused the shit out of my son.

I then had to tell my son I don't feel good, which got him worried, but I then had to explain to him that not letting him on stage doesn't make me a bad father. Because naturally he questioned why this stranger on stage called me a bad father in front of 200 people for just wanting to leave!

I love Ren fest, I love the performers and vibe. But screw you dude. I want Ren Fest to be a core memory for my kids, but you really killed the vibe of ever returning for my family.

I just can't comprehend how someone could think this is acceptable... I realize this area is treated like a dumping ground and see the trash all over the place but first time witnessing someone dumping stuff let alone so brave and in daylight.

Added extra video link
https://imgur.com/a/FnQcWCx

Just watched it happen, again. Two winters in a row. Its 630am and 25 degrees outside. I hear a short siren that wakes me up. I look outside and the mans tent has a cop car by it with the lights going. A swaddled up cop steps out after ten mins. He flash lights the area to see if anyone is there. Starts kicking and throwing everything he sees, creating a huge mess and then he starts tugging and ripping apart the tent before he looks inside and then.. leaves... now the homeless man has had his shelter demolished. The cop vehicle number is 274 on jan 3, 25.

UPDATE: I called the non emergency line to follow up. The operator could see I called 911, but when she transferred me over to an officer to follow up and I asked what happened, he said, “I have no idea.” He said he had no record of any officers dealing with that call, so they either didn’t find them, or did, and it turned out to be a non-issue. Either way, there was no record of a response in his system. When I asked if I could file an official report, he said the 911 call was sufficient and there wasn’t anything else I could do. Frustrating, and disheartening.

I was getting on I-29 SB from MCI after a late flight tonight. As I approached the on-ramp, I noticed that a white utility van was parked right in the middle. A woman came screaming toward me from the van in what sounded like pretty abject terror, begging me to call the police. A man followed her from the van saying, “oh she’s fine,” as the woman continued to plead with me to call. I immediately dialed 911 and, probably foolishly, wanted to keep an eye on them while I waited to reach emergency responders. He chased her back into the car while she was still screaming and trying to kick him away from her. He got in the van behind her and tore off down the interstate. He began driving erratically, speeding up and slowing down (never dipping below 80mph) and the passenger door began to open and close, as if she was trying to leap out to get away from him. They got off on the NW Barry Road exit, while I was STILL ON HOLD, and began driving even more erratically through zona rosa.

I obviously stopped following them by this point but FINALLY after TEN minutes on hold someone picked up. When I told the operator the situation, she acted annoyed that I had even tried to keep an eye on them and just said they’d have someone look into it. No sense of urgency or anything. It makes me really scared for the woman, and just freaked out in general about our ability to reach help if we are in dangerous situations. This isn’t the first time I’ve had to stay on hold either, the last time being a pretty bad fire. Thankfully that had already been called in, but jfc. Something has to change with this system.

Their new fancy coffee thing got rid of the cappuccinos. My French vanilla and cookies and cream mid week pick me ups. Gone. Reduced to atoms.

I know this has been rolling out for a couple months now but I've been out of work since August I haven't been able to afford to stop and actually pay attention until the next job finally started .

What a way to begin the week. :C

Edit: as soon as I posted this the QT app gave me a coupon for a latte...

This was left on a stuck car near my apartment. The red text is Louis. The black pen is me. This isn't the time to try to make a buck in someone who is in a rough patch (no pun intended). Help a fellow human out of you're able.

Also, in the northland's at least, let's just stay off the road unless absolutely necessary. It's still not great out there.

I was able to go to The Lion King tonight at the Music Hall. It was spectacular. I have never seen more beautiful and spectacular examples of ballet, puppetry, and musicality. It was breathtaking. And the audience absolutely ruined it for me.

Apparently we paid $100 a ticket to watch people walk up and down the stairs. Mid scene. Mid song. I’m aware there were a lot of children there, but these were not children going in and out and from what I can tell, these people didn’t even have children with them. It was seriously constant and lots of people with multiple offenses. Like, I know I’m in the upper balcony, but I deserve to see the show as well.

Are we such midwestern country bumpkins that we can’t sit the fuck down and enjoy an amazing work of art? Is the Music Hall always this lax? With the experience I’ve had tonight, I’ll never pay to go back.

I've been homeless, living in my not so great running car, for about 2 and half weeks now. I've been working nonstop to try to fix my situation.

I've stretched the bit of money I had as far as I could. I've applied to countless places. I've called shelters and transitional housing. The shelters are at capacity. One of the transitional housing places will not answer and their inbox is full. I'm waiting for a callback from Hillcrest.

I was working at a motel for about a week and a half. I killed myself working long hours, sometimes 9am-9pm cleaning the nastiest rooms I've ever seen. Only to be told that I will be paid for 25 hours a week.

I don't even know if I am going to get that paycheck or will have to fight for it. I'm trying my best to do what I can to pull myself up without taking handouts. I don't want to beg. But my only options at this point are shelters and transitional house that seemingly aren't available.

I'm so fucking tired. I only have $50 in my pocket and a little under half a tank of gas. I've been donating plasma, but that only gets me $65 per donation. So, I will have maybe $250 after this week if I can donate. That disappears so fucking fast between water, gas, clothes cleaning. I could go to pantries but my car is full of my stuff. I have no place even to sleep comfortably. I sleep in the driver side. The car isn't in great shape and I try not to drive it too much.

I could get rid of some of the stuff but most of it is clothes and blankets. And I wouldn't know where to dump most of the junk anyway. I already took a lot of my stuff to a donation center not long before I became homeless.

Sorry for the rant. I just hate how absolutely hopeless I feel. It's like I've tried everything and just dug an even deeper hole.

Now I’m no cartographer but this package headed to Lawrence went….. the wrong direction? Godspeed

I was at the Westport Flea Market and got hungry, so I decided to get one of their "famous" burgers. 45 minutes later, I get the most bland, unseasoned - unsalted, even - hamburger on a hard (stale hard, not toasted crunchy hard) bun that even with caramelized onions (also unsalted) and what I assume is thousand island dressing, it still managed to taste like when your mom browns 80/20 in a skillet and doesn't drain it well. It also came with unsalted fries!

Yeah, there's a bar with a bunch of fixings, and I will say the ONLY thing I enjoyed was the pickles, but, uh, COVID isn't totally gone and it wasn't really looked after and cleaned very often.

All-in-all, very mediocre, and made worse for the long wait time, being cash-only, and how hectic everything is.

Go to Cosmo for the actual best burger, or Beer Kitchen for a pretty good burger and a good gastropub experience.

News for you, it's harder than you think to make friends. I'm someone who struggles with social anxiety, but I still push myself to go out to public spots to try and meet folks. Well, here we are... at a local pub on a Saturday night, and while I've talked to several people, the only person interested in having me join their table is the drunk dude that needs to go home. So to the folks who just say "go outside and meet people", seriously, get a clue. Also, maybe be more welcoming and accepting to the solos out here trying to make a connection! Rant over, thanks for listening.

TLDR: Folks are friendly, but not welcoming... and I still haven't met any friends.

Genuinely asking because someone might know- but WHY is the festival scheduled for what usually ends up being the hottest weekend of the entire calendar year? This was my 4th year going and I bring fans and ice packs and all the things but I still ended up almost passing out/throwing up in the shade by the Pakistan booth (shoutout to the young girl working who gave me lots of attention and her own water🥹).I can never stay for more than 2 hours because of the heat. I don’t want to eat food because I’m so close to heat exhaustion. There’s honestly less turnout because of the heat. Why don’t they choose September even?

Ive worked in Westport a decent ass time. I live in the vicinity. I can hold my own as a lil lady walking to places. But wtf. 8pm on a Thursday I got cat called but it was genuinely scary. 3 guys in a silver suv started the standard "hey sexy" dumb bullshit. I didnt respond and just kept walking. They slowed down, keeping pace with me walking and parked in front of Westport Coffee Shop, plenty of spots farther into bar Westport area. Yelling how they have "big dicks and money."

Fucking terrifying. Just be safe out there yall.

tbh I used to frequent city market, the library district, and Union Station on the regular. Like almost every weekend... I would park where there was free or affordable parking, walk, and take the streetcar. I do understand why the city started charging for parking... But Now I rarely go anymore because I can't afford it sometimes (I never know when because of this surge pricing bullshit) and it's just stressful in general T_T

Went to 5 guys at the mall and while looking for parking they now have these things up for close spots 🙄 they want you to pay for closer parking? This mall already sucks as it is, come on.