1 & 2: Iran is calling it terrorism:

#5 Awesome! I'm glad you dug it.

The story states there is an audio recording of the original exchange. This student will win if it goes to court, so long as the recording backs his version of events. The story indicates that it does.

#12 I agree.

I love living in Cali for the most part. I'm saddened about the state of the urban areas nowadays. San Diego is still my favorite place I've ever lived. I am itching to move north soon - probably the Greater SF Bay Area, but not in the city itself.

My favorite restaurant in SF: Lucky Creation Vegetarian Restaurant. So, so good!

Back in the 1990s, I found a body in the All American Canal just west of Yuma. It's not something I want to see (or smell) again.

I like pop tarts.

53 Exactamundo.

48 That's some Travis Bickle ----.

47 It's significant because M8 called it wrong earlier in the thread. Isn't he a lawyer or some such? You'd think he'd be the one guy here who wouldn't rush to judgement - especially since RoC and LCL haven't been around for awhile - at least that I've seen.

#44 More like Micah Johnson than McVeigh, is he?

#39 That sounds right to me.

Noah X / Noah Green (?)

Yeah, an NOI member, it seems. More high strangeness.

24 . Yeah, there is a suicide by cop vibe about it. It would seem if it was a terror act, he would not have brought a knife. But who knows? He might have thought the neighbor's dog told him to do it.

Cops now saying it does not appear terror-related. We will see.

It's the guy from Days of Our Lives and Breaking Bad?!?!

For a long time, I thought Q Anon was just a site like 4 Chan for conspiracy people. I had no idea there was actually a guy named Q behind it. Weird.

Are there any SoCal kids here who remember the late, great Tom Hatten?

Fun fact: When I was a kid, I was obsessed with WB cartoons, so I wrote a letter to Mel Blanc (the voice actor who did most of the voices) in care of KTTV in LA. I sent the letter their because in the 1970s, cable was new here and we got three or for LA channels. KTTV showed tons of WB and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Somehow, they got the letter to Mel Blanc. He sent me an autographed photo of himself at a microphone, with all of the cartoon characters he voiced sitting on his shoulders, arms, lapels, etc. I was the king of the neighborhood for a day. That was 1974.

He'll be back. Maybe a return to the USA? FNC? Something more esoteric?

When I was young and working in substations, we used to watch a guy carry a bike on his shoulder across the border every day before they put up the old skids. He'd skip across the rocks in the narrows of the ditch/canal, then about 8 hours later, back again He probably worked at a restaurant in Calexico.. BP knew about it. He wasn't hurting anybody. BP turned a blind eye. I found a dead guy in the AAC once. Not something I ever want to see (or smell) again.

#14 Could be a combo, if they were not part of a program of some kind. In the olden days, the job before last, we used to see vehicles larded like that on those chewed up roads, dirt tops, ditch banks, etc. just hauling ass. They could have been looking for work off the books, or they may have been heading to a safe house. They're everywhere in this valley. They definitely would not have gotten passed BP checkpoints in any direction out of the valley. 8W, 8E, 86, and 111 all have thorough checkpoints - not with 25 people in an SUV.

Probably human trafficking. Field worker programs here usually utilize white buses that collect workers in Calexico. Holtville is a little out of the way.