RADIO-RELATED STUFF: MI HAVEN'T POSTED ONE OF THESE IN A WHILE BECAUSE MY INTEREST IN RADIO HAS DECREASED SO MUCH

Congratulations to Lindsay Heron on becoming the afternoon newscaster on 95.5 and Cool 100 Belleville.

Picked up 96.1 The Breeze Buffalo Monday night with adult contemporary music.

Picked up K-Love Buffalo last night with Christian contemporary music and female anncr taking live phone calls including from a kid on his birthday.

Picked up the Family Life station from upstate New York on 88.5 this evening with automated Christian contemporary music.

Picked up Froggy 97 Watertown with "Seven Till Midnight" with automated country music and commercials including for Jefferson County Fair. 

WOMAN SOWS ROOMMATE'S LIPS SHUT

New York Post

 

Twisted woman sews roommate’s lips shut in horrifying attack in Japan

By Chris Nesi

Published July 9, 2026, 12:54 p.m. ET

 

A twisted Japanese woman sewed her roommate’s lips shut “with a needle and thread,” sending the victim rushing out into the streets with a hand-written sign reading “please help me.”

 

The 42-year-old victim was initially too scared to flee the house in the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki in Tokyo’s northeast because she was too terrified of her 49-year-old roommate, Masae Sakurai, according to reports.

 

But once Sakurai wasn’t home, the sewed-up woman managed to escape, put on a white mask to hide the gruesome sight and rush to a nearby shop, NHK reported.

 

Unable to speak, the victim held up her handwritten help sign, prompting an employee to call police, NHK reported.

 

She then told police that Sakurai “became angry over a trouble and my lips were sewed,” according to the Telegraph.

 

Local media reported her mouth had been pierced with a needle several times, entering her skin underneath her nose and exiting through the bottom of her lower lip.

 

The threading was done in such a way that it passed through the inside of her mouth, which made it difficult to see the string.

 

It was not immediately clear how Sakurai managed to pull off the attack, nor what “trouble” angered her, but she was arrested on suspicion of assault.

 

The women had been living together since April, Kyodo News wrote.

 

People who know Sakurai told TV Asahi that she would often let people who ran away from home stay with her, and even helped them find jobs, one of her former coworkers telling the outlet she had a penchant for “taking care of girls who have nowhere to go after reaching out to their parents.”

FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR JUMPS FROM PLANE TO HIS DEATH, LEAVING STUDENT PILOT TO LAND PLANE BY HERSELF

New York Post

 

Flight instructor jumps to his death during lesson, leaving student pilot to land plane by herself

By Nicholas McEntyre

Published July 9, 2026, 4:31 a.m. ET

 

An Argentinian flight instructor jumped out of a plane to his death in the middle of a flying lesson — after telling his student, “You know what you have to do,” and leaving her to land the aircraft by herself.

 

Leandro Andrés Bertazzo was identified as the instructor who bailed out of the Cessna 150G aircraft over the central Argentinian town of Toledo on July 4, abandoning his underling in the process, the Attorney General Carlos Gonella’s office announced.

 

“You know what you have to do, carry on,” Bertazzo told 22-year-old Rosario, Argentinian outlet Todos Noticias (TN) reported.

 

Bertazzo then unbuckled from his seat, removed his headset, opened the plane door and jumped out.

 

Rosario, who has a private pilot’s license, alerted officials at the Flying Parrot flight school in Córdoba to the mid-air tragedy and was guided through emergency protocols to safely land the training plane.

 

The student was left shaken over the traumatic incident, but was commended for her ability to pilot the aircraft safely to the ground.

 

“Very clear, decisive, mature, and professional,” Flying Parrot director Eduardo Álvarez said of Rosario, according to the outlet. “She was very shaken, but with complete professionalism, she piloted the plane to the airfield and landed perfectly. She maintained a very high level of training and professionalism.”

 

Álvarez spotted Bertazzo’s body during a search flight roughly 15 minutes after the jump and reported the location to first responders a field in a rural area of Córdoba.

 

Bertazzo was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Álvarez, who worked closely with Bertazzo, didn’t understand why his instructor jumped out of the plane.

 

“He made this tragic decision aboard an aircraft with one other person by his side. There’s no way to think about it or understand it, but the human mind is so complex, so treacherous. That’s why what happened, happened,” Álvarez said, according to the outlet.

 

Prosecutors have opened an investigation into Bertazzo’s death after seizing the aircraft to determine the circumstances leading up to the fatal plunge, the attorney general said Tuesday.

 

Bertazzo allegedly had been suffering mentally and had checked himself into a clinic for mental health, unbeknownst to anyone but his close relatives, the outlet reported.

 

“He had been in a neuropsychiatric institute, but nobody knew about it. Only his family,” Álvarez revealed.

 

Bertazzo kept his struggles hidden as no one at the flight school noticed anything off with him.

 

“There’s a very close student-instructor relationship in a professional sense, but none of those who flew with him, nor those of us who saw him, could detect that he was going to make that decision to jump out of an aircraft. Obviously, something was up,” Álvarez told TN.

 

The training plane was left undamaged, including the door.

 

Officials were mystified by Bertazzo’s jump, saying it is difficult to open the aircraft’s doors midflight, comparing it to opening a car door while driving roughly 125 mph.

 

Bertazzo was a veteran pilot with years of experience and multiple licenses, including working as an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP), a first-class commercial pilot, and a flight instructor.

 

He briefly worked in neighboring Chile during his career, the outlet reported.

 

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.

ENRAGED PLANE PASSENGER SHOCKED AT OBLIVIOUS FAMILY'S BEHAVIOUR

New York Post

 

Enraged plane passenger shocked at oblivious family’s behavior: ‘They stood there almost the entire flight’

By Ben Cost

Published Sep. 24, 2025, 9:11 a.m. ET

 

This is not what they meant by “standing on business.”

 

A male passenger who paid a premium price for an exit row seat with extra legroom was appalled after an oblivious family invaded his space for the duration of his flight.

 

He detailed this bizarre flightmare in a viral post on the Dull Men’s Fun Club page on Facebook.

 

The passenger had reportedly been flying across Europe with his sister and niece. They had paid an extra €30 ($35) each for the more spacious seating accommodations — which seemed worth it given the four-hour flight time, according to his post.

 

However, the flyer’s dreams of a comfy flight soon crashed and burned.

 

“A dad and his two kids decided that the emergency door window right next to us was the most fascinating thing they’d ever seen,” wrote the poster. “They stood there almost the entire flight, leaning over us, pointing, chatting loudly, and completely blocking the space we paid extra for.”

 

Go figure: the passenger didn’t take too kindly to the interlopers treating his area like a standing room theater in the sky. But despite calling the flight attendant over three separate times to get them to move, the barb-air-rians “just kept coming back.”

 

“The third time the FA [flight attendant] came to tell them to sit down, she was already pissed off and warned them this would be the last time she tells them to move,” the traveler recalled. “Sometimes I wish Europe was as strict as the US with the no-fly lists.”

 

Commenters sympathized with the man’s in-flight plight with one writing, “this really annoys me on flights — yes, I get people need to stretch their legs — but that shouldn’t be at the cost of invading other passengers space.”

 

“I would have asked them to move or get the attendant to move them,” declared another. “Children should not be loitering by an emergency exit.”

 

“Just call the flight attendant over and tell them you saw the kid trying to open the door,” quipped a third.

 

Other flyers complained in the comments about similar stories of having their legroom hijacked by standing passengers.

 

“I paid £400 ($538) for extra legroom in two seats from Manchester to New York only to find the space was going to be the holding queue for the toilets,” recounted one.

 

This violation certainly seemed like a departure from the normal space invasions in the sky, which have entailed everything from seat squatting to not keeping one’s feet to themselves.

 

One mom sat in a row with her kids and said to her kids: “Don’t unpack yet,” relayed a witness who detailed this encounter in a viral Reddit post. “Mom is anxiously refreshing the seating chart in the app.”

 

They weren’t trying to upgrade — but more so attempting to game the seating system.

 

“They were watching the seating chart like hawks, hoping the seats don’t get booked, waiting for the door to close, because they wanted to take over an empty row!” the poster added.

 

And the scrappy squatters succeeded with this seat-stealing tactic.

A LOVE LETTER TO MY HOMETOWN

I currently reside in my hometown, having moved here when I was five from a farm near another small town just seven miles away. Though over the years I've thought of moving, I am now content with the fact where I'm living is home.

 

Some people have suggested I move to Toronto. However, these people don't realize the fact a disabled person gets the same amount of government financial assistance per month no matter where they live. I'm just sort of managing to live where I do now on the 1400 dollars I get from the provincial government. I can't imagine what it would be like trying to make out on that amount in the city. There'd be plenty of things to do, but I couldn't afford to eat, let alone partake of the plethora of fun and enriching events.

 

Additionally, I once ran into a young woman who had a brother who was also blind and lived there. She related how he had fallen in the hole of a construction sight while the workers just stood there watching. She also told how her brother had given someone a twenty dollar bill so the person could buy cigarettes for him, only to be told the bill her brother knew to be a twenty was actually a ten and that her brother owed the person ten more dollars.

 

Contrary to moving to a bigger centre, a disabled person living in a small town as I do just has to adapt to and embrace a few things.

 

First of all, though there isn't the range of activities as in a city, there's always something to do, or at least this is the case in the town in which I reside. There may be only one concert in the park or card party at the Legion you can get to, but if you're flexible enough and are willing to go along, you'll have fun, meet people you know and have some good conversation into the bargain.

 

Second, there isn't public transit, but it's a matter of building connections with folks who are willing to give you a ride. I often joke my small town does have public transportation. Start walking in the general direction of whereever you wish to go. After a while, a friend, acquaintance or even a stranger will pull up beside you and ask where you are going and if you want a ride. Once you reach your destination, odds are you will meet a similar person there who can give you a ride home.

 

Just as in any human love relationship, my hometown is far from perfect, but the positive traits about it are what cause me to do anything but make plans to leave. 

THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR

The most memorable hot spell I ever experienced occurred at the end of May 1995. On a Monday, the temperature reached 30 degrees, something I was able to more vividly imagine than previously because I had recently seen TV programs about sub-Saharan countries where that was the normal daily high. 

 

I don't remember much about the school day itself, but at the end it was announced over the PA system that school would be closed the following day due to continued high temperatures being forecast. This is the only time I remember school being cancelled because of hot weather, as opposed to being shut down a few times throughout my childhood with the heavy snow in winter.

 

When I returned from school I went up to my room as I usually did but Mom told me to stay downstairs as the upstairs of our house was just too hot.

 

That night, my sister and I slept in the living room on the sofa bed, which was special because normally we only folded the couch out when relatives came for Christmas.

 

I don't actually remember too much about the following day. In the morning my sister and I played in the pool. I can also remember Mom trying to get ahold of a heating and air conditioning company in Belleville about having central air installed.

 

At noon I turned on the radio to hear whether school would be closed for a second day, but the newscaster said it would be open. 

GOSPEL OF JOHN IN A NUTSHELL (NEW TESTAMENT IN A NUTSHELL)

In this sermon, Pastor Aaron Vriesman provides an introduction and thorough overview of John's gospel, including of course highlighting how it is different from the other three New Testament biographies of Jesus.