GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — A woman called 911 Tuesday evening and said her 18-year-old son, who she believed to be on drugs, had been upset, knocked out a window, took off all his clothes and ran away.

Melissia McKinney, with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, said the woman said she was having problems with her son, and he was being destructive in their home.

Deputies found the teen naked who they said was “very aggressive.” They said he became irate and would not comply with their instructions, and they believed he was under the influence drugs.

Ya’ think?

We are a diverse and goal oriented group of students and faculty dedicated to education, character development and raising social consciousness. Our vision is to provide an alternative school setting where a diverse student population has an opportunity to successfully integrate back into the home school environment, GED/adult education, or into the workforce. Spartanburg County Alternative School is where

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Uh-huh. If I’m reading this correctly, they’re preparing this “diverse” population for a life of living at home, getting a GED and maybe picking up 2nd shift at Walgreens. Shoot for the stars.

How does this goal oriented, diverse stable of do-gooders work to help their diverse, socially conscious stable of needy students achieve their lofty goal of perpetual impoverishment? With this simple yet surprisingly convoluted “philosophy” that sounds suspiciously like someone wrote it while reading bumper stickers in the Whole Foods parking lot:

It is our fundamental belief that all students are of value, and they need guidance to find and develop the positive qualities they possess. We understand that many will have histories of failure in the traditional educational setting. Therefore, it is our goal to strive to find creative approaches which will enable them to experience academic success that will continue with them throughout their lives. We are dedicated to offering a non-judgmental environment that will provide structured learning that is not rigid.

How’s that non-judgmental environment working out anyway?

According to a release from Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office representative Tony Ivey, deputies were called to the school on Lincoln School Road at 1:35 p.m. The call was in reference to an unruly student in the school’s gym, Ivey said.

When officers arrived, they witnessed a faculty member trying to escort Marcel Allen Kline, 17, to another part of the school, the release said.

The officer said he heard Kline shout a racial slur at the faculty member then kick a door, shattering the glass, according to the incident report. The officer said Kline then repeatedly kicked the teacher, the report said.

Kline was taken into custody and charged with one count each of assault and battery on a school employee by a student, disturbing school and malicious injury to real property.

He was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Center where he is being held on a $2,500 bond.

I’m shocked, shocked, that teenagers would be so disrespectful to a bunch of mincing hippies who spent their time telling him to lower his expectations and not accept “rigid” and “judgmental” actions and attitudes from others. Why, it’s almost as if troubled teens need more structure and discipline rather than less.

But hey, I’m not the expert here. I’ll let the results of  Spartanburg County Alternative School speak for themselves.

The faculty page lists three different teachers for something called “character education.” Is it safe to assume Kline wasn’t doing well in those classes?

COLUMBIA – The state’s parole board today rejected one Greenville killer’s request for freedom and postponed action on another after the victim’s family appeared on his behalf.

The five-member panel voted unanimously to reject parole for Charles Goldie Williams, convicted in 1975 for killing three teenage girls, ordering their heads shaved and dumping their bodies in the Reedy River.

The GreenvilleOnline report says he ordered the girl’s heads shaved after killing them which I assume is yet another example of the hackery that goes into that so-called paper. Williams raped three teenage girls, murdered them, then shaved their heads and dumped their bodies in the Reedy River. It was a brutal crime by an evil individual and he belongs in jail. This is the 15th time he was denied parole and I hope for 15 more.

WSPA has an interview with one of the victim’s parents.

Police said that three men were fighting and one of the men was stabbed in the lower back. There was no word on what led to the fight.

The victim was expected to recover, but the two other men involved in the fight fled the scene.

Three pit bulls bit Al Hammer in the hands and leg while he was taking his daily walk down the road. The wounds on his hands required stitches. He was also bitten on the thigh.

The dogs were well-groomed and did not appear to be strays, Hammer said.

The attack occurred very close to Augusta Circle Elementary School, but no student injuries were reported.

Greenville Police officers do not know if the dogs were rabid, and have been unable to identify the dogs’ owners.  If you have any information, please contact the Greenville Police department at 467-5258.

Valerie Creel, Isaac’s mother, said, “There was no reason for anyone to shoot Isaac.

“I feel like if we hadn’t taught him to be so loving and trusting, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. He could have protected himself a little better,” she said.

Neither Isaac’s mother nor his stepfather ever gave up hope.

“I feel like [Isaac] is resting a little more peaceful tonight. I know I am,” Valerie Creel said on Tuesday. “Losing him I feel like I will think about that everyday. But, I think this will help because we owe this to [Isaac.] We just couldn’t give up until we had those answers. I just feel like he was such a good son to us and that’s the last thing we could do for him.”

Creel said she has questions she’d like to ask Love. “Why did you have to kill him? Was it worth that?”

She said, “I don’t feel like he gained anything by what he did.”

“I feel like Isaac had a lot of love to offer this world. Isaac was my only son and I just feel, like, overjoyed that someone is going to be accountable for it.”

Jeff Creel, Bass’s stepfather, said,”For the person who did this, I don’t feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry for his family. For what he’s put not only my family, but his family through, because they’re going to have to go through the same thing we’re going through now.”

Both parents also thanked everyone for the support. The couple is especially thankful for police and those who donated to an auction on the third anniversary of Bass’s death. Money raised at that auction was used to increase the reward for information in the case.

Authorities are saying there will be more arrests.

Korey Love is being held without bond. He was pinched after several reports were filed on the third anniversary of the young man’s death, including the fact that there was a reward for information.

Luckily there is no honor among thieves or murderers.

Like smoking a synthetic marijuana substitute you know nothing about but the creator of which claims is too dangerous to ingest recreationally.

John Huffman, the creator of the substance now being sold to your children in head shops by people who don’t care whether your kids live or die has been in the news recently trying to convince the morons that have been smoking his synthetic cannabinoid that they are putting themselves in danger:

“It’s like playing Russian roulette. You don’t know what it’s going to do to you,” Huffman said. “You’re a potential winner of a Darwin award,” referring to the tongue-in-cheek awards given to people who “do a service to humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool.”

In addition to the compound being made without strict quality control or any regulation, as far as anyone knows, the compound itself has never been tested on humans. And when it was tested on mice, Huffman said, the animals were euthanized at the end of the experiment, so scientists don’t even know how it affects mice long-term. “And mice are not humans,” Huffman said.

Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you want in your body. So what is K2 anyway?

This K2 compound was first created in the mid-1990s in the lab of organic chemist John W. Huffman of Clemson University, who studies cannabinoid receptors. He’s not sure how the recipe for what is named JWH-018 (his initials) got picked up, but he did publish details on a series of compounds including JWH-018 in a book chapter. Even before that book came out, he recalls learning that in China and Korea people were selling the compound as a plant growth stimulant.

As for where it was first smoked or used as a recreational drug, Huffman thinks perhaps somewhere in Europe.

“Apparently somebody picked it up, I think in Europe, on the idea of doping this incense mixture with the compound and smoking it,” Huffman told LiveScience. “You can get very high on it. It’s about 10 times more active than THC,” the active ingredient in marijuana.

From a chemist’s perspective, that means K2 has an affinity for the cannabinoid brain receptor (CB1) that’s about 10 times greater than THC. For the less chemically inclined, it means you can smoke a lot less K2 to get just as high.

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Since JWH-018 or K2 acts like marijuana, you’d expect to see the same effects, including sleepiness, relaxation, reduced blood pressure, and at high doses, hallucinations and delusions.

While some patients between the ages of 14 and 21 were showing up with hallucinations, other symptoms, such as increased agitation and elevated blood pressure and heart rates, didn’t match up with marijuana.

(Dr. Anthony) Scalza speculates either another compound is responsible for the nasty side effects, or the concentration of JWH-018 is too high.

Unfortunately we won’t know anytime soon because Dr. Scalza, a professor of toxicology studying an epidemic of emergency room visits by K2 users, is having trouble getting said stoners to consent to having their urine and blood examined.

Huffman has another interview in The Greenville News that has more in depth information on the dangers of this fake pot. Smoke it at your own risk.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A man exposed himself to a North Carolina who was waiting to board a bus in Greenville on Sunday, police said.

The incident happened at 100 West McBee Avenue at about 8 p.m.

Police said that an Asheville woman had taken her luggage inside the station and then went back outside to get a snack from the vending machine. They said the woman looked to her right and noticed a man exposing himself to her from the opposite side of a fence. They said the man then pointed at the woman and motioned for her to come with him.

The woman told police the man was wearing a dark, heavy coat and a beanie cap.

Another person told police that there is a man who frequents the bus stop and exposes himself to women. Police were not able to locate the man, whose name was not released.

Flashers may seem funny but they often escalate to other sexually deviant crimes so if you see this guy get the cops on him. Bader et al report that  flashers that have escalated to rape or molestation have a history of exposure offenses so if this guy is a serial flasher this could become a dangerous situation.

The remains were found across from 102 Kondros Circle in Greenville Saturday.

A Simpsonville hunter found the remains just before 4 p.m.

Investigators from the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division, personnel from the Coroner’s office and forensics responded to the scene.

A forensic anthropologist from Clemson was also called in to assist with the investigation.

The remains are those of a man missing since early 2007. Investigators believe the remains have been at that wooded location for quite some time.

The name of the deceased will not be released until the man’s family has been notified.