Consider Marilyn, who was once as tall and goth as you…

Warrant issued for Marilyn Manson’s arrest in connection with 2019 assault

Marilyn Manson’s a wanted man in New Hampshire. The artist, birth name Brian Hugh Warner, has an active warrant issued by Gilford police for two counts of “class A misdemeanor simple assault” against a photographer at a show in 2019.

The photographer, alleges that the singer spit on her and at one point launched a “snot rocket” at her and her camera. While these claims have been supported by other attendees and a security guard, police wrote in a Facebook post that an “arrest warrant is not a presumption of guilt.” They also say that Warner’s team have been aware of the charges for some time, and “no effort has been made by him to return to New Hampshire to answer the pending charges.”

Of course, not Gizmodo article can be complete without the ritual recitation of the allegations against him:

This charge carries no connection to the ongoing sexual abuse allegations against Warner, and Gilford police made it clear that the 2019 assaults “are not sexual in nature.” Earlier this month in an interview with PEOPLE, model Ashley Smithline said that Warner sexually assaulted her numerous times and violently abused her over the course of two years.

Another former partner, Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco, is currently suing the musician for rape and sexual battery, and accusing his former manger of human trafficking. Warner is also being sued by his former assistant, Ashley Walters, who detailed sexual assault, professional sexual exploitation, manipulation and psychological abuse she endured while working for him in an interview with The Cut. Ex-fiancee Evan Rachel Wood came forward in February, naming Warner as the previously unspecified partner that abused her. In 2019, the actress testified in California under the Phoenix Act to extend her statute of limitations. Among the many allegations levied against him, Wood also said Warner “started grooming [her] when [she] was a teenager and horrifically abused [her] for years.”

What, really, is the point of being in music if you can’t mistreat your groupies? I mean, there’s the money, I guess, but you can make money without the fame that brings in the groupies. He’d never have slept with any of these women based on his looks, not even dressed like Hellraiser the Clown. But that fame is just what will hang him when this gets to court. Brian Warner the Wendy’s Drive-thru guy could have all the regretted sex he could stand with ugly trailer trash and never get #metoo’d and women would be too ashamed to tell people they were mistreated by the worst kid’s party clown in existence. (All his balloon animals have distemper.) So fame gets you a girl upgrade but leads to massive pay-offs and maybe jail. Why bother?


 

I can’t believe this Wikipedia page hasn’t been canceled yet.

Sexual Mimicry

Sexual mimicry occurs when one sex mimics the opposite sex in its behavior, appearance, or chemical signalling. It is more commonly seen within invertebrate species, although sexual mimicry is also seen among vertebrates such as spotted hyenas. Sexual mimicry is commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to a mate, a defense mechanism to avoid more dominant individuals, or a survival strategy. It can also be a physical characteristic that establishes an individual’s place in society. Sexual mimicry is employed differently across species and it is part of their strategy for survival and reproduction. Examples of sexual mimicry in animals include the spotted hyena, certain types of fish, passerine birds and some species of insect among others. These are cases of intraspecific sexual mimicry, but interspecific sexual mimicry can also occur in some plant species, especially orchids. In plants employing sexual mimicry, flowers mimic mating signals of their pollinator insects. These insects are attracted and pollinate the flowers through pseudocopulations or other sexual behaviors performed on the flower.


 

California school locked down when stapler mistaken for gun

ELK GROVE, Calif. – Officers responding to a report of a possibly armed person at a suburban Sacramento high school discovered it was a student with a stapler.

Elk Grove High School and an elementary school were locked down when the report came in Friday and officers from multiple agencies were called in to assist.

“During the course of the investigation, officers learned a student used a stapler as a prop to act out a scene from a movie. The stapler was open and the reporting party believed they saw a weapon,” the Elk Grove Police Department said in a statement.

The department said the incident was turned over to school administration to address “as there was no criminal conduct identified as a part of this call for service.”

MEANWHILE…

8 people killed, suspect dead in San Jose shooting

Eight people were killed in a shooting Wednesday morning at a light rail facility in San Jose, California, and the suspect is also dead, authorities said. The suspect was an employee of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), which operates the rail yard, said a Santa Clara County sheriff’s spokesman, Deputy Russell Davis.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, which is located next door to the transportation hub and maintenance yard, received multiple 911 calls for shots fired around 6:34 a.m. The VTA said employees were evacuated.

California is like a toddler holding up a broken vase and saying “I fix it! I fix it!”