Category: Strange News

San Diego Parents Get Letter Criticizing Them For Raising Kids In ‘Tiny’ Home

A letter criticizing two San Diego parents over the size of their home is going viral after the couple posted the note on Facebook.

Mike and Kelly Brüning, the parents of two boys, ages 2 and 4, and have lived in the same two-bedroom Mission Beach condominium for nearly nine years, according to KTLA sister station KSWB in San Diego. The neighborhood is built on a strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay, and the Brünings are just steps from the sand.

The letter addressed to “Mike and Kelli” was typed by someone only referring to themselves as the area’s zip code “92109.” When they opened it, they were surprised by what they read

The couple posted the letter on Facebook Tuesday with a message of their own:

“Now… this place just got interesting. We received this in the mail today … not everyone in 92109 is solid. Sometimes harassment comes (in) simple forms.”

Friends and family who have watched the boys playing happily on the beach and in the water quickly commented on the Facebook post.

“Wow who has the right to tell you that? Kids grow up in big cities, in small apartments, in poor or rich countries and they turn out just fine. Having the beach and your playground is luck. I wish I grew up in a small place by the beach just like that,” one person commented.

“Silly. Tell them the beach is bigger than any yard in America. And way better,” another wrote.

“Cowards… not even a return address … just like most to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong,” someone else posted.

The parents assume the unidentified sender was a neighbor due to their misspelled names appearing on the front of the envelope.

Rachel Milstein Goldenhar, a licensed clinical psychologist in San Diego, reviewed the letter and offered guidance to parents who receive unsolicited advice:

Unfortunately parents have been judging each other for thousands of years.  It’s easy to be a critic. It’s much harder to be a good parent. Part of parenting is that other people will judge your decisions. In parenting, it’s important to stay grounded and focused on what your goals and values are for your family and not focus on what others think.

WOW! Who has this kind of time on their hands?!

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Mike Pence’s Plane Skids Off Rainy Runway At LaGuardia Airport

A plane carrying Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence skidded off a runway Thursday night as it landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York. There were no reported injuries.

According to KTLA:

The press pool in the back of the aircraft, a Boeing 737-700 chartered from Eastern Airlines that was painted with the campaign’s logo, could feel the plane fishtailing as it touched down and sliding off the runway before coming to a very sharp halt in the grass off the side of the runway.

Once the plane came to a full stop, the Indiana governor walked to the back of the plane to check on the press. As everyone on board deplaned, Pence could be seen speaking with emergency responders.

A spokesman for Pence said the vice presidential nominee would retire to his hotel for the evening, canceling an appearance at a closed-door fundraiser that had been scheduled in Trump Tower. He called into the event instead, a senior Pence aide said.

Read the entire article Mike Pence’s Plane Skids Off Rainy Runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC — KTLA

Indiana Man Kills Girlfriend After She Declined to Marry Him

An Indiana man is facing a murder charge after allegedly admitting to killing his girlfriend after she declined his hand in marriage.

According to KTLA:

Jason Eaton, 43, walked into the Greensburg Police Department with a woman and asked to talk to an officer, according to KTLA sister station WXIN in Indianapolis. He told the officer that he had killed his girlfriend, later identified as Wendy Sabatini.

Officers were sent to their Greensburg home where Sabatini’s son, who thought his mother was at work, let them in. He had just arrived home from a school-related internship.

Sabatini’s body was found in a bedroom. Police said she died of an apparent gunshot wound to her head. A firearm was found in the bedroom.

Eaton was detained at the police station. He spoke with officers and said he approached her in the bedroom with an engagement ring to ask her to marry him, according to police.

She declined before he was able to ask, they said.

Eaton said he then retrieved the gun from a nightstand and shot her in the head from behind, according to police.

He eventually left the home and went to the home of the woman who accompanied him to the police department, authorities said. He allegedly told her he “messed up” and said he thought he killed Sabatini.

In addition to the murder charge, Eaton faces a firearm sentencing enhancement.

Sad and scary! Sounds like the girlfriend wasn’t going to make it alive either way with this guy. Had she married him, would she have eventually met with the same fate?

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