Vincent Battiloro is accused of stalking one of the victims for months before the fatal crash that killed two 17-year-old high school students.

  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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    From the NYT article, the driver - with only a probationary license - was released and allowed to go home that night. His father is apparently a police officer.

    He then livestreamed, rambling about a hit and run in another town that left two girls dead, and that he wasn’t authorized to talk about it.

    Later, thanking the audience he’s accumulated since he was twelve years old:

    "And regardless of what happens, if you don’t see me streaming for a little bit, you’ll understand why.”

    This type of deranged individual is why protected bicycle lanes should be standard. But I’m sure New Jersey will install some new paint and a ‘share the road’ sign.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      In the exchange, Elio told Vincent to stop bothering Maria, who was Elio’s girlfriend then. Vincent threatened to release nude photos of her.

      “I’m not leaving her alone until she apologizes to me,” he added. Vincent sent Elio a nude photo of a girl.

      “I did it to one girl,” Vincent wrote. “I’ll do it to another.” He added: “Keep running your mouth and I’ll create your girls nudes” right now.

      Some serious !fuck_ai@lemmy.world shit right there. Archive link for the NYT article.

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        Yeah, but you know the cat’s out of the bag now, and there’s no turning back the clock when there’s so much out there in the form of open source that it can never be gotten rid of or otherwise contained. Nothing we don’t see with our own eyes will ever be trustworthy again, making “I reject your reality, and substitute my own” SOP for the vast majority of people - both those unhinged, and those not.

        I can’t stand all the hyper-religious “the end is nigh” types, but unfortunately I’m starting to think they’re right - just not quite for the reasons they think.

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      No, NJ won’t do that. We’ll put up road work signs, close the road, and then a year later fuck all will have changed.

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        You give it a year? Have you ever been down I-287? There are road work signs that have been there for well over a decade!