Statistical bunching in news stories ...

[Janet]

It's funny sometimes. Some days I'll be posting three items about fiestas or events, and other days about traffic accidents or drownings ... and today it's violent crimes! Odd how the stories can bunch sometimes.

But one of today's is gruesome, and another caused some hilarity in my house!

The first is that two men were injured in a fight around 1.30 last night in Calle María del Carmen García, Las Galletas. Thankfully, neither of the two who needed treatment were seriously hurt, with one suffering arm injuries and the other head wounds. The two men, of 30 and 44 years of age, were both taken to Hospiten Sur, where their conditions were reported as not serious. Police say that many others were involved in the punch-up, with local reports suggesting over twenty or so were brawling in the street.

The second is the gruesome one. A grim discovery of human remains in a suitcase seems to have been made by divers in the Muelle de Vallesco in Santa Cruz. Police are at the scene presently, and the remains, said to include a head, have been taken to the Instituto de Medicina Legal. No doubt there will be more to come on this in the hours ahead.

The third is not "funny" but it still caused hilarity just because it's so awful! Police say that they have arrested a Puerto Santiago man known as El Volcán due to his ferocious temper. He was detained last night in Alcalá for domestic violence, being sought by police in any case for damaging a Los Gigantes restaurant where he was recently fighting, and for attempted robbery also in Los Gigantes where he was seen on security cameras: all this despite only getting out of prison last year after a ten-year stretch. Police say that the man was also thought to have been one of those involved in an attempted murder shortly after being released from prison: he is alleged to have been involved in a Costa Adeje brawl and running over one of his opponents. Police say the man is extremely violent and antisocial, and as a result is "very well known" to them.

[Nova]

...two men were injured in a fight around 1.30 last night in Calle María del Carmen García, Las Galletas.

That's the street I used to live on and I never cease to be glad I moved away from there!  The front wing of my Ka was kicked in during a fight that took place on that street one afternoon.

[warbey]

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Incidents and Your reporting of them caused Me to be aware of Your existence some Years ago Janet,

so there are bits of goodness even in bad news when it makes others aware of potential dangers.

i also think that having cause to smile  at nasty things helps Us keep our sanity at times.

  I too appreciate how chance can group things together and similar incidents seem to attract others of a similar nature.


  Please keep informing us and thankyou for so doing.

[NAH]

That's the street I used to live on and I never cease to be glad I moved away from there!........

Surely you miss the lovely music outside your window though 

[Nova]

Surely you miss the lovely music outside your window though 

[Kingbaker]

That's the street I used to live on and I never cease to be glad I moved away from there!  The front wing of my Ka was kicked in during a fight that took place on that street one afternoon.

Served you right for driving a Ka

[Janet]

The second is the gruesome one. A grim discovery of human remains in a suitcase seems to have been made by divers in the Muelle de Vallesco in Santa Cruz. Police are at the scene presently, and the remains, said to include a head, have been taken to the Instituto de Medicina Legal. No doubt there will be more to come on this in the hours ahead.

Just to update this, police arrested the killer within ten hours, and it turns out it's the dead man's 15 year old son. The pair quarrelled and the lad killed him, then went to a ferretería, bought an electric saw, got instructions at the counter on how to use it, and went home and chopped up his father.

He's already in a youth detention centre having already confessed to the murder, but because he's under 16, he's facing a maximum of 8 years, no more.

[El Profesor]

Just to update this, police arrested the killer within ten hours, and it turns out it's the dead man's 15 year old son. The pair quarrelled and the lad killed him, then went to a ferretería, bought an electric saw, got instructions at the counter on how to use it, and went home and chopped up his father.

He's already in a youth detention centre having already confessed to the murder, but because he's under 16, he's facing a maximum of 8 years, no more.

I was reading that in the paper.
Brazilian family, father and son out drinking in the romeria together that afternoon.
Back home father gets angry when he finds the boy with a stone of hashish, the boy stabbed him then smashed his head in with a hammer . . . chopped him up as Janet says then crammed him into two suitcases and got a taxi down to the coast and threw them in the water . . one of them floated.

insane

[Janet]

weird again ... the burglaries and drownings have (thankfully) gone, and the last few days has been nothing but sports and animals, sometimes combined!!!

For example, the last three days, along with fiestas and cheese competitions, have included:

It's the depth of winter in Loro Parque – at least in the Penguinarium!
Tenerife's motor racing circuit
T3 in Tenerife trained 19 Rio medallists including two British gold winners
Arona reminds residents that pet registration is compulsory
National show jumping championship in Centro Hípico del Sur, Buzanada

strange!

[Perikles]

... the burglaries and drownings have (thankfully) gone, ...

Even burglars need a holiday, as do the people who report burglaries and drownings