"Domestic abuse is a piece of shit" well said

When I was three, my adoptive mother stabbed me because her biological daughter died. I couldn't access the memory until I was 40, but I do remember looking at my scars as a kid and feeling incredible dread and fear. The thing that triggered the memory was my cousin telling me that my adoptive mother was hospitalized for a week after her biological daughter died, which didn't add up. That's only one reason I was disowned.

Crimes of passion are hard to finish, Simon. Not speaking from experience, but a flash of anger can make someone do something really bad, and then the person calms down and isn't willing to do it anymore.

@lavinamontoya8164

3 жыл бұрын

Really? You really mean that? Mind blowing! It is not the "flash of anger" that makes someone to do "something really bad". It is just someone incapable of controlling his emotions, thoughts and actions who commits a crime. Sometimes repeatedly and afterwards when he calms down, feels ... oh so repented ... in an unending cycle of "you make me so angry" "it's your fault I loose my control" Buhuuu, buhuu, sniff sniff. Sorry sorry I am so so sorry look at me suffering because of you! Swear I will never ever ever do that again. Buhuu buhuu, sniff sniff. Often those flashes of anger are directed to babies and children half their size or less because of course if they are confronted with someone their size, becomes suddenly oh so reasonable and understanding and completely unable to display any form of violent conduct. Completely able to control emotions, thoughts and actions and just talk calmly. So, no. It is not a "flash of anger", it is something seriously wrong within the person himself committing the crime. And if he is capable of doing it once, he will do it again and again. And not only with the only one other person, but with every single person he is in a relationship with. Some things never change. And that thing is inside them. Something else: if it is true that people committing crimes of passion in a flash of anger, when things calm down are not willing to do it anymore, we wouldn't have so many repeating offenders incarcerated. And the system only incarcerates a fraction of them, just the worst psychos to be plain and clear. So, no, there is no excuse. It is all on them. And I wouldn't stick around to see if they mean what they say. And yes, unfortunately I have seen the results of their actions.

@magdaghirma

2 жыл бұрын

@@lavinamontoya8164 I don't think the original comment was justifying it, just explaining why he didn't kill her afterwards.

@sophiejameson4064

2 жыл бұрын

@@lavinamontoya8164 I think you're confusing bog standard domestic violence with crimes of passion. Abuse within the family is, as you say, repetitive. A crime of passion is - by definition - out of character, a one off. If a man with a history of domestic violence kills his partner that isn't a crime of passion.

@nfh688jfnie

2 жыл бұрын

This was hardly a "crime of passion". That relationship was all about control. His control over her.

@MrMancreatedgod

Жыл бұрын

@@sophiejameson4064 just fyi...they don't have to be mutually exclusive and aren't but can be....

Callum has written it, Fact boy reads it and Jen, will sprinkle in some fine vintage blood and memes.

@badluck5647

3 жыл бұрын

fact boi*

@aidanhussey3450

3 жыл бұрын

@@badluck5647 glad someone beat me to it

@lud3445

3 жыл бұрын

Vintage blood....

@codfan2057

3 жыл бұрын

Some **not so** vintage blood.

@photoflo78

3 жыл бұрын

ALLEGEDLY

My ex shot himself in the chin, blew out the bones in his face and severed his optic nerve. Fortunately for him an ex Vietnam war medic was close by. He called for help over his CB radio, this was in 1982, and started life saving procedures. Miraculously, John lived another 10 years, he died in 92 of a seizure brought on by falling and hitting his head again.

I love Callum's script sizes. He's got shorts that are 10-25 minutes, medium that are 25-55 minutes and long ones are over an hour. The man has range and it's always entertaining.

@ahsan4339

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what she said

I spend so much of my day listening to Simon he feels like my work husband.

@lindaarrington9397

3 жыл бұрын

So funny Hes adorable huh I think hes a trip

@williamloftin5793

3 жыл бұрын

Same. 🤣🤣🤣

@From_A_Diverging_Timeline

3 жыл бұрын

Simon watch out for these ones.

@LaurieAnnCurry

2 жыл бұрын

IKR???????

@Dingleberry_smith

2 жыл бұрын

same lol every day all day whilst in the office!!!

"Mushy meat computers in our heads" Ah, that's a good one. It just rolls off the tongue so eloquently. :-) :-)

Hmmm, reference to "Misery", where a writer is kept prisoner and forced to write... Danny???

@Cman04092

2 жыл бұрын

So Simon is just like Anne... I could see that, Simon is a bit of a weirdo 🤔 We must rescue Danny, Sam, Callum and Jen. I'm convinced he has them all, like some demented Pokémon trainer.

@SpencerGD

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cman04092 make sure you buy that Free Danny merch 😆 Gotta raise awareness!

Simon, in this fine state of Georgia, no one is ever charged with attempted murder. Any attempted crime like murder or rape will result in an aggravated assault charge because it carries a much harsher penalty than attempted *fill in the blank crime*. And thanks for the shout outs in so many Business Blaze episodes! -Peter

So, as a CT tech (the one who does the scans) myself, let me add a few things. On the radiologists review screen, he or she could measure the HU, Houndsfield Units, of the object in her brain. This would reveille with near certainty that it was lead and not steel. That said, an MRI scan could then be performed that would track the path of the bullet from the wound on her frontal bone to her occipital lobe of her brain. Ballistically this would be a no brainer (pun intended ;). Probably the only reason they did not do this is because the magnetic field would slightly heat the bullet somewhat with the risk of causing further damage to an already damaged victim. MRI scans are used extensively in the medical examiners office to examine corpses for bullet paths, knife paths and other trauma paths in order to debunk the defendants story. One of my fellow students in radiology school was a retired homicide detective who specifically wanted to become an MRI tech in the medical examiners' office. He said that the MRI had proven so many cases that he felt it was his duty to do only that. You cannot lie to the MRI is a popular slogan in radiology.

Everytime he says “iiiiiii” i expect “am your boi with the blaze” to follow now

No, a bullet to the head doesn't always kill you - literally just a few hours ago I watched an interview with pilot Carlos Dardano who had his eye shot out by a guerilla sniper, got on the small plane with his three passengers and flew them out of there, calling for an ambulance to be ready when he landed again. A decade later he landed a 737 on a grass strip without damage, after both engines flamed out in a hailstorm. Maybe one for the Biographics some day. :D

@KewneRain

11 ай бұрын

A guy got shot in the head by his wife because she was trying to kill him but he survived by some miracle and thought he had a persistent migraine. He went to the doc and they discovered he'd been shot in the head. He went through surgery and was mostly fine (I say mostly because it's hard to walk off being shot in the head) The pilot who was shot in the eye by a sniper is cool, there's an Air Crash Investigation episode about it.

My grandfather‘s brother was shot in the head with a rifle during the war. I think it was in 1944 or ‘45. He lived with that bullet stuck in his brain until the bullet moved and eventually killed him in 1948.

@meryamdjeghri7737

3 жыл бұрын

Was he aware that he had a ticking time bomb in his head, or did he get to be blissfully ignorant for the last few years? Cause that kind of stress would have killed me sooner than the bullet to be honest...

@Herbstmann

3 жыл бұрын

@@meryamdjeghri7737 I don‘t know to be honest. My grandfather didn‘t talk much about the war. I can‘t imagine it being something you just shake off though.

@arenzale

3 жыл бұрын

Ping: 4000000

@JerryEricsson

3 жыл бұрын

My uncle and one of his buddies went out in his pasture hunting deer, they were drinking heavy and probably pretty drunk. Well my uncle sees a coyote, and since he is a sheep farmer he knows he has to eliminate those damn coyotes because they kill his lambs. So he gets out of the car with his Husqvarna .270 Remington Rifle and leans it across the roof of his 1970 Ford, he takes aim through the telescopic sight with his one good eye and pulls the trigger just as he staggers a bit from all the whiskey. Well the bullet hit the roof of his car, half of it went through his friends head, the other half down range somewhere, only God knows where. So he goes back to the farm and get's his son to drive his buddy to hospital, some 40 miles away because he is bleeding pretty bad and is still conscious and really pissed off at my Uncle. The buddy lived, even though he had been hit by that .270 rifle bullet (a 7mm bullet in a 30-06 case) and lived on for another 40 years till he died of alcoholism.

@lindaarrington9397

3 жыл бұрын

Bless his heart Had to be horrible

There was a guy that had debilitating OCD and he tried to off himself but shot out the part of his brain that was causing the OCD. He went on to live a full normal life.

@samtepal3892

3 жыл бұрын

I have 99 questions... "What?!" is one of them.

@Supersquishyawesomeness

3 жыл бұрын

@@samtepal3892 www.businessinsider.com/amazing-story-of-a-gunshot-wound-healing-a-mental-illness-resurfaces-on-reddit-after-25-years-2013-11

@Supersquishyawesomeness

3 жыл бұрын

@@samtepal3892 I tried linking the Times article but it gives a stupid popup that wants you to pay for it so this was an easier link

@pwnmclovin1

3 жыл бұрын

"Who needs a doctor when you have a gun?" -someone in the US, probably (I live in the US, it was me)

@modernhaze3

3 жыл бұрын

W I wish i could kill myself unfortunately i slowly and painfully destroy my body by abuse and toxins lethally crippling my internal organs theres nothing more in life that i want is death btw blue hair is cute

My dad had this relative who got shot in the head, and the bullet like, went straight down the middle of his brain along the corpus callosum and out the other side, and he survived. It was wild hearing that as a kid.

@hanselmansell7555

3 жыл бұрын

Woah.. that's nuts, my mate once had a failed parachute at a few thousand feet, he bounced off grass but survived with multiple fractures, never met a more positive guy!

@hanselmansell7555

3 жыл бұрын

@John Barber sorta not like but like 🤔

@deltav864

3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing a TV program back in the early 00's maybe late 90's that did a report on a kid who was shot with a shotgun and survived because they successfully managed to control the bleeding by removing a part of his brain. The kid literally had a hole in his head and an empty cavity where a part of his brain should've been. I have to see if I can find that footage somewhere. Edit: Found it, although I believe it wasn't this sensationalist account kzread.info/dash/bejne/rGuIxdegh9Tfkaw.html

@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307

10 ай бұрын

was he in constent pain?

I feel like I'd be permanently freaked out if I knew I had a metal object lodged up there.

Simon, he does his best work missing a few meals, don't listen to the others. He's a basement dweller who needs discipline and hunger to keep writing these amazing stories! Love the content and your presentation! Keep up the phenomenal job you all do!

@SkunkApe407

3 жыл бұрын

I think you have Simon confused with Danny, Sam, Callum, and Jenn. THEY live in the basement, while Simon wanders the streets of Prague. Allegedly...

@thecapedcrusader9911

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkunkApe407 forgot some punctuations. Thank you!

@SkunkApe407

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecapedcrusader9911 or maybe I'm just dense as hell. I understand what you mean now, and yes Callum needs a proper flogging on occasion to ensure he stays on task. That's how you keep quality and productivity at peak levels.

@thecapedcrusader9911

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkunkApe407 Not at all. Text is very easily misconstrued!

@LSSYLondon

3 жыл бұрын

"the writer is kidnapped by one of his fans"- Simon don't confess your crimes!

I love CC. It has the swagger of Business Blaze but without all the shouting so it's great to listen to while in bed falling asleep!

@jrmckim

2 жыл бұрын

True!

At 8:51 My uncle shot himself in the head with a shotgun in the 80s. Managed to live another 20 years he just looked and talked like a zombie because he was missing part of his jaw

@bobinmaine1

3 жыл бұрын

Was your uncle from Maine? I had a friend did the same and lived the same

@kottonmouthking1able

3 жыл бұрын

Random, as I don't have an uncle that survived a gunshot wound but, I'm originally from Maine. A little town called Blue Hill. Grew up there. Glad to see another Mainer here on the Casual Criminalist.

I wonder if the boyfriend's mother was ever prosecuted as an accessory.

Holy crap! What a nightmare for Nicole. How confusing for her, and terrifying.

I love Casual Criminalist and don't miss any episodes. I also watch other shows that you host. You're the best.

There was an experiment in which a college professor began teaching a large class, and a guy ran in, pointed a *banana* at him, shouted "bang!" and the professor clutched his chest and fell over. The guy with the banana ran out, and moments later people dressed as cops ran in, split everyone up, and took "testimony" on what happened. Most of the class acted like they were looking down at their notebook and swore they didn't see what happened. About a quarter of them swore that they *actually* saw a gun. One guy (and only one) said "you know, it was the strangest thing. A guy pointed a banana at him and shouted bang."

~ 7:17 "I should probably get that concussion checked out a bit more." The person with the head injury (I speak from experience, hit by car, head struck curb) probably is the LAST person qualified to decide what the hell to do about their head injury. I'm sure MANY of them wake up not knowing what's going on. To this day I cannot reconstruct even the time frame several minutes before I was hit, although I know I was coming from a trip to pick up a cell phone case. In my case I woke up 4 days later. From a medically induced coma-like state, performed to keep the chance of stressing my system by moving around to a minimum. At any rate the poor girl, (or you yourself) could EASily be 'convinced' that mommy's chicken soup is what you need. Criminy, I was running up $1,000 phone bills for months before my head was clear enough to create short term memories, and remembering "Oh, I called them already." Well look at me !!! Babbling as usual !! Side Effects ! Time to shut up... :-) :-)

"IT'S YA BOI WITH THE CRIME!!!"

@epicrisalo1237

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking "its your boy with the blades"

@gleebybooer

3 жыл бұрын

Oi oi it’s ya boi slacky here

I feel like all the O.G.B.B. Viewers are joining The CC, so are we now O.G.C.C.'s too?? Simon, please decide for us?! 😂🤣

@NuanceSociety

3 жыл бұрын

Best believe I’m O.G.C.C. 🔥💕 can’t wait for the merch 😪

@terryenby2304

3 жыл бұрын

OGCC. OGBB (and have the t-shirt and mug) and OGE (EXPLRD)

@SkunkApe407

3 жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for Covid-19 to knock off the BS so we can organize a BB/CC Booze Cruise.

@ignitionfrn2223

3 жыл бұрын

I know that BB & CC stand for Business Blaze and Casual Criminalist but what is OG standing for ? OriGinal ?

@adenkyramud5005

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignitionfrn2223 OG stands for original gangster I think. At least in criminal gangs. And it's often used for people who have been there from the beginning.

My sister has a friend who was cleaning his gun, when something stuck. Despite him being a military vet, the human need to see the problem won out. He woke up in the hospital, his jaw wired shut because the gun misfired and it shot up through his jaw and out of his head. His first order of business was to grab a pad of paper and write “was not suicide!”. He’s fine now.

@pakde8002

3 жыл бұрын

That's what they all say

@nebulanigrimleonis3883

3 жыл бұрын

I love how people assume all "vets" are these larger than life men, that KNOW about guns and safety. If he was a good soldier, he would still be serving. An experienced gun handler/ soldier would NEVER look down the barrel of a gun. Even if Patton, himself asked him to. Stolen valor... Sounds like a failed suicide attempt and buyers remorse. The bullet grazing his jaw is a give away. Many 1st tries, end just like that. We really need to stop glorifying VETS. Its not like they went to WWII and stormed Normandy. Those guys were the truly BRAVE. Most soldiers are low income people that just want enough money to go to school and a loan to buy a house. If he isn't an officer... ask yourself why? Low intelligence, is likely the reason. And now they all return suicidal and homocidal.

@dyocox

3 жыл бұрын

@@nebulanigrimleonis3883 no u

@maIIeusmaIeficarum

2 жыл бұрын

@@nebulanigrimleonis3883 you’d get your shit kicked in in philly

I'm so worried Callum and Jen are going to end up chained up in the basement with Danny and Sam

@14gears55

3 жыл бұрын

Too late, it’s a done deal. Simon just hasn’t put out any of the videos he’s made since kidnapping them yet. Soon enough we’ll be getting the coded messages from beyond the door

@stevenschnepp576

3 жыл бұрын

At least Danny won't be so lonely anymore.

"The World Is Not Enough" was my first Bond film! And what a great film it was. Also, it had a really good song (at least on the VHS copy) at the beginning: Garbage-The World Is Not Enough

I enjoy the style, Callum's excellent writing, Jen's perfect polishing, and, of course, Simon's random 1st, 3rd, and even the occasional 2nd person point of view switching. It's just fun. As murder and mayhem go.

@seginbrown8752

3 жыл бұрын

Cause murder is hilarious

@camerashycoco

3 жыл бұрын

@@seginbrown8752 Allegedly

"I don't wanna get too dark here..." he says while telling us a horribly sad story. Never change, Mr Whistler.

I thought this would go very differently based on the intro. The entire time I was waiting to hear the twist that they had, in fact, been in a car accident and the unfortunate guy was convicted on the victim being convinced by the investigators she had been shot because there was just so much circumstantial evidence. Always nice when the ones in jail really are the baddies

I'm apologize for repeating myself, but *_pleeeASe_* do the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs! A truly horrifying story, transpiring in the age of internet and social media. Patreon will cover the medical expenses from your brain aneurysm trying to pronounce it 😂💝

3:00 - Chapter 1 - In search of lost time 5:45 - Chapter 2 - A ballistic bombshell 9:05 - Chapter 3 - Arrest & trial 13:05 - Chapter 4 - Wrap up - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -

@Blankportion

3 жыл бұрын

What no dismembered appendices?

I had an interesting viewing experience this morning... a 3 hour live stream ....

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting yet frustrating not seeing him follow the red dots and collect his treasures and gear, shards. Equipment. He's smart tho. I'm hoping he'll catch on. Will watch the ending later.

Fascinating story! It surprised me that I had never heard of it, given that I live in Atlanta. Looks like there wasn't a ton of coverage on it, though. Good on you, Callum, for finding it! Love CC and BB. Also really like your history channel, but I wish you posted on it more often. Anyway, thanks for keeping us infotained!

@SkunkApe407

3 жыл бұрын

There was quite a bit of coverage at the time, but as common as murder is in Atlanta it was quickly forgotten under a constant flood of other crimes. It's sad too, because Atlanta is a really cool city with a rich history. I used to love visiting the Underground, but I haven't been up there in several years because of the crime. That's saying something too, because I live in Orlando.

@meryamdjeghri7737

3 жыл бұрын

« Infotaned » I like this word!

I'm starting to think creepy yet casual criminals are everywhere. Allegedly

I've lived in Atlanta my whole life and I've never heard of this. That's a crazy story, it's amazing she survived

When you watch a new episode of the Casual Criminalist and it sounds very familliar.... And then you remember you listened to it as a podcast few day before... Still, I *smashed that like!* button, because Amazon doesn't have review 👍🏻

Have not seen video as of yet. But wanted you to know I love every video you produce. All channels and keep them coming! Thanks Simon!

I do appreciate the work you and Callum put into these! It's fascinating!

I only recently discovered this channel while looking for podcast-style videos for work! Thanks, Simon you have become a regular voice in my ear this past week :D

@lulucolby8882

3 жыл бұрын

I also just discovered this, and it’s great!

@blankonga

3 жыл бұрын

He has ten other channels so you can hear him all the time talking about everything

@m.d.reedify

3 жыл бұрын

Better strap in cuz Simon has 10 other channels...he'll be 'narrating your dreams' by the end of the month!!

Thanks for years of great work now Simon!

My professor in undergrad had a second job in which he basically had the task teaching the jurors in court a whole semesters worth of memory cognitive science , including police bias, false memories ect. in around 15 to 30 mins.

I appreciate your attitude towards the victims, not victim shaming and realizing that it’s much more complicated.

Domestic abuse is so complicated. My aunt has stayed with her abuser because she can't figure out how to balance her three kids and finding work, despite her constant trauma and her kids being traumatized as well. And when my siblings and I were abused, my parents went to every appointment to make sure nothing got out, and by the time I learned we had an option to get out (high school, we were extremely controlled and sheltered), my siblings and I could only get through what we had gone through (and were still going through but the past was way worse) was by sticking together, and we would have been separated and I wouldn't be able to protect them as much as I could at that point if we were. Another aunt was abused but if she spoke up, her rich husband threatened to take her kid to India before cops would be able to catch them, so she never spoke up until she knew her son was safe.

@KryssLaBryn

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, frankly, that's a really strong argument in favour of a Universal Basic Income, on top of all the other ones: Too often, victims really would like to leave their abusers, but just don't have anywhere to go or way to make a living. It's super common for abusers to isolate their victims, cutting them off from friends and family and any other support network, and make the victim financially dependent on them, as well. And it's all very well to say, "Help is available," or "Just go a shelter;" but the "help" they offer isn't enough to support oneself on for even a month, let alone if kids are involved; and the shelters are full of long-term residents who were supposed to just be there for a few days or a week or so while they lined up their own places; but even if one can find a place to rent, one can't afford to take it, not without at least one full-time job. And that's even before Covid, and no places available to rent, and fewer jobs than ever, and everything stretched to the limit... We *need,* as a society, to implement a UBI as soon as we can. It's the only way out of the mess Reaganomics/trickle-down economies have left us in, and to help people to chart their own paths in life, let alone to live up to their full potential. And to *actually* give victims the help and support they need, the very *practical* help and support that they *need,* to finally escape their abusers. :(

@darkermatter125.35

3 жыл бұрын

@@KryssLaBryn yeah, he had complete control over their accounts, and while almost our entire family (my grandparents and their ten kids) lived within a few blocks of each other, he moved her away to a house a half an hour away into some wooded area with no neighbors and just like... two chickens to lay eggs. He made it very clear that she could not survive with three kids on her own without him. It was super fucked up. So many things need to change. And so many people knew I was being abused and didn't do a thing. Like I usually hid it pretty well when talking at school except I would tell one teacher about the rougher stuff, my homeroom teacher hatch about the emotional and psychological abuse and neglect and one day she flipped the fuck out on me because I guess she had a bad relationship with her dad? It was really stupid. I was in 8th grade. She also saw the cuts from my suicide attempt and did nothing. A couple of other teachers found some stuff out while we were praying so it didn't count? And my neighbors at both of our houses knew. They told my sister she could always run to stay with them. Which us a terrible plan. But they knew.

@KryssLaBryn

3 жыл бұрын

@@darkermatter125.35 Sorry to hear that. :( And yeah, "Come stay with us" is a kind offer, but, like, okay, sure, if one needs to get out of the house *right then?* Absolutely. If you gotta run out the door it's nice to have somewhere safe to run *to.* But what happens *after* that? Like, okay; but you guys don't have any spare bedrooms, and you can't afford to have us there not contributing forever. So, you need to sort an income out. Which is NOT easy to do in that situation. A UBI just makes everything so much easier. :(

I worked at a level one Teauma center for a decade on the Trauma team. I have seen tones of GSWs to the head. Many are not lethal, it's shocking how common it is to live. One guy shot himself in the head twice and lived a few days.

There was an early repeating pistol from the 1830s, called the Volcanic. It was revolutionary, but it was so underpowered that there were reports of men attempting suicide with it, only to end up with some nasty welts on the temple.

Always interesting, informative and entertaining 👍 team 👏

I don't miss cable tv...the content I get here is miles above what I had become accustomed to. Thanks to the whole crew!

You should cover David Parker Ray (Toy Box killer - USA) and the murder of Junko Furuta (Japan).

@honda-akari

3 жыл бұрын

Furuta Junko might be too gruesome

@tiffanyholman4028

2 жыл бұрын

Junko is easily one of the worst things I've ever read.

@Jusuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@honda-akari Yeah the latest CC video was about the Hello Kitty murder which also included brutal torture and Simon had to stop reading it because it was too much for him and who can blame him

The sweater is somehow fitting to the show. It's like a crime sweater or something.

I love your channel and think you guys are awesome🥰 always excited to see a new video

Please never stop making content. I stumbled upon your channels about a month ago and I been addicted to listening while driving my truck (lorry) down American highways.

Love the different channels Simon has and the different styles of his other colleagues

First time on this channel...loved it!👊🏼😎

Love the show!! The most eerie episode for me was the Denver spiderman it doesn't help when the kids stay up late upstairs.

A short episode that is actually short! 🤣 not complaining, I love them all ✌🏽

Yay another new upload :)

love the stories - will visit other channels of simons when I catch up on all the stories

@SKYRIDGENIGERIANDWARFS

2 жыл бұрын

while some of the stories are tragic/gruesome etc - it is the storytelling that is enjoyable - and of course not knowing about the horrible stuff - doesn't mean it didn't happen - and maybe knowing gives you an opportunity to do good - or help someone out at some time

I think this channel has become my 2nd favorite Simon channel after the Blaze.

I had neighbors who lived across the alley from me who fought constantly. I was cleaning my garage one night at about 2:00 am when I heard them arguing. I heard one of them get into their vehicle and speed off around the block coming back down the other end of the alleyway and what sounded like them hitting the light pole outside of my garage. I opened my garage door to see what happened only to find her with a bloody face running towards me screaming that he was going to kill her. Her husband came running out of the trailer (surprise!) but stopped short of the alley. She was in my garage and I was keeping her safe, gave her a towel to clean herself up, and let her use the phone to get someone to pick her up. While she was waiting for the person to come and get her, she told me that he would kill her, then said he would kill me. I said i doubt that since he was pacing back and forth across the alley too scared to try anything, but she informed me that he had served 4 years in prison for killing a woman in a city a few miles from where I lived. I hoped he tried something after that because I had a lead pipe that was about 3 feet long and 2 inches in diameter with about a foot of concrete poured into one end of it leaning between my two garage doors. I would have hit him once, and that would have killed him. The saddest part of this story is that the very next day they were walking hand in hand down my alley like nothing had happened. My sister has a "boyfriend" who beats her pretty regularly too. He stabbed himself in front of my nephew and then told him he was going to tell the cops that she did it so she would be the one going to jail. When I found out, he has devoted his life to avoiding me at all costs. It's a good thing too because there is a good chance that if I ever see him again, nobody else will. She still goes back to him every time though. These women need to get away from abusive men and stay away. Too often they do not, and it ends up with someone dead. If you know someone in that situation, either get them the help they need, or be that help.

I sometimes criticize bits of the content, but I really enjoy Simon's humour, recollections of his life, and his voice. I always learn something and usually have a few laughs. Please never stop Simon, well, unless you want to retire sometime in the distant future. Or if you die and can't get back (I'm sure there's an episode on one of your channels tackling reincarnation...).

I really enjoyed your channels especially this one! I'm subscribed to pretty much all of them. My boyfriend introduced me to your channels I'm super glad he did. I've learned a lot from them all.

Nothing like starting the day, heading into the weekend with some fresh ideas on what do over the next couple days ..Allegedly..Best Regards...PETER

Simon thank you 👍

Thank you

I was surprised to hear a story about my hometown. I live in the Metropolitan Atlanta area & couldn't believe that we had a story like this, although I did have a niece that was shot dead by her boyfriend while the police were right behind them & he got off. It's surprising what people could get away with back in the 1980's. Still to this day I don't know how he got away with murder, but I digress. Love this show & keep up the good work. I also am subscribed to your "Today I Found Out", "Top Tenz" & "Biographics" channels & think they are great also. Brilliant stuff.

You can enjoy something and not like it Simon. Like a rollercoaster 😁. Keep up the good work.

"He said she crashed the car. She said I have a bullet in my head" "Yes your honor. The car crashed and there just so happened to be a bullet laying there and she headbutted it"

I always sort of con myself into watching these episodes. I listen to the episodes in Spotify Then weeks later it pops up here... but by that time I don't recognize the title anymore... So I think "wait, whats this one about? Maybe I missed it? Maybe they released the vídeo first?" The video starts and some comment from Simon makes me remember "Oooooh, I know this one..." But by then I'm already engaged and stick for the rest...

@pakde8002

3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏 double dipping

listen at 0.75 speed to make Simon sound almost sober

I love Simon's sweater in this one!

Thank you Si, jolly entertaining stuff there, please keep it up. Is it true you aren't popular at the moment with Aussie firefighters, as they found out via social media that you are in fact the Boi with the Blaze! That's a shit-ton of folks with a grievance right there Si, so go easy my friend! Loving the channels ,dude, 👌 Consider doing an episode centered round the Nypro ( Flixborough) disaster, as that historical oops seems missing from the archives, and I'm sure you can hit a home run with this one or at least consider it for future edification.All the best, you crazy bunch! 👍😎👽

If you’re really interested in the concept, there’s a short story called, “Bullet in the Brain” that describes a man’s last memories after getting shot during a bank robbery. It’s a little dated and fictitious, but it’s still a great work nonetheless! I’m still afraid to go into banks after reading that LOL. =) Great job by the way, Simon, Callum, and Jen! I’m a huge fan and I can’t wait for the Irate Evangelist channel. XD

@andrewp8284

3 жыл бұрын

I might have to read that story, I haven’t heard of it. Good thing they have mobile banking and mobile check deposit now lol

@JodyOwen-we6oo

3 жыл бұрын

Tobias Wolf wrote it.. it's a perfect gem of a short story.

#BusinessCasuals =subscribers who came to the Casual Criminalist via Business Blaze 😂

@Charlie.M.Green1905

3 жыл бұрын

I'm the other way around, found Business Blaze via The Casual Criminalist :)

I remember watching a story back in early 2000, where a woman in China got hit with a stray bullet during the cultural revolution period in her house. The bullet was discovered 40 years later when the now old woman got a headache.

"My voice apparently is not working today." It's the fault of RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS! (...no, actually, it might be. Although we can all see the beer.)

@camerashycoco

3 жыл бұрын

How long did that last, I had to quit after half an hour or so, it really is too early, or too late (depending on if you're still up or already up I guess?), over here on the west side of the US.

You guys should do an episode on the Cosmo Dinardo murders. I happened 15 minutes away from where I live and they made a documentary about it.

Love the sweater!

Is it so....so it seems....I've some how watched every video from start to finish on this channel. Someone, which channel do I binge next of his?

You ARE right, Simon... Just thought I'd chuck that one in there for you mate, I could see you wanted to ask...!!!

Love these episodes! 💕💕 Keep up the great work! Callum, keep writing!

added on two podcast services & subbed on YT

Been a fan since Top Tenz (Simon pre beard) lol

You should make a playlist for long and short

YAY THE BEST YT CHANNEL UPLOADED

It would be fun to hear Simon reading film reviews. The asides would be hilarious

My uncle survived a gunshot wound to the head. Only about half survive when they're shot in the head by someone else or accidentally, versus only 10% when it's a suicide attempt. He of course didn't become a Bond villain or a murderer, just seriously disabled and experiencing discrimination because of his reconstructed face.

I have known two people personally that have survived shots to the head. One guy was an older student that my best friend had a crush on. We were in Middle School and he was a Senior in High School. He shot himself in the head trying to kill himself and once he healed from that, he jumped off a bridge. He was left wheel chair bound for the rest of his life. The other was a cousin of my husbands, a criminal that was shot point blank with a shot gun, when he healed he went tp jail, over and over again.

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I've now had a Simon marathon 3+ hours of him playing RAID and now a Casual Criminalist

Eye witness testimony has been demonstrated to be woefully unreliable for decades. You have a great voice for these.

Could it be possible to make Episode about Somerton Man investigation please? Also Yuba County Case sounds very interesting. The last one could be The Circleville Letters. And i love every Your episode!

my friends older brother was an EMT and had some pretty gruesome stories. one of them was a kid at a house party drunkenly shot a gun into the air and managed to shoot himself in the head. when they arrived (the EMTs 'my friends brother') the kid was sitting on the couch completely alert but with a large piece of his head missing. it's possible I guess. crazy

The review ratio on this video is impeccable

As a kid, I took a tour of an ambulance. The EMT, said sometimes the caliber is too low to be deadly. So the bullet lodges in the head, or goes around the skull and out. Grim thing to tell ten year olds.

I enjoyed it.

0:30 “probably don’t do both” - yeah Simon, I subscribe to both your Audible podcasts and obvs KZread. Audible is great for listening on the underground because I can download them, whereas KZread I get to see the images and of course the man, the myth, the legend!