The 35-year-old son of a Hollywood talent agent whose clients included Dolly Parton, George Clooney and a British prince, has been taken into custody in Los Angeles after a bloody torso authorities say probably belongs to his wife was discovered in a strip-mall dumpster.
Sam Haskell, who was booked on suspicion of murder on Wednesday, is also suspected of killing his wife’s parents who are missing, detectives have said.
Capt Scot Williams of the LAPD’s robbery-homicide division said the torso discovered in an Encino mall, five miles from Haskell’s home, was assumed to be Haskell’s wife, Mei Haskell. The grim discovery was made after workers at Haskell’s home reported seeing what appeared to be human remains in his driveway on Tuesday that later vanished. The following day, an unhoused man searching for recyclable material in a dumpster between a restaurant and a hair salon found the female torso stuffed in a duffel bag.
So Sam Haskell, already a scumbag, named his son Sam Haskell, but didn't juniorizie him? And that Sam Haskell also turns out to be bad.
Both Sam Haskell's besmirching the name. A simple Google of the name brings up both their misdeeds.
Out of curiosity, is Junior an official title?
I thought it was a suffix.
My understanding is that Junior is only applied to the son if the first, middle and last names are identical. So if you're Steve Albert Allen and your son is Steve Abraham Allen, the son isn't technically Steve Allen Jr.
My father and brother share first and last names, but not middle. They get really freaking weird if you call my brother Steve Allen Jr.
I don't know what's going one with the Sams Haskell, but that's my best guess.
The Jr is also not automatic (in the USA). Also, does not have to be parent to child, and can be siblings (see George Foreman's children).
In fact, there are unlikely to be any rules at all.
What you said is the usual pattern though.
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"Human remains spotted in his driveway on Tuesday". Do they mean on Halloween? How did human remains end up in his driveway?
God did it.
This other story on the front page might explain it:
And her parents are missing. Damn.
Jesus.
You can't prove there's a dead body if there's just a torso. Checkmate, cops!
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Unhoused man…? Really? Homeless is not PC? The things people get offended by…WTF
I'm not sure, but I think it's meant as a more general term. An unhoused person might have a home but can't or won't go there for some reason, such as abuse.
Or maybe it’s trying to recognize that the places homeless people live (tents, boxes, squats, etc.) are still homes of a sort.
I think this is it. I live in the PNW, some of the shelters I've seen are absolutely homes. They will sometimes have multiple tents assembled into multi-room dwellings with a variety of amenities.
Without an address, safety codes or legal protection, they clearly don't qualify as a house or apartment or whatever.
I've never heard it said, but a home seems to be a fundamental part of being human. Even the most nomadic of societies had some sort of portable home they traveled with.
Calling someone homeless is dehumanizing. Unhoused recognizes that they don't fit into the standard mold off society, but are no less human for it.
To be clear, this isn't to say we should just accept one another's differences and just move on with our lives. The unhoused represent a wide variety of complex social problems that should be addressed with humility and compassion.
We can begin that process by trying to guard their humanity in our own minds.
That's how I feel about it. For me, the terms matter. I live somewhere I'm confronted with this every day. I try to be on guard against dehumanizing thinking. I think if you live somewhere it's less an issue then this whole debate probably feels like pointless political correctness.
the point is if they are unhoused we don’t have a homeless problem
Is this your first day out in the world larger than yourself? That term is at least five years old.
Go back inside old man, no one wants you here.
Well, speaking as a chronically homeless person, it's been stupid for five years.
It barely even says anything different. It's like switching out "starving masses" with "unfed persons," and I hope it does something for someone because it's not doing it for me
Yeah like switching colored people to people of color, it's the same but nicer sounding.
George Carlin would have had a field day with "unhoused".
It's the sort of bullshit that makes the squishy types feel better.
I will call people what they want to be called, usually that means just using their names.
