It’s worse than that. That wasn’t a rubber bullet, that was another tear gas canister–you can see it a few seconds later in the footage when the camera pans over to the advancing cops.
And they shot him in the crotch with it.
If I were feeling charitable I’d say that the cop who fired the shell was aiming for center of mass and miscalculated the distance and hit the guy low.
But I’m not feeling charitable. It’s clear that was a deliberate malicious attack designed to hurt the guy as badly as possible with the weapon at hand. The goal was to cause him pain and intimidate bystanders.
It looks like this August really is the month for travel. I had totally forgotten than Mr. C is off to another con tomorrow straight after work, though this time it is related to work. Coming back Saturday, apparently.
At least this time I remembered to ask him to change the litter box that was just about due for it tonight. *wry smile*
Stills really were not working that well, especially with a phone camera and the Endlers zipping around like they do.
But, here’s a short video of the new fish trying to get settled into quarantine, after the lights went on earlier. It didn’t want to upload straight over here again, explaining the delay.
(Complete with ugly old substrate I probably should have replaced when I redid the tank recently, but that was more hassle than I wanted right then. It looked better to me when I set the tank up in 2005, that’s for sure. Plus loads of drip marks on the glass, because London liquid chalk.)
What I came home with today:
• 3 more bronze corys, which look miniscule compared to the Grumpy Old Bronze Lady fish they’re eventually intended to keep company.
• 3 tiny ‘Venezuela Black’ corys, because they were so cute and seemed in great shape. (Spoiler: They’re no connection to the actual Corydoras venezuelanus, but a color variation of C. schultzei bred in Germany. Gotta love common trade names 🙄 Cuties regardless.)
• Two pairs of the impulse Endler’s livebearers, because I really like livebearers and haven’t kept those yet. (More like Approximately Endlers, but hey.) I considered trying to get all males instead of an endless supply with obviously already gravid females too, but they only had pricing for pairs listed. That was more an excuse than anything else, and worst case some LFS would probably be happy for any overflow later.
For scale: the colorful male Endlers are maybe an inch long. Those are definitely still little baby corys with a lot of growing to do.
The LFS didn’t have any C. trilineatus like I was hoping to get more of, but so far I really like the black ones. Hoping the remaining C. trilineatus here will be happy enough to shoal with them anyway. *fingers crossed* But, they seemed fine trying to hang out with the bronze ones, it’s just Grumpy Old Bronze Lady who wanted very little to do with them.
I didn’t want to put too many fish into that 60L/15G tank repurposed for quarantine starting out. Plus the corys were priced in trios, and 6 of each seemed like a bit much right now. If we need more corys to get a happy shoal going, I can go back after more later. That would be a terrible shame 😉
Letting them all get settled in without me staring at them while I try to get supper together, and then they can have a feeding too. May try to get some more video then.
Another Day in White Supremacy (8/26/17): The absolute piece of shit known as Joe Arpaio should be rotting in a jail cell, but the even more disgusting, festering pestilence known as Donald Trump pardoned him today. Using the cover of an oncoming hurricane, and the slow news day of a Friday, Trump also signed a ban on new trans recruits to the military and the military paying for reassignment surgery (more on that). Absolutely disgusted! (x)
Before and after they went into the quarantine tank, with the lights still off.
I accidentally let the bags tip over to stress them more just before they got to come out 😦 But, they all seem to be settling in fine so far *fingers crossed*
Those were the best still shots I could get, especially with the lights off. So I gave up on that.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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