r/NominativeDeterminism

• In the early morning hours of 16 December 2005, Rosario 'Charo' Endrinal, a 51-year old homeless woman from Barcelona, Spain, was sleeping inside of a vestibule containing an ATM at the ground floor of a building.

• At around 1:30 AM two young men, Ricard Pinilla and Oriol Plana (both aged 18) walked into the vestibule and began bullying Charo. Their harrasment included kicking, throwing garbage at her and even hitting her with a traffic cone they took from construction works nearby. After a few minutes, Charo managed to lock them outside and they left.

• Almost three hours later, 16-years old Juan José Mera knocks on the vestibule's door to wake Charo up, and gestures to her that he needs to use the ATM. Charo opens the door and Juan José pretends to use the ATM before leaving. Charo doesn't know that Juan José is friend of Ricard and Oriol, and the whole thing was just a ruse to get her to unlock the door.

• Ricard and Oriol, now along with Juan José, began beating and making fun of Charo again. At around 4:50 AM Juan José and Ricard come back to the vestibule carrying a 25-liter (6.6 US gallon) plastic container with industrial paint thinner in it -composed mainly of highly flammable methyl acetate. Oriol holds the door open while Juan José, followed by Ricard, pours the thinner on Charo. Ricard set her ablaze with the cigarette he was smoking. The three friends ran away after a potent deflagration took place, laughing as Charo burned to death.

• The whole sequence of events was recorded by the vestibule's CCTV. The images were broadcasted shortly after, leading to a nation-wide outrage in Spain. All three culprits were identified and arrested in the same weekend of the crime. Upon their arrival in preventive prison, both Ricard and Oriol -now well known in the whole country because of the CCTV footage- were brutally assaulted by other immates. Juan José's was case was dealt by the juvenile court system, since he was a minor.

• It surfaced that the three friends sympathized with far-right and neo-Nazi movements. It wasn't their first time assaulting and degrading homeless people. In fact, Ricard's phone contained several videos in which he and Oriol could. be seen degrading other homeless individuals. Their defense tried to get the charges down to manslaughter, alleging that the fire had been accidental. It was unsuccessful; Oriol holding the door open while Ricard and Juan José poured the flammable liquid on Charo was considered to be evidence of premeditation; he was holding it so his friends could quickly escape the flames once they lit the fire.

• In November 2008 Ricard Pinilla and Oriol Plana were sentenced to seventeen years in prison for murder. Juan José Mera, a minor at the time of the murder, was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment with five additional years of surveilled

I know, we can all fix her.

I was walking in north Hobart and saw the attached plaque for a Chinese laundry that used to exist in North Hobart, owned by a Wah Shing. I thought this has to be someone taking the piss and being racist. But no, there's a old 1940s newspaper snippet about Wah Shing being robbed at their North Hobart laundry. A funny case of nomanative determinism.

Anyways, thought that was fun and wanted to share for those that haven't seen it. I hope Wah Shing got justice for being robbed.

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Huntingdonshire East gets to vote for an actual Gammon!

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