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Posted on 04/08/2016 7:40:09 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Carnival worker known as 'Zombie Mike' for lack of hygiene is on the run after raping a wheelchair-bound woman - and cops say he is a 'survivalist' who could be hiding in one of seven states
A man known as 'Zombie Mike' is on the run after raping two women and police say he is a survivalist who could be hiding in one of seven states.
Michael Steven Hawkins, 29, a carnival worker known as 'Zombie Mike' due to a lack of personal hygiene, is wanted for raping a mentally challenged wheelchair-bound woman and a woman at a family gathering.
Hawkins is is charged with first degree rape of someone physically helpless, first degree aggravated sex abuse and third degree criminal sex act involving someone incapable of consent.
'Predators like Michael Hawkins who prey on helpless victims must be brought to justice.
'We, along with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners, are determined to make sure he's held accountable, but we need the public's help,' U.S. Marshal David McNulty of the Northern District of New York told Delaware Online.
In 2012, the family of the wheelchair-bound woman invited Hawkins in to stay with them overnight.
He allegedly waited for the family to fall asleep before the rape took place.
A year later he showed up at his best friend's family gathering in Rotterdam, New York,. There he raped his friend's wife.
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Oh I don’t know...he looks mighty “White Hispanic” to me.
Carnies are at the bottom of the social order, akin to hobos, and oftentimes there’s a feason for that.
“reason”
I’d put hobo’s above carnies. Hobo’s just ride the trains and (usually) don’t bother no one. Carnies are another story.
A few years ago I was in line for the Tilt-a-Whirl ride and the carnie taking tickets was confronted by another carnie, with hs girlfriend.
From what we could gather, the ticket-taker was sneaking into the girlfriend’s trailer while the boyfriend was working.
They were really something: dirty, fragrant, and they started using some words, my 8 year old daughter was with me and I objected.
Well, I was standing next to ‘Romeo’ getting ready to board with my little girl.
He took a swing at the angry boyfriend, who ducked and the punch landed square on the kisser of the object of their affections. She didn’t have all of her meth-stained teeth to begin with, I scooped up my daughter and the three of them flailed at one another for a while.
So we went to the ‘Gravitron,’ the spinning wheel which pins you to the wall with centrifugal force, and as soon as the floor dropped, a kid ‘tossed his corndog and lemonaid’ and that started a chain reaction of Technicolor yawns.
We got off a little pale but OK.
I love carnivals.
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Does carnival work still yield a living today?
It was my understanding that, in the olden days anyway, the carnival was a good job for a person in trouble with the law or otherwise in hiding from someone.
Otherwise, they are merely the working poor. It’s sad; the last carnival I was at I saw a lady carnival worker living out of her car, with a young daughter.
The same people that run the rides are the people that tear them down and set them up every week. They are the people that do the maintenance on those rides.
Are those the people with which you want to trust your kid’s lives?
Not me friend.
We took the kids to Disney World, Cedar Point and King’s Island. They all have professional maintenance people and the rides stay in one place year after year. They still have the occasional accident but they are rare.
I see. You figure that a ride that sits in place for years at a time in a salt-air environment with weekly inspections is “safer” than a ride that is pulled apart and reassembled weekly by the same crew week after week.
It’s obvious you don’t work in maintenance.
Yeah, hobos [note the spelling] are real "Princes of the Road!"
That reminds me that I ought to re-watch Lee Marvin in "Emperor of the North Pole" and also Tyrone Power in "Nightmare Alley."
Regards,
No, the people working in the carnivals are doing it just as a lark - not because they need the money.
Or, it's just a sideline, and to pay the bills they have regular 9-5 jobs like "financial consultant" or "junior college instructor."
Regards,
Thanks for that little jaunt down "Memory Lane."
You've reminded me why I prefer to visit art galleries and attend operas.
Regards,
You are correct I don’t work in Maintenance but I do work in Operations for a Fortune 500 company.
I do know competent maintenance when I see it. I know tired poorly maintained equipment when I see it. I know a quality weld from a shoddy weld. I know competent electrical workmanship from make do workmanship.
I know that a machine that is taken apart every week by tired barely trained people that have to tear down a ride Sunday arrive in another town possibly two states away on Tuesday to reassemble that ride as quickly as they can so as to be opened for business on Wednesday is not a recipe for safety.
Sure if that ride was taken apart and inspected for worn parts, lubricated and reassembled by competent maintenance technicians on a weekly bases I would be more likely to feel safe putting my kids on that ride.
But that is not the case with traveling carnival rides. Most of these rides are decades old and have passed through multiple owners over the decades. Maintenance is done only as required to keep the ride in service. The workers too often are of the “Zombie Mike” type.
In my younger days I did do Preventative Maintenance on the equipment I operated. The PMs I did were scheduled as recommended by the manufacturer and used the lubricants and parts recommended by the manufacturer. I doubt that the owners and operators of these rides still possess the operating and maintenance manuals for these rides. I still have access to every manual for every piece of equipment in my plant.
That is professionalism. I know it when I see it.
My last carnival ride was with my son when he was about 6. It was the kiddie Rollercoaster.
He met the height requirement but he started to slide out of the car as the gap was too big.. As I was holding my son in I looked over and saw the operator kicking wood blocks back under the base of the coaster frame. Ya know the wood blocks used to levels things. Made me realize just how thin the line was.
The media has this fixation with adding a middle name to all these killer rapists, why is that?
“The same people that run the rides are the people that tear them down and set them up every week. They are the people that do the maintenance on those rides. “
It was to my understanding that some state safety inspector was to come by and check up on those things from time to time. Don’t know if they do or not. I know what you mean. I always called them “death traps”.
okay okay I misspelled a few words. I was late last night and was sleepy :P
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