Saturday, November 19, 2011

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

As Seen in Rock Hill

GIRLS NIGHT AT LUKE'S Y'ALL!

*note creeper in the back...he's seeexy.

As Seen in Rock Hill

this picture is perfect. just four buddies having a good time at MCHALES with CITY HALL in the background.

keep it TRH, y'all.

Just take note that this shit head's name is Dennis....Then do yourself the privilege of watching the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (streaming on Netflix)

And take note this robbery took place on Green Street.

AND ALSO TAKE NOTE THAT MY COMMENTS ON THIS NEWS ARTICLE ARE BASED ON ME THINKING THAT DENNIS WAS ACCUSED OF 'STEALING' NOT 'STEAING' THE COPPER.
THIS IS TRH REPORTING AND A TRH STORY.
XOXOXO ROCK HILL,THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!

Man accused of steaing copper

from Rock Hill home

ROCK HILL --

Police have arrested a man accused of stealing copper from a Green Street home last month.

Dennis Edward Crome, 31, of Rock Hill has been charged with two counts of obtaining nonferous metals. He is currently in Moss Justice Center awaiting $12,000 bond.

On Oct. 28, a neighbor on Saluda Street heard a strange noise in the backyard of a Green Street home around noon, according to a Rock Hill police report. When he went outside, he saw a man later identified as Crome walking near the back of the residence where the AC units are located. The man pretended to urinate in the yard, and the neighbor asked him what he was doing. He then fled the scene.

Officers noticed one of the units had been damaged, the report states. The top had been ripped off, and some wiring had been cut. There were also several pieces of black styrofoam lying on the ground near it. The pieces are typically used to protect the copper wiring.

The metal inside the unit was also damaged and disconnected.

The damage was estimated to be around $700, the report states.

Kirk White on what she did to Dennis.

published 11/15/11 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/15/3529314/man-accused-of-steaing-copper.html#ixzz1du5O2XWP

From the Newsroom

why the f is this important?

Mail set on fire at Rock Hill YMCA

ROCK HILL --

A piece of mail was set on fire inside a Rock Hill recreation complex mailbox.

An employee with the YMCA on Charlotte Avenue reported the incident had occurred sometime between Saturday and Monday, according to a Rock Hill police report. A charred piece of mail was found inside the mailbox, but there was no fire damage to the mailbox itself.

No surveillance footage is available, the report states. The property will be checked for any suspicious activity in the future during evening and nighttime hours.

published 11/16/11 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/16/3533282/mail-set-on-fire-at-rock-hill.html#ixzz1du2mUjbt

From the Newsroom

I mean this is gross and disturbing and I read the article

and thought that these peeping toms were pretty smart....

unscrewing lights so they wouldn't work...dang y'all.

BUT ONE LEFT HIS CANDY WRAPPERS IN THE

BACKYARD...JESUS CHRIST WHAT AN IDIOT.

ALL I CAN THINK OF IS SOME CREEPY ASS GUY CHEWING
ON A STARBURST SITTING WITH HIS BACK AGAINST HIS
MAKESHIFT HOME/SHED. ROLLING EYES NOW.

2 women report Peeping Tom at Eden Terrace homes

ROCK HILL --

Two women living on Eden Terrace have reported sightings of a Peeping Tom who has allegedly been sleeping in their sheds and peering in their windows throughout the past two months.

One of the women reported on Sunday her daughter told her someone was outside her window, according to a Rock Hill police report.

Her 13-year-old son claimed someone was knocking on his bedroom window. The woman then looked outside and saw the man standing near the back of her yard. Also, the suspect at one point came within 12 feet of her while she was smoking a cigarette outside of her home.

Officers noted that a plastic splash guard near the back of the home had been damaged and a window screen on the house had been removed, the report states. Two security lights in the back of the home had also been loosened so that they would not work.

Another woman a few houses down reported a day later that she, too, had seen an unknown man trespassing in her backyard, a report states. Her sons have chased him away on several occasions. Several candy wrappers believed to belong to the suspect were found near the back door of the residence. They have been entered into evidence.

Both women have called 911 multiple times in the past few months, the reports states.

The suspect is described as an unshaven black man with short hair, about 5'8, 150 pounds and between the ages of 25 and 35.

published 11/16/11 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/16/3532855/2-women-report-peeping-tom-at.html#ixzz1du0sw0Dx

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

From the Newsroom

AM I THE ONLY PERSON IN ROCK HILL THAT BUYS ANYTHING ANYMORE? GD!

Woman uses baby carrier to shoplift at Belk

ROCK HILL --

A woman pretending to have a baby in a baby carrier used it to shoplift more than $1,000 worth of clothes from a local department store, police say.

Felicia Ann Messer, 24, of Lancaster was arrested on a shoplifting charge Monday evening at Belk, a department store in the Galleria Mall on Dave Lyle Boulevard.

An employee saw Messer enter the store, put a baby carrier in a shopping cart and begin walking around, according to a Rock Hill police report. She had placed a blanket over the carrier to make it appear as though a baby were in the carrier and put clothing underneath it. She then walked into a dressing room and hid the clothing more before leaving the store without paying.

The employee stopped her at her car and waited for police, the report states.

The total amount of the items was $1,169.

published 11/15/11 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith
Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/15/3528962/woman-uses-baby-carrier-to-shoplift.html#ixzz1dpP29CPN

From the Newsroom

$200 equals how many bud light limes?

Customer steals $200 from Rock Hill bar

ROCK HILL --

Deputies are searching for a man who stole $200 from a Rock Hill bar Sunday.

An employee of Best Stop Bar & Grill on Saluda Road was working while a customer, the suspect, was talking to her early Sunday evening, according to a York County Sheriff's Office report.

As she was washing dishes, she noticed the man reach over the bar and grab the bank bag. After she confronted him about it, he ran off with $200.

The employee called police, the report states. Video surveillance footage clearly shows the man leaning over the bar to reach into the bag and take cash from it.

Deputies have a warrant out for larceny on the man.

Published 11/15/2011 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith

From the Newsroom

desperate times call for desperate measures of stealing random shit.

Scanner stolen from Rock Hill delivery truck

ROCK HILL --

Someone stole a handheld scanner from a company's freight truck while it was making a delivery to another business Thursday.

An employee with Con-Way Freight, located on Corporate Boulevard in Rock Hill, reported that while making a delivery to City Builder Service on Chester Street a Motorola handheld scanner was stolen from the front of the freight, according to a Rock Hill police report.

A worker was in the back of the freight at the time, but did not see anything.

The scanner is worth $1,300 and has been entered into the NCIC system, the report states. There is no further information at this time.

published 11/15/11 heraldonline.com by: Nicole Smith

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/15/3529502/scanner-stolen-from-rock-hill.html#ixzz1dpHMtn8g

Monday, November 14, 2011

As Seen in Rock Hill

Yes, she is in fact posing in front of a City of Rock Hill dumpster....is it just me or is this out back behind the movie theater?

As Seen in Rock Hill

Reppin the R-O-C.....

From the Newsroom

Even in the afterlife....Rock Hill has to interject and ruin something.

thanks for the submission @MattDCrawford!

Viewings of deceased move out of box at Rock Hill funeral home

Caskets not required at funeral home offering nontraditional services

ROCK HILL --

Like most new businessmen, Cecil Gilmore stresses that he's thinking outside the box. His business will have a better or different way of doing things than those who have come before.

In Gilmore's case, thinking outside the box literally means outside the "box" - a casket.

He wants Gilmore Mortuary Services on East Main Street in Rock Hill to have a reputation as a place where you can find dignity without the status quo. Of course, he's offering the traditional funeral services most have come to expect: a loved one reposed in the casket, a viewing and service, and then burial at a cemetery. The mortuary's simple brick building between an auto parts and hardware stores, has several rooms where caskets and vaults are displayed. His service includes the release of a white dove at the grave site.

He offers religious as well as nonreligious services.

Why do you think this a good idea?

"When people have a funeral, you cater to them," he said. Gilmore is a licensed funeral director and embalmer in South Carolina and North Carolina.

But it's the nontraditional funeral where Gilmore's hopes to establish a niche.

His premise is simple: Present people as they lived life.

If a father or husband was an avid fisherman, pose him in his waders and favorite shirt, his cap festooned with lures, holding his lucky fishing rod.

If mother is most remembered for relaxing while watching TV, pose her on a bed with the remote in her hands.

Or, if the deceased was known for his love of motorcycles, pose him in his jeans, vest, bandana - even sunglasses - on his bike of choice.

"The idea is to make people look like they are living, or just sleeping," Gilmore said.

Burial or cremation of the body would be done in the traditional manner, he said.

And, because he's also a Baptist minister, Gilmore said he would not present the deceased immorally.

Gilmore knows the nontraditional service is not for everyone. He has yet to perform one in Rock Hill, but once he does, Gilmore is confident people will be talking about it.

Greg Dunbar, of the Dunbar Funeral Home in Columbia and president of the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association, said he did not know of others offering the service in the state.

It represents "the extreme end of the industry's trend to personalize services," Dunbar said. "It would appeal to certain individuals or groups."

Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance in South Burlington, Vt., said such posing of the deceased is "more of a curiosity in the business."

But creating ceremonies without caskets is a bow to history, he said. Before death became a business, families did all the work, from washing the body, to presenting the deceased on a bed during a wake, putting them in a casket for burial and then carrying them to the grave.

"The casket is a commercial image," Slocum said. "It has a distancing quality. It's like a velvet rope."

Slocum was more interested in another of Gilmore's out-of-the-box approaches.

Gilmore, who is black, says he wants to operate a multi-cultural funeral home that caters to all people.

"I want to break barriers," he said. "I don't want to be the funeral home that serves whites, or serves blacks. I want to be the Wal-Mart and serve everyone."

Slocum said people pick funeral homes on perceived religious or ethnic affiliations. He noted that the books listing all funeral homes nationwide sometimes have the notation "BLK" after some entries, signifying mortuaries that serve minorities.

To break barriers, Gilmore has a multi-cultural staff and is looking for someone fluent in Spanish to serve the area's growing Hispanic population. His marketing materials, including a funeral service for $2,500, are in English and Spanish.

Slocum said the price is less than the average cost of $7,000 for traditional funeral. (Neither price includes the cost of a burial plot.)

The Rev. Melvin Douglas, who assists Gilmore at the funeral home and has known Gilmore since childhood in Fort Mill, said the business should succeed when people "see compassion, professionalism and tell others.

"Breaking down barriers, it's the whole human race not just one race," Douglas said. "We all share the same hurt, pain of a lost loved one. The inner self is the same.

Published 11/14/11 heraldonline.com, by: Don Worthington

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/14/3523987/viewings-of-deceased-move-out.html#ixzz1dkkE0IOi

Rock Hill Vocabulary Lesson of the Day

Piddle: (ˈpɪdl̩): To spend one's time aimlessly
Synonyms: Dick around, doing nothing in particular, putter.

As Seen in Rock Hill:

Tina: Whatchu doing?
Tracey: Ohhhhh, I'm just piddlin'

From the Newsroom: Archives Edition

Anything can happen if you get too drunk at Chilis.....

Police: Rock Hill man

pistol-whipped friend, fired shots

ROCK HILL --

Friday night ended badly for two friends in Rock Hill who went out for a football game and drinks. One of the men is accused of pistol-whipping the other and firing several shots into the air.

Auston Cannon, 24, of Rock Hill has been charged with discharging a firearm within city limits.

On Friday, Cannon and a 25-year-old friend decided to attend a Rock Hill High School football game, according to a Rock Hill police report. Because it was a blow-out, they left and had drinks at Chili's. Everything was fine at first, the victim told police.

However, when they pulled into the parking lot of the victim's apartment, Cannon allegedly became aggressive, wrestled him and pistol-whipped him in the face, the report states. As he sped out of the parking lot, police say he fired several shots into the air.

As officers were talking to the victim, Cannon called him, the report states. At first he refused to talk to police, but then he agreed to come to the department and discuss the night.

Cannon said the victim had become aggressive in the parking lot and started to fight him, the report states. He put the victim into a headlock and took him to the ground in defense.

After he let him go, the victim began swinging at him again, so Cannon said he punched him in the eyebrow and ran to his car in fear for his safety. The victim followed him to the car, and Cannon stated he fired 11 shots from his 9mm-gun as a warning and because he feared for his life.

Shell casings were found near the car, the report states. Cannon turned himself into police and was charged.

Couple of the Week

As Seen in Rock Hill

y'all that's purty.

As Seen in Rock Hill

BOO! Happy Halloween!

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We'll post a link to it on our sidebar, too. It'll tell you when Rockstar is playing at Luke's, so you won't miss it. EVER.

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From the Newsroom

Y'all...no need to go to Pineville anymore, we might be gettina sam's club. Gallons of pickled pig's feet, anyone?

Rock Hill to consider re-zoning for possible Sam's Club

By Nicole E. Smith - nsmith@heraldonline.com

ROCK HILL --

Rock Hill City Council will meet tonight to consider rezoning nearly 40 acres along the Dave Lyle Corridor that could be home to a Sam's Club.

At the last meeting in October, council members passed the first proposal of the rezoning request, which affects areas of the boulevard, Red River Road and Cross Pointe Drive by changing them to Planned Development Commercial. Council also annexed parts of Red River Road into the city.

Rock Hill developer Warren Norman is already developing 8 acres of the site for an Academy Sports + Outdoors Store, a $10 million project that is slated for a February opening.

The other project discussed is a 136,000-square-foot warehouse and retail space with a gas station. Reports last month mentioned it could be home to a Sam's Club, but city officials and Norman would not confirm that. The space is typical of the big-box buildings such as Sam's Club, Costco and BJ Wholesale Club.

Council will also consider passing a law that would clarify the city's smoking designation. The new language defines a "retail tobacco store" as a retail store used for the sale of tobacco products and accessories and eliminates a line about the sale of other products being "incidental."

Both proposals must go through one more approval before it is accepted.

Council will meet at 5:30 tonight in City Council chambers.

originally published 11/14/11 heraldonline.com, by: Nicole Smith

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/14/3523832/council-to-consider-re-zoning.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz1dhZt7Cf5

From the Newsroom

POLL: What sports bar did this happen in?!?

1) Luke's
2) Hooper's
3) McHales

Also--judging from his behavior post-lock up, someone needs to take a chill pill.

Man charged after pulling knife on Rock Hill officer

By Nicole Smith - nsmith@heraldonline.com

ROCK HILL --

A man was arrested on several charges Saturday after allegedly pulling a knife on police officers in the parking lot of a Rock Hill sports bar.

Alfonso Cruz Figueroa, 25, whose address was not listed, has been charged with public disorderly conduct, unlawful carrying of a weapon and failure to identify himself.

Just after midnight Saturday, officers were called to Sammy's Sports Bar, located at 1807 Cherry Road, on a call of a minor with alcohol, according to a Rock Hill police report.

Although Figueroa is not underage, officers saw him being escorted from the bar and stumbling around the parking lot. He sat against the rear tire of a parked truck, and when he saw officers approaching, he pulled out a folded knife. He then threw the knife under the truck and began walking away.

Officers smelled alcohol on him and arrested him, the report states. Once inside the patrol car, he banged his head against the metal window bars several times.

Officers had trouble getting him to cooperate and he was placed in a cell in the Rock Hill City Jail, where he hit a glass window and threw beds around the cell. He was shackled to the bed to prevent any further damage.

His address probably isn't listed because he's most likely ILLEGAL.

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/11/14/3525595/man-charged-after-pulling-knife.html#ixzz1dhXnFF6G

originally published 11/14/11 heraldonline.com by, Nicole Smith

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Overheard in Rock Hill....

#firstworldproblem

TRHFB 11.13.11

From the Newsroom: Archives Edition

This happened way back when....late September of this year. All I can say is that I wished I was invited to that party....or am I? I also want to point out how TRH it is that the whole reason he came to 'the house' in the first place was to pick up a plate of food. I can picture a sectioned styrofoam plate with a little bit of mac and cheese, green beans, watery coleslaw and over-cooked chicken with a blanket of tin foil.

I will also issue an imaginary, theoretical prize for the best (and most TRH) speculative dialogue of what actually went down that night.....please submit (if you care) to totallyrockhill@gmail.com. We will award TRH points....

Boyfriend assaulted with high heel at

Pure Romance party

YORK (not RH, but county seat is close enough)--

A York woman is accused of assaulting her boyfriend with a high-heel shoe after a stripper showed up at a Pure Romance party she was attending, police say.

The woman, 31, was charged with domestic violence after she threw the shoe at her boyfriend, hitting him in the head, according to a York police report.

The boyfriend showed up at the woman’s friend’s house Saturday night to pick up a plate of food from his girlfriend, the report states.

The couple reportedly argued because there was a male stripper at the Pure Romance party. Pure Romance is the purveyor of sensual lotions and other products of sexual nature.

The high heel cut the man’s face. She claims the man struck her, which he denies.

THIS STORY IS PERFECT. I CAN INTERJECT TWO OF MY FAVORITE HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY AS MAKESHIFT REENACTMENTS.

this video notes that one of the biggest insults in the

Arab world is to throw one's shoe at some. Bitch must have been pissed.

originally posted 9/26/11 on heraldonline.com, by: Kimberly Dick