mcgrew's Journal: -- Mayor Quimby found dead in his home

Futurama got it all screwed up. It's spelled Leila, not Leela. And she's not a mutant, her sister Patty is. And it's not one eye, it's one kidney. And they don't mention that her dad's a cyborg. Sheesh, durned cartoonists just don't do the proper research. At least they got Springfield's Alderman Simpson right (I think she's Homer's sister in law).

I know this, of course, since I'm Leila's dad.

Futurama's mistakes piss Leila off! She called a few minutes ago. "The Mayor's dead! I heard something on the radio so I turned on the TV and he's dead! There are cop cars all over the place, I bet somebody killed him. Mom says she's thinking about moving out of Springfield because there are so many murders!"

"Your mom's an idiot," I said. "What, twelve murders in a town of over a hundred thousand? And most of them are friends and family members, or drug related. I'll bet he wasn't murdered."

"Gotta go!"

"OK, bye."

Then I read the paper -- WOW! There's not much there; I'll post the whole story, since it uses a GPL noncommercial license. If you click the link, you can see that the late cartoon Mayor of this cartoon town looks exactly like the misnamed "Quimby".

Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin was found dead in his home at 2604 Apple Creek Drive this morning, authorities have confirmed.

Springfield Police Chief Rob Williams said authorities found the mayor deceased after going to the home about 9:10 a.m.

Davlin did not show up for a court-ordered appearance this morning in a pending estate case involving his late cousin.

Davlin reportedly died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, but authorities would not confirm that at a news conference this morning.

Ward 3 Ald. Frank Kunz is mayor pro tem of the city. He said he is shocked and said "it's a sad day."

Mayoral spokesman Ernie Slottag said day-to-day operations of the city will continue the same.

The city has 60 days to selected a new mayor.

The Illinois State Police is handling the investigation into the death.

"All we can confirm now is that Zone 4 isp investigators have responded out that way and we're in the early stages of the investigation," said Capt. Jim Wolf with the state police. "We are in the very preliminary stages of our investigation, so I'm not going to comment on anything right now."

Outside Davlin's home on Springfield's west side, city police were blocking several intersections while state police were investigating inside.

Springfield police said they'd be keeping people out indefinitely.

Update: They've added a whole lot to the newspaper article; it's quite long now.

Might have said this before...

[Captain Splendid]

But you really need to move to a less shitty town. I know you have a great local, and that's worth its weight in gold, but fuck it sounds depressing there.

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[mcgrew]

I intend to, as soon as I can retire. I'm leigible in two years, will be able to afford it in three.