A blast from the past...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area that triggered a nationwide scare and prompted dramatic changes in the way food and medical products are packaged.
No one was ever charged with the deaths of seven people who took the cyanide-laced drugs. The FBI would not immediately confirm that the search at the home of James W. Lewis was related to the Tylenol case, only that it was part of an ongoing investigation. Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to "stop the killing." No statute of limitations for murder ... Continued on Page 49
Construction workers are anxious and investigators are puzzled. Someone has been sending San Francisco's portable toilets up in flames in a wave of potty pyromania.
"It's an outrage," said Scott Johnson, a 57-year-old contractor who has been working on apartment building renovations on Russian Hill, the elegant neighborhood that is home to famously crooked Lombard Street and has had most of the fires.
Since November, at least 20 of the ubiquitous construction site toilets have been set afire in the city, creating a trail of malodorous wreckage and causing an estimated $50,000 in property damage, according to fire officials. Quick! Put in an appropriation in the stimulus bill for new crappers! A million or so should do it, right, Pelosi?
Investigators have little to go on. Apparently, so do the construction workers.
Most of the fires have been set at night, although one portable potty burst into flames during a recent afternoon.
"Somebody's getting very bold," said Fire Department Lt. Mindy Talmadge. It's not unheard of for vandals to strike the portable restrooms but "this is unusual," she said.
Contractors have been trying to foil the attacks by securing or camouflaging their industrial outhouses. A walk around Russian Hill last week found almost none of the familiar bright blue toilets, save for one lashed to a large metal trash bin and another tucked discreetly behind folds of black material. It's so slimming, too!
Theories vary on who is responsible. "Kids would be my guess," said Johnson.
Terrorism? Mob hit? Vengeance for adultery? McVeigh wannabe?
AP WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. -- The chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board was critically injured Wednesday when his car exploded as he was leaving home for work, an attorney said. Trent P. Pierce was taken to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., where he was listed in critical condition, hospital spokeswoman Sandy Snell said.
Neighbor Julanne Ingram said the explosion happened around 8 a.m. "It was a huge explosion. It rattled the windows in this house," she said.
William Trice, an attorney for the medical board, said he knew of no heated disputes involving Pierce and said as chairman, Pierce often doesn't take part in board votes. "This is just off the wall," Trice said. "It's just such bizarre circumstances."
The board oversees the practice of medicine in Arkansas and can discipline doctors for wrongdoing, including revoking their medical licenses.
Police blocked off the street outside Pierce's home, and officers walked back and forth with dogs. Investigators from the Arkansas State Police bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could also be seen. ATF agents did not return a call for comment Wednesday.
West Memphis Police Chief Robert Paudert said he planned to meet with ATF agents. He did not elaborate.
Trice said he believed Pierce drives a hybrid, but said he had no information on what might have caused the explosion.
Pierce, who is in his 50s, was expected to attend board subcommittee meetings Wednesday in Little Rock. He was appointed to the board in January 1997 and reappointed in 2005 by former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
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JFM knocked this one out of the park--and considering that "France" and "baseball" don't exactly have the strongest connection to each other, that just makes it all the more impressive.
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Good possibility it's domestic.
As in hate/jealousy/screwing around domestic.
I probably watch too much Forensic Files....
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Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword inspired by the Star Trek science fiction series.
The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white male in his 20s, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and wearing a black mask, entered the store with a sword.
The suspect demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.
A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N Union Blvd, where a male matching the previous description entered the store with a sword. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect transported himself out of the store on foot.
Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, called a "Batleth."
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I concur tu but if my memory serves from a long ago rerun that jig sticker could hurt seriously someone, especially an unarmed clerk. A 45 would quickly alter the odds though.
(RIA Novosti) - The severed head of a schoolgirl who went missing on January 19 was discovered by residents in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, a law enforcement source said. "Residents found the head of a young woman. Presumably it is the head of the victim in the 'Florist and Butcher Case,'" the source said.
The case got its name from the professions of two suspects arrested on Saturday. Yuri Mozhnov worked at a florist's and Maxim Golovatskikh was a butcher in St. Petersburg's main meat market. The two men, who investigators say both have criminal records, were immersed in Goth and Emo culture.
The investigations report states that on the night of January 19 the two young men drowned the girl, an 11th grader in school, in the bathtub, cut her body into pieces and ate some of her internal organs. The remaining body parts were put in bags and thrown in dumpsters and waterways. A criminal case of murder has been opened and if convicted the men face up to 15 years in prison.
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15 years? That's the maximum for kidnapping, murder, and cannibalism?
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Actually, it's not Florida. Which is surprising...
Heh. I saw St Petersburg and assumed the rooski thuglets had expanded their range - no doubt due to global warming. Serves me right for browsing the 'burg while the coffee perks.
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The poor guy was just misunderstood. She didn't give him a chance to take the first shot. She should have waited until the police arrived.
/liberal bs
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Morale: Never bring a knife to a SMG fight.
OK so in how many states would she be up on charges?
Too bad she had to break all that glass. (Don't give a shit about the goblin...)
One woman stopped at nothing to achieve her twin dreams: a 38KKK bust, and a world record
We were already fairly impressed last April, when we heard (via ABC) that one Sheyla Hershey traveled to Houston for a boob job. And not just any boob job: An enhancement bound for the record books. Because after eight surgeries and a full gallon of silicone, the petite model/actress was a staggering 34 FFF.
Still, Hershey wanted more! And she was determined to get it. When her boyfriend begged her to stop, she broke up with him (note to men: You have to support our dreams, no matter how deluded and life-threatening silly they might seem!).
But Hershey was forced to settle with her FFF mosquito bites because "the state of Texas has limits on the amount of silicone that can be injected into breast implants," noted ABC. Reading this, we found ourselves impressed by Texas, because we didn't think it was the kind of state to impose limits on such things, what with the Dallas Cowboys cherleaders and the state priding itself on everything being bigger there and whatnot.
But, as Hershey discovered through diligent research, they have no such restraint in Brazil! And so now, after a ninth surgery, she's the proud owner of both a 38KKK bust (according to Britain's Daily Star) and the world record for largest breasts. We wonder if Guinness has a category for worst back pain.
She actually has had 18 surgeries according to her own official website. So 9 surgeries were to improve other parts of her body (the face must have gotten a few because she is beautiful there too).
This website also says that she is a wife and mother and speaks 5 languages.
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them ain't breasts, them're dock fenders. Aye.
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Clearly 'tis the the REAL REASON for the OWG CAL-ZONE + ARIZONA DECLARING ITS STATE SOVEREIGNTY FROM WASHINTON DC UNDER THE TENTH AMENDMENT [Reddit]???
GLOBALISTS, RIGHTEOUS BOUNTIFUL TWIN GLOBALISTS, I SAY!
D *** NG IT, does anyone know iff Confederate Cannoneers wid 34 FFF's helped fire the guns at FORT SUMTER on that hot sweathy slinky Good-for-Bikinis-and-Some-Cannon-Shooting-at-Yankees/
Unionists-and-Abe-Lincoln Day back in 1861???
Chesley Sullenberger has a problem. He borrowed a book from the Danville Library and its overdue. To complicate matters, the book was an interlibrary loan from Fresno State.
Sullenberger contacted librarians and asked for an extension on the loan and a waiver on the overdue fine. The reason? The book is in the cargo hold of the US Airways plane that made an emergency landing last month in New Yorks Hudson River. Sullenberger is the pilot who made that landing. No one was seriously injured.
Fresno State library officials were impressed with Sullenbergers sense of responsibility and waived all fines and fees, even the one for losing the book. The librarys going one step further: when the replacement book goes up on the shelf, it will have a special template in front, dedicating it to Chesley Sully Sullenberger.
Oh, by the way. The topic of that book? Professional ethics.
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Totally disqualified to hold public office above anything local in our existing partisan environment.
Leon County
Strozier FSU
Florida State Archives
Pinellas Central
Mirror Lake
Broward County (all)
UF Central
Gainesville
Above is list of places that won't gimme a lieberry card. :(
(for good reasons)
Ima clean with them now.... still no go.
I've had a ittle problem since Ima 'bout oh... 8. I steal books. I can't help it. Always have. It's an obesssion. I've paid well over $5,000 in fines and repayments. It's been worth it. :). the problem is now mostly under control. However, friends, ifn you see a 1973, 1988 or 1991 Janes Fighting Ships... please let me know. So I can go read it. Tks in advance.
Stole quite a few books from public libraries in my days too (just remove the Id thingie with a razor car, plus the book are covered & all, that's a nice feature for someone who's anal about keeping his books clean), for example the whole Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality serie, but that was then, now, I don't read, I surf for pr0n, it's cardio as well.
I've permanently borrowed an entire set of A History of the English Speaking Peeps (not the books, the way overdone glossy periodicals)... Dawg in his wisdom is send me a sent of the 1st American of the books via Marriage... :)
Ima sorry, srsly, I can't hep it. Just a couple more Janes and Ima be okay. Trust me.
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Hey, speaking of stolen library books......
In September of 1968, I was on a helicopter trip up the Colleen River in NE Alaska on minerals reconnaissance. We camped in this open area. I wandered about one evening and found this old rickety cabin. Door closed, but part of the roof fallen in over the bed. I found a bunch of books:
Traplines, gold mining, building log cabins, hunting, the whole ball of wax. All stolen from the Santa Monica Public Library in 1946. Kept them in Kobuk till the place we rented burned down in 1973.
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For all the bad press the pirates get, once you actually look at where they came from, it makes a lot of sense. Sure, piracy is illegal, but they're not particularly bloodthirsty.
In the 1990s, a group of fisherman in settlements there banded together to prevent illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste off their shores. When some ships illegally fishing were boarded in attempts to police the region, the reward offered for the boats return was enormousamounts that were many times the monthly income of entire villages.
Who can blame them? Their shore was being efficiently stripped bare by Taiwanese factory fishing boats. When all that money got dangled in front of their faces, they put 1+1 together and got 2, which is a lot more than most African societies can manage.
Police in Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi, have confiscated approximately two metric tonnes of marijuana, portioned in different sized packages, suspected to be intended for delivery to Jakarta.
Jambi Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Syamsuddin Lubis said Tuesday that the police were investigating the case.
"The confiscation was the biggest one on marijuana Jambi Police have ever done," he said as quoted by Antara.
Syamsuddin said the marijuana was confiscated from a load truck during a routine security checkpoint operation at the Eastern Trans-Sumatra Highway on Monday afternoon.
"The truck driver ran away knowing there was a checkpoint. The marijuana was found covered by bananas," he said.
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Meanwhile, Michael Phelps has just announced an exhibition tour of SE Asia....
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Had one on the local news last night, cops stopped to investigate a school bus stopped on the side of the interstte, found it full of 4 TONS of Grass, investigation is underway if he bus was stolen, or bought used from the school district.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(RIA Novosti) - The severed head of a schoolgirl who went missing on January 19 was discovered by residents in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, a law enforcement source said. "Residents found the head of a young woman. Presumably it is the head of the victim in the 'Florist and Butcher Case,'" the source said. 
One woman stopped at nothing to achieve her twin dreams: a 38KKK bust, and a world record
Police in Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi, have confiscated approximately two metric tonnes of marijuana, portioned in different sized packages, suspected to be intended for delivery to Jakarta.
