A RB classic.
WICHITA, Kan. - A Wichita man called 911 to report he was the victim of an armed robbery. The theft? A pound of marijuana worth about $1,100 that he had been trying to sell at his home.
The victim told police Thursday that a buyer had pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and stole the drugs. Police brought in a drug-sniffing dog to the house and located more marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The victim was booked into Sedgwick County jail on several charges, including possession with the intent to sell drug.
This could be...interesting.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas lawmaker is aiming to allow the blind to hunt. Texas State Representative Edmund Kuempel has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue.
He hopes it will be passed after the legislature reconvenes in January though he does not expect it to come into affect until 2008. "This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great," Kuempel told Reuters.
The bill may find little resistance in Texas, where politicians of all stripes endorse hunting, which is wildly popular in the state.
Under the bill, blind hunters would be required to have a sighted hunter with them and would be allowed to use laser sights and other devices that are currently not allowed. "A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top," said Terry Erwin, the Austin-based Hunter Education Coordinator with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger," he told Reuters.
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This sounds like how I heard they hunt in Germany, except everyone is merely drunk but the guide. He's there mostly to make sure the drunks don't shoot each other. Apparently the deer are quite safe.
HERMISTON, Ore. - A small spider bite turned out to be a big problem for Cindy Pettey. Pettey awoke when she was bitten on the stomach in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, but thought little else of it. Then she started running a fever, she felt achy and weak. The bite sore became larger.
Next thing Pettey knew, a doctor was telling her he believed she'd been bitten by a dangerous hobo spider. Pettey had surgery that removed 10 pounds of skin and flesh, leaving her with an abdomen covered in stitches. "It looks like I was bit in half by a shark," Pettey said.
Rob Hendrickson, a physician and director of the Oregon Poison Control Center, said the hobo is a non-aggressive spider that bites only when cornered. For example, when someone puts on a shoe with a spider inside. The hobo is one of two dangerous spiders in Oregon. The other is the black widow. The brown recluse does not exist in Oregon, he said.
"In reality, most spiders are venomous, but aren't capable of penetrating human skin," Hendrickson said.
Hobo spider venom may cause necrosis, or death of the skin. When a spider injects venom below the skin, it reddens, swells, then turns black. But there is some doubt in the medical community about whether venom causes the skin death, Hendrickson said. "If the venom can actually cause necrosis in humans," he said, "... then it is a very rare event."
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My wife was bitten a couple of years ago by a brown recluse in the wilds of Massachusetts. She had to diagnose it herself since the local doctors had no idea about such things.
It turned out to be a good news/bad news thing. The good news: the bite was not in a fleshy part of her anatomy, thus minimizing the extent of tissue damage. The bad news: it was in the middle of her forehead, giving her a large maroon, brown and black "third eye" for a few months.
TAMBARAM/CHENNAI: Residents of a house in the southern suburb Peerkankaranai near Tambaram had the shock of their life when a young crocodile strayed into their home early on Monday. The noise made by the 4-foot long reptile woke them up. "Wot? Wot? Who's there?"
It was later caught by Wildlife personnel and released into Vandalur Zoological Park. "AND STAY OUT!"
"... We were shocked by its sight," said Mumtaj. "Uhhh... Honey? Do we own a crocodile?"
Her husband Abdul Salam, a Transport department employee residing on Professor Street in Peerkankaranai, said he had opened the door at 2.15 a.m. Barely had he taken a few steps, when he was confronted by the reptile. "Salam! Look out! He's got a knife!"
"Hrarrr! Wot's this? A human? Looks mighty tasty!"
They called the police control room, "Hello? Police control room?"
which alerted the Peerkankaranai police station. "Calling all cars! Be on the lookout for a crocodile! That is all!"
"Car 54 to Police Control! That's it? Can you describe the crocodile?"
Even as a police team arrived, neighbours crowded around Mr. Salam's house. "Damn! Lookit dat, Mukkerjee!"
"It's 2.15 a.m.! Why aren't you people at home in bed?"
The crocodile had, by then, entered the bathroom. "Oh, man! Thought I wasn't gonna make it! I don't think that cow agreed with me!"
Police personnel prevented curious onlookers from getting too close to the animal. "Egad! The croc's sitting on Salam's throne!... He's grunting!"
[SPLASH!]
"Oh my GAWD! For the good of your soul, don't inhale, Patel!"
Forest department personnel, alerted by the police, arrived around 5 a.m. Thereby giving the creature time to scare the hell out of the Salams, eat their cow, stop up their toilet, smoke all Salam's cigars, and then root through their underwear drawer.
Residents of Peerkankaranai said this was not their first close encounter with the reptile. "Dat's not quite right. Y'can't call my client a 'repeat offender.' Each of his offenses has been different."
P.L.Ananthasamy, Chief Conservator of Forests and Zoo Director, said it was a wild crocodile. "Yep. He's a wild one, all right."
There were quite a few water bodies in and around Vandalur and it could have strayed from one of them. None of the crocodiles housed in the Park had strayed into the residential area and there was no need to panic. Right. There's a crocodile in your bathroom, smoking your cigars, but there's no need to panic.
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They missed a perfect chance for some good boots, a purse and a nice belt.
MANAMA Five new faces, three going out, three deputy prime ministers and the two women ministers from the previous cabinet retaining their respective posts is the composition of Bahrains new 24-member cabinet, appointed by His Corpulenceness Majesty the King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
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A Northumberland fitness instructor has defended plans to teach children as young as 12 how to pole dance.
Laraine Riddell will start classes in the New Year at a gym in Choppington, in which boys and girls will be taught to spin up and down on a pole. Ms Riddell insists the classes are nothing but good exercise for children who are at risk of obesity.
But the children's charity Kidscape, said pole dancing was traditionally linked to erotic acts in clubs.
Ms Liddell said she wanted to distance her classes from images of naked women dancing for money in nightclubs.
She said she had the support of parents who welcomed the classes.
Ms Riddell said: "This is a good way of tackling obesity. It is dancing and it is fun and gives you a fantastic feeling.
"I have seen the joy in the faces of children who are holding their body strength up, doing the splits, spinning round and upside down.
"The children don't come in with thoughts of strip clubs in their minds."
But Michele Elliott, director of Kidscape, said the classes were "out of order".
She said: "Pole dancing is traditionally an activity where women on stage are given money which is stuck in their underwear.
"To teach 12-year-old girls pole dancing is out of order. I am sure pole dancing is good exercise - but so is stripping. After all, strippers have great bodies.
"By all means give the kids exercise, but just skip the poles." Just what the world needs more of, fat pole dancers.
Published: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006, 09:53 AM Doha Time
LONDON: A bishop was entangled in a mystery yesterday after admitting he couldnt explain how he got a black eye after a drinks party - while witnesses gave a colourful account of his night out.The Bishop of Southwark also sustained a bump on the head at some point after leaving a pre-Christmas party at the Irish embassy, which as media reports noted is not known for restraint in providing liquid hospitality.
One thing is sure: the bishop, less formally known as the Right Reverend Tom Butler, initially said he had been mugged after arriving home last Tuesday night with a bump to his head and without his briefcase and mobile phone.He had spent two hours drinking at the Irish embassy with fellow guests including Britains domestic spy agency chief, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, and the former Northern Ireland politician David Trimble. Two hours of drinking at the Irish embassy? Good lord thats like two days at Spring Break in Mazatlan.
Butler told his congregation the next day he could not wear his bishops hat because of the bump on his head. He had reported the incident to police, who had told him the injuries were consistent with being mugged.But things became more cloudy when witnesses questioned whether the senior cleric - who is a regular religious commentator on BBC radio - had taken a direct route home from the embassy.
Specifically, they said he ended up in a lane, next to railway arches near his cathedral, where he climbed into a strangers Mercedes, and started throwing toys out into the road.
According to the cars owner, Paul Sumpter, after he found the robe-wearing trespasser in his vehicle the following conversation occurred: Sumpter: "Hey Dude What are you doing in my car?" The bishop: "Im the Bishop of Southwark, its what I do."
A brief fracas then occurred, and an ambulance was called, but the mystery man apparently staggered off into the night."We were laughing because he was staggering so much as he walked off," said Paul Sathaporn, manager of a nearby bar.After that account emerged the 66-year-old admitted he couldnt remember exactly what had happened."I can remember the reception. It was one of those pre-Christmas receptions, with interesting conversations and interesting people. I had a drink," the bishop was quoted as saying in the Guardian."There lies the difficulty. I am not in a position to say dogmatically anything more about it. I have no memory of what happened. I came home certainly with an injury and with a loss of property."Whatever the reality of what happened, the cleric - a father or two and a senior member of the Church of England, insists the incident does not call into question his ability to do his job."I certainly dont intend to resign," he told The Guardian. AFP
I know you're all just dying to know, so...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and three other women were convicted of trespassing yesterday for trying to deliver an anti-Iraq-war petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
A Manhattan Criminal Court judge sentenced them immediately to conditional discharge, which means they could face some form of penalty if they are arrested in the next six months, and ordered them to pay $95 in court surcharges. Not enough. I wanted lashes. Public time in the stocks. And to make her cover up her tits like a normal person.
Mrs. Sheehan and about 100 other members of a group called Global Exchange were rebuffed in March when they attempted to take a petition with about 72,000 signatures to the U.S. Mission's headquarters across the street from the United Nations.
After yesterday's sentencing, the women returned to the U.S. Mission; this time, their petition was accepted.
Prosecutors said they were arrested after ignoring police orders to disperse. Duh. Clarity lost. Obviously, this is referring to the previous attempt thingy.
The four were acquitted of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing government administration. They had faced up to a year in jail if convicted of all counts.
"We should never have been on trial in the first place," Mrs. Sheehan said in a statement after the verdict. "It's George Bush and his cronies who should be on trial, not peaceful women trying to stop this devastating war. This verdict, however, will not stop us from continuing to work tirelessly to bring our troops home." We're Speshul. Regular old laws just don't apply when you're following a Higher Calling, like being a Political Jester / Laughingstock.
Mrs. Sheehan, 49, of Vacaville, Calif., lost her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq on April 4, 2004. She has since emerged as one of the most vocal and high-profile opponents of the war, drawing international attention when she camped outside President Bush's Texas ranch to protest the war.
The women, calling their campaign "Women Say No to War," had hoped to give the petition to Peggy Kerry, the mission's liaison for nongovernmental organizations and sister of Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, as they had last year. Ms Kerry was against it before she was for it. Bubba's the opposite. Dad's against everything, all the time. Mom's for everything, all the time. They don't do holiday dinners together.
Miss Kerry refused to meet with the women in the presence of the news media. She testified during the trial that the presentation seemed like a publicity stunt.
The women ignored police orders to leave and were reading it aloud on the sidewalk when officers arrested them. The women sat on the sidewalk and were carried to patrol wagons.
After yesterday's court session, the women returned to the U.S. Mission to ask for an apology and resubmit the petition. Apology? YJCMTSU.
They were met by Richard A. Grenell, the mission's director of external affairs, but didn't have the petitions with them. After obtaining copies of the petition, they went back a second time and handed them over to Miss Kerry and Mr. Grenell in the building's lobby.
Mr. Grenell did not explain why the petitions were accepted this time. Tired of filing those Stay (the fuck) Away Orders, lol.
Mrs. Sheehan's co-defendants were Melissa Beattie, 57, of New York; Susan "Medea" Benjamin, 54, of San Francisco; and Patricia Ackerman, 48, of Nyack, N.Y.
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Miss Kerry refused to meet with the women in the presence of the news media. She testified during the trial that the presentation seemed like a publicity stunt.
Having John Fn for a brother, she sure as shit knows one of them when she sees one...
Washington The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday.
In life, 70 million years ago, the 1.5-metre-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.
The new fossil skeleton is one of the most complete of its type ever found, researchers said. It will go on display Wednesday at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's Museum of Geology.
Plesiosaurs lived for millions of years in the then-warm southern ocean surrounding Antarctica, with adults growing as large as 9.75-metres long. With diamond-shaped fins they could fly through the water much as penguins do now.
The U.S. National Science Foundation said researchers battled freezing conditions and 110-kilometre-an-hour winds in recovering the fossil, which was too heavy to be carried out and had to be moved by helicopter.
Leaders of the 2005 expedition that recovered the plesiosaur were James Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, Judd Case of Eastern Washington University and Marcelo Reguero of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina.
The researchers said the animal's stomach area was well-preserved, including forked ribs, sometimes into three prongs, and numerous small, rounded stomach stones probably used to help maintain buoyancy or to aid digestion.
The skeleton was found in an area covered with volcanic ash, leading them to speculate that the plesiosaur was killed in an eruption, either by the blast or by ash dumped in the ocean. I think alGore killed it.
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The main reason we have been getting this cyclical ice ages is down to Antarctica sitting where it is at the moment. That plus its disconnect from what is now South America mean we have a giant refrigerator commanding the "bottom" of the planet.
Still, I am delighted to learn we can resolve this supposed global warming trend through a quick nuclear exchange between "Iran" and "Saudi" Arabia. Nothing like American know-how to get the job done.
Used to play in there as a child in the early 70s while my dad fooled around in the computer room working on his masters. He was a launch officer in the Minuteman silos. With nothing to do down there other than drills (thank goodness) the AF encourage them to go to graduate school and study.
Very nice little museum. At the time they had the only complete T-Rex skeleton in the world.
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Wayyy to late to post this, but I couldn't resist, because I'm very self-indulgent; HT Sittingbull at Extreme Centre (who just posted it today). Nice beard, really, I'm jealous.
A new level of despicable ingenuity.
The crime began with a phone call: Jason's ex-wife, dialing in to check on the couple's 5-year-old son, who was home with his father when the phone rang. Oddly, the boy's name flashed across the caller ID window, but Jason thought nothing of it.
Mistake.
Today, three years later, the Las Vegas father recognizes this call as his first taste of something truly dismal: His ex-wife, who had filed for bankruptcy, used their child's name and social security number to buy a cell phone. Then she stopped paying the bill.
Jason found out when his son turned 6 and received a credit agency collection notice for $344.
As identity theft goes, the scam was particularly nefarious - abusing the name of your own child. Unfortunately, children are increasingly becoming victims of this kind of identity theft.
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This is just so evil. These people really need to be punished in a physical way, it's the only thing that will "cure" them, the fear that the physical pain will be revisited on them.
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To put this on a broader level, isn't the very nature of western european retirement systems amounting to stealing your child's credit?
Or, say, for France, the constant borrowing of money to simply keep the budget afloat (debt being 67% or 130¨of the GNP, according on how you count)?
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I had my computer stolen and it had all my families SSN's on it. I called to have my credit blocked and and it was no problem for me and my wife. My kids were another story. Since they were minors they could not, or would not, block their credit!!!! This will only get worse until the laws are change to protect our kids.
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...This has actually been a rising problem for a few years now, and I'm frankly surprised it hasn't gotten more publicity. In my former job at a local loanshark finance company, we were seeing this start to be a serious matter among those of our customers who were getting disability and SSI checks for minor children.
Mike
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The CCC's should have to pay for the restoration.
Which are basically the banks. And the banks don't care cause they simply pass any bad accounts on to all the other card holders. Notice that when the inflation hit during the last Carter years the banks quite lending till the states altered their usury laws. Back then rates were capped under 10 percent. They got the state legislatures to remove all caps rather than float a percentage above prime. So interest rates went to 21 percent. Inflation was throttled during the Reagan years and prime dropped to under 6 percent but credit card interest rates grudgingly came down from 21 to 18, then 18 to 15, and over a decade latter from 15 to 12. Its a gold mine built on the backs of everyone else without the banks carrying any real liability for issuing cards and credit to students, kids, or dogs. You start the tighten up the system and watch them scream that it is discriminatory against the poor and minorities who make up a disproportion of the poor. No, its a threat to their rape of the serfs. The new indentured population. No one is entitled to credit. Its earned. Way past time for interest to be capped by the prime by which these same banks get their float from the Federal Reserve and past time that they can dump their bad practices upon the backs of others. Time for the banks profit to take a big hit for improper lending practices. Make it hurt and theyll pay attention.
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As recently as the mid-70s this wouldn't have been a problem, as minors couldn't enter into a contract, which credit would entail. I'm not too sure what happened to this principle. Perhaps one of our legal experts could explain.
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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.
HERMISTON, Ore. - A small spider bite turned out to be a big problem for Cindy Pettey. Pettey awoke when she was bitten on the stomach in the middle of the night a few weeks ago, but thought little else of it. Then she started running a fever, she felt achy and weak. The bite sore became larger.
TAMBARAM/CHENNAI: Residents of a house in the southern suburb Peerkankaranai near Tambaram had the shock of their life when a young crocodile strayed into their home early on Monday. The noise made by the 4-foot long reptile woke them up. 
Published: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006, 09:53 AM Doha Time
Washington The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday.
