The idea seemed a long shot at best: One man would call police and accuse his friend of carrying a bomb in hopes the arresting officer would rough up the suspect enough to support a lawsuit.
Instead of a civil case windfall, Duane Haffner and Leotis Sylvester Allen are going to prison. A judge on Monday sentenced Haffner, 23, to five years for making a terroristic threat. Allen, 22, received a four-year term. Both men are from the southeast Missouri town Jackson.
"This was more a crime of stupidity rather than terrorism," Cape Girardeau County prosecutor Morley Swingle said.
Circuit Judge Ben Lewis will re-evaluate the pair's behavior in prison after 120 days and decide whether to release them on probation.
Jackson police received a call on Feb. 21 with a tip that a man planned to take a bomb hidden in his shoe into the county courthouse the next day. The caller described the clothes the man would wear down to a Timberland black hoodie.
Swingle said detectives recognized the voice of Haffner in the recorded call, checked phone records and determined the call came from a drug and alcohol treatment center where Haffner and Allen were staying. Police said Haffner admitted making the call at the direction of Allen.
Authorities said Allen paid Haffner $25 to make the call. Allen never intended to carry a bomb, but hoped to profit by being tackled by police and suing for injuries he hoped would ensue from the struggle, police said.
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Paris Hilton will serve about half of her 45-day jail sentence and will be separated from the general inmate population, authorities said Wednesday. The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
Her sentence was shortened after jail officials gave her credit for good behavior, Whitmore said. Officials considered several factors in calculating the credit, including that she appeared for her latest court date, he said.
Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates, he said. Like everyone else in the 2,200-inmate facility, Hilton will get at least an hour outside her cell each day to shower, watch television, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, he said.
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That's a good precedent to remember if I get arrested: showing up in court counts as good behaviour.
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Hilton will stay in a unit that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates
I knew it would boil down to this in the end. Keep watching,I betcha they'll have her out of there in less than 23 days .
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Once you sets foot in Celebrity Prison, ya best sets ya mahnd to...not doin much.
Ah doan lahk this any moah then you do, but this is the way she wants it. So she gets it!
by Richard Fernandez ("Wretchard the Cat" to us blogosphere types)
It should have been fiction but it was fact. Sixty-four years ago today a handpicked squadron of RAF pilots, led by a dashing young war hero took off on a mission to flood out Hitlers war machine by destroying the dams which supplied hydroelectric power to the Ruhr. It was a task deemed impossible owing to the massive construction of the targets. In their bomb bays was a unusual weapon designed to skip across the surface of the reservoir and crawl down the face of the dam until they reached its most vulnerable point to explode. The bomb itself was the product of an eccentric British scientist who had once designed airships.
Sixty-four years ago, the Lancasters of 617 Squadron took off from RAF Scampton at sunset on May 17, 1943 . . . .
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An absolute marvel of military engineering and technology. Too bad we haven't the sand to take similarly effective measures in today's battle with Islam. That one single mission may well have saved tens of thousands or more of Allied lives.
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During Gibsons public relations tour of the United States a lady member of the audience asked him, at a time when the USAF tour expired milestone was 25 missions, how many combat operations he had flown over Germany. A stunned silence followed when Gibson answered one hundred and seventy four.
Spring has arrived in this southeastern Vermont shire town. The trees are less bare, and some local residents are more so. Brattleboro has no ordinance, and Vermont no law, against public nudity. Some of the people who caused a stir last year when they began appearing downtown, as nature made them, are back.
Not everyone is happy.
Resident Theresa Toney said she was dining at a downtown restaurant when she spotted her first naked person of the spring. She looked out the window "and saw a man in his 60s walking up and down Main Street totally nude," she said. "This is indecent exposure where it doesn't belong."
Toney was one of the most vocal critics of public nudity when young people first started congregating without clothing in a downtown parking lot last year. This week she was back before the Select Board, demanding to know what the town was going to do "about this behavior." Audrey Garfield, chairwoman of the board, said she had spoken with the town manager, and that a log of complaints would be compiled.
Some are worried about the town's image.
"How do you want to be viewed as Brattleboro?" asked the Rev. Kevin Horion. "We want to welcome families with small children." Nudists could pop up anywhere, he said. "I am concerned we don't know where they are going to strike."
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"I's just in here gettin my car checked, he just appeared out of the traffic. Come streakin' around the grease rack there, didn't have nothin' on but a smile. I looked in there, and Ethel was gettin' her a cold drink. I hollered, "Don't look, Ethel!" But it was too late. She'd already been mooned. Flashed her right there in front of
the shock absorbers."
Here he comes, look at that, look at that
There he goes, look at that, look at that
And he ain't wearin' no clothes
Oh, yes, they call him the Streak
Look at that, look at that
Brattleboro's village freak
Look at that, look at that
He's just as proud as he can be
Of his wrinkled anatomy
He goin' give us a peek . . .
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She looked out the window "and saw a man in his 60s walking up and down Main Street totally nude
Could have been having a senior moment and just forgot to put on his clothes. Clothes phobia? Allergic to cloth? Clothing impaired? Getting his Vitamin D?
Raising fears in the Muslim community, someone scrawled "Center of the Party of Satan" in Arabic on the back and front of a Shi'ite mosque in Dearborn.
In this case the fear of the Muslim community is that the local Muslims will turn on each other rather than on the Kuffar.
Some claimed that Sunni extremists might have been behind the vandalism. But police have said they don't know who was behind them and have not arrested anyone in those cases.
Tomorrow the legislature of Michigan will debate banning the sale of spray paint to anyone able to write in Arabic
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The only reason the Muzzies are afraid is that they're afraid this will raise some suspicion among docile and ignorant Americans as to what is being siad and done within the walls of the dungeon(they call it a mosque).
There were gasps of surprise at ABC's fall-schedule announcement this week when the veteran TV newsman popped up as an actor in clips for "Dirty Sexy Money," a new drama about a wealthy, misbehaving New York family.
The role wasn't exactly a stretch.
He said it, not me.
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Well, he's been pretending to be a serious reporter of news for decades, on 60 Minutes...
Heavily armed SAS troops could be ordered on to Sydney's streets during the APEC summit in September, a military law academic warned today. University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Michael Head said new powers, including expanded rights to shoot to kill, were given to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in last year's military callout legislation.
He said he was disturbed by last year's changes to the Commonwealth Defence Act which enhanced the Government's power to mobilise troops. "The troops have considerably wider and legally protected rights to use lethal force," Prof Head said today.
Quite right, good man, far better to let the terrs kill everyone at the Summit. How unsporting, really ...
Unprecedented security will be in force in Sydney for a week of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings which will climax on September 7, 8 and 9 with a leaders' summit .
Prof Head said the ADF had recently announced plans to use heavily armed SAS commandos to protect government leaders and officials. The callout of troops during APEC was an example of the creeping militarisation of Australia, he said. "Any perceived security threat to the APEC participants, whether an alleged terrorist plot or political protest, could see the heavily armed SAS Tactical Assault Group called out on Sydney streets," Prof Head said.
You might wish to remain confined to your bed the entire time, I don't see how you'll survive ...
The Prime Minister or two authorising ministers could now order troops onto the streets if they thought critical infrastructure or a commonwealth interest was threatened by domestic violence, Prof Head said.
Since that's what a military does, defend the country against threats foreign or domestic ...
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Speaking of oil/awwlll, RIAN/SPACEWAR > SEN. LUGAR > RUSSIA WANTS ARCTIC ENERGY RESERVES, to the detriment of the USA as per Lugar. Russia wants to get 'em first before anyone else, espec USA. *Article - in a time where land reserves face looming exhaustion, the world's future oil flows will stem from undersea sources andor as found on offshore continental shelves. MAY EXPLAIN SOME OF THE SHIP TYPES OFF GUAM.
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SAS Troops on duty authorized to shoot to kill. I like the sound of that. Please run past Bondi, and if any Lebanese youts are causing a ruccus, just aim carefully and squeeze off a few rounds please.
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Indonesia's environment minister Rachmat Witoelar in January said the country could lose about 2,000 islands by 2030 if sea levels continued to rise.
World sea levels are likely to rise by up to 59 cms (23.2 inches) by 2100 and bigger gains cannot be ruled out if ice in Greenland and Antarctica thaws, the U.N. climate panel said in February.
"Island states are very vulnerable to sea level rise and very vulnerable to storms. Indonesia with 17,000 islands of course is particularly vulnerable," he said on a recent visit to Jakarta.
Of course, if "Global Warming" triggers another Ice Age as the GW true believers posit, then sea levels could drop by 600 feet.
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An island that would disappear with a two foot rise in sea level likely isn't fairing too well under choppy surf conditions now. How many of those are actually inhabited by people?
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I wonder what a map of the globe would've looked like at the height of the last ice age. Chicago was under a mile of ice, I believe.
Walk-across the Bering Strait, Japan connected to China, Garden of Eden above water in the Persian Gulf, Australia connected to ???
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Villages built on stilts on underwater reefs are common in Indonesia, often quite far out to sea. I've read that they were responses to past sea level rises and built as the waters slowly rose. Otherwise it's difficult to see how they could have built them if the reef was already underwater.
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But-t-t all humanity is supposed to be goners anywhere from 5 years from now [2012], to Yarn 2080 or 2090. Btwn Years 2025-2050, CHINA andor possibly INDIA will had overtaken the USA as the world's premier economy(s)??? GLOBAL WARMING > RACE TO MANKIND'S EXTINCTION [ D ***ng it, we wanna be extinct!].
About a dozen people gathered in the Castro District of San Francisco Tuesday evening to mark the death of Jerry Falwell. Falwell, the folksy, small-town preacher who used the power of television to found the Moral Majority and turn the Christian right into a mighty force in American politics during the Reagan years, died Tuesday at 73.
Michael Petrelis organized the so-called "anti-memorial" and said gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders said would speak out about Falwell's past efforts to demonize the gay community. A makeshift grave was surrounded by an assortment of signs, rainbow flags and teletubbies dolls at Castro and 18th streets. One signed read, "Falwell dies, but the rainbow lives."
At least one person danced on the makeshift grave. Petrelis said he organized the event because Falwell "spent a number of decades working to deny gays full equality."
Sen. John McCain praised Falwell as "a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country." As McCain and other GOP presidential candidates prepared for a debate, they took time to remember Falwell. McCain was the commencement speaker last year at Falwell's Liberty University -- after making peace with Falwell. Six years earlier, in a campaign speech, he had included Falwell in a group he described as "agents of intolerance."
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney described Falwell Tuesday as "an American who built and led a movement based on strong principles and strong faith." And, after a tour of the debate site Tuesday in South Carolina, Rudy Giuliani told reporters that Falwell "was a man who set a direction" -- and someone who was "not afraid to speak his mind."
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they can do whatever they want on a 'makeshift' grave.
But no one should be able to desecrate a real grave or interupt any memorial services.
Who are the hateful folks now?
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JHC, the SF misfits and queers trying to smear the Fine Falwell Record. Can't you nuts stay inside your cages ? Falwell descends from fine lineage. I think I heard one report saying his granpappy used to brew some high quality shine deep in the hills in the olde days.
Sorry to hear the man is dead, but he seems to have gone peacefully. He was never my cuppa - he was no Rev. Billy Graham - but I liked him more than Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robinson. Hot Air watched the story from its inception and took the trouble to go find the predictable hate stuff. I dont know why people go out of their way to find the hate stuff we all know is there, posted by small people with small lives, and yes, I did say the same when some on the right posted ugly on the passing of Molly Ivins. People need to grow up - everything comes around, you know. And yes, the crap you post says more about you than about Falwell.
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A generation has passed. Reagon, Pope John Paul, even Billy Graham is now at the end of his lifetime.
Even though they have left America as the ONLY Super Power in the world, the richest, the most militarily potent, the new generation is dangerously shifting to those who without Moral Backbone, the most important ingredient of American in generations past, will make America weak. A Just God is now allowing Islamists or Mexican Citizens (now openly claiming America) are beginning to walk down the middle of Main Street like as though America is now a conquered nation.
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lg2526, your comment evolving to the conquered nation is spot on. We're being trampled on and folks are trying to be so PC that it's killing us even more. I hope it's not too late to do some much needed repair work.
I want to see these presidential candidates tell me their ideas of what they plan to do about it. So far everyone is afraid and skirts it like the plague.
Mike I liked your comment too
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Didn't much care for the gentlemen, but I used to think it was bad form to speak ill of the recently deceased (I was willing to make an exception for the Jihadis). But, the left has shown me the way. I'll keep that in mind when Jimmy Carter kicks the bucket.
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.
The idea seemed a long shot at best: One man would call police and accuse his friend of carrying a bomb in hopes the arresting officer would rough up the suspect enough to support a lawsuit.
Paris Hilton will serve about half of her 45-day jail sentence and will be separated from the general inmate population, authorities said Wednesday. The hotel heiress will spend about 23 days in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
It should have been fiction but it was fact. Sixty-four years ago today a handpicked squadron of RAF pilots, led by a dashing young war hero took off on a mission to flood out Hitlers war machine by destroying the dams which supplied hydroelectric power to the Ruhr. It was a task deemed impossible owing to the massive construction of the targets. In their bomb bays was a unusual weapon designed to skip across the surface of the reservoir and crawl down the face of the dam until they reached its most vulnerable point to explode. The bomb itself was the product of an eccentric British scientist who had once designed airships.
Spring has arrived in this southeastern Vermont shire town. The trees are less bare, and some local residents are more so. Brattleboro has no ordinance, and Vermont no law, against public nudity. Some of the people who caused a stir last year when they began appearing downtown, as nature made them, are back.
Heavily armed SAS troops could be ordered on to Sydney's streets during the APEC summit in September, a military law academic warned today. University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Michael Head said new powers, including expanded rights to shoot to kill, were given to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in last year's military callout legislation. 
About a dozen people gathered in the Castro District of San Francisco Tuesday evening to mark the death of Jerry Falwell. Falwell, the folksy, small-town preacher who used the power of television to found the Moral Majority and turn the Christian right into a mighty force in American politics during the Reagan years, died Tuesday at 73. 
