A woman who called 911 to get "the cutest cop I've seen" sent back to her home got a date all right a court date. The same sheriff's deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system. Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.
Thompson said Dudash then called 911, asking that the "cutie pie" deputy return. "He's the cutest cop I've seen in a long time. I just want to know his name," Dudash told the dispatcher. "Heck, it doesn't come very often a good man comes to your doorstep."
After listening to some more, followed by a bit of silence, the dispatcher asked again why Dudash needed the deputy to return. "Honey, I'm just going to be honest with you, OK? I just thought he was cute. I'm 45 years old and I'd just like to meet him again, but I don't know how to go about doing that without calling 911," she said. "I know this is absolutely not in any way, shape or form an emergency, but if you would give the officer my phone number and ask him to come back, would you mind?"
The deputy returned, verified that there was no emergency and arrested her for misusing the 911 system, an offense punishable by a fine of up to several thousand dollars and a year in jail. Thompson said Thursday it was the first case he knew of in which someone called the emergency line for such a personal reason.
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It's happened before, just never heard of a dingbat who was so blatant about it. ;)
Fifteen-year-old D.J. Choate and his buddies were concerned Monday night when a car full of men raced down a suburban side street and nearly hit a young boy. Their concern turned to outrage when the men got out of the car, took D.J.'s prosthetic left leg and used it to beat D.J.'s friend unconscious. "I think they're sick and twisted in the head," D.J. said Thursday.
The men left Kyle Keene, 19, of Oak Lawn, in a bloody heap and D.J.'s $15,000 fake leg in pieces. The slight boy, who police say lost his leg at the calf in a railroad accident, is now left to hop or crawl around his Burbank apartment as he waits for repairs. He has a wheelchair, but it's cumbersome in his family's second-floor home.
It all started around 11:30 p.m. Monday outside D.J.'s apartment building at 79th and Natchez. D.J., Keene and friend Mike Manley, 16, were headed inside when a Jetta zoomed south on Natchez -- close to the curb -- and almost clipped a 13-year-old boy, they said. Manley said he went up to the car when it stopped and asked: "Why are you driving like that late at night? There's kids out here."
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- There's pecking disorder in the city. Brewer's blackbirds, apparently protecting their young during nesting season, are swooping down and attacking the heads of pedestrians. "On a bad day, we get about 15 attacks an hour," Nautical Bean coffee house business manager Brett Jones said. "I thought about naming a coffee after them."
Customers are often seen flailing their hands over their heads as they walk toward the Laguna Village Shopping Center cafe. Last week, while walking into the Nautical Bean Espresso Cafe, customer Charlie Magnuson felt tiny claws tug on his peppered hair. "Once you've been scratched," he said, "it does scare you a little. But not really, because they won't go for your eyes. I think it's a fun thing as long as no one gets hurt."
Wildlife experts said the birds are simply protecting their young. Capt. David Fox of the California Department of Fish and Game said the behavior is a common defense mechanism. Once nesting season is over at the end of summer, the harassment of Nautical Bean patrons will likely stop, he said.
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Isn't that happening everywhere? This is hostile crow season. They especially hate people who wear red.
A man has been jailed for life for murdering his sister after she fell in love with an asylum seeker. Greengrocer Azhar Nazir, 30, and his cousin Imran Mohammed, 17, stabbed Samaira Nazir 18 times at the family home in Southall in April 2005. The 25-year-old recruitment consultant was killed after she asked to marry an Afghan man - instead of marrying a close relative someone in the Pakistani family circle. An Old Bailey judge detained Mohammed, also convicted of murder, for life. The teenager was told he must serve a minimum of 10 years in youth detention, while Nazir will be jailed for at least 20 years.
The court had earlier heard Samaira fell in love with Salman Mohammed, who befriended the family after arriving in the UK in 2000. They began a secret relationship but when Miss Nazir asked for permission to marry him, her family reacted angrily. Mr Mohammed had been warned by Nazir: "We can get you anywhere if you get married, even if you are not in this country."
The couple had last seen each other about an hour before Miss Nazir was killed. She had tried to talk to her mother about the problem at a relative's house, but her mother refused. The pair returned to the family home. The attack that followed, described by Judge Christopher Moss as barbaric, was witnessed by two young nieces. Miss Nazir tried to flee but her brother dragged her back into the house where the assault continued. A neighbour heard screams and knocked on the door. Nazir told her his sister was suffering a fit, but as she returned to her home she heard Miss Nazir shout "You are not my mother any more".
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Don't try banging your head on your keyboard. It doesn't help. Perhaps someday they will evolve a bit in prison and feel somewhat remorseful. And perhaps one day their family will stop feeling indignant about society's reaction. I wonder what the heck they were thinking they would do after they were finished. I wonder if they even slowed down enough to think. Religion of pieces.
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Sorry, typed too fast. I did recognize the sarcasm, was responding to the 'character' you all too accurately portrayed.
I'm patient, but my patience with these misogynist barbarians is all worn out -- as is my patience with judges who impose what I see as light sentences for honor killings, rapes and mutilations.
ROCK HILL, S.C. - Democrats pulled an Internet ad that showed flag-draped coffins Friday after Republicans and at least two Democrats demanded it be taken down on grounds the image was insensitive and not fit for a political commercial.
The ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called for a "new direction" and displayed a staccato of images, including war scenes, pollution and breached levees as well as a photograph of former House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay doctored to look like a police mug shot.
The campaign committee replaced the ad with a radio commercial that targets Rep. John Hostetler, R-Ind., for opposing an increase in the minimum wage. Democrats have made a minimum wage increase a central theme of this year's election.
Democrats had featured the video ad for nearly two weeks on the DCCC Web site where it had gone largely unnoticed until Republicans began objecting to it this week. On Thursday, more than a dozen Republicans, many with military backgrounds, called on DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., to apologize. Democratic Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina and Chet Edwards of Texas asked Emanuel to pull or alter the ad.
"We're moving to another major effort that we're highlighting on our Web site," DCCC spokesman Bill Burton said.
In South Carolina, Spratt's Republican challenger, state Rep. Ralph Norman, commended the removal. It was "the right thing to do for the state, country and especially the brave men and women who serve in our military," said Norman's spokesman, Nathan Hollifield.
Sen. Rick Santorum, one of the most vulnerable incumbents facing re-election this November, announced Friday he has raised $20.1 million - nearly double that of his Democratic challenger. The number bypasses the previous record raised by a Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, which was $19.8 million raised by Sen. Arlen Specter for his 2004 race.
Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, raised $3.6 million for the fundraising quarter that ended June 30, and has $9.5 million in cash, according to his campaign. His opponent, state Treasurer Bob Casey, raised $2.8 million and has $5.2 million in cash, his campaign said. He has raised a total of $10.8 million, his campaign said. Casey has led Santorum in polls by the double-digits for months.
Virginia Davis, Santorum's campaign spokeswoman, said polling numbers are unreliable. "Sen. Santorum clearly has momentum on his side as demonstrated by his fundraising ability," Davis said.
Casey's campaign spokesman, Larry Smar, noted this was Casey's best fundraising quarter, and said that momentum was building for Casey. He said Santorum's fundraising was not going to be enough "to cover up his record of putting special interests ahead of Pennsylvania." First lady Laura Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani both made fundraising stops for Santorum during the quarter.
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If he is the most vulnerable incumbent facing re-election this November, how is it, he raised so much money? Didn't we have a post the last 24 hours about how a poll shows, we are all voting Democrat this November? So, please explain, I give my money to a Repub in July, but I vote for a Democrat in November?
*just walkin' off, noddin' and scratchin' my head, wonderin' what medications for my senile condition I took and totally messed up the doses*
Gov. Mitt Romney signed legislation Friday giving him control of inspections in the Big Dig tunnel system, where falling ceiling panels fatally crushed a woman. The legislation was passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature late Thursday, which would also give the governor ultimate say on when the tunnels reopen, instead of the Turnpike Authority chairman.
The move came as inspectors quadrupled the number of ceiling bolt problems found in the project, revealing there are at least 242 other points where bolts are separating from the tunnel roof. "When it comes to an issue of inspecting the tunnel system, to have the person who's been responsible for it for the last several years say, 'I'm going to inspect it' and tell us, 'It's now safe,' that's not enough," Romney said.
Turnpike Authority Chairman Matthew Amorello told reporters he would accept independent inspections. But he rebuffed requests that he step aside - even after state lawmakers urged him to accept a lesser role solely as an authority board member. Amorello has thus far ignored demands from the governor to step down.
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We stand ready to defend our phoney baloney jobs.
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I hung out w/ some state engineers last night. The stories they were telling were absolutely frightening, all the way back to the Fred Salvucchi days.
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(Amorello) rebuffed requests that he step aside - even after state lawmakers urged him to accept a lesser role solely as an authority board member. Amorello has thus far ignored demands from the governor to step down.
I'll translate to Massachuettsese. Negotiations are in progress. Give me the same deal as Billy Bulger, and I'm off to Florida, never to be heard from again.
Let him keep his office, but romney should call the chief of police, tell him to get 20 of his healthiest off-duty men to meet him at Romney's office, tranport them over to Amorello's office and move everything out.
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Living in Mass and knowing one of the engineers I can make two salient comments...
1) As much of a hack as Amorello is, he wasn't in charge when this work was done.
2) A significant amount of the construction budget and some important contracts were funneled to Billy Bulger erst while head of the "Irish Mafia" and Mass Senate President. Oh yeah, his brother Whitey is #1 on the FBI most wanted list.
This is typical Democratic corruption and not a surprise to anyone, though the consequences were more dramatically tragic.
HAZLETON, Pa. - The mayor signed a city ordinance Friday that punishes people who do business with illegal immigrants or provide them with jobs or housing while critics called the new law unenforceable and predicted it will be overturned. Mayor Lou Barletta said his office will soon begin to train city workers in how to check people's immigration or citizenship status. He also expects the City Council to approve companion legislation requiring all tenants to register with the city and prove their legal residency. "We will start the process of training employees and possibly hiring someone as well," Barletta said Friday. "We're also going to be talking with Immigration and Customs (Enforcement) to see if possibly we could receive some assistance."
The city's Code Enforcement Department will implement the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, a law passed by the City Council on Thursday that fines landlords $1,000 per day for each illegal immigrant living on their properties. It takes effect in two months.
"Do I have confidence that employees of the City of Hazleton will be able to implement this policy in a way that makes sense? Absolutely not," said Lee Llambelis, legal director of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Llambelis said her organization will file a lawsuit that will claim the ordinance violates the federal government's jurisdiction over immigration. "We very much expect there to be similar cookie-cutter ordinances popping up all over the country," she said. "We will start in Hazleton but are prepared to litigate them nationally."
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While I sympathize with the mayor of Hazleton, I can't see this surviving a court challenge. IIRC, several courts have struck down similar measures on the grounds that immigration is supposed to be a federal issue. Of course, if the federal government is unable or unwilling to enforce the immigration laws ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A moderate earthquake struck in eastern Indonesian waters on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, meteorological officials and residents said.
The epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude quake was beneath the Banda Sea, and around 230 kilometers (145 miles) southwest of Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, the US Geological Survey said on its Web site. Lukman, an official at the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said there were no reports of casualties or damage. Residents in Ambon said they did not even feel the quake.
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Here on Guam, we had three very short but intense quakes two days ago. Felt the same as accelerating your POV but then having to suddenly stop or decelerate. As of this post, still a'feelin shakes.
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.
A woman who called 911 to get "the cutest cop I've seen" sent back to her home got a date all right a court date. The same sheriff's deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system. Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- There's pecking disorder in the city. Brewer's blackbirds, apparently protecting their young during nesting season, are swooping down and attacking the heads of pedestrians. "On a bad day, we get about 15 attacks an hour," Nautical Bean coffee house business manager Brett Jones said. "I thought about naming a coffee after them."
A man has been jailed for life for murdering his sister after she fell in love with an asylum seeker. Greengrocer Azhar Nazir, 30, and his cousin Imran Mohammed, 17, stabbed Samaira Nazir 18 times at the family home in Southall in April 2005. The 25-year-old recruitment consultant was killed after she asked to marry an Afghan man - instead of marrying 
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HAZLETON, Pa. - The mayor signed a city ordinance Friday that punishes people who do business with illegal immigrants or provide them with jobs or housing while critics called the new law unenforceable and predicted it will be overturned. Mayor Lou Barletta said his office will soon begin to train city workers in how to check people's immigration or citizenship status. He also expects the City Council to approve companion legislation requiring all tenants to register with the city and prove their legal residency. "We will start the process of training employees and possibly hiring someone as well," Barletta said Friday. "We're also going to be talking with Immigration and Customs (Enforcement) to see if possibly we could receive some assistance."
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A moderate earthquake struck in eastern Indonesian waters on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, meteorological officials and residents said.
