Three men have been burned to death by vigilantes in the Kabokweni area near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga police said on Thursday.
We have no idea where that is.
Superintendent Benjamin Mtsholi Bhembe said police received an anonymous call early on Wednesday morning that three men had been killed in the area. "We found them lying next to each other with their hands tied behind their backs with wire and rope. It appears they were assaulted before they were burned as there was a lot of blood around them."
Police on the scene found a fridge which had been stolen in July, and a shutter gun 9mm pistol with six live rounds of bullet. The dead men N Frans Maluka, Eric Sambo and Patrick Sigudla - were allegedly linked to criminal activities around the area. They were all under the age of 30.
Police were tracing the people involved and three counts of murder would be investigated someday. "People think the wheels of justice are moving slowly. Justice takes time and we plead with people to not take the law into their own hands," Bhembe said, upon waking from his nap.
After more than 30 years of working where money is made, David C. Faison decided to make some of it work for him, law enforcement officials say.
He devised an elaborate moneymaking scheme involving a pair of scissors, 10 sheets of partially printed $100 bills from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and a three-state gambling spree, according to documents charging him with theft of government property.
Investigators say Faison, 56, of Largo stole the sheets of $100 bills from the bureau's printing facility in the District, cut them and passed at least 145 of the bills through slot machines in casinos in Delaware, New Jersey and West Virginia.
Yesterday Faison, a widower who lives with his brother, Daniel, declined to comment."What do I get out of it?" Faison said in response to a request for an interview.
Faison worked as a stock control recorder at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, distributing paper stock throughout the plant -- a job that gave him access to the plant's printing section.
Rich Delmar, counsel to the inspector general for the Treasury Department, which is working on the Faison case with the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the scheme was "pretty rare. To my knowledge, I don't believe we've gotten any other reports of an incident like this," Delmar said.
During a two-month period, Faison allegedly used the partially printed bills at Midway Slots, Dover Downs Hotel & Casino and Delaware Park in Delaware, at Bally's and Trump Plaza in New Jersey and at Charles Town Races & Slots in West Virginia. Within 19 seconds one day last month, Faison allegedly inserted three $100 bills into machines at Midway Slots in Harrington, Del. He later received a cash ticket for $290. Delmar said officials at a couple of casinos realized that some of the partially printed bills had passed through their slot machines, and they contacted the Secret Service.
According to the charging documents, Faison took the sheets before they had gone through the full manufacturing process. The bills looked finished, but they had not been stamped with serial numbers or the Treasury seal. Each sheet contained 32 uncut bills, or $3,200.
Law enforcement officials searched through trash from the curb outside Faison's home last month, finding what appeared to be scraps from the cut bills. Investigators later confirmed that the "scraps of paper were scraps of specialized currency paper" used during the production process. Last week, investigators found some of the stolen sheets of bills hidden in wrapping paper in Faison's closet, according to the affidavit.
Peter Bradley, the general manager of slot operations at Dover Downs, said the casino received a tip from the Treasury Department that Faison might show up at the casino. "They gave us a description, and one day one of our surveillance folks picked him up," Bradley said. The casino made certain that the surveillance videotape of Faison was enough of a close-up to show that one of the $100 bills that Faison inserted into a slot machine did not have serial numbers or the Treasury seal, officials said. Dover Downs security later verified that Faison gambled with $400 that day and that all of the bills were partially printed."We were able to trace it back to him," Bradley said. "It was real good work on our folks' part, working with the Treasury Department. Just a good team effort."
Police are investigating reports of severed fingers, after a stabbing in the Uptown area overnight. Police arrived at 31st and Lyndale Aves. S. in Minneapolis around 3 a.m., finding two victims that appeared to have been stabbed with a two-and-a-half foot Samurai-style sword. The two victims were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. Later, two more suspects then showed up at HCMC with stab wounds, and police took those people into custody. The suspects taken into custody were identified as Hossem Chalbi, 18, and Mohammed Khalil, 29.
I did see an EMT coming past with a bag of fingers in their hand saying 'we're going to try and match these up.'
"I saw the first guy rolling down the stairs at me completely on fire with blood," witness Matthew Tellfair told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. "I did see an EMT coming past with a bag of fingers in their hand saying 'we're going to try and match these up.'"
"And there was one guy with a bloody sword...No joke," added witness Martin Knotsmith. "It was over two feet long and of the Samurai-style, slightly curved, very sharp."
According to police reports, two armed men stormed the apartment with a gun, and a scuffle ensued. One of the victims had a Samurai sword in the apartment and the sword somehow became part of the conflict. All people involved have non-life threatening injuries.
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IIRC, research by the US police found that a 21 feet gap was necessary for an officer to safely draw his firearm and fire when faced by an opponent with a knife, and this even had been increased.
Less than that, the knifer has a real chance to stab the officer before he can get his weapon out and shoot with effect; of course, the average knife-wielding perp is probably less skilled than the filipino martial artist who helped create the famous "surviving edged weapons" (???) police instructional videotape, but edged/stabbing contact weapons are not to be taken lightly.
In that same ressource material, IIRC, FBI stats are that 5% of people shot with handguns in the USA die from their wounds, against 15% for the ones stabbed, a mortality statistically equal to assault rifles (while serving as a military surgeon there, Martin Fackler estimated mortality rate from ak47 wounds in Viet Nam to 14%).
These two muslim (like in France, yeah, feels like known territory) hoodlums found that out painfully, lol.
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The story seems to be a bit convoluted. What is clear the perps are Hossem and Mohamed.
I can imagine it went like this:
Two perps with a gun knock on the door. Once one of the appartment residents opens the door, they rush in.
"Give me the casssssh", says Mohammed, pointing the gun at both residents. Meanwhile, Hossem sees the sword and takes it from the wall. "Looky what we have here, Mohammed", says Hossam.
"Don't touch it!", yells one of the vistims and and he and his room mate try to wrestle the sword from Hossam. They got stabbed in the tussle, but finally the sword owner gets a hold of the sword.
"What does shari'a law says about thieves, you muslums?" utters the sword owner and with a quick action of 4 swooshes, he dis-diggits Mohammed and then Hossem.
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Having thought about this a bit, I am guessing that somebody tried to grab the sword blade. On a good quality blade, just the weight of the sword itself is enough to cut into the skin of your hands.
N.B.: I knew a swordmaker who asserted that today they can make samurai swords better, as they can do electron microscopy analysis that shows the classical swordmakers over-folded their steel just a bit.
The absolutely sharpest commercially available today are ceramic blades, which are only made into cooking knives, as they are very brittle.
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We had a demo of what a trained knife wielder could do in my defensive handguns class. 21 ft---A good knife man could have you bled out like Jack the Pig before you get your weapon out and firing.
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#7: "The absolutely sharpest commercially available today are ceramic blades, which are only made into cooking knives, as they are very brittle."
They're also made into scalpels, 'moose.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't a 2 foot blade be the Samurai companion blade, the one usually used for abdominal piercing?
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How come I'ma having visions of Mo and his companion busting in on 2 guys who grew up in the 80's currently watching the Bruce Lee marathon on Spike? Talk about your bad luck of the draw (on which apartment they decide to raid). Of course, I also find it odd they don't mention names of the 2 "victims." Guess we don't wanna incite any revenge tactics against the muzzies, do we? Also, thanks for the stats A5089. Kinda dispells the whole "gun control" argument, doesn't it? Guess we gotta ban knives/swords first.
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FBI stats are that 5% of people shot with handguns in the USA die from their wounds, against 15% for the ones stabbed,
Reminds me of the old adage, run from a knife, charge a gun.
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The assumption of my quote is that you are unarmed and away from cover. You can outrun a knife but as far as I know only Clark Kent can outrun the bullet.
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Perhaps her religion of Body Modification should open up their own hospital.
I'd be curious if St Mary's has issues with Satanic symbols or hiring Druids and such. It would seem that a Catholic Hospital would sort of expect to project an image compatible with the Catholic religion.
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I'm thinking of starting the 'Church of Imbibing of Alcoholic Bevervages'. Anyone else want to be in the congregation? Beer and pretzels for communion!
h/t Drudge. The National Enquirer reported Wednesday that comedian Robin Williams has entered an alcohol rehab on July 11 to try and conquer a three-year battle with booze that's threatening to destroy his marriage. Though we certainly wish Williams well, it does seem rather odd that twelve days before he checked into the Hazelden Springbrook rehab facility in Newberg, Oregon, he was on the Tonight Show making disparaging remarks about radio host Rush Limbaughs problems with painkillers. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Glass house. Ballistic object.
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In another time, ye old court jester was a fool [an actual job description] who was allowed to mock the king in his own court. It was to keep the king humble in a Christian sense. However, the jester got access to all the benefits of the court just as the king did. So, from the view of the peasants, while the jester may at times get to say things out loud theyd like to say every now under their breath , in essence the jester was exploiting the lower class just as much as the king. Sort of a medieval 3 degrees of separation.
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Robin Williams (Cronauer): I just want to begin by saying to Roosevelt E. Roosevelt, what it is, what it shall be, what it was. The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.
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Robin was funny when he was on coke. I don't know when he cleaned up but my guess would be somewhere after Good Morning Vietnam and Doubtfire when his movies stopped being funny.
God only knows what will happen after he's clean and sober totally.
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I don't think that a giant crab invasion is really what Norwegians should be worried about, the other invasion--entirely differrent story--while crabs may deplete the fish stock, the other invaders may deplete the Norwegians.
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Species are on the move everywhere. Giant Sunfish are being caught off the UK. Tuna schools are approaching Alaska. One degree of global warming doesn't explain all this.
FIVE villagers, including a young boy, were killed in western India overnight when they jumped into a dry well to save an injured pigeon that had fallen in, authorities said. The boy was the first to jump in to rescue the bird and the others followed, trying to help him. The tragedy took place in Jhalabordi village, about 90km from Ahmedabad, the main city in Gujarat state.
But it's mighty close to Dumbassabad...
"Preliminary investigations show the deaths occurred due to suffocation," said DG Jhalawadia, a local government official.
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Sorry, I have to call BS on this one. I remember reading this exact same story several years ago in a newspaper. The only difference in that version was that it supposedly happened in Egypt and it was a chicken in the well. Someone is recycling.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mayor of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay's hometown said Wednesday he will run as a write-in candidate for his House seat after the scandal-scarred DeLay moved to withdraw from the November ballot. David Wallace, one of the candidates Texas Republicans were considering to replace DeLay, said in a statement that he had the backing of family, grass-roots leaders and friends in his write-in bid. The Democratic nominee is former Rep. Nick Lampson.
"I will be taking the fight to Nick Lampson and his liberal allies every day," said Wallace, the mayor of Sugar Land, Texas.
DeLay announced on Tuesday he was withdrawing from the race after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rejected attempts by Texas Republicans to replace him on the November ballot. The former congressman who served more than two decades was forced to act after Republicans lost several court fights to remove his name from the ballot in the Houston-area district and replace him with a GOP-chosen nominee.
Wallace has name recognition and money-raising ability - more than $157,000 cash on hand as of June 30 - that party officials need to take on Lampson, who had amassed more than $2 million in his campaign treasury as of June 30 in preparation for a race against DeLay.
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Health authorities have recovered scores of aborted female foetuses from a well in northern India, media reported on Thursday. The site was discovered by police in the city of Patiala in Punjab state, which has one of the worst gender ratios in the country, newspapers reported. The well was on a vacant plot next to a clinic run by a husband and wife, who had been illegally involved in abortions for years.
While abortions are not illegal in India, only a limited number of medical institutions are authorised to perform them. The couple charged anywhere from 8 000 rupees to 15 000 rupees ($174 to $326) per abortion, the reports said.
Because the foetuses were so decomposed, investigators were unable to say exactly how many were recovered from the well but estimates ranged from 35 to 100.
The investigators also raided an ultrasound scanning centre that was allegedly carrying out pre-natal sex determination tests and then directing pregnant women carrying girls to the clinic for abortion. Indian doctors are banned by law from carrying out sex-determination tests if female foetuses will be aborted as a result.
But many couples still have such tests and then pay shady operators for abortions if the baby is female. Girls are considered a liability as parents have to put away large sums of money to be paid as dowry at the time of their marriages. Centuries of tradition also demand that couples produce at least one male child to carry on the family name.
With only 798 girls for every thousand boys under the age of six, Punjab has the lowest gender ratio in India, where the average figure is 927 -- still well below the worldwide average of 1 050 female babies. A study by British medical journal the Lancet said this year that India may have lost 10-million unborn girls in the past 20 years, but Indian experts say the figure is not more than five million. Awaiting the sure-to-come femi-nazi outrage.
Lowe's has halted plans for two home-improvement centers in Chicago while Mayor Richard Daley weighs whether he will try to block the city's new "big-box" minimum-wage ordinance, a South Side alderman said Tuesday. The company's concerns about the law caused it to shelve plans for stores at 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue and at 79th Street and Cicero Avenue, said Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. (21st). "They changed their mind," said Brookins, whose ward includes the proposed store at 83rd and Stewart. "They now want to wait and see what happens."
Daley opposes the ordinance, which was passed by the City Council on July 26, but he has refused to say whether he would veto it. He has until Sept. 13 to decide whether he will exercise his veto power for the first time in his 17-year tenure as mayor.
David Katz of Northbrook-based A&R Management Inc., which manages the Scottsdale Shopping Center at 79th and Cicero, confirmed that Lowe's officials have postponed closing the deal for a new store there. "They won't sign the lease at this point," Katz said. "They are waiting to see if the mayor will veto the ordinance. Chances are they will pull out" unless the ordinance is vetoed.
Ald. Frank Olivo, whose 13th Ward includes the shopping center, was unavailable for comment. Attempts to reach Lowe's officials in the Chicago area and at the company's North Carolina headquarters were unsuccessful. The moves by Lowe's add fuel to the contentious fight over the ordinance. Labor unions pushed for the ordinance, but critics say it would stunt economic development in parts of Chicago that lack retail stores.
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Cause <-> effect.
New concept for the mafia unions, I know.
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2 tar-jay stores have also said no thanks.
Doesn't matter if Richard II vetos, the vote was veto-proof.
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As a Chicagoan, I can tell you that the City Council was even more stoopid than usual. They've been looking for a way to assert their independence from Daley (they still take his money, of course, and they still need him to win re-election, but you know how the human heart is), saw this as a way to do it in a harmless way.
Plus, they had all the union people (the ones trying to organize Walmart), all the right trendy liberal progressives with their blabber about 'living wages', etc, on them. So they voted this one through without so much as a thought of the consequences.
I shop at a Lowes and a Home Depot at the 'Brickyard' mall in Chicago. I rather imagine those stores will stay for now, but don't look for any more. What the stores will do is what Walmart just did: they just opened a mega-store in a suburb literally across the street from the Chicago city limits. The Chicago resident there get the shopping, the suburb gets the employment and the tax revenues.
Shrewd, alderman, real shrewd.
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Three men have been burned to death by vigilantes in the Kabokweni area near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga police said on Thursday.
After more than 30 years of working where money is made, David C. Faison decided to make some of it work for him, law enforcement officials say.
Police are investigating reports of severed fingers, after a stabbing in the Uptown area overnight. Police arrived at 31st and Lyndale Aves. S. in Minneapolis around 3 a.m., finding two victims that appeared to have been stabbed with a two-and-a-half foot Samurai-style sword. The two victims were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. Later, two more suspects then showed up at HCMC with stab wounds, and police took those people into custody. The suspects taken into custody were identified as Hossem Chalbi, 18, and Mohammed Khalil, 29.
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FIVE villagers, including a young boy, were killed in western India overnight when they jumped into a dry well to save an injured pigeon that had fallen in, authorities said. The boy was the first to jump in to rescue the bird and the others followed, trying to help him. The tragedy took place in Jhalabordi village, about 90km from Ahmedabad, the main city in Gujarat state. 
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mayor of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay's hometown said Wednesday he will run as a write-in candidate for his House seat after the scandal-scarred DeLay moved to withdraw from the November ballot. David Wallace, one of the candidates Texas Republicans were considering to replace DeLay, said in a statement that he had the backing of family, grass-roots leaders and friends in his write-in bid. The Democratic nominee is former Rep. Nick Lampson.
Health authorities have recovered scores of aborted female foetuses from a well in northern India, media reported on Thursday. The site was discovered by police in the city of Patiala in Punjab state, which has one of the worst gender ratios in the country, newspapers reported. The well was on a vacant plot next to a clinic run by a husband and wife, who had been illegally involved in abortions for years.
Lowe's has halted plans for two home-improvement centers in Chicago while Mayor Richard Daley weighs whether he will try to block the city's new "big-box" minimum-wage ordinance, a South Side alderman said Tuesday. The company's concerns about the law caused it to shelve plans for stores at 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue and at 79th Street and Cicero Avenue, said Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. (21st). "They changed their mind," said Brookins, whose ward includes the proposed store at 83rd and Stewart. "They now want to wait and see what happens."
