A thief with decent vision, not to mention foresight, would never try to rob downtown optician Tom Kirkland. Kirklands' designer eyeglass store on North Eighth Street in Richmond is across the street from a Capitol police station.
Kirkland, 51, is armed, and he's an instructor in karate. His sales associate, Neal Griffin, 39, is a bodybuilder.
So there was just no way in Chanel they were going to let someone scoot out of their store yesterday morning with $3,000 worth of designer frames during the height of their busy holiday season. The Grinch didn't steal Christmas, said Kirkland, who has been in business for 24 years.
Richmond police said Rashawn Jamal Perry, 20, entered just after 11:30 a.m. and shoved a customer and Griffin into a carousel of eyewear. Fourth Precinct Sgt. Frank Misiano said Perry then began swiping frames and started to leave the shop when Kirkland sprang into action.
"I jumped on his back and was riding him," Kirkland said. "I started beating him on the head."
"Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaahhhhhhhh!"
Griffin put the strapping suspect into a headlock. A saleswoman ran outside and yelled for help. Within seconds, Capitol police came rushing over with guns drawn. Richmond police charged Perry with robbery, two counts of assault and felony destruction of property. "This guy walked into the wrong store," Misiano said.
Perry suffered a possible broken elbow and back injury. Kirkland got only scratches in the scuffle. "I grew up in Petersburg, I'm used to fighting," said Kirkland, a guy who clearly can Fend for himself. I blame our public education system.
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Perry suffered a possible broken elbow and back injury [LOL]. Kirkland got only scratches in the scuffle. "I grew up in Petersburg Im used to fighting," said Kirkland, a guy who clearly can Fendi for himself.
duh Rashawn, not a guy to fucki with ya krap head.
A woman jailed after four of her infant daughter's toes were gnawed off says the family's pet ferret did it, not their pit bull pup as police had said. But her husband blames the dog, a city official said. "The way the bite marks were on her foot, the ferret being out of its cage, I knew it wasn't the dog," Mary Hansche told KTBS-TV on Tuesday.
The month-old girl was injured Dec. 10 as Hansche, 22, and her husband, Christopher Hansche, 26, slept; they woke up when they heard her crying. The parents were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond each, booked with child desertion and criminal negligence.
The husband had blamed the dog and told police the ferret had been in its cage all night, Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale said Wednesday.
The charges wouldn't change regardless of which pet was involved, Natale said, because the baby "was injured by an animal while in the custody of the parents." The girl has been released from the hospital and is in state custody. Attorney Pam Smart said she is waiting for results of a hair analysis to back up the couple's statement that they were not using drugs, calling the case a "very unfortunate accident."
SPAN CLASS=HILITE>Note that they blamed the "vicious" Pit Bull first. Just the name scares many cygnaphobes. Canines always seem to be unjustly blamed for things.
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I bet the husband owned the ferret and the wife owned the pit bull.
Actually, I tend to think the ferret did it, because that is common behavior among carnivorous small animals. I have never heard of a dog chewing off fingers or toes before, except in anger.
Yes, there are 3 pix at the link, but you'll be disappointed, methinks.
Gyrations expected to net $15,000 for firefighters' toy drive
Twenty women took off their clothes on Wednesday to make the world a better place.
And one of them did an X-rated dance in stiletto heels with a giant stuffed dog, because it was the right thing to do for the children of San Francisco. If it was X-rated, then it wuzn't a "dance". Trust me, lol.
"I'm a good person, even though I don't wear very much to work," said Debbie Licious, the woman who danced with the dog. "I'm a dancer. I don't need to wear a business suit to do the right thing."
Debbie Licious may not be her real name, she said, but the $10 bills that customers kept poking into her various garment straps were very much genuine. She and her caring colleagues at the Gold Club on Howard Street were turning over the proceeds of their lap dances to benefit the San Francisco Fire Department's annual charity toy drive.
The strip club manager said the dancers' combined efforts were expected to total $15,000. Most of it was coming from $10s and $20s slipped into various crevices.
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I hope they forwarded the funds in the form of a check... and somebody burn that dog -- what poor little child is going to want something stinking of beer and cigarettes?
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...what poor little child is going to want something stinking of beer and cigarettes?
Unfortunately, that probably describes way too many of the adults and almost adults who 'have' the children who need the help in getting Christmas presents.
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what poor little child is going to want something stinking of beer and cigarettes?
San Francisco allows smoking in public?
And, really, if that's your concern, there's a place near me that's non-smoking (in Ohio) and dry (county won't permit nudity and alcohol). I'm sure they'd put on a fund-raiser next year.
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Don't get yer knickers in a knot, folks. This is San Francisco, where the perverted and sick unusual, whimsical, and avant garde are normal. Remember that, and you will do fine, heh.
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So we finally have a article about genuine San Francisco strippers and... no titty pix? Oh, well, we're know for our decorum here so I guess I ought not complain...
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Debbie Licious
You cannot say that name without smiling.
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A good cause. Don't question the method, the motive's pure. God bless em
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There is no Dirty Money. Money is Money.
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She found it funny, and typical, that I'd dig up some evidence to support my drinking habits. Unfortunately, this only covers me for the first four. I'll need to find another plausible sounding rationale for the four after those.
(12-20) 19:38 PST Berkeley, Calif. (AP) -- A small earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday evening, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.
The quake, which struck at 7:12 p.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 and was centered about 2 miles east of Berkeley, just across the bay from San Francisco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
No one reported any damage or injuries, according to a Berkeley police dispatcher.
The temblor occurred on the Hayward Fault, which geologists believe is due for a large quake in the potentially lethal 6.7 to 7.0 range.
"It's a pretty small earthquake, but just another reminder we're eventually going to have the biggie here in the Bay Area," said David P. Schwartz, who has studied the Hayward Fault extensively as chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Bay Area Earthquake Hazards Project.
The Great Quake of 1868 struck on the Hayward Fault, a magnitude 6.9 rumbler that killed five people. Severe quakes have happened on the Hayward Fault every 151 years, give or take 23 years, meaning it is now into the danger zone.
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Ah yes, the Hayward fault, where I felt my first earthquake as a young kid just out of college. I was sitting in a wooden framed tennis club that later was incinerated in the Oakland Hills firestorm. I watched the energy wave come right through the building.
Then we lit up a doobie and listened to My Sharoona on the radio. Kinda miss those days...good times, good times
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I was up at the Lab last night and felt the quake distinctily.
I was leaning up against a truck at the time talking with a friend of mine and it felt like someone had come up and shoved the truck real hard. I stepped back looked at him, he looked at me, and both of us said almost simultaneously,
"What the f*ck was that?"
We were in the Bldg 88 parking lot which is about 50 yards from the Hayward fault (maybe a thousand yards away from Memorial Stadium which the fault runs directly through the center of).
Short, sharp, and noticeable, but not as bad as the Loma Prieta by one helluva' long shot.
I'm told that Washington called the gate after I left wondering if everythingwas okay and put everyone through our eartquake drill.
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FOTS,
"Getting shoved" from behind is xactly how I describ my experience in the 89 quake. I was stopped for a red light in Fremont, and spent the first 15 seconds of the quake believing my pick up truck was blowing an engine, throwing a rod and then glaring into the rearview mirror seeing which one of my AHOLE freinds had come up behind me and was pushing my vehicle.
Only then did I again see a wave of energy moving south to north through the intersecton and I was finally hit with the big cluebat that it was a big earthquake.
I still rushed home cause I didn't want to miss the beginning of the World Series game.
Virgin Birth on Way for Komodo Dragon One of Two Such Cases Known for Animal
CHESTER, England (Jan. 19) - In an evolutionary twist, Flora the Komodo dragon has managed to become pregnant all on her own without any male help. She is carrying seven baby Komodo dragons. More about parthenogenic reproduction at link.
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Sounds like the New Years Party began early. When I was romancing Wendy at Penn State I used to tease her by making shoes flip from one to the other or "walk", etal. - next you know PAULA "DELILAH = HOW ABOUT SOME INFORMATION PLEASE" ABDUL married that Reebok guy. Almost wiped out East Germany when Paula did that.
Small Saoudi soon électroniqués with portable coran "INTEL inside"
For better preparing the future jihadists who go coraniquer the whole world, moving back in front of no expenditure, the Saoudi government made develop by firm INTEL, a computer 100% Koranic.
Here thus an excellent news !
The dream, a computer with the coran of all, which only can, and only that you to put at the coran !
Thus thanks to modern technologies, the Saoudi and the other mohamerdists who will use this portable coraniquor, will be more quickly, better and more deeply stunned.
More no sourate will be foreign for them. None of them will be able to more deny the innumerable calls with the meutres, massacres and other jokes, which abound in the best-seller with the camel driver paedophile.
Something could let think that it is still a blow of Mossad... Processors INTEL are designed and developed in Israel. A similar bargain, was not necessary especially to let it pass. CHEER INTEL !
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tu,
This sounds like the guy on the Citi card commercials - "Wery, wery rewarding!!"
Mike
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Designed and built by infidels. Is it worthy of storing the bits representing the holy coran? Does it count as a coran when you are seething and waving it around in the air over your turban as an excuse to act like a savage? Can the unclean touch the coraniquer and and no seething will be necessary?
Posted as International - Local because we have this from the Himalayan Times. How's yer Boggle?
While Britney Spears had everyone in her court when she was still living with Kevin Federline, her latest month long binge of flashing flesh and partying hearty have fetched her criticism from her fans.
The pop diva's no underwear act and partying antics have transformed her from 'little darling' to 'most annoying' in what amounts to record time, reports Tittletattle.com.
In a poll conducted by Star magazine, the Toxic singer has been voted the Most Annoying Person of 2006, and has no peer among the top 50 list, to be published in the upcoming issue.
'Brit was quite the headline maker this year! But Brit doesn't top our list because of her dubious child-care techniques or her umber annoying Matt Lauer interview. Nope. The icing on the cake was her post K-Fed decision to make Paris Hilton her BFF and party without panties with such a vengeance that even Lindsay was jealous!' said the publication.
Others making the list include: Jessica Simpson, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston, Pam Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosie O'Donnell and Matthew McConaughey.
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Folks, good god, she's trailer trash and can't help the fact she let's her infant drive and that where she's from underware is optional. But does she outrank Rosie, the rainbow warrior and anti American fat chick, as the most annoying person on this planet? I think not.
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Regarding Kfed, it was Britney that brought him into the eye of the general public so his sins are added onto hers which is why, I believe, she won.
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FULL DISCLOSURE: I have known Britney for going on 10 years now. Yes we are on a first-name basis. (At this point even her bodyguard recognizes me.)
She is anything but annoying. A bit mousey. A bit nerdy. But not annoying.
BONUS DISCLOSURE: when I first met her, she was 16 (i.e. a minor.) She had a "baby-sitter" when she was recording "baby one more time..." who was in my age group.
I *SO* put the moves on her (the baby-sitter.)
And she *SO* wasn't having it.
(*sigh*)
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Note to Free Radical: 10 years huh? Time for the tetanus booster shot then......My condolences to ya.
I have no more brain cells to spend on these narcissitic Hollywood types, of any ilk.
When they earn their pay working to make the world better, whether on a local or global level, rather than being self-centered, then perhaps I can find the time to get my Giveadam fixed.
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So many annoying people! Who do I choose? Kerry, Rosie, Joe wilson, the guy two cubicles down from that is constantly clearing his throught so that it sounds like he's vomiting? Decisions, decisions!
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Sorry RAJ, I'm a victim of a public education system. The answer is yes they are one in the same, Rosie is a rainbow warrior and fat and ugly.
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for my money, Paris Hilton has been the most annoying celeb skank for the past 3 yrs.
Can I get me a 'Yearning for the Old BS' picture here? lol...
NEW YORK Dec 21, 2006 (AP) Miss Nevada USA was stripped of her title Thursday after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet, pageant officials said. Some of the photos show Katie Rees, 22, kissing other young women, exposing one of her breasts and pulling down her pants to show her thong underwear at a party in Tampa, Fla.
"Katie Rees has been relieved of her duties as Miss Nevada USA 2007," said Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, which owns the Miss USA pageant and others.
Rees' dismissal comes two days after Miss USA Tara Conner was allowed to keep her tiara when she admitted underage drinking at New York bars and agreed to go into rehab and undergo drug testing.
Pageant officials couldn't immediately provide a telephone number for Rees and said they didn't know when the photos of her were taken.
Shugart made the decision to jettison Rees, but pageant co-owner Donald Trump supported it, said Miss Universe Organization spokeswoman Lark-Marie Anton.
Trump, who co-owns Miss Universe with NBC, gave Conner a second chance after meeting with her Tuesday. Trump said Conner, 21, was a good person with a good heart and deserved to keep her title.
"I think Tara is going to be the great comeback kid," Trump said during his televised announcement, with a teary-eyed Conner by his side.
Apparently, there will be no comeback for Rees, whose reign was truncated because of the photos.
Rees has appeared as Miss Nevada USA at charity events such as the Goodie Two Shoe Giveaway, at which underprivileged students received free shoes, backpacks and school supplies.
Shugart said first runner-up Helen Salas will assume the title and compete at the next Miss USA pageant on March 23 in Los Angeles.
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Hey, Raj, did you know you can get grits for breakfast at Betty's Breakfast Kitchen in woburn, Massachusetts? It's right across from the 300 year-old Presbyterian Church. At least you could in 1992.
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Deacon - I'm in Quincy; the only place I know in Woburn is the District Court (beat a speeding ticket there, lol!).
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Then I guess you've been to, is it "King Richard's Fair"? The place where the time period is back in the days of Knights and Damsel's in Distress? I had a great time there.
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Thanks .com!!!! damn she's hot!
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Miss TEEN USA is also in hot water. "Helen Salas" > wonder iff from Guam or has relations in Guam???
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 thief with decent vision, not to mention foresight, would never try to rob downtown optician Tom Kirkland. Kirklands' designer eyeglass store on North Eighth Street in Richmond is across the street from a Capitol police station.
(12-20) 19:38 PST Berkeley, Calif. (AP) -- A small earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday evening, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.
