Man Nabbed in Alleged Test Scheme It don't get much idioter than this:
One minute, Kevin Boonear Siangchin thought he finally had paved his way to a prestigious law school. The next minute, the aspiring attorney was looking for a good defense attorney, his career more than likely over before it began. Well, he can claim he was just studying the law from the inside.
Desperate to get accepted to a top school, the 27-year-old North Plainfield, N.J., man paid $5,000 for a copy of a Law School Admission Test, in Bucks County this week in a scheme he hoped would get him into Columbia or New York University, authorities said.
Instead of walking away with the test, he bought himself a possible seven years in prison after Bucks County detectives arrested him during an undercover sting at a Middletown Township McDonald's on Wednesday night. From buying a Big Mac to sharing a cell with Big Mac all in one night.
Authorities were alerted to the alleged scheme when two employees from the Law School Admission Council, which has its headquarters in Newtown Township, told them Siangchin left notes on their vehicles outside their office in January, saying ''I am willing to compensate you generously for your help'' in getting a copy of the test.
''It sounded almost bizarre,'' Bucks County District Attorney Diane Gibbons said of the initial requests for the test. ''I was afraid someone was going to get hurt and said, let's be careful. It sounds sort of nutty.'' Ms. Gibbons has a talent for understatement.
The electrical engineer who graduated from Rutgers with a 3.6 grade point average probably ruined his career, Gibbons said. Couldn't just be an engineer, a perfectly wonderful calling. Nope, had to be a lawyer just like, uh, Bill Clinton...
''It was like a bad spy movie, meeting at a McDonald's in the middle of the night,'' Gibbons said.
In interviews with detectives, Siangchin admitted trying to get the test from the two law school admissions employees. He was charged with four felony crimes: criminal attempt to commit theft, criminal solicitation, criminal use of a communication facility and unlawful use of a computer. You want to know the really funny thing? He asked the detectives for his money back...
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''I would think there's no law school in the country that would take him,'' Gibbons said. ''We count on lawyers to handle our estate matters and personal matters fairly and honestly and expect them to be fair and honest in court. Fortunately, we got him even [before he became an attorney].''
LOL, he's home free, he'll be snapped up by the Rose Law firm in Arkansas!
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Siangchin, eh. A few years ago, ETS had to throw out several thousand GRE scores from tests administered in China, due to widespread "irregularities." Apparently bribing test officials and paying professional test-takers is the norm in China, so it could be he thought this was a perfectly reasonable way to go about it.
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I tend to lump all lawyers along with sewer cleaners, but they don't do nearly as good a job.
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There's an old not-funny lawyer joke that goes like this, As the defendant is marched out of the courtroom in shackles he asks his lawyer "What haooens now? the lawyer answers "You go to jail, and I go back to my office"
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"Happens," dammit
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Unlawful use of a computer
Rut roh, what is that all about? Anyone have a list of things it is illegal to do with your 'puter?
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I went through law school with a fellow who robbed a gas station, did his time, got out, worked hard, kept clean, and after 15 yearsentered law school when he was 35. It happens.
Two brothers serving time in a NSW jail for a series of gang rapes have been bashed by eight other inmates, leaving one of them in a critical condition.
At 12.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday a gang of eight prisoners at Goulburn jail attacked two of their fellow inmates in the prison yard, NSW Corrective Services said.
There's a pecking order in prison, and rapists are near the bottom, just above child murderers and pedophiles.
One of the bashed men, aged 26, sustained critical head injuries and was taken to Canberra Hospital where he remains in a stable condition, police said.
Oooooh! Stable, is he? Me like stable; just like Franco and Pinochet!
The other, a 28-year-old, was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital with arm injuries but has since been returned to the jail.
Authorities would not directly confirm the identities of the men but the Nine Network reported them to be the elder pair of four Pakistan-born brothers convicted in 2002 for a number of gang rapes, including that of Tegan Warner, who was 14 at the time. The brothers, who were only able to be identified in court by their initials, are serving between 10 and 28 years in prison.
And the one with the squashed melon, in particular, isn't likely to make it.
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Welcome to 'Western' Honor. I guess the boys didn't know that a lot of Oz inmates have daughters. And like most 'westerners' in their concept of 'honor' you don't kill the daughter for being raped. Instead the 'honor' is rendering justice to the rapist.
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I wonder if some Australian would take up a small collection to provide cartons of cigarettes to those inmates who give "nasty" Muslim prisoners a good thumping?
It would change the complexion of things if Muslims in Australia had more of a fear of going to prison.
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Thanks, guys. I've bookmarked the Urban Dictionary site, Omolurt Elmeaper6990. Wonderful! And since I wasn't really up on the slang of my youth, it won't make me feel old. ;-)
WHAT IS San Francisco State University teaching that makes student leaders think that if they don't like what other students say, they can use student organizations to stifle those with dissenting views? Do they even know about the First Amendment?
This story starts with an "anti-terrorism rally" held last October on campus by the College Republicans. To emphasize their point, students stomped on Hezbollah and Hamas flags. According to the college paper, the Golden Gate (X)Press, members of Students Against War and the International Socialist Organization showed up to call the Republicans "racists," while the president of the General Union of Palestinian Students accused the Repubs of spreading false information about Muslims.
In November, the Associated Students board passed a unanimous resolution, which the (X)Press reported, denounced the California Republicans for "hateful religious intolerance" and criticized those who "pre-meditated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence."
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Funny, this. The protection of Free Speech accorded by the First Amendment, only protects an individual from the Government abridging those rights. Corporations and Universities are free to stifle you as they see fit.
Of course, the way to handle this would be to pull all government funding from Universities that practice this sort of thing. Oh, and pull their accreditation as well.
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3dc is correct. SFSU is a state institution with, among other things, a state police department to enforce its rulings. Its administrators and regents are public employees and officials, legally bound to uphold the federal and state constitutions in performing their duties.
Making a special case of religious, as opposed to secular, symbols is an establishment of religion and clearly un-Constitutional.
As a public institution, SFSU does not have the same latitude a private institution would have in waiving Constitutional requirements in favor of private choice.
I could prohibit stepping on, say, paintings of Cthulhu at my place of business but I cannot do so as a public employee on public property.
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I could prohibit stepping on, say, paintings of Cthulhu at my place of business but I cannot do so as a public employee on public property.
CTHULHUPHOBE!!!
(Someone should try a simultaneous burning of an American, Hezbollah, and "rainbow" flag, just to see the reaction. For added cognitive dissonance, toss in an Israeli flag.)
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I was shopping for some flags to burn , for my own amusement of course.
A decent sized Iranian flag'll set you back 35 smackers.
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I think there is another level going on here. So somebody burns a US flag or Israeli flag. No big deal, no seething, no angry mobs no violence. Somebody burns a Hezbolla flag and the you-know-who suicidal haters religion practitioners will be up in arms, threatening all kinds of violence. SFSU has achieved dhimmitude.
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This dude is shocked SHOCKED that Amis have and love their guns.
RICHARD PARKER has a problem with his 50-calibre sniper's rifle, but firepower isn't it. Made by Hampshire-based company Accuracy International, the rifle's cigar-sized bullet reputedly slams into distant targets with more force than Dirty Harry's famous .44 Magnum at point-blank range. "With the right ammunition," muses Parker, an amiable 57-year-old marketing executive from Indiana, "you can take out a tank." Accuracy isn't the problem either: Parker can hit a skull-sized target at 2000 yards.
No, his problem is this: where do you fire a weapon of such heart-stopping power and range that American gun-control advocates believe it poses a serious threat to post-9/11 national security? Answer: Knob Creek Range in Kentucky, home to world's largest machine-gun show, a three-day blast-fest which is - outside of actual combat - an unrivalled display of the deadliest firearms ever made.
Knob Creek is in a place called - appropriately enough - Bullitt County. A former munitions test-site tucked into a cleft in the hills, its main range is about 300 metres long and is littered with old cars, boats, refrigerators, cookers, washing machines and gas cylinders. None of these targets last long under the withering gunfire unleashed by dozens of shooters in 30-minute bursts. "Ready on the left?" announces the shoot director over the PA system. "Ready on the right? Okay, let's rock and roll!"
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Some form a reverential huddle around a burnt-out, bullet-peppered Ford Lexington.
hmmmmm, neither I nor Google recognize this model.... was the guy even there?
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The poor reporter clearly has no idea why his buddy Pete laughed without smiling. And he seems to think that American doctors, lawyers and marketing executives are the equivalent of British yobs and soccer hooligans.
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It's important to distinguish between gun haters who hate guns because of bullets and the damage they do; and ones like this guy, who hate guns because they are both macho and make loud and scary noises.
As ridiculous as it sounds, the latter group might actually be the majority of the anti-gun crowd.
They almost feel pain when they hear loud and unexpected noises; or when in the presence of violent or extreme emotions. Any strong, harsh, sharp or sudden sensation provokes a similar reaction in them. They are people of gentle pastels, rounded edges and "niceness".
They are like a small girl who had hysterics because they saw a small boy "hurting" an insect.
Importantly, they always seek to change society to try and stop such things. They don't want winning and losing, or even scoring, it sports, as that might result in feeling bad or feeling good. Food and drink must be bland, as does music, art, and everything else.
They are people who crave for life to be on Prozac. So it's a natural that they hate guns, and gun owners, for that matter. They seem to be everything that the hyper-sensitive people hate.
The marriage took place last month on the orders of a panchayt but police acted only last week after rights activist raised the alarm.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Twelve people from two families have been arrested in connection with the marriage of a four-year-old girl to a 45-year-old man, police said on Friday. The marriage took place last month on the orders of a panchayt in northwestern Dera Ismail Khan town but police acted only last week after rights activist raised the alarm. Police said that they had detained the accused from both families as well as members of the tribal council and registered a case against them for having violated anti-child marriage laws.
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Whoa - what next, while still in trimester??? OTOH, why not as here in Amerika the MSM-Hollyweird are still referring to tweeny and teeny females as "women/adults".
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While a good project in its own right, I see a different approach to a Lunar landing.
Right now we are developing an unmanned rocket that will carry about 100 tons of cargo into orbit. Using these rockets, we should create 100-ton-modular 'objects' which can be taken up and assembled in orbit.
The first batch of modular 'objects' should assemble into a large, fueled engine that will shuttle other spacecraft from Earth orbit to Lunar orbit and back. The engine never lands.
By doing this, it saves vast amounts of weight and room that can be used for other things. A spaceship would only need the fuel to take off and achieve orbit, land on the Moon, take off from the Moon and land on Earth. Not the transit in between.
Then after the shuttle engine has been built in orbit, continue taking up 100 ton 'objects', but things that will only be taking a one-way trip to the Moon. This would include heavy construction materials and supplies that would descend to the Moon first, and only in the general area of where the spaceship lander is to touch down, not needing pinpoint accuracy.
But to really make a go of the Moon, we cannot expect to fly section after section of habitat there, to continually enlarge it. We have to mine tunnels and go underground, to escape the surface radiation, vacuum, and extremes of heat and cold.
For this reason, we need nuclear powered mining robots to go there first. Even if they only can mine an inch a day, what they do is cumulative, and will make extended habitation there easier by a factor.
(You can enter your US zip code to find out local flu conditions.)
This year's normal flu is particularly hard on children. We can only hope that if and when avian flu becomes readily H2H, it will not spread as easily. Here is the weekly breakdown from the CDC.
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US colleges and the State Department are begging Muslims to come to the US. Muslims step on beggars.
Dearborn, Michigan is an alien occupied territory on American soil. Get used to more Dearbornistans until the Muslim menace is turfed here and stomped on abroad.
Go on your knees, and you only get kicked in the face.
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