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MESA, Ariz. (AP) A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tiffany Sutton told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Udall that she was sorry for the incident and said she never meant to hurt anyone, but received the stiff sentence anyway after he called the crime especially heinous. "I mean, WHOA!"
Sutton, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in August. She was arrested by Tempe police in February after she repeatedly stabbed her lover during an alcohol- and drug-fueled sexual tryst.
According to police reports, the victim, 46-year-old Robert McDaniel, agreed to be tied up during sex but became alarmed (!!) and asked to be untied when Sutton pulled out a knife and said she liked to drink blood. Sutton then attacked him, slicing his leg, puncturing his arm, shoulder and back and cutting his neck and stomach. When he escaped, she chased him with a pickax. but remember, "she never meant to hurt anyone"
Sutton's attorney, Elizabeth Houck, told the judge at Tuesday's hearing that she suffers from a personality disorder
No! Reeeeeally?
that causes instability and has taken responsibility for her actions, according to the East Valley Tribune. "unfortunately, she can't here during daylight court hours"
Houck wrote in a sentencing memo that prison records show Sutton thought she was a vampire for the first several weeks she was in jail. "Or a Chupacabra - Mr. McDaniel is an old goat, after all, screwing around with someone half his age"
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When some defense attorney tries that old saw about the defendant "taking responsibility for their acts", the judge should reply, "Excellent, then they will have no problem taking responsibility for serving every year of their sentence."
Seven police cars chased a go-kart at high speed for five kilometres through the winding streets of the western German town of Moenchengladbach but were not able to keep up with the teenage speedster.
We were chasing him across town, but the squad cars couldn't keep up because the go-kart was able to take the corners faster and he was able to get away, police spokesman Willy Thevissen said.
Police later discovered the go-cart driver hiding in a garage. The 18-year-old driver admitted he had taken refuge there after seeing the garage door open while fleeing the police. He told us he knew driving a go-kart on the street is illegal, the spokesman said. But he had purchased the vehicle from a friend and said he had no other way of getting it home.
Moenchengladbach is the home of two Formula One racers: Nick Heidfeld of BMW/Sauber and former driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
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Note the incorrect last line - apparently it's home to 2 and a half Formula One racers - at least until this guy moves up through the classes, as he seems intent on doing.
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7 police cars chasing a go-kart and couldn't catch him. Not enough to do? Incompetent? You'd think they'd wanna keep this one on the QT
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I don't know Frank. I had a go-cart as a kid and remember my cousin loosing a drunken cop on it.
The cart could go through backyards, alleys, gardens behind pretty girls cruising in their sometimes hot 60s and early 70s muscle cars.
One drunken cop just didn't have a chance.
I was watching Star Trek and the drunken cop rang my bell and wanted to arrest me. I was totally clueless. Dad showed up about then and mom came out of a back room - none of us knew what he was talking about
So we headed out to the unlocked unattached garage and the cart was right in the middle of it with a smashed glass jar in front.
We agreed with the cop that it was likely my go-cart but disagreed that I was driving it . The cop desperately need to relieve himself (he had a lot of beers and was known as an alky...) and he agreed that I didn't look like the person he was chasing so he told us to lock our garage in the future.
When we went back in the house after he left I heard my cousin shout out from under my bed.. "Is it okay to come out now?"
Case solved for us....
BTW.... I loved my cart far too much.... I still carry scars.
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Oh, and I was much more careful. I would call up a friend whose father ran the tavern the cop liked and ask what state he was in. If it was about time for his wife to drag him home to dry out then I knew it was time to raise hell.
This is almost as good as the previous pervs featured on RB, who had sex with roadkills, or raped female pitbulls.
A man has been placed on the sex offenders register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle. Robert Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year.
On Wednesday Mr Stewart admitted to sexual breach of the peace in Ayr Sheriff Court, where depute fiscal Gail Davidson described how he had been found by the hostel workers. She said: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.
"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white T-shirt, naked from the waist down.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
Both witnesses, who were extremely shocked, notified the hotel manager, who in turn alerted the police.
Mr Stewart was placed on the sex offenders register but his sentence was deferred until next month.
He is not the first man to be convicted of a sexual offence involving an inanimate object, however. Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs, in 1993.
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So... bicycles, scooters and motor-cycles in danger of molestation can look up this guy in the sex offender's register and be suitably informed?
Does "inanimate object" include blow up dolls?
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Bicycles have been used for ages as objects.
I suggest checking up what the French generals were watching when Hitler's forces attacked. Something degenerate enough that the didn't leave a number where they could be reached with their underlings.
Hint it involved, modified bicycle seats, betting and young women.
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Okay, the guy is sick, stupid and slow, but he was in a locked room and I think it would be hard to claim anyone was truly injured in this event. In fact I'm guessing the hostel had a lot of laughs at his expense so they should comp the room and let him go.
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The guy may be a loser but he was in a locked room engaged in activity with his personal, inanimate property.
How is he a sex offender? And someone humping a blowup doll is not?
What public purpose was served by prosecuting him?
And placing him on the sex offenders register achieves what?
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Does "engaging in a three-way sexual encounter with [a current client] and [the client's] girlfriend" count as having sex "with a current client" (a practice forbidden by state bar rules)?
Opinion, with lurid details, at the link.
Eeeewww.
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Sorry. Didn't remember to check the picklist before I hit "post." Won't let it happen again.
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LOL at Mod note!
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Judge, I wuz only debriefing them.
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Vigilantism happens anywhere where the government doesn't do its primary job of protecting citizens from criminals. The only other choice is "the rule of whim", like what the Afghans experienced under the Taliban.
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Not good, mob rule is never a good thing. You see, the same tune is often played (police refuse to arrest) for the non-black victim. It's easier that way for the coppers.
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"This came after the community stoned Charlie Movenda to death who tried to escape community custody, (who wouldn't, near Pretoria) when police failed to arrive on time". NO!!
Next they be taking peoples farms and eating endangered species.
Had to be said. I have recently given up caring about Africa, apart from how many migrants, legal or otherwise turn up here, thats what does interest me.
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The other option, sadly, is giving whiskey to an alcoholic. We need to continue inoculations to keep Africa from being a source of pestilence to the rest of the world, but beyond that, Africa wins again, yes?
FANNIN COUNTY, Tex. One man is in prison after allegedly stabbing the driver he hitched a ride with over the weekend. The victim is recovering, but it's the details of the case that officials say make it unlike any they've ever seen.
Fannin County Sheriffs Deputies received the original call at 2:40 on Saturday afternoon about a suspect involved in a stabbing located at the intersection of County Road 3830 and Highway 11. When deputies arrived on the scene they found that the case they were working on involved a lot more than they had planned. Fannin County sheriff Kenneth Moore says he was shocked when he heard what happened this past Saturday just west of Wolfe City.
When deputies arrived on the scene they found James Wayne Evans, 43, a hitchhiker who confessed to stabbing the person who gave him a ride and apparently expected something in return. "Whenever the individual that picked up the hitchhiker wanted more intimacy and that was about to happen, he determined at that point the intimacy would stop," said Fannin County Sheriff Kenneth Moore. Officials say Evans was hitch hiking down Interstate 30 in Arlington when a white female known only as Angie picked him up. Soon thereafter, the 42-year-old driver invited Evans back to her horse barn just outside of Wolfe City. When they arrived, the two became intimate, and officials say Angie asked Evans to perform oral sex on her.
Thats when they say Evans got quite a surprise. "(When he did) comply with the female subject, he found out it was in fact not a female, but a male," Sheriff Moore said. Officials say Evans pulled out a knife and stabbed Angie - who is a man - multiple times. Angie was flown to Parkland Hospital where he was treated and released.
Authorities warn regardless of the situation that picking up hitch hikers is never a good idea. "You dont know that individual walking down the highway. Why in the world would you stop and pick up someone you dont know because in todays environment thats just not a safe thing to do," Moore said.
Evans was taken into custody and taken to the Fannin County Jail where bond has been set at $50,000.
Carnivorous trees grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up is not just village folklore.
Residents of Padrame near Kokkoda in Uppinangady forest range sighted one such carnivorous tree trying to dine on a cow last Thursday. According to reports, the cow owned by Anand Gowda had been left to graze in the forests.
The cow was suddenly grabbed by the branches and pulled from the ground. The terrified cowherd ran to the village, and got Gowda and a band of villagers to the carnivorous tree.
Before the tree could have its meal, Anand Gowda and the villagers struck mortal blows to the branches that turned limp and the cow was rescued. Uppinangady range forest officer (RFO) Subramanya Rao said the tree was described as pili mara (tiger tree) in native lingo.
He had received many complaints about cattle returning home in the evenings without tails. On Friday, the field staff confirmed coming across a similar tree in Padrane, partially felled down.
However no detailed inquiry was made as the authorities were not asked for any report, Rao said.
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Ah! I thought about posting this one when I read it, but I thought 1) it might be considered OT, and 2) that Abdominal Snowman might disapprove of me exposing his gardening hobby (not that there is anything wrong with that, of course).
The Air Force launched one of its Global Hawk spy planes Thursday to capture images of the Southern California fires -- the first domestic surveillance mission for the unmanned drone.
Military officials hope that the infrared images relayed by the plane will improve the ability of civilian authorities to predict the direction the fires and determine where the blazes are most intense.
Brig. Gen James O. Poss, director of intelligence at the Air Combat Command at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, said commanders also hope that the Global Hawk's sensors will provide more useful images than those produced by satellites and other aircraft.
But exactly how useful the spy planes will prove in fighting fires is not yet known.
"This is the United States Air Force you are talking to," Poss said. "We designed these things to locate targets -- to help us start fires, not put them out."
The Air Force drone is the second unmanned craft in the skies over the Southern California wildfires. On Wednesday, NASA launched its Ikhana unmanned system. The Ikhana, a version of the military's Predator modified for civilian research missions, also captures thermal images while flying at a lower altitude than the Global Hawk. Both can fly 20 hours or more without refueling.
The Global Hawk, which is intensively used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, has undergone test flights in the United States. But Poss said Thursday's flight was the first mission over America to provide reconnaissance images to civilian authorities.
"This is the first time we have been used this system to provide imagery to civil authorities in response to a civil emergency," he said.
Air Force officials decided to offer the Global Hawk on Tuesday. But the plane was not launched earlier, military officials said, because they were awaiting formal requests from local officials. Such requests are required before military equipment can be used inside the U.S.
The Global Hawk flies about 13 miles above the ground, much higher than commercial aircraft, and is controlled by pilots on the ground at Beale Air Force Base in Northern California, where the unmanned plane was launched about 6 p.m. Thursday. The pilots conducting the fire missions will be drawn from the same group responsible for remotely flying the Global Hawk over Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, the Air Force also launched a U2 spy plane that recorded high-resolution photographs of the damage throughout Southern California.
To help bring other aerial views to firefighters on the ground, the Air Force also is setting up a system to give rescue workers instant access to the aerial images.
The "Rover" laptop computer system captures images from Predator drones, Navy P-3 Orions and other planes and displays them on laptop computers. Light and portable, the Rover systems can be set up nearly anywhere.
Air Force Lt. Col. Chuck Manza, a Pentagon Rover action officer, said he hopes to use the Rovers to transmit aerial images into fire operations centers and to firefighters on the front lines.
"A picture is worth a thousand words," Manza said. "It could help people tell how the fire lines are shifting and maybe catch hot spots as they pop up."
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Brig. Gen James O. Poss, director of intelligence at the Air Combat Command at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, said commanders also hope that the Global Hawk's sensors will provide more useful images than those produced by satellites and other aircraft to help patrol our nation's borders against illegal aliens and drug runners who now come and go with near total impunity.I>
The seminar will highlight the contributions of Arab countries to the UN efforts to combat human trafficking and white slavery, the statement said.
The Arab League will host on Sunday a seminar on ways to support the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, launched by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) early in 2008, according to a statement issued here Thursday. The seminar, to be co-organized by the league, the UNODC and the U.S. John Hopkins University, will attract representatives of justice ministries of many Arab countries, the Council of Arab Justice Ministers (CAJM) and the Council of Arab Interior Ministers (CAIM) as well as academic institutions. The seminar will highlight the contributions of Arab countries to the UN efforts to combat human trafficking and white slavery, the statement said.
The participants will exchange experience on combatting this global epidemic and ways to maximize the Arab law against human trafficking, adopted by the CAJM and the CAIM in 2005. The UNODC, together with other United Nations agencies, governments, and NGOs announced the launch of the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking on March 26, 2007. As part of the initiative, a series of events throughout the world will culminate in Vienna with an International Conference against Human Trafficking between November 27 and 29, 2007.
The Arab League secretariat is working out an Arab action plan that will be tabled to the Vienna forum. It urged the Arab Standing Committee on Human Rights to hold an extraordinary session to mull the Arab vision and plan to combating white slavery. In its 23rd session, due here on November 28 and 29, the CAJM will probe this problem.
Some 2.5 million people throughout the world are at any given time recruited, entrapped, transported and exploited in human trafficking - according to estimates of international experts. Trafficking in persons, whether for sexual exploitation or forced labor, affects virtually every region of the world. UNODC reports that persons from 127 countries become exploited in 137 nations. It is a global problem that has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade. No country is immune, whether as a source, a destination or a transit point for victims of human trafficking, UNODC believes.
AFP is all hearts and flowers as they report on the state of wimminz sports in the wonderful world of Mahdiland
Young lady in the pic is going to be hurting real bad when she turns and is blind-sided.
Elham Shahsavari, a 24-year-old Iranian woman, believes she has found her perfect sport, undeterred by a strict Islamic dress code and the long commute to training. Shahsavari is a member of the Tehran women's rugby team. Rugby and women may not seem an ideal combination in Islamic Iran but girls are taking to one of the toughest sports with enthusiasm, amid greater official encouragement for them to participate in physical activities.
"In early 2006, Gorgan University advised me to play rugby because of my physical power," said the well-built Shahsavari, who overcame objections from her family who worried about her travelling to training from a Tehran suburb. "Rugby Union was just my thing," she said.
All women most cover their heads and bodily contours in Iran. The rugby field is no exception. The players dart around the pitch wearing the 'maghnaeh', a garment that fully covers the head, shoulders and neck, as well as a loose blue waistcoat, long-sleeved dark T-shirts and loose tracksuit trousers. Hardly uniform designed for a sport like rugby. But the players don't seem to mind, especially when the game allows them to let off steam in a way that is unimaginable elsewhere in their lives.
Iranian women proudly see themselves as the most emancipated in the Middle East but still have to combine their careers and leisure activities with traditional expectations of childbearing, cooking and cleaning. Rugby Union, though, offers the excitement and physical activity that is sometimes lacking elsewhere. "Pass the ball ... tackle her ...catch it!" shout the women as they run and tumble around the field like their male counterparts. "I am extraordinarily interested in rugby and it does not matter what I wear. It is not uncomfortable," said Sahar Azizi, 16, a high school student.
It would have been inconceivable a quarter of a century ago, in the early years of the 1979 Islamic revolution when competitive sports for women were strongly discouraged, for Iranian women to play so physical a sport as rugby. But much has changed since then, even if Iranian women's sports still have a long way to go before they are truly competitive on the international arena.
It was in the 1990s that women in Iran started to play sports again, largely thanks to the encouragement of Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of then-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Initially women mainly took part in stationary sports like archery and shooting but now they compete in a wide range of activities including strength-based disciplines like rowing, martial arts and... rugby.
"This is not a violent sport for women at all, despite what people think. We need to discharge our energy," said Zahra Nouri, the team's captain, who is a student of mechanics at Qazvin University west of Tehran.
The mother of one of the players, the 16-year-old Azadeh, was happy to see the level of physical activity, saying this would make it easier for her to deal with her energetic daughter at home. "It is good for us that she has the chance here to discharge her energy," said Pouran Taherabadi. "I have nothing against it."
However their coach, Alireza Iraj, admitted that their Islamic dress would make it impossible for the women to play against Western teams as "the long sleeves and loose clothes gives the opponents an easy chance to grab them."
"They have to play with Muslim countries who have similar clothes."
As a man coaching a female team, 37-year-old Iraj knows he has to tread a careful line. Advising the team on how to tackle, he keeps a decent distance away from the women and then instructs one of the players to demonstrate how to grab an opponent rather than carrying out the move himself. According to Iran's Islamic rules, members of the opposite sex cannot touch each other unless they are married couples or immediate members of a family.
Bizarrely, the nascent sport of rubgy is integrated into the Baseball and Softball Federation in Iran and Iraj complained that their support for women's rugby had been less than forthcoming. "Some in the federation perceive this is an American game, which it is not. The federation has also some objections about a male coaching the team," he said.
Women are still the subject of sporting restrictions in Iran and are unable to enter stadiums to watch football matches. Iran is now constructing a 40,000-seat women-only stadium at the Azadi sports complex.
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As an 18 year ailing rugby player I can't see how the game can be played properly with the headress on. My cauliflower ears had to be taped and (embarrassingly) vaselined. I guess this is a better avocation than suicide bombing training but give me a break. As far as tackling, ruck and scrum instruction without contact is almost impossible. NO threat the Iranians will win the women's world cup anytime soon.
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The referee has power to decide before or during the match that any part of a player's dress is dangerous. He must then order the player to remove the dangerous part and permit him to resume playing in the match only after it has been removed.
U.S.A.R.F.U. Directive: Player's Dress
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All players are to wear appropriate uniform and the referee has the power to decide whether non-compliance is dangerous. The referee should, when the ball is dead, allow time for a player to replace or repair a badly torn jersey or shorts. He must not allow time for a player to retie or repair a bootlace. Notwithstanding the above, if a team chooses to use tear-away jerseys it accepts the consequences that a referee may require a player to change his jersey on the sidelines while the game continues.
Yep, let's change the rugby dress code to flowing robes and discharging of said robe-enclosed reverse taquiya energy in a big all-chick final, get your tickets here!
The father of a Marine killed in Iraq took the stand in his invasion of privacy suit against a fundamentalist church that pickets soldiers' funerals, saying protesters carrying signs at his son's burial made him sick to his stomach.
Albert Snyder said Wednesday he had hoped for a private funeral for his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder.
"They turned this funeral into a media circus and they wanted to hurt my family," Snyder testified. "They wanted their message heard and they didn't care who they stepped over. My son should have been buried with dignity, not with a bunch of clowns outside."
Snyder is suing the Westboro Baptist church, whose members have picketed the funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming the deaths are punishment for the country's tolerance of homosexuality. The York resident is seeking unspecified monetary damages in the case for invasion of privacy and intent to inflect emotional distress as a result of the Topeka, Kan., church's protest at his son's funeral in Westminster in March 2006.
The church's protests have inspired several state laws and a federal law about funeral protests, but the Maryland suit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.
Asked Wednesday about a sign that read "Thank God for dead soldiers," Snyder said he thinks about it daily.
"I see that sign when I lay in bed," Snyder said.
Here's hoping he wins, and wins big. This sort of thing really cannot be adequately compensated with money alone, but this father is doing exactly what his son did: Fighting evil when he found it, where he found it, so that others won't suffer in the future because the bastards were left to run amok, spreading their vile poison hither and yon. God bless you and your family, sir.
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I've said it many times: I don't consider the Phelps Family's Li'l House o' Hate to be a church. So I obviously take exception to calling them "fundamentalist". Perhaps the writer looked in his MSM-Thesaurus under "icky-bad" and found it there.
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The Westboro Baptist church is despicable and ought to be ashamed of themselves. Thier behavior is outrageous. I hope the father wins his lawsuit against them big time.
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Here's hoping he wins, and wins big. This sort of thing really cannot be adequately compensated with money alone, but this father is doing exactly what his son did: Fighting evil when he found it, where he found it, so that others won't suffer in the future because the bastards were left to run amok, spreading their vile poison hither and yon.
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It has occurred to more than one observer that Fred doth protest too much, that is, that he might lean to the camp side of things himself and is simply in phobic denial.
One of his recent targets has been Princess Madeleine of Sweden. Now I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, would not any man of orthodox inclination, of any age, be doing his best to make friends with this young lady?
Case closed
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I think a class action lawsuit is a good idea. The way things are going it's only a matter of time before some grieving family member snaps and takes out the whole bunch. They are a foul brood but it'd be better to bankrupt them.
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but the Maryland suit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.
Unfortunately this is exactly what these degenerates have been spoiling for all along. They believe a drawn out court battle will give them a legitimate platform to spew their sludge. A judge can limit their lawyers rhetoric in the courtroom but not the goofballs on the courthouse steps.
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Haven't read of too many "Lee Harvey Oswald" moments at funerals. The population general is too restrained and cultured to do it. Stairs leading to/from a county court house...that's another matter. Googling "county courthouse shooting" gets 3,250 returns.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Seven police cars chased a go-kart at high speed for five kilometres through the winding streets of the western German town of Moenchengladbach but were not able to keep up with the teenage speedster.
