NEDERLAND - Bob Dougherty's been in a sticky situation - twice.
The Boulder County man who's become nationally known as the guy glued to a Home Depot toilet seat reported a similar incident more than a year ago, according to Nederland's former director of operations.
On Monday, Ron Trzepacz said from his New York home that Dougherty came to him in the summer of 2004 with the same allegation: that his rear had been glued to a toilet seat. In the 2004 incident, Dougherty, 57, said he was able to pull himself from the seat in the town's visitors center bathroom, Trzepacz told the Rocky Mountain News.
His verbal complaint made it no further than Trzepacz, who said he personally inspected the bathroom and found no adhesive residue and "no indication that anything had been on the toilet seat." No police report was ever filed and no medical professionals were called to the site, said Trzepacz, who worked for the town for 13 years.
Dougherty - who is well-known in the small mountain town that hosts a festival dedicated to a dead frozen man - and his lawyer, Mark Cohen, could not be reached for comment. The two were in New York on Monday for a live appearance on the Today Show.
In an interview with Today's Katie Couric, Dougherty said he was glued to a toilet seat in the Louisville Home Depot for 20 to 25 minutes in October 2003 before help arrived. Dougherty claims in a civil lawsuit, filed late last month, that store employees ignored his calls for help and failed to maintain the bathrooms by not stocking paper toilet seat covers. He's suing for $3 million.
I'm thinking Home Depot's lawyers will be having a talk with Mr Trzepacz
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Should've dropped a Mickey D's coffee in his lap and chowed down on some Kentucky Fried Rat Parts while he was waiting to get his fat ass pried off of there...
More than you might think. More than one Plaintiff's attorney here in Colorado is well down the road toward filing a grievance against this guy's attorney. Believe it or not, WE GOTS STANDADS . . .
They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of an elderly home in southern Sweden had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises.
Shocking. You expect to see this kind of behavior with Shriners, but Moose are normally much more civilized.
The moose _ a cow and her calf _ had become drunk over the weekend by eating fermented apples they found outside the home in Sibbhult, southern Sweden, said Anna Karlsson, who works there. Police managed to scare them off once, but the large mammals returned to get more of the tempting fruits. This time the moose were drunk and aggressive, forcing police to send for a hunter with a dog to make them leave. Police did not pursue the culprits, but made sure all apples were picked up from the area, local police chief Bengt Hallberg said. No one was hurt.
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Ya'll gotta quit makin'that HADR CIDER!!!! Wonder if they got a bad hangover!!
There was a cute story about a week ago in Georgetown. A deer wandered into the shopping district, walked right into one of the upscale clothing stores, headed for the back of the store and began challenging the other buck it suddenly saw in the mirror. I give the store clerk a lot of credit for assessing the situation properly and doing the right thing; he turned off the lights. The mirror deer went away and the store deer lost interest and left.
Some Leftie up in Austin found a copy of a 1984 CIA comic book and put it up on the web. He seems not to like the fact they called Fidel a commie murderer. Go figure. Comic book is cool, though. I linked it at the title and the link in the post.
NEW! GRENADA: RESCUED FROM RAPE AND SLAVERY - 1984 CIA COMIC BOOK
It's November and that means it's Election Season here in the US. What better way to celebrate the occasion than with an actual comic book produced and written by the CIA. How about a comic that was air-dropped during a US Invasion? "GRENADA" is just that thing. And we promise you it's the number one Real Deal. Acquired through amicable agreement with an actual recipient of the comic and former citizen of the island. This comic pulls no punches. Just look at the picture above of islanders getting their heads banged in by murderers designed to resemble Cubans. And that's just the front cover. Rape, Murder, Lies, Beatings. All tied up in a beautifully dishonest Pro-Reagan Anti-Castro message. George Bush Sr even takes time out his busy post-hurricane Humanitarian schedule to make an appearance. This comic was never meant to be read by anyone in the United States, or anyone outside the Carribean for that matter. Here it is for you, Click to read.
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It's no Spider-Man or Nexis, but I kinda liked it. Beats hell out of Love & Rockets or Archie, anyway.
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Nexis? Man, you are a comic fan from back in the day! Have you read the new Grimjack?
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Nope. I used to live near a comic shop, and I ended up with a nice collection of mid- to late-80s Nexis and Badger and a solid set of Mai the Psychic Girl and Team Yankee and Jonny Quest. (My tastes, while eclectic, were also decidedly out of the mainstream.) Moved to a different town with no nearby shop and fell out of the comic book habit.
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The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was arrested yesterday on the orders of a judge, hours after he flew from Japan to Chile. Lawyers for Mr Fujimori, 67, were reportedly appealing against the arrest, which was requested by Peru as the first step in the extradition process. Mr Fujimori, who lived in Japan after fleeing Lima in 2000, faces 21 charges in Peru over alleged corruption and alleged support of a paramilitary death squad. In a communique he said: "It is my intention to remain temporarily in Chile as part of the process for my return to Peru" to run for president in 2006.
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He had to be arrested to be extradited. I guess he wasn't kidding.
LONDON (AP) - An 84-year-old Nazi war criminal who eluded prosecution for more than 50 years by posing as a Polish patriot has died in prison, British authorities said Monday.
Anthony Sawoniuk, the only person convicted of Nazi war crimes in a British court, died Sunday in Norwich Prison in eastern England, the Home Office said. He had been sentenced to two life terms. He had been suffering from a terminal illness and police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.
During his war crimes trial in 1999, Sawoniuk was accused of killing 18 Jews while serving in the Nazi-backed police force in his hometown of Domachevo, Belarus, in 1942, including 15 Jewish women who he forced to strip and face an open grave before he shot them.
Sawoniuk later served with the Waffen SS, but when he saw the Germans were losing the war he changed sides, joining the Polish army and fighting with the allies. Posing as a Polish patriot, he emigrated in 1946 to Britain, where he worked as a railway collector. His past was uncovered after a letter to his brother in Poland was intercepted by the KGB in 1951.
He was not pursued until KGB files were transferred to Britain after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then it took police, historians and linguists months to track him down. Sawoniuk was convicted of two charges of murder. John Nutting, the prosecutor who tried the case, said Sawoniuk was ``not only prepared to do the Nazi's bidding, but carried out their genocidal policy with enthusiasm.''
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Good.
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Natural causes. He got off easy.
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Let me see.... Letter intercepted by KGB in 1951. Files were transferred to the UK after Soviet Union collapses in 1991. If my math is correct, it appears the Sov's had been investigating the matter "with enthusiasm" for some 40 years. Mr. Putin, would you care to comment on the Sawoniuk case? Hate to say it, but at 84...which many of us will never see, I think the ole ticket collector got the last laugh. They say he really loved to hear train whistles.
Available only from Hammacher Schlemmer, this is a special edition, life-size, fully animatronic remote-controlled version of Robby, the robot from the classic 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
Standing seven feet tall, Robby is created from the same blueprints, molds, and templates used to create the original costume. Robby is made by renowned artist Fred Barton, the man commissioned to restore the original robot after its sale to a Southern California prop museum in 1970. Every mechanism is handmade of the finest materials, and this version is remote-controlled...
EFL - and for lighter bitterness
In her first interview since being fired, former CBS News producer Mary Mapes maintains that her controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service was "true" and that "no one has proved that the documents were not authentic." "true" and "authentic" are so "subjective"
Mapes was fired after an independent panel found her basic reporting was "faulty." as in "bad" "wrong" "fookin' stoopid"
In her interview with ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, to be broadcast Wednesday morning on "Good Morning America," Mapes says she is unrepentant about her role. "I don't think I committed bad journalism. I really don't," she says.
"I mean, c'mon! Look at the 'journalism' that's out there now? How can you say mine's worse?"
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Crazy people don't know they are crazy. Someone she respects (whomever that is) has to tell her that she is whacked. But then I think that most of the LLL is crazed and deserve all the bad press they get.
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I tell ya, it was the One Armed Man! He looked just like David Jansen!
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"I don't think I committed bad journalism."
Committed? A curious choice to use a verb usually followed by the name of a criminal act. Freudian slip? Or maybe 'journalism' just doesn't mean what we think it means.
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Pathetic fool. Her Vanity Fair piece was an equally bitter and infantile attempt at justifying extremely poor judgment, thinly veiled hatred (FEA baby), and gross incompetence. What a nasty, ignorant, POS.
NEW DELHI - One of India's most wanted bandits was shot dead in a fierce gun battle with a special force, police said on Tuesday. Dreaded dacoit Nirbhar Gujjar had terrorised villagers in the ravines of central Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh states for over a decade. He was wanted in connection with two dozen murders and more than 200 kidnappings. The government had announced a reward of 4,360 U.S. dollars for Gujjar.
A special police task force had set up an ambush for the dacoit Monday. He walked into the trap and was killed after a gun battle with the police late in the evening that lasted for more than an hour, senior police official Akhil Kumar said. He said the operation was carried out in the jungles near Sitapur village in western Uttar Pradesh.
Gujjar, famous for his handlebar moustache and fondness for mobile phones, was a media savvy dacoit. He often gave television interviews during which he boasted of high-level political connections. His gang was armed with heavy automatic weapons. They amassed a fortune by kidnapping small businessmen and wealthy local farmers for a ransom, the police said. The police had been on Gujjar's trail for over a decade but the chase had heated up over the past month with the killing and capture of several of his close associates, Kumar said.
The topography of the 37,000 square-kilometre Chambal valley with criss-crossing ravines and dense forests, spread across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh states, makes it especially difficult for the police to track the many dacoit gangs operating in the region.
India's most famous dacoit Phoolan Devi, the famous "Bandit Queen", also operated in this area. She went on to become a member of Parliament after her surrender. Devi was shot dead outside her official residence in the Indian capital by a gunman in 2001. Another famous brigand, sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, was killed by the police in southern India last year.
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Police mole, cellphone did in Nirbhay Gujjar
The age-old 'mole in the gang' and the new age 'surveillance on wire' combined to be a fatal potion for dreaded Chambal dacoit Nirbhay Gujjar.
Before stepping into the elaborate trap laid by the elite Special Task Force (STF) at Ajitmal in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday night, the brigand had had more than his fill of his two passions -- wine and women.
In fact, deserted by his fairer partners and running short of men, Nirbhay Gujjar's end was facilitated by one of his weaknesses -- liquor --which the trailing STF exploited to the hilt, combining traditional and pragmatic police skills.
Well-placed sources revealed that Nirbhay Gujjar was done in by the guile of a raw recruit of the STF who slithered into the gang posing as an absconder and took nearly two months to win the trust of the wily dacoit. In the meantime, the 'plant' passed on valuable information about the movements of the brigand and his handful of accomplices through a cellphone.
All this while, Special Task Force SSP Akhil Kumar camped in nearby Etawah bordering the Chambal-Yamuna ravines keeping a tab on the beeps of Gujjar's cellphones. The self-styled 'raja' of the ravines had recently picked up the fad for cellphones and possessed two connections - one for UP and the other for MP.
The nonchalant brigand, who was all the time trailed by the UP and MP police, frequently kept in touch with his associates and journalists over the phones. Little did he realise the associated pitfalls
staring his fate like others of his ilk who were done in by electronic surveillance in the past.
The efficacy of the electronic gadget notwithstanding, what actually did the trick for the STF sleuths was the age-old policing axiom of planting an effective 'mole' within the gang. And this ploy succeeded. The mole accompanied Nirbhay Gujjar and his motley crew till Ayana where he got them drunk before alerting the waiting STF team to pounce on the inebriated 'kill'. The result was that the sozzled bandit king with 205 criminal cases against him and a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head, was caught unawares and perished but not before living life kingsize.
Earlier, too, the police gameplan of using an informer or even a cop had paid rich dividends especially in the treacherous badlands of the Chambal-Yamuna ravines.
In 1997, the Hamirpur Police quietly pushed a cop into the gang of dreaded dacoit Balram Khangar. Within a few months, the cop had managed to win the trust of the members. One day, the cop intoxicated the gang members and tipped off headquarters. When the police raided the hideout, eight dacoits including Balram and his concubine Rekha were snuffed out in the ensuing 'encounter'.
In the beginning of 2002, Kanpur Dehat SSP Mukesh Babu Shukla planted constable Mahabharat Singh in the formidable Lalaram gang. Within a month, six members of the gang including the kingpin fell to police bullets.
Two years back, Auraiya SP Nilesh Kumar adopted the same strategy to counter the growing menace of the Man Singh Mukhia gang which had become synonymous with terror in the area. A cop was meticulously planted and after several painstaking months of tailing the dacoit gang, Mukhia, along with his paramour Gudia and two others were gunned down.
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Silence in Chambal
The elimination of Nirbhay Gujjar on Monday evening by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh marks the closure of an age in the Chambal ravines. Though essentially a brigand who terrorised the region much like his infamous predecessors like Man Singh, Roopa and Phoolan Devi, Nirbhay was, even to his victims, a baaghi - or rebel; a victim of circumstances.
Villagers often spun romantic yarns about the supposed valour and hidden virtues of the Chambal dacoits. Thanks to Bollywood and the media, these tales travelled far and wide to cast the Chambal dacoits in the Robin Hood mould. Indeed, Man Singh, who met his end at the hands of the police in 1955, is today worshiped as god in his 'exclusive' temple. Like the legendary Prince of Thieves, Man Singh robbed the rich to serve the poor. If a poor farmer faced a problem, especially in raising money for the marriage of his daughter, Man Singh was reputed to step in to help him make the 'necessary arrangements'.
Tales of such philanthropy invariably got laced with considerations of family honour and caste loyalty to produce the Chambal mystique, which Nirbhay Gujjar inherited. The vermillion on his brow and a mop-like beard added to his image. Though mostly unlettered and steeped in backwardness, the outlaws of Chambal had an almost mystical understanding of time and place which they exploited to the hilt with deadly accuracy.
Much like Veerappan in the south, Nirbhay Gujjar knew the power of television in the game to court post-surrender moolah or, in the likely event of a bloody end, immortality and a cult-following. In short, after the Himalayan Yogi, the brawny wrestler on the ghats of Varanasi and the doughty Kolkata rickshaw-puller, the cocky Chambal ka daku completed the great Indian kaleidoscope of earthy masculinity. It's indeed difficult to strike a balance between the priorities of the Indian state and the cautious romanticism with which they are held in the collective perception.
But Nirbhay Gujjar had to go and there can be no requiem for a man who had 191 cases of murder and abduction against his name. Several members of his gang had been killed before him but Nirbhay Gujjar somehow managed to elude the police. He had, perhaps, foreseen his fate and had sought to use the media to win a reprieve-through-surrender for himself. But past experience has made the law enforcers wiser. Men like Nirbhay Gujjar know how to manipulate Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence.
The trial process invariably gets delayed by witness intimidation or procedural lapses. Even if they are sent to jail, men like Nirbhay Gujjar manage to milk the system to their advantage. Besides, whatever romantic notions the public held earlier thanks to an efficient 'root cause' industry have been dispelled after successive Governments granted amnesty to dacoits in lieu of their giving up arms. In our own times, dreaded dacoits have been known to go on to become ministers and members of Parliament. Nirbhay Gujjar, therefore, passes into oblivion as just another statistic. Only time will tell whether he was the stuff of legends.
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Moroccan King Mohammed VI has said he will consult with his country's political parties about autonomy for Western Sahara on the 30th anniversary of the territory's annexation by Rabat. "We have decided to consult the political parties, having regard for their fundamental role in major national questions, to see how they view the exercise of autonomy within the kingdom," the king said during a speech on Sunday transmitted over radio and television on the anniversary of Morocco's Green March.
On this date in 1975, the late Moroccan king Hassan II encouraged 350,000 Moroccans carrying the Quran and the national flag to march to the border with Western Sahara in a show of support for Morocco's annexation of the former Spanish colony. Mohammed VI said the talks with Moroccan political parties would work on a proposition on autonomy that Rabat can present to the UN.
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Hey, his father weighed it when I was in college decades ago. He weighed it until nobody talked about it then let it fade.
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.
They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of an elderly home in southern Sweden had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises. 
The former Peruvian president 
NEW DELHI - One of India's most wanted bandits was shot dead in a fierce gun battle with a special force, police said on Tuesday. Dreaded dacoit Nirbhar Gujjar had terrorised villagers in the ravines of central Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh states for over a decade. He was wanted in connection with two dozen murders and more than 200 kidnappings. The government had announced a reward of 4,360 U.S. dollars for Gujjar.
