A man browsing the internet in America has foiled a burglary 4,600 miles away in Britain. The armchair sleuth was at home in Dallas, Texas, when he looked at a webcam set up in Mathew Street, the heart of the Beatles quarter in Liverpool. A few moments later he was astonished to see signs of activity as three dark-clad figures set up a ladder and began climbing through the first-floor window of an outdoor clothing store. Realising that he was watching a burglary, he found a number for Merseyside police and rang their control room. Officers arrived at the city centre location in time to arrest the unwitting webcam stars as they tried to escape in a car.
Yesterday Insp Damian Walsh, of Merseyside police, said: "We were amazed when we were informed that the person who reported the offence lived in the US. But it shows how vital our camera system is to reduce and prevent offences." Detectives believe that the American had been browsing the Mathew Street website in anticipation of the area's annual music festival.
Chris Parkinson, a supervisor at the store, said: "The area is well covered with cameras and there is one opposite the window that was broken. We've got all the clothing back and it's good to know that even our friends in the US are keeping an eye on things for us."
Three men from Liverpool have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and have been granted bail pending further inquiries.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- Exterminators have removed a hive containing an estimated quarter-million Africanized bees from a home near Bisbee where a man was fatally stung on Aug. 20. yikes!
Charlie Pasley, 39, died after being stung about 300 times by a swarm of bees as he was working on the roof of his home with his father, Chuck Pasley, 62. The bees attacked minutes after the pair began work on the roof of their home in the rural community of Whetstone. Chuck Pasley was stung about 100 times but suffered no serious effects.
Michael Smith, a manager for the local extermination company which removed the bees Thursday, said the hive was likely about six months old and was 2 feet wide, a foot long and five inches tall.
"It was a well-established hive," Smith said. "There were about a quarter-million bees and the honeycomb was about 70 pounds."
It was located in a space underneath the family's mobile home and was not visible. He said the family had been noticing bees flying around the area, but were not concerned.
"They weren't bothering anyone," he said. "If you stood and watched them, it was like standing in a garden where bees just come and go, minding their own business."
After the bees attacked, the two men climbed down a ladder and the elder Pasley went into the house and showered to get the bees off him. Charlie Pasley stayed outside and tried to use a water hose to ward off the bees. When the family realized he was still outside, they went outside and tried to help.
"He was lying on the ground completely surrounded by thousands and thousands of swarming bees," said Angela Pasley, his sister-in-law. "If anyone got close to where he was lying, they would attack."
Africanized bees, or "killer bees," have invaded may parts of the United States, including Arizona.
"The only bees left in Arizona in the wild are Africanized," Smith said.
Africanized bees are less selective than native bees when choosing nesting sites. Whenever swarming bees are seen moving in and out of an area near a home, it's best to find shelter and call professionals to have them removed, said Liz Barta, an educator at the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center.
The average person can tolerate between 4 to 10 bee stings per 10 pounds of body weight unless they are allergic to the insects, Barta said. In a 150-pound person, that equates to about 100 stings.
Pasley was from Redding, Calif., and moved to Whetstone in 2003. He is survived by two daughters, his parents and two brothers.
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AZ Bee death update. Quarter million killer bees in hive
I've removed regular bees and their hives from attics and walls before, but I always call on Capt. Dan a friend of mine to help..
correction, I should say I help him remove them as he is a real bee keeper [day job EPA]. He supplies the outfit, [Tyvek®] and helmet, while I make sure to wear an extra set of clothes underneath and duct tape the hell out of every nook and cranny.
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As a child I got stung on both lower cheeks when my father and uncle tried to burn a large hive. Appears I did a CAULKIN before Caulkin was even born.
Two brothers, who are accused of driving drunk in separate cars, early Saturday crashed into each other at an intersection less than a mile away from the Brentwood home they share, Suffolk police said. At about 4:10 a.m. Saturday, a neighbor, hearing a loud crash, called police to the intersection of Plunkett Street and Radcliff Drive, police said. David Murphy, 22, had been driving a 2006 Volkswagen west on Plunkett Street while his brother, Michael Murphy, 21, was driving a 1998 Volkswagen north on Radcliff Drive. Michael Murphy ran through a stop sign at the intersection, police said, and struck his brother's car on the passenger side.
Both David and Michael Murphy were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. They were arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip Saturday and were not held. No one at the Murphy home could be reached for comment Saturday.
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Hmmm...would it be a safe assumption that both Murphys (1) still live at home with the parents and (2) spend most of their days playing video games or recovering from hangovers?
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We had so much fun with these a while back that I decided to post some more.
The main link will take you to the Grapheine server, where you can make your own subtitle movies in one of four different formats. (Seems to require Flash and a broadband or DSL connection.) If you come up with something good, post a link in the comments.
Feature length presentations:
The classic Rantburg Chamber of Commerce promotional film Rantburg Welcomes You
The trailer to the legendary film noir Rantablanca
Rock superstars U2 in Vertigo
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That Indian fella has nothing on me - Class of '73 senior picture attire: Lemon yellow dress shirt, powder blue tie, blue and white striped sport coat. You couldn't see it in the picture but I had on black and red checked pants. No kidding. Mrs. Gort uses the pic as a threat. It works.
Don't try too hard to picture this - your mind's eye will burn out.
Hundreds of air passengers had a close shave with a major disaster when two Chinese domestic aircraft clipped each other at the busy Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Sunday. Two passenger airplanesa Airbus 320 and Boeing 777grazed each other when sliding at Beijing Capital Airport this noon. No casualties were reported, the state television reported.
The two planes belonging to China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines respectively were damaged to some degree during the scratch, it quoted sources with the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China as saying.
The Airbus plane was scheduled to fly from Beijing to the eastern city of Ningbo and the Boeing 777 was heading for the southern metropolis, Guangzhou when the accident happened. Both flights were delayed and passengers were transferred to another flight, Xinhua news agency reported.
Reason for the scratch remains unclear and the local civil aviation administration is investigating into the case, it said.
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One very expensive graze.. pilots thought they were teenagers parking at the mall?
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Gosh, they drive aircraft the same way they drive cars!
There is no "right of way", there is only the "I was there first" rule. If you're there first, then you're right. The plane that got hit in the tail was there first, so the other plane is in the wrong. This result can only be obtained after a shouted argument in the middle of the street attended by at least 50 bystanders. I can only imagine the scene as hundreds of passengers crowd around to watch the two pilots argue on the runway.
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"grazed each other when sliding at Beijing Capital Airport"
Sliding? I sure hope this is a mis-translation.
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During the Cold War the pilots, etal. could be exiled = shot = blacklisted for few decades for embarassing the Motherland/FatherLand, the Party, the People, and proper Socialism - as far as I know, post-Cold War they could still be.
The International Astronomical Union shook up the solar system Thursday when it declared that Pluto was no longer part of the cosmic club -- the first time the solar system was altered since Pluto was spotted in 1930. Under new guidelines, Pluto was downgraded to a "dwarf planet," a new category that also includes the asteroid Ceres, the newly discovered object 2003 UB313, and possibly dozens of others.
On Cafepress.com, a San Francisco-area Internet company that prints T-shirts and other merchandise, an explosion of Pluto inventory popped up within 24 hours of the news. By Friday morning, the site featured 200 designs on more than 1,500 products. Many items and slogans fretted Pluto's demise and pined for the return of the obsolete nine-planet solar system. T-shirts screamed "Save Pluto" and "Stop Planetary Discrimination" while bumper stickers rallied "PLUTO 2006: Running as an Independent Candidate" and "Vote for Pluto."
Others were more wistful. "Pluto, we hardly knew ye ... 1930-2006" was available in adult and kid's apparel as well as caps and bags. My own favorite, First they came for Pluto, but I was not a Plutan. Then they came for Uranus.
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They were all good and happy with the old situation until some new upstart finds something like Pluto and gives it the name 'Xena' and its moon 'Gabriel'. Talk about a bunch of pseudo important twits who can take plenty of tax money to justify their existance. No sense of humor, I guess, when no one pays any attention to you except when you jump up and down claiming the sky is falling [even if it is, we just can't do anything about it at the moment].
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**little know fact over-shadowed by Pluto's reduction in status.
According to the senior scientists at International Astronomical Union the 7th planet will no longer be referred to in a personalized manner, they said that henceforth the 7th planet will referred to as Ring Around The Anus instead of Your-Anus.
There's a pretty good story in, I believe, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, entitled "The Tombaugh Station" (it's ancient - you'll have to Google to find it if it's available).
Uh...if anyone is wondering - Clyde Tombaugh is the guy who discovered Pluto.
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Okay, I'll bite, isn't a "dwarf/minor planet" technically still a planet??? And iff "planets" are supposed to be named after Gods/Goddesses, LUCY LAWLESS' bikini specs aside IS NOT "ZENA" NOT A NAME OF A GODDESS???
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 man browsing the internet in America has foiled a burglary 4,600 miles away in Britain. The armchair sleuth was at home in Dallas, Texas, when he looked at a webcam set up in Mathew Street, the heart of the Beatles quarter in Liverpool. A few moments later he was astonished to see signs of activity as three dark-clad figures set up a ladder and began climbing through the first-floor window of an outdoor clothing store. Realising that he was watching a burglary, he found a number for Merseyside police and rang their control room. Officers arrived at the city centre location in time to arrest the unwitting webcam stars as they tried to escape in a car.
Hundreds of air passengers had a close shave with a major disaster when two Chinese domestic aircraft clipped each other at the busy Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Sunday. Two passenger airplanesa Airbus 320 and Boeing 777grazed each other when sliding at Beijing Capital Airport this noon. No casualties were reported, the state television reported.
