A man suspected of robbing a liquor store in Hugo, Oklahoma was shot twice by the clerk of that store on Thursday night. The masked man held up West Main Liquor, but didn't expect the clerk to fight back.
The following is a news release of the event from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation:
At approximately 6:30 Thursday evening, a man wearing a ski mask and brandishing what appeared to be a .45 semi-automatic handgun attempted to rob the West Main Liquor store in Hugo. The clerk opened the register and the suspect began grabbing cash from the drawer.
The clerk pulled out a .38 revolver and shot the suspect one time in the upper torso. When that did not encourage the suspect to put down his gun, the clerk grabbed a shotgun and shot the suspect one time. The man, identified as 50-year-old Guy Wade Buck, walked outside the store where two Hugo police officers were standing.
Let me guess: the perp didn't have the nickname, "Quick Draw".
Another person inside the store called 9-1-1 during the robbery and alerted police. The officers had just arrived when they hear the shotgun blast. The officers quickly apprehended the suspect who was flown to Wadley Hospital in Texarkana where he remains in critical condition. The gun was discovered to be a plastic air gun.
Buck is from the rural Choctaw County area.
Hugo Police called in OSBI to assist in the investigation. I'm thinking recidivism will prolly not be a problem.
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The shotgun doesn't matter. The shot is what matters. I wouldn't be surprised if the clerk had fine bird shot or rock salt. It might not kill him, but he would be both very ugly and very sore for a long time.
Of course, there is a strong probability that the perp was pre-anesthesized.
Yet an another innocent victim of Halliburton!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday.
Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said the fire gutted the cottage and badly burned the man's hands and face in the incident on October 10.
"We sought assistance from Bochum observatory and they noted that at that particular moment the earth was near a field of meteoroid splinter and it could be assumed that particles had entered the atmosphere," he said.
"The particles usually don't reach the surface because they disintegrate in the atmosphere," he added. "But some can make it to the ground. We believe this was a bolide (meteoric fireball) with a size of no more than 10 mm."
Chowchilla, Calif. (AP) -- Health officials are investigating a woman's claim that she found part of a human finger in a Subway sandwich an allegation reminiscent of the chili bowl finger hoax at a Wendy's restaurant last year.
Two health inspectors visited the Subway restaurant Thursday in Chowchilla after the woman reported finding what appeared to be a half-inch piece of a finger a day earlier, said Jill Yaeger, director of the Madera County Environmental Health Department. The inspectors did not find any evidence that a restaurant worker had lost part of a finger, and they found no violations of food handling procedures there, Yaeger said. The purported human digit was sent to a laboratory for testing, and the incident was reported to police.
The Subway manager, Anita Munoz, said she was in the restaurant when the woman returned with what she claimed looked like a finger. "It looked like a thick piece of fat," she told The Fresno Bee. "It doesn't look anything human to me."
Makes you wonder how the 'victim' knew it was a human finger.
Munoz said the incident would be investigated by Subway's national headquarters.
Subway spokesman Kevin Kane said the company was aware of the woman's claim but would not comment until Madera County officials completed their investigation. "The Subway restaurant chain takes every customer comment seriously," Kane said Friday. "We don't know what the foreign object is yet."
Chowchilla is about 90 miles east of San Jose, where a Las Vegas woman claimed in March 2005 that she bit into a fingertip in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant. Anna Ayala's stomach-turning claim made headlines around the world. The claim was found to be a hoax and Ayala was sentenced to nine years in prison. Her husband was sentenced to more than 12 years for getting the finger from a co-worker who lost it in a workplace accident. SSDD.
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Smart move. Could help tourism. They should hire him to do an ad campaign for western media. Show Islam it's OK not to take yourself too seriously all the time.
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I agree that somebody should tell the Kazakhs that "any publicity is good publicity", and if they laugh along with this jackass, it could make them several millions of dollars of tourism money.
They should even feed him all sorts of cultural ha-has and Kazakh humor to mock. Take him around to all the best tourism sites to use as a backdrop for his schtick. And if they have anything like local comedians, have them work backup for him.
TV bounty hunter grabs a legal victory Recall that Dog captured the rapist Andrew Luster. The Fibbies and the Mexicans weren't too happy that Dog did it while they were sipping lattes and quaffing Dos Equis.
The Dog remains unleashed for now. Attorneys for TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman on Friday said the Mexican federal court has granted them an order that halts the criminal case against Chapman until further evidence and witness testimony are gathered.
U.S. Marshals arrested Chapman here on Sept. 14 along with his son Leland and another associate after Mexico issued a warrant because of his capture of fugitive convicted rapist Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir, on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta. Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico.
Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending a night in a federal detention center. He and his crew have been facing extradition to Mexico since then.
At a circus-like news conference Friday, the star of the popular A&E show "Dog the Bounty Hunter" said the "tide is changing a little bit." His side of the story, he said, is finally being told to the court through his lawyer, William Boller, who spent the past month in Mexico. "If it comes out right, would I do it again? You damn right," Chapman said.
The possible extradition has ignited an uproar among members of Congress and Chapman's fans, who consider him a hero for capturing a rapist and doing a job the government could not. Twenty-nine congressmen have sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking her to deny the extradition.
At the press conference, Chapman said Mexico is becoming a safe haven for American fugitives and killers. "These guys know where to run. Where can we go so the Dog can't catch us?" said Chapman, wearing a powder-blue dress shirt with rolled-up sleeves, black jeans, cowboy boots, a big silver bulldog belt buckle, a Rolex watch and mirrored Oakley sunglasses. He was not wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet that a judge agreed this week to remove.
After the press conference, Chapman, 53, spoke with The Associated Press and reflected on his legal and personal challenges since his arrest. "I'm too old to be traumatized, but it's right next to that. It's just incredible," he said.
The man who considers himself the best bounty hunter in the world said he still has nightmares about federal marshals banging down his door as well as the night he spent locked up. "Jails are truly man-made hells," he said.
Chapman believed he was working within Mexican laws by having a local police officer supervising the hunt for Luster. Chapman said also that he left Mexico in 2003 and didn't return for a scheduled court hearing based on the advice of an attorney there. After he left, Chapman said Friday, he was threatened by the attorney with additional legal problems in Mexico if he didn't wire him "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Chapman's capture of Luster, who had fled the United States during his trial on charges he raped three women, catapulted the bounty hunter to fame and led to the reality series on A&E, the network's highest-rated series ever. Luster is serving a 124-year prison term.
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The last thing that Mexico wants is anyone to have an incentive to uphold the law, hence no bounties. Ransoms for kidnapping, however, are still okay.
Since it started 14 years ago, the sitcom Tash Ma Tash has become a Ramadan institution. The show is a major topic of after-iftar conversations in Saudi homes.
But like all satire, the show has critics as well as supporters. And both sides of the debate are watching intently either to laugh or to be outraged. A group of the shows detractors have now launched www.notash.net, hosted by Saudi lawyer Farraj bin Ali Al-Okalaa, who is calling for a boycott of the program on the basis that it is making fun of Islam and of religious people.
I was happy to see this website, wrote Badr (no family name given) on the sites public forum. Tash Ma Tash has really crossed the line by mocking the members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, he added, referring to an episode where members of the religious police barge in on an innocent game of cards and haul the players a group of young Saudi hipsters off to the barber to get haircuts.
The daily show premieres every Ramadan, and then re-broadcasts the rest of the year. This year the show has broken new ground in Saudi satire and the shows two best-known actors, Nasser Al-Qasabi and Abdullah Sedhan, have become national stars with comedy sketches that have boldly lampooned social issues related to gender, the justice system, and even the moral police.
I think Tash 14 is one of the best seasons, said Sami Rasoul, 28, referring to the shows official title (Tash, season 14). This year the series is tackling many issues that we face in our daily life.
In one episode, characters debate if women should be allowed to ride donkeys and, if so, should they only be allowed to ride female donkeys.
Another participant on the anti-Tash websites forum writes that he liked the show better when it made fun of bureaucracy and steered clear of religious issues.
We used to like watching these episodes because they carried effective criticisms that aimed at improving society, Ahmed wrote. Now the series is criticizing Islam and religious people who are working hard to steer people away from the dangers of drugs or alcohol. I stopped watching the show.
A statement on the website says that the stars Sedhan and Al-Qasabi have abused the freedom of expression and misrepresented the image of Muslims, particularly Saudis.
An informal poll run by the website shows that 54 percent of the 3,526 people that visited the site and answered the question Do you watch the series? said they do not watch the show while about a third of them admitted to watching the program regularly or occasionally. When asked if they support canceling the program, 70 percent of 14,886 respondents on the anti-Tash website said yes while the rest said no or it doesnt matter.
The website has also collected several fatwas and comments from religious scholars, including one from the Department for Scientific Research and Ifta (religious rulings) issued six years ago forbidding pious people from watching the program or recommending it to others.
Considering how many Saudis have made Tash a nightly routine during Ramadan, these fatwas dont seem to have the intended effect. There are more important issues to fix in our society than to spend time and effort to build and design a website protesting a TV series that brings joy to Saudi households after iftar, said Seham Yousef, 24.
What's in a name? Note the source...
The State Department said on Thursday a government decision to change the spelling of Ukraine's capital to Kyiv from Kiev had nothing to do with politics. "I don't think this decision has anything reflective in it, said Tom Casey, a department spokesman.
About half of Ukraine's population of 47-million are Russian speakers, and Kiev is the Russian spelling. Ukraine's Western-leaning President Viktor Yushchenko, elected on the wave of the 2004 Orange Revolution mass protests against election fraud, has sought to take his nation out of Russia's orbit and join NATO and the European Union.
Casey said the decision to change was more in keeping with how Ukrainians themselves pronounce the name of their capital. He said international organizations such as NATO and United Nations already are using the spelling the department has adopted. The Associated Press continues to spell the name of the capital Kiev.
In the 900s, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Europe, became the capital of Kievan Rus, the first Russian state.
The department announced the change in a memorandum Oct. 3, instructing officials to use the Kyiv spelling in all communications regarding Ukraine.
When a reporter asked about the change Thursday, Casey said to laughter he welcomed the question because "I have been waiting for this for several days." He explained there is a U.S. Board of Geographic Names that includes representatives from several government departments, including the State Department, to establish and maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.
Asked why the the spelling of Burma had not been changed to Myanmar as the country's military leaders call it, Casey replied, "I'll have to get back to you on that...But for now Burma is known as Burma." Hey, if the Ukanians spell it Kyiv, who are we to argue? But I admit I still call Peking, "Peking." Fuck 'em, they're commies.
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China is one of the more maddening ones around. Not only did they change the English spellings, most of which were originally done by the British, but they also changed the pronounciation spellings.
I found this out when trying to translate the name of some Chinese herbs. About the only thing you could really do was find the latin word for the herb, and hope the Chinese form was the same plant, which it was only about half the time.
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Does this include recent immigrants from other Asian countries to Japan?
If so, and if those immigrants are assimilating as poorly as the muzzies in Euroland or many of the Latinos here, this is hardly cause for celebration.
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Huh? I see nothing here to suggest it is immigrants who are turning the numbers around. If you have evidence that demonstrates it is, then post the link. I have few doubts that immigrants to Japan are, generally speaking, of the non-assimilating variety - only the youngest generation would be open to immigrants, I think, based upon Japanese I know who emigrated to the US, not first-hand experience there. IIRC, the immigration rate is low - because it isn't actually desired by the Japanese, for the most part. I could be wrong about all of it, lol, but I see no evidence to suggest or prove otherwise.
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A lot of locals here in Guam love the spicy kimchee + squid, etal. I'm sure the ANTACID + ANTI-ACID REFLUX companies are jumping for joy at the prospect of their products, or semblance thereof, going into space. MAKE SURE THEY HAVE IT BECUZ ARE GOONA NEED IT.
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The state-supported South Korean food institute said only a handful of countries, including the United States, Russia and China, prepared traditional dishes for their astronauts.
Considering very few countries have actually sent anyone into space in the first place......big whoop.
Bet the Russians ain't gonna like it after the SKor cosmonaut "processes" the kimchee, however. ;)
BEAUTIFUL twin sisters Alicia and Jasmin Singerl certainly make people look twice.
Alicia has dark brown eyes and complexion, and Jasmin is blue-eyed and fair-skinned.
Experts say the chance of twins being born with such different physical characteristics is about a million to one.
The sisters from Burpengary, north of Brisbane, were born in May.
Mother Natasha Knight, 35, has Jamaican-English heritage, and their father, Michael Singerl, 34, was born in Germany.
The couple, who are engaged, also have a five-year-old daughter, Taylah, who is blue-eyed with blonde hair and a light olive complexion.
Ms Knight said she was shocked when she saw the difference between her daughters.
"It's just amazing . . . they are so different,'' she said. "You could see there was a colour difference straight away. We couldn't believe it.
"Alicia's eyes were brown and her hair was dark. Jasmin's eyes were blue and her hair was white - you could hardly see her hair or her eyebrows.
"We were joking when I was pregnant about what if one baby looked like me and one looked like Michael. We joked about one light one, one dark one, so it was amazing when it actually happened.
``When we go out, people stop and ask if they are twins. Other people will look but not say anything. Maybe they think I am babysitting one of them.
"Someone even asked me if I was sure there wasn't a mix-up at the hospital. But there was no mix-up - they are my girls and they are both so beautiful.
"It will be interesting when they go to school and they will probably wonder why they look so different from each other. I guess the easiest way to explain it will be to say one took after mum, one took after dad.''
Genetics experts say that in most cases a mixed-race woman's eggs will be a mixture of genes for both black and white skin.
However, much more rarely, the eggs may contain genes for predominantly one skin colour.
In this case, Ms Knight has released two such eggs - one with predominantly dark pigmentation genes and one with predominantly fair genes. Non-identical twins are conceived when two eggs are fertilised by two sperm at the same time, which has odds in itself of about 100-1.
Clinical geneticist Stephen Withers said the likelihood of a mixed-race woman having eggs that were predominantly for one skin colour was rare enough, let alone releasing two of them simultaneously and producing twins.
"It's probably a million to one,'' Dr Withers said. "It's a terrifically rare phenomenon.''
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Could be. But light skin, light hair and blue eyes are the result of simple recessive genes. All you need for them to show up is for the embryo to inherit one of the genes from each parent. The mother carries one copy of these genes from her mother and the father carries at least one copy as well, as their older daughter proves.
What is unusual is that in the case of the lighter twin, two copies of the genes for skin, eyes and hair all got inherited at once. It's statistically rare, but not otherwise surprising so far as I can tell.
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Like cats. My cat--grey tabby with a trace of pekinese--had the following litter: 1 snow-white, 1 black and white, 1 grey siamese, 1 calico brown'n'black and 1 orange tabby that did not make it. How did she manage to pull that off is a mystery to me.
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In junior high school, I knew a brother and sister (not twins) named Sullivan. The brother was your standard Mk. 1 Mod. 0 Irish-American kid; the sister had dark hair and a latte complexion. Took me several weeks to realize they were from the same family.
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Dean, the zealous chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former presidential candidate from Vermont, both railed against the Bush administration and exhorted the crowd of supporters and campaign volunteers to work their hardest until Election Day.
"Now we've got 18 days left. Eighteen days of knocking on doors. I know you all know how to do that, because you did it for Ned Lamont before the primary," Dean said. "Work like crazy. Some of you might drop dead, but I promise you on Nov. 8, the resurrection will occur."
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Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, it's not even Scrappleface. I think Howie just admitted defeat.
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I have a theory thingy. The terminal zoomers, like Dean, think they see and hear messages in the static you see on your TV screen or noise you hear on your radio when there is no signal on the frequency it's tuned to. They mistake the universal background noise of the Big Bang for universal truth. Of course, when they try to explain, to pass the "message" along, it's just noise to normal people. In other words, they're fucking insane.
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Analysts said IE7 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, but the big question is whether it will stem Firefox's growth at Microsoft's expense.
Does Microsoft actually sell Internet Explorer 7 as a separate product? If not, what is Microsoft's expense?
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I switched over from IE to Firefox sometime last year when LBNL basically did the switch to Mozilla.
Firefox cured a nasty WinFixer popup problem that IE still has despite my near-religious use of Spybot S&D, Windows Defender, and Symantec's AV (the industrial version) programs.
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The problem with Firefox is that its extentions are independent of the browser, so when the browser is updated, you have to hope that the old extentions are still good, or that whoever wrote them writes a new version soon.
I even found a tweak whereby you can modify the old extention file to pretend to be valid after its expiration date.
Bookmarklets are a lot easier with Firefox, too. I even make a little Rantburg icon for my toolbar:
CONCORD, Calif. -- A 16-year-old girl is back in school Friday after school officials recanted their decision to suspend her for bringing hot sauce to school, NBC11's Jodi Hernandez reported.
School officials said Laura Martin's $25 bottle of Mad Dog 357 sauce hurt two students on Thursday. The Concord High School senior said she and her friend Stephanie Goins, 15, were given a two-day suspension for possession of a deadly weapon. The school's principal said the girls were suspended for the way they used the sauce, not because they had it.
Martin said they brought the sauce to school because some of their friends said they could handle the sauce's heat. Before their first class, Martin said a 16-year-old boy drank the sauce and started having breathing problems. He also started shaking, Hernandez reported. The school called paramedics, who arrived and said nothing was wrong with the boy.
Paramedics were called again after another student got the sauce in his eye, Hernandez reported.
Neither girl was in trouble with their parents. Laura's father said the school overreacted.
School officials refused to speak with NBC11, Hernandez reported.
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Before their first class, Martin said a 16-year-old boy drank the sauce and started having breathing problems. He also started shaking, Hernandez reported. The school called paramedics, who arrived and said nothing was wrong with the boy.
Paramedics were called again after another student got the sauce in his eye, Hernandez reported.
It's a well known fact that young women can inspire males of all ages to perform acts of incredible stupidity. Blaming them for it is another matter entirely.
He also started shaking
That was probably just his butt-hole quaking in abject terror.
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It was the capsaicin in the hot sauce. It's rather a nasty compound, actually; I used it in some lab experiments some years ago (actually published them, too!). In small doses it stimulates the sensory nerves to release 'neuropeptides'; in larger doses it kills the sensory nerves.
You find it in hot sauces, peppers, etc. It's the stuff that makes your eyes water and your sinuses swell.
If my daughter had done this I would have punished her suitably. Inside, of course, I'd been laughing like hell at the dumb-ass boys that she suckered, but I'd never show it.
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Why are they being punished? Stoopid is still stoopid. Who forced the jackass to chug-a-lug it ? This is the penalty of being an idiot. Everything has to be learned the hard way. I think I would have just stood there and laughed at the fool while he panted and drooled and tried to get his breath. All the other geniuses would then have a direct example as to why this is not recommended.
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I made a great discovery about young men. I had with me some fresh habanero peppers and was showing these to some friends when this young stud approached.
I knew that if I told him it was a mild pepper and that he should try a nibble, he wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. But being in an evil mood, I said to him:
"Son, this is a habanero pepper, the hottest pepper around. If you eat even a little bit of it, it will kick your ass from here to Tuesday. If you eat even a nibble of it, you will run into the bathroom and put soap in your mouth to take away pain like you have never felt before."
Well, my attention was distracted for a second and sure enough, he grabbed that pepper out of my hand, shoved it into his mouth, chewed it eight or ten times and swallowed that sumbitch.
(Pregnant pause lasting about 15 seconds when nobody said a damn thing, just stared with baited anticipation. They were not disappointed.)
And yes, he did end up in the bathroom, washing his mouth out with that nasty pink hand soap.
And as impatient as he was, I didn't even get around to telling him what he could look forward to in about a day...
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I was a real pistol, and my mother never let me forget. Apparently I used to steal chili peppers from a neighbor's plant and eat them - at 18 months. I still like hot stuff (including Thai food and pepper sauce), but I don't do foolish things - any more.
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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.
Since it started 14 years ago, the sitcom Tash Ma Tash has become a Ramadan institution. The show is a major topic of after-iftar conversations in Saudi homes. 
