ORLANDO, Fla. - Sheriff's deputies tracked down a suspect in an armed robbery with a receipt he left at the scene of the crime, authorities said.
A man wearing a mask robbed an Orlando Hess station Monday, stealing $75 and two cartons of cigarettes, the sheriff's office reported.
When deputies arrived at the gas station, someone noticed that the robber had left a gun case against a display rack. Inside the case, deputies found a receipt for a new AK-47 assault rifle.
"Obviously, he wasn't a member of the MENSA society," sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Soto told the Orlando Sentinel.
The receipt was made out to Eric Cunningham, who lived only a few miles from the gas station, according to an arrest report.
Deputies found Cunningham, 18, at his apartment with a loaded assault rifle and a shotgun, the report said.
Cunningham was arrested and charged with armed robbery with a firearm while wearing a mask. He remained in jail with no bond.
Thousands of rich Japanese women were conned into believing lambs were valuable miniature poodles.
Flocks were imported from the UK and Australia to be sold by an internet company as the latest "must have" pet.
The scam was rumbled when movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food. She showed photos of the animal and was devastated when told that it was a lamb, reports the Sun.
Hundreds of women contacted police to say that they had also been sold lambs instead of pedigree pups by the con artists based in Sapporo. One couple found out the truth only after a dog beautician told them she could not trim their poodle's claws - because they were hooves. The company, whose name translated as Poodles As Pets, has now been shut down.
Bosses took advantage of the fact sheep are rare in Japan and most people do not know what they look like. They advertised poodles online for £630 - half the price of the highly-desired puppies in Japan at £1,260. A police spokesman said: "We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company were selling sheep as poodles."
The scam was rumbled when movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food. She showed photos of the animal and was devastated when told that it was a lamb, reports the Sun.
I need to introduce this gal to a exclusive new game called "Cars & Garages". After that, we'll have even more fun playing "Hide the Sausage".
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"The scam was rumbled when movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food. She showed photos of the animal and was devastated when told that it was a lamb, reports the Sun."
Japanese movie stars are as intellegent than their US counterparts.
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Was this reported in James Lileks' "Daily Bleat"?
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Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week . . . .
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Bosses took advantage of the fact sheep are rare in Japan and most people do not know what they look like. They must not know much about dogs either. This is hilarious. Thanks A5089.
A high school student in New York City's Queens borough was arrested for writing a letter threatening a Virginia Tech-style shooting at a school dance, authorities said Wednesday. Prosecutors said Michael DiGiovanni, 17, wrote a letter warning students and faculty at Middle College High School in Long Island City that those attending the senior prom would share a fate similar to the victims at Virginia Tech, where Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and then himself on April 16. The word you're looking for is "dipshit."
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Losers! Arise and rejoice! You've found your new hero, Seung-Hui Cho!
Does anyone else think that maybe prolonged public ridicule is the best way to nip these things in the bud? Kids who shoot up schools are looking for respect, but they'll settle for fear and hate. Would they think twice if they knew their post-mortem 15 minutes would be full of ridicule and humiliation, rather than somber omphaloskepsis and pleas for "understanding"?
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Angei: You have a point. Though Cho's grandfather called him a "Bastard that deserved to die for what he did" or something along those lines. That would be more shameful to me at least than anything else.
Though I'm sure we can go over to Fark and start a photo-shop contest with Cho's picture. Show him in front of hot-dog stands, have him yelling random phrases. Can you imagine the embarrasing stuff some of the people would come up with?
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How about a late term abortion for Michael DiGiovanni?
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One of the most critical moves would be a total boycott of any publicity for the killer. Once he had been identified, nothing more goes out. Only pictures of the victims and their grieving families. Keep the fifteen minutes of fame down to fifteen seconds. To an extent this has happened with John Lennon's killer and it should become common practice. NBC's shameless thrusting of Cho into the national spotlight was both shameless and reprehensible for its needless aggrandizement of this worthless turd.
A Great Falls lawmaker said Wednesday that conduct by members of the House of Representatives had fallen to a very low point in the history of the body after House Majority Leader Michael Lange referred to Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer as that S.O.B. on the second floor, and said that the governor could go to hell.
Langes remarks were made publicly during a Republican caucus meeting when he discussed a compromise offer from the governors office on a tax-relief plan. As a Beartooth NBC camera rolled, Lange termed the governors office a bribe and said that Schweitzer could stick it up his ---.
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The DC cancer has speard all the way to Montana?
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The DC democratic cancer has spread everywhere. Although, the rhetoric was this bad in the past. Back in 1858 it was this bad too. We all know what happened 3 years later...
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If this happened today, there would cane laws up the wazoo! Imagine a 5 day waiting period and a background check to boot.
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Caning of Sumner (NY Public Library)
On May 22, 1856, the "world's greatest deliberative body" became a combat zone. In one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.
The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. In his "Crime Against Kansas" speech, Sumner identified two Democratic senators as the principal culprits in this crimeStephen Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. He characterized Douglas to his face as a "noise-some, squat, and nameless animal . . . not a proper model for an American senator." Andrew Butler, who was not present, received more elaborate treatment. Mocking the South Carolina senator's stance as a man of chivalry, the Massachusetts senator charged him with taking "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sightI mean," added Sumner, "the harlot, Slavery."
Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs. Shortly after the Senate had adjourned for the day, Brooks entered the old chamber, where he found Sumner busily attaching his postal frank to copies of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.
Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner's head. As Brooks struck again and again, Sumner rose and lurched blindly about the chamber, futilely attempting to protect himself. After a very long minute, it ended.
Bleeding profusely, Sumner was carried away. Brooks walked calmly out of the chamber without being detained by the stunned onlookers. Overnight, both men became heroes in their respective regions.
Surviving a House censure resolution, Brooks resigned, was immediately reelected, and soon thereafter died at age 37. Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years.
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Sumner deserved every stroke of his caning and then some. He was lucky Brooks didn't blow his brains out. I'd like to see someone put a Brooks moment on Harry Reid. He deserves it more than Sumner did.
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According to Fox TV in Boston, a similar ordinance was passed in San Francisco. Not to be outdone, a new twist might be that there may a be a upwards to a 15 cent fee is you still choose to use plastic. Something the State Legislature is considering. So I guess if you use paper, it's better for the planet and environment. I am waiting for the global warming crowd to start protesting over this. Absolutely bizarre if you ask me. But then again it is Massachusetts, where nothing is a surprise anymore.
Sarcasm On.. I guess this means that the rampant violence in Boston has been finally been solved by the due diligence efforts of the City Council and Mayor. Sarcasm off..
BOSTON -- The Boston City Council is lining up support for a proposed ban on plastic bags at supermarkets, pharmacies and other retail stores. Councilor Robert Consalvo has sponsored the measure, which has already been endorsed by nine of 12 council members. He told The Boston Globe that littered bags dot trees, lots and sidewalks across the city and pose an environmental hazard.
"They end up everywhere," Consalvo said. "They blow in trees, they're floating in Boston Harbor. They're an environmental nightmare. We need to rid our city of these plastic bags." Consalvo's measure also proposes increased recycling for grocery bags. Mayor Thomas Menino would have to sign the measure before it becomes law.
Roughly 100 billion plastic bags are buried in landfills each year in the U.S., according to Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency. San Francisco recently outlawed the bags, while many other cities including Phoenix and Portland, Ore., are considering bans.
State Sen. Brian A. Joyce, D-Milton, told the newspaper he planned to file a bill in the Legislature that would charge a fee -- 2 cents in 2008 and rising to 15 cents in seven years -- to customers who use plastic bags at supermarkets with annual profits more than $1 million. Industry groups that lobby for supermarkets, pharmacies, and convenience stores oppose the bills. They say many customers recycle the bags by using them as trash bags or to pick up dog litter. "We're trying to use a hammer to kill a fly," said Christopher Flynn, president of the Massachusetts Food Association, a supermarket group. "You're targeting and making the plastic bags a scapegoat for litter and environmental issues, which is not the ultimate problem. The problem is individuals and their own behavior."
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I've been trying to cut down on the number of plastic bags when I shop. They do seem sort of pointless for only one or two items. When I remember, I have a nice canvas bag that I'll bring for my larger purchases.
But the plastic bag gestapo will soon find some other 'evil' perpetrated by and on the American consumer...
Wow, my state senator appears in Rantburg! Figures he'd find a way for the state to try to cash in on this scam. Must have a few relatives that ain't on the payroll yet.
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This is going on in Austin, TX also. City Council is doing "all things green."
Me, I learned a long time ago, paper is easier to carry, and better on the back. How do you carry paper bags? In your arms. How do you carry plastic bags? Arms down, with that heavy plastic bag (sometimes more) hanging from each hand.
Interesting, in Austin, when I ask for paper bags, I get a weird look! Guess that is about to change!
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Can I use plastic bags if I bring my own from under the kitchen sink? They accumulate so much faster than can be used to line garbage cans that I've taken to using them for insulation down there.
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Me? I ask for paper-in-plastic. It's the best of both worlds: handles from the plastic and stiffer sides from the paper. Plus it annoys the baggers and it's childishly satisfying to rebel against the Goracle and his minions.
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I use paper wherever possible. Items like meat or ice that might leak go into plastic first. I then use the paper bags to contain garbage or recyclables for disposal. What plastic bags I do take home are aggregated for inclusion in single stream recycling. They are always disposed of in a large bundle to make sorting easier.
A great way to conserve on plastics use is to use your plastic produce bags instead of ziplocs or sandwich bags. I use less than 50-100 ziplocs a year by reusing my produce bags. Once they are contaminated, I then save them for disposal of messy items like coffee grounds. A holder like the one show below helps immeasurably. Get two if you reuse your plastic "t-shirt" bags. My ability to reuse has gone up some 25%-50% by purchasing one of the holders.
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"A holder like the one show below helps immeasurably. Get two if you reuse your plastic "t-shirt" bags. My ability to reuse has gone up some 25%-50% by purchasing one of the holders."
Gee, #12 Zen, I make (and sell) fabric plastic bag holders (bag-bags, I call them ;-p) that are much prettier than that. Cheaper, too, I'll bet.
Of course, guys don't care about pretty....
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Barb, of course we do care about pretty, although pretty bags may be at the bottom of our lists. ;-)
It's weird - sometimes my website link shows up in comments with my name, sometimes not, even though it shows in the "website" slot before I hit submit. Oh, well - that's not what Rantburg's for anyway.
I do need to get off my dead a** and get the site updated and a shopping cart added - one of these days. Every time I start to do that, either we go crazy at work or - in the case of last fall - I end up with surgery. Work hours just picked up again. Hmmmmm.
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Pornographic material accounts for nearly 70 percent of messages exchanged through mobile telephones between teenagers in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Misuse of Bluetooth technology by young men and women is increasing, the English-language Arab News said, citing the findings of a recent study.
Wonder what their definition of 'pr0n' is?
"Sheep Gone Wild?"
Eighty-eight percent of girls have been victims of such misuse, it quoted study author and professor Abdullah bin Mohammad al-Rasheed as saying.
Thus justifying the continued existence of the 'Committee for the Protection of Virtue and the Elimination of Vice'.
The study focused on teenage boys detained by religious police for harassing girls in the Qasim region north of Riyadh. The flash memory of mobile phones taken from teenagers showed that 69.7 percent of 1,470 files saved in them were pornographic and 8.6 percent were related to violence, Rasheed said. Young men and women are banned from mixing in public in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, which enforces a strict Islamic moral code.
Bluetooth technology links devices such as mobile phones wirelessly. In a separate study of 1,200 women aged 18 to 25, Rasheed found that 82 percent of them use Bluetooth continuously, Arab News said. The paper said 99 percent believe the device has broken the barrier of social taboo and traditions and about 77 percent admitted they had used it even inside the grand mosque in Mecca, Islams holiest shrine.
I see a marvelous opportunity for a Bill Casey-like operative at the CIA.
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Thanks, Alaska Paul. So .com didn't make up YJCMTSU? I thought that was a Rantburg special, like gun sex and pr0n (the word, not the actuality -- I do know that was pre-existing). No worries, anymouse, I'll take answers from anyone, so long as they're correct.
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Actually, FRED has a longer history. Amongst Railroads, a RED is the "Rear End Device" (the blinking red light on the last car of a freight) which essentially replaced cabooses. Unionized, and soon unemployed, train crews called them FREDs.
There was a mixed reception for controversial Respect MP George Galloway at Edge Hill University. The five times elected Member of Parliament answered some challenging questions when he delivered his lecture on media manipulation to a packed theatre of students, academics and members of the public at the University's Ormskirk Campus.
Speaking to journalism students before the lecture, Mr Galloway attacked Tony Blair's part in the Iraq war as a "bloody legacy" and referred to a "craven BBC" which he described as: "the Bush and Blair corporation."
Supporters and detractors of the politician, who has been described as the 9th most rebellious, enjoyed a sometimes heated debate on the Iraq war, the state of the British media and politics, and the aftermath of Mr Galloway's Big Brother appearance.
Addressing an audience of future journalists Mr Galloway took a pessimistic view of their chosen careers with a scathing attack on the British media. "The British media had as much a part on the invasion of Iraq as the armed forces. They amplified the falsehoods of the government without proper scrutiny. The British media has failed the people, failed in its duty as an estate of the realm.
On a more positive note Mr Galloway claimed that the growth of media outlets in the UK means that students will have more choice of employers and may find alternatives to the "billionaire owned media."
Mr Galloway went on to criticise the nuclear arms race: "Every nuclear bomb is a time bomb that threatens to wipe out the planet."
And on student tuition fees: "Paying for a university education is taking us back to the 1930s. I don't believe that universities are a cost on the country. They are an investment. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
I don't believe that universities are a cost on the country. They are an investment.
Given the net outflow of educated Brits, it doesn't look like Britain is getting a very good return on that investment, although the immigrant countries are appreciative.
A burqa-clad woman in Sweden was refused passage on a city bus in the town of Malmoe, allegedly because the driver said he could not identify the woman, media reported on Wednesday. I have never had to identify myself on a public bus before. Wearing a burqa is my personal choice and it doesnt make me more threatening than anyone else, the woman, whose name was not disclosed, told Swedish free daily Metro.
The woman boarded the bus despite the drivers attempt to refuse her access, but said she still had to endure mockery from him. She has reported the incident to police. The bus drivers version of events is not the same as the womans, a spokesman for the bus company Arriva, Daniel Stjernfeldt, told AFP, adding that the driver had been suspended pending an investigation. If what the woman says happened proves to be true this is unacceptable behaviour. Everyone should be able to take the bus, he said. There are no rules saying passengers have to identify themselves on public buses.
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Wearing a burqa is my personal choice and it doesnt make me more threatening than anyone else,
Horseshit! Anyone could conceal a bomb vest beneath such a garment. You claim it is not "threatening" when such apparel has already assisted assorted nefarious tasks of other terrorists around the world. FOAD you sorry excuse for a human being.
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So Muslim taxi drivers don't have to pick up blind people with dogs or anyone carrying alcohol (or pork, probably), but we have to let walking tents onto buses?
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The 'walking tent' argument doesn't fly, but seriously, anytime documents are presented that require identification for acceptance the presentors have to actually, you know, 'identify' themselves. Five foot black potato sacks all look alike to me. An embedded thumbprint on the document and a thumbprint scanner for confirmation would actually be more accurate for all of us.
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IMO. The driver will be replaced by "somebody who understands Muslim cultural sensitivities" i.e. a Muzzi. And, presently, the few Swedes remaining on that bus' route (it isMelmo) will learn that the bus is not for them anymore.
The ranking Republican in the House Armed Services Committee called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign Wednesday over his declaration that the Iraq war is "lost."
Rep. Duncan Hunter a 2008 presidential candidate wrote in a letter that Reid's comments "can have no effect but to demoralize the brave men and women, who are honorably fulfilling their mission in Iraq, and to encourage our adversaries."
"Even if you sincerely believe it to be true, your pronouncement of failure will undoubtedly be used by terrorist leaders to rally their followers inevitably leading to increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces," Hunter wrote. ...
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That's precious! An old democrat trick turned around and aimed right back at them. Now pester him doggedly with that single subject for the next month until you have just worn it out totally.
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Don't forget the endless subpoenas for witnesses concerning Reid's "questionable practices" and "possible unethical activities" and don't forget "conflicts of interest."
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Duncan Hunter is a true hero and a patriot. He is the only member of Congress (I'm pretty sure) who has a son in combat in Iraq. He puts his money where his mouth is. Salt of the earth kinda guy.
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"Even if you sincerely believe it to be true, your pronouncement of failure will undoubtedly be used by terrorist leaders to rally their followers inevitably leading to increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces,"
How the democrats blind themselves to such a patently obvious fact is stupifying. Now they have no such excuse, although I doubt it will deter further re-enactments of this same treason.
A terror case has been revived in Germany, with the top prosecutor re-launching an investigation into a decades-old murder.
Monika Harms, Germany's top federal prosecutor, said Wednesday in Karlsruhe her office will investigate former Red Army Faction terrorist Stefan Wisniewski in connection with the 1977 murder of one of her predecessors in office, Siegfried Buback.
The investigation was launched only a few days after a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel said Wisniewski was a key person in the killing that shocked Germany in April 1977.
At the time, two individuals on a motorcycle approached Buback's limousine, with one man pumping at least 15 bullets into the car, killing Buback, his driver and a police officer. Even though four RAF members -- Christian Klar, Knut Folkerts, Guenter Sonnenberg and Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- were formally charged and prosecuted in connection with the Buback murder, the identity of the two individuals on the motorbike and who actually fired the shots were never resolved.
In an interview with Der Spiegel, another former RAF terrorist, Peter-Juergen Boock, said the man who fired the shots must have been Wisniewski -- who was convicted in connection with other murder cases -- as he had undergone military training with the semi-automatic weapon used at the crime scene.
Harms' office will question Boock within the next days, she said.
The RAF was an anti-capitalist terrorist group that killed 34 people in a bloody campaign aimed at destabilizing the German state. Sponsored, supported, armed and trained by eastern European communist governments.
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
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Thousands of rich Japanese women were conned into believing lambs were valuable miniature poodles.
Pornographic material accounts for nearly 70 percent of messages exchanged through mobile telephones between teenagers in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Misuse of Bluetooth technology by young men and women is increasing, the English-language Arab News said, citing the findings of a recent study. 
A burqa-clad woman in Sweden was refused passage on a city bus in the town of Malmoe, allegedly because the driver said he could not identify the woman, media reported on Wednesday. I have never had to identify myself on a public bus before. Wearing a burqa is my personal choice and it doesnt make me more threatening than anyone else, the woman, whose name was not disclosed, told Swedish free daily Metro. 
