Would you buy a used house from this lady?
A real estate agent in Colorado Springs sent four children - two of them family friends - to exact her revenge on a client who passed on a lucrative contract nearly three years ago, police said. Sandra Haddad, co-owner of Colorado New Home Concepts, is accused of supplying four 13-year-old boys with the vegetable oil and spray paint they used to cause $17,000 in damage to a home in Pine Creek, an upscale subdivision in northwest Colorado Springs.
The March 23 incident targeted Greg and Lenae Thomas, who declined to sign a buyer's agency contract with Haddad in 2005. They had settled on a home worth $640,000 but reconsidered and went with a different real estate agent because of concerns about Haddad's terms. "She was angry she lost the ($27,000)commission," said Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Dale Fox.
Haddad, 49, was arrested Friday on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, both felonies. She was released from the county jail after posting a $3,000 bond. Haddad has been practicing real estate for more than 20 years. If convicted, she could face the loss of her license, said Marcia Waters, director of investigations and compliance for the Colorado Division of Real Estate. More at link.
A Long Island music shop owner accused of selling knockoff Gibson Les Paul guitars has been arraigned in a pickup truck in a courthouse parking lot after his lawyer said the 500-pound defendant couldn't walk into the courthouse.
State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle said the man's "severe weight problem" prompted the unusual proceeding Thursday in Riverhead. A defense lawyer also had given the court a doctor's letter saying the defendant suffers from osteoarthritis.
The shopkeeper has been released without bail after pleading not guilty to trademark counterfeiting and criminal simulation. He says the case and health problems have forced him to close his store.
He's accused of selling bogus Gibsons for $1,500 to buyers who thought they were far more valuable genuine versions of the classic electric guitar.
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Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown.
As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms.
But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway.
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Brenda White is convinced her husband was working on a flawed cannonball, and no amount of caution could have prevented his death.
"He had already disarmed the shell," she said. "From what I was told, there was absolutely nothing he had done wrong, that there was a manufacturing defect that no one would have known was there."
"I've contacted a lawyer"
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...I was stationed in VA for 4 wonderful years and the EOD guys I worked with had an absolute horror of ANYTHING dug up from the Civil War era. Their standard warning was do not TOUCH, do not TRANSPORT, and especially do not WORK ON anything you dig up. If it was fired, it can still go off. I have nothing but sympathy for this man's family, but he was living on borrowed time. If his family has any sense at all they will call the local EOD team and arrange to have whatever remains in their home removed and properly disposed of.
BTW, it ain't just ACW ammo lying around out there in VA. I once watched as a dredge up in Hampton Roads are a WWII torpedo, and on Fort Monroe is a buried magazine with dozens of 12" AP coast artillery shells - exact location unknown.
Mike
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Unlike what you see in movies where the hero painfully disarms the ammo and comes ten times to a harbreath of killing himself, unless there is something valuable near the standard procedure is not to daisarm teh ammo/mine whatever. In the army we were told to just blow it away and not bother.
BTW, meddling with one hundred fourt years ammo deserves a Darwin award.
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I am a Civil War Reenactor and do symphathise with Sam White. There is just something about holding a piece of history in one's hand that cannot be explained. However, handling any explosive shell is extremely dangerous. I wouldn't do it.
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Old explosives can be unstable.
That couldnt have been a cannonball, but was a shell.
Original Post: This morning on "Fox & Friends," Geraldo Rivera made an offensive and racially-charged joke about Barbara Walters' affair with married Senator Edward Brooke, who is black. Barbara told Oprah yesterday (in a show to air next week) that she had an affair in the 1970s with the Republican Senator from Massachusetts.
"Once you go black, you don't go back," Geraldo joked. Video here. Update: In addition to making the racially-charged joke . . ., Geraldo admitted that he was "in love" with Barbara Walters in the 1970s and she rejected his advances. "I'll tell you one affair she didn't have," he told the co-hosts. "I put all my best moves on Barbara. ...I had been in love. I had a huge crush on Barbara." Eeeewww! That's sick.
But Geraldo says she "gave [him] the brush off," pinching his cheek and saying, "Oh, you're so cute." Video here.
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I'm glad I have a strong stomach.
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"Sowwy Hewawado, I'm in wuv wiv Fidel"
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Thank God that they rut but don't reproduce...
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Did Ms. Walters actually say she was in love with the senator, Darrell? I never followed her closely, but I always had the impression she was too career-centered to have room for any one else in her life. Her daughter must have suffered from that.
I put all my best moves on Barbara....
And they weren't nearly good enough. Did that happen often to poor Mr. Revera, I wonder?
A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.
While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn't allowed access to snacks. What's the punishment for the sharee?
Has to eat another oatmeal creme pie. Ick.
Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months. Caudill's attorney Claire Ball said that's outrageous. Ball says keeping Caudill out of a state prison would leave cell space for a more serious offender.
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No good turn goes unpunished. Blame it on your mom, Tim, she's the one who taught you to always share.
A frustrated young seal has been caught on camera unleashing its sexual urges on an unconsenting penguin. The Antarctic fur seal was observed by South African scientists attempting to have sex with the king penguin on Marion Island, in the sub-Antarctic region.
He was just trying to get warm and things got out of hand ...
The incident was recorded in the Journal of Ethology. The effort lasted forty-five fruitless minutes, according to the BBC.
We men can get frustrated a lot quicker than that.
Nico de Bruyn, of the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, said that the seal's motives, beyond the obvious, were unclear.
Nico had to consider something beyond the obvious?
However, he speculates that it was frustrated behaviour on the part of an inexperienced seal unable to find a more suitable partner, or perhaps just a playful act that got carried away in the heat of the Antarctic moment.
He's just a teenager, doesn't have his license yet ...
"At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin," he said, "but then we realised that the seal's intentions were rather more amorous."
"C'mon baby, I got herring, I know-w-w you like herring, how's 'bout coming back to my place to see my flippers?"
Dr de Bruyn and a colleague witnessed the seal, a young adult male in good physical condition and weighing around 100kg (220lb), subdue the 15kg (33lb) penguin by lying on it.
Like a Doberman seducing a Pomeranian ...
The penguin, of unknown sex, attempted to escape by flapping and trying to stand, ...
... stop! un-hand me you brute! ...
... but was unable to as the marine predator thrusted its pelvis in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to achieve congress. After giving up the seal wandered off, ignoring its victim altogether.
"You'll be soooorrry, baaaa-beeee, when I'm gone!"
Sexual harassment between members of the same species is common, and even between different species of mammal as dog owners will know but this is believed to be the first recorded example of such an assault between two classes, birds and mammals.
There oughta be a law, and just give N.O.W. a chance and there will be ...
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"The love that dare not squawk its name"
*snort*
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that the seal's motives, beyond the obvious, were unclear.
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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A Long Island music shop owner accused of selling knockoff Gibson Les Paul guitars has been arraigned in a pickup truck in a courthouse parking lot after his lawyer said the 500-pound defendant couldn't walk into the courthouse.
A frustrated young seal has been caught on camera unleashing its sexual urges on an unconsenting penguin. The Antarctic fur seal was observed by South African scientists attempting to have sex with the king penguin on Marion Island, in the sub-Antarctic region. 
