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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bust Out Orgy - could never happen here!
Twenty-eight hardened criminals busted out of a Brazilian jail after three scantily-clad women seduced the guards with promises of an orgy -- and then drugged them with cheap whiskey.

The three prison wardens were found inside the Nova Mutum public jail near Cuiaba in central Brazil, handcuffed to beds, "Fox & Friends" reported Sunday.

The inmates took the keys and unlocked all the cells and walked right out the front door.

The jailbreak took place early Thursday. Missing along with the inmates were guns and ammunition.

So far, eight of the 28 escapees has been recaptured, Fox & Friends said.

The London Daily Mirror reported the three seductresses left behind a bag of lingerie and dominatrix police uniforms.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scantily clad women, guns, drugged whiskey, hand cuffs. What could go wrong.
A goodtime, downtown Saturday night!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to mention Dominatrix Police uniforms!

Bonus Question:
How could the guards tell the difference?

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 02/10/2015 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Well at least they were orgynized not youthanized...ba-dum.
Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 13:41 Comments || Top||

#4  fifty shades of the greybar hotel
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/10/2015 18:46 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Carving a bushcraft spoon.
Giving TW and the ladies some time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 16:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a dork. She's good at lighting a fire, though. Question: why are there so many videos on making a spoon? Is it some rite of passage?

She scared me with that saw - very unsafe usage.
Posted by: KBK || 02/10/2015 22:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Her other vids are better. Nice rifle.
Posted by: KBK || 02/10/2015 23:20 Comments || Top||


Changwon ROK housewife attacked by robot.
Floor sleeper attacked by floor sweeper ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Household accident or the start of the Robot Apocalypse? Time will tell.

Either way, This Week in Killer Robots is off to a slow start.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/10/2015 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  TWiKR. Remember that.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/10/2015 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Ima wait for Joe M to sound off. Skynet OWG along wif Madonna and Roomba = No-Go Floor Areas
Posted by: Frank G || 02/10/2015 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I figure that common sense would mean not sleeping on the floor with a floor cleaning robot.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/10/2015 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  She is lucky it wasn't her robot lawnmower...Bzzzz
Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 13:15 Comments || Top||


Brian Williams Iraq Chinook hostile fire story evolving.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee.
I wonder if Hilarity was really shot at by snipers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I once, on assignment in Reno,
Faced death in a gambling ca51no:
As I played incognito,
A one-armed bandito
Stole all of my winnings from keno.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/10/2015 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Bravo, Zenobia F! They're all a delight, but that ca51no added an extra fillip to the thing. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/10/2015 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Magic hat anybody?

They're all actors without a core. Not to be confused with the one actor we had who had a core.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  My dear Floger6220,

do you make money with this unending stream of priceless wit?? I sure hope so.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/10/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Brian Rodham Williams: "Fly serpentine!"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/10/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Compared to Peter Jennings, who we actually saw video of, reporting in the middle of tank battles in the Sinai.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2015 13:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Williams, Rather, Jennings et al. Deese guys all think Broadcast News was a How-To Manual, not a Don't-Let-This-Happen-To-You.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 02/10/2015 14:51 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
DHS sets up Champ snitch amnesty complaint hotlines for illegals
[Wash Times] The Homeland Security Department has set up hotlines for illegal immigrants who believe their rights under President Obama’s amnesty policy have been violated.

In a memo announcing the customer complaint line, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked illegal immigrants to “please tell us about your experience” if they believe they were treated “contrary to the new DHS enforcement priorities.”
Our lawyers are awaiting your calls.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We need to flood the call center with bogus claims.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/10/2015 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama's illegals vs Americans.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 02/10/2015 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm gonna flood them with real claims just so I can hear them say:
"I can't help you.
You're a real American."
I like the way it sounds.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Their 'rights'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2015 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  So, let me get this straight. The whole 'reason', purportedly, that Obama isn't going to deport them is that he doesn't have enough funds to go after them, so he has to 'prioritize'. So he has the funds to set up a hot line and divert people to investigating complaints of unequal non-enforcement?

I still say the right answer is for Congress to take his complaint about 'not enough money to deport them all' seriously, and increase the funding for that line item in the budget by 10x. Then say, 'You needed more money to enforce the law? Get busy and enforce the law.'

Posted by: DLR || 02/10/2015 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  A green line for your green card, and its on the presidents desk, so ring him up, day or night!

He's waiting for your call.

Una lĂ­nea verde para la tarjeta verde y en la mesa de presidentes, asĂ­ llamarlo, dĂ­a o noche.


Está esperando su llamada.

Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 12:19 Comments || Top||


The CIA Lawyer Who Led a Secret Effort to Spy on the Senate
[The Atlantic] When the CIA got caught spying on Senate staffers working on the 6,000 page torture report, John Brennan, who heads the agency, denied the transgression. "As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into computers, nothing could be further from the truth," he said on March 11, 2014. "That's beyond the scope of reason." Four months later, the CIA Inspector General found that the CIA did, in fact, improperly spy on the Senate intelligence committee. After that, Brennan apologized.

Now the public can read an extraordinary, recently released memo written by the unnamed CIA lawyer who led the effort to improperly monitor Senate overseers, outraging Senator Dianne Feinstein and prompting calls for a new CIA director. The document gives insight into the CIA's tortured logic for its actions. And it raises new questions about Brennan's truthfulness in March of last year.
Link to released memo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Dog bites 14 people in Maidan Wardak
Normally "dog bites man" isn't news by definition.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A suspected mad dog has bitten 14 people in Maidan Wardak Province.
"Mad dog" is different.
Doctor Khayal Mohammad, head of the Public Health Department of Maidan Wardak Province says that the people bitten by the suspected mad dog include six children.

He said one girl is also among the children bitten by the suspected mad dog.

He told a meeting of local government officials in the Governor House of Maidan Wardak Province on Monday that the people bitten were delivered to the Provincial Hospital on time and that necessary vaccination was given to them by the doctors.

He said that these people were bitten in separate incidents during the period of one week in Sad Murda area of Charkh District.

Abdul Majid Khogyani, acting governor of Maidan Wardak Province who was chairing the meeting thanked Doctor Khayal Mohammad and his staff for prompt response to the situation and saving lives of those bitten by the suspected mad dog.

He gave instructions to the municipality and other related departments to conduct a campaign of removing mad dogs from the area where the incident was reported.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  removing mad dogs from the area
They need instructions for this?
What about the other rabies carriers, rats, ISIS?

Must be following the Strategic Patience plan.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Def: Strategic Patience - standing around while hoping the dog bites someone else.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/10/2015 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Old Ruff? Well we we had to shoot him.
Oh noes! Was he mad?
Honestly, he was none too pleased.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/10/2015 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh my. The things you think of, Shipman. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/10/2015 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Ship, that one's as old as I am at least.

Still funny though, especially with the correct tone of voice. 8^)
Posted by: AlanC || 02/10/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Hardly original TW, it has dino pee on it.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/10/2015 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  I have no memory for such things, Shipman, so it's brand new to me. All of Mr. Wife's jokes are new to me each time, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/10/2015 12:37 Comments || Top||

#8  "and that necessary vaccination was given to them by the doctors."

But what about the chance of down-syndrome, or "profound mental disorders"?
Posted by: JonC || 02/10/2015 16:13 Comments || Top||

#9  I knew Rosie was becoming unhinged
Posted by: Frank G || 02/10/2015 18:36 Comments || Top||


Pregnant woman gang-raped by 5 men in Jawzjan province
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A pregnant woman has been gang-raped by a group of five men in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan, local officials said Monday.

Provincial police chief Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said the incident took place around two days ago in Shebarghan city of Jawzjan.

Jawzjani further added that two individuals have been nabbed
Please don't kill me!
in connection to the gang-rape of the women and are currently in police custody for further investigation.

In the meantime, the relatives of the victim have said that the men had initially tortured her and a number of her teeth have been broken after she was beaten.

The victim called on the relevant security and judiciary institutions to take an immediate action in trying the perpetrators and warned that she would commit suicide if the authorities remained reckless.

This comes incidents involving rape of women and kiddies have been rampant across the country during the recent months specifically in Northern provinces.

At least four rape cases were reported in northern Jawzjan province last month which also included an incident where a teenager girl was raped by her brother.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This comes incidents involving rape of women and kiddies have been rampant across the country
Coming soon, to a neighborhood near YOU!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  No one will ever convince me that Islam is a religion at all. It is a sexual disorder.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/10/2015 14:42 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Rebels say they have cut key supply route


For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Pro Russian forces say they have taken a small village which sits across the key supply route, effectively cutting off between 4,000 and 6,000 Ukrainian troops at Debaltsevo in Donetsk.

A week ago, Donetsk military spokesman Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin claimed at a press briefing that Ukrainian troops at and near Debaltsevo were effectively cut off from supply and reinforcements even though rebel forces had not physically occupied any territory which would prove that claim. Instead, rebel artillery observers could cover the route by artillery fire on call. At the time, rebel media said that they had taken Uglegorsk and Nikishino, both towns of which are still in rebel hands, and both which were close to the supply route.

The day after that claim a thaw hit the region, melting snow and ice, which made maneuvering difficult for both sides. Rebel media released videos showing rebel troops attempting to take Chernukhino, which is almost adjacent to Debaltsevo, where sits the largest concentration of Ukrainian troops in the salient.

Rebel troops currently occupy parts of Chernukhino, but have failed to completely take the town.

Both sides took advantage of the thaw to permit civilian evacuation from Debaltsevo, using a number of buses provided by he Ukrainians. Two evacuation plans were offered to civilians, either to Artemovsk in Ukrainian territory, or to Gorlovka to the northwest, in rebel held territory.

Buses leaving for Artemovsk were nearly all completely full, while buses leaving for Gorlovka were three at the most.

Ukrainian media made much of that fact, leaving out that Gorlovka has been under nearly constant Ukrainian shelling since the first of the year. Lt. Colonel Basurin pointed out that buses arriving from Artemovsk were being used by the Ukrainians surreptitiously to ship in ammunition supplies, and were used to evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers out of Debaltsevo.

Artemovsk is the main marshaling/supply node for Ukrainian troops in the Debaltsevo salient, and is not currently under the threat of attack from rebel forces.

Russian military analyst Boris Rozhin humorously posted a photo on his Live Journal account showing a small, yellow-painted children's school bus filled with uniformed soldiers, presumably Ukrainians being evacuated from Debaltsevo with the title: "Careful, kids".

Whether the photo was photoshopped -- and it could have been -- the taunt was clear: Ukrainians were aboard the "short bus".

The attack to take the village, Logvinova, was undertaken by a rebel special forces rifle company reinforced with armor. Rustoday.info identified the rifle company as Special Forces Company "Olkhon", from a television program hosted by journalist Alexander Buzaladze on "Russia-1". Accompanying the rifle company was an armored group consisting of about five T-72 tanks and an undisclosed number of infantry fighting vehicles, including BMP-2s.

According to the unidentified commander speaking in a video shot Monday, his group was ordered to attack and take Logvinova at night, covered by rebel artillery fire, and from the Debaltsevo direction. Logvinova is about five kilometers due north of Debaltsevo. Another attack on a different village on the east side of the Debaltsevo salient, Novogrigorevka was attacked in a three hour battle by rebel forces as a feint, presumably to draw Ukrainian forces away from Logvinova.

While the condition at the time of the attack was said to be "a moonless night", according to rebel media, the moon is actually waning gibbous, so rebel forces relied on overcast conditions for blackout conditions.

Four hours after the start of the battle, rebel forces were in Logvinova.

According to the commander the attack was a total surprise to the Ukrainians, who at the time of the video had failed to respond to the coup de main by the rebel soldiers.

The armor group lost two tanks in the attack. Losses in personnel were not elaborated either in the video, or in published reports.

The video showed a light rifle squad which had taken up positions on the road on which was a destroyed Ukrainian tank. The video showed the rebels ambushing a UAZ (Russian made Humvee), which was attacked as the driver attempted to move down the road. The UAZ was occupied by two Ukrainian soldiers, both of whom were seriously injured in the ambush.

In the questioning which followed, rebel soldiers continually interrogated the newly acquired prisoners and spoke amongst themselves as to whether to "finish off" the solders. Eventually, the video showed the prisoners being marched away from the ambush site.

However, the Rustoday.info website said both soldiers were "destroyed" meaning they were killed, so now it appears both officers may have been executed by rebel soldiers.

The UAZ was packed with food and medicine bound of Debaltsevo. The rank and identity of the prisoners was not disclosed in the video.

The commander, speaking in the video said his group had captured a pair of high ranking Ukrainian officers, both colonels. It was unclear in his remarks if the prisoners were the same soldiers as the commander had spoken about.

According to Rustroday, one of the colonels had an extract of an order appointing him deputy commander of the Ukrainian defense ministry Anti Terrorist Operation, colloquially known as ATO.

The supply route the Ukrainians are using is M04, called by Russian journalists M103, which runs to the northwest. Logvinova appears by Google Earth rendering as a small farming community.

According to a separate report which appeared on Rustoday.info, written by Russian correspondents Aleksandr Kots and Dmitri Steshin, Logvinova has about 30 homes.

Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
Posted by: badanov || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Old people auctioned off to care homes on the internet: Anger over 'cattle markets for grannies'
Coming soon to a healthcare system near you?

Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15042 || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coming to the U.S. soon, courtesy of Obamacare.

For when granny somehow survives the Obamacare death panels...

Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/10/2015 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Coming to the U.S. soon, courtesy of Obamacare.

For when granny somehow survives the Obamacare death panels...

Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/10/2015 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry for the double post... Darn Ipad.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/10/2015 0:51 Comments || Top||

#4  It needed to be said twice, Fool!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Pardon the inconvenience, but as you can see, grannie auction funding is urgently needed for our costly loo upgrades.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 1:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh what a clever guy that Bob Barker is The Price is Right

Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 12:07 Comments || Top||

#7  One council has boasted of reducing care costs by almost a fifth using the system.


Here, they reduce waiting lists at the VA on the same basis of cost savings. The bottom line metric for bureaucrats for their bonuses and promotions. Quality of care is always somewhat murky and thus less measurable for those HR rewards.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/10/2015 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Come on down to Bob's Baby Boomers. Our prices can't be beat - there's still some life and SSAN checks in these older models and you get them a bargain rates.

So come down!!!
Posted by: Titus Snore6365 || 02/10/2015 13:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Next, we will hear that Soylent Green is people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/10/2015 17:57 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
PM wants monitoring of key ministries
[DAWN] Following crisis after crisis that has left the PML-N government red-faced several times over the past few months, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wants the government’s key ministries “scientifically monitored”.

Although an official statement released on Sunday made no mention of which ministries would be examined with a fine-tooth comb, the ministries of Water and Power, Petroleum, Finance and the Planning Commis­sion have been in the news of late due to the recent fuel crisis and frequent power breakdowns, and are likely to come under renewed scrutiny.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wants the government’s key ministries “scientifically monitored
Send in Arthur Anderson.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:24 Comments || Top||


Two suspected gangsters killed in 'encounter'
[DAWN] Two suspected gangsters linked with Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
gangs were bumped off in an encounter in Mochko early on Sunday morning, according to police.

A police party raided a place in Kutchhi Mohalla in Mowachh Goth at 5am after receiving a tip-off about the gangsters' presence. The moment they saw coppers, they resorted to firing but both of them were bumped off when police fired back, claimed Mochko SHO Chaudhry Saleem.

The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
for a post-mortem examination.

"The dead gangsters were hit men associated with the Comrade Shiraz gang," claimed the officer.

They were involved in the murder of five men including a boxer, two coppers of the Crime Investigation Department, gang rape and murder of a couple and they had recently killed a hairdresser in Mochko over suspicion he was a police informer, said the SHO.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Saudi Royal on Houbara Bustard hunting spree in Balochistan
[DAWN] A Saudi prince is on a hunting spree for rare birds in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
despite a court-imposed ban and the government's insistence that the foreign delegation is only on a diplomatic mission, bigwigs said Monday.

The annual hunt has sparked controversy in recent years because of the Houbara Bustard's dwindling numbers, with the issue also shining a spotlight on traditionally close ties between Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Pakistain.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature includes the bird on its 'red list' of threatened species, estimating there are fewer than 97,000 left globally.

A provincial High Court in Balochistan in November last year cancelled all permits for hunting in the province before the arrival of the Saudi prince and his lover companions, but since reaching Pakistain last week the party has been allowed to hunt unimpeded, three officials have confirmed to AFP.

The provincial government has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the ban to seek a formal permission for the Royal guests to hunt, but the hearing has not been fixed.

A senior provincial government official said that the Saudi governor and his lover companions "had arrived Dalbandin (district) for hunting Houbara Bustard and it is confirmed that these dignitaries started hunting on Thursday".
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Seize the H&H's and issue them grenades for the hunt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Where's Dick Cheney when you need him?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Where'sDick Cheney when you need him? -Skidmark

It's my understanding that Dick recently went to an Irish Wake, was mistaken for the guest of honor, and well, no one has heard from him recently...

Posted by: Bugs Cleper6580 || 02/10/2015 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Shooting Red List endangered birds, that's how you know "you've made it".
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 02/10/2015 16:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Too lazy for stalking and cocking,
Mohammedan hunters like hawking:
Belt a bird with prepaid
Mobile phone and grenade;
Release it where bustards are flocking.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/10/2015 19:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Jersey Teens In Trouble for Shoveling Snow
Pretty sure a local resident ratted the kids out to the coppers who, once formally notified, were required to respond as they did. Or they're dicks.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15042 || 02/10/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These nanny state fucks. Their mothers must be so proud.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/10/2015 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Good scam.
Look in the windows, find ones with nobody home.
Shovel up the walk, see what they got.
Work around to the back of the house, get on in!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Entrepreneurship delenda est!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2015 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like they have taken over a mob racket. Gotta pay to work this area.
Posted by: chris || 02/10/2015 5:07 Comments || Top||

#5  The violation was not for shoveling snow, it was for soliciting to shovel snow; the community has an anti-solicitation ordinance.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/10/2015 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  @#5: A "Zero Tolerance" anti-solicitation ordinance.
Posted by: Unaise Panda5127 || 02/10/2015 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  What total bullshit. The problem with America is not enough kids go door to door to try to make money doing chores. As a lad in Chicago, we shoveled snow in the winter, mowed lawns and washed cars in the summer throughout junior high.
Posted by: Penguin || 02/10/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Well Hey, Penguin.
Indiana Harbor, you?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/10/2015 11:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Entitlement scheme in the making! They were about to claim snow shoveling back injuries, Social Security disability, unemployment, free college tuition, food stamps, housing subsidies, free condoms, earned income tax credit....

NIP IT! NIT IT! NIP IT!
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2015 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  They better not be in trouble.
Who is the DA there?
Posted by: newc || 02/10/2015 13:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Newc -> SomersetCounty Prosecutors Office

New Jersey District Attorneys
Posted by: Thraper Snosing3361 || 02/10/2015 13:38 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
Sun 2015-02-08
  '109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead' after First Attack on Niger Friday
Sat 2015-02-07
  Yemen rebels dissolve parliament, assume power
Fri 2015-02-06
  Al-Qaeda holy man killed in Yemen drone strike, AQAP says
Thu 2015-02-05
  Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS
Wed 2015-02-04
  Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death
Tue 2015-02-03
  ISIS burns Jordanian Pilot Alive
Mon 2015-02-02
  Nigeria's Military Repels Boko Haram's Attack on Maiduguri
Sun 2015-02-01
  Drone Attack Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Sat 2015-01-31
  Al-Nusra Launches Assault on Western-Backed Syria Rebels
Fri 2015-01-30
  Today's Pakaboom: 49 dead in bomb blast at Shiite mosque
Thu 2015-01-29
  US drone strike kills seven in North Waziristan
Wed 2015-01-28
  Nigeria Loses City Of 100,000 To Boko Haram
Tue 2015-01-27
  Official: Eight dead, including five foreigners, in Tripoli hotel attack


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