I'd sure like to know why they thought this was a good idea.
Two teenage boys have been charged with setting off two homemade bombs inside a Wal-Mart filled with holiday shoppers, authorities said. Hundreds of customers were evacuated from the store when the acid bombs detonated Saturday afternoon. At least eight people were treated for irritation to their eyes and throat or ringing in their ears, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.
The boys, both 15, were taken into custody after photos from the store's security cameras where shown on television newscasts. Investigators said they had identified the boys after showing the photos to teenagers at a McDonald's. The parents of one of the boys also recognized them in the photos and met with investigators, said McCausland.
Both teens were charged with criminal use of explosives and released early Sunday morning to their parents.
Authorities said the teens had made three other explosive devices and placed one on the roof of a downtown business and two on the lawn of a residence. Those three bombs, none of which had detonated, were being retrieved by investigators, McCausland said.
A store manager said the Wal-Mart opened for business Sunday, and referred all questions to police.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her. "hmmmmmm does it always smell like that in here?"
A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Mariesa Weber's death was not suspicious. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television behind the bookshelf. did the TV work? Nobody notice? Who are these people?
Weber, 38, returned home Oct. 28 and greeted her mother, then wasn't seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, though they did notice a strange smell. hokay..... stranger than usual?
On Nov. 9, Weber's sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw the woman's foot. Using a flashlight the family saw Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit. "hey! Is that you Mariesa?"
"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her," her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. "And she's right in the bedroom." "I feel so much better"
Both Weber and her sister had previously adjusted the television plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space. "She's a little thing," her mother said. "And the bookcase is 6 feet tall and solid. And she couldn't get out." "she's smaller now. If she were still alive, she could probably get out. I kept hearing her say: 'hey assholes, I'm stuck here' but we thought it was a message from beyond....so we never looked, even when we heard her kicks"
The sheriff's office said Weber appeared to have died because she was unable to breathe in the position she was in. bet that went quick...
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"She's a little thing,"
Evidently, so were her disappearance and death.
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I have a friend in Kentucky who buys wood from a local known as Dirty Dick. The story goes that one day Dick's cat went missing. The children later discovered the dessicated corpse wedged between their mattress and the wall. "Oh, there's Fluffy."
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Damn, and I thought I was a bad housekeeper.
I have dust-harveys* like you wouldn't believe, cat-boxes overflowing, and a small dog with an indifferent grasp of the concept of house-breaking... but I think--- I hope!! I would notice a dead body, way before two weeks were up!
Police are warning people to be on their guard after receiving several reports and photographs of a big cat in hills above a mid Wales village. Dyfed-Powys Police said seven different people had reported seeing a large cat-like animal in recent weeks in the Talybont area, near Aberystwyth.
Pc Pat Jalloal of Dyfed-Powys Police in Aberystwyth said the pictures of the big cat were inconclusive. But he said there had been a "huge jump" in reported sightings.
In Wales, big cat sightings are investigated by the Welsh Assembly Government, in the form of the wildlife management unit based at Aberystwyth. "From the police's point of view, we have had a huge jump in reported cases in the past few weeks and we want people in the area to be aware of this," said Pc Jalloal. "Images received by the police look very similar to a big cat so we are asking people to stay vigilant."
PC Jalloal also warned people not to hunt and shoot the animal.
In March, a radio producer said his own research into sightings of big cats in the Welsh countryside appeared to be backed up by findings from the British Big Cat Society (BBCS). Wales is fourth on the list of big cat "hotspots" in the society's UK survey.
BBC programme maker Aled Jones collated more than 100 sightings in north and mid Wales over an 18-month period. The BBCS study said it found sightings increasing across the UK. Almost 60% of sightings were of black cats, and 32% sandy-coloured or brown, which the BBCS believes could be pumas.
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There was more background in a precedent version of ebaum; the lady owner ordered a "line cut", but with her southern accent, the guy understood "lion cut", and the poor kitty was rightly p*ssed off for a few weeks. I hope she had a refund or something.
A medical marijuana user plans to see in the New Year on an all-time high - by rolling the world's biggest joint. Los Angeles resident Brett Stone said he aims to usher in 2007 by building a 0.91 metre cigarette using around 112 grams of marijuana.
Mr Stone said he was inspired to try for a record after learning that the previous biggest joint was made with 100 grams. "I thought the world's largest joint would have been a lot larger," said Mr Stone, 48, who runs the medical marijuana website dabronxnews.com.
Medical marijuana use has been legal in California since 1996, when voters passed a law allowing the drug to be used as a pain reliever.
Mr Stone said he would be careful to ensure that his record attempt would remain legal, indicating that the joint would be smoked in a local medical marijuana collective. "We're probably going to do it as a fund raiser," he said. "And the mayor and police chief would be most welcome if they have a doctor's note to consume cannabis."
Mr Stone said he plans to roll an even bigger joint to mark the US football final at the Super Bowl next February, and has asked companies if they can provide custom made rolling papers to help the attempt. "I think a metre would be a good, smokeable size joint," Mr Stone said. "I'm not looking to make a torpedo, I'm looking to make a smokeable joint."
A FORMER medical officer in Japan's WWII navy has admitted to conducting vivisection in the Philippines on some 30 prisoners of war, including women and children.
It was the first time such testimony had been given on experiments on human beings by a Japanese officer in the Philippines during WWII, Kyodo News reported late today.
Similar experiments were conducted in northern China by the notorious germ warfare Unit 731, which is blamed for the deaths of up to 10,000 Chinese and Allied prisoners of war, the report added.
Akira Makino, 84, a former officer of the medical corps of the Imperial Japanese Navy's No.33 patrol unit, said the experiments on live prisoners began in December 1944, shortly after he was assigned to Zamboanga air base on the Philippines' Mindanao Island.
Makino was ordered to take two local men captured as US spies to a school which had been turned into a hospital, where they were undressed and tied to an operating table, Kyodo said.
Makino was told by his superior to insert a surgical knife into their bodies after the prisoners' faces were covered with an ether-soaked cloth so that they became unconscious.
"I thought 'What a horrible thing I'm doing to innocent people even though I'm ordered to do it'," Makino told the news agency, after keeping the information secret for six decades.
The experiments, which included amputating arms and legs, suturing blood vessels and abdominal dissections, continued until February 1945, and resulted in the deaths of some 30 people, including women and children, he said.
After the experiments, the captives were strangled with a rope to make sure they were dead, he said, adding that their bodies were buried and the deeds kept strictly secret.
"I would have been killed if I had disobeyed the order," Makino said. "That was the case in those days."
US forces landed on the Philippine island in March 1945, sending Japanese soldiers into hiding in the jungle.
Little Japanese testimony about what happened in Southeast Asia during the war has emerged. But the new information should throw light on Japan's malicious wartime acts, Kyodo said, quoting experts.
Makino has talked about his war experiences to primary and junior high school students for the past several years without telling them about the human dissections.
He told Kyodo: "I want to tell the truth about war to as many people as possible. If I'm given the opportunity, I'll continue to testify in atonement."
REMNANTS of a World War II bunker found during construction work in central Brisbane will be displayed at the Queensland Museum.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie today said the bunker was recently found during work on an Inner Northern Busway extension in the city. He said historians believed it was a secret command room and a safe place for community leaders. "We didn't know it was there. This is a very exciting find - a direct link to Brisbane's wartime past," Mr Beattie said.
He said the museum would soon display two brick walls of a bomb and gas proof room that was once under the old Roma Street police station on the corner of Albert and Turbot streets. "Officials from the RSL have examined the site and agree with the heritage experts that the walls ... need to be removed so they can be properly protected," Mr Beattie said. "After the museum experts finish some preservation work the remnants will go on public display in Brisbane."
Transport and Main Roads Minister Paul Lucas said construction work on part of the busway extension was put on hold when the bunker was found recently. "Construction of the Inner Northern Busway will continue around the site," he said. "Project work on the site will take place when the walls ... have been safely removed.
"The busway extension remains on schedule and should be completed by 2008."
The Fijian military says hundreds of reservists have been recalled to prepare for a "clean-up" campaign, as talk continues of a planned coup.
Military commander Frank Bainimarama told fijilive.com that if Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase did not bow to the military's demands to drop all investigations into its officers, the army would act. "What's the big deal about this investigation?" Commodore Bainimarama said from New Zealand, where he is on a private visit. "My intention of removing this Government is clear. If they are going to prosecute me if my clean-up campaign fails, then it is their concern."
More than 1,000 territorial force personnel were recalled over the weekend for what Commodore Bainimarama described as preparation for the "clean up" of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's government. He had told the reservists two weeks ago that the Fijian military "is encountering a difficult period and we need to clear the insecurity in the nation".
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said last Thursday "there is clear evidence he is planning a coup in the next couple of weeks".
The hardening of the military's attitude came as the Director of Public Prosecution Josaia Naigulevu confirmed he had passed on to police legal opinion on one of the military files forwarded to his office. "I will not confirm if [we recommended] a charge. It may not help in national security," he told fijilive.com.
The seven files on the military forwarded to Naigulegu included one on whether sedition charges could be laid against Bainimarama.
Commodore Bainimarama has also warned Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes that he should leave the country now before things "blow up".
The military last week issued the Government with a list of nine "non-negotiable" demands that had to be met in two weeks. The demands include dropping police investigations into the sedition charges against Commodore Bainimarama and the sacking of Commissioner Hughes. The military leader said he expected the demands to be met by the time he returned from his two-week trip to New Zealand.
Commodore Bainimarama has accused the Government of corruption and lying, and has repeatedly threatened to force it to resign, prompting a failed bid by the Government to replace him at the end of last month.
Nata Mullick, the hangman who sent 25 convicts to death dangling at the end of a rope, including a rape and murder convict two years ago, has been roped in by a theatre group for his talent in histrionics. "Enough of hanging. I have other abilities too, which I could not put to use earlier," Mullick, who last hanged apartment guard Dhananjoy Chatterjee two years ago for raping and killing a girl, said. "I have come to bring a smile on people's lips," Mullick who have also acted as a hangman in Mrinal Sen's film Mrigaya in the 70s, said.
Desher shatru neta, Baper shatru beta (Enemy leader, father's enemy), a Bengali folk drama is already being staged in rural areas with shows registering large turnouts in south Bengal districts of East and West Midnapore and South 24 Parganas since October. Mullick enacts the role of an idealistic music teacher who tutors his pupils for free but fails to countenance his drug peddler son, whom he kills towards the end of the show, said Haradhan Roy, director of the play and an official of Mangaldip Opera, staging the jatra (folk theatre).
Roy said they had been planning to rope him in since the hanging of the Chatterjee on August 14, 2004 but had to go slow on the advice of the administration as the hanging had evoked much passion at that time.
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India's Supreme Court has ordered the demolition of tens of thousands of illegal buildings in Madras (Chennai) the capital of Tamil Nadu state.
The court also declared illegal a Tamil Nadu law allowing buildings that breach regulations to stand if a fee is paid.
A BBC correspondent in Madras says the city is notorious for violations of building by-laws - both by big builders and individual house owners.
Judges said widespread breaches of these laws had made Madras unliveable.
More than 60,000 structures are likely to be affected by the Supreme Court ruling.
The BBC's L R Jagadheesan says that between 1990 and 2005, the state government regularised thousands of illegal buildings under the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act.
The law then allowed regularisation of illegal construction if the owner paid a fee to the local government.
The court has ordered the city administration to refund all fees collected for illegal buildings up to now, a sum estimated at about $ 72m.
A similar Supreme Court ruling has led to the demolition of several illegally constructed buildings in Delhi.
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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.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her. 
Police are warning people to be on their guard after receiving several reports and photographs of a big cat in hills above a mid Wales village. Dyfed-Powys Police said seven different people had reported seeing a large cat-like animal in recent weeks in the Talybont area, near Aberystwyth. 
A medical marijuana user plans to see in the New Year on an all-time high - by rolling the world's biggest joint. Los Angeles resident Brett Stone said he aims to usher in 2007 by building a 0.91 metre cigarette using around 112 grams of marijuana. 
