Two scrap metal collectors and a third man have been arrested amid an investigation into unspent anti-tank shells that exploded this week at a Raleigh scrap yard, authorities said Friday. All three Hispanic men were being held by federal authorities on immigration violations, said Joe Lenczyk, the Fayetteville and Smithfield resident agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Authorities have found more than two-dozen live shells in the Raleigh scrap yard, and investigators traced the munitions to the two collectors. Sanford Police Department Capt. David Smith told The News & Observer of Raleigh that a search found similar artillery shells and spent casings at the home of one of the men and that the defendants said they got the material from the Fort Bragg area.
"We have information that leads us to believe (the munitions) were deliberately taken from a particular location," Lenczyk said, adding that authorities are still pursuing leads in the case. He declined to elaborate further.
Lenczyk said the investigation led to the arrest of a third person who was a felon in possession of a firearm. He was also being held on immigration charges, authorities said.
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The other day there was a report on a Baltimore cop who when apes@#$ on a skateboarder. They are a nuissance, but a Youtube vid of the cop reveals that his concern was the boy's lack of respect for him. Contempt of cop isn't a crime. Cops need to perform their crime prevention and law enforcement obligations according to Criminal Code scripts.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch customs have seized thousands of ïmpotence pïlls made in China which may cause heart failure, the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate said on Friday. The pïlls, presented as herbal remedies, contain up to two and a half times the maximum daily dose of chemical substances used to treat ïmpotence, the Inspectorate said in a statement.
It cannot be ruled out that taking these so-called herbal remedies could lead to serious health problems such as heart failure or reduced vision, it added.
What's two and a half times nothing?
The Inspectorate said the pills were named Hérb Vigøur, Natural Vigøur and China Vigøur and it had alerted drug safety authorities around the world.
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Dutch seize potentially fatal impotence pills
humm blue pills... True Story~:
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Well IIIC the story went something like this.. Our families had gathered for a re-union picnic with the close relatives and one of our nieces brought a male companion with her... [the pilgrim, we called him]
[picnic over, the food was all put away]
Well right close about 50 yards away The pilgrim and the niece stripped down till they was nakid as jay birds. Then they began popping those little blue pills between pulls of Aqua Vitae...
Then Out of the blue something startled Bjorn and his raging Hard-On....
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How was the wolverine chasing explained to the children, Dutch Elms Disease?
It was a very scary object lesson for all the kiddies... TW ~:)
#1) Public Nakidness. way Baaad!
#2) Pill Popping. way Baaad!
#3) Trying to mate with a Wolverine with or with-out heart failure and/or reduced vision, is a Guaranteed ONE-WAY Ticket to Oblivion!
:)
BTW Dutch Elms Disease always produces bad Wood.
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Dead wood, actually. I'm still trying to figure out point 3. I mean, wolverines don't look anything like human girls, and anyway he had a naked human girl right there, which are hard to mistake when nearby. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't at all like a more detailed explanation. Thanks, Dutch Elm Disease.
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Two aliens, Zathar and Caad, landed in the Arizona desert near an abandoned gas station.
They approached the gas pumps and Zathar said to it "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Take us to your leader. "
The gas pump, of course, did not respond.
Zathar repeated the greeting and there was still no response.
Annoyed by what he perceived as the gas pump's haughty attitude, Zathar drew his ray gun and said impatiently, "Greetings Earthling, we come in peace. Why do you dare ignore us this way? Take us to your leader now, or I will be forced to fire upon you."
Caad began to warn his comrade, "No, you must not anger him................", but ...before he could finish his warning Zathar fired upon the gas pump.
There was a huge explosion that blew both of them 200 meters into the desert where they landed in a heap.
When they finally regained consciousness (aliens have tough skin) Zathar turned to Caad and said "What a ferocious creature. It nearly killed us. How did you determine it to be so dangerous?"
Caad answered, "If there is one thing I have learned in my travels throughout the galaxy, it is that if a guy has a penis he can wrap around himself twice and then stick in his own ear, don't mess with him."
It sounds like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster. But staff at a sewage works have called in a ghostbuster because they are being stalked by a zombie-like figure who roams the underground tunnels.
Workers at Southern Water's treatment plant in Eastbourne, East Sussex, said they have been scared to enter tunnels after being followed about by a "humanoid figure" as they went about their jobs.
Mark Wey, a sewage treatment worker, got permission from his bosses to hire a paranormal investigator to launch an investigation into the sewage spirits. Mr Wey hired parapsychologist Michael Kingscote who paid the tunnels a visit. The clairvoyant said: "There seems to be one particular area that's giving people the creeps. People have seen and felt things."
Mr Wey said: "Michael instantly detected someone standing there and he was suspicious there was something quite unusual there.
"The conclusion is, we can't prove it is haunted because of strong electromagnetic fields, which can cause the illusion of being haunted, the feeling of being touched or watched, but there is definitely paranormal activity.
"People feel uneasy when they enter the building and the hairs on the back of your neck go up. A lot of people don't like going in there. You can hear voices in the tunnels."
Mr Wey said the figure, which followed workers about often laughed at them and staff could hear "muffled conversations" coming from behind the tunnel walls. Another worker said: "I believe in ghosts and I'm sure there's something in there. I dread doing the night shift.
"It's not funny going to work and worrying that a zombie might be around the corner."
A Southern Water spokesman said: "Mr Wey has a personal interest in the afterlife and found our underground site at Eastbourne somewhat spooky. We hope the findings weren't too frightening."
A surprise storm delivered rain and snow to the county yesterday, causing mudslides and road closures and stranding hundreds of motorists on Interstate 8 through the mountains, sending many to shelter at the Golden Acorn Casino. . . .
"Did I say global warming™? Heh. I meant Man Made Climate Change™!"
The storm caught National Weather Service forecasters off guard. On Wednesday night, they listed only a 20 percent chance of rain in the county and predicted that if it did arrive, it would be light. We were expecting drizzle, forecaster Stan Wasowski said.
Instead, the day brought the whole gamut of precipitation: snow, sleet, hail and rain, plus booms of thunder. . . . Snow was reported in Jamul and on the hills above Peñasquitos. Flakes were reported in the San Pasqual Valley near Escondido, where the elevation is less than 600 feet.
Late yesterday afternoon, the CHP closed eastbound Interstate 8 at Willows Road east of Alpine because of the snow.
Heavy snow fell in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, Mount Laguna, Palomar Mountain, Ranchita and Descanso. Julian had 6 inches of snow by 5 p.m.
At the La Jolla Indian Reservation near Palomar Mountain, Tribal Chairman Tracy Nelson marveled at the snow falling outside the trading post on state Route 76 at about 3,000 feet. By late afternoon, about 4 inches had piled up, he said. I don't think I've ever seen snow like this, said Nelson, a 16-year resident of the reservation. . . .
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LOL GK, thx! It has been cold here, nice today, unfortunately I've been home sick with the cold/flu. When I was a wee lad in '68 or so, it actually snowed along the coast. The climate does change here (just not as much as the rest of the world). We call it "weather"
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Last weekend it felt like summer. This weekend I'm freezing my little tushie off. I liked last weekend better. Being cold sucks.
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We call it "weather"
A Snark-o-the-Day candidate in only four short words!
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I talked to my parents in Valley Center last night - they were telling me all about the snowfall, and swearing that Al Gore had been nowhere near North County of late.
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They were pretty sure, Barbara; this storm snuck in under everyone's radar! They were listening to the emergency weather channel, and watching it snow, and there wasn't a word about snow until quite a lot of it had already fallen.
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today? Sunny, 70+, and no wind to speak of. Mom's right - the weathermen totally blew this storm.
How freaking hard is it to be a weatherman in San Diego?? 98% of the days you could say: "late nite/early morning low clouds and fog, burning off on the coast by mid-morning, clear inland, nice and sunny". Make it a macro and you'd only have to work on the other 2% of the days. Jeebus
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And they won't take in as much money from the olympics as they'll lose from a month of shutting down major industries and power generation, but go for it, China. It should be the most entertaining thing at the olympics.
I'll double my popcorn order.
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Better lay in a stock of butter, too. Whether it comes from the Falun Gong, Taiwan or just mainlanders tired of the same old same old, I expect some entertaining political fireworks along with the athletic spectacle.
A Mirage aircraft of the Pakistan Air force crashed on Friday near Sargodha, killing its pilot. Pakistan Air Force announces with great sorrow and grief that a Mirage fighter aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed 30 kilometres south east of Sargodha, said a PAF press release. The pilot of the aircraft, Wing Commander Azhar Ismael, embraced shahadat (martyrdom), it added.
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The pilot of the aircraft, Wing Commander Azhar Ismael, embraced shahadat (martyrdom)
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Scene: a secret alien control center on the fourth planet to tau Bootis
Gadzorb's left tentacle curled around the shiny lever of the Radio Shack subminiature DPDT switch which protruded from a hastily-drilled 3/8" hole in the panel, just below the rheostat controlling the all-important nucleon inhibitor. If his supervisor, Sub-Tribune Nognor, ever discovered the unauthorized modifications Gadzorb and his 1-watt soldering iron had made to their star's control system, he'd be exiled to the spice mines for life.
Though he well understood the danger, Gadzorb had a playful streak he just couldn't repress. A mischievous grin on his facial orifice, he flicked the switch to its opposite position. "There!" he cackled, "That ought to get the Earth=humans going!"
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Very cool! I've read things about the polar flip here, too, OldSpook. Mr. Wife has been more concerned about that than either global warming or cooling. I think it might affect his ability to email or travel or something.
Steve Fossett, the commodities trader turned record-breaking aviator, was declared legally dead Friday, five months after he vanished while flying in Nevada. Judge Jeffrey Malak in Chicago granted the petition filed by Fossett's wife, Peggy, The New York Times reported.
Fossett, 63, who made millions of dollars trading soybeans, retired to a life of adventure. He set three round-the-world records, became the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone in a balloon and to fly a plane alone around the world without refueling, and set a speed record in his catamaran.
He disappeared Sept. 3, 2007, while on a seemingly routine flight in a single-engine plane. Fossett was staying at the Flying-M Ranch near Yerington, Nev., a resort owned by William Barron Hilton and open only by invitation. An air search of the remote area on the Nevada-California border found no trace of the plane or its electronic beacon.
Seems a little too .. pat, doesn't it?
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And he did not make a flight notification or a flight plan, causing searchers to expend hundreds of man-hours looking for him without basic information as to his route of flight.
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He's not dead, Jim. He just skipped out.
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Baloney! He is in the Bermuda Triangle with Amelia Earhart.
Nimble, I thought I was the only one who remembered that great show. My favorite was the one where the baddies stole a railroad car....from the middle of a moving train.
Mike
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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.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch customs have seized thousands of ïmpotence pïlls made in China which may cause heart failure, the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate said on Friday. The pïlls, presented as herbal remedies, contain up to two and a half times the maximum daily dose of chemical substances used to treat ïmpotence, the Inspectorate said in a statement.
It sounds like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster. But staff at a sewage works have called in a ghostbuster because they are being stalked by a zombie-like figure who roams the underground tunnels. 
A Mirage aircraft of the Pakistan Air force crashed on Friday near Sargodha, killing its pilot. Pakistan Air Force announces with great sorrow and grief that a Mirage fighter aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed 30 kilometres south east of Sargodha, said a PAF press release. The pilot of the aircraft, Wing Commander Azhar Ismael, embraced shahadat (martyrdom), it added.
