`The Hokkaido Prefectural Government is considering outlawing the purchase of used underwear from teenage girls, local government officials said.
The prefectural government is expected to revise the ordinance on the wholesome education of youths to incorporate a clause that would ban adults from buying used underwear directly from girls aged below 18. Violators would face up to one year in prison or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.’
`A man who called police to report his marijuana was stolen was arrested after police recovered the pot and invited him to come to the Public Safety Building to identify it. [..]
Tippetts called police Monday evening after someone broke a window, got cut on the glass and crawled into his home while he was away. He told police the only thing missing was a quarter-pound bag of marijuana he was selling.
Tippetts also told officers that a man called him about buying some marijuana earlier in the day, but Tippetts was on his way to work and told the caller no. He gave police the caller’s name.’
`”Once the door closed, the nightmare began,” prosecutor Mike Wolfe said. According to him, Runge, 36, repeatedly raped Gutierrez as her daughter watched. He then moved on to Jessica. After cutting their throats, Runge threw paint thinner and a lighted match onto the bed to try to conceal his crime, prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys didn’t try to soften the monster image prosecutors painted. But attorney William Wolf said his client is insane and needs treatment.
“These are the mad acts of an insane, irrational, illogical mind,” Wolf said. He told jurors that within Runge’s brain, “The wiring is all wrong.”
All of that means Runge has “poor impulse control, poor planning and poor judgment.”‘
`Fellow workers and regular patrons at the Kensington Avenue restaurant, where Thomas Erhardt had done some electrical work and odd jobs for four years, weren’t buying that this was a merciful act.
“When you brutally kill your father [with a hammer], where’s the mercy in that?” Storm asked. “There’s no justification for that at all. If you wanted to do a mercy killing, give him some sleeping pills.”‘
‘Self-described vampire and Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey has been arrested on Indiana charges of stalking and escape. [..]
Princeton police said their search discovered the May 2005 warrants that led to Sharkey’s arrest Monday. [..]
Among his proposals was one that would use impalement to execute murderers, rapists and terrorists.
“As governor,” Sharkey said, “terrorists and criminals will live in fear of me, while the people of this state will be able to live fear free.”‘
BoingBoing has a picture of the vampire. I know I’m scared.
followup to Vampire seeks governor’s job.
`In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq.
Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women’s latrine after dark.’
`There was an emotional farewell yesterday at Vancouver International Airport as medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby reluctantly returned to the U.S. to face a jail sentence.
Kubby’s supporters and family were on hand as he boarded a flight to California escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail.
“The officials in Canada might be sending him back to a death sentence,” said Bill McPike.’
`Milwaukee police are now considering the body found encased in concrete in a Milwaukee rental house over the weekend a homicide. [..]
At least two families are now wondering how they could have lived there with a dead body for so long and not even have known it.
“You could see like a little lump in it, and then it looked like a foot sticking up, kind of, but with cement over it,” past resident Cortez Thurman said.
Thurman said his family always joked about a dead body buried in the basement of their old home.
“I used to lift weights down there and everything, and we used to always joke around, like, what if it’s a dead body up under there?” Thurman said.’
`A pastor accused of selling the town‘s oldest church pleaded guilty to embezzlement on Monday and agreed to 18 months in prison, court officials said.
Radic had preached at First Congregational Church in Ripon for nearly a decade before he sold the church last October for $525,000, allegedly using the money to buy a BMW. He also faked documents that gave him possession of his house, which was owned by the church, then used the property to take out loans, authorities said.’
`An alleged thief was hit for six by a flying tackle after a group of Palmerston North cricket players chased him down on Saturday.
The 17-year-old man, accused of stealing a car stereo, was knocked off his bicycle when United Cricket Club premier three opening bowler Jonny Kawana put in his king hit. [..]
“He squealed like a little girl when I hit him.
“I picked him up and threw him on the footpath and he froze. I had to hold myself back.”‘
‘A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack. [..]
Barbara Asher, a 56-year-old woman who called herself Mistress Lauren M, was also cleared of dismemberment. [..]
Asher had her boyfriend chop up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker, and they dumped it behind a restaurant in Maine, prosecutors said. His remains have never been found.’
followup to Lawyer Dons Dominatrix Mask in Trial.
Update: Found a site with a picture of the prosecutor in a leather mask. Amusing. :)
`Nobody was ever arrested for leaking the secret source code for parts of the Windows operating system in 2004, but a hacker who sold a copy online afterward was sentenced to two years in federal prison Friday. [..]
Like many others, Genovese downloaded a copy. Unlike others, he posted a note to his website offering it for sale.
According to court records, an investigator hired by Microsoft took Genovese up on his offer and dropped two Hamiltons on the secret source code. The investigator then returned and arranged a second $20 transaction for an FBI agent, which led to Genovese’s indictment under the U.S. Economic Espionage Act, which makes it a felony to sell a company’s stolen trade secrets. After consulting with his public defender, Genovese pleaded guilty last August.’
`A swastika drawn on a sleeping inmate’s forehead as a prank escalated into a fight between members of a white supremacist gang and other prisoners that left eight inmates and two guards injured, a report says. [..]
The violence culminated in the Dec. 27 fight at Pickaway Correctional Institution in which five members of the Aryan Brotherhood battled the prankster and five others with locks hooked to belts and a sharpened broomstick.’
`A former substitute teacher was sentenced to one year in jail and five years probation for encouraging several young boys to lick whipped cream off their toes as part a game he filmed.
Michael Codde, 44, will have to register as a sex offender and will no longer be able to teach as the result of Friday’s sentence handed down in Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Codde admitted to felony child molestation and misdemeanor possession of child pornography. Even though no one alleged Codde touched the boys, Judge John Salazar said he clearly directed the game for sexual arousal.’
`A lovestruck judge could be jailed for offering to have a woman’s boyfriend sent to prison so they could pursue an affair.
The judge, known only as Wolfgang W, was presiding over a robbery trial when he met the defendant’s girlfriend, a 30-year-old Albanian woman known as Fatime L.
The pair reportedly had dinner together during the trial and the 63-year-old judge then took to texting Ms L with suggestive messages such as “I’m kissing you awake” and “Alone with you in bed. I want to drag you into bed before breakfast and sleep with you”.’
`Shock and disbelief in Brownsville where a man is behind bars accused of videotaping himself having sex with a child and an animal. [..]
Police say his girlfriend was looking for a video tape taken at Christmas when she found a tape that showed De Leon forcing a nine-year-old girl to perform oral sex. Police say De Leon recorded the sex act.
To add to the shock of the tape, police say De Leon also video taped himself exposing himself and having sexual contact with a dog.’
`Children as young as 10 could be strip-searched in public by police of the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge under Victoria’s proposed new anti-terrorism laws.
Draft rules state that strip-searches of children aged 10 to 18 — and of the intellectually impaired — must be conducted by a person of the same sex, in private and in the presence of a parent or guardian, “unless it is not reasonably practicable”.’
`The troubled trial of Saddam Hussein collapsed into chaos moments after resuming as the former Iraqi president and his defence team stormed out and guards dragged his half-brother from the courtroom.
Saddam’s lawyers threatened to boycott future sessions unless the chief judge apologised, and called for the trial to be moved abroad, saying a fair hearing in Iraq was impossible. [..]
“I am the judge and you are the defendant,” Abdel Rahman told Saddam as he checked an outburst by the former Iraqi president, who complained: “This is an American court and it’s rules are American … you cannot force me to stay in court.”‘
`During its first year, Tennessee’s “Crack Tax” has brought in nearly $2 million dollars in state revenue.
The illegal substances tax went into effect last January.
Basically, drug dealers are supposed to pay taxes on illegal drugs and alcohol.
They pay confidentially, and when they do, they get a stamp.
If they’re caught without the stamp, they’ll be prosecuted for not only selling drugs, but for not paying their taxes too.’
`A judge has sentenced a man to life in prison for fatally shooting his elderly mother with a crossbow. [..]
After fighting with his mother over her will, Neal shot her with the crossbow in the chest, authorities said. [..]
“I loved my mother,” Bruce Neal said in court Wednesday. “What I did to my mom was a horrible crime.”
[The judge] said the love that Neal expressed for his mother made his actions more disturbing.’
`US Marshals in Roanoke are calling them armed and extremely dangerous. A manhunt is underway for a man suspected of 104 counts of child rape. They’re also looking for his girlfriend on two counts of child endangerment. [..]
Marshals believe they could be traveling in a red Dodge pickup with a “Get-R-Done” bug shield and a sticker on the rear glass that reads “100 percent Cowboy.”‘
`When Tammy Klein began investigating crime scenes eight years ago, it was virtually unheard of for a killer to use bleach to clean up a bloody mess.
Today, the use of bleach, which destroys DNA, is not unusual in a planned homicide, said the senior criminalist from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Klein and other experts attribute such sophistication to television crime dramas like “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” which give criminals helpful tips on how to cover up evidence.’
`The woodsman who allegedly covered himself in “war paint” before assaulting two men with a machete this week is a decent, well-educated man, according to locals.
Wayne Stephen Parks, 57, has been living in the wilderness here for the past five years, in a makeshift tent near the CSX tracks, the site where he allegedly “hacked” two men with a machete Tuesday night following an argument at his forest quarters.
The story in this small community is a bit different: Hunters say Parks was defending himself and his land.’
`A prosecutor put on a black leather mask and re-enacted a bondage session Friday at a dominatrix’s manslaughter trial, telling the jury the woman did nothing to help her client when he suffered a heart attack. [..]
“After a gasp, his head went forward and she did nothing, nothing for five minutes,” Nelson said, his voice muffled as he spoke through the zippered mouth opening.
Lord’s attorney objected, and Judge Charles Grabau agreed.
“That’s enough, Mr. Nelson,” the judge said. “Thank you for your demonstration.”‘
`A judge who sentenced three teenagers to probation threw them in jail after he saw them ridiculing him and drinking alcohol on a Web site.
The girls appeared before Troy District Court Judge Michael Martone last spring for drinking at their high school prom.
He gave them probation and ordered them not to drink alcohol again. [..]
But several months later he searched for his name on the Internet and came across a Web site posted by one of the students. [..]’
`A pilot who claimed to have lost his plane when he had to ditch it in the sea has been charged with insurance fraud after it was found hidden in a shipping container.
Howard Jamison, 46, claimed to have surfed ashore on a piece of the plane’s floor after the engine on his Cessna failed six kilometres off New Zealand’s South Island coast in 2004.’
An interesting use of eBay.
Some poor cunts are no doubt shitting themselves at the moment, waiting for the police to arrive.
Update: The auction is no longer listed on eBay, but Google has a cached version.
`A man who held up banks by claiming he had a bomb in a bag was arrested after police found the bag actually contained books, including a phone book that had a mailing label with the man’s full name and address.
“It was clearly not his best move,” Lawrence Police Chief John J. Romero said.’
`Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein Wednesday distributed copies of a lawsuit against President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair for destroying Iraq.
The suit accuses Bush and Blair of committing war crimes by using weapons of mass destruction and internationally-banned weapons including enriched uranium and phosphoric and cluster bombs against unarmed Iraqi civilians, notably in Baghdad, Fallujah, Ramadi, al-Kaem and Anbar. [..]
The suit also accuses the U.S. president and British prime minister of torturing Iraqi prisoners, destroying Iraq’s cultural heritage with the aim of eliminating an ancient civilization, and inciting internal strife.
Bush and Blair were also accused of polluting Iraq’s air, waters and environment.’
`Deputies say a 16-year-old has been arrested for beating his grandmother with a two-by-four for refusing to give him $100 for beer. [..]
Investigators say Cass went into his 60-year-old grandmother’s bedroom Thursday and asked her for $100 for beer. When she refused, he allegedly placed a razor blade on her throat and demanded she take him to the bank to get the money, deputies said.
“When the victim arrived back home she locked all of the doors,” deputies reported. “The defendant arrived back home and kicked the front door in. [..]’
