`With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special Police. It is one of dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina — and part of a pattern across the United States in which public safety is shifting into private hands.
Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places — and trying to expand their terrain. The “company police agencies,” as businesses such as Capitol Special Police are called here, are lobbying the state legislature to broaden their jurisdiction, currently limited to the private property of those who hire them, to adjacent streets. Elsewhere — including wealthy gated communities in South Florida and the Tri-Rail commuter trains between Miami and West Palm Beach — private security patrols without police authority carry weapons, sometimes dress like SWAT teams and make citizen’s arrests.’
`”Jackass Number Two,” the wildly raunchy movie featuring stupid-human tricks, opens with a don’t-try-this-at-home disclaimer.
Tragically, 11-year-old Wallison Costa didn’t heed the warning.
The Philadelphia boy was hospitalized in critical condition day after he leapt from a second-story window and fell 10 feet, landing on his head.
The boy got the idea after watching the 2006 movie in which “Jackass” prankster Bam Margera hurls himself through a window to avoid being gored by a horde of angry bulls, police and friends said.’
Pornstar’s opinion on the Klu Klux Klan and al-Qaeda.
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`A couple in eastern India have been arrested for allegedly sacrificing their young sons to please the gods.
“It seems like a case of child sacrifice attached to tantric rituals,” police superintendent Ravi Kant said in eastern Orissa state, where the incident happened.
Police said it had collected evidence of occult practices from the couple’s house.
Residents of the area told police that the couple had been advised by a tantric practitioner that they should offer their sons, aged 7 and 9, to please the gods for luck and prosperity.
The couple denied the charges on local television, saying the boys died of illness and their bodies were kept in the house in the hope that they would come alive.’
‘Some Drunk dude challenges a much less drunk guy to a boxing match. This fight was too close to call… judges?’
(4.4meg Windows media)
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`The two are thought by police to have each separately come to the defense of Melevea Fifita, 19, of East Palo Alto, and Seu Tuimavave, 21, who were involved in a physical altercation in the 2700 block of Fordham Street around 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
The fight began around 10:30 p.m. and as it escalated, the 17-year-old boy produced a handgun and defended Fifita, while Absalom Tuimavave defended his sister Seu with a shotgun, according to Alipio.
When the men shot at each other, both inadvertently hit the women they were trying to defend, Alipio said, the 17-year-old boy fatally striking Fifita and Tuimavave hitting his sister in the pelvis, Alipio said.’
Guess what happens when you look down the barrel of a gun then pull the trigger to see if it’s stuck?
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`Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday a horrific terrorist act on the United States that will result in “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
“I put these things out with humility,” he said.’
God told me that Pat Robertson is a fuckwit. I say this, of course, with the utmost humility.
Update: video of this here – Pat Robertson’s Predictions for 2007
‘A tele-evangelist with a large following across the United States is being sued by relatives over her claim that prayer cured her brother’s throat cancer.
Darlene Bishop’s claims appear in her book, Your Life Follows Your Words, which fails to mention that her brother, the songwriter Darrell “Wayne” Perry, died of the disease 18 months ago.
Mr Perry’s four children have filed a lawsuit against their aunt for wrongful death, claiming that she persuaded him to stop chemotherapy and to depend instead upon God’s healing.
Mrs Bishop, who is co-pastor at a 4,000-congregation Ohio church, also claims that prayer cured her of breast cancer.’
`Schoolboy Jack Double was hit with a £50 litter fine – for feeding a seagull half a chip.
Two zealous officials handed Jack, 14, an on-the-spot ticket after seeing him toss the halfeaten morsel at the hungry bird.
They even followed him to his school to enforce the penalty.
Yet three weeks earlier litter chiefs from the same council proudly awarded him a certificate praising him for binning rubbish.’
`A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia, landed 13,000km away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking website.
Dressed for the Australian summer in t-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany yesterday for a four-week holiday.
Instead of arriving “down under,” Mr Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.
“I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything,” Gutt told the Bild newspaper. “I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the US.”‘
More than you might expect. :)
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`The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who, uh, remove themselves from it…
Like two people, 17 and 20, who imitated Darth Vader and made light sabres from fluorescent light tubes. That’s right, they opened up fluoresceent tubes, poured gasoline inside, and lit the end… As one can imagine, a Star Wars sized explosion was not far behind. One died, the other survived to ‘fess up to their creative, but stupid, reenactment.’
`On January 27th, 2007 we will be holding a symbolic book burning in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. All known White Patriots are welcome to attend, and are encouraged to bring degenerate books suitable for throwing into the fire. We will be filming and recording this event for NSM Radio/TV, and possibly using some of the footage for an upcoming Music Video for the song Burn the Books by Achtung Juden (released on the NSM Record Label).
Come Join with us in this Historic Event, as we torch degenerate books such as the Talmud, and other anti-American and/or anti-White books.’
`A man was caught with a quarter million dollars’ worth of marijuana Thursday evening after he was caught allegedly smoking a joint when police pulled him over on a traffic stop.
Police saw a man run a stop sign in at Kenneth Avenue and George Street on the city’s Northwest Side around 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police said the man, Jeffrey Populorum, 46, was smoking a joint when they pulled his car over.
When officers looked some more, they found 92 pounds of marijuana in the car, amounting to $250,000 worth.
Populorum was charged with felony possession of cannabis.’
`Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”’
`A berserk Bronx woman who received a samurai sword as a Christmas gift used the blade to attack her mother yesterday during a fight over cigarettes, police and relatives said.
Erica Torres, 22, repeatedly cut her mother, Sylvia Pantoja, with the sword at about 8 a.m. after the mom attempted to stop Torres and her sister from arguing over a pack of smokes, police and relatives said.
“She just went lunatic on everybody,” said Torres’ 14-year-old sister, Jasmin Cabrera. “She was up until 2 saying she was going to kill everybody. Then she took the sword and went wild.”‘
If you give a sword as a present to a lunatic then I s’pose you reap what you sow. [shrug] :)
`A teenager has been hospitalized with facial injuries caused when a bullet he found fired while held in a vice, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday.
The victim, Alex Carman, 15, was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries to the right upper cheek. [..]
Investigators say it “appears Alex placed the bullet in the vice, hammered a screw into the primer causing the bullet to explode.”‘
Grip tape is apparently the stuff you put on top of skateboards so your feet stick to to board. These guys lay out a few meters of it then some guy across it. Then pour some vinegar onto his bloody buttocks.
Fair enuf. [shrug] :)
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I like how he starts to scream about it burning as soon as it’s lit. :)
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`A bluebird in the garden, a spirit in a house, a kind man on the side of the road. Americans are big believers in angels, although not necessarily the ones with halos and wings.
An overwhelming majority, almost regardless of backgrounds and religious convictions, think angels are real, according to an AP-AOL News poll exploring attitudes about Santa Claus, angels and more.
Belief in angels, however people define them, is highest – almost universal – among white evangelical Christians, 97 percent of whom trust in their existence, the poll indicates. But even among people with no religious affiliation, well more than half said angels are for real.’
Basically, if you live in the US there’s an ~80% chance that you’re an idiot.
`The world leader of the Exclusive Brethren church intervened personally to break up a family this year, telling a 12-year-old that she would lose her mother if she did not renounce her father.
The Sydney-based Bruce D. Hales – the “Man of God,” or “Elect Vessel” of the separatist cult – urged the girl to cease contact with her father, saying: “Your mother will not be able to accept you if you continue contact with him.”
Notes of the conversation, taken immediately after they met in Sydney in January, also reveal Mr Hales told the girl: “You cannot love Christ if you wear pants [jeans], and you cannot be a Christian if you leave the Brethren.”‘
If you look closely there’s a ball of sparks/plasma/fire all around his left hand. That’ll teach him. :)
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`A man doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself afire, apparently to protest against a California school district’s decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation.
The man suffered first-degree burns on his shoulders and arms Friday, Fire Department Capt. Garth Milam said.
He had a sign that read “(expletive) the religious establishment and KHSD,” said Kern County Sheriff’s Deputy John Leyendecker. On Thursday, the Kern High School Board of Trustees voted to change the names of the holiday breaks.
The man, whose name was not released, also set fire to a Christmas tree and flags in a public area, Milam said.’
`A one-month-old baby has been checked and cleared by a Los Angeles hospital after being put through an airport X-ray machine.
Authorities at Los Angeles International Airport say an inexperienced traveler mistakenly put her grandson through a carry-on luggage screener.
A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child and immediately pulled the baby out. A spokesman for LAX says the incident Saturday was an innocent mistake.’
‘The communications director for Montana’s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire — with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA — during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.’
The emails are hilarious.
`A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire.
The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was “erroneous information.”
The documentary, due to air next year and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, says the troops could have killed the al Qaeda leader in
Afghanistan but the order to shoot never came, possibly because it took too long to request it.
“In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said ‘I have bin Laden’,” an anonymous French soldier is quoted as saying.’
`A security guard shot himself in the hand Wednesday after a deputy inquired about why the guard’s gun was in its holster with the hammer cocked. [..]
The deputy asked why the gun was cocked and Melendez reportedly told him it was OK, because the safety was on.
Melendez, 36, then began to pull the gun from the holster, as Scozzafava repeatedly yelled “No!”, trying to get the man to leave the weapon where it was.
As he removed the gun, it went off, hitting Melendez in the hand just below the little finger on his left hand.’
