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-Lurid Crime Tales-
How thick can you get?
Here’s a tip: don’t call the police to report a robbery if you are the one committing it.

Case in point: A woman in the Jiangsu Province in China didn’t follow this advice. She phoned the police to report a robbery, except for one small problem: she was the one committing the robbery in the first place, according to the Procuratorial Daily newspaper.

The woman, identified only by her last name, Fang, was getting ready to return to her hometown from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, where she worked, to visit her ill grandmother. She was packing up things in her office before leaving when noticed some bags on the table. She swiped two cell phones and 120 yuan (about $15.07 in U.S. currency).

Fang was at the train station the following day only to discover that she didn’t have enough money to buy a ticket. So her brilliant idea was to call the police to report that she had been robbed there and had no money for her trip home.

The cops soon arrived and asked her questions about the robbery, but her poor description of the robbery soon got their suspicions up. The police then searched her bag and there were the two cell phones. When Fang was asked what kind of phones they were, she couldn’t answer.

Our self-tattletale was arrested for theft by the local prosecutor’s office.
Posted by: Korora || 09/03/2006 00:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man lived to 112 on sausage-and-waffles diet
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/03/2006 03:01 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Struck down by a massive heart attack caused by seeing his mom hit his da over the head with a frying pan for coming home drunk at 2 a.m. after a poker game.
Posted by: 6 || 09/03/2006 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  violent moms

when will the world wake up and care?
Posted by: RD || 09/03/2006 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  “He had terrible bad habits. He had a diet largely of sausages and waffles,” Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Friday...A lot of people think or imagine that your good habits and bad habits contribute to your longevity,” Coles said. “But we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle

Not that the Chicken Little Nannyites will shut up about this cause its all about CONTROL. And note well, even though MSM publishes this, they won't pay any attention to it cause it won't file air time or columns.
Posted by: Creans Slung1766 || 09/03/2006 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ...err fill air time...

now for my morning coffee.
Posted by: Creans Slung1766 || 09/03/2006 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Have some sausage and waffles. They're good for you.
Posted by: Fred || 09/03/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  maybe it's because he didn't eat the eggs. We must ban eating eggs. Cause and effect - don't ya see.
Posted by: Shetle Thaimble6946 || 09/03/2006 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  I was let on to the big secret by an extremely old guy some years ago. He said that most people just have their thermostat set high. They get married and have kids when they are 18, and are grandparents by the time they are 36 and die by 55.

He, on the other hand, got married for the first time at 57, and he and his young wife had three kids. He then bragged that an ancestor (a civil war general) hadn't gotten married until 70, and went through four wives in ten years (mortality), producing seven children total.

He said, people who live a long time generally don't do high-risk behavior, not because somebody told them not to, just because they don't enjoy it overmuch.

So for most people, he advised the people drink, smoke, and drive in fast cars, because if they can, and they like it, they're going to die young anyway, of something or other. If they don't like it, they are probably going to live to be old.

Fatalism? Naw. Observation.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/03/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Me: So Doctor White what can I do?

Doc White: Well, stop drinking so much, forget gambling and stop chasing them young gals!

Me: Will I live longer?

Doc White: No. But it'll damn sure seem longer.
Posted by: 6 || 09/03/2006 17:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Doc White: No. But it'll damn sure seem longer. Does this color look like salmon to you?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/03/2006 18:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Doc White to 6r: Why is your specimen pink salmon™ color?
Posted by: RD || 09/03/2006 21:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Frank and 6, I wouldn't take any medicines from the good Dr. after those digs. ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 09/03/2006 21:49 Comments || Top||

#12  A good friend of mine bred show dogs and White Faced Herefords (steer).
She told me that females should have young while their bodies are still plyable. That would be from 13 to about 20 years of age. Silly older women want to have a career first and then take a few years to bear a child. Not too smart that.
Posted by: wxjames || 09/03/2006 22:38 Comments || Top||

#13  :-) 6 made me do it~ LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 09/03/2006 22:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
POLICE ALERT: Semi "Packed with Explosives" might be heading to Orlando
Authorities in the state of Florida are actively searching for a tractor-trailer that is reportedly loaded with an unknown amount of explosive material. According to police sources, a man notified the crisis center in Georgia and said the tractor-trailer is “packed with explosives” and is traveling to Orlando.

The tractor-trailer is being described as “brown with an eagle painted on its side,” according to police, who confirmed the report and are presently attempting to verify the veracity of the report. No further description of the truck or driver or information is currently available. Updates will be provided as developed.

Police urge anyone with information on the truck to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS or the nearest police station.

NOTE: Our last HQ INTEL-ALERT Private Intelligence Report issued a warning about trucks being used as Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) and the rise of truck thefts in North America.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 09/03/2006 10:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I never liked orlando anyway.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 09/03/2006 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Sod off, bigjim.

Odds are it's a false report, but still.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 09/03/2006 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Could this possibly be a fake rumor? Puh-leez.

The linked site says that it is a Stratfor wannabe run by ex-private investigators. Call me crazy, but private investigators are usually self-promoting flimflam men full of themselves.
Posted by: gromky || 09/03/2006 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  what - he's not driving one of those "white vans"?
Posted by: Shetle Thaimble6946 || 09/03/2006 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  This might not be the big one but something like this is going to happen eventually. PS: My mom and dad live in Orlando. This isn't something to snark about.
Posted by: Jonathan || 09/03/2006 19:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I live close to Orlando please let it be a rumor and not for real, Orlando has bad traffic, but I wouldn't want to blow it up.
Posted by: djohn66 || 09/03/2006 21:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Some guy named John Karr called in to say he is driving. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 09/03/2006 21:33 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
IP Map of the World (slow to load)
Posted by: 3dc || 09/03/2006 15:05 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Verrrrry interesting.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/03/2006 15:54 Comments || Top||

#2  This needs a bit more exposure. Could this be posted on 4 Sep as well please?

There are possibly ramifications to this 'picture/snapshot'. One is: are we alone? Another might be; where is everyone else? Echo chamber?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/03/2006 22:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Notice the near total absence of IPs in all terrorist and communist countries. This is what must end.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/03/2006 23:46 Comments || Top||



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