Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw.
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Police reform activists have condemned the "arrest", saying it highlights the low education levels of many Nigerian police officers. Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper has a picture of the goat and reports that police paraded it in front of journalists in the Kwara state capital Ilorin Thursday. But this was denied by national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu.
"The vigilante group arrested the goat and took it to the police, then they told the media." The next morning journalists turned up demanding to see the goat, he said. "But of course goats can't commit crime."
The BBC's Andrew Walker in Abuja says communities often rely on ill-educated and badly prepared vigilante squads to fill the gaps where the police will not patrol at night. Innocent Chukwuma of the justice reform group the Cleen Foundation, told the BBC that many Nigerian police officers were poorly educated.
"There are officers who don't even have a secondary school education, and the police have a big job to do in finding these people and getting rid of them."
He said in the past political leaders had allowed the police to be filled with incompetent and in some cases criminal officers so they could be easily bought to protect their own criminal activities. Police have also been unable to stop vigilante squads from lynching suspects before they could investigate, he said.
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We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.
Ah. So that's good ya hanging onto him then, chief. Wouldn't want the bastid to get away with it...
MOUNT CARMEL -- Mount Carmel police arrested a married couple Sunday accused in the early morning robbery of a pizza deliveryman who was clubbed repeatedly with an 18-inch long piece of firewood. What, they couldn't afford a baseball bat?
The husband allegedly fled the scene with pizza, hot wings and cheese bread but no cash. It was the cheese bread that did it.
Police believe the wife, Mary Elizabeth Bond, 25, called a pizza delivery order from Papa John's around midnight to be delivered to 925 Hermitage Drive, Mount Carmel, where she and her husband had been staying for the past few days. Smart. Call him to your house and then try to rob him. Must be alcohol involved. Or just plain stupidity.
The deliveryman, David Bledsoe, reportedly arrived at the residence at 12:36 a.m. with about $37 worth of food. It's a trap!
As Mrs. Bond allegedly beckoned Bledsoe up the driveway toward the house, "Pssst! Hey, sailor!"
her husband, Bradley Allen Bond, 23, allegedly came from around the corner of the house and struck Bledsoe in the head with the wooden club. "Lady, I ain't a sailor... [Conk!]" From the picture of her I wouldn't get within a stone's throw. this is a warning.
MCPD Officer Ken Lunsford told the Times-News Mr. Bond allegedly demanded cash "Gimme yer dough!"
while striking Bledsoe repeatedly with the club, breaking the club three times in the process. Show me the Money! BAp! I don't have any! Bap. Then gimmie the Cheese Bread!
During the beating Bledsoe reportedly pulled out a pocket knife, "Look out! He's got a knife!"
prompting Mr. Bond to flee with the food. "Keds, don't fail me now!"
Bledsoe then made his way back to his car and called his wife, who called 911 to report the robbery. What, he couldn't remember the number? After being conked repeatedly on the nut with a chunk of firewood?
As Bledsoe was going back to his car, Mrs. Bond allegedly ordered her husband to try to grab Bledsoe's cell phone, "Grab his cell phone, Bradley!"
"But he's got a knife!"
"Well, you got cord wood! Use it!"
but the victim was able to get to his car and drive away. "I'm outta here!" [Screech!]
"When I arrived at the scene I talked to Mary Elizabeth Bond, and talked to the victim, and I determined that she was probably involved," Lunsford said. "What was yer first clue?"
"She's just eaten an entire pizza and she was starting on the Buffler wings."
"She finally admitted she'd been involved, that her husband came up with the idea they were going to rob a pizza delivery guy." What could possibly go wrong?
The search continued for Bradley Bond throughout Sunday morning. The couple have no known permanent address, but police learned that Mr. Bond is related to the family that owns 925 Hermitage Drive and the couple had been staying there a few days. "Maw, kin we stay with youse fer a few days?"
"Who're you?"
"Bradley."
"Thought I told you to git out and never come back?"
During the search Sunday morning police interviewed other occupants of the house who said Bradley Bond indicated he "would not be taken alive." Come and get me, ya Dirty Coppers! You'll never get the Cheese Bread back! I ate it!
Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday police received an anonymous tip that Mr. Bond was back at 925 Hermitage Drive. Officers surrounded the house, "Give up, Bradley! We got da place surrounded!"
and when Mr. Bond attempted to leave through the back door he was met by Officer Chris Jones who ordered him to stop and show his hands. "Goin' someplace, Bradley? Stick 'em up!"
Mr. Bond then retreated back into the house where he was intercepted by other officers in the kitchen. So much fer not being taken alive. Piker!
MCPD Assistant Chief Mike Campbell said Mr. Bond apparently attempted "suicide by cop" as he reached into a cutlery drawer to grab a knife in the presence of officers with their guns drawn. Mr. Bond was unable to find a knife, however, and was tackled and taken into custody, Campbell said. Mary! Where the hell are the knives? Whatta ya mean we ain't got none? "Look out! He's got a... ummm... cheese grater."
Police later learned that Mr. Bond was wanted in Carter County and Virginia, although the specific charges weren't available. "There ain't no law against bein' a dumbass, y'understand. But if we think hard enough we'll come up with somethin'."
Mr. Bond reportedly told police he hatched the robbery scheme to raise enough money to get away to New Jersey to avoid the arrest warrants. Mr. Bond also reportedly told police he was willing to die because he "was tired of running." New Joisey? I been runnin' all muh life, an' it's time to quit.
Lunsford said Bledsoe had less than $20 on his person when the robbery was attempted. Bledsoe was treated at the Indian Path Medical Center emergency room for a head injury. The stolen food was not found. Try a stomach pump.
Bradley Bond was charged with especially aggravated robbery, resisting arrest and fugitive from justice and remained held in the Hawkins County Jail on Sunday night on $20,000 bond. Mary Elizabeth Bond was charged with especially aggravated robbery and was being held without bond. Life in East Tennessee
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Idgits. Shoulda called his Congresscritter to come on down to do it. Then its call the 2009 Reelection and Redistribution Stimulus Package, not common robbery. Who needs a long piece of firewood when reprocessed as paper its far more effective in separating the working folk from their money to support the needy.
Lady LAKE, Fla. — It's 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn's gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue's sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new boyfriend, and Alan is scanning the crowd for cute girls.
"See those two?" a buxom blonde asks, pointing to an elegant couple at the bar. "They were caught having sex in their golf cart a few weeks ago. It happens a lot!"
Welcome to ground zero for geriatrics who are seriously getting it on.
It's a Thursday night at one of a half-dozen hot spots at the 20,000-acre Central Florida complex called The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America — and one of the most popular destinations for New Yorkers in their golden years — where the female-to-male ratio runs 10 to 1.
It's a widower's paradise, and the word on the street is that there's a big black market for Viagra.
Though The Villages — which spans three counties with 40,000 homes and more than 70,000 residents — boasts 34 golf courses, nine country clubs, two downtown squares and a slew of restaurants and bars, getting lucky is one of the residents' primary pastimes.
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Fox left out the good stuff. From the NY Post...
It's a widower's paradise, and the word on the street is that there's a big black market for V1agra.
Though The Villages - which spans three counties with 40,000 homes and more than 70,000 residents - boasts 34 golf courses, nine country clubs, two downtown squares and a slew of restaurants and bars, getting lucky is one of the residents' primary pastimes.
The huge complex began growing rapidly in the mid-1990s, and reported cases of gonorrhea rocketed from 152 to 245, of syphilis rose from 17 to 33, and of chlamydia from 52 to 115 among those 55 and older in Florida from 1995 to 2005. The state's sexually transmitted disease rate among those over 65 is one of the fastest growing in the country, one report claims. In 2006, a local gynecologist reported that she treated more cases of herpes and human papillomavirus at The Villages than she did when she worked in Miami.
"I get offers for sex all the time," brags Dave, 70, who, like others who spoke about their sexually active set, asked that his real name not be used, "especially by women in their 70s. They say, 'Are you busy tonight? I'll show you a good time.' "
One overly charming lady-killer known as "Mr. Midnight" boasted of one of his conquests last year: "Absolutely beautiful. I've had her a few times. She comes over, takes a shower, jumps in bed, and then gets dressed and leaves. She's simply the best."
His story was told by Andrew Blechman, author of "Leisureville," about communities like The Villages.
"There is lots of romance around here," said Jean, a 63-year-old retired teacher. "But most of the men want a one-night meaningful relationship."
Her friend Louise agrees. "A lot of the men down here are cheaper than heck," she says, "and a lot of the women are extremely brazen. Some girls will go into the parking lot with a man and come back a half-hour later like nothing happened!"
"We've had some of those complaints," said a laughing Lt. Laurie Davis of the Lady Lake Police Department, ticking off other offenses, like drunken driving in golf carts, illegal drug use, and bar fights.
"Whatever you know about 20-year-olds, it's the same with seniors," said Roselyn Shelley, 68, a divorced former dancer.
Sue Rice, a blonde who will only admit to being over 60 but who looks to be about 80 and dances like she's 14, has hooked up with Larry Tucker, an ex-banker about a decade her junior.
Tucker sports a gold charm around his neck that reads, "Bankers do it with interest."
"Feel this," Rice says, bouncing up from her bar stool and pinching her slim waist. "My body is the same as it was in high school! He can't keep up with me!"
According to Alan, a swarthy 62-year-old, there's a thriving black market for little blue V1agra pills.
"I did it once," he said. "I paid 12 bucks for a single pill."
Local cops just try to keep up. "You see two 70-year-olds with canes fighting over a woman and you think, 'Oh, jeez,' " Lt. Davis said.
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They don't have to worry about pregnancies or the children, they don't have to get to the office, and quite a few are more or less senile. Now they just want to have the fun they want when they want it... and it's only going to get worse when the Baby Boomers join in. Perhaps they should have big bowls full of condoms instead of peppermints at these hot spots.
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Sue Rice, a blonde who will only admit to being over 60 but who looks to be about 80 and dances like she's 14, has hooked up with Larry Tucker, an ex-banker about a decade her junior.
Little Larry Tucker was a banker that could really pucker..........
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There was a sad story last year about a couple at a nursing home; he was 85, she was 75, both had dementia, and the two fell for each other. The nurses had to keep them from doing things in public, and when his son visited him and walke din on the two of them, he was so angry he forced the nurses to keep the couple apart.
The two went into a deep depression and soon died. I believe I saw that on Glenn's site.
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Tucker sports a gold charm around his neck that reads, "Bankers do it with interest."
ROTHERA BASE, Antarctica (Reuters) - Once the "delicacies of the Antarctic," fresh seal brains, penguin eggs or grilled cormorant are off the menu at research bases where chefs rely on imported and often frozen food."You have to use what you've got in the store. Frozen stuff, tinned stuff and if you're really desperate the dried stuff," said Alan Sherwood, a widely praised chef at the British Rothera base on the Antarctic Peninsula. "We're now onto dried onions because we've run out," he said. "You can't just go out and buy some."
Rothera gets most of its supplies by ship twice a year -- in December and March -- with the occasional flight from Chile. Ya got my Cheese Whiz, boy?
The 1959 Antarctic Treaty sets aside the continent as a nature reserve devoted to peace and science and bases have over the years stopped eating fresh wildlife. Seals were shot at Rothera for dog food until 1994 when dogs were banned from Antarctica to protect the environment.
But a 1950s recipe book at the base run by the British Antarctic Survey gives an insight into life as it used to be, with staff making penguin egg omelettes or cooking seal hearts. "Seal brains ... I would consider one of the delicacies and luxuries of the Antarctic, and was enjoyed by most members of the base when I was chef," the unnamed author wrote.
In a chapter on seal brains, he listed recipes for fried seal brains, seal brains au gratin, brain fritters, seal brain omelette and savory seal brains on toast. The cook must be a man -- there were no British women in Antarctica at the time. He sounds like Bubba from Forest Gump...
He also said cormorants, or shags, are delicious. "My advice is if you see any around, take a ... rifle and knock a few off. It is a very meaty bird and one is enough for about six people." Ah, when men were men...
The author said he did not like penguin but that many also considered it a delicacy. Young penguins taste best, the book says. Some say it tastes like a fishy version of chicken. Now how did I know he was gonna say that?
Sherwood, aged 49, has giant freezers and stores with tonnes of supplies for the base which can have up to 100 people at a time. He and a colleague make three meals a day and mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks known as "smoko." Why would you need a freezer in Antarctica?
Choices for lunch at the weekend included pea and ham soup, chicken with pesto, fish in batter, rice, chips, and a variety of salads. Sherwood has worked seven Antarctic summers and in between returns to England to a job as a caterer.
"You look out the window in the UK and you've got last night's empty wine bottles and black bags in a dumpster. Here you've got icebergs rolling by," he said of his view from the kitchen. The next big meals will be when Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Maxima visit in February. More seal brains, your highness?
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A wise man (I think it might have been Jimmy Kimmel) said that the talent competition was proof positive that the Miss America pageant was adminstered by women - the theory being that if it was run by guys, the talent portion would involve nothing more than a trampoline and the eating of bananas.
And by the way - excuse a frequent lurker/occasional commenter's ignorance, but what the heck is the DS & TP?
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Going green was a cause she could really sink her teeth into.
The frantic passenger who bit a veteran driver's arm was upset that his bus wasn't a hybrid, he said Thursday. "She came on the bus, and she said she waited more than an hour for a hybrid," said MTA driver Peter Williams, 42. "I said, 'I'm not in control of what bus is assigned to me.'"
Williams, a dad of two who is in the Navy Reserves, plans to take a little time off after Wednesday's bizarre attack on an uptown M104 bus.
The woman, Shelia Bolar, 49, started hollering at Williams soon after she boarded the Broadway bus on the upper West Side. When her rant was done, she she grabbed his arm.
"Miss, don't touch me while I'm operating the bus," Williams warned Bolar.
At W. 79th St., Williams let passengers off and gestured to a dispatcher he called for help. "That's when she bit me. ... I couldn't believe it."
Bolar chomped through a jacket, a sweater and a thick shirt, causing a bruise and swelling but not breaking skin. "She bit through all that," said Williams, still shocked.
And then she fled - but cops nabbed her blocks away. Bolar, who faces assault charges was held without bail, pending a psychiatric exam.
Williams was released from St. Luke's Hospital and plans to return to work soon. "I hope it doesn't happen again," he said.
FLOTUS's inaugural outfits sent designers to their drafting tables to design knockoffs and droves went to J.Crew to get those snazzy leather green gloves. But not everyone is happy with her choices. The Black Artists Association is chiding FLOTUS for not choosing any African-American designers.
They will send a letter to FLOTUS's office and appeal to her to include items from black designers in her wardrobe. BAA Cofounder Amnau Eele, who was a former runway model told Women's Wear Daily:
"It's fine and good if you want to be all 'Kumbaya' and 'We Are the World' by representing all different countries. But if you are going to have Isabel Toledo do the inauguration dress, and Jason Wu do the evening gown, why not have Kevan Hall, B Michael, Stephen Burrows or any of the other black designers do something too?"
Wu didn't find out Michelle O. was wearing his dress until he saw her on television Tuesday night. And aides said FLOTUS didn't even decide until hours before her big night.
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I had a feeling that we were going to have to listen to an awful lot of this b.s. for the next few (4) years. From Reich pontificating about stimulus not going to 'White Male Construction Workers' to this senseless drivel, the great unifier doesn't really look like he's going to let his single biggest asset (the color of his skin) get swept under the carpet.
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LOL - the angry ankle-biting outrage groups can't wait to get their agenda in front of people who really just pretended interest to get elected. It's gonna be a long four years for them. I feel a tingle
/Chrissy
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when are african american women gonna learn too cross their legs like ladies and not stand like that in photos. that stance must have come from a night of fisting
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she should wear African-American designed clothes, because, I am sure they are all made and manufactured here in the states by African-american workers and not some foreign place like Nicaragua, Pakistan or Malaysia...
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Although Rabids coments may not be apprporiate, It was a Relationship Expert who raved about the Obama family and there public display of the "fist bump". Albeit the expert put it more in terms of the "rabid one".
Funny but definately inappropriate.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323. 
Lady LAKE, Fla. — It's 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn's gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue's sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new boyfriend, and Alan is scanning the crowd for cute girls.
FLOTUS's inaugural outfits sent designers to their drafting tables to design knockoffs and droves went to J.Crew to get those snazzy leather green gloves. But not everyone is happy with her choices. The Black Artists Association is chiding FLOTUS for not choosing any African-American designers. 
