"No words can adequately capture my feelings about the devastating accident that has caused such heartache for everyone who truly loved - and continues to love Reeva. The pain and sadness especially for Reevas parents, family and friends consumes me with sorrow. The loss of Reeva and the complete trauma of that day, I will carry with me for the rest of my life."
[THESMOKINGGUN] Police today announced charges have been filed against a Pennsylvania man in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of a horse pulling an Amish buggy.
Timothy Antonio Diggs, 22, is facing seven misdemeanor counts, including reckless endangerment, cruelty to animals, and firing into an occupied vehicle, according to the East Lampeter Township Police Department.
The horse was pulling a buggy with five family members around 9 PM on November 24 when "an unknown type car traveling north passed the buggy."
The buggy's occupants, a married couple and their three young children, told Sherlocks that they heard "a loud noise, described as sounding like a firecracker" as the vehicle passed.
Upon returning to their farm, the family discovered that the horse had been shot in the chest. The animal died before a veterinarian reached the family's residence.
Diggs, seen in the above mug shot, has been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! since cops executed a search warrant at his home in early-December. During that raid, officers located handguns and a cycle of violence that had been stolen in two separate burglaries.
Police did not disclose whether one of the seized guns was used in the horse killing, nor did they reveal a motive for the shooting.
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Why'd that dude shoot that cute Amish horse?
What I heard from a source on the force
Was his ego was bruised
When said dobbin refused
His polite invitation to Intercourse.
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Nice haircut, jerk. How long for the burglary? The motorcycle's gotta be a felony
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Timothy Antonio Diggs, 22, is facing seven misdemeanor counts, including reckless endangerment, cruelty to animals, and firing into an occupied vehicle,..
Firing into an occupied vehicle is a misdemeanor? YJCMTSU
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An amish woman is stopped by police at dusk. The state tropper says that she needs to have reflectors on the back and lights on the front. She agrees and then he says it looks like the reins are wrapped around the horses testicles and that she should fix that as well.
Arriving home late the Amish husband greets the wife and ask why she is late. She said she was pulled over by a state tropper. The trooper said she needed reflectors and lights and he said something about the emergency brake...
[THESMOKINGGUN] An Arizona woman went on a naked rampage early Monday after her live-in boyfriend refused to have sex with her, police report.
Ashley Marie Prenovost, 24, was already intoxicated when her beau returned to the Glendale residence the couple shares with their four-month-old daughter. Prenovost, according to a court filing, "wanted to have sex with him and got naked."
When her boyfriend declined to have sex, Prenovost became enraged, according to police. She allegedly punched two holes in a bedroom wall, and "punched a picture hanging on the wall in the hallway, causing glass to break and causing injuries to both of suspect's hands."
As Prenovost ran around inside the home, "she bled all over the floor in the master bedroom, hallway, common area by the front door and kitchen." When cops arrived at the residence, a naked Prenovost attempted to flee through the garage.
Pictured in the above mug shot, Prenovost was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on a variety of charges, including assault, disorderly conduct, and criminal damage. She was also hit with several child abuse counts since, during her tirade, she raced around the home with her baby in her arms. At one point, the child's head struck a bedroom dresser.
Prenovost was freed from custody yesterday. She is scheduled for a February 24 court appearance.
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Had a similar situation here. Different circumstances mind you, inclement weather and power outage. Luckily, I keep an extra set of torch batteries hidden away in the door of the frig.
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...An early entry for Mother Of The Year, I see.
Mike
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The Old Switcheroo.
(Usually it's the guy...)
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Mrs. JohnQC said the guy was probably trying to break up with her--she was just too crazy. Could have been worse. She might have tried to pull a Lorena Bobbitt on the guy.
[BREITBART] German police said a nightclub was evacuated when a woman doused herself with pepper spray that she mistook for spray-on deodorant.
Wurzburg said the 20-year-old woman was in the nightclub's restroom Monday night and took the spray canister from her friend's purse, TheLocal.de reported Wednesday.
The woman did not check the canister's label before spraying it on herself, believing it to be deodorant.
The pepper spray quickly spread through the building and the club was evacuated, police said. Two women were treated for eye injuries.
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Reminds me of the time I experimented with a home-grown fresh Habenero hot pepper. Cut a little piece out of it in the kitchen & had to evacuate the house.
The all-time record for ice coverage of all the Great Lakes is 94.7 percent in 1979. But Lake Superior, the biggest of the five, is typically the last to ice over. In 1994, the last time it came close, 91 percent of its surface iced over. Lake Erie, conversely, is the shallowest of the lakes and freezes nearly every year. But the global warmers can't get past this next factoid.
On the flip side, the lowest ice accumulation across the Great Lakes occurred in 2002, when just 9.5 percent of the surface froze solid. Duluth, Minn., recently experienced 23 consecutive days of subzero temperatures, besting the previous all-time record of 22 days set in 1936 and 1963. More weather, you drones! Climate Change IS Coming!
Once the water freezes over, it could stay cold well into summer. "Typically, the lake will start warming up in late June, but it will be August before we see that this year," Professor Austin said, adding that the "extraordinary cold" has led to ice several feet thick in some parts of the lake. weather, weather, weather, weather...
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Austin said, adding that the "extraordinary cold" has led to ice several feet thick in some parts of the lake.
Lake Superior almost always has more ice than Lake Ontario.
also, the phrase 'frozen solid' is incorrect; there is water under the ice and furthermore, ice cracks are common (winds blow ice sheets exposing water)
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Well I believe in climate change. The climate changes all the time.
Man, however is not responsible for this unless they were driving SUVs over the past 500,000 years when we have had multiple ice ages and warming periods.
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No scientific consensus on why/how previous ice ages have come & gone. AGW may actually be preventing something much, much worse, but the "experts" are clueless about this & prefer pursuing their agendas.
[USATODAY] In a story as bizarre as it is deja vu-ish, a 44-year-old fetus has been found in an 84-year-old Brazilian woman.
The Daily Mail reports by way of G1 that the discovery came last Friday, when the woman's intense stomach pains landed her in a hospital in Tocantins state in central Brazil. X-rays revealed the unthinkable: a "stone baby."
As the International Business Times explains the rare phenomenon is known as lithopedion, in which the fetus grows and then dies outside of the uterus.
With the body unable to rid itself of it, the dead fetus is instead covered in calcium as a means of protection, resulting in the "stone baby."
Per G1, the woman says she became pregnant more than 40 years ago but suffered pain during the pregnancy, and visited a healer for help.
After taking what he had given her, "Her stomach didn't grow any more, the baby stopped moving, and she thought it had been aborted," says a gynecologist at the hospital where she was transferred.
The gynecologist says X-rays revealed "the face, the bones of the arms, of the legs, the ribs, and the spine," of the fetus, which is believed to have died at between 20 and 28 weeks.
In December, a nearly identical case was announced in Colombia. That woman opted to have surgery; the Brazilian says she does not want the fetus removed.
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Wendy Davis (D-Pink Tennis Shoes) supports 132nd trimester abortions
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Why'd that granny from Tocantins weep? It
is said, "What you sow, you shall reap it."
Then she became calmer
when she heard from Obama:
"If you like your stone child, you can keep it!"
In a 2-1 decision issued on February 13th, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled "San Diego County violates the Constitution's Second Amendment by requiring residents to show 'good cause'" before being allowed "to obtain a concealed carry permit."
The court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is, in and of itself, a sufficient cause for bearing arms for self-defense. Moreover, it is a sufficient cause both inside and outside of one's domicile.
According to SFGate, Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain's majority opinion emphasized "the right to bear arms includes the right to carry an operable arm outside the home for the lawful purpose of self-defense."
He said the Second Amendment must be read as including "the right to carry weapons outside the home" because "the risk of armed confrontation" is in no way limited to one's home. He supported his points by citing the examples of "a woman toting a small handgun in her purse as she walks through a dangerous neighborhood or a night-shift worker carrying a handgun in his coat as he travels to and from his job site."
O'Scannlain "disagreed with federal appeals courts that have upheld [similar] requirements" in states like New York and New Jersey, where citizens also have to show "good cause" to get a concealed permit. A voice of reason in the California wilderness. This judge seems to understand Constitutional law.
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our local San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore (former FBI) was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Bill Kolender. To get a permit to Carry you had to:
a) Prove the need to Carry (i.e.: dangerous job carrying large amounts of cash or jewels, or have a restraing order against a violent person) or
b) be a political friend/hack or large campaign contributor
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Join the San Diego Honorary Deputiy Sheriff's association and they encourage you to get a conceal carry permit.
It costs $100 a year to be a member (tax deductable). You get a free prime rib lunch every month for that $100 when/if you attend the meetings and you get to fire for free at the Duffy Town range on the Mirimar Marine Air Station.
Hardly seems that they are discouraging things.
At least that's the way it was under Kolender, don't know what Gore is up to.
[An Nahar] More than 70 men and women have been summarily executed in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the U.N. mission in the country (MONUSCO) said Thursday.
"The reports received by MONUSCO suggest that the summary executions were allegedly committed mainly by gangs to spread terror among the population. The majority of the victims were killed with machete," MONUSCO said in a statement.
The killings happened in late January and early February, a MONUSCO front man told AFP. They took place in the Nyamaboko villages I and II in the resource-rich northeastern North Kivu province where gangs regularly attack civilians over ethnic or commercial disputes.
In December, MONUSCO's intervention force, whose mission is to neutralize all the gangs active in the troubled country, boosted its presence in the area.
Government troops struck a rare and striking military success when, backed by the U.N. brigade, they defeated the powerful M23 rebel group in November.
Since then, MONUSCO has been focusing on going after other armed militias operating in the same region.
MONUSCO said it was in the process of verifying the information about the mass executions on the ground.
"MONUSCO shall spare no efforts to neutralize all the gangs responsible for such acts," it said in the statement.
Mission chief Martin Kobler meanwhile expressed "serious concern over the allegations of the gross human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations deemed unacceptable."
He said any person involved in such acts should face justice.
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"The majority of the victims were killed with machete"
At least they weren't killed with an... assault weapon!
[Jerusalem Post] Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal sought to explain why he was in contact with Israelis at the Munich Security Conference last month in an article published on Thursday in the Saudi newspaper Al Riyadh. Yes, yes, yes... I know they are icky, but let me explain.
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In an interview, Prince Faisal said "because I f***in felt like it. Besides, they've got the best pastrami for 1000 miles in any direction."
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Does it have anything to do with the crazy neighbor next door--near nuclear armed Iran despite the stated reason it was for the Paleo brothers and the children.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] President Nicolas Maduro claims 'fascist' opponents orchestrated protest violence that claimed three lives as part of plan to overthrow government
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Turkish police on February 13 used water cannons and tear gas in central Ankara to disperse demonstrators, who had gathered to protest the Ergenekon and Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup trials and the controversial specially authorized courts, the Hürriyet Daily News reported.
Around 3,000 protestors gathered in the capital over reports that the limit of five years for detentions without convictions would not be applied in the Ergenekon and Balyoz trials. Police intervened violently in the crowd, which wanted to march to Parliament. At least 12 protesters, who were mostly members of the Workers' Party (İP) and the Turkish Youth Union (TGB), were detained by the police, despite the intervention of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Süheyl Batum.
Two people, including a police officer, were injured and left bloodied in the clashes, the AFP reported.
Last month, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the government was warm on the retrial of hundreds of convicted military officers.
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If I were to comment on the Grand Turk Article - Police use force to disperse coup trials protest - it would look like this
Warning of federal atrocities, former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack talked a Senate panel into making it a crime for federal agents to operate in Arizona without first getting written approval from the county sheriff.
Mack told members of the Senate Public Safety Committee on Wednesday that county sheriffs are the only elected law enforcement officers in the country. That, he said, means they answer to and are responsible for protecting the people.
And then we allow bureaucrats from Washington, D.C., to come in and supersede his authority, and to do whatever they want in his county, and they (the sheriffs) can say nothing about it? Mack said.
SB 1290, sponsored by Sen. Judy Burges, R-Sun City West, says a federal employee who is not a state-certified peace officer cannot make an arrest, or conduct a search or a seizure in Arizona without written consent of the sheriff. And it says the sheriff can withhold that permission for any reason.
There are exceptions, such as when a federal employee witnesses certain crimes. And none of this would interfere with the work of customs or border patrol officers.
Were asking that the federal government do something they should already be doing: verifying their work and what theyre doing with the sheriff as a check and balance so that atrocities committed in the 1990s especially by the federal government at Ruby Ridge and Waco and other places do not happen here, Mack said.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment two Afghan nationals for kidnapping a teenaged boy for ransom, and fined them Rs20,000 each.
The ATC judge Syed Asghar Shah also convicted the wife of one of the convicts under section 14 of the Foreigners Act for illegal stay in Pakistain and sentenced her to seven years imprisonment.
The judge ordered that the properties owned by the three convicts should be confiscated to the state and they should be deported to Afghanistan after completion of their prison term. The three convicts -- Fazlullah, his wife Ms Talha and Mohammad Alam -- were charged with kidnapping Abdul Wahab, 18, from Tehkal area on May 17, 2013. The complainant Akhter Munir, uncle of the kidnapped boy, charged them for the commission of the offence. Later, the boy was recovered from his captors.
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During the February 13 broadcast of CBS This Morning, host Charlie Rose and his guest turned to the topic of this year's harsh winter, calling the extreme cold an example of global warming.
Guest Michio Kaku, a physics professor from New York City College--not a climatologist, but a physicist--claimed that the "wacky weather" could get "even wackier" and its all because of global warming. "What we're seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. We think it's because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is melting," professor Kaku said.
"That excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air... So that's the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions," the prof explained.
This was all because of global warming, Rose insisted.
CBS Host Norah O'Donnell also took the occasion of the discussion to claim that 2014 will be the hottest summer ever.
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..I work with a Global Warming whacko. Told him this morning that the dogma substituted for religion for him and his wheels 'about came off. It was great..
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.
The all-time record for ice coverage of all the Great Lakes is 94.7 percent in 1979. But Lake Superior, the biggest of the five, is typically the last to ice over. In 1994, the last time it came close, 91 percent of its surface iced over. Lake Erie, conversely, is the shallowest of the lakes and freezes nearly every year.
During the February 13 broadcast of CBS This Morning, host Charlie Rose and his guest turned to the topic of this year's harsh winter, calling the extreme cold an example of global warming. 
