Police say an 18-year-old man suffered serious burns while spray painting graffiti inside an electrical substation in northwest Santa Fe. The Associated Press reports that the man has been identified as 18-year-old Aaron Vigil and that he is in critical condition at a Phoenix burn center. The man called 911 from his cell phone after 50 to 70 percent of his body was burned.
Assistant Fire Chief Ted Bolleter says he was burned both from the electrical shock and from his clothes catching fire. ĀWe clearly mark it [the substation] as a dangerous, high-voltage environment and we urge people, especially children, to stay away from these facilities,Ā said Jeff Buell of Public Service Company of New Mexico. The substation supplies electricity to 5,800 houses in the area.
About 115,000 volts of electricity flow into the substation through high-voltage wires. Inside, the current is redistributed and sent out to customers through underground wires.
Police say the man apparently jumped a 15-foot wall topped with razor wire to get inside. Police say the 18-year-old may not have been the only person at the scene. Emergency crews say they saw two people leaving the substation as they pulled up.
"Screw this! I'm not holding his beer any longer!"
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Reading this gives me the willies. This young man is likely going to endure pain few of us can even imagine. For what? Some petty, testosterone (and/or alcohol)-fueled stupidity.
But I don't have near the sympathy for him that I do for our soldiers down in San Antonio struggling to recover some fraction of their lives after suffering comparable injuries but for a reason - our defense.
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115,000 volts will 'arc' about 10-inches to just about anything in 'dry air' (like New Mexico). Let's just add some spray-paint mist (probably fortified with metal for that 'shiny look') and you could multiply that by 10+.
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Bet the paint caught fire, and maybe the can blew up in his hand.
Oooohhh. [shudders]
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Lawsuit against Public Service Company of New Mexico in 5...4...3...
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Giveashit meter is in the shop, again. Hope no honest citizens encountered any problems or loss of life's simple enjoyments or financial losses due to this idiot's work. And at 18 he can be tried as an adult, so he can't hide behind Daddy's skirts. Or something.
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We used to make personal flamethrowers our of a spray paint can with a candle duct taped to it. Worked great on skeeters and moths.
As someone who regards graffiti vandals as the scum of this earth, my own sympathy meter isn't even twitching. Having also worked around very high voltages, to purposefully defeat the safety barriers that surround any substation and intentionally expose yourself to the prospect of severe electrical shock is tantamount to autochlorination of your own gene pool. Why not stick a fork into a wall outlet and save all the trouble?
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caught a punk (guess the background) spraypainting my neighbor's fence in San Diego - we spray painted his head, pantsed him and sent him on his way...nowadays they're armed or carrying knives. I'd propose an open season (with licenses) for hunting - if they have a spray can in hand - fire away
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by the way - no charge for "blinds" in the public ROW
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FG: I'd propose an open season (with licenses) for hunting - if they have a spray can in hand - fire away
I think Singapore has the right idea - a flogging and a six-month jail term.
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Hector Pulido, 40, was arrested Tuesday after day care workers discovered adult-size bite marks on the boy's chest, stomach, shoulder, back, thigh, leg and buttocks, police said.
The boy told officers his uncle had bitten him. When questioned, Pulido allegedly admitted that he did it "to teach him not to bite anyone," said Lt. James Viadero, a police spokesman
awwwwww the art of "positive reinforcement" vs "negative"....perhaps his Uncle just has a "bite" reflex better learned to ignore in a jail cell with Bubba. See "Shawshank..."
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Australia seems to have a problem with outlaw olives. Best to chop them up and make tapenade before they go bad. Link from the story: Gang filmed sex attack on schoolgirls One man was described as being 180 centimetres tall, with an olive complexion and slicked-back dark hair.
A second man was described as having an olive complexion, and dark hair.
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When I first saw the headline, I assumed that the woman had been breastfeeding in public, and had been attacked by a mob of undefined ethnicity for being exposed meat.
I'm not sure which version is sicker.
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How did all these "olives" get into Australia? I once looked at a lengthy construction project in Australia and perused their immigration site out of curiosity. I was shocked, as an experienced union tradesman at the time with a wife that is a chemist, I didn't have enough points to get in! How do all these worthless mooks swing it? Anyone?
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come on,the same way they do here. Who needs skills?
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I didn't have enough points to get in!
Neither did I, unless I had been invited by an employer (which was the case). The points I lost for being old (late 30s, at the time) more than made up for the ones I gained for technical and English-speaking skills.
...the same way they do here.
The Indian Ocean's a little bit wider and deeper than the Rio Grande.
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It seems that EMPLOYERS Down Under, just like those in the US, seeking to game the system and make a cheap buck, are willing to import slave labor from any quarter, even at the expense of totally underming and subverting the entire fabric of society. We nned to handle these people in a very public and disgusting manner.
Now, where is that SAS contingent who are allowed to shoot to kill ? There's a target on the loose they need to track down.
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When I first saw the headline, I assumed that the woman had been breastfeeding in public, and had been attacked by a mob of undefined ethnicity for being exposed meat.
I'm not sure which version is sicker.
Isn't that what happened? It just wasn't a mob; the asshat assumed an exposed breast was free game.
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While proof awaits as to whether the perp was actually Muslim, the whole catmeat "unveiled" issue certainly springs to mind in this case.
Well, you can check "Mom" off of the list. What's next, "apple pie"? Islam continues to intentionally defile whatever Western icons are within its reach. While this may give them a temporary psychological victory, they are slowly enraging a huge portion of the Infidel population that, once roused, will not rest until Islam is a historical footnote. It is only a matter of time, Islam guarantees that much for sure.
IIRC, there was a similar case reported here not so long ago. Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Chinese police have arrested a corpse trader who killed six women so he could sell their bodies for superstitious "weddings of the dead". The Xinhua news agency said the man - only identified by the surname Song - was part of a network supplying "ghost brides" to families seeking afterlife spouses for their dead sons.
Arranged marriages for the dead are an ancient tradition in parts of China. Although the custom declined after the communists took power in 1949, it is said to have made a comeback in rural areas.
In an interview, Mr Song, from Linzhang county in Hebei province, said he started selling bodies in 1998. His initial attempt at grave-robbing failed when he was caught by police and jailed for two years.
Starting last year, he allegedly lured four women with learning difficulties to remote areas on his bicycle, then strangled them. He allegedly found the two other victims by recruiting them as housekeepers. "Killing people and selling their bodies was easier than stealing bodies from graves," he was quoted as saying.
He allegedly sold the bodies to middlemen in Henan and Hebei, claiming the victims had succumbed to illness and been abandoned by their families. Each corpse earned him Ā£200 to Ā£265.
His motive was to make enough money to build up a dog-breeding business. "I felt very jealous when I saw successful businessmen. I dreamed of becoming a millionaire," he allegedly told a reporter. "When a person thinks only of money, they can do anything."
Mr Song was arrested when families of the two housemaids reported them missing and police found they were both hired by him through the same agency.
At least three other corpse traders have been detained in connection with the case. Others are still at large.
Arranged marriages for the deceased are particularly common around the festival for the dead in early April. In parts of Shanxi province, farmers match suitable skeletons and organise engagements, weddings, gifts, dowries and celebration dinners for the families.
In recent years, the practice has been reported in Henan, Hebei - very close to Beijing - and even in Guangdong, the most developed province on the mainland.
In some case, the dead men have living wives, but their parents want them to have company in the afterlife. A lawyer told Chinese reporters that a family in Xingtai village, close to the site of the latest crimes, had sued the wife of their dead son because she refused to give them enough money to pay for a "ghost wife" to take her place.
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In recent years, the practice has been reported in Henan
Henan is home to the world's largest medically caused AIDS epidemic. With some 40%-50% of the population infected, you'd think finding a few dead bodies wouldn't have been very difficult.
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WAFF.com > CHINA'S GRAVEYARD BUBBLES ARE BURSTING. Plot(s)Scams all over the place - even iff legitimate, graves for some good only for 40 year-leasing.
A DRIVER has died after a cow landed on the roof of his ute in an accident. Police believe the cow was standing in the middle of the road when the vehicle slammed into it sometime yesterday on the Exmouth to Minillya Road at Carnarvon, in northern WA.
A spokeswoman said investigators thought the impact had flipped the cow onto the roof of the ute, crushing the 26-year-old driver.
The cow fell off about 50m further down the road, and the vehicle careered into the scrub where it was found by a passer-by yesterday morning.
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Road killed cattle and kangaroos are very common in Western Australia, which results in another hazard.
Wedge tailed eagles feed on the roadkill and wait until the last moment when a vehicle approaches before flying off or often just hopping a couple of meters away.
I was talking to a mechanic out in the bush a few years ago and he told me of 2 cases of eagles going through windshields. In one case the eagle was still alive and gave the driver some very nasty injuries.
Otherwise, big powerful spotlights that illuminate the road for a considerable distance are a really good idea here.
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Some classmates in high school hit a prized breeding bull with their pickup while coming over a hill on a gravel road.
One of the guys crawled 3/4 miles on his hands and knees to a farm house for help.
The farmer was frantic. It was (in the early 70s) his MILLION DOLLAR stud bull.
Nobody, cops, medics vets bothered to take the kids to the hospital until after the vet determined the bull needed to be put down.
The kids learned their worth was nothing to these folks.
HIGH waves have struck coastlines across Indonesia, forcing hundreds to be evacuated from their homes after water destroyed houses and fishing boats.
On the resort island of Bali, tourists were warned to stay away from the main Kuta beach after waves started pounding the coastline late yesterday, the Detikcom news website said.
High water also hit the nearby picturesque Jimbaran beach, damaging stalls and fishing boats, ElShinta radio reported. Houses in fishing villages along Java island's coastline have been damaged and some residents, fearful of another tsunami, have headed inland, local officials told Detikcom.
"I fled my house because I am afraid of a tsunami like the one in Aceh,'' Munajad, a resident in Sukabumi in western Java, said. "There are 38 huts swept away by the waves that came in the morning. There's no missing people but some have been injured,'' he told ElShinta.
About 200 Sukabumi residents were seeking shelter in a local government building, an official said.
The waves have been generated by strong winds blowing across the Indian Ocean, the national meteorology office said.
A tsunami alert has not been issued for Indonesia, the nation worst hit by devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
In Caringin village, also in western Java, waves badly damaged a holiday resort and fishing huts, Detikcom reported. "Hundreds of houses were damaged after a high tide came. We are still investigating the exact amount of damage,'' an official said.
Several hundred people have been evacuated as a precaution from Trenggalek district in eastern Java after waves sunk fishing boats, local police said. Residents living up to three hundred metres from the coast had to be moved, an officer told Detikcom.
People living in Indonesia's second-city of Surabaya reported minor flooding in their homes after waves hit the area, Metro TV reported. Waves also struck hundreds of kilometres further north on Sumatra island, with a high tide hitting Bengkulu, also damaging dozens of fishing boats.
Cuba says it will spend about $185 million to upgrade more than 200 resorts, golf courses, marinas and other facilities in a bid to reverse a dip in tourism to the island. That's almost a million dollars at each facility!
The government has said the number of visitors to island dropped by about 100,000 last year to 2.2 million, hitting the communist nation's leading source of income. Washington's 45-year-old trade embargo prohibits American tourists from coming to Cuba and chokes off most trade between the countries.
Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero announced the development plan last week at a tourism fair that was closed to the international press. The plan detailed this week in Opciones, a state-run newspaper for foreign investors, will run through 2010 and seeks to make Cuba more competitive.
Some $162 million will be used to upgrade non-hotel facilities, such as golf courses, yacht clubs and theme parks. Other funds will be used to build 50 boutique inns around the country in addition to 10 already under construction and to improve the country's outdated highways, Marrero said.
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Theme parks? Money would be better spend repairing Castilo del Morro and la Cabana.
Japan's lower house of parliament approved legislation Friday requiring schools to teach patriotism as part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to instill national pride.
A house panel approved a set of three bills Thursday after the main education law was revised in December, requiring teachers to encourage patriotism as part of compulsory education for the first time since World War II.
The legislation cites "love of country" as a goal of Japanese education, compulsory from elementary through junior high school.
The package will be sent to the upper house for further debate beginning next week, and is expected to be passed into law before the current parliamentary session ends late June.
Opposition lawmakers have protested the bills, saying they could spread nationalism. Approval also may trigger concerns from neighbors China and South Korea, which suffered under Japan's aggression in the last century.
Japan's parliament approved a plan Monday for a referendum on the country's pacifist constitution, a step to boost Abe's drive to give the Japanese military a larger global role.
Japan's 1947 constitution, drafted by U.S. occupation officials after World War II, has never been amended. Many Japanese credit the charter's pacifist clause, Article 9, with keeping the country out of war since 1945.
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FREEREPUBLIC/OTHERS > USA ASKS JAPAN TO SHIELD IT FROM MISSLES. SecDef Gates asks Japan to formally declare COLLECTIVE DEFENSE, i.e. an attack on one is an attack on all [ala NATO]. Gates - possible for other regional states to participate.
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Japan's lower house of parliament approved legislation Friday requiring schools to teach patriotism as part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to instill national pride.
An Indian train driver came up with an original idea when the train he was driving broke down unexpectedly. Rather than face the prospect of scores of frustrated passengers launching a chorus of complaints, the driver instead asked them to get out and push.
Many chose to get out of their seats and do just that, officials say. It took them more than half an hour to move the electric train 12ft (4m) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey.
"In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident," Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways, told the Reuters news agency.
Officials say the extraordinary display of passenger power occurred on Tuesday in the eastern state of Bihar after a passenger pulled the train's emergency chain, bringing it to a halt in a "neutral zone". This is a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires. Correspondents say that a train's momentum usually allows it to continue moving through neutral zones.
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"Driver, can't you go faster?"
"Oh yes, sahib, I can, but I am not allowed to leave the train."
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Is it not obvious how superior these people are to their muzzy neighbors?
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You do what you gotta do to get where you gotta go.A friend of mine broke a leg in a parachute jump on a bush airstrip. The ambulance taking him to hospital broke down and he had to get underneath and fix it with a broken leg, unset, in an inflatable cast.
Another fine example of the Religion of PeaceĀ in action.
ISLAMABAD - A woman was forced to parade naked in public in a central Pakistani village by armed men in revenge for having allegedly helped one of their female relatives to elope with her lover, a press report said on Thursday.
Seven men with weapons forced their way into the home of the mother of four in a village near the city of Multan, 600 kilometres south-west of Islamabad, and dragged her outside. She was later stripped and made to march through the village, The News daily reported. Police later arrested three men in connection with the act of revenge.
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dragged her outside. She was later stripped and made to march through the village
It isn't clear what happened before "later", or how long that interval was, Swamp Blondie. Quite possibly time enough for nefarious doings by the miscreants, I fear.
MULTAN: Four outlaws, Hammad Shah, Ashfaq Shah,Khalid and Munir trespassed into the home a farmer Muhammad Majid in Makhdoom Aali (Lodhran district) and threw acid on three sisters Kareman Mai (18),Zainab bibi (5) and Sidrah bibi (3) on wednesday because Kareman has scolded them for teasing her and she also lodged a complaint with their parents. All the three sisters were taken to Rural health centre where Sidrah succumbed to burns. While two sisters referred to Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur where their condition is state to be serious. Jallah Arain Police have registered a case against them and arrested one of the culprits Khalid. DPO Lodhran Rehmat-ullah said," we are trying to arrest all the culprits and they would not go unpunished, and we have registered a case under murder charge, trespassing and throwing acid."
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More from the religion of respect and tiny ding-a-lings. And no doubt the Paki courts have more acid throwing descriptions than Eskimos have words for snow.
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They have a specific law against throwing acid?!?
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.
Police say an 18-year-old man suffered serious burns while spray painting graffiti inside an electrical substation in northwest Santa Fe. The Associated Press reports that the man has been identified as 18-year-old Aaron Vigil and that he is in critical condition at a Phoenix burn center. The man called 911 from his cell phone after 50 to 70 percent of his body was burned.
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
HIGH waves have struck coastlines across Indonesia, forcing hundreds to be evacuated from their homes after water destroyed houses and fishing boats.
