A 23-year-old Slidell beauzeau is facing burglary charges after police say he broke into a seafood business where he used to work and made off with some money -- then tried to hide his face from surveillance cameras by wearing a bucket on his head. But the cameras glimpsed the suspect's face as he was peeking around a corner, and police arrested Richard Boudreaux at his home last week, Detective Daniel Seuzeneau said in a news release. I don't think a bucket would make a good mask. Either it wouldn't mask the face well or else the burgler wouldn't be able to see.
Seuzeneau said police believe Boudreaux, dressed in hunting camouflage and gloves, broke into Kenney's Seafood on Pontchartrain Drive on Jan. 8. Remembering that the business had surveillance cameras, Boudreaux found a bucket and placed it over his head, trying to keep it from getting sucked into the vacuum therein, as he scoured the business looking for money, Seuzeneau said. "Dough/Is what I'm looking for/Raids/Are how I'll make it mine/Me/The one who benefits/Far/Away I'll be, and fine..."
Oh my. You really went all the way there... and did jumping jacks. LOL
Boudreaux left with money from the cash register, Seuzeneau said, and went to Jerry's Buy and Sell Inc. on Old Spanish Trail. He also made an attempt to break in there, but was unsuccessful and went chez lui, as the French say, Seuzeneau said. "And I doubt my handy disguise ever got of kilter, either."
"Police! Freeze!"
"****!"
Boudreaux told Slidell Police detectives that he broke into Kenney's Seafood because he was having money problems and had "bad blood" with the owner, Seuzeneau said. Boudreaux also said he tried to break into Jerry's Buy and Sell to get a gun because he was afraid of the possibility of future gun control laws being passed, Seuzeneau said. A motive that the usual suspects will no doubt harp endlessly upon.
Bourdreaux is charged with simple burglary of a business, attempted simple burglary of a business possession of poison hemp and possession of drug paraphernalia, Seuzeneau said.
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If this bucket head would have taken the time to procure the bottom half of a Styrofoam cooler and used it instead of the bucket I believe the outcome would have been different. Because as we all know cooler heads prevail.
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Kind of surprised we don't see more burglars wearing president masks or Guy Fawkes masks to throw folks off the scent with red herrings and distractions. "He must be a tea-partier, he was wearing an Obama mask" that sort of thing.
Video of one of the bands at the link, for those of you who like such things.
[Ynet] Heavy metal groups Orphaned Land, Khalas to share bus during 18-day European tour aimed at spreading message of coexistence
While Israelis and Paleostinians have battled ineffectively for decades to find a common ground, there are a few individuals who unite through a mutual love for heavy metal and the belief that music can surpass politics and religion, bringing people together despite their differences.
Two Israeli bands, one Jewish and one Arab, have joined forces in 'metal brotherhood' to practice what they preach -- a message of coexistence and peace.
Israeli-Jewish band Orphaned Land and Israeli-Arab group Khalas (which means 'enough' or 'stop' in Arabic) are currently en route an 18-day European tour to help spread the message of coexistence and harmony between the two conflicting sides.
The two bands will not only share the stage, but also a tour bus for three weeks to be an example of tolerance. Their music styles are similar as they fuse classic heavy metal elements with Arabic rhythms and instruments. The result? Oriental Metal.
Shalom Life had a chance to speak to Kobi Farhi, the vocalist for Orphaned Land, and his good friend, Abed Hathout, guitarist and band manager for Khalas, on how these two bands got together for this peace-promoting heavy metal tour.
"Kobi and have been friends for years now, and we've always talked about hitting the road together," Hathout tells me. "One day he gave me a call and told us he wants us (Khalas) on board with an Orphaned Land tour. We reached out to this publishing company 'Media Men Group' and they were really excited when we told them about the idea, because luckily, the tour represents what they believe in: peace. They've helped make this dream come true."
"We are simply showing that music is one of the strongest hopes of our times," adds Farhi. "While politicians and religious leaders work for years just to get themselves into the negotiation table, Orphaned Land and Khalas would share and live inside of a bus. That's a lesson to our leaders from any kind, religion or politic - grow up!"
Orphaned Land, which have been playing music together for nearly a quarter century, are known for spreading political messages through their music while promoting peace. On the cover of their latest album, All Is One, the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are depicted united as one.
Khalas' latest album features metal covers of '80s Arab wedding songs. Hathout explains that, though their joint tour with Orphaned Land has been met with positive reinforcement from the Huffington Post, Guardian, CNN and more, there are those out there who simply cannot get on board.
"There are always those fanatics who don't like any type of collaboration whatsoever between Paleostinians and Israelis," explains Hathout. "They say that our collaboration is a normalization with an occupation system, but we say what are you talking about?!! We are just two bands hitting the road together in Europe. Sure, one happens to be Paleostinian and one happens to be Israeli, and yes, it happens to be that we are friends and consider each other as brothers, so what?!"
While heavy metal music may not be the customary approach to bridge the gap between Israel and Arabs, this method through music has been used before. In 1999, Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Paleostinian intellectual Edward Said founded The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, consisting of Israeli, Arab, and Spanish musicians, and based in the Spanish city of Seville. It looks like Hathout and Farhi hope to copy this blueprint to educate the masses on how easy it is to coexist.
More likely a matter of parallel evolution, but in this case it really makes no difference.
"Its great we are really luck to be able to do this with a great band like Orphaned Land," Hathout says. "Beside that their music is awesome they are also amazing people. It's unfortunate that this entire region cannot also be like this; I mean, if two bands can share a bus, then people from two sides can share this land. We know that our reality is different from the current situation, but we feel that our tour is a seed of hope. It does not reflect the reality of this region now, but maybe if we reach enough people, one day it can."
[Hurriyet] Afghanistan's football team sparked rowdy celebrations across the war-battered nation Aug. 20 after securing an convincing 3-0 win over arch-rivals Pakistain in the first international match in Kabul for ten years.
There is no joy in Islamabadville
Mighty Caseydullah has kicked out.
A delirious 6,000 capacity crowd packed the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) stadium for a game that unleashed a wave of patriotic pride in a country beset for decades by war, poverty and Islamist extremism.
Afghanistan, ranked at 139th in the world just above Pakistain,
They're ranked higher than Pakistan?! How humiliating.
Imagine if the Afghans had a higher rating in cricket. Oh the shame, the shame...
gave home fans little to worry about, dominating the game from the kick-off and going three goals ahead mid-way through the second half.
The match was promoted as a symbol of football's ability to foster peace and unite countries in a shared love of sport, but the result was celebrated by many Afghans as a sweet victory over an old and bitter adversity.
"I am a huge football fan, and this match was so important for us," said Shabir Ahmad, 27, a government employee at the match.
"There are a lot of rivalries between Afghanistan and Pakistain, even if this match was meant to boost friendship." Political ties are badly strained between Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistain, which blame each other for bloody violence plaguing both countries.
Many in Afghanistan are convinced that Pakistain pulls the strings behind the 12-year insurgency that has raged since the Taliban hardliners were ousted in 2001.
Just a small number of women were in the stands, and there was no sign of Pak support despite thousands of Paks living and working in the Afghan capital.
Security was intense with several rings of armed riot police and soldiers beating back frustrated ticketless crowds locked outside of the stadium.
Kabul has been hit by a series of bad turban attacks this year, including near the president's palace and on the Supreme Court, and the Taliban have vowed to step up violence as elections loom early next year.
Taliban gunnies give blessing to supporter
One spectator, Ahmadzai Fazeli, 25, said that gunnies at a Taliban roadblock in volatile Wardak province had wished the team well.
"On the way here the Taliban stopped me. I told them I was going to the football match, and they happily let me pass," he said. "Now I am here feeling very patriotic and happy." Ahead of kick-off, tempers frayed as police struggled to control unruly crowds pushing to get access to the game, which was attended by some senior Afghan officials and foreign diplomats, including the British ambassador.
But the final whistle triggered delirium as players paraded the national flag in front of dancing spectators and crowds celebrated on the city streets.
The game, which was played on an artificial pitch funded by the FIFA world body, was the first home international since Afghanistan played Turkmenistan in 2003.
Football was not banned under the Taliban's 1996-2001 regime but the old Ghazi stadium in Kabul was a notorious venue for executions, stonings and mutilations.
Tuesday's game - at the separate AFF stadium in the city - will be followed on Aug. 22 by the start of the second season of the eight-team Afghan Premier League. A return match is scheduled in the Pak city of Lahore in December.
[Ynet] Gas-rich Qatar has dispatched a second shipment of free liquefied gas it had pledged to Egypt, a report said, despite Doha's criticism of Cairo's deadly crackdown on Moslem Brüderbund protesters.
The tanker left "to brotherly Egypt on August 9," QNA state news agency said in a report late on Monday.
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We should send JFn Kerry.
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Please do, One way.
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[AnNahar] Health authorities in Qatar on Tuesday announced the first case of MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state, with a 59-year-old man infected.
The patient, a Qatari, is in stable, pH balanced condition, they said.
Another Qatari with the infection died in a London hospital on June 28.
The virus has killed 46 since September worldwide, 39 of them in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... which neighbors Qatar.
MERS is considered a cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine percent of whom died.
Like SARS, it is thought to have jumped from animals to humans,
Didn't they say camels were a reservoir?
and shares the former's flu-like symptoms -- but differs by causing kidney failure.
Researchers have pointed to the Arabian, or dromedary, camel as a possible host of the virus.
Why yes, yes they did.
Scientists studying the new virus have found older patients, men and people with underlying medical conditions are those particularly at risk.
So those of you who are sick old men who hang around Arabian camels please be sure to wash your hands frequently with soap, and do not touch the T-zone on your face. You also probably want to avoid making haj this year.
Awesome brawl, BTW. Watch the video here
Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the brawl that took place between Mexican sailors visiting and a group of Polish youths in Poland, according to Mexican news accounts.
The sailors were on a beach near Gdynia when they were attacked.
In his condemnation of the brawl, President Pena came out in favor of the sailors whom he said were attacked. Other news accounts say the Mexicans started the problem.
The sailors were visiting the Baltic sea aboard the sailing training ship the Cuauhtemoc.
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The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent Armed Forces of Mexico. The actual naval forces are called the Armada de México. The Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) (English: Naval Secretariat) includes both the Armada itself and the attached ministerial and civil service. The commander of the Navy is the Secretary of the Navy, who is both a cabinet minister and a career naval officer.
The Mexican Navy's stated mission is "to use the naval force of the federation for external defense, and to help with internal order". The Navy consists of about 56,000 men and women plus reserves, over 189 ships, and about 130 aircraft. The Navy attempts to maintain a constant modernization program in order to upgrade its response capability.
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Modifications of the mariachi music include influences from other music such as polkas and waltzes, the addition of trumpets and the use of charro outfits by mariachi musicians.
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The Mexican Navy/Marines are actually bad ass. They are about the only ones you can count on to have what it takes to kick cartel ass time and time again throughout Mexico.
Sri Lanka has handed over at least 30 Indian prisoners to their country where they will serve their remaining sentences as part of a bilateral agreement signed between the two countries three years ago. Nine prisoners who were flown to India between August 12 and 15 brought the number of Indian prisoners currently transferred to their home country to 29, said a statement from the Indian High Commission in Colombo.
The first 20 prisoners were sent back to India between February and March this year. Six of them were from Kerala while 12 from Tamil Nadu.
The exchange of prisoners between Sri Lanka and its closest neighbour India, comes after a bilateral agreement, the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners, which was signed in June 2010 between the two governments.
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To the oil experts in our midst: what odds this is anything more than empty boasting?
[IranPressTV] A bigwig at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) says Iran can increase its crude oil production by at least one million barrels per day (bpd) within three months.
"Iran can, under a crash program, raise its crude oil output by at least one million barrels per day in less than three months by applying Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques," Director for Research and Technology at NIOC Mohammad Ali Emadi said on Tuesday.
"Given the 25-percent average recovery rate in [Iran's] oil reservoirs, it will be possible to reach the potential oil production ceiling of the country," he added.
Emadi noted that Iran can easily enhance its oil production in the short and long terms.
On August 16, new Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Iran's oil production must exceed four million bpd for the OPEC member to tackle US-engineered sanctions.
Iran sits atop more than 96 billion barrels of in-place oil in the Persian Gulf.
The country envisages a one-percent recovery enhancement from its oil deposits by 2015 when the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan ends.
With 137.6 billion barrels of proven reserves, the Islamic Theocratic Republic has the world's fourth largest crude reserves.
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Not impossible, at least in theory. Iran's output isn't what it could be under normal conditions.
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A timeframe of 90 days is a bit optimistic to say the least.
With ever-tighter sanctions clamping down on Iran, the oil-rich nation is finding itself awash with oil it simply cannot sell, reports the New York Times. Iran has already reduced production by 1 million barrels a day to 2.8 million, but reducing production too much could damage its wells, and the surplus oil has quickly filled its 10 million barrels of holding capacity. Iran has turned to storing about 40 million barrels of oil in ships in the Persian Gulf while it rushes to boost storage capacity on land. Around 65 tankers have been repainted to conceal their true identities while Iran desperately seeks oil buyers.
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Makes one wonder if the congressional investigators will reach a point in their Benghazi probe where they 'lower the cone of silence' and impost a 60 year sealed moratorium on further public discussion. Probably not necessary however. We've got John Brennan at the helm at the Agency, prior to that a senior advisor at the White House. Brennan was, as you may recall, the Chief of Station in Riyadh in 1996 when the Khobar Towers bombing took place. He's an old hand at damage control.
Might it be a bit naive to assume the same forces of political and social change might first wish to amend or gain control our own systems prior to exporting their handiwork abroad? Obviously a rhetorical question. What was I thinking.
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.
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[Hurriyet] Afghanistan's football team sparked rowdy celebrations across the war-battered nation Aug. 20 after securing an convincing 3-0 win over arch-rivals Pakistain in the first international match in Kabul for ten years.
[AnNahar] Health authorities in Qatar on Tuesday announced the first case of MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state, with a 59-year-old man infected.
