Christopher Lowcock, 29, wrapped his prosthetic limb in a bandage and fooled G4S staff who failed to carry out the proper tests when they set up the tag and monitoring equipment at his Rochdale home.
Lowcock could then simply remove his leg - and the tag - whenever he wanted to breach his court-imposed curfew for driving and drug offences, as well as possession of an offensive weapon.
A second G4S officer who went to check the monitoring equipment also failed to carry out the proper test.
Managers became suspicious last month, but when they returned to the address a third time Lowcock had already been arrested and was back in custody accused of driving while banned and without insurance.
''Given the critical nature of this service we have very strict procedures in place which all of our staff must follow. In this individual's case two employees failed to adhere to the correct procedures when installing the tag. Had they done so, they would have identified his prosthetic leg.
''Failure to follow procedure is a serious disciplinary offence, and the two employees responsible for the installation of the tag have now been dismissed.''
A Ministry of Justice spokesman added: ''Procedures were clearly not followed in this case and G4S have taken action against the staff involved. Two thousand offenders are tagged every week and incidents like this are very rare.''
So are prosthetic legs...
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[Emirates 24/7] An Iraqi man who had been rejected many times as a husband for a Kuwait woman did not give up as he finally tried to kidnap her and force her to marry him. "Arrr! Ye'll be mine, me proud beauty!"
But he brought his own end with his love and intransigence. Got his just desserts, did he? Wonder what happened?
The desperate lover saw the girl in the car with her sister in law in Kuwait City and thought it was his chance to fulfill his dream. "Ahah! There she is with her sister, that hussy Irene! She'll not escape me now!"
"He jumped on the car "Enid! He's on the car! Look out!"
and tried to pull the girl out..." "Come away with me, Enid!"
but she started to scream... "[SHRIEK!] No, Ruggiero! Never!"
her sister in law phoned her husband," the Kuwait Alwatan daily said on Wednesday. "Hello..."
"Lonzo! It's Irene! Listen...!"
"... You've reached Lonzo. I'm away from the phone right now but if you leave a message at the beep I'll get right back to you!"
[BEEP!]
"HELP!"
"When her husband arrived, " "Irene! Enid! It is I!"
he saw the Iraqi trying to force his sister out of the car... "Unhand her, you beast!"
he whipped out his rosco and plugged him trice through the bucket [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
"Ruggiero!"
"Enid! [THUD! TWITCH! RATTLE!]
[SOB!]
before surrendering to police." "Drop the gat and step away witcher hands up!"
"Hokay. I quit!"
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Now that's a humdinger, bodice ripper thriller.
It was Tuesday. It was warm in Vancouver. We were working the day watch out of Dismembered Human Foot Division...
The foot and leg bones found Tuesday afternoon in False Creek show no evidence of foul play, the provincial coroners service announced at a news conference Wednesday. Whaddya think, sarge? Foul play?
Why do you say that, Muldoon?
Coroner Stephen Fonseca unveiled the pungent-smelling tennis shoe in the hopes a family member of a missing person can identify it. Sniff...sniff...no, that's not Bob. He smelled of Brut from Fabrege. And cheap whiskey.
The foot was the eighth discovered washed up on British Columbia's southern coast in the past four years. Three more have washed up in nearby Washington state. Am I detecting a pattern here, sarge?
Why do you say that, Muldoon?
Fonseca speculated that this rash of remains washing ashore is a result of the more buoyant shoes now being sold. ...or lots of dead bodies being thrown in the water.
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The previous floaters were probably Indonesian feet. These new ones are likely Japanese feet. There were significant seismic and oceanic events that preceeded both sets of arrivals.
The president of the newly established state of South Sudan told a visiting Israeli delegation that their future embassy in the Jewish state will be built in the disputed city of Jerusalem rather than in the political capital of Tel Aviv, according to a newspaper report.
Danny Danon, Israeli member of Likud Party and Parliament member, is currently on a visit to South Sudan capital of Juba where he met with president Salva Kiir.
The 'Jerusalem Post' newspaper quoted Kiir as telling the visiting delegation that his country resisted Arab and Palestinian pressure on relations with Israel.
"I told them that I see Israeli embassies in Jordan and Egypt, and South Sudan is not an Arab state," Kiir reportedly told Danon.
South Sudan became an independent state last month after its citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of separation from the Arab-Muslim dominated north.
Many Sudanese and Arabs see Israel as complicit in breaking up Sudan and supporting the separatist rebel movements that emerged in South Sudan since Sudan became independent in 1956.
Israel quickly recognized South Sudan and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone with Kiir in July promising his country's assistance in areas of infrastructure, communications and agriculture.
Danon renewed this offer in his talks with South Sudan officials including Industry and Trade Minister, Foreign Minister and Finance Minister.
The Israeli MP specifically discussed ways South Sudan can work with Israel, pointing out that the new state has oil, gold, silver, lead, copper and other resources.
"Israel's technological wealth and South Sudan's wealth of natural resources are a sure recipe for prosperity in both states," Danon said.
South Sudan president also agreed to Danon's request that the future South Sudanese embassy in Israel be built in Jerusalem and also pledged to pay a visit to Israel at an unspecified date.
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This is a golden opportunity for both countries. Israel can teach South Sudan the "Israeli economic miracle", along with technologies that can turn South Sudan into an educated and prosperous paradise in short order.
And for its part, South Sudan could provide its raw materials, especially oil, to Israeli markets. The one problem is that, while it could go through Christian Ethiopia, because of Eritrea, Ethiopia no longer has direct access to the Red Sea.
If it could get that, it would have a straight shot to Israel.
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The state plans to keep buying white-owned farms to redistribute to blacks, but proposes tackling the sticky problem of pricing with a new land value office that will "level the playing field".
"The willing-buyer willing-seller model on its own, it's a problem, because it distorts the market," said Nkwinti, pointing to above market value prices.
But the bying/selling/giving away based-on-race model does not distort the market; is that correct, Mr. Nitwiti?
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But the bying/selling/giving away based-on-race model does not distort the market; is that correct, Mr. Nitwiti?
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"The willing-buyer willing-seller model on its own, it's a problem, because it distorts the market," said Nkwinti, pointing to above market value prices.
Methinks Mr. Nitwiti doesn't understand the definition of 'market'...
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(Sigh) Ordered selling is NOT free Market, got it?
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Surprise, surprise. Commercial farmers are a LOT better at it than subsistence farmers, communal farmers, or other antiquated ideas like that.
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Farmin's in Zimbobway not SA. Last I heard he was too busy ripping out the plumbing and wiring from that general's house that got fried last week to offer his expert opinion.
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As I understand it, Farmin couldn't have sold his plots back to the farmers they were stolen from in the first place - Mugabe wasn't about to give his men title - just the usufruct of the land. He wasn't about to enfeoff yeomen, he wanted armed, grateful dependents.
Did the South African beneficiaries enjoy ownership in fee simple, or was this a variant on Mugabe's non-transferable 99-year lease? If so, they ought to be able to tell the socialist fussbudgets to go pound sand.
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Why are white farmers still in Zimbabwae or South Africa? After farms were grabbed and they were forcibly evicted I'd have gotten on the first transport out.
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"And go where?" Here, the USA. I have talked with two who left "with only the clothes on their backs". Zimbabwae was the bread basket of Africa. Now they must import. Why they would even consider going back is beyond me. Whenever the government wants they can steal again.
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They could have easily gone to Uganda, which had a commercial farmer resettlement plan throughout the 1990s, that gave government leases of 99 years renewable on the land, allowed the rent of armored trucks and cars for the farmers, and gave them special automatic weapons permits. You had to move to specific areas of Uganda and agree to train the workers on the farm in modern farming techniques. That is the reason Uganda is no longer importing massive amounts of subsistence foods any longer.
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Sure. Like you relish packing your bags with 120 bucks to take with you when you lose your country to asswipes, Shieldwolf. let's see you do it,
Thanks for the sentiments, NewC, appreciated.
#20
They had options though, and that is what I was saying; including taking Mugabe right after the election. You lost your country, too bad; your people simply lacked the heart and will for a gotterdamerung, and it is the rest of the world's fault? I don't think so.
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And that goes double for the South Africans since they did have deliverable nuclear weapons on hand, and dismantled them rather than use them. And the South Africans had the example of what was going to happen to them right next door as well. That would be the same logic in use if Israel suddenly agreed to the Right of Return for the Paleos and dismantled the Samson Option.
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All of this has been simmering for decades. We have Whitehall and our very own feckless pols in D.C. to thank for support the ruthless, "president for ever" Mugabe. Smith was betrayed and the communists took over. Same exact scenario is playing ut in SA with Six Wives Zuma and his crazed Youth Organizer Malima. If Malima ever rises to power it will be totally and irreversible over for whites. Not a very complicated turn of events actully. The end game is the survival of the very rich, and the subjugation of the very poor. Anyone heard the song before?
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I have to share this story. One lady I spoke to was selling her crocheted work at a mall. Very attractive fine light blood hair. Dark tan slim and trim. Her distinctive accent caught my ear. Her outfit was a work of crochet a bit breezy but taste-full. So our conversation revolved around her experience being forced out of her homeland. I have remembered her for years for she was such a classy lady.
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My mother left Germany with only her schoolbag and her roller skates in her little overnight case. "Sometimes you don't even lock the door behind you when you leave," she says.
Tonight, in an interview on KMJs The Chris Daniel Show, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz confirmed that the US government wanted Gibson guitars to use foreign labor over American labor:
CHRIS DANIEL: Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?
HENRY JUSZKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that in a [inaudible].
CHRIS DANIEL: Excuse me?
HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that in a pleading.
CHRIS DANIEL: That your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of our labor?
HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: Yes
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OK, so my viewing choices are another exciting speech from Obama and the opening game of the NFL season between the last two Superbowl champions. Decisions, decisions.
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there'll be more fumbles, punts, and personal fouls in the Obama speech.
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I want to know if Boehner will tolerate Rep and Dem mixing as was done at the last State of the Union, specifically to fool people watching on television into thinking that the Republicans were clapping, when they weren't. All the RINOs were gleeful with the idea.
That being said, the Republican response will be as follows:
"We need to create more jobs!" (Wild applause from both sides.)
"By raising taxes and spending more money!" (Complete silence from the Republicans. Democrats stand up to make even more noise, which just makes it more obvious.)
[Dawn] Three brothers were rubbed out allegedly by their neighbour on a money dispute near Sahowari Drain in Mughalpura on Tuesday, witnesses and police said.
The shooting, which occurred in a broad daylight, triggered panic among the motorists and passerby who took cover to save their lives.
Mughalpura police investigation showed that 48-year-old Kabir, 40-year-old Rasheed and 30-year-old Naeem, all residents of Sahowari, were going to Allama Iqbal International Airport along with their driver when the suspect, identified as Zahid Naseem, intercepted their vehicle at Sahowari Drain and opened indiscriminate fire on the vehicle with a pistol.
Rasheed was to travel to the UK and his brothers, who also lived in the UK, were going to drop him at the airport. The three brothers had arrived in Pakistain in connection with the death of their father one week ago.
Quoting witnesses, Mughalpura circle DSP Aftab Ahmad told Dawn the suspect, who was riding a cycle of violence, fired at least 16 shots at the three brothers and decamped. He said the driver remained unhurt.
The DSP said the suspect had chased the victims as he knew their schedule. He said the police seized 16 empty shells from the spot.
He said Kabir had lent some money to the suspect and when he asked Naseem to return his money, it led to a quarrel between them a couple of days back.
The victim's driver, who was not the target of the suspect, alerted the police.
Police shifted the bodies to morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Zahid Naseem on the complaint of victims' another brother.
Aftab Ahmad said though initially the police were told about some money dispute, but Sherlocks would look into other aspects as well.
BODY: Chuhng police found the putrefied body of a 22-year-old man in Lahore link canal near Chuhng Police Training School and shifted it to morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy on Tuesday.
The Chuhng SHO said it was a blind murder and the body was apparently several days old.
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[Dawn] A man who allegedly killed his daughter and son-in-law eight years ago in Germany and decamped to Pakistain was extradited on Tuesday, Dawn has learnt.
Sources said not happy with his daughter for marrying against his wishes, Mehmood Ahmed, 55, killed her and the son-in-law in Frankfurt in October 2003. He beat feet to Pakistain and remained hidden in his native village in Sialkot and Chenabnagar (Rabwah). The Interpol had issued red notice for him.
After eight years in hiding, Mehmood was finally nabbed from his native village in Sialkot on August 12 by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Islamabad`s Additional Deputy Commissioner issued extradition warrants for Mehmood on August 27.
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A Chinese warship confronted an Indian navy vessel shortly after it left Vietnamese waters in late July in the first such reported encounter between the two countries' navies in the South China Sea.
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See also PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUMS > EXPANSION OF JAPAN GSDFS AIMS AT DAOYU ISLANDS [Nippon = Senkakus].
ARTIC = Up to 20,000 Japan Ground SDFS, aka Japanese Army, may be deployed to the Japan-claimed Senkakus + other nearby isles by 2020.
GODZILLA, GAMERA + RODAN, etal. LIKE TO BE HIRED FOR STRATEGIC RESERVE, BUT ARE UNWILLING TO BE PAID OR EAT [Fukushima]RADIOACTIVE FISH OR HUMANS???
* SAME > KREMLIN FEAR OF [unpredictable]CHINA [econ, mil, tech]DRIVES ITS FOREIGN POLICY.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [WSJ.com] TAIWAN LOSING THE SPYING GAME.
ARTIC ="Taiwan appears to have given up" addressing or trying to resolve various espionage vulnerabilities vee mainland China, or else is intentionally turning a blind eye to same. TAIWAN'S FAILURE TO RELIABLY PROTECT MILTECH SECRETS VEE BEIJING + PLA MAY BE A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE US-WEST'S UNWILLINGNESS = RELCUTANCE TO SELL IT ADVANCED WEAPON SYSTEMS.
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It doesn't matter that it's free - it's simply irritating to be expected to sign up for some random website just to read an article. Either post the relevant portion inline, or don't post at all.
I suppose the original poster didn't even realize this as he is a subscriber.
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Dammit, I did it again. Sorry, gromky, you did nothing to deserve being trolled, and I've asked badanov to reverse it. In the meantime, here's what gromky posted:
#3 Please don't post articles that are blocked.
"FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers."
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From the Tehran Times
Copies of the Holy Quran published in China are littered with spelling mistakes, says an official from the Organization of the Holy Quran. Oh, the fun I could have...
Several Iranian publishers have been sending their copies of the Quran to China for the publication, only to have them come back home with spelling mistakes, Director of the Department of Evaluation on Publication of the Holy Quran affiliated with the Organization of the Holy Quran Ahmad Haji-Sharif said in a press release here on Monday.
These mistakes have also been observed in Chinese tableaus that bear holy verses of the Quran, he said, adding, "These tableaus are made quite cheaply in China but are sold for much more than they are really worth to make that much more profit."
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China trying to make a fast buck?
I'm shocked.
Someone should tell them that in China they grease the machines with pig fat.
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"Take this typo for example. Instead of 'In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful', it says 'Let a hundred flowers bloom'. What kind of nonsense is that?"
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Reminds me of the "Bibles" mentioned in the novel "Good Omens". Like the "Thou Shalt Bible", in which the printer left out the word "not" in each of the Ten Commandments...
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#7: When is Penguin Press coming out with the paperback? Posted by: bigjim-CA|| 2011-09-01 11:22 |
I don't know when it was printed, but I have my English translation (Penguin Press) that I bought in 1982, when I first got serious about finding out what kind of sh$$ was in the Koran.
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How would they know it's misspelled?
What's wrong with Ovaltine?
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Mimic the brain? Hmmm how do you MAKE them Pay attention.
(Typical Teenager Problem, what happens if they REFUSE to pay attention.)
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"The BHO series is the most reliable computer ever made. No BHO computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
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.
[Emirates 24/7] An Iraqi man who had been rejected many times as a husband for a Kuwait woman did not give up as he finally tried to kidnap her and force her to marry him. 
Three brothers were 
A man who allegedly killed his daughter and son-in-law eight years ago in Germany and
