A teenager is recovering after police say he shot himself in the penis and testicle while cleaning a gun he just bought.
It happened Thursday morning at a home on the 200 block of Verada Street in Port St. Lucie.
Police say 18-year-old Michael Smeriglio first lied to police saying someone shot him while he was walking down the street. After being questioned by police he admitted to accidentally doing it himself.
Doctors say the bullet went through his penis, his left testicle and then lodged itself in his thigh.
Smeriglio told police he bought the gun last month at a party.
While police were investigating at the home where it happened, they discovered marijuana in the house. That led to
the arrest of the homeowner Joseph Lamar James, 22, on drug charges.
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Well, he does take himself out of the gene pool. Maybe a Darwin Award candidate.
Selch had been a Chicago-based employee at Wanger Asset Management Unfortunate name
for more than decade when it merged with Columbia Asset Management, a subsidiary of Bank of America, in 2005.
As so often happens in these Wall Street mergers, some of the employees of Wanger weren't happy with the way the new bosses planned to pay them. Bank of America, in particular, has a bad reputation for trying to squeeze the compensation packages of bankers and advisers at firms it acquires. Good way to get rid of deadwood. Too bad he hadn't been at BofA for 10 years. They grant tenure, sort of.
According to court documents, Selch's friend Chris O'Dea was fired after he refused to accept lower compensation. This ticked Selch off.
Selch burst into a conference room where executives from Columbia were meeting to give them a piece of his mind. He wound up giving them a piece of something else as well.
After the executives said he didn't have a non-compete, Selch mooned them, told one of the New York-based executives never to return to Chicago, and left the meeting.
Extraordinarily, Selch wasn't fired. Instead he was issued a formal warning. Sounds like HR got involved. Probably thought he had ADHD. I wonder what kind of Performance Improvement Plan they established. Employee will keep pants on at all times, except in a closed bathroom stall.
Selchs boss testified that while 99 percent of employees would have been immediately fired, Selch was one of the one percent who could be granted a one-free-mooning reprieve. The one percent get all the breaks.
When Columbia CEO Brian Banks found out about this incident, he insisted that Selch be fired. The behavior was too egregious to allow Selch to continue at Columbia. No free mooning at Bank of America, Banks decided even if you are in the one percent.
Selch sued, arguing that firing him after issuing a warning was a breach of contract. Once more unto the breach
The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendants in the suit. Last Wednesday, a 3-judge appeals panel upheld the trial court, describing the mooning as insubordinate, disruptive, unruly and abusive. Did Selch moon the judges when they rendered their verdict?
[An Nahar] Tribesmen attacked a village in southeastern Kenya Monday, torching homes and sparking festivities that killed 38, in the latest round of tit-for-tat ethnic violence to plague the area, officials said.
The vendetta between the Pokomo farming community and their Orma pastoralist neighbors already left 52 dead last month in Kenya's worst tribal killings in years.
At least 300 members of the Pokomo tribe stormed Kilelengwani, a village in the Tana river delta and near some of the east African country's most idyllic beaches, early on Monday and attacked members of the Orma community.
"We have 38 people dead including coppers. We are doing everything possible to restore peace there," local police chief Aggrey Adoli said.
A Red Thingy official said nine coppers are among the dead.
"16 men, nine coppers, eight children and five women have died with 167 houses burnt," Kenya Red Thingy spokeswoman Nelly Muluka told AFP.
She said the coppers were caught up in the fighting when they tried to respond to the emergency.
"Some of the dead had gunshot wounds but it appears most of them were hacked to death," Abdulahi Haji Gudo, a member of a local peace group told AFP.
Police have jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four local chiefs in connection with the violence.
"Four area chiefs have been jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! . These are the people who are on the ground and who must have had knowledge of the attacks even before they occurred," Coast Provincial Commissioner Samuel Kilele said.
"The hunt is on for the attackers," he added.
"Tensions remain high in the area, but the fighting has stopped," Caleb Kilande, another Red Thingy official, told AFP from Kilelengwani.
The two rival communities have clashed repeatedly over the use of land and water resources. The Pokomo are a largely settled farming people, planting crops along the Tana River, while the Orma are mainly cattle-herding pastoralists.
"The situation is getting dangerous, something needs to be done urgently," Kenya Red Thingy chief Abbas Gullet said in a statement.
The Red Thingy said it sent ambulances, paramedics and first aid teams into the village and that a further eight people were still in hospital.
Area politician Danson Mungatana said a peace meeting between the two warring communities was held on Saturday.
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After 52 years of independence from colonial British who brought medicine, schools, books, and religion, hacking one's neighbors to death still remains a popular method of conflict resolution. One could mistakenly conclude there exists a common thread, possibly related to geography, but probably not.
[Dawn] Considered to be the world's largest market for religious tourism, the Buddhist sites in Pakistain can attract tourists from across Asia-Pacific region, according to Tourism Corporation Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (TCKP).
"If sites are properly preserved and security is provided to tourists,
That is to say, the kidnappees will be protected from further depradations until their ransom is paid.
the tourism sector can help to promote positive image of Pakistain and bring a change in local economy," said Provincial Tourism Secretary Syed Jamaluddin Shah while talking to Dawn on Sunday.
"The provincial government has started investment to particularly promote tourism in two spheres. One is religious tourism that can bring followers of Buddhism from all over the world, particularly the Asia-Pacific region, and second, exploration of natural sites which have great potential to attract domestic tourists," he said.
The secretary said that highly revered places of worship of Buddhism like monastic complex of Takht Bahi existed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that the tourism corporation had organised Gandhara Peace Tour in April 2012 to introduce religious archaeological tourism.
A delegation had recently also visited South Korea to promote the theme of religious tourism, he said.
"There is great potential and we should take its advantage," he remarked, adding that security and facilities for visitors were prerequisites for encouraging foreign tourists to come to Pakistain for worship and recreation.
According to the Unesco, the Buddhist monastic complex of Takht Bahi (Throne of Origins) in Mardan district -- founded early in the 1st century -- is the most impressive and complete Buddhist monastery in Pakistain.
After the 18th Constitution amendment, the federal government has handed over 91 archaeological sites to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Archaeology Department. Officials said that the provincial government was improving these sites and basic facilities would be provided at these spots.
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[Dawn] A 'hit man' was shot at and killed by his rivals on the premises of city district courts on Sunday.
A team of Cantonment CIA police led by SI Abbas had brought 40-year-old Karamat Bhatti to the local magistrate for obtaining physical remand at the time of the incident.
The presence of armed people on the court premises once again exposed the poor security arrangements by the police.
Lower Mall police inquiries showed that Karamat was targeted by his rivals Mubashir and Zaka when police were approaching the magistrate's court. The firing left Karamat and a police official injured. They were shifted to Mayo Hospital where Karamat was pronounced dead. The police captured the suspects from the spot.
Police record showed that Karamat of Sheikhupura district was involved in eight murders and several robberies.
The Punjab government had announced Rs200,000 head money on Karamat. The police have shifted the body for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! suspects.
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[An Nahar] Pradeep Kumar, a muscular man in shades and tattoos, pulls up on a cycle of violence, ready for his job as a bouncer. Not at a nightclub, but at another workplace where violence is common in India: a hospital.
He and his burly colleagues keep the emergency and labor rooms from filling up with patients' often agitated relatives and friends. The bouncers are polite, yet so tough-looking that people think twice about ignoring their orders.
"These guys look like they walked right out of an action movie," said Pawan Desai, who brought his 4-year-old daughter to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for treatment for a cut on her hand.
Working in an Indian hospital can be dangerous. In April, a week before DDU hired the bouncers; friends of an emergency-room patient punched a doctor in the face and broke his nose before going on a rampage with hockey sticks, swinging at windows, lights, furniture and medical staff.
The medical staff at DDU, a government hospital, had faced nearly one attack a month and had gone on strike 20 times over six years demanding better security. Since the hospital replaced its middle-aged, pot-bellied guards with bar bouncers, bodyguards, and wrestlers sporting muscles and tattoos, "there hasn't been a single incident," said Dr. Nitin Seth, the doctor who was injured in April.
"These guys do a good job controlling the crowds," he said.
Thousands of attacks occur in Indian hospitals every year, said Dr. Narendra Saini, front man for the Indian Medical Association.
In January, a man in the southern city of Chennai was charged with using a sword to hack to death a surgeon he held responsible for his pregnant wife's death during surgery. Three months later, a mob at a Delhi hospital beat up six doctors in retaliation for supposed sexual misconduct after the medical staff unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate a female patient using CPR.
When someone dies in the hospital, relatives often start blaming -- even attacking -- doctors. At expensive private hospitals, families feel especially cheated, Saini said. "They expect their patient to live because that's what they paid for."
The DDU Hospital guards, a team of 21 split across three shifts, cover the busiest areas of the campus, especially the emergency and labor rooms.
People who come in with pregnant or trauma patients "are most likely to lose their cool," Kumar said. "That's why we try not to let in more than one per patient."
The only way to prevent a bad situation from getting worse is to keep people moving and not let crowds collect at all, said Dr. Promila Gupta, the hospital's medical superintendent. "I think what works for our new guards is that the (patients') relatives are afraid of them because of their good physique," she said.
Despite the tough image, Kumar and the other guards are a soft-spoken bunch. "We don't let anyone in unless they need to be there, and we know how to be polite about it," he said.
"First we talk nice," said bouncer Amarjeet Singh. "If they don't listen, troublemakers are taken to the Casualty Medical Officer's room to sort things out, and if that doesn't work, police from the nearby post are called in to get them evicted.
"In any case, we are not allowed to rough anyone up," he added.
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I'll always remember that night in the ER when 8 or 10 unruly drunks showed up one after another. The staff was dreading to see so many at once. Then they started to argue over who would get to sign in first, fists started flying, law enforcement was called & in just a few minutes, all those potential patients were in jug. Sweet.
[Dawn] IG Islamabad Bin Yamin informed the Senate Standing Committee for Human Rights here on Monday that Qari Mohammad Khalid Jadoon had put pages of the Holy Koran in Rimsha's bag, DawnNews reported.
He added that there is a great disparity between Rimsha's physical age and mental age.
The IG Islamabad added that if a FIR had not been registered, a situation similar to Gujjar Khan would have arisen. Announcements would have been made in the neighbouring mosques regarding the alleged burning of Koran, leading to a serious situation in the area.
He appealed to the religious scholars and politicians to submit proposals regarding the abuse of the blasphemy law.
Afrasiab Khattak chaired the session of the Senate Standing Committee here on Monday. He said that Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. must submit replies regarding the ever-increasing encroachments in the country.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik was summoned for the next meeting of the Senate's Standing Committee on Human Rights.
The additional IG of Punjab Police informed the committee that in the last six months, 206 police encounters have taken place in Punjab. In these encounters, 26 personnel of the Punjab Police have been killed, as well as more than 100 criminals have been killed.
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If I understand correctly, a Holy Man framed a (Christian?) girl for burning the Holy Book, when in fact, he - the Holy Man - burned said pages?
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Kinda reminds me of the saga Rev. Al Sharptoes put together with the girl that was gang raped then rubbed with excrement.
But there was no gang, or rape, the girl was of diminished capacity and Al's hands were a little smelly.
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.
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