HT to Drudge....weird
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A police sting took an odd turn when an officer pretending to be a john met a suspected prostitute pretending to be an officer. Police spokesman Sgt. Tom Connellan said here's what happened Thursday:
A male undercover officer driving in a neighborhood known for prostitution was flagged down by a woman. The woman got in his car and they went to a nearby parking lot to negotiate a price for sex.
She asked the officer if he was a cop and he said no. "That's OK, because I am," the woman said as she pulled out handcuffs and a two-way radio. She barked into the radio: "Move in!"
The officer, concerned the woman was armed and looking to rob him, forced her from the car. Moments later, officers who had been monitoring the situation arrived and grabbed Greene and her radio. A male officer pretending to be female used the radio to find out who was on the other end. That person was waiting in a car in a nearby alley.
Police charged Lisa Greene, 31, with first-degree criminal impersonation, prostitution and fifth-degree conspiracy. Elena Irwin, 20, was charged with fifth-degree conspiracy and possession of a hypodermic needle.
"We believe these people were going to rob people or extort money," Connellan said. He did not know if they had successfully used the scam in the past.
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Weird but smart in a way. The robberies certainly wouldn't be reported.
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DALLAS About a dozen residents of a Dallas neighborhood beat a man after reports that he had been showing pornographic pictures to children on a playground, police said.
Brandon Scott Burke, 20, showed up Wednesday at an Oak Cliff apartment complex and was alleged to have shown a magazine with pictures of naked women to some of the children playing there, police said.
When one of the mothers saw him and asked Burke what he was doing, he tried to run and the woman started screaming, said Elizabeth Williams, the mother of another child. According to a police report, Burke said about 15 men "jumped him and hit him repeatedly on the face with their fists." He suffered minor injuries, police said.
At least four children saw the nude pictures, police said. Burke was arrested on suspicion of harmful display to a minor.
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09/23/2006 11:05 ||
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Hé hé hé... besides, that'll teach him to leave prOn at its right place : on the internet!
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This is why gun control doesn't work in the US, especially. The public have the cultural expectation of both "deputization" and rendering aid. People are raised with the expectation that if no authorities are around, then they must show leadership and take charge of the situation.
If you assemble a group of people then confront them with a task, somebody will take charge and lead. The group won't wait around for authority to show up.
And when you assume the mantle of leadership, you expect to use every tool available to authority. If a policeman has a gun, and you are in a police role, you want a gun, too.
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That's right Angie. There would be more civil actions like this if the cops didn't punish and discourage people from action. When the public is fed up enough or the consequences so dire, they act anyway. If anyone would think about it, how many times are cops available to act and prevent crime. Damned few. Less than 10% , I'd guess. They make their presence known only AFTER the fact.
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One small comment; as a former police officer (albeit from a small town) one of the disadvantagges of having enough police around to nip in the bud all/everything going down that is bad, is we would have the police as an overwhewlming presence in our daily lives. Having said that, I agree with the concept of an armed citizenery to act (hopefully in a civil/justified manner) when the police are not immediately available.
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WolfDog - true enough. They (the police) should, however, can the crap about calling it in when a simian thug is breaking through the front door (or in the Capitol). Kill or incapacitate em any way you can. No cop will be there in time to save your ass (or your family). You have the right and the responsibility to do it - any way possible. Would've been nice if teh flag shop staff had speared him with a sharpened American flag staff.
**hey! I can dream!*
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Good insight Wolf, always better too few Policemen than too many Cops.
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and yet you need a permit to have a chainsaw in the US.
Why on earth would you be able to have a gun with no permit, but need a permit for a chainsaw?
I have a chainsaw, I often need to use it in the garden.
I don't have a gun, I could get a permit if I wanted to but why would i bother? If i see a dangerous situation I will call the police rather than get involved as *they* are properly trained to deal with the situation and are paid to take the danger.
There are a huge number of gun deaths every year in the US - something like 30,000. I was shocked when I saw how many there were. Many more die in the US from gun shot wounds daily than die serving in Iraq.
It seems ridiculous to me. I live in Australia and gun deaths while occassional are not common.
I am very glad we have gun control laws. I think we are spared a lot of tragedy because of it.
I certainly feel safer walking the streets here knowing that any loon who wants one doesn't pack a pistol.
When I travelled in the US I remember feeling quite freaked out when I talked to a couple of campers and they told me they had a gun in their camper van. You walk around and anybody could be packing heat. That is quite a scary thought given how many people are nutters, loons, too tired, too much caffeine, on drugs, paranoid or incompetent.
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chainsaw permit? huh? Not even in Southern California, anon1. You need permits to take wood from Nat'l Forestland, but might be you've been misinformed....
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Sorry that was in reply to Anonymoose.
But in reply to citizens taking action: I'm all for it!!
We should in fact band together with our friends and neighbours and form emergency response teams of our own I think.
Have a meeting once a month, make sure you have a group list on your mobile phone so you can send an emergency text message like: Gang of hoodlums harrassing two girls at bus stop corner of Lane St and Smith Ave, Burkeville. Attend in 5 mins if you can.
Then we could sort out a lot of our own problems: more effectively. You need a big group to show up.
GILGIT: For the first time in the history of the tribal district of Diamer in the Northern Areas, two women were elected to the Diamer District Council on Friday, despite strong opposition from the clerics and the tribal jirga, official sources said.
Diamer Deputy Commissioner Abul Hameed said that there was stiff opposition from the jirga and the clerics but Rahila from Chilas and Saeeda from Tangeer tehsil had been declared members of the Diamer District Council. Hameed said that the single seat reserved for women in the Northern Areas Legislative Council was filled in February this year but the womens' seats in the municipal councils and the union council still stood vacant. Sources said that the elections for womens' seats in Diamer were supposed to take place two years ago but were delayed after fierce opposition from clerics and the tribal jirga. Once the new date for elections was announced, at least five women filed their candidature, and the nomination papers of two of them were rejected by the returning officer. Sources added that earlier a group of jirga members and clerics had warned the contesting women of social boycott if they did not withdraw their candidatures and they also approached the families of the contestants to dissuade them from participating in the elections.
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09/23/2006 00:00 ||
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Thirty years ago Afhani women didn't wear veils if they didn't want. They were doctors and lawyers.
Hard to imagine isn't it.
Societies don't always evolve, sometimes they devolve. We should be aware of this, it could be happening here.
So many things seem not to work as well as they used to.
Once we put a man on the moon: we'd have trouble doing it today.
We may be hitting an evolutionary wall.
Kind of like the Star Trek conundrum.
In the Star Trek version of the future, everyone would be in the holodeck having the time of their lives, nobody would want to do anything else, so they would devolve in a couple of generations.
We have too many technological helpers: we use calculators, we don't bother exercising the brain to add up. Our brains are getting mushy I think. We are getting stupider than our parents and grandparents' generations.
Talk about using Weapons of Mass Destruction....
BURBANK, Calif. - Rosie O'Donnell gave co-star Julian McMahon an eyeful when they were shooting a sex scene for FX Networks' Golden Globe-winning drama "Nip/Tuck." O'Donnell told "Access Hollywood" that the director tried to shoot around a tube-top that they made her wear. But the director kept yelling "cut" because a bit of the tube-top could be seen in the shot. So, Rosie fixed the situation by pulling down the top. Aiiieeee! Mine Eyes! Mine eyes! The goggles do nothing!
O'Donnell said McMahon, who plays plastic surgeon Dr. Christian Troy on the show, looked down and told her "nice boobs," adding, "but he was so nice." O'Donnell said she would "love to do that show again and again and again."
I'm sure she would. She needs to attract attention somehow ....
O'Donnell's episode of "Nip/Tuck" airs Oct. 3. She plays a woman who has just won $381 million in a Powerball lottery and goes to the South Beach plastic surgery practice for her whole family. I thought about classifying this as a WOT item. But decided not to....
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Ugh....as if being an ugly, stupid, hypocrite isn't enough, now she whips out her manboobs? Julian McMahon better hope there is a surgical proceedure to fix baked retinas.
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DALLAS About a dozen residents of a Dallas neighborhood beat a man after reports that he had been showing pornographic pictures to children on a playground, police said.
