Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer
With their cell doors accidentally left unlocked, four county jail inmates escaped only to return the same night — with beer. The Hawkins County Jail inmates, who bought four cases of beer before returning to the jail, were charged Monday with escape and introduction of intoxicants into a penal institution, the Kingsport Times-News newspaper reported Tuesday. "I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape, but they were wrong," Sheriff Warren Rimer said.
Ridgy Dean Coleman, Jimmy Joe Stapleton, David Wayne Blizzard and David Allen Hopkins escaped Thursday night when their cell block doors were unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Rimer said. Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, left the door propped open with a small Bible and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a nearby market and bought the beer. The inmates did not raise alarm at the store because they were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail doesn't have enough orange jumpsuits for all of its inmates. The sheriff pointed out that all 36 inmates on the cell block might have tried to escaped while the doors were unlocked. "At least they came back," he said. Three words: Low Budget Operation
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"Dang, Jethro. I wuz a thinkin that this here place looked awful familiar."
Organizers of a race for homing pigeons were still scratching their heads in wonder Thursday after about 1,500 of the birds, famous for their ability to find their way home, went missing during the contest. Of the 2,000 pigeons let loose last week, only about 500 have returned to their lofts after the 150-kilometer (93 mile) flight between the cities of Ljungby and Malmoe in southern Sweden, said Lars-Aake Nilsson of the Malmoe Homing Pigeon Club. "The weather was perfect - no rain, no thunder and no strong winds," he said.
"Perfect conditions to lose a pigeon!"
In past races, the birds, all of which sport electronic identification tags around their feet, made the journey in about two hours. But at Sunday's race, something went wrong. "I have worked with pigeons since 1960 and have never experienced anything like this," Nilsson said, adding that the birds might have been thrown off course by subtle changes in the earth's magnetic field.
Was Michael Moore in Sweden? Perhaps he perturbed the gravitational field.
The pigeons have a natural homing instinct and are believed to navigate by the sun and the magnetic waves of the earth, Nilsson said. "And even though some are lost to hawks or hazards like power lines along the way, many more should have made it back home. It's a mystery," he added. He said there have been no reported sightings of the missing birds anywhere in southern Sweden. He declined to say how much the birds were worth. "It's not so much the economic value as it is a loss to the sport," Nilsson said. "It takes about two years to breed a racing pigeon."
Yum, pigeon under glass [urp].
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07/22/2004 3:41:45 PM ||
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Poultry processor Pilgrim's Pride said Wednesday it fired 11 employees at its Moorfield, West Virginia, facility after a video from animal rights group PETA showed cruelty to chickens. The company said it dismissed one superintendent, one supervisor, one foreman and eight hourly employees following an investigation it began on Tuesday after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released the video. The tape showed workers at a West Virginia Pilgrim's Pride plant ripping off birds' beaks, spitting tobacco into their mouths and eyes and kicking live chickens. The company supplies KFC, the fast-food chicken chain owned by Yum Brands Inc. The Pittsburgh, Texas-based company also said it has placed monitors at the plant. Kind of makes me glad I never voluntarily purchase KFC.
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Yet the media downplays the beheadings of civilian contractors. Go figure.
EFL Chooooo! Chooooo!
An angry, wheelchair-bound Wisconsin man who enjoys flipping off freight trains may have to cut back on his hobby — one of the trains hit him. He should try rolling around naked in nacho cheese dip.
Leland Laird, 54, was at his customary position, middle finger proudly aloft, next to the train tracks in Appleton at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, reports the Appleton Post-Crescent. It was sunny out. And there was a faint scent of pine in the air. Or was that maple leaf?
That's when a Canadian National engine's gas tank clipped Laird's wheelchair, sending him tumbling to the ground. I bet he drinks a lot of coffee.
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This reminds me of the time years back when an anti-nuke (IIRC) protestor sat on railroad tracks to stop a train. He was lost his legs (but apparently not his cojones because he sued the railroad).
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Yeah, it was live on Geraldo. We saw in our government class. Apparently this goof chains himself to the tracks about 100 feet past a stand of trees on a curve, so the train couldn't even see him til he came out of the trees and there's NO WAY a train is stopping in 100 feet much less yards.
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Silentbrick - You watched Geraldo in government class? What dumbass school high school did you go to?
Oh, that's right, the same one I did...
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Thatâs when a Canadian National engineâs gas tank clipped Lairdâs wheelchair, sending him tumbling to the ground.
I didn't notice this before, but it's not too likely that the fuel tank would clip this guy before the plow, staircase grab rails, or some other part of the engine forward of the tank got him first, as the tank doesn't really stick out any further (if at all) than any other part of the engine. What's more, if he was THAT close, well, there are typically trespassing laws that apply to non-employees on railroad property....
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Yeah, the teacher brought in this clip and the one where Geraldo's face got rearranged by the chair for us to laugh at. It wasn't a regular thing. He liked to illustrate stupidity.
A Canadian couple is seeking the country's first same-sex divorce. The two women, who married after the law changed last year, are now seeking to sever their union. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ontario since June of last year when a court threw out the province's marriage law as unconstitutional. Just one week later two women, known only as JH and MM were married. But it did not last long and they split up just five days later. Now they want to make the split permanent, but Canada's divorce laws do not yet recognise same-sex unions. The Federal Government here has pledged to fully legalise same-sex marriage, but is waiting for an opinion requested from Canada's Supreme Court.
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Gonna be hell trying to figure out who pays the alimony here.
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I just want this one to get just as contintous (sp) as a straight couple getting divorced. Like the old saying says, "Be careful what you wish for, it might come true"
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