A proud Church of Satan member got a hellish beating during an alleged bias attack in Queens, authorities said yesterday. Daniel Romano, 20, of Elmhurst, was walking back from a laundry near his home on Sunday when three men drove past him and yelled "Hey, Satan!" Clever.
The group leaped out of the car and jumped Romano in front of 6001 72nd Street shortly after 2 p.m., police sources said. Maybe they figured that his powers would be weaker in broad daylight. Or maybe they are simply none to bright.
Romano — who dyes his hair blue, wears black nail polish and displays an upside-down crucifix at his throat — was punched, kicked and struck in the head with an ice scraper and a plumbing pipe, according to the complaint and law-enforcement sources. Well, queer bashing comes as naturally to a teenage boy as the inability to have sex with an adult woman.
A couple of months ago, Romano, who is in the process of becoming an ordained minister, had boasted to the trio that he was a devil worshipper and belonged to the Church of Satan, police sources said. In Queens? To a buch of Italians (see below)? None too clever Daniel.
Over the last month, the young men responded by calling Romano a "Satan worshipper," a "baby sacrificer" and a "hooker killer," sources added. I think "Maryln Manson fan" and "sexually confused horror movie buff" would probably have been more accurate.
It's unclear what caused the group to attack Romano on Sunday. Uh, he looked funny and told them he was a Satanist? They drew their own conclusions. Wrong ones, but then these guys are teenagers from Queens.
After the brutal onslaught, Romano took himself to Elmhurst Hospital, where he received 12 stitches, sources said. He got hit in the head with a lead pipe then walked to the hospital? Man, Satan makes 'em tough.
Later that night, detectives from the Hate Crimes Squad, believing Romano was targeted because of his religious beliefs, busted two suspects: Paul Rotondi, 18, of Howard Beach, Queens, and Frank Scarpinito, 18, of Ridgewood, Queens. Rotondi and Scarpinito pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second degree aggravated harassment and second degree assault as a hate crime, which carries a stiffer penalty than a traditional assault charge. Uh, being a Satanist means you are in a religious minority group? WTF - whatever happened to charging somebody with good old fashioned attempted murder? Blunt head trauma is 50%/50% fatal you know. For that matter what is "fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon?" Do they mean the pipe or the ice scraper? God, remind me never to let the NYPD into my garage!
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Romano â who dyes his hair blue, wears black nail polish and displays an upside-down crucifix at his throat â
I would think that whatever skeery look you're going for with the black nails and crucifix would be negated by the blue hair dye. What are you, Scary Clown Satan Guy?
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Question: If one truly and sincerely worships Satan, exactly what does one expect in return? Perhaps Ol' Scratch n Sniff was just giving Romano a little taste of what he has to look forward to.
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The line leading into First District Court in Hempstead [Long Island, NY] Monday morning was long and frustrating, but it was the punch line in a lawyer joke that got two rabble-rousing comedians arrested. "How do you tell when a lawyer is lying?" Harvey Kash, 69, of Bethpage, said to Carl Lanzisera, 65, of Huntington, as the queue wound into the court. "His lips are moving," they said in unison, completing one of what may be thousands of standard lawyer jokes. But while that rib and several others on barristers got some giggles from the crowd, the attorney standing in line about five people ahead wasn't laughing... The attorney reported Kash and Lanzisera to court personnel, who arrested the men and charged them with engaging in disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor...
The men are founders of Americans for Legal Reform, a group of outspoken advocates who use confrontational tactics to push for greater access to courts for the public and to monitor how well courts serve the public... They said their rights to free speech were violated Monday. But Dan Bagnuola, a spokesman for the Nassau courts, said the men were causing a stir and that their exercise of their First Amendment rights to free speech was impeding the rights of others at the court. Bagnuola said he did not have the name of the lawyer who complained to officers. The men were given desk appearance tickets and are due back in court - as defendants - next month.
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A hindu, a muslim and a lawyer were stranded near a farmhouse and the car could not be fixed until the next morning. The farmer told the three they could sleep in the barn.
The hindu returned and explained that there were cows in the barn and for religious reasons he could not sleep there.
A few minutes later the muslim returned complaining that the pig made it impossible for him to sleep there.
Soon, there was another knock at the door. When the farmer answered it, there were the cows and the pig.
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A doctor and a lawyer were attending a cocktail party when the doctor was approached by a man who asked advice on how to handle his ulcer. The doctor mumbled some medical advice, then turned to the lawyer and asked, "How do you handle the situation when you are asked for advice during a social function?"
"Just send a bill for such advice" replied the lawyer. On the next morning the doctor arrived at his office and issued the ulcer-stricken man a $50 bill. That afternoon he received a $100 bill from the lawyer.
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A gang of robbers broke into a lawyer's club by mistake. The old legal lions gave them a fight for their life and their money. The gang was very happy to escape. "It ain't so bad," one crook noted. "We got $25 between us."
The boss screamed: "I warned you to stay clear of lawyers -- we had $100 when we broke in!"
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But . . . I . . . can't . . . . . . stop . . .
A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Tim, you be first," she said. "What does your mother do all day?" Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor." "That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?" Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman." "Thank you, Amie," said the teacher. "What about your father, Billy?" Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse." The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy's father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded an explanation. Billy's father said, "I'm actually an attorney. How can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?"
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Scientists are now usng lawyers instead of lab rats for research because:
1. Lawyers are more plentiful.
2. They are easier to train.
3. Researchers donât get attached to them.
4. There are some things even a rat wonât do.
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Why are there so many lawyers in Washington and so many gays in San Francisco? San Francisco had first choice.
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What are 5,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
A lawyer once moved into a small town. He got no business until a second lawyer moved into town. Then both had plenty of business.
"I once met a most unusual person....a lawyer who kept his hands in his own pockets." - Mark Twain
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Cingold: We use that last line a lot in the oilfield, believe it or not...
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man found partly disrobed with a woman, cocaine and marijuana in the one-person restroom of an Iowa convenience store in an area known for prostitution had no absolute right to privacy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Those Hawkeyes sure know how to have fun
An 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously rejected Lonnie Maurice Hill's claim that police who found him with the woman and drugs breached his Fourth Amendment right to privacy, making the drugs illegally seized and unusable as evidence. If you don't have a right to privacy in the can, where do you?
Other courts have held that the right of privacy in bathrooms varies case to case, with some judges holding that a stall in a public restroom is not a private place when used for something other than its intended purpose. What is the intended use? The elimination of bodily fluids. That's all this poor guy was trying to do.
"The Fourth Amendment protects people and not places," Judge Donald Lay unfortunate name
wrote for the three-judge 8th Circuit panel. In Hill's case, "it was not a single person using the single toilet restroom but two persons of opposite gender and, under the circumstances, we hold that they had a diminished expectation of privacy They went in the bathroom because they expected privacy. If they'd had a diminished expectation of privacy, they'd have returned to the convenience store.
which had expired by the time the officers arrived." Making a lot of noise, were they?
When it comes to restroom privacy, "we have never held that this expectation lasts indefinitely," Lay wrote. This warning provided as a public service.
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Would the man have been O.K. in a 2-person bathroom? Was in St. Martins recently in a public bathroom. When they say public that is just what they mean. The cleaning woman came to tidy up while I was taking care of business at the urinal. For a moment I felt a momentary twinge of being a frog until I regained my senses. In france, public restrooms are very public and tend to be unisexual (maybe trisexual that is, they try anything sexual).
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Italy too. I remember trying to conduct some business one time in the Florence train station but the old lady I had to hand money to get in to the throne room kept rattling around.
The sandpaper toilet paper didn't help matters, either.
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WALKER -- A kidnapping and beating were bad enough for a 20-year-old Grand Rapids man, who Sunday night was eating at McDonald's with his girlfriend when three captors took him away. Next came the ransom demand -- a paltry $800. Five hours later, the victim was rescued by police -- and then thrown in jail along with his kidnappers. He had an outstanding charge, police said. "He had a bad day going there," Walker Police Detective Mike Iwanski said.
The drama began about 10:30 p.m. Sunday at McDonald's restaurant on Walker Avenue NW near Int. 96. Three men in a pickup tracked him down there, claiming he owed them $800, Iwanski said. After he refused to pay, they led him outside, beat him and loaded him into the back seat. Police said they believe the kidnapping was drug-related.
Winds are picking up dramatically in the teapot...
BRITAIN'S Prince Harry has apologised after he was pictured at a fancy dress party wearing a Nazi soldier's uniform. The 20-year-old, who is third in line to the throne, is pictured on the front page of Britain's The Sun newspaper in the beige uniform wearing a red armband emblazoned with a swastika. In a statement, Harry said: "I am very sorry if I caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise." Harry is the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and the second son of the Prince of Wales, Charles, and Diana. The Prince was to don a uniform of a different kind next week when he was due to enrol at Sandhurst military college. His entry to the prestigious royal military academy has been delayed six months, however, to allow him to recover from a knee injury. It is not the first time the flame-haired royal has made the news for all the wrong reasons. Last October he was involved in a scuffle with a photographer outside a London nightclub and in 2003 he caught smoking cannabis in pub near his father's estate at Highgrove.
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BFD, typical winging asshatted intrusion into his life by media suck boys.
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Are you serious SPOD? If the Sun revealed that Harry likes to wear a tutu while serving tea to some intimate friends, that would be an intrusion.
This was a semi-public event and, to say the least, the Nazi outfit has powerful historical and political connotations in terms of Harry's position in British society.
This is doubly so when we recall that Harry's father is a morally retarded nutcake with Arabist and antisemitic leanings and his mother was about to marry a wealthy Arab.
Incidentally, it is quite shocking that his bodyguards, if noone else, allowed him to be seen in public like this.
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The line leading into First District Court in Hempstead [Long Island, NY] Monday morning was long and frustrating, but it was the punch line in a lawyer joke that got two rabble-rousing comedians arrested. "How do you tell when a lawyer is lying?" Harvey Kash, 69, of Bethpage, said to Carl Lanzisera, 65, of Huntington, as the queue wound into the court. "His lips are moving," they said in unison, completing one of what may be thousands of standard lawyer jokes. But while that rib and several others on barristers got some giggles from the crowd, the attorney standing in line about five people ahead wasn't laughing... The attorney reported Kash and Lanzisera to court personnel, who arrested the men and charged them with engaging in disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man found partly disrobed with a woman, cocaine and marijuana in the one-person restroom of an Iowa convenience store in an area known for prostitution had no absolute right to privacy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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