A HERO shopkeeper was fined £250 yesterday because he tackled three hoodie thieves. Brave Jacob Smyth, 33, chased and caught the yobs after they grabbed armfuls of spray paint from his hardware store. Cops gave two of them £80 fixed penalty fines then HE was charged with assault.
The dad of three pleaded guilty at Truro magistrates court in Cornwall rather than face possible jail. His lawyer told JPs: He was the one who was trying to do the right thing and get his stolen property back.
Pled guilty to avoid even more trouble that really sucks.
A shopworker who helped Jacob catch the thugs in Penzance also faces court.
Magistrate Angy Haslam conceded Jacob acted in self-defence but said his reaction was aggravated by the fact you kicked the victim on the ground.
Jacob, who also ordered to pay £43 costs, said later: Its outrageous. I did nothing wrong.
I was getting a good beating from this lad. I had no choice but to defend myself.
I have a young child and do not want to run the risk of prison.
But am I not allowed to protect my stock and premises from thieves?
Come to America, Mr. Smyth, we have a place for good people like you.
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Magistrate Angy Haslam conceded Jacob acted in self-defence but said his reaction was aggravated by the fact you kicked the victim on the ground.
These stories drive me insane.
Victim on the ground? You gotta be f*cking kidding me. This magistrate is a total f*'n moron and so are the laws that back any of this sh*t. Hey Brit cousins - time to grab your sacks and start acting like the proud people you once were. Need to repeal these idiotic laws you got going.
Some are calling a former U.S. Marine a hero for shooting two men killing one during the botched robbery of a sandwich shop in Plantation. But the men's friends and family want to know how he could gun them down and not be charged.
John Lovell had just finished dinner at about 11: 15 p.m. Wednesday when, Plantation police say, two men armed with guns rushed inside a Subway shop and demanded cash. After robbing the store, the men turned to Lovell. They wanted his money, police said. But like his attackers, Lovell was armed. The retired military man opened fire, shooting dead Donicio Arrindell, 22, of North Lauderdale, and critically injuring Fredrick Gadson, 21, of Fort Lauderdale. Lovell, 71, of Plantation, has a valid concealed weapons permit and is not expected to be charged in the shooting, said police spokesman Detective Robert Rettig. Gadson, however, faces multiple felony charges that could include murder, he said. Under Florida law, anyone who commits a felony such as armed robbery resulting in a death can be held accountable for the capital offense. "He feared for his life," Rettig said of Lovell. "And if he's in fear for his life, then he has a right to defend himself, even if it means severe bodily injury or death." Florida law gives people the right of "self-defense without the duty to retreat." That means individuals can use deadly force virtually anywhere to prevent death or serious injury.
His attorney, Wesley White, of Yulee, near Jacksonville, said he has known Lovell for 19 years and described him as a "quiet Clint Eastwood-type you don't want to mess with." He is a former Marine who was a member of the helicopter detail that transported Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, White said. Lovell, a retired Pan-Am and Delta Airline pilot, has held a concealed weapons permit since September 1990.
According to a police statement, :Arrindell ordered Lovell to hand over his wallet. He intentionally dropped it on the floor and refused to pick it up, saying he was afraid. That's when Arrindell ordered him into the women's restroom."The victim believed he would be executed and when he noticed [Arrindell] distracted ... reached behind his back, removed his loaded .45 caliber handgun from his holster and fired seven rounds," the statement said. Arrindell was struck twice once in the head and once in the stomach and collapsed. Officers found him face down, wearing sunglasses and a bandanna, with a gun near his left hand. Gadson was hit in the chest and ran from the store. Police dogs found him in the hedges of a nearby office building and bank. Both men were taken to Broward General Medical Center, where Arrindell died and Gadson was in critical condition Thursday. [BLAM!] Do ya [BLAM!] feel lucky [BLAM!] punks? Well [BLAM!] Do ya? [BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!]
Put a .45 into the second guy's chest and he's still alive?
And now for the obligatory outrage angle:
But Gadson's grandmother, Rosa Jones, said: "He ain't no hero. He is a murderer and God will serve justice." She and her husband, Ivory Jones, pastor of a Fort Lauderdale church, sat on their front porch in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday wondering how a man could shoot two people and not go to jail. They said their grandson sometimes hung with the wrong crowd but never got into legal trouble.
"He was a good boy."
According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, he has no arrest record. They said Gadson, who never finished high school, got tired of low-wage jobs and was pursuing his GED. (And committing armed robberies)
Arrindell, friends said, found himself in a similar situation: no high school diploma and working odd jobs. So he went back to school. (And began committing armed robberies)
He was a man with past troubles, including a 2004 arrest for carrying a concealed weapon, but he was improving his life, they said. He recently bought a car and had a girlfriend.
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"Granny should be bitch-slapped for even saying that crap. Your grandson was a piece of shit and got what he deserved"
Frank G - Outstanding comment, I agree completely! The recently deceased was a piece of excrement and deserves everything he got. The acompliss needs a bit of sepsis to send him on his way with his buddy
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Actually, I believe he'll get a football scholarship to U of Miami Hurricanes
the last thing I heard from shipman waz, "when the poopoo hits the prop".
anyone know what kinda trouble he's in??
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fyi, Ima the Bird of Courage, a Bird of Knowledge, a Bird of Strength, a Bird of Speed, a Bird of Deep Strategic Thinking and the Leader of my species.
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She and her husband, Ivory Jones, pastor of a Fort Lauderdale church, sat on their front porch in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday wondering how a man could shoot two people and not go to jail.
Yo, fuckwit. It ain't murder if it's self-defense. Nice of the reporter to stick that line in there for all the anti-gun folks. Lovell did us all a favor by taking out the trash.
They said their grandson sometimes hung with the wrong crowd but never got into legal trouble.
At least their grandson will think twice before he ever indulges in armed robbery again.
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But the men's friends and family want to know how he could gun them down and not be charged
Charged with what? Surviving an attack by those who are not deserving of the title "human"?
There aren't many laws more clueless than forcing a victim to retreat until he is completely without any other recourse before he can defend himself. The only reason it is there is so the judge has less to think about, as if there actually was anything to think about here. Screw the survival of a good man. If I ran things, as soon as you found yourself in this kind of situation you could start shooting. And I'd award a medal to the guy for doing it.
And this kind of question speaks volumes about what kind of families the guys came from - and why they tried to do what they did.
I can imagine them wanting to know for sure that they died as reported, but I cannot figure out why these people say anything other than "I want to see all the facts before I make any judgments". AFAIAC, I don't want these scum in my society, and this guy just saved us a lot of time, effort, and money by eliminating them the way they should be eliminated under very clear circumstances.
The wages of sin are death. Ask your pastor husband.
Your little thug was going to take a life and lost his instead. Justice was served.
Maybe if you had done a better job raising hour daughter/son and your grandson, he'd not be dead.
My son turns into an armed robber and gets aced doing it, I'll cry for the loss - but I'll also say "He was doing wrong and now he bears the consequences - God have mercy on him"
[Subway shop o]wner Khalid Malik, 54, of Coral Springs, recounted the scene captured by the store's security camera. He declined to let a reporter watch it.
[After the shooting,] Lovell adjusted his pants and patted his pockets.
"He looks very calm. He's just like our president says, 'Bring it on,'" Malik said.
How Malik knows, since he wasn't there, I don't know.
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Justice was done. Probably prevented these young thugs from taking someone's life down the road. He does need to hone his skills to Corp level so that he would get 7 for 7 hits and bag two for two. Would save the taxpayers some money.
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Criminologists estimate that the average felon commits 16 felony crimes before he/she spends his first day behind bars. I'd be willing to bet a LOT of money this wasn't the first robbery this dead punk pulled. I'm REAL glad it will be his last. The only thing to be mourned here is that this brave Marine didn't kill both of these worthless criminal sons of whores.
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... Gadson's grandmother, Rosa Jones, said: "He ain't no hero. He is a murderer and God will serve justice." She and her husband, Ivory Jones, pastor of a Fort Lauderdale church ...
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It's not legal for the insane to own guns, as far as I know, the same as convicted criminals. But unlike Heaven and Plato, there are no perfect systems when people are involved.
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Tw is correct. The Virginia lune had no constitutional right to bare arms.
Once again proving our troll a moron.
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Give or take a few Virgina Techs.
Lame.
Try imagining a life with no guns. One guy comes after your family with an illegal .22 handgun and you are going to just stand and watch as he rapes your daughter. Heck, he might even ask you to go get him a towel when he's done! And you will. And it will happen all the time. What are you going to say? "Hey, you can't have that gun, it's not legal!"
Look at countries run by malevolant dictators. Do you think their subjects own guns? No. Guns don't just keep bad guys in line, they keep governments in line, too. Yes, you'll see a Virginia Tech story now and then of course, but you'll hardly hear about the 1,000 stories of bad guys getting whacked before they get out of hand. You'll never hear about the 100,000 stories of the crimes that didn't happen because some might-have-been criminal was forced to think twice about doing something bad. Like going after your daughter. Even if you are too idealistic to own a gun in this unideal world, your neighbor might. Wanna take the risk if you're the bad guy? Your neighbor that might have a gun just saved you a lot of grief, and you didn't even know it or thank him for it.
One of my favorite Archie Bunker lines when Meathead was going off on people owning guns:
"Would it make you feel any better if they were thrown out a window instead?" [or something like that].
Say hello to gang rule, dude! And you voted for it! You just couldn't figure it out because you couldn't think more than one layer deep.
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The problem with Va Tech is that it banned the lawful private possession of guns - including state licensed concealed carry permit holders.
Worked real well in respect to the criminal, right?
Just *1* citizen, armed, liek th man in this story, at VaTech woudl ahve ended the spree far sooner and far more woudl have lived.
The blood of the dead is on YOUR hands, prohibitionist. Make no mistake: by restricting the rights of the individuals at VaTech in arming themselves in self defense, you rendered them defenseless at the hands of a madman.
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Just *1* citizen, armed, liek th man in this story, at VaTech woudl ahve ended the spree far sooner and far more woudl have lived.
...or he could have pissed his pants and froze on the spot, or might not have had the time to react, or...
I agree with you though. It was insanely stupid for V Tech to prohibit guns. Reason: this is like a proof by induction: you let one idiot have a gun, you gotta let everyone have a gun. Hell at this point, even the people who don't want to own a gun, should have a gun.
Personally, for home defense I have a homemade pike and halberd and a Beagle named Freddy (after Kreuger).
Hundreds of rubber ducks are expected to appear off the coast of Cornwall - having been afloat at sea for the past 15 years. The wayward bath toys have covered 17,000 miles since they accidentally fell overboard in the Pacific Ocean during a storm in January, 1992.
They were among a consignment of 28,800 plastic ducks, beavers, turtles and frogs that were being taken from Hong Kong to Washington State in the US.
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Not the Northwest Passage, perhaps; but they certainly have given oceanographers plenty to study. I want to know just what route they took to get fromt he Pacific to the Atlantic. The Indian Ocean? The Strait of Magellan? How'd they travel?
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Things have been discovered to drift from the Bering Strait to the north Atlantic presumably via the northern route. SOURCE Drifts from the area north of Bering Strait in the Chukchi Sea have been reported from several locations in the North Atlantic: wreckage from The Jeannette frozen in the pack ice near Hearld Island in November 1879 was found 5 years later on the southwestern coast of Greenland; three drift casks containing messages released near Point Barrow in 1899 and 1900 were recovered 6-8 years later on the northern coasts of Norway and Iceland and the southwest coast of Greenland; several bottles released in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska, were found approximately 10 years later in Iceland, Ireland, and Norway; and a drift bottle, released June 26, 1979, in the Bering Strait was found in western Scotland 7 years later on July 6, 1986.
I think I read about some of the ducks being found a few years ago off Newfoundland, but didn't find a reference this time.
The Tunguska event, sometimes referred to as the Tunguska explosion, was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, between 7:00 and 8:00 AM on June 30, 1908.
The explosion was most likely caused by the airburst of a large (around 20 m (66 ft) across) meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers (36 mi) above the Earth's surface. . . . The energy of the blast was estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons[1] of TNT, 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or equivalent to Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated by the US. . . .
The unofficial theme song of the Tunguska Event can be heard on a music video here.
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There was some speculation years ago, that it might have actually been something akin to a very high speed but tiny black hole, that actually passed through the Earth, exiting on the far side. This was based on some reports of a contemporary sighting of an immense "water spout" seen elsewhere.
But for their part, the Russians have obsessed over it for so long, doing countless studies of meteorite, asteroid, comet, and other impacts and airbursts, that that theory really faded into the background.
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James, the picture posted in BBC article is deceptive. The lake is actually rather more than less elliptic (2.2:1), it's longer side is oriented 90 degrees towards the reported object trajectory and is probably older than the event. There is a mentioning of a lake that fits the coordinates from 1879 in a surveyor's report that is located in Bratsk archives. There is another, smaller lake that is almost round, lying almost spot on the trajectory, about 8 miles NE from the event epicenter.
Berlin's tallest man-made mountain may be resting on the remains of an elite military academy planned by the Nazis. A group of underground explorers wants to go down and find out.
Considering what may be underneath, it's darkly ironic that Berlin's highest artificial hill is called "Teufelsberg," or "Devil's Mountain."
"We know for sure that there's a massive multi-story bunker complex underneath," Dietmar Arnold, co-founder of the Berlin Underground Society, a group dedicated to researching subterranean urban history, said in an interview with German news agency dpa. Arnold and his colleagues are eager to explore what he called "the last undiscovered secret that underground Berlin has to offer."
Rubble mountain
When World War Two came to an end in 1945, the devastated German capital began to clean up and rebuild. Berliners had to do something with the millions of tons of rubble their city had become, so they piled it up just outside the city. The result was a nearly 120-meter (390-foot) peak, covering up what would have been a key element in Adolf Hitler's plan to create the powerful "Germania" superpower.
The Americans listened to GDR radio communication from Teufelsberg during the Cold War. In the late 1930s, Nazi architect Albert Speer was commissioned to design an elite military academy on the site of what used to be a popular lake-side vacation destination near Berlin.
Though construction of the academy began, the Nazis had to interrupt the building plans a few years later as the war heated up and resources were needed elsewhere. It was never completed.
Uncovering history
During the Cold War, the Americans set up a radar unit on what had then become Teufelsberg to listen in on radio communications in East Germany. The buried Nazi academy was quickly forgotten -- until the Berlin Underground Society recently discovered documents pertaining to the site.
Arnold said close to 1,000 underground bunkers had been built in Berlin during the Nazi era, though many were later destroyed. Founded in 1997, his organization has already uncovered 50 of them. One of their most significant projects was a digital reconstruction of the bunker where Hitler took his own life in April 1945.
Although efforts were supposedly made to blow up the half-built military academy at the end of the war, Arnold is convinced that his group will find it intact -- a find that would not only be a significant feather in their caps, but also an important lead for World War Two historians.
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There are still a lot of bunkers waiting to be explored. I knew of one on a mountaintop US military base that had been sealed shut at the end of the war for fear of booby traps. They opened it up and discovered a long passageway to a heavily forested area on other side of the mountain where of all things, an unknown small airstrip had been built.
On that same base, the Rod and Gun Club had been put in a building that had been an arms room, but they never got around to inspecting the basement. Some bored GI noticed a small trap door in the back of the building, and discovered several boxes of machine guns down there, still in their dried packing grease.
But many of the larger and more concealed bunkers were taken over after the war by the Bundeswehr.
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Some are calling a former U.S. Marine a hero for shooting two men killing one during the botched robbery of a sandwich shop in Plantation. But the men's friends and family want to know how he could gun them down and not be charged.
The explosion was most likely caused by the airburst of a large (around 20 m (66 ft) across) meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers (36 mi) above the Earth's surface. . . . The energy of the blast was estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons[1] of TNT, 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or equivalent to Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated by the US. . . .
