A police officer in Independence, Mo., who thought he was killing an alligator on the loose, discovered he had shot a life-size concrete lawn ornament. So what was his grouping?
The police department ended up apologizing to Rick Sheridan, the cement gator's owner, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, reported. Sheridan said he heard gunfire as he worked in his garage last weekend and went out to investigate, discovering several police officers with their guns drawn.
"The officer fired two rounds, and killed my concrete, ornamental alligator," Sheridan said.
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With a real alligator, the bullets go in. This guy, the rounds may still be bouncing around someplace. Now, if one of the cops had taken a ricochet, do they call SWAT and level the house?
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Depends on the jurisdiction. In Sheriff Dipsh*t's jurisdiction in AZ they would shoot 60-odd rounds into it and then leave and call in the SWAT.
Too bad the heroes didnÂ’t get to finish their reports before they learned their mistake:
“Said reptile advanced menacingly, hissed, and bared its teeth. It then charged toward me at a high rate of advance. Officer Fife and I drew our sidearms and discharged 30 rounds. Observing that the reptile had not gone down, we re-loaded and discharged 30 more. I then applied my tazer until it stopped moving and assumed a rigid position.”
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I tried to post an article about this a few days ago but it never showed up.
Several interesting aspects to this crisis: unusual mix of people getting sick, fatalities and near-fatalities are more prevalent than for other E. Coli, the bacteria has a previously unseen toxic combination as if a merger of two other bacteria, it carries several mutations protecting it from antibiotics, the cases are are clustered around Hamburg.
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because Saudi is the source of so many healthful foods? Wipe right? Wipe left? Which stone? Oh, the dilemma
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you can buy technology, but you can't pay your way out of stoopid primitive Islamic misogynistic inbred behavior. Perhaps, if your family "tree" had a branch or two? But then, you might not look so much like Aunt Edna Fatimah
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The mannerless boy-child has become boring. He doesn't even deserve the courtesy of being told he's too fucking stupid, Frank.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] A Zim-bob-wean police officer accused of using a toilet reserved for President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... has been placed in durance vile for 10 days.
The policeman identified as Sergeant Alois Mabhunu by a local radio station was tried and convicted by a police internal court on Tuesday.
He was tossed in the slammer last month for using the toilet that had been specifically designated for the president during the Zim-bob-we International Trade Fair (ZITF) held in the second city of Bulawayo early May.
Allegations against Sgt Mabhunu were that on May 6 he was on duty at the ZITF where President Mugabe was a guest.
He allegedly rushed to the toilet to answer the call of nature at a toilet reserved for the 87 year old leader.
Some officers guarding the toilet tried to stop him but failed. He was tossed in the slammer the following day.
As part of the sentence Sergeant Mabbhunu was also demoted from his post as a homicide detective and transferred to a remote police post.
The privately owned Radio VOP on Wednesday reported that he had appealed to the police commissioner General Augustine Chihuri to overturn the sentence.
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[Iran Press TV] A new survey shows the support for Perfidious Albion's Labour party has dropped by two points to 37 percent, putting it level with the Conservatives for the first time in seven months.
The ComRes's poll for The Independent newspaper was carried out at a time when Labour party chief, Ed Miliband is doing 'what he can' to make an impact with the public.
The poll shows Labour has lost its lead over the Tories for the first time in seven months, running neck and neck with the Tories following a turbulent political month.
The month was turbulent because the Labour party was trounced in elections to the Scottish Parliament and recorded a mixed performance in contests for English councils.
The poll also found that support for the Tories has fallen by one point to 37 percent.
This is while the Liberal Democratic party is witnessing support recovery after its recent dramatic collapse in popularity. Support for the Lib Dems is also up by one point to 12 percent.
Support for other parties, including the SNP, Ukip and the Greens, is up by two points to 14 percent.
Labour was leading the poll index by nine points after the Chancellor, George Osborne, set out plans for spending cuts in the autumn, but it is losing supporters since then.
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[Al Jazeera] Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, but the unpopular leader will still struggle to break a policy deadlock given a split in his party and a divided parliament.
Earlier on Thursday Kan said that he would step down after handling issues related to his country's triple disaster - the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis.
Parliament's lower house rejected the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion by 293 votes to 152.
"Once the post-quake reconstruction efforts are settled, I will pass on my responsibility to younger generations," he said.
"The nuclear crisis is ongoing, and I will make my utmost efforts to end the crisis and move forward with post-quake reconstruction works."
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[Iran Press TV] At a time when many Americans are struggling with unemployment and the soaring prices of goods, US Congress has decided to cut a food assistance program from the budget.
The Congress is considering the elimination of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), in an attempt to reduce the country's burgeoning debt, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Some 44 million Americans received SNAP benefits in March, which is an eleven percent rise from last year, and almost 61 percent higher than the percentage four years ago.
While US President Barack B.O. Obama supports an increase in the funding of the food aid program, conservatives in the Congress have insisted on cutting it from the country's spending. SNAP annually costs USD 70 million.
Republicans are also seeking to change SNAP from being an entitlement program to a block-grant program, bounded to individual state laws.
"I think there are inefficiencies in the food stamp program, but to be honest, I think a lot of that comes from the administrative side. I don't see a lot of fraud. I also do not see a lot of people who are intentionally violating the program requirements," said food stamps attorney, Stacy Braverman.
This comes as more than 20 million American families rely on food stamps for their survival.
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Cut foreign aid you morons---not bread & circuses.
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" I don't see a lot of fraud. I also do not see a lot of people who are intentionally violating the program requirements," said food stamps attorney, Stacy Braverman.
I wonder what kind of drugs she is exchanging her food stamps for. Must be some pretty good stuff!
Hmmmm....food stamps attorney ya say? Does that mean she specializes in welfare fraud or she gets paid in food stamps? Either way, her law professors must be mighty proud of Stacy.
I think I can feel a Military Junta coming on.
Greek protesters have taken over the finance ministry building in Athens as the country agreed with its European partners to introduce new austerity measures in return for a new bailout package.
Protesters belonging to the left-wing The All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) union unfolded a giant banner from the roof of the finance ministry building on the central Syntagma square, calling for a nationwide strike against the new austerity measures that the government agreed to take in return for the new bailout package.
"From dawn today forces of PAME have symbolically occupied the finance ministry, calling on workers to rise, organize their struggle and prevent the government's barbarous and anti-popular measures from passing," the front said, AFP reported.
Angry citizens in the country have now, for a tenth consecutive day, held anti-government demonstrations against the austerity measures.
Protesters have set up a camp in the central square of the capital, in a move modelled after the Spanish M-15 movement and the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
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In the last week Sarah Palin has commanded the attention of the national press corps simply by taking in a few tourist sites on the East Coast. Whenever she stops her "One Nation" bus, reporters lucky or canny enough to keep up with her have asked about her political intentions. Will she run for president? Is she thinking about running for president? If she ran for president, how would she campaign?
One thing many viewers have probably missed in all the horse-race speculation is that Palin is perfectly willing to discuss her positions on key issues, if anyone wants to ask. In fact, in recent days, weeks, and months, we've seen a lot of policy commentary from the former Alaska governor.
[Iran Press TV] Presumptive GOP front-runner Mitt Romney announces his U.S. presidential candidacy with a "leaner but stronger organization," his campaign spokeswoman said.
The former Massachusetts governor, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for the second time, plans Thursday to enter the race at a chili cookout on a 300-acre farm owned by former New Hampshire House Speaker Doug Scamman and his wife, Stella.
The announcement is to take place around the same time former Alaska Gov. Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... -- who is the subject of much speculation as to whether she will seek the nomination -- is scheduled to appear in Boston.
Palin is to arrive in New Hampshire later Thursday, as is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, also said to be considering seeking the Republican nomination, who will headline a GOP fundraiser in Concord, N.H., The Wall Street Journal reported.
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...adding that if Bashar al-Assad could not put an end to the violence against his own people, and take "meaningful steps" to start a process of reform, then he should resign.
Reform...al-Assad...Really? Even the most casual observer knows that Pencilneck's very existence depends on thuggish brute-power bankrolled and propped up by a ruthless criminal syndicate. Second, the only "reform" his opposition will accept is for him and his henchmen to do the dangle-dance at the end of piano wire.
For an Administration that was promoted to be soooo much smarter then their predecessors sometimes they really come off sounding like fools.
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Look how well things turned out for Africa. "We Are the World" was really the turning point I believe. There's a choice we're makin', so let's start givin'
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Yet another case of California's state government acting outside its role and playing "culture sheriff" again.
I honestly believe it is part of a plan to destroy our governments at every level. You ignore the things government should be doing, you concentrate on areas where the government shouldn't, you drain all government treasuries of funds that you divvy up to the least productive of society, make laws "protecting" weird behavior to attack the social fabric, and finally you have a broken community, a bankrupt government, and a society that is absolutely crazy.
Then you have to ask yourself "who really won the cold war"?
[Iran Press TV] Former CNN Producer Danny Schechter says the Fox News Channel was established to fuel "polarization and political conflict" in US society.
"You can almost hear the growling in the background as the masters of attack politics go into action, virtually every hour on the hour, on the Fox News Channel," Schechter said.
"The issues they focus on are carefully selected by top executives and then broken down into highly politicized message points."
Schechter added that the Fox News Channel feels it is its duty to "warn their faithful against political deviations that might lead them astray."
Its, however, hard to realize that the topics presented in the channel are chosen based on a strategy of "using emotionally tested wedge issues to politicize by polarizing."
"So Fox plays a double game; concealing the most reactionary and partisan of perspectives in the appearance of populism," he noted.
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Yes, and what's wrong with dissent and conflict, or is it best to have the MSM pied piper us to oblivion?
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Only in People's Democratic Republics you'll find a 'lack' of conflict. It's a natural aspect of true democracy to have conflicting opinions. Then again as already mentioned when you're tagged with the 'C' word, we understand their inherit desire for the first definition of a democracy.
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And MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN are setup to do what? They are all in the bag for the liberal Democrats. If one occasionally has the bad fortune to watch Rachel Madcow on MSNBC or some of the other twits there you find a network fueling the flames of discontent.
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CNN, MSNBC, CBS... Do not realize that Foxnews is not their competition it is the other left wing media outlets. fox news is successful because they are the only channel on cable out of several hundred that report 'fair and balanced'. These leftists are so far left that a middle of the road reporting is viewed as far right. Fox news is often criticized for being too left and too right by their viewers. When did CNN ever get accused of being to leftist?
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A police officer in Independence, Mo., who thought he was killing an alligator on the loose, discovered he had shot a life-size concrete lawn ornament.
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[Iran Press TV] Former CNN Producer Danny Schechter says the Fox News Channel was established to fuel "polarization and political conflict" in US society.
