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LA CROSSE A La Crosse man recorded himself on a stolen video camera taunting police, who didn't have much trouble identifying him after he introduced himself. Now he's in the clink, and the video is on YouTube.
"This is my house, yes, and a stolen camera that I stole," he says. "But it's OK, the cops won't figure it out."
He continues: "Oh yeah, to introduce you, my name is Houaka Yang, so yeah. How do you do?"
Authorities said Yang, 20, left behind a trail of videos of himself on the camera he allegedly unlawfully removed late May 11 from an unlocked car outside the home of Republican state Senate candidate Bill Feehan.
Chris Rochester is Feehan's spokesman and the camera's owner. He got his camera back last week but didn't find the suspect's home movies until after he filmed Gov. Scott Walker's visit to La Crosse on Monday.
As Rochester looked for video he shot of the governor's appearance, he found 20 other segments the suspect apparently recorded.
Most were uneventful, until there was a 79-second segment of the suspect talking about stealing the camera and panning around a home, pointing out the kitchen and the bathroom.
Then, he turned the camera to reveal his face and said with a smile, "And this is me. Hi."
Yang was scheduled to make an initial appearance Wednesday on two charges of being party to the crime of misdemeanor theft and one misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon. The charges carry a maximum penalty of two years and three months in jail and a $30,000 fine.
Rochester said he didn't think Feehan was targeted for political reasons. Police had investigated a number of thefts reported in the area.
Security videos at Feehan's home showed two suspects rifling through the car in his driveway. Investigators showed the footage to officials at a local high school, who identified one suspect, La Crosse police Sgt. Randy Rank said. The 14-year-old in turn identified Yang, he said.
The two admitted breaking into Feehan's car. They turned over an array of stolen items, including the video camera. Both now face theft charges. Yang also faces a bail jumping charge because he was out on bond for making off with items from cars.
Rochester said he almost disregarded the videos on his camera, thinking maybe he had accidentally hit the "record" button.
"Then it hit me pretty quickly as to what it was," he said. "I was astounded. I was like, 'Wow, I can't believe this.'"
Yang was already in custody, but Rochester decided to have fun with the video by sharing it with friends. So he uploaded it to YouTube under the title "Confessions of a stupid criminal: Thief is sure he won't get caught."
Rank said police weren't concerned that Rochester uploaded the video while Yang's case is still pending.
"It's his recorder, those are his images on there," Rank said. "I don't see an issue with it."
[Al Ahram] A Tunisian military prosecutor requests a death penalty for ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who was tried in absentia as he sought exile in Saudi Arabia since last January
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[Bangla Daily Star] Saudi's defence ministry signed a $3 billion deal with Britannia to buy trainer jets for the kingdom's air force, SPA state news agency reported yesterday.
The deal also includes simulators, ground and training equipment and spare parts, SPA said, quoting a defence ministry official.
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The Brits still make jets?
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka too rejected yesterday the bail petitions of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other top opposition leaders who are in jail since May 16.
On May 16, a metropolitan magistrate sent the leaders to jail, turning down their bail prayers in the case filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister's Office during hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... on April 29.
Apparently frustrated, the petitioner's counsels who include some senior jurists hinted that they would appeal to the High Court against the sessions court order.
Yesterday, Judge Mohammad Zahurul Haque of the sessions court rejected the 15 bail petitions of the 33 accused leaders.
The same court on May 17 rejected the bail petition of BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who also is in jail in the same case.
BNP leaders yesterday reiterated the allegation that the government is conspiring to keep the top opposition leaders away from participating in the next general election by convicting them under the Speedy Trial Act.
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Four more men will go on trial for organizing riots in central Moscow that wounded 32 people. The violent clash between soccer fans and North Caucasus natives took place in December 2010.
The demonstration was a response to the murder of a football fan who had been involved in a street fight. Infuriated by what they saw as police indifference to the case, thousands of young people took to the streets first to pay tribute to Egor Sviridov, then to brawl with police and immigrants in the area. They gave Nazi salutes and threw flares at the policemen.
Sviridovs killer was recently given 20 years in jail. The five other defendants in the trial were all found guilty of the lesser charges of hooliganism and assault. Five organizers and participants of the rally were jailed as well.
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Not everybody loved "Papa Joe" Stalin. During its conquest of Europe, Germany had conscripted "volunteers" to form Ostruppen battalions from France, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Asian Russia, North Africa, Russia, Ukraine, and even India.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] European shares have dived and the euro hit a 22-month low before an informal EU summit and after former Greek prime minister warning that Greece might leave the eurozone.
There was tension after Germany reasserted its stance against eurobonds -- whereby strong and weak eurozone countries would pool their ability to borrow -- despite calls from other members and the IMF to consider this option.
In afternoon trading, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dove 1.97 per cent to 5,296.69 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 recoiled 1.90 per cent to 6,313.41 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 2.70 per cent to 3,00.87 points.
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Wehell, any + all EZ Nations have been advised to prepare potential national contingency plans for the "DAY OF THE GREXIT"!
["DRAGNET" Theme, "DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS" = Truck Jingle here].
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They just need to leave and the EU needs to collapse so the healthier economies can heal faster. It is like a cancer, the longer you leave those countries in, the worse it will get.
[Dawn] Resorting to violence once again, lawyers on Tuesday thrashed yet another policeman on the Lahore High Court premises and manhandled a judge's reader at the civil courts.
This time the victim was an assistant sub-inspector from Gujranwala, who had come to the court to appear before Justice Anwarul Haq in connection with a habeas corpus petition.
As ASI Khalid left the courtroom after the judge concluded the proceedings, advocates Rafique and Shahid Iqbal, accompanied by dozens of other lawyers, attacked him.
The ASI was kicked and punched by the lawyers who also tore his uniform. The lawyers were reportedly annoyed by the statement the ASI gave in the court.
LHC security personnel dared to rescue the policeman by getting hold of aggressive lawyers.
As the incident was brought to the notice of Justice Haq, he summoned Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) representatives.
Bar president Shehram Sarwar appeared before the judge and condemned the incident. He said the bar would not tolerate such elements and take action against them.
Advocate General Punjab Ashtar Ausaf also undertook to take disciplinary action against the accused lawyers. Both the lawyers and the victim submitted applications at Old Anarkali cop shoppe for registration of cases against each other.
In another incident at Civil Courts (Aiwan-e-Adl), Advocate Farhan Gilani and some other lawyers manhandled Mahmood Butt, the reader of Civil Judge Mubashar Nadeem, allegedly over appointment of local commission in a case.
In protest against the incident, the entire civil courts staff abandoned their work and went on a strike. They gathered outside the chamber of the Lahore sessions judge and protested lawyers' attitude.
After half an hour protest, the court staff resumed their work as the sessions judge assured them that their grievance would be redressed.
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ANY lawyer Mis-handling a Judge should be instantly Disbarred.
Or are the Judges THAT biased?
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As to the term 'lawyers' in these cases, I have come to the conclusion that the word does not translate to what we consider to be lawyers. Taliban were defined as 'students'. Might this be another lost in translation thing? Maybe more like advocates/gladiators/thugs at law?
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WM, thugs-at-law? Lawyers? Distinction without a difference?
Industrialized nations step up plans to help countries swept up in Arab Spring rebuild their economies through more access to international credit markets, investment
According to Rooters, as of last October, the Arab Spring had cost the countries involved over $55 billion.
Brilliant. Give a bunch of failed countries 'easier access' to credit markets so that they can run up a lot of new debt. What could possibly go wrong?
This is the kind of thinking that gave us Greece, Zimbabwe and Pakistain. Brilliant.
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"Step up plans for aid" > Datsagood for the G-8 as a collective, as while the Bammer may want to up $$$ "Stimulus/QE"? spending for post-Arab Spring ME States, AFAIK US CONGRESSCRITTERS ARE NOT - DEY BE IN A SERIOUS FOREIGN AID CUTTING MOOD.
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I hope they get right - iff our future OWG-NWO + USDOD desire both "defensive" + "offensive" Global Strike, Spacestrike, Global + Space Recce/SSIGINT, etc., THE NT DIRIGIBLE WILL FILL VARIOUS VITAL HAL NODES UNTIL MOON BASES + DEEP SPACE STATIONS, ETC. BECOM ROUTINE.
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
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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.
Saudi's defence ministry signed a $3 billion deal with 
