Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart. "see? it says a million and stuff. Secretary of the Treasury is Donald Trump!"
Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items. Store employees called police after his insistence that the bill was legit, and Fuller was arrested. "the 48 packages of cough syrup alerted us....and the incandescent bulbs"
The largest bill in circulation is $100. The government stopped making bills of up to $10,000 in 1969. with inflation..
Fuller was charged with attempting to obtain property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument. He is in jail on a $17,500 bond, and it isn't clear if he has an attorney. He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday Check the bills when he posts bail. There's no $78,000 bill either
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That's alright I have some more. How much was that?.
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Other prisoners claiming to be "I ain't done sh*t, man..."
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Talk about the *wrong* people to impersonate.
Wunst they wuz a little boy wouldn't say his prayers, -
An' when he went to bed at night, away up-stairs,
His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl,
An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wuzn't there at all!
An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press,
An seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever' wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found wuz thist his pants an' roundabout: -
An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, P2K. Law enforcement officers have wide latitude and discretion in the conduct of their duties. A US soldier is just a war criminal who hasn't been indicted yet...
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MURMANSK, Russia: Russia said on Friday it had doused a raging blaze aboard a nuclear submarine after nearly a full day and night, by partially submerging the vessel after battling the flames with water from helicopters and tug boats.
So they drowned the fire. Apparently the fire never got inside the sub -- the BBC report says that it was confined to the rubber coating on the outside.
There was no radiation leak and crew inside the submarine were monitoring the stricken vessel's nuclear reactors which had been shut down, Russian officials said.
At least nine people were injured fighting the flames which witnesses quoted by local media said rose 10 meters (30 feet) above the Yekaterinburg submarine at the navy ship yard in the Murmansk region of northern Russia.
"The fire on the submarine has been totally extinguished," Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu told officials leading the firefighting effort, more than twenty hours after the blaze began on Thursday afternoon at 1220 GMT.
Emergency officials decided to partially submerge the 18,200-ton Yekatirnburg submarine at the Roslyakovo dock, one of the main dockyards of Russia's Northern Fleet, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow, after hours of fighting the fire.
Official statements were vague,
...this is Russia after all...
but the blaze is believed to have started when wooden scaffolding caught fire during welding repairs
"Oleg, careful with that torch..."
to the the 167-meter (550 feet) Yekaterinburg submarine, which had been hoisted into a dry dock.
The Yekaterinburg is a Delta IV class submarine. The submarine, which launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents Sea at a firing range as recently as July, can carry 16 ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, and a crew of 140.
A Defense Ministry spokesman said all its weapons had been removed before repairs started and its nuclear reactors were shut down. Part of the crew was onboard the submarine to check carbon dioxide levels, the temperature and to ensure the safety of the nuclear reactors.
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There is no freaking way that sub will ever be seaworthy again. Even if they keep it in dry dock for training purposes, they will have to hang thousands of those little pine tree deodorizers in it.
GULYAZI, Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed regret Friday for the killing of 35 Kurdish civilians in an airstrike as mourners vented their fury and rebels called for an uprising.
As locals buried their dead, Erdogan admitted that the victims of Wednesday night's attack near the Iraqi border were smugglers and not separatist rebels as the army had originally claimed. Speaking to journalists in Istanbul, Erdogan voiced his regret for what he called an "unfortunate and distressing" incident. "Images transmitted by drones showed a group of 40 people in the area, it was impossible to say who they were," he said.
So they shot first and asked afterwards...
"Afterward it was determined they were smugglers transporting cigarettes and fuel on mules."
Turkish rights groups called for a UN-sponsored investigation into the killing. "The incident requires a detailed investigation, but it is an execution without due process, and carries the characteristics of a mass murder in terms of the number of victims," human rights groups IHD and Mazlumder said in a preliminary report into Wednesday's airstrike.
"Turkish and international nongovernmental organizations should investigate the incident and the UN Human Rights Committee should send a committee right away," the groups said.
Erdogan's government has promised not to allow a cover-up of the incident.
"We are waiting for the investigation results. We will share its results with the public," Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters on Friday. "These incidents can take place in the process of the fight against terror."
In their report, IHD and Mazlumder quoted 19-year-old Haci Encu, who survived the attack and was in hospital, as saying the smugglers were a group of about 40 to 50 people with mules and were attacked by drones when they were crossing the border to Iraq. "We were going for sugar and diesel. We even heard the drone, but we kept on walking because it's our ordinary route," Encu is quoted as saying.
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Pakistan is getting its due share of river water under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, Pakistan's Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar said on Friday.
In a written reply submitted in the National Assembly, he said the treaty allocated waters of the eastern rivers Sutlej, Beas and Ravi to India and those of the western rivers Indus, Jhelum and Chenab to Pakistan, except for certain specified uses.
In the past, Islamabad had said its share was being diverted by dams in Jammu and Kashmir, though New Delhi has denied the charge.
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Its due share being more than four fifths of the waters of the Indus basin system.
Indian PM Nehru was a real generous fellow and Robert McNamara (who negotiated the treaty) knew a sucker when he saw one.
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[Dawn] Legal experts at a seminar on Friday called for change in the approach towards Karo-kari (honour killings) -- from the registration of an FIR till the time when an accused is awarded punishment -- and effective implementation of relevant laws to defeat the crime.
The seminar on 'Honour killings in Pakistain and compliance with law', a pilot study by Advocate Maliha Zia Lari, was hosted by Aurat Foundation's legislative watch programme for women empowerment.
Detailing the study, Ms Lari earlier explained the various problems she and her team faced when gathering information on honour killing in Pakistain.
She identified three factors -- police, court and community -- and said that she had to eventually rule out district courts as an option since they were very difficult to access.
Focusing mainly on FIR, Ms Lari felt that the categorisation of reports was a problem because often the murders were misreported. For instance, she said, all details of the crime were listed but the term "honour killing" was not mentioned in an FIR.
"When the term is not mentioned in the FIR, the police record it as a murder, and not as honour killing," she explained. This resulted in further complications since if an FIR was not strong enough the prosecution might lose in court.
In other cases, Ms Lari added, people registered ordinary murders as cases of honour killing in order to increase its social acceptability.
The advocate said that while a few cases of honour killings were filed in the Sindh High Court, not a single case was reported in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... She said it was a widely held view that police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa endorsed the crime, while contradictory decisions were made in Punjab to either condemn or support honour killings. There was also social pressure on the police in a few incidents, she added.
Ms Lari highlighted the fact that most victims of honour killings belonged to working class and perpetrators often used the pretext of women stepping out of their houses in order to commit the crime.
She said that 1,636 honour killings had been reported in the media from 2008 to 2010 according to an Aurat Foundation report.
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people registered ordinary murders as cases of honour killing in order to increase its social acceptability.
WTF is wrong with a society that considers a murder more acceptable if it is an honor killing??
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RiV, I'm afraid that the question is: "What could possibly be right in a society that considers honor killing acceptable?"
It would certainly be a much shorter answer. I kinda go with "nothing".
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The way to end this crap in Muslim countries is by executing honor killers with little hesitation. Since anything can be justified by Sharia, which currently justifies honor killing, it can just as easily be turned around and used against it.
I remember when Perv pulled a fast one against one of the powerful religious parties. He made a vote a referendum on greater rights for women, and those fools came out against it, calling for a "ignorant, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" approach. But in Pak, women have the vote, too, and the religious party got nuked in the election.
Same approach this time. Since the vast majority of honor killing victims are women and girls, if they have a chance to vote on a death penalty for it, there is a good chance it would pass.
[Dawn] A Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday directed the district police officer of Upper Dir to collect more evidence to suggest that four-year-old girl Asma is a swara victim, and submit a final charge sheet to the relevant court against the people charged with demanding early handover of the victim of the child marriage custom before killing her father and brother on refusal.
The DPO was also told to ensure early arrest of an absconding accused, Sher Mohammad, or the 'attachment' of his properties under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Under the orders of the bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, the DPO is to ask another experienced investigation officer to help the current inquiry officer collect more evidence of the swara demand and two killings under the supervision of the superintendent of Upper Dir police (investigation).
The court also asked provincial advocate general Asadullah Khan Chamkani to regularly secure reports from police about progress in the case and protection to the swara victim and her family.
Under swara widely prevalent in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and adjoining tribal areas, girls are married mostly against their will to men of rival families to end blood feuds.
On an earlier order of the court, police registered an FIR on December 21 under Section 310-A and 506 of the PPC at the Kalkot cop shoppe. Five accused, Naqeeb Ahmad, Sherullah, Izzat Mohammad, Nasrullah and Wazir Mohammad, were produced before the court in handcuffs.
Some elders of the girl's locality also appeared before the court and denied any role in the case and claimed to have never heard that the accused demanded the girl in swara.
The chief justice warned them that in case they tried to influence the girl's family, they would be placed in durance vile and sent to faraway prisons.
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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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Legal experts at a seminar on Friday called for change in the approach towards Karo-kari (honour killings) -- from the registration of an FIR till the time when an accused is awarded punishment -- and effective implementation of relevant laws to defeat the crime.
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