A convicted sex offender died Sunday during a struggle with a father who found the naked man in or near his 17-year-old daughter's bedroom, police said.
Police responding to a call from the city's northwest side about 3:20 a.m. found 64-year-old Robert McNally on the hallway floor with his arm around the neck of 52-year-old David T. Meyers, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police spokesman Sgt. Matthew Mount said Meyers had a heart condition and may have had a heart attack. An autopsy was planned.
Police said Meyers was naked except for a mask and latex gloves and had entered the home through a window near the girl's bedroom with rope, condoms and a knife. He was familiar with the home's layout because it belonged to a relative, police said.
The girl awoke and screamed when she saw the man in her room, police said. The father responded and struggled with the intruder while the girl's mother phoned 911.
Police did not anticipate any charges against McNally.
"If a person breaks into your home, you are justified in using deadly force in defending your family," said Mount. "In this situation, I don't think he was trying to kill him, he was trying to hold him down."
Meyers had served 10 years in prison for criminal confinement and sexual deviate conduct and was wanted in Boone County for failure to register as a sex offender. He was registered as a sex offender in Marion County.
Police said Meyers lived with his mother and had recently lost his job.
The death is under investigation and will be reviewed by a Marion County prosecutor.
"Nobody wins," McNally told The Indianapolis Star. "It's a lose-lose situation for everybody. He has family also." Uh, no, Mr. McNally. Your daughter wins big time. Armed sex offender loses. And that is a very good thing.
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Well done, Mr. McNally. It is quite possible you may never again do anything quite so extraordinarily important for your family. This citizen thanks you for removing a clear and present danger from our society.
Let's add up the total: perp dead, no trial costs, no incarceration costs, small burial cost, scumbag removed from opportunity to commit further outrage...sounds like the citizenry wins BIG TIME!
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Well done McNally. You did your job, the perp did his, by dying. Hope he was scared at the end, since that's what he intended for his victim(s). Bury him in an unmarked grave in a swampy area.
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The whole family will prolly need counseling, he's right, nobody ever wins in a scene like this.
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Sorry Jim, can't agree with you. There would have been much more damage to the victim and her family if the perp had had his way. At least the perp died and was not allowed to take anyone else with him.
Tycoon Hugh Hefner has been advised to cut back on staff at his multi-million dollar glamour empire as it struggles to cope during the global economic turmoil. The 83-year-old has been told to lay off some of his staff at his Los Angeles and New York offices as soon as this month or go bankrupt.
The company has recently seen shares fall from £6.20 to £1.55.
An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for "a while". "Only the top brass has known for a while how bad things have been for Hef recently."
Spokeswoman Elizabeth Austin would not confirm the sackings, saying: "It is our policy not to comment on corporate matters such as employee issues."
The news will be another blow to Hefner who recently discovered that two of his "bunnies" may have been cheating on him.
Holly Madison, who has previously been named as Hefner's "No.1" girlfriend, is alleged to have had an affair with magician Criss Angel and another bunny, Kendra Wilson, is reportedly dating football star Hank Baskett. Playboy spokesman Rob Hillburger denied the rumours, saying: "The rumours that Holly left Hef for Criss Angel are not true. Holly and Kendra are all still living at the Mansion."
Scientists may have found a safer way of giving a flake of skin the biologically alchemical powers of embryonic stem cells. They turned adult cells into versatile, embryonic-like cells without causing permanent damage -- potentially solving the central problem of a promising but uncertain field of stem cell science.
"This is certainly a major stem cell milestone," said Advanced Cell Technologies chief scientific officer Bob Lanza, who was not involved in the research. "It's the first ray of light that iPS cells could soon be used to treat patients."
These iPS cells -- short for induced pluripotent stem cell -- debuted less than a year ago: By using viruses to insert key developmental genes, researchers coaxed human skin cells into an embryonic state, capable of growing into almost any other type of tissue.
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But the endometrial stem cells from menstrual blood appear a lot better choice. Abundantly available and biologically superior without any poking with virus. Really want to know? Read the research publication by Xiaolong Meng, Thomas E Ichim, Jie Zhong et.al. Endometrial regenerative cells: A novel stem cell population, Journal of Translational Medicine 2007, 5:57 doi:10.1186/1479-5876-5-57. This is an open access article available from: http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/5/1/57
Annon.
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The problem wiht that ANon, is that you don't get an abortion industry kickback and payoff liek you do with embryonic stem cells. That's a very big business that thrives on death and will not allow anyone to come close to limiting it.
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You'd think it would be a no-brainer that your own stem cells would be far better than someone else's for treating your diseases. They're guaranteed to have the same proteins as your other cells and be able to communicate accurately with your other tissues. Somebody else's: maybe, maybe not.
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What James said, although I don't even play a biologist on tv. The kickback with the abortion stem cells, though, is more likely the vicarious pleasure of throwing it in the faces of those who object. That feeling of 'speaking truth to power' is more valuable to some than actual money.
The 3rd Infantry Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now theyre training for the same mission with a twist at home.
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
As in rioting in the streets after Obama gets smashed? Or...
It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.
Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future, said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.
The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where theyll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones.
Stop-loss will not be in effect, so soldiers will be able to leave the Army or move to new assignments during the mission, and the operational tempo will be variable.
Dont look for any extra time off, though. The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment.
The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out.
In the meantime, theyll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
"Civil unrest" What are they expecting?
Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the jaws of life to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.
The 1st BCTs soldiers also will learn how to use the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded, 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.
This suggests US civilians...not terrorists.
Its a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that theyre fielding. Theyve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission were undertaking we were the first to get it.
The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.
Again, what are they expecting? Riots in the streets whether or not the Messiah wins the election? Or has some Doomsday scenario been threatened we do not know about (and is apparently so scary no one wants to mention it)?
I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered, said Cloutier, describing the experience as your worst muscle cramp ever times 10 throughout your whole body.
Im not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.
The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced sea-smurf).
I cant think of a more noble mission than this, said Cloutier, who took command in July. Weve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, youre going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.
While soldiers combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances dont apply.
If we go in, were going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so its kind of a different role, said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.
Sooo the US Army is planning on restoring order...after exactly what happens?
Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time theyll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. Thats because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission.
Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.
The active Armys new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package.
Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.
A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event.
In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C.
There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
One of the things Vogler said theyll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services.
It is a concern, and were trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability, he said.
I dont know what Americas overall plan is I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if theyre called, Cloutier said. It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home.
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Tina Fey, today's Chevy Chase of the President Ford era but without the klutziness. I only watch SNL when I can't go to sleep; it is sleep inducing--it tends to be sophomoronic and often not very funny.
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I happened to surf by ABC "News" tonight. The two anchors were laughing about the Tey SNL skit, and played a long clip. One said, when Palin gets on SNL it's going to be hard to tell her apart from Tey. The other said, yeah, it's really great that Tey's back on again. The first wrapped with, "Yeah, really cool." Media bias? Whatever are you talking about?
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I actually watched a goodly chunk of SNL last night before falling asleep. They had a skit on the Obama/McCain debate, and really did a good, balanced job. My notes from that moment: Rezko, earmarks, McCain surprises, maverick, BEACH BOYS!!
(Bomb, bomb Iran = Ba ba Barbra Ann)
It was clear Al Franken was not involved in writing that skit. It's just that Tina Fey doesn't want to do political skits for the next four years... and that ABC News, etc won't play anything that brings up dear Tony Rezko, who is reportedly ready to confess all his sins at the top of his lungs.
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