Two New Zealand prisoners who were handcuffed together as they fled a courthouse foiled their own getaway when they ran to opposite sides of a light pole, slammed into each other and fell to the ground. Jailers nabbed them as they struggled to their feet.
Their escapade yesterday was captured by a CCTV camera at Hastings District Court on New Zealand's North Island. The footage shows the two men trying to make a break for it - but apparently forgetting they were joined at the wrist.
Hastings police Senior Sgt Dave Greig said one inmate, Regan Reti, 20, had just been sent to prison for more than two years after being convicted of assault. The other inmate, Tiranara White, 21, was in custody for allegedly stealing a car and violating parole.
"As they were being led from the Hastings police cells ... they made a bolt for freedom," Greig said today. "They fell over and they were sprayed with pepper spray. But they got up and ran out of the court onto the street, across the road to a car park," he said. "That's where they met the pole - it was all over, rover."
The pair were back in court on Thursday, facing fresh charges of escaping from custody.
Grainy footage of the escapade shown on TV One News was billed as "one of the worst escape attempts ever seen".
29 January 2009: In U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon charging Harold James Nicholson, 58, of Sheridan, Ore., and Nathaniel James Nicholson, 24, of Eugene, Ore., with two counts of Conspiracy, one count of Acting as Agents of a Foreign Government, and four counts of Money Laundering. Polygrapher: "Good to see you again Jim. You're adjudication continues to come back inconclusive from our last seven visit. Let's go over those unsightly Foreign Intelligence questions again shall we?"
CHICAGO -- A 33-year-old Chicago man is being held without bond in connection with the stabbing death of his brother over a $2 debt.
Phillip Binder allegedly stabbed to death his brother, 35-year-old Charles Binder, in front of other family members in their South Side home. Phillip Binder first approached his brother Charles outside their home. Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Mike O'Malley said once the two were inside, Phillip Binder took a large knife from the kitchen and plunged it once into his brother's chest.
After the stabbing, Phillip Binder allegedly told his aunt she was lucky she didn't die too. According to the arrest report, the altercation began over a crack cocaine debt.
Full disclosure: I'm the oldest of eleven, so I have nothing against big family's. But nobody supported us but us.
The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week already has six young children and never expected that the fertility treatment she received would result in eight more babies, her mother said Thursday. What doctor thought it would be a bright idea to okay fertility treatments for a woman who already has six kids? I could see if she had none, but...c'mon.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, had embryos implanted last year, and "they all happened to take," Angela Suleman said, leading to the eight births Monday. "I looked at those babies. They are so tiny and so beautiful." She acknowledged that raising 14 children is a daunting prospect. Ya think? Continued on Page 49
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It's already being reported that she currently receives over $1,600.00/month in welfare. These new young 'uns will add just under $1,000.00 to that.
Is she married? No.
She lives with her parents in a 3-bedroom house.
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So if she's on welfare, I take it the state of California would have to authorize the fertility treatments, yes? So who's a bigger idiot here, the doctors that okayed it or the idiot bureaucrat who approved it?
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I believe it was unconscionable on the Doctors' part.
Don't know if the state paid for the treatments or not (would be pretty stupid to do so, so maybe they did).
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More.
(CBS) CBS News has learned that the family of the octuplets born this week outside Los Angeles filed for bankruptcy and abandoned a home a little over a year-and-a-half ago.
Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman says the mother is in her mid-thirties and lives with her parents. There's been no mention of the octuplets' father, Kauffman observes.
The grandfather, she adds, is apparently going to head back to his native Iraq to earn money for the growing family. He told CBS News he's a former Iraqi military man.
Kauffman reported Thursday, and the octuplets' maternal grandmother now confirms to the Los Angeles Times, that the babies' mother already had six young children.
And a family acquaintance had told Kauffman that two of the six other kids are twins, and the six range in age from about two to about seven.
The octuplets, who were born by Caesarean section and delivered by a 46-member team of doctors at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., arrived nine weeks premature.
In an effort to try and find out more about the woman who gave birth to octuplets earlier this week, we went to the home she shares with her parents and six other children in Whittier, California.
What we learned is that her whole neighborhood is buzzing about the possibility that the 33-year-old mother used the same sperm donor to conceive the octuplets AND her other six children.
In an exclusive interview with momlogic, one neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, revealed that the very pregnant young mom was THE hot topic of conversation at the neighborhood Christmas party. He says, "From what I heard she likes kids, she wants a jillion kids. She even lied to the doctors who impregnated her." The grandmother of the octuplets told the LA Times she never expected fertility treatments would lead her to conceive her eight babies. Neither doctors nor family members have commented on whether or not she used donor sperm.
When asked if he knew who the father of the baby is, the neighbor said, "She is single. She used a sperm donor, someone she knew, who donated sperm a long time ago. He donated the sperm for the first six kids and she used his frozen sperm for these one. I don't think the sperm donor knows about these eight kids. He was not involved."
According to the neighbor, the parents are very supportive of their daughter and even lost their own home in an effort to support her. "The parents lost their house supporting their daughter," the neighbor went on. "They actually bought this house for her, but then they lost their house supporting her and her kids and they had to move in with her. And now her father has to go back to Iraq to earn more money to support her. Her father either works as a truck driver or an interpreter [in Iraq]."
As to whether the mother herself works, the neighbor says: "She's a professional student and I want to know where the money's coming from to do this. Maybe she's using her student loans to do it."
The family is very private: "They stick to themselves and you can always hear the grandma yelling at the kids because they are so rambunctious."
Although many think the birth of the octuplets is a happy miracle, the neighbor disagrees. "We should find out who the doctor is and where the money came from because this is irresponsible. The girl seemed a little off -- and I don't want to be paying for her kids."
The Raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines on 30 January 1945 by US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas resulted in the liberation of 512 prisoners of war (POWs) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan and was a celebrated historic achievement involving Allied special forces during World War II. . . . The raid was recreated, with great attention to historical accuracy, in the 2005 John Dahl film The Great Raid.
I highly recommend the movie.
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I watched the movie just a couple weeks ago (hat tip: netflix). A good flick!
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IIRC the History Channel's version covered what occurred afterward when the Japanese reinforcements showed up and sweep the area. The local village was leveled and the civilians massacred. The officer in charged was found after the end of hostilities, charged and executed for the atrocity. Another one of those crimes against humanity that get buried in the 'victim' game played by the Anti-Americans as the 'apologize for Hiroshima' article brought up the other day.
The biggest one was the flying column that liberated the Santo Tomas University Internment camp in Manila, but in this case the raiding force retained control of the area and were quickly reinforced.
Also a larger raid was on the Los Banos internment camp, to release US and Allied civilian internees. That one also involved Filipino guerillas, plus a parachute drop and an amphibious column attacking from a lake in Amtraks, with which the rescued internees were evacuated. There were terrible Japanese atrocities in Los Banos and the neighboring villages after that one also.
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Heres how it could have gone down:
D: um, hon, you know those millions of dollars you have in the bank?
A: Yea, hon.
D: Well, could you please take 4 of those dollars out to have our assistant buy us some earplugs today?
A: Yes, babe.
I'll tell ya, I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for this.
I do have one question for Ashton though. Do you have to be semi-literate or completely illiterate to be a celebrity? Because, with you, it's hard to tell...
A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake with an epicenter near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist said Wednesday.
Haydar Al-Shukri, the director of the Arkansas Earthquake Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said the fault is separate from the New Madrid fault responsible for a series of quakes in 1811-12. The fault is west of Marianna, AR, about 100 miles east of Little Rock.
The fault, likely created in the last 5,000 years, sparked at least one magnitude 7 earthquake in its history. Such temblors cause massive destruction in their wake. The researcher has said a gas pipeline crossed the newly discovered fault. He declined to name the company that owned the pipeline.
KiloBravo just repacked warmer clothes for her trip to England to see Mum. Batten down the hatches, turn up the heating and pull on your long-johns... Brrritain is about to get a dumping of Russian snow.
Temperatures are already starting to drop after the recent mild weather but the country still has a few day's grace before Baltic winds come whistling down the chimney. The chills will start in earnest on Sunday and the bulk of the snow is expected to fall over eastern parts of England and Scotland.
But the white stuff could spread as far as the Irish Sea. Overnight temperatures could plunge to as low as -6C (21F) in some regions and the mercury might struggle to get above 0C at all on Monday.
Sky News weather presenter Jo Wheeler said: "Snowfall from the east tends to hang around longer than when it comes from the west. We should be on standby."
It is too early to tell exactly which areas will be affected - this depends on wind direction, Wheeler added.
This has been the coldest winter for 13 years, with the UK battered by winds, snow and temperatures as low as -13C (8.6F) at times. It has not been this chilly since 1995, when temperatures reached -27.2C (-17F), matching the existing record for the lowest UK temperature.
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Southern Australia experiencing record heatwave
Southern Australia is experiencing its worst heatwave since records began, with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius along the south coast.
Melbourne has recorded the highest temperatures, peaking at more than 45 degrees Celsius today.
The city has now experienced a third consecutive day of temperatures above 43C for the first time since records began in 1855.
Adelaide, meanwhile, is expected to match is longest heat-wave in a century if temperatures stay above 40C until Monday.
The situation has led to a surge in heat-related illnesses and the threat of wildfires around several rural towns.
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The record heat wave in southern Australia is in a relatively small area (of southern Australia). I live in Southern Australia (Perth) and we are having a cool summer by our standards. It looks like we will have the first summer in decades where the temperature doesn't reach 40C.
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Your summer cooling trend is actually the first sign of Global Warming climate change Phil. The end is NEAR! I blame the Great Grape Stomp! Just ask Al Gore.
As a former Meteorologist I would bet you are describing a macro climate event in the heat wave area caused by wind patterns persisting from a northerly direction. As the air passes over the mountains to the north of Melbourne and Adelaide it is compressed and heated even more than it was in the Outback.
We had a similar event in the San Francisco area in 07 when our winds persisted from the east.(From the Sierra Nevada mountains) SF had 100 degree weather even though it's surrounded by water below 60 degrees.
Southern California has a Global Warming event every fall and early winter, the Santa Ana winds.
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And in Marquette, Michigan they have a global warming event every year also. Its called July 2nd.
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Mostly right Golf Bravo. I'm a former meteorologist too. However the "mountains" to the north of Melbourne and Adelaide aren't significant. The heat is caused by air whose trajectory is over thousands of kilometers of hot dry GAFA (Great Australian F--- All). There's a high over the Tasman Sea and a another in the Bight. Not unusual at this time of year and every few years you get a series of hot days instead of a warming to one really hot day followed by a cool change. I'm 85 miles west of Brisbane and this hasn't been a hot summer here.
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Good lord. It sounds like meteorologists are another major Rantburg population, along with engineers, computer jockeys of all sorts, and current/former military. Cool! (Or hot! as the case may be.)
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C'mon guys, catch up. It's now "climate change". Gerbil Worming was much too lucrative a racket to have it spoiled by the failure of a few lazy thermometers to climb.
It doesn't take much elevation to cause the problem of local macro heating. When I was in Vietnam in 1969 we had a period where the temps were in excess of 130F - 54C for over a week. The low at night was 100F -38C. Our situation was that the pressure gradient was forcing air from our northwest on the Laotian plateau, Plain of Jars over us and out to the South China Sea. There were no real tall mountain ranges but more like our California Coast Range. The net/net was the wind direction plus the general downslope put us in an oven. Really tall mountains would have compounded the problem do to the addition of the adiabatic heating.
There now all the Rantburgers know how to build a watch but not have the time of day.
Police yesterday recovered 14 pieces of the body of a man brutally murdered by unknown criminals in the city. The bare pieces of the body were recovered from a two square kilometre area of Lalbagh. However, the head and a hand, severed from the wrist, are still missing.
The victim has been identified as Md Asgar Ali, 32, owner of a payphone shop on RNG Road in Lalbagh who has been missing since Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, locals including Asgar's relatives laid siege to the Lalbagh Police Station in the evening for about an hour demanding arrest and punishment of Asgar's killers. Police later dispersed the agitating crowd on assurance that police was taking proper action on the matter. Detective Police picked up two people, Zahirul Islam Zahir and Saiful, for questioning in this connection.
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Police recorded a murder case early today as they were sceptical about the identity of the victim since no clothing, the head or other identifiable belongings were found.
C'mon, guys. I already got the paperwork in with Mutual of Dhaka...
A big women's basketball game between No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 4 Baylor just gained added prestige.
Former President George W. Bush and wife Laura attended Wednesday's game. The two entered several minutes before the opening tip, flanking Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey, and received a prolonged standing ovation from the fans at the Ferrell Center. The group was engulfed by photographers and camera crews at the Oklahoma bench.
Another round of applause followed during the initial TV timeout at 15:57 of the first half, when the 43rd president was introduced again.
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The bottom line is that with each passing month, or even week, increasingly larger numbers of people are going to become severely nostalgic for everything to do with W. Bush.
America is soon to learn what it means to live within your budget, at all levels. There is going to be a sharp end to Chinese imported goods (I suggest you stock up now); credit will be only for those who don't need it, with 100% collateral.
Many retail chains and stores will be going under and taking popular products and services with them. Gasoline is going to get more expensive. A lot of the US military will have to come home, leaving our allies to their own devices.
There are going to be a lot more unemployed, homeless, hungry people, as well as individual and organized crime. The list goes on and on.
Lemba
The Lemba or Lembaa are an ethnic group numbering 70,000 in southern Africa. Although they speak Bantu languages similar to their neighbors, they have specific religious practices and beliefs similar to those in Judaism, which have been remembered and transmitted orally through the generations.
Lembá District
Lembá is a district of São Tomé Province. Out of the seven districts that make up the equatorial Atlantic island group of São Tomé and Príncipe, its population is relatively small at approximately 9,800, but it is second largest in terms of area covering approximately 229 square kilometers. The district capital is Neves.
Lemba
[Haitian] A deity, of Congo religion, worshipped in the African cults of Haiti and Brazil
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My pleasure, JFM dear.
Separately and off-topic, an interesting if long essay at the Wall Street Journal written by John Updike for Commentary Magazine in 1989: On Not Being A Dove will resonate with those who remember Viet Nam and the nonsense that took place back home, and also those of us who have taken the warmonger side despite being out of step with the oh-so-superior anti-Bushies. Mr. Updike wrote, about the anti-Viet Nam war protests
The protest, from my perspective, was in large part a snobbish dismissal of Johnson by the Eastern establishment; Cambridge professors and Manhattan lawyers and their guitar-strumming children thought they could run the country and the world better than this lugubrious bohunk from Texas. These privileged members of a privileged nation believed that their pleasant position could be maintained without anything visibly ugly happening in the world. They were full of aesthetic disdain for their own defenders, the business-suited hirelings drearily pondering geopolitics and its bloody necessities down in Washington. The protesters were spitting on the cops who were trying to keep their propertythe USA and its many amenitiesintact. A common report in this riotous era was of slum-dwellers throwing rocks and bottles at the firemen come to put out fires; the peace marchers, the upper-middle-class housewives pushing baby carriages along in candlelit processions, seemed to me to be behaving identically, without the excuse of being slum-dwellers.
As I said, a long piece, but I found it well worth my time to read twice.
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You know, just having that isn't going to look good in front of a jury if you ever have to use a gun. The other thing is, you're supposed to be firing before they're ever within 21 feet of you as well.
Honestly, the legal implications of having something like that would make me cringe big time.
But a lucrative one, I'll bet...
NEW YORK The Boss is owning up to a mistake. In an interview with Sunday's New York Times, Bruce Springsteen says he shouldn't have made a deal with Wal-Mart. This month, the store started exclusively selling a Springsteen greatest hits CD. Geez. What would the Ghost of Tom Joad say?
Some fans were critical because Springsteen has been a longtime supporter of worker's rights, and Wal-Mart has faced criticism for its labor practices. Springsteen told the Times that his team didn't vet the issue as closely as he should have, and that he "dropped the ball on it." Ah...my "people" fucked up. Who knew Wal-Mart had been called for labor issues? I mean, was it in the papers?
Springsteen went on to say: "It was a mistake. Our batting average is usually very good, but we missed that one. Fans will call you on that stuff, as it should be." So...gonna give the money back?
I'll wait...
Springsteen released his new CD "Working on a Dream" this week and is performing the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Just make sure you have one of your personal assistants put extra rips in the jeans, Bruce. If your gonna be the Voice of the Downtrodden, ya better at least look the part.
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Darkness on the Edge of Town is and always will be one of my favorite LPs, but I'll be damned if I ever give the man another red cent of royalty money.
(Fortunately, the LP was paid for 30 years ago, and repeat plays don't cost me anything.)
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Some fans were critical because Springsteen has been a longtime supporter of worker's rights, and Wal-Mart has faced criticism for its labor practices.
You mean like giving employees healthcare benefits they'd never see otherwise for their skill levels and community standards of living? The only employee issue is that the ever destructive unions have failed to get their cut of the take of the workers' salary.
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who cares - this guy is one of the most over rated chumps in music history. Going through the Woody Guthrie phase for the past 15 yrs like Dylan. Boring.
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Making a deal with WalMart will pale in comparison to his making the deal with the DevilObama. Not only is the country less safe, but Obama is hell-bent on not only emulating FDR but the Depression as well. The only thing that's going to be "Rising" is inflation.
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.
Cuffed escapees' run in with pole
CHICAGO -- A 33-year-old Chicago man is being held without bond in connection with the stabbing death of his brother over a $2 debt.
The Raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines on 30 January 1945 by US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas resulted in the liberation of 512 prisoners of war (POWs) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan and was a celebrated historic achievement involving Allied special forces during World War II. . . . The raid was recreated, with great attention to historical accuracy, in the 2005 John Dahl film 
Police yesterday recovered 14 pieces of the body of a man brutally murdered by unknown criminals in the city. The bare pieces of the body were recovered from a two square kilometre area of Lalbagh. However, the head and a hand, severed from the wrist, are still missing. 
