A career criminal massacred three members of a family in their apartment but fell to his death when he tripped over his own baggy pants.
The massacre occurred Thursday afternoon near a string of upscale shops on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Police said the attack apparently stemmed from botched drug ripoff.
"There is a significant amount of heroin found in the apartment," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told the Daily News.
Police said Hector Quinones, 44, shot and killed Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and his 24-year-old son, Carlos Rodriguez Jr., then stabbed to death the younger Rodriguez's grandfather, Fernando Gonzalez, 87, according to reports in the Daily News and the New York Post.
The elder Rodriguez's wife, Gisela Rodriguez, 49, and her daughter, Leyanis, 28, walked in on the carnage. Quinones heard keys in the lock and opened the door for the women, police said.
He shot the mother, who was grazed on the head by a bullet but managed to run from the apartment. The killer was just about the grab the daughter when his low-slung pants fell down and he tripped, the Post said. That gave the young woman the chance to run into a back room, where she found the bodies of her brother and father.
Quinones yanked up his pants and scrambled after Leyanis Rodriguez, who climbed onto a fire escape, screaming for help to construction workers on the roof of a nearby building, the Post said. The attacker followed her onto the fire escape, but once again his drooping pants fell and he tripped, plunging three stories to his death.
Estella Carrino, who manages a street-level bicycle store in the building, said she heard the body hit the ground.
"He had no jacket on and his pants were down. He was very dead," she told the Daily News.
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"He had no jacket on and his pants were down. He was very dead,"
There's dead and then there's "very dead." In this particular case I think she is referring to the absence of involuntary muscle movement, twitching, etc, along with oozing, sticky grey matter on the sidewalk. Just my guess. Thank you Lord for positive outcomes.
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I think the difference between 'dead' and 'very dead' is that with dead, you don't have to wash the deceased's splattered brains off of your pants legs.
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Miracle Max: There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Supreme Court in its full judgement of Bangabandhu murder case vehemently criticised the moves by subsequent governments after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for barring trial of the heinous crime and rather promoting the killers to higher or diplomatic posts.
The apex court termed the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members a great crime against humanity, mankind and civilisation.
"A murderer is always a murderer and a terrorist is always a terrorist and is enemy to mankind and humanity and an offender in the eye of the law. To protect and shelter such killers is a great crime, a great sin and sin spares none," said Justice Md Abdul Aziz of the five-member SC bench, which dealt the historic criminal case, in his portion of the 412-page judgment.
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Does anyone have insight into this case who is not from Bangladesh since private Americans have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending Maj (Lancer) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed (who claims to have been part of the coup, but not the murders...he was extradited (via a 9th Circuit ruling) from the US, so that says a lot)?
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Putting it into real simple terms, Sheikh Mujib was a genuine hero, from what I understand. There were multiple influences on the group who bumped him off, jealousy among them, but I'm guessing it was primarily Pak influence that put together the cabal who killed him. They couldn't come right out and ask to become part of Pakistain again, but they could -- and did -- chill Bangla's relations with India and institute a "forgive and forget" policy toward the collaborators from the 1971 war. Hence the ascendency of the BNP and the loathing with which the ANP leadership, headed by Mujib's daughter, views their political rivals, who're in my opinion damaged goods.
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Fred:
appreciate the view
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The infamous shoe thrower who took aim at President Bush during a press conference in Iraq apparently did it for the money. Muntazer al-Zaidi says in an article printed in the UK Guardian "I blame the media because they said I would become rich for doing what I did, that I would become a multi-millionaire". He went on to say "Though I thank them for their concern for me, all the promises about gifts I heard when I was in prison were just empty." from his house in Switzerland that a benefactor has bought for him but he can not furnish.
A 20-year-old girl was auctioned at village Badani Bhutto of Taluka Kashmore in consideration of Rs2,70,000 on Saturday.
Azizan, daughter of late Allah Bux Bhutto, was divorced on the allegation of Karo-kari some time back. She is stated to be mother of two children and was residing with her brother who held the open auction for her sale at village Badani Bhutto.
A large number of villagers showed interest in the auction that started with Rs50,000 and ended at Rs270,000. Bilawal Bhutto, 50, of the same village purchased her for the said amount. Initially he paid Rs210,000 for the girl.
Maulana Azizullah Bhutto performed their nikah later.
It is irony of the situation that no one condemned the inhuman act. The groom will take the bride to his house after paying the rest of the amount. The auction money was distributed equally among all the brothers of the girl.
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Hey man, I had a bid on the broad at E-Bat for 275,000 RedShingles. And I had plans for her to perform nikad at 4:30PM at the Naked Mountain Winery in Virginia. What Gives ?
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik has rejected corruption allegations against him and other politicians. "No, no! Certainly not!"
Malik says the cases are politically motivated and until proven guilty no one can say that the charges are true. 'Allegations are always there, allegations are on our judiciary. Allegations are on our leadership,' he said. 'Well, fine. If the Supreme Court wants us to go a second time to the court, yes, we'll go, we'll clear it. But until proven guilty, nobody can say they are the right charges.'
Pakistan's interior minister has defiantly characterized himself and other politicians facing corruption charges as victims of politically motivated opponents, in an interview with CNN.
Rehman Malik said he does not fear his day in court because he has done nothing wrong.
'The allegations are false, therefore, I'm not worried at all,' Malik told CNN's Arwa Damon in an interview Saturday.
'We think that it's good that we go through that process and clear our names, though our names are already clear.'
Malik is among thousands of bureaucrats and politicians who were granted amnesty by the now-nullified National Reconciliation Ordinance, which saved them from having to face corruption charges.
Many Pakistanis viewed the ordinance as protecting the elite at the expense of the poor, and local media largely hailed the decision, saying it was long awaited accountability and justice.
But Malik said the amnesty was fair. 'This was basically an agreement between all the political leadership that any politically victimised person should be given a leave immediately so we can get all the political leadership in Pakistan to take part in election,' he said.
He rejected as propaganda criticism of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and calls for President Asif Ali Zardari to step down.
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Actually Mojo, the average time interval is 600-700 thousand years, the last at about 645000 ago. Statistically we're in the zone but I agree, the odds are with us...never the less, the north end of the lake is rising indicating uplift due to magma injection. If we see harmonic seismic quakes, time to watch out..
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I figure when the next Alvarez dinosaur killing asteroid hits, it'll set off sufficient seismic disturbances to trigger Yellowstone, Tambora and Santorini creating a solar occluding shroud that will move the whole place back into another Ice Planet state. So, don't sweat the small stuff.
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Guys, Yellowstone blowing up won't be a earth ending event. It went 600,000 years ago, and life on North America survived. A super volcano went off in NZ some 70,000 years ago and shrunk the human population to some 5-10,000 people. There will always be survivors. Life will just really suck for them.
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Pro2K - Does this mean my carbon offset investments are worthless? Dang! and ALGore just talked me into buying more 'cause Hopenhagen used up so many
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Gonna ask my prog friends:
"We have the technology not only to delay, marginalize, or even prevent a volcanic eruption of catastrophic proportions and at the same time generate a massive amount of clean geothermal energy. However in order to do so, the infastructure and equipment necessary would for all practical purposes will section and level nearly all of Yellowstone NP. What should be done?"
LONDON — The only passenger rail link between Britain and the rest of Europe has been shut down indefinitely, Eurostar said Sunday, promising more travel misery for thousands of stranded passengers just before Christmas.
Services have been suspended since late Friday, when a series of glitches stranded five trains inside the Channel Tunnel and trapped more than 2,000 passengers for hours in stuffy and claustrophobic conditions. More than 55,000 passengers overall have been affected. Eurostar commercial director Nick Mercer said three test trains sent through the Channel Tunnel on Sunday ran successfully, but that it became clear that the especially bad weather meant that snow was being sucked into the trains in a way "that has never happened before." this sounds screwy- I don't see how ventilation systems can 'suck snow into a train' unless they are designed to do this
"The engineers on board have recommended strongly that, in light of further snowfalls that are happening tonight, we make some modifications to the trains on snow shields to stop snow being ingested into the power car," he told the BBC.
Ok — indefinitely means until the weather clears. Not at all the same as no more trains forever.
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RE: The Eurostar debacle.
Eurostar chief executive Richard Brown said the trains failed as they left the cold air in northern France and entered the warmer air inside the tunnel.
This is a quote that appears in much of the UK Press, and yet reader response is generally hysterical and scapegoating. Other than the pathetic staff response, Eurostar probably aren't to blame, at least not directly. It appears to be an engineering problem.
The Class 373 (UK designation)
When built, all train sets were tri-voltage being able to operate on 25 kV, 50 Hz AC (LGVs, Eurotunnel, High Speed 1, UK overhead electrified lines) and 3 kV DC (Belgian classic lines) using pantographs and 750 V DC (UK third rail network) using third-rail pickup shoes. The shoes were retracted when operating from overhead power, and prototypes were used for testing.[25] After the opening of High Speed 1, overhead electricity is available throughout the core network between London and Paris / Brussels and the third rail shoes became redundant and were removed. The railway links to the new London-based depot facilities at Temple Mills and to the East Coast Main Line and West-Coast Main Line are 25 kV overhead. Five of the SNCF-owned sets are quadri-voltage, being able to operate from 1500 V DC (French lignes classiques) in the south of France; these sets are used for LondonAvignon and ski services.
British-designed asynchronous traction motors are used. There are four powered axles in each power car and one additional bogie in the adjacent passenger carriage. This layout was also used on the original SNCF TGV Sud-Est (PSE) sets. The six powered bogies therefore contain a total of twelve powered axles to haul the rake of eighteen carriages. Drawing up to 12 MW of power, the train has the lowest power-to-weight ratio of any train in the TGV familya SNCF TGV Réseau set has eight powered axles, but is only required to haul eight passenger carriages.
The train design is able to cope with five different standards of overhead catenary: domestic catenary in each of Belgium, France and the United Kingdom; fixed-height catenary for the LGV lines and the taller catenary used within the Channel Tunnel. The Eurotunnel catenary is much higher as the tunnel is designed to accommodate the double-deck car-carrying trains and roll-on roll-off heavy goods vehicle trains. The train driver is required to lower and then raise the pantograph during the change from each catenary system.[...]
British Rail Class 373
My immediate suspected cause? Temperature inversion tripping temperature sensors. Solid State is infamous for a condition called "thermal runaway". Devices or mechanisms with this much power inversion (AC>DC>AC, different voltages, different reconstitutions, in some cases unfiltered DC>AC>DC>AC) is rife with temperature sensors. The multitude of devices would be very favourably cool due to atmospheric conditions, and then, into a warm tunnel? What the sensors are registering into a ;ogic circuit, is the device suddenly overheating. It is instructed to shut-down.
There should be manual over-rides...but...???
It is very preliminary to jump to any conclusions, but obviously the design was not tested for these conditions...and it was madness to keep sending units into the tunnel when two had already failed with exactly the same symptoms.
I'd start looking at the locos, most likely in the power inverters. It might even be as simple a fix as the software, but most likely, it is a hardware device sensitivty and threshold setting. (That may be addressable in the software).
Just a hunch....
I suspect there will be an engineering fix within the week. Or at least a 'patch'. What must be eliminated (and UK third rail has already) is the multiplicity of standards of current supply. What is glaring in this case is that the TGVs have not displayed this problem, and yet the 373s have. The difference? Multiple current supply types
Edit: There might also be a complicating factor of current source. As the 373 transits various isolated supply sections, there might be spikes in the line that exacerbate the sensors incorrectly detecting faults. If that is the case, it will take a lot longer to get a perma-fix. A patch might be possible in short order, but massive re-engineering might also be required.
The US North-East corridor ran into similar problems with the DC lines approaching Boston. I'll Google before writing any more on that. The locos were Montreal built based on TGVs! (This was a horror-story of it's own, requring a sports-car to be built like a truck, due to US federal safety standards being applied to what was a springter by nature. By the time they were finished meeting safety specs, the locos weighed twice their design spec! That caused brake problems, which caused...which caused....which caused being sued...and so-on.
Let's step back until we get some engineering answers.
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Alternative theory:
in the face of global warming operation in snow/ice conditions was not factored into the engineering spec. comments about snow being sucked into train could mean that snow was accumulation amongst the electrical components, then melting and causing shutdown.
just ban AlGore from the continent, and forgo any additional climate change conferences and all should be ok
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So, how being "post-industrial" works out for you chaps?
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Not the first time. In the mid-50s, there was a snowstorm with finer-than-normal snowflakes that got sucked through the cooling intakes on the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG-1 electric locomotives in a way that hadn't been anticipated and shorted out some of the systems. They had to redesign the louvers to get the engines back in service.
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Very strange. The A3985 never experienced this type of difficulty.
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That Challenger is lovely, Besoker, but I think ventilation issues would preclude its use in the Chunnel.
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Here is another alternative locomotive design. The Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 cab forward was designed for heavy snows, tunnels, and snow sheds. The only problem for the Chunnel would be ventilation, which will take a bit of doing. However train bums need to stay off the monkey deck behind the exhaust. Mud and steam cooked the uneducated.
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It sucks when global warming affects the train service. Where are the Brits going to get cheap booze and smokes?
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I'm of the opinion that the key reason the Challengers and the cab forwards ( lovely little things) worked in tunnels and the Eurostar doesn't is really simple: The steam locomotives didn't have Lucas ( Prince of Darkness) aboard.
Ex-communicated Roman Catholic archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has rejected the decision by Benedict XVI to unfrock, describing it as "invalid" and said he wanted the Roman Catholic Church to pay him pension for the 23 years he worked in Italy.
Speaking in Lusaka, Milingo said he did not accept the decision by the Vatican to strip him of his titles, which he had held for about 50 years, insisting he would always be a priest. He also said the letter addressed to him is "not valid" because it did not have the emblem of and seal from the pope.
"I don't accept that," said 79-year-old Milingo, a Zambian national.
Milingo demanded his pension from the Vatican.
"The frontline of the Catholic church are the priests...let people not think I am going to give up, my dear lord," Milingo said.
"I was assigned by the late Pope John Paul to work in Italy. I worked for 23 years and now the church wants to take advantage of marriage to deny me my pension," Milingo said.
Milingo said his Vicar General in the USA would respond on issues pertaining to his dismissal.
The Vatican announced on Thursday that Pope Benedict dismissed Milingo from the clerical state, the most extraordinary penalty that can be imposed on a bishop. Defrocking entails dismissing a priest from the clerical state and prohibits such individuals from donning clerical attire and strips them of priestly rights and duties.
In 2001, Milingo shocked the Catholic establishment by marrying a Korean acupuncturist in a mass "Moony" wedding ceremony in New York presided over by the founder of the Unification Church himself, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Milingo also claimed that he was aware that the church had in the past executed clerics that came up with intentions of marriage whilst serving as priests.
"I know a lot about the church than those condemning me. The church twice executed those who came up with such intentions and I know where they are buried in Rome," Milingo said.
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Milingo also claimed that he was aware that the church had in the past executed clerics that came up with intentions of marriage whilst serving as priests.
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I still believe that the RC Church doesn't want the cost of 'additional dependents' as the true reason for not allowing priests to marry.
You can say it's all 'scriptural', but I believe we'll see female clergy before we see married ones.
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Actually, Richard, there are a few married Roman Catholic priests. The parish I belonged to a few years ago had one as a parochial vicar (assistant pastor). He had been a minister and converted and was ordained a priest. He needed special permission from the pope.
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Ex-communicated Roman Catholic archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has rejected the decision by Benedict XVI to unfrock, describing it as "invalid" and said he wanted the Roman Catholic Church to pay him pension for the 23 years he worked in Italy.
