uinness would have you believe that good things come to those who wait.
But a man who drove a truck into the company's famous Dublin brewery moved fast before hitching up a trailer containing 450 kegs of different beers and escaping through the front gates.
The audacious robbery took place on Wednesday afternoon at the St James' Gate brewery in Dublin 8, and could ensure a very merry Christmas for someone looking at approximately 40,000 pints.
Diageo, the drinks company that owns Guinness, Budweiser and Carlsberg, said yesterday that the tab stands at 64,000.
That works out at less than £1.14-a-pint, as it does not include mark ups by the Government or the publicans. In the pub, the haul would be worth £114,000.
"It's a serious breach of our security. I spoke earlier to one of our supply guys who said it was unprecedented that this number -- a full trailer of kegs -- would be illegally taken off a site," a spokeswoman for Diageo said yesterday.
"So obviously, we're taking it extremely seriously. Full investigation ongoing but in terms of our own security procedures that we have in place by finding out what exactly happened and how it happened, and also working with the gardai."
In the run up to Christmas there are more than 250 truck movements in and out of the St James' Gate complex every day. At around four o'clock on Wednesday, a man drove a cab truck into the yard where there were three or four trailers loaded with kegs.
He hooked up one of the trailers containing 180 kegs of Guinness, 180 kegs of Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg, before calmly driving out the main gate.
The trailer was discovered in Slane in Co Meath yesterday afternoon.Investigating gardai are examining CCTV footage from the St James Gate complex and surrounding areas.
FELTON, Del. - Police charged a teacher on Thursday at a high school in Felton with terroristic threatening. Delaware State Police say on Wednesday detectives completed a four week investigation into a bomb threat that happened at Lake Forest High School. As a result of the investigation, Caroline L. Fluman, 46, of Harrington was formally charged with one count of terroristic threatening a Class F Felony.
Investigators say on Thursday morning, the school resource officer was contacted by a state police detective who was assisting him at the school. Police say the detective had been contacted by a teacher, Fluman who provided him with a note in the form of a computer printout that read "bomb in school everyone dies".
According to police, as the investigation unfolded, the detective and the teacher responded to her classroom at which time another printout came across the classroom printer claiming "There is a bomb in the school no joke". Police say as the school administration was being informed of the situation the teacher handed the detective a third printout indicating that a bomb was in the school.
Investigators say during the schools investigation a fourth note was located by an assistant principal near a trash can located outside the school store. Police say this note was handwritten and said "bomb everybody dies". As a result of the notes being discovered, the school was evacuated and the building was searched by three explosive canines, according to police. Police say no explosive devices were located during the search.
Detectives say during the investigation they learned that the teacher who provided the notes had been captured on video, via the closed circuit security system. Police say the video depicted Fluman in the area of the school store allegedly placing what appeared to be a note behind the trash can.
Police say on Thursday, Fluman turned herself in at Troop 3 and was processed and arraigned. She was released on $2,000 unsecured bond.
Bond? BOND???
According to police, Fluman, a Business Education teacher, has been employed by the district for approximately two years.
A recent study concludes that nearly a fourth of pickpocket crimes in the two holy cities are committed by people who are in the cities solely for the purpose of stealing from pilgrims or are pilgrims themselves who are supplementing their trips by theft. I am shocked, shocked to find Muslims committing crimes against one another at their holiest place!
The report, entitled The Psychological and Social Impact Pickpockets Have on Pilgrims, was the result of research by Mahmoud Kasnawi of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Haj Research Institute with the aim of developing strategies to protect pilgrims from such crimes.
The study concluded that 17 percent of the pickpockets in and around the mosque complexes at Makkah and Madinah are there for the sole motive of stealing while 16.5 percent are the pilgrims themselves. The rest are opportunists that steal when the chances arise but arent pre-meditating these criminal acts. Oh, so you're saying that TWO-THIRDS of the pickpockets in Mecca are ordinary Muslims who see someone else with their guard down? Lovely.
The study also contends that 46.5 percent of the pickpockets arrested at the Grand Mosque in Makkah were Egyptians. About one in five people that have been arrested for pick-pocketing are women. About 14 percent of the pickpockets sleep in the Grand Mosque or on the pavements, bridges and tunnels, the study said.
The report underscored the need to minimize the sense of insecurity and loss of mental peace caused by the acts of pickpockets on the pilgrims.
Some gangs use children under the age of 15 to steal from pilgrims. Teenagers account for a third of the pickpockets. Lovely.
Another finding of the study was that 10 percent of the pickpockets have been for Haj more than once, possibly encouraged to return because of the money they stole during the previous pilgrimage. This just keeps getting better and better.
The study also said 84 percent of the arrested pickpockets were married while 67 percent of them had their family with them.
While 86 percent of the pickpockets traveled to the Kingdom on their private earnings, the remaining stole the money to pay for the travel expenses. Thrifty! Allah helps those who help themselves! (to other people's property)
The study noted that most of the thefts take place close to Kaaba at the time of tawaf (circumambulation) to take advantage of the heavily crowded conditions and the fact that pilgrims often carry with them their valuables.
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Where the f**k do you find a pocket on a djebellah? Maybe they mean purse cutting...
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No believing Muslim would steal, because they could lose a limb in this world, and burn forever in the next. The fact that theft prevails in those countries reveals an interesting fact; many "Muslims" only go through the motion of belief in that murder cult. The Islamization movement began only as atheist ideologies were penetrating Muslim culture. It is probably a reaction to the cleric's fear of losing status. We should be shooting clerics as prime GWOT target.
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what would be interesting is how many pickpocket criminals there are during the Hajj.
If its only, say 20 or 30, then its not really a big deal. If its 2000 or 3000, then its a serious problem for the pilgrims (who also have to worry about dying of thirst or stampeded).
dittos, but the vid is timeless.. Huge Pucker Factor when that male Leopard gets into the cab of that truck.
That Cat knew exactly which way to go but wasn't about to leave before it f*cked with the Ranger and his mind.. got some righteous payback he did LOL!!
I'd be shittin rings around myself gettin out of that Leopard's way.. LOL!
~:)
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"OOH, let me get into a dominance game with a leopard..."
Is it just me, or does it look for a second like the Leopard is levitating, or running up the stick like something out of a wire-fu movie?
LONDON: Men who want to boost their performance in the bedroom should drink pomegranate juice, says a new research. According to the University of California scientists, a daily glass can act like Viagra.
Lead author Dr Christopher Forest says that the juice is rich in antioxidants, which increases blood supply to the genitals. For the study, the team tested 53 men with libido problems. They found that nearly half the men who drank it for a month said they found it easier to perform.
"Pomegranate juice has great potential," the Mirror quoted Forest, as saying.
Pomegranates have already been associated with reducing the risk of heart disease and preventing prostate cancer.
Researchers had previously asserted that a daily 0.236 litre glass of the fruits juice not only increases the stability period of prostate cancer four-fold, but that the effect is so marked that they believe it can also make it possible for men between the ages of 60 to 75 to live out a full life span without the need for medical treatment, rather than dying from the cancer.
That study was conducted by researchers from the University of California who looked at 50 prostate cancer patients who had surgery or radiotherapy, who had experienced a post-treatment increase of PSA (prostate specific antigen), indicating that cancer was still present in their bodies.
During the study, the researchers measured the mens PSA levels to calculate how long they took to double. They found that men suffering from prostate cancer with short doubling times are more likely to die from their illness, and that the average doubling time is 15 months.
They noted that consuming a glass of pomegranate juice everyday extended the doubling period to 54 months, and that there was also evidence that the juice was actually killing off prostate cancer cells.
Dr Allan Pantuck, who led the study, said that the improvements had been surprising, and that though it was not a cure, scientists may now be able to stump prostate cancer growth.
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At least I won't have prostate cancer. I asked my Doctor for Vi#$a and he said, "Why would you want to put a brand-new flagpole on a condemned building?".
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After years of warmer-than-normal winters that spurred constant talk of global warming, winter this year is expected to be the coldest in almost 15 years and should remind everyone of what real Canadian cold feels like, Environment Canada said Friday.
With the exception of only small pockets of northern Canada and southwestern Ontario, this December through February is forecast to be one of the harshest winters in recent memory across the country, said senior climatologist David Phillips...
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Speaking of "PINE BEETLES" > Here on Guam, the local University [UOG], Enviros, and Pols are scrambling to contain the newly-invasive Rhinocerous Beetle. They hope to confine it to Guam's HOTEL ROW = TUMON BAY area, where found. *UNFORTUNATELY, iff local media photos of the Rhino or whatever is correct, it has already spread outside of Tumon. Have personally killed/squashed some in Barrigada and Mangilao areas. GOVGUAM must be [SSSHHHH, QUIETLY] AWARE of the spread becuz I'm seeing beetle traps on trees and grounds in areas outside of Tumon, and can't do that widout Govt authorization.
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I am hearing the same forecast for the Northern Plains in the US. Extremely cold this winter. By the way ... calling for temperatures in the mid 30's with widespread frost in the SF Bay area tonight. This is probably one of the earliest frost warnings I can remember in quite some time.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.
A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 metres (9,350 feet). One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said.
"It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after returning from the mountain. "I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training.
Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s.
Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints. But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists.
Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them".
"This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates, flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more investigation into the Yeti.
Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological creatures and unexplained phenomena.
Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer. "There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located.
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Yeah a small group of creatures with an impossibly small gene pool has managed to survive in one of the regions with practically no plant or animal life to speak and without leaving obvious signs along the well known game trails (that is hiking trails).
Seems unlikely. More likely is that Indonesian guy with the tree virus has a cousin.
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Apparently, from what I've read, the Yeti is more likely a big ape, rather than (supposedly, until one of Abdominal Snowman's less polished cousins get swamped by a dozen and more cops and hauled into jail for their repeated brawlings in area redneck bars over the local buxom beauties and who they will dance with or not) an hominid like Bigfoot, or a "wildman" like the Yuren or the various sightings in the Caucasus.
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RUMORMILLNEWS Poster > DEC-MARCH 2008 DEEP COSMIC CONJUNCTION - New High-Magnitude or unusual earthquakes around US-World [PACIFIC PLATE spreading?]Comet Trios, intense new Solar Activities, Six-Planet alignment, etc. BETTER TO STAY HOME + INSIDE FOR XMAS + HOLIDAYS???
DREAM/VISION [mine] > Several "minor" Impacts must firstly occur vv EARTH before "the Big One" striketh and cracketh junketh hole-eth the Earth's sphere. D *** NG IT, AS A WHITNEY "GOOD GIRL TRYING TO BE BAD" HUSTON FAN, OSAMA AS MAHDI/SALADIN INCARNATE SHOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY!
Hmm, While some interpretations of the myth say the Yeti is a spirit or enlightened in some way, I'm not sure this is what the reporter really meant to say.
It's right up there with the stupid english translator couldn't figure out the difference between the Nepalese words for "Big Ass Monster" and "Big Assed Monster."
(AKI ) - Seven of the ten Christian churches in the Bahraini capital of Manama may be closed because they have no legal permits. According to the Arab newspaper, al-Sharg al-Awsat, the authorities are considering the move after protests in recent days by residents in an area of the city where several churches are concentrated. Residents are objecting to the presence of a dozen churches in the same area, concerned that many of them are found in the same street as little as eight metres from each other.
However the problem with the seven churches is that they were created by Indian immigrants of Christian faith without authorisation by local authorities. For this reason the Minister for Social Affairs has given the seven churches an ultimatum: obtain the necessary permits or face closure in two weeks. "This position taken has unleashed the anger of several British Christian organisations that have accused Manama of persecuting Christians," the newspaper said.
The Bahrain authorities have stressed that they want to guarantee religious freedom in their national territory, saying that "the churches enjoy great freedom and our people are open and tolerant towards other cultures and societies".
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RUMORMILLNEWS > WHATDOESITMEAN > UNUSUAL COMET SWARM FORECASTS CATSROPHIC QUAKE?; + GEOLOGISTS CONFOUNDED BY QUAKES CONUNDRUM, + SOMETHING BIG IS COMING.
In 38 BC, 59 earthquakes were reported in Latium (Rome) area alone, during that year. Of course, they did not have seismographs at the time, so it's only quakes that were felt.
The decades before and after 47 BC had fewer quakes counts, but still in mid-40s.
Based on that data, I'd say that quakes decreased substantially over 2 millenia.
Kolkata: The former U.S. Attorney-General, Ramsey Clark, visited Nandigram on Thursday to see the condition of peasants after the recent violence there. Mr. Clark is participating in an international anti-imperialist conference being held here.
It was a very moving experience to see the people facing a plight that was brought upon them by their own government, said Mr. Clark on his return. He was accompanied by Sara Flounders, member, Central Secretariat, of the U.S.-based Workers World Party, and Steven Kirschbaum, vice-president, U.S. Steel Workers Associations. Stating that Nandigram clearly represented imperialist designs, Mr. Clarke said that to prevent it, we must fight unitedly.
Power stands in the people, but the question is whether there is will and intelligence to exert that power. He hoped that the banner of resistance would be held high by the people of Nandigram and carried by the All-India Anti-Imperialist Forum, organisers of the conference, to strengthen the movement.
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Five-year-old Youssif underwent his most important surgery Thursday as his doctor removed the most extensive scar tissue on his face -- putting him on the path of being a normal boy again.
Youssif entered the operating room around 6:30 a.m. PT for the three-and-a-half hour surgery.
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.
Teacher Charged with Terroristic Threatening
(AKI ) - Seven of the ten Christian churches in the Bahraini capital of Manama may be closed because they have no legal permits. According to the Arab newspaper, al-Sharg al-Awsat, the authorities are considering the move after protests in recent days by residents in an area of the city where several churches are concentrated. Residents are objecting to the presence of a dozen churches in the same area, concerned that many of them are found in the same street as little as eight metres from each other.
