Police in Georgia say a suspect in a car break-in used a phone stolen from the vehicle to take his own photo, which was then posted to the car owner's Facebook page, WXIA reports.
Henry County police Maj. Jason Bolton says the phone was set to automatically post images on the social network site, the Atlanta TV station reports.
The suspect has not been identified, but police believe he may have been driving a newer model Toyota Rav 4 with tinted windows near East Lake Academy in McDonough, Ga.
A Florida state legislator is trying to repeal a ban on "dwarf tossing" that he says is an example of regulatory intrusion by Big Brother government, The Palm Beach Post reports.
The dangerous barroom spectacle, which was imported from Australia, thrived in Florida before it was outlawed in 1989. Violators can be fined $1,000 and lose their liquor licenses.
Rep. Ritch Workman, a Republican from Melbourne, agrees that the spectacle is "repulsive and stupid," but says that's not reason for the government to get involved. He introduced his bill Monday.
All that it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get," Workman says, according to The Post. "In this economy, or any economy, why would we want to prevent people from getting gainful employment?"
David Dodge, a computer network consultant in Vero Beach and the 4-foot-4 Florida district director of the Little People of America, disagrees.
"The possibility of getting paralyzed is high," Dodge tells The Post, "and then to be used as an object for people's amusement is very degrading."
Since 1989, Florida's dwarfs looking for work as human shot puts for bar-goers have been out of a job due to a ban by the state legislature.
Rep. Ritch Workman, a Melbourne Republican, wants to repeal that freedom- and job-killing law.
House Bill 4063 was submitted by Workman on Monday, and would repeal Florida Statute 561.665, which essentially bans bar games that use people with dwarfism as sporting goods.
Since October 1, 1989, it's been illegal for any business in Florida that sells alcohol "from undertaking or permitting any contest or promotion or other form of recreational activity involving exploitation endangering the health, safety, and welfare of any person with dwarfism."
Now thats some serious legislation!!!!!
Quote from: damfast on November 02, 2011, 09:34:46 AM
A Florida state legislator is trying to repeal a ban on "dwarf tossing" that he says is an example of regulatory intrusion by Big Brother government, The Palm Beach Post reports.
The dangerous barroom spectacle, which was imported from Australia, thrived in Florida before it was outlawed in 1989. Violators can be fined $1,000 and lose their liquor licenses.
Rep. Ritch Workman, a Republican from Melbourne, agrees that the spectacle is "repulsive and stupid," but says that's not reason for the government to get involved. He introduced his bill Monday.
All that it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get," Workman says, according to The Post. "In this economy, or any economy, why would we want to prevent people from getting gainful employment?"
David Dodge, a computer network consultant in Vero Beach and the 4-foot-4 Florida district director of the Little People of America, disagrees.
"The possibility of getting paralyzed is high," Dodge tells The Post, "and then to be used as an object for people's amusement is very degrading."
Since 1989, Florida's dwarfs looking for work as human shot puts for bar-goers have been out of a job due to a ban by the state legislature.
Rep. Ritch Workman, a Melbourne Republican, wants to repeal that freedom- and job-killing law.
House Bill 4063 was submitted by Workman on Monday, and would repeal Florida Statute 561.665, which essentially bans bar games that use people with dwarfism as sporting goods.
Since October 1, 1989, it's been illegal for any business in Florida that sells alcohol "from undertaking or permitting any contest or promotion or other form of recreational activity involving exploitation endangering the health, safety, and welfare of any person with dwarfism."
Now thats some serious legislation!!!!!
I heard they came up SHORT of passing tha bill...
Height challenged people are always coming up short and always a day late and a dollar short. :biggrin:
A Woman Pulls on Another Woman's Super-Short Skirt to Try to Hide Her Exposed Butt Cheeks . . . and a Fight Breaks Out
Thursday November 3rd, 2011
On Saturday, around 2:00 A.M., a 23-year-old woman was waiting to get her car out of a parking garage in Hoboken, New Jersey.
A 30-year-old woman was in line in front of her . . . and her SUPER-SHORT SKIRT was hiked up so high that her butt cheeks were hanging out. The 23-year-old woman decided to help her out . . . reached over, and PULLED her skirt down a little bit.
The 30-year-old freaked out. They argued . . . and a BRAWL broke out. In the fight, the 30-year-old's left ring finger was BITTEN and she was hospitalized. But . . . no one pursued a criminal complaint, so no charges have been filed. (Jersey Journal)
Managers of a Florida Domino's Were Arrested for Torching a Papa John's
Monday October 31st, 2011
If you want to win the pizza war, you can improve quality, lower prices . . . or burn the competition's place to the ground.
Two managers of a Domino's franchise in Lake City, Florida were arrested for torching a Papa John's in the area.
23-year-old Sean Everett Davidson and 22-year-old Bryan David Sullivan started a fire that gutted the place on October 20th.
They built a device out of a nine-volt battery, a golf-ball-sized amount of gunpowder, and a plastic bag, which they used to ignite the fire.
Both men are managers of the local Domino's. They both confessed to police, and Bryan admitted that he thought they'd get more customers if they got rid of their competition.
Police charged both of them with arson, and they're currently in Columbia County jail. (Ocala.com)
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Quote from: The Troll on November 03, 2011, 06:26:54 PM
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that was awful to see. he said he did it because she stole something. but i think, so did he. glad he wasnt my dad, i stole a peanut once from a store, and he just made me tell the lady i did it, and give her my nickel. then he told his friends what i had done. i was so ashamed i ended that carreer at 6 years old. sometimes dads are smart enough to not hit a child.....
A Man is Now Going to Represent Himself at Trial . . . After He Just Stabbed His Third Defense Attorney
Friday November 4th, 2011
28-year-old Joshua Monson of Everett, Washington is about to go on trial for felony possession of meth. And he's going to have to be his own lawyer.
Because he won't stop ATTACKING his real lawyers.
Back in May, when he was supposed to start his trial, he freaked out in the courtroom and ATTACKED his court-appointed attorney. That lawyer was taken off the case, and he was given a new lawyer.
A few days later, he attacked THAT attorney during a hearing. That lawyer was ALSO removed from the case, and Monson was given a third lawyer.
And you can see where this is going. On Tuesday, Monson was in court . . . and attacked that THIRD attorney. He tried to stab the attorney in the head with a pen, but just ended up scratching his temple.
Fortunately, none of the three lawyers were seriously injured.
And now, the judge has ruled that they're DONE giving Monson lawyers . . . he's going to be representing himself. (Everett Herald Net)
A Woman Burned Down Another Woman's House For Defriending Her on Facebook
Friday November 4th, 2011
I don't know ANYONE who takes their Facebook friends THIS seriously. I mean . . . if someone defriends you, you can always just quickly grab another long lost acquaintance to take their place.
30-year-old Jennifer Christine Harris of Des Moines, Iowa does NOT see it that way.
Last week, she BURNED DOWN another woman's house . . . because that woman defriended her on Facebook.
On October 27th, around 1:00 A.M., Jim and Nikki Rasmussen of Des Moines heard some strange popping sounds. They woke up to find their house on fire. As the siding melted off and the roof of the garage collapsed, they got out safely.
When the police asked them what had happened, Nikki immediately told them it was Jennifer. She said they were friends, but have been fighting . . . and that day, Nikki had defriended Jennifer.
Apparently, Jennifer asked Nikki to create an invitation for a party on Facebook. But as the party got closer, a lot of people were declining. Jennifer blamed Nikki. Things spiraled from there, leading to the defriending . . . and then the fire.
Jennifer was arrested for first-degree arson. (Des Moines Register)
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3:59 p.m. PDT, November 4, 2011
LOS ANGELES -- A 31-year-old man accused of robbing a hotel clerk at gunpoint was captured by two martial arts experts visiting from Oregon.
It happened Wednesday at a hotel in the 300 block of N. Vermont Avenue.
Surveillance video shows the suspect, identified as Luis Rosales, wandering around the hotel lobby.
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He then walks up to the front desk and pulls out a gun, demanding money.
The clerk, fearing he was going to be shot, opened the register and gave the suspect money, according to police.
During the robbery, an elevator door opened, and two hotel guests who happened to be martial arts experts in town for a martial arts tournament heard the clerk's cry for help and immediately took action.
The pair grabbed the suspect who was holding a gun in his right hand.
During the tussle with the suspect, the Good Samaritans repeatedly asked him to drop the gun and stop struggling, police say.
The pair was finally able to wrestle the gun from the suspect and took him to the ground with a leg sweep and then held him on the ground until officers arrived.
Rosales, a resident of Los Angeles, was taken into custody without further incident.
A loaded 9mm handgun and the money taken from the cash register were found inside Rosales' backpack, police say.
Rosales was booked for armed robbery with a firearm.
He is being held on $101,250 bail
customer at a Flagler County bank, unhappy that he could not buy a money order, urinated in a drive-in bank tube, and the liquid spilled in the lap of the next customer, the Sheriff's Office said.
The man pulled up about 8:50 a.m. and asked if RBC Bank in Palm Coast sold money orders, deputies said. When a teller said no, he got upset, mumbled something about bad customer service and drove away, they said.
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Shortly thereafter, another customer picked up the tube and saw liquid, which spilled onto her and her car, investigators said. The customer and a teller told authorities the liquid smelled like urine.
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Deputies are trying to find the first customer, who could be charged with causing a nuisance injurious to health, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Three Random Facts About Thanksgiving Dinner
Tuesday November 22nd, 2011
#1.) Almost 88% of Americans will eat turkey on Thanksgiving. It's believed that there's no other day of the year where one food is so widely and universally eaten.
#2.) Not everyone eats a home-cooked Thanksgiving. About 14 million Americans . . . or approximately 5% of the country . . . will eat at a restaurant.
#3.) Pumpkin pies are the best sellers at Thanksgiving. Apple pie is the second-most popular Thanksgiving pie. Chocolate pies are third
A Guy Logged Into Facebook During Two Different Burglaries
Monday November 21st, 2011
This guy desperately needs a FACEBOOK INTERVENTION. After he gets out of prison.
Last week, 34-year-old Trevor Jones of Cobb County, Georgia broke into a house in Norcross, Georgia, when he saw the woman who lives there head out for a walk.
Trevor pulled his silver Ford Taurus into the driveway, left the engine running, and broke in. But while he was inside, he paused . . . because he saw a computer and decided to SIGN INTO FACEBOOK. Right there, mid-burglary.
While he was on Facebook, the woman got back from her walk and saw the car in the driveway. She looked inside and saw that there was a wallet inside . . . so she grabbed that, and the car keys, and went to a neighbor's house.
Turned out Trevor's wallet contained both his driver's license AND his PAROLE CARD.
Anyway, Trevor took off running before the cops got there and broke into another house where . . . yep . . . he signed back into Facebook. It appears he took that chance to deactivate his account, since it doesn't show up in any searches.
Somehow, after all that, the police still haven't caught him. When they do, he's looking at two burglary charges. (CBS 46 - Atlanta
PETA is Now Going After . . . Super Mario?
Tuesday November 15th, 2011
Here's PETA's latest desperate attempt to get attention that may or may not help animals.
PETA has issued a press release announcing their next target is . . . Super Mario. Yes, the video game character Mario.
In several of the Mario games for the past few decades, Mario has been able to find and wear a suit made out of fur. It's called a tanooki suit . . . tanukis are Japanese raccoon dogs. The suit usually gives Mario the power to fly.
PETA says, "Tanooki may be just a 'suit' in Mario games, but by wearing the skin of an animal, Mario is sending the message that it's okay to wear fur." (Forbes)
How about some more news about our next president, Newt Gingrich. :rolleyes: :wink:
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Authorities were given a bizarre description of an alleged robber in Manchester on Sunday.
Investigators with the Manchester Police Department said the intruder was naked from the waist down.
"He had no pants on. He had a T-shirt, no pants, no boxers, nothing, so I yelled for Derek," resident Lindsay Bolton said.
It was an unwelcome wake-up call for Bolton and her boyfriend, Derek McNutt.
Bolton had just fed her 5-month-old baby boy and put him back to bed when she came face-to-face with a man who appeared to be very drunk in her living room.
"He acted like he was going to leave and then chased him this way," Bolton said. "Derek and I (went) this way, and he had the bat."
And not just a baseball bat. McNutt said he struggled with the suspect, who grabbed anything he could get his hands on.
"He threw vice grips at me. I threw them right back at him," McNutt said.
McNutt even grabbed his baby's high chair to defend himself.
"I just threw it right at him, and it hit him, and it broke," McNutt said.
At one point, the couple raced down the back stairs to grab a baseball bat from their truck, but the door locked behind them. They tried to get in the front door, but it was locked, so they were frantic to get back inside, where their 3-year-old daughter and baby were sleeping.
"I needed to get that door open to get back in there whether I got hit by a bat or not," Bolton said.
They got back inside, and a neighbor rushed to their apartment to help.
McNutt said he finally threw a shovel at the intruder, who then grabbed a pair of McNutt's sweatpants and left the building. Police arrested Joshua O'Shea, 31, of Epsom, on the street moments later.
"He was very vague in his assessment of what was going on," Manchester Police Department Detective Robert Keating said.
Police said O'Shea told them he went to the apartment to meet his girlfriend.
TROY, N.Y. (AP) - New York police say a college employee inadvertently photographed himself planting a motion-activated camera in a women's locker room at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
They tell local media that 56-year-old Thomas McMartin, of Hoosick Falls, was arrested Friday and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of unlawful surveillance and burglary. McMartin declined to comment.
The college says he was fired from his job as a heating and cooling supervisor and barred from the upstate New York campus soon after the camera was found.
Troy police Capt. John Cooney says the camera was installed March 8. It captured still images of several women changing before one of them noticed something wrong with the ceiling.
He says there's no evidence of any earlier spying or other cameras, but the investigation is continuing.
You knew I could see this happening. The way they build some of the new house divisions, all the house look the same. :wink:
I knew it was going to happen, just last week my wife and I passed one of the additions and I said the same thing. :biggrin: