Darwinism at work

Sorry fella, but your roll of the dice came up craps.

Man electrocuted while allegedly stealing wiring

Associated Press -

HOUMA, LA (AP) - A 34-year-old man was electrocuted while allegedly breaking in to steal copper wiring.

According to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office, electric company workers found the body of Timothy Lewis of Houma after getting a call early Wednesday about lost power.

Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Puff Daddy

Husband of the year award goes to ........

Man admits to buying puffer fish poison in plot to kill wife

CBS Chicago -


CHICAGO (CBS) — A northwest suburban man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill his wife with poison from a puffer fish.

Edward F. Bachner IV, of Lake in the Hills, apparently wanted to collect $20 million on the life insurance policy for his wife, Rebecca Bachner.

The 2008 federal indictment against Bachner says starting in 2006, he used the alias of Dr. Edmund Backer of EB Strategic Research to purchase four different orders of the deadly puffer fish poison tetrodotoxin from the biochemical manufacturing firm Biotium.

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Huh??

This is a joke, right?

I mean really.  You're kidding right?

(Hangs head in disgust)

German Court: Compensation for child murderer

Associated Press -

BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Thursday awarded a man convicted of murdering an 11-year-old child euro3,000 ($4,290) in damages related to a police officer's threat of violence during an interrogation.

The Frankfurt state court ruled that 36-year-old Magnus Gaefgen deserved compensation for the deputy police chief's threat, made in an effort to get details about the missing boy in 2002. But the court rejected Gaefgen's claim that he suffered mental trauma as a result of that questioning, and ruled that he must pay most of the trial costs.

Eleven-year-old Jakob von Metzler was found dead and Gaefgen was convicted in 2003 of kidnapping the son of a prominent Frankfurt banker in an effort to get a ransom, then murdering the boy. Gaefgen was sentenced to life in prison.

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Just a hobby!!??

Where did he get the radioactive materials?

How was he found?  Who turned him in?

Is there a Swedish Jack Bauer?  So many questions so few answers.  The implications of this are not very good.  Do you like the idea of nuclear material floating around wily-nily?

I don't.

Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home

Associated Press -

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby.

Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.

The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.

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As a coach surely you are aware of the expression "Get your head outta your ass!" so please do.

Luckily this ended "well" for all concerned.

I still cannot believe folks do this however, after all the warnings on TV and the radio, not to mention the Internet and the papers.

Child in car for hours is OK after scare at Jay H.S.

By Jessica Kwong and Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

A young boy locked inside a vehicle at the Jay High School parking lot Tuesday morning was unresponsive when rescued but expected to be OK, officials said.

The 5-year-old is the son of assistant track and football coach John Caulk, who arrived for practice at 7:30 a.m. and didn't remember until 11 a.m. that he'd left the boy in the car, said Northside Independent School District spokesman Pascual Gonzalez.

“It could have been a tragic accident,” Gonzalez said. “Luckily, he recalled the child was in the car and immediately took action by calling EMS.”

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After-hours loan application

I guess they didn't want to wait to see if their loan would be approved.

So they apparently took things into their own hands.

Thieves hit loan store

By Guillermo X. Garcia - Express-News


Police were searching for two men early Wednesday who may have carted off thousands in cash following what investigators termed a smash and grab of an ATM machine.

It was not immediately clear how much was in the machine at the time, but police suspected that it may have contained more than $10,000.

Police were summoned to the EZ Money Loan Services store in the 900 block of Bandera Road near Woodlawn Avenue about 3:30 a.m. after reports that an ATM machine had been stolen after being ripped off its pad.

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Man kicks dog....well maybe. Dog doesn't narc, says he's not a rat

Its a good day in town when this is what makes the paper.

Stay mellow my friends and try to stay cool too.


Dog kicked during fight
By Dalondo Moultrie - The Herald-Zeitung 

NEW BRAUNFELS — An argument between two men Friday in New Braunfels might have led to one of the men kicking the other’s dog, police said.

The 4-month-old Husky had no visible injuries when an officer looked at it but X-rays showed possible bruising to its left shoulder, said Lt. Heath Purvis of the New Braunfels Police Department. He said no charges had been filed and the case remained under investigation.

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My prayers are with her and her family for a good outcome

Holy smokes!! A collar bomb.

I hope this will end well.

Bomb squad, authorities, cordon off Mosman street amid threat

By Mark Morri - PerthNow -

POLICE are trying to defuse a bomb strapped to a teenage girl at a multimillion dollar house at Burrawong Avenue in Mosman, Sydney. 
 
The drama unfolded at 2.40pm this afternoon when an 18-year-old girl called police to the mansion "following discovery of a suspicious device", The Daily Telegraph reported.

It was not clear how the device came to be strapped to the girl but it is understood she did not place it there herself.

A senior police poice officer described the device as an unusual "collar bomb" which has never been seen before in Australia.

He said they believed it was an extortion attempt and that the initial details of the situation were being conveyed to police via the girl's father.

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Driver checks out, without checking in

The horror!

Leaving the bus idling for 5 hours!  The pollution!  The waste of fuel!!

They'll probably try to bill his estate.

Bus idles for 5 hours with dead driver

NBCNew York -

Officials are trying to determine why an NJ Transit bus with a dead driver inside idled for nearly five hours at the Port Authority terminal in New York.      

Thomas Truex was found slumped in a passenger seat around 3 p.m., hours after he dropped off his last commuters Thursday morning.

When Truex didn't return the bus to the Meadowlands garage as planned, NJ Transit officials called his wife, but she hadn't seen him.

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The baby bird wan't the only pecker in this tale

Sometimes you just kinda shake your head in disbelief.

I hope there's a judge who will look at this and toss it.

Use your damn common-sense people.

Woodpecker-saving daughter costs mom $500, possible jail time

By Kristin Fisher - WUSA9


FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat.

"I've just always loved animals," said Skylar Capo. "I couldn't stand to watch it be eaten."

Skylar couldn't find the woodpecker's mother, so she brought it to her own mother, Alison Capo, who agreed to take it home.

"She was just going to take care of it for a day or two, make sure it was safe and uninjured, and then she was going to let it go," said Capo.

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Where's the cops when you need one?

What??!!

What are they going to do in the meantime?

Use the Sheriff's Dept.

Oak Hill eliminates police department

My FoxOrlando -


VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - In a surprise move Monday night the city of Oak Hill eliminated its entire police department.

The police chief and a few officers were under scrutiny for alleged illegal and odd behavior. The city council was so fed up they simply wiped out the entire department.

The mayor called the special meeting Monday tonight that started with the trashing of the police chief and the mayor called for her termination. But then the board talked about it more and decided to get rid of the entire department.


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Got away with murder

Now he tells us.

Unless they can find something else to charge him with, like perhaps violating the deceased's civil rights?, he's still home free on the murder.

Acquitted suspect's confession means little

Burlington FreePress -

A central Vermont man who was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal 2002 shooting of a co-worker outside a pizza restaurant in Waitsfield called police and confessed to the crime last month — but there’s nothing state authorities say they can do about it.

A Washington County jury in 2004 found Isaac Turnbaugh of Randolph not guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Declan Lyons, 24, of Montpelier as he stirred a pot of sauce outside the American Flatbread Co.

In July, Turnbaugh, now 28, called Randolph police and said he shot Lyons in the head with a rifle and wished to surrender to authorities, according to a sworn law-enforcement account of what happened.

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Have you lost something?

Someone, somewhere is in a lot of trouble.

Especially if this was drug money.

Loose cash found along Ohio highway totals $21K

Associated Press -

DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — Loose cash found along a highway has made a central Ohio community nearly $21,000 richer.

Delaware city officials have revealed that's how much money police collected on a day in early March, when one officer said it looked as though the median on U.S. Route 23 was growing money.

The city north of Columbus held on to cash for nearly five months and kept the amount secret to see if anyone would try to claim it. Since no one did, the windfall now goes into Delaware's general fund.

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18 years in Club Fed

18 years to do, no good time credit no parole.

He'll be 57 when released.


Sentencing in small-town Mexican Mafia case
By Jason Buch - Express-News

A federal judge last week handed an 18-year prison sentence to an accused sergeant in the Mexican Mafia for his part in a violent criminal enterprise that reached into towns southwest of San Antonio and to the border.

U.S. District Judge Alia Moses in Del Rio sentenced Miguel “Mike” Guerrero, 39, of Uvalde, for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known by its acronym RICO. Guerrero is one of 12 people the government claims are members and associates of the Mexican Mafia who were involved in drug trafficking and violent crime in Carrizo Springs, Crystal City, Concan, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Hondo, Sabinal and Uvalde.

According to court records, the San Antonio-based prison gang would bring in cocaine, heroin and marijuana at Del Rio and Eagle Pass, then distribute it across South Texas. Gang members also collected a “tax” from local drug dealers and engaged in robbery, assault and killings to protect their business, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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Have you seen this man?

Apparently this started out as a domestic disturbance call.

One of the most dangerous calls an officer can respond to.

If you know this man's whereabouts please call the the SAPD's homicide office at 210-207-7635, or Crime Stoppers at 210-224-7867.

Shootout on Northeast Side

By Eva Ruth Moravec and Jessica Kwon - Express-News

More than 12 hours after a man fired at a San Antonio police officer, grazing him on the leg, the suspect's vehicle was found abandoned in a North Side parking lot.

Rafael Gonzalez Sanchez, 40, fled the scene in the 15000 block of Beavers Run in a gold Ford Focus just after 2:15 a.m., police said. He faces an attempted capital murder charge.

The car was parked in the middle of the Pearson lot at 19500 Bulverde Road. Security with the educational publishing company reported the vehicle around 3:30 p.m., not recognizing it as an employee car, said SAPD Sgt. Giles Snavely.

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