Screw him and his rights

I have a hard time working up any sympathy for this a-hole.

What about the rights of the 13 soldiers he murdered in cold blood?

What about the unborn child he murdered?

Until they get someone there who understands Arabic to make sure he isn't making plans or giving reports let him pray by himself.

Happy Holidays.

Defense cites rights violation

By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News

The lead lawyer for Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said Monday that he believes the Army is violating Hasan's religious rights because it prohibited him from praying from the Quran in Arabic with a relative.

Attorney John P. Galligan said he learned that police guarding Hasan at Brooke Army Medical Center cut short a phone conversation Hasan was having with one of his brothers on Friday because Hasan was not speaking in English.

“Police at the hospital refused to let him pray, in Arabic, from the Quran with his brother,” Galligan said. “I think it's illegal and a violation of his religious rights.”

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Be safe out there ...... Please

This apparently occurred in the same county where the four police officers were shot and killed a few weeks ago.

Please be careful out there folks.

Merry Christmas



2 sheriff's officers badly hurt in Wash. shooting

EATONVILLE, Wash. (AP) -- Two sheriff's officers responding to a dispute between two brothers were ambushed by one of the brothers lying in wait with a gun after being welcomed into the home by the other, authorities said. The gunman was killed and the officers were seriously wounded.

The shooting is the third in three months in which authorities say a gunman has taken aim at law enforcement officials in Washington state.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said a sergeant and a deputy were shot at around 8:45 p.m. Monday while responding to a dispute between David E. Crable and his brother near Eatonville, a rural community in the Cascade foothills.

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He what? Really? LMAO

What a moron.


Incompetent burglar badly bungles job
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In Christchurch a bungling burglar has drawn attention to himself for all the wrong reasons.

Police allege 28-year-old Brett Kerr burgled a Prebbleton house, set it on fire and knocked himself out. The homeowner's son, Greg Kitson says Kerr may be the dumbest burglar on record.

Mr Kitson was amazed at how incompetent the burglar was, saying, “when it comes to burglary he's simply not a natural”.

Mr Kitson sped over to his parents' house after his wife noticed a fire in the kitchen. When he got there, he did not know who to call first. “We had a fire, we had a burglary and we had someone injured so it was like an all-play.”

He believes it all went wrong for Kerr when he tripped taking a drum set down a narrow spiral staircase, and apparently knocked himself out.

“This might be where he done himself in, then he thinks, 'Ah! It's a good time to get the plasma TV when I’m knocked out and totally out of it.'”

Bleeding profusely, it seems Kerr then set fire to the kitchen before deciding it was time for a lie-down.

The burglar’s actions puzzled Mr Kitson.

“Why would someone come in, light a fire, go upstairs and fall asleep?”

When the police arrived, Kerr had a pocketful of Malaysian banknotes.

Kitson says they were only worth a couple of dollars. “So I just said, ‘Oh look mate you can have that, you can count it in jail for the next 10 years.’”

The camera-shy Kerr is due back in court next month.

Bad idea, this

Uhhh........No.

Don't do this.


Priest outrages police by telling congregation: 'My advice to poor is to shoplift
By: Graham Smith - dailymail.co.uk

A clergyman has been criticised as 'highly irresponsible' after advising his congregation to shoplift following his Nativity sermon.

Father Tim Jones, 41, broke off from his traditional annual sermon yesterday to tell his flock that stealing from large chains is sometimes the best option for vulnerable people.

It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to 'prostitution, mugging or burglary', he said.

The married father-of-two insisted his unusual advice did not break the Bible commandment 'Thou shalt not steal' - because God's love for the poor outweighs his love for the rich.

But the minister's controversial sermon at St Lawrence Church in York has been slammed by police and a local MP, who say that no matter what the circumstances, shoplifting is an offence.

Delivering his festive lesson, Father Jones told the congregation: 'My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift. I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

'I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.

'I would ask them not to take any more than they need, for any longer than they need.

'I offer the advice with a heavy heart and wish society would recognise that bureaucratic ineptitude and systematic delay has created an invitation and incentive to crime for people struggling to cope.'

He added that he felt society had failed the needy, and said it was far better they shoplift than turn to more degrading or violent options such as prostitution, mugging or burglary.

Father Jones cited the example of an ex-prisoner who had been forced to live on less than £100, including a crisis loan, over six weeks after his release from jail.

He continued: 'My advice does not contradict the Bible's eighth commandment because God's love for the poor and despised outweighs the property rights of the rich.

'Let my words not be misrepresented as a simplistic call for people to shoplift. The observation that shoplifting is the best option that some people are left with is a grim indictment of who we are.

'Rather, this is a call for our society no longer to treat its most vulnerable people with indifference and contempt. Providing inadequate or clumsy social support is monumental, catastrophic folly.'

But a spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said: 'First and foremost, shoplifting is a criminal offence and to justify this course of action under any circumstances is highly irresponsible.

'Turning or returning to crime will only make matters worse, that is a guarantee. We recognise some people find themselves in difficult circumstances but support is readily available and must be sought.'

Local Tory MP Anne McIntosh, who has campaigned in Parliament for stronger sentences for shoplifters, admitted that there had been an 'over-commercialisation' of the festive period which encourages people to spend.

But she said: 'I cannot condone inciting anyone to commit a criminal offence, shoplifting is a crime against the whole local community and society.'

This isn't the first time Father Jones has courted controversy.

He hit the headlines in May 2008 when he protested against a shop stocking Playboy stationery aimed at youngsters. He tossed the items onto the floor complaining they were 'cynical and wicked'. The shop bowed to his one-man protest and agreed to stop stocking Playboy-branded merchandise.

Man, these melons give me the munchies Dude.

Its always a defective light or speeding that stops 'em.

You'd think they'd check this stuff out.

LOL


$2M in marijuana found under melons

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News

San Antonio police arrested a 39-year-old man from California after finding $2 million worth of marijuana stashed beneath crates of watermelons early Sunday morning.

Juan Francisco Alcala, of Chula Vista, is set to be booked in Bexar County Jail on one count of possession of marijuana from 50 to 2,000 pounds. His bond has not yet been set.

Police stopped Alcala in the 9500 block of U.S. 181 South around 2:30 a.m., when two gang unit officers in a marked police car noticed one of the headlights on the tractor-trailer he was driving was out. He was the sole occupant of the cab, a San Antonio Police Department incident report states.

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This is nuts!

What a 'Catch-22' this is. You are a problem youth because you have a mental illness.

TYC has no way of dealing with you so they release you?

Now how crazy is that?


TYC treatment loophole decried

By Danny Robbins - Associated Press

TYLER — A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. A San Antonio teen previously in custody is convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.

Both were released by the Texas Youth Commission because the agency wasn’t equipped to treat their mental illnesses and had to let them go under the law.

The cases highlight what some juvenile justice experts say is a loophole in the way Texas treats underage offenders with severe psychiatric issues. Data obtained by the Associated Press reveal that the commission has released more than 200 offenders because of mental health issues in the past five years and that more than one-fifth went on to commit new crimes, some of them violent.

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Being Stupid

Well, that showed poor judgment didn't it?


Pearsall officer facing charge

Express-News -

Jourdanton authorities arrested a Pearsall police officer Friday night on a charge of driving under the influence.

Officer Matthew Martinez was arrested after he followed his wife to the Jourdanton Police Department around 10 p.m. after a domestic dispute, authorities said. Police said Martinez was armed with a rifle and pistol issued by the city of Pearsall at the time of his arrest.

“He was somewhat belligerent, and there was open alcohol in the vehicle,” Jourdanton Police Chief Eric Kaiser said.

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Be Smart, Lock it up!

Not a good thing.

But I also do think its higher in the Summer because of the tourist industry and folks leaving valuables out in their cars while tubing.

Theft in town higher than national average

By Bryan Shettig - The Herald-Zeitung

The crime statistics for most of 2009 are in and one thing’s remains clear for New Braunfels: don’t leave your doors unlocked.

Crime hasn’t risen dramatically in the city in the past two years, but theft is higher than the state and national averages.

According to a crime analytics Web site neighborhoodscout.com, New Braunfels residents have a one in 15 chance of being a victim of property theft, while the state average is one in 21.

The average rate of local burglaries and thefts is also higher than the national average, according to the site.

The amount of reported thefts, burglaries and aggravated assaults this year is only slightly less than in 2008.

There were about 46 reported robberies this year and one homicide, compared to 38 reported robberies and six homicides in 2008. The combined number of reported burglaries, larcenies, robberies and automobile thefts this year is about 2,844, almost 300 less than the past year.

It’s not easy to pinpoint one neighborhood or part of New Braunfels as being more crime-laden than another, officials noted.

“With most of our crime, it’s not isolated to one particular area,” said New Braunfels Police Department spokesman Lt. Michael Penshorn. “It’s very evenly distributed.”

Police are attributing some of the crime to New Braunfels’ proximity to San Antonio, noting no marked increase in local gang activity.

Penshorn and Comal County Chief Felony Prosecutor Sammy McCrary said most gangs have been relatively “quiet” and have not elevated any areas of crime in recent years.

To remind residents to look after their valuables, the Police Department started a program earlier this year of posting “report cards” on peoples’ parked cars in shopping centers or apartment complexes, rating them on how well they have secured their belongings, Penshorn said.

Residents are rated and left a card noting whether or not they leave valuables, such as purses, wallets, phones or money, in plain sight inside their vehicles or if they left their doors unlocked.

Police refer to the latter vulnerable automobiles as “hard targets.”

In addition, police have also started a program this year where residents can file their own police reports online, which Penshorn said have saved the department “several hundred thousand dollars.”

So far, residents have filed about 900 online reports, mostly from people who had a lower priority in terms of time it would take police to get to them. Priority categories range from one to four, with a Priority One call taking officers a few minutes or less to arrive on the scene and a Priority Four lasting about two hours before police arrive.

Statistically, the highest volume of calls is during the summer, and the lowest is during January. Calls start to increase each month after winter heading into the summer and them decrease again after July, which is often the peak month.

He's smelling it too!!

Another fool heard from.








Castro mocks Obama's visit to Copenhagen
Breitbart

Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama's trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a "show," and complained that the world's poor will shoulder the burden of any summit agreement.

Castro's opinion article, titled "The Moment of Truth," also criticizes the "fascist methods" used by Danish police to put down protesting environmental activists.

"It is already evident that a great catastrophe threatens our species," wrote Castro, 82.

Perhaps the worst part of the summit "is blind selfishness of a rich and privileged minority that intents to impose the bulk of the necessary sacrifices on the immense majority of planet inhabitants," Castro wrote.

He opined that "for the chiefs of the empire (the United States), despite their maneuvers and cynical lies, the moment of truth is arriving. Their own allies believe them less and less."

In the article, which appeared in government-run media, Castro quotes at length leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who both spoke at the summit.

The former Cuban president, who still leads the Cuban Communist Party, earlier criticized Obama for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize and lashed out at his climate policies, accusing the US president of not fighting the "oligarchy of irresponsibly" who are opposing change.

"Obama is not ignorant. Like (Al) Gore, he knows the grave danger that threatens everyone, but he vacillates and is weak in the face of a blind and irresponsible oligarchy in that country," Castro wrote in an editorial published December 9.

Castro has not appeared in public since he underwent major intestinal surgery more than three years ago. His brother Raul became interim president in 2006, and took over the presidency in February 2008.

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Valenzuela's Presidential Jackass is still a jackass.



Venezuela's Chavez 'still' smells sulphur after Obama's speech
Fox news

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he "still" smelled sulfur after President Obama made a keynote speech at the Copenhagen climate conference Friday, accusing the American president of carrying the same satanic scent that Chavez believes followed Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush.

Chavez, who was not included on the original list of speakers for the final day of the summit, ended the proceedings with bitter references to the Peace Prize-winning Obama as the "Nobel Prize of War."

"The Nobel Prize of War just finished saying here that he is here to act. Well, show it sir. Don't leave by the back door," he said.

Three years after Chavez likened Bush to the devil during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the socialist strongman tore into Obama, claiming Friday that "it still smells like sulfur in the world."

Assembled world leaders cheered on Chavez Wednesday during his first, scheduled speech, a ringing attack on all things capitalist that earned him standing ovations from leaders of the Third World.

Chavez berated developed nations for creating an "imperial dictatorship" that rules the world and urging his audience to "fight against capitalism," the "silent and terrible ghost" that was haunting the elegant conference chambers in the Danish capital.

"I promise I won't talk more than others have talked this afternoon," he said at the start of a rambling, 25-minute diatribe that outshot other speakers by a full 20 minutes. In the wide-ranging speech, he called capitalism the "road to hell" responsible for poverty, murder, AIDS — and even unfair climate agreements, the Toronto Star reported.

Calling on spiritual leaders as varied as Jesus, Muhammad and Karl Marx, Chavez bellowed that climate discussions were going on behind closed doors and draft agreements remained "top secret."

"The text presented is not democratic or inclusive," said Chavez, who has made it a practice in his native Venezuela to close opposition newspapers, radio stations and TV networks, and jails dissident politicians on spurious charges.

"It's not democratic, it's not inclusive. Well, ladies and gentlemen, isn't that the reality of the world? Are we really in a democratic world?"

Chavez regularly regales a captive audience of millions of Venezuelans on his weekly "Alo Presidente" talk shows, the marathon TV and radio sessions that give him space to rail against the bourgeoisie, excoriate the U.S. and even sing a ballad when the mood strikes.

By comparison, his Copenhagen screeds were brief, but were certainly gobbled up by many delegates in attendance who let out a nervous laugh as he attacked President Obama.

"I think Obama isn't here yet," he said Wednesday. "He got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers off to kill innocent people in Afghanistan.

But the commandante did manage to address climate change itself, warning of the dangers posed by the failure to rein in carbon emissions and give aid to the Third World.

"If we don't do this, then the great creation of our planet — humans — will disappear," he said. "It doesn't need us, but we can't exist without it. We're destroying it," he said — destroying mother earth."

Obama arrived in Copenhagen Friday with a large American delegation in tow, hoping to pressure China and other nations into accepting a global framework for combating climate change.

Obama and an estimated 120 world leaders converged on the city in hopes of saving the long-awaited summit from ruin by hammering out a framework deal in its closing hours. But the stormy two-week conference was marred to the end by flare-ups between the developed world and developing nations.

Fox News' Daniela Sicuranza contributed to this report.

Appropriate

How appropriate is it that this fool's sentencing date is April 1, 2010?

Very appropriate indeed.


Guilty plea in child porn case

By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News

A former Schertz emergency medical technician has pleaded guilty to producing and possessing child pornography.

Stephen S. Henry, 28, was fired in July after agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained an indictment against him, according to Schertz EMS director Dudley Wait.

Henry entered the guilty plea Thursday to 11 counts of possession of child pornography, one count of producing obscene visual representations of children and one count of possession those representations.

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Put the brakes on

I cannot fault the Republicans for trying to slow this monstrosity down.

How irresponsible is it to vote for cloture on a bill no one, except for Harry Reid and a few others, has read let alone knows what it contains?

I mean really. You expect to basically affect 1/6th of the U.S. economy and you don't know what you are voting for? The Senate is supposed to be the deliberative body to the House's more impetuous actions. Its called checks and balances. Look it up sometime.

No wonder Congress's ratings are at an all-time low.

Republicans threaten health care read-a-thon

Associated Press - The Herald-Zeitung

WASHINGTON — Republicans threatened to delay Senate business with a health care read-a-thon this weekend as Democrats searched for 60 votes to advance President Barack Obama’s signature issue. A forecast of heavy snow added to the list of complications.

At a news conference Friday in the Capitol, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accused Democrats of trying to ram the health care bill through with dozens of changes as yet unseen, and promised to do all they could to prevent it.

“I think we’ve made it rather clear we’re not going to expedite consideration of the health care bill,” McConnell said.

Added McCain: “I don’t think it would be outrageous to ask for a bill that we haven’t seen to be read.”

Democrats, after a week of bitter intraparty disagreements over the compromises Senate leaders made to keep the bill moving, were still trying to come up with the 60 votes needed to overcome unanimous Republican opposition. Leaders kept negotiating with the only known Democratic holdout, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, on tough abortion restrictions that he would accept.

After a meeting with Reid that lasted more than an hour Friday, Nelson indicated he still was not aboard but would keep talking. “Hopefully, we’re making progress,” Nelson said. He added that there was a lot of room between his views and Reid’s and they were “trying to close the gap.”

Meanwhile, as the weather forecast called for up 20 inches of snow in a city easily paralyzed by much less, senators were put on notice they could be needed to vote on procedural questions early Saturday morning.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is expected to release a package of changes to the bill that could run to hundreds of pages. Since those changes were negotiated behind closed doors, McCain said it’s reasonable to demand that the package be read aloud on the Senate floor. However, such changes in major legislation are commonplace and senators usually waive reading them on the floor.

Democrats were preparing for the read-a-thon. “We have to be in position so we can spend most of (Saturday) reading the bill, because the Republicans insist on it,” said Reid spokesman Jim Manley. It would be the third straight weekend the Senate has been in session, mostly on account of the health care bill.

All eyes remained on the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, Nelson, whose primary objection is that abortion funding restrictions in the bill are too lax.

A group of liberal-leaning religious leaders from Nelson’s home state Friday released a letter urging him to accept a compromise Reid has been working on — and promising to defend him from political repercussions. The compromise seeks to strengthen a “firewall” in the bill to keep government funds separate from any money used to pay for abortion. It would also offer incentives to encourage adoption.

“Given the complicated set of concerns surrounding abortion funding and coverage in health care reform, the compromise ... is the best way forward,” said the letter, signed by two dozen religious leaders of several Christian denominations. “This (legislation) will extend health care to all and strengthen our ability to gather religious support for those members who take tough votes in favor of reform, even in the face of opposition from both sides of the debate.

Any hopes the bill’s supporters had of a Republican casting a critical 60th vote vanished when Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said after a meeting with Obama that the Democrats’ timetable for a pre-Christmas vote was “totally unrealistic.”

Liberals are furious over the compromises Reid made.

Gone is a government insurance plan modeled on Medicare. So is the fallback, the option of allowing aging baby boomers to buy into Medicare. The major benefits of the bill won’t start for three or four years, and then they’ll be delivered through private insurance companies. Former Democratic chairman Howard Dean urged its defeat.

Overall, the legislation is designed to extend coverage to millions who lack it, ban insurance company practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and try to slow rising health care costs.

The bill would require most Americans to purchase insurance, and it includes hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to help lower- and middle-class families afford it. An additional 30 million people would be covered.

Politically powerful labor unions have panned the Senate bill but stopped short of calling for its demise, saying they hoped lawmakers ultimately would improve it.

The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, and the Service Employees International Union both expressed deep disappointment. The Senate bill includes a tax on high-cost insurance plans that unions fear will hurt their members.

SEIU president Andy Stern scolded Obama, saying the president should remember his campaign promise to bring change to America. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the Senate bill “bends toward the insurance industry.”

Both union chiefs said they hoped the bill that finally emerges from Congress would reflect the House-passed measure, which incorporated a government insurance option and omitted the insurance tax.

Top ten stupid criminals

From Mirror.co.uk the Year's Top 10 stupid criminals.

Embedding was blocked on the You Tube connection but if you click on it there is a link to You Tube to watch the video.

Do watch it its hilarious!

Enjoy!



Big Macs, spoons and prison break-ins! It’s the top 10 stupid criminals
By Chris Wilson

Two stories caught our eye today, both involving criminals who are clearly one sandwich short of a picnic.

First, this tale of gun-toting robbers who held up a McDonald’s in Stockholm only to get away with just four Big Macs.

Then there was the Welsh burglar who wasn’t flattered by the mug shot police circulated of him following a break-in that he sent an ‘improved’ pic to them and they duly tracked him down.

These two incidents bring to mind a raft of other ‘stupid criminal’ stories, here are some of the best.

1. Earlier this month Andrew Burwitz from Appleton, Wisconsin was charged with reckless endangerment and endangering safety by reckless use of a firearm after attempting a drive-by shooting at the home of his ex-girlfriend's family. Only he forgot to wind down the window of his car first. The idiot.

2. In October this year, these two bumbling burglars (above) were arrested after drawing 'masks' on their faces with magic marker pens as a cunning disguise.

3. Another pair of not-quite-with-it thieves made off with computer equipment following a robbery in Rhode Island, America, only one of the teenage miscreants left his homework at the scene of the crime. It’s safe to say he got more than detention when the police caught up with him.

4. As well as your homework, another thing you don’t want to leave behind at the scene of a crime in a body part. Clearly no-one told this to the Alabama burglar who left part of his nose in a victim’s house after it was bitten off during a struggle with the homeowner. Police found the nose at the scene and soon sniffed out the culprit.

5. Not all stupid criminals are American. Honest. A Cambridge man was arrested in September after falling asleep on the job. The burglar stuffed items into a pillow case before deciding to neck a bottle of wine and have a nap on the sofa. He was found some time later by the homeowner who promptly called the cops. “After trying to rouse him we charged him with attempted burglary,” said the police.

6. Another Brit who made a schoolboy error while trying to get his hands on some spoils was Scarborough man, who tried to hold up a shop while wearing a motorcycle helmet as a disguise. The only problem was that across the front of his helmet his name was printed in large letters.

7. Cutlery isn’t the obvious choice of weapon when you’re planning a hold-up, as a Polish robber discovered last week. Bank staff in Poland burst out laughing when a would-be robber threatened them with a spoon, causing him to leave empty-handed.

8. A break-in suspect was arrested after falling through the ceiling of a London sandwich shop. The robber, who must have been really hungry, was found by police after the alarm went off and was charged with two counts of breaking and entering as he fell through the roof of a neighbouring shop too.

9. Talking of falling through roofs, this character manages to do it twice too, in rather spectacular fashion.

10. Back in 1989 a pair of teenage criminals from California were caught red-handed while trying to break into a parked car. While being pursued by police they decided to climb over a fence to escape, only the fence they scaled was that of the San Quentin prison. “Nothing like this has ever happened here before,” said Lieutenant Cal White. “People just don’t break in to prison every day.”

All I want for Christmas......

All I want for Christmas is two years in jail.

Doesn't have quite the same ring as my two front teeth but still kinda catchy.

Glad the authorities could oblige. Peace out.



Man thanks judge for Xmas jail term

Ananova

A Czech man who threatened to carry on breaking the law so he could spend Xmas in jail thanked the judge who finally obliged him.

Radim Kopecky, 22, told the court in Korneuburg, Austria, that life in jail - especially at Christmas - was much better than living as a free man in his home land.

He was looking forward to having a roof over his head, the company of other convicts and regular meals.

He said: "I came to Austria to get myself jailed. My life will be better now."

He repeatedly stole and then turned himself in to Austrian cops each time - begging them to see he was sent to jail.

Finally, he was sentenced to 16 months and two days in prison for stealing sweets worth £2.

He told the court after he was sentenced: "I would like to say thank you very, very much dear judge for jailing me."

Happy Holidays!

Ouch.

Oh yes, Merry Christmas too.


Former Hill Country DA indicted

By Zeke MacCormack - Express-News

After presiding over Kimble County grand juries for three decades, former District Attorney Ron Sutton has been indicted there on two charges of misapplication of fiduciary property, a third-degree felony, officials said Thursday.

Sutton, lead prosecutor in the 198th judicial district from 1976 until last year, declined to comment when reached at his Junction home.

Special prosecutor Bill Turner said the indictment issued Wednesday concerns expenditures of seized funds for travel and staff bonuses, in “a continuing course of conduct,” from January 2002 until Dec. 31, 2008, when Sutton retired.

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