Archives for the 'crime' Category
Bad Rap
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:55 pm.
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Filed under cops, crime, dummkopf!, food.
It’s a small town. Wire, with a Boston Herald assist:
AMERICAN FORK, Utah - McDonald’s wasn’t lovin’ it. But maybe these kids deserve a break today.
Four Utah teens are in the fry-o-lator, cited for disorderly conduct for rapping their order at a Mickey D’s window, imitating a YouTube video: “I need a double cheeseburger and hold [...]
If He’s Unfit, They Must Acquit!
Published on 28 Oct 2009 at 9:05 pm.
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Filed under crime, justice.
Faced with a murder rap, Edward Ates hopes to beat it,* saying there’s no way he could have climbed the stairs, got the shot off and bolted fast enough to do what prosecutors said he did … kill his son-in-law in the middle of a bitter custody dispute with his daughter. WPIX.
AP serves up a legal defense [...]
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First, Do No Harm
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under crime, medicine, pols.
Wait a minute, that’s the Hippocratic Oath. Congress took the Hypocritic one. First, Make No Sense.
From The State That Brought You Willie Horton
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 8:22 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, moronocy, punishment.
Massachusetts inmates to get swine flu vaccine before law-abiding taxpayers. Boston Herald:
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Low
Published on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:32 pm.
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Filed under crime, food, law & order, punishment.
A Worcester, Massachusetts, man will do 18 months for taking another man’s hot dog at gunpoint, and eating it. Worcester Telegram:
More Cash For More Cons!
Published on 26 Aug 2009 at 9:44 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, money.
The economic stimulation of Inmate-Americans hits 4,000 nationwide. Boston Herald:
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Nightfall At The Museum
Published on 10 Jun 2009 at 10:05 pm.
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Filed under Holodenial, crime.
Massachusetts kids, 400 of them being in the building at the time, describe the murder at the Holocaust Museum. Boston Herald.
Washington Post with the news, a security guard killed by an 88-year-old Holocaust-denying white supremacist. Includes the president’s earnest call for vigiliance against anti-Semitism.
In these dark times a lunatic’s action immediately takes on broader political significance. The [...]
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GOP-Caused PTSD-Related Kiddie Porn Jones
Published on 8 May 2009 at 10:45 am.
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Filed under PTSD, crime, pervs, pols, porn.
It’s a shocking allegation, that the rightwing persecution of Kerry’s Swift Boat Veterans for Truth induced a tragic case of PTSD perversion in Wade Sanders. via Howie Carr at Boston Herald.
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Somali Pirates On The Net
Published on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:19 pm.
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They have a blog. Somali Pirate Blog. Kind of minimalist, pretty straightforward, a lot like Somali pirates. It’s on livejournal. That’s the guy up there who runs it. He updates pretty regularly.
We’ve got a fax machine, you’re in big trouble now
That’s right, nations of the world. We’ve used some of our riches to buy a shiny [...]
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Failure To Board
Published on 14 Apr 2009 at 9:33 pm.
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Filed under crime, law & order.
CNN reports a pirate assault on another American-flagged ship has failed and the ship is now being escorted by a warship into Mombasa.
Katy Urbik of Wheaton, Illinois, said her son, Thomas, was aboard the Liberty Sun at the time of the attack. She shared the e-mails he sent as the ship came under fire.
“We are [...]
Gaia To The Rescue
Published on 14 Apr 2009 at 11:07 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, law & order, warmalism.
Obama may be in luck. Spared the need to harm God’s (pirate) creatures. It’s Gaia to the rescue. Xinhua, Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates from Chinese ship.
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) — Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, [...]
Free World Leadership Opportunity
Published on 14 Apr 2009 at 9:50 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, law & order.
Knocks. Reuters: Pirates nab a Greek-flagged ship and a Togo-flagged ship with Filipino crews. AP, noting the pirates are “undetered,” throws in a couple of Egyptian fishing boats.
Turns out what was essentially a SWAT operation that killed three pirates the other day didn’t cow the other X number of thousand pirates engaged in this. After all, [...]
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The New Bloodthirstiness
Published on 13 Apr 2009 at 9:53 pm.
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Filed under Obama, crime, law & order.
Lefty bloggers are crowing about how tough their guy is because some SEAL snipers whacked three pirates. The lefties seem to mainly be interested in this as an opportunity to snark on the right, claiming that pirate whackage or the lack thereof was set as some kind of definitive right-wing benchmark of Obama’s wieniness. That’s [...]
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Obama Doctrine Is What?
Published on 13 Apr 2009 at 8:48 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, law & order, military.
Boston Herald:
Dramatic rescue ends hostage drama
Five days of fear (timeline)
via Herald: Three shots, three popped. Pirates vow revenge, retaliation against any nations that respond with violence to their violence. U.S. is their “No. 1 enemy.” Sounds like open season on pirates. Whatever happened to them liking us better?
via Herald: Obama kept his mouth shut for a change. [...]
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Free!
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 3:09 pm.
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Filed under crime, law & order.
Boston Herald on the raid that saved Capt. Phillips, calls it an “Easter miracle.” Exactly. God helps those who helps themselves. A 5.56/7.62/9 mm miracle, by the grace of frogmen.
UNDERHILL, Vt. - After a valiant raid nothing short of an Easter miracle, the captain of the Maersk Alabama is free and safe on board the USS Bainbridge [...]
Pirate Palaver
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:48 am.
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Filed under crime, law & order.
Negotiations break down. NYT reports Somali elders speaking for the ones in the boat with the captain won’t agree to US demands that the pirates surrender themselves. Why should they? Somali elders and pirates may think they have nothing to lose. Maybe the United States needs to suggest otherwise. I’d suggest a kind of biblical [...]
Piracy In The Age Of Obama
Published on 11 Apr 2009 at 9:52 am.
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Filed under crime, law & order.
John Keegan on the need to start hunting down pirates. UK Telegraph:
… our campaign must be ruthless and pitiless: pirate ships must be sunk on sight and the crews left to swim to safety, if it can be reached.
Many would complain about such tactics but, in my opinion, pirates have no rights – indeed, it [...]
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Great Taliban Victory
Published on 4 Apr 2009 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under America, Pakistan, crime.
Claimed in Binghamton mass murder. FOX: Pak Taliban chief Baituallah Mehsud “I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks.”
Usually the absurdity of propaganda tends to undercut it. But Mehsud knows his audience. It isn’t us.
Unclear On The Concept
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:21 pm.
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Filed under Boston, art, cops, crime.
“Hope” artist Shepard Fairey just got slapped with another 29 charges by Boston cops regarding his artwork’s exhibition space … other people’s property. In an e-mail to the Boston Herald, the persecuted artist writes:
“I can only assume that the gratuitous piling on of felony charges by the Boston Police related to my long-standing advocacy as [...]
Textual Harassment
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under Internet, crime, culture, dummkopf!, language, love.
And the growing problems of kids and their phones. I’d add the Internet and people in general. Boston Herald:
GumAnon
Published on 6 Mar 2009 at 8:25 pm.
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Filed under crime.
It’s where you go for help when the gum you’re chewing starts chewing you. When you can’t get your sneaker unstuck from life’s dirty sidewalk. When all the flavor’s gone. Connecticut Post: Gumshoes nab alleged serial gum thief.
Pound Of Flesh
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 10:06 pm.
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Filed under Boston, crime, food, shameless opportunism.
Sought from restaurant-scamming tooth fraud. Boston Herald.
Skipping School To Kill
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 11:08 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime.
Prosecutor re teen girl’s murder indictment. Boston Herald.
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Massachusetts Courts Update
Published on 28 Feb 2009 at 7:23 am.
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Filed under crime, justice, law & order.
Clerk allegedly courted hooker with favors. So to speak. Boston Herald.
Try not to let this sordid episode destroy your faith in the integrity of the Massachusetts judicial system. Howie Carr.
Previously: Too Tough On Crime!?!
The Godiva Precedent
Massachusetts Perv Update
It’s The Predatory Perversion, Stupid
Poor Judgment
Judicial Issues
The Importance Of Being Earnest
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My Death Row Valentine
Published on 13 Feb 2009 at 9:30 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
Spree killer Gary Sampson wants one. Disturbing weirdness alert. Boston Herald:
Got Teens?
Published on 11 Feb 2009 at 9:34 am.
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Filed under crime, kids.
May want to have a chat with them about this. Six middle-school boys face kiddie porn rap for “sexting.” via Boston Herald:
Crazy Loser Prizefight
Published on 14 Jan 2009 at 8:12 am.
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Filed under crime, men, punishment, women.
It’s one of those stories that put a little smile on your face when you open the paper in the morning. Accident-faking ex-Congressional wannabe and unhinged fake Clinton bomber duke it out over a hoosegow honey in their New Hampshire lockup. via Boston Herald:
Jewel Thieves Hit Paris
Published on 21 Dec 2008 at 2:41 pm.
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Filed under celeb, crime.
Again.* That is one poor little rich girl. Paris Hilton was keeping $2 million in jewelry in her bedroom. Now she doesn’t have it anymore. On top of her time behind bars, I guess she knows what it’s like to live in a crime-ridden neighborhood now. I wonder which prompted a greater sense of violation, this or the [...]
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Deal With The Devil
Published on 20 Dec 2008 at 8:35 am.
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Two 13-year-olds, one 20-year-old, killed one teen’s 16-year-old half-brother and torched his body in a pit for $10,000 … to buy a used Beemer, prosecutors charge. Nothing quaint about this tale of drug money, murder and greed on Cape Cod. Boston Herald.
The Departed
Published on 12 Dec 2008 at 7:40 am.
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Filed under crime, guns, law & order.
Cops say Evan Louis Rivera, convicted drug dealer and serial armed robber, walked into Big Bob Liquors with a handgun. He was carried out with several holes in him. Fed-up clerks everywhere cheer on the licensed-to-carry gunowner who plugged him. Heck, even a gun-control advocate is cheering him. Boston Herald:
War Crimes/Hungarian Porn Activist Busted
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 10:40 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, pols, porn.
In fed bribery sting. Boston Herald. Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is seen here in Government Exhibit B:
It isn’t the first time he’s been taken in. The cash, the secret camera and the indictment are new twists, though.
You’ll recall Chuck Turner as the city councilor who, with the help of local “activist” Sadiki Kambon, got the Boston [...]
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Beantown Traditions
Published on 31 Oct 2008 at 9:01 am.
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Filed under Boston, boobs, crime, money, pols.
Alive and well as convicted tax cheat, lately spotted stuffing cash into her bra, vows to fight for her seat. She has to … that, kickbacks and campaign donations are her only source of income and let’s face it, the girl’s in her 50s and not exactly accustomed to work. Anyway, Massachusetts governemtn has long [...]
Busted!
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 7:59 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, pols.
You may have heard one of our local solons was hauled off by the FBI yesterday. That’s State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, seen here in Government Exhibit D, stuffing money in her bra.
B
Published on 24 Oct 2008 at 8:50 am.
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Filed under crime, pols.
I thought there was something weird about the backwards B thing, too. Apparently the cops think there are other problems and are going over the details again, want to administer a polygraph test. An ATM robber who gives a damn about politics? That’s like, in fact probably would have to be, a junkie who cares [...]
More Palling
Published on 19 Oct 2008 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, pols.
Barack reviewed Bill’s book, sat on a juvenile justice panel with him, organized by Michele. Sounds cosy. Zombie goes analog, pre-Internet to excavate Obama’s Ayers zombie from the S.F. public library stacks. Here’s a quote from the Obama Ayers book review:
Next Door Nightmare
Published on 18 Oct 2008 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under Internet, crime.
Neighbors up on charges for unneighborly behavior. Online harassment, identity theft, false report. Boston Herald:
Village Justice
Published on 17 Oct 2008 at 7:10 pm.
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Filed under crime, india, punishment.
It’s harsh. Sickle-wielding Indian woman beheads alleged stalker, parades through village with severed head. Daily Mail:
Drugs, Money
Published on 17 Oct 2008 at 12:05 pm.
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Filed under crime, drugs, kids, money.
And an innocent six-year-old as collateral. No leads in the abduction of Cole Puffinburger. The cops might want to follow the money. In fact, they might want to send the money man out with a sign on him. Cops establish link to drugs. $8-$20 million worth of beef between a Puffinburger relative and a Mexican drug cartel. [...]
Mom-B-Q
Published on 16 Oct 2008 at 9:20 pm.
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Filed under crime, motherhood.
This is wrong. Very, very wrong. LAT:
Mickey Mouse For Obama
Published on 10 Oct 2008 at 9:50 pm.
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Filed under crime, pols.
Obamist “Mickey Mouse” election insurance program hits a snag as multiple law enforcement agencies investigate allegations of widespread ACORN voter registration fraud.
Could look bad, given Obama’s deep ties with ACORN. Even deeper than his (known) ties with unrepentent ex-terrorist Ayers.
No worries. Just report it as a McCain smear. And dismiss it with a disparagement of poor [...]
Good Money After Bad
Published on 8 Oct 2008 at 11:40 pm.
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Filed under crime, history, punishment.
Another $37.5 billion for AIG. You know, the relaxed, if troubled insurance giant. via Fox.
“Closure For America”
Published on 5 Oct 2008 at 9:56 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
Goldman lawyer calls it. Meanwhile, the Boston Herald’s own O.J. gets Simpson Dream Teamer Alan Dershowitz. He doesn’t want to talk about it. O.J. is so 1995:
Slow Grind
Published on 4 Oct 2008 at 11:32 pm.
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Filed under crime, justice, punishment.
But a fine grind of justice as O.J. Simpson is found guilty on all counts. NYT suggests a lack of caring:
Sporadic Fellow-Traveling
Published on 4 Oct 2008 at 12:46 pm.
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Filed under Obama, crime, history, traitors.
NYT examines the Ayers-Obama link. It’s about sporadic path-crossing, bygones, rehabilitation and a sort of non-contagious fellow-traveling. Includes radical assurances that Obam is no radical. Director Blue casts a more jaundiced eye at the bygones, the ex-Weathermen Obama fan club, the fellow-traveling. It’s about dead cops, dead marines, and their killers.
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Guantanamo Syndrome
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 8:32 pm.
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, other mass murderers lend a hand to trial judge, reach out to a recalcitrant Ramzi Binalshibh. “Come, Ramzi, just stop this silliness, be a big terrorist and attend your infidel trial in the hated Crusader star chamber. Please, you’re embarrassing us.” OK, it isn’t clear exactly what he and the others wrote to [...]
Busted in NYC
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 8:52 pm.
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Filed under art, crime, punishment.
Dutch “graffiti tourist” gets primo tour, accommodations after cops chase him up the subway tracks and bust him. Robbert Boxem, 23, charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, was in town for the big Meeting of Styles. If he doesn’t get any of the four years time he’s looking at, then he gets to go [...]
Cut The Cheese
Published on 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 am.
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The Cheeseman must diet. The reputed Boston mobster/fromagier has been given doctor’s orders he can’t refuse: Lose the gouda or else. It’s like he woke up with a hogshead in the bed next to him. Boston Herald, “Live and Let Diet.”
Kai Leigh’s Blessing
Published on 26 Apr 2008 at 10:47 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
Here’s a guy who got the message the hard way. At someone else’s expense. Boston Herald on a thug’s remorse:
The Big White House
Published on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:08 am.
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Filed under crime, pols.
Democratic voters in Idaho actually have a choice in their May primary. A federal inmate in Texas conned his way onto their ballot alongside Hill and Obama. No cheap con artist jokes re Hill and Obama, please. Idaho Spokesman-Review:
Serial Subway Groper
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:02 pm.
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Filed under crime, pervs, punishment.
Looking at life. That’s what NYC prosecutors want for Freddie Johnson, busted 53 times, most of those reportedly grope-related.
In other perv-related news, Dr. Helen has this on the criminalization of visual sexual aggression. Sounds like a useful and well-intentioned law on its face, though as Helen notes, it sounds like it has a lot of potential [...]
