ELF terrorists torch more SUVs
Friday, August 22nd, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
Is it just me or do eco-terrorists always strike in the granola states like California and Oregon. You never hear about them burning up people’s cars in states like Kentucky, Georgia, or Texas. Actually, that’s too bad. I’d love to pick up the paper one day and read about how some whiney tree hugger was perforated for trying to ignite someone’s pickup truck on fire. I wonder if you’d have to call the coroner, or the police have a dropoff where you can have them weighed, tagged, and bagged.
Actor killed filming movie supposedly with blank bullets
Friday, August 22nd, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
I don’t care if you are filming a movie, if someone hands you a firearm and says it’s unloaded or contains blanks, it is your responsibility to check it. That doesn’t help actor Antonio Velasco, who was shot in the chest by his co-star who claimed the gun was supposed to be loaded with blanks.
Velasco died of his injuries, and the shooter is facing 8 to 20 years in a Mexican prison.
Man charged for assaulting Policeman with water gun
Thursday, August 7th, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
Ananova reports that a British man learned the hard way not to shoot a policeman with a water gun.
A man is set to face magistrates after an incident in which a passing policeman was hit in the face by a stream of water from a high-powered novelty water gun. [...]Road worker Gary Parker, 26, maintains that if he hit the officer it was accidental and has claimed the policeman was “out of order” by using CS spray to arrest him.
That sucks getting sprayed by pepper sprayl, but had this guy done this in say, Chicago, he would probably have been dragged into an alley and pistol whipped.
Did the officer over-react? Maybe. Perhaps a normal person would just laugh it off, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that this guy was spraying a water gun around without looking where he was aiming.
Man arrested with half baked weapon
Tuesday, August 5th, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
Yesterday I noted that Canada should ban knives, forks, rubber bands, paper clips, and baseball bats. Perhaps I should have added a few things to the list.
Sure, you can ban them, register them, and make them idiot proof, but nature will adapt and overcome. In Germany, Reuters notes that they have built a better idiot.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have arrested a man for firing potatoes at passers-by with a home-made bazooka, authorities in the western city of Essen said on Friday. [...]Police said the weapon consisted of about five feet of drainpipe attached to an aerosol can which the man ignited to propel the root vegetables toward their targets.
Considering just about anything can be used as a weapon, banning them never works.
Man rams wrong car, thinking it was his wife’s
Tuesday, August 5th, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
One one side of the story, we have a dimwitted, drunk, abusive husband who decided to destroy his wife’s car. The problem is that he picked the wrong car, and proceeded to ram her neighbor’s car upwards of 30 times.
On the other side of the story, we have the wife. Despite having a restraining order against her estranged husband, he still managed to destroy her neighbor’s car. It may sound like just another ho-hum dumb criminal run amok story, but I think it illustrates just how futile restraining orders are. Had this jerk, in his drunken rampage, decided to attack his wife, there isn’t much her restraining order could have done about it. A gun, however, would level the playing field quite nicely.
New Mexico rolls out red carpet for fugitives
Monday, August 4th, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
If I ever break the law and have to flee Virginia, I’m headed to New Mexico. The Governor there seems to welcome fugitives from other states, and even provides them with taxpayer funded privleges.
New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron says that New Mexicans welcome the revenue brought by fugitives fleeing their own state. “They chose Albuquerque; they’re spending money,” she said. “This is an opportunity for a little bit of money to be exchanged in the state.”
If they get rid of the death penalty, I’m sold.
Defendant runs from court before innocent verdict
Monday, July 28th, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
The AP reports that Patre Eugene Williams faced 30 years in prison for selling cocaine within 1000 feet of school property. With the trial winding down, Williams couldn’t bear to wait and see what the verdict would be. So, he asked for a recess and fled the courtroom.
Judge Thompson gave Williams 15 minutes to return, then said, “We’re going to finish the trial without him.”The two sides presented closing arguments, and the jury returned after 30 minutes with the verdict.
Although he certainly acted like it, he was found not guilty. The Judge didn’t bother issuing a bench warrant, and Williams was not found in contempt.
Deputy’s bark is worse that his bite
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003 • Filed under Uncategorized •
John Mays sent me this story about an interesting incident in his home town of Chattanooga. When police tried to stop 21-year-old John Nicholas Hood for a broken tail light, he leaped out of the car and ran into the woods. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputies Henry Ritter and Richard Gough didn’t have too much trouble getting the dimwitted suspect to come back out though.
The officers’ calls to Hood went unanswered so Gough said they were sending a dog after him. Ritter started barking.“He stood up and said, ‘I’m here. Call off the dog,”‘ Ritter said.
The AP also notes that although Deputy Ritter barked at the suspect to get him to give himself up, he had no intention of biting him.