‘Crime’ Archives
Thomas Dekker just got Terminated by Judge. Twice.
TMZ - Thomas Dekker -- the guy who played John Connor on the "Terminator" TV show -- has been charged with two counts of DUI stemming from his arrest last month. The L.A. County City Attorney has decided to charge Dekker with 2 misdemeanor counts of DUI after he allegedly boozed up and crashed his car into a 17-year-old who was riding his [...]
Another day, another stoner calling the cops because someone stole their weed
3News - There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County, Michigan sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt Randy F Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 130km north-northwest of [...]
CERN researcher arrested for links to al Qaeda and possible plot to destroy the Earth
BBC - The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday. Police believe they had been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and had been planning attacks in France. Cern's Large Hadron Collider is aiming to recreate conditions of [...]
Five people injured in three shootings, or as they call it in Philadelphia, Monday
ABC News - The first shooting rang out at 7:00 p.m. along the 5600 block of McMahon Street in Philadelphia's Germantown section. Three men have been hospitalized. One man was shot in the arm, one in the side and one in the butt. September 21, 2009 (WPVI) -- The shootings happened in the Germantown, Kensington and Nicetown-Tioga [...]
Pro Tip: If you are going to burglarize a house it’s a good idea not to check your facebook profile on the victims computer before you leave.
The Journal - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings. Jonathan G. Parker, 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned Tuesday one count of felony daytime [...]
In the OMGWTF category. Domestic abuse now a pre-existing condition.
Huffington Post - With the White House zeroing in on the insurance-industry practice of discriminating against clients based on pre-existing conditions, administration allies are calling attention to how broadly insurers interpret the term to maximize profits. It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up [...]
City supplies kids with spray paint and leaves them unsupervised to paint mural in skate park. This works out about how you’d expect (w/ pic)
Calgary Sun - There's no sign of the word "fiasco" among the gallons of garish paint, though every other conceivable F-Word from the young-adult vocabulary can clearly be seen. It's too bad. More than any other, the word fiasco sums up the sheer, mind-boggling, Godzilla-scale vomit of graffiti that now covers the concrete walls of Shaw [...]
Mobile Cops test senses of deaf and disabled man by….get this…Taser!!! ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!
Chicago Sun Times - Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn't leave a store's bathroom. The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday. Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers shot pepper spray under the bathroom [...]
Neda, The Face of a Revolution
Gawker - Unless you tuned out completely over the weekend you've seen the haunting video of a young woman named Neda dying on a Tehran street after being shot in the heart. She is now the immortal face of a revolutionary movement. Click pic for source.
Bar owner sued by music publishers for letting bands play cover songs…no really.
Would you pay almost $14,000 to hear a local band play a cover version of Tom Petty's hit "I Won't Back Down"? Randy White might, and he's not happy about it. White's problems began Aug. 10, 2007. It was a Friday night, and a crowd came to his club, called Randzz, to drink beer, play pool and maybe listen to the band. At least one person [...]
