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Birds hit 1 in 10,000 flights
Posted on January 16, 2009After yesterday's doohzie on the Hudson River, the AP story details everything you don't want to know about birds' risk to flights. -Meredith Rodriguez
Mexico tells citizens to swallow their gum
Posted on January 16, 2009Officials are cracking down because the average square yard in Mexico City has 70 pieces of chewing gum. Mexicos' director of conservation of pulic spaces shruggs off doctor's concerns that chewing gum could clog up the intestines. "I've always swallowed...
In Caturday news...
Posted on January 16, 2009A cat mystery sprung up east of San Antonio, as 70 dead Siamese are found stuffed in trash bags. In Ohio, a couple is sentenced to 90 days after 71 dead and 53 live cats were found in their home....
"A Christmas Story" comes to life
Posted on January 16, 2009His friend must have triple-dog-dared the 10-year old to stick his tongue to a metal light pole. Hammond, Ind., the city where it happened, is the same one that the story's writer based his fictional city on. -Meredith Rodriguez
Now we know why he got the leading role in the movie, "Jackass."
Posted on January 16, 2009Johnny Knoxville was caught trying to bring an inert grenade through LAX security in his carry-on luggage. -Meredith Rodriguez Hat Tip: Many Thanks Keight G. in PV!
Just sickening
Posted on January 16, 2009A 9-year-old Arizona girl was beaten, forced to eat off the floor naked and forced take cold showers for months. Her mother stood by and did nothing while her stepfather abused her. -Meredith Rodriguez Hat Tip: Many thanks eephus!
Bringing new meaning to the word speed-trap
Posted on January 16, 2009eephus informs us that in the city of Tempe, where he lives, one speed camera issued 53,218 citations in one year. That produced half of the tickets issued by cameras out of the city's 10 total cameras. All the people...
Say, how's the Worst Father Ever doing?
Posted on January 16, 2009You remember Byron Perkins. He got of jail, saying he was going to be tested to see if he could donate a kidney to his sick kid. Only he fled to Mexico with his girlfriend for over a year. Well,...
Man gets into wreck, jumps to his death along Missouri River
Posted on January 16, 2009What a strange, strange story. From Sara Shepherd: After his vehicle rear-ended a tow truck on a Missouri River bridge Thursday, a man reportedly bolted from the crash scene and jumped off the bridge to his death. ?I need to...
Los Angeles wins $5 mil judgment against street gang
Posted on January 16, 2009The 5th and Hill Gang, for all of you aficionados. What this means is that L.A. can go after the assets of all its leaders, even if they're not directly involved in a crime, sort of like what's been done...
Not cool, 911, not cool
Posted on January 16, 2009In Murfreesboro, a man decided he'd had too much to drink and called 911 to see if they'd give him a ride home. They would not. They would, however, take him to jail and book him for public intoxication.
Stimulus plan includes $4 billion for law enforcement
Posted on January 16, 2009Including $1 billion for COPS, the program that helps individual departments hire more officers. (That's enough for about 13K new badges, the New York Daily News reports.) The other $3 billion would go back into Byrne grants, which got cut...
MI girl, 16, died chained to bed during fire
Posted on January 16, 2009Her parents, who now face a slew of charges, say she had special needs and argued the chains were there to protect her.
2 teens injured in Grandview shooting
Posted on January 16, 2009From Meredith Rodriguez: A Thursday afternoon shooting in Grandview left two teens injured. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. near 133rd Street and Park Hills Drive. Both victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. One was released, and...
Marcus Schrenker
Posted on January 16, 2009I know, a lot of people are probably sick of this case. Still, the New York Times has a nice little profile of Schrenker, the Indiana investment adviser accused of trying to fake his death.
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on January 16, 2009Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. PROGRAMMING NOTE: James is off Friday, and Meredith Rodriguez will be...
Social Services did what?
Posted on January 16, 2009About six weeks before a 13-year-old girl was found dead in a Woodbridge area creek bed, the developmentally disabled child showed up outside a neighbor's home with a gash on her head, wearing only her underwear and wrapped in a...
Readers prefer racial identification in stories
Posted on January 16, 2009103 out of 138 readers who have answered a St. Louis Post- Dispatch online survey favor the newspaper's using more racial identifications of crime suspects. Here's the current Post-Dispatch policy as listed in the story: ?We do not identify an...
Bad Idea: dating a cop's ex-girlfriend
Posted on January 16, 2009From Colorado: "A Lafayette police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he gave his ex?s new boyfriend a traffic ticket, kept both under ?surveillance? and damaged the hood of her car during an argument. James Edward Stafford, 34,...
This is like Dick Cheney saying waterboarding is fine
Posted on January 16, 2009From The New York Times: The super-secretive FISA court, which in its long history has just about never seen a warrant request it didn't like, says it's O.K. to wiretap Americans' international communications without a warrant. -Meredith Rodriguez Hat Tip:...
Update: Shon Pernice gave conflicting dates for when he last saw his wife
Posted on January 16, 2009First he said New Years, then January 2nd. From Glenn E. Rice: "Police also said in the affidavit that Shon Pernice used an electronic keycard to enter the back door of the Independence hazmat station at 4:26 a.m. on Jan....
Study: Tasers do NOT cause fatal heart attacks
Posted on January 15, 2009That's according to the Annals of Emergency Medicine, which released the report. Snip from the Orlando Sentinel: It is the first study of its kind to medically evaluate every suspect who had been stunned and taken into custody. None showed...
Mizzou working to improve rape kits
Posted on January 15, 2009By working on a device that can quickly test whether a sample contains sperm or semen. Right now, forensic specialists can spend hours looking. The Columbia Tribune has more here.
UPDATE: Sex offender wins $500K from raffle for rape victims
Posted on January 15, 2009And is later beaten in the street with a lead pipe or tire iron. Alaska police aren't sure if he was beaten for winning the raffle, or just because he's a registered sex offender.
I think I saw this one coming ... especially once I took my Visine
Posted on January 15, 2009A Springfield woman accused of poisoning her husband with Visine has gone ahead and filed for divorce. (It's true what they say: After the first murder attempt, it's really hard to get the spark back.)
How FBI, Secret Service are getting ready for the inauguration
Posted on January 15, 2009Authorities are especially concerned because the inauguration is expected to draw record-size crowds, USA Today reports. So they're using technology, including a completely separate cell-phone network, to help dispatch more than 100 teams of specialists in hostage situations, WMDs and...
KS dad, kids die in apparent murder-suicide
Posted on January 15, 2009Story is from Scranton in Osage County, where Michael L. Shirley apparently killed his three children, set his house on fire and then shot himself. (Though the fire is what killed him, the AP reports.) The children were 14, 11...
Garden City man waits 2 years to report getting mugged
Posted on January 15, 2009He came forward only because his IRS records seem to show that someone has been using his identity -- and they probably got the necessary info during the robbery. To set everything straight, he was told he needs to report...
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No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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