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http://www.kait8.com/story/14392118/police-pepper-spray-8-year-old

LAKEWOOD, CO (KAIT) - A 8-year old student at a Colorado school ends up getting pepper sprayed by police after a confrontation in a classroom.

According to a police report from the Lakewood Police Department, the student threw a violent temper tantrum in his classroom and even ripped pieces of wood off the walls. When the student wouldn't drop the pieces of wood, police then pepper sprayed him.

Police spokesman Steve Davis justified the use of the pepper spray, saying "Our officers had to do something to diffuse the situation in a hurry before somebody got hurt."

 

[RedFusion]

So is this thread getting shutdown on Sunday?

 

[Quintillus]

http://therandomforest.com/snail-digestion-bird/

A group of researchers from Tohoku University, Japan published their findings in the Journal of Biogeography recently. They found tiny land snails are able to survive the digestion system of a bird and continue to live after it has been excreted.

So is this thread getting shutdown on Sunday?

Apparently not.

 

[Lillefix]

An austrian man has been allowed a driver's license where he is pictured with a pasta strainer on his head. He's a pastafarian and so he feels obliged to wear it.

Random pasta strainer

Cool Austrian guy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523

edit: I should have known there was an entire thread dedicated to this.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Link to article

LANCASTER, Ohio - The Robert K. Fox Family Y is conducting an internal investigation and examining its policies after about 65 children attending summer camp were required to lower their bathing suits so that counselors could inspect for traces of diarrhea.

The inspections Tuesday occurred after feces were found in the swimming pool for the fourth time in the past two weeks, Executive Director Mike Lieber said yesterday.

The required disrobing upset parent Ibrahim Y. Haroon, who said his 9-year-old son came home traumatized. He filed a complaint with the Lancaster police.

Now, the Y is investigating what happened and reviewing what could be done better, Lieber said.

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A swimmer with diarrhea puts other campers and counselors in the pool with them at risk of disease, he said.

The campers are in the fourth to sixth grades, he said.

After the fourth occurrence on Tuesday, counselors asked the children if anyone was sick or had a problem. No one came forward. So, the child-care director who supervises the counselors directed them to take the children two by two into the girls and boys locker rooms and shower areas, require them to turn around facing away from the counselors, and lower their swim shorts for inspection, Lieber said.

The children then pulled up their bathing suits and showered, he said.

Haroon didn't like what he heard when his son came home.

"My child was very upset and seemed a bit traumatized," he said yesterday. "His exact statement was it was very uncomfortable."

Haroon filed a police report and also talked to Lieber.

"I'm not sure that there was a criminal violation, but there was definitely a violation of his civil rights," he said. "Why weren't the parents notified before? If a search was going to be done, a child, like an adult, would have a right to due process."

Lieber said he reported the matter to Ohio Job and Family Services, which licenses the Y to run its school-age-child summer-camp program, and was told that it would have been better to put the children, one by one, behind a privacy shield and have them hand out their suits to be inspected.

The inspections provided no clues to which child had diarrhea, Lieber said.

The pool was thoroughly cleaned and reopened Wednesday afternoon, he said.

Found this in the local paper, and I though I just had to post it here.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Chinese now selling fake Apple goods in fake Apple stores, replete with a winding straircase and salesmen wearing blue T-shirts with the chunky name tags around their necks:

Welcome to China's Fake Apple Store

When Apple announced record-high quarterly revenues and profits yesterday, COO Tim Cook noted that China--where the company's four stores bring in the most traffic and revenueof any Apple stores in the world--was "key to our results." That growing popularity among Chinese consumers, however, may also explain the incredible discovery an American living in Kunming, the capital of China's southwestern Yunnan Province, revealed on her blog, Bird Abroad, today: an elaborate and strikingly realistic fake Apple store.

The whole thing began innocently enough. A couple weeks ago, the blogger and her husband stumbled upon what appeared to be an Apple store near their house. The scene, pictured above, had all the trappings of the company's iconic retail outlets. There was the winding staircase:

But there were also suspicious signs. Kunming, as the blogger put it, "is the end of the Earth." Why would there be an Apple store there? What's more, the stairs were shoddy, the walls were painted poorly, the employees' name tags only said "staff." And then there was the matter of the signs. Apple Store signs generally just show the company's trademark fruit symbol. The Kunming store'ssigns read, "Apple Store."

Not to mention a misspelled sign out front...

 

[timtofly]

So is this thread getting shutdown on Sunday?

Stranger things have happened.

 

[aronnax]

A little old...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377532/Liechtenstein-puts-country-market-40-000-night.html

Yours to rent for £40,000 a night: Liechtenstein puts whole country on the market (but 30,000 residents will stay)

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 5:42 PM on 16th April 2011

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Those who fancy a slightly different Easter break this year can hire a whole country - Liechtenstein for £40,000 a night.

The country's officials decided to put the tiny land-locked country up for rent after realising its potential earlier this year.

U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg was given a stern refusal when tried to rent the country for an undisclosed figure to use in a music video.
Rolling mountains: Lichtenstein is available to hire for £40,000 a night, including its 30,000 residents

Rolling mountains: Lichtenstein is available to hire for £40,000 a night, including its 30,000 residents

But since then letting agents have changed their mind and believe that a string of wealthy people and large families could rent the area, which has become known as a tax-haven for the wealthy.

Those who travel to the country, between Austria and Switzerland, will have accommodation for 150 guests.

They will have the run of the land and use of the country's police, even though Liechtenstein has one of the lowest crime rates in the area.

The new temporary 'owners' of country will be presented with a symbolic key to the country in a ceremony at the state parliament.
Refused: Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to hire the country for a music video

Refused: Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to hire the country for a music video

Although there is a two-night minimum stay, the guests will be treated to wine-tasting from the Prince of Liechtenstein's personal cellar, skiing and a sumptuous dinner overlooking Vaduz Castle.

Other options include tobogganing, fireworks and horse-drawn carriage rides through the capital Vaduz.

Unfortunately, people who might have wanted some privacy will be disappointed as the country's 30,000 population will be allowed to stay.

The firm organising the renting, Airbnb, said the purpose of the scheme was to 'connect people'.

'Guests can build real connections with their hosts, gain access to distinctive spaces and immerse themselves in the culture of their destinations,' a spokesman added.

For people who would prefer to buy, estate agents have put an entire village on sale in Italy for just £485,000 - the price of a London flat.

The medieval village comes with 11 crumbling stone buildings, including a half-ruined 13th century church and two shepherds' houses.

Residents fled the village in the middle of the Gran Sasso national park in the central Abruzzo region, after a decline in sheep farming.

Snow and gales in the Winter followed by baking summers have affected many of the buildings, which have been abandoned for some 30 years

The council is now desperate to renovate the area to protect it from vandals but can't afford do it themselves.

The village is the same price as a one-bedroom flat in Covent Garden, London or a small town house in Hackney.

'It's been deserted for about 30 years,' Daniele Palumbi, the mayor of the nearby town of Torricella Sicura, told the Daily Telegraph.

'It's a beautiful spot, a real jewel, and the buildings are all made of local stone. We're not giving an estimate of how much it would cost to make the houses habitable – it will be up to the buyer to come up with a plan.

'There's been a lot of interest from potential buyers in Italy, though nothing from abroad so far because it has not been widely publicised.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ountry-market-40-000-night.html#ixzz1SuXFCBw5

 

[civ_king]

Isn't that like $24 million a year?
That has to be a joke

 

[aronnax]

Isn't that like $24 million a year?
That has to be a joke

Well, I'm sure an incredibly eccentric Chinese Businessman or an Arab Prince would take up the offer.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Its funny that they rejected Snoop Dog

 

[shadowplay]

Kandahar mayor killed by suicide bomber with explosives in turban

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/kandahar-mayor-killed-explosives-turban

oh my

 

[madviking]

I'm surprised that this hasn't happened earlier.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

He was lucky because the turban was small, this guy could've detonated an A-Bomb

Spoiler :

 

[Tee Kay]

Czech President refused to go through security, denied entry into Australian parliament

The Age

Czech not cleared in Parliament visit
Richard Willingham
July 27, 2011

EVERY person visiting Parliament must go through security scanners or they will be barred from entering, even if that visitor happens to be the Czech President.

Vaclav Klaus, who gained notoriety for stealing a pen while holding a press conference with Chilean president Sebastian Pinera, yesterday refused to undergo a basic security check and was not allowed into Parliament.

Mr Klaus, a prominent climate change sceptic, had addressed the National Press Club and was on his way to do an interview with the ABC's 7.30 show.
President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus.

The 7.30 producer Michelle Ainsworth greeted Mr Klaus, Peter Gregory from the Institute of Public Affairs (the group that paid for the President to visit Australia), and three other Czech men at the main entrance, ushering them past school children to the security scanners.

''As soon as Mr Klaus saw the security thing, he said, 'I'm not going through there','' Ms Ainsworth said.

She asked a security guard if the Czech President would be allowed to go through without a check. She said the security guard replied: ''I don't care who he is, everyone's got to go through security.''

''I relayed it back to Mr Klaus and he said, 'If you want to do the interview, you can come back to my hotel'. He just turned around and walked out.''

The show did not take up Mr Klaus's offer. Mr Gregory declined to comment and the Czech embassy was unavailable. The secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services, Alan Thompson defended his security staff.

''All of us go through the normal metal detectors - the only exception being the Prime Minister of the day,'' Mr Thompson told The Age.

He says special arrangements for visiting heads of state to enter without security checks require ''an early notification''. President Klaus arrived with ''no notice at all''.

''If we'd had a little bit of forward notice, I'm sure we would have been able to accommodate him.''

One hundred and forty security staff provide a 24-hour, seven-day service securing Federal Parliament.

Staff are not given discretion to allow unscheduled visitors to bypass the ordinary system of checks.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The stealing a pen bit is a cheap shot. Granted, the video makes it look like that was the case. But it was a commemorative pen which he was expected to keep as a a gift.

Here, Sarkozy is victim to the same sort of attack, even though both signers pocket the pens:


Link to video.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Man has friend shoot him to get sympathy from an ex

MILWAUKEE (AP) --Love hurts. Especially for a Milwaukee-area man. Authorities charge Jordan Cardella had himself shot, in an effort to win sympathy from his ex-girlfriend.

But prosecutors say Cardella didn't shoot himself, because he's a felon and didn't want to touch a gun. So, court records show he had another man do it, in exchange for money or pain pills.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the shooter and a friend of Cardella's have both been sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours of community service. A charge against Cardella was dismissed.

The ex never did visit Cardella in the hospital. The prosecutor says this is "the most phenomenally stupid" case he's seen.

http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/national/man-has-friend-shoot-him-to-get-sympathy-from-an-ex

 

[NedimNapoleon]

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Link to article.

More than 30 soldiers in the Mexican Army crossed the border into Texas in Humvees on Tuesday before being processed and allowed to return to Mexico.

According to Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Rick Pauza, the accidental invasion occurred when 33 soldiers in four Humvees started crossing a bridge across the Rio Grande at Donna, Texas, and then realized they couldn't turn their vehicles around without entering the U.S.

A local newspaper, the Monitor of McAllen, Texas, reported that the Mexicans were chasing a resident of South Texas when they drove onto the bridge.

Without addressing the reason for the crossing, Pauza confirmed to ABC News that the incident had occurred and called it "inadvertent."


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"There are times when an incident such as this occurs," said Pauza. "CBP has established protocols in place to handle such incident and all personnel have been processed as per those protocols. They returned to Mexico without incident."

In a statement, Mexico's National Ministry of Defense also confirmed that the incident had occurred, calling it "involuntary," and said it had happened "due to the vehicle turnaround being on the American side." The statement did not say why the Humvees drove onto the bridge.

Donna, Texas is in the Rio Grande Valley, just east of McAllen. The Donna-Rio Bravo Bridge officially opened in December 2010, but will not be open to commercial traffic till 2013.

 

[timtofly]

Link to article.

No wonder they cannot fight the war on drugs. They either do not know their history or geography. But hey, it is fun to ride around on humvees and chase them. They could be doing worse things with their time. I lived not far from there for four years, many a moon ago. Times have changed though.

Spoiler :

PS why would they (US) release the fact that the person carrying drugs was allowed to maintian his small business adventure? Why else would they (humvee riders) have not noticed the bridge closed sign?