Stupid Human of the Day

[Abbie Normal]

OXFORD, Fla. (July 1) – A pet Burmese python measuring more than 8 feet long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shaiunna Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.
Charles Jason Darnell, the snake's owner and the boyfriend of Shaiunna's mother, discovered the snake missing from its terrarium and went to the girl's room, where he found it on the girl and bite marks on her head, Caruthers said. Darnell, 32, stabbed the snake until he was able to pry the child away.

"The baby's dead!" a sobbing caller from the house screamed to a 911 dispatcher in a recording. "Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby."
Authorities did not identify the caller and removed the person's name from the recording.
"She got out of the cage last night and got into the baby's crib and strangled her to death," the caller said.
Authorities removed the snake from the home Wednesday afternoon after obtaining a search warrant. Once outside the small, tan home, bordered by cow pastures, the snake was placed in a bag then inside a dog crate. The snake was still alive.
Darnell did not have a permit for the snake, which would be a second-degree misdemeanor, said Joy Hill, a spokeswoman with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He has not been charged, but Caruthers said investigators were looking into whether there was child neglect or if any other laws were broken.
Hill said the snake will be placed with someone who has a permit, pending an investigation into the girl's death.

This story makes me sick. When are people going to grow up and get rid of their dangerous animals when they have kids? He should be charged with a felony. If I were him I would kill myself. I would like some jailhouse justice here.

[Abbie Normal]

ELGIN, Illinois - Police in suburban Chicago say a taxi driver who didn't have Mace handy when he was attacked by a knife-wielding passenger instead disarmed the man with a can of aerosol deodorant.

Elgin Deputy Police Chief Jeff Swoboda says the 51-year-old cabbie picked up the male passenger early Thursday outside a casino. Swoboda said the driver grew suspicious when the man offered several destinations, so he surreptitiously placed the small can of deodorant between his legs.

Shortly afterward, the passenger put a knife to the driver's neck and demanded money. The cabbie sprayed the deodorant in the man's eyes, causing him to drop the knife.

A cabbie carrying deodorant, hmmmmm.

[countchocula]

Snakes can be great pets. It sounds like the guy didn't do his job as a parent. Shouldn't the baby's door be closed just in case the snake gets out? Owning a python doesn't have to be dangerous.

[Natty]

Yeah its a great shame that some morons think they must own a dangerous animal for the sake of being cool, and that animal then goes onto kill a child. Tragic.

There's been a number of cases over here involving dangerous dogs, but when I heard about this snake thing I was pretty shocked.

[john_rambo]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/02/crimesider/entry5129869.shtml nominee!

[Out and About]

This story made me laugh.

Not because it's a funny story - quite sad, actually. If this story had broken a week ago, I would have been expressing more sympathy.

I laugh because the day before this story came out, a girl I work with bought an enormous burmese python. Not quite eight feet, but maybe five.

Talk about irony. At least she doesn't have any kids.

[jackson13]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/02/crimesider/entry5129869.shtml nominee!

Oh, God, that is hilarious. And I love that they have video where they show it, even if it is blurred.

My only beef with that entire story is the one whiney douchebag parent at the end demanding the school pay for counseling for his precious little crotchfruit. 5th graders are 10-11 years old. If your kid is psychologically damaged at ages 10-11 by seeing a nude woman pleasuring herself, then your kid has major problems, and you have failed as a parent for not being able to explain to them properly what they've seen. Stop demanding others pay for helping your kids and start helping yourself.

[Abbie Normal]

This story made me laugh.

Not because it's a funny story - quite sad, actually. If this story had broken a week ago, I would have been expressing more sympathy.

I laugh because the day before this story came out, a girl I work with bought an enormous burmese python. Not quite eight feet, but maybe five.

Talk about irony. At least she doesn't have any kids.

I always think of sex when women buy snakes.


Snakes can be great pets. It sounds like the guy didn't do his job as a parent. Shouldn't the baby's door be closed just in case the snake gets out? Owning a python doesn't have to be dangerous.

Guns are great protection, but if you don't secure them......................

[the clever guy]

Hey! I grew up in Elgin, IL! That was my pointless post for the day.


As far as the snake thing goes...you can't be that fucking stupid to not shut your kids door at night, terrarium locked or not. A cat can be dangerous and even a dog....but seriously, shut your fucking kids door at night if you have animals roaming the house or "locked up" somewhere. I have no sympathy for these idiots.

[God of War]

The world is full of fuckheads. We have some right next door to us. They encourage their kids (3 of them), very young too, I might add, to play ball in the middle of the street. How's that for common sense.

[Abbie Normal]

A Florida man was arrested for calling 911 requesting that he be taken to meet rapper Lil Wayne. Micheal Kruse was charged with making a false emergency call, which is a misdemeanor.

According to the St. John's Country Sheriff's office report, the 20-year-old dialed the emergency service and requested a police escort him to meet the rapper. Confused by the call, the operator asked "What is a little Wayne sir?" Kruse explained that Wayne was a rapper, mistakenly calling him Shawn Carter, which is Jay-Z's legal name. The operator continued to questions Kruse, "You want a police escort to take you to Miami?"



Kruse took his bizarre request to another level, stating that he was willing to be taken to Wayne by other means of transportation. "Or, do you have a helicopter?" The operator responded, "We don't just send helicopters up for rappers." Kruse then informed the operator that he was driving to Miami and wanted to know the fastest route.

The next day Kruse was questioned by police officers, and admitted to making the call. He also told the 911 operator that he was under the influence of an unidentified substance. He refused medical attention and was taken into custody.

I am going to call 911 when I want to meet famous people too, because they don't have much to do.

[jolanar]

The world is full of fuckheads. We have some right next door to us. They encourage their kids (3 of them), very young too, I might add, to play ball in the middle of the street. How's that for common sense.

The most frustrating thing is these are the kind of people that think the rules do not apply to them. They are the first ones to start up frivolous lawsuits when they are the ones at fault to begin with.

[Abbie Normal]

The world is full of fuckheads. We have some right next door to us. They encourage their kids (3 of them), very young too, I might add, to play ball in the middle of the street. How's that for common sense.

"fuckheads" like to learn the hard way. It is too bad innocent people have to get hurt for them to learn.

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

The snake story at the top of the page is going to give me nightmares for months, no kidding. I'm deathly terrified of snakes. I can't even look at them on tv without being deprived of sleep for days. That's just horrible. :(

[Abbie Normal]

The snake story at the top of the page is going to give me nightmares for months, no kidding. I'm deathly terrified of snakes. I can't even look at them on tv without being deprived of sleep for days. That's just horrible. :(

So I guess you never saw Snakes on the Plane?

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[Abbie Normal]

CAMBRIDGE, Minn. — A 21-year-old woman faces felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her. The woman faces five felony counts including harassment. A criminal complaint said she told police she was "bored" and "wanted to have some fun."

The woman and a 20-year-old friend, also facing charges, allegedly called the older woman on Feb. 5 and said "I'm gonna kill you," "You're going to die" and "I'm watching you."

Police officers answered some calls for the grandmother and heard a female caller make threats.

The criminal complaint said the suspect told investigators she wanted to scare her grandmother but didn't want her dead. She said she knew it was wrong but not illegal

In her defense, she does live in Minnesota and there really is nothing to do in the summer. I have to lay some blame on grandma too. After the 3rd or 4th call, I would be calling someone (the phone company, *69)

[Abbie Normal]

Rachel Weisz Wants Botox Banned for Actors Like 'Steroids Are for Sportsmen'



Rachel Weisz thinks Nicole Kidman is to acting what Barry Bonds is to baseball.

At least that's what the "Mummy" star tells the August issue of the UK edition of Harper's Bazaar.

"It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen," Weisz says of Botox. "Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?"


The London-born Oscar winner (you can tell she's from there because she uses the word "sportsmen") also says she's much more comfortable back in jolly old England than she is in appearance-obsessed America.

"I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American “blow-dry and immaculate grooming” thing," she says.

But she is comfortable with traditional female roles. Very traditional.

Married to director Darren Aronofsky, she says "I am cave-woman to his man – man."

You can read the full interview in Harper's Bazaar UK - if you are in England!


I like her acting, but this is just such a stupid thing to worry about. Is she losing roles, because she is getting older naturally while others are not? Or is it more because she is not a draw at all, while others are? I estimate the latter.

[Abbie Normal]

Look, we love our pets, but a woman in Ghana has married her dog. We repeat, her dog.

Uh, what? Yeah, this actually happened. Says the blushing bride (ew) Emily Mabou, 29: "For so long I've been praying for a life with a partner who has all the qualities of my dad. My dad was kind, faithful and loyal to my mum, and he never let her down."

Don't see how this translates into marrying your dog? Read on! Mabou claims that her relationships have all been with "skirt-chasers and cheaters." The priest who performed the ceremony told people not to mock the wedding, but instead "rejoice with her, as she has found happiness at last." Don't mock? Not likely, lady. (Though we get why some folks decide to marry their cats.)

When asked about her plans for babies, Maribou responded, "We'll adopt." Fantastic! Next story: Woman and Golden Retriever Adopt Twins. Gross. Weird. Disturbing. Any more adjectives we forgot?

My advice to her would be if you don't want to marry a man, try a woman.

[Abbie Normal]

CAMDEN, N.J. (July 8) – Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.
The Camden County prosecutor's office identified the victim as 29-year-old Vincent Smith II of Camden. He was a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services Inc. plant.
The accident happened Wednesday morning as Smith was loading chocolate into a vat where it's melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy.
Prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull Smith out of the 8-foot-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitator that mixes the chocolate.
Cocoa Services hires a second company — Lyons and Sons — to do the mixing

This is a stupid way to die.

[Abbie Normal]

PAMPLONA, Spain - A charging bull gored a man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others were injured in a particularly dangerous and chaotic chapter of the running of the bulls.

The San Fermin festival Web site said the unidentified man was gored in the neck and lung during a run in which a rogue bull separated from the pack, which is among the worst things that can happen at Spain's most popular fiesta.

Photographs showed the young man lying on a stretcher moments after the goring, his face and neck stained with blood and his eyes only half-open. An emergency medical worker is leaning over him, applying what appears to be gauze to his neck wound.
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Three other people were also gored, and six suffered bumps, bruises and other lesser injuries, said Fernando Boneta, director of Virgen del Camino Hospital.

The last fatal goring at the running of the bulls claimed the life of 22-year-old American Matthew Tassio in 1995. In 2003, a 63-year-old Spanish man, Fermin Etxeberri, was trampled in the head by a bull and died after spending months in a coma.

Friday's death raises to 15 the toll since record-keeping began in 1924.

This run, the fourth of eight held at San Fermin, was by far the most perilous of this year's festival. The last three runs were comparatively placid affairs, with no serious injuries.

Another stupid was to die, but not as bad as falling in molten chocolate.

[Abbie Normal]

VINELAND -- It was a very public episode of "Sex in the City" for two Vineland residents after a prostitute and her customer were caught in the act over the weekend, police allege.
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Lois Brown, 44, and Charles Williams, 31, both of East Chestnut Avenue, were charged with engaging in prostitution.

An officer spotted Brown waving and blowing kisses to cars in the 700 block of East Elmer Street at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, according to a police report.

The officer then saw Brown and Williams walk behind an office building at 717 E. Elmer Street, police said.

When the officer followed them, he saw Brown and Williams engaging in sexual intercourse, according to the police report.

Williams' pants were down around his ankles, police said. But when he spotted the officer, he pulled them up and ran away, police said. He was captured by police after a short chase.

Brown told the officer she had asked Williams for a cigarette and later asked if there was anything else he wanted. She told police Williams paid her $20.

Williams also was charged with resisting arrest. Brown was charged with aggravated assault on police for allegedly spitting on the officer when she was arrested and was held on an outstanding Vineland warrant. She was transported to Cumberland County Jail and held on $3,500 bail.

$20 bucks???? I bet she was a real cutie.

[Abbie Normal]

Jerri Gray was doing all she could to help her son lose weight, her attorney says. But something had gone terribly wrong for the boy to hit the 555-pound mark by age 14.
Authorities in South Carolina say that what went wrong was Gray's care and feeding of her son, Alexander Draper. Gray, 49, of Travelers Rest, S.C., was arrested in June and charged with criminal neglect. Alexander is now in foster care.

The case has attracted national attention. With childhood obesity on the rise across the USA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gray's attorney says it could open the door to more criminal action against parents whose children have become dangerously overweight.

"If she's found guilty on those criminal charges, you have set a precedent that opens Pandora's box," Grant Varner says. "Where do you go next?"

State courts in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, New Mexico, Indiana and California have grappled with the question in recent years, according to a 2008 report published by the Child Welfare League of America.

In all of those cases, except the one in California, courts expanded their state's legal definition of medical neglect to include morbid obesity and ruled that the children were victims of neglect, the report says. Criminal charges were filed only in the California and Indiana cases, but the parents weren't sentenced to jail time in either.

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Put down those Twinkies and step away from your son.

[Abbie Normal]

LONDON - A British teenager who phoned the White House and claimed as part of a "drunken prank" that there was a bomb in the center of New York, escaped jail on Monday.

Thomas Hutchinson, 19, from Sheffield, northern England, made a "giggling" call to the White House switchboard after drinking with friends at a barbecue last May, and claimed there was a bomb in Madison Square Garden.

The operator pressed a malicious call trace button and it was found to have been made in Britain.

Prosecutor Stephen Acaster said there was great concern when the call was first received but it was soon realized it was a hoax and Madison Square Garden was not evacuated.

Hutchinson was tracked down following an investigation involving the Secret Service, the FBI, the New York City Police Department and British counter-terrorism police.

He initially denied the charge when he was interviewed by police but later pleaded guilty, the Press Association reported.

‘Very serious consequences’
At Sheffield Magistrates Court on Monday, he was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work.

"One minute's thoughtlessness by you, one moment of madness, one drunken prank, all had very serious consequences," Judge Tony Browne said.

"The reaction to a bomb hoax involving central New York is understandably taken initially very seriously."

Hutchinson's lawyer Geoff Flemming said it was unlikely Hutchinson would be a "welcome visitor" to the United States in the future.

"What happened is evidently a young man of good character, who was at the time 17, in the company of his friends, has far too much to drink and does something which is breathtakingly silly," he said.

Even drunk, I can't possible see how doing this could be funny.

[Abbie Normal]

2-Year-Old Shot at Wedding Reception

INDIANAPOLIS (July 26) - Police say a 2-year-old girl was shot and critically injured during a wedding reception at an Indianapolis park. Two women also were wounded by gunfire.
A Lawrence Police Department dispatcher who declined to give her name says the girl underwent surgery Sunday morning and is in critical condition at Methodist Hospital. Lawrence is a community within Indianapolis.
Police have not identified the child, who was struck in the head by a bullet Saturday night when a dispute at the wedding reception at Lawrence Community Park led to gunfire.
The two women were shot in their legs.
Lawrence Police Chief Paul Whitehead tells The Indianapolis Star three people have been arrested. Whitehead did not return a message Sunday from The Associated Press.

Because I always bring my gun to weddings.

[Abbie Normal]

A grieving mother in Britain was fined $173 for spending too long at her son's coffin before it was taken away for cremation.

Terrie Rouse, 32, said her grief turned to shock when officials told her she had taken too long to say goodbye, The Daily Mail reported.

"The vicar had asked if I would like to spend a bit more time saying goodbye," she said. "I sat by the coffin for 10 minutes, telling my son how much we loved him and begging him not to be scared."

Officials at the crematorium, run by a local English council, impose an extra charge if any funeral runs over its 30-minute slot.

However, the couple's funeral directors said there was plenty of time for the next funeral which was not due to take place for another 50 minutes.

Rouse’s partner, Lee Smythe, said the fee was "sick and disgusting.""Terrie was weeping hysterically," he said. "She just wanted a few extra minutes to say goodbye to our much-loved little boy."

The couple’s son, Zane, died at five weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on April 9.

The family waited three months before they could have a funeral to allow for tests to be carried out.

"It was distressing enough having to wait for the funeral because we were left in limbo, but this has just made it all worse," Smythe said.


There is actually a law on the books in Britain that say a funeral can't take more than 30 minutes? Sounds like an outdated law from the Black Plague or WW1 or 2 days.

[Abbie Normal]

Thief Caught Napping in Car Wash at Wheel of Stolen Car

Tuesday, August 04, 2009


ADELAIDE, Australia — Police say they have arrested a suspected car thief whom they caught napping at the wheel of a stolen car.

South Australia Police say the 30-year-old man drove the Audi convertible into an automatic car wash early Monday and apparently fell asleep. A service station attendant called the police at 3 a.m. when he noticed the car hadn't moved for an hour.

The police said in a statement that the car has two different license plates and that police discovered it had been reported stolen in July. They woke the man and arrested him on charges of illegal use and theft of the car.

He has been released on bail and will face court in September.


Too much Fosters?

[Abbie Normal]

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. — Investigators were trying to piece together the motive of a gunman who walked into an exercise class in suburban Pittsburgh and fired dozens of shots, killing three women and himself and injuring nine other women, authorities said.

Two women and the man believed to be the shooter died at the scene Tuesday night and another woman died on the way to a hospital, Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said at a news conference in the parking lot of the LA Fitness center in Collier Township early Wednesday.

Moffatt said police were not sure who the target of the shooting was but that the gunman went into the health club planning to shoot several people — firing "multiple" weapons "indiscriminately," Moffatt said — and did not say anything before unleashing a burst of bullets.

"He walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going," Moffatt said.

The violence rocked Collier, a bedroom community of about 5,300 residents near Interstate 79, some eight miles southwest of downtown Pittsburgh.

Moffatt said the gunman was a member of the health club and had identification but that police needed to check fingerprints and speak to his family to confirm his identity. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner said three of the four victims had been positively identified early Wednesday, but their names would likely not be released before midmorning.

Moffatt said police recovered at least two guns from the scene and that a note was found in the shooter's duffel bag, but he would not say whether the shooter had written it.

"I don't think anyone could have stopped him," Moffatt said.

Five victims arrived in critical condition at UPMC Mercy Hospital, but three were upgraded to serious condition by early Wednesday. Two women remained in fair condition at Allegheny General Hospital, hospital officials said. Two female victims were in stable condition at St. Clair Hospital, spokesman Rich Sieber said Tuesday, but their conditions were not immediately available Wednesday.

By early Wednesday, Moffatt said two victims remained critical, two others were in surgery and two had reportedly been treated and released, with the others still hospitalized. Moffatt said police know the names of the wounded women, but aren't releasing them immediately, and he couldn't specify which victims were in which hospital.

Joann Gazzam, who was taking part in the weekly "Latin impact" dance aerobics class, saw the gunman walk to the back of the room near some weights, set down a bag and fumble with it for a few minutes before coming up with what appeared to be two guns and opening fire, according to her sister, Debi Wozniak, of suburban Dormont.

Gazzam told Wozniak that the instructor was among those who appeared to have been shot, and that the gunman had killed himself.

"She told me, 'Debi, I seen everything. Oh, my God, I seen everything. I seen him pull out the guns,"' said Wozniak, who usually attends the class but was running late Tuesday and didn't make it.

The gunman walked in the room, turned off the lights and, at first nobody knew what was happening, said Stacey Falk, 26, of Bridgeville, who was in the class.

"All of us girls were just ducking behind each other and it was just, you know, I was behind a girl, one of the girls in front to get hit, and when he was in the opposite corner shooting, I booked it," she told WPXI-TV.

Loretta Moss, 44, of McDonald, said she was exercising on a treadmill when she heard a popping noise.

"I didn't pay any attention, and the next minute, people were screaming," said Moss, who had come to the gym Tuesday night for the first time in a couple of weeks. She said she then heard more pops.

"There was like a whole spray of them. I'd say about 15 altogether, and then people started screaming and yelling and started running out the building," she said.

"We laid down, and then after the last set of ... gunshots, we got up, and someone said run."

Moss said she then saw two young women bleeding, one shot in the leg and one in the shoulder. She said she checked on the pulse of the lady shot in the leg.

"She was screaming, 'It's burning, just please call the ambulance,"' Moss said.

Richard Walker of Tulsa, Okla., who is in the area working on oil rigs, was playing basketball near the exercise room when he heard shots.

"The next thing I know, everybody's going, 'Run, run,"' he said. He said heard about 12 shots before he started moving and another eight or nine as he was leaving the building. He led a woman who had been shot in the thigh outside the building about 50 yards.

"She just kept saying, 'He's gonna kill me."' Walker said she didn't elaborate.

The fitness center, which opened last year, is in a strip mall called the Great Southern Shopping Center, where a few businesses were destroyed in a 2006 fire. The fitness center said in a statement: "Each of us in the LA Fitness family are shocked and saddened by the senseless acts of violence that took place."

I will be interested to learn more about this. I always find it odd that a person with a few guns and lots of ammo go shooting up in a place where people are totally unaware and only kill a few. Are the people who do this just really bad a shooting. Take that crazy guy in the VA college. He entered classrooms full of students. I am surprised the death toll was not way, way higher.

[Abbie Normal]

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Newlywed tries to hire a hitman to kill hubby of 6 months.


Bitch! She cute. Crazy, but cute. Her and the the Long Island Lolita should get to know each other.




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Burger King banns baby for bare feet.

The king should be ashamed.



Megyn Kelly is hot!

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[Tagia_Romero]

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"Octomum says 'It was a mistake!'"

Single mother Nadya Suleman shocked the world earlier this year by giving birth to eight babies after deliberately having multiple embryos implanted — despite not having a job, a partner or even a home of her own.
After initially brushing off criticism of her choice to do so, now the mother of 14 has confessed that it was "a mistake".

In a stunning Australian exclusive interview, Nadya talks in detail about her feelings of guilt over bringing kids into the world without a father figure, her despair at not feeling able to give enough time to each of her children, and her loneliness in the face of her realisation that she might now never find a partner.

Nadya says she is tortured by fears that she isn’t providing enough individual attention to each of her 14 kids: Elijah, 8; Amerah, 6; Joshua, 5; Aidan, 4; twins Calyssa and Caleb, 2; and octuplets Josiah, Makai, Jeremiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Noah, Maliyah and Isaiah.

She also reveals her mind-boggling daily routine, and what it takes to keep her enormous brood of children fed, clean and happy.

Feeling forced by money worries to put her kids in a reality TV show, she insists they will not be exploited.


This is more or less from a women's magazine, so take it as you will, but she is basically saying what we've all known and it's pretty foolish she did all of that without any regard on how to bring up the children nor does she have the appropriate funds.

[Abbie Normal]

Remember the saying "It's like taking candy from a baby?" Well, a Delaware man decided to do one better -- stealing a purse from a toddler.

A three-year old girl was standing in line with her aunt at the 7th Street Deli in Wilmington, Del. Monday morning when a man ran up to the little girl and snatched her purse, police said.

Police nabbed the suspect three blocks away, when he came out of a barber shop bathroom.
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Walter Brown, 23, was charged with robbery and taken to prison when he couldn't post bail.

The little girl's purse, and the few dollars and change inside, were never recovered

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This man needs to get beat down within an inch of his life.

[Abbie Normal]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, and there are many more pot farms hidden in remote areas around the nation.

"No pun intended, it's a growing problem," U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Russ Arthur said.

Arthur said an unspecified "cooking device" left at an encampment by suspected drug traffickers sparked the blaze on Aug. 8 that has scorched more than 137 square miles of brush and timber and briefly threatened two dozen ranches and homes.
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About 30,000 marijuana plants and an AK-47 assault rifle were found near the origin of the blaze in a remote canyon in Los Padres National Forest, authorities said at a news conference. Arthur said the plants' quality is similar to marijuana linked to Mexican drug cartels, though he acknowledged the investigation into the link was ongoing.

Crews make progress
Fire crews were making progress against the fire on Tuesday, and it was 75 percent contained.

Farther north, a blaze in the Santa Cruz Mountains was 80 percent surrounded. All but about 20 of some 2,200 evacuees had been allowed back home by Sunday. The fire has burned more than 7,100 acres.

Some evacuation orders also have been lifted in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where a wildfire has charred more than 3,500 acres. The fire, which destroyed two homes when it first broke out Friday, is now 30 percent contained.

The Santa Barbara County wildfire was the first in county history to have been caused by drug traffickers but such operations typically cause three to four smaller blazes in California each year, Arthur said.

Investigators said it's believed the number of clandestine marijuana farms in the United States is rising as international drug cartels turn to public lands.

"We have evidence that most of these types of marijuana grows are the work of drug organizations out of Mexico," Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bob Brown said. "The profits that are earned through the sales of the marijuana grows are pumped back to the drug cartels and they use the money to fuel the violence south of the border."

Nice. I think it was Seth Rogen, Apatow and his gang.

[zombievictim]

I love how Abbie is pretty much the only one posting in this thread.

[Abbie Normal]

It is like having my own talk show. It has a lot of hits, so people are looking. I have another thread where it is just me and this shoe guy. I figure if I keep going it will catch on. Like herpes.

[Abbie Normal]

BERLIN -- South Africa's track and field federation has been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman.

Caster Semenya, 18, won the 800 meters at the world championships with a stunningly dominating run.

Semenya took the lead halfway through the race Wednesday and won in a world-leading 1 minute, 55.45 seconds, beating defending champion Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya by a massive 2.45 seconds. Jennifer Meadows of Britain took bronze.

The world track and field federation requested the gender test about three weeks ago, after Semenya burst onto the scene by improving her personal bests in the 800 and 1,500 by huge margins.

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Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty ImagesSouth Africa's Caster Semenya caught the IAAF's attention by greatly improving her personal bests in the 800 and 1,500.

IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the "extremely complex, difficult" test has been started but that the results were not expected for weeks.

Semenya qualified for Wednesday's final with a top time of 1 minute, 58.64 seconds. She posted the world's best time this year of 1:56.72 three weeks ago at the African junior championships in Bambous, Mauritius.

Davies stressed that "it's a medical issue, not an issue of cheating."

The verification requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender.

"So we're talking about reports that are very long, very time consuming," Davies said.

South Africa team manager Phiwe Mlangeni-Tsholetsane would not confirm that Semenya was having a gender test, but said "there was no cheating on our part."

"We entered Caster as a woman and we want to keep it that way," Mlangeni-Tsholetsane said. "Our conscience is clear in terms of Caster. We have no reservations at all about that."

It was not clear what would happen if Semenya were to medal in Wednesday's final and the test results determined she does not meet the requirements to compete.

"I can't say that if 'X' happens in the future that we will, for example, retroactively strip results. It's legally very complex," Davies said.

"If there's a problem and it turns out that there's been a fraud ... that someone has changed sex, then obviously it would be much easier to strip results," Davies added. "However, if it's a natural thing and the athlete has always thought she's a woman or been a woman, it's not exactly cheating."

He said a decision in such instances is "done on a case by case basis."

"It's something that would have to be considered by the legal experts at that time," Davies said.

I posted this here, because this all is just too fishy. No pun intended. The Caster is stupid for posing as a woman or Davies is stupid just because I say so. Wouldn't the visual test be the easiest to perform? I make light, because I am sure there are a whole host of things going on, but wouldn't it be easier to just peek up her skirt first?

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[DaveyJoeG]

How does one become an expert on gender?

[Abbie Normal]

SEWICKLEY, Pa. — An 18-year-old Pittsburgh-area man has been jailed on indecent assault charges for allegedly letting two girls, 11 and 14, lick chocolate off his chest during a game of "truth or dare."

Online court records don't list an attorney for Justin Sayre, of McKees Rocks, who remained in the Allegheny County Jail Thursday, a day after his arrest.

Ohio Township police say the incident happened when Sayre was at a friend's house with a group of young people, some older and some younger than him.

Police also charged Sayre with corruption of minors. They contend he also kissed the girls and lay on top of them while they were sleeping.

He faces a preliminary hearing on Aug. 27 and, so far, has been unable to post $10,000 bond.

What the hell is this guy think? 11 and 14? Time to go Psycho Dad on him.

[Abbie Normal]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the "Great California Garage Sale" will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state's depleted finances.

On offer as the state clears out clutter are nearly 600 state-owned vehicles and thousands of pieces of office furniture, computers, electronics, jewelry, pianos, even a surf board, a food saver and an Xbox 360 gaming system.

State officials estimate the giant two-day yard sale being held at a state warehouse will bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition to clearing out office products, the state is also selling unclaimed property from state parks and items confiscated by law enforcement, said California Department of General Services spokesman Eric Lamoureux.

California sure could use the cash: the state was forced to hand out IOUs earlier this year, government workers are on the brink of revolt over a 14 percent pay cut and the state remains in an interminable state of financial morass.

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently spoofed the upcoming garage sell, saying the governor was so desperate he was selling everything from a set of burned dumbbells for $10 to a pair of first lady Maria Shriver's leg warmers for $8.

"We are out of money here in California," Kimmel said. "I don't know how much this is going to raise for the state but you can see the governor is going all out with this."

Bargain hunters lined up as early as 5 a.m. Friday, hoping for the best selection when the state opened its Costco-like warehouse at 8 a.m. A "Terminator" mannequin greeted shoppers as they walked in. Inside, hundreds of people walked up and down aisles, shopping for computers, cameras and more.


Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the stupid person of the day. What he hopes to achieve is the equivalent to a drop in the bucket. CA is billions of the dollars over budget. It is time for real answers.

[Abbie Normal]

Gizmodo has an item about a new doll. Does it burp? Does it breastfeed? Nope. It dances. On a pole.

If anyone was wondering if the world was doomed, here is your confirmation.

The scoop on this new plaything came from Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz, and features a somewhat grainy photo of a doll in a shiny dress hanging on a pole. A giant heart emblazoned with the word "Pole Dance" is at the top. The box promises "Style." "Interesting." "Music." "Flash." "Up and Down." "Go Round and Round." It might've said "Ewww," "Gross," "Criminal"," but in all likelihood the upstanding manufacturers ran out of room.

No mention is made of inserting money anywhere.

In an email message, Diaz told us today: "As far as I can tell, it's a real product. It didn't seem PhotoShopped to me. It feels more like the typical Chinese-made product you can only find in low cost stores."

We were unable to confirm the actual existence of this product. Google searches turn up nothing more than references to the Gizmodo item. So perhaps there is some hope for the planet.

Then again, maybe not.

In case you haven't noticed, pole-dancing has become mainstream. Miley Cyrus' recent performance on the Teen Choice Awards on August 10th generated a lot of controversy.

http://gizmodo.com/5348675/pole-dancer-doll-doesnt-really-set-the-perfect-role-model

Whoever thought of this needs to re think their values in life.

[A.J. Hakari]

I'd like to dedicate this past Sunday's Stupid Human of the Day to the customer responsible for this exchange at the video store I work at:

Customer [talking to her friend]: "I think it's in the H's somewhere..."

Me: "Which movie are you looking for?"

Customer: "Quarantine."

*twitch*

[Highspeed]

I'd like to dedicate this past Sunday's Stupid Human of the Day to the customer responsible for this exchange at the video store I work at:

Customer [talking to her friend]: "I think it's in the H's somewhere..."

Me: "Which movie are you looking for?"

Customer: "Quarantine."

*twitch*

You did let her know that you fear for her right?