Five shot on Gun Appreciation Day (no-one smoked)
HOW did you mark Gun Appreciation Day? Dod you shoot a loved on? Did you aim your Hello Kitty bubbles gun at another appreciator?
At the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, three people were hurt when 36-year-old Gary Wilsontook a 12-gauge shotgun from its box saw it go off. One victim, a deputy sheriff, was hit in the hand. A 54-year-old man in Indianapolis accidentally shot himself while leaving a gun show. A gun trader in Medina, Ohio shot his pal in the act of checking out his new semi-automatic handgun.
Meanwhile…in the land of the free: Smoke Like You’ve Just Been Shot:
Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Local News: Boy gets finger stuck in bucket
LOCAL news story of the Week: Shropshire boy gets finger caught in bucket:
Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Toddler suspended from school for threatening classmate with Hello Kitty gun
IN the USA, guns are big news:
A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten. Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days for issuing a ‘terroristic threat.’
Allu Kitty!
Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Amenas massacre: Like jihadis, Algerian forces shoot to kill
IN Algeria, all the 32 terrorists are dead. Also dead are 23 hostages, of which six were British. One Briton was murdered in cold blood. Well, so says the Algerian military, which affects the language of cool, calm precision but just wanted all the terrorists dead. Algeria’s Interior Ministry said in a statement:
“To avoid a bloody turn of events in response to the extreme danger of the situation, the army’s special forces launched an intervention with efficiency and professionalism to neutralise the terrorist groups that were first trying to flee with the hostages and then blow up the gas facilities.”
The facts are sketchy.
Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
First reactions to being diagnosed with cancer
WHEN he was diagnosed with cancer, my father fainted with his eyes were wide open. He was a dreamer who pretended to be a realist. The news hit him like a bullet. Only once did he say to me, “I don’t want to die.” He never once lost his love of life nor his humour. The MacMillan nurse, a confidant and a comfort to him, laughed. The urge to protect his children from his pain and fear showed true courage and love. But that first diagnosis hurt like hell. I knew it must have. I felt it too. Michael Popp recalls the moments after being told he had leukemia:
He looked up at me without any expression and simply stated, without emotion, “You have leukemia.” I heard each word as simply as it was stated and nodded in agreement. Yes, my body appeared healthy, but it was also dying on the inside. He took a minute or two to explain to me what type of cancer I had, what cancer was and that I needed to begin treatment yesterday. This is all explained to you like an accountant would tell you how much you owe on taxes for the previous year. It’s emotionless. You are being told that you have a potentially fatal illness as if you were being asked if you wanted a receipt…
Posted: 19th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Marijuana is free for North Korea military (British made do with LSD)
TO North Korea, where the marijuana runs wild and free:
NK NEWS receives regular reports from visitors returning from North Korea, who tell us of marijuana plants growing freely along the roadsides, from the northern port town of Chongjin, right down to the streets of Pyongyang, where it is smoked freely and its sweet scent often catches your nostrils unannounced. Our sources are people we know who work inside North Korea and make regular trips in and out of the country.
There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country—many residents know the drug exists and have smoked it. In North Korea, the drug goes by the name of ip tambae, or “leaf tobacco.” It is reported to be especially popular amongst young soldiers in the North Korean military.
Posted: 19th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
London’s super hero Muslim Patrol lose Preston jhiadi Hashim X Shakur
TO Waltham Forest, London, where the heroic two-man Muslim Patrol are on manoeuvres. The Australian Telegraphcalls MoMan and Gobbin a “gang of hooded men. Londoners are “being terrorised”. The Mail calls them a group.
Posted: 19th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BREAKING and entering shops, so you can steal things, is hardly the most noble of pursuits, but god bless criminals who do things the old-fashioned way by donning a disguise.
Just like the man who donned a bucket on his head while going on the rob in Louisiana!
Posted: 19th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man rants as Subway ‘footlong’ is an inch short
WE’VE all been needlessly pernickerty about things in our time, but one Subway customer really has gone the extra mile.
This chap, called Matt Corby, found himself apoplectic with rage when he visited a Subway for a bite to eat.
[insert 'it's his own stupid fault for going to a Subway comment' here]
The source of his ire was that he strongly suspected that his sandwich was not a foot long, as advertised. So, instead of getting on with his life and scarfing down the slightly moist article, he got his tape measure out.
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
It’s warmer than 1963 – Britain’s harshest winter in great photos and an epic video
IT’S Cold. But it’s not as cold as it was in 1963. Back then, Siberian winds froze the sea and London’s waterways. The Royal Navy used an icebreaker to keep Chatham dockyard open. Children at schools used whatever was to hand to smash the ice in toilets. In Wales, water was rationed. The fierce winds and driven snow meant that the 3rd round of the FA Cup took 66 days to complete.
It was this cold:
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Plymouth man urinated in public flowers beds while making noise like an elephant
TO Plymouth Magistrates’ Court, where Robert Moore, is accused ot weeing over flower beds at St Budeaux Square in broad daylight while trumpeting like an elephant. Mr Moore sprayed his urine back and forth.
Jenny Cater, for the Crown Prosecution Service, explains:
”He was spraying urine to and fro into the flower beds while making noises like an elephant.”
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Irish grandpa steals from dead HMV when it refuses his gift voucher
TALK about kicking someone while they’re down! An old man shoplifted from HMV because the €40 gift voucher he had bought was not accepted by the shop on Dublin’s Henry Street. As HMV are in administration and all the staff are fearful of their jobs, and weighing up various sit-in protests over unpaid wages, things are remarkably bleak over there.
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scores of people missing in Cape Cod
NEWS just in: Karen Jeffrey (pictured left) “no longer works for the Cape Cod Times“:
In an audit of her work, Times editors have been unable to find 69 people in 34 stories since 1998, when we began archiving stories electronically.
Posted: 18th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
12 obscure David Bowie gems today’s artists would kill for
SO. David Bowie’s somewhat nondescript new single hit number one, and the newspapers are hailing his new album as a masterpiece, as they have done with every album he has produced since his last commercially successful ‘LP’ (as then was) 33 years ago.
Those themselves under the age of 33 might be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about, but the fact is that Bowie remains the sole pop artist worthy of standing alongside the giants of the 1960s. Between 1969 and 1977 he produced a series of albums to rank, in their range and quality, with those of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Who and the rest. Some would go further and argue that his mid-sixties, late seventies and early eighties work deserves equal billing too.
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Folsom Prison in photos: Cash, Leary and a brutal life
FOLSOM State Prison, California, opened for business in 1880:
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The gun debate becomes all about Obama’s prohibition and his co-opted kids
BARACK Obama wants to reduce gun violence in the US. (We’ve yet to hear from a US politician who wants to increase it.) He said:
“Reducing gun violence is a complicated challenge. If there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, we have an obligation to try.”
A dissenting voice tweets:
“Obama speaks today on the anniversary of Prohibition going into effect. I bet Prohibition saved at least one child’s life.”
The NY Times sees the children:
Surrounded by children who wrote him letters seeking curbs on guns, Mr. Obama committed himself to a high-profile and politically volatile campaign behind proposals assembled by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that will test the administration’s strength heading into the next four years. The first big push of Mr. Obama’s second term, then, will come on an issue that was not even on his to-do list on Election Day when voters renewed his lease on the presidency.
What changed to push guns to the fore of Obama’s plans? The Sandy Hook massacre, say supporters. The deficit and economy, says the opposition:
“I will put everything I’ve got into this,” Mr. Obama said, “and so will Joe.”
The emotionally charged ceremony, attended by family members of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., reflected a decision by the White House to seize on public outrage to challenge the political power of the National Rifle Association and other forces that have successfully fought new gun laws for decades.
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: News | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Abergavenny dog owners worried by nail-laced sausages in street
WHO stuck nail into cooked sausages and left them on Llwynu Lane, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Local news says the sausages are intended to hurt dogs. But the sausages look more like dog turds. Watch where you step…
Posted: 17th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
FLASHBACK to 1969 and 1971, whern Yuk magazine was knocking them bandy. (Can anyone translate the front pages.)
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Teacher who is afraid of children, to sue
CHILDREN are terrifying things, with their snotty little faces, gurgling traps and little accusatory fists. It is little wonder we treat them with such contempt.
One person who is really frightened of children is an ex-teacher who is suing her former school district, saying that was discriminated against for her fear of children. You heard.
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Egalitarian NRA reaches out to pless well-off members who want to live like Obama
GUN control in the US is hot topic. The NRA look like loons. But this ad makes a good point. It’s much like what we spotted with Rupert Murdoch’s anti-gun stance:
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: News | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
DO guns make suicide easier?
“Jon Stewart makes a lot of good points, or at least points worth thinking about. In the end, though, he comes up well short of proposing meaningful reforms. In that failure, too, he’s capturing the anti-gun zeitgeist….
That 30,000 number stood out to me because it seemed very high. According to the FBI, in 2011, there was a total of 8,583 firearm homicides in the U.S. That may well be 8,583 gun murders too many, but it’s nowhere near 30,000 (the total number of murders by all methods came to 12,664). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) uses a different method and found about 11,000 gun-related murders in 2011 and the total number of homicides to be around 16,000 (see table 2). So How did Stewart get to 30,000? By adding the number of gun-related suicides to the number of homicides.
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Stacie Halas banned from teaching: you can’t escape your past online
STACIE Halas, 32, will not be teaching class in California. The middle school teacher with the porn actress past (photos NSFW) has been deemed “unfit” for purpose. In April, 2012, Halas was removed from her post as a science teacher at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard after students and teachers “discovered” her porno past.
She had not worked in porn whilst a teacher in the district.
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Helicopter crashes in Wandsworth Road, London: photos and news
A HELICOPTER has crashed in central London. Why? How?
Two people are dead. One of them is the pilot. Another person is critically ill.
The Mail gives the pilot a showbiz bio:
RotorMotion pilot Pete Barnes, 50, worked on films such as Die Another Day, Tomb Raider II and Saving Private Ryan
Rolling news quote of the day:
BBC News 24 anchor stating: “This is the last thing a helicopter pilot would want to happen.”
The weather
The helicopter hit the crane on the St George Wharf development in Vauxhall in thick fog shortly after 8am.
The machine
The aircraft was a AgustaWestland AW109, a lightweight, twin-engine helicopter with eight seats.
The expert
Chris Yates, an independent aviation expert, told Sky News:
“Helicopters are not supposed to come within 500 feet of any structure such as a high-rise building, so we don’t know what caused the pilot to get quite so close. We don’t know the circumstances he was operating in at the time – whether there was a problem with the helicopter itself, whether he misread his instructions or received false instructions from air traffic control.”
Guido Fawkes wonders if the lights atop Vauxhall tower was on. Tweets from last year suggesting that sometimes it was not.
The witnesses
Mark Louis Sidney told Sky News:
“I heard a loud bang, I looked up and saw bits of propeller and parts of the aircraft falling off it and then plummeting down. Then a plume of smoke went up. I called the emergency services. It happened in a matter of a seconds before it was on the ground. I thought ’Wait a minute, has this thing been shot out of the sky or what?’. I could see the top of the crane was shaking on the top of the building. It was very foggy so the helicopter probably couldn’t see it.”
Chris Matthison tells the BBC:
“There was some damage to the crane. It’s possible the crane is lying across Nine Elms road. The top of the nearest building is steeped in mist and difficult to see.”
Michael Krumstets tells the Guardian:
“The helicopter nearly killed me and my flatmate. We were right next to it, just feet away from where it exploded. We we were walking to work and saw the helicopter clip the top of the crane – there was a loud crack – and it came spinning out of control towards us. I just can’t believe what I saw, it was awful. When you see a helicopter hurtling out of the sky towards you, spinning, your legs turn to jelly, you have a sense of shock. My flatmate fell over, I had to run back to grab him. It missed us by just a few feet, it was just so lucky.”
Mike Moody (Times):
“We woke up to the sound of an explosion and then screems. (I) looked out of the window and saw a woman screaming, saw the smoke and we ran for it basically. I’m still in my pyjamas with my jeans over the top. The smoke was very very close to our flat; it was literally the building next door and so we went outside and we saw there was till what sounded like explosions – I assume it was the cars. There was a land rover, a black land rover that was on fire at about 5 to 10 metres from my door, just on the corner of Miles Street and Wandsworth road which were people trying to put out but other people were saying we’ve got to move because that will explode. Some of the construction workers from where the crane was told us just basically said everyone move now this is really, really dangerous. Go. We left. ”
“There was someone in the range rover that was on fire but he got out. It was only a small fire on the bonnet at the time. He was taken out of the car by the consturction workers, they pulled him out. It looked like Baghdad. Lots of people screaming, crying. No-one really sure what was going on. I rang my mum at 5 minutes past 8 and we left at 6 minutes past 8 because that’s when I rang her back to say we’d been told to move.“
Terrorism?
BBC journalist: “Did you think it was a terrorist attack…?”
Eye-witness: “No.”
Sarah-Beth Casey told Sky News:
“You’re always worried about things like 9/11 and things like that. I have three small children with me in the flat. It’s one of your fears that something like this can happen. When I heard the explosion – it was like a little earthquake … a gas explosion. I looked up to see debris falling off the tower.”
Ray Watts (Times):
“It looked like 9/11 with bits falling everywhere. There was about 20 of us outside the building and we all started running. Some went into the security hut but it was just a wooden shack so they soon got out. I just legged it across the road and when I looked back I saw the crane boon land on my truck. There was stuff coming down everywhere.”
The Government announcement
From: Government Whips Admin Unit (HOC)
Sent: 16 January 2013 08:47
Subject: Travel disruptionFollowing a helicopter crash in Vauxhall this morning colleagues should be aware there will be serious travel disruption in the area.
You may need to leave earlier in time for the deferred division.
Robert Goodwill
Government Pairing Whip
The Routes
Witnesses said the helicopter – which left Gatwick Airport, Sussex, at 7:36am and was heading to Elstree, Hertfordshire, to collect an executive – was using the route of the River Thames and hit a crane at the top of the tower near Vauxhall Bridge in Vauxhall, central London, at 8am.
Pilots flying helicopters over London are subject to air traffic control clearance. If they are flying over central London they must have twin-engined aircraft. Those flying one-engined aircraft must follow the route of the River Thames when operating in the capital.
HELICOPTER ROUTES IN THE LONDON CTR AND LONDON/CITY CTR
The photos
A section of the Crane lays in Nine Elms Lane, after crashing to the ground close to St George’s Wharf tower building, where a Helicopter crashed into this morning, in Vauxhall south London.
General View of Rotormotion at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey from where the helicopter piloted by Pete Barnes set of before crashing to the ground close to St George’s Wharf tower in Vauxhall, South London after the pilot attempted to divert due to bad weather.
Undated handout photo of the AgustaWestland 109 (AW109) Power
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Globalised Guardian heads Down Under
THE Guardian, buoyed by its censorship and cowardice - and massive financial loses – is opening a digital paper in Australia:
British daily newspaper The Guardian has announced its intention to launch a digital edition in Australia.
Due to start up this year, the operation aims to capitalise on an existing substantial Australian readership, launch editor Katharine Viner said …
The operation will launch with the help of “founding investor” and chair of not-for-profit news and features website The Global Mail, Graeme Wood.
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Woman drove stolen train into apartment block
“THE woman started driving the train from the Neglinge train station, which is two stops from Saltsjöbaden, and usually a three-minute ride. The train usually goes at about 10 kilometres an hour in this area, but we estimate that she was going at about 70 kilometres per hour.”
“We still don’t know why she was in the driver’s seat or whether the incident was an accident. There’s a police investigation underway and we’re waiting for them for clarification.”
Posted: 16th, January 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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