Category: Crime
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Sleep Better at Night
Residents of Montana can sleep better at night now. State authorities have <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/10/news/state/67-vintage.txt">seized illegal gambling equipment</a> in their zeal to protect us from the vice of gambling that they don't approve of. But wait, these devices were not being used for gambling and were just antiques.<br />n<br />nSO WHY IN THE HELL IS IT…
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Some Peoples Children
I can't believe <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/10/news/state/37-horses.txt">people who would let animals starve to death</a>. You make the decision to have animals, it's a commitment to take care of them, not ignore them until they die. Of course she claims she fed the horses but experts say they were definitely starved to death and there were no tracks…
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Useless Thoughts
Some things that quickly caught my eye.<br />n<br />nWhen did the Doomsday Clock, which was used to show the threat of a nuclear cataclysm, begin to be used to show <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_DOOMSDAY_CLOCK?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">environmental catastrophe</a>? I was not aware of this change, not that I'm in the loop on this one. It seems like an………interesting change.<br />n<br…
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I’ll Never Understand People
<img width='165' height='220' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/28/news/local/40-murder.txt" >Man charged with murder of baby girl</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A prosecutor told a judge Wednesday that fatal head injuries suffered by a 6-week-old infant were similar to the injuries she would have received had she been ejected from a vehicle at 50 or 60 mph.<br />n<br…
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Murdering The Future
<a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…
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Sicknesss
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/06/news/state/70-abuses.txt" >Couple accused of sex abuses</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Heron man who authorities say claimed he was God has been charged with a string of sex offenses after a family member recounted being abused and held in virtual isolation from society for years.<br />n<br />nJames D. Guill, 54, faces charges alleging six sex offenses. His…
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Not Enough Time is Criminal
I found the following headline interesting and had to read the article.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061106/ap_on_re_us/procreation_vacation" >Couples go on 'procreation vacations'</a><br />n<br />nI started reading and was getting quite the chuckle out of the article.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>When Lucinda Hughes heard she would have to drink sea moss elixir while vacationing in the Bahamas, she was certain…
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Evil Americans
Those Evil Americans are at it again, polluting the planet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_as/china_river_pollution" >Chinese river mysteriously turns red</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A half-mile section of China's Yellow River turned "red and smelly" after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday.<br />n<br />nThe incident in Lanzhou, a city of 2…
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Sickness
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHILD_PORN_ARRESTS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Feds net 125 nationwide in kid-porn case</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Bible camp counselor and a Boy Scout leader were among 125 people arrested nationwide in an Internet child pornography case in which subscribers purchased photos and videos of children engaged in sex acts with adults, federal authorities said Wednesday.<br />n<br />nThe case originated in…
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Immaculate Conception?
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_nm/vietnam_pregnancy_dc" >Death-row prisoner gets pregnant in solitary</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.<br />n<br />nhe Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin…