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OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 418 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
 Posted: 13-06-2013 18:31 Post subject: |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Posted: 14-06-2013 17:46 Post subject: |
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| Amusing in a terribly depressing kind of way. Nice of the site to give us a gallery of famous fictional prostitutes presumably to increase unrealistic expectations. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 20-06-2013 13:11 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Feds unravel plot to build, sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York
http://rt.com/usa/terrorism-radiation-weapon-plot-uncovered-966/
A laboratory technician uses a Geiger counter.(Reuters / Issei Kato)
An FBI investigation has uncovered a plot by a New York state engineer with ties to the Ku Klux Klan to construct a radiation particle weapon, with the intention to sell the device to either a southern branch of the KKK or Jewish groups.
Federal investigators first began to investigate Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, when he allegedly approached an Albany-area synagogue and “asked to speak with a person who might be willing to help him with a type of technology that could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies, specifically, by killing Israel's enemies while they slept."
Crawford, an industrial mechanic with General Electric Co., evidently sought to assemble a radiation-emitting device “that could be placed in the back of a van to covertly emit ionizing radiation strong enough to bring about radiation sickness or death against Crawford's enemies," according to a complaint put together by an FBI agent on the case.
The agent’s affidavit indicates that Crawford then telephoned another Jewish organization in Albany and made a similar offer. Luckily, Crawford’s visit to the synagogue raised eyebrows, and an unidentified individual later contacted police.
Rabbi Matthew Cutler of the Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady told the Times Union that a "strange man" came to their synagogue in April of 2012, and discussed a mysterious device he was developing that would protect the Jewish people.
"They had a hard time getting rid of him," Cutler said. "He had this device, this plan on what to do."
Crawford referred to enemies of the United States and Muslims as "medical waste," according to court records obtained by the Times Union.
Once members of the synagogue had contacted law enforcement, the Joint Terrorism Task Force began an investigation into the odd occurrences, and an undercover FBI agent made contact as a potential supplier of radiation equipment, such as x-ray tubes, and emailed him with information on different x-ray systems.
According to the FBI, Crawford never obtained a radiation source and the device, meant to be placed in the back of a van, was never fully constructed. Crawford did, however, make some progress, such as constructing a remote triggering system that could work from about half a mile away.
Crawford managed to recruit Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, who worked at an electronics company to help him construct the controls for the alleged weapon. The two suspects met in Albany in May, at which point Feight gave the remote-transmission device to Crawford. The two had planned a test to take place at an undisclosed hotel in the Albany area, which according to the complaint was successful.
Through undercover contacts the FBI was able to monitor the two suspects’ movements and communications. Crawford allegedly spoke of being “tired of getting 'raped,' that there are people out there who have decided that they don't get their fair share in life, and that (Crawford) wanted to stop these people."
Crawford was, in his own words, "a member of the Ku Klux Klan, specifically, the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" and also listed on several websites as a member of Americans Demanding Liberty and Freedom, a Tea Party group.
The FBI’s affidavit indicates that as many as six unidentified people were assisting Crawford in the assembling of his radiation beam device, including another fellow GE employee. The Times Union has reported that of those individuals, some if not all may have known information regarding Crawford’s project.
The two men were arrested on Tuesday, and held without bond pending detention hearings. Crawford and Feight each face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
During his initial appearance in front of a US District Court in Albany Crawford was informed that he would be assigned an attorney for his defense. "Is it going to be the right kind of attorney for this?" Crawford asked the judge.
In a statement responding to the arrest, General Electric said: "On Tuesday afternoon the FBI informed GE that Glendon Scott Crawford, a GE manufacturing employee, was arrested for a criminal act. We have no reason to believe the act took place on GE property nor is there any information indicating that our employees' safety was ever compromised. Since this incident, Mr Crawford has been suspended. We are cooperating fully with the authorities on their investigation."
The FBI seized a vehicle belonging to Crawford on Tuesday at an out-of-business auto body shop, just prior to when the two men had planned to conduct a test-run of the device’s triggering system. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-06-2013 13:37 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Germany motorway shooter 'motivated by bad driving'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23045280
Police in Germany say the man they have arrested over more than 700 motorway shootings fired at other vehicles because of anger over bad driving.
The 57-year-old lorry driver was held in a raid in western Germany on Sunday. Officers say he led them to a cache of firearms.
He is accused of shooting at lorries on motorways, injuring one woman.
Police say he also attacked vehicles in France, Belgium and Austria in a five-year spree starting in 2008.
'War on motorways'
Last year, police quadrupled a reward for information on the shootings to 100,000 euros (£85,000) after larger 9mm ammunition was used for the first time, increasing the potential threat.
Police say the suspect took them to a stash of 1,300 bullets and two guns. He talked of a "war on German motorways" because of his "anger and frustration" over bad driving.
The man told police he was a good shot so he only intended to damage vehicles, not to hurt people.
Joerg Ziercke, the chief commissioner of Germany's federal police, told reporters that 762 shots were fired in total, sometimes from one vehicle driving alongside another.
The police said the married lorry driver - whose name has not been released - would be charged with causing grievous bodily harm and a charge of attempted murder was being considered.
The arrest has sparked a debate over privacy and data-protection in Germany, the BBC's Berlin Correspondent Steve Evans reports.
The police were not allowed to use information from existing cameras on roads because of concerns about privacy and had to set up their own, our correspondent says.
Prior to Sunday's raid, investigators compared licence plate data with the routes of vehicles that had been targeted, the regional public broadcaster SWR reports.
Information from mobile phone masts by the motorways where the shootings had taken place was also analysed.
Most of the attacks happened in western and southern Germany. |
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| amester Great Old One Joined: 29 May 2004 Total posts: 212 Location: Earth Gender: Female |
| Posted: 26-06-2013 04:27 Post subject: |
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i can almost sympathize with the road rager  not that I shoot at people |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-06-2013 08:11 Post subject: |
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Sacked Wayne Crook jailed for workplace hammer attack
A sacked man who caused £175,000 of damage with a hammer at his former workplace in revenge for being fired has been jailed for 20 months.
Wayne Crook, 40, of Banwell, North Somerset, smashed up computers, windows, a 4x4 and toilets at the Bristol Flying Centre on 6 June.
He also daubed "gross misconduct" in blood on one wall, the court heard.
Judge Martin Picton, sentencing at Bristol Crown Court, said: "You caused a simply enormous amount of damage."
A restraining order was also made on Crook during the hearing.
The court heard how Crook had been sacked after moving an aircraft in a hangar - something he was not qualified to do.
He began proceedings for a tribunal but accepted a settlement from the firm before the case was due to be heard.
Judge Picton added: "Whatever resentment and anger you felt about the process that had led to your dismissal - and the failure to pursue your complaint through an employment tribunal - none of that can justify what you did."
The judge said he had embarked upon a course of "wanton destruction" that must have taken a "little while" to achieve.
The 40 year-old admitted charges of burglary and criminal damage.
Tristan Harwood, defending, said Crook had no previous convictions and his actions were "completely out of character" and added that he felt "terribly sorry for what he did".
The company, based at Bristol Airport, handles business aviation such as engineering services to private charter flights.
Speaking after the case, the company's chief executive, Philip Brockwell, said: "It was a horrible and targeted attack. Each desk had been visited and destroyed.
"He smashed 42 pieces of glass in the building and there was a single hole in 35 computer monitors from where he had smashed them with a hammer.
"He smashed every toilet and basin. It was a systematic attack to try to bring down our infrastructure."
The restraining order will prevent Crook from contacting former and current staff at Bristol Flying Centre or visiting the premises on his release.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-23051603 |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 26-06-2013 08:40 Post subject: |
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| I'm not quite sure how that falls into the category of a, 'strange crime'. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-06-2013 08:56 Post subject: |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | | I'm not quite sure how that falls into the category of a, 'strange crime'. |
Picky picky! 
It's not a common crime, especially for someone with "no previous convictions" and whose "actions were completely out of character"
But move it elsewhere if you wish... |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 26-06-2013 08:59 Post subject: |
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| If he'd done it, dressed in a chicken suit... |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-06-2013 09:20 Post subject: |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | | If he'd done it, dressed in a chicken suit... |
Talking of chickens....
Dorset couple prosecuted for free-range eggs fraud
A Dorset couple have been prosecuted and fined for passing off intensively farmed eggs as free-range produce.
Stephen and Anne Hobbs, from Three Legged Cross, sold eggs in plain boxes while chickens visibly roamed free in their garden.
But inquiries by Dorset Trading Standards revealed Mr Hobbs had bought 12,000 eggs from a large supplier. 
The pair, aged 65 and 66, pleaded guilty to six offences following a hearing at Bournemouth Magistrates.
The couple, from West Moors Road, said they started supplementing supplies after their hens' egg production fell in September.
They were fined £300 each and ordered to pay a total of £1,178 costs.
Offences under the General Food Regulations Act 2004 included failing to identify the supplier of the eggs, failing to declare the eggs were not from their own flock, selling eggs with the producer's stamps removed and selling eggs in a misleading manner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-23093961 |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5543 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 5970 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-06-2013 15:53 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: |
Dorset couple prosecuted for free-range eggs fraud
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That wasn't the best laid plan was it? |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Posted: 29-06-2013 15:57 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | In her statement the officer said there had been a slight struggle “but it was only because he was trying to eat the cookie”. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-07-2013 16:41 Post subject: |
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Private jet-flying Buddhist monk 'a fake'
The controversial Buddhist monk whose flamboyant, jet-set lifestyle has sparked outrage in Thailand, is married and has been accused of being a fake.
By David Eimer, Bangkok
11:18AM BST 06 Jul 2013
Luang Pu Nenkham Chattigo has attracted attention ever since a video of him flying on a private jet, while wearing aviator sunglasses and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag went viral.
Buddhist monks are supposed to stay celibate. However the 34-year-old abbot of the Khantitham Forest Monastery is apparently married to a woman named Yupinpraethong Janthawa, and has allegedly had relationships with seven other women, according to Thailand's Department of Special Investigations (DSI).
On Friday, the abbot was accused of being a fake monk and of committing fraud by wearing monk's robes he is not entitled to. Posing and dressing as a monk is a criminal offence in Thailand.
The complaint was filed at Bangkok's Criminal Court by Luang Pu Buddha Isara, the abbot of another monastery.
The cleric is now the subject of a joint investigation by the DSI and the Office of National Buddhism, which oversees Thailand's 200,000 monks.
He is also at the centre of a money-laundering investigation.
Police Colonel Pong-in Intarakhao claim the abbot and his associates had 41 bank accounts, mostly in his name, and that he is believed to own two houses and 13 cars and motorbikes. Much of the cash in the accounts is believed to have come from public donations to his monastery in the northeastern province of Si Saket.
While scandals involving monks taking drugs, gambling and driving around in expensive cars are not uncommon, the extent of Luang Pu Nenkham's alleged misdeeds has shocked Thailand, which has the world's largest Buddhist population.
The abbot, who claims to have walked on water, is believed to be travelling in Europe.
Nopparat Benjawatananun, the director-general of the Office of National Buddhism, warned that he must return to Thailand within the month to answer the mounting list of charges against him.
"Failure to do so would mean he accepts the accusations and harsh action will be taken against him," said Mr Nopparat.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10163889/Private-jet-flying-Buddhist-monk-a-fake.html |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 09-07-2013 13:34 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | US Facebook death threats troll: Reece Elliott jailed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22839359
A British man who threatened to kill 200 people in the US in posts he made under a false name on Facebook, has been jailed for more than two years.
Reece Elliott, 24, of Foss Way, South Shields, made the threat in February on online memorial pages for two Tennessee girls killed in car accidents.
About 3,000 pupils in Warren County missed school the next day as a result.
Elliott, who pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court in April, was jailed for two years and four months.
The father-of-one admitted one count of making a threat to kill and eight of sending grossly offensive messages. He had been held in custody since his arrest in February.
Elliott targeted a tribute page to 17-year-old Caitlin Talley, a popular pupil at Warren County High, who had died in a car accident in October.
He also posted comments on the tribute site of a 15-year-old girl who cannot be named.
Schools 'lockdown'
Using a false name, he wrote on the RIP Caitlin Talley page: "My father has three guns. I'm planning on killing him first and putting him in a dumpster.
"Then I'm taking the motor and I'm going in fast. I'm gonna kill hopefully at least 200 before I kill myself. So you want to tell the deputy, I'm on my way."
Using the same pseudonym, Elliott then posted the threats about driving into school.
He said: "I'm killing 200 people minimum at school. I will be on CNN."
At his first appearance at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court in February, Gary Buckley, prosecuting, said: "The residents of Warren County and all the people who have access to the Facebook page were clearly concerned.
"I am told that the local authority immediately put all the local schools in the area on what was called lockdown.
"Because of the hysteria caused, around 3,000 children were kept off school on that specific day."
Sentencing Elliott to 28 months in jail, Judge James Goss QC, the Recorder of Newcastle, told him the offences were driven by "no more than self-indulgent nastiness".
The judge took into account Elliott's early guilty plea and genuine remorse |
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