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Not Very Neighborly
It’s just a fact: you’re not always going to get along with your neighbors. As they say, that’s what axes are for.?.?.? As reported by myfoxny.com:
New York State Police troopers arrested Erna Kostanoski, 66, of Bloomingburg on Sunday. They say one of her neighbors was attempting to remove wooden stakes that marked the property line.
So, naturally …
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Really? You’re Using Your Taser For This?
A 14-year-old Canadian girl was arrested for being drunk and disorderly (she later pleaded guilty) and was placed in a cell. Maybe it’s just me, but how much of a threat can a girl that age – in a jail cell – be? As reported by canada.com:
Roberts [the family’s lawyer] said the two officers used the conductive energy device after the girl had been “sporadically peeling paint from the walls of her jail cell.” The lawsuit said she “remained motionless for nearly an hour.”
You taser a girl in a cell for peeling paint? I know, that’s the family’s lawyer talking. Well, there is a video of the whole thing, which the girls father has seen, but the police won’t release. Hmmm.
Roberts said a surveillance video taken in the jail cell that has been viewed by the girl’s father and the native band chief allegedly showed the girl scream as she was pinned down and Tasered for three seconds by the officers. He said police have refused to turn over the video to him.
I’m with the family’s lawyer on this one.
“This is not a matter of us being anti-cop because we know that most cops do a great service for us every day,” he said. “This tool is something that is to be used only in emergency situations, and now it is being used frequently. I don’t understand why they feel the need to apply an electric shock to a 14-year-old girl presenting no danger to herself or anyone.”
Not cool.
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Hmmm. Shampoo Or Liquid Ecstasy?
Sure, there have been mistakes made in the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror.” But exactly how Australian customs could make such a colossal mistake is hard to fathom. As reported at news.com.au:
Neil Parry was arrested in June last year at Darwin Airport and charged with trafficking 1.6kg of liquid ecstasy in two bottles of Pantene.
After spending three days in jail last year, and having friends’ homes searched, Mr Parry was granted bail.
There was just one teeny, tiny problem with the case against Mr. Parry.
Customs later admitted the toiletries contained no illegal drugs and all charges against Mr Parry were dropped.
NO DRUGS!
Today, Mr Parry told ABC Radio he had been given $100,000 in compensation for his ordeal and an apology.
Wow, so it worked out well for him after all? Not exactly.
“It is not worth it, no,” Mr Parry said.”I would rather it never happened,” he said.
He said most of the money would go towards his legal expenses.
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I’m Sorry Ma! I Didn’t Mean To Hit You With That …
If you were in a food fight, you’d definitely want this guy on your side. As reported by The Union City Messenger (Tennessee):
Emanual Cordell Kennedy, 37, of 907 North Glendale St., Union City, was arrested at 4:38 p.m. Tuesday on a charge of domestic assault, according to a Union City Police Department report.
Brenda King, 55, told police she and her son, Kennedy, had a disagreement at her home at 907 North Glendale St. She claimed the disagreement escalated until Kennedy allegedly threw something and hit her in the back while she was walking down the hall. She left the residence and went to the police department to report it.
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This Man Is WAY Into COD (Call Of Duty)
Many, many parents with teenage sons (or younger!) cringe at the mere mention of “COD” or “Call of Duty.” Cringe turns to dread when a new version is introduced. For the record, it should be noted that COD isn’t just a kid thing. As proof, The Juice offers you Exhibit A, as reported by The Aurora Sentinel (Colorado):
Instead of breath-taking violence and graphics, a Denver man hoping to snag the new, coveted video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” scored only an old-fashioned paper summons.
Police say Lomorin Sar, 31, became irate, threatened to shoot employees at an Aurora Best Buy and blow up the store because they didn’t have a copy of the ballyhooed game he said he pre-ordered.
Snap! (or “snapped.”)
Sar was charged with disorderly conduct after the incident Monday night at the store near Tower Road and Interstate 70.
Witnesses told police Sar asked employees when they were leaving work because he planned to shoot them in the parking lot as they left. Police say he also threatened to blow up the store.
A store manager called police and officers stopped Sar in his SUV and issued him a citation.
“Investigating officers issued a criminal summons to a man who threatened to carry out his own version of Modern Warfare at the electronics store. Fortunately, this situation did not end in violence,” said Aurora police spokesman Detective Bob Friel.
Yikes. Here’s the source.
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This Is Just Really, Really Disgusting
You’ve had a bad banking experience. We all have. Call him crazy, but The Juice is guessing this is not how you dealt with it. As reported by wftv.com:
A customer at a bank in Palm Coast got a unpleasant surprise this morning at the bank’s drive-through.
This is truly a gross understatement.
A male customer of the RBC Bank apparently urinated in a bank tube Wednesday morning after he was told he couldn’t purchase a money order, sheriff’s deputies report. Later, another customer arrived and the urine spilled onto her and her car.
Sheriff’s deputies said the customer suspected of urinating in the tube pulled into the drive-through around 8:50 a.m. and asked if they sold money orders. When he was told no, he became upset and mumbled something about bad customer service, deputies said.
A bank employee told deputies that a short time later, another customer pulled into the same drive-through lane. The customer said that there was liquid in the tube and that it smelled like urine.
Don’t open that …
The customer then picked the tube up, and the liquid spilled onto her and her car. The bank employee took the tube and also determined it was urine.
… tube! Nasty. And didn’t the perp teach that bank a lesson? Brilliant. Any charges?
Deputies are working to identify the culprit, who could face a second-degree misdemeanor charge.
Here’s the source.
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Stupid DC Law Limiting Photographers
Perhaps some regulation is required to prevent street photographers from setting up shop on the sidewalk (but perhaps not, as this is most likely covered by other regulations regarding businesses operated in public spaces), but 5 minutes? That’s just stupid. Here’s the DC Regulation:
523 STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS
523.3 While engaged in taking photographs, no person licensed under §521 or §522 of this chapter shall impede traffic as defined in the District of Columbia Traffic Acts; nor shall any photographer remain longer than five (5) minutes at any one (1) location on the streets, sidewalks, or other public spaces.
Ridiculous. You can find the regulation here (at 24-523).
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Man Offended By “Obscene” Decal
Honestly, sir, get a life. Don’t look at it. Move to the mountains. Read the Constitution. But please, don’t waste anyone’s time with your complaints about this decal!!!!! As reported by Great Falls Tribune (Montana):
Brian Smith is tired of coming home from work to see what he calls pornography [see above] staring him in the face from across the alley.
Smith, who lives on the 1600 block of 1st Avenue North, said the problem began when he noticed a large decal on the back window of a car in the parking lot of Quality Life Concepts. The decal is a white silhouette of a naked woman.
“To me, this has crossed the line,” he said.
What does the decal’s owner think?
Offensive or not, Shanna Weaver, who owns the car and decal in question, said it’s her right to display the picture.
“It’s my freedom of speech, which he can’t take away,” Weaver said. “It’s no different than the mud flaps that you see on trucks.”
What do you have to say to that, sir [other than that you want all those mud flaps on trucks across the country removed]?
Smith feels differently. There are certain parts of the body in that silhouette that neither he nor his wife, Louise, like to look at when they pull into their garage directly across from Quality of Life Concepts, where Weaver works — and parks.
“My upbringing dictates that the human body is a sacred thing, not something that should be put on display,” Smith said.
Perhaps your upbringing would have been aided with a dose of tolerance. With such disparate views on the subject, could they work this out?
Smith and Weaver confirmed in separate interviews that Smith talked to Weaver about the decal, telling her that he didn’t like looking at it and asking if she could back her car into her parking spot or park it somewhere else where the decal didn’t face his house. Weaver initially agreed, honoring Smith’s request for one day. The next day, the decal was back in Smith’s view.
Although The Juice prefers to back in, good for her! But that wasn’t the end of it for Mr. Smith.
That’s when Smith wondered if he could take his complaint to the police. Smith’s point of view is that the sticker on the back of Weaver’s car is pornography, and it should be illegal to display it in public.
A police officer dispatched to check out the decal determined that the illustration didn’t fit the city or state’s statute defining obscenity. The legal spat between Smith and Weaver never made it past a complaint with the Great Falls Police Department …
You can read more (a lot) here.
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Men At Work Cribbed Part of “Down Under”?
Sorry to break the news (okay, not exactly “break”), but you know that flute part of the song that goes “I come from the land down under…”? It was cribbed! And that’s final! Per theaustralian.com:
The High Court denied the band’s bid to appeal a federal court judge’s earlier ruling that the group had copied the signature flute melody of Down Under from the children’s classic Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.
Kookaburra was written more than 70 years ago by Australian teacher Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides competition. The song went on to become a favorite around campfires from New Zealand to Canada. The wildly popular Down Under remains an unofficial Australian anthem.
How big of a hit was the song?
Down Under and the album it was on, Business As Usual, reached No. 1 on the Australian, American and British charts in early 1983. That year, Men at Work won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
So what did the court award?
The judge later ordered Men at Work’s recording company, EMI Songs Australia, and Down Under songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert to pay fove per cent of royalties earned from the song since 2002 and from its future earnings.
Probably some serious coin. You can read more here.