The World Today

[freethy]

I just had a brainstorm, it hurt, but I took some painkillers and now I am able to post it. My vision is almost back to normal now and I have total control over my bodily fucntions again. YAY!

Er, anyway, I thought it would be cool to have some kind of world news thread. We have members (or will have members) from around the world posting here and I thought it would be cool to have a thread for everyone everywhere to talk about the daily news where ever they may live. Then not only do we have something to talk about, but we all learn what's going on everywhere else.

So, post away.

:cool:

[King Sly Joker]

Cool idea Lee,but 90% of the news around the world seems to always be bad...

[freethy]

Originally posted by King Sly Joker
Cool idea Lee,but 90% of the news around the world seems to always be bad...

True, there's no news like bad news though. That's what they say anyway...lol

[King Sly Joker]

Originally posted by freethy
True, there's no news like bad news though. That's what they say anyway...lol

True good or bad post it anyways...:P

[freethy]

This seems fitting...lol

http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/userimg/2024744/127407

[King Sly Joker]

Originally posted by freethy
This seems fitting...lol

http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/userimg/2024744/127407


Thats some funny shit...:p

[freethy]

MEN IN TIGHTS IGNORED COMMONS TERROR PLOT

By Bob Roberts Deputy Political Editor

AN al-Qaeda plot to blow up Parliament was ignored for 12 months by Westminster authorities, Cabinet Minister Peter Hain said yesterday.

The Commons Leader said he was warned by the security service last summer of a "horrific" terrorist plan to kill hundreds of MPs, their staff and tourists.

The MI5 chiefs told Mr Hain they had already been trying for months to persuade Commons officials to tighten security.

Even after the minister was alerted, no significant clampdown seems to have been enforced - culminating in Wednesday's pro-hunt invasion of the Commons chamber.

Mr Hain is still struggling to get the Westminster authorities to update its centuries-old protective cordon, led by Serjeant-at-Arms Sir Michael Cummins and his "men in tights".

Alarmed Mr Hain said: "We have got to get a much more urgent approach to this matter. We have the potential to see a horrifying incident." He told the BBC that within weeks of being appointed to his Cabinet post last summer, a "representative of the security service" saw him.

He was told that for some months they had been "seeking to persuade the authorities in the House of Commons to be much more vigilant".

Mr Hain added: "They had intelligence that was extremely disturbing. They briefed me about al-Qaeda operatives in Britain focusing on Parliament."

Greenpeace protesters have since scaled Big Ben in March and the five pro-hunting activists confronted MPs on the floor of the House.

Two days before the Commons drama came the Batman fathers' rights raid on Buckingham Palace.

Mr Hain said the "horrifying reality" was that each protest could have been a suicide-bomber attack.

He is trying to push through an overhaul of security at the Commons.

A report from MI5 is expected to call for the Serjeant-at-Arms to be stripped of his security role. There will also be measures to stop an attack from the roads around Parliament or the Thames.

Yesterday Home Secretary David Blunkett backed Mr Hain's call for a director of security at Westminster.

He said: "We now need not medievalism, but modernity. We need to be in the 21st century in tackling the potential for suicide bombers."

Mr Blunkett said confidence in the security service and counter- terrorism branch was being undermined.

"They like me, have absolutely no control over the decisions of the House of Commons and the House of Lords," he added.

Former Commons leader Robin Cook, urging a sense of perspective, said Parliament must not be turned into a fortress.

He said of one of Wednesday's invaders, rock star Bryan Ferry's son: "Otis Ferry is not Osama bin Laden." A senior Commons official said a police chief superintendent was already in place as security chief.

In a rare briefing, the official said hundreds of police and security officers were already on duty. A review had been ordered in January 2004.

There was also a warning to ministers to expect a fight if they try to take over the running of Commons security.

The official said: "Any decision is for Parliament rather than the Government, police or security services."

MPs are expected to resist any fierce clampdown.

Many refuse to wear passes and respond to identity checks by saying: "Don't you know who I am?"

They also insist security doors are left unlocked so they can get around without passes.

Muslim cleric Abu Abdullah, Abu Hamza's replacement at weekly meetings outside Finsbury Park mosque, North London, mocked lax security.

He told supporters: "Look at the House of Commons. How many times has it been infiltrated by their own people?

"If we were up for the kill, would we not have succeeded by now?"

[freethy]

I'm gonna bump this thread. I thought it was a DAMN good idea. Looks like you people wouldn't spot a good thread if some english twat bumped it to the top of the forum:D

[freethy]

Here...

BLAIR: INTELLIGENCE WAS WRONG BUT WAR WAS RIGHT!

Oct 13 2004: Oonagh Blackman Political Editor

THE Prime Minister has apologised to the House of Commons for giving them wrong information about Saddam's abilities to deliver a weapon of mass destruction - but still insists that the war was right.

Mr Blair told the House of Commons: "I apologise for any information given in good faith that has subsequently turned out to be wrong.

"What I do not in any way accept is that there was any deception by anyone. I will not apologise for removing Saddam Hussein. I will not apologise for the conflict."

The statement comes the day after Foreign Secretary Jack finally admitted the claim Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes was rot.

MPs said his disclosure 749 days after the claim surfaced "demolished" Tony Blair's case for war. Lib Dem Menzies Campbell said: "This drives a horse and cart through Government credibility. The building blocks of the Government's case for military action are crumbling before our eyes.

"There was no real and present danger. There was no serious and current threat. The true objective 12 months in advance of military action was illegal regime change."

The 45-minute claim was first made in a No 10 dossier on Iraqi weapons in September 2002.

It was used repeatedly by Tony Blair to make the case for war on Saddam, though the dossier failed to make clear that it referred only to battlefield weapons not missiles.

It was later discredited by the Butler Report. Last week, the CIA's Iraq Survey Group concluded Saddam had NO WMD when Britain and the US invaded Iraq.

The claim has now been formally withdrawn by spy chiefs following "further investigation" by new MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett - the man behind the discredited dossier.

Foreign Secretary Mr Straw told the Commons: "Butler concluded the validity of reporting which included the 45-minute intelligence had come into question. Reporting from a liaison service on Iraqi production of biological agents was also 'seriously flawed'.

"The Chief of SIS (MI6) has now written to the Intelligence and Security Committee formally withdrawing those two lines of reporting."

As MI6 has already withdrawn pre-war information from an "unreliable" source in Iraq it means three of its main lines of intelligence reporting on Saddam's weapons have now been ditched as wrong.

Labour MP Alice Mahon said yesterday: "The (findings of) Iraq Survey Group and the withdrawal of the 45-minutes claim demolish the Government's case for going to war."

Tory Gary Streeter accused Mr Blair of "stripping" out doubts in the intelligence information and called for a "full apology".

But Mr Straw refused to admit ministers lied. To scornful laughter, he said: "I accept that some of the information on which we based our judgments was wrong.

"But I do not accept that we were wrong to act as we did in the circumstances. The dossier was based on the best judgments of ourselves and the wider international community. Everybody assumed Saddam had these weapons."

In a new tactic, Mr Straw released documents suggesting former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix thought the weapons dossier underplayed the case against Saddam.

A note from one British UN official, Adam Bye, said Dr Blix felt the section on WMD "did not exaggerate the facts or revert to rhetoric".

Mr Bye added: "Blix also thought the section risked understating Iraq's indigenous capacity to produce WMD."

Dr Blix told the BBC yesterday: "You wouldn't expect any government to admit they were wrong.

"The world is better off without Saddam. But it isn't any safer. You wonder how dangerous Saddam was."

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EQUIPMENT that could help make nuclear arms is vanishing from Iraq, says nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Authority.

[Neo]

yeah i watched the Blair thing today on TV. The Lib Dems were asking some really testy questions. But the Ole boy stood up to the challenge.

[zombie commando]

By Mary Conway
Web produced by Christine Lasek
October 1, 2004

Police discovered a video camera that contained disturbing child pornography
pictures. According to officials, the camera belonged to a janitor that
worked at a church. Officers discovered the pictures after the janitor was
found dead. Investigators have contacted the children and their families
that were featured in the pictures.

When 40-year-old Todd Darrow was found dead last week, police found 4
instamatic photos of young girls in his backpack, along with a video camera.

Thursday night, police held a meeting with congregation members to tell them
they have contacted all the parents whose children were involved.

A police lieutenant met with 7 Action News, and displayed the camera that
was used to take the videos. He indicated, "The front area was painted
black, with both marker and paint, using a brush. There is a light that will
come on when the camera is working, and he painted over the light."

Police say Darrow used the camera to make hundreds of hours of pornographic
videos. He recorded the videos while working as a janitor at the Merriman
Road Baptist Church in Garden City.

Darrow placed the camera in 4 different locations to record the children. 20
children were victims of the child pornography. There was even video of 2
children being fondled, one at Darrow's home, and one on church property.

Police say Darrow was very deliberate with how he hid his camera. "The
baseboard in the bathroom was painted black with the marker and paints," the
lieutenant explained. "The ceiling vents were painted black on the inside,
so that the frames were white but the grill part was painted black."

The minister for the church told 7 Action News that the church had taken
Darrow on as part of their rehabilitation program for severe drug and
alcohol abuse. It was very upsetting to all the congregation members to
learn that Darrow was taking advantage of all their good will.

According to the minister, the children who had been fondled by Darrow never
stepped forward, and he nor the members of the congregation had any idea
that these acts were taking place. The minister also explained to 7 Action
News that the reason Darrow had the opportunity to be alone with the
children in his home is because some of the congregation members had tried
to help him out, by bringing donated food and clothing to him at his house,
in order to help him get back on his feet.

Although Darrow had been cataloging the hundreds of hours of pornographic
video, they believe that none of it had been distributed because Darrow had
no internet access.

http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_3223198,00.html

[freethy]

Is it me? Or is there a day that goes by when you DON'T hear about another child molester? I've heard alot of people saying that this was unheard of back in the day. It never happened. Which I don't think is the case. With things like the internet and stuff, it's exposing what was there all along.

At the end of the day, we live in a very disturbing world.

[Justin]

Originally posted by freethy
Is it me? Or is there a day that goes by when you DON'T hear about another child molester? I've heard alot of people saying that this was unheard of back in the day. It never happened. Which I don't think is the case. With things like the internet and stuff, it's exposing what was there all along.

At the end of the day, we live in a very disturbing world.


Um...it's just you *cough*. Just kidding, I don't think it was uncommon 30, 40 years ago, but I think it was less common. Our society is so fucked up nowadays, we unknowingly have opened ourselves up to things like these (that's just my opinion). I think if you look at the mid-50s and start going up in years you'd see an increase. I think it's great we have things like the Amber Alert, etc., because they work, but I think society is just fucked up. I agree in being an "open society" - but we're just way too open.

[FTL]

Feds dig into John Gotti’s past

Armed with backhoes, agents tear up vacant lot

NEW YORK - It’s no place to rest in peace: a vacant lot covered with reeds, slabs of concrete and trash.

But federal authorities believe the site in a remote section of Queens could be a graveyard for targets of hits ordered by John Gotti and other mobsters more than two decades ago.

Acting on a tip from an underworld informant, a team of FBI agents has begun digging for the remains of a half-dozen or more victims. They include a man whose epitaph could read, “Made the mistake of killing the Dapper Don’s son in a traffic accident.” Another was nicknamed “Lucky.”

No findings were reported during the first four days of digging this week. The job was expected to continue beyond Friday.

Quiet enough to sleep (with the fishes)

The suspected burial ground is on Ruby Street, just west of John F. Kennedy Airport. Dilapidated homes, abandoned cars and other empty lots, some baited with rat poison, dot the marshy landscape.

On a recent day, traffic was almost nonexistent. Breezes off Jamaica Bay were steady.

The desolation suited the Gambino crime family.

“They picked it because it wasn’t far from their stomping grounds and it was secluded,” said Jerry Capeci, a former newspaper columnist and expert on the Mafia. “But the key thing was that they thought it would never be looked at.”

While no one was looking, Gotti’s crew allegedly used the lot to make the bodies of traitors and enemies — whacked by both their crime family and others — disappear. Two of the dead are believed to be former captains of the Bonanno family, Dominick “Big Trin” Trinchera and Philip “Philly Lucky” Giaccone.

Trinchera, Giaccone and another Bonanno captain, Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato, were shotgunned to death at a Brooklyn social club in 1981 amid an internal struggle for control of the family. Joseph Massino, who later became boss, was convicted this year in the slayings based on the testimony of turncoat mobsters.

A job for a professional
After the social club slaughter, the Gambinos agreed to help the Bonannos clean up the mess — although not well enough.

Indelicato’s body was discovered three weeks later by children who spotted his arm poking through the soil. A witness at the Massino trial recounted the mob’s horror.

“We might have a problem,” a soldier said at the time. “The body is rising.”

Authorities retrieved Indelicato’s body at the time and found no others.

But investigators suspect that the burials resumed and that Ruby Street was also the last stop for a neighbor of Gotti’s who disappeared 24 years ago.

John Favara, 51, accidentally struck and killed Gotti’s 12-year-old son with his car in 1980 while the boy was riding a minibike near his home. About four months later, after receiving death threats, Favara was abducted outside a Long Island diner and vanished; Gotti was in Florida at the time.

Gotti — once the nation’s most feared gangster as head of the Gambinos — denied any involvement. But he never hid his rage toward Favara.

“I wouldn’t be sorry if the guy turned up dead,” he told the FBI at the time.

Gotti was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and murder in 1992 and died behind bars in 2002. By then, Favara was a forgotten footnote in Mafia lore.

But a recent case against the Bonannos produced the fresh tip about Favara’s whereabouts, and the digging began.

Each day, two backhoes claw at the earth, while FBI agents wearing yellow rubber boots pick through the soil with rakes and cadaver-sniffing dogs roam the ground. The discovery of a bone earlier this week caused a brief stir.

A closer examination revealed that it came from a dead dog.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6209261

[Annie]

The news is the same everywhere...people getting killed and kidnapped.

Have a nice day!

Cheers,
Jeanine

[MischievousSpirit]

Sunday Halloween Irks Some in Bible Belt (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041015/D85O199O4.html)


NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) - Across the Bible Belt this Halloween, some little ghosts and goblins might get shooed away by the neighbors - and some youngsters will not be allowed to go trick-or-treating at all - because the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.

"It's a day for the good Lord, not for the devil," said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead.

Some towns around the country are decreeing that Halloween be celebrated on Saturday to avoid complaints from those who might be offended by the sight of demons and witches ringing their doorbell on the Sabbath. Others insist the holiday should be celebrated on Oct. 31 no matter what.

"Moving it, that's like celebrating Christmas a week early," said Veronica Wright, who bought a Power Rangers costume for her son in Newnan. "It's just a kid thing. It's not for real."

It is an especially sensitive issue for authorities in the Bible Belt across the South.

"You just don't do it on Sunday," said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Ga. "That's Christ's day. You go to church on Sunday, you don't go out and celebrate the devil. That'll confuse a child."

In Newnan, a suburb south of Atlanta, the City Council decided to go ahead with trick-or-treating on Sunday. In 1999, the last time Oct. 31 fell on a Sunday, the city moved up trick-or-treating to Saturday, which brought howls of protest.

"We don't need to confuse people with this," Councilman George Alexander said.

In Vestavia Hills, Ala., a suburb of Birmingham, a furor erupts every time Halloween falls on Sunday. Local officials decided not to take a stand this time.

"About 15 years ago, we decided to have Halloween on Saturday instead. People went crazy. We said, 'Never again,'" recalled Starr Burbic, longtime secretary to the mayor. "It messed everybody up to move Halloween. Some people don't like having it on a Sunday, but we just couldn't find a way to make everyone happy."

The patchwork of trick-or-treat zones could work to children's advantage: Some might go out on both nights to get all the treats they can.

With so many towns split over when Halloween should be celebrated, many are going with a porch-light compromise: If people do not want trick-or-treaters, they simply turn off their lights, and parents are asked not to have kids knock there.

"Most people don't have a problem with it. It's a pretty universal compromise, so that's what we go with," said Grand Rapids, Mich., police Lt. Douglas Brinkley.

[halloweenfire]

hey, the scot peterson trial is very big in the news! imop i think he did it. theres just to much evidence pointing twords him. and i feel so sorry for laci and her unborn soon...see ya...

[FTL]

That shit is ridiculous about Halloween, man! Like Christ would give a shit that little children are going around dressed up, having fun, and thinking about how much candy they're gonna get more than they even remotely think about "celebrating the devil."

[freethy]

Originally posted by MischievousSpirit
Sunday Halloween Irks Some in Bible Belt (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041015/D85O199O4.html)


NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) - Across the Bible Belt this Halloween, some little ghosts and goblins might get shooed away by the neighbors - and some youngsters will not be allowed to go trick-or-treating at all - because the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.

"It's a day for the good Lord, not for the devil," said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead.

Some towns around the country are decreeing that Halloween be celebrated on Saturday to avoid complaints from those who might be offended by the sight of demons and witches ringing their doorbell on the Sabbath. Others insist the holiday should be celebrated on Oct. 31 no matter what.

"Moving it, that's like celebrating Christmas a week early," said Veronica Wright, who bought a Power Rangers costume for her son in Newnan. "It's just a kid thing. It's not for real."

It is an especially sensitive issue for authorities in the Bible Belt across the South.

"You just don't do it on Sunday," said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Ga. "That's Christ's day. You go to church on Sunday, you don't go out and celebrate the devil. That'll confuse a child."

In Newnan, a suburb south of Atlanta, the City Council decided to go ahead with trick-or-treating on Sunday. In 1999, the last time Oct. 31 fell on a Sunday, the city moved up trick-or-treating to Saturday, which brought howls of protest.

"We don't need to confuse people with this," Councilman George Alexander said.

In Vestavia Hills, Ala., a suburb of Birmingham, a furor erupts every time Halloween falls on Sunday. Local officials decided not to take a stand this time.

"About 15 years ago, we decided to have Halloween on Saturday instead. People went crazy. We said, 'Never again,'" recalled Starr Burbic, longtime secretary to the mayor. "It messed everybody up to move Halloween. Some people don't like having it on a Sunday, but we just couldn't find a way to make everyone happy."

The patchwork of trick-or-treat zones could work to children's advantage: Some might go out on both nights to get all the treats they can.

With so many towns split over when Halloween should be celebrated, many are going with a porch-light compromise: If people do not want trick-or-treaters, they simply turn off their lights, and parents are asked not to have kids knock there.

"Most people don't have a problem with it. It's a pretty universal compromise, so that's what we go with," said Grand Rapids, Mich., police Lt. Douglas Brinkley.

Hahaahaha! These religious types crack me up. So now halloween is all about worshipping Satan? hahaha! They say it would confuse their kids, while they are poluting their minds with all this talk of god and Jesus. Halooween wont fuck your kids up no more then they have.

[zombie commando]

Jebus says Halloween is bad mmmmmmmmkay?

[MischievousSpirit]

Father arrested after attempt to discipline daughter backfires (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-27-lesson-backfired_x.htm)

Father arrested after attempt to discipline daughter backfires
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home.
Kevin Winston, 46, called police at 2:45 a.m. Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.

The girl led officers to a crawl space above the ceiling where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine.

Winston was charged with numerous weapons and drug charges. His five daughters were placed in the custody of a relative.

"He called us on her and ended up getting locked up himself," said Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose.


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Talk about LOSERS! :rolleyes:

[blicdh]

Vang's Defense

Friday's funeral service for one of the six victims in last week's hunting tragedy may bring solace to family and friends of those lost, but questions about the prosecution of suspect Chi Vang will likely be next on their minds, especially after Vang hired three Milwaukee attorneys to represent him Friday.

Formal charges against Vang could be filed as early as Monday and when they are criminal defense lawyer Harry Hertel says finding a successful defense will be a challenge for Vang's attorney.

Hertel says in some cases, depending on the evidence, the most likely defense will be self-defense.

"Logically a defense counsel could argue once there had been the first exchange of fire he may he considered himself threatened, regardless of the circumstances, because of the number of people present and the uncertainty of whether they'd be armed or not,” Hertel says.

Hertel concedes, however, that the instance where Vang admits to chasing and shooting at least one victim in the back is certainly not self defense.

Hertel says in that case his attorney may look to Vang's mental as well as cultural frame of mind.

"How someone from the Hmong culture would view certain interactions in that situation and whether or not that would cause that person to reasonably view that situation in a fashion to cause a response different than the American culture might expect. That's not to excuse it or forgive it, but it might provide some understanding as to the mental process," Hertel says.

Hertel also says Vang's mental process will be particularly important because the shootings are all crimes of intent.

Hertel anticipates the defense will ask to move the case out of Sawyer County in order to seek an impartial jury.

Vang's Defense (http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/1104522.html)


-Biggy

[freethy]

Originally posted by MischievousSpirit
Father arrested after attempt to discipline daughter backfires (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-27-lesson-backfired_x.htm)

Father arrested after attempt to discipline daughter backfires
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home.
Kevin Winston, 46, called police at 2:45 a.m. Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.

The girl led officers to a crawl space above the ceiling where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine.

Winston was charged with numerous weapons and drug charges. His five daughters were placed in the custody of a relative.

"He called us on her and ended up getting locked up himself," said Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose.


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Talk about LOSERS! :rolleyes:

Damn, that kid is one cold hearted motherfucker...lol Sure, he had drugs and weapons, but at least he still tried to teach his daughter right from wrong, even though he himself was a little....naughty.

[freethy]

Mental health charity calls for cannabis probe!

LONDON (Reuters) - A health charity has called for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness.

Rethink, which campaigns on behalf of schizophrenia sufferers, said the mental health risks of using cannabis were not widely understood.

"There is strong evidence from a wide range of sources that long term and short-term use of cannabis can 'trigger' a psychotic episode of schizophrenia in people who are at high risk of developing schizophrenia --- for instance, people who have close family members who have schizophrenia," it said in a statement on Saturday.

The organisation pointed out that it was a year since the government reclassified cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug, adding that a government awareness campaign that followed ignored the mental health dangers of using the drug.

"There is a general consensus that long-term, and in some cases short-term, use of cannabis by someone who has schizophrenia worsens the psychotic symptoms of the illness -- paranoia, hallucinations and delusions," it said.

The charity added that it believed many young people viewed cannabis as a risk-free drug.

"A long-term, well-funded, innovative campaign aimed at publicising the real mental health risks associated with cannabis needs to be in place as soon as possible to counter the 'risk-free' message," the statement said.

"Rethink is asking MPs and Peers to support further research into the links between cannabis and severe mental illness that focuses on its widespread use amongst young people, the increasing strength of cannabis on sale on the streets and its short and long-term effects on mental health."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050129/325/fbcbk.html

[Hall9ween]

I don't have a big fancy newsreport, but in Birmingham UK last week when a girl claimed to be raped in broad daylight, it was found out the other day that she made the whole thing up. She is now being fined for wasting police time.

I don't get why people would lie about something like that...

[freethy]

Originally posted by Hall9ween
I don't have a big fancy newsreport, but in Birmingham UK last week when a girl claimed to be raped in broad daylight, it was found out the other day that she made the whole thing up. She is now being fined for wasting police time.

I don't get why people would lie about something like that...

Sounds like she craves attention. Be it good or bad. Some people do fucked up thing's like that all the time for attention. God know's why though.

[blicdh]

Originally posted by Hall9ween
I don't have a big fancy newsreport, but in Birmingham UK last week when a girl claimed to be raped in broad daylight, it was found out the other day that she made the whole thing up. She is now being fined for wasting police time.

I don't get why people would lie about something like that...

There was a huge thing on the news down in Madison, Wisconsin (possibly Milwaukee), that a college girl was kidnapped. They found her a week later and she eventually confessed that she had staged it. Stated that she was trying "to get the attention of her boyfriend." *whistles* PHEW...

In other news... (the following article happened a block from my house...)



Dozens of animals perish in Humane Association fire


Plastic is torn from kennels that housed dogs at the Chippewa County Humane Association. About 12 dogs boarded in this area perished in Monday's fire.
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Jeffrey Hage / The Chippewa Herald

TOWN OF ANSON -- Bob Bowe, Jr. stood in front of the Chippewa County Humane Association building Tuesday morning with tears in his eyes.

"This is just terrible," he said, looking at the charred remains of the building.

Even worse was the fact that about 50 cats were inside the building. They appeared to be peacefully sleeping in their cages, but the reality was tragic.

They had succumbed to smoke inhalation from a fire that ripped through the building at 10503 County S late Monday night. It's estimated that 13 dogs also perished in the fire.

Another 12 dogs survived, said Humane Association manager Didgit Weber. Ten are being boarded at the Humane Association in Eau Claire, while two took off running when they escaped the fire. None of the cats survived.

"I just think of them sitting in their cages and starting to smell the smoke," former manager Patty Foss said. "The terror and fear they must have felt . . . It's absolutely terrible."

Foss said nine of the cats were scheduled to go to animal rescue today, where they had a good chance of finding new homes. The animals never got that opportunity.

Firefighters were called to the scene at 10:52 p.m. Monday. A sheriff's deputy was driving by in his squad car and saw smoke. He notified the dispatch center, then notified Weber, who lives next door to the animal shelter.

Weber went outside and saw smoke billowing from the building. She tried to save the cats, but saw it was already too late, so she turned her attention to saving the dogs.

When firefighters arrived on the scene the building was filled with smoke.

"It was really dark," said Mark Woodford, Anson's assistant fire chief. "The building was covered in plastic, so the fire was very contained."

About 10 minutes after firefighters arrived, the fire broke through the roof.

"When it got oxygen, it really took off," he said.

As the firefighters fought the blaze, they also were clearing the building.

"We were evacuating the building -- both dead and alive," Woodford said.

They were able to contain the fire to the upper portion of the structure, preventing it from reaching into the walls and down into the main part of the shelter.

"Because of that, no animal burned to death. They all died due to smoke inhalation," Woodford said.

He said the fire was an emotional experience for the firefighters.

"Whether it's a barn fire where cattle die or one like this where it's pets, it's emotional for everyone. The one good thing is that they didn't burn to death," he said.

Weber said the fire is the worst thing she's ever been through.

"I always tell people the shelter is my home, and I just come next door to the house to visit," she said. "And when you work so closely with the animals, they become like family. I think everyone here felt the animals were family."

Because of the cages and kennels inside the building, it was almost like firefighters were inside a maze.

"It was definitely a difficult building to fight," Woodford said.

It was emotions, not fire, that shelter volunteers were fighting this morning.

With a new humane society building being built in the shadows of the burned shelter, many volunteers were upset that tragedy struck before the new center opened in late March or early April.

Volunteers have long worked to make the new shelter a reality because of the poor structural integrity of the existing building.

"This is exactly what we were trying to have not happen," said Bowe, who volunteers at the shelter on weekends.

Foss was more blunt.

"This shelter needed to go a long time ago," she said. "It's too bad the animals needed to pay the price for these poor conditions.

"We were so close to getting out of here. This was the last few months we had to put up with this crappy shelter," Foss said.

John Fish, an inmate at the Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility, works at the shelter as part of a community service program.

"I care about these animals more than I do a lot of people," he said.

"This is a sad day and (it's) terrible something so tragic could happen to these innocent animals."

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