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Tunisia Crisis

A Short Compilation on the Crisis in Tunisia. Violent anti-government protests... more

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BROKEN(A POEM)

I'm stuck, immobilized, bogged down. Stuck between the old protocols and the... more

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Florida Resident Shane Thompson Allegedly Beat and Choked His 3-legged Dog to Death

A man who tried to have his dog's body cremated was arrested Wednesday on an... more

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Gelato is the Opiate of the Masses

The bros try and cheer up Count Steve who is in his usual Emo funk.

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Miserable Comedians #8: Cry Funny Man, Cry

Villa's confrontation with Donner leads to Donner really regretting the sabotage.

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Italy to combat prostitution by cutting trees

Environmental organisations today expressed outrage over a plan by local authorities in the Abruzzo region of central Italy to combat prostitution with deforestation.

For decades, local law enforcement and politicians have struggled to police the Bonifica del Tronto road, a haven for the sex trade that runs inland for more than 10 miles from the Adriatic coast alongside the river Tronto. Over the years, cameras have been installed, raids mounted, 24-hour patrols implemented and the mayors of towns near the road have signed bylaws imposing fines on prostitutes' clients. All to no avail.

At the end of last month, the regional government's public works chief, Angelo Di Paolo, announced that the time had come for drastic measures. He said he had agreed with provincial and municipal representatives to cut down all the vegetation "around and along the banks [of the river Tronto]", in which the prostitutes ply their trade.

A local authority "ought to contribute to the solution of problems relating to law and order," said Di Paolo. But in a statement three environmental groups, including the WWF, said that the scheme would destroy 28 hectares (69 acres) of woodland vital to local ecosystems, saying the only crime of the thousands of trees on the local authorities' hit list had been to "offer with their fronds shelter and intimacy to sex slaves".

The authorities, they added, had "not even taken into account mitigating circumstances". "Among these are having absorbed thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide and given man precious oxygen," they said. They also prevented fertiliser and pesticides from reaching the river.

A census this month by an NGO found almost 600 prostitutes at work on the Bonifica del Tronto. Most were Nigerians, but they included Romanians, Brazilians, Albanians and Chinese.

Di Paolo is a man known for resolute responses. Some years ago, when he was mayor of the town of Canistro, he won national fame for shooting at a bank robber whom he then chased and caught.Environmental organisations today expressed outrage over a plan by local authorities... more

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Carlsbad School Shooting

Carlsbad School Shooting, another sad incident, Although the shooter of Carlsbad... more

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Tony the Truck Stop Tiger: UPDATE

UPDATE: Tony is still "living" at the tiger truck stop in Louisiana,... more

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The 12 Most Depressing Keanu Reeves Quotes

Keanu has fast become a meme online and possibly being the only celeb we enjoy seeing... more

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Florida's Cops: Vacant, foreclosed houses attract homeless squatters

From: The Orlando Sentinel.

Police think family members arrested at an Ocoee home this week are part of a network of squatters who live in houses facing foreclosure.

Detectives are investigating whether three other houses in the city are occupied by people with no legal authority to be there, Ocoee police Sgt. Mike Bryant said. At least some of those residents are thought to be related, he said.

A day-care center was being operated in one of the homes until the state Department of Children and Families shut it down in July. More people were suspected to be living in unsold town houses not long ago.

These takeovers of empty homes have increased as foreclosures have skyrocketed, authorities said. In July, the Orlando area had the eighth-highest foreclosure activity in the nation. Florida has thousands of empty dwellings where the homeless can stay.

"It is common to run into them from time to time," said Manny del Valle, president of Foreclosure Cleanup Pros, which tidies up vacant homes. Neighbors "don't want to get involved, and these people will live there for months."

It's not just that neighbors don't call the police. Officers can't question people about their presence in a home unless a crime appears to have been committed or someone makes a legitimate complaint, Bryant said.

The foreclosed house on Plumberry Avenue, where the arrests occurred Tuesday, was being monitored from the outside monthly, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage said. A company representative saw someone appeared to be living there but noticed no signs of disrepair, spokeswoman Teri Schrettenbrunner said.

The bank had no right to investigate further or conduct its own maintenance unless the house was vacant and not being maintained, she said.

A mother, her son, his wife and her three children were living in the 3,800-square-foot house with a large pool and fireplace, a police report shows. A representative of the new owner called police after he changed the locks and put up a "no trespassing" sign, then returned to find a bathroom window broken and people inside.

The water was shut off, and the toilets were filled with excrement, investigators said. A pit bull was tied up with no water in a closed garage stinking from animal waste, according to the report.

The adults were arrested on charges of child neglect, burglary with property damage of more than $1,000, animal cruelty and theft of utilities. DCF placed the youngsters, ages 12, 11 and 9, with a relative. Two other children visiting the home belong to a woman who lives in the house where the day-care center was operating and were returned to her, Bryant said. Orange County Animal Control took the dog.From: The Orlando Sentinel. Police think family members arrested at an Ocoee home... more