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If anyone needs another reminder that the adrenaline-addicted anti-drug armies we've unleashed in our own communities are more dangerous than any drug on the planet, well, get a load of this:
FITCHBURG (CBS) – It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter.
Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of a massive citywide drug and weapons gang raid.
Trouble is, Sanchez lives in apartment 2R.
The suspect they were after is in 2F.
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“I just happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the side of my door,” she explains. “And I was freaking out. I didn’t know what was going on.” [CBS Boston]
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before some spokesperson comes along to explain to everyone why breaking out a f$%king chainsaw at a drug raid was perfectly reasonable under the circumstances. Maybe their battering ram was broken from too many batterings. Or, gasp, maybe they chainsaw through people's doors all the damn time and we're only hearing about it now because they finally – inevitably – carved their way into somewhere they weren't supposed to be.
I could spend an extraordinarily long time enumerating all the ways that this is insane, but if I had to choose, I'd say the #1 most horrifyingly messed up thing about this is that they knocked first. It's protocol, I know, but that rule has to change now that there's a chainsaw in play. Imagine that you're doing what someone is theoretically expected to do when you hear a knock at the door and you actually go to answer it…and suddenly a screaming chainsaw rips through the door and you get your arm sliced off by the FBI!!!
Seriously, this is how they protect you from the people engaged in drug activity down the hall: by mixing up your addresses, knocking on your door, and then shoving a giant buzzing chainsaw right where your head would be. Would the appropriate authorities then come forward and encourage everyone not to let this regrettable accidental disembowelment distort our perceptions of an otherwise sound public policy?
I swear, every time I think we've reached the peak of berserk drug war demolition tactics, someone somewhere finds an excuse to do something still more stupid and insane. And they actually have the nerve to tell us that if we're afraid of cops smashing our doors down with various deadly weaponry flailing in every direction, then we shouldn’t break the law. Yeah, tell that to Judy Sanchez and her 3-year-old.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2012/feb/02/fbi_drug_squad_uses_chainsaw_invIf anyone needs another reminder that the adrenaline-addicted anti-drug armies... more
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Kelly is addicted to cheesy potatoes. She consumes 8,000 calories and 176g fat a day, that’s 23 times more than the average American.
“My diet has consisted of cheesy potatoes… every meal. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Probably for 30 years,” she says, adding that green vegetables and other foods have become “traumatic” for her.
She says the cheesy potatoes addiction started when her mother treated her to an order of cheese fries from a fast food restaurant. Ever since that day, she says that’s all she would eat for the next three decades. “It’s definitely more than food, it’s like crack to me,” she says.
Her confession was documented in the TLC series Freaky Eaters last year.
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2012/02/02/woman-addicted-to-cheesy-potatoes/Kelly is addicted to cheesy potatoes. She consumes 8,000 calories and 176g fat a day,... more
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Meet Cathy. She’s featured on TruTV’s biker bar reality show Big Throttle Saloon as a promo girl.
She says she has undergone six surgeries to achieve her modest 36K-size bust.
Psssst… Cathy, you have two Dorito-sized pieces of clothes covering your bajungas.
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2012/01/31/would-you-believe-this-is-not-natural/Meet Cathy. She’s featured on TruTV’s biker bar reality show Big Throttle... more
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The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy’s virtual possessions in an online fantasy game. In the real world, he was beaten and threaten with a knife to give them up.
The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the theft conviction of a youth who stole another boy’s possessions in the popular online fantasy game RuneScape. Judges ordered the offender to perform 144 hours of community service.
Only a handful of such cases have been heard in the world, and they have reached varying conclusions about the legal status of “virtual goods” — and whether stealing them is real-world theft.
The suspect’s lawyer had argued the amulet and mask “were neither tangible nor material and, unlike for example electricity, had no economic value.”
But the Netherlands’ highest court said the virtual objects had an intrinsic value to the 13-year-old gamer because of “the time and energy he invested” in winning them while playing the game.The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy’s virtual possessions in an online... more
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Can we say, Brainwashed? This is really upsetting.
My mom didn't tell me she was gay untill I was 13 because she was afraid I wouldn't love her. I'd like to help Sara learn something about what she is missing; a heart. The average 14 year old wants an iPod, iPhone, etc... what 14 year old actually cares about what government dictates about marriage? Makes me wonder what the parents have "homeschooled" her about different races. Clearly they are cowards to coach their child and hide behind her! WOW!Can we say, Brainwashed? This is really upsetting.
My mom didn't tell me she... more
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She says: "I've had six surgeries to get to this...
No, this is definitely NOT natural..."She says: "I've had six surgeries to get to this...
No, this is definitely... more
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Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.
The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?'
After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last Monday afternoon the pair were detained by armed guards.
Despite telling officials the term 'destroy' was British slang for 'party', they were held on suspicion of planning to 'commit crimes' and had their passports confiscated.
Leigh was also quizzed about another tweet which quoted hit US comedy Family Guy which read: '3 weeks today, we're totally in LA p****** people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!
Federal agents even searched his suitcase looking for spades and shovels, claiming Emily was planning to act as Leigh's 'look out' while he raided Marilyn's tomb.
Bar manager Leigh, from Coventry, and Emily, 24, from Birmingham, were then quizzed for five hours at LAX before they were handcuffed and put into a van with illegal immigrants and locked up overnight.
They spent 12 hours in separate holding cells before being driven back to the airport where they were put on a plane home via Paris.
Leigh, an Irish national, and Emily arrived at Birmingham Airport last Wednesday afternoon.
Emily said: 'The officials told us we were not allowed in to the country because of Leigh's tweet. They wanted to know what we were going to do.
'They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party.
'I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe.
'I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.
'It got even more ridiculous because the officials searched our suitcases and said they were looking for spades and shovels. They did a full body search on me too.
'We just wanted to have a good time on holiday. That was all Leigh meant in his tweet. He would not hurt anyone.'
Leigh posted the tweet on January 16 before the pair flew to LA last Monday.
Leigh said: 'It's just so ridiculous it's almost funny but at the time it was really scary. The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist.
'I kept saying to them they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me "you've really f***** up with that tweet boy".
'When I was in the van I was handcuffed and put in a cage. I had a panic attack but the worse was yet to come.
'When we arrived at the prison I was shoved in a cell on my own but after an hour two huge Mexican men covered in tattoos came in and started asking me who I was.
'They told me they'd been arrested for taking cocaine over the border.
'When the food arrived on the tray they took it all and just left me with a carton of apple juice.'
After 12 hours in custody they returned to the airport where they were handed documents which stated they had been refused entry to the US.
Emily's charge sheet stated: 'It is believed that you are travelling with Leigh-Van Bryan who possibly has the intentions of coming to the United States to commit crimes.'
Leigh's charge sheet, alongside a police mug shot and finger print, added: 'He had posted on his Tweeter website account that he was coming to the United States to dig up the grave of Marilyn Monroe.
'Also on his tweeter account Mr Bryan posted that he was coming to destroy America.'
Leigh and Emily have now been told they must apply for visas from the US Embassy in London before flying to the US again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.htmlTwo British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that... more
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A teenage girl who has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for 15 years has been warned by doctors that the junk food is killing her.
Stacey Irvine, 17, has been hooked on the treats since her mother bought her some at a McDonald’s restaurant when she was two.
Shocked doctors learned of her habit when the factory worker, from Castle Vale, Birmingham, collapsed and was taken to hospital after struggling to breathe.A teenage girl who has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for 15... more
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A 15-year-old girl called police in the middle of the night and asked to be put in a Christian children's shelter after she heard her mother and boyfriend having sex.
The teenager dialled 911 at 4am last Thursday after confronting her 35-year-old mother.
The girl told police that she felt 'disrespected'.
An officer went to the house in Panama City, Florida where the girl asked to be removed from her home.A 15-year-old girl called police in the middle of the night and asked to be put in a... more
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A young woman was walking along the street and saw a dog balancing on a chain. She asked the owner if the video was on YouTube, but he replied that he had no computer and did not think it was anything special...A young woman was walking along the street and saw a dog balancing on a chain. She... more
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Police in Burbank, Calif. arrested a woman outside a McDonald’s last Wednesday who allegedly offered sex for McNuggets!
Khadijah Baseer, 31, was knocking on car doors, asking customers who were in line at the drive-thru to buy her McNuggets, and in return she promised to perform oral sex.
A man told police what happened.
Baseer was arrested on solicitation charges.
This is sad, but I empathize. Don’t get me wrong here, I would reenact Two Girls One Cup for a Chick-fil-a sandwich, but McDonald’s McNuggets… really? Have some respect for yourself and do it for Wendy’s nuggets – everyone knows they are much better.
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2012/01/18/khadijah-baseer-offered-sex-for-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnuggets/Police in Burbank, Calif. arrested a woman outside a McDonald’s last Wednesday... more
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A 5-year-old allegedly used a shank to stab three people over a juice box!
According to reports, neighbors tell police that the child became furious during a dispute over a juice box at a Green County, Va. mobile home on Monday. That’s when he launched an attack on two children and one adult.
The victims are being treated for injuries at a hospital.
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2012/01/18/5-year-old-stabs-3-people-over-juice-box/A 5-year-old allegedly used a shank to stab three people over a juice box!... more
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SHOCKING video has emerged showing a LIVE MOUSE scurrying around inside a bag of hamburger buns at a Philadelphia McDonald’s restaurant – and the former employee who recorded the disturbing footage says it was the “sixth or “seventh” time it happened.
“I was going back there to get something else and I heard some rustling, so I turned around, and I look, I seen a mouse inside the bread. Not on top of the package, but inside of the package,” Karruim Demaio told a local Fox News affiliate.
He added that the buns were not discarded. A manager instructed him to throw out buns that were chewed, then remove rodent droppings left on the remaining buns for customers!
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/2012/01/17/live-mice-found-in-mcdonalds-burger-buns/SHOCKING video has emerged showing a LIVE MOUSE scurrying around inside a bag of... more
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WTF, meth is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. Fudge, heavy metal is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. You'd have to have a screw loose to listen to that sh!t. This has stupid written all over... your passenger is controlling the car and the camera? These f-tards are lucky to be alive.WTF, meth is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. Fudge, heavy metal is one hell of... more
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Sometimes, having huge balls is sh!tty. Poopd!ck. Well, that's enough internet for today. NSFL...Not Safe For Lunch. As an animal science major I feel it is my job to point out that who ever is feeding that pig is feeding it the wrong food.Sometimes, having huge balls is sh!tty. Poopd!ck. Well, that's enough internet... more
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Fringe religious pressure group Christian Voice has claimed that Tesco’s poor performance recently was due to divine intervention.
The group – which has around 2,000 members throughout the UK – had held protests outside Tesco stores towards the end of 2011 after objecting to the supermarket chain’s decision to sponsor an area at Gay Pride celebrations in London.
Christian Voice responded to today’s announcement of a drop in profits for Tesco, saying: “God has answered our prayers for confusion in the Tesco boardroom.”
“As the Big Price Drop was launched in September,” said Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green, “it seems that almighty God, who operates outside of space and time, was well ahead of us, anticipating our prayers and seeing by our actions that our prayers were serious.”
Green then asked Tesco to reconsider their sponsorship commitments: “I now call on Tesco to see sense before their company is ruined. Don’t display the arrogance of the Pharaoh. Withdraw the grant to Gay Pride.”
Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, Green said: “It’s quite a good thing if Tesco are humbled – they’re a bit too big for their boots.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/13/tesco-slump-divine-intervention-christian-groupFringe religious pressure group Christian Voice has claimed that Tesco’s poor... more
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Military attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will stop communicating in writing with their clients because the commander of the military detention center has authorized officials to review mail coming from detainees’ lawyers.
The chief military defense counsel for Guantanamo Bay has instructed the military attorneys in his office not to comply with the commander’s order that they sign an agreement allowing material marked attorney-client privilege to be inspected for possible “contraband” information.
Military defense attorneys said the prospect of government personnel, who answer to the commander, reading privileged communication before and during trials is impermissible under rules of professional conduct.
“We all have security clearances, but I guess they don’t trust us to abide by the rules,” said Marine Corps Col. Jeffrey Colwell, the chief military defense counsel. “You can’t defend your client without being able to communicate with him confidentially. Without that, the system fails.”
The dispute pits the lawyers’ understanding of their ethical obligations against the commander’s concern for security.
Late last month, Rear Adm. David Woods, who oversees the detention facility but is not involved in military commissions, said in an order that a “privilege team” of Defense Department lawyers, as well as intelligence and law enforcement personnel, would inspect the mail and report to him but not to military prosecutors.
“This inspection shall not include a review of the substantive content of the incoming mail,” according to the order, but would still include an effort to determine whether inappropriate information is being passed to a detainee. The order said contraband can include information about “current and political events in any country” if it is not related to a military commission proceeding; information about current or former detainees at Guantanamo Bay; and information about U.S. government personnel.
The last provision stems in part from the discovery of photos of CIA personnel in the cells of high-value detainees in 2009 after defense attorneys, trying to identify interrogators, gave images of them to their clients.
On Sunday, Colwell issued what he called strong guidance to the 40 attorneys under his command, including more than 30 military officers, instructing them not to follow Woods’s order and to stop sending privileged material to their clients. Colwell also said he had objections to an order on arranging face-to-face meetings between defense attorneys and detainees, and told the attorneys not to execute or sign that either.
“It is my opinion that these orders, and the following procedures established by them, do not allow you to adequately safeguard attorney-client privileged communications,” Colwell wrote in an e-mail to defense attorneys, including a pool of nearly 100 civilian lawyers who are on call in case the government begins more military commissions.
In his order, Woods said the procedures are comparable to those governing interaction between detainees and the lawyers challenging their detention under the writ of habeas corpus in federal court in Washington, D.C.
But Zachary Katznelson, a senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented Guantanamo Bay detainees in federal court, said the communications of civilian lawyers in those cases are searched only for physical contraband and the materials are not read by the privilege team.
“In contrast, Woods defines contraband to include information,” Katznelson said. “He wants his monitors to read the contents of the communications and to possibly hold back — and potentially bring to his attention — information deemed outside the scope of representation. Critically, this would include any mention of U.S. personnel involved in torture and abuse of prisoners, even if directly related to the case. There is no such restriction on the habeas side.”
Navy Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, said Woods would not be commenting in advance of a hearing next week at the base.
Last year, the military judge overseeing the prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi facing capital charges in the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, ordered authorities at Guantanamo Bay not to read anything that is clearly marked attorney-client correspondence. Because of that, Colwell exempted Nashiri’s defense team from his instruction.
But the government may attempt to have the judge, Army Col. James Pohl, adopt Woods’s order in the Nashiri case at a pretrial hearing next week. Even if Pohl rejects any government motion, his ruling would still apply only to the Nashiri case. Judges have not yet been appointed to the cases of other detainees facing charges, and their attorneys have no judge to hear an appeal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/guantanamo-bay-lawyers-to-halt-written-communication/2012/01/11/gIQAW23yrP_story.html?wprss=rss_worldMilitary attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will stop... more
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