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Japanese man arrested for using fishing pole to steal womens panties
A Japanese man was arrested for stealing women's underwear, according to a Tokyo police spokesman on Tuesday.
Akira Hino, 51, with a passion for women's underwear, was caught when he tried to steal a pair of knickers from a laundry pole on a second-floor balcony, the spokesman said.
Hino, according to local news paper Mainichi Shimbun, stretched out a 3-meter rod and caught the underwear on a hook, then reeled knickers in.
The local police found more than 500 pairs of women's underwear inside of his house. As he told investigators, he had got into the habit of stealing undergarments since he was 18.
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I wonder what kind of punishment he will get? No fishing license the rest of his life? Laundry duty at the women's prison facility? He really didn't need to steal them, all he had to do is ask! At any rate, pretty weird. A Japanese man was arrested for stealing women's underwear, according to a Tokyo police spokesman on Tuesday. ... more -
Let's put AIG bailout into perspective, then bend way over...
I pulled this out of an email I received:
Subject: Against the $85,000,000,000 Bailout!
I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve
It Dividend.
To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S.
Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and
child.
So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It
Dividend.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends
$25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A
husband
and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off
your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great
boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a
bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical
insurance - health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or
else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who
lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting
back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of
trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is
being proposed by one of our candidates for President.
If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult US
Citizen 18+!
As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go
back
to being American General. Sell off the real estate. < BR>Let the private
sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
How do you spell Economic Boom?
I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We
Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington
DC.
And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5
Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest. Kindest personal
regards, Birk T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic
PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it's either good for a
laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85
Billion!! I pulled this out of an email I received: Subject: Against the $85,000,000,000 Bailout! ... more -
Girl, 19, tortured for 13 hours after being wrongly accused of stealing phone
A 19-year-old girl was tortured for 13 hours by two women after she was wrongly accused of stealing a mobile phone.
Katie McNamara was lured to a house by her former friend Francesca Raby, 18, before her marathin ordeal took place.
During the horrific attack, Raby and her friend Kelly Louise Garrity, 26, punched, burned, kicked and stabbed McNamara before locking her in a cupboard.
The two women hacked off McNamara's long black hair and forced her to lick her own blood off the floor.
After Raby and Garrity were sentenced for assault and false imprisonment, McNamara, now 20, spoke of her horrific attack.
She said: 'I thought I was going to die. They were going to keep me another night if the neighbour had not turned up.
'I kept asking them to stop but they carried on, laughing at me. I was really scared when they were stamping on my head. I couldn't escape they had locked the front door and there were two of them, I had no chance.
'They cut my hair and then put my face into a mirror and said "you don't look so pretty now". Maybe they were jealous of my looks. I will never forgive them for what they did.'
Katie's injuries were so severe her mother Denise didn't even recognize her in the hospital bed.
After she arrived at the house with another friend, the two women pulled her by the hair into the kitchen and started kicking and beating her.
McNamara's friend attempted to intervene, but was threatened and told to leave.
She was then taken by taxi to a second house, where two men joined in the attack.
During the attack, McNamara lost conscious repeatedly.
As well as being punched, kicked and stamped on, she was burned with cigarettes and Garrity threw a kitchen knife at her. A 19-year-old girl was tortured for 13 hours by two women after she was wrongly accused of stealing a mobile phone. ... more -
Posh Londoners get their internet stolen!! Guy ritchie not involved!!
Thousands of the nation's richest gadget owners have had their Internet nicked, literally, after a gang of thieves raided a nearby BT exchange.
Some believe the raiders used the paparazzi scrum at nearby Guy Ritchie's 40th birthday bash [Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels], who dragged Madonna along for the knees up, as the cover they needed to break into the BT premises.
Will they get it back and up and running? Who knows...... Thousands of the nation's richest gadget owners have had their Internet nicked, literally, after a gang of thieves raided a nearb... more -
Employees stealing at work
A 2004 study found an astounding 79% of employees admit to stealing or considering doing so from their employers.
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Boy, 7, steals gran's cashcard, subsequently empties sweet shop
One sneaky little seven-year-old in Germany got busted for stealing his gran's cash card, then drawing out a heap of cash from the ATM after all of his mates emptied the local shop of all of its sweets.
The alarm was raised by the other kids parents and then the police apprehended the sneaky sweetie shopper.
A police spokesman said: "He could barely reach the console to type in the number.
"But he had seen that was how his gran got the cash and he just took her card and copied her. He did not know it was anything wrong."
Bless him.
Photo: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2622923016_255dbc0a... One sneaky little seven-year-old in Germany got busted for stealing his gran's cash card, then drawing out a heap of cash from th... more -
VIII: Thou Shall Not Steal (Is Free, Open-Source the Solution to the Sin?)
We've been stealing software ever since companies began charging for it.
Not that there's anything right with that. Just because someone decides to demand $50 -- or $500 -- for something we want or need doesn't mean we can just take it.
Except ... that it kind of does. Making things easy to steal makes them more likely to be stolen.
The music industry learned that. The lengthy boom they enjoyed by digitizing their entire catalogs for CDs in the '80s only meant that people would swap those digital bits incessantly once technology (broadband Internet, writable CDs) allowed them to do so.
Computer software used to be what companies bundled in the box so they could sell their hardware.
Apple still pretty much works this way. The company's software -- OS X, iTunes -- is brilliant, but it's only there to get you to buy Macs, iPods and ... digital music.
See, in this case a brilliant software product, combined with equally brilliant hardware, has somehow made a market for legitimately sold digital music.
But we're still stealing.
Since the first computers came as a complete package -- hardware and software -- we were conditioned to pay for one and not the other. Most of us aren't about to march into Wal-Mart and carry out a large computer box without paying for it. That's shoplifting. And that means getting caught.
But installing Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Office from our friend's disc is also stealing. It's easier. We're not likely to be arrested. MS Office is wicked expensive. We don't use it all that much ... but need it sometimes.
I did it, too. Everybody needs to generate Word-compatible documents, Excel-compatible spreadsheets, and now PowerPoint- compatible presentations. (PowerPoint is evil, but that's another column for another day.)
I used to maintain that huge software behemoths like Microsoft wouldn't be subject to so much thievery if they just lowered their prices.
It's not that simple. Microsoft charges what it does because that's what the corporate market is willing to pay. And if the average guy sitting at home can pay hundreds of dollars for software, they'll take his money, too.
To a company like Microsoft, they'd prefer that home users steal its software and become familiar with it rather than use anything else. That way, when those same people go to work, they'll demand their bosses pay for the programs they know.
Long ago, I began moving all of my machines over to as much free, open-source software as I could. I use the OpenOffice suite, the lightweight AbiWord word processor Relevant Products/Services, the excellent Notepad++ text editor, FileZilla for FTP file transfers over the Internet, the GIMP to edit images, and the Pidgin IM program to bring my Yahoo, AOL and Google instant-messaging accounts under one application.
I still use some programs that are free but not "open source," meaning you can't see the code behind them, nor can you modify it. The great IrfanView image editor, Avast's antivirus program and the online Google Docs office suite are among those.
And while I spend time in Windows and OS X, more and more of my computing is done in free Linux-based operating systems. Again, another column for another day. We've been stealing software ever since companies began charging for it. ... more -
Policeman spared jail after stealing confiscated cannabis to cope with father'...
A policeman who stole cannabis to help cope with his father's death was spared jail today.
Paul Smith repeatedly found excuses to visit the custody suite area of the police station and surreptitiously pocketed small amounts of the Class C substance which had been confiscated from suspects.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Stealing is bad. This Judge sent a clear message to all the other police on the make,,,,,If you get caught you'll loose your job, maybe, depending on what yeah but no but yeah excuses you come up with! A policeman who stole cannabis to help cope with his father's death was spared jail today. ... more -
ATM Thefts Are On The Rise
Police report an alarming rise in ATM thefts. Not thefts at ATMs —thefts of the entire machines themselves.
Houston police said there have been at least seven operation by a ring of smash-and-grab operators who steal large pickup trucks and crash them into storefronts to get at the ATM. They attach a chain to the back of the truck, wrap it around the ATM and yank the machine out of the store.
Other thieves, especially in rural areas dotted with construction sites, bring in a stolen forklift and just drive off with the ATM.
The whole operation can take less than five minutes, and if the ATM has been recently replenished, the thieves can get away with tens of thousands of dollars — assuming they can figure out how to crack open the vault.
And for a variety of reasons, police said, the crime is spiking in astonishing numbers this year. Police report an alarming rise in ATM thefts. Not thefts at ATMs —thefts of the entire machines themselves. ... more -
New Jersey dentist jailed for body parts theft
A New Jersey dentist behind a scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke, was sentenced yesterday to a maximum of 54 years in prison.
In March Michael Mastromarino, 44, admitted to leading a $4.6m operation that targeted funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The ring dismembered more than 1,000 cadavers, selling the parts to doctors who transplanted them into patients.
"I am sorry for the emotional pain I have caused," Mastromarino told the court, repeating an apology he made to victims and relatives of the dead earlier this month.
State supreme court judge John Walsh made no comment as he sentenced Mastromarino, who had pleaded guilty to body stealing, reckless endangerment and enterprise corruption. A New Jersey dentist behind a scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke, was senten... more -
Do you think churches should be taxed?
I do. They lobby and spend money on real estate, spend money on advertisements, and some of the megachurch preachers have million dollar homes. At the bottom of this link the poster says that they believe the churches should pay taxes proportional to the good they do.
Benny Hinn, a TV preacher who runs the World Healing Center Church in Grapevine, Texas. Hinn, who travels the globe conducting faith-healing revivals, lives in a seven-bathroom, eight-bedroom mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean valued at $10 million. It is claimed as a parsonage.
The Rev. Creflo Dollar's World Changers Church International in College Park, Ga. Dollar drives a Rolls Royce and has large homes in Georgia and New York. He is asked to provide a list of all vehicles provided for himself, his wife, board members and ministry employees.
Paula and Randy White's Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Fla. In a letter to the ministry, Grassley asks the couple to provide a list of expense account items "including, but not limited to, clothing expenses and any cosmetic surgery for years 2004 to present."
Joyce Meyer Ministries in Fenton, Mo. Grassley asks Meyer and her husband David to explain expenditures like a $23,000 commode with a marble top, a $30,000 conference table, an $11,000 French clock and a $19,000 pair of vases for the ministry headquarters.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Newark, Texas. Copeland is asked to explain how cash offerings are handled during overseas crusades and to explain the use of a ministry jet for "layovers" in Maui, Fiji and Honolulu.
Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga. Among other things, Long is asked to explain a church official's 2005 claim that Long no longer accepts a salary from the church but does take a "love offering
link to above explaining about senate finance committee investigation from this year
http://www.alternet.org/story/72539/?page=entire I do. They lobby and spend money on real estate, spend money on advertisements, and some of the megachurch preachers have million dol... more -
YouTube - Seven-year-old boy steals grandmother's SUV
A seven-year-old boy steals his grandmother's Durango along with his friend and go on a eight-minute joy ride before the police catch them. A seven-year-old boy steals his grandmother's Durango along with his friend and go on a eight-minute joy ride before the police c... more
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Man discovers woman living in his closet
A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman living secretly in his closet, Japanese media said Friday.
The 57-year-old unemployed man of Fukuoka in southern Japan called police Wednesday when the camera sent pictures to his mobile phone of an intruder in his home while he was out on Wednesday.
Officers rushed to the house and found a 58-year-old unemployed woman hiding in an unused closet, where she had secreted a mattress and plastic drink bottles. Police suspect she may have been there for several months. A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman livin... more -
Woman stealing IDs from the dead
Federal prosecutors this week charged a Southern California woman with aggravated identity theft and other crimes for allegedly using a popular genealogy research website to locate people who had recently died, and then taking over their credit cards.
Tracy June Kirkland, 42, allegedly used Rootsweb.com to find the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of people who, shall we say, had no further need for their consumer credit lines. She then "would randomly call various credit card companies to determine if the deceased individual had an … account," according to the 15-count indictment (.pdf) filed in federal court in Los Angeles Tuesday.
She'd then persuade the issuer to change the mailing address for the dead victim to one of her many rented mail drops in Orange and Riverside counties, and in some cases she'd add her own name as an authorized user of the card, prosecutors say.
At least 100 of the dearly departed were allegedly used in the scheme, which prosecutors say began in October 2005 and continued until last month. The indictment charges that Kirkland obtained various unspecified goods and cash advances.
Rootsweb, run by Provo, Utah-based The Generations Network, is a genealogical research site offering a wealth of resources. One of them is free, up-to-date access to the Social Security Administration's Death Index, a list of people who have died, along with their birth dates and Social Security numbers. Federal prosecutors this week charged a Southern California woman with aggravated identity theft and other crimes for allegedly using ... more -
Know The Enemy
Animated documentary about the tricks of the trade when it comes to stealing bikes.
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Uh Oh, Billabong!
Seems the designers from Billabong have lifted from Johnny Cupcakes, a t-shirt designer who started with very little and made out quite alright. More than alright!
He wanted us to spread the word about this "coincidence". Seems the designers from Billabong have lifted from Johnny Cupcakes, a t-shirt designer who started with very little and made out quit... more -
Will Your Vote Be Counted in 2008? Electronic Voting Machines and the Privatizatio...
With less than a month before Super Tuesday, every vote counts. But will every vote actually be counted? One-by-one, states across the country are finding critical flaws in the accuracy and security of electronic voting machines. We speak with Clive Thompson, the author of a New York Times Magazine cover story titled ?Can You Count on Voting Machines?? With less than a month before Super Tuesday, every vote counts. But will every vote actually be counted? One-by-one, states across the... more
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Fool theives with fake rust and scratches
Don't these stickers defeat the purpose of having a nice looking car or bike?
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Shoplifting seagull in Scotland gets away with it!!
A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.
The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.
Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.
The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he's become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.
Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny. A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop. ... more
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