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What bothers me about this was the apparent lie delivered by the Police that the area had FAA flight restrictions when it did not.
Read the whole story to realize how stupid this is. Not sure what’s worse, the inane charges against the kid or the irresponsible reporting that outed the child’s name. Both may have destroyed the boy’s future. Question: Would the Sheriff’s Office have filed charges if the media hadn’t gotten involved?
Moral: Teach your kids to never help anyone. Ever. EVER!
UPDATE: Looks like the original story may not be accurate, assuming this guy is for real. If so, this could be more a case of bad, sensationalized reporting than of bad police work. On the other hand, scan down the comments in the reddit post to see some contrary opinions. To take it to the extreme, the guy on reddit could be the arresting cop trying to save face.
I know that in this paranoid world, you never approach a small child who is by herself, take her by the hand and walk out of a store with her in search of mommy. But I am not 14 years old. I am not Edwin.
Last week, Edwin went to the Burlington Coat Factory store on West Colonial Drive with his mother.
He saw a 3-year-old girl without a parent. If he had it to do all over again, if he could see the cops, the handcuffs, the TV cameras and the jail cell all awaiting him, I imagine the last thing he would have done was try to help her.
But he did.
I pieced together what happened from the investigative report, a 911 call, surveillance video, news reports and interviews with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Makes this article, “Do laws even matter today?”, even more relevant:
A legal system cannot demand the faith and fealty of the governed when rules are seen as arbitrary and deceptive. Our leaders have led us not to an economic crisis or an immigration crisis or an environmental crisis or a civil liberties crisis. They have led us to a crisis of faith where citizens no longer believe that laws have any determinant meaning. It is politics, not the law, that appears to drive outcomes — a self-destructive trend for a nation supposedly defined by the rule of law.
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- IBM getting into mobile advertising? Everyone is trying to get into the act.
- RIM developing new Blackberry and tablet.
- AT&T and Apple cannot handle the iPhone 4 orders. Swamped.
- E3 news hogging the news feeds.
- Look for a Nintendo 3DS and Sony 3D on everything.
- Wi-Fi ruining demos.
- New Mac Mini.
- Office 2010 ships!
- Pac Man released again.
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Rocker Ozzy Osbourne wants to donate his body to science, insisting it’s a “medical miracle” he’s still alive after years of partying hard.
The Black Sabbath star is baffled he has managed to survive to the age of 61 and is convinced doctors and scientists would benefit from dissecting and studying his body after he dies.
According to the U.K.’s Daily Star, he says, “By all accounts, I’m a medical miracle. When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum. It’s all very well going on a bender for a couple of days but mine went on for 40 years. At one point, I was knocking back four bottles of cognac a day, blacking out, coming to again and carrying on.”
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But he admits he has always had concerns about his health: “I happen to be the world’s worst hypochondriac. I will catch a disease off the telly (TV). Being ill is like a hobby. I’ve even started to diagnose my own diseases, thanks to Google.”
Maybe Ozzy should team up with this guy.
US General David Petraeus appeared to pass out briefly at a televised Senate hearing on Afghanistan.
The four-star general who leads Central Command quickly recovered and walked out under his own power.
Gen. Petraeus, 57, had finished telling Sen. John McCain that he believes the planned 2011 pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan remains on track, and McCain was responding when the room fell silent and aides began crowding around the four-star general.
Gen Petraeus, who oversees the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as head of U.S. Central Command, briefly put his head on the table, then rose, appearing dazed. He stood under his own power and was escorted from the room.
Gen Petraeus himself returned to the room briefly and told the senators he “was feeling a little bit light-headed there.”
“It wasn’t Sen. McCain’s question,” the general added.
That was nice of the general; but, it’s likely that listening to McCain pat himself on the back over and over again could put a teenage gamer on his third espresso bongo into a narcoleptic coma.
This is just rich. Another point for the denialists. I wonder how this is now going to play out with the Cap & Trade crowd and the rest of the group. A bigger question might be why do so many people WANT the global warming scenario to be true?
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.
“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”
Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia – the university of Climategate fame — is the founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and one of the UK’s most prominent climate scientists.
Let’s go back to the global cooling thesis!
Related link: Academic paper on the IPCC with amazing bibliography. A goldmine for skeptics.
Found by Jason Price.
The professional jesters, who perform on the country’s bus routes, marched down San Salvador’s main street chanting “real clowns are not criminals”. The protest follows the shooting of a bus passenger on Monday by the impostors after he refused to give them money.
The man was shot five times in the face and stomach then other passengers on the bus were robbed. Police are yet to make any arrests. The protesters, dressed in oversized bow ties, tiny hats and colourful make-up, said they were aiming to entertain and educate passers-by during their march.
“We are protesting so that people know we are not killers,” said professional clown Ana Noelia Ramirez.
“The people who did this are not clowns. They unfortunately used our costume and our make-up to commit a monstrous act.” The leader of the clown union, Carlos Vasquez, has confirmed plans to issue ID to all real clowns and urged police to detain those who do not have them. The performers are a familiar sight on El Salvador’s buses and also in the streets where they juggle and do tricks at busy intersections for waiting traffic.
Coulrophobia: an abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. I think Cosmo Kramer was afflicted with this.
- E3 Underway. Look for a lot of news about games!
- New Xbox360 shown.
- Report on the new N8 phone from Nokia. I like it so far.
- Meanwhile Starbucks does free Wi-Fi.
- Hackers says all iPads at risk.
- Yet another Halo coming to a machine near you.
- MSFT Natal column running in PC Magazine.
- Moon loaded with water? Oh really?
- EVO phone has some bad screens.
- New server uses Atom processors? What?
- YouTube now considered art? No way. Way.
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What is this all about?
Poster found in the Holborn Tubes station in London by Matthew Wittering
Dunno. Seems drunk.
found by Kevin Miner
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