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A fatal moped accident occurred Sunday night, and police believe that the driver was text messaging minutes before the crash. Douglas Flores, 41, was killed when his moped crashed into a telephone pole. Flores’ vehicle was seen driving off of the road before the crash at around 9:00 p.m. Sunday.
Witnesses also told deputies that he may have been trying to text message while driving the scooter.
The sheriff’s office said that the investigation may include looking at Flores’ cell phone records at the time of the accident.
Right now, the sheriff’s department has not been able to locate his cell phone at the scene of the crash.
I imagine that cellphone traveled a pretty fair distance before landing. The telephone pole didn’t move at all.
Oh, some reports say he wasn’t wearing a helmet, either.
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Hit & Run Woman May Lose Her Home Because of Decade-Old Blowjob – Reason Magazine — So apparently the act of oral sex is a sex crime requiring sex offender registration. Again the effort to criminalize normal sexual behavior and categorize it as a sex crime is an attempt to trivialize real sex crimes like violent rape. Only a sick legislature will do this. None is worse than Georgia.
Wendy Whitaker, 29, has been on Georgia’s sex offender list for more than 12 years. Her crime? She performed oral sex on a high school classmate just after turning 17. The boy was just shy of his 16th birthday. Both were sophomores.
After the international uproar associated with the Genarlow Wilson case Wilson, you’ll remember, was convicted of a similar crime—having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old while he was 17, Georgia’s legislature clarified state law to prevent these sorts of cases—what Whitaker did 12 years ago is no longer a crime in Georgia. But because some Georgia lawmakers stubbornly wanted to keep Wilson in jail, the legislature took a separate vote to keep the law from applying retroactively. Wilson and Whitaker are still convicted felons.
Whitaker is also involved in a second lawsuit—this one to keep her house. In 2006, she and her husband scoped out neighborhood surrounding the Harlem, Georgia home they eventually purchased to be sure they were in compliance with Georgia’s sex offender law at the time. That law prohibited offenders from living within 1,000 feet of any area where children congregate. Despite their efforts, local authorities ordered Whitaker and her husband to vacate shortly after they moved in. They had overlooked a nearby church, which was running an unadvertised daycare service.
Sex offender map of Georgia — Some odd “offenders” include a Peeping Tom categorized with violent rapists.
Meanwhile this is going on in Georgia
Found by Tim Yates.
PLATTEVILLE, Colo. — A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest — 40,000 people showed up.
Joe and Chris Miller’s fields were picked so clean Saturday that a second day of gleaning — the ancient practice of picking up leftover food in farm fields — was canceled Sunday. ” ‘Overwhelmed’ is putting it mildly,” Chris Miller said. “People obviously need food.” She said she expected 5,000 to 10,000 people to show up Saturday to collect free potatoes, carrots and leeks. Instead, an estimated 11,000 vehicles snaked around cornfields and backed up more than two miles. About 30 acres of the 600-acre farm 37 miles north of Denver became a parking lot.
Miller said they opened the farm to the free public harvest after hearing reports of food being stolen from churches. It was meant as a thank-you for customers.
We are looking more like a third world country every day.
Daylife/AP Photo by Manu Fernandez
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A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy – the local cemetery. Santa Coloma de Gramanet, near Barcelona, has placed 462 solar panels over its multi-storey mausoleums.
Officials say the scheme was initially greeted with derision, but families who use the cemetery eventually supported the idea following a public campaign.
There are now plans to erect more panels at the cemetery and triple the amount of electricity generated.
The cemetery was chosen for the project because it is one of only a few open, sunny places in the crowded city, which has a population of 124,000 crammed into 1.5 sq miles.
Nice to see reason prevail.
If you crank up your mega-watt car stereo or boom box in Fort Lupton, Colorado, and exceed the city’s noise limits, you could be faced with a punishment that some could construe as torture. Or possibly cruel and unusual punishment.
Of course, that depends on your particular demographic category. You see, the city’s judge, Paul Sacco, applies the strict punishment about four times a year to those noise offenders. It’s the punishment fitting the crime, according to the judge. The crowded courtroom usually consists of young adult offenders, and they are subjected to one solid mind-numbing hour of musical selections by the likes of Barry Manilow, Dolly Parton, the Carpenters, and my favorite, Barney! Ha ha! I can just picture the young punks squirming in their seats, their faces grimacing and wincing as they try not to listen to the musical hit parade provided by Judge Sacco.
During the full hour of this grueling punishment, they are not allowed to chew gum, eat, drink, read or even sleep. I don’t know if one hour is sufficient, though. When one has to listen to some pinhead booming his crap that passes for music at 2,000 watts of power through giant bass woofers, I would suggest that a full day of listening to whatever they hate would be more appropriate.
I’m not that old that I don’t enjoy my music loud, but when a car pulls up next to you and your teeth start to rattle, it cant be healthy.
The season of turkey, goodwill and consumerism might seem a long way off yet, but a December performance of “Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People” that includes a turn by Richard Dawkins and the Guardian’s own Ben Goldacre has already sold out.
Have no fear though, the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, which is hosting the event on December 19, has now added another date on December 18 – but hurry up, tickets go on sale today and are expected to sell out fast.
The show is a spin-off of comedian Robin Ince’s regular show The School for Gifted Children and is being produced with the help of the folks at the New Humanist magazine. It is billed as, “a night of music and comedy to celebrate the rational and scientific and debunk Winterval myths spouted by religious and media ninnies.”
They’re featuring one musical group I haven’t been able to track down on recording [yet]: the Martin White mini fax machine orchestra.
Daylife/AP Photo by William S. Stevens
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| MV Sirus Star anchored off Somalia coast after hijacking |
As dawn breaks over the Indian Ocean each morning, elders in Somali pirate bases sip strong coffee and clutch mobile phones to their ears, eager to hear the latest from the gunmen out at sea.
Have any more ships been hijacked or ransom talks concluded? Any news of the Western warships hunting them?
Last weekend’s spectacular capture of a Saudi Arabian supertanker loaded with oil worth $100 million has jacked up the stakes in what is probably the only growth industry in the failed Horn of Africa state.
Massive ransoms have brought rapid development to former fishing villages that now thrive with business and boast new beachside hotels, patronized by cash-rich buccaneers who have become local celebrities virtually overnight…
Just three years ago, maritime security experts estimated there were just five Somali pirate groups and fewer than 100 gunmen in total. Now they think there are more than 1,200…
The biggest lure now, of course, is the vast ransoms being paid for captured ships. Kenya says it thinks the pirates have received more than $150 million this year alone.
Next, they’ll be joining country clubs, invited to meetings in Davos.
Daylife/AFP/Getty Images
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| Stopped for a chuckle in DC – the day before his clinic visit |
Members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family spent enough during a visit to the Mayo Clinic to give the area’s economy a shot in the arm, according to Rochester, Minnesota, officials.
Rochester officials say Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz arrived on November 15 for a checkup at the Mayo Clinic and was accompanied by at least five princes and hundreds of others in his retinue.
Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Brad Jones says a conservative estimate of the royal family’s spending on the trip to Mayo Clinic is up to $1.5 million.
Officials say that should offset the area’s economic woes. Jones calls that a “great shot in the arm.”
It’s always good to receive a visit from the King. Any one of our Kings.
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