“Modene had been floating on the river for the day and consuming alcoholic beverages the entire time,” troopers wrote in their “daily dispatches” log on their website. Of course, the inflatable raft could have killed someone if he had lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic.
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If people had a gun, innocent lives might be saved more often than not.
Read more »According to a report in The New Orleans Times-Picayune, funds from NIDA helped create the dangerous marijuana alternative known as "Spice" and "K2."
The funds were disbursed in the mid-1990s to a Clemson University researcher named Dr. John W. Huffman. It was while searching for a cure to marijuana "addiction" that Huffman developed the formula for Spice:
Read more »Growing Marijuana as a Teenager by Dr. BC Bud
This is NOT a basic guide to growing pot, because there are too many of these to be found on Totse and google. This is a guide to growing pot when you want it most - as a teenager.
Read more »PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute on behalf of a Phoenix man who is serving a 60-day jail sentence and was fined more than $12,000 for using his private residential property to host a weekly Bible study, allegedly in violation of the city’s building codes.
Read more »British police clashed with hundreds of cyclists for allegedly riding too close to the Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday, reports The Guardian. Police, who used pepper spray on the crowd and arrested 182 of the cyclists, claimed that the cyclists’ presence might have disrupted the Olympics, while many of the cyclists insist they had no such intentions. After having their bicycles confiscated, the cyclists, including a 13-year-old, were handcuffed en masse and kept in concrete rooms without windows overnight due to a lack of adequate prison space.
Read more »Gun Control Amendment Restricting Magazine Size To 10 Rounds Slipped Into Cyber Security Bill
Read more »The average deaths in shooting rampage when stopped by police is 14.3
The average deaths in shooting rampage when stopped by a civilian is 2.3.
I compiled and analyzed 93 shootings, noting my methodology, complete with links to the raw data.
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Why do police issued firearms in Detroit not have safeties? A woman accidentally discharges a policeman's firearm by hugging him from behind at a party where he had a concealed weapon on him.
Read more »Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists, professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico's most violent states - one which directly borders Texas - going on the record with such accusations is unique.
Read more »As researchers continue to look for a possible cure for HIV-AIDS, we turn to the remarkable story of Timothy Ray Brown, known in the medical world as the "Berlin Patient." He is the first person believed to have been cured of HIV. "I was diagnosed in 1995 with HIV and I was scared to death because at that point people were dying from the disease itself and also form the only available drug at the time, AZT," Brown recalls. A decade later he was diagnosed with leukemia as well.
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Entitled "Run, Hide, Fight," the video depicts a fictional shooting incident at an office building. Personal commentary: While these may be good tips for "the masses", perhaps they should have mentioned early on that if someone (or group) has the Will and the Skill to take the guy on near the beginning of the incident (rather than waiting until they are cornered like rats), even more lives could be saved. But I guess such persons of Will and Skill figure this out in an instant and ignore the official line. Also, as an "follically challenged Male of European-American I feel stereotyped :)
Read more »A man took a knife and stabbed two people before an armed citizen pulled a gun and forced him to stop. The suspect was then arrested.
Read more »A large yellow parking space with a sign reading “Mayor Parking Only” turned up in an area previously reserved for police squad cars Monday morning after Mayor Ted Franklin received a ticket Friday for parking in a no-parking zone outside the City Building.
Read more »James Holmes _may_ not have been wearing "body Armor" after all.... This matters because if true, then it would have been much easier for an armed defender to stop him. According to this article, "...despite its name, the urban assault vest is not bulletproof, but is simply a vest made for carrying accessories." This possibility needs further research. It is difficult because even days later, police do not seem to be releasing much specific information.
Read more »Mom changes her son's grade from a 98% to a 99%, faces 42 years in prison or a $90,000 fine if convicted.
Read more »The Los Angeles City Council decided unanimously on Tuesday to ban all storefront medical marijuana shops, in a blow to a industry that operates in violation of federal law but has become the largest collection of pot dispensaries in California. The 14-0 vote by the council comes after conflicting court decisions on how far local jurisdictions in California can go in cracking down on the cannabis shops. Some observers say the issue could end up before the state's Supreme Court.
Read more »In a controversial case that involved the rights of illegal immigrants and their young children, a Guatemalan mother lost her effort today to get back the five-year old son who was taken away from her after her arrest on immigration charges and put up for adoption in Missouri despite her objections.
Read more »13 year old saves up $1,200 to buy a hot dog stand to help his family out. He files all the necessary paperwork, he gets a vending permit, gets permission from the property owner on where he is to set up his stand just to be shot down by city hall.
Duszynski was told by city officials that "his cart was in violation of a Holland zoning law that protects existing food businesses downtown against competition from mobile food vendors, and he would have to cease operation immediately."
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