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CAFE Standards To Make Cars Less Safe

Takeshi Kovacs — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:20:58 +0000

Because your next new car probably won’t come with even a mini-spare – let alone an actual full-size spare tire. The latter has been MIA from all-but-large-luxury cars (and trucks) for years, partially because the available trunk real estate of the typical new car is much less than it was in the past.

Cop looses it explicit language

Slim — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:54 +0000

Cop looses it after asking guy if he can search and the driver tells the cop to get a warrant

La. Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Wearing Pajamas in Public

pmfalcon — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:11:46 +0000

Caddo Parish District 3 Commissioner Michael Williams said after seeing a group of young men at a local Walmart wearing pajama pants that revealed one young man's private parts, he decided to push for an ordinance that would prohibit wearing pajama pants in public. "Pajamas are designed to be worn in the bedroom at night," Williams said. "If you can't (wear pajamas) at the Boardwalk or courthouse, why are you going to do it in a restaurant or in public? Today it's pajamas," Williams said. "Tomorrow it's underwear. Where does it stop?"

Three Calif parents ARE arrested for truant children

pmfalcon — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:41:44 +0000

Three parents were arrested last week because their children had been truant too many times, officials said Wednesday. The consequences for parents arrested for their child's truancy include up to one year in county jail and/or a $2,000 fine for each child not in compliance. "Sometimes we have to reinforce the idea that it is a crime to not send your child to school," said Chief Deputy DA Karen Bell. "We don't want to take that route, but some parents force our hand and give us no other choice but to file criminal charges."

New Zealand Rejects Names it Doesn't Like for Newborns

pmfalcon — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:34:19 +0000

The New Zealand department which registers births, recently released a list of disallowed names from the past decade. While no names are banned outright, they can't be more than 100 characters long, use an unearned title or be offensive to the general public. They also have to be actual words, not numbers or symbols. Some of the rejected names: Justice, Princess, King, Bishop, Lucifer, Messiah, Christ, Mafia No Fear, Anal, V8, and the symbol *. Somehow, Violence, Chardonnay and Number 16 Bus Shelter did get by the registry.

Judge jails entire courtroom over ringing cell phone

jeffersonish — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:04:28 +0000

Judge hears cell phone and asks whose phone it was. When nobody confesses he sends all 46 people in the courtroom to jail. This is an old story I stumbled across but it was so outrageous, I just had to submit it.

No Smoking

LoveFreedomAndLiberty — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:12:14 +0000

Employees and smoking.....................Read more here:

Harry's Freedom Foxhole - The TSA Took My Baby Away

losingfeeling — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:01:49 +0000

"We have decided, as a society, that if you travel by plane it is totally all right to treat you like you are a dangerous criminal. On your way to the terminal, you remove your shoes and belt, you empty your pockets, you make sure you have no potentially dangerous(?) liquids in your bag, you stand in front of a full-body scanner and put your hands above your head for seven seconds. Sometimes you are even frisked by a dead-eyed security guard while you gaze into the middle distance."

TSA Confiscates a Frosted Cupcake

pmfalcon — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:25:17 +0000

A TSA agent took a Massachusetts woman's frosted cupcake because he thought its vanilla-bourbon icing could be a “security risk,” saying the frosting sitting atop the red velvet cake was gel-like enough to violate regulations.

Kicked Out of the Mall for Photographing Grandson

snappytype — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:36:21 +0000

Another story about the increasing illegality of photography.

12-Year-Old Arrested For Not Wearing Helmet at Memphis Skatepark

StrayLite — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:37:17 +0000

"Currently, Memphis doesn't have a law requiring helmets at the park. An MPD spokesperson declined to comment on the officer's actions, but did tell abc24.com Faulhaber was arrested for criminal trespassing." Hmmm... trespassing at a public park.

Banned from the internet?

fat_bastard — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:41:28 +0000

In England there is a proposal to ban certain persons from the internet.
This seems like the start controlling who can access the internet – License to surf?

Six Year Old Charged with Felony for Playing Doctor

rmyofme — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:08:58 +0000

Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing."

Smoking ban may soon spread to houses

Sussex County Angel — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:03:14 +0000

We can't have that second hand smoke seeping through our walls...

Video Vigilante or Peeping Tom? How about just plain creepy?

Sussex County Angel — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:08:13 +0000

This guy records people having sex without their consent, sells the footage, and is proud of himself! He says it gives him a "rush" & he has been doing it for 15 years. Yet he hates prostitutes & addicts... irony

11 year old boy told he's too good at football

Sussex County Angel — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:38:32 +0000

Remember when you were told to do your best? That’s because you weren’t Demias Jimerson… Meet the 11 year old boy who has been told he has to stop scoring touchdowns.

Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on FBI’s Terrorist Watch List

Deslock Darkstar — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:04:18 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents.

Unable to pay child support, poor parents land behind bars

losingfeeling — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:50:46 +0000

It may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on your child-support payments.

Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear

Sgt Jarhead — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:33:48 +0000

Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars...The question in the first raid seemed to be whether Gibson had been buying illegally harvested hardwoods from protected forests, such as the Madagascar ebony that makes for such lovely fretboards...The tangled intersection of international laws is enforced through a thicket of paperwork. Recent revisions to 1900's Lacey Act require that anyone crossing the U.S.

Safety in Numbers? Prison Population Statistics - NY vs. IN

KareFree — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:48:28 +0000

In the last decade, New York drastically reduced its prison population and at the same time experienced a huge drop in crime. Indiana, on the other hand, drastically increased its prison population — and consequently the burden to taxpayers — while seeing a much smaller drop in crime than the national average.