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Man runs out of gas, sets up drum kit on Interstate 695

Mattfree88 — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:58 +0000

Man runs out of gas, sets up drum kit on Interstate 695

Driver not cited and continued on his way after highway officials help

NYC change parking rules then tickets parked cars $115

Razor512 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:11:07 +0000

In NYC, an arbitrary stretch of road which previously allowed parking, was suddenly changed to no standing any time. After the change, within 25 minutes, parking enforcement arrived and began issuing $115 parking tickets. When confronted about the sudden rule change and the fact that people did not have time to move, none of them seemed to care.

Furthermore, the official response basically told the owners of those cars that if they didn't like the ticket then they can fight it in court.

NH city suing ‘Robin Hood’ for paying parking meters of strangers

phonon — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:27:41 +0000

The city of Keene, N.H., is suing “Robin Hood and his Merry Men” — a group that has made a name for itself by paying people’s parking meters before they can get slapped with a ticket from local parking enforcement officers. The Union Leader reported Tuesday that six “Robin Hooders” troll the streets of the city’s quaint downtown in search of cars parked at expired meters.

DHS Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox

stuntmantdave — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:17:41 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat. Chris Coyne, cofounder of OKCupid, posted a screenshot of an email he received from Dwolla, stating that due to recent orders from the Department of Homeland Security, Dwolla cannot complete the bank transfer to Mt. Gox.

Feds spend over $400,000 on underwear that senses cigarette smoke

Sussex County Angel — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:41:15 +0000

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, has granted more than $400,000 to a research project that involves something unconventional. The University of Alabama has received two grants from NIH that total $402,721 to create a monitoring system involving underwear that can detect when a person smokes cigarettes. So far, the project has produced a “very early prototype” of the monitoring system. The current prototype fits like a vest.

U.S. Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe

davidfordhere — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15:09 +0000

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

After Benghazi, IRS tea party probe: Govt seized AP phone records
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/benghazi-irs-tea-party-probe-govt-sei...

Cops Go After Opinionated Quilt Maker

StrayLite — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:10:43 +0000

From Will Grigg's Pro Libertate Blog: "The Persecution of Rita Hutchens"