Burglar sues men who captured him for $500,000

Posted: 30th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Oddly Enough

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One October day in 2007, a homeless man broke into a car and stole a bike.

He didn’t get very far.

Within minutes, that man, Michael Dupree, was caught trying to sell the bike down the street. He was arrested and sent to jail. Now, he wants payback.

Dupree, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for burglary and cocaine possession, has filed a lawsuit against three men who helped police take him down.

Dupree says he’s the victim of a rough citizens arrest, and was assaulted and battered by the men. He is seeking $500,000 and punitive damages.

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How strong? Head over to the Official Website for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), view the source code for the web page, and check out their “News” section towards the bottom. How many “strong” tags can you count?

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Thor: Movie Trailer

Posted: 29th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Entertainment, Videos

Man Robs Bank for 50 Cents

Posted: 29th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Fifs

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Hamilton bank staff were left laughing after a bare-chested man demanded 50 cents from them, before crouching down then running away yesterday.

TSB manager Sandra Makein told the Waikato Times it was definitely one of the more unusual attempted robberies she had heard of.

“If you can call it a robbery,” she said.

Police said the man, in his early 20s, entered the Victoria St bank with a bandana over his lower face and demanded $10.

When the teller said she didn’t have any money he asked for 50 cents before crouching into the starting race position and running out of the bank.

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What Does The Great Military Leak Mean?

Posted: 28th July 2010 by Veritas in Politics

Wikileaks has proven the U.S. is in a war it cannot win.  With more light being shed on this situation, with the unveiling of the leak himself, it shows you don’t have to be real smart (or have good taste in music) to jump into the espionage racket.  The “leak” is now in custody, and though what he did was against the law, are these not the fact that the American public SHOULD know about?  As government officials have said, nothing new was in the leaks.  With over 200,000 pages in the 90,000 documents, maybe it just shows how hard the government is on trees.

The real issue here is that the U.S. is in a war with a small faction of well organized and funded militant Islamic radicals.  Afghanistan is the third poorest country in the world, the people don’t like the Taliban, but aren’t big fans of the United States either.  Now we find out  Afghanistan’s neighbor, Pakistan, is taking monetary aid from the U.S., while at the same time using that money to support the Taliban both financially and militarily.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.

The pumps are partial artificial hearts known as ventricular assist devices. Cheney’s kind is about the size of a D-Cell battery and leaves most recipients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own pulsatile beat.

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Anticipating California voters will back a November ballot measure to legalize casual marijuana use, officials in Oakland have approved two tax rates on pot sales in their city, already a hub of the state’s medicinal marijuana scene.

Oakland’s city council on Monday night approved the rates — a 5 percent gross receipts tax on licensed marijuana growers and on businesses selling marijuana for medical purposes, and a 10 percent rate on sales of marijuana used for recreational purposes.

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The video above is already spreading like something involving Justin Bieber and is being described as the greatest goal celebration ever. In it, Icelandic club Stjarnan wins in extra time off a penalty kick from Halldor Orri Bjornsson, giving the team reason to unleash a performance that involves Halldor fishing for his human fish teammate Johann Laxdal (“lax” means salmon in Icelandic). Once “caught,” the players lift up Laxdal for a fake picture and thus complete a perfectly executed and delightfully intricate goal celebration that probably took more than a little preparation.

While this is their best, it’s not the only display of well-arranged goal celebrating from the Stjarnan boys. The same YouTube user who uploaded this clip on Monday also posted a few more of the same team.

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General Motors on Tuesday set a price of $41,000 for its electric Chevrolet Volt, $5,000 more than the top-selling sedan from its luxury Cadillac brand and $8,000 more than its nearest competitor, the Nissan Leaf. Read the rest of this story »

Man Tries To Trade Illegal Drugs For Burgers At McDonald’s

Posted: 27th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Fifs

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Alexander M. Lemke, of Palm Harbor, must have had a wild case of midnight munchies.

Lemke, 20, broke into a neighbor’s home and stole their 2005 Toyota Solara at about 1:25 a.m. Friday, then headed to a McDonald’s drive-through window, reports the St. Petersburg Times.

Deputies were summoned.

That’s because Lemke tried to trade marijuana and prescription drugs for burgers, deputies said.

Lemke was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, driving with a license that is suspended or revoked, and eight drug-related charges including possession of clonazepam, oxycodone, hydrocodone and alprazolam.

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