Kid saves his mom’s life by slashing her attacker with a knife.
Prosecutorial misconduct? In Mississippi? You don’t say. Be sure to look for a familiar name when the article talks about who did the autopsy in the case.
I’ve long held the position that you can make just about anything better by adding bacon to it. There may ,however, be some exceptions to that rule.
California police block entrances, then raid a gathering of car enthusiasts to preemptively nab would-be street racers.
Here’s a pretty horrifying story about abuse at juvenile justice centers across the country.
Another nasty rape allegation in Iraq involving KBR.
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I like how the police said ‘what do you need that much car for?” Same thing could be said for their swat teams.
Boy protects mother and, of course, police/DA have to think of a way to charge him. DAs gotta charge somebody with something. Getting tired of DAs trying to charge somebody with something all the time. Sometimes, very regularly in fact, laws are not broken.
100 people surveyed, top three answers on the board, here’s the question: “Name a corrupt medical examiner in Mississippi”…
Dr. Hayne?
Let me see “Dr. Hayne”..
Ding Ding
The bacon link is semi-NSFW. Could you please mention when links are NSFW in the future?
Cheers
Are you licensed in CA? Isn’t what happened an unreasonable search and seizure? Isn’t blocking the exits an imprisonment?
Most guys at swap meets and car cruises just go for the bragging rights and general showing off of testosterone.
chsw
“The Post is not naming Sheryl Stamp’s 12 year old son, because he is a minor”
Good job
Maybe if the bacon was cooked first…
But could you do it out of Sizzlean?
But could you do it out of Sizzlean?
Just watched the news report this week on the boy saving his Mother and thinking he shouldn’t be charged with anything, but just wait the peoples republic of Maryland will find something to charge him with. I’m just waiting for a suit against him from either the attackers family or the state because his actions were violent and harmful towards others. After all, cant let anybody have any free will and act without the go ahead of the state, even if your life’s endangered.
I don’t know why they need bacon, I always thought titties did just fine by themselves
This is an actual letter sent to the doctor by his patient that spent a total of 34 minutes in Station 39, or as he likes to call it the GULAG.
Dr. James W Knudson, MD
Abbot Northwestern Hospital
You’re tougher to reach than the president, I’ve left about a 7 or 8 messages on your machine without response. I may disagree with Doctor Keul but he at least has the onions to take the heat for poor performance by staff. I read my entire file this morning and almost had a heart attack when I read that you wanted to send me to gulag station 47 because I had the audacity to insist that the staff recheck my file because a mistake had been made somewhere along the line. That’s top notch! And yes many mistakes were made by both hospitals. All along the process of a hold the patient has a right to all kinds of info, and must be told in writing of his rights. As I documented below to Dr. Keul, none of that happened. One minute I’m sitting in the ER and the next I’m being strapped to “the board” which by the way you would have never got me on with the amount of people you had in the room, and by the way what in the hell are you doing with young girl staffers in the middle of taking down a 6’ 2” 275# patient down? I looked at that SCRUM of people that was sent to take me down and saw what looked like little girls standing along side the knuckle draggers with badges that couldn’t hide the excitement of maybe getting to use a TASER on a guy with a bad heart. You really think that’s a good idea? Why don’t you go out and get some of those orderlies like they had in CUCKOO’s NEST? Also when I first walked into the gulag reeducation center station 39 the smell of piss was unreal, buy some bleach. There is no way I was staying there. Also next time you order someone up to Gulag 47, take the time to at least read that persons file. If you would have read my file you’d have seen I’m a Quaker and we don’t hurt anybody.
I pray (because I go to church) that you actually help people up there. But I have the feeling you’ve run quite of few people threw that piss hole that were too weak to stand up to you or some of the more sadistic supervisors. Or worse yet they put their trust in you and your staff and you destroyed them. Heaven help those patients, and Heaven have mercy on you, you gutless coward!
Lyle Lynch
2875 Jordan Ave. S
Minnetonka, MN 55305
Sorry about the duplicate post. I blame Microsoft.
Gotta echo Tom, at the top
“If you’re not into street racing, why would you need that?” Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. “Why would you want more power going to your car?”
In other words, if a policeman can think of an illegal purpose for something, you are toast. Sorta like: “why do you have pain killers unless you are a drug addict”
Radley,
Bacon and cheese make everything taste better but, you’re right, this does put the rule to the test!
I couldn’t see the bacon. Where exactly was it?
#12 –
I’ll take “Comments That Leave Readers Saying WTF?” for 400, Alex.
Something about this years election and the warming weather makes me think about Elian Gonzalez. The election year when Elian was sent back there was no incumbent and one of the parties had 2 strong contenders.
Like it or not that little guy on the innertube that couldn’t speak a lick of English and had never been to America changed this country forever. I don’t think any political analyst could deny there were at least 538 Cubans in Miami-Dade that were so angry about Elian that they registered to vote for the first time and cost the sitting Vice President the election. I remember people at work saying send the little criminal back. Teamsters and evangelical preachers thought he should be sent back because of jobs and the sanctity of the family unit. Few outside Miami thought he should stay, and he didn’t. He’s the only one that I can remember ever being “shipped back” as people in this country have been demanding of the most recent arrivals and freed slaves since this country was founded. They really actually shipped him back. I probably learned my first Espanol at age 34 following the story as close as I did. I remember how they slimed his great-uncle because of a years old drunk driving arrest. How his pretty young cousin Marylasis was made fun of and how confused she looked by the cameras and the critisism. I remember how the fisherman that found him floating in the Atlantic Ocean was called a lucky hanger-on. But none of them backed down. What inside them made them so tough? How could they have really believed they would successfully deny the government of The United States of America. I remember the looks on the faces of the people that had just been pepper-sprayed in Elians great-uncles yard. I remember calling the agent that took Elian from his house a “jack-booted thug”, and I really meant it.
I’d never been Baptized to any faith, but it was the day they took Elian I learned the difference between man’s law and Gods law. It was that day I learned the genius in the phrase “IN GOD WE TRUST” and I actually began to believe it. I wept the day we shipped that little guy in the inner tube, whose mother died in a rickety boat to get him to the freeist nation in the history of man’s law, out of the freeist nation in the history of man’s law.
I’ve never owned a passport and probably never will. On my one trip to Miami to attend a friends wedding my blue eyes stuck out like a sore thumb. But the day they sent Elian back I wept like a grandmother and had an unexplainable worry for my country that continues until this day. I remember praying to God for someone besides myself for the first time in my life. I remember crying and to this day I believe that when we gave that little guy in the innertube back, we gave away more than any terrorist could ever take from us.
“If you’re not into street racing, why would you need that?” Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. “Why would you want more power going to your car?”
Uh…because I’m a guy?
Bring der Autobahn to America!
What the hell does Elian have to do with anything in this post? The boy belonged with his father, end o’ story. Start talking about bacon or racing.
I notice that the cops don’t do the same thing to classic muscle car enthusiasts, despite these cars being equivalently modified in many cases, and just as capable of street racing. In fact, the participants may very well BE cops.