...by decapitation in a 90mph crash driving through someone's yard, hitting a hummer and totaling it.
The 16-year-old was driving at least 90 mph when he crashed...into a wooden fence before hitting a Hummer...decapitated by a wooden fence post...Sgt. S. Wolverton said. "It may just be driver inexperience."More after the jump...
DENVER (CBS4) ― Denver's homeless population will have options to staying on the street during the Democratic National Convention.
"If they don't want to get caught up in the protests or demonstrations, we'll find other activities that will keep them busy," said John Parvensky, President of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
A plan has been developed to provide interested homeless people with free access to cultural activities. They include the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and they won't have to worry about paying for transportation.
"We'll have bus tokens if they need them," Parvensky said.
Also five, big screen TVs are being donated to a teen day shelter. One hope is to engage some of the homeless children in the political process by allowing them to see convention unfold on television. But another purpose is to draw them away from the streets while the Convention is underway
A Potter Valley woman wounded herself and a man July 3 while attempting to kill mice with a .44-caliber Magnum revolver, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
The woman, 43, had drawn the gun from a holster under her left arm, intending to shoot mice scurrying across the floor of a small travel trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The revolver instead slipped from her hand and fired as it struck the floor, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The bullet went through the woman's right kneecap, then hit keys hanging on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer, officials said. The bullet glanced off the keys and tore a hole in the man's pants.
The bullet grazed the man's groin before stopping in his coin pocket, where it was recovered for evidence, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The names of the shooting victims were not released.
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Rasmussen Reports.
SAMARITAN THIEF ALERTS COPS TO 'TERROR' VAN
He's a criminal, but he "did the right thing" when it mattered - alerting cops to what he feared was a terror plot the day before the Fourth of July.
At about 5 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified thief with a police record broke into a red van that had been parked at 53rd Street and Second Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park for about a month, a source told The Post.
He was stunned when he looked inside - it was filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches.
The street is lined with brownstones, and there's a ballet studio and a small Muslim school. So he drove the van 15 blocks to 37th Street and parked it at a desolate waterfront location behind the Costco store and next to some little-used piers.
Then he got out and called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law.
"He did the right thing," a high-ranking officer said. "And he possibly saved a lot of people's lives."
Another source said cops are unlikely to file charges for the break-in.
The van had Delaware plates that had been issued to another vehicle. It's not clear when its cargo was put inside.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly joined cops from the Bomb Squad and the anti-terror task force at the scene. Cops shut down three blocks.
A Jacksonville man went to grab a beer and brought home a painful memento from his night out.
The 22-year-old sailor was knocked unconscious and had the phrase “Wife Beater” scrawled across his stomach Saturday outside Bourbon Street Station Bar on 1770 St. Johns Bluff Road in Jacksonville.
The victim, who was arrested in March on a domestic battery charge against his wife, went to the bar by himself about 11:45 p.m. He cut his night short when he saw a woman who was with his wife the night he was arrested, the police report said.
He drained his beer and headed back to his car. The victim said he was walking toward his vehicle and checking his phone when it all went black. He woke up in a haze with a burning chest pain, according to the report. He lifted his bloody shirt and saw the letters stenciled into his stomach with a blade.
He went home and didn’t file a complaint until Monday morning after his naval commander advised him to seek police assistance. The man told authorities he didn’t alert any of the officers at the bar the night of his attack because he was worried the incident might violate his probation.
There is a debate going on in the opinion section of the Los Angeles Times this week between John Stagliano, an adult moviemaker and distributor who is currently facing federal obscenity charges that could put him in prison for almost 40 years, and Barry McDonald from Pepperdine Law School about free expression. Briefly, Stagliano is for it, McDonald not so much.
Today's piece focuses on the question: Should there be an obscenity law that outlaws a product that is made with informed adult consent with no laws being broken, and that is increasingly distributed and consumed in complete privacy?
Stagliano is right on the money:
Barry, your point is that people must be forced to not think things that you don't like, and for that you'd have me put in jail. Your comment that it "seems" to you that viewing images "to obtain sexual pleasure cannot be the healthiest way of experiencing sex" seems not a good enough reason to imprison me for 39 years. In fact, using a proper concept of morality based on individual rights, it is you and those who would put me in jail when I did not infringe on anyone's rights who are behaving immorally.More after the jump...
From a political point of view, this is just another extension of the nanny state trying to control an individual's life. Essentially, the government uses its power to stop people from smoking, eating trans fats, consuming drugs or gaining sexual gratification without hurting anyone else. No person can decide for himself; the feds know better.
In the NY Post, Kyle Smith discusses the gap between the public's perception of how the economy currently is and how they personally are doing:
Take people's views on the economy. Pew is clever enough to divide this subject into two questions: how are you, personally, doing? And how do you think your country is doing?More after the jump...
The difference between how people answer these two questions is the Perception Gap. How you believe you and your family are doing is based on direct, personal experience. When it comes to you-ism, you are a leading authority.
How people respond when asked about how their country is doing economically steers them into abstraction, into thinking about things they have no direct knowledge of. How do you know what is going on in manufacturing if you've never seen the inside of a factory? You picked it up from your local anchorwoman Debbie Downer. Or her Action News co-host, Nat Nabob. Or maybe it was Paul Krugman.
A (true) sentence that has never been uttered on any newscast this year: "American employment is at 94.5 percent, above the postwar average, and the latest available statistics say the economy is still growing." Twenty percent of Americans say the U.S. economy is doing well. That's hearsay. Seventy-one percent say they, personally, are doing well. That's their expert testimony. The Perception Gap of Americans on the economy is 51 points.
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Coney Island's Masturbating Walrus has died.
Ayveq, the walrus whose bizarre, though oddly compelling, masturbation rituals made him an international sensation at the New York Aquarium, has died. He was 14.More after the jump...
MetaFilter is having a good time sharing the story of Robert Valdemar and the prank he played on the Something Awful forum regulars.
A few days ago a post appeared on the Something Awful forums noting a curious website called Notes to Mary. The notes are a series of threatening letters from a high schooler named Robert to his crush, Mary. The goons figured out pretty quickly that they had an ARG on their hands and went to work on solving the puzzle. Several other forums picked up on the game. Robert began interacting with players, sending them strange messages and several series of numbers that appeared to be some sort of code. A Flickr pool was started. Players even created an IRC channel to swap clues and information in real time. The Notes to Mary site offered a link to a login. All effort was made to crack the user/pass combo. Finally, several days after the game began, users were finally able to log in. The game was solved. The players would be rewarded for their hard work. Where did the login lead? Here.
"Robert" had just pulled off the most epic rickroll in intertubes history. The author of the game had never really intended for it to be a game at all. He just thought it would be funny to put up some creepy notes and see what sort of attention they got. When SA goons decided it must be an ARG he decided to play along. The numerical "codes" he sent out? Random numbers and dates plucked out of the air. Three hours before the solution was to be revealed he set up the redirect to the rickroll video.
