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Government photo of Aaron Tobey being held at Richmond International Airport on December 30 A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge. Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) that in December he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures. “Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and gut read. The University of Cincinnati student didn’t want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines that are cropping up at airports nationwide .
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest | Threat Level | Wired.com
- April 15, 2011 Out of all the fads that consumed me as a kid, (the nineties had more than enough junk for foul-mouthed 10 year-olds to get addicted to) no phenomenon left me with as many vivid memories as Pokemon. I can easily remember choosing Pokemon Red over Pokemon Blue because Frankie Costanzo told me that Pokemon Red is the only one where you can get secret Pokemon. You know, the Pokemon that all the suckers on Pokemon Blue had no clue about (little did Frankie know that Blue owners had their own exclusive Pokemon). A year later, I remember using the Mew Glitch (an error that allowed me to catch a truly hidden Pokemon, Mew) causing my friend Simon to literally piss himself when he saw my Mew the next day.
A Story of Pokemon Cards, Childhood, and getting older : DAMNLAG
I'll never forget my last visit to lovely Hinesville, Georgia. For it was there that I learned a valuable lesson, one I shall never forget: in a police state , we're all criminals. Think about it — how many laws have you broken today? This week? This month?
How I Learned the Truth about the State - Stefano R. Mugnaini - Mises Daily
New research has revealed the the Nazis invested a lot of time and effort into teaching dogs to talk. The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to ‘speak’ and tap out signals using their paws. One dog was said to have uttered the words ‘Mein Fuhrer’ when asked who Adolf Hitler was. Another was said to ‘speak’ by tapping letters of the alphabet with his paws and freely discussed religion and learned poetry, it was claimed. The Germans hoped to use the animals for the war effort, such as getting them to work alongside the SS and guard concentration camps to free up officers.
Nazis tried to teach dogs to talk | A Blog About History - History News
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Previous Post: Binary DNA Next Post: DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD: THE MOVIE Have you ever had an experience that suggested someone else was in your house, and just thought “I don’t wanna know” and left it? Sometimes, fear of the unknown just seems like the preferable option than facing a real, concrete danger. Normally it’s nothing, though. One time, the beeper function of my wireless housephone went off, when I was the only one home.
When a Milton man’s burglary attempt was interrupted by Santa Rosa County deputies, he tried to divert them by calling 911, according to an arrest report from the sheriff’s office. Travis Monroe Laseter, 35, allegedly broke into Kiley’s Convenience Store at 7801 Hwy. 90 at 9 p.m. Sunday.
Burglar calls in false burglary to divert deputies from his location (911 RECORDINGS, MUG) | false, burglar, location - Northwest Florida Daily News
Mistaken Identity | Futility Closet
In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no. Amazed, the prisoner said, “That’s my picture, but I don’t know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.” Incredibly, this was true.Since the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters on June 17, 1972, there have been 30 deaths — many of them violent — all of people involved in one way or another. The odds are at least 100,000,000,000,000,000 to one. (One hundred million billion to one.)
Watergate Deaths - Midnight 7/12/76
Two Tahitian Women is to be put back on display on Tuesday morning A woman who attacked a painting by Paul Gauguin hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC said the French artist was "evil", court records show. The incident was the first act of vandalism at the museum since the 1970s, when over the course of about five years, one man destroyed a Renaissance-era chair and another defaced 25 works, including by Renoir and Henri Matisse, with a "sharp object", National Gallery spokeswoman Deborah Ziska told the BBC.
BBC News - Gauguin painting in Washington DC attacked by woman
CultureLab: Beach beast reproduces at last
Catherine de Lange, reporter (Music credit: Gymnopédie No 1 by Eric Satie) On a windy day, Dutch day-trippers may be lucky enough to spot a member of the elusive Strandbeest family crawling along one of Holland's beaches. With a massive two-tonne body, the largest creature in the family, Ventosa Siamesis - see video above - stands nearly 5 metres tall, and with its articulated body a gigantic 10 metres long it is certainly a creature to behold. These beasts are constructed not from flesh and bone but by hand from plastic bottles and recycled tubing. They use wind to power their locomotion, and can trap air in a "stomach" made of plastic bottles, so they retain a power source for movement in case the wind stops blowing.Do you have a defective computer that the manufacturer refuses to repair? Emmanuel has some advice for you: take 'em to court. Facing a constantly rebooting laptop, he tells Consumerist that HP was only willing to fix it if he paid a $225 fee. Unsatisfied with this solution, he filed in small claims court, and the company offered to fix it for free. As long as he drops the case. I took HP to small claims court, and HP now wants to fix a laptop for free.
HP Happy To Fix My Computer For Free After I Took Them To Small Claims Court - The Consumerist
HI-Tech Explosives Found at WTC
Abstract: Reports by FEMA and NIST lay out the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. In this Letter, we wish to set a foundation for productive discussion and understanding by focusing on those areas where we find common ground with FEMA and NIST, while at the same time countering several popular myths about the WTC collapses. On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) were hit by airplanes. Total destruction of these high-rises at near free-fall speeds ensued within two hours, and another high-rise which was not hit by a plane (WTC 7) collapsed about seven hours later at 5:20 p.m.Theodore Hook, perpetrator of the hoax