Super-Grave Sins, Plus an Indian Tribe Custer Could’ve Whipped
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Things to Worry About
Rejoice! that there'll be a new casino about 35 miles from Stockton, Calif., now that a federal court said it will not intervene in the deal by the Me-Wuk Indian tribe (which consists of, all together, one woman and her children) (Seriously). Associated Press via KOVR-TV (Sacramento)
The NCAA voted to start regulating men's basketball coaches' recruiting of 7th and 8th grade boys (down from the current 9th-graders and hoping to stall, for a year or two, the coaches' prospective interest in 6th-graders). Associated Press via New York Times
An F State man shot himself in the bicep without benefit of a gun when he jabbed a bullet with a metal punch (and no, though the story has 7 paragraphs, none mentions why somebody would want to jab a bullet with a metal punch). Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Vatican said it will start discussing more openly just which sins are worse than murder and genocide (which now reportedly include the grave evils of ratting out a confessor and of paying for an abortion). Daily Telegraph (London)
Boy, was this guy surprised: the 69-yr-old man in Belleville, Ill., who got shot in a home invasion, didn't realize he was shot, told the EMT's he was OK, and then died five days later of the gunshot. Belleville News-Democrat
Recurring Theme: It's winter, and newspapers will report it if they find a kid who couldn't resist trying to lick a frozen metal pole. Associated Press via New York Times
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Your Daily Loser
Canadian John Rempel, 22, is remarkably candid about just exactly how he totally fell for a Nigerian 419 scam, all the way from his initial $2,500 payment to reclaim some "Rempel family" inheritance, through several successive payments of $5,000, a $250,000 bill negotiated down to $25,000, another $10,000, another $25,000, then $120,000, then several more at $6,000, then $20,000, then $15,000, then $5,000, and then, finally, $12,500 for another bribe to clear the shrink-wrapped money at the airport in New York. "I really thought in my heart that this was true." $60k came from his parents; $55k from an uncle; and the rest he borrowed from commercial money-shovelers. Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Mr. Robin Forbes, 59, says he's totally innocent of fondling those older female members of his First United Methodist Church of Ocala, Fla., and that he's being unfairly treated just because he likes to attend Sunday services dressed to the nines as a woman. (There were "dozens" of complaints, and he does have an old child-sex conviction on his record.) Ocala Star-Banner
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Your Daily Jury Duty
["In America, a person is presumed innocent until the mug shot is released"]
You'll need to click "enlarge" to fairly judge Joyce Passini, 31, Palm Bay, Fla., who might have had an altercation with her mother, repeatedly . . biting her. WKMG-TV (Orlando)
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Today's Newsrangers: Jerry Whittle, Emmitt Dove, Barry Hurwitz, Scott Langill, Sandy Pearlman
Friday, January 16, 2009
Things to Worry About
Rejoice! that there'll be a new casino about 35 miles from Stockton, Calif., now that a federal court said it will not intervene in the deal by the Me-Wuk Indian tribe (which consists of, all together, one woman and her children) (Seriously). Associated Press via KOVR-TV (Sacramento)
The NCAA voted to start regulating men's basketball coaches' recruiting of 7th and 8th grade boys (down from the current 9th-graders and hoping to stall, for a year or two, the coaches' prospective interest in 6th-graders). Associated Press via New York Times
An F State man shot himself in the bicep without benefit of a gun when he jabbed a bullet with a metal punch (and no, though the story has 7 paragraphs, none mentions why somebody would want to jab a bullet with a metal punch). Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Vatican said it will start discussing more openly just which sins are worse than murder and genocide (which now reportedly include the grave evils of ratting out a confessor and of paying for an abortion). Daily Telegraph (London)
Boy, was this guy surprised: the 69-yr-old man in Belleville, Ill., who got shot in a home invasion, didn't realize he was shot, told the EMT's he was OK, and then died five days later of the gunshot. Belleville News-Democrat
Recurring Theme: It's winter, and newspapers will report it if they find a kid who couldn't resist trying to lick a frozen metal pole. Associated Press via New York Times
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Your Daily Loser
Canadian John Rempel, 22, is remarkably candid about just exactly how he totally fell for a Nigerian 419 scam, all the way from his initial $2,500 payment to reclaim some "Rempel family" inheritance, through several successive payments of $5,000, a $250,000 bill negotiated down to $25,000, another $10,000, another $25,000, then $120,000, then several more at $6,000, then $20,000, then $15,000, then $5,000, and then, finally, $12,500 for another bribe to clear the shrink-wrapped money at the airport in New York. "I really thought in my heart that this was true." $60k came from his parents; $55k from an uncle; and the rest he borrowed from commercial money-shovelers. Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Mr. Robin Forbes, 59, says he's totally innocent of fondling those older female members of his First United Methodist Church of Ocala, Fla., and that he's being unfairly treated just because he likes to attend Sunday services dressed to the nines as a woman. (There were "dozens" of complaints, and he does have an old child-sex conviction on his record.) Ocala Star-Banner
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Your Daily Jury Duty
["In America, a person is presumed innocent until the mug shot is released"]
You'll need to click "enlarge" to fairly judge Joyce Passini, 31, Palm Bay, Fla., who might have had an altercation with her mother, repeatedly . . biting her. WKMG-TV (Orlando)
Comments 'joyce_passini'
Today's Newsrangers: Jerry Whittle, Emmitt Dove, Barry Hurwitz, Scott Langill, Sandy Pearlman
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