Woman Gets Cable Bill With Derogatory Name
LaChania Govan said she got bounced around by her cable company when she called to complain. She made dozens of calls and was even transferred to a person who spoke Spanish, a language she doesn’t understand.
But when she got her August bill from Comcast she had no trouble understanding she’d made somebody mad. It was addressed to “Bitch Dog.” (more…)
Driver Chases Car After Falling Out
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Opening up your door while driving isn’t a good idea, especially on a busy highway.
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Police plan piggish counter-terrorism psychological warfare
The police are considering using bags of lard in buses and other places to deter Moslem suicide bombers.
The police are gong to begin implementing their plan to hang bags of swine fat in buses and other public places, in the hope it will deter suicide bombers from entering them.
The suggestion is based on the fact that Islam, like Judaism, regards the pig as an unclean animal. Strict Moslem tradition holds that any Moslem who touches a pig before dying will be denied access to heaven.
The main way of recruiting suicide bombers, many of whom are religiously observant Moslems, is the assurance that as martyrs (shahids) their place in paradise is guaranteed, assuring them seventy willing virgins will be at their beck and call, according to Moslem tradition.
The police thought of using pigs or pork products to ward off terrorism months ago, but needed a rabbinical permit to carry it out, so as not to offend Jewish sensibilities.
Rabbi Eliezer Moshe Fisher, of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court, ruled on Wednesday that ?there is no halachic ban on using bags of lard in buses and other places? when saving lives is concerned. The halachic permit says bags of lard may be used in any place that might be a target for suicide bombings, such as schools, shopping malls, railway stations etc.
The rabbi also said that if the police do not use pig fat in buses, tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews will arm themselves with spray guns filled with liquid lard, which they will spray on terrorists whenever the need arises.
Deputy Defense Minister MK Ya’akov Edri came out in support of the new idea. If bags of pig lard will prevent zealous Moslem terrorists from carrying out attacks, I?m all for it?, he said.
Maariv International, February 12, 2004
Greensboro News & Record, October 17, 2003
GREENSBORO - Ron Simpson knows guns -and instantly knew the one in front of him Wednesday night was a phony.
Sure, the gun in the hands of the would-be robber at Action Video at 1058 Alamance Church Road had the look of a 9 mm, but Simpson, the manager, said he was “95 percent sure” the muzzle was too small to project a bullet.
“That is not a real gun,” Simpson told the robber. “This is a real gun,” he said, pulling a .25-caliber derringer from his front-right jeans pocket.
Three Die Retrieving Phone from Latrine
NAIROBI - Three Kenyans died trying to retrieve a mobile phone that slipped down an open-pit latrine while its owner answered a call of nature, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Anxious to recover her phone, the owner in the coastal town of Mombasa offered 1,000 shillings ($13.09) to anyone who would recover it, the Daily Nation said.
Well over half the Kenyan population of 30 million people lives on less than $1 a day.
The first to try — a 30-year-old radio technician — failed to resurface after disappearing down a ladder into the latrine.
His friend went after him but slipped and fell. The third casualty, trying to rescue the others, was hauled out of the pit by neighbors after he inhaled the fumes and lost consciousness.
The man was rushed to hospital but died on the way.
“The fumes inside must be extremely poisonous considering the short time it was taking to disable the retrievers,” acting Mombasa police chief Peter Njenga was reported as saying.
The Daily Nation said police prevented a fourth man from climbing into the latrine and the search for the phone was eventually abandoned.
Reuters, March 14, 2003
