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Pic: Dear Criminals

Kim LaCapria — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:15:25 +0000

Voicing the frustration anyone who’s spent $250 on a window broken for $0.64 in change and a half a Kit-Kat, this man calls out the dick who broke his ocarina.

I feel you, dude. My driver’s side window still isn’t the same owing to the week and a half I lived in Newark.

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MI Walmart security guard forced into car, peed on by alleged shoplifters

Kim LaCapria — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:50:46 +0000

How many times have you wanted to pee on those horrible people that expect you to queue to leave Walmart after dropping $200 on pet food and socks because they want to make sure you’re not shoplifting spatulas?

On Halloween night, a Walmart security guard learned the hard way why retail security guards are asked to not aggressively pursue shoplifters, even ones who seem clearly guilty. An incident reported to police by the unnamed guard just before 7:45pm involving $45 of merchandise saw the Walmart guard being headbutted into the accused’s car, sat and urinated on before being driven away with the suspects.

Police say the incident escalated when the women accused of the theft, Marilyn Cole, 35, and Rashieka L. Stewart, 23, broke away after being detained for suspected shoplifting of items including curtains and makeup. The guard ran after the women and attempted to block Cole from entering her vehicle. It was then that the women are alleged to have attacked the guard, who was later released to police before the women were forced out of the vehicle at gunpoint.

Cole was on parole for bank robbery at the time of the incident, and her bail was set at $35K. Stewart’s bail was ordered at $15K. Both women were charged with unarmed robbery, and Cole was also charged with interfering with a police report.

[via Consumerist]

DNA evidence catches up with Dennis Earl Bradford in shocking child rape case

Kim LaCapria — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Alleged to have raped and nearly killed an 8-year-old girl in 1990, Dennis Earl Bradford has walked free for almost 19 years since the crime.

Bradford’s victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She never gave up hope that her attacker would be prosecuted, and thanks to DNA evidence, he has been apprehended. The FBI published an affidavit on the web detailing the horrific crime:

Jennifer was last seen inside her apartment at approximately 2:30 AM on August 10, 1990, leaving her mother’s bedroom and going to her bedroom. At approximately 7:00 AM, on August 10, 1990, Eliane discovered Jennifer was missing from her bedroom. At about 7:40 AM, an investigation was opened into the disappearance of Jennifer Schuett. Eliane reported that Jennifer was last seen wearing a pink shirt, pink shorts and white underwear with blue roses.

At about 6:30 PM on August 10, 1990, Jennifer was found in an empty field located behind 2112 California, Dickinson, County of Galveston, Texas. Jennifer was nude and her throat had been cut. Jennifer was unable to talk when located.

The crime occurred in Dickinson, Texas, and Bradford was captured in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is charged with attempted capital murder.

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Canada increases its ‘you are a digital criminal’ tax

Steven Hodson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:15:31 +0000

Here in Canada we have the pleasure of paying some of the highest prices for blank CDs due to the fact that it is thought that anyone using blank CD is automatically a copyright breaking criminal. This is the same idea that was a popular believe back when cassettes were all the rage. The belief was; and heavily promoted by the recording industry – then and now – that there is no reason why anyone would want to use blank CDS other than to pirate music.

This resulted in a 21 cent tax being levied per blank CD which before any other of our famous taxes being applied cost the consumer $11.99 per 50 pack of blanks – without cases. Now that is pretty well the cheapest price with it ranging upward from there depending on the store. Don’t expect that price if you’re shopping in a brick and mortar retailer.

The increase of 8 cents to 29 cents levy on each blank CD-R is being justified by the Copyright Board of Canada because of the increasing usage of compression which allows for more stuff to be recorded on CDs. The interesting thing is that this digital criminal tax isn’t being applied to blank DVD even though they hold more data. This has resulted in CDs being more expensive to buy than blank DVD.

This ~~tax~~ levy amounts to about $30 million per year which is then handed right over to the music industry with a wink and a nod that the musicians will see any of the money.