Various Stuff..

[flacaltenn]

Hey CombWork! You still there???

Police have warned residents of Kent and Surrey, England, not to put mesh wire on the windows of their sheds. They say the wire could injure burglars who try to break into the sheds.

That could be us folks.. If only we were civilized.. Apologies (and above all sympathies) to our freedomless Brit buds..

Don't need no waterboard in Canada....

Toronto, Canada, Constable Christopher Hominuk has pleaded guilty to threatening bodily harm. Hominuk was caught on video threatening to Taser the genitals of two suspects and slapping one of them in an effort to get them to help him catch a third suspect in a break-in.

Someone here said that minors have no rights. Maybe this is what they had in mind..

Jonathan Villareal, 17, pulled his pants low on his hips after school ended one day in Derby, Kansas. School resource officers spotted him and ordered him to pull his pants back up. Villareal said he could wear them any way he wanted because school was out. Villareal says they then threw him to the ground. Derby Police Chief Robert Lee says Villareal resisted when officers tried to take him back in the school. Regardless, the confrontation ended with Villareal getting Tasered and having his arm broken and his eye swollen shut.

It takes a village.. A dysfunctional village sometimes..

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy says he's going to push to remove chocolate and strawberry-flavored milk from school cafeterias. Critics say that flavored milks contain too much sugar. But supporters, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say their nutritional value outweighs the added sugar.

Sorry CombWork, but you guys are getting even more attention..

In Essex, England, Tracy St. Clair Pearce found a gang of "travelers" [flacaltenn -- gypsies] trespassing on her property and cutting down her trees for firewood. When she told them to leave, they allegedly threw stones at her and threatened to kill her and harm her animals. So she called the police. When the police finally arrived, they didn't do anything about the travelers, but they did seize a shotgun that St. Clair Pearce legally owns as a "sensible precaution."

Yup, that's what's in store after the 2nd Amendment is chewed up...

And ... the war on drugs continues..

An Independence, Missouri, man, who was not identified by local media, says he was surprised when police showed up at his home searching for marijuana. They found he was growing only tomato plants. Police say they targeted the man simply because he had purchased hydroponic growing equipment.

Want to know why I am a govt skeptic? Because I read these every week at:

http://reason.com/brickbat/weekly/2011-04-24