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Cop Tells Fire truck - No Parking In Fire Lane

DC's fire and police departments are investigating an incident in Northwest in which there was some sort of dispute between an officer and a firefighter. Sources tell the station a fire truck pulled up to attach a hose to a hydrant. But a police officer -- in the area to patrol during a demonstration -- told the firefighter not to park there, and he had to "move the truck or be arrested."
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjla/20010430/lo/dc_policeman_firefighter_butt_heads_1.html

Iraq Has The Nuke

Iraq tested a bomb in 1987 that cast a radioactive cloud in the open air and was designed to cause vomiting, cancer, birth defects and slow death, according to a secret Iraqi report on the weapon's construction and testing.
Radiation or radiological weapons, sometimes known as "dirty nukes," are the poor cousins of nuclear arms. Their conventional high explosives scatter highly radioactive materials to poison targets rather than destroying them with blast and heat. Their effects on people can range from radiation sickness to agonizingly slow death, which is why military experts often see them as ethically bankrupt.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548201.html

Man Gets Paid $20K For Not Being a Child Molester

A Manitoba man wrongly accused of sexually assaulting his child has received $20,000 compensation from a child welfare agency. The man from Beausejour, who cannot be identified to protect his daughter's identity, fended off the allegations between 1995 and 1999, when an over-zealous social worker was convinced he was guilty.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548161.html

The Broken English Chinese Cyber Assualts Begin

The Web site of United Press International was among several Internet locations, including some associated with the U.S. Navy and other government agencies, hacked by interests of China who assign blame for the April 1 collision of the U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet on the United States.
"The Great Chinese Nation Hooray!!!! USA Will Be With Responsibility for the Accident Totally!!! Protest USA sell Weapon to Taiwan, Break The World Peace!!! USA IS BITCH! I am From China --- Peak."
http://kevxml.infospace.com/_1_4KSGTUU0BC5B4O__info/kevxml?kcfg=upi-article&sin=200104300917050004232&otmpl=/upi/story.htm&qcat=news&rn=19087&qk=10&passdate=04/30/2001

Pedicurist Bath Blamed for Boils

A trip to the beauty salon was anything but pretty for more than 100 women in California.
A contaminated pedicurist's footbath led to unsightly and potentially disfiguring boils on 109 customers' legs ranging in size from a nickel to a half-dollar, a disease investigator with the federal Centers for Disease Control concluded.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010430/hl/boils010427_1.html

NC Researchers: Wrestling Is The Cause Of All Problems

High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Among high school boys, 63% of whom were recent viewers, watching wrestling was associated with having started a
fight with a date, as well as with carrying a gun or other weapon, using chewing tobacco, taking Ritalin without a prescription and driving after drinking alcohol, according to the survey results.
Yeah, remember that time Stone Cold injected ritalin into his eye?
That was AWESOME!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010430/hl/students_tvwrestling_1.html

But He Was Just A Bum

A homeless man appearing in court on a minor charge of drinking in public gasped for air and pleaded for medical help, but the judge summoned nurses and let the man lie on the floor as other defendants filed through the busy courtroom. Ten minutes later, U.S. marshals pulled the man, Robert Waters, 54, to his feet and took him not to a hospital but a cellblock. He later died
``He kept asking for help, saying, 'I can't breathe, man.' And the marshals would say, 'Right, buddy.' He finally collapsed on the floor. When they went in there, he wasn't breathing.''
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010428/us/dying_defendant_2.html

another reason not to trust...;)

Date: 2001-05-02 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoo.livejournal.com
Ya know the homeless one and the Fire truck struck close to home.....

Stories like this disturb me....but they go on ALL the time....

*sigh*

Re: another reason not to trust...;)

Date: 2001-05-02 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Yeah.. those two upset me quite a bit too...

There's sweeties out there too, though...

Maybe I should add "cool!" news, instead of 'news of evil'.

*beats head repeatedly against desk*

Date: 2001-05-02 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackmanxy.livejournal.com
More blame laid at the feet of the media for violence and illegal activities. Great. Brilliant. I wonder if any of these researchers are familiar with the term post hoc ergo propter hoc. I don't suppose it's occurred to anyone else that maybe watching violent TV and being violent are, uh gee, two effects of a greater cause rather than one being an effect of the other? Or maybe that violent people like violent TV? Actually, just because two things occur together does not necessarily indicate a causal relationship of any sort, but somehow this basic tenet, this staggeringly obvious logical fallacy, seems to elude a disturbingly large portion of the scientific community. Particularly the ones who just use their research to prove a point. So much for empiricism, eh?

Re: *beats head repeatedly against desk*

Date: 2001-05-02 06:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Oh, I hear you... I've dealt with the same biases and nonsense with folks and RPG's, or internet use.

Not a great application of the scientific method.

Date: 2001-05-02 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drownedinink.livejournal.com
Tales of Ritalin becoming the New Heroin disturb me, because my mom made me grow up on that stuff!

Agh, I was a 5-year old crack fiend...

Re:

Date: 2001-05-02 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Yeah, ritalin as the 'wonder drug'...

hopefully it helped you more than it hurt!

DC again...

Date: 2001-05-02 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-foom23660.livejournal.com
You know, I read the DC thing at the very tip top of your post, and thought, geez. Here we go again. You see, I don't know if the rest of the country knows this, but the DC FD and PD are a bunch of clowns. They fuck just about everything up. So if you live in the DC area like I do, you'll read that article and roll your eyes. It won't even sound crazy to you anymore, because you've witnessed their craziness, and you always hear about in the local news, and then of course, you have the City Paper, which never hesitates to write about their idiotic errors.

Re: DC again...

Date: 2001-05-02 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
gadzooks! *hugs you twice.. once for poor larry!

Re: DC again...

Date: 2001-05-02 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-foom23660.livejournal.com
Yikes! I hope that you don't think that Larry is a 5-0 in DC!!!! He works in Baltimore City.

Re: DC again...

Date: 2001-05-02 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
oh! I'm glad you cleared that up!

then give him the hug as congrats!

Re: DC again...

Date: 2001-05-02 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-foom23660.livejournal.com
I will! I will!

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