Category: Crime
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This is what Massad Ayoob would call
A “sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process.” From a distance the large ship on the horizon looked like the perfect target, ripe for a successful spot of piracy. But as Somali pirates sped toward the vessel sailing near the Seychelles Islands on Sunday, they were horrified to see two boats and a…
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Quote of the Day – (Quasi) British Edition
“What do you mean the bobbies don’t carry guns? What if there is a big argy-bargy? What the bloody h— do they do? Kick them in the ar-e?” Tracy
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Quote of the Day – Fraud Edition
Yeah, right. See Memphis, she said, had election fraud and not voter fraud. Because that’s different. Maybe if we required the dead people to submit a thumbprint, then they wouldn’t have voted. – SayUncle
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Quote of the Day – Pirates Edition II
Bullying unarmed merchant ships is one thing, but now they’re calling out the varsity team for a game of contact sport. Let’s just wait and see how that goes, shall we? – Marko
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Quote of the Day – Pirates Edition
There is only one proper and customary resolution for this situation, and it involves a yardarm. – Tam Three headshots is a good start.
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More from the refuse to be a victim files
via Robb: ST. PETERSBURG — A would-be snatch-and-grab thief came out empty-handed after trying to rob a 75-year-old St. Petersburg woman Monday. Marcie Rae Lee had slid behind the wheel of her car after shopping at the Publix on 34th Street N when a woman described by police as black, 5 feet 4 to 5…
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Quote of the Day – Typical Edition
There are people without criminal or mental illness histories who do, indeed, lose their tempers, go get a gun, and murder someone. But they aren’t that common. Far more typical is the person who, by the time they reach adulthood, already knows what it is liked to handcuffed by a police officer, has been convicted…
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Condolences
To the families of the three slain officers in Oakland, and my thoughts and prayers are with the one still hanging on, and his family.
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Quote of the Day – Commonality Edition
The important link that all the twenty-pound brains seem to be missing here is this: What all these guys had in common wasn’t guns, video games, breakfast cereals, or bad haircuts, it’s that they were psychos who killed people. Hello? – Tam
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Quote of the Day – No Kind of Love Edition
Your honor, you’re a lucky man. You married a fighter, not a victim, and you’d do well to remember that. Encouraging victimhood is no kind of love. –Breda