LA PRAIRIE: A Canadian man was arrested on Friday after his mothers corpse was found stuffed inside a freezer. Police made the grisly discovery on Thursday while searching the sons home after a local clinic reported it had not heard from the 73-year-old woman for weeks, said police sergeant Martine Isabelle. The womans 50-year-old son, Daniel Martin, turned himself in to police on Thursday, said Isabelle.
Martins lawyer, Marc-Andre Gauthier, has requested a psychiatric evaluation.
Isabelle said an autopsy could not be performed Friday because the corpse was still frozen. She said the man has been charged with improperly disposing of a body and he could face additional accusations. We have to wait for the autopsy to know if it was a natural death or if it was a homicide, said Isabelle. Martins lawyer, Marc-Andre Gauthier, has requested a psychiatric evaluation.
Right. You agree to represent a guy who put Mom in the freezer, you probably need your head examined.
Neighbours said on Friday that they never saw Martin interact with anyone. I didnt know his mother lived with him. I always thought he lived alone. He was really strange, said neighbour Carole Legault who has lived a few houses away from Martin for the last five years. She said its horrible the woman was found in the freezer, adding, Maybe he wanted to keep her. Maybe he is scared of the authorities and thought it would be better to keep her in the house.
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Maybe he wanted to keep her. Maybe he is scared of the authorities and thought it would be better to keep her in the house.
Yeah, right. Or maybe he just wanted her pension/social security/whatever checks to keep on coming...
Wannabe Native Americans and cowboys in Germany are having a ball this weekend, with two of Europes biggest meetings of Wild West enthusiasts taking place at opposite ends of the country. More than 1,500 hobby Native Americans, cowboys, trappers and settlers, have turned the town of Hundsdorf near Koblenz into Dog City.
The Indian Council, which started last week and lasts until May 12, brings hobby wild westerners from across the continent together to recreate cowboy and Indian life. The Indians live in tipi tents, while the townspeople have built a Western-style clapboard street, with a saloon complete with honky-tonk piano and bad whiskey. Further down the street is the sheriffs office complete with a jailhouse.
The German Western Association, (DWB), which organizes the meeting, has been doing so since 1951, when 120 enthusiasts met in Nuremberg and founded the group. Since then it has been an annual event, taking professors, engineers, computer programmers and all manner of other Germans out of their everyday lives and into an imaginary Wild West.
The authenticity is important to us that the tents of the Indians, as well as the trappers camp and the western town - are as close to the lifestyle of the west at that time as possible, said DWB chairman, Larry Eichel.
The theme was reproduced across the country in Radebeul near Dresden, with the Karl May weekend, dedicated to the German Western novelist. Many Native Americans were guests in Saxony, helping to organize bow and arrow shooting competitions. Again, a camp and a small western town have been built, and children were offered the chance to pan for gold in a river.
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Third: No real recreation of the west without a firefight with real bullets.
I dunno. This was the 19th century, so this was a rather rough period, and by definition, pionneers and frontiermen had to be rough guys, but the myth of the Wild wild west seems to be a bit hyped - cowboys towns were certainly a bit on the rowdy side, but still a far cry from today's third world slums (or even an US big innercity). More gun ownership than the modern USA, less murders, less gun crime.
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Oh, yes, it was hyped to an extroidenary degree, Anony5089. The Kansas rail heads were a little rowdy during those months when the herds were arriving, but gunplay among the cattle drovers was pretty minimal. I wrote "Most murderous gunplay in cow-towns usually involved members of the professional gambling fraternity or local law enforcement professionals. On occasion, this meant the same body of personnel. These were small towns, any other time than the cattle-trailing season. People doubled up when it came to jobs." as part of this post about the Old West.
After doing a ton of background reading of contemporary 19th century memoirs - I have discovered that the post Civil-War frontier wasn't much like it was put about in B-movies and television. It was much more interesting and much more complicated.
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HISTORY CHANNEL > WILD BILL HICKOCK > what made WILD BILL so formidable was, despite facing opponents wid more advanced gun tech that his, BILL ALWAYS STAYED CALM AND STEADY IN ANY GUNFIGHT = SHOOTOUT HENCE COULD AIM HIS SIMPLER-BUT-POWERFUL PISTOLS MORE ACCURATELY THAN HIS UNSTEADY OPPONENTS. WHEN BULLETS FLEW, BILL PROVED TO OFTEN BE "THE BETTER MAN" IN SERIOUS GUNFIGHTS. HE KNEW THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF HIS WEAPONS, AND KNEW WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW TO USE IT TO WIN.
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This goes back to Karl May's books from the 19th century. Ever since, Westerns have always been popular in Germany. They don't understand them, but they like them.
I guess that they like stereotyping us.
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The event has been in the works for more than a month.
Planners are expecting about 800 people to watch the 18 students graduate.
The commencement was moved from May 10th to May 4th because President Bushs daughter Jenna is getting married that day. Coincidentally, May 4th is the one year anniversary of the tornado that demolished the town.
Put it in local because it is for me. If you are like me and kept having the speech interrupted by hollywood a*holes at a Lakers game, the video of the speech (unfortunately not the rest of the ceremony where President Bush had some great impromptu moments) is available at the link but you have to click "watch the video" then select the "President hails remarkable recovery".
The joke about needing to dust and other anicdotes is -typical- SW KS humor and character.
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It sounds like the Patiot Guard was there in support so it is likely there were no 'sad sacks' to ruin the occasion, not visibly at any rate. They also opened an art center donated by KU school of architecture (hospital is still basically a mash unit, but an art center is good in other ways) and breaking ground for a Southern Baptist Church.
NAIROBI/KHARTOUM - A plane crash which killed a minister and other politicians in southern Sudan Friday was caused by a technical fault, southern Sudanese President Salva Kir said Saturday.
I guess when you come right down to it, all plane crashes are caused by technical faults. And everybody on board ultimately died of heart failure.
'Two engines failed and there was nothing the pilot could do,' Kir told the BBC.
There's a real vote of confidence. Must have been insh'allan maintanence. The rest of you ministers, it's okay to board the next flight. After all, how likely is it that an engine will fail again?
Defence Minister Dominic Dim Deng had been flying with a military delegation to the regional capital, Juba. Presidential adviser Justin Yak was also killed. The Beechcraft 1900 of South Sudan Air Connection had been flying from Wau to Juba when the pilot sought permission for an emergency landing in Rumbek after reporting engine trouble. All 23 people on board were killed. Earlier reports that 26 were aboard were revised.
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Inshallah.
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Question - is this one of Christian/Animists from the south killed like the southern Christian VP was just after the peace treaty or is this an Arab who died?
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Re engine failure: Ask the 4 highly experienced Boeing test pilots who took the sole remaining Model 307 out for a test flight following a many year and many dollar restoration;
TP1: Did you dip the tanks?
TP2: No, did you?
TP3: No I thought you did.
TP4: Why is so quiet all of a sudden?
307: Splash! Into Elliot Bay
(Moral of the story, it don't matter how many motors you got, if'n there ain't no fuel, all you got is a big-ass glider)
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