Modesto police say a local man who tried to cut off his own arm at a Denny's restaurant thought he had injected air into one of his veins while shooting cocaine and would die unless he took drastic action.
"I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I gotta do somethin' drastic! What'll I do? What'll I do? I got it! I'll go to Denny's!"
The man, identified by police as Michael Lasiter, 33, rushed into the restaurant on Friday night
Actually, it was on a bike. Damn newspapers can't get anything right.
and started stabbing himself in the right arm with a butter knife he grabbed from a customer's table, police say.
"Here's yer knife back, Bub!"
"There's... ummm... blood on it."
When that knife didn't work, Lasiter allegedly took a butcher knife from the kitchen and dug it into his arm.
"Hey! You can't come in here!"
"Gimme dat butcher knife!"
"Okay. But then y'gotta get outta the kitchen. Customers ain't allowed in here. They might hurt themselves."
"What's the matter with him?"
"Tried to cut his arm off at Denny's."
"Put him over there with the other nuts."
"C'mon, you!"
"Don't taze me, bro!"
[ZAP!] "Shuddup."
told officers he thought he needed to amputate his arm to keep himself from dying from the cocaine injection, says Modesto police Sgt. Brian Findlen. The Denny's closed for the night after the incident.
"I'm sorry, sir! We're closing for the night!"
"Can I finish my Moon Over My Hammy?"
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This kind of thing happens all the time at the Waffle House. BFD.
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"This kind of thing happens all the time at the Waffle House. BFD."
God, SB, I'd forgotten all about those midnight runs to the Waffle House just off I-95. You're absolutely right. We went for food, but stayed for the "show."
Of course, nothing else was open that late.... :-D
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"What do you mean I have to go to IHOP to get my Rooty Tooty, Fresh and Fruity?!? ARRRGGHHHH!!"
A SELF-help guide that tells women to stay thin and follow their man's orders if they want to keep him has become a bestseller. The book, The Re-education Of The Female, also says women should wear sexy clothes while doing the cooking and cleaning.
Copies of first-time author Dante Moore's book have been flying off the shelves in the US, Britain's Daily Mail reports.
One piece of advice reads: "Men never really ask for anything. They command. And believe me, what you won't do, 10 broads around the corner will."
Advising women to stay slim to attract men, Moore also writes: "When you go to the grocery store to shop, do you pick out the nastiest-looking, most rotten, smelliest fruit or meat you can find?
"Oh you don't? Why not? It's the same with men when they see ... baby elephant-sized, out-of-shape women."
Moore, a 33-year-old computer engineer, says he wants to help women and wrote the book to show where they go wrong in relationships. Moore himself has never married, has a girlfriend of two years, an 11-year-old son from a previous relationship and says he has never found true love. The sequel writes itself: "Now go into the kitchen and make me some pie!"
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The truth hurts. I predict a withering response, or more likely, no response at all as "they" try to keep the book and its dangerous ideas as obscure as possible.
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"An a whale of a tale and a whale or two,
on a day like this with the sky of blue,
A whale of a tale, and it's all true,
I vow by my tattoo.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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So Ms. Lotp, our daughter, has a small business designing avatars etc. for other people in Second Life. She tells hilarious stories about the guys who demand well-endowed avatars that just oooze testosterone. And whose voices, when she chats with them via streaming audio, suggest pimpled faces and furtive one-person sex in the bathrooms of dorms and cheap apartments.
Let's see: wannabe tough guy vs, say, Todd Palin. Or Mr. Lotp.
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Moore himself has never married, has a girlfriend of two years, an 11-year-old son from a previous relationship and says he has never found true love.
Are you guys sure it isn't satire? I mean, if this actually worked, wouldn't he have supermodels lining up at the door instead of the child support enforcement agents?
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I was going to write something, but lotp covered it beautifully. Congratulations to Ms. lotp's on her creative application of the small business model!
Oh, and I'll take the gentlemanly and studly Mr. Wife over that cad, Mr. Moore. (Is there something about the name that brings out the worst in men?)
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Since about 80-90% of the "thin, beautiful" women nowadays won't settle for less than a six figure salary and obedience from the earner of said salary, it seems unlikely in the extreme that a guy like this is in any position to make demands.
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it seems unlikely in the extreme that a guy like this is in any position to make demands.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Gary was before your time, tw.
Posted by: Rambler in California ||
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The man is still writing with his little head. Food and sex will get a relationship going but it won't hold it together. Mutual appreciation is the glue that holds them together over the long run. It's held together by small but constant reminders of that appreciation over the months and years. It's also the extended droughts and absence of those expresses done hundred different ways that is the ultimate Chinese water torture that destroys relationships.
Posted by: Manager, Halliburton Solar Cleaning & Maintenance Div ||
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No doubt this is due to manned space flights' solar collectors reflecting light back to the sun making it think the earth is too warm. We must stop using all solar collectors in orbit and on earth. Luddites Unite!
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Live from Mobile Albama, 11:59 AM Labor Day Monday
No Rain right now, middlin rain around dawn, light winds, overcast and dark.
So far "Big deal"
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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It's occasionally gusting right now, I estimate in the 60mph range.
At least I have entertainment lined up for when the cable goes out.
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For all of those who live there, I'm glad to hear it was all blown out of proportion . Yea!
It was a good practice run. As the population continues to grow along the coast, eventually a big one will hit. This will keep everyone focused on making sure that things will go as well as can be expected when it does happen.
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Liveblogging New Orleans Gustav remotely from east Tennessee. Fled yesterday pre-dawn without incident & successfully dodged all the nasty traffic problems. Experienced a few sprinkles of Gustav rain but not enough to green the grass, and a light cooling breeze.
Power at Casa Glenmore is out but phone lines are intact, last I checked (called my answering machine, which did not pick up though the call went through.)
Time will tell if rain rose high enough in my street to get in the house or how many tree branches came down. Looks like it weakened (fortunately) to a fairly generic hurricane.
"Authorities reported seven deaths related to the storm, including four people fleeing the storm who were killed in Georgia when their car struck a tree. A couple in their 70s died when a tree struck their relatives' home in Baton Rouge. Another woman died in an accident driving between Baton Rouge and New Orleans."
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And somebody died during evacuation from the nursing home - which demonstrates the difficulty nursing home (and hospital) administrators have: balancing the real but unquantified risk of being overwhelmed by a storm against the real but unquantified risk of people with fragile health dying due to the stress of the evacuation. Guess wrong and you'll face criminal, or at least civil, trial.
Two foreign women have been jailed for a month for kissing and fondling each other and engaging in "indecent acts" on a public beach in Dubai, the media reported on Sunday.
The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the one-month jail sentence handed down by a lower court to the women, a 30-year-old Lebanese national and a 36-year-old Bulgarian who both pleaded not guilty, the UAE's 7Days newspaper said.
Prosecutors had charged the women with kissing, groping each other and "indecent acts in public," the paper said, adding that this was the first case of its kind in the United Arab Emirates. According to police reports, the two women were seen being intimate with each other on Al Mamzar public beach between the emirates of Sharjah and Dubai in April.
Witnesses told the paper that: "the Lebanese woman was lying on top of the Bulgarian and the two were cuddling and kissing each other in front of us."
One witness admited to calling the police "because it was indecent especially as there were some families around," 7Days reported. The two women will be deported after serving their sentences.
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What a place to vacation1 Mess around and get a free extension of your vacation. Whatta place1
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Meanwhile, dozens of men will still be recovering in the hospital after witnessing their uncharitable act. Shock and severe, life threatening priapism.
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I the west we punish that sort of behaviour by the knowledge that your actions will be filmed and then the "indecency" put on the web to help millions of teenage boys through puberty.
Not that I really care, but with all the crap dished to Dick Cheney on his deferments, it's interesting to see that Jawin' Joe also got deferments and then developed a medical problem.
DOVER, Del. (AP) _ Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.
Officials with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign released Biden's Selective Service records at the request of The Associated Press. Less detailed records were available from a National Archives facility in Philadelphia.
According to the documents, Biden, 65, received several deferments while he was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. A month after undergoing a physical exam in April 1968, Biden received a Selective Service classification of 1-Y, meaning he was available for service only in the event of national emergency.
"As a result of a physical exam on April 5, 1968, Joe Biden was classified 1-Y and disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager," said David Wade, a campaign spokesman.
In "Promises to Keep," a memoir that was published last year and became an instant best-seller after he was tapped as Obama's running mate, Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school. The Obama campaign pointed to media interviews from 1987, when Biden was making his first bid for the presidency, that mention his asthma.
Biden's five student deferments equal the number given to Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been quoted as saying he had "other priorities" than military service in the 1960s.
According to records AP obtained from the National Archives, Biden registered Feb. 15, 1961, with the Selective Service, when he was an 18-year-old student at Archmere Academy in Wilmington. The archives documents do not include any information about his classification or physical exam. Documents provided by the Obama campaign indicate Biden received a classification questionnaire in October 1963, when he was enrolled at the University of Delaware, and received his first 2-S student deferment a month later. Additional deferments were granted in roughly 12-month intervals, the last coming in January 1968, shortly before he graduated from law school at Syracuse University.
Then in April 1968, when he was 25, Biden was disqualified from service due to asthma.
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The Selective Service System is, and may well remain a shamefully flawed mechanism. I could never understand the priority of education over a simple 2 year period of national service....other than a convenient escape mechanism for those wealthy enough to employ it.
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B, one of the side effects of the peacetime and then Vietnam era drafts was as a means to regulate unemployment upon large numbers of young males in the Boomer period exiting high school and entering the job markets for which there were not enough employment for everyone. Back then 5% unemployment was taken statistically as full employment [people moving between jobs, hospitalized, attending further education, etc counting the below 5%] and unimagined. America hadn't seen 5% till recently in its history, so soaking up 1, 2, or 3% was seen as useful. If they went on to school they fell into the computation in that below 5% category. Throw in that those with college educations constituted the fewer back then, their employment prospects were significantly higher and therefore in the interests of economic planners were to be given preference.
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According to VDH: 85% of the 58,000 soldiers killed in Vietnam were regular army, white, 21 years old, and predominatly from rural or southern America. Why do I post this? because discussing Biden and Kerry as Vietnam vets is disrespectful to those of us who served by choice to attempt to allow the South Vietnamese to live in freedom.
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Personal experience (Navy) the wealthy (And children of "Privilege)were Officers, and the not-so-wealthy were Enlisted
There were NO "Poor Officers".
The "Poor" were weeded out before they could be considered for OCS
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To put it somewhat more clearly,
Those without family wealth, privelege and influence, need not apply. (For OCS)
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Must have been a Navy thing.
Mr. Lotp was commissioned in USAF in the 70s out of OTS and I assure you he came without wealth, privilege or family influence. He did however graduate with the top honors.
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The "Poor" were weeded out before they could be considered for OCS
FYI, I was picked up for OCS; neither I nor my family were or are 'Rich'. In fact, I went in at the tender age of 28 as an ET2 in the Reserve, after having to compete for a slot.
So kindly go Fuck Yourself, you class-warfare troll.
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I went to Naval OCS in 1970. My father was far from rich. I went to college on a scholarship. Graduated with honors. I applied for OCS before I graduated from college, while I still had my 2-S deferment, so strictly speaking I was never eligible for the draft.
I don't remember many of my OCS classmates as rich.
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Redneck Jim, your comments really miss the mark. I was an enlisted Marine, made E-6 in 4 yrs and then at age 29 went to Army OCS and did a total of 29ys, most of it active duty. I've been in both worlds and retired as an 05. I have to say your comments do not reflect the real experience in those services.
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I took out two sizeable loans to get through college and luckily had a minor scholarship for academics to cover the rest. My parents gave me very little in the way of finances and for that I'm thankful. Upon graduating college I sought out the nearest USMC Officer Selection Office in order to serve my country - they didn't do loan reimbursement at the time - I went through the 10 weeks of OCS and graduated earning both my butter bars and more importantly the EGA at the same time. It took me damn near 10 yrs to pay off my college loans AFTER I earned my commission as an Officer of Marines.
Whoever said all us zeros are rich - GO FUCK YOURSELF.
A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of parliament this week to spare him their outrage.
"Oh, spare me yer outrage! The Pashtuns are just as looney!"
"We are?"
"These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, said on Saturday.
"Savagery is good for the nation! It make us what we are!"
"And what are we?"
"Ummm... Savages?""
"Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."
"Define 'immoral'."
"Stuff I don't approve of."
The women, three of them teenagers, were shot and then thrown into a ditch. They were still breathing as their bodies were covered with rocks and mud, according to reports, which said their only 'crime' was that they wished to marry men of their choosing.
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This is a country with a nuclear weapons capability. Something tells me we're living on borrowed time with these people.
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They make the Hatfields and the McCoys look sophisticated.
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And if we get more involved in the "good" war in Afghanistan, we're going to have to deal with them forcefully, sooner or later. Then the Chinese are going to have to decide what to do. I hope the USN is prepping to be more involved in this war in the future.
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Sounds like this MP needs to experience the joy of premature burial. In his case, in a coffin, so he can enjoy trying to scrape through the lid with his fingertips.
To keep things extra interesting, give him a narrow air hose, with a little bacon grease dripping down it. And give him the choice of breathing greasy air, or suffocating.
Even better, there should be a minicam in there as well, so it can be made into a DVD movie.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of parliament this week to spare him their outrage.
