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Absolutely. The guy was clearly a thoroughly bad lot. However, if he had extremely limited mobility, and had thrown his knife, there must have been a better way than shooting him dead. My son's a police officer in the UK. He doesn't carry a gun, and has to use skills, teamwork, patience, and training to arrest people. It isn't easy, but he's proud of what he does, often managing to pacify drunks and druggies sufficiently to get them to surrender and cooperate. It's a sign of a civilised society that killing is not the first recourse.
You are fortunate enough to live in a society in which the criminals almost always don't have guns to shoot at the police. Do you assume that the police had not tried various non-violent methods to persuade the aggressor to put down his weapons and stop fleeing? Do you assume that, having flung away his knife, he did not have a gun? etc. It is a sign of a member of a civilized society to understand that judging from one's own social/cultural/legal circumstances is not always the best for interpreting a different situation.
 
You are fortunate enough to live in a society in which the criminals almost always don't have guns to shoot at the police. Do you assume that the police had not tried various non-violent methods to persuade the aggressor to put down his weapons and stop fleeing? Do you assume that, having flung away his knife, he did not have a gun? etc. It is a sign of a member of a civilized society to understand that judging from one's own social/cultural/legal circumstances is not always the best for interpreting a different situation.
The article does state that they tried to tase him twice and it didn't work. And it also states that "he threw the knife, again". He also was known by police as there was an earlier altercation which resulted in the loss of his legs.

And he'd already stabbed another. So, possibly not an altogether stable nor predictable person (probably an understatement).
 
Good heavens! That thing is worth enough trouble to pirate/counterfit?

Hasta La Vista, Baby!
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California cops shoot dead double amputee, 36, as he tries to run away from them on his stumps


A group of California police officers shot and killed a double amputee on Thursday as he tried to run away from them on his stumps after jumping out of his wheelchair.

The three cops from Huntington Park Police Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two.

His family say he lost the lower halves of his legs recently after an altercation with police in Texas.

Lowe Jr. had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to the police department, and was trying to run away from two officers on Thursday.

First, they tried to Tase him, chasing him as he ran down the sidewalk, away from the wheelchair he had leaped from.

He turned and tried to hurry away from them, clutching a large butcher's knife in one hand.

A second police car arrived, from which a third cop emerged. Within 15 seconds of the third officer arriving, they fired multiple shots, shooting Lowe in the upper torso.

'The suspect was tased at least twice by Huntington Park Officers but the deployment of the taser was ineffective.

'The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, at which time an officer involved shooting occurred,' the LA County Sheriff's Office release said.

Lowe Jr. later died at the scene.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...double-amputee-Anthony-Lowe-Jr-tries-run.html

maximus otter
Perhaps it's a morbid thought and bordering on the tasteless, but I'm surprised nobody has commented on the nominative determinism - the double amputee fleeing on his stumps was a Mr Lowe.
 

Stowaway frog triggers alarm during screening at Pennsylvania airport


Transportation Security Administration officers at a Pennsylvania airport made an unusual discovery in a checked bag -- a "stowaway" frog.

Lisa Farbstein, a spokesperson for TSA Public Affairs Northeast, said a checked bag triggered an alarm during security screening at Harrisburg International Airport.

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Farbstein tweeted the "stowaway" hopped out of the checked bag while officers were examining it.

"This little creature was toad-aly surprised when he was spotted and he asked for frog-iveness," Farbstein wrote. "This find by TSA officers won't be easily frog-gotten."

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/0...Pennsylvania-TSA-stowaway-frog/2561675714547/

maximus otter
 
I'm really not sure where to put this.
It has to go somewhere though.
Some sort of 'dirty protest' I think.

Ballet director smeared faeces on critic's face after bad review
An award-winning German ballet director has been suspended after smearing dog faeces on a critic's face.
Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64630181
 
Update:

Two men have appeared before Carlow Circuit Criminal Court charged with deception and fraud of a post office last January involving the pension of a deceased pensioner.

Declan Haughney, 40, of Pollerton Road, Carlow allegedly took the body of his dead uncle 66-year-old Peadar Doyle, to a nearby post office to claim his pension payment. Gardaí believe the pensioner, who was an uncle of Mr Haughney, was already dead when he was taken into the post office.

A previous sitting of Carlow District Court in May, Detective Garda Kieran Shields gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution of Mr Haughney

The defendant was further charged with attempted deception and of attempted theft at Hosey’s post office and shop, Staplestown Road, Carlow on January 21st last. ...

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland...eceased-pensioner-at-post-office-1334167.html

Update.

A nephew of a pensioner who allegedly took the body of his dead uncle to a Carlow post office to collect his pension payment has been remanded in custody.

Declan Haughney, 41, of Pollerton Road, Carlow and his co-accused Gareth Coakley, 37, of 44 John Sweeney Park, allegedly brought 66-year-old Peadar Doyle of 199 Pollerton Road to claim his pension payment. The alleged offences are said to have occurred at Hosey’s Post Office, Staplestown Road, Carlow, on January 21, 2022. Gardaí believe the pensioner was already dead when he was taken into the post office.

It is alleged Mr Haughney and Mr Coakley, who is on bail, attempted to collect a pension payment of €246 owed to Mr Doyle. Both are also accused of entering the post office at 11.04am where they "dishonestly induced by deception" a member of staff. Both charges are contrary to Section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001.

The trial of the two men was expected to begin on Tuesday. However, prosecution counsel Niall Storan BL told the court the “case is not ready for trial yet”.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41071202.html
 
Had they been watching 'Waking Ned'?
(great film)
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When word reaches Jackie O'Shea and Michael O'Sullivan, two elderly best friends, that someone in Tulaigh Mhór (Tullymore), their tiny Irish village of 52 people, has won the Irish National Lottery, they, along with Jackie's wife Annie, plot to discover the identity of the winner.
They obtain a list of lottery customers from Mrs. Kennedy at the post office and invite the potential winners to a chicken dinner, where they attempt to get the winner to reveal him (or her) self.
After everyone has left and they are no closer to an answer, Annie realizes that one person did not come to the dinner, so Jackie pays a late-night visit to the only absentee: the reclusive Ned Devine.
He finds Ned in his home in front of the TV, still holding the ticket in his hand, a smile on his face and dead from shock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Ned
 

What do you call it when Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin get together for a drink?​

A communist party

Man arrested after attempting to steal Lenin’s body in Moscow’s Red Square
A 42-year-old man has been arrested after attempting to steal the body of Vladimir Lenin from the former USSR leader’s Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
The Moscow resident was detained yesterday evening after he approached the doors of the Mausoleum and tried to open them.
He was stopped by security guards and after being taken to a police station, he allegedly said that he wanted to steal the body of the founder of the Soviet Union.
“The man behaved strangely, said something awkward, and later admitted that he wanted to steal Lenin’s body”, it was reported.
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/w...ns-body-in-moscows-red-square/1227980801.html
 
Had they been watching 'Waking Ned'?
(great film)
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When word reaches Jackie O'Shea and Michael O'Sullivan, two elderly best friends, that someone in Tulaigh Mhór (Tullymore), their tiny Irish village of 52 people, has won the Irish National Lottery, they, along with Jackie's wife Annie, plot to discover the identity of the winner.
They obtain a list of lottery customers from Mrs. Kennedy at the post office and invite the potential winners to a chicken dinner, where they attempt to get the winner to reveal him (or her) self.
After everyone has left and they are no closer to an answer, Annie realizes that one person did not come to the dinner, so Jackie pays a late-night visit to the only absentee: the reclusive Ned Devine.
He finds Ned in his home in front of the TV, still holding the ticket in his hand, a smile on his face and dead from shock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Ned
Funny movie.
 
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