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hunck said:
Get’s you wondering….. was the car attached to the barrel then dumped? Would need a truck with hoist.

Were the two taken separately & the car balanced precariously on top? More likely - whatever, a hoist & pickup truck needed to carry the barrel.
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Dunno mate - I had the same thought. The car itself looks in pretty good nick (excuse the pun) so I'm guessing a prank played on someone by friends with access to such hoisting equipment.
 
Belt Buckle Beating Bizarreness

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/no...-his-neighborhood/EJBDEVANMRF2BLEXURP5HUAWX4/
Fulton man beaten with belt as punishment for trying to stop crime in his neighborhood

By WSBTV.com News Staff

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police are searching for two people after they say a man was beaten so badly he was sent to the hospital.

Police say a man and woman were doing something illegal in an alleyway at the Avalon apartment complex just after 9:30 p.m. on May 12. A man saw them and confronted them.

When he confronted them, police say the male suspect assaulted the man with a belt and belt buckle. His injuries were so severe that he had to be hospitalized.

Investigators say the pair then walked away back to the Avalon business area after the attack.

Police say the woman seen in surveillance photos was not involved in the attack, but they still want to identify her as a witness.

Anyone who recognizes the people in the photos should call police at 678-297-6364.
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Israeli Defence Force officers imprisoned, suspended for firing weapons naked


Three IDF officers were brought before a superior officer for judgment on Sunday after involvement in an incident in which two of them used firearms while nude.

Video (safe for work: blurred):

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1659440440272121857

An officer from the IDF's Sayeret Nahal was suspended last week after going to the shooting range with another soldier while both of them were naked.

The commander in charge of the shooting range who enabled the indecent behavior was sentenced to 21 days in military prison. The nature of his service, if it is able to continue after prison time, will be reviewed by his division commander.

The two officers, who were caught firing weapons naked, were also sentenced to 21 days of imprisonment followed by a four-month suspension from combat.

"This is a serious incident that is not consistent with the IDF's values," said the IDF Spokesperson's Unit last week.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-743797

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He must have really hated that guy.

Kavian Thomas, an inmate in Georgia, allegedly broke through a wall in a Fulton County jail to gain access to another inmate he wanted to stab.

Thomas stabbed Russell multiple times once he successfully entered Russell's cell, according to the release. Russell sustained "superficial stab wounds to his upper body" and was treated in the medical unit of the jail for his injuries, officials said
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https://boingboing.net/2023/05/23/i...-get-to-other-inmate-he-wanted-to-attack.html
 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/us/kentucky-man-shoots-roommate-hot-pocket/index.html
A man has been arrested after shooting his roommate during a fight about eating the last Hot Pocket, police in Kentucky say

Clifton Williams
Louisville Department of Corrections
CNN —

A man in Louisville, Kentucky, is facing an assault charge after shooting his roommate “in the ass” during a fight about eating their last Hot Pocket, officials said.

Clifton Williams got angry Saturday “and began throwing tiles” at his roommate after the roommate ate the last Hot Pocket, the victim told police, according to a court citation.

The roommate said he tried to fight back before telling Williams he was leaving, the citation said.

As the roommate was leaving, “Mr. Williams went inside the residence and got a gun,” the victim told investigators. Williams then shot his roommate “in the ass while he was trying to leave,” according to the citation.

The roommate “went a few blocks away to get help,” the citation said.

CNN has reached out to an attorney for Williams. Williams was being held on a $7,500 bond according to court documents and a spokesperson for the Jefferson Circuit Court Clerk. His next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday, according to court documents.

The incident is one of the most recent examples of a disagreement escalating to gun violence in a country with more civilian guns than people, according to the Small Arms Survey.

Earlier this month, a Sonic Drive-In employee was allegedly shot and killed by a 12-year-old boy during an argument with another man in the restaurant’s parking lot, police in Keene, Texas, said.

Last month in North Carolina, a man was accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents after getting upset about a basketball that had rolled into his yard, neighbors said.
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Abducted man Spanbroek 'pushed into car with loud scream', police concerned

A man was kidnapped in Spanbroek in North Holland on Friday afternoon. As police have "serious concerns about the man's health", images of him have been released. Police urgently want to find out who the man is and where he is now staying.

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The abduction was around 2.20pm yesterday. The man was then forcibly taken away in a car at the Herenweg in the village. The footage was taken with a security camera.

Nothing is known about the car involved. It remained out of reach of the camera, reports the public prosecutor's office to NIS.

Several shopkeepers tell NH Nieuws they saw the abduction happen. The man was allegedly taken away in a heavy-handed manner. "He was holding him by his arms and by his waist very firmly," shop assistant Nina says of the kidnapper. "There was a second man walking by who kept it in line. He couldn't move. With a very loud scream, he was pushed into the car."

Shopkeeper Marcel only got screams: "I was busy in the shop, and I was still thinking: what a scream that is. And when I went to look, they were already gone. Apparently it happened very quickly."

According to the shopkeeper, the abduction is the talk of the day in Spanbroek. "Every customer who comes in is actually talking about it. Nothing ever happens here, so then it's immediately big news."

Several users on social media wonder if it is not a prank or stunt. The police do not believe in that. "We don't just distribute a photo in the middle of the night," a police spokesperson told the broadcaster.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2476621-ontv...-harde-schreeuw-auto-ingeduwd-politie-bezorgd

Two men detained for kidnapping Spanbroek, victim still unaccounted for

Police have detained two men for possible involvement in the abduction of a man yesterday afternoon in Spanbroek. The arrests were overnight in neighbouring Heerhugowaard.

What the role of the arrestees was in the incident is still being investigated. It is still unclear who the victim is. He was forcibly pushed into a car yesterday afternoon and taken away.

The arrests have not yet led to the whereabouts of the man, police told NH News. The police are still seriously concerned about his health. The police therefore released a photo of the man earlier.

A woman in Heerhugowaard, about 12 kilometres from Spanbroek, woke up last night to a loud bang. It turned out to be the arrest of two possible people involved. "I thought there was an attack," she told the broadcaster.

Looking out of the window, she saw a man in a black suit, wearing a black mask and possibly a gun. "I have had very few moments in my life when I felt so much fear," she says. She then saw about 10 men outside with dogs. She then saw cars being searched and two men arrested.

The two suspects are in confinement. They are only allowed to have contact with their lawyer.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2476671-twee-mannen-vast-voor-ontvoering-spanbroek-slachtoffer-nog-spoorloos
 
Police found a man wedged in a subway shaft, an escaped prisoner

Prague police found an escaped prisoner on Sunday evening. The man was wedged in an air shaft in the Náměstí Republiky metro tunnel. The metro on the B line was stationary because of this, police spokeswoman Violeta Sirišt'ov reported.

A human voice was heard coming from the metro tunnel onto the platform. The police and firefighters therefore stopped traffic in the station and found a 22-year-old man wedged between the wall and the air duct in the service tunnel.

After freeing him, they brought him out and subsequently discovered that he was a prisoner who had escaped from the unguarded workplace on Friday night.

"Police officers restricted the man's personal freedom and took him to the police station on suspicion of committing the offence of obstructing the execution of an official decision and eviction," the spokeswoman said.

The fugitive was returned to Pankrác prison. "This escape will surely be added to his criminal past before the court," Siristo added.

Video:
Source: https://www.idnes.cz/praha/zpravy/p...uchotechnika.A230529_134337_praha-zpravy_hovo
 
The culprits were obviously partners in cream
Hundreds and thousands of CCTV images scanned as gardaí probe ice-cream cone theft
The thieves stole the giant ice-cream cone from a premises at Glencar Shopping Centre in Letterkenny, Co Donegal
Hundreds and thousands of CCTV images scanned as gardaí probe ice-cream cone theft
The ice-cream cone that was stole from a shop in Letterkenny.

TUE, 30 MAY, 2023 - 15:32
STEPHEN MAGUIRE
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An investigation is under way in Co Donegal after a giant ice-cream cone was stolen from outside a shop in Letterkenny.

Gardaí have scanned hundreds (and thousands) of CCTV images in a bid to track down the culprits.

The thieves stole the huge cone from a premises at Glencar Shopping Centre on the morning of Sunday, May 21, at 6.23am.

The early morning suspects include two men and one woman, who made their way off in the direction of Dr McGinley Road.

The men tried to cover their faces with hoods up while the woman was wearing a pink zipped-up top and pink tracksuit bottoms.
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https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/...m0Jbs4Bi6qJNdc49FoSFMu3d42u4CmU4WjTAgeDDHcfPk
 
Murdered or died due to seizures. I reckon this story will run for a while.

A Cambodian court has charged a Chinese couple with murdering a South Korean influencer who they insist died while receiving treatment in their clinic.

The body of BJ Ahyeong was found dumped on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, last week. The couple say they abandoned her body after she had seizures and died while receiving treatment at their beauty clinic in the city.
But prosecutors have refuted their account.

Prosecutor Plang Sophal told the AFP news agency that Lai Wenshao and Cai Huijuan had been charged with "murder accompanied by torture".

Her body was reportedly wrapped in red cloth and found by locals.

BJ Ahyeong was an influencer for AfreecaTV, a South Korean video streaming service, and had more than 260,000 followers on Instagram. BJ is short for Broadcast Jockey and is a Korean term for people who deliver live streaming to viewers. South Korean media have reported her real identity as 33-year-old Byun Ah-yeong.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65901004
 
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-neuschwanstein-castle-woman-killed-reports-american-tourists/
A 21-year-old American woman has died after being assaulted by another American tourist near a castle in Germany, police said Thursday, according to the AFP news agency.

The woman was hiking with her friend, 22, near Neuschwanstein Castle when they met a 30-year-old man who told them to follow him down a trail leading to a secret viewpoint, AFP quoted police as saying.

When the two women followed him, he allegedly attacked the 21-year-old victim. Her friend tried to intervene and the man choked her and pushed her down a steep slope, AFP said. He then attempted to sexually assault the 21-year-old, according to police, before pushing her down the slope as well.

The Associated Press said the American man was arrested in connection with the incident.

Rescue workers found the two women, and the 21-year-old was flown by helicopter to a hospital where she died of her injuries.
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This guy has past form:

In 2006, Howald was sentenced to two years in prison for felony aggravated animal cruelty, after pleading guilty to shooting a chocolate Labrador at a southwestern Montana campground and decapitating the dog with a chain saw.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A southwestern Montana man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after being convicted of a hate crime and firearms charges for threatening a woman with violent, homophobic slurs and shooting at her house with an AK-style rifle as part of a self-described “mission” to rid a small town of its LGBTQ community.

John Russell Howald, 46, was convicted in February and sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls for the March 2020 shooting.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mont...al-lgbtq-community_n_648b7937e4b048eb9114d03e
 
Aschaffenburg District Court
91-year-old grandmother killed while intoxicated with drugs - man sentenced to rehab

Aschaffenburg Regional Court : The Aschaffenburg Regional Court has sentenced a 26-year-old man who killed his grandmother while intoxicated with drugs to rehab.
The judges could not punish the 26-year-old for manslaughter because he was incapable of guilt at the time of the crime. He had suffered a psychosis after consuming "magic mushrooms".
After fatally injuring his 91-year-old grandmother with knives in a drug frenzy, a 26-year-old man has to go to a rehab centre. He was sentenced to this by the Aschaffenburg Regional Court on Friday. According to a court spokeswoman, the accused cannot be punished for the manslaughter because he was incapable of guilt at the time of the crime due to drug consumption.
The man had suffered a psychosis from so-called magic mushrooms (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and other drugs, which lasted for several weeks, according to his lawyer. In the meantime, the psychosis had completely subsided. Therefore, no placement in a psychiatric hospital was ordered, according to the court spokeswoman.
The crime took place in September last year. The now 26-year-old had previously looked after his grandmother for one and a half years - he cooked, he shopped and he also lived with her. According to her grandson, the old, sick woman had a dying wish. On the morning of 12 September, the man finally stabbed the still sleeping woman with two knives. He himself informed a neighbour, who alerted the emergency services.
The senior citizen died of her injuries about a month after the attack. The grandson admitted the crime in court. He could no longer fully remember the crime, the man explained through his defence lawyer.
 
ramonmercado said:
A cousin of Heather Mack's boyfriend was ordered released Friday to home confinement on a charge he helped plot to kill Mack's wealthy mother during a vacation in Bali.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez made the decision to detain Robert Bibbs at home with his mother acting as his guardian. Federal prosecutors raised concerns that Bibbs posed a danger to the community but agreed that home detention would reduce the risk of his committing a crime.

Bibbs, 24, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of conspiracy to commit the murder of a U.S. citizen on foreign soil. Prosecutors said Bibbs coached his cousin, Tommy Schaefer, and Mack, Schaefer's girlfriend, on how to best commit the killing and get away with it.

Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body was discovered by Indonesian police Aug. 12, 2014, stuffed into a suitcase at a resort in Bali. The Oak Park native had been bludgeoned to death.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...dered-released-to-home-confinement/ar-AAeNJM5
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She's back in prison.

An American woman has pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuff her body in a suitcase during a luxury holiday at a resort in Bali in 2014.

Heather Mack, now 27, was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released in 2021. She was arrested immediately upon arriving in the US and charged with conspiracy to kill a US national and obstruction of justice. Ms Mack now faces decades in prison.

In court documents, prosecutors said that the charges against her in the US do not violate rules against prosecuting someone twice for the same crime, partly because the US has charged her with conspiracy - which was not part of the Indonesian case.

She had originally pleaded not guilty to the charges when she was returned to the US in November 2021.

A trial was due to begin on 1 August. Instead, she will be now sentenced on 18 December. The deal made for her change-of-plea calls for a sentence of up to 28 years.

Ms Mack's attorney told the New York Post that she decided to change her plea after a "good" deal was offered by prosecutors, who had originally been seeking a longer sentence

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65931185
 
There was a load of footage around back in 2020 of pallets full of PPE that had been abandoned. Some was massively over-bought and waaaay surplus to requirements, and some was so shoddy that it couldn't be used anyway.
But because it was too, er, 'uncomfortable' politically at the time to admit to mistakes, or to confess to nepotism/croneyism when exposed for giving contracts to friends and family, the footage got buried/shrouded by declaring anyone who pointed it out as being a 'covid denier' or somesuch.
Hey ho.
 
Trevp666 said:
There was a load of footage around back in 2020 of pallets full of PPE that had been abandoned. Some was massively over-bought and waaaay surplus to requirements, and some was so shoddy that it couldn't be used anyway.
But because it was too, er, 'uncomfortable' politically at the time to admit to mistakes, or to confess to nepotism/croneyism when exposed for giving contracts to friends and family, the footage got buried/shrouded by declaring anyone who pointed it out as being a 'covid denier' or somesuch.
Hey ho.
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“The government has written off almost £10bn of spending on personal protective equipment (PPE) that was either unusable, above market price, or was not delivered, official accounts show.”

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o296

Unusable PPE worth £4bn will be burned, says spending watchdog​


https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1435

“The government is still paying £1.7 million a week to store unusable medical equipment in shipping containers…”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ppe-storage-costs-covid-uk-b2056305.html

maximus otter
 
Man jailed after carrying out sex act with baby seagull

A man who admitted carrying out a sex act while looking at animal porn and while holding a baby seagull that he had captured has been jailed for 24 weeks. David Lee, 40, appeared in court on Wednesday, where he had admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the herring gull at a previous hearing.

The incident happened in Sunderland at about 1am on August 18 last year. Magistrates handed him an immediate 24-week jail term and banned him from keeping animals for 10 years.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-jailed-after-carrying-out-27174456

maximus otter
 
Man climbs into Meerssen church tower and rings bells for hours at night
https://nos.nl/artikel/2479993-man-...n-en-laat-s-nachts-urenlang-de-klokken-luiden

A 33-year-old man climbed into the tower of the basilica in Meerssen last night and set the bells ringing there for two hours. It took hours before police were able to bring the man down with the help of a negotiator.

The basilica is under scaffolding due to restoration. Presumably, the man climbed into the church tower via those scaffolding around midnight, reports 1Limburg.

The pastor of the basilica heard from the sound of the church bells that something was wrong. "I suddenly heard the bells ringing around 11.50pm, in an irregular manner. Then I thought, 'I have to go and check that'," pastor Theo van Galen told the regional broadcaster.

Together with the sexton, he went to the building to check the bells. They soon discovered that they had no control over the chimes. "When I was in the sacristy and tried to operate the bells with the panel, I could notice that I couldn't change anything at all about the fuss," the priest says. "We both found nothing."

Guests at the café opposite the church could tell the pastor and sexton a few minutes later that someone was in the bell tower. "We knew then that the bells were not cranked by the mechanism, but just by manual operation," the parish priest clarified. "Just by pushing against the bells up there."

The police were also called in, who asked the man to sit quietly. "After he had had the fun of bell ringing once, he did want to go down. Especially when he was caught. But he got quite the scare, so he didn't come out," says Van Galen.

Officers cordoned off the area near the basilica. A special police team and a negotiator were then deployed to bring the man down. Around 03.45 am, police managed to get him down safely.

"The police had brought people who could keep him talking, very knowledgeable, very good," the parish priest continued. Moreover, an arrest team came to get the man out of the tower. "The seven of them climbed into the tower with ropes to go and rescue him." He was arrested and spent the night at the police station. What possessed him is not clear.

How the man got to the top of the basilica's steeple is a mystery to the pastor. "You cannot climb up that wall there like a cat," he states. However, due to a renovation, the church is in scaffolding. "But those are not made for climbing up. And yet it succeeded."

The pastor himself was not shocked by the incident. "No, it's just annoying. The sound of the bells could wake people up." But his anxiety turned out to be unnecessary. "Miraculously, few people showed up to see what was going on."
 
uair01 said:
Man climbs into Meerssen church tower and rings bells for hours at night
https://nos.nl/artikel/2479993-man-...n-en-laat-s-nachts-urenlang-de-klokken-luiden

A 33-year-old man climbed into the tower of the basilica in Meerssen last night and set the bells ringing there for two hours. It took hours before police were able to bring the man down with the help of a negotiator.

The basilica is under scaffolding due to restoration. Presumably, the man climbed into the church tower via those scaffolding around midnight, reports 1Limburg.

The pastor of the basilica heard from the sound of the church bells that something was wrong. "I suddenly heard the bells ringing around 11.50pm, in an irregular manner. Then I thought, 'I have to go and check that'," pastor Theo van Galen told the regional broadcaster.

Together with the sexton, he went to the building to check the bells. They soon discovered that they had no control over the chimes. "When I was in the sacristy and tried to operate the bells with the panel, I could notice that I couldn't change anything at all about the fuss," the priest says. "We both found nothing."

Guests at the café opposite the church could tell the pastor and sexton a few minutes later that someone was in the bell tower. "We knew then that the bells were not cranked by the mechanism, but just by manual operation," the parish priest clarified. "Just by pushing against the bells up there."

The police were also called in, who asked the man to sit quietly. "After he had had the fun of bell ringing once, he did want to go down. Especially when he was caught. But he got quite the scare, so he didn't come out," says Van Galen.

Officers cordoned off the area near the basilica. A special police team and a negotiator were then deployed to bring the man down. Around 03.45 am, police managed to get him down safely.

"The police had brought people who could keep him talking, very knowledgeable, very good," the parish priest continued. Moreover, an arrest team came to get the man out of the tower. "The seven of them climbed into the tower with ropes to go and rescue him." He was arrested and spent the night at the police station. What possessed him is not clear.

How the man got to the top of the basilica's steeple is a mystery to the pastor. "You cannot climb up that wall there like a cat," he states. However, due to a renovation, the church is in scaffolding. "But those are not made for climbing up. And yet it succeeded."

The pastor himself was not shocked by the incident. "No, it's just annoying. The sound of the bells could wake people up." But his anxiety turned out to be unnecessary. "Miraculously, few people showed up to see what was going on."
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He was appealing for help but the police tolled him off.
 
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