Lock up your chickens!
Outrage as French authorities warn of Jewish 'chicken thieves'
Implication in authorities' letter described as 'outrageous, insulting and slanderous'
French Jews have responded angrily after a local district warned farmers to be wary of chickens being stolen in the run up to Yom Kippur for use in an atonement ceremony.
The French department of Hauts-de-Seine, a western district of Paris, sent an e-mail to all owners of cattle and poultry earlier this month warning them to exercise “the utmost vigilance” in the run up to the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha and the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
Prior to Yom Kippur, orthodox Jews perform a ceremony known as kapparot – atonement. While the ceremony can be performed while waving money around ones head, the traditional form of the ceremony involves waving a chicken instead. After they are waved, the chickens are slaughtered. The Muslim ceremony of Eid-al-Adha involves the slaughter of a “beast of the herd”, usually a sheep.
As reported by Le Parisien, the letter, from the Hauts-de-seine Department of Population Protection (DDPP), told owners about the two festivals and urged them “not to let the animals wander, as malicious people may try to capture them for clandestine slaughter”. Late last week, Francis Kalifat, the President of the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), described the department’s letter as “outrageous, insulting and slanderous”.
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/kapparot-chickens-1.443501
A modern version of the blood libel.
MAN CONVICTED OF USING FALSE NAME AT JAIL TO AVOID PRISON
Authorities say Robert Mason was a trusted and model prisoner the six times he was booked into Ohio's Zanesville City Jail starting in 2014.
But it wasn't Robert Mason who served those 150-plus days for various misdemeanors. It was Troy Mason, a homeless man who used his brother's name to avoid returning to prison for a parole violation on a felony burglary conviction.
A Muskingum County jury on Wednesday found the 50-year-old Mason guilty of forgery and tampering with records, felony convictions that could result in more prison time.
Prosecutors say the Zanesville jail's fingerprint machine was broken the first time he was booked as Robert Mason, and he became a familiar figure afterward. He continued the charade until his parole officer unmasked him last year.
'Out of control' pensioners fined for hotel rampage
- 1 September 2017
- From the sectionTayside and Central Scotland
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Image captionRuth and Robert Fergus had both been drinking before the incident
Staff and guests were forced to flee after two "out of control" pensioners rampaged through a Highland Perthshire resort hotel, a court heard.
Robert Fergus, 72, ran naked with a pair of scissors in the public reception of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel and smashed a glass pane.
His wife Ruth, 69, threatened to shoot a staff member after "reacting badly" to the alcohol she consumed earlier.
The couple were fined £4,100 at Perth Sheriff Court.
Mr Fergus, from Troon, was also ordered to pay the hotel £800 compensation to cover the cost of the damage from the incident on 4 February.
He had admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards four staff members, wilfully destroying property, and drink driving.
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Yup, so while the abduction was genuine nothing else was? That seems likely.
It's not harmless though (not that I think you're saying it is) as there are aggravating factors. for a start, she reckons she had an injection in the forearm. That's a very serious assault.
>"for a start, she reckons she had an injection in the forearm"
Her description of that "injection" scenario makes me pretty suspect- it reads like something out of a crime movie, rather than how actual criminals, or actual drugs, work, IMO. The "instant knock-out drugs that work right away when administered intra-muscular" sounds super-sketchy to me; it's how people think drugs work from spy movies, but IM-administred drugs take time to work, and time to administer, which would be extremely hard with a struggling victim. And what drugs, specifically, work like that? And which could be obtained, and administered in a dose that walks that fine line between not leaving you conscious, but also not giving you organ failure or putting you in a coma or worse? In a dose decided by an untrained street criminal? On a victim they know essentially nothing about (like all the stuff anaesthesiologists need to know; weight, other drugs you're on, when you ate last, etc) There's a reason anaesthesiologists get big bucks, even by doctor standards, for essentially a few minutes work- they do a job with a crazy high risk associated with it, that takes training to not screw up.
Also noteworthy- this is the only part in the story where she claims direct contact with a second kidnapper- everything else was just her and the main guy. And again, the "masked man jumping out of the shadows with a syringe full of knock-out drugs" sounds way more like a spy film than like real-life crime, to me. And what type of crim organizes a hand-off at a building full of government security staff? But is cautious and well-connected enough to use exotic drugs, masked accomplices, etc? Yeah, nah...
Hate to be a cynic, but I'm not buying it...
Yup, 's'bollocks innit. What d'you reckon, caught out on a dirty weekend?
Just a theory - it may have been a local kid just learning how to do it.Just recollecting how I once experienced a strange crime -
We discovered one morning our car had been burglarized. All the doors and trunk were standing open and the inside had been ransacked. Even the baby safety seat had been taken out and the cover removed. Whoever had done it had been thorough.
We called the cops to make a report. We went through everything and it appeared nothing had been stolen, not even the radio/cassette player. Well, one thing was missing: A home-made mixtape labelled "chick music".
The cop was as befuddled as we were. He figured the thief had been looking for something specific. Might have even been a case of mistaken identity and the thief got the wrong car, who knows. It was just funny that they'd probably come looking for money, weapons or drugs and came away with my chick music mixtape instead.
You have to wonder what was going through the thief's mind. "well, that break-in was a wash, but I'd really like to listen to something girly on the way home."
Mind you, I am glad we got the strange burglar and not a more cunning one willing to pawn our stereo.
Just a theory - it may have been a local kid just learning how to do it.
I had my car broken into one night, and the only thing missing was a small adjustable spanner...
Referring to "open source material", Mr Scott said: "The same complainant, it seems, generated publicity from the fact she was near the scene of a terrorist attack at the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
"Prior to the release of the complainant, the kidnapper apparently issued a press release to a tabloid newspaper setting out that this lady was being held for auction."
He told the court of an alleged incident during which Ms Ayling and her captor went shopping for shoes and called it a "wholly anomalous feature of a hostage situation".
She also went to breakfast with the kidnapper before her release when they found the British consulate was closed, Mr Scott added.
The Chloe Ayling kidnap case has always sounded a bit dubious. Now one of the two brothers, Michal Herba's lawyer, George Hepburne Scott, says: "There is a real risk that the entire case is a sham."
The whole thing could just be a profile raising stunt..
Who the heck would agree to taking part in a publicity stunt that would stick them in jail for an indefinite period?The Chloe Ayling kidnap case has always sounded a bit dubious. Now one of the two brothers, Michal Herba's lawyer, George Hepburne Scott, says: "There is a real risk that the entire case is a sham."
The whole thing could just be a profile raising stunt..
Who the heck would agree to taking part in a publicity stunt that would stick them in jail for an indefinite period?
I read somewhere that crims en masse were quick to move on from activities with a poor return and/or high risk. Might have been in 'Freakonomics'.To a sensible person, the possibility of spending 6 years behind bars for a theoretical score of just 6 months' average UK wages is a non-starter. As I said above, though, most crims are intellectually as well as morally challenged.
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