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It doesn't look that bad. However it does strike me as a useless action. They can start dealing on an adjacent street.
 
From @maximus otter link.
Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.
They set up an independent commune, with its owns rules and flag. There is no leader and decisions are made by consensus at communal meetings. The Danish state eventually accepted Christiania as a radical "social experiment", later giving it legal status.
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Christiania has often been at loggerheads with the authorities, and for a long time it resisted efforts to shut down Pusher Street. But last August residents agreed it must go.
In an extraordinary shift, they collaborated for several months with Copenhagen's Lord Mayor Sophie Haestorp Andersen, Justice Minister Hummelgaard and police over a new plan.
"As a city, we cannot live with [the violence], and the local Christianites have not been able to live with it either, but had been afraid to do something radically about it," said the mayor. "I told them I would back them up. Now we have a plan and we're taking the first step."
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We want anarchy! Unless it gets too anarchic.:pitch:
 
Xanatic* said:
It doesn't look that bad. However it does strike me as a useless action. They can start dealing on an adjacent street.
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I did a Google Street View tour around the place. It needs a good clean up.
 
Wisconsin man facing decades behind bars for identity theft scheme that sent victim to jail, mental hospital

A Wisconsin man is facing decades behind bars for a 36-year identity theft scheme in which the victim was sent to jail and even a mental hospital because authorities did not believe his story.

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Matthew Keirans, 58, faces up to 32 years in prison.

In 2019, the victim, William Woods, was homeless man living in Los Angeles when he found out someone was racking up debt using his name. Woods walked into a California bank, said he didn’t want to pay, and tried to close the accounts that Keirans had opened in his name.

He provided his social security card, as well as his California ID. The branch manager asked the real Woods a series of security questions. Unable to answer them, the bank called police, according to court records.

Keirans, listed as Woods on the account, told police he didn't give anyone in California permission to access his bank accounts. He then faxed police a series of fraudulently acquired identification documents, court records show.

Police arrested Woods and charged him with identity theft and false impersonation.

Because Woods repeatedly disputed the identity authorities foisted upon him, a California judge found him not mentally competent to stand trial and sent him to a state mental hospital, where he received psychotropic medication.

Woods spent 428 days in county jail and 147 days in the mental hospital before he was released after agreeing to a no-contest plea.

A detective tracked down the biological father listed on Woods' birth certificate and tested the father's DNA against Woods' DNA. The test proved Woods was the man's son.

When police confronted Keirens about the DNA evidence, he said: "My life is over" and "Everything is gone." He pleaded guilty to federal charges this week.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsi...-scheme-that-sent-victim-jail-mental-hospital

maximus otter
 

Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow​

Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical, vocal and choreographic compositions to a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) at a meeting Friday, the Russian state new agency TASS reported.​

Under Kadyrov’s directive, the region now ensures that Chechen musical and dance creations align with the “Chechen mentality and musical rhythm,” aiming to bring “to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people,” Dadayev added.
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hunck said:

Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow​

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We had all this in Britain thirty years ago.
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed on November 3, 1994 in the attempt to stamp out rave culture.

Electronic dance music could not be played in public. It was defined as being 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats'.

Police could confiscate sound systems and arrest people who might be travelling to a rave.

Worked well. Everyone went back to buying records by Matt Monroe and The New Seekers. :chuckle:
 
Thing is, with the UK version, it was nearly unenforceable in the strictest sense.
I consider it (like many laws) a 'Law of Convenience'.
This is a law or regulation put into place in order to arrest and detain (maybe not prosecute) people who behave, dress or speak in a manner that arouses suspicion but not enough to detain under a specific crime.
As my Dad always said: "When you talk to the police be respectful. You get cocky and they can always find something to bag you for."
 
escargot said:
We had all this in Britain thirty years ago.
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed on November 3, 1994 in the attempt to stamp out rave culture.

Electronic dance music could not be played in public. It was defined as being 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats'.

Police could confiscate sound systems and arrest people who might be travelling to a rave.

Worked well. Everyone went back to buying records by Matt Monroe and The New Seekers. :chuckle:
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Not the same thing though. I’m pretty sure dance music still featured in the charts & clubs in that time. The legislation was aimed at 'unofficial' raves happening in the countryside attracting big noisy drug-taking crowds in Surrey & the Home Counties etc.

Different to an outright ban.
 
hunck said:
Not the same thing though. I’m pretty sure dance music still featured in the charts & clubs in that time. The legislation was aimed at 'unofficial' raves happening in the countryside attracting big noisy drug-taking crowds in Surrey & the Home Counties etc.

Different to an outright ban.
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My point was about defining a type of music to ban based on its BPM etc.
 
Museum worker commits property damage in order to display own art work:

Museum fires employee for hanging up his own artwork​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...11/art-museum-fire-employee-painting-germany/

'Employers love a self-starter — but when a worker with lofty ambitions decided to mount his own piece at an art museum in Munich this year, his efforts were not appreciated by his superiors.
'The technical employee was fired from the Pinakothek der Moderne after he surreptitiously hung his approximately 2-by-4-foot drawing in the institution’s modern art collection in late February, spokesperson Tine Nehler said by email.
'German police are investigating the man for property damage — he drilled holes in the wall to hang the drawing. He said he hoped it would be his “artistic breakthrough,” German media reported.'

Updated information and image of the art work here:
"Early reports failed to mention that the special exhibition in which the picture was hung was all about errors and malfunctions in art, and called Glitch: On the Art of Interference."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...allery-by-an-employee-and-the-story-behind-it
 
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IbisNibs said:
Museum worker commits property damage in order to display own art work:

Museum fires employee for hanging up his own artwork​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...11/art-museum-fire-employee-painting-germany/

'Employers love a self-starter — but when a worker with lofty ambitions decided to mount his own piece at an art museum in Munich this year, his efforts were not appreciated by his superiors.
'The technical employee was fired from the Pinakothek der Moderne after he surreptitiously hung his approximately 2-by-4-foot drawing in the institution’s modern art collection in late February, spokesperson Tine Nehler said by email.
'German police are investigating the man for property damage — he drilled holes in the wall to hang the drawing. He said he hoped it would be his “artistic breakthrough,” German media reported.'

Updated information and image of the art work here:
"Early reports failed to mention that the special exhibition in which the picture was hung was all about errors and malfunctions in art, and called Glitch: On the Art of Interference."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...allery-by-an-employee-and-the-story-behind-it
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Absolutely fantastic subversion there. :bthumbup:
 
Vid at link.

Manchester police chase stolen car with 89-year-old passenger still inside.​

Greater Manchester Police have released dash cam footage showing its pursuit of a stolen car that had an elderly women still sat in the passenger seat.The 999 call to emergency services was also released. The car's owner sounds noticeably distressed, and tells the call handler that her 89-year-old mother in the car is blind and has dementia.

The woman had left the engine running to keep her mother warm during a cold January, while she went into a shop.

51-year-old David Stephenson, of no fixed abode, has been jailed this week for eight years and six months after being found guilty of kidnap, theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving and driving without a licence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68807571
 
ramonmercado said:
Vid at link.

Manchester police chase stolen car with 89-year-old passenger still inside.​

Greater Manchester Police have released dash cam footage showing its pursuit of a stolen car that had an elderly women still sat in the passenger seat.The 999 call to emergency services was also released. The car's owner sounds noticeably distressed, and tells the call handler that her 89-year-old mother in the car is blind and has dementia.

The woman had left the engine running to keep her mother warm during a cold January, while she went into a shop.

51-year-old David Stephenson, of no fixed abode, has been jailed this week for eight years and six months after being found guilty of kidnap, theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving and driving without a licence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68807571
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Video needs more Yakety Sax.
 

Firefighter on trial for arson on first day in office​

A former member of the Gelderland volunteer fire brigade and his three friends are suspected of arson. The fire was set on the day the man had passed his exam at the fire brigade.

The group of twenty-somethings celebrated on 1 December last year because their 26-year-old friend from Garderen had passed. They wanted to make sure he could turn out on his first night as a member of the volunteer fire brigade.

"We have been hustling each other," one of the suspects explained in court this afternoon. "We were looking for a tree that was hanging halfway down and we could lend a hand so it would fall on the road," said another suspect.

They also stopped at a vacant house. Two of the four boys later went back and set fire to the property with jerry cans of diesel and petrol, allegedly supplied by the rookie firefighter, writes Omroep Gelderland. They would have first checked that the house was empty, though.

Four fire brigades had to turn out for the house fire in Koudhoorn, in the municipality of Putten. One of the cars contained the 26-year-old man, who thus experienced his baptism of fire as a firefighter.

Role of firefighter​

The fireman admitted that he had been at the house with his friends that night. "It was suggested that we set that on fire, but we were also told: we don't think this is acceptable," he said.

Nevertheless, he allegedly gave his friends the jerry cans and dropped them off somewhere in a forest. The friends allegedly poured the contents over the floor and lit it with a tissue.

First to barracks​

A minute before the pagers went off for the house fire, another firefighter saw the boy driving to the barracks. The ex-firefighter was the first to reach the barracks and was also in the first fire engine on his way to the fire.

There were no casualties in the fire. But it soon became clear that the fire had been set. Eyewitnesses saw the member of the volunteer fire brigade refuelling jerry cans of petrol and diesel that evening. He admitted his involvement to his chief. His resignation from the fire brigade followed shortly afterwards.

The prosecution demanded a 10-month jail term, the same sentence as two other suspects. Six months in prison were demanded against the fourth suspect. The court will deliver its verdict in a fortnight.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2517028-bran...-voor-brandstichting-op-eerste-dag-in-functie
 
Another death by toddler.

Two members of a Florida family were charged and accused of covering up the death of a relative who’d been accidentally shot by a 2-year-old, Gainesville Police announced Thursday.

Bernard Carter III was initially reported to have been shot before entering a family member’s apartment in Gainesville on March 24, according to an earlier press release by police. Carter died from his injuries several days later.

According to a Thursday press release, police learned that a toddler living in the home had “immediate access to an unsecured handgun” on the day of the shooting. Police said the toddler grabbed the handgun and shot Carter.

Bernard Carter III via Gainesville Police Department


Bernard Carter III via Gainesville Police Department
The victim’s mother, Lawanda Wade, 50, and his brother, Quante Whitaker, 29, knew about the shooting but chose to cover it up and misled investigators for weeks, according to the release.

Wade and Whitaker were each charged with tampering with a witness and two counts of child abuse, and Whitaker also faces additional charges of tampering with evidence and perjury during an official proceeding, according to the release.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/man-shot-by-toddler-cover-up_n_66218f0ce4b07db21fd6b553
 
Dutchman caught with thousands of erection pills in Germany

A Dutch man has been caught smuggling thousands of erection pills in Germany. He had 4300 of them in his car, customs in Aachen said.

The 33-year-old man had just crossed the border at Heinsberg, near Sittard, when he was pulled over for a check. Customs officers found two bags full of pills and erectile gels in the car. These were packed in about 100 envelopes, all stamped and addressed to people in Germany.

According to German customs, the man explained that he had taken the bags of erection gels from someone he did not know. At a hotel, he should have passed the contraband to a third party.

A criminal investigation has begun against the man for violating the Medicines Act. German authorities are further investigating the origin of the pills and the orders that had been placed.

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https://nos.nl/artikel/2518361-nederlander-in-duitsland-gepakt-met-duizenden-erectiepillen
 
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