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Post by rockkid on Jul 16, 2006 9:21:49 GMT -5
The irony
Beer baron in big trouble
DENVER -- Beer baron Peter Coors has had his driver's licence revoked after his arrest for drunken driving following a wedding celebration.
Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled that Coors did not stop at a stop sign and was driving impaired on May 28. Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving the wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported yesterday.
He faces a arraignment this Thursday and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.
"I made a mistake. I should have planned ahead for a ride," Coors said in a statement. "For years, I've advocated the responsible use of our company's products."
Company spokesman Kabira Hatland said that Coors rolled through a stop sign a block from his home in Golden, Colorado, and that an officer stopped him in his driveway.In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 per cent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088.
The legal limit in Colorado is 0.05 per cent.
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Post by rockysigman on Jul 16, 2006 11:13:27 GMT -5
In fairness to him, 0.05 is ridiculous.
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Post by rockysigman on Jul 16, 2006 11:22:07 GMT -5
'Bridge Troll' Arrested After Confrontation With Deputy
Bridge Trolls For Thee
BOULDER, Colo. -- A man who acted as a modern-day bridge troll faces charges in Boulder after he and his companion allegedly got into a confrontation with an off-duty sheriff's deputy.
According to a police report obtained by 7NEWS, Robert Hibbs, 19, was arrested Friday in a park near Foothills Highway and Colorado Avenue after demanding money and attacking the deputy. Police said that Hibbs insisted he was a troll and owned the bridge the deputy was trying to cross.
Witnesses told police that Hibbs and Bradley Boville, 19, were demanding $1 from joggers and bikers who attempted to cross the bridge.
The off-duty deputy, who was not identified, told police the confrontation with Hibbs started after the man hit his bike with a broken golf club when he forced his way past without paying. The two became involved in an altercation and Hibbs hit the deputy with a golf club, the police report stated. The deputy said he took the golf club away from Hibbs and struck him in an attempt to defend himself.
Boville, who was with Hibbs, reportedly told police that they had consumed LSD and that Hibbs was having a bad trip.
Police said they confiscated a large marijuana joint rolled in $1 bills at the scene and then searched Boville's apartment and recovered drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Hibbs was arrested for investigation of menacing and possession of a controlled substance, according to police. Boville was arrested for investigation of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
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Post by Galactus on Jul 16, 2006 11:55:37 GMT -5
Haha, awesome.
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 1, 2006 12:33:51 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Aug 26, 2006 16:27:58 GMT -5
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Post by shin on Sept 5, 2006 20:20:12 GMT -5
This ABC Docudrama thing, and all of the revelations about it that have been uncovered in the last week, is one of the most bizarre political events of the last 5 years.
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Post by strat-0 on Sept 12, 2006 20:19:07 GMT -5
This isn't funny - more like bizarre. Not really news either, but I didn't know where else to put it.
So, I watched this show on a Nat'l Geographic channel, a series called "Hunter, Hunted," and this episode was "Ambushed." Very interesting show. It seems that there's been a rash of black bear attacks, maulings, and killings in Canadian wilderness areas lately. It's strange because they are normally relatively docile and don't approach or threaten humans. Sure, sometimes they get into trouble in the States when they lose their fear of humans and trash people's campsites or garbage cans looking for food, and you wouldn't want to provoke one, but they're not like grizzlies by any means. I've seen several in the Smokies. But these blackies were regarding humans as prey items. That's pretty bizarre.
In one incident, a bear came into a campsite (no food being cooked, just sealed containers) and attacked and mortally wounded a woman. Her husband tried to save her by jumping on the bear, which threw him away, and then he jumped on it again, stabbing it multiple times with his pocket knife. It finally left them. He eventually got help from some guys in a boat, who had earlier had a similar encounter (same bear, it turns out). They had tried to scare the menacing animal away, to no avail, and one of them picked up a hatchet and smacked it hard on a picnic table with the blunt end several times. The noise scared off the bear. Lucky for them.
Another guy was picking berries when a bear started stalking and menacing him - he was fortunate enough to have a giant-sized can of pepper spray, and after emptying the thing with numerous sprays, the bear left him alone.
Another incident occurred when three young forestry workers were out in the field overnight. They had scared a bear away earlier in the day, and then they bedded down (two in an RV and one in a tent. Um, I don't think so...) So the bear came back in the night and wrapped the guy up in his tent and started munching on him - sort of like 'pigs in a blanket,' I guess. He was seriously injured before the other two came out and managed to run the bear off.
These were all in Ontario, and I thought they said "park," but I'm not for sure if some of them might have been in a different kind of wilderness or Crown area. In the States, there are major differences between what you can and can't do in a state or national park as opposed to a national forest. But one thing struck me as odd after the thing was over: Why are these people facing down maniacal, deranged bears with pocket knives and hatchets? I'll tell you one thing: I'm not going out camping in the middle of nowhere bear country without at least a loaded .44 pistol! Sure, I'm all about conservation -- it's their home, etc., but if some fucking deranged bear comes after me, he's getting a six-pack in the face and chest! Then it occurred to me that firearms are probably illegal in those places. Well, count me out. You can be sure the old-time Mounties had at least a .30-06 rifle at the ready out there. I sure as hell would have too, up in grizzly country especially.
It's not like these blackies are endangered -- there are like 100,000 in Ontario alone. And we're talking about vicious rogues, here, and not your average bear. I don't know -- it just struck me as odd. Can any of our resident Canucks enlighten me a bit? I mean, I know they hunt in Canada -- can you take a firearm out in those areas? Or did these people think they were dealing with Winnie the Pooh?
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Post by phil on Sept 12, 2006 23:06:46 GMT -5
We had a fatal bear attack in the Québec city region last year
or maybe two years ago when a female jogger was killed
but it is still a rare occurence and we have lots of bears in forests
just outside the suburbs ...
In a wild life reserve just 10 miles from where I live,
there are probably more than a hundred bears roaming the place ...
It is their habitat and we kill a lot more of them than they kill us humans ...
Handguns are not readily available to the general public
except those with a special permit or target practice and
you can't carry them with you ...
I don't think rifles or shotguns are allowed in federal or provincial parks
unless hunting is permitted there but then it would be only
during the specific hunting season ...
When I was a kid I saw lots of bears around the fishing camp
where I spent the summers
They were always more afraid of us than we were of them ...
Unless of course it was a mother with her cubs !!
Now the moose on the other hand ...
They all hate us !! Beware of the moose ...
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 13, 2006 8:30:02 GMT -5
Phil's got it right, as far as I know. People don't generally go around carrying handguns here - unless they're gang members in Toronto, of course.  Hunting regulations vary by province, so I'm only familiar with some of the regulations here in Ontario (even though I'm the furthest thing from a hunter.) Hunting or carrying a firearm is prohibited in a number of provincial parks and Crown land areas, but permitted in others - hunters need to know the specifics for the area they'll be in. Even where hunting is permitted, you can't use handguns or fully automatic firearms, and firearms are prohibited when not in hunting season. So that explains taking on a bear with a knife. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 13, 2006 10:13:33 GMT -5
This ain't funny at all, but it IS bizarre:
How there's a lashback of STINGRAY KILLINGS in the wake of Steve Irwin's death ( !)
Man . . . that is fucked up
:,c
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Post by phil on Sept 13, 2006 12:12:37 GMT -5
Irwin's death sparks bout of stingray mutilations
Paul Lewis
Wednesday September 13, 2006
The Guardian
The natural injustice of the death of Steve Irwin, the daredevil conservationist who wrestled with crocodiles and dangled cobras but was killed by a relatively docile fish, has apparently motivated some of his most ardent supporters to wreak revenge.
Eight days after the documentary maker was killed in a freak encounter with a stingray while snorkelling off the north Queensland coast, and while his native Australians continue to mourn him, the authorities are investigating the possibility that the species that took Irwin's life is being targeted in acts of retribution.
Up to 10 apparently mutilated stingrays have washed up in coastal waters since his death, prompting Queensland state officials to call on fans of the self-styled "wildlife warrior Australian bloke" not to retaliate against the species that killed their hero.
Two stingrays - typically placid creatures - were found dead yesterday with their tails sliced off at Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, adding to the toll of eight already discovered since Irwin's death in waters further north.
The actual stingray which delivered the fatal blow to Irwin as he swam in shallow waters with a cameraman to film "stuff on the reef and little animals" for a programme featuring his eight-year-old daughter could, of course, still be alive.
"We do find dead stingrays with their tails cut off from time to time. People usually do it if they are worried about getting stung by a stingray, or they just do it maliciously, but it is pretty rare," said Wayne Sumpton, a senior biologist in Queensland's fisheries department.
"We do not know if these incidents are motivated by Steve Irwin's death. At the moment that is just speculation."
Conservationists who worked with the documentary maker have been swift to condemn any form of retaliation against the animal kingdom for his death, pointing out that cutting the tails off normally placid fish conflicts with Irwin's conservationist beliefs.
Killing stingrays, said Michael Hornby, executive director of Irwin's conservation group Wildlife Warriors, is "not what Steve was about".
"We are disgusted and disappointed that people would take this sort of action to hurt wildlife," he said. "It may be some sort of retribution, or it may be fear from certain individuals, or it just may be yet another callous act toward wildlife."
Irwin died after the serrated barb of a stringray penetrated his heart. Although the venom embedded in the tail spines of stingrays can kill small creatures and cause acute pain to humans, it is extremely rare for the shy fish to kill humans.
It is thought the stingray that killed Irwin struck its tail with a reflex powerful enough to puncture a hole in the 44-year-old's chest in what is said to have been only the third recorded fatal stingray attack in Australia.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 13, 2006 13:21:15 GMT -5
(thanks, Phil)
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Sept 13, 2006 20:03:04 GMT -5
You know on the Simpsons vs Australia episode, where the bartender gave Marge a giant can of XXXX beer? That beer comes from Queensland - and so did Steve Irwin. The Aussie stereotype is alive & well up there.
Its not the, ahem, most intelligent of Australian states. Their past times include drinking & shooting things.
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Post by Kensterberg on Sept 13, 2006 20:14:23 GMT -5
Sounds a lot like Texas.
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