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Post by rockkid on Apr 9, 2006 9:59:33 GMT -5
Also weird (we'll see Gang Wars as the cause confirmed I'm sure)SHEDDEN, Ont. -- The bodies of eight men in several vehicles were found along a remote rural road yesterday, raising the spectre of an underworld battle in Ontario's largest massacre. Police on the ground and from the air scoured the area for clues as to how a tow truck, three cars and eight dead white men ended up near a rural home north of this quiet village near London. Police released no details about the possible motive and refused to confirm reports each of the men had been shot. "We are appealing for help from the public ... if they heard or saw anything suspicious on this roadway (Friday)," said Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Dave Rektor. Here is what police revealed and Sun Media learned yesterday: - The bodies of eight Caucasian men were found inside several vehicles about 8:30 a.m. by a resident of the area, just west of St. Thomas and south of Highway 401. - It's unclear which bodies were found where. - One vehicle contained four bodies, sources said. - One car, an Infiniti, was parked about 10 metres off the road on the western edge of a 10-hectare (25-acre) woodlot. From a plane rented by Sun Media, the body of a large, heavyset man clad in a dark sweatshirt, striped pants and white running shoes was visible in the open hatchback of that car. Another car, a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix, was parked further east, just off the road along the tree line. The plates on that car indicated it is registered to Avis Car and Truck Rentals in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. An official there would not disclose who rented the car. The third car was hooked up to the tow truck, parked at the side of the road between the two other cars. The tow truck at the scene bore the company name Superior Towing, from Etobicoke. It's not known if the driver of a missing Toronto area tow truck parked at the scene is among the dead. A person who answered the company's phone confirmed a driver and truck were missing, but knew no other details. Last night, a truck was preparing to pick up the vehicles and take them to Toronto. "This is eight bodies and four vehicles. It is easier to pick them up (than to) reconfigure them," said OPP Const. Doug Graham of the transport trucks used to take the vehicles to the coroner's office in Toronto. "I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together." Rektor refused to speculate if the eight men were killed in the always simmering battle between rival bike gangs in southwestern Ontario, or any other gangland rivalry. Shootings and the dumping of bodies have occurred several times in the area over the past two decades as, first, local gangs, then Hells Angels and Banditos, fought over the area's lucrative drug trade. Highway 401, visible from the scene, is known to Ontario's police as a main street for the drug trade and London, about 30 minutes away, has been known as a meeting ground for dealers from Windsor and Toronto. Among the many questions police could not or would not answer: Were the men killed at the scene or were they taken there? And, were they killed simultaneously or separately? "It's pretty remote. You could probably drive down that road and dump a body real easily," said Murray Silcox, owner of a general store in Shedden. As soon as the discovery was made, police set up road blocks and investigators began scouring a 40-hectare (100-acre) property for clues. Shedden is about 30 km southwest of London. 
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Post by rockkid on Apr 10, 2006 10:05:52 GMT -5
Seems it's Biker Wars............. I'm shocked  |
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Post by rockkid on Apr 18, 2006 9:51:10 GMT -5
Train bash survivor thanking metal godsRED DEER -- The metal gods were smiling on Jesse Maggrah. The 20-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the Norwegian heavy metal band Gorgoroth cranked on his portable CD player, when he was hit by a freight train. Maggrah said he did hear the blast of the train horn just before he was hit. "I tried to jump out of the way, but I guess not in time," he said yesterday from his bed at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. "It was just instant. I was just walking and then I was on the ground. I wasn't sure what happened. Then I saw the train stopping up ahead. I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.' " Police say the engineer and conductor on the northbound Canadian Pacific Railway train saw the man on the tracks several kilometres south of Red Deer. The crew blew the whistle and attempted to stop, but they were only able to slow the train to about 50 kmh before hitting him. Maggrah was thrown four to five metres from the tracks. Stunned, he moved his arms and legs to check for damage. "I knew I was alive, so that was good." He has several broken ribs, one which is poking into a lung, his doctors have told him. Maggrah is also very sore and stiff, and is having trouble walking. Maggrah said he didn't hear the train over his music and he didn't feel anything through the ground. "Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them. Otherwise, I'd be up there in the kingdom of steel." Police say no charges are pending against the man. Ha Ha Ha duh dude He plans to return to his parents basement on release 
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Post by phil on Apr 18, 2006 9:58:08 GMT -5
Darwin Award candidate ... !!
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Post by poseidon on Apr 18, 2006 16:04:11 GMT -5
Fag bash survivor thanking the Gods...
AUSTIN -- The gods were smiling on Pat.
The 40-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the sissy Madonna fan turned on his portable c.d. player when he was attacked by a homophobic mob.
Pat said he did hear the mob's screams just before he was hit.
"I tried to jump out of the way, but I guess not in time," he said yesterday from his bed at Saint David's Hospital Centre.
"It was just instant. I was just walking and then I was on the ground. I wasn't sure what happened. Then I saw the mob and their sawed off baseball bats and thought "feets don't fails me now, alas I thought," 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a sawed off baseball bat' "
Police say the witnesses saw Pat on the tracks several kilometres south of Austin. The witnesses blew the whistle and attempted to stop, but they were only able to slow the mob to about a few homophobes as they were hitting him.
Pat was thrown four to five metres from the tracks. Stunned, he moved his arms and legs to check for damage.
"I knew I was alive, so that was good."
He has several broken ribs, one which is poking into a lung, his doctors have told him. Pat is also very sore and stiff, and is having trouble walking.
Pat said he didn't hear the mob's stealth over his music and he didn't feel anything after the first bat struck his spine.
"Maybe the gods above were smiling on me and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them. Otherwise, I'd be up there in the kingdom of ZOD."
Police say no charges are pending against the man.
He plans to return to his humble abode upon release
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 18, 2006 16:13:30 GMT -5
er . . . Pat?
Didn't you post that in the . . . wrong section?
I mean .. . it just ain't funny
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Post by poseidon on Apr 18, 2006 16:15:38 GMT -5
I was pseudo-copying Rockkids post above mine...duh...
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Post by rockkid on Apr 19, 2006 10:13:46 GMT -5
In other news,I knew the was a reason the patrol cars are always there
Fired servers say cops bribed with doughnuts
TORONTO -- Two Tim Hortons servers fired for theft are suing the chain, their former bosses and Toronto police over allegations they were dunked unfairly and that the cops were sweetened by free doughnuts and coffee.
In an interview yesterday near the University Avenue courthouse, lawyer Ernest Guiste said his client's civil actions for $23.5 million each accuse several officers of poor investigations that hint at "bribery by doughnut."
The allegations in the case have not been proven in court.
Charlene Walsh, 29, and Amanda MacNeil, 26, claim any cash shortages were based on manager's orders to give cops free drinks and food at a city outlet.
The two mothers allege they were axed on cooked-up charges in 1999 by new bosses seeking to hire new staff.
In addition to the "stigma" of those charges - which Guiste said his clients no longer face - the cases keep surfacing when they seek good jobs.
In interviews, the two moms said they are raising children on low wages and short-term jobs that earned them between $1,000 and $11,000 each a year over seven years.
Walsh said her life has been "sheer hell."
Charged with theft and breach of trust six weeks after her firing, MacNeil said officers who drove her home after her last shift "told me I didn't need a lawyer. They said they couldn't believe this ... they'd known me."
After a judge yesterday ordered the lawsuits heard by two separate juries, starting today, lawyer David Shiller said surveillance videos will support Tim Hortons' theft allegations against the women.
"This case will be decided by the moving pictures, i.e. the video," Shiller, who represents the doughnut chain, told the Sun outside court.
Walsh and MacNeil "have put forward no evidence that this franchise got any benefit by the police," Shiller added. "This is not a normal wrongful-dismissal case."
He said Tim Hortons has an "informal policy" of treating police to freebies, but the decision for giveaways is left up to the owner of each franchise.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 19, 2006 10:14:44 GMT -5
I was pseudo-copying Rockkids post above mine... duh...Oh well *color me silly* then |
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Post by poseidon on Apr 19, 2006 10:34:19 GMT -5
Giving free food to law enforcement happens in the County that I live in here in dip-shit Texas. It's a rural area. So free food to the fuzz. A commmon occurance. Happened frequently when I had a part-time graveyard shift managing job at Jack-In-The-box. A Company/Manager rule...free food for the pigs. In other news,I knew the was a reason the patrol cars are always thereFired servers say cops bribed with doughnutsTORONTO -- Two Tim Hortons servers fired for theft are suing the chain, their former bosses and Toronto police over allegations they were dunked unfairly and that the cops were sweetened by free doughnuts and coffee. In an interview yesterday near the University Avenue courthouse, lawyer Ernest Guiste said his client's civil actions for $23.5 million each accuse several officers of poor investigations that hint at "bribery by doughnut." The allegations in the case have not been proven in court. Charlene Walsh, 29, and Amanda MacNeil, 26, claim any cash shortages were based on manager's orders to give cops free drinks and food at a city outlet. The two mothers allege they were axed on cooked-up charges in 1999 by new bosses seeking to hire new staff. In addition to the "stigma" of those charges - which Guiste said his clients no longer face - the cases keep surfacing when they seek good jobs. In interviews, the two moms said they are raising children on low wages and short-term jobs that earned them between $1,000 and $11,000 each a year over seven years. Walsh said her life has been "sheer hell." Charged with theft and breach of trust six weeks after her firing, MacNeil said officers who drove her home after her last shift "told me I didn't need a lawyer. They said they couldn't believe this ... they'd known me." After a judge yesterday ordered the lawsuits heard by two separate juries, starting today, lawyer David Shiller said surveillance videos will support Tim Hortons' theft allegations against the women. "This case will be decided by the moving pictures, i.e. the video," Shiller, who represents the doughnut chain, told the Sun outside court. Walsh and MacNeil "have put forward no evidence that this franchise got any benefit by the police," Shiller added. "This is not a normal wrongful-dismissal case." He said Tim Hortons has an "informal policy" of treating police to freebies, but the decision for giveaways is left up to the owner of each franchise. |
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Post by rockkid on Apr 21, 2006 9:55:11 GMT -5
LOL follow up
Train-stricken survivor ticketed
RED DEER -- Talk about adding insult to injury, dude.
A 20-year-old man who was hit by a train that he didn't hear coming because he had Norwegian heavy-metal music blaring in his headphones now has to pay a $287 ticket for trespassing on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks.
Jesse Maggrah was knocked into the ditch and suffered several broken ribs and scrapes to his head and hands.
On Wednesday, a CPR officer served Maggrah with the ticket as the young man was recovering in hospital.
"This is a double whammy for me," Maggrah said yesterday.
I'm grateful that I'm living, but I'm not grateful that I've got to pay this ticket. I'm ticked off about it."
The ticket was issued under the Alberta Petty Trespassing Act.
Maggrah said he'll pay the fine.
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Post by phil on Apr 21, 2006 12:01:20 GMT -5
KARMA !!
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 22, 2006 14:01:00 GMT -5
What do you want to bet Gorgoroth steps in to pay the fine.
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Post by luke on May 4, 2006 15:55:18 GMT -5
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported. According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out. The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return. According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home. The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave. |
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Post by luke on May 5, 2006 11:16:52 GMT -5
The state I live in is so fucked up. We're the only state other than New Mexico that still allows this shit.
Rooster fight bill sent to dead end
Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com
BATON ROUGE - A lawmaker who tried to ban cockfighting said Wednesday he was disappointed that the Senate failed to kill the blood sport.
Following the lead of the House of Representatives, the Senate sent Senate Bill 652 by Sen. Art Lentini, R-Metairie, to a committee that's sure to kill it. The House has done the same thing four times this session to attempts to bring a similar bill to a vote.
Cockfighting is banned in nine parishes - Caddo, Lafayette, Beauregard, East Baton Rouge, Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Calcasieu.
Lentini's bill made it to the Senate floor for debate by bypassing the Agriculture Committee, which never has approved a cockfighting ban. It started out as a bill to increase the penalty for cruelty to animals but was amended to deal with cockfighting.
Louisiana's cruelty to animals law bans dog fighting, but a 1982 state law excludes cockfighting from the cruelty law by declaring that fowl - chickens, ducks and turkeys - are not animals, "which raises an interesting question of what they are," Lentini said. "They're not vegetables or minerals," he said.
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