Sir George Mackenzie

Teens Steal Skull, Use as Puppet

LONDON (Reuters) - Two Scottish teenage boys escaped a jail sentence for breaking into the tomb of one of Scotland's most violent noblemen.

Lawyers try to gag FBI worker over 9/11

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

26 April 2004

The Bush administration will today seek to prevent a former FBI translator from providing evidence about 11 September intelligence failures.

Sibel Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who had top secret security clearance, claimed this month that while working in the FBI's Washington headquarters, she saw information proving senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes.

Mrs Edmonds was subpoenaed by the law firm Motley-Rice, which represents hundreds of families who are taking civil action against a number of banks and two members of the Saudi royal family for allegedly aiding al-Qa'ida.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man who got drunk, fell asleep on railroad tracks and was run over by a train slept through the entire episode and escaped unharmed, local officials said on Friday.

You are most like James Castle. You were always
before Holden in roll call, and were constantly
picked on, and teased. You are quite depressed,
and sick of the treatment you always receive.
Too bad you are dead.

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" I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

-George H.W. Bush

A New York court official is suing the city after a toilet he was sitting on, broke.

Frank D'Alessandro is claiming $5m (about £2.8m) following the incident last July.

He says he's suffered four herniated discs in his back after hitting the floor.

Mr D'Alessandro said: "I was sitting on the toilet bowl and the next thing you know, it exploded. I was on the floor, on top of a pile of broken porcelain, in a puddle of water and filth."

Even blind old ladies terrify the cops

She was 71 years old.

She was blind.

She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue.

And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt.

 When Nellie Scott, Eunice's 94-year-old mother, tried to rinse out her daughter's eye with water from a two-quart Tupperware bowl, according to Ernie Warren Jr., Eunice's lawyer, the cop pushed Nellie up against a fence and accused her of planning to use the water as a weapon.

 Eunice was uncooperative. Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed.

Hard of hearing, she ignored the calls of Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac to leave the trailer.

 "Looking back, and I know the officers feel this as well, they may have done something differently," Police Chief Derrick  Foxworth said Friday.

TB Carrier Jailed

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 25, 2004

(AP) A man health officials believe infected 56 people with tuberculosis was jailed for refusing an order to be quarantined. Feliciano Morelos, 19, a farmworker from Oaxaca state in Mexico, was being held in a jail cell equipped with special air filters so other inmates do not breathe the same air.

 Morelos is believed to be the first person jailed in Santa Barbara County for disobeying an isolation order from a public health officer and endangering public safety.

 Authorities say Morelos refused on two occasions to remain quarantined. Health officials believe he infected 56 people. Nine people have developed an active case of the disease.

18 YEARS AGO TODAY

Apr 26 1986

44 seconds into a late-night experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four sustains two large explosions. A plume of dangerous radioactivity looms three kilometers high, making it the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power. The Soviet news agency TASS holds off reporting the incident for almost 48 hours.

 Exposure to massive amounts of radiation killed 32 people initially. The Ukrainian government now says hundreds of thousands of people suffer from sickness related to the disaster. In the years following the accident , 210,000 people were resettled into less contaminated areas.

Most of the radiation fell onto Belarus. Ten years later, children are still being born with stumps for limbs and no eyes. More than 600,000 people involved with the cleanup are now dead or dying.

Reactor #4 is now sealed underneath a giant concrete bunker, however this is a temporary plan at best. The shield is already in need of expensive maintenance and is not considered to be a permanent solution.