The last thing they need are a bunch of children coming to the zoo while hunters are shooting up the forest!
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Stupid Hunters Go After Elk Through Fence Only To Discover It Was In A Zoo
The last thing they need are a bunch of children coming to the zoo while hunters are shooting up the forest!
Kangaroo captured after hopping around New York neighborhood
A runaway kangaroo enjoyed a few minutes of fun in a New York neighborhood on Saturday morning.
The marsupial named Buster was spotted at around 8am after slipping
through an unlocked gate in a 6-foot-high fence and happily hopping
through Staten Island.
“It was jumping around, enjoying the freedom and the fun," said Urim
Osmani, 34, owner of the nearby Alb’s Auto Repair.
“We didn’t know what it was.
We thought it was a deer,” he said. “When it came closer, we saw it
was a kangaroo. We thought it disappeared from a zoo or something.”
Police sources confirmed that the 4-foot-tall kangaroo belongs to John
Schirripa.
Schirripa told police officers that the ‘roo belonged to his brother,
who he said brought Buster with him from upstate New York to his
sibling’s home.
Buster was hopping around in the backyard on Saturday morning when he
found the unsecured gate and made his move. Local residents then called
911.
When police arrived, they found Buster bouncing up and down in a
neighbor’s yard. The officers surrounded the kangaroo, but the owner
quickly showed up, subdued the animal and returned him to the backyard.
Buster’s adventure in the big city lasted about 10 to 15 minutes,
according to a police source.
No charges were filed and Buster remains in his owner’s custody.
The ASPCA was notified, per procedure, but it doesn’t look like they
will get involved, according to police.
“It looks like it’s legal to possess a kangaroo where this man is from,”
a police source said. “Since he was visiting the area and was returning
home today, there was no violation.”
Buster wasn’t injured, and neither were the police who responded.
“We were trying to keep it calm. We didn’t want to scare him,” Osmani
said. “We were scared it was going to hurt somebody. It jumped a couple
of times and then it disappeared.”
The ASPCA was notified, per procedure, but it doesn’t look like they
will get involved, according to police.
“It looks like it’s legal to possess a kangaroo where this man is from,”
a police source said. “Since he was visiting the area and was returning
home today, there was no violation.”
Buster wasn’t injured, and neither were the police who responded.
“We were trying to keep it calm. We didn’t want to scare him,” Osmani
said. “We were scared it was going to hurt somebody. It jumped a couple
of times and then it disappeared.”
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
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Belgium - Bosnia/Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - England - France - Germany - Greece
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The Pacific
Australia - PhilippinesToday in History
| 480 BC | Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis. | |
| 1587 | In France, Huguenot Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuse’s larger catholic force at Coutras. | |
| 1709 | Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy take Mons in the Netherlands. | |
| 1714 | George I of England crowned. | |
| 1805 | Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleon’s army at the battle of Ulm. | |
| 1818 | The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States. | |
| 1870 | The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force. | |
| 1903 | The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska. | |
| 1904 | Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific. The treaty recognizes Chile’s possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica, on the coast. | |
| 1924 | Baseball’s first ‘colored World Series’ is held in Kansas City, Mo. | |
| 1938 | Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews. | |
| 1941 | German troops reach the approaches to Moscow. | |
| 1944 | U.S. troops land on Leyte in the Philippines, keeping General MacArthur’s pledge "I shall return." | |
| 1945 | Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. | |
| 1947 | The House Un-American Activities Committee opens public hearings on alleged communist infiltration in Hollywood. Among those denounced as having un-American tendencies are: Katherine Hepburn, Charles Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson. Among those called to testify is Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan, who denies that leftists ever controlled the Guild and refuses to label anyone a communist. | |
| 1968 | Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis. | |
| 1973 | Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war. | |
| 1977 | Charter plane crashes in Mississippi, killing three members of popular Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with their assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot. | |
| 1991 | Oakland Hills firestorm destroys nearly 3,500 homes and apartments and kills 25 people. | |
| 2011 | In the Libyan civil war, rebels capture deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, killing him soon afterward. |
Basic Life Process
Alzheimer’s blood test
Oregon shooting hero rips conspiracy nuts ...
NYPD won't disclose what it does with its secret military-grade X-ray vans
The $825,000 Z Backscatter Vans the NYPD drives around the city look
like regular police vans, but are equipped with powerful X-rays that can
see through walls and vehicles. US Customs uses these things to scan
cars and freight-containers, but only after they're sure there are no
people around.
For more than three years, Propublica has been suing the NYPD for access to training materials and other documents explaining what the NYPD does with the vans, and even though a New York court ruled in their favor in January, the NYPD is still fighting the order in appeals court.
This week, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice filed for leave to intervene in the case with an amicus brief, arguing that New Yorkers had the right to know if the police were secretly looking through the walls of their homes while bombarding them with dangerous radiation.
The military-grade surveillance equipment, which utilizes x-ray radiation to image the inside of cars and buildings, is used to search for roadside bombs in Afghanistan. The NYPD has largely refused to disclose anything about how it uses x-ray vans on the streets of New York. The department denied a Freedom of Information Law request by an investigative journalist at ProPublica asking for records revealing the vans’ public health risks, the NYPD’s prior use of the vans, whether the department gets a warrant before it uses them or how long the NYPD holds on to images the vans capture. The NYPD also won’t say how much the x-ray vans in total are costing taxpayers, though reportedly the NYPD is shelling out between $729,000 and $825,000 for each unit...
...In ordering the NYPD to produce records related to x-ray vans in Grabell v. the New York Police Department, the trial court found that the NYPD did not show how disclosing information about these x-ray vans might compromise investigations. The NYPD’s refusal to disclose information is further undercut by the fact that other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, have already revealed the same types of information about similar technology.
If Moms Talked to Each Other Like They Talk to Their Kids
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The Five Biggest Tech Myths Perpetuated by TV Shows and Movies
Movie and television shows are commonly criticized for their "Hollywood" presentations of certain issues and situations. If something in a film or television program is too far off the reality mark, there is generally backlash from the viewing public. One realm that is difficult to accurately portray in media presentations is computers and technology. There's never enough time in a movie or TV show for sufficient explanations of computer oriented tasks, nor to portray the length of time they typically take.
The article linked below lists five of the biggest technology myths perpetuated by TV and filmmakers, according to experts. The first myth cited regards security camera footage. To quote the article,
The Technique: “Cleaning Up” Security Footage
The Myth: “Magnifying/enhancing” recordings can show police a detailed shot of a perp’s face.As Seen In: Ocean's Eleven, NCIS
The Expert: Trevor Newton, sales director for Tyco Security, a company that makes surveillance cameras and equipment
The Reality: “We call it the ‘CSI effect,’” Newton says. “Because whenCSI first came out, we’d go do a presentation, and people were like, 'Wow, I should be able to get these cool things,' and we have to be like, ‘No, that's not really reality.’ On TV, a casino, for example, can digitally zoom in and do all these magic things — and then suddenly, they can see a person's reflection in a spoon. That's not possible. [HD video] is about the number of pixels you're recording; like a still photo, you can only zoom in so much. And there's no way to fix that [afterward].”But do they make cameras that are high-definition enough to catch the killer in a spoon’s reflection? Well, yes — but also no.“Right now, technology doesn't allow those high-megapixel cameras to actually stream that information fast enough,” Newton explains. “There are different factors here. One is: How many pixels do I have? Then, how fast can that information be relayed back to the system to record it? It's really like trying to eat an elephant — when you have too much information, how fast can you actually eat that? How many frames can I swallow when there are so many pixels? With high-megapixel cameras, usually the frames per second is a lot slower. You can get a lot of information, but it won’t be fluid on the screen. In the case of real-life casinos, they kept analog cameras for a long time [because] they have regulations; security cameras need a certain frame rate for the fluidity. There are cameras that can stream faster, but they can’t use them because the images won’t be high-enough resolution.”
Waterspouts on Great Lakes
The aquatic equivalent of a tornado usually appears in
tropical waters, but a sudden plunge in temperatures creates them in the
Great Lakes as well.
Oceanic Greenhouse Gases
Liberated ancient deposits of the potent greenhouse gas are another sign of climate change.
'Bizarre' Signal Sparks Alien Intelligence Speculation
The fascinating speculation surrounding a recent Kepler
observation of a star 1,500 light-years away has reignited questions of
alien life in our universe and what it means for future studies.
Buddha Statue On Mars
A statue of a 'Stunning Martian God' is supposedly detected on the Red Planet.
Warm Beaches and Sea Turtles
Sea turtles are the ocean’s “canaries in the coal mine” when it comes to climate change.
Monday, October 19, 2015
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| 439 | The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. | |
| 1216 | King John of England dies at Newark and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. | |
| 1448 | The Ottoman Sultan Murat II defeats Hungarian General Janos Hunyadi at Kosovo, Serbia. | |
| 1466 | The peace of Torun ends the war between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia. | |
| 1739 | England declares war on Spain over borderlines in Florida. The War is known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear because the Spanish coast guards cut off the ear of British seaman Robert Jenkins. | |
| 1781 | Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Va. Cornwallis surrenders 7,157 troops, including sick and wounded, and 840 sailors, along with 244 artillery pieces. Losses in this battle had been light on both sides. The Revolutionary War is effectively ended. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte begins his retreat from Moscow. | |
| 1848 | John "The Pathfinder" Fremont moves out from near Westport, Missouri, on his fourth Western expedition–a failed attempt to open a trail across the Rocky Mountains along the 38th parallel. | |
| 1864 | At the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va., a narrow victory helps the Union secure the Shenandoah Valley. | |
| 1873 | Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of football rules. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden captures her thirteenth Allied merchant ship in 24 days. | |
| 1917 | The first doughnut is fried by Salvation Army volunteer women for American troops in France during World War I. | |
| 1942 | The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea. | |
| 1949 | The People’s Republic of China is formally proclaimed. | |
| 1950 | The North Korean capital of Pyongyang is captured by U.N. troops. | |
| 1954 | Egypt and Britain conclude a pact on the Suez Canal, ending 72 years of British military occupation. Britain agrees to withdraw its 80,000-man force within 20 months, and Egypt agrees to maintain freedom of canal navigation. | |
| 1960 | Canada and the United States agree to undertake a joint Columbia River project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control. | |
| 1973 | President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. | |
| 1987 | In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U. S. navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms. | |
| 1988 | British government bans TV and radio interviews with members of Irish political group Sinn Fein and 11 paramilitary groups. | |
| 1989 | The 1975 conviction of the Guilford Four overturned by British courts; the 4 men had been convicted in the 1974 Guilford pub bombings. | |
| 2003 | Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II for her work among "the poorest of the poor" in India. | |
| 2005 | Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s trail for crimes against humanity begins in Baghdad. |
The Scream found in freshly plank of wood
Erling Vindfjell was sawing planks for a house he is building near
Seljord, three hours west of Oslo in Norway, when he spotted a
manifestation of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
His family have since named the accidental artwork “The Scream in the Forest” and are aiming to conserve it for posterity.
“We want to keep it somewhere where no one can get hold of it. It must surely be treated as an art object,” his daughter-in-law Gunn Helga Vindfjell said.
She said that she did not believe there was any cosmic significance to
the find.
"I’m not superstitious, so I don’t think there’s anything strange about
it," she said. "But I expect that some people will think that."
“We want to keep it somewhere where no one can get hold of it. It must surely be treated as an art object,” his daughter-in-law Gunn Helga Vindfjell said.
Town can breathe sigh of relief after backwards apostrophe caused cheese and wine shop worry
The Bishop's Cave, a cheese, wine and craft beer shop due to begin
trading in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, is still on track to open
next month, one of its co-owners has assured.
There were fears on Friday morning that the father and son behind the
venture may have got cold feet, after the shop sign, which went up on
Tuesday, had been taken down.
However, it turns out Steve Leak, 52, and Dan, 27, are simply making sure everything is perfect for their opening. Dan said: "There was a very small problem with it.
"We noticed that the apostrophe was backwards. It'll be back up in no time at all." The new food outlet, which has caused a clamor of excitement among local residents, is still set to open on November 14.
However, it turns out Steve Leak, 52, and Dan, 27, are simply making sure everything is perfect for their opening. Dan said: "There was a very small problem with it.
"We noticed that the apostrophe was backwards. It'll be back up in no time at all." The new food outlet, which has caused a clamor of excitement among local residents, is still set to open on November 14.
KKK Member Harassed A Woman On Twitter, So Anonymous Killed Their Web Sites
A Klansman chose the wrong person to mess with — a liberal blogger who happens to be friends with some members of Anonymous.
A 'christian' doomsday cult’s excuse for why the world didn’t end as they predicted
Is there a bigger P.R. headache than failing to accurately predict the end of the world?
Papa John’s Franchisees Pay Out Half A Million In Wage Theft Settlement
Four Papa John's Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a
500,000 dollar settlement to pay back 250 employees whose wages were
stolen.…
Texas Judge Refuses To Give Immigrants’ Children Birth Certificates
This decision will negatively affect countless families.
“My Dog, My Dog, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us?” Couple Asks As They Head To Prison
by John DeProspo
Many innocent lives have been lost throughout the ages as a result of
religious delusions. An Oregon couple is now headed to prison for the
death of their newborn because their faith does not allow them to
believe in doctors.An Oregon State Supreme Court Judge has ruled “faith healing” is no substitute for medical care. The couple, Dale and Shannon Hickman, who had been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of their newborn son in 2011, will now be held in separate state penitentiaries until at least January 2018.
Dale and Shannon Hickman, as members of the Oregon-based followers of christ cult, believe in “faith healing” and not in traditional medical care. When their premature son was born at home, weighing just 3 pounds, 7 ounces, they chose not to go to the hospital but to pray over the dying baby and “anointed” his head with oil.
If the Hickmans had phoned 911 as soon as their son was born, one state doctor estimated that he “would have had a 99 percent chance of survival.”
The most troubling aspect of this story is not the much-hyped clash between religious delusions and the law. No, it is between deeply held religious delusions and common sense.
As of February 2015, 39 states and the District of Columbia have “laws providing that parents or caretakers who fail to provide medical assistance to a child because of their religious beliefs are not criminally liable for harm to the child.” In addition, federal law does not require parents to provide medical treatments to children that are against their religious beliefs.
The fact is, Oregon only completely removed its own religious exemptions for such cases in 2011 as a direct response to infant deaths among the followers of christ. The legislation passed unanimously.
But striking down this exemption came too late for many children born into the small fundamentalist sect. Reports have claimed that as many as 78 children and 10 women have died among the “faith healing” believers … all deaths during childbirth.
Dale and Shannon Hickman will have plenty of time to think about why their god forsook them and their infant son at their hour of need.
It is truly incredible to think that in 2015, in 39 states, the Hickmans would have been allowed to walk free!
Girl honored after her stick-figure sketch helped police catch suspect
11-year-old Rebecca DePietro was honored in Stratford, Connecticut, on
Thursday night for some detective work that helped officers solve a
string of burglaries on her street.
It all started when her family got a knock at the door a few months ago from a Stratford police officer who wanted to know if they had seen anything or anyone suspicious. “I was like, yeah I can draw a picture of him,” DePietro said.
“It wasn’t like the best picture, it was just a head and some legs and I thought oh he’s probably just going to crumple it up and throw it out.” However, police took the doodle seriously, superimposing the picture and matching it up with a picture of the suspect. They say it helped them catch the suspect, who has since confessed to 10 burglaries in the area, including the break-in at DePietro’s home.
“It was kind of like payback like you did this and my daughter’s drawing kind of resolved the issue,” Paul DePietro said.
Police say the drawing not only helped them make an arrest, but also recover some of the items the suspect stole.
“For us to take that sketch and match it up, it was remarkable,” Stratford Police Chief Patrick Ridehour said. “Maybe she’s part of our next generation of detectives.”
Man wearing rollerblades accused of stealing ambulance
Police in Gwinnett County, Georgia, recently encountered a man wearing
rollerblades who allegedly stole an ambulance after a car accident.
Police say their officers responded to a crash on Oct. 11 at around
8pm.
An SUV had flipped over, trapping the driver inside, and injuring five
others.
As the officer was collecting information at the scene, he said he
noticed the ambulance slowly moving backwards.
In the police report, the officer said he began to run after the
ambulance until he realized there was a man, later identified as Brandon
Demarcus Moore, inside driving it backwards at a low rate of speed.
The ambulance went backwards down a hill, missing pedestrians and other vehicles. Police were able to move their patrol cars to block the ambulance, which forced the ambulance off the road where it finally crashed into a brick sign. Police say Moore refused officers’ orders to exit the ambulance so they broke the driver’s side window and forced Moore out. Officers say when they got Moore out, he was wearing rollerblades, which he used to kick them.
Police were able to get Moore to the ground and remove his rollerblades. When officers were questioning Moore about why he didn’t get out of the ambulance, he allegedly told them he was part of the "recon unit" of the fire department. Moore was arrested and taken to the Gwinnett County Jail. The ambulance sustained significant damage. Moore was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, interference with government property, obstruction of an emergency medical technician and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.
The ambulance went backwards down a hill, missing pedestrians and other vehicles. Police were able to move their patrol cars to block the ambulance, which forced the ambulance off the road where it finally crashed into a brick sign. Police say Moore refused officers’ orders to exit the ambulance so they broke the driver’s side window and forced Moore out. Officers say when they got Moore out, he was wearing rollerblades, which he used to kick them.
Police were able to get Moore to the ground and remove his rollerblades. When officers were questioning Moore about why he didn’t get out of the ambulance, he allegedly told them he was part of the "recon unit" of the fire department. Moore was arrested and taken to the Gwinnett County Jail. The ambulance sustained significant damage. Moore was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, interference with government property, obstruction of an emergency medical technician and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.
Man banned from pub because he wouldn't stop talking about flying saucers
A man was banned from a pub after irritating customers with his talk of
flying saucers, a court heard.
But when Malcolm Smithson, 30, returned to speak to the landlord of The
Boltmakers Arms in Keighley, West Yorkshire, he was accused of going
into the ladies toilets and began shouting and
swearing.
Smithson, of Keighley, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in a public place on September 15 when he appeared before Bradford Magistrates’ Court last week. Prosecutor Tariq Bostan told the court that Smithson was spotted by an off-duty policeman at 7.45pm outside The Boltmakers Arms, being ejected by the landlord and another male. “He was shouting and swearing,” said Mr Bostan.
“He was waving his arms around and was told to calm down, and again advised to go home. He then told the officer to’ f*ck off’ and tried to get to the landlord and the other male again.” Smithson was eventually restrained to the ground, the court heard. Representing himself, Smithson apologized to the bench for his behavior that evening. He explained: “The landlord and other customers wanted to get rid of me because I was talking about UFOs,” said Smithson.
“Basically, they didn’t like it and they accused me of going into the
women’s toilets, which was not true.
I was drunk and I did use threatening words and abusive words, but I was
trying to get at the fact of what I was being accused of being
potentially damaging to me and untrue, and I wanted a proper answer,” he
told the court.
“I apologize for using abusive language.”
Smithson was sentenced to a conditional discharge for six months.
He must also pay £150 criminal court charge, £85 prosecution costs and a
£15 surcharge.
Coffee delivery man sacked after dispute with employer over having to drive 'brothel-car'
Robert W., who had worked for the same company for 20 years, put up with
the humiliation at first. But when he was told on the next day that he
had to change his grey hub caps for red ones it was all too much.
The 49-year-old stormed into his boss's office to give him a piece of
his mind.
"I'm not driving a brothel-car like that!“ he told him.
A heated exchange ensued and before he knew it Robert W. found himself out of a job - without notice.
But Mr W., from Mönchengladbach, wasn't about to take the insult lying down and fought the decision in the employment court. To add an extra layer of intrigue to the case, Robert W. told the judge that he had been made to drive the bawdy vehicle because he was gay. As proof, he pointed to the fact that none of the other employees at the firm were given vans with sexual adverts on them. In fact none of the other cars had advertising at all. But Robert W.'s ex-boss fought back against this claim.
"I don't have a problem with his homosexuality," he insisted. "The van
was supposed to grab people's attention in the big cities."
The court ruled that in view of the fact that Robert W. had an
unblemished work history stretching back 20 years, his firing without
notice was not proportional.
But the court did not believe he had been mistreated because of his
sexuality.
The company was ordered to pay Robert W. until the end of the year at
which point he can be released from his contract.
Since September a different employee has been driving the van.
Student driver having last lesson before her test crashed car through front of driving school
A woman having her last driving lesson before taking her test
accidentally rammed her husband's car through the front of a driving
school.
Shandanu Shuklah's wife, who in her twenties, mistakenly hit the gas
pedal instead of the brake, crashing into the 9-1-1 Driving School in
Bellevue, Washington.
His Audi lurched onto the sidewalk, smashing through part of the school's mostly glass storefront at about 8:30am on Friday.
No one was injured and the damage to the building was mainly cosmetic. Mr Shuklah says his wife will be taking her test next week.
There's a news video here.
His Audi lurched onto the sidewalk, smashing through part of the school's mostly glass storefront at about 8:30am on Friday.
No one was injured and the damage to the building was mainly cosmetic. Mr Shuklah says his wife will be taking her test next week.
There's a news video here.
Australians get behind proposal to change name of currency to Dollarydoos
"If the leaders of this great nation have any common sense at all, they will introduce legislation to parliament to change the name of our currency as soon as possible." The term "Dollarydoos" was first uttered in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons titled "Bart vs Australia".
In the episode the Simpsons visit Australia after Bart makes a costly collect call to an Australian home to ask them which way the water spins as it drains out of their sink. When the father in the Australian household sees the enormous phone bill he screams "Nine hundred dollarydoos!" Treasurer Scott Morrison is yet to comment on whether the popular proposal has his backing.
Man stopped by police for dancing in public to face trial by jury
Steve Unger, who dances on sidewalks in Holladay and Cottonwood Heights,
Utah, faced the music in court on Wednesday afternoon after some police
officers on the beat apparently did not appreciate his act.
Following the court appearance, he has a Nov. 18 jury trial to face
disorderly conduct charges. For Wednesday's court appearance he wore a
suit, saying he has never worn one before and never will again.
"What happened to me is pretty absurd," Unger said. "I'm hoping the
judge issues a reprimand to the people who did this to me."
Nearly every day, the 68-year-old retiree dons selections from his
brightly colored wardrobe, ties a bandanna around his clean-shaven head,
throws on the ear buds, plugs into his smart phone packed with tunes,
and heads outdoors.
He walks and dances up to 10 miles, sometimes bouncing a rubber ball as
he "glides" along streets, avenues and lanes.
Children from the local junior high say hello, and passers-by in cars
wave.
But in late August, Unger's dancing hit a sour note. His improvised
moves attracted the attention of Cottonwood Heights police, who said he
was blocking traffic.
A police officer was dispatched, said she observed him for a time, and
then later approached with two others officers.
Unger said they asked for his identification, which he initially
declined to provide. He was cuffed and given a citation, charging him with disorderly conduct, failure to identify himself, and interference with an arresting officer.
"Everything I did was cooperative," Unger said. "A 160 pound,
68-year-old man is going to fight with three police officers?"
Cottonwood Heights police chief Robbie Russo was in the courtroom on
Wednesday and said his officers acted appropriately dealing with Unger
and said there are two sides to the story of his charges.
Unger said he is not "as angry as a lot of people are about it." Still,
he maintained there's a "need to underline accountability for police
officers."
Before court, Unger said expected the case to be dismissed, adding, "If
it's not dismissed, I'll ask for a jury trial."
There's a news video here.
There's a news video here.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
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| 1648 | The "shoemakers of Boston"–the first labor organization in what would become the United States–was authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |
| 1685 | Edict of Nantes lifted by Louis XIV. The edict, signed at Nantes, France, by King Henry IV in 1598, gave the Huguenots religious liberty, civil rights and security. By revoking the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV abrogated their religious liberties. | |
| 1813 | The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig. | |
| 1867 | The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control. | |
| 1867 | The rules for American football are formulated at meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities. | |
| 1883 | The weather station at the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland, the highest mountain in Britain, is declared open. Weather stations were set up on the tops of mountains all over Europe and the Eastern United States in order to gather information for the new weather forecasts. | |
| 1910 | M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubbs. | |
| 1912 | The First Balkan War breaks out between the members of the Balkan League–Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro–and the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1918 | Czechs seize Prague and renounce Hapsburg’s rule. | |
| 1919 | Madrid opens a subway system. | |
| 1921 | Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence. | |
| 1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters. | |
| 1944 | Lt. General Joseph Stilwell is recalled from China by president Franklin Roosevelt. | |
| 1950 | The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there. | |
| 1967 | A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus. | |
| 1968 | US athletes Tommi Smith and John Carlos suspended by US Olympic Committee for giving “black power” salute while receiving their medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. | |
| 2003 | Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigns in the wake of protests centered around Bolivia’s natural gas resources. | |
| 2007 | Suicide attack on a motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 139 and wounds 450; the subject of the attack, Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is not harmed. |
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