Cop Tells Fire truck – No Parking In Fire Lane
DC’s fire and police departments are investigating an incident in Northwest in which there was some sort of dispute between an officer and a firefighter. Sources tell the station a fire truck pulled up to attach a hose to a hydrant. But a police officer — in the area to patrol during a demonstration — told the firefighter not to park there, and he had to “move the truck or be arrested.”
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjla/20010430/lo/dc_policeman_firefighter_butt_heads_1.html
Iraq Has The Nuke
Iraq tested a bomb in 1987 that cast a radioactive cloud in the open air and was designed to cause vomiting, cancer, birth defects and slow death, according to a secret Iraqi report on the weapon’s construction and testing.
Radiation or radiological weapons, sometimes known as “dirty nukes,” are the poor cousins of nuclear arms. Their conventional high explosives scatter highly radioactive materials to poison targets rather than destroying them with blast and heat. Their effects on people can range from radiation sickness to agonizingly slow death, which is why military experts often see them as ethically bankrupt.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548201.html
Man Gets Paid $20K For Not Being a Child Molester
A Manitoba man wrongly accused of sexually assaulting his child has received $20,000 compensation from a child welfare agency. The man from Beausejour, who cannot be identified to protect his daughter’s identity, fended off the allegations between 1995 and 1999, when an over-zealous social worker was convinced he was guilty.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548161.html
The Broken English Chinese Cyber Assualts Begin
The Web site of United Press International was among several Internet locations, including some associated with the U.S. Navy and other government agencies, hacked by interests of China who assign blame for the April 1 collision of the U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet on the United States.
“The Great Chinese Nation Hooray!!!! USA Will Be With Responsibility for the Accident Totally!!! Protest USA sell Weapon to Taiwan, Break The World Peace!!! USA IS BITCH! I am From China — Peak.”
http://kevxml.infospace.com/_1_4KSGTUU0BC5B4O__info/kevxml?kcfg=upi-article&sin=200104300917050004232&otmpl=/upi/story.htm&qcat=news&rn=19087&qk=10&passdate=04/30/2001
Pedicurist Bath Blamed for Boils
A trip to the beauty salon was anything but pretty for more than 100 women in California.
A contaminated pedicurist’s footbath led to unsightly and potentially disfiguring boils on 109 customers’ legs ranging in size from a nickel to a half-dollar, a disease investigator with the federal Centers for Disease Control concluded.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010430/hl/boils010427_1.html
NC Researchers: Wrestling Is The Cause Of All Problems
High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Among high school boys, 63% of whom were recent viewers, watching wrestling was associated with having started a
fight with a date, as well as with carrying a gun or other weapon, using chewing tobacco, taking Ritalin without a prescription and driving after drinking alcohol, according to the survey results.
Yeah, remember that time Stone Cold injected ritalin into his eye?
That was AWESOME!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010430/hl/students_tvwrestling_1.html
But He Was Just A Bum
A homeless man appearing in court on a minor charge of drinking in public gasped for air and pleaded for medical help, but the judge summoned nurses and let the man lie on the floor as other defendants filed through the busy courtroom. Ten minutes later, U.S. marshals pulled the man, Robert Waters, 54, to his feet and took him not to a hospital but a cellblock. He later died
“He kept asking for help, saying, ‘I can’t breathe, man.’ And the marshals would say, ‘Right, buddy.’ He finally collapsed on the floor. When they went in there, he wasn’t breathing.”
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010428/us/dying_defendant_2.html
