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Nice Planet © 2009

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Plante26 said:
I hate that. It happens on certain stories, but not others.:mad:

A guy got into a fistfight with his neighbor over noise and got his arse kicked. He then returned with some lighter fluid, hosed down the neighbor's front door, and set it on fire.

Now Dumas is facing 20 years on first-degree arson charges. Worked out well for him, eh?
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Here is the actual story. Didn't they teach you how to copy and paste in business school? :D

VIRGINIA, MN -- A man accused of setting fire to his neighbor's door faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of a felony charge.

A criminal complaint alleges 21-year-old Michael Sherwood Svien Jr. sprayed lighter fluid on a neighbor's apartment door and set it on fire. It happened about 5:42 a.m. on Saturday at 328 Eighth St. S. The flames burned the bottom foot of the ouside of the door, and residents extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived.

Both the victim and the suspect said they had been in a fight earlier in the morning, but both claimed the other started it. Officers found apparent blood stains in the hallway and on the apartment door.

Svien said he had gone to the apartment because the neighbors were being loud. He also alleged that residents of the apartment had shouted racial slurs at him several hours earlier.

According to a criminal complaint, when asked why he started the fire, Svien indicated that he wanted revenge for a beating he received.

Svien is charged with first-degree arson.
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Kepler said:
"OK, who's the U-Boat commander?"
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Terrific line from Risky Business. And it popped into my head when I saw the video, too. OOOEEEOOO. The scene where Cruise is taking his dad's Porsche is great because there's cool music on the sound track as he backs it out. He kills it. The music stops. He restarts it. The music resumes. Nice touch.

"Guido the killer pimp." That actor grew up to be "Booger."

Cruise's mom returns to the house and immediately heads to the mantel to check that gawdawful crystal egg. No hello. No kiss. No "how was your time alone," just check that g.d. egg. Hey mom, I've got an idea where you can put that egg for safe keeping. It's the same location Nicholson suggested for the snotty waitress in 5 easy pieces.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
The Bugatti Veyron. It costs two million dollars, has a W16 engine with four turbochargers and ten radiators, can out-accelerate a fighter jet, and can reach speeds of 253 miles per hour. It spent five years in R&D and is hand measured, machined, and assembled in France by master craftsmen. The tires are custom-made for the car by Michelin and cost $8000 apiece. It is a masterpiece of automotive engineering.

It cannot swim. Nice move, chuckles.
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This is too funny. The guy who dunked the car also owns the Ferrari Enzo that Eddie Griffin famously crashed.

http://jalopnik.com/5404505/exclusi...s-infamous-eddie-griffin+crashed-ferrari-enzo
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Missing 5-year old from NC is found dead. Later, the mother arrested for human trafficking, selling her child for sex.

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This is the sort of thing that keeps me supporting the death penalty. This woman should be eliminated.
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I don't know what the method of execution is in N.C. (probably lethal injection) but whatever it is, it's way too good for this individual. I'm thinking something at half time of a N.C. football game involving a steam roller and a wood chipper.
 
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...rt-death-sentence17-2009nov17,0,6693923.story


Speaking of the death penalty: it's nice to know the 9th US circuit court of appeals has set itself up as a sort of super legislature for California. This court leads all others in being overturned by the Supremes, and many of those reversals, like ths one, are unanimous. You gotta figure if you can get Scalia and Ginsberg on the same side, you really don't have a leg to stand on.

About ten years ago, some scumbag was about to be executed in California and the 9th Court issued a series of stays, each one in turn vacated by the
Supremes. Finally the Supremes vacated the last of these frivolous stays and ordered the appeals court not to issue any more. The guy was toast.

Years ago California had a chief justice of its supreme court named Rose Bryd who opposed the death penalty and did everything she could to muck up the works. She's entitled to her opinion, but perhaps the legislature would be the place to express it. She was ultimately voted out of her job.
 
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Old Pio you're entitled to your opinion but because of California's flawed Constitution nothing important can pass through legislation. In fact because of the proposition system anything truly substantial either happens through propositions or through the judicial system.

Sorry if I'm going to trust voters or judges, I'm going to trust judges. The average judge is about 50 times smarter than the average voter and knows about a billion times more about the law. :)

The California legislature doesn't do anything except draw a paycheck for doing nothing. If you're going to make comments about California legislature please do some research on what they actually do: nothing!
 
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Terrierbyassociation said:
Old Pio you're entitled to your opinion but because of California's flawed Constitution nothing important can pass through legislation. In fact because of the proposition system anything truly substantial either happens through propositions or through the judicial system.

Sorry if I'm going to trust voters or judges, I'm going to trust judges. The average judge is about 50 times smarter than the average voter and knows about a billion times more about the law. :)

The California legislature doesn't do anything except draw a paycheck for doing nothing. If you're going to make comments about California legislature please do some research on what they actually do: nothing![/QUOTE

Fine, but the voters of California did not elect Rose Byrd to impose her personal judgement on a matter that rightly belongs in the hands of the legislature. I don't care if she's 150 times smarter. I'm guessing in this case you "trust" Byrd because you agreed with her. However, a one person, minimally accountable legislature, is bound to do something with which you disagree sooner or later. If Rose Byrd is so smart, why not make her president for life of California, that way she could apply her superior intellect and knowledge to a host of matters, not just capital punishment? And IIRC, she was voted out of office, primarily on her arrogant attitude toward capital punishment.

Thanks for the homework assignment, but I'm quite capable of expressing myself without completing it. Regardless of the inefficiency of the California legislature, the constitution of the state still calls for three separate branches of government, no? And the duties and responsibilities of each of those branches are spelled out pretty clearly, no? And the branch responsible for passing laws is the legislative, no? And the judiciary has no role in the passing of legislation, no?

So in your world, if an arrogant California Supreme Court chief justice sets herself up as sole legal arbitor of California law you're okay with it? Because you trust her more than you trust the voters? Besides, the ends justify the means, right? Your support for our democratic system is refreshing. If there were a great groundswell to eliminate capital punishment in California ,I'm assuming an initiative could be placed on the ballot. But then, those stupid voters, for whom you have so much contempt, might not vote the way you would want them to, right? Much better to just have someone impose the "correct" outcome.
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It's a crying shame she made it off the tracks before the train hit her.
 
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Old Pio said:
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/11/woman_hit_by_train_while_takin.html

Ultimately, this lady is a candidte for a Darwin Award, 'till then she needs a little walking around money, you know?
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She may have already won it: "Gable and her husband are suing the BNSF Railway Co. for nearly $6 million. The husband wants $575,000 for "his mental anguish and loss of consortium and sexual relations with his wife."



Imagine sitting at the point of several million pounds of metal object going 70 mph. You see some idiot on the tracks 100 yards ahead, but you can't do a dammed thing about it but blow the horn, call the cops and hope you don't have nightmares. If engineers could countersue for mental anguish after smucking someone who tried to drive around crossing gates, I bet you'd see a LOT more awareness and, maybe, a bit more reluctance to do something dumb.
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
Imagine sitting at the point of several million pounds of metal object going 70 mph. You see some idiot on the tracks 100 yards ahead, but you can't do a dammed thing about it but blow the horn, call the cops and hope you don't have nightmares. If engineers could countersue for mental anguish after smucking someone who tried to drive around crossing gates, I bet you'd see a LOT more awareness and, maybe, a bit more reluctance to do something dumb.
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And what about the company who owned the freight that was on the train, which got there late because of the incident? They can sue.

And suppose it was construction materials that were going toward a new restaurant. As a result, the construction is delayed, and the restaurant owner will then sue the contractor for liquidated damages for every day his restaurant wasn't making him money.

And suppose the restaurant was to be an authentic Italian restaurant. Some 108-year-old woman who came over on the boat from Italy never got to have one last homemade fettuccine alfredo like Mom used to make before she died. Now her family is going to sue.

And now we have a suekkake session on our hands.

Vicious cycle, man.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
And what about the company who owned the freight that was on the train, which got there late because of the incident? They can sue.

And suppose it was construction materials that were going toward a new restaurant. As a result, the construction is delayed, and the restaurant owner will then sue the contractor for liquidated damages for every day his restaurant wasn't making him money.

And suppose the restaurant was to be an authentic Italian restaurant. Some 108-year-old woman who came over on the boat from Italy never got to have one last homemade fettuccine alfredo like Mom used to make before she died. Now her family is going to sue.

And now we have a suekkake session on our hands.

Vicious cycle, man.
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For once, I'm being serious. Train crews can only blow the horn and set the brakes at "Emergency", and even then it may take a mile or more to stop a 100 million pound train. Not much help when a person is trying to cut around a gate 100 yards ahead. Even excluding the people who commit suicide by train, there are hundreds of injuries and fatalities a year. The crews are the ones who get to stare each victim in the eyes, then walk the train to find their remains strewn about.

Talk to a train crew about it. You'll probably find at least one of the crew has been in that situation, and they're just as much a victim.


EDIT: I do see your point - cyclical lawsuits are absurd. For that matter, lawsuits have gained the reputation of being entirely about greed, rather than recompense for some financial misdeed. However, I think a countersuit in this case would really highlight an issue most people don't see.
 
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