Archive for the 'Crime' Category

From the land of the Foxymorons comes…

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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Judge Andrew Napolitano

I certainly don’t like his political views,
but I really cannot stand his hair-dos.
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As a fellow Italian-American, I think he should at least look good while spouting his proto-reactionary language.

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You may not recognize this gentleman…
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because he looks nothing like actor Bruce Gordon,
who played him on THE UNTOUCHABLES.
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It’s Frank “The […]

Seattle Strip-Club Magnate Dies at 93–Mafia Today headline, 7/3/

Monday, July 5th, 2010

“Not a bad page at all — I enclose another article, mainly for the headline.
I have never heard the words ’strip club’ and ‘magnate’ used in the same context.  ‘Socialite’ yes, maybe ‘czar,’ ‘local boss’ of course; but ‘magnate,’ never.”–Vincenzo Kolchak

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Image: (Edward Arnold) via nndb.com

Vincenzo Kolchak sent me this piece from the online New York Times.

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

OPINION
Timothy Egan - A New York Times Blog
July 20, 2009, 11:05 pm
Methland vs. Mythland
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn […]

Last week, Yahoo placed a story about the burgeoning friendship of a dog and fawn.

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

These stories sometimes prove to be too syrupy for words; so I re-interpreted the photograph.
I had decided that I wouldn’t post it because it was a bit strange.
Then I read  a story which easily trumped my cartoon with a shovel full of reality.
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Euclid woman, 75, charged in fatal beating of fawn
Posted by Jeff Piorkowski […]

Welcome to the WORLD’S MOST MORONIC POLICE CHASES.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

ABC News
Stolen Cessna’s Pilot Captured
Pilot Took Off Running After Landing Plane Following Pursuit by Fight Jets
By PIERRE THOMAS and LUIS MARTINEZ
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009

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The Ex-communication…she stays the same!!

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

The Vatican backs the excommunication of the mother
whose nine-year-old daughter was raped and of
the doctor who performed the subsequent abortion.

At least the pope didn’t say the girl was askin’ for it!

Here is a quick look at some of Benedict XVI’s other controversies.

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Benedict XVI is known to do anything to fill the Vatican’s […]

Newspaper Claims Suspect Transformed Into A Goat–AP headline

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

At first blush, this shape-shifting view of criminal justice
may appear to be lunacy,
but take a gander at these two US stories of shape-shifting within the species.

Defense Waiting to Decide on Plea Bargain for Boy, 8–New York Times
Christopher Pittman, 15, who was 12 at the time of the November 2001 slayings of Joe Frank […]

Houston Man Arrested For Allegedly Using Forklift To Steal ATM–Yahoo news headline, 8:40 am

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Are they saying he would not have been arrested if had he used
a rod & reel or a one-hundred ton crane?

Police: Pizza Man’s Cheesy Weapon Foils A Stickup–Sun-Sentinal headline

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Sat Dec 13, 4:20 pm ET
MIRAMAR, Fla. – Police say a pizza delivery man fought back with the one weapon he had handy when a gun was pulled on him in a stickup: A large, hot pepperoni pizza.

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Image: (poster) via nh.gov;(pizza) via ageekspot.wordpress.com; (artichokes) via blogs.cisco.com; (asperagus) via tio-geo.com; (pepperoni) via marianofoods.com; (gladiator) via clemens-fritz.de;(soldier) […]

It seems as if KRQV-News Channel-5 has hit one out of the park!

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Guerra Reveals Evidence
Wednesday , November 26, 2008    Posted: 07:14 PM
Guerra unveils why his investigation led him to the Vice President
WILLACY COUNTY - District Attorney Juan Guerra says his investigation took him all the way to the top, to the Vice President of the United States. He showed NEWSCHANNEL 5 records that he says could be […]

UPDATE: Police trying to determine if mall shooting was gang-related–CNN sub-headline.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

 What about Gift-Related?

November 23, 2008 — Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT)
1 dead, 1 wounded in mall shooting near Seattle
(CNN) — One man died and another was critically injured Saturday evening after they were shot at a shopping center in Tukwila, Washington.
The men who were shot were taken from the Westfield Southcenter on stretchers and placed […]