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NYPD Bomb Squad Smashes Windows Of Suspicious BMW–Huffington Post headline 5/10/2010

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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NYPD Bomb Squad Smashes
Windows Of Suspicious BMW

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Images: (American Museum of Natural History) via upload.wikimedia.org; (BMW Gina) via static.dezeen.com)

The Most Stressful Jobs in America–Yahoo headline

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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TODAY - April 26, 2010
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Photo via Yahoo.com

Workers in these careers face erratic hours and
even life-or-death situations.
Five (SIX) worst-ranked professions

America’s Most Stressful Jobs 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
provided by
CNBC
With unemployment high, many people with jobs are grateful to get their weekly paychecks, but that feeling alone doesn’t take the stress out of the daily grind.
To get a […]

Years ago, Vincenzo Kolchak and I discussed the close relationship between cruise ship feasts and law enforcement display of seized weaponry.

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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there is a pride inflated by a job well-done.

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Does anyone recall the story about a New Jersey man who aced the police entrance exam and was told the department did not want perfect scores?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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Denver police ‘Beat the Crowds’ T-shirt no laughing matter, protesters charge
By Ernest Luning 9/25/08 5:08 PM
Protest groups are demanding Denver police halt the sale and discipline anyone responsible for the creation of a “commemorative” DNC T-shirt distributed to officers featuring a baseball-bat wielding cop and the slogan “WE GET UP EARLY to BEAT the Crowds […]

I would have liked to be in the neighborhood after “A Man For All Seasons” played on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

NJ cops kick in door over bird’s cries for help
Fri Sep 5, 7:58 PM ET
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. - Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman’s persistent cry of “Help me! Help me!” coming from a house. Officers arrived […]

A strange photograph…

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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Alf. P. Lane: From the Bain News Service- Library of Congress

Where’s that there ‘57 Roadmaster witha whip aerial?

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Images: (Crawford (l) in THE OSCAR) via jabootu.com; (ohio county map) via drc.st.oh.us c digital-topo-maps.com (Crawford(r) HIGWAY PATROL) via liketelevision.com

This is dedicated to all those folks who had been told they were over-qualified during a job interview.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

News Channel 5
NC5 Investigates: 911 Emergency
911 Operator: ‘I Don’t Give a S***t’
Nashville, TN
Posted: May 12, 2008 06:05 PM
911 Officials Say No Excuse for Response
2:08 p.m. — Sheila Jones calls for help
2:19 p.m. — Cable technician makes second call
2:39 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila officer diverted
2:42 p.m. — 911 operator tells Sheila help is on […]

“But Rossiter asked him to spare the expensive python, so Nelson put on gloves and pried open the snake’s mouth to free Rossiter’s hand.”

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Oregon cop battles 12-foot python to save pet store owner
Sat Apr 19, 3:00 PM ET
AP
A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.
Teresa Rossiter had reached into a cage Thursday to show the […]

Does Michael Chertoff “pick his feet in Poughkeepsie?”

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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“We just see ourselves very much at risk here,” said New York Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. He said he does not want to rely solely on other agencies for the city’s protection. (By Helayne Seidman — The Washington Post)
In New York, a Turf War in the Battle Against Terrorism
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, […]