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A career criminal goes into a Texas Taco Shop with a fake gun & starts to rob the place.

A customer shoots him dead.

A grand jury will now look at the evidence & decide whether to convict the shooter.

I will be completely stunned if they decide to convict him. It's Texas. You can shoot someone for walking funny there :lol:

https://abc13.com/houston-taqueria-shoo ... /12681554/
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd ... 273969.amp

Not seen this elsewhere, but Alireza Akbari executed - not much the government can do I imagine.
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The UK have 'sanctioned' the Iranian minister of Justice (think that's who it is). Dunno exactly what that entails though. They fell short of cutting diplomatic ties (MPs were urging this). Iran doesn't recognise dual nationality so no, there was sod all the UK could do.
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In the running for stupid criminal of the week award a bloke in Auburn Washington (just south of Seattle) pulls up at a coffee place in the wee hours of the morning & attempts to kidnap the worker by grabbing her arm then trying to lasso her into his vehicle.

The silly c*nt has a big visible tattoo on his forearm which reads CHEVROLET & I am guessing they also have his license plate number so it shouldn't be long before the muppet is in jail.

I wonder if he's just a daft pr!ck who's drunk too much or this is going to lead to him having a record of this kind of stuff?

https://wgxa.tv/news/nation-world/video ... -abduction
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At least he left a gratuity.
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Well Done Auburn Police.

They've arrested someone. Two Black blokes did it apparently*.



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Bloody awful people about.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64313033

Police raided a house in California last week that was used for illegal activities & confiscated all the drugs that were on the premises.
The dealers went back to the house a week later & slaughtered everyone inside, including babies, children & old people.
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Shabu wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:21 pm In the running for stupid criminal of the week award a bloke in Auburn Washington (just south of Seattle) pulls up at a coffee place in the wee hours of the morning & attempts to kidnap the worker by grabbing her arm then trying to lasso her into his vehicle.
Just saw this story on the mail. Bikini baristas. They really do have everything in the US.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rista.html
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Fun sponge compares people bringing cakes into the office to passive smoking in pubs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64315384

"If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day. But because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub."
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You're a racoon.

Your testicles are frozen to a railway track.

There's a train coming.

Do you leg it and leave your undercarriage behind, or do you just lie back and await the impact?

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sendô wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:24 pm Fun sponge compares people bringing cakes into the office to passive smoking in pubs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64315384

"If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day. But because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub."
Anyone making this argument should have cats p!ss sprayed onto them on a daily basis.

"You made a choice to walk down a street where there are cat p!ss sprayers, mate. It's all on you"
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In a tiny little town named Goshen in the Central California Valley, south of Fresno, a family of six gets murdered execution style.

They were almost certainly involved in drugs & the murders were by experienced professionals.

In fact the house had been raided for drugs earlier in the week.

Two of the dead were a 16 (or 17) year old girl & her baby. They were found huddled in a ditch where she had run away & hid, holding her baby.

Her grandmother & great grandmother were also murdered meaning FIVE generations were slaughtered in one pop.

That's some hardcore ****. I can get why they'd kill the two male relatives in a drug spat but two old ladies, a teenage girl & a baby.

I've driven through this town a hundred times to & from Fresno. There's nothing there.

Those cartels don't f*ck about.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/goshen-cal ... tack-home/
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New Zealand PM Jacinda Arden is resigning. I don't blame her, tbh. You have to be completely unstable to want to be a career politician.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/19/new-ze ... n-february
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WCpete wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:07 am New Zealand PM Jacinda Arden is resigning. I don't blame her, tbh. You have to be completely unstable to want to be a career politician.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/19/new-ze ... n-february
Good luck to her. It shows that she has her country's best interests at heart rather than just wanting power & money like the f*ckers over here.
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I like Jacinda, can we have one?
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Shabu wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:10 am Good luck to her. It shows that she has her country's best interests at heart rather than just wanting power & money like the f*ckers over here.
Honestly, I suspect she is quiting now whilst her popularity is at a high. From what I can gather NZ polls suggest her party might not win the upcoming election.

The reality is, she's become famous worldwide because of the Christchurch mosque shootings, not her stunning ability as a politician.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against her, but I find the way people hold her up as some sort of latter day saint because she's a woman and isn't a complete **** (like most of our politicians) a bit odd.
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sendô wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:11 pmDon't get me wrong, I have nothing against her, but I find the way people hold her up as some sort of latter day saint because she's a woman and isn't a complete **** (like most of our politicians) a bit odd.
I think along similar lines. I find it odd that people like her or hate her so much. I find her a bit pious and she's going to leave the next inline with a big, steamy cold to deal with the form of their future with China.
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So they're hanging young people in Iran for protesting yet this tool gets 7 years for cutting his 17 year old wife's head off in an "honour killing" because she ran away from him after refusing her a divorce on the grounds of domestic violence...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64319487

Stupid country...
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^ From that article
Mona had been married to her husband since the age of 12 and had given birth to their son when she was only 14.
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