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Las Vegas - After attempts to find the driver of a car that ran down an elderly man at a service station have been unsuccessful, Las Vegas police have released a security camera video of the incident.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released the video on Thursday and are seeking the public's help in finding the driver who ran over an elderly man at the gas station. The driver is wanted on a charge of attempted murder.
According to Las Vegas police [PDF], the incident occurred around 11:38 a.m. on Feb. 6. The elderly victim had pulled into the gas station lot when a grey Honda Accord pulled in front of him, forcing him to swerve around the Honda.
After the victim finished at the pumps, he began walking to the store. The Accord started at him at a high rate of speed and stopped just short of the victim. The car then proceeded to hit and then run over the man. He can be seen on the video writhing in pain on the ground while the Accord keeps on going and leaves the station. Others at the gas station then come over to assist him.
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Living off the grid is illegal in Cape Coral, Florida, according to a court ruling Thursday.
Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled that the city's codes allow Robin Speronis to live without utility power but she is still required to hook her home to the city's water system. Her alternative source of power must be approved by the city, Eskin said.
As previously reported in Off The Grid News, Speronis has been fighting the city of Cape Coral since November when a code enforcement officer tried to evict her from her home for living without utilities. The city contends that Speronis violated the International Property Maintenance Code by relying on rain water instead of the city water system and solar panels instead of the electric grid.
"It was a mental fistfight," Speronis' attorney Todd Allen said of Eskin's review of his clients' case. "There's an inherent conflict in the code."
Part of the conflict: She must hook up to the water system, although officials acknowledge she does not have to use it.
Speronis told Off The Grid News in February she hopes to win her case and set a precedent for others in her situation. After court Thursday, Speronis told Off The Grid News that she actually won on two of three counts, although she acknowledged her legal battle is far from over.
"But what happens in the courtroom is much less important than touching people's hearts and minds," she said. "I think that we are continuing to be successful in doing just that and I am so pleased - there is hope! [Friday] morning, as I took my two hour walk, there was a young man, unknown to me, who drove by me, tooted his horn and said, 'Robin, congratulations on your victory yesterday, keep up the fight and God bless you.' That is beautiful."
(Editor's note: Hear our earlier interview with Robin Speronis here.)
© Wiki Commons.Protests in Ukraine
On Jan. 11, several men attacked Hillel Wertheimer, an Orthodox Jewish and Israeli teacher of Hebrew and Jewish tradition, after he left a synagogue at the end of Shabbat. On Jan. 18, a yeshiva student, Dov-Ber Glickman, was severely attacked by men with their fists and legs on his way home from a Shabbat meal.
According to the general Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) General Council, the combat boots of Glickman's attackers may have been outfitted with blades. Glickman dragged himself to a nearby synagogue's ritual bath, where he was discovered and taken to a hospital. Glickman told IDF Radio on Sunday that "people are now afraid to leave their homes."
"We live in a small rural town. Moved here in 1961. I don't remember what year the State Troopers moved a headquarters into our town. Our young people were plagued with tickets for even the smallest offense. Troopers had to get their limits for the month. People make jokes about that but it has been true. Every kid I knew was getting ticketed for something. But now it is so much worse. I raised my kids to respect police. If they did something wrong and got caught they deserved it and should take their punishment.
But now I have no respect for the police. I feel threatened and fearful of them. They are aggressive and intimidating. They lie and are abusive and we do not know how to fight them. I am not a minority here but people are afraid if they speak out they will be targeted. We are just a small town. I just don't care anymore if they do target me. I am afraid they are going to kill someone." - Letter from a 60-year-old grandmother
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For example, Seattle police repeatedly tasered seven-months pregnant Malaika Brooks for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. While Brooks bears permanent burn scars on her body from the encounter, police were cleared of any wrongdoing on the grounds that they didn't know that tasering a pregnant woman was wrong.
Eight Los Angeles police officers fired 103 bullets at two women in a newspaper delivery truck they mistook for a getaway car during a heated manhunt. The older woman was shot twice in the back and the other was wounded by broken glass. The women were offered a $4.2 million settlement for their injuries, while the officers were reprimanded for acting inappropriately, "retrained" and put back on the streets.
During the course of a routine investigation, a group of Los Angeles police officers beat, punched, and tasered Kelly Thomas, schizophrenic, homeless and suspected of vandalizing cars, until he was brain dead. The two officers charged for their role in the beating were acquitted and will face no time in prison. A third officer who was supposed to be charged will also walk free.
© AFP/Getty ImagesScores of Boko Haram Islamists attacked the northeast Nigerian town of Bama, seen above, last week, killing 60 people. The group is suspected in a predawn attack on a Nigerian college that left dozens of students dead.
Adamu Garba said he and other teachers estimate 40 students died in the assault that began around 2 a.m. Tuesday at the Federal Government College Buni Yadi.
Military spokesman Capt. Eli Lazarus said soldiers still are gathering corpses so he could not give an exact toll.
It is the latest in a string of attacks blamed on Boko Haram - the name means Western education is forbidden - that has caused regional officials to charge the military is losing its war to halt an Islamic uprising in Africa's biggest oil producer.
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The arrests came five months after federal authorities announced they would investigate former guards at Auschwitz and other Nazi-era death camps. Their effort was inspired by the precedent-setting trial of former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died in 2012 in a Bavarian nursing home while appealing his conviction on charges he served at the Sobibor camp.
"This is a major step," said Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, when told of the arrests. "Given the advanced age of the defendants, every effort should be made to expedite their prosecution."
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was the first person convicted in Germany solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of involvement in any specific killing.
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The shocking statistic gives a new meaning to the term 'junk food,' as Americans are sending 133 billion lbs (60 billion kg) of food to the garbage dump each year. To put it another way, 141 trillion calories annually - or 1,249 calories per capita daily - went uneaten in the United States, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed in the background of Lucas van Leyden's 1520 painting "Lot and his Daughters". Is it just a coincidence that debauchery is 'normal' at times when overhead cometary airbursts shower fireballs onto inundated cities below?
Emma claims there are more than 3,000 Killing Kittens members throughout the north and south of Ireland already and says the sole aim of her company is "the pursuit of female pleasure".
"We are planning on doing regular swingers parties, launching in April in Dublin and Belfast," she said.
"We have the Dublin-based team in place, so it's all systems go."
A venue for the Belfast parties has not yet been revealed.
Killing Kittens parties are billed as organised orgies for the young, wealthy and beautiful.
Only couples and single women aged 18 to 45 are allowed to attend, and guests at the champagne-fuelled events must wear masks.
All attendees are strenuously vetted and must provide photographs to make sure their looks are up to scratch.
Celebrity members have included Big Brother and Apprentice star Luisa Zissman, who revealed that she once took part in a 30-strong orgy at a Killing Kittens party.
Comment:
It is not about love and people who don't go don't understand that. It's just about fantasy and sex.We're pretty sure that's perfectly well understood by normal people. It seems to go hand-in-hand with an elite culture that is purely materialistic and for whom facts are 'fluid'.
Comment: Despite the global warming hype, and that a lot of American "food" would probably be better off in a landfill than in your body, this article is still shocking, considering the number of people currently struggling to meet their most basic needs in the US.