A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.
Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, was arrested on April 22 on an accusation of forgery, police said.
Police responded to a report of a man attempting to pass the check about 4 p.m. that day at the Chase bank in the 8600 block of South Hulen Street, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.
The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.
Mr. Fuller was also accused of unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana, Lt. Henderson said. He may also face a theft charge in Crowley.
Lt. Henderson said he did not know if Mr. Fuller and his girlfriend were still together.
If I were the DA, I'd drop the charge. Any guy this stupid isn't long for the world anyway.
Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. will start a new system this week warning motorists when they are driving close to crime hotspots.
Based on information from the police, drivers will get an alert through Honda's on-board navigation system about areas where cars have been damaged, stolen or broken into in the past, Honda said in a statement.
For now it's only available in Japan, which doesn't strike me a country with a rampant auto-theft problem. But I can also envision motorists in Detroit circling endlessly on the Interstate, trying to find one surface street that doesn't pass through a crime-riddled neighborhood.
For centuries, people have stolen religious artifacts in Europe, including chunks of religious buildings, but Britain is in the midst of an accelerating crime wave that some experts call the most concerted assault on churches since the Reformation.
Instead of doctrinal differences, the motivation is the near record price that lead — the stuff many old church roofs are made of — is fetching on commodity markets.
Note that while lead is currently fetching $2,750 per ton, the damage to one church will cost $20,000 to repair.
It might even be worse on this side of the pond:
Metal scrappers have attacked churches and ransacked homes in this Midwestern city [Cleveland, OH], leaving entire neighborhoods uninhabitable.
Saint Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral here lost its insurance after a thief stole copper panels from the roof years ago. Three churches in Cleveland Heights have been stripped of copper gutters. And in the last few months, three churches in the North Collinwood neighborhood were stripped of copper downspouts.
“Our neighborhoods are being pillaged, not by Vikings or Goths, but by modern-day barbarians,” said Mike Polensek, North Collinwood’s City Council member. Even manhole covers and sewer drains are being stolen out of streets to be sold as scrap metal, Mr. Polensek said.
Houses, however, are the greatest targets of commodity scavengers in the United States. Neighborhoods depopulated by the rising tide of foreclosures make easy targets.
The punchline is that the scavengers are choosing which houses to raid by going through government foreclosure listings.
SUVs are being targeted as well, as their catalytic converters are often easily accessible. The precious metals found in trace amounts in cats command very high prices ($1,900 per ounce for platinum alone).
Of course, if you're facing foreclosure or repossession, you may just want to take the good stuff with you (HT: LewRockwell.com).
Amber Tedrick said she didn't know she was headed for a terrifying beer run when she climbed into the back seat of an acquaintance's car Sunday with her 16-month-old daughter.
Tedrick, 20, said she thought they were going to a Winn-Dixie not far from a San Juline Circle mobile home to get food before a small Super Bowl gathering. She said she didn't have her daughter's car seat, but put the youngster in a seat belt.
Minutes later, Tina Darlene Williams, 46, was careening through St. Augustine traffic with a case of Busch beer strapped in beside her and twice missed colliding with other cars.
"I was nervous with the baby in the car," Tedrick said Tuesday. The car was running out of gas and stalling while Williams swerved down the road. . . .
Williams performed poorly on a field sobriety test and was arrested on charges of drunken driving, child abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and no driver's license. She refused to submit to a breath test.
Sheriff's spokesman Chuck Mulligan said the car had an automatic seat belt but that the beer had been secured with the lap belt. He said the deputy had to physically go over and undo the lap belt to move the case of beer.
While that was nice and secure, the toddler was not.
It's all about priorities.
I don't know; maybe my fellow anarchists will disagree with me. But if you're in the city and are not either A) at a shooting range or B) defending yourself against an aggressor, you don't fire your fucking gun. Period.
This idiot needs to go away for a long, long time.
- Home-schooled kids are weird.
- Christian home-schooled kids are really weird.
- Militantly secular groups like the ACLU are to blame for the growing wave of hatred against Christians!
- All churches should have armed guards (yes, I actually heard this on the radio tonight—can't wait to see all those Friends going strapped to their meetings!)
- The Trench Coat Mafia lives! COLUMBINE! THE DEVIL!
- Guns are bad, mmmkay?
I could go on, but you get the idea. All the breathless speculation over what these attacks represent will gloss over the fact that the dude was nuts. He'd been kicked out of the missionary training program for "health issues" (the group declined to elaborate) and clearly had some type of vendetta planned. Fortunately someone was around to stop him (a volunteer security guard, no less), or this could have been much, much worse.
In fact, the worst thing that could happen right now is to blow this up into much more than it really was: a fucked-up kid with a lot of guns.
It's worse during the holidays. Christmas, New Year's, Halloween. That's when they really start knocking. Calling him out in the middle of the night. Showing up at his stoop in angry packs.
"Christopher," they wheeze through the front door, "Christopherrrrrr - we know you're in there ... "
Christopher Risdon is a 35-year-old sex offender who was busted for child porn. But Risdon doesn't live at this Tropicana Avenue apartment. Hasn't for years. So when the curious (if that's really all they are) come calling, they're now ringing the wrong doorbell. Despite what sex offender-tracking Web sites say, this apartment belongs to Harry Berlin, 71 years old, frail and, frankly, petrified.
"I'm a nervous wreck," he says, holding out his hands. They quake like palsy.
For nearly two years Berlin's address has been reported as Risdon's on a Nevada Web site. Two months ago it popped up again, this time on Metro Police's new sex offender watch Web site.
From this article in the Las Vegas Sun. The Metro Police even admit that self-reporting by sex offenders on their whereabouts is unlikely to be 100% accurate. But the potential of innocent residents being harassed based on inaccurate data, for which neither the police nor the state appear to take responsibility, is outweighed (once again) by the "greater good".
Even more outrageous was the hoop Mr. Berlin had to jump through in getting his address removed from the sex offender registry:
On Wednesday, two Metro detectives went to Berlin's apartment to verify that he is, in fact, not Christopher Risdon. They checked his ID and, satisfied he isn't the sex offender, asked Berlin to sign a waiver saying as much.
Berlin refused to sign. He was scared and didn't want to do anything without consulting with the ACLU first.
Barry Berlin, explaining Harry Berlin's decision, said, "My brother believes that in America you do not have to sign papers stating that you are not a sex offender just so that you can live in your own apartment without police interference."
But police were satisfied enough with what they found that Berlin's address has been taken off the Public Safety Department's and Metro's sex offender Web sites.
Lovely. Welcome to the new America, Mr. Berlin, where you're a pervert until the police say otherwise.
Update: Here's a related post on a convicted rapist who was released after serving two decades in jail, and was stabbed to death by a neighbor 35 days later. His alleged killer claimed he was protecting his son, who had been a victim of molestation, except the guy he killed hadn't attacked children.
The Florida shyster (I refuse to further sully the legal profession by referring to him as a lawyer) wasted no time in seizing the Virginia Tech massacre as another soapbox upon which to rail against the evil influence of violent video games on the nation's impressionable youth. He's referred to games such as Counter-Strike and Grand Theft Auto as "murder simulators" and has all but laid the blame for Monday's tragedy, among others, at the feet of game developers. This time he's even naming names, as he did in this letter to Microsoft boss Bill Gates:
Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.
Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the [sic] harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. (emphasis mine)
Never mind the fact that Counter-Strike is a product of Valve Software, not Microsoft. But they're headquartered in the same state, and the game runs on Windows, so that must be close enough for Thompson. In fact, this is about as accurate as he's ever been in his hysterical bleatings.
He uses the legal system as a weapon against both developers and retailers, suing Take-Two and its distributors to block the upcoming release of Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto sequels, and only after countersuits from Take-Two was he forced to back off. He barely avoided a contempt citation and jail time in that scuffle. Why he also isn't facing disciplinary charges and possible disbarment in Florida is beyond me.
Also mystifying is why he continues to receive airtime and ink in the mainstream news media. Fox News is the latest enabler; they interviewed him on the day of the shootings, when even the name of the killer wasn't known, and allowed him to blast video games as the likely cause of the rampage. Thompson's just a liar and a demagogue, but Fox's purported "We Report, You Decide" neutrality must be severely questioned if they grant this hack airtime when they didn't even know the killer's identity, let alone his motivations or background. Again, not that I expect better from Fox (or MSNBC, CNN or any other MSM outlet).
Two to the face. You can blame it on video games later if you like. But Thompson needs to shut the fuck up, or failing that, the news media needs to stop serving as his whore.
A Korean in the US on a student visa was the shooter. Korea has universal military training, which may account for the death toll.
Which might make sense if Koreans enter the military at, say, the age of six. The shooter at VT was identified as 23-year-old senior Cho Seung-hui, who immigrated to the United States in 1992 . . . when he was eight years old.
Interesting, as of 10:17 this morning, none of the stories use the word “immigrant” to describe him.
Cho was a permanent legal resident and had lived here 15 years. At what point does his origin as an immigrant cease to matter?
I know, I know, I can't expect anything different from the anti-immigration hysterics at Vdare.com.
I just have one question about the Virgina Tech massacre: how the fuck did this psycho shoot someone in a dorm and then hang out for two hours before shooting even more people in a classroom across campus? Where the fuck was the police response? Was the SWAT team doing another drug raid on an 80-year-old pensioner's house and unavailable?
I realize VT is a big campus, but two hours passed between the first shootings and the second, deadlier shootings. Since they didn't catch the gunman after the first shooting, that place should have been swarming with cops, the entire campus evacuated and locked down. But what did officials do? They sent out an e-mail saying they were "investigating" the dorm shootings, and that students should stay inside—meanwhile, the gunman was shooting up another classroom across campus. The cops apparently didn't respond in force until after the second shootings.
It's probably too early to be pissed off about this; we certainly don't have many details about what happened. But somebody is going to pay for this beyond the 30 or so who have already lost their lives. Yet I fear the only real fallout will be another attack on gun rights. Because, you know, only gun bans can prevent this from happening again, right?
EDIT: LawDog weighs in on the bitter irony of a bill which would have allowed concealed carry on college campuses dying in committee in the Virginia legislature—and a Virginia Tech spokesman being "appreciative" about the bill's demise. Your students' blood is on your hands, asshole.
EDITx2: The latest update from AP:
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus.
"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.
Except there were multiple shootings at the dorm, not just one. It would still seem prudent to lock down the campus as a precaution, no?
Steger said the university decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means of notifying members of the university, but with 11,000 people driving onto campus first thing in the morning, it was difficult to get the word out to everyone.
It's called radio. And television. And, you know, cops stationed at every entrance to the campus. I can think of lots of ways they might have been able to get the word out, and I'm sitting 2,000 miles away.
This was in connection with a shoplifting investigation, which makes a SWAT response sound like overkill. However, the owner of the convenience store (along with many others in the area) is allegedly involved in a major shoplifting ring. Still, it might not have been a bad idea to, you know, ensure no customers were inside before hitting the place.
Maybe I'm being too hard on the cops. After all, a lot of them might not know what the fuck they're doing. In at least 30 states, some rookie cops are allowed to hit the streets without formal training.
Ganked from Radley Balko, whom y'all should be reading anyway.
Or perhaps better, we'll apply the stun gun to the guy's sack. Repeatedly. For, say, the next 30 years.
No word on motive yet, although a Rocky Mountain News story says that there was an altercation at a club where several Broncos had attended a New Year's Eve party. Or maybe someone had just lost a whole bunch of money on a bet that the Broncos would make the playoffs. . . .
Yeah. Happy New Year. Jesus.
Also, frosty frivolity from the weekend:
Westminster man gets stuck in chimney
Ho-ho-D'OH!
There's been another school shooting. At an Amish schoolhouse.
Time to repent my sins.
Karr won't be charged in Ramsey murder
Wow, big surprise there. And yet I kept thinking that there had to be hard evidence linking Karr to the crime, that the Boulder DA's office would not be so stupid as to extradite some creep from halfway across the planet based solely on a confession with more holes than a prairie dog town.
I should have known better than to overestimate the acuity of government clowns. How much of the taxpayers' money have they blown on this farce? The Boulder DA should resign, right now, and save the city from further embarassment, although I'm not sure how much more ridiculous it could look.
Fucking morons.
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ms_daisy_cutter for the link.) Apparently LawDog is a sheriff's deputy on a beat not even COPS would cover. Hi-goddamn-larious, and recommended.Bob, being a troll, knew just what to do: he and Brad would lie in wait underneath a nearby bridge, and set upon any passersby, demanding gold or a goat to allow safe passage. Brad, being rather bright as trolls go, reminded Bob that the local wizard (dressed in green and living in the Castle of Seveneleven) wouldn't accept gold or goats as payment for a new wand. So Bob agreed to demand a single King's dollar as payment.
They collected their battered clubs and set off for the bridge, and waited underneath it. As peasants approached the bridge, Bob jumped out in front of them, demanding a dollar for passage. Most just ignored him, or turned away. Frustrated, Bob demanded that Brad stab the peasants as punishment for their insolence. But being trolls, they had naught but blunt weapons at their disposal.
Bob had almost given up until a plainly-dressed young man happened along the path. Bob brandished his club and demanded a dollar. The young man, however, was no peasant; he was a brave knight in the service of the king. Despite wearing no armor and carrying no weapons, he grabbed one of the trolls' clubs and beat Bob into submission until the King's Guard arrived.
Bob unnecessarily admitted to being a troll and falsely claimed to own the bridge, which we all know belongs to the King. Brad insisted they weren't trolls, and that his friend was merely disoriented by the bright colors induced by the magic beans. They were carted away by the King's Guard to the dungeon, where they languished for a long time, or at least until their mothers (who strangely enough, insisted they weren't trolls either) delivered sufficient gold to the King to secure their release.
Our tale is almost ended, except for one detail: the knights searched Brad's pouch and found the magic tube which the trolls had been so desperate to light. It was made from two crisp dollar bills.
Seriously, you can't make this shit up.
karmabreeze for the link).I won't really go into my own thoughts on the matter, although they lay somewhere in the region of "if you don't have the sack to reclaim your stolen property, then maybe you deserve to lose the fucking thing." But since I haven't done a poll in a very long time, I'll let the audience decide.
To set the stage:
- You inadvertently leave your Sidekick in a taxi.
- Sociopathic bitch finds the Sidekick, takes it home, uses it like it's hers.
- You track down sociopathic bitch and politely ask her to return the Sidekick.
- Sociopathic bitch tells you to fuck off, she's keeping it.
cluebyfour's random poll # 20Open to: All, results viewable to: All
Now what do you do?
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Find the sociopathic bitch's address, stompfuck her and her entire posse if necessary, and recover your Sidekick
9 (60.0%)
File a report with the police, who will recover your Sidekick in approximately . . . never 5 (33.3%)
Whine like a little bitch about it on teh intarweb(s) 1 (6.7%)
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