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I have the AP World test this year but my teacher sucks ass and we haven't learned anything. Next year I will have
AP Calculus AB
AP Junior Comp/Lit
AP Physics C
AP US History
AP Psychology
I don't know if they are really worth it, but at my school its definitely better than taking normal classes..
AP Calculus AB
AP Junior Comp/Lit
AP Physics C
AP US History
AP Psychology
I don't know if they are really worth it, but at my school its definitely better than taking normal classes..
Marinejuana and King County Downy
Sometime hit up Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (IATA: SEA) at 47°26′56″N, 122°18′34″W
Put me in 'extras' as well seeing as we don't have a confirmed date for this and I'm a busy... man.. or something.
MLB: Padres
NFL: Seawawks/Colts
NCAA: Univ. of Washington / Duke
NFL: Seawawks/Colts
NCAA: Univ. of Washington / Duke
Other - WTF why is there no 'white' option - 1st gen iPod video 30GB
Not sure if this is D&ST worthy material, but looking at blademasters 'Five women with whom your girlfriend would agree to have a threesome' thread I guess it doesn't take much.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4 … amp;page=1
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4 … amp;page=1
Discuss.ABC News wrote:
Topless Woman Lured Perverts in Police Sting
Firefighter Busted for Exposing Himself to Sunbather Appeals 'Entrapment' Conviction
By MARCUS BARAM
Dec. 28, 2007 —
Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.
He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.
Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.
Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park. While topless sunbathing is legal in the city's parks, exposing more than that is against the law.
The case is just one of the more extreme examples of police stings aimed at luring people into committing crimes, a tactic that has resulted in hundreds of arrests, many convictions and plenty of controversy.
Law enforcement officials say that such sting operations are an extremely effective means of lowering crime rates and stopping the criminally minded before they commit worse offenses. From early 2006 to the spring of 2007, there were 160 citations for public indecency in the city, according to an investigation by 10TV News. Among those who were caught in the stings: an Ohio State University doctor, government employees and a retired highway trooper.
But such operations veer dangerously close to entrapment, say lawyers, civil libertarians and defendants who've been caught in sting operations.
At Garrison's trial, his attorney argued that it was a case of entrapment. "Columbus police utilized this topless woman to snare this man," said Sam Shamansky. "He sees her day after day. He's not some seedy pervert."
The argument failed to sway a Franklin County Municipal Court jury that found Garrison guilty of public indecency last month. He was ordered to stay away from the park, placed on a year's probation and fined $250. Currently, Garrison remains on paid desk duty while the fire department conducts an internal investigation into his behavior.
"We want to be held to a higher standard, we are in the community every day and we put our best foot forward, but sometimes we stumble and make a mistake," said Columbus Fire Battalion Chief Doug Smith.
Garrison could not be reached for comment.
Shamansky plans to appeal the verdict on the grounds that the jury wasn't instructed on the definition of entrapment.
Other police departments across the country have dangled other temptations, from big-screen plasma TVs, Xbox 360 consoles and a shopping bag containing a cell phone and an iPod to catch people breaking the law.
In New York City, nearly 300 people, many of whom had no criminal record, have been snared this year through the NYPD's Operation Lucky Bag, in which undercover officers leave a wallet, iPod or cell phone in a subway station and wait to see who picks it up.
Although deputy police Commissioner Paul Browne says the program has helped cut subway grand larcenies by half, critics say that the police have gone too far.
"It's pretty straightforward that this is a police-created crime," said Legal Aid Society lawyer Alex Lesman, who defended a man arrested for taking a bag containing an Xbox video game box, a Sprint cell phone and cash. "The police set this whole thing up. They shouldn't be doing that and luring people in that situation, especially in this age of terrorism where the transit system is always telling you to be on the lookout for suspicious bags."
The judge agreed with Lesman, acquitting his client, Antonio Arroyo. "The police should concentrate their noble efforts on behalf of the city on countering real crimes committed every day," wrote Kings County criminal court judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. "They do not need to manipulate a situation where temptation may overcome even people who would normally never think of committing a crime."
Other lawyers have argued on behalf of their clients that the operation may also violate New York's personal property law, which allows someone who finds property worth more than $25 10 days to turn it in to the owner or the police.
An NYPD spokesperson emphasized that Operation Lucky Bag does not use abandoned property; rather it is property actively left by an officer who is still in the vicinity. In addition, it is used at stations where similar crimes have been reported.
Another sting operation that made headlines involved police in El Paso, Texas, and U.S. Marshals sending out messages to wanted felons stating that they had "won" free Xbox 360 consoles and/or big-screen plasma TVs. The operation led to 115 arrests last month and the police picked up more than $25,000 in traffic fines.
This ploy, which has been used in other cities in recent years, is a new twist on an old trick, because sting operations involving drugs and prostitutes have been around for decades. And though defendants often claim entrapment, that argument rarely works in those kind of cases.
"The definition of entrapment is police activity that induces somebody to commit a crime that they otherwise wouldn't do," said Gabriel Chin, law professor at the University of Arizona. "It's not entrapment to give somebody an opportunity to commit a crime."
Chin explains that entrapment involves an officer cajoling and persuading someone who's resistant to the idea of committing a crime. "Just preying on a predisposition is not necessarily entrapment."
But he said that Operation Lucky Bag seemed to cross a line, especially when compared to longstanding police operations involving officers posing as drunks to lure muggers to take their wallets or jewelry.
"Very few people who see a drunk with gold chains or an old lady with money sticking out of her purse succumb to temptation and assault that person," he said. "But lots and lots of people wouldn't turn in a wallet when it's full of money. You could ask whether it's an appropriate use of police resources. If we really want to criminalize people who do what we don't want them to do, a lot of people would be in jail."
The temptation may just be too powerful. "I've found $5 on the street and put it in my pocket," said Chin. "If I found $5,000 on the street, I hope I would do something different."
YeahLT.Victim wrote:
Really? Where in BC do you live, I live in Coquitlam..Cleft wrote:
Probably because you live a bit north of meLT.Victim wrote:
haha, here too..
I just took this Photo with my new cellphone..
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n82/ … m/snow.jpg
Edit: Oh.. nvm.. It just occured to me that you must live in Washington State.. lol
Probably because you live a bit north of meLT.Victim wrote:
haha, here too..
I just took this Photo with my new cellphone..
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n82/ … m/snow.jpg
I can draw poorly. I do it during school to pass the time. I spent about 4 hours last night drawing something.
A White Christmas!!!
Can't open presents until tomorrow though
Can't open presents until tomorrow though
When I hover my mouse over the time and it says Tuesday, December 25, 2007
How do you get the picture off flickr?
lulz there was no test for getting a permit for me
lavadisk wrote:
MetaL* wrote:
Hurricane wrote:
OH SHIT HE PULLED THE ULTIMATUM ON YOU.
meeeeeeeeeeeeee and skipper
He's a pale mofo
+1 to all the good posts. I suggest anybody in HS looking for advice should read this. Thanks for all the posts guys and I welcome any thoughts.
Meh iGoogle is alright, although I am use to it now I think I would prefer the old style if they ever changed it back. The only really useful thing I have up there is a Seattle Times feed.
[list]
[*]I won't not have both a myspace and a facebook!
[*]Homework
[*]Play games like WoW or CS
[*]Play BF2, my computer can barely handle it
[*]Not get frustrated
[*]I won't not have both a myspace and a facebook!
[*]Homework
[*]Play games like WoW or CS
[*]Play BF2, my computer can barely handle it
[*]Not get frustrated
Oh really, I would love to deliver pizzas!!!Cougar wrote:
6. If you are in high school, smoke lots of pot, get a few girls pregnant and try to contract a disease. My family will need people to change our oil and deliver our pizzas later on in life.
But seriously,
I just read all the replies, thanks guys! (especially RDX-FX).
Does anybody else have anything else to add?
Well I have been going through some hard times in HS lately, and I want to here some good advice from the wise members of D&ST.
What have you learned or realized that you wish you could have known earlier?
What have you learned or realized that you wish you could have known earlier?
Ouch, damn her! I would go with volleyball players I still have spandex. MmmmBolvisOculus wrote:
Our School VBall team wasn't allowed to wear them last year because some fat chick who didn't want to wear them got all pissy and her mom complained that it made the girls look "slutty". Honestly I'm willing to see everyone in spandex then none of them.haffeysucks wrote:
Volleyball. Christ I love watching girls at our school in spandex shorts.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22116255/?GT1=10645
thoughts?MSNBC wrote:
Police alarmed at candy in cocaine-like packs
Mint powder from Hershey looks startlingly like dime bag, officers say
MSNBC and NBC News
updated 3:48 p.m. PT, Thurs., Dec. 6, 2007
A new mint candy is posing problems for police officers, who say it bears a striking resemblance to street cocaine.
“Anything like this ... is going to give an advantage to the criminals, narcotics users, narcotics dealers," Austin, Texas, police Sgt. Richard Stresing said of Ice Breakers Pacs — tiny, blue, dissolvable packets of white mint powder that look startlingly like heat-sealed dime bags of cocaine.
The new product — which was introduced by Hershey Co. in September at the annual All Candy Expo in Chicago — is bound to make officers’ jobs harder out on the streets, said Sioux City, Iowa, police Lt. Marti Reilly.
“Obviously, it’s going to require law enforcement to do a lot of field-testing on candy,” Reilly said. “When you see it in the street, you wouldn’t know it from a controlled substance because it’s packaged an awful lot like that.”
Hershey rejected the police claims.
“The product is clearly labeled with product identification, ingredients and nutritional information and is clearly branded as an Ice Breakers item,” the company said in a statement. It did not respond to questions about whether Hershey planned to change the packaging.
‘They’ve all been full of cocaine’
The candy does come in a standard plastic package, with an Ice Breakers label, but that’s not the problem, officers said. The problem is with what’s inside.
“You are kidding me,” said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse of the Dallas police. “I’ve been on the streets 15 years, and I’ve seen a lot of these, and they’ve all been full of cocaine, and you’re telling me this one’s full of candy? Wow.”
Janse said the packets looked so much like cocaine bags that drug dealers would be able to use them “to hide their drugs from us now, I’d be willing to bet.”
Brett Kaiser of Dallas, the parent of two youngsters, said he was worried that the candy could confuse children, too, leading to serious consequences.
“They wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if they saw that and they saw a bag of drugs on the ground,” Kaiser said as his children ran around a Dallas playground.
Reilly said that although the candy had not yet shown up on shelves in his city, “we’ve had advance notice from some other law enforcement agencies that have had problems with it.”
“It would be better for us” if Hershey pulled the product, he said.
Janse agreed.
“What happens when these drug dealers start unsealing these and putting their cocaine in them and leave them around and a kid goes, ‘Hey, there's one of those Ice Breakers,’ and puts a packet of powder cocaine in their mouth?” he asked.
“That is going to be dangerous,” he said.
"To go and squash the forces of evil, because they're evil and need to be squashed...or something"
HAHA
HAHA
I didn't discover life, I discovered other forums...
Now I am back, BF2s ftw!
Now I am back, BF2s ftw!
I have to go with price, because not having a big budget sucks, of course specs are important, but it doesn't really matter if you can't afford them
I believe the better question is what can't you do with 17 tons of bacon
I like the cold, yet with the cold comes late sunrises and early sunsets which I do not like.
Got 1st snow of winter this weekend which was pretty cool
Got 1st snow of winter this weekend which was pretty cool
That is messed up.
Ouch that would hurt. But yeah, the general consensus at least at my school is dry hump the shit out of everyone.Drakef wrote:
Unless it is actually formal dancing, like a tango or waltz. Then you're screwed.
Someone did a presentation about this in speech class last year. If i recall it is more expensive to execute somebody than to jail them for life on average.
my name is 'other' 'other'. I have a cousin named Tim however.
My friend lives off that stuff. The only things in his fridge are hot pockets and vodka.
Wall glitches.
Yay!
crap I lost all my karma and posts...
crap I lost all my karma and posts...
I do but don't expect much