Category: Beliefs


Confessing To Murder … 65 Years Later

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June 8, 2011

It may take a long time before someone gives in to their conscience. Well, in this case, it took a long, long time!

Here’s the story from the AP via Yahoo:

>>96 year-old woman confesses to 1946 murder

AMSTERDAM – A murder mystery has been solved — 65 years later — with the confession of a 96-year-old woman.

The 1946 killing of Felix Gulje, the head of a construction company who at the time was being considered for a high political post, roiled the Netherlands, and the failure to find the assassin became a point of contention among political parties.

On Wednesday, the mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, said a woman has confessed to the killing, saying it happened in the mistaken belief that Gulje had collaborated with the Nazis.

Lenferink said he received a letter from the woman, whom he identified as Atie Ridder-Visser, on Jan. 1. Two subsequent interviews with her and a review of the historical archives persuaded him that her story was true.

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Tell Your Boss Where You Are!

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June 7, 2011

Helping someone out isn’t as important as keeping your supervisor informed where you are, apparently!

Check out this story about one officer trying to help others from the AP:

>>Cop Fired After Helping Fellow Officer In Distress

It was a Saturday on campus when David Sedmak, a Rice University police officer, heard “Officer down, officer down!” on his scanner: Two members of the Houston Police Department had been shot downtown. Sedmak rushed to the scene to help his fellow officers.

But Rice didn’t see Sedmak as a hero. Instead, the university fired him, citing “dereliction of duty.”

The university said in a statement that its officers often assist other law enforcement agencies when the need arises. But Sedmak erred, it said, by not informing the university police dispatcher about where he was.

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Be Careful How You Pay Your Bill

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June 6, 2011

Some folks think it’s a cool thing to make someone who says you owe them money jump through hoops. In one town, that won’t work out very well, apparently.

Here’s the story from the deseretnews.com website:

>>VERNAL — A Vernal man has been charged with disorderly conduct after police say he caused alarm when he paid for a disputed medical bill in pennies.

On May 27, Jason West went to Basin Clinic prepared to dispute an outstanding bill, according to Assistant Vernal Police Chief Keith Campbell. West, 38, apparently did not believe he owed the clinic the $25 it said he did.

“After asking if they accepted cash, West dumped 2,500 pennies onto the counter and demanded that they count it,” Campbell said. “The pennies were strewn about the counter and the floor.”

The incident upset clinic staff, said Campbell, adding that West’s behavior served “no legitimate purpose.”

Clinic staff told West they were calling police and he left the office. Officers caught up with West later and issued him a citation for disorderly conduct, an infraction, which carries a potential fine of $140.

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Thieves Steal Steel Train Tracks

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June 3, 2011

I keep reading in the media that the economy is just swell, that there aren’t enough people to fill the growing number of jobs. Things are peachy all over.

And yet, crime keeps rising.

Here’s a good example of this, from the tauntongazette.com website.

>>CSX Train Derails; Taunton Police Investigate Theft Of Train Tracks

Taunton — A CSX railroad engine en route to a delivery in Taunton’s Myles Standish Industrial Park derailed Wednesday afternoon after thieves cut away two 8-foot sections of solid steel track, authorities said.

No one was injured as a result of the incident, which observers on scene said ranks as the most audacious example of metal theft in recent memory.

“It stopped a little too late and derailed — it just dropped down on both sides,” CSX trainmaster Mark Smith said of the four-axle GP40 engine that was pulling two cars and a rear engine.

The engine’s front wheels landed astride the tracks, but neither it nor the other engine and two cars, tipped over. The rear engine, with the two cars in tow, by late Wednesday managed to pull away, leaving the front engine mired in the dirt among shards of shattered railroad ties.

Smith, 52, said the slow-moving train derailed at 1:30 p.m. as the two-man crew was delivering goods to Agar Supply, a foodservice distributor located at 225 John Hancock Road.

Three hours after the derailment, Smith said it would be sometime in the evening before the engine could be lifted back onto the tracks.

He also estimated it would take two to four days for the gap in the rail to be filled and for a damaged section of bent rail to be repaired.

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Shouting That You’re A Criminal Into The Phone!

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June 2, 2011

Criminals are supposed to be a cowardly, superstitious lot … but they are pretty stupid a lot of the time!

Take, for example, the case of the fugitive who spoke so loudly into the telephone in his motel room that others could hear him saying he was a wanted man. Here’s the story from WBAL’s website:

>>Shhh! Man Blacs On Phone That He’s Wanted, Is Arrested!

Richard Vermalyea Taken Into Custody

DELMAR, Md. — The Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office said a man who talked loudly in his motel room about being a fugitive was arrested after other guests turned him in.

It happened early Tuesday at the Traveler’s Motel in Delmar.

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Swearing Soon A Fineable Offense In Victoria, Australia

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June 1, 2011

Turning the air blue might cost you if you live in Victoria, Australia, soon!

Here’s the story from brietbart.com:

>>Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colourful language with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing.

The country’s second most populous state Victoria is due to approve new legislation this week under which police will be able to slap fines of up to Aus$240 (US$257) on people using offensive words or phrases.

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Are Criminals Getting More Brazen?

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May 31, 2011

Imagine walking through a neighborhood with the remnants of the man you just killed.

That’s apparently what happened recently in Ontario. Here’s the story from the ktla.com website:

>>ONTARIO (KTLA) — A woman has been booked on murder charges after bringing a trash can containing the body parts of a deceased man to an area home and pushing it through the surrounding neighborhood Sunday, officials said.

51-year-old Carmen Montenegro was spotted toting a trash can down the street before bringing it to a home located on the 700 block of Holmes near H Street, where she told the residents that a body was inside the trash can and asked the residents, reportedly her relatives, to help her dispose of it.

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A Musical Memorial Day Weekend

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May 28, 2011

It’s time to pay our respects to the honored dead who have preserved our liberty. We call that holiday Memorial Day with good reason–we need to remember their sacrifices.

In their honor, I want to play some patriotic selections for the weekend.

First up is Lee Greenwood singing “America The Beautiful:”

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House Of Horrors For Sale In Silver Spring

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May 27, 2011

It’s hard to believe, but you can buy a house in Silver Spring (not Silver Springs), Maryland, in which three people have died in the last decade.

Check out the story from the NBC 4 website:

>>If you knew three people had been killed at a house, would you buy it?

Brian Betts wouldn’t have bought his Silver Spring, Md., home had he known that a man and his daughter were killed there.

Betts, the popular principal at Shaw at Garnet-Patterson Middle School, was found dead in an upstairs bedroom in his home April 15, 2010. He’d connected with the gunman who killed him, Alante Saunders, the previous day via a social chat line. Saunders and two other teenagers went to Betts’s home with the understanding that the door would be left unlocked, police said. They entered and Saunders went upstairs. He pleaded guilty in November and was sentenced to life with all but 40 years suspended.

When Betts bought the two-story brick colonial at 9337 Columbia Blvd. on July 2, 2003, it had already been the scene of a double homicide. On Aug. 6, 2002, a 9-year-old girl was pistol whipped and shot and killed at point blank range by a man who’d broken into the house. Her father, Gregory Russell, was shot six times and also died.

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Man Inflates Like Human Balloon

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May 26, 2011

It’s amazing what the human body can stand.

Check out the story below, which a man’s body really got pushed to its limits:

>>WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.

Steven McCormack was standing on his truck’s foot plate Saturday when he slipped and fell, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck’s brakes.

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