Originally Posted by MetalRepublican

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Originally Posted by MSNBC

Uh, officer, is this really crack I bought?
Man arrested after allegedly handing pipe to cops for an authent
icity check

TAMPA, Fla. - A man is behind bars in Tampa after allegedly asking two uniformed officers to test a crack pipe.

Police say the man doubted whether he was being sold actual crack cocaine, so he approached the officers and asked them to test his pipe so he could be sure.

Turned out it was the real thing. Authorities say the man was arrested after the residue in his pipe tested positive for crack cocaine.
He's listed in jail records as a security worker at MacDill Air Force Base.

Originally Posted by MSNBC

Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Undercover agents pursue inebriates in a pre-emptive strategy

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.

The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission’s Carolyn Beck.

Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.

The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.

“We feel that the only way we’re going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this,” she said.
“There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they’re intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car,” Beck said. “People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss.”

She said the sting operations would continue throughout the state.

Originally Posted by Kaydee

Yeah I had a friend that was to drunk to drive and he was pulled over for speeding. He told the officer he was keeping up with the flow of traffic. The only problem was that it was like 3:00 in the morning and there was no one on the roads. By this time the office smelled teh alcohol and he spent the night in jail.

Originally Posted by Associated Press via Yahoo!

'99 Red Balloons' Video to Air for an Hour 1 hour

38 minutes ago

They're kidding, right?

VH1 Classic will present a full hour of the English and German music videos for the 1984 hit "99 Luftballons," aka "99 Red Balloons," by German rock group Nena.

The music video presentation, to air Sunday (2 p.m. EST), caps off the cable channel's "Pay to Play for Hurricane Katrina Relief," which raised over $200,000 for Mercy Corps, a humanitarian relief organization.

Viewers could request one video to be played on VH1 Classic for every $25 donation. For a $35,000 donation, they could select an hour's worth of music videos from the 1960s through the early 1990s.

However, one viewer chose something different for his allotted hour, requesting continuous playing of "99 Luftballons," said VH1 spokeswoman Maura Wozniak.

"99 Luftballons" is a Cold-War era protest song that tells the story of 99 red balloons floating into the air, triggering an apocalypse when the military sends planes to intercept them.

Originally Posted by Yahoo News

CALCUTTA, India - One of the world's oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where it spent more than half its long life.

Addwaita, which means "the one and only" in the local Bengali language, was one of four Aldabra tortoises brought to India by British sailors in the 18th century.

Zoo officials say he was a gift for Lord Robert Clive of the East India Company, who was instrumental in establishing British colonial rule in India, before he returned to England in 1767.

Long after the other three tortoises died, Addwaita continued to thrive, living in Clive's garden before being moved to the zoo in 1875.

"According to records in the zoo, the age of the giant tortoise, Addwaita, who died on Wednesday, would be 250 years approximately," said zoo director Subir Chowdhury.

That would have made him much older than the world's oldest documented living animal: Harriet, a 176-year-old Galapagos tortoise who lives at the Australia Zoo north of Brisbane, according to the zoo's Web site. She was taken from the island of Isla Santa Cruz by Charles Darwin in the 19th century.

Aldabra tortoises come from the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelle islands in the Indian Ocean, and often live to more than 100 years of age. Males can weigh up to 550 pounds.

Addwaita, the zoo's biggest attraction, had been unwell for the last few days, said local Forest Minister Jogesh Burman,

"We were keeping a watch on him. When the zoo keepers went to his enclosure on Wednesday they found him dead," Burman said.

Originally Posted by MSNBC

Walgreen’s patrons are suing the pharmacy chain because they claim the staff labeled some customers, “crazy,” others “psycho” and still more “shady” in the nationwide database. Those words appeared on slips stapled to the prescription bags.

Originally Posted by continued...

Cathy Lively, an attorney for these customers, said that the less than flattering comments caused her clients emotional distress, even a panic attack. ...

TUCKER CARLSON, HOST, ‘SITUATION’: Now, I can understand why these patrons had their feelings hurt, but having your feelings hurt, you know, doesn’t entitle you doesn’t entitle you to a cash payout. How exactly are these people deserving of money from Walgreen’s?

CATHY LIVELY, ATTORNEY: Well, you’ve got to look at the circumstances and exactly what happened. Specifically, in the first suit that was filed with Ms. Karp, this was an individual who was treated for depression and anxiety, had gone to Walgreen’s at the pharmacy, trusted the pharmacist to provide the medication, to dispense medication for her illness.

Labeling her as psycho and, I would quote from the form, “She is really psycho,” labeling her as crazy, is a direct impact upon the actual condition upon which she was being treated. It’s beyond having her feelings hurt.

CARLSON: I thought the condition for which she was being treated was being a little crazy. I mean, I’m not saying that in a pejorative way. But she’s going into a pharmacy to get medication for a mental disorder. So it may not be a polite way to describe her; it may not be tactful, but she’s probably a little crazy, no?

LIVELY: Well, I don’t think that crazy is deemed as a clinical term for which a pharmacist should be labeling somebody.

CARLSON: Nobody says it’s a clinical term. I would never say something like that. I think it’s rude and it’s mean, and I wouldn’t do it. However, how far off base is it, really? I mean, it’s not like they libeled her. She does have a mental disorder.

LIVELY: But a mental disorder is not labeling somebody, again, in a medical them as crazy and psycho. I would deem that to be a defamatory comment. She has never been classified. She is not psychotic. She is not incompetent. This is a woman who was treating for depression.

CARLSON: OK.

LIVELY: She entrusted a pharmacy to provide the medication.

CARLSON: Did they?

LIVELY: And this is what was on a form.

CARLSON: Well, did they provide the medication?

LIVELY: They dispense the medication.

CARLSON: So I guess the principle here is you can’t call a person with a mental disorder crazy, or else you have to pay them lots of money.

LIVELY: Well, I don’t think that somebody in a professional environment should be deeming somebody as crazy and psycho. It is certainly a derogatory term. And from a clinical perspective, it can be very harmful.

CARLSON: But they didn’t diagnose her crazy. They didn’t say, “My professional opinion is that you are crazy.” It was two coworkers talking to each other, making fun of this woman, in a mean way, I’ll grant you that. But they weren’t saying she’s clinically crazy.

And you’re allowed to make fun of people. I guess I was getting back to that. You have a First Amendment right, in fact, to make fun of people. You do. You’re a lawyer; you know that. So why should she be paid and how much should she be paid? How much are you asking for on her behalf?

LIVELY: That particular amount of damages is still being assessed, pending the outcome of her evaluation as well as her treatment that she received for that period of time.

CARLSON: What do you think, ballpark, $500, $1,000, more than that?

LIVELY: I think we’re going to go up on that number.

CARLSON: OK, so a lot.

LIVELY: It will be a higher number, correct. That is correct.

CARLSON: Right. Do you think you’ll get it?

LIVELY: Well, we will see if there’s a settlement or if we end up in a trial, what a jury would deem to be the appropriate damages.

CARLSON: And finally, are the Walgreen’s employees the very first people ever to make fun of this woman, to hurt her feelings, to say something unkind or cruel to her? She’s never had that experience before?

LIVELY: I’m sure she has.

CARLSON: She’s suing other people for making fun of her?

LIVELY: No, no. She has not. All three of the plaintiffs are dealing with the same issue, and it is derogatory comments that are made on their records by the pharmacy professionals, one of which we do now know how has been made by a pharmacist.

CARLSON: Boy, if derogatory comments turn out to be actionable, I will be bankrupt in about 20 minutes.

Originally Posted by Ghetto Fabalus

I used to work there for over two years, and I've seen my share of "crazy," "psycho," and "shady" customers. My only complaint is that crazy/psycho are a little redundant, so I'd admonish Walgreens for that. But I suppose "psycho" conjures up more instability and perhaps a violent streak or two than the lesser "crazy" does.

I've developed a relative distaste for the chain, but they've been bumped up a few notches in my book now. <33.