Goat detained over armed robbery
LAGOS (Reuters) - Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said.
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Residents came to the police station to see the goat, photographed in one national newspaper on its knees next to a pile of straw.
I think we should send ita to "interrogate" the goat....
The radio hosts this morning were discussing a case in Evanston of a guy who slipped on the sidewalk and fell down. Some people across the street laughed at his slipping, but instead of just shrugging his shoulders, he took out his gun and started firing at them. Apparently, they're okay, but that got the hosts discussing how they react to seeing someone fall--they're equally heartless and giggle when seeing a spectacular fall.
Someone called in and told about the time when he, a postman, was delivering something to a house and managed to slip on the sidewalk in front after leaving the porch. He picked himself up and glanced back at the house to see the resident standing at the front window, holding up a piece of paper with a "7" on it and making a gesture indicating that he didn't stick the landing.
I think we should send ita to "interrogate" the goat....
I can't promise to observe the Geneva Convention.
A woman on another board (prompted by this) said that she always feels nervous/hypervigilant when a man comes onto an elevator she's been alone in. Another mentioned she'll leave the car on those occasions. This completely startled me. Is this common? Anyone here feel the same way/notice other women reacting like this?
Obama Incredulous Over School Closing, Says DC Needs To Toughen Up
At a meeting in the Roosevelt Room with business leaders to discuss the economy, President Obama asked to make an unrelated comment -- on the weather.
"My children's school was canceled today, because of what? Some ice," Obama said, and all at the table started laughing.
"As my children pointed out, in Chicago school is never canceled," he continued. He said that in their old hometown, "you'd go outside for recess in weather like this. You wouldn't even stay indoors."
The President said he would have to bring "some flinty Chicago toughness" to Washington.
Asked if he was calling Washingtonians wimps, Obama responded: "I'm saying that when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."
More on topic, President Obama said he is "confident" the stimulus package will pass.
I dunno - I think if a city doesn't get ice on a regular basis, they might not have the equipment, material or experience to deal with it as well as, say, Chicago. OTOH, it's cool to see Obama telling Washington folk how awesome Chicago is....
I dunno - I think if a city doesn't get ice on a regular basis, they might not have the equipment, material or experience to deal with it as well as, say, Chicago.
That's totally DC's problem -- they are always caught completely by surprise when there's any winter weather there.
Is this common? Anyone here feel the same way/notice other women reacting like this?
It seems kind of odd to me. I notice when I am the only woman on the the elevator in my office building, but that's because it's pretty uncommon -- but it doesn't make me feel unsafe at all.
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Sorry, not on FB. So I'll just have to use my imagination I guess.
I dunno - I think if a city doesn't get ice on a regular basis, they might not have the equipment, material or experience to deal with it as well as, say, Chicago.
True, but DC is particularly lame when it comes to snow.
A woman on another board (prompted by this) said that she always feels nervous/hypervigilant when a man comes onto an elevator she's been alone in. Another mentioned she'll leave the car on those occasions. This completely startled me. Is this common? Anyone here feel the same way/notice other women reacting like this?
Where the hell are they riding elevators? Speed-rapist conventions?
they are always caught completely by surprise when there's any winter weather there.
I see the problem as being DC not deploying its very limited resources (plows, trucks) before the ice/snow actually begins. Only when a storm starts to they start to deliberate how much of the precious salt stash to put on the roads. So everything has to get kerfucked before they get serious.
That's DC's problem -- then there are the people who live here who don't have salt for their own sidewalks, etc.
A woman on another board (prompted by this) said that she always feels nervous/hypervigilant when a man comes onto an elevator she's been alone in. Another mentioned she'll leave the car on those occasions. This completely startled me. Is this common? Anyone here feel the same way/notice other women reacting like this?
I think the only time I've been conscious of being the only woman was when I lived on the edge of Crown Heights. At my subway stop I was often the only woman and/or Caucasian (the neighborhood being primarily Orthodox Jews and West Indians).
I certainly never occured to me to "do" anything about it. But it was something I noticed.
DC has one snowplow, and I'm pretty sure they have to share it with Maryland and Virginia.
That said, the DC area schools (including NoVA and MD where I grew up) are TOTALLY WUSSY when it comes to snow. I remember school closings over less than a quarter inch of snow growing up.
