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[disco]

... Dr. Charles Tator. He comments: "Children and youth lack the knowledge, development and skills to safely operate these vehicles....

Yep.  I'll have to agree.     ATV's are waaay too complicated for kids. 


9-Year-Old Pilot Sets Cross-Country Mark
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/04/us/9-year-old-pilot-sets-cross-country-mark.html

Jessica Watson becomes youngest solo sailor to sail the world
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson_becomes_youngest_solo_sailor_to_sail_the_world

[Peelz]

cool disco...but there are lots of stupid people with stupid kids out there

[Hefe]

Meth dealers kids are the worst!

[AJ RAPTOR]

we gotta thin out the stupid somehow hell we cant shoot them so we have to keep comeing up with new ways for them to kill themselfs off

[Spartan]

Another good actor down

"LOS ANGELES, May 29 (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic "Easy Rider," died on Saturday from complications of prostate cancer, a friend of the actor said. Hopper was 74.

The hard-living screen star died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Venice at 8:15 a.m. PDT (1515 GMT), surrounded by family and friends, the friend, Alex Hitz, told Reuters.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Hollywood+hellraiser+Dennis+Hopper+dead/3087858/story.html#ixzz0pMI9ccwU

[dragonz]

we gotta thin out the stupid somehow hell we cant shoot them so we have to keep comeing up with new ways for them to kill themselfs off

The shallow end of the gene pool is rather over-crowded!

[Peelz]

we gotta thin out the stupid somehow hell we cant shoot them so we have to keep comeing up with new ways for them to kill themselfs off

The shallow end of the gene pool is rather over-crowded!

but the water is warm in here heh Dragonz? 

[Spartan]

we gotta thin out the stupid somehow hell we cant shoot them so we have to keep comeing up with new ways for them to kill themselfs off

The shallow end of the gene pool is rather over-crowded!

but the water is warm in here heh Dragonz? 

They're all in Iowa now?

[Spartan]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

That's some fucking BS!

[Krandall]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/live-gulf-oil-spill-video-feed_n_583682.html#s97146

there's a slide show below to see pictures. Pretty depressing stuff.

[Spartan]

Damn, I got a buddy that lives in Pensacola...gonna see wtf is going on up there.

[Krandall]

Man busted by traffic camera gets unique revenge on police department
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/08/man-busted-by-traffic-camera-gets-unique-revenge-on-police-depar/


It goes without saying, but we're gonna go ahead and say it anyway: Nobody likes getting a speeding ticket. And that's especially true when said ticket isn't issued by a human officer, but from a machine set up to catch unwary motorists off guard. If only there was some way to get back that lost sense of justice...

2,314diggsdigg One man from Bluff City, Tennessee came up with a rather inventive way of sticking it back to The Man. It seems that the officer in charge of the Bluff City Police Department's website had gone on sick leave, and nobody noticed when the time came to renew the PD's URL. Whoops.

Computer network designer Brian McCrary, who received a $90 ticket from a speed camera earlier in the year, saw a unique opportunity and seized it, picking up the domain rights from Go Daddy. Want to know what the Bluff City Police Department's old website looks like now? Of course you do.

[Krandall]

Jail trusty allegedly uses leg for smuggling
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100609/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_trusty_smuggling


ALEXANDRIA, La. – Rapides Parish authorities accuse a jail trusty of using his prosthetic leg  to smuggle contraband into the jail. The Alexandria Town Talk reported that 42-year-old man was arrested and charged with introduction of contraband into a penal institution and possession of a controlled dangerous substance.

Herman Walters, Rapides Parish sheriff's assistant chief deputy, said during a routine check of trusties coming back to the facility Friday, correctional officers discovered the contraband hidden in his prosthetic leg.

Walter said officers found bags of loose tobacco, 10 cigarettes, a container of smokeless tobacco and four Soma pills -- a muscle relaxer.

[Spartan]

I wonder how many tablets I can fit in my hearing aid?

[Krandall]

With each look at oil flow, the numbers get worse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100611/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_1207

HOUSTON – With each new look by scientists, the oil spill just keeps looking worse.

New figures for the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico show the amount of oil spewing may have been up to twice as much as previously thought, according to scientists consulting with the federal government.

That could mean 42 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have already fouled the Gulf's fragile waters, affecting people who live, work and play along the coast from Louisiana to Florida — and perhaps beyond.

It is the third — and perhaps not the last — time the U.S. government has had to increase its estimate of how much oil is gushing. Trying to clarify what has been a contentious and confusing issue, officials on Thursday gave a wide variety of estimates.

All the new spill estimates are worse than earlier ones â€" and far more costly for BP, which has seen its stock sink since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and triggered the spill. Most of Thursday's estimates had more oil flowing in an hour than what officials once said was spilling in an entire day.

"This is a nightmare that keeps getting worse every week," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. "We're finding out more and more information about the extent of the damage. ... Clearly we can't trust BP's estimates of how much oil is coming out."

The spill was flowing at a daily rate that could possibly have been as high as 2.1 million gallons, twice the highest number the federal government had been saying, U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt, who is coordinating estimates, said Thursday. But she said possibly more credible numbers are a bit lower.

And the estimate does not take into account the cutting of the riser pipe on June 3 — which BP said would increase the flow by about 20 percent — and subsequent placement of a cap. No estimates were given for the amount of oil gushing from the well after the cut. Nor are there estimates since a cap was put on the pipe, which already has collected more than 3 million gallons.