16 More Things I Learned Last Week
16 More Things I Learned Last Week
A supplement to News of the Weird/Pro Edition
February 9, 2010
(datelines January 30-February 6; links correct as of February 8)
Even after years of ridicule about "zero tolerance," a New York City principal still almost suspended a 9-year-old boy for having a 2-inch-long toy "gun." New York Daily News
Switzerland set for referendum the question whether animals deserve public defenders in legal proceedings. (Don't roll your eyes. In the United States recently, the Supreme Court ruled that a notarized piece of paper associated with a set of books and a bank account has the same free-speech rights as the human being(s) who own the paper, books, and bank account.) The Times (London) /// New York Times
The Haiti earthquake (200,000 dead) was terrible, just terrible! We're all in a tizzy over the inhuman suffering. Meanwhile, in the Rwandan civil war, the death toll (the vast majority no more deserving of their fate than were the earthquake victims) climbed to 6,000,000. New York Times
"Amy," star of a seminal child porn series that has appeared in the collections of at least 800 convicted pervs, has demanded restitution from the uncle who originally took the pictures – and from everyone who had copies. Psych professionals estimate the damage done to her at $3.4 million, and some courts have begun to go along. New York Times
In other child porn news, the queen of the Viardouro samba group (one of 12 groups in the top-class competition at Rio's Carnaval) is 7 years old. She's supposed to be really good, but even in Brazil they have a problem with this. (Not her dad, though. He couldn't be prouder.) And here's something that could really confuse pedophiles: A rare ailment (lipodystrophy) makes this 13-year-old girl look like she's 50. Associated Press via ABC News /// MSNBC
And also, Miley Cyrus's 9-year-old sister is launching a lingerie line for kids. Ninemsn.com (Sydney)
Kyrgyzstan will issue electronic "passports" to every one of its millions of sheep, to make them identifiable from birth to slaughter. Agence France-Presse via Google News
A 21-year-old Milwaukee man, pranking at 9 o'clock at night on his mother, put on a ski mask and menacingly approached her. Appropriately scared, she shot him in the jewels with her .357. (Or maybe it wasn't a prank; cops think he might have intended to rob his old lady.) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jailed British mob boss Colin Gunn was freely issuing threats on his Facebook page because prison officials were afraid to stop him, for fear of violating his "human rights," until Justice Secretary Jack Straw loaned them some stones. (It's still good to be a British criminal.) The Times
And it's good to be a Canadian murderer: To get his testimony against his former Hells Angel brothers, murderer Sylvain Boulanger got (a) a pass plus (b) $3 million in walk-around money. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News
Once again, some dog shot its owner, near Los Banos, Calif. Fresno Bee
Immigrant taxicab drivers in Southampton, England, are complaining about the brutally unfair signs some (non-immigrant) cabbies are putting on their taxis: "Driver Speaks English." Daily Telegraph
District of Calamity II: Wayne County's (Detroit's) budget for burying unclaimed bodies ran out last June; bodies are stacked like cordwood in 67 portable freezers. WDIV-TV (Detroit)
One of the Fine Points of Texas Law: A mother is responsible for the legal costs when her minor son is arrested for assault, even if she was the one the kid beat up. El Paso Times via Austin American Statesman
Washington, D.C., area BDSM dungeonmaster Paul Pickthorne, describing his clientele: "Men, women, transgender, heterosexuals, gays, bisexuals. Every ethnicity. White-collar and blue-collar. It's really very, very diverse – though we do have an unusually high percentage of lawyers. I don't know why." Washington Post
Newsrangers: Paul Andrews, Ryan Lang, Brendan O'Naughton, Stuart Zukrow, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
A supplement to News of the Weird/Pro Edition
February 9, 2010
(datelines January 30-February 6; links correct as of February 8)
Even after years of ridicule about "zero tolerance," a New York City principal still almost suspended a 9-year-old boy for having a 2-inch-long toy "gun." New York Daily News
Switzerland set for referendum the question whether animals deserve public defenders in legal proceedings. (Don't roll your eyes. In the United States recently, the Supreme Court ruled that a notarized piece of paper associated with a set of books and a bank account has the same free-speech rights as the human being(s) who own the paper, books, and bank account.) The Times (London) /// New York Times
The Haiti earthquake (200,000 dead) was terrible, just terrible! We're all in a tizzy over the inhuman suffering. Meanwhile, in the Rwandan civil war, the death toll (the vast majority no more deserving of their fate than were the earthquake victims) climbed to 6,000,000. New York Times
"Amy," star of a seminal child porn series that has appeared in the collections of at least 800 convicted pervs, has demanded restitution from the uncle who originally took the pictures – and from everyone who had copies. Psych professionals estimate the damage done to her at $3.4 million, and some courts have begun to go along. New York Times
In other child porn news, the queen of the Viardouro samba group (one of 12 groups in the top-class competition at Rio's Carnaval) is 7 years old. She's supposed to be really good, but even in Brazil they have a problem with this. (Not her dad, though. He couldn't be prouder.) And here's something that could really confuse pedophiles: A rare ailment (lipodystrophy) makes this 13-year-old girl look like she's 50. Associated Press via ABC News /// MSNBC
And also, Miley Cyrus's 9-year-old sister is launching a lingerie line for kids. Ninemsn.com (Sydney)
Kyrgyzstan will issue electronic "passports" to every one of its millions of sheep, to make them identifiable from birth to slaughter. Agence France-Presse via Google News
A 21-year-old Milwaukee man, pranking at 9 o'clock at night on his mother, put on a ski mask and menacingly approached her. Appropriately scared, she shot him in the jewels with her .357. (Or maybe it wasn't a prank; cops think he might have intended to rob his old lady.) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jailed British mob boss Colin Gunn was freely issuing threats on his Facebook page because prison officials were afraid to stop him, for fear of violating his "human rights," until Justice Secretary Jack Straw loaned them some stones. (It's still good to be a British criminal.) The Times
And it's good to be a Canadian murderer: To get his testimony against his former Hells Angel brothers, murderer Sylvain Boulanger got (a) a pass plus (b) $3 million in walk-around money. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News
Once again, some dog shot its owner, near Los Banos, Calif. Fresno Bee
Immigrant taxicab drivers in Southampton, England, are complaining about the brutally unfair signs some (non-immigrant) cabbies are putting on their taxis: "Driver Speaks English." Daily Telegraph
District of Calamity II: Wayne County's (Detroit's) budget for burying unclaimed bodies ran out last June; bodies are stacked like cordwood in 67 portable freezers. WDIV-TV (Detroit)
One of the Fine Points of Texas Law: A mother is responsible for the legal costs when her minor son is arrested for assault, even if she was the one the kid beat up. El Paso Times via Austin American Statesman
Washington, D.C., area BDSM dungeonmaster Paul Pickthorne, describing his clientele: "Men, women, transgender, heterosexuals, gays, bisexuals. Every ethnicity. White-collar and blue-collar. It's really very, very diverse – though we do have an unusually high percentage of lawyers. I don't know why." Washington Post
Newsrangers: Paul Andrews, Ryan Lang, Brendan O'Naughton, Stuart Zukrow, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
Comments
animal and corporate rights- 'get the pet psychic in here to marandize this animal.' i got a kick out of the corporation running for congress at the second link. :lol:
haiti-/rawanda- we, as humans seem to have much more sympathy and empathy for peope harmed by acts of god than those harmed by acts of man.
amy- one would wish it had never happened, but it did. give her the money, thpedophile should not profit from her victimization.
rio- 2words= jonbenet ramsey little girls should not be publicly (or at all)presented as harlots. think about who enjoys seeing them like that and what they do with that image in their minds mothers.
miley cyrus' sis- see above.
passports- some places it is eaisier for sheep to get passports than it is for humans here. probably cheaper too. 🙄
357 to the nuts- well i guess that takes his stupid ass out of the gene pool then. :lol: congrats for correcting your own mistake mom.
facebook- come on, really? this guy has the right to facebook, but cabbies don't have the right to put a sign in the cab widow tha states 'i speak english'. okay. :roll:
3 mill- i'm sure the jury will put alot of stock in this thug's paid testimony.
to paraphrase a quote- when man shoots dog, not news. when dog shoots man, now that's news.
paupers' graves- if it is too expensive to bury them, what about cremation, or donating the bodies to medical schools ect.
mom assulted- what a sham. she looses her husband and the kid is beating her and the law just piles on. way to go texas, once again you live up to your lousy reputation down there.
bdsm- does it suprise anyone that lawyers have a need to be punished?
haiti-/rawanda- we, as humans seem to have much more sympathy and empathy for peope harmed by acts of god than those harmed by acts of man.
amy- one would wish it had never happened, but it did. give her the money, thpedophile should not profit from her victimization.
rio- 2words= jonbenet ramsey little girls should not be publicly (or at all)presented as harlots. think about who enjoys seeing them like that and what they do with that image in their minds mothers.
miley cyrus' sis- see above.
passports- some places it is eaisier for sheep to get passports than it is for humans here. probably cheaper too. 🙄
357 to the nuts- well i guess that takes his stupid ass out of the gene pool then. :lol: congrats for correcting your own mistake mom.
facebook- come on, really? this guy has the right to facebook, but cabbies don't have the right to put a sign in the cab widow tha states 'i speak english'. okay. :roll:
3 mill- i'm sure the jury will put alot of stock in this thug's paid testimony.
to paraphrase a quote- when man shoots dog, not news. when dog shoots man, now that's news.
paupers' graves- if it is too expensive to bury them, what about cremation, or donating the bodies to medical schools ect.
mom assulted- what a sham. she looses her husband and the kid is beating her and the law just piles on. way to go texas, once again you live up to your lousy reputation down there.
bdsm- does it suprise anyone that lawyers have a need to be punished?
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 10:55 AM
357 vs nutz: The first thing that came to mind was "Go Nads, Go!"
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/09/10 at 11:29 AM
i hadn't looked at the link bill. you are right, very creepy.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/10/10 at 06:18 AM
Not really, they are not producing, distributing or condoning it, they are going after the people who made there a market for it for their contribution to her abuse. Or at least that's one view.
Alternatively, since she did not sign, and in fact could not have signed, a legal model release, it could be argued that she is merely protecting her image by seeking damages against those people who have illegally held and used that image. In that sense it is no different to a recording artist asking for damages against someone who downloaded and forwarded pirate copies of their songs. It's a stretch to call that "profitting from music piracy". If anything, it's even more clear cut in the case of "Amy" since there is no legal way they could have obtained these images.
Or perhaps we should look at this like we would a case of defamation? The pictures almost certainly present a false and derogatory image of her, and any reproduction of derogation is itself derogatory unless innocent and in good faith. Neither is likely to be true in the "Amy" case.
Alternatively, since she did not sign, and in fact could not have signed, a legal model release, it could be argued that she is merely protecting her image by seeking damages against those people who have illegally held and used that image. In that sense it is no different to a recording artist asking for damages against someone who downloaded and forwarded pirate copies of their songs. It's a stretch to call that "profitting from music piracy". If anything, it's even more clear cut in the case of "Amy" since there is no legal way they could have obtained these images.
Or perhaps we should look at this like we would a case of defamation? The pictures almost certainly present a false and derogatory image of her, and any reproduction of derogation is itself derogatory unless innocent and in good faith. Neither is likely to be true in the "Amy" case.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 02/11/10 at 07:40 AM
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