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<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Man says veteran status should let him steal candy


Feb 26, 3:34 PM (ET)

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) - Authorities arrested a man who claimed he was justified in stealing candy at a truck stop because he had served in the military. Police said an officer confronted a 31-year-old man at the truck stop early Monday morning. The officer reported finding several packages of candy and nuts, two black T-shirts and a 20 oz. bottle of beer in his pockets.

He said he had paid for all the items, but a clerk denied ringing up any purchases for him.

A report stated that while in the patrol vehicle, the man screamed out the window that he had served in the military over in Iraq and could steal all the M&M'S he wanted.

His veteran status could not be immediately verified.

The man was charged with retail theft and was being held on $5,000 bail.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090226/D96JFPI01.html" target="_blank">http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090226/D96JFPI01.html</a>
 
Sounds like a case of SWMMD to me. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=314072:date=Apr 17 2009, 03:44 PM:name=Stallion)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stallion @ Apr 17 2009, 03:44 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=314072"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: "At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Okay:

<!--QuoteBegin-"Jedi Church"+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE ("Jedi Church")</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"The Jedi religion is something <b>innate</b> inside everone of us"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Sooo, we are all Jedi, we just don't know it yet?

May the Force be with you...BTW has anyone told Darth Vader and Darth Bane, Darth Sidious or Darth Plagueis?

I am sure they would be very interested to know about this new tenet.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-Stallion+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stallion)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Just so long as they don't go all Han Solo and start stroking their own wookie, it's fine by me.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerbz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":nerbz" border="0" alt="nerbz.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />
 
<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true" target="_blank"> Our world may be a giant hologram </a>

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Freaky idea.
 
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<a href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Hologram" target="_blank">Sentient Hologram</a>

Star Trek will be the next religion
 
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<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Great Wall Of China: Extra Miles Discovered<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
<!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->11:12am UK, Monday April 20, 2009

<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><b><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->The ancient Great Wall of China is almost 200 miles longer than previously thought, according to a new study.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

An extra 180 miles of the world-renowned ancient Chinese monument were uncovered after a two-year government mapping study, according to an official report.

The study used mapping technologies such as infrared range finders and GPS devices to show extra portions of the wall - hidden by hills, trenches and rivers - that stretch from Hu Mountain in northern Liaoning province to Jiayu Pass in western Gansu province.

The newly mapped parts of the wall were built during the Ming Dynasy to protect against northern invaders.

They were covered over time by sandstorms that moved across the arid region.

The newly found parts mean the Great Wall - which Chinese emperors began building 2,000 years ago to keep out Mongols and invaders - spans about 3,900 miles through the northern part of the country.

The project is to continue for another year to try to map sections of the wall built during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Recent studies by Chinese archaeologists show that sections of the wall in Gansu are being reduced to "mounds of dirt" by sandstorms and may disappear entirely in 20 years.

They blame destructive farming methods in the 1950s that "desertified" large areas of northern China.

Also, portions of the wall in Gansu were made of packed earth, much less resilient than the brick and stone used in much of the wall's construction.

China has in recent years begun restoring parts of the wall as well as trying to rein in commercial development on and around it.

The wall's modern sections around the Chinese capital date from the Ming Dynasty, including those restored since the Communist Party took power in 1949, and several areas - including the most popular, Badaling, just north of Beijing - draw hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Tourist encroachment also has been a problem in recent years, with state media saying that, near Badaling, almost every brick on a popular section of the wall has been carved with people's names or other graffiti.
 
How the hell can 180 miles of the wall have been hidden all of this time? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />
 
...maybe they weren't tall enough to see it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/389_robber.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":robber:" border="0" alt="389_robber.gif" />
 
<b><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Oh Poo!<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Teen soils self after deputy surprises him<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
By Ben Winslow

Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:11 a.m. MDT


CENTERVILLE — A teenager suspected of car burglary was so surprised when he opened a car door to find a police officer sitting inside that he messed his pants, police said.

It happened about 1 a.m. Saturday as Salt Lake County sheriff's deputy Chad Taylor was returning to his Centerville home from working a shift.

"I was in my personal vehicle, but I was in uniform," Taylor told the Deseret News Monday. "I'd pulled in my driveway and was on the phone with another deputy when I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw this guy trying to get into my wife's car."

Taylor watched the teen then move up toward his car.

"Right as his hand goes to check my handle, I kick the door open," Taylor said. "I said, 'You'd better stop right there! Police!' I'm not kidding, it was quiet as can be, and I heard …"

The 16-year-old boy turned and ran, chased by Taylor, who called 911 as he ran after the teen through the neighborhood. The boy was scrambling so fast, Taylor said, he lost his shoes. Centerville police responded to help catch the teen.

"One officer spotted him with night-vision goggles going into a house," Centerville Police Lt. Paul Child said.

The boy dashed into a friend's house, where a party was going on, police said. Officers were let into the house where they found him — and discovered that he had soiled himself, Child said.

"You could smell him," Taylor said. "He told us, 'Yeah, I crapped my pants.' "

Police said the teen implicated a friend whom Taylor saw trying to break into cars across the street from his home.

"He gave up his friend," Child said, pointing to another 16-year-old who was also arrested in the burglary investigation. Police believe the two had been working together, burglarizing cars in the neighborhood. Child said officers recovered some cash and CDs they believe had been taken from cars. The two boys were booked into the Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center for investigation of vehicle burglary and theft.

Detectives were trying to determine if the teens were involved in a rash of weekend car break-ins.

"We've had some more reports over the weekend that we're sure they're suspects in," Child said.
 
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Scared sh*tless huh? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
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