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<i>Can't advertise patriotism or veteran status??</i>
<b><i>Assholes and Idiots are everywhere, beware...</i></b>

<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Vet's Patriotic Stickers Under Fire<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

Published : Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 10:45 PM CDT
James Rose

DALLAS - Frank Larison is a disabled veteran with more than 14 years of service, including more than a year of combat duty in Vietnam.

The 58-year-old former Marine now finds himself under attack by his Dallas homeowners association for displaying seven decals on his vehicle supporting the Marine Corps.

"To me, it's being patriotic, and it shows that I served," the veteran told FOX 4.

The board says the decals are advertisements that violate HOA rules, and must be covered or removed.

Otherwise, the homeowners association for The Woodlands II on The Creek --- where Larimore has lived for eight years --- says in a letter it will tow the car at Larimore's expense. The board also threatens to fine him $50 for any future incident.

Larimore says the decals, ranging from the Marine emblem to Semper Fi slogans, aren't advertisements for anything. "You can't buy freedom," he reasoned.

Some neighbors are outraged.

"That is his identity," said neighbor Mary Castagna. "He goes to a lot of the veteran meetings, and it means a lot to him. Everyone else agrees with it; it doesn't bother anybody."

"He's in the Marines, and he's proud of it, and I don't blame him," said neighbor Paul Hardy. "If I'd gone through what he's gone through, I'd be kind of proud of it myself."

The letter from the board states you can't have any form of advertisement anywhere on your car on your property. FOX 4 cameras spotted bumper stickers for political parties, health causes, and other non-commercial interests on the property as well.

One board member said he was unaware the HOA presidents sent the letter and did not know of any issue with Larimore's vehicle.

"I will be looking into it," said board member Art Bradford. "I didn't know anything about this. I haven't seen this."

The board president was out of town and unavailable. The condo management company did not want to comment
 
No kidding - we used to live in a subdivision with one of them, even though the area really shouldn't have had one. It was a working-class neighbourhood, not some exclusive gated Knobheadville. Needless to say, we were out of there pretty quick. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<i>Them ballsy Aussies...</i>

<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Sam Charles Spuchess pleads guilty to squeezing police officer's testicles<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
By Tony Keim
The Courier-Mail
June 03, 2009 12:01am

A FRUSTRATED motorist squeezed a police officer's testicles in a road rage attack during Brisbane's biggest annual fireworks event, RiverFire.

The Brisbane District Court was told retiree Sam Charles Spuchess assaulted a traffic officer who tried to prevent him crossing Brisbane's Story Bridge during the annual RiverFestival's fireworks display on August 30.

The court heard Spuchess, 63, assaulted the officer while traffic was blocked for almost two hours during the fireworks display, The Courier-Mail reports.

Prosecutor Sarah Dennis said Spuchess first began yelling at a traffic police officer and then grabbed his service-issued torch and tried to hit him with it.

She said Spuchess then grabbed the male officer's testicles and squeezed them.

The court was told Spuchess also unknowingly bumped into the officer with his motor vehicle, but was not to be sentenced for that act as the officer was not hurt as a result.

Police had blocked a section of the Story Bridge and Spuchess's car was in a line of traffic trying to travel north from Kangaroo Point.

Before the event, Queensland police had made public their plans to close numerous roads and public walkways in Brisbane's CBD, including the Story Bridge, during the RiverFestival's fireworks from about 6pm to 8.30pm, she said.

Spuchess yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of serious assault.

Barrister Paul Brown, for Spuchess, told the court his newly retired client had been frustrated about several things, including the fact he was being prevented from seeing his wife on her birthday.

Judge Deborah Richards, in sentencing Spuchess, said she accepted that at the time of offence he was suffering from a depressive disorder, and that he had a good work history and had only recently retired.

Judge Richards sentenced Spuchess to a 12-month prison term, but released him on immediate parole.
 
I guess he put the squeeze on him. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
Talk about burnin' loins. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Caption what Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is saying to Obama<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> </b>

<i>Fun and games</i>

<img src="http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a144/b4lazarus/obama.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

"Hey, that George Bush is a dickhead, don't you think?"

"You have those stupid Americans fooled."

"I can't believe you got all through the election and made them not talk about you being a muslim. Boy are they stupid."

"I laughed my ass off when you told them you were born in Hawaii but would not show them your birth certificate. Idiots."

"Hey, now that you own General Motors, how about sending me a dozen Esclades?"

"Hey, get rid of your wife tonight and I will send some real women to you room."

"I can't believe all those jews voted for you. Now Israel is toast. I guess you had them fooled."

"...Nobody will get their taxes raised if they make less than $250,000. Now you are raising everyone's taxes. Brilliant!"

"All those black fools voted for you because you said you would pay their mortgage and car payments. They believe anything you say."

"I hear you took mama on a date night and spent a $250,000.00 and charged it to the taxpayers. They are such fools."

<i>Add our own quote here....</i>
 
<!--sizeo:5--><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->D'OH!<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

<b>U.S. Accidentally releases list of top-secret nuclear sites</b>

The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.

The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed. It also prompted a flurry of investigations in Washington into why the document had been made public.

On Tuesday evening, after inquiries from The New York Times, the document was withdrawn from a Government Printing Office Web site.
Several nuclear experts argued that any dangers from the disclosure were minimal, given that the general outlines of the most sensitive information were already known publicly.

“These screw-ups happen,” said John M. Deutch, a former director of central intelligence and deputy secretary of defense who is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s going further than I would have gone but doesn’t look like a serious breach.”
 
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<b>Gay penguins hatch, rear a chick at Bremerhaven Zoo</b>

June 05, 2009 12:00am

TWO gay male penguins who have made world headlines for their sexuality have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents.

The zoo, in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, says the adult males - Z and Vielpunkt - were given an egg which was rejected by its biological parents.

It says the couple are now happily rearing the chick, said to have reached four weeks old.

The zoo made headlines in 2005 over plans to "test" the sexual orientation of penguins with homosexual traits.

Three pairs of male penguins had been seen attempting to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring from stones. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->NY Car Ticketed Repeatedly With Dead Body Inside<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

<b>NYC Woman Believes Her Father Lay Dead Inside His Car For Weeks While Police Wrote Tickets Over And Over</b>

A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle.

Jennifer Morales of Manhattan says it's believed her father, George Morales, died of a heart attack.

Morales said she had last heard from her dad in early May. Morales said she had contacted police; but police say they have no report on record.

A city marshal found the body of George Morales on Wednesday while trying to tow the minivan from beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass. Parking tickets and dust covered the vehicle.

The BQE runs from southern Brooklyn to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens.
 
What a surprise someone would have had if they had tried to carjack that van. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" />
 
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Truth is stranger than fiction

<a href="http://www.switched.com/2009/06/06/web-site-pays-porn-queen-500k-to-get-company-tattoo/" target="_blank">http://www.switched.com/2009/06/06/web-sit...company-tattoo/</a>

Well another "billboard" is still available.
 
<i>Cracking down on crack ?....</i>

<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Yakima cracking down on thong underwear<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

<b>The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as "cleavage of the buttocks."</b>

By The Associated Press

YAKIMA — The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as "cleavage of the buttocks."

Responding to a proliferation of coffee stands with baristas wearing see-through clothing, thongs and other scanty apparel, the council this week approved minor changes to the city's indecent exposure law.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that Mayor Dave Edler had wanted the changes under the city's adult business ordinance. But city legal staff warned that trying to place coffee stands under that law could lead to legal challenges.

The change approved by the council means that anyone in public wearing see-through apparel, a thong or a G-string — regardless of whether they are working at a coffee stand — could be prosecuted for a misdemeanor violation.
 
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