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Cops here tell you to shoot to kill, and one even joked that you should hunt down and kill the thief's relatives as well, unless you want one of them to sue you. He was reprimanded for that, but it's the truth.  <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
What a bunch of f***ers. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" />
 
<b>'Lucky' koala bear survives head-on car collision</b>
2 days ago

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — They call this koala bear "lucky."

The 3-year-old male koala was struck by a car and carried for seven miles with his head and arm wedged through the vehicle's front grill, but was not badly hurt.

Staff members at the Australian Wildlife Hospital in Queensland state dubbed him Ely "Lucky" Grills, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.

"He was very flat and unresponsive for a couple of hours, but (after) a bit of TLC and some feed and some fluids — and a bit of pain relief because obviously he would have had a headache — he was up and eating and doing really well," hospital manager Gail Gipp told ABC.

Hospital officials could not immediately be reached by The Associated Press.
 
<!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>Pizza clerk surprised to find robber is her dad</b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

Thursday, July 17, 2008

(07-17) 17:18 PDT Denton, Texas (AP) --

Police said they will not file charges against a clerk whose parents and husband were charged with robbing the pizza restaurant where she worked, officials said. Police said the clerk didn't know they planned to rob the Pizza Patron Friday night.

While the robbery was in progress, the clerk discovered her father was the robber when another clerk struck him, knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses. He was later apprehended after witnesses followed the getaway pickup.

"Her husband told us she didn't know. He knew they were going to rob someplace but he thought it was going to be a convenience store," police Sgt. James Brett said in a story in Monday's online editions of the Denton Record-Chronicle.

A surveillance video corroborated the clerk's story. A police report shows the trio was in custody within 14 minutes of the robbery.

All three suspects were charged with aggravated robbery.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> I saw a similar story on MSNBC where a robber was knocked unconscious by one of the clerks and they later discovered that the robber was the other clerks father .(may have been the same story those news people never get anything right) You should have seen the clip of the clerk wailing on the guy ,hilarious.
 
Why the hell would you rob the place where your son or his friends work? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Because you're the guy the dictionary lists as the example under the usage of the word "idiot"? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>Neb. cop, family win $40K over urine-tainted food</b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
By NELSON LAMPE, Associated Press Writer

Monday, July 14, 2008


(07-14) 13:59 PDT Omaha, Neb. (AP) --

A police officer and his family have won $40,000 in their lawsuit against a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employee's spit and urine. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" />

A jury on Friday ruled in favor of Sidney police Officer Keith Andrew, whose two sons, then 4 and 7, were sickened by the food they ate <img src="http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x172/oldsalt_bucket/emoticons/2199_barfing.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" /> at a KFC/Taco Bell in October 2005. Sidney is a town of about 6,000 in western Nebraska.

The younger boy became violently ill with gastroenteritis and dehydration, vomited for hours and was forced to spend time in a hospital, the family's lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, filed last year in Cheyenne County District Court, named the restaurant's owner, North Platte-based Mid Plains Food and Lodging.

The jury found the restaurant negligent, said the family's attorney Andy Snyder. He said of the restaurant owner, "I'd advise them to get a better class of employees."

A KFC spokesman, Rick Maynard, said KFC is committed to the highest levels of food safety.

"Our franchisee does not agree with the court's verdict, and they are looking at their legal options," Maynard said Monday.

Workers who saw a fellow employee taint the family's food reported it to management, but the managers didn't inform the family, the lawsuit alleged.

The suit also alleged that Andrew, his wife and their children were victims of an employee scheme that targeted police officers.

"Employees maintained 'special servings' of food reserved for ... officers," the lawsuit said. "The 'special servings' had been urinated in or spit in by KFC/Taco Bell employees." <img src="http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x172/oldsalt_bucket/emoticons/thbarfing.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />

The employee accused of urinating and spitting in the Andrew family's food, Casey Diedrich, pleaded guilty last year to violating the Nebraska Pure Food Act and fined $100, according to court records. The prosecution was for the same incident described in the lawsuit.

A company spokesman said last year that Diedrich eventually was fired for missing work but not for any of the incidents the lawsuit cited.

There was no listing under Diedrich's name in Nebraska.

___

Associated Press staff writer Nate Jenkins in Lincoln, Neb., contributed to this report. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" />
 
Well, I'll never eat at a KFC again <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />


<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' to Fix Rainbox 6: Vegas 2</b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
Written by Ben Jones on July 18, 2008

"Piracy is BAD" proclaims every copyright dependent industry lobby group. "Downloading is stealing" is another popular one. How about "downloads are a lost sale"? Ubisoft clearly didn't believe that last one, as they distributed a no-cd patch from the scene group RELOADED as a fix for one of their games.

Piracy can be a funny business at times, but the rhetoric is often extremely predictable. So when something unexpected happens it can knock you off your stride. Something like… a major game publisher distributing a Scene no-cd crack as a fix would do it, for instance. If it sounds unlikely, that's because sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. In this case, the publisher is Ubisoft, the game <!--fonto:Arial--><span style="font-family:Arial"><!--/fonto-->"Rainbow 6: Vegas 2"'<!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->, and the Scene 'no-cd' crack – yes that's there as well.

The situation revolves around that oddest of characters, Direct2Drive (D2D) - an online games store, owned by IGN, selling games over the Internet as protected downloads. Game code is modified to prevent the standard retail DRM from inhibiting game play (as there is no actual disc to check for) with Trymedia activation utilized instead. More importantly, since the code around the DRM has been modified and changed to a different system, regular patches from the game developers can't be used. Instead, patches must be reworked by D2D to accommodate these changes. These changes are not always quick, a point D2D does try and defuse in its FAQ.

Thus we come to Rainbow Six: Vegas2 (R6V2) which, since its release in March, has had three patches released for it. The third, 1.03 provides a lot of changes, including new play modes, so legitimate purchasers of the game were eager to try it. The problem is, those that bought it via D2D can't use it. This is the problem inherent in DRM. Those that buy the product are the ones affected, not those the DRM is designed to defeat.

After lots of complaining and attempts to fix things themselves, one Ubisoft employee found a solution. A zip file was uploaded to the help/support site, named "R6Vegas2_fix.zip".

If D2D users patched to 1.02, then replaced the EXE with this one, they could then update to the new patch. However, someone ran a hex edit and it appears the fix was not Ubisoft code but actually a 'no-cd' crack released by the Scene group RELOADED, as shown here.

Since then, the zip file containing the fix has been pulled from the Ubisoft support site, so we're unable to verify. The game's community is as baffled by this as everyone else. Since the claimed origin of the fix, 10 days ago, there has been no word on it officially from Ubisoft, beyond a 'Community Manager' who states:


"We're looking into this further as this was not the UK Support team that posted this, however if it is an executable that does not need the disc I doubt it has come from an external source. There'd be very little point doing so when we already own the original unprotected executable.

As soon as we find out more about this we'll let you know.
_________________
Ubi.Vigil
Community Manager
Ubisoft UK"

<blockquote> </blockquote> Although it is not unknown for a Scene release to be used to 'fix' a retail product, it's certainly rare to have that fact promoted. That the 'no-cd' patch works, might have some relation to how brutal the Scene is when it comes to the quality of their work, especially in games. Whilst this is a validation that the Scene isn't as bad as the lobby groups would have you believe (they fixed the game, and did it for free) you can bet that Ubisoft won't be smiling at E3, and that they, and Direct2Drive, will continue to use DRM to annoy and inconvenience paying customers.
 
<b><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Woman accused of smacking beau with toilet seat<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

Monday, July 14, 2008


(07-14) 16:22 PDT Fort Pierce, Fla. (AP) --

Police arrested a couple after the woman allegedly hit her boyfriend with a toilet seat. The woman, 18, told police that she found her boyfriend smoking cocaine in their bathroom and turned on the shower to try and wash away the drugs.

The pair argued and when he refused to give up the drugs, authorities say the woman hit him with the toilet seat.

The boyfriend was charged with cocaine possession and later released on bond. The woman faces a battery charge and was released without posting bond.
 
<a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-lijoy0801,0,5138315.column" target="_blank">Montauk Monster</a>
 
Jesse Trojaniak, 19, and Tadieusz Tertkiewicz, 20, have been arrested on weapons possession charges after police say they found the two teens dressed up and armed with Ninja style weapons in a quest to rid the area of drug dealers and users.

Clifton Police were investigating a suspicious vehicle around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, when they came upon a disturbing sight. Inside a the vehicle, which was parked on Route 46 in Clifton, they found two teens dressed in black that identified themselves to officers as "Ninjas".

Also inside the vehicle, police found various weaponry that included knives, swords, bows, arrows, nunchucks, Ninja throwing knives and Chinese throwing stars, according to Detective Capt. Robert Rowan of the Clifton Police Department.

Investigators say the teens told them they planned to leave letters at the front doors of individuals they had singled out as drug dealers and drug users. They also told police that they only had weapons with them as a precaution - in case they were confronted by the drug dealers they intended to deliver the letters to.

Authorities found five envelopes decorated with Chinese artwork with letters inside that warned "Shinobi will stop your cruel and sadistic intentions with justified, yet merciful force!" The letter allegedly went on to tell the dealers that they had "committed sin of passing impurity" and that the "wind guides us to those of impure hearts and intent."
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
it actually sounds like a job for jackass. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=277351:date=Sep 7 2008, 07:56 AM:name=Morgan Terror)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Morgan Terror @ Sep 7 2008, 07:56 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=277351"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Inside a the vehicle, which was parked on Route 46 in Clifton, they found two teens dressed in black that identified themselves to officers as "Ninjas".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Was one of them, Morgan? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
MONROE, Wash. – In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.

The robbery happened about 11 a.m. on an armored truck guard at a Bank of America branch.

"He was wearing a dust mask, a particle mask. At first I thought it might be a surgical mask. I still didn't think anything was wrong, just unusual. Then I noticed he had a pump sprayer," said Mitch Ruth, who had looked out his office window and noticed the man walking into the bank.

The robber sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed a bag of money the guard was carrying and ran about 100 yards to the creek that runs into the Skykomish River, shedding clothes as he ran.

But apparently, the robber had planned ahead. In case anyone was hot on his trail, he had at least a dozen unsuspecting decoys waiting nearby, which he recruited on Craigslist.

"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.

He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.

"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said.

Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.

From there, the cook made his watery escape in a creek that dumps out into the Skykomish River. One witness said the robber swam away, but another said he used an inner tube to get away.

"We did get an inner tube that was about 200 yards from the place where he entered the water and took that for evidence," said Debbie Willis, Monroe Police.

Investigators believe accomplices could have picked the robber up at a nearby boat launch or park.

The FBI is helping Monroe Police trace the ad and want to talk to anyone who responded.

"Any piece of information anyone has could be the piece of the puzzle we need to apprehend the suspects," said Debbie Willis, Monroe Police.

Some Monroe residents, while not endorsing what the robber did, are somewhat amused.

"Creative. Not a right way of doing it, but creative," said Monroe resident Byron Bevard.

"I grew up in LA and I never heard of anything so crazy in my life," said resident Sarah Vazquez.

The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10, wearing a dark blue shirt, jean shorts and a mask.

KING 5's Elisa Hahn and Linda Byron contributed to this report.
 
Seems to have worked. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
gotta say that it's pretty clever. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
And everybody says Craigslist doesn't have a purpose <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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