Quote: zooo @ March 3 2012, 4:18 PM GMTTHINK OF THE POOR BEER!
Exactly! 
My mother just e-mailed and said that she was upset that her favourite store "the one where we buy scorpion poison" was destroyed. 
I read the news today oh boy! Page 692
Quote: DaButt @ March 3 2012, 5:35 AM GMTYeah, nothing like strip searching someone because of the drawing their 4-year-old made.
The story ran in many news outlets and the facts were consistent in all of them. Your suggestion that comments drive coverage is ludicrous because on any given politically charged story that runs you'll find an equal number of pro/anti/left/right comments.
Perhaps a man really was arrested and strip searched because his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture. What do you have to say about that?
> The story ran in many news outlets and the facts were consistent in all of them.
If they are too consistent it means the stories all came from the same source and that source might be wrong or biased.
Since the girl could have created the image from watching TV, it seems highly unlikely that they did not at least ask the girl "does your Daddy have a gun" and of course he did; a foam-dart gun, so she probably said YES.
Quote from http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/676150--man-shocked-by-arrest-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun-at-school with phrases emboldened by me.
"From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there's guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child," said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Children's Services.
Waterloo Regional Police Insp. Kevin Thaler said there was a complaint from Forest Hills public school that "a firearm was in a residence and children had access to it. We had every concern, based on this information, that children were in danger."
Their concern wasn't based on the drawing alone, he said.
Neaveh, the child who made the drawing, also made comments about it that raised more flags.
Sansone thinks police overreacted. He didn't find out until hours after his arrest what had actually sparked the incident.
Schools have hundreds of kids and rarely get to know all of them that well.
So schools have a tendency to have to rely on crude, universal risk assessments and safe guarding procedures.
But DaButt judge not lest thee be judged
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools
Quote: DaButt @ March 3 2012, 4:22 PM GMT.. scorpion poison..
I smoked that once. True.
Quote: billwill @ March 3 2012, 6:51 PM GMTQuote from http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/676150--man-shocked-by-arrest-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun-at-school with phrases emboldened by me.
Guns aren't illegal in Canada.
A man was strip searched before his house was searched for guns.
A gun in the house is not a danger to a child.
The Execution Factor: It was designed as propaganda to deter would-be criminals. Instead interviews on death row have become China's new TV hit.
The American version is called
(wait for it)
I BELIEVE I WILL FRY!!!
British version to be called the approximately 150 pound drop
Surely the British version will be '100 hours Community Service.' ?
Man 'posed as barrister' in friend's court case- http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/01/man-posed-as-barrister-court-case
Why you would want gamble your liberty with an amateur is anyones guess.
I wonder which TV brief he was impersonating?
The wigs and gowns always make me chuckle.
Remember that kid who was robbed in the London riots by people pretending to help him up? Turns out he's an absolute sweetie:
Quote: Harridan @ March 5 2012, 11:05 PM GMTRemember that kid who was robbed in the London riots by people pretending to help him up? Turns out he's an absolute sweetie:
Forgiveness is a good thing. So is shooting assailants in the face. 
Quote: youngian @ March 4 2012, 3:31 PM GMTMan 'posed as barrister' in friend's court case- http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/01/man-posed-as-barrister-court-case
Why you would want gamble your liberty with an amateur is anyones guess.
I wonder which TV brief he was impersonating?
Perhaps he misheard and got a barista instead.
Why? There is no rule that prevents a defendant from representing themselves.
But having met a few lawyers in my time, some of the pretend versions are much slicker and competent. They're definitely quicker than you find real life. nothing to do with barristers being paid by the hour.