Todays "WTF" story

[mustynutz]

By ALASTAIR TAYLOR

A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday admitted hanging a boy of five from a tree before beating him with sticks and nettles in a case that shocked the nation.

The ponytailed 12-year-old wound string around his neck, stomach and genitals, leaving the lad just two seconds from death.

He was found by his cousin wandering “shocked and crying” around the wooded ‘Devil’s Ditch’ area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, with severe cuts and burns.

The boy, who was strung up for around 30 seconds, said his attacker put the rope over a branch and “pulled me up”.

Magistrates at Dewsbury Youth Court heard a pathologist claim: “Firm pressure was applied to his neck for 15 to 30 seconds.

“If pressure was applied a few seconds longer there is a strong possibility he would have died.

“The pressure was such that, in my opinion, he fell unconscious.”

The revelations came as the girl admitted assaulting the boy causing actual bodily harm and perverting justice, after lying to cops. A grievous bodily harm charge was withdrawn.

The boy was playing with the girl, his seven-year-old sister and two other children outside his house on a council estate half a mile from the woodland.

But she wandered off alone and he had followed, the court heard.

Prosecutor Merhan Nassiri said his 30-year-old mum realised he was missing and went to look for him around 4.30pm on May 31.
He was treated in hospital for serious burns and was found with “appalling cuts and extensive bruising around his neck”.

In a bid to cover her tracks the girl made a 999 call, recorded on police tape, alerting cops to a boy hanging from a tree.

She was interviewed SIX times by police over three days.

At first, the court heard, she claimed to have been an innocent bystander. Later, she named four kids who were not even there.

The shocked youngsters were held for between 24 and 35 hours before being released when police found they had “foolproof alibis”.

Eventually she admitted putting a rope around his neck after becoming angry on realising he followed her to the woods. The girl, whose mum died last Christmas, has no previous convictions but she was cautioned for assaulting another child last year.

She was also allegedly excluded from school at least three times for bullying.

The girl, normally looked after by her father, is now in the care of social

 

[mustynutz]

Northern California Man Arrested For Skinning Pit Bull
Suspect Charged With Felony For Dog's Killing

POSTED: 6:56 am PDT July 18, 2005

YOLO COUNTY, Calif. -- Woodland police arrested a man who was found skinning a pit bull, his hands drenched in blood, law enforcement officials said.

Officers called to the scene Saturday found transient John Hummer, 47, alongside a Woodland gas station skinning the dog with a knife, said Sgt. Davis of the Woodland Police Department.

"Officers took a tactical approach to the suspect and subsequently took him into custody," Davis stated. "The suspect's hands were covered in blood from the dog."

The dog was dead at the scene and was already partially skinned, he added.

Animal control officers collected the body and determined that the dog had several puncture wounds and had died within the previous hour, said Davis.

The dog had no collar and the owners were not known, according to Davis.

Hummer was charged with maliciously and intentionally killing a dog, a felony, and was

 

[mustynutz]

ASHLAND, ORE. - In Keizer, Ore., the other day, a toddler in diapers and a T-shirt was found walking along a busy road. When police investigated, they found that the 16-month-old boy had been left alone by his parents, who had been sleeping and were subsequently arrested for possession of a controlled substance - methamphetamine. A few weeks earlier and a few miles away in the state capital of Salem, police investigated whether girls at the Waldo Middle School - barely in their teens - had been using meth, possibly exchanging sex for the drug.

ADVERTISEMENT

Around the country, law-enforcement officials say methamphetamine use has become an epidemic. Federal officials estimate there are 1.5 million regular meth users in the United States today. As of 2003, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 12.3 million Americans had tried methamphetamine at least once - up nearly 40 percent over 2000 and 156 percent over 1996.

But the impact ranges beyond meth users to crime victims, since addicts typically steal to support their addiction. Most distressing, experts say, may be the thousands of children who are neglected or abused by meth users. Social service agencies around the country report increases in out-of-home placements of children because of meth, and a study by the National Conference of State Legislatures finds that 10 percent of users were introduced to meth by their parents or other family members. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, children were present at 20 percent of all meth lab busts last year.

The impact on children may be connected to the fact that women are more likely to use meth than other illegal drugs. For one thing, the drug is associated with weight loss. One federal survey of people arrested for all crimes found that 11.3 percent of women had used meth within the prior month compared with 4.7 percent of men.

At a workshop in Portland, Ore., last week, White House deputy drug czar Scott Burns called meth "the most destructive, dangerous, terrible drug that's come along in a long time."

Those on the front lines of the war on drugs agree. A recent survey of 500 law-enforcement agencies by the National Association of Counties finds that 87 percent have seen increases in meth-related arrests in the past three years. Most county sheriffs now say meth is their main drug problem, connected to increases in robberies, burglaries, domestic violence, assaults, identity thefts, and child neglect.

Counterfeiting - made easier these days with computers, scanners, and laser printers - has become an important sideline for many meth addicts. And many abandoned meth labs have become the local equivalent of environmental Superfund sites, so toxic are the chemicals used to make the drug. Every pound of meth produced results in five to seven pounds of poisonous residue, often left in empty buildings, trailer parks, and rural sites to pollute the ground, water, and air.

"The growth of the use and addiction to methamphetamines has occurred so fast and to such a degree that many local governments are scrambling to catch up," reports the association of counties.

Known as "the poor man's cocaine," meth is a highly addictive and powerful stimulant that goes by a variety of street names: Speed. Crystal. Ice. Glass. Crank. Tweak. Zip.

It's easy to make using common items found in hardware stores and pharmacies - rubbing alcohol, drain cleaner, matchbooks, and over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines. More than 100 recipes for meth are posted online.

Smoked, snorted, swallowed, or injected, meth brings a sense of euphoria and invulnerability. But among the adverse effects of methamphetamine use, medical experts say, are irritability, insomnia, anxiety, hallucinations, paranoia, and a tendency to violence.

As a public health and crime problem, meth started out in the Western and Southwestern US, but steadily moved north and east. Last year there were more meth lab incidents in Illinois than there were in California. In the first six months of 2004, meth treatment admissions in Atlanta were up more than 10 percent and nearly 20 percent in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Among current ways of tackling the problem, states are restricting the sale of cold medicines, from which pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient in meth, is obtained. Under political pressure, US pharmaceutical companies have begun reformulating their cold remedies to avoid using pseudoephedrine.

The federal government has launched a plan to fight such synthetic drugs, which includes tracking the production and shipment of cold medicines overseas - especially in Mexico, where meth "superlabs" (those that can produce at least 10 pounds of the drug in a 24-hour period) run by cartels have been a major source of the drug coming into the United States. The Oregonian newspaper in Portland reported last week that imports to Mexico of cold medicine with pseudoephedrine had shot up from 66 tons to 224 tons in the past five years.

Bush administration officials acknowledge the problem. Still, many in Congress, where a bipartisan "meth caucus" has grown to 100 members from 35 states, and in state houses and legislatures around the country say the White House has been slow to attack meth as a major drug problem.

US Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California and Jim Talent (R) of Missouri are sponsoring legislation that would move cold medicines with pseudoephedrine behind the counter and require identification and a signature to purchase the drug. It also sets monthly limits per person, and it provides funding to study means of treatment.

"Our legislation would enact the toughest antimeth law in the country so we can finally get ahead of the meth cooks and keep this terrible drug out of our neighborhoods and schools," says Senator Talent.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the "most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions ... designed to help modify the patient's thinking, expectancies, and behaviors and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors." Recovery support groups and antidepressant medications have proven helpful, the institute finds, but there is no drug that specifically treats methamphetamine addiction.

So far, there are few programs around the country specifically designed to treat meth addiction. For example, only 16 percent of counties surveyed have a meth rehabilitation center, which means that for most charged, jail is the only option.

Meth use in the US
• According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 12.3 million Americans ages 12 and older reported trying meth at least once.

• Meth users are generally: high school and college students, white- and blue-collar workers, unemployed workers in their 20s and 30s.

• The problem, originally concentrated in the West, has spread throughout almost every major metropolitan area in the US with the exception of the Northeast.

• Meth use comes at a high cost to communities: an increase in crimes ranging from theft to assault, an increase of children displaced to foster care, highly toxic meth lab

 

[mustynutz]

US police pursue girl over stone

Maribel Cuevas speaks almost no English (pic: ABC News)
An 11-year-old girl who threw a stone at a group of boys pelting her with water balloons is being prosecuted on serious assault charges in California.
Maribel Cuevas was arrested in April in a police operation which involved three police cars and a helicopter.

She has since spent five days in detention, in which she was granted one 30 minute visit by her parents, and has spent a month under house arrest.

Her lawyer accuses the authorities of criminalising childhood behaviour.

"They're treating her like a violent parole offender," Richard Beshwate said. "It's not a felony, it's an 11-year-old acting like an 11-year-old."

The girl is due back in court at the beginning of next month.

Police say they had to investigate as the boy who was hit by the stone she threw suffered a deep gash to his head and needed hospital treatment.

He has reportedly acknowledged to officers that he started the fight in late April.

'Obligation'

The confrontation happened in a poor district of Fresno, in central California, where Maribel Cuevas lives with her Spanish-speaking family.

The girl, who speaks little English, has admitted throwing a stone at a group of boys she says were pestering her with water balloons as she walked down the street.

An ambulance was called, but arrived flanked by three police patrol vehicles. A helicopter meanwhile hovered overhead.

The 11-year-old was then read her rights twice in English before being detained.

"We responded. We determined a felony assault had taken place and the officers took the actions that were necessary," said Fresno Police Sergeant Anthony Martinez.

Another police officer told ABC News that the girl, when asked what she thought would happen if she threw the stone, replied that it would make him "bleed".

 

[mustynutz]

Man allegedly had sex with guide dog

Tallahasseean charged with breach of peace

By James L. Rosica

DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER


Local prosecutors are apparently in a bind: How do they charge a blind Tallahassee man who has been accused of having sex with his guide dog?

Florida, like many other states, has no bestiality statute - that is, a law specifically prohibiting sexual contact between humans and animals.

So Alan Yoder, 29, originally was charged with felony animal cruelty, but court records show that charge was dropped last Friday and replaced with a misdemeanor - disorderly conduct.

Yoder now is charged with a "breach of the peace, by engaging in sexual activity with a guide dog," according to a court document.

One of two prosecutors on the case, Assistant State Attorney Owen McCaul, did not return a call Thursday. The other, Assistant State Attorney Stephanie Usina, said she could not answer specific questions, including explaining why the charge was lowered to a misdemeanor.

Yoder, reached by telephone Thursday, declined to be interviewed. James D. Varnado, his attorney, said he has filed a not-guilty plea on his client's behalf but declined to discuss details of the case.

"However lurid the allegations may be, we should resist a rush to judgment," he said.

Here's what happened, according to Tallahassee police reports:

Yoder, who lives in a local apartment complex, last month asked a female acquaintance to join him in a sex act with the dog, a male yellow Labrador named "Lucky."

She demurred, but later told a friend about it. That person called a social worker, who called police.

Investigators spoke to Yoder on June 16, who admitted performing certain sex acts with the dog, even going into detail with them, but denied doing others. He was arrested and booked June 22, charged with animal cruelty.

An animal-control officer took the dog to Dr. Sondra Brown, a veterinarian at Northwood Animal Hospital, who could not determine whether the dog had been sexually abused.

Warren Goodwin, who recently retired after 30 years as an assistant prosecutor, said he could not recall a similar case in Leon County.

Annemarie Lucas, a New York-based special investigator for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said sexual contact with animals "probably happens more than it's actually reported."

Bestiality - illegal in New York state - is "just not a natural thing," she said. "Animals can't consent ... They're probably fearful and in physical pain. It's like any kind of abuse.

"It's a cowardly act," added Lucas, who also appears on "Animal Precinct," a program on the Animal Planet cable-television network. "It's a domination thing, something an animal would never instigate."

Stephanie Shain, spokeswoman for the Humane Society of the United States, said her organization takes a similar position.

"It's doing something to an animal that they have an inability to stop," Shain said.

Last year, an Ocala man pleaded no contest to felony animal cruelty after being charged with having sex with his then-fiancee's female Rottweiler, according to the Pet-Abuse.com Web site.

A judge withheld adjudication and ordered five years of probation and a psychological evaluation. He also prohibited the 27-year-old man from "owning pets of any kind while on probation and from having unsupervised contact with other people's pets," the site said.

 

[SLICC RICC]

DAMMIT...

 

[Stealth]

What I learned today:

In England, 999 = 911.

Killing a dog is a felony.

Some parents can be so irresponsible that even on methamphetamine, they can somehow manage to fall asleep and lose their kids. It seems like a paradox.

Meth users are generally: high school and college students, white- and blue-collar workers, unemployed workers in their 20s and 30s.

or in other words, every single person between the ages of 18 and 30.

While killing a dog is a felony, fucking a dog has no charge.

America, America, God shed his grace on theeeeeeeeee........

 

[Cheaptimes]

yes and becareful when throwing water balloons at tiny mexican girls, they might defend themselves and become hostil threats causing helicopters to look for her

 

[Jae iLL]

wow...

this world is fucke dup

 

[BETO916]

While killing a dog is a felony, fucking a dog has no charge.

**Whew!!**
thanks for putting my concience at ease..."Here lassie!! come here girl!!"