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Amid the grieving, a rare act of sportsmanship
Associated Press
February 18, 2009
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We need more people in the world like the people in this news story...
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16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
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Update on the rancher - illegal immigrant lawsuit
From a UK website
Even though the judge completely dismissed the cases this still happened:
"The rancher was held liable for limited damages involving assault and emotional distress. Two illegal aliens were given $1,000 plus $10,000 in punitive damages each. Two more received $7,500, plus $20,000 in punitive damages each.
All together, the illegals received only $77,804 of the $32 million they requested and Hardy believes that award will be thrown out in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."
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MALDEF claimed the family attacked, harassed, threatened and held the illegals against their will, because they were motivated by racial and class-based discrimination. The complaint said the Barnetts allegedly caused the group "severe emotional and mental distress," including fear, anxiety, humiliation, stress, frustration and sadness. Each illegal alien sued for $1 million in actual damages and $1 million for punitive or exemplary damages.
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Hmmm.... I could be wrong, but it seems to me that just being an illegal alien would be enough to cause "fear, anxiety, humiliation, stress, frustration and sadness." Wouldn't you always be afraid of getting caught (like the ones who refused to use their real names in the suit)? Wouldn't that fear make you feel anxious and stressed? I'd also be frustrated over not being able to tell the truth, get a good job (I doubt I'd call any job held by an illegal alien a "good" job), and pretty sad about leaving my family and friends behind.
I can't imagine how someone would say that this one short event caused all those feelings and their everyday lives had nothing to do with it. And really, if you lived in a place you thought was so awful you'd cross the border and live illegally to get away from it, wouldn't you have felt all of those things even before you left? Sure, if they get a job they can make more money here than they would in Mexico, but they exchange one set or worries for another. Nope, not stressful at all.
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16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
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Update on the rancher - illegal immigrant lawsuit
From a UK website
Even though the judge completely dismissed the cases this still happened:
"The rancher was held liable for limited damages involving assault and emotional distress. Two illegal aliens were given $1,000 plus $10,000 in punitive damages each. Two more received $7,500, plus $20,000 in punitive damages each.
All together, the illegals received only $77,804 of the $32 million they requested and Hardy believes that award will be thrown out in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."
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The case wasn't dismissed. the battery charges were thrown out but it did go to the jury and the rancher was found partially liable which is why he has to pay something.
However it does sound like he has grounds for an appeal, some jury instructions were not given that should have been given by law aparently. A self defense provision and a clearer definition of emotional distress.
all in all, very interesting.
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16 illegals sue Arizona rancher
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Update on the rancher - illegal immigrant lawsuit
From a UK website
Even though the judge completely dismissed the cases this still happened:
"The rancher was held liable for limited damages involving assault and emotional distress. Two illegal aliens were given $1,000 plus $10,000 in punitive damages each. Two more received $7,500, plus $20,000 in punitive damages each.
All together, the illegals received only $77,804 of the $32 million they requested and Hardy believes that award will be thrown out in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."
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The case wasn't dismissed. the battery charges were thrown out but it did go to the jury and the rancher was found partially liable which is why he has to pay something.
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The claims as against Barbara and Donald Barnett were dismissed. The battery claim against Roger Barnett was not dismissed. It went to the jury and the jury found him not liable.
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The claims as against Barbara and Donald Barnett were dismissed. The battery claim against Roger Barnett was not dismissed. It went to the jury and the jury found him not liable.
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Ah, ok. I know that the charges were dropped from the other defendants, I may have just read it wrong with the battery charges. I thought that was thrown out totally and the assault issue and trauma was all that remained.
He was found partially laible though, otherwise he would not be paying. The jury did award some damages, but thats being appealed.
ended differently than I thought it would.
Dear gawd! Does this girl not realize that they make shampoo for that sort of thing??
Oh sure. [u]NOW[u] you tell her... 
On the bright side, lighting her head on fire probably killed the lice.
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maybe it was a high octane shampoo.
think of it this way.
at least it was only head lice, otherwise it would have been a much more embarrasing news story.
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I'm not so sure. Those things live like cockroaches. Forever.
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PayPal Charges $81,400,836,908 For $26 Tank Of Gas
Juan Zamora fed his 1994 Chevy Camaro $26 worth of gas, a transaction for which PayPal charged his debit card $81,400,836,908. Unsurprisingly, PayPal saw nothing wrong with the charge and demanded that Juan prove that he didn't actually buy $81.4 billion worth of gas.
He only learned of the astounding figure when he received an email later that afternoon informing him that his debit card, which started out with $90 on it, was maxed out.
Initially, Mr. Zamora thought it must've been a joke. But after contacting PayPal customer service he was surprised to see that the company treated it as anything but a laughing matter.
"Somebody from a foreign country who spoke in broken English argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes," Zamora said. " Did you get the gas?' he asked. Like I had to prove that I didn't pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!"
He would have needed more than 3 billion fill-ups of the amount he actually pumped into his tank in order to reach that outrageous sum.
Eventually, Zamora said, he was finally able to convince the representative that he didn't deserve to be in the same position as General Motors, who has lost roughly 80 billion dollars since 2005.
When Zamora returned to the Conoco gas station, he said, the attendant would not believe him until he showed her the printout of the PayPal receipt.
What moral is Juan taking away from the story? "Pay cash." 
And here I was thinking the price of gas had gone down...
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And here I was thinking the price of gas had gone down...
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Hyper? Did ever occur to the guy that his cat was just being a typical kitten?? 
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Neb. deputies say man stuffed cat inside 'bong'
By Eric Olson, Associated Press Writer
Tue Mar 3, 12:03 am ET
OMAHA, Neb. A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges and catcalls from animal lovers. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday alleged they saw 20-year-old Acea Schomaker smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped, plastic glass box in which the cat had been stuffed.
"This cat was just dazed," Sgt. Andy Stebbing said. "She was on the front seat of the cop car, wrapped in a blanket, and never moved all the way to the humane society."
Schomaker told deputies 6-month-old Shadow was hyper and he was trying to calm her down. The contraption she had been stuffed inside was 12 inches by 6 inches. Shadow was timid but in good condition Monday at the Capital Humane Society, executive director Bob Downey said.
"What the human mind doesn't invent, huh?" Downey said.
Schomaker, who was released from jail after paying a $400 fine on the arrest warrant, faces drug and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. He did not immediately respond to phone messages left Monday seeking comment.
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Occur to him? Possibly. Does he have the mental faculties to process anything reasonable that might occur to him? Obviously not.
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Hehe, good point!
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Counterfeiters Collared After Trying to Scam Girl Scouts in Bremerton
Kitsap Sun
By Josh Farley
Monday, March 2, 2009
BREMERTON Girl Scouts should be known for far more than cookies, camping and crafts, troop leader Monica Boyd says.
Tack on catching counterfeiters.
Boyds troop eagerly took turns Monday afternoon scrutinizing $20 bills from cookie buyers outside the Safeway store on McWilliams Road in East Bremerton. They used counterfeit detector pens, donated after a spate of fake cash Sunday that ended up in the troops coffers.
It was a very eye-opening for the girls, Boyd said.
It was for the East Bremerton troop leader, too.
Its insidious and unconscionable, she said. I cant even imagine what we are coming to if people are preying on Girl Scouts.
Boyd and her husband, David, discovered Sunday afternoon they had three phony $20 bills from the girls afternoon of work. The bills were a little off in size from the others and didnt feel quite right, Boyd said.
Bremerton police believe they found the people who perpetrated the scheme on the very same day the counterfeiters passed the bills. Other fake $20 bills surfaced in the receipts of area businesses, as well as another Girl Scout troop that had worked outside the Safeway store on Callow Avenue in West Bremerton.
Bremerton Police Detective Sgt. Kevin Crane estimates that up to $1,000 in counterfeit money was used by the suspects in a money-laundering plan: a fake $20 scores not only a box of $4 cookies, but $16 in real money in change.
Bremerton police were initially called to the Rite Aid on the 4100 block of Kitsap Way just after 3 p.m. Sunday. A store employee called 911 after someone attempted to pass a fake $20. The man fled in a car driven by an 18-year-old woman, and another customer followed them from the parking lot, police said.
A North Cambrian Avenue man who was listening to his police scanner saw a car outside matching the description of the suspects, police said. He told police he watched the 18-year-old put something in a nearby garbage can. When police looked in the can, they found twelve counterfeit $20 bills.
A conversation with the 18-year-old led to other suspects, and police eventually served a search warrant on a 12th Street home. While police were preparing to serve the warrant, a bag containing what is believed to be meth was thrown outside, detectives said.
The 18-year-old woman, as well as a 21-year-old man and 22-year-old man, both of Bremerton, were arrested on suspicion of forgery stemming from the investigation, and held in the Kitsap County jail on $100,000 bail. Another Bremerton man, 23, was arrested at the 12th Street home on suspicion of possession of meth. Police expect more arrests.
A printer was confiscated from the 12th Street home, and police said theyd also taken other counterfeiting materials from the residence. The four suspects made preliminary appearances in Kitsap County Superior Court on Monday. They have not yet been charged, Kitsap deputy prosecutor Chris Casad said.
Carla Abrams, the regional director of the Girl Scouts organization on the peninsula, said such a counterfeit ring wont deter troops from selling.
We may be a little more cautious, she said, but were definitely going to be out there selling the cookies.
Mmmm, cookie justice.
Well, maybe next time these idiots will do it right.
Everyone knows that you take old one dollar bills and bleach them, THEN you print the fake bill onto it, so that it feels right.
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Well, maybe next time these idiots will do it right.
Everyone knows that you take old one dollar bills and bleach them, THEN you print the fake bill onto it, so that it feels right.
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Well that's all well and good but we have dollar coins over here....
Yeah, that doesn't fly in the States. Who wants to walk around with a pocket full of change?
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That made me cry.
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Me, too.
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