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Terrible tragedy, "Teenboys' curiosity started deadly chain of events",KaufmanCounty, Dallas, Texas: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...s/stories/030408dnmetkidshotfolo.3b4a544.html
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Brandon survived the car accident and the shooting that preceded it, and police haven't arrested W.C. Frosch, the 74-year-old man who fired the shot because he said he feared the boys were going to break into his home.

Police said Monday that under the state's "castle law," passed last year, Mr. Frosch may not have committed a crime.

The law permits the use of deadly force to protect property if the property owner reasonably believes such force is needed to prevent a serious offense, including burglary. Police and the boys' families maintain they were not committing such a crime when the shot was fired.


WILLIAM DESHAZER/DMN
"We kept hearing music, so we wanted to go check it out," Brandon Robinson, 15, said. The case will be referred to a grand jury, meaning criminal charges against Mr. Frosch are possible, police said.
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"castle law" - means you can shoot first and ask questions later apparently. :(

Still, Mr. Edmonds said, this case "sounds like it could be an interesting test of the new law."
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Cemetery full, French Mayor tells locals not to die

Posted 7 hours 57 minutes ago

The Mayor of a village in south-west France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish".

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished".

The Mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.

Mr Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month's local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.

"It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me," he said.

- Reuters

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181533.htm
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:D :D
 
The UK wonders whether the Chief Constable of Manchester, Michael Todd, committed suicide. Or was he overcome by the terrible weather on this Welsh Mountain. Did rumours of an article, to come, in the UK's notorious News of the World newspaper have any bearing.
He was earmarked to become the head of the Police in the UK.
What happened here???????????
http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7290635.stm "Snowdon's dangerous beauty".
 
Should Rudd have included Japan in his world tour ? (probably - is we all had our drothers , I'm sure he'd drother have included both)
Will they be / are they entitled to be offended? Damned if I know ! ?

but here's an article sorta relevant ..
http://www.smh.com.au/news/business...p-export-market/2007/10/05/1191091362598.html
China set to overtake Japan as top export market
October 6, 2007

CHINA is tipped to topple Japan's four-decade reign as Australia's top export market by 2011, as the world's most populous nation buys more iron ore and manufactured goods.

The Reserve Bank of Australia's new trade-weighted index of currencies, which applied from this week, showed China was about to overtake Japan as Australia's top two-way goods trading destination.

UBS's chief economist, Scott Haslem, predicted that by 2011 China would equal Japan to become Australia's top export market, consuming 20 per cent of goods and services sold overseas. etc
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Looks like this bloke Robert Mugabe will lose the Zimbabwe election finally after calls of vote rigging in previous elections.If the vote gets overturned then what will happen. This from wik...

The hallmarks of the Mugabe administration are its endemic corruption, suppression of political opposition, mishandling of land reform, economic mismanagement, and deteriorating human rights in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world estimated by the International Monetary Fund in January 2008 at 150 000 percent, and is, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Africa's worst economic performer. With a record 80% unemployment and soaring inflation rates, Zimbabwe is in its worst economic crisis since Mugabe took power.
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Zimbabwe's Opposition MDC Claims Victory Over Mugabe

By Brian Latham and Antony Sguazzin

March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has lost elections, the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party said, citing early results posted at polling stations. The official outcome hasn't been announced.

The party, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, garnered 67 percent of the 30 percent of votes so far counted, Secretary General Tendai Biti said in an interview today from Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. The MDC leads in Mashonaland Central province and won a majority in the province of Masvingo, both strongholds of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, he said.
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Wysiwyg said:
Looks like this bloke Robert Mugabe will lose the Zimbabwe election finally after calls of vote rigging in previous elections.If the vote gets overturned then what will happen.
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As expected this bloke won`t let go without a fight.Injustice in play right now and no intervention from outsiders.:( It is sad that nothing can be done for the innocent people of Zimbabwe who voted in a new leader.Was Saddam Hussein any worse?

April 4, 2008

Zimbabwe: the backlash begins as paramilitaries launch raids
Catherine Philp and Jan Raath in Harare

The ebbing regime of Robert Mugabe began its fightback in earnest last night, launching raids against opposition offices and foreign journalists in what many feared was the start of a campaign of intimidation.
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The UKs Lloyds Bank Group has announced closure of its 100% owned subsidiary, the Cheltenham & Gloucester Bank. This will lead to the immediate closure of its 164 branches leading to 1,500 redundancies.
 
noirua said:
The UKs Lloyds Bank Group has announced closure of its 100% owned subsidiary, the Cheltenham & Gloucester Bank. This will lead to the immediate closure of its 164 branches leading to 1,500 redundancies.
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Following the above collapse, The West Bromwich Building Society has also collapsed. The UK Government will take on the debt and the society offered to another Building Society or Bank.
 

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