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» Police shoot, kill man during warrant search in Framingham - Taunton, MA - The Taunton Gazette

Another victory in the war on drugs. Why the hell does a SWAT team need to break into somebody’s house to arrest him for selling drugs anyways? Can’t they just tackle the kid coming out of Cumberland Farms and then go search his house after they are safely under arrest?

» The Eagle-Tribune reports that Fire Chief Richard Borden has recommended the mayor suspend 22 firefighters without pay for 624 hours each -- amounting to nearly one-third of their annual pay.

How many of you have had a job where the penalty on lying to acquire a certification necessary for your job was getting suspended for a little while? SUSPENDED? What is this high school?

» 'I Am Under 18' Button Clicked For First Time In History Of Internet | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

» This lady is pissed because Taunton had the Christmas Parade on Sunday when people should have been going to church. Oh yes and also because soon we're going to remove god from money or something.

Drunk Russian dudes decide to test an airbag. I wonder where this is going?

» Fake doctor jailed for giving breast exams in bars

Police say Ross introduced herself to victims — one at a downtown Boise bar and the other at a nightclub in a Boise suburb — as a plastic surgeon named Berlyn Aussieahshowna, a name that turned out to be bogus.

Who would ever suspect a name like Aussieahshowna? How do you even pronounce that? It looks like the random sequence of letters that comes out of a drunk person’s mouth during a field sobriety test.

“I’m so thankful that we’re all alive”

That’s what Leticia Lewis said on American Morning after surviving a horrific ordeal on a cruise ship this week. What happened?

Well, there was a fire in the engine room which caused the ship to lose power, and “they were stuck without air conditioning, hot showers and decent meals” for 3 days.

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Statutory Rape

At the risk of inciting a riot I’m going to pose a question. Forget any details about how the specific laws are written and obviously assume the sex was consensual. Ok here it is:

A high school senior has sex with a high school freshman. Word gets out. Senior gets charged with a crime that has the word “rape” attached to it because senior happens to be 18 instead of 17, the age of the half the people in senior’s own class. Senior gets convincted, potentially goes to jail for a while, gets in a shitload of trouble, is now a sex offender, etc, etc. Am I the only one that sees something terribly wrong with this?

… for real??

» San Francisco passes law barring toys from being given away with kids' meals unless those meals have less than 600 calories, contain fruits and vegetables, and include beverages without excessive fat or sugar.

1. Is it just me, or this a serious case of the government overstepping its bounds?

2. Exactly what strain of stupidity makes people think that the toys in happy meals are why children, human beings that don’t have money or transportation of their own, eat too much fast food?