A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a $5 Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the kid now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Hammonton Police began an investigation into the “suspicious activity” at the Hammonton Early Childhood Education Center Jan. 18 after school officials alerted them to the incident.
Officials also say that there was no evidence of anyone being threatened. The child's mother told school officials that she didn't know her son brought the toy to school.
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WA state Senator Mike Carrell of Lakewood is sponsoring a bill to prevent the use of Washington's welfare cash cards from being used
Carrell says an investigation by Seattle TV station KING found that Washington's welfare cash cards are being used at strip clubs, sex shops, tattoo parlors, gun shops and taverns.
The station earlier found that about $2 million in welfare cash was withdrawn in one year at casinos. The Department of Social and Health Services asked casinos to block the use of the cards at their ATMs. Gambling with welfare cash is illegal.
D.A.G. Says: Why the hell didn't they simply design the cards to not work but for food and other necessities? Why rely on retailers.
Some hikers on Mount Washington maintain the very odd tradition of mooning the passing cog train that climbs the mountain. The tradition's origins are unclear, being attributed to a protest against the polluting train or simply because the train was called the "Railway to the Moon". In any case, this bizarre but harmless practice is apparently grounds for bungling government buffoonery.
Following a complaint from whiny crybabies aboard the train, an off-duty state trooper and a ranger dressed in hiking clothes started riding the train. When they spotted some mooners, they stopped the train, produced their badges, and confronted the hikers, issuing them summons to either pay a fine or appear in federal court in Concord.
The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan has filed a complaint against a 31-year-old woman in Grand Rapids. According to the complaint the ad "expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths." Says Executive Director Nancy Haynes, "It's a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement. There are no exemptions to that."
You read that right! In Michigan, you are not allowed to choose what kind of roommate you'd like to have. You have to take what life gives you or the government will shove it down your throat. This law does not only apply to landlords but simply renters who would have to potentially deal with this roommate on a daily basis.
The case was turned over to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. If the woman is found guilty of having a preference, she could face several hundreds of dollars in fines and “fair housing training so it doesn’t happen again.”
Despite growing opposition, the pig-headed organization intends to pursue this case. Says Haynes, "We want to make sure it doesn't happen again," she said. If there is a God, he's out taking a whiz right now.
According to an inspector-general's report, the Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each, around $22.3 million, to dead and incarcerated people. The payments were part of a $13 billion dollar handout, itself part of the Obama administration's economic stimulus package passed in February 2009.
About 72,000 payments were sent by electronic-transfer and checks to dead and incarcerated individuals. While about 55,000 of those were sent because the recipients had died too recently to be entered into the system, another 17,000 of the mistaken payments were attributed to the SSA failing to properly process death records that it did have.
Yet another 17,000 payments went to recipients who were in prison at the time the payment was made in May 2009. While the bill was supposed to have a provision against payments to people in jail, the law included only a provision prohibiting payments to people incarcerated in the three months before the plan was passed, from November 2008 through January 2009.
While 41,000 of the payments have been returned, the remainder, totaling $12 million has not. The stimulus package did not include a provision allowing it to retrieve mistakenly distributed funds. Any money transferred electronically is likely sitting in the accounts of dead people. Your tax dollars... asleep at the wheel.
On April 11, 2007, a student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Muslim Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive because they believe an invisible man told them so, probably because someone got trichinosis 2000 years ago.
Rather than admonishing the offending student and telling him to grow up, the school treated this silly prank as a "hate incident" - the same category of crime that includes hanging black people from trees because they looked the wrong way at a white woman. Lewiston police investigated and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence worked with the school to create a "response plan".
The student was suspended for his "hate crime".
D.A.G. says: Could someone get these whiny morons a box of tissues. Whether they use it for wiping their tears or the other use, we don't want to know. Both seem appropriate.
The Washington State DOT screwed up to the tune of $900,000 and taxpayers will have to pay for it. A westbound ramp from I-5 to Sprague Avenue was built too small, but the problem was not discovered until the ramp was 90 percent complete. A 700 foot stretch of pavement must be torn out and totally rebuilt.
Local police in Corpus Christi, TX spent hours laboring to remove up to 400 plants from a city park that they believed to be cannabis. They even referred to it as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history." In fact, the plants were nothing more than horse mint, a common prairie flower with very little resemblance to the unmistakable cannabis sativa. Only after a battery of chemical tests did the officers determine the plants were not marijuana.
Of course, before you go calling these cops stupid, let's remember the real idiot: the politicians who keep cannabis illegal.
A 14-year-old autistic boy was suspended and charged with a felony over a picture he drew in school. The boy was in a special needs class when he drew a picture of two stick figures, one of which was holding a gun. The eighth grader's picture depicted a stick figure with a gun that was labeled "me." The figure was shooting another figure that had his teacher's name above it.
The boy, who has the mental capacity of a third-grader, has been suspended and is now facing felony charges for "terroristic threats".
D.A.G. says: Clearly the boy isn't the only one with the mental capacity of a third-grader.
With his pedophile mustache and neck that seamlessly blends into his head, Sgt. Robert Ralston of the Philadelphia Police Department looks like the perfect caricature of a cop that the anti-police contingent would draw. The thing is, this cop's claim to fame involves brutality, but not against ordinary citizens. Rather he brutalized himself.
Ralston shot himself with his service weapon and then pulled the oldest trick in the book - blaming it on some unidentified black man. Ralston claims he was working in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia on April 5, 2010 when he stopped two men for questioning. One of the imaginary men ran away while the other put a gun to his head. Ralston knocked the gun away, but it fired, grazing his shoulder and the remaining fantasy man fled.
During the manhunt following the non-incident the block in question was cordoned off with yellow tape. Cops, K-9 units, and SWAT teams scoured the area. Some businesses were forced to close for five hours.
Funny thing is that the gunpowder residue on Ralston's clothes matches the sidearm he carries. The police did spend hours looking for the nonexistent black guys but began to realize something was up. With the promise of immunity from criminal charges, Ralston confessed to the entire thing.
Fortunately, this imbecile will lose his job. He will also have to pay for the cost of the manhunt, however there is no word on if he will have to reimburse the businesses he inconvenienced. Robert Ralston actually has five children. We don't know what is more terrifying - that the police department would hire someone this crazy and dumb, or that someone this crazy and dumb has reproduced five times.
