Seriously, though. Dolls can't do things for money, because they're inanimate. This should be a pretty basic point.
That doesn't mean that they aren't modeled to be whores. One could argue that the dolls aren't actually "female" because they lack the proper female anatomy, but we all realize that the dolls are still modeled to be female. No one here is buying this doll because we think it'll turn tricks. And that should be a pretty basic point too.
A distinguished British historian who tried to cross a road in Atlanta, Georgia, has complained of being wrestled to the ground, pinioned by five police officers and incarcerated.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 56, visiting Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, was attending the conference of the American Historical Association last Thursday when he was caught jaywalking.
“I’m a mass of contusions and grazes,” he said in an interview shown on the website YouTube.
“I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like,” he said. “It hadn’t occurred to me that I wasn’t allowed to cross the road between the two main conference venues.”
He was not the only historian so to offend. A policeman called Kevin Leonpacher led a crackdown on the scholars, cautioning several before confronting the British professor, whose work has been compared to that of the 18th-century greats Gibbon and Montesquieu.
“I didn’t appreciate the gravity of the offence,” he said. “And I didn’t recognise him as a policeman. He was wearing . . . a bomber jacket, like a jerkin.”
The officer asked the professor for identification. The professor asked the officer for identification. Officer Leonpacher then told him that he was under arrest and, according to the professor, subjected him to “terrible, terrible violence”.
He said: “This young man kicked my legs from under me, wrenched me round, pinned me to the ground, wrenched my arms behind my back, handcuffed me.” As he bridled at this treatment, Officer Leonpacher called for help and soon “I had five burly policemen pinioning me to the ground”.
His colleagues were astonished. It was “like he was Osama bin Laden or something”, said Lisa Kazmier, a historian from Philadelphia.
The professor had hoped to spend the afternoon listening to his fellows discoursing on arcane topics. Instead, he was handcuffed to another suspect in a “filthy paddywagon” and fingerprinted in a detention centre, where his peppermints were confiscated. His bail was set at £720 and he remained behind bars for eight hours. When he told a judge his side of the story in court the next morning the case was dropped.
Officer Leonpacher was unrepentant, saying: “He chose to ignore a uniformed officer. At what point can anyone say I overreacted?”
The professor’s wife, Lesley, told The Times yesterday: “I suppose it’s lucky he wasn’t shot.”
The professor said that, as an “ageing member of the bourgeoisie”, he found it all educational — and was now seen by many of his colleagues “as a combination of Rambo, because it took five cops to pin me to the ground, and Perry Mason, because my eloquence before a judge obtained my immediate release”.
I was riding passenger whilst traveling to jobsites while working today and the they were talking all about those things on the radio. For quite a while. I'm pretty sure I learned some things I really would have been perfectly comfortable not knowing.
RE: The historian.
They arrested him for jaywalking?! That's like the lamest offense ever.
And the swordsman story doesn't offer much detail, but I'd suspect it was just some local who heard stuff happening and probably had a colletion of swords. Maybe he was messing with them and just grabbed one as he went to go check out what was going on and just happened to get an opportunity to help out. Or, maybe he's some sort of superhero! That's a much more cliché possibility!
Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud.
After a lengthy sentencing hearing that last 5 1/2 hours, U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ordered Hovind also:
-- Pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
-- Pay the prosecution’s court costs of $7,078.
-- Serve three years parole once he is released from prison.
Hovind’s wife, Jo Hovind, also was scheduled to be sentenced. Rodgers postponed her sentencing until March 1 to allow her defense attorney an opportunity to argue possible discrepancies in sentencing guidelines.
Prior to his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind, also known as "Dr. Dino" asked for the court’s leniency.
“If it’s just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach,” Hovind said.
Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faced a maximum of 288 years in prison.
Jo Hovind was charged and convicted in 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements and faces a maximum of 225 years in prison.
Kent Hovind, who is incarcerated in the Escambia County Jail, will be assigned to a prison by the Bureau of Prisons. Rodgers recommended Kent Hovind be sent to the prison at Saufley Field in Pensacola so he will be close to his family.
It will be up to the Bureau of Prisons, however, to make that determination.
Before there are ten posts of "wut who is this", here's more info on "Dr." Kent Hovind. The chapel program at my college invited him to speak once. I'm sorry I missed it, apparently he was quite the insane asshole.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam's red-light district will soon get a new attraction: a statue to honor prostitutes around the world.
The statue, designed by artist Els Rijerse, will likely be unveiled at the end of March, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
"In many countries, prostitutes struggle and people have no respect for them whatsoever. The statue is meant to give all those men and women strength," Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who commissioned the statue, told ANP.
ANP said the statue, made of bronze, shows a woman who confidently looks out into the world.
In 2001 Hovind started Dinosaur Adventure Land, a young earth creationist theme park located behind Hovind's home in Pensacola, Florida. The park depicts humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the last 4,000-6,000 years and also contains a depiction of the Loch Ness monster. The park does not explore "the Jurassic and Cretaceous eras," but rather "depicts dinosaurs as coexisting with human beings."[21] In 2004 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry visited Hovind's dinosaur theme park and claimed the "park" is deceptive and purposely misleads visitors.[22] The Southern Poverty Law Center noted the park also "claims that a few small dinosaurs still roam the planet."[23] The venture has encountered legal issues, as the owners failed to acquire a building permit for the park (see below).
i was also looking for the statue in honor of prostitutes but apparently i hasn't been made yet.
a lot of the news sites use a photo of a prostitute in a window which is weird because it's illegal to take pictures of the girls in the windows.
i was also looking for the statue in honor of prostitutes but apparently i hasn't been made yet.
a lot of the news sites use a photo of a prostitute in a window which is weird because it's illegal to take pictures of the girls in the windows.
Holy shit, are you kidding? Because that would be exactly the kind of thing I'd take pictures of.
Not because they're whores, but because I love to take pics of crazy local pizazz. And also pizzas.
Ok, I'd also take the pics because they're whore.
But the point remains the same: Thank you for giving me a heads up, for I would definitely have broken a law I was unaware of's.
JENA, Germany -- Scientists in the eastern German city of Jena said Wednesday they have finally given up after three years of failed attempts to entice a sloth into budging as part of an experiment in animal movement.
The sloth, named Mats, was consigned to a zoo after consistently refusing to climb up and then back down a pole as part of an experiment conducted by scientists at the University of Jena's Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology.
Mats was not even tempted by cucumbers or plates of homemade spaghetti.
"Mats obviously wanted absolutely nothing to do with furthering science," said Axel Burchardt, a university spokesman.
Mats' new home is the zoo in the northwestern city of Duisburg where, according to reports, he is very comfortable. (AP)
LINDENHURST, New York -- Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices did not get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home.
Town officials said the thieves did not even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were cell phones, which they planned to sell.
According to Suffolk County police, the GPS devices were stolen Monday night from the Town of Babylon Public Works garage in Lindenhurst. The town immediately tapped its GPS system, and it showed that one of the devices was inside a house. Police said that when they arrived there, Kurt Husfeldt, 46, had the device in his hands.
Husfeldt was charged with criminal possession of stolen property. His 13-year-old son also was arrested on grand larceny charges.
Town officials said the boy committed the burglary with Steven Mangiapanella, 20, also of Lindenhurst. He was charged with grand larceny.
Babylon installed 300 GPS devices in snow plows, dump trucks, street sweepers and other vehicles last January. (AP)
Comments
Dolls cannot be whores, unless somehow brought to life. Like that movie Mannequin, or something.
That doesn't mean that they aren't modeled to be whores. One could argue that the dolls aren't actually "female" because they lack the proper female anatomy, but we all realize that the dolls are still modeled to be female. No one here is buying this doll because we think it'll turn tricks. And that should be a pretty basic point too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/6251079.stm
I was riding passenger whilst traveling to jobsites while working today and the they were talking all about those things on the radio. For quite a while. I'm pretty sure I learned some things I really would have been perfectly comfortable not knowing.
RE: The historian.
They arrested him for jaywalking?! That's like the lamest offense ever.
And the swordsman story doesn't offer much detail, but I'd suspect it was just some local who heard stuff happening and probably had a colletion of swords. Maybe he was messing with them and just grabbed one as he went to go check out what was going on and just happened to get an opportunity to help out. Or, maybe he's some sort of superhero! That's a much more cliché possibility!
Maybe it was me...
Or not.
No. It wasn't.
Before there are ten posts of "wut who is this", here's more info on "Dr." Kent Hovind. The chapel program at my college invited him to speak once. I'm sorry I missed it, apparently he was quite the insane asshole.
Oh, wait. Forgot to read that first part there.
Heh, a brazen woman, huh.
also see
www.dinosauradventureland.com
i was also looking for the statue in honor of prostitutes but apparently i hasn't been made yet.
a lot of the news sites use a photo of a prostitute in a window which is weird because it's illegal to take pictures of the girls in the windows.
Holy shit, are you kidding? Because that would be exactly the kind of thing I'd take pictures of.
Not because they're whores, but because I love to take pics of crazy local pizazz. And also pizzas.
Ok, I'd also take the pics because they're whore.
But the point remains the same: Thank you for giving me a heads up, for I would definitely have broken a law I was unaware of's.
Three Americans arrested after stolen GPS devices trace them to their home
You just can't force a person to be SCIENCE!y. You either have it or you don't. Mats, unfortunately, did not.