I love how Christians can even consider killing people. It's like they completely forgot about what Jesus was trying to say.
Christians are not supposed to murder anyone. Killing is not always murder. 77*77=5929. I never really understood that part, though. Did he mean that there is a limit on how many times we should be willing to forgive, or was he just banking on everyone having poor math skills and not really keeping track? Or was it a joke where if you entered it into an ancient abacus it spelled out "fogiveness" or "boobs" or something?
No, that's Leviticus 18:22. But after such a cheerful topic change that will in no way lead to unpleasantness, I suggest we steer clear of the whole religion thing anyway.
OSAKA (Kyodo) The Osaka District Court sentenced a man to death Wednesday for killing three people he got to know through a Web site for would-be suicides in 2005.
In handing down the sentence on Hiroshi Maeue, 38, presiding Judge Kazuo Mizushima pointed out the cruelty of the serial killings and the unlikelihood that he could be rehabilitated.
Maeue's counsel appealed the ruling.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty, insisting he could pose the threat of a repeat offender because he cannot control his sexual urges triggered by seeing a person being strangled and suffering.
The court said Maeue persuaded a 14-year-old junior high school student to join him in a suicide pact using charcoal stoves to produce deadly carbon monoxide, and then suffocated the victim near a mountain in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, in May 2005.
He also killed a 25-year-old woman and a 21-year-old male university student in February and June the same year in a similar way and dumped their corpses.
"It's brutal, heartless, devilish, and his sexual propensity is deep-rooted and difficult to ameliorate," the judge said.
In December, the court decided to adopt as evidence a mental diagnosis stating the defendant's mental competence was undiminished at the time of the murders.
A mental-health expert who made the diagnosis also testified at the court that Maeue was mentally competent.
Maeue pleaded guilty to the three murders and when the judge asked him whether he would commit such crimes again if released, he said, "I have worries."
The prosecutors accused Maeue of committing "lust murder." His defense counsel sought to avoid the death penalty.
Well, suicide like that isn't that uncommon, actually. Group suicide is an interesting phenomenon mostly unique to Japanese culture. Many depressed people who have been ousted from society meet on suicide message boards and chat rooms. They usually burn charcoal briquettes together and pop a bunch of sleeping pills for a nice painless death.
After all, those people all went there with the express purpose of dying. The only difference between that and normal group suicides is that he had no intention of dying.
I'm not saying that this isn't disgusting. I'm just saying that Japan's underbelly is really, really fucked up, and once you're exposed to more of it, a lot of stuff doesn't seem as shocking. I mean shit, I've bought porn from a vending machine there before.
It's a David versus Goliath battle heating up in the Hill Country — a group of nuns from Boerne is taking a stand against Wal-Mart.
The corporate giant reportedly labeled the nuns a security threat after they raised questions about Wal-Mart's business practices.
Sister Susan Mika is part of the Benedectine Sisters, which is part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. The center has been questioning Wal-Mart's business practices for years.
"We've been raising questions with them for about 17 years, so it's not like they don't know it," Sister Mika said.
Now, the sisters find themselves on Wal-Mart's security threat list. Sister Mika said the group has been wrongly labeled.
"In no way have we ever been a threat to the company in that sense. We might be a threat in the kind of question that we're asking, but not a security threat," Sister Mika said.
The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers. They believe that's why Wal-Mart has launched a surveillance operation on the small church group.
"We wanted to find out more about what was actually happening, and did they do any surveillance on us, either personally or as a community, and to let us know what that would be, and to apologize to us," Sister Mika said.
Calls from KENS 5 to a Wal-Mart spokesperson went unreturned.
The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of allegations against Wal-Mart.
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.
Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and lying in it. Belonging to a Hindu caste who bury their dead, Roy dug his grave close to his wife's after she died in the late 1990s.
"He cleans his grave every day and waits for his death, which seems to be eluding him," said Shyam Narayan Ram, a senior government official from Jharkhand state.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A man who worked at the Grand Junction Farmers' Market Festival as a clown named Giggles is accused of using the Internet to lure a child into having sex, Grand Junction police said.
Antonio Eric Lazcano, 29, was arrested Friday by police officers on a warrant issued in Otero County.
The investigation began when a woman in Rocky Ford, Colo., told law enforcement authorities that she found a photo of a naked man on her daughter's e-mail account.
The mother then went online and pretended to be her daughter. She chatted with a man under police supervision and told him that she was 12.
According to an arrest affidavit, the person chatting with her replied, "That's OK. I dated a 16 and 14-year-old girl." He had used the screen name "Tony805."
Police said the man sent her Web camera images of him committing sex acts in front of the camera and then made arrangements with her for sex.
Authorities said they traced the IM account to Lazcano in Grand Junction.
A profile for a MySpace account for Lazcano, under the name gigglestheclown, described the man as a 29-year-old Santa Maria, Calif., police said. He listed his occupation as a clown and said he was "just clowning around till I find what I'm looking for." The profile has since been deleted.
The Grand Daily Sentinel reported that he worked for the local farmers market festival as recently as last summer.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation records indicate Lazcano was arrested twice in 2002 in Grand Junction, for alleged harassment and stalking. The outcome of those cases was not immediately available.
Speaking of "terroristic threats". Matt boyd, the writer of Machall and Three Panel Soul apparently got fired for making a joke about a gun at work, he also got visited by the cops. Pretty lames. This comic and this other comic. are both about it.
It seems like people have to be more cautious of what they say or do; the price of security over freedom. Of course, what's shown is just one side of the story too. Still, it would have been more fair for his employers to do an investigation at least.
A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
But the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price.
Bhandari said he received a letter from the state auditor last month saying the state would sue him if he did not raise his prices. The state could penalize him for each discounted gallon he sold, with the fine determined by a judge.
Bhandari, who bought the station a year ago, said he worries customers will think he stopped the discounts because he wants to make more money. About 10 percent of his customers had used the discount cards.
Dale Van Camp said he bought a $50 card to support the local youth hockey program. It would have saved him about $100 per year on gas, he said.
A manager and an employee of a steak restaurant in the Minami entertainment district of Chuo Ward, Osaka, have been arrested on suspicion of abducting, raping and robbing a female customer in her 20s, it was learned Wednesday.
Arrested were Daisuke Kitayama, the restaurant's 25-year-old manager, and Masanobu Miyake, a 25-year-old employee.
The restaurant is an outlet of the nationwide Pepper Lunch chain, operated by Pepper Food Service Co.
The two allegedly closed the shutters of the restaurant at about 12:20 a.m. on May 9 as if they were preparing to shut down for the night while the woman was still inside eating. According to the police, they forced the woman to take sedatives by threatening her with a stun gun, and then took her to a rented garage in Izumisano in southern Osaka Prefecture by car and raped her. They also stole her wallet containing 55,000 yen.
No other customers were in the restaurant when the woman was attacked, the police said.
The woman's hands and legs were bound and she was left inside a car parked in the garage. However, she escaped at about 9 a.m. the same day and asked a neighbor for help.
The police found Kitayama and Miyake working at the restaurant after the crime and arrested them. The two allegedly wore the restaurant's uniforms while committing the crime. They obtained the stun gun and sedatives on the Internet.
"We're still collecting details, so we can't comment on the matter," a Pepper Food Service spokesman said.
NOSE, Osaka -- A couple under arrest for dumping the body of the wife's infant son has told investigators that the victim died after they placed him in the helmet container under the seat, police said.
Mika Tamiya, 21, and her husband, 21-year-old Motoki, were arrested in the predawn hours of Thursday for dumping the body of 1-year-old Yu Minematsu, who was born to the woman and her former husband.
"We went out on a motorcycle. Since we couldn't hold Yu, we placed him in the helmet storage space (under the motorcycle's seat). We later found him dead," one of the suspects was quoted as saying during questioning.
"We then put his body in a plastic bag we had bought from a nearby retail store, and brought it to Nose where we dumped it," one of them reportedly said.
The couple left their home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on a motorcycle in late January this year, after putting Yu in the vehicle's helmet storage space under its seat, investigators said. Mika subsequently went shopping while Motoki went to a pachinko parlor.
Motoki returned to the motorcycle and found Yu dead in the helmet storage space, investigators said.
Mika divorced Yu's father sometime around January last year and remarried Motoki on April 23, according to local police.
On Jan. 15, Mika fled from her parents' home where she was living at the time with her son and her family submitted a missing person's report on them.
Police conducted a DNA test on her and confirmed on Wednesday that her DNA matched Yu's DNA.
Initially, Mika had claimed that she had entrusted a friend with her son. Motoki had also denied any involvement in the case.
A passer-by found Yu lying dead in a ditch along Route 173 in Nose at around 5 p.m. on April 23, his second birthday and the day when Mika and Motoki registered their marriage. (Mainichi)
A passer-by found Yu lying dead in a ditch along Route 173 in Nose at around 5 p.m. on April 23, his second birthday and the day when Mika and Motoki registered their marriage. (Mainichi)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a Burger King in New York City was beaten by a man who insisted it was a vampire.
Animal control officials in Staten Island say the bird was beaten so fiercely that most of its tail feathers fell out and it had to be euthanized.
The seven-year-old male peacock wandered into the restaurant parking lot and perched on a car hood last week. Charmed employees had been feeding it bread when the man appeared.
A restaurant worker says the man grabbed the bird by the neck, hurled it to the ground and started stomping it. She says when he was asked what he was doing, he responded, "'I'm killing a vampire!"'
Employees called police, but the man ran when he saw them.
"Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in."
I mean come on, what DOESN'T sound delicious about that??
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Christians are not supposed to murder anyone. Killing is not always murder. 77*77=5929. I never really understood that part, though. Did he mean that there is a limit on how many times we should be willing to forgive, or was he just banking on everyone having poor math skills and not really keeping track? Or was it a joke where if you entered it into an ancient abacus it spelled out "fogiveness" or "boobs" or something?
After all, those people all went there with the express purpose of dying. The only difference between that and normal group suicides is that he had no intention of dying.
I'm not saying that this isn't disgusting. I'm just saying that Japan's underbelly is really, really fucked up, and once you're exposed to more of it, a lot of stuff doesn't seem as shocking. I mean shit, I've bought porn from a vending machine there before.
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Bruce Lee kicks his ass. Literally. (Way of the Dragon)
Mourning man lies in own grave, and waits to die
'Giggles The Clown' Jailed On Sex Charges
This comic and this other comic. are both about it.
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Gas station owner told to raise prices
Couple says infant died after they placed him in motorbike's helmet container
"Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in."
I mean come on, what DOESN'T sound delicious about that??