They knew exactly what time to do this. . . notice they got them as they were finishing up - they didn't want anybody coming into a dirty store! :p

how about it!!

hmmm...hiring illegal immigrants at a very low wage...so, is this how Wal-Mart keeps there prices so low? i was just wondering...:rolleyes:

Missing Inmates Found Hiding in Mo. Prison
Mon Oct 27, 9:52 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!


By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press Writer

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A light tap, a hollow sound and a punch through
a fake wall. That's how the search for two escaped inmates came to an
end four days after they vanished leaving behind a dead man and a
threatening note.



Christopher Sims and Shannon Phillips were found Sunday morning still
inside the Missouri Penitentiary — hiding behind a false wall in a
basement near where the body of a third inmate was found the night
the men disappeared.


A prison staff member discovered the false wall and punched a hole in
it.


"Phillips immediately stuck his hand out and said, 'I give up,'" said
John Fougere, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.


Inside the hideout, authorities found food and a small mattress. The
convicted murderers surrendered without a struggle and were placed in
segregation, Fougere said.


Hundreds of prison officials had been combing the penitentiary and
its grounds since the men disappeared Wednesday, suspecting the two
might never have escaped. No evidence of an escape had been found and
no sightings of the men had been reported outside the prison.


The basement where the men were found had been searched repeatedly
and was next to the ice plant where they are believed to have killed
convicted murderer Toby Viles on Wednesday evening, corrections
officials said. Viles, 28, was serving life without parole for
killing three siblings.


Cole County Sheriff John Hemeyer has said that a note found near
Viles' body bearing the initials of the two inmates claimed
responsibility for his death and threatened to kill anyone who got in
their way.


The three men had been working alone in the ice house with such tools
as chisels, hammers and shovels. Preliminary autopsy results show
Viles died of blunt trauma to the head.


Phillips, 35, has been serving a life prison sentence for a murder in
Kansas City. Sims, 27, had been serving a life sentence for a murder
in St. Louis.

not wal-mart, but the company hired by wal-mart to do their cleaning..wal-mart gets the rap b/c its wal=mart. :rolleyes:

Special Ed Kids Used As Janitors. :eek:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/10....ap/index.html

This bothers me greatly. First, there are many degrees as to what is considered a"special education student. You have those student that are obviously mentally handicapped, but then there are also students that are only slightly handicapped or "slow" and then there are those that are put into those programs due to a misdiagnosis (due to learning disabilities such as dsylexia or to discipline problems).

Also, in my area, it was reported this year that black males were 3 times more likely to be put into special education programs than any other ethnicity. The racial makeup of my community is probably similiar to that of Olympia.

Not every student in special education is only capable of being janitors and sorting trash. :mad:

Before automatically putting kids in menial work, they should evaluate each student's ability and put them in an appropriate job.

On a personal note, earlier on in my nephews schooling, he was put into a special education program. It it hadn't been for his mom, me, and the rest of our family working with him and challenging the school, they would have written him off as such and left it at that. It wasn't that we were ashamed of him being in special education, it was the fact that we knew he was capable of so much more.

After years of working with him (he had a learning disability and required specialized attention), he is now a "mainstreamed" (no linger in special education classes) high school student, making A's and B's in regualr classes, and works as a sign language interpretor for my church's deaf ministry. He functions just as normal as the next 15 year old - with aspirations to go to college.

Man Drops Mobile in Train Toilet, Jams Arm
 

NEW YORK (Reuters) --Cell phone users have been known to complain about poor service, but one New York man's mobile literally went down the toilet.

The man was on a suburban train from Grand Central Station on Wednesday night when he went to the bathroom to make a phone call, dropped the phone into the toilet bowl and then his hand and arm became stuck trying to retrieve it, officials said.

Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate him, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment.

"The toilets are made of aluminum so I imagine he was down on hands and knees with his shirt rolled up and hand and arm down inside, trying to flush out his cell phone," said Jim Cameron of the Connecticut Metro-North commuter council.

He said that because of the design of the train toilet, the mobile probably ended up in a chemical holding tank.

A spokesman for the railroad that serves the northern suburbs of New York and Connecticut identified the man as Edwin Gallard, 41, of New York, who suffered a minor injury to his arm as firefighters cut the toilet apart.

The track was closed and thousands of commuters were delayed during the evening rush hour.

The phone has not yet been recovered.


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If my cell goes in ANY toilet, it will henceforth and forever be known as The Cell Phone Formerly Known as Carla's Cell. . . I wonder what he does when his toothbrush falls in the toilet. :eek: :eek: :eek:

The local news had fun with this story. "If you had a crappy commute, here is the reason why." It was funny. :p

Posted on Fri, Oct. 31, 2003

"Goretti girls" get their man.
Police: Students chase man who exposed himself
By Ira Porter
Inquirer Staff Writer

There is nothing sweeter than revenge. And that is what the "Goretti girls" of St. Maria Goretti High School in South Philadelphia got yesterday when they chased down and beat up a man who allegedly had exposed himself to the students for the last month.

Police and neighborhood residents said between 20 and 30 girls, all dressed in their uniforms, dropped their book bags and jumped in after the man allegedly began to expose himself again. Onlookers and neighbors cheered the girls on and shouted "Pervert!" at the man.

After police arrived at the scene minutes later - shortly after noon - the man was taken into custody and driven to St. Agnes Medical Center, where he was treated for an injury to his mouth.

Police expected to charge the 25-year-old South Philadelphia man with multiple counts of harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, and corrupting the morals of a minor in connection with seven incidents.

The first encounter was Sept. 14. Police said 13 students were victimized, some more than once.

The latest encounter took place yesterday, when the man exposed himself to two girls walking in the 2000 block of South 10th Street, police said. It happened shortly after the school's 12:15 p.m. early dismissal.

Except this time, police said, some of the girls and people from the neighborhood counterattacked. At one point, police said, the man broke free and tried to run.

Robert "Bobby" Lemons, who owns Rose's Food Market at 10th and McKean Streets, was one of two men who caught the man.

"I was bringing the countertop up from my basement, and I saw him in the street acting really funny," Lemons said. "He was rubbing himself, but he wasn't exposed yet."

Lemons said the man was up the street by a parked van, gesturing as if he were urinating, but then exposed himself to two girls after they passed by. Lemons walked across the street to tell a friend. They split up on both sides of the street and chased the man, tackling him in the middle of the block.

"Everybody was saying, 'Don't hit him, Bobby, don't hit him,' so I didn't," Lemons said. But while he was holding the man down, "the girls came and started kicking him and punching him, so I wasn't going to stop them," he said.

Lemons said the man tried to pull a knife from his pocket.

Kelly Simone, 15, was the first girl to get in a lick on the man. Simone, a sophomore at Goretti, recognized the man from sketches posted around school. Her friend was one of the girls to whom the man allegedly exposed himself yesterday.

"I looked down the street, and Bobby had the... man on the ground," Kelly said. "I went up to him, and he started grabbing at my feet, so I kicked him. All the girls were scared to touch him, but I said: 'Let's show him what we can do.' "

Thomas Simone, Kelly's father, said he was proud of his daughter and her classmates.

"They beat the crap out of him," he said, laughing.

"I'm glad they did it for themselves and that they didn't let this guy go," Thomas Simone said.

"You know what's funny? They got their own revenge. The girls got him without the police."


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Re: Man Drops Mobile in Train Toilet, Jams Arm
 

If my cell goes in ANY toilet, it will henceforth and forever be known as The Cell Phone Formerly Known as Carla's Cell. . . I wonder what he does when his toothbrush falls in the toilet. :eek: :eek: :eek: [/B][/QUOTE]

For real. I would just check that one as a $200 loss because there is NO WAY :eek: my hand is going in a toliet, much less a PUBLIC train toliet.

Re: Man Drops Mobile in Train Toilet, Jams Arm
 

For those of you who live in Westchester County, NY.....this idiot got his arm stuck at the Mt. Vernon West train station.......:rolleyes: :D :rolleyes: :D :p

Re: Re: Man Drops Mobile in Train Toilet, Jams Arm
 

Wow.

I've been there,

Put MY HAND in THAT TOILET!!! EWWWW!!!!

That phone probably dissolved!
Ewwwwwwwww!!

Dog Shoots Man
Thu Nov 6, 7:49 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!


PARIS (Reuters) - A French hunter was shot by his dog after he left a loaded shotgun in the trunk of his car with two dogs and one of the animals accidentally stepped on the trigger, police said Wednesday.


The man, from the village of Espelette in the Basque region, was admitted to a hospital in the nearby town of Bayonne Monday with leadshot injuries to the hip.


"As he was driving along, one of his dogs accidentally set off the gun," said a police official.