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Liberal_in_LA's JournalRescuers climb high to save stranded cat
Flagstaff's Melita Shoup and her fiance Jim Crane's cat Cuddles had been missing for a week when they went out to dinner on Friday, Oct. 2. Shoup's phone rang at the end of the meal. In her own words, this is what followed:
A man called to say that he had located our cat about a quarter of a mile from his home in Kachina. Ron Bauman had been walking his dogs and had heard a strange sound. As he got closer it was obviously a cat in distress. He located the cat about 30 feet up a Ponderosa pine tree. He returned with his camera and took a high resolution picture with a zoom lens. He was able to capture the cat's tag in the picture. He returned home and loaded the picture to his computer and enlarged the image until he could read the tag. He immediately called my number. We paid the check and drove back to Kachina.
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http://azdailysun.com/news/local/rescuers-climb-high-to-save-stranded-cat/article_3de0b059-3184-5549-adee-6a7dc6394652.html
More states lift bans on welfare and food stamps for drug offenders
More states lift bans on welfare and food stamps for drug offenders
Alabama and Texas are the latest states to lift restrictions on food stamps for drug offenders, part of a growing number of states opting out of a ban enacted by Congress in 1996.
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The decision to lift the food stamp ban by Alabama and Texas follows similar decisions by California and Missouri last year. Alabama went further, allowing former drug offenders to also receive welfare benefits if they submit to drug testing.
A dozen states now allow former drug offenders to receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and nearly two dozen states allow the ex-offenders to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service cited by the Wall Street Journal.
Additional states have partial restrictions on participation that include bans for a set period of years; bans that apply only to people convicted of selling, rather than possessing drugs; and requirements for drug tests.
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/more_states_lift_bans_on_welfare_and_food_stamps_for_drug_offenders/
“Motherf-----, get on the ground!” NYPD capt Brian McCaughey to 13 year old playing tag
NYPD captain lost 30 days of paid vacation Thursday for pointing his gun at two skinny kids harmlessly playing tag on a Brooklyn street — and profanely ordering the pair to drop face down.
“Motherf-----, get on the ground!” a hyped-up Capt. Brian McCaughey shouted with his weapon needlessly drawn, according to relatives of the two boys and sources.
He then handcuffed 13-year-old Kesean Smalls as frightened 12-year-old Jahniel Hinds cowered behind his mother on the evening of Sept. 13, 2013, according to family members.
Minutes earlier, the boys were playing tag outside their homes on Quincy St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Hinds bolted in terror as his friend Smalls was cuffed and grilled by another cop, family members said.
“We were playing. As we were running towards each other that's when they started aiming their guns and everything,” Smalls said.
They were only released when Jahniel’s mom Corinia intervened — and McCaughey realized he was four blocks away from the right address on Clifton St., sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-captain-facing-charges-pulling-gun-kids-article-1.2390117
An NYPD captain pleaded guilty before the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Thursday to pointing his gun at two innocent boys as they were playing tag on their Brooklyn block in 2013.
Capt. Brian McCaughey admitted to charges of improper force, abuse of authority, and discourtesy, and will be docked 30 vacation days.
McCaughey was a lieutenant with Bedford-Stuyvesant’s 79th Precinct on Sept. 13, 2013, when he pulled his service weapon on 12-year-old Jahniel Hinds and 13-year-old Kasean Smalls on the Quincy Street block where they lived.
The lieutenant and a number of his officers were responding to a call of a fellow cop in need of back-up on a nearby street around 7:40 p.m. when they spotted Smalls and Hinds running down the block as part of a friendly game of tag.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/08/cop-pleads-guilty-to-pointing-gun-at-kids-playing-tag/
Top L.A. County sheriff's official claims he thought buying 2012 Audi A4 for 3k was legit
Top L.A. County sheriff's official bought stolen Audi
-ranking Los Angeles County sheriff's official bought a stolen luxury sedan last year from the owner of a towing company that contracts with his agency, a Times investigation has found.
Assistant Sheriff Michael Rothans purchased the 2012 Audi A4 after it had been seized by sheriff's deputies from a suspected gang member at a drunk-driving checkpoint. The vehicle was originally stolen from an Orange County car dealership.
The Sheriff's Department launched an internal investigation last week after questions from The Times.
Rothans, the department's third-ranking official, said he had no idea he was driving a stolen car until more than a year after buying it from Lisa Vernola, a friend who owns Vernola's Towing in Norwalk.
Sheriff's officials are prohibited from purchasing property that has been seized by the department. The prohibition applies both to direct purchases and purchases made through a third party. Employees also are prohibited from personally profiting from their positions.
Rothans said he considered the sale a private transaction between friends and thought it was permitted.
Vernola had registered the car in her name about three weeks before she sold it to Rothans for $3,000, according to Department of Motor Vehicles records. She said she took ownership of the vehicle because no one claimed it from her impound lot or purchased it during a public sale. At the time, the car contained fake identification numbers. Under the law, unclaimed vehicles become the property of the towing yard.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-sheriff-stolen-audi-purchase-20151008-story.html
Blue Book value is $17,000.
Halloween decoration that has people running up to do CPR
Haddon said: 'The corner is always full of cars.
'People running up trying to do CPR. Once they find out it's a dummy, it's so hilarious.'
She started putting out the face down body in honor of her husband's birthday on Halloween.
It has drawn so much attention that Haddon has started taking the corpse in after sundown.
Haddon said: 'If you don't bring him in at night, he won't be there in the morning.
'I learned my lesson. I have to bring him in at night.
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Rapper is good sport about neighbors calling cops thinking he was burglar. Makes nice with everyone
The cops said, ‘Yeah, we got a call from the neighbors saying you guys were breaking into the house and robbing the place,’” Grant said. “Our eyes all got huge—we were like, ‘No, this is an Airbnb! The owner knows we’re here, we’ve been in contact with her!”
The officers absorbed this information and took in the scene. “They looked around for a bit, they saw everyone was in, you know, cozy clothes, and they figured out, ‘OK, these kids ain’t lying.’”
At that point Grant—whose most recent video is “Errything Lit”, which you can watch here—asked if he could take a selfie with one of the officers and put it on Snapchat, and everyone had a good laugh about it; Grant also tweeted the picture, which has since gone viral.
“It wasn’t totally unexpected,” Grant said. “We’re black kids in this Leave it to Beaver neighborhood, you know?”
Later on, Grant and his friends met the neighbor who had called the police. “The neighbor lady was like, you know, ‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you, but we didn’t know about the Airbnb stuff, and there’ve been a lot of robberies in the neighborhood.’ I guess she had called the lady who owns the house but she didn’t pick up the phone, so that’s when she called the cops.”
Grant reacted to the episode with good humor, posting videos on Twitter featuring the police officers as well as a second neighbor who came to check on the house and walked through the door without asking. “I smile and laugh at everything,” he said. “Not much makes me mad. Or, actually, I shouldn’t say not much makes me mad—I just expect this kind of shit to happen, so I kind of laugh it off.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/10/09/stefisdope_airbnb_the_rapper_talks_about_being_accused_of_robbing_his_rental.html
Male engineering student perfectly explains why women aren't equal to men. Letter goes viral
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/virals/11921640/Male-engineering-student-perfectly-explains-why-women-arent-equal-to-men.html
California is now a “right to dry” state, preserves the right to air dry on clothes line
California is now a “right to dry” state after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday restricting homeowners associations from banning clotheslines, which the groups deemed unsightly additions to neighborhoods.
Assemblywoman Patty López (D-San Fernando) announced Brown signed her bill, AB 1448, which will allow line drying for people once restricted by their property management organizations.
"Growing up, my family and many of my neighbors used clotheslines as the way to dry their clothes and other laundry,” López said in a statement. “Californians can now do their part for the environment while saving money on their electric bill by using the sunlight to dry their laundry.”
The bill, titled “Personal energy conservation; real property restrictions” is meant to serve as a victory to conservationists and frugal Californians alike by allowing them to save money and energy.
Now, the law states landlords must allow tenants to air-dry their clothes in their own backyard if they wish, as long as “the clothesline or drying rack will not interfere with the maintenance of the rental property and the use of the clothesline or drying rack does not violate reasonable time or location restrictions imposed by the landlord.”
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The law was long-awaited in a state with a history of energy issues. At the height of the 2001 energy crisis, conservationists such as Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network, which also backed the bill, scratched their heads in disbelief as associations continued to prioritize aesthetics. At that time, the majority of the 35,000 homeowners associations in the state banned tenants from drying their clothes in the sunlight.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brown-signs-bill-reversing-bans-on-clotheslines-6560304.php
Study finds vegetarians secretly eat meat while drunk
A new study from the U.K finds that 30 percent of vegetarians crave flesh during wild nights of partying and 40 percent always eat meat while intoxicated.
Providing even more insight into the psychology of vegetarians, the survey revealed 69 percent of those who break their diets keep it a secret. After all, they have to keep up their sanctimonious and ascetic reputations.
Money-saving website Voucher Codes Pro conducted the study by compiling the results of a survey taken by 1,789 people, and also took a close look at which meats vegetarians prefer while boozing.
The most popular drunken indulgences were kebabs (39 percent), which are ubiquitous in the U.K, and beef burgers (34 percent). Bacon (27 percent), fried chicken (19 percent) and pork sausage (14 percent) were also top picks
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Study-finds-vegetarians-secretly-eat-meat-while-6560947.php
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