Thread: Wild head lines and unbeliveable stories

You Get What You Pay For

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After burying his mother nine months earlier, a client of the local mortuary finally had enough money to purchase the expensive coffin he'd originally wanted. So we exhumed the body and transferred his deceased mother into the new steel casket. "What's so special about this coffin?" I asked the funeral director. He replied, "It has a lifetime warranty."

Im not sure if this is an immigration issue but it came in under the heading of illegal immigration news so untill i find the true story its fable.

Police Break Up Cockfighting Ring
Northeast
Feb 19 2007 11:53AM
Sheriff's deputies in Medina County say they broke up an illegal cockfighting ring in rural York Township on Sunday and arrested 21 people.

Authorities confiscated 26 live roosters as well as sharp spurs used during the fights.

Sergeant Gary Hubbard says investigators began to look at the farm after hearing rumors a month ago that it was hosting the fights.

Undercover officers say they went to the farm, were charged five dollars' admission and found a ten-foot-wide square ring.

Those arrested face misdemeanor charges of animal fighting and animal cruelty. The owner of the farm faces additional charges of operating a gambling house and possession of criminal tools, also misdemeanors.

Copyright 2007, Associated Press

Security Scanner Can See Through Clothes


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Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:05 AM EST
The Associated Press
By TERRY TANG

PHOENIX (AP) — Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons.

The Phoenix airport started testing the new technology on Friday. It can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours with blush-inducing clarity.

Critics have said the high-resolution images created by the "backscatter" technology are too invasive. But the Transportation Security Administration adjusted the equipment to make the image look something like a line drawing, while still detecting concealed weapons.

During testing, the machine will be used only as a backup screening measure. Passengers who fail the standard screening with a metal detector will be able to choose between the new device or a pat-down search.

"It's 100 percent voluntary, so if the passenger doesn't feel comfortable with it, the passenger doesn't have to go through it," TSA spokesman Nico Melendez said.

Passengers selected for screening by the device are asked to stand in front of the closet-size X-ray unit with the palms of their hands facing out. Then they must turn around for a second screening from behind. The procedure takes about a minute.

"It seems faster. I'm not uncomfortable with it," said Kelsi Dunbar, 25, of Seattle, who chose the machine. "I trust TSA, and I trust that they are definitely trying to make things go quickly and smoothly in the airport.

But one expert said the machine's altered image is ineffective, while the clear picture is an invasion of privacy.

"The more obscure they make the image, the more obscure the contraband, weapons and explosives," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Project at the ACLU in Washington, D.C. "The graphic image is a strip-search. You shouldn't have to be strip-searched to get on an airplane. Millions of Americans would regard them as pornographic."

The machine will be tested for up to 90 days at a single checkpoint at Sky Harbor International Airport's largest terminal, which hosts US Airways and Southwest Airlines, the two busiest airlines in Phoenix.

The technology could be left in place after the trial period, and the TSA hopes to roll out similar machines at the Los Angeles airport and New York's Kennedy Airport by the end of the year.

The security officer who works with the passenger going through the screening will never see the images the machine produces. The pictures will be viewed by another officer about 50 feet away who will not see the passenger, the TSA said.

The machine cannot store the images or transmit them and "once we're done screening the passenger, the image is gone forever," Melendez said.

He said the device at Sky Harbor costs about $100,000 but is on loan from the manufacturer, American Science and Engineering Inc. of Boston.

Maybe we could make one to tell if the person is a crminal Alien only by scaning them:
O wait we already do its our local police

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... 1077/COL02


Sticky situation for principal
BY WILLIAM CROYLE | WCROYLE@NKY.COM



Students at RA Jones Middle School in Florence were offered an incentive for having perfect attendance in January: a piece of tape.

OK, so maybe the incentive was what that tape was for - to tape their principal, Stephen Sorrell, to a pole in the cafeteria.

They were supposed to do it Feb. 17, but the snow days last week forced it to be moved to Friday.


But for the kids, it was worth the wait.

he doent look light