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Author: no byline Date: 11 oct 2005 Source: The Chaser Copyright: © Chaser Publishing Pty Ltd 2005. Link: article link Bali 9 plea bargain: agree to death penalty in return for $5000 cash Tuesday, 11 October 2005 The Bali 9 have struck a deal with Indonesian prosecutors, under which they’ll chance a firing squad in return for $5000 cash. “Yes, the odds of getting through a firing squad aren’t good,” admitted accused Scott Rush. “But they’ve got to be better than the odds of getting through Indonesian customs with heroin strapped to your stomach.” The offer was accepted on the eve of the Bali 9 trials, after which the Bali 9 were widely expected to become the Bali 0.…
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Bail for rabbit-sex accused 1 2
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From: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16907452-421,00.html A FINANCE company director charged with bestiality and animal cruelty has appeared briefly in a Sydney court today. Brendan McMahon, 36, fronted Downing Centre Local Court today to answer more than 30 charges. In addition to the charges of animal cruelty and bestiality, he also faces two counts of possessing cannabis. The New Zealander, from Tamarama in Sydney's east, was arrested after the bodies of between 40 and 50 rabbits were discovered in a lane beside his city office in August. Deputy Chief Magistrate Helen Syme continued Mr McMahon's bail and ordered him to reappear in the same court on Novemb…
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Squirrels on crack Oct 7 2005 South London Press NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes. The furry animals are thought to be behind a new drugs turf war in Brixton - stealing rocks of crack hidden in front gardens. Tough police action to rid the town centre of dealers and addicts has seen crackheads abandon their usual drug stash hideouts.But the blitz has displaced some dealing into nearby residential streets. Drug addicts are known to be hiding small stashes of crack rocks in people's front lawns late at night. Squirrels have been spotted in the same front gardens, seemingly hunting out the…
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No Next Movie
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Turns out the Cheech & Chong reunion we've all being hearing rumours about is pretty much just that unfortunately. CheechandChong.com caught up with Cheech Marin at the recent Latinologues Press Conference in New York and asked about the progress on the movie, apparently Cheech didn't seem comfortable talking about it and told them the script had never been finalized between him and Tommy Chong. I'm sure we would all love to see Cheech & Chong at it again. source: http://www.cheechandchong.com/newsstories.html
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well we all know that police are scummy arse holes at the best of times, well most of them anyways, but to have the police shoe shopping at wall mart the day after a major hurricane with a 5 finger discount is some absolute bullshit Police Caught Looting it was classic to see the reporter going upto looters and asking them questions, especially the police and what looks like a 10 year old boy...the piggers made a slowish run for the front door and when the reporter told the boy the pink shirt he was about to steal wasnt his colour, he looked at him a tad weird, spotted the camera and dropped the shirt and ran if your bored like me, its worth the download
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its ashame bush isnt this honest to the american public although the reaction of the crowd wouldnt suprise me because they have to get behind their president Bush site also, type failure into google and see what the first result is
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Russia’s long winter will just fly by for a herd of Russian cows which, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, will be fed confiscated marijuana over the cold months. Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 ton of marijuana had been planted among, Novye Izvestia daily reported. “There is simply no other way out. You see, the fields are planted with feed crops and if we remove it all the cows will have nothing to eat,” a Federal Drugs Control Service spokeswoman for the Urals region of Sverdlovsk told the paper. “I don’t know what the milk will be like after this.” Drug…
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SHIMLA: Picture-postcard settings, combined with the lure of cheap and quality cannabis, draw hordes of foreign tourists to Kullu Valley in the northern Himalayas. But not all of them return home - some simply disappear without a trace. Australian Daniel Mount Whitten went missing earlier this month, the 17th foreigner to have disappeared in the last 13 years. Britain-based NGO Fair Trials Abroad says the number could be as high as 50 but authorities in Kullu, 240 from this north Indian resort town, deny this. "The police have carried out helicopter searches to look for the missing Australian. His sister Dalia and officials of his insurance company (Harell Insurance C…
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LONDON -- Today, he's respectable Sir Mick. But 35 years ago, Mick Jagger was a rock rebel who could rattle the authorities. Newly released police files show that in 1969, police considered Jagger an "intelligent young man" who lived on the fringe and consorted with "the dregs of society." The records, declassified by Britain's National Archives, detail Jagger's claim that detectives planted drugs during a raid on his London apartment in 1969. The Rolling Stones singer was fined L200 (about $575 Cdn at the time) for possession of cannabis after the raid. The Metropolitan Police investigated Jagger's claim that a drug squad officer, Det. Sgt. Robin Constable, had …
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Police are investigating claims an off duty officer assaulted a 19 year old bystander who tried to stop him intimadating a group of teenagers. It is reported in the NT news today that the Darwin cops were drinking at the Tennant Creek Hotel. When they left the pub to head back to the police club they came across the teenagers at a skateboard venue. Coppers wanted to know if one of the young blokes knew another bloke. 19 yo intervened and copped a punch in the face.One of the coppers also threatened to confiscate a bicycle unless he was given a ciggy. This was 3 of the 90 coppers that were upholding law and order by escorting an OMC to Qld on their national run
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7 days Archive July 21, 2005 Greenwood neighborhood is literally going to pot Greenwood -- An elaborate marijuana growing operation has been found in the center of a Greenwood neighborhood. Neighbors came outside Tuesday when police cars stopped in front of Steve J. Keller's residence in the 1300 block of Freemont Lane. As Keller, 45, sat on a lawn chair surrounded by police, neighbors gathered in nearby yards as their children played. About 90 minutes later, Keller had been arrested after officers said they found a marijuana-growing operation on the second floor of the home. Greenwood police found about 50 mature marijuana plants, said Detective Jeff McCorkle.…
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Magic mushroom users have long benefited from a loophole in the law that meant fresh varieties of the hallucinogenic fungus were legal, despite dried ones being banned. But now the trip is over. They have a reputation as the ultimate hippy dippy drug, beloved of Hawkwind fans and "psychonauts" probing the doors of perception. Yet despite magic mushrooms' associations with a more innocent, bygone era, their popularity has soared in recent years. The rise has gone hand in hand with growing availability. Instead of having to dodge cowpats to hunt native Liberty Caps in damp fields each autumn, users in Britain have had their pick of exotic species at "headshops", marke…
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If you set out to use the internet's best new time waster for global terrorism, tracking pedophiles or breaking felons out of jail, know that you've been warned. "In no event shall Google be liable to you or anyone else for any direct, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind," the world's ultimate search engine warns. That's Google's disclaimer for wrong addresses its new program Google Earth might supply. The program allows computer users with broadband connections the capacity to view the world from 1200 metres. It allows users to soar over the entire planet as low as 100 metres but from 1200 metres you can make out rooftops easily. Fr…
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Posted by CN Staff on July 16, 2005 at 07:08:06 PT By Jeremy Bigwood Source: Narco News Bulletin The Dr. Strangelove fringe of the drug warrior lobby is at it again. Dan Burton and Mark Souder, both Republican Bible Belt U.S. Congressmen from Indiana, are amending the drug czar office’s budget in an attempt to breathe Congressional life into a moribund Frankenstein’s monster scheme. They want to revive mycoherbicides (toxic fungi that kill plants) for use against drug crops. Even U.S. government drug enforcement officials have rejected the proposed mycoherbicides because of their toxicity to humans and the environment. Their use has also been banned throughout the A…
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A TWO-month drug ring investigation by West Australian police has led to the arrests of eight Perth men and the seizure of amphetamines and cannabis. Detectives conducted raids on homes in the southern suburbs of Hamilton Hill and Spearwood yesterday, charging eight men with 56 offences including possession and supply of prohibited drugs and conspiracy to sell prohibited drugs, police said today. Officers seized quantities of amphetamines and cannabis from the homes, and have frozen the assets of two men under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Author: News.com.au Date: 15/07/05 Source: News.com.au Copyright: 2005 News Limited
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