Guns for Tots

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

An 11 year old boy was charged along with four teens in a weapons heist from a suburban Philadelphia area gun shop. An error in planning by the suspected criminals appears to be responsible for the quick apprehension of by the young men by the police. The thieves failed to have a getaway vehicle, instead relying on public transportation.

A bit of bad luck also tripped up the gang when a passer-by alerted cops as the burglary was in progress at the Suburban Armory gun dealership in Collingdale, PA. Two of the four teenage suspects were arrested at a nearby pizza shop. The other two were apprehended leaving a bus stop. Police officers found the 11-year-old already on board a bus.

An obviously dumbfounded Robert Adams, Police Chief of Collingdale, had this to say about the crime:

“You come to do a burglary on a bus, you do the burglary, you take your guns and get back on the bus and go home?” (Source)

The youths apparently cut the phone lines to the gun shop, and may have even created ‘false alarms’ in the days leading up to the robbery to test the police response time. The police speculate that the weapons and ammo were destined to be resold on the streets for between $200 - $500 a gun, a street value of between $2800 - $7000 for the 14 semi-automatic handguns recovered.

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Dark Ninja Knights - Busted by Cops

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Two young New Jersey guys, (pictured above), recently were arrested, for being drug fighting Ninjas. Their plan was apparently to scare drug dealers out of their neighborhood by dressing as Ninjas, and sending threatening letters to people the pair suspected of dealing drugs.

Of course, the police arrested the pair immediately, before they had a chance to fight crime and/or hit themselves on the head with their nun chucks. The pair were picked up by the po-po after delivering a letter to a suspected drug dealer that read, in part, “Shinobi will stop your cruel and sadistic intentions with justified, yet merciful force” and accused drug users and dealers of “committ[ing] sin of passing impurity” to others. - Source

I’m really not sure what charges the pair might face, since being a Ninja is too awesome to be a crime, but one thing is for sure, the streets of Clifton, New Jersey will continue to be plagued by drug peddling scum as long as the police are targeting Ninjas instead of real criminals.

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The Montauk Monster

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Gawker Media is reporting a dead “monster” washing ashore in Montauk, New York. While it does bear some resemblance to a shelled turtle, the legs don’t seem quite right, at least to me. And what’s with the “bracelet” on the right forepaw? Was this creature tagged by someone… Plum Island researches perhaps?

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-operated Plum Island animal testing facility is nearby, fueling the belief that the USDA is responsible; some would see the Montauk Monster as a hideous USDA experiment gone wrong while others might consider it a not -so-unexpected byproduct of animal experimentation. The simplest explanation might be that the Montauk Monster is a natural mutation of some sort of ordinary Earth animal, but which one? - Source

Whatever it was, beach goers are hoping it’s the only one of its kind.

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