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ltmurnauOkay, first this.
Now criminals are stupid, at least the ones who get caught are, but this guy especially so - why end a string of successful bank robberies by holding up Spartacus Books, for goshsakes? Everyone knows they have maybe eight dollars in the till, on a good day...
Most wanted Vancouver bank robbery suspect arrested
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | 3:32 PM PT
CBC News
Vancouver police say they have arrested a 48-year-old suspect they are alleging is the city's most prolific bank robber. The Vancouver man is accused of robbing a total of 17 banks since November and committing a third of the city's bank robberies so far this year, said police spokesman Const. Tim Fanning.
"There have been 15 bank robberies so far this year in Vancouver, and this man is believed to be responsible for more than 33 per cent of those robberies. So it was a very good arrest last night."
A man was arrested after the attempted robberies of two stores on West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver Tuesday night.
Fanning alleged the suspect hit the Hemp Store first, producing a silver-coloured replica handgun and demanded money, but was refused by the clerk.
Just a few minutes later, it's alleged the suspect held up Spartacus Books just two blocks away. Police were called, and arrested a man.
Fanning said police have had difficulty arresting a suspect in the past, because different disguises were allegedly used each time a bank was hit. Charges of robbery, use of an imitation firearm during the commission of a robbery and of using a disguise to commit an indictable offence are expected to be laid.
***
Also This. I am CERTAIN that there's an MC 900 Foot Jesus song that describes this.
***
California man allegedly faked his own kidnapping to hide car crash from wife
Published: Thursday, February 15, 2007 | 12:42 PM ET
Canadian Press
SAN RAFAEL, California (AP) - A man who allegedly faked his own kidnapping to keep his wife from finding out he crashed her new car could face criminal charges, police said.
Jorge Alberto Mejia, 35, told police two kidnappers held him up at gunpoint at a San Rafael bar Saturday and ordered him to drive to Santa Rosa, California, where he purposely crashed the car into a wall to escape. Under questioning Monday, Mejia admitted to investigators he made the story up, including detailed descriptions of the nonexistent kidnappers.
"As far as we can tell, he was alone in the car," police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said.
Mejia was actually heading to a casino in Sonoma County, California, when he accidentally crashed his wife's 2007 Ford Focus and was worried about how she would react, Rohrbacher said. Police were still considering whether to file charges against Mejia for making a false report.
***
AHA! YES! I was right, and it popped out first hit on Google!
Adventures In Failure
lyrics by MC 900 FOOT JESUS
Damn I hate this job
to work in this dump you gotta be a snob
everybody gets on my nerves in this place
I think I'll take the afternoon off from the rat race
an exciting career
don't amount to much but a pain in the rear
I bust my ass all day for a dollar
and then I go home and listen to the kids holler
devoted spouse waitin' in the den
wants to hit me upside the head with a rolling pin
does that ring a bell?
a daily routine we all know well
I'm makin' more but enjoyin' it less
the good life's mainly causin' me stress
making a change is difficult but
I gotta try to get out of this rut
but fear seems to be holdin' me back
courage is the principle trait I lack
I gotta calm my nerves so I can think
I pour myself a nice stiff drink
and another this is my usual mode
one for the money and ten for the road
ah, now everything is clear
I gotta get the hell out of here
Yes now my mission is plain
a Big Mac is calling my name
I gotta sample some of Ronald's cooking
so I raid my wifes purse when she's not looking
pondering the wonderful thing called marriage
I accidentally back the car into a baby carriage
'scuse me ma'am I'd love to stay and chat
but watch where you're going next time you old bat
I hit the gas and zoom down the block
leave 'er in the dust yellin' for the cops
swervin' round a corner tryin' to steer
I get so excited I almost spill my beer
a neighbourhood dog is yappin' at my bumper
so I slam on the brakes and I hear a big thump
I jump the curb and land up on a lawn
then I finish my beer and turn the radio on
some idiot's goin' on about rehab
I grab a brew and yank on the pull tab
here comes a little old lady with a shot gun
I put the pedal to the metal and she runs
digging on my off-road driving power
I do a donut in a bed of flowers
then I jerk the wheel a little to hard
the car rolls over and over on out of the yard
(Causin' much destruction)
(Act the fool)
I come to rest in the middle of the street
a bunch of empty beer cans rattlin' at my feet
starin' in the window is a nosy little brat
I look him in the eyes and say "I meant to do that"
then I notice my watch says I'm overdue
for my big appointment at the local drive through
I do a number on the accelerator
and I'm cuttin' in line about thirty seconds later
whaddya think this is?
some kinda joke?
gimme 10 Big Macs and a small diet coke
I pull up to the window with my radio playin'
I grab the bag and leave without payin'
I weave down the road for a block
jugglin' a beer and a a styrofoam box
pull into a parking lot and kill the motor
presently I notice a peculiar odour
a little black smoke is risin' from the hood
somethings gonna happen and it's probably not good
I open the door grab my stuff and go
just in time to watch the whole thing blow
the car explodes with a bang and a hiss
Oh boy, my wife is gonna really like this
I can't believe this is happenin' to me
this piece of junk's goin' back to the factory
this was a blatant attempt on my life
everyone will fall for that
except my wife
but wait a plan begins to emerge
I suddenly have an overwhelming urge
to spend the night in the great outdoors
my suburban lifestyle has become a bore
I'll build me a fire
and finish my burgers
what my wife don't know
won't hurt her
I leave the scene of the unhappy event
resolved to make the most of my predicament
a few yards away I feel better
I know! I'll write 'er a letter
or better yet a ransom demand
got your husband send the money understand?
or else we'll send his head home in a jar
P.S.
sorry 'bout the car
Yeah, now that ought to really do the trick
I'll be gettin' off the hook and she'll be worried sick
but really, I'm gonna make it up to you honey
I'll buy you a new car with your own damned money
I walk a while into the sunset
a man, at peace with the world, you bet
nothing can diminish my total enjoyment
except when I pass my place of employment
Damn I hate this job
to work in this dump you gotta be a snob
everybody gets on my nerves in this place
I think I'll take the afternoon off
from the rat race
(Hard like a criminal)
***
And finally, here are selections from the news, from the official North Korean English-language news service, which has yet to breathe a word of the no-nukes-for-food deal. In all fairness, it is almost the Great Leader's birthday, which is the February holiday they allude to.
Art Performances Given to Celebrate February Holiday
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) --Art performances were given at theatres and halls in Pyongyang to celebrate the auspicious February holiday.
A performance was given by art squads of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces at the April 25 House of Culture.
The performers staged mixed chorus "Jong Il Peak Greeting Spring," singing to the accompaniment of oungum "Snow-Covered Old Home" and other numbers fully representing the immense joy and happiness of all the servicepersons and people of having Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il in the van of the Songun revolution as he has made undying contributions to the country and people since he was born as the son of the guerrillas.
Also put on the stage were such numbers demonstrating the militant spirit of the revolutionary army as a poem and singing "For the Motherland" and chorus "All Servicepersons and People Will Become Human Bullets and Bombs."
A performance was given by the art group of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea at the Central Workers' Hall.
Their repertoire included female quintet "Let's Uphold Our General" and male chorus "Let's Glorify Socialism, Riding Swift Horses of Songun" through which it truthfully represented the firm faith and will of the Korean working class to build an economic power in this land without fail by performing miracles and exploits in the general advance of Songun revolution in this hope-filled year with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and ardent patriotic enthusiasm.
Meanwhile, the art group of the members of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in Pyongyang staged its performance titled "Highest Glory to Kim Jong Il, Great Brilliant Commander of Songun" at the Ponghwa Art Theatre.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Symposiums on Kim Jong Il's Undying Feats Held
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- Symposiums on the undying feats performed by Kim Jong Il were held by working people's organizations.
Speeches were made there by Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, Pak Sun Hui, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, and others.
The speakers profoundly explained the imperishable feats performed by Kim Jong Il for the times and history, noting that his birth was a great auspicious event which opened a bright prospect before the continuity of the Juche revolutionary cause and accomplishment of the human cause of independence.
They said Kim Jong Il, genius of thought and theory, scientifically formulated the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung and steadily developed it in depth to meet the demand of the developing revolution, thus clearly indicating the road ahead of the times and humankind.
They noted that he has carried forward and developed the idea and line of attaching importance to arms put forward by the President and won one victory after another in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. confrontation with his unique Songun politics and thereby demonstrated the dignity and honor of the country and the nation to the world and unfolded a new history of building a prosperous powerful country in this land.
They stressed that the organizations should fulfil their revolutionary duties in the general march today for building a great prosperous powerful nation by defending and upholding and adding brilliance to the undying feats of Kim Jong Il in the Songun revolution and effecting a revolutionary turn in the ideological education of their members.
Present at the symposiums were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, and officials of national institutions and working people's organizations and their members in Pyongyang.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Developing Background Stand Arts on New Ground
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- The background stand arts of the mass gymnastic display has broken a new ground in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The background stand arts made its first appearance in the mass gymnastic display "Song of Liberation" in Juche 44 (1955) by displaying a few words with boards. After then, it had made a signal development in the course of creating mass gymnastic displays including "Our Glorious Motherland," "Holiday of August," "Era of Workers' Party" and "Our Brilliant Motherland."
The mass gymnastic display "Era of Workers' Party" showed the pictures of flying Chollima (winged horse), fish and torch in combination with words for the first time. And the mass gymnastic display "Under the Flag of Workers' Party" spread the picture "Arduous March" on the whole of the background, thus showing the content of the work in a persuasive and visual way. They made the background large-sized, rhythmic, symbolic, three-dimensional and scientific.
In particular, the mass gymnastic display "Chollima Korea" registered a signal development in the background stand arts. It successfully reflected on the background such moving pictures as beaming national emblem of the DPRK, red flag of the Paektu forest, beacon, molten iron pouring out of blast furnace, 3,000-ton press, tractor, excavator, fish and patterns of cloth.
The greatest success made in the background stand arts was that it reflected the image of President Kim Il Sung with high graphic depiction for the first time in 1964. Now the background stand arts depict the noble images of the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
In the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang," a "Kim Il Sung Prize" laureate, the background stand embossed the ideological and thematic content of the work and realized the intensification and concentration of the depiction, thus breaking a mysterious phase of the visual arts.
The application of laser illumination and large-sized projector adds beauty to each scene.
Even foreigners lavished praises on the ever-changing and largest background which led the audience to ecstasy.
***
I always wondered if there was a word for that card-flipping thing they do.
Now criminals are stupid, at least the ones who get caught are, but this guy especially so - why end a string of successful bank robberies by holding up Spartacus Books, for goshsakes? Everyone knows they have maybe eight dollars in the till, on a good day...
Most wanted Vancouver bank robbery suspect arrested
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | 3:32 PM PT
CBC News
Vancouver police say they have arrested a 48-year-old suspect they are alleging is the city's most prolific bank robber. The Vancouver man is accused of robbing a total of 17 banks since November and committing a third of the city's bank robberies so far this year, said police spokesman Const. Tim Fanning.
"There have been 15 bank robberies so far this year in Vancouver, and this man is believed to be responsible for more than 33 per cent of those robberies. So it was a very good arrest last night."
A man was arrested after the attempted robberies of two stores on West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver Tuesday night.
Fanning alleged the suspect hit the Hemp Store first, producing a silver-coloured replica handgun and demanded money, but was refused by the clerk.
Just a few minutes later, it's alleged the suspect held up Spartacus Books just two blocks away. Police were called, and arrested a man.
Fanning said police have had difficulty arresting a suspect in the past, because different disguises were allegedly used each time a bank was hit. Charges of robbery, use of an imitation firearm during the commission of a robbery and of using a disguise to commit an indictable offence are expected to be laid.
***
Also This. I am CERTAIN that there's an MC 900 Foot Jesus song that describes this.
***
California man allegedly faked his own kidnapping to hide car crash from wife
Published: Thursday, February 15, 2007 | 12:42 PM ET
Canadian Press
SAN RAFAEL, California (AP) - A man who allegedly faked his own kidnapping to keep his wife from finding out he crashed her new car could face criminal charges, police said.
Jorge Alberto Mejia, 35, told police two kidnappers held him up at gunpoint at a San Rafael bar Saturday and ordered him to drive to Santa Rosa, California, where he purposely crashed the car into a wall to escape. Under questioning Monday, Mejia admitted to investigators he made the story up, including detailed descriptions of the nonexistent kidnappers.
"As far as we can tell, he was alone in the car," police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said.
Mejia was actually heading to a casino in Sonoma County, California, when he accidentally crashed his wife's 2007 Ford Focus and was worried about how she would react, Rohrbacher said. Police were still considering whether to file charges against Mejia for making a false report.
***
AHA! YES! I was right, and it popped out first hit on Google!
Adventures In Failure
lyrics by MC 900 FOOT JESUS
Damn I hate this job
to work in this dump you gotta be a snob
everybody gets on my nerves in this place
I think I'll take the afternoon off from the rat race
an exciting career
don't amount to much but a pain in the rear
I bust my ass all day for a dollar
and then I go home and listen to the kids holler
devoted spouse waitin' in the den
wants to hit me upside the head with a rolling pin
does that ring a bell?
a daily routine we all know well
I'm makin' more but enjoyin' it less
the good life's mainly causin' me stress
making a change is difficult but
I gotta try to get out of this rut
but fear seems to be holdin' me back
courage is the principle trait I lack
I gotta calm my nerves so I can think
I pour myself a nice stiff drink
and another this is my usual mode
one for the money and ten for the road
ah, now everything is clear
I gotta get the hell out of here
Yes now my mission is plain
a Big Mac is calling my name
I gotta sample some of Ronald's cooking
so I raid my wifes purse when she's not looking
pondering the wonderful thing called marriage
I accidentally back the car into a baby carriage
'scuse me ma'am I'd love to stay and chat
but watch where you're going next time you old bat
I hit the gas and zoom down the block
leave 'er in the dust yellin' for the cops
swervin' round a corner tryin' to steer
I get so excited I almost spill my beer
a neighbourhood dog is yappin' at my bumper
so I slam on the brakes and I hear a big thump
I jump the curb and land up on a lawn
then I finish my beer and turn the radio on
some idiot's goin' on about rehab
I grab a brew and yank on the pull tab
here comes a little old lady with a shot gun
I put the pedal to the metal and she runs
digging on my off-road driving power
I do a donut in a bed of flowers
then I jerk the wheel a little to hard
the car rolls over and over on out of the yard
(Causin' much destruction)
(Act the fool)
I come to rest in the middle of the street
a bunch of empty beer cans rattlin' at my feet
starin' in the window is a nosy little brat
I look him in the eyes and say "I meant to do that"
then I notice my watch says I'm overdue
for my big appointment at the local drive through
I do a number on the accelerator
and I'm cuttin' in line about thirty seconds later
whaddya think this is?
some kinda joke?
gimme 10 Big Macs and a small diet coke
I pull up to the window with my radio playin'
I grab the bag and leave without payin'
I weave down the road for a block
jugglin' a beer and a a styrofoam box
pull into a parking lot and kill the motor
presently I notice a peculiar odour
a little black smoke is risin' from the hood
somethings gonna happen and it's probably not good
I open the door grab my stuff and go
just in time to watch the whole thing blow
the car explodes with a bang and a hiss
Oh boy, my wife is gonna really like this
I can't believe this is happenin' to me
this piece of junk's goin' back to the factory
this was a blatant attempt on my life
everyone will fall for that
except my wife
but wait a plan begins to emerge
I suddenly have an overwhelming urge
to spend the night in the great outdoors
my suburban lifestyle has become a bore
I'll build me a fire
and finish my burgers
what my wife don't know
won't hurt her
I leave the scene of the unhappy event
resolved to make the most of my predicament
a few yards away I feel better
I know! I'll write 'er a letter
or better yet a ransom demand
got your husband send the money understand?
or else we'll send his head home in a jar
P.S.
sorry 'bout the car
Yeah, now that ought to really do the trick
I'll be gettin' off the hook and she'll be worried sick
but really, I'm gonna make it up to you honey
I'll buy you a new car with your own damned money
I walk a while into the sunset
a man, at peace with the world, you bet
nothing can diminish my total enjoyment
except when I pass my place of employment
Damn I hate this job
to work in this dump you gotta be a snob
everybody gets on my nerves in this place
I think I'll take the afternoon off
from the rat race
(Hard like a criminal)
***
And finally, here are selections from the news, from the official North Korean English-language news service, which has yet to breathe a word of the no-nukes-for-food deal. In all fairness, it is almost the Great Leader's birthday, which is the February holiday they allude to.
Art Performances Given to Celebrate February Holiday
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) --Art performances were given at theatres and halls in Pyongyang to celebrate the auspicious February holiday.
A performance was given by art squads of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces at the April 25 House of Culture.
The performers staged mixed chorus "Jong Il Peak Greeting Spring," singing to the accompaniment of oungum "Snow-Covered Old Home" and other numbers fully representing the immense joy and happiness of all the servicepersons and people of having Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il in the van of the Songun revolution as he has made undying contributions to the country and people since he was born as the son of the guerrillas.
Also put on the stage were such numbers demonstrating the militant spirit of the revolutionary army as a poem and singing "For the Motherland" and chorus "All Servicepersons and People Will Become Human Bullets and Bombs."
A performance was given by the art group of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea at the Central Workers' Hall.
Their repertoire included female quintet "Let's Uphold Our General" and male chorus "Let's Glorify Socialism, Riding Swift Horses of Songun" through which it truthfully represented the firm faith and will of the Korean working class to build an economic power in this land without fail by performing miracles and exploits in the general advance of Songun revolution in this hope-filled year with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and ardent patriotic enthusiasm.
Meanwhile, the art group of the members of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in Pyongyang staged its performance titled "Highest Glory to Kim Jong Il, Great Brilliant Commander of Songun" at the Ponghwa Art Theatre.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Symposiums on Kim Jong Il's Undying Feats Held
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- Symposiums on the undying feats performed by Kim Jong Il were held by working people's organizations.
Speeches were made there by Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, Pak Sun Hui, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, and others.
The speakers profoundly explained the imperishable feats performed by Kim Jong Il for the times and history, noting that his birth was a great auspicious event which opened a bright prospect before the continuity of the Juche revolutionary cause and accomplishment of the human cause of independence.
They said Kim Jong Il, genius of thought and theory, scientifically formulated the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung and steadily developed it in depth to meet the demand of the developing revolution, thus clearly indicating the road ahead of the times and humankind.
They noted that he has carried forward and developed the idea and line of attaching importance to arms put forward by the President and won one victory after another in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. confrontation with his unique Songun politics and thereby demonstrated the dignity and honor of the country and the nation to the world and unfolded a new history of building a prosperous powerful country in this land.
They stressed that the organizations should fulfil their revolutionary duties in the general march today for building a great prosperous powerful nation by defending and upholding and adding brilliance to the undying feats of Kim Jong Il in the Songun revolution and effecting a revolutionary turn in the ideological education of their members.
Present at the symposiums were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, and officials of national institutions and working people's organizations and their members in Pyongyang.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Developing Background Stand Arts on New Ground
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- The background stand arts of the mass gymnastic display has broken a new ground in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The background stand arts made its first appearance in the mass gymnastic display "Song of Liberation" in Juche 44 (1955) by displaying a few words with boards. After then, it had made a signal development in the course of creating mass gymnastic displays including "Our Glorious Motherland," "Holiday of August," "Era of Workers' Party" and "Our Brilliant Motherland."
The mass gymnastic display "Era of Workers' Party" showed the pictures of flying Chollima (winged horse), fish and torch in combination with words for the first time. And the mass gymnastic display "Under the Flag of Workers' Party" spread the picture "Arduous March" on the whole of the background, thus showing the content of the work in a persuasive and visual way. They made the background large-sized, rhythmic, symbolic, three-dimensional and scientific.
In particular, the mass gymnastic display "Chollima Korea" registered a signal development in the background stand arts. It successfully reflected on the background such moving pictures as beaming national emblem of the DPRK, red flag of the Paektu forest, beacon, molten iron pouring out of blast furnace, 3,000-ton press, tractor, excavator, fish and patterns of cloth.
The greatest success made in the background stand arts was that it reflected the image of President Kim Il Sung with high graphic depiction for the first time in 1964. Now the background stand arts depict the noble images of the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
In the mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang," a "Kim Il Sung Prize" laureate, the background stand embossed the ideological and thematic content of the work and realized the intensification and concentration of the depiction, thus breaking a mysterious phase of the visual arts.
The application of laser illumination and large-sized projector adds beauty to each scene.
Even foreigners lavished praises on the ever-changing and largest background which led the audience to ecstasy.
***
I always wondered if there was a word for that card-flipping thing they do.
