How Stupid Is This

Big Cities Reluctant to Target Illegals

Despite a federal effort to enlist help from local police to catch illegal immigrants, some of the USA's biggest cities are declining to enforce immigration laws. Police chiefs, mayors and city councils are ordering local cops not to get involved as federal agents crack down on people in the country illegally.

"Vulnerable people have always needed to see the police as being there to protect and serve, and that can't happen when the first words out of a cop's mouth are, 'I need to see your papers,'" Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said.

Several jurisdictions have refused to help. Chicago police and city workers are prohibited from asking immigrants about their legal status. New York City's public hospitals promised last month that they would keep secret an immigrant's legal status.

Say what? Words like declining to enforce, refused, ordering cops not to get involved, prohibited, and keep secret. You gotta be kidding me - these people are here in violation of law. The cops are worried that the first words out of their mouths being "I need to see your papers" might tarnish the image of the police as being there "to protect and serve." What have I missed? I thought "to protect and serve" meant arrest anyone doing anything illegal. You know, like being in the country illegally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.

A woman lost her footing after stepping over a retaining wall to take a photograph and went over a cliff, falling 500 feet to her death in a canyon.

In Michigan, The Grand Rapids Press on Sunday identified the woman as Deb Chamberlin, 52, of Rockford, vice president of the school board in the west Michigan community.

There are two important points here. The first is stepping over a retaining wall. The second is a vice president of the school board.

This is a very sad story for sure. However, they say a picture is worth a thousand words - I wonder if anyone developed the film?







Low-Slung, Baggy Pants Often Trip Up Thieves

Vicki Chandler, a 55-year-old underwriting associate at Cigna HealthCare in Chattanooga, Tenn., was walking to her car when a teenager in loose khaki pants approached her, pointed to her pocketbook and said, "I need that." He snatched the purse and took off. As he ran, his loose trousers slipped down below his hips. As he reached down to hold them up, the teen was forced to throw the purse aside.

It's a problem for perpetrators. Young men and teens wearing low-slung, baggy pants fairly regularly get tripped up in their getaways, a development that has given amused police officers and law-abiding citizens a welcome edge in the fight against crime.

And most of us have scoffed at the low-hanging, baggy pants that have been a fashion statement for more than a decade. Little did we know they are a crime deterrent.







Wife Accused in Swordplay Death of Husband

BEIJING - A Chinese woman has been charged with accidentally killing her husband with a sword after he refused to make her dinner. Police said Tang Xiaowan, 25, who has been practicing swordsmanship since she was young, had often forced her husband of three years at swordpoint to carry out her demands.

My wife asked me to cook dinner tonight and you should have seen it. I fixed a 15 course meal!!!!






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