Hate Crime Survivor Commits Suicide Posted: 1 year ago by VooDooPeacock
Although David Ritcheson seemed to have been recovering from a brutal attack in which he was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole by a man shouting "White Power!", he leaped to his death from an upper deck of a Carnival Cruise ship on Sunday morning.
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Ham steak called hate crime Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A ham steak tossed onto a school lunchroom table has a Maine community struggling with what constitutes a hate crime and bruised race relations.
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David Foster Wallace Has Died Posted: 3 months ago by bernardblack
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and other best selling books hung himself on Friday.
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Scourge of Scientology dies in apparent suicide Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39. There were no signs of foul play, and police found what appeared to be a suicide note.
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Greek Ninjas sink cruise ship. Posted: 2 years ago by PulsisX
Ninjas, disguised as a volcanic reef, attacked a Cruise ship which later sank off the coast of Santorini.
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Eddie Van Halen asks David Lee Roth to return Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Van Halen was never the same after David left the group. David may be a lot of things, but he is definitely a showman.
Bonus: Some great David Lee Roth Quotes
Also to stay topical, he was once hit by something thrown from some arse heckler and replied "I know who did that and I'll be sleeping with his girlfriend tonight"
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A ridiculous real-life CSI case Posted: 7 months ago by lynxears
A dual-citizenship American/French man dies. LA police call it a suicide, French police aren't so sure.
..."The homicide detectives' theory — which strikes his family and friends as unlikely, even absurd — was that de la Plaza took drugs, stabbed himself, then washed or disposed of the knife before dying."
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Crime and the economy Posted: 2 weeks ago by lynxears
Does the sinking economy mean we'll see a spike in crime? Brilliant historical/analysis piece by NPR on our chances of seeing a Bonnie and Clyde crime spree.
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Sleeper hold of death Posted: 10 months ago by wags273
Homicide detectives are investigating the bizarre death of a San Diego man after his suicide attempt turned into a fight with his girlfriend.
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Top 10 Celebrities Who Attempted To Commit Suicide Posted: 11 months ago by willster09
who's who on suicide lane! Thankfully, the following ten celebrities only attempted suicide and did not succeed.
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Suicide blasts kill at least 30 in Iraq Posted: 1 year ago by pjanaway
Three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in Iraq today, mostly policemen, prisoners and tribal leaders, as insurgents launched fresh assaults in the violence-plagued country.ir
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Officer in taser death kills himself Posted: 2 months ago by shep182
The NYPD lieutenant who authorized the fatal use of a taser stun gun on a naked Brooklyn psychiatric patient committed suicide at Floyd Bennett Field this morning.
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Hate Crime(careful@work) Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Remember kids, sharing is caring.
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Flushing a Koran = Hate Crime? Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
PACE University student, Stanislav Shmulevich flushed a Koran down a toilet. At first he was charged with vandalism, but after pressure from Muslim groups and the wacked-out PC crowd he is not being charged with multiple felonies and hate crimes. (Click on embedded links for more info)
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Crime - Wikipedia Posted: 2 years ago by robfouryqr
Hyperlinked article examines the definition and history of crime and how it is handled around the world.
Also addresses penal law in the U.S., the
natural law theory of crime, aiding and
abetting, and different types of crime.
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Perhaps The Strangest Suicide In History Posted: 3 months ago by muppetmaker
"The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his dispondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly." And the story gets better...
(The website has some strange colors, hard to read. The full story is copied in the comments.)
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32 Dead in Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Funeral Posted: 11 months ago by bevissimo
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-rigged vest at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, killing 32 people gathered to mourn the death of an Iraqi army officer killed in a car bombing, police and ambulance officials said.
Isn't it the height of bad taste to bomb a funeral? What if it turns into a geometric progression?
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Top 10 People Who Committed Suicide In Public Posted: 11 months ago by leopoldogolba
Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) is considered a national hero of Lithuania, and is the subject of several books. Romas Kalanta set himself on fire in a public place in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on May 14, 1972 in protest of the oppression of the Lithuanian language, culture and people by the government of the Soviet Union. At the time it was very difficult to tell the western world about this oppression, as the Soviet government made foreign communications nearly impossible.
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Guess My Crime Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Take a look at a mugshot and see if you can guess the crime the person was charged with. It's a multiple choice so give it a shot. This person was charged with Aggravated Assault or DUI or Retail Theft. Which do you think.
FYI, don't read the filename of the photographs.
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British soldier admits war crime as court martial told of Iraqi civilian's brutal death Posted: 2 years ago by mrnelson
A corporal in the Duke of Lancaster's regiment became the first British soldier ever to be convicted of a war crime yesterday as a court martial heard that he and his colleagues systematically abused ...
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Women with Breast Implants More Likely to Commit Suicide Posted: 1 year ago by DemureArt
The study, published in the August edition of Annals of Plastic Surgery, revealed that women who underwent surgery to enlarge their breasts were three times as likely to commit suicide as those who did not have the surgery.
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