Youth Football Team Foils Robbery Of Elderly Man – News Story

Police say two teenage boys, 15 and 17 years old, knocked down a 71-year-old man and ran off with his camera. Taylor Leota led the charge as the whole football team took off after the two suspects.

“At first they were jogging,” explained the 13-year-old Leota. “After they see the team coming, they started sprinting. I would have been scared too seeing a football team chasing me; especially one of us.”

The team chased the suspects to a nearby house until the police came. The pair was arrested. Police say a Taser was used on the 17-year-old when he reached in his waistband.

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“It’s not only about football. It’s about making a chapter in these children’s lives to become better men,” says Patriot coach Reggie Sweat. “So they’re not the ones stealing people’s cameras and stuff like that.”

The patriots are taking steps to find another practice field. There is gang graffiti here and the team doesn’t want anymore confrontations. And while the patriots have yet to win a football game this season, many would argue that these young men are already winners.

Even in San Fransisco, where I’d expect these kids to be arrested and charged with some sort of vigilantism, kids know wrong when they see it, and are able to demonstrate the right thing to do. This is the kind of news that throws aside all the nasty, depressing, demoralizing crap the networks feed us on a daily basis, and makes me realize there is still hope for the next generation.

These kids are awesome.

Not my usual type of post, but I found this odd:

I’m on the go a lot, between work and home and the time on the road between the two. Radio reception around here sucks, and I have no desire to subscribe to yet another service just to listen to decent talk radio. I solved this in part by buying a cheap (around $15) USB to FM adapter that plugs into my car’s cigarette lighter. I download podcasts with Juice, copy them to a flash drive, and I’m off and running. I can take the same USB flash drive, plug it into my computer at work and play them through Windows mediaplayer. Today, I ordered a Coby CX-266 AM/FM/USB/MP3/SD/MMC player for use without the car or the computer. It’s another step in the right direction, but not yet perfect. It was also the ONLY tabletop device of it’s type at a reasonable price I was able to locate. Congratulations to Coby on filling this niche.

The one thing I can’t find is a player (other than windows software) that will allow me to fine-tune my listening. By this I mean normal recorded media functions such as fast-forward and reverse. All the portable players allow me to play/stop/pause/skip, but NONE I have found have the ability to navigate half-way into a 2 hour MP3 which I’ve already partially listened to. Particularly aggravating when I want to hear the rest of the Jerry Doyle or Mark Levin show I’ve been listening to at work on the way home.

Is it the fault of the Chinese company that’s mass-producing the $.05 MP3 reader/player chips for all these devices? Is this a feature they didn’t plan for because most people are just listening to ripped music? Am I using the wrong search terms in Google?

Do you download and listen to MP3 podcasts on portable devices? I’d love to hear from anyone who’s found a solution to my dilemma!

***UPDATE***

The Coby CX266 *DOES* allow for navigation within an .MP3! It’s slow, but it’s there! Yee! MP3 nirvana… well, almost

Cindy Sheehan arrested at Petraeus hearing

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday in or near the hearing room where Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are testifying on the situation in Iraq, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.
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Sheehan was the face of the anti-war movement before saying in May of this year that she would “retire” from the cause. Shortly thereafter, she announced that she would seek the congressional seat of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Attention whores never learn. Ms. Sheehan has lost any claim to sympathy for the death of her son. Casey Sheehan, our thoughts are with you and the sacrifice you made, but your mother has gone from pitiable to annoying to despicable.

Beer runners’ flour trail a recipe for trouble

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.

They were FORCED to evacuate an entire store because hashers marked the parking lot with flour?

So the pansies at IKEA have never heard of a hash run? Not terribly surprising… but why didn’t the cops laugh it off and apologize when they realized their mistake? Didn’t the words “ON ON” writ in flour catch their eye? This is law enforcement at an all-time low.

What happened to all that Homeland Defense money that was supposed to buy chemical and biological testing equipment? Couldn’t this have been resolved with a single sniff of a portable detector?

This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Addendum: I see someone wasted no time editing Wikipedia to note this story; and depending on how old the information is, it may also be that the hares were partially at fault for failing to mention to the New Haven cops that they were planning this run. Still not a felony offense.