The Independent Jerk

Politics, guns, my home town and surrounding areas, loathing, and the observations of a very grumpy white male living in a suburb of Boston. "Lynn, Lynn, city of sin. You never come out the way you went in. Ask for water, they give you a gin... it's the darndest city I ever been in."

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

When I'm right, I'm right.

I while back i posted this.

Today the Lynn item reports this.

At about 6:30 p.m. Friday, police rushed to 118 Cooledge St. on a report of shots fired. The victim told police she was on the sidewalk when Cote fired at her from a moving car allegedly driven by 18-year-old Sigfredo Sanchez, according to prosecutors.

Steven Acevedo, 19, of 109 Franklin Ave., Revere, was also in the vehicle and allegedly was caught by police trying to hide the gun a short time later.
Police recovered a single bullet at the scene, which prosecutors say was shot from a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

Police arrested the three suspects at about 9:45 p.m. Friday after conducting surveillance at a nearby home. The three are well known to police for serious crimes.

Sanchez, of 5 Florence Ave., Revere, was previously charged with vehicular homicide for the July 23, 2007 death of Megan Power, 17, of Somerville. Sanchez was allegedly drunk and driving without a license when his motorcycle wrecked at the corner of Centennial and Franklin avenues around 1:30 a.m.



I think my solution in the original post was fitting.

Friday, April 04, 2008

Oink



cbs2chicago.com - Cop Who Handcuffed Mother Could Now Be In Trouble
CHICAGO (CBS) ― The part-time officer involved in a controversial arrest in the south suburbs may now be in trouble himself. He put a mother in handcuffs for leaving a sleeping child in the car but, as CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports, there's word that the officer in question should not have been on the street in the first place.

Ellen "Treffly" Coyne was arrested Dec. 8 for leaving 2-year-old Phoebe asleep in her car seat while she and her other daughters went to drop $8 in change into a Salvation Army kettle less than 40 feet away. It was a good deed that ended with Coyne's arrest.

"It was surreal," Coyne said. "I couldn't believe it was happening to me."

The criminal charges were later dropped, but now we're learning that the arresting officer could be in trouble.

Forrest Wondolowski is a Chicago machinist who's been disabled since 2004. But Chicago officials say when he filled out his dual employment form he told them he'd be on desk duty while working as a Crestwood police officer. They wouldn't go on camera Tuesday but spokesperson Eileen Joyce told CBS 2: "We've never had an employee put false information on a dual employment form. We're investigating whether what he wrote on his form was not true."

"He didn't seem disabled to me, so to learn that he was collecting from the City of Chicago for disability, that was surprising," Coyne said.

She calls the turn of events ironic.

Wondolowski and the Crestwood Police Department were not available for comment.

The Mayor of Crestwood says Officer Wondolowski has been a part-time officer in good standing for 10 years.

He says Wondolowski did take time off when he was injured.

City of Chicago officials say Wondolowski can't lift anything above 50 pounds while on the job due to his 2004 shoulder injury.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Earth Liberation Front


John Vidal on environmental sabotage and 'eco-terrorism' in the US | Environment | The Guardian
When a luxury housing development in Washington was torched, it seemed an open and shut case. The Earth Liberation Front was to blame. But was it? Does it even exist? And why is the Bush government intent on casting 'eco-terrorists' as public enemy number one? John Vidal reports

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008



Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall -- Crimes, Iraq War, Long Island -- Newsday.com

Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches resembling blood splatters.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Terminator


Military Videos: Videos, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Marines - Military Times
Neural Robotics Inc. (NRI) demonstrates their latest effort at giving the AA-12 shotgun an aerial view of the enemy.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Didn't anyone watch Terminator.


Look at the end of the video. Look who is funding it. Wonderful. So when soldiers stop obeying orders they can send these out.

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