Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[notorious bum]

Probably got suspicious when he wasn't ever involved in any big pot raids to go along with his, apparently, rock-solid DEA impersonation lol

[Salodin]

Took them months just to ask "hey this guy working here?" That is simply pathetic.

Why would they? Its was the police that were approached about some asshole dea guy, why would they suspect anything until after a few times of meeting him wheb what he says doesn't make much sense. I'd be surprised if he ever got caught if he wasn't constantly going to the same club with the same story.

[Callisto]

Staying in Florida: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/us/flo...takenly-freed/

(CNN) -- The state of Florida is asking for help in locating two former prison inmates that they realized should still be current inmates.

Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both 34, are considered "escapees" by authorities, but their prison break wasn't exactly a scene out of "The Shawshank Redemption."

Walker and Jenkins -- both convicted murderers -- separately walked out of the Franklin Correctional Institution located on Florida's panhandle "in accordance with Department of Corrections policy and procedure," according to Department of Corrections Secretary Michael Crews.

"However, both of their releases were based on fraudulent modifications that had been made to court orders," he said.

Authorities would not elaborate. Law enforcement learned of the situation Tuesday.

Walker, who was freed October 8, and Jenkins, freed on September 27, are former residents of Orlando, and the Orange County Sheriff's Office worries that at least one of them, but perhaps both of them, may have returned.

"They committed violent crimes," Capt. Angelo Nieves told CNN. "The best thing for them to do is to turn themselves in."

Gretl Plessinger, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, confirms they are assisting in the manhunt and investigating the escape. She wouldn't comment further.

Jenkins was serving a 50-year sentence in a 1998 murder and armed robbery and got an extra five years for a 1997 auto theft. He had been incarcerated since 2000. Walker was serving a 15-year sentence for a 1999 murder and had been in custody since 2001.

While Nieves and other law enforcement search for the inmates, Crews says he'll be conducting a "vigorous and thorough review" of other such prison releases to make sure there aren't others out there who shouldn't be.

Whoopsies

[Salodin]

Lmfao, how do they fuck that up.

[BaneTheBrawler]

by being florida

[6souls]

Make thousands of pounds by locating CP
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...a_2259536b.jpg

Gloria de Piero, the shadow minister for women and equalities, has accused a news agency of trying to obtain topless pictures of her taken when she was 15.

In a blog post, the Labour MP said the agency claimed to be acting on behalf of a national newspaper and was offering thousands of pounds to people who might have copies of the pictures.

She would find it "humiliating" if they were published, she told the BBC.

She had grown up in poverty and had posed topless for the money, she added.

"It's part of me, it's part of my life, it's part of my story," she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

"I've got an amazing mum and dad, but after the age of about 10, no-one worked in my household due to my father's ill health.

"My parents had jobs, they never had careers, and they were very, very ambitious for their daughter to have a better life than them."

The Ashfield MP said she had played truant on days when pupils were able to wear their own clothes, because she was ashamed of her wardrobe.

"I wanted some money, like my friends," she said of her decision to pose topless.

"There are reasons why I thought that they might be a way out for me, but I would respectfully say that I hope they are not published.

"I would find it embarrassing, humiliating."

The existence of the pictures "says something about poverty, growing up in poverty", she added.

"I'm not going to be a victim here," she said, adding that she did not want to see politics full of people "who, at 15, are thinking 'Ooh, I might be a politician one day'".

"Goodness, if someone had suggested that to me, at 15, I'd have thought they were absolutely barking."

In her blog, she elaborated: "I don't think anyone wants politics to be open only to those people who were planning their political careers in their teens. I would like to see a politics that represents our country, including many more women from all walks of life, and that is something I am passionately committed to help bring about.

"No one should have to worry that something they did when they were young might prevent them from serving their community or getting involved in politics at a local or national level."

Ms de Piero concluded: "It is now time to call off the hunt for these pictures and let me get on with the job I was elected to do, representing the people of Ashfield and serving in the shadow cabinet."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24563683
http://www.gloria-de-piero.co.uk/index.html#statement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwd55

She is a former Page 3 girl from The Sun. At age 15, that would mean she posed for them in 1987 or 88.

[Anoat]

If you somehow had the luxury of getting only 15 years for murder--and then serve 12+ of it--why the fuck would you escape with only 3 more years to go?

[Tokitoki]

If you somehow had the luxury of getting only 15 years for murder--and then serve 12+ of it--why the fuck would you escape with only 3 more years to go?

They forged the documents to reduce the sentences and had someone forge the judge's signature.

[Uzor]

I think his point was, why not just serve out the remaining three instead of escaping and risk getting X extra years added on to the jail time for escaping.

[hey]

They forged the documents to reduce the sentences and had someone forge the judge's signature.

But with 80% of their sentence completed, you'd think they'd just finish it, rather than risk getting caught and spend 10 more years in jail.

[6souls]

First there was

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21236690
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal...comms2380.html

Spoiler: show

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31I7NgJT7eL.jpg
SAVES LIVES

Now they're..

Cats smuggle drugs, contraband to prisons

Guards at a prison in the Moldovan village of Pruncul have pounced on a cat being used to traffick bags of cannabis, tied around its neck.

Suspicions were raised after the small grey and white creature was spotted regularly nipping in and out of the jail through a hole in a fence.

Its oversize decorative collar turned out to contain drugs and investigations are under way to sniff out its trainer.

Video of the cat being searched was posted by the justice ministry.

A cat was recently used to smuggle mobile phones into a Russian jail.

Guards caught it climbing a fence at the jail in Syktyvkar in June, the Moscow Times reported at the time, adding a photo of the creature being held by the scruff of its neck, the phones and chargers taped to its body.

It was just one of several attempts discovered in recent years, with cats at other jails being used to deliver heroin, the paper noted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24578678
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/a...on/481058.html

[Xantavia]

Shoplifter caught with a dead baby in thier bag

I just don't know anymore.

[Brill Weave]

Shoplifter caught with a dead baby in thier bag

I just don't know anymore.

[Krandor]

When I first heard about story yesterday guy at work said it was a fetus. Dead baby in a bag is slightly less weird

[Tajin]

Im not clicking that link, wtf

[Silenka]

Preliminary study finds Oreos to be as addictive as cocaine to lab rats

Connecticut College students and a professor of psychology have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just like most humans, rats go for the middle first.

In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Joseph Schroeder, associate professor of psychology and director of the behavioral neuroscience program, and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment. They also found that eating cookies activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.

The results are preliminary and subject to further scientific review.

“Our research supports the theory that high-fat/ high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” Schroeder said. “It may explain why some people can’t resist these foods despite the fact that they know they are bad for them.”

cont.

Spoiler: show

The research was the brainchild of neuroscience major Jamie Honohan ’13. A scholar in the College’s Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, Honohan was interested in how the prevalence of high-fat and high-sugar foods in low-income neighborhoods contributed to the obesity epidemic.

“My research interests stemmed from a curiosity for studying human behavior and our motivations when it comes to food,” said Honohan. “We chose Oreos not only because they are America’s favorite cookie, and highly palatable to rats, but also because products containing high amounts of fat and sugar are heavily marketed in communities with lower socioeconomic statuses.”

To test the addictiveness of Oreos, Honohan and a co-researcher, Becca Markson ’13, worked with Schroeder and two other students, Science Leader Gabriela Lopez ’15 and Katrina Bantis ’15, last year to measure the association between “drug” and environment.

On one side of a maze, they would give hungry rats Oreos and on the other, they would give them a control – in this case, rice cakes. (“Just like humans, rats don’t seem to get much pleasure out of eating them,” Schroeder said.) Then, they would give the rats the option of spending time on either side of the maze and measure how long they would spend on the side where they were typically fed Oreos.

While it may not be scientifically relevant, Honohan said it was surprising to watch the rats eat the famous cookie. “They would
break it open and eat the middle first,” she said.

They compared the results of the Oreo and rice cake test with results from rats that were given an injection of cocaine or morphine, known addictive substances, on one side of the maze and a shot of saline on the other. Professor Schroeder is licensed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to purchase and use controlled substances for research.

The research showed the rats conditioned with Oreos spent as much time on the “drug” side of the maze as the rats conditioned with cocaine or morphine.

Neuroscience major and Science Leader Lauren Cameron ’14 was awarded a Keck Grant, which provides summer research stipends in the sciences to qualified students, to work with Schroeder to continue the research over the summer. They used immunohistochemistry to measure the expression of a protein called c-Fos, a marker of neuronal activation, in the nucleus accumbens, or the brain’s “pleasure center.”

“It basically tells us how many cells were turned on in a specific region of the brain in response to the drugs or Oreos,” said Schroeder.

They found that the Oreos activated significantly more neurons than cocaine or morphine.

"This correlated well with our behavioral results and lends support to the hypothesis that high-fat/ high sugar foods can be thought of as addictive," said Schroeder.

And that could be a problem for the general public, says Honohan.

“Even though we associate significant health hazards in taking drugs like cocaine and morphine, high-fat/ high-sugar foods may present even more of a danger because of their accessibility and affordability,” she said.

Schroeder will present the research next month at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, Calif.

Well duh, Oreos are the shit.

[Byrthnoth]

Despite how this is making the rounds in the popular press, it was not published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. It looks like they did almost a paper worth of work, but the fact that they chose to go to the popular press directly instead of publishing in a journal first indicates that they may not be confident in their results/methods/etc. It basically just makes for a good headline and I wouldn't trust the science behind it. The media, at your service.

[Guitarman]

Their methodology was complete garbage, too. The rats had a choice between a rice cake and an oreo. No shit it's going to go for an oreo. Rats like sweet too.

[Moss]

should have put peanut butter on the rice cake to give it a fighting chance

[Byrthnoth]

Well, without seeing the data it's hard to say much about it. Can't see the data because it's unpublished. If I was going to accept their behavioral tests, I would have to be convinced that they weren't running into ceiling/floor effects (by the appropriate control). I mean, cynically, I think they're essentially reporting a null hypothesis through the popular press. They failed to see a difference between their two test conditions (probably due to ceiling/floor effects) and took it to the public press because they knew that the scientific community probably wouldn't care and maybe wouldn't even publish it.