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“Armed carjackings, assaults, robbery, shootings and serious sexual offences, including rape, are common in Papua” says the Foreign Office travel advice to travelers!
The papua tourism office has a hard work convincing more people like me to come to PNG!
Once a year takes place in Mount Hagen the biggest tribal meeting, called a singsing.
The “Men bilong pait” (the Warriors) ,the” pipels” (the women), and the “pikinini” (the children) are all here. Hundreds of papus are preparing themselves for the Singsing. It’s in open air, but you feel like being backstage in the latest fashion show in Milano or Paris as men paint their faces in red,yellow,white,black, women take grass to make skirts or kilts and cover their bodies with clay, mud, or even pigs fat!
Old wise men are building the giant headdresses made of eagle, parrot and bird of paradise feathers. Each feather is packed in newspaper, to protect them from insects. It will take hours…
Some warriors wear also marsupial jaws as necklaces! “If you do not have jaws, you can put dogs teeth, it works too” they tell me!
Bones, shells, pigs tusks, or twigs are put in the noses. I meet a Highlands warrior who has gave up the traditional shell that he used to put in his nose, and now uses an electrical meter!
Papu like to put a modern touch in their jewels or decorations, as we like to put some tribal stuff in our so called designed houses!
Now it’s time for parade. All the tribes are marching. It’s a mix of sounds and sights, not a love parade, rather a war parade!
The Mount Hagen festival was launched by the Australian colonial governor in 1964, to promote peace in the country.So…The warriors simulate fights! But the stone axes, the arrows, the shields, the spears, the bludgeons are real! There won’t be any violence during the festival, but everyday, tribal fights still take place, with guns instead of axes, and people die…
You can hear war songs, drums, and the tribes start to march in circle, in column, or in line .
The tribes keep on dancing until sundown, and have to listen to an endless speech from a local political while the few tourists go back to their hotels, stoned by the loudspeakers noise!
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© Eric Lafforgue
Hard to get a good photograph of a moving train. It's missing some parts, unfortunately.
Did my best to reassemble this beautiful piece of work by eoh1 and dazer seen on a Kansas City Southern de México train in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I filled up the bird feeders this morning. This chap was quickly on the scene. The feeder on the right is truly squirrel proof, much to his annoyance, I'm sure.
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911.
Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call. As the bank robbers leave the bank, they encountered the constables responding to the 911 call. The robbers immediately retreat back into the bank and barricade themselves with hostages.
Constables call for backup and the Tactical Response Unit quickly arrived on scene and established an inner perimeter. They are soon took over by the Special Tactics Unit.
The incident commander also arrive on scene and established a temporary command post and begin plans to resolve the situation peacefully.
To be continued...
Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe
- Harl Vincent / The Explorers of Callisto
- David H. Keller, M.D. / A Twentieth Century Homunculus
- William Withers Douglas / The Ice Man
- L. Taylor Hansen / The Man from Space
- S. P. Meek [Captain S. P. Meek, U.S.A.] / The Radio Robbery
- William Lemkin / Vitamine Z
- A. Hyatt Verrill / Beyond the Green Prism
- Alfred Pringle / Into the Valley of Death
cover: Leo Morey
(cover illustrates "Explorers of Callisto")
Editor: T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D.
Experimenter Publishing Co. / USA 1930
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911. Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call.
Will the police able to catch the robbers?
To be continued...
It's been while since I have done a police theme scene. Hope you enjoy.
Click here for full size view. Polaroid 600 SE, 127mm. Fuji FP-3000B instant film.
Crime scene investigation of a robbery at 3:30 am.
Funerary Bronze Head of Bruce Reynolds. He was the mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery in 1963, then worth £2,631,784.
His ashes are in Highgate East Cemetery, London. I'm not glorifying his infamy, it’s a remarkable memorial.
Recently I have been inspired by a lot of other builder's futuristic/apocalyptic Mocs. Ended up being one of my favorite Mocs I've done.
To Entice a Thief
A Prologue:
“I’m so glad you gave up your life of crime!”
She said to me as we danced, a wicked little smile creeping up upon her face.
It was a signal to me that she was ready to leave the reception...and that she was feeling amorous.
“Brilliant”. I thought as I let my eyes drift down to soak in the enticement of her sparkling necklace, before crafting an answer in character.
“Yes, and I owe it all to you and your lovely friends for being here this evening to help me rehabilitate.”
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The Enticing Tale Unfolds:
We were attending a black-tie reception that evening to celebrate the re-opening of a local theatre that had undergone a 2-year refurbishing, the first in almost 75 years of its 300-year existence.
I was in a full black tux with a green cummerbund.
My wife Ginny was wearing a slick thin satin sheath gown, short scalloped sleeved shoulders with a cowled neckline. It was dyed a vivid shade of emerald green which set off nicely, both her let down long ginger hair and mesmerizing green eyes.
My wife’s jewellery was also quite mesmerizing.
Long dangling rhinestone earrings that flowed and shimmered from her ears and dangled playfully in and out of her hair whenever she flung her head back.
Her nearly 45-millimeter wide necklace was also set with rhinestones, hanging down just below her gowns’ cowled neckline, where it sparkled alluringly as it moved against the luxurious green satin. She was also wearing her favorite rhinestone bracelet around her right wrist. The bracelet was a right cracker. The outer strands are made up of 1 carat round stones with a full 3-carat pear-shaped collection of “ice” set in the surrounding middle strand. She also, in addition to her wedding rings, was wearing an emerald diamond cocktail ring on her right index finger.
The posh reception had been a lot of fun, I really enjoy drinking and hanging with Ginny’s mates. A collection of artists of varying talents, including her fellow local actors and actresses.
We had been sharing a table with two other couples. Ginny’s fellow actor friend Tad and his wife Mareid, along with our married friends Heather and Merrick.
Tad and Merrick were in stiff tuxes like mine. Tad was wearing a black cummerbund, while Merrick wore a shiny dark blue vest with his.
Reserved Mareid was wearing a black velvet v necked dress.
Her jewels consisted of a diamond journey necklace with matching earrings. Alsong with her wedding rings she wore a small diamond pinkie ring.
Jovial Heather had poured her petite figure into a repurposed bridesmaid A-line taffeta gown of shiny sapphire blue with short white satin gloves on her hands.
She wore a dazzling necklace of blue sapphire stones surrounded by rhinestone diamonds. A large center stone dangled just above her snugly held cleavage with a series of smaller stones going up either side of the silver chain. Earrings and a bracelet had been added that matched her necklace. Along with her wedding rings, she sports a brace of matching blue sapphire cocktail rings.
As the evening, and the drinking wore on, our conversation became more lively, running through a myriad of topics before touching on the upcoming theatre production Tad, Mareid and Ginny were preparing for. A mystery play entitled “Shear the Black Sheep” by David Dodge.
It was Heather, while thoughtfully fingering her necklace, who chirped in about Dodge’s novel “To Catch a Thief.”
As we all looked at her, I studied her pretty attire, thinking that she would have fit right in with the story.
“Hell, we all would .” I thought eyeing Ginny and the rest of our table mates.
Ginny caught me eyeballing her and smirked as she dipped her head down to adjust her bracelet, her earrings doing their thing.
Heather reached over and gently laid her fingers over Ginny’s handsome bracelet, gently fingering it as she spoke further.
“That is such a pretty bracelet Ginny...”
Heather lifted her eyes up from it and looked around the table at us.”
“I remember hearing that David Dodge wrote his story after a jewel thief had broken into the French villa next store. As the dinner guests were gathered for a cocktail party on the terrace in front, the thief broke into the back and looted the master and guest bedrooms of valuables. “
“How awful!” Mareid spoke with a shudder.
Heather comfortingly placed her hand on Mareid’s bare arm. Her eyes wide as she ran wild with the thought.
“It was, darling, but at least he didn’t get any of the jewels the ladies like us were wearing at the party.”
“Unless they had chosen not to wear any...” I thought but kept it to myself as Heather went on talking to Mareid...
“And just think! The thief may have been there previously as a guest, how else did he know what jewels were there for the taking if he had not seen the ladies wearing theirs out ?”
“Was he ever caught I wonder ?” Questioned Merrick with a wink at me.
“I don’t believe so, got away clean away with all them lovely jewels he nicked,” Heather admitted, as both she and Mareid squirmed a bit in their seats.
Ginny meanwhile was not squirming but was giving me a meaningful look over after catching me in the act of doing the same to her.
I was, I’ll admit, also squirming a bit at Heather's remarks, so I decided to pipe in with...
“So Heather dear, ever wonder, if he had been there previously, as a guest, what would have been going through his mind as he mingled? Better yet, say he was here in our midsts tonight, if we were to pretend the jewels you ladies are wearing were real?”
“Mine are!” Said unimaginative Mareid with a bit of worry in her voice.
Tad chuckled. “ So they are darling, but any jewel thief worth his salt would also be salivating over the pretty baubles that Heather and Ginny are so winningly sporting this evening.”
Merrick chimed in...
“Spoken like a true thief laddie. And he would also be wanting a dance so he could have a closer look over of their sparklers.”
He stood up and offered a hand to his wife.
“Shall we, my dear?”
Heather gleefully rose and the pair went off to the dance floor. Closely followed by the rest of our table.
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Once this new series of long dances were over we all cheerfully headed back to our tables.
Without sitting, Tad and Mareid informed us they were calling it an early evening, having promised to have the babysitter (their young niece Veriety) home early.
We said our goodbyes and after they left, Merrick and I seated our ladies, then headed in the opposite direction to the bar for another round of drinks.
Returning to our table we saw that the girls were embroiled in a deep conversation, which they ended up on our approach, looking up at us like the cats who had gotten the canaries.
We served the pretty ladies their drinks, and after taking a rather unladylike slurp of her’s, Heather looked at Merrick and me with questioning eyes before asking, with a rather horsey dry throated tone of voice...
“Now then, what were you lads thinking as we danced?”
“A...bout?” Asked Merrick teasing, for he believes we both knew, but wanted her to come out with it.
“ Our jewels, sillies. Were you coveting them, thinking of ways to steal them from us? Inquiring minds want to know?”
With an astounding expression, I asked.
“Heather Luv, are you calling your husband snd I jewel thieves?!”
Both Heather and Ginny chortled as Heather said cheerfully...
“Well, reformed thieves then, you’ve given up a life of crime, but, you know, you can take the boy out of the city, but not the city out of the boy. So let’s have it, each of you have to say something, that’s my challenge...”
“And no coping out of it either you two. I know you have imaginations. Especially you, she finished, drilling her blue eyes into mine...”
Merrick gave me a nudge. “I think your first mate.”
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I took a long sip of my bourbon, whilst gathering my thoughts. I freely eyed Ginny, then Heather up and down for effect. Their pretty dresses would have been noticed first, followed by the thief eyeing their expensive appearing jewels. This is going to be easy I thought, before starting in, pausing in-between thoughts for further effect.
“I was a jewel thief who was taken under wing by a wealthy socialite who felt it was her duty to reform me. As part of this task, she has brought me here surrounded by ladies in fancy jewels, to teach me how to overcome my desires.”
“I would have selected out a promising lady, Ginny here, and asked for a dance.”
“I would then have started out dancing at a modest distance to get the full picture. Then I would have asked if she knew who the tart in the blue taffeta dress and sapphires was?”
“Hey, that’s not very nice!” Heather scolded me, as we all laughed.
I continued, reaching over and fingering my wife’s bracelet.
“Then as Ginny looked over at you Heather. I would have had a window opened to closely study her earrings and necklace, then as she looked back over to me I would lift her right-hand and have her swirl around in a circle as I gave the same attention to her bracket and ring. Then I would again talk about the pretty lady in blue, I had I kindly called a tart, finding out where she(and her jewels ) were spending the evening. “
“Hah”! Said Heather triumphantly. “So you are not reformed, and I am not surprised you would prefer your wife’s jewels over my own. They are very pretty “
I shook my head no.... as I reached over and stroked my fingers along Heather’s necklace.
“Of course I am not reformed, and I would be very interested in the jewels you both are wearing.”
“So I would then maneuver Ginny close to Merrick, and tapping him on the shoulder as to change partners.”
“Then I would repeat my performance on You. Looking over this necklace your flaunting, calling out to be nicked, and as I study it, asking where your friend the redhead was staying. “
I finished up with...
“As we finished the dance and had gone back to the table I would make an excuse to leave. Then as you two ladies were enjoying your evening here, I would be breaking into your bedrooms, stealing your jewels.”
“Devious ...I like it, “ Heather said with a delicious shudder before turning he attention to Merrick and challenging...
“Your turn my love...”
Yes, I would love to hear it also...” My Ginny said with encouragement.
Merrick, a bit red-faced, began. And I was pleasantly pleased that he had obviously been giving it some thought.
“Well, I um, would wait until you were alone during the evening and come up to offer dance, or to put my name on your dance card. Then as we danced I would say how pretty your dress was and how lovely your jewels were. Then as you told me about your dress and jewellery I would listen and watch. I would think how dazzling you looked wearing them, and that it would be a shame I had to steal them. I would keep an eye on you the rest of the evening, follow you home, and as you slept take them from you.”
Heather sighed deeply, then asked.
“Would you watch me make sure I was sleeping before starting?”
Merrick nodded, “That and to make sure you were not still wearing any of them.”
“Nice Merrick!” I thought to myself as his wife pretty much was now swooning.
I was watching Heather as Merrick was spinning his tale. I could tell she was more than thrilled at what he was saying, becoming even more turned on about her view of the jewel thief subject she had broached.
But I knew that poor clueless Merrick was missing that point over his wife’s yearning desire for him to at least try acting out upon the theme. He had told his story and that to him appeared to be the end of his Wife’s challenge.
Pity, for it was all ever so obvious that Heather was into this. Albeit alcohol may have also been a driving factor.
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It was all finally winding down, when, as we again were dancing, Ginny, had come up with her thief remark that I mention at the beginning of this tale.
As the dance ended I looked my wife lovingly in her eyes with a look in mine that told her I was up to something.
“Let’s do it properly,” I said, nodding towards the table where we had been sitting, watching as Heather was being reseated by Merrick after they had left the dance floor ahead of us.
You girls go to the loo while I have a chat with Merrick.
“Game on...” Ginny said with joyful conviction.
And so it was that some twenty minutes later, and another round of drinks, found us back on the dance floor.
But this time around I was with Heather and Merrick was dancing with Ginny.
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As we danced I talked to Heather in a low, conspiracy-laden tone of voice.
“You know Heather, you sometimes need to tease someone into wanting to steal your jewels, spell it out what you think he would do. Like Ginny and I are going to do before leaving. “
“Oooh, what’s going to happen ?” She asked with deep interest:
“You’ll see soon enough, Ginny is going to play the character of another lady here this evening. The one your husband is dancing with. That will be our game. You need to focus on yours. Speaking of which..”
“Yes?” Asked Heather with deep curiosity.
I tapped her on the nose... then lifted her necklace going into my character...
“Remember, coming from a reformed thief, your jewels are far safer in your room than to trust some mischievous bugger of a weasel-faced hotel desk clerk to lock them up for you in a hotel safes vault.”
Ohh my, Heather really liked me saying that, for she had no clue to its meaning, but believed heart and soul that Merrick would!
Then she went into her character...
“I am so glad you are looking out for me and my jewels. Here I have been foolishly listening to hotel clerks and letting them put my pretties in the hotel safe.”
Placing a hand on either side of her face I lifting her silky hair up to properly view her dangling earrings, before answering Heather in the voice of my character...
“Best not to take chances. Make sure you keep all your jewelry with you in your suite this evening.”
Heather giggled...
“ Oh, I had not thought of that. What a brilliant suggestion. You are truly my knight in shining armor!”
With that, she gave me a peck on the chin...
I chuckled before breaking character to give pretty Heather some further instructions...
“Now listen, we are going to switch partners soon, this is what you need to do with Merrick.
As I maneuvered my pretty partner over towards her husband and my wife, I explained the role she would play for the remaining 30 minutes till midnight, at which time the reception was officially over. If she played it right, further adventures awaited her at home afterwards!
I had finished my advice by the time we reached them.
I had one hand holding around Heather’s silken-covered waist, the other was holding her hand. I let go of her hand and tapped Merrick on the shoulder.
“Change partners?” I questioned as he looked me in the eye.
Merrick looked at Ginny,
“Do you mind?”
He said to her, and with the manner had said that I knew that Ginny had been successful in bringing Merrick up to speed on playing his wife’s game.
“I would love to.”
Ginny said and still dancing to the music, we, in turn, switched our partners.
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I took Ginny up in my arms, she felt like heaven as my fingers slipped around the satin waistline of her green gown.
“I’m so glad you gave up your life of crime!”
She said to me with that wicked little smile of hers lighting up her face.
I smiled back...
“Yes, and I owe it all to the efforts of my benefactor and her lovely friends., like you. So glad you all have faith in me.”
Meanwhile, I was working my fingers carefully up the backside of her scintillating gown.
Ginny sighed happily...
“ I will admit I had some reservations over my friend bringing a thief here. What if you had found all these jewels we are wearing too much of a temptation?
My fingers had finally made it up to her ‘diamond’ necklaces’ clasp as I answered soothingly...
“That's why she told all of her friends to wear their best jewelry tonight. To test me. I am so glad you listened to her. I feel no strong desires to steal jewels any more.”
Ginny smiled at me...
“I’m glad, for I do so love wearing my diamonds out. And no worries, I totally trust you around them...”
With that Ginny lay her head down lovingly upon my shoulder as I looked around. No one was paying us any heed. Except Heather, who was was snuggled into Merrick, with an eye open upon us.
Ginny and I danced in that position for some time before I made my move and began to work open the ‘diamond’ necklace’s jeweled clasp.
On cue, Ginny said into my shoulder.
“I can tell you are having a lovely time this evening.”
I looked into Ginnys face, her swinging earrings giving off a frenzied sparkle.
“Oh, I am Lass, that I most certainly am having a lovely time. I am thoroughly enjoying dancing with pretty ladies like yourself. And may add that your earrings are something special.”
Ginny raised her head smiling at me...which now made my job a lot easier.
“Thank you, that means a lot to me. But they are heavy, and I'm afraid that I have a bad habit of taking them off, then leaving them behind at the table...”
I was smiling, listening intently to her, while my fingers finally managing to unclasp her necklace, letting the ends hang freely down before I made a lying comment...
“No worries luv if I were to see you do that, I would point it out to you.”
She sighed, then happily snuggled back into my chest.
“ I knew you were reformed, and saying what you just did proves it.”
My hand at her waist gripped in harder as she snuggled in closer. With her hot figure pressing into mine, my free hand was busy working her shimmery ‘diamonds’ free from around her satin gown’s cowled neckline.
“You truly have no idea how much I am appreciating this trust you are giving me tonight.” I murmured while I worked on reliving her of the ‘diamonds’ she was so obtainabley wearing.
And then it smoothly came away easy peasy, and I found myself in full possession of her diamonds. I quickly whisked it over her satin-clad shoulder and secreted it away inside my pocket.
Ginny pulled away, smiling up into my face, her eyes searching into mine as she fully played her role of the rich social worker’s wealthy friend, who agreed that thieves just needed to be shown trust to be let back into society.
And what better way to show your trust in a thief, than by taking the him to a dress-up with your jewel-laden friends of course?
I smiled back at her.
Then looking over at Heather, elegant in her blue gown and quite shimmering collection of sapphires, her eyes wide open over seeing what my ‘thief’ had been up to...
I asked...
And your friend Heather? Is she still staying at the Seville Hotel this evening?
“Oh yes, but without her husband, the poor thing is going to be all alone this evening.”
“Poor thing,” I said full-heartedly agreeing, with wicked intent.
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As we gathered back at our table Heather (and Merrick) kept quiet about Ginny's missing necklace. But I could tell Heather was bursting over it, for it was both exciting to her and killing her at the same time to keep mum over.
But she stayed in her character.
As did we all.
We stayed at our table finishing up our drinks and making small talk, as we waiting for the stroke of Midnight before leaving.
At one point I saw Ginny lean over to Heather, and pointing over at Merrick who was standing next to me as we chatted with one of our mates from the dart league, mouth in a whisper ...
“ Be careful Lass, I don’t trust that one. “
Heather smiled, eating it up, whispered back..,
“No worries, I know what I’m doing...”
Ginny, after running her fingers along the length of her earrings, began to straighten her bracelet, continued...
“I’m sure you do Luv, I have every bit of faith in your abilities.”
Heather chortled back, unable to keep a straight face as she eyed the now necklace bare cowled neckline of Ginny’s shiny green gown, whilst playing with the sapphires still dangling down the front of hers. She said to Ginny...
“And I am so glad you have been so successful in having your thief give up his errant jewelry stealing ways, my darling ...”
Both girls began giggling uncontrollably. As Merrick and I turned to watch.
Soon after, the remaining quests were nicely shown the door to leave.
As we stood by our autos, Ginny and Heather hugged as Merrick and I firmly shook hands with each other, and I added a slap on the back.
Then Ginny hugged and kissed Merrick goodbye as Heather did the same for me.
As she perkily enveloped me in a hug, Heather whispered a thank you, then scolded that she was a little shocked finding my thief had not also nicked her fancy necklace as we danced...
“Wish I had, Raincheck then?” I whispered playfully back.
That made her smile winningly at me.
“Rain check it is.” she agreed, before reaching up to reward me with a quick kiss goodbye.
We then went out separate ways.
Heather off to teasingly entertain her ‘reformed’ jewel thief, later to lose her jewels as she “fell asleep” wearing them in her ‘hotel’ room...
Ginny was off to take a stroll in the woods behind our cottage, where no one but her ‘reformed’ thief knew the mischief that would befall her there.
And as I started the engine, seeing Heather’s necklace dangling down with a shimmer as she was being helped inside her car by Merrick, I knew there was another chapter to tonight's story waiting in the wings...
One where a lady resplendent in a blue gown and sparkling sapphires, would be destined to have a fateful dance with a jewel coveting thief.
And as we talked about it much later, Ginny said she would be game to playing a dress up part in that chapter also!
Fini.
And a thank you to David Dodge for telling someone the story behind the scenes of his.
Washington State Patrol and Marysville Police Department assisting with a armed robbery call at a bank. The subject's vehicle was later located by a WSP trooper (pictured) where the K-9 was trying to track down the subject, but were unable to locate the subject. The subject is still in large. There was another bank robbery last week within the same area, but it is unknown if both are related.
New Worlds / Magazin-Reihe
- Lan Wright / ...Is No Robbery
art: Bob Clothier
Editor: John Carnell
Nova Publications Ltd.
(London / England; March 1953)
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
A clever way of preventing crime: ban theft and robbery! But the big-bereted (or is it big-nosed) villain does not look too afraid.
© Copyright Eric Johnson 2021 Unauthorized use Prohibited
The great train robbery" Well today 08/23/2021 & 8/24/2021 the Atlantic Coast Line Locomotive No. 1504 was placed on flatbed semi's to leave the area its only really known as home Jacksonville Florida. Just one more piece of railroad history this town could really not care about. Sure its going to be restored for U.S. Sugar Corp.'s historic Sugar Express tourist train attraction. And one more piece of Railroad history in Jax/Fl will be lost forever. So I say Goodbye to the Atlantic Coast Line Locomotive No. 1504.
This isnt just your regular neighborhood liquor store, this a location where three murders and a robbery took place in June of 1966 and American boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was wrongfully accused and convicted of murder. He served 27 years of three life sentences before being released as a free man.
This place is located in my hometown of Paterson, NJ on the corner of Lafayette St. and was once called Lafayette Bar & Grill. I recently drove by knowing the story of that fateful night to find out that the old sign had been taken down and the bar was changed into a liquor store. The story is deep, there was a book written by Carter which was named "The sixteenth Round," a song written by Bob Dylan called "Hurricane" and a feature film by Norman Jewison in 1999 that starred Denzel Washington who played Carter.
Bio:
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937) is a former American middleweight boxer, who competed from 1961 through 1966. Carter, along with John Artis, was convicted twice for the murder of three people which occurred at a bar in June 1966 in his hometown Paterson, New Jersey. He was later released after serving twenty years of three life sentences when a federal judge overturned his conviction.
Boxing career:
Total fights 40
Wins 27
Wins by KO 19
Losses 12
Draws 1
No contests 0
Carter is a member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.
Carter now lives in Toronto, Ontario, and was executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) from 1993 until 2005. Carter publicly resigned from AIDWYC when the prosecutor of Canadian Guy Paul Morin, a wrongfully convicted man, was promoted to a judgeship and AIDWYC declined to support Carter's protest of the appointment. In 1996 Carter, then 60, was arrested when Toronto police mistakenly identified him as a suspect in his forties believed to have sold drugs to an undercover officer. He was released after the police realized their error. Carter now works as a motivational speaker. On October 14, 2005, he received two honorary Doctorates of Law, one from York University (Toronto, Canada) and one from Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), in recognition of his work with AIDWYC and the Innocence Project.
This is just another small part of the great history of Paterson, NJ.......
Captured this ant stealing the larvae from the eggs.
The ant is only about 3/8 inch long.
Have a great weekend!
Saw this police car park at Bishop Ranch earlier this evening. The police presence was felt there due to the recent robberies of a few retail malls in the Bay Area.
The trip isn't over until EVERYONE gets paid!
I was in the train car telling Niccy she should be out on the platform when she said the tour guide had said to keep your eyes open around milepost 20, so I headed back out to the platform. I'd just got back outside when the "Bad Guys" came bursting out of the brush and tearing up the train tracks. I wasn't prepared at all so I fired of a couple of quick shots and this was the best of the bunch.
The train comes to a stop and the "Bad Guys" come onboard to rob everyone of their hard earned cash.
When they got out to the platform they explained that this was a robbery and everyone was expected to be handing over some loot. When they got to me they said "Your money or your life..." I fired back at them with "I'm married. I don't have any money or a life", as I put a donation in their hat. They all started laughing and said they understood completely.
I'm not sure what's up with the 1/250 since I'd been shooting at 1/500 because the train was moving. Maybe I had the camera set in P Mode for some reason?
Something I forgot to add was that for your "contribution" to their cause these guys would pose for a picture with you. One of the guys looked at my camera and said "I dunno if I could operate that or not". I told him "I'll gladly pay you not to operate it"!
it was so tricky to catch these events as they happened so fast! (so not great shots)
basically a puffin would fly in from fishing out at sea with his catch for his baby in his burrow
and the black headed gulls would mob him to try and steal his fish!
on the whole they did seem to fail as the puffins were really fast diving into their burrows and it did make you wonder whether it would just be easier for the gulls to go out fishing themselves!
but every now and then they did manage to steal a meal – like the ones in the last shots below
hope everyone has a great weekend!
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
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Split headcode box 40126 stabled with 25158 and Class 55 "Deltic" 55008 "The Green Howard" on York TMD - 21/07/1980.
40126 (as D326) was the train engine involved in the Great Train Robbery in 1963.
© 2013 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparancy; photographed by the late David R Vickers.
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Hi! This is my entry for a MOCpages contest,
'The Ultimate LEGO(R) Contest!' by I me. The round 1 category which I've chosen is: battle, a battle for anything.
About the MOC: This is a part of a modern city (in 2030) and some sly criminals are attempting to break into a small bank to steal a bunch of money. They're prepared cause they are equiped with rifles, knives, guns and a grapple canon. The boss of this operation has arrived on his ATV and thinks that everything is going well... but the army knows how to stop them. They've sent a few highly trained soldiers, together with my sigfig which looks like me when I'm 32 years old on the right of this picture (in 2030), to finish this crime...
I had to wait like 2 or 3 weeks to receive my ordered bricks because I didn't have enough of those 2 X 2 tiles in medium stone grey.
Thanks for watching and take a look at the other pictures to see what's inside the buildings!
Image of “Angie” first appeared : Best true detective cover July 1962
The story of the racket dames behind the sensational Park Avenue Jewel Robberies
This is a storyline that developed while watching a contributed YouTube video.
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As Angie thought about this she slowly edged her way along the wall, dodging in and out amongst the happily chatting guest, constantly on the lookout for Olivia.
Angie was suddenly, unexpectedly blindsided from behind as something incredibly soft, slickly bumped up against her back. Like a cat, she kept her feet and whirled around in time to catch a handful of pure heaven in the form of one of the be- gowned young “princesses” that seemed to be everywhere this gay evening. She found herself nose to eye with a young miss, resplendent in a long slippery gown as black as ink, and as soft as young chinchilla. The sleek gown literally poured tightly down along her perked figure to the floor, covering over her shiny black high heels. The colour of night that was her gown was broken only by the whiteness of her bare shoulders and neck, and by an exquisitely large, leaf like brooch of clear diamond banquets that covered her right side at least 8 inches above and below her slender waistline.
The young “princess” giggled nervously as she profusely apologized over her “silliness” at tripping over her own gown as she had stepped backwards. Angie oozed kindness as she spoke soothingly to the girl, watching her melt like putty in Angie’s light fingered hands. As Angie spoke calmingly to the girl, her eyes were indiscreetly soaking up the dazzling white diamond necklace that surrounded the nervous girl’s bare white throat that was now eye level to Angie. .Angie looked down at the girls gloved hand resting upon her full bosom , admiring the softness of the satin gloves (dyed to match her gown) that stretched up past her elbows, drooling secretly over the enormous cocktail ring that graced one of her fingers. The princess raised up her hands, giving them to Angie, who took up the satin clad hands, holding them as tightly as she was holding the girls gaze, before letting the girl slowly slip them from her firm grasp., .
The girls eyes finally broke away, and Angie smiled exuberantly, giving the girl an enveloping hug to show there were no hard feelings, letting her hands slip ever so gingerly down to grasp the girl by the waist, giving her a squeeze. She then let the young thing slip out, free to go on her way, as Angie turned and did likewise. As Angie sauntered off, she happily thought that it was sometimes funny how occasionally, when least expected, one gets very lucky. As she thought this, she moved her clenched fist to the top of her dress. Pulling the dress out, she opened her clenched fist allowing herself a close look at the still warm jewel she had lifted, before reaching up and pulling open the top of her dress allowing it to slip down inside her cleavage. The princess had not so much felt a prick when Angie had slipped it from her figure.
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Now, if you were in the Light fingered thief Angies’ shoes, which of the three pieces of the black gowned ladies jewellery would you have gone for?
To see if you guessed correctly, please visit the Album (Angie having a ball) , and read the story.
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6.24.10 :: explore - highest #222!! Yippee!
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Creativity Boot Camp :: Day 10 :: Full Bodied.
It really took a great deal of creativity to come up with day 10!! I had no idea what to do. So as I was reading my Bible, I came across this passage, where it talks about how completely Jesus fulfilled being both God and man. It's a beautiful passage, and one of my favorites.
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As the hostage negotiator failed to make contact with the bank robbers, the incident commander decided to deploy the Special Tactics Unit to resolve the incident.
The Special Tactics Unit move into position and deploy tear gas into the bank. As the team made entry, the two bank robbers surrender and the team arrested them peacefully. All hostages are rescued and unharmed.
Just after 9 am, 2 masked male armed with AR-15 style weapons enter a bank in Victoria City. Bystanders immediately call 911. Constables from the Victoria City Police Department respond to the call. As the bank robbers leave the bank, they encountered the constables responding to the 911 call. The robbers immediately retreat back into the bank and barricade themselves with hostages. Constables call for backup and the Tactical Response Unit quickly arrived on scene.
To be continued...
Logan Daniel Sinclair is serving 50 years to Life for the murder of a gas station owner during in armed robbery in Parma, Ohio, south of Cleveland. He’s serving his time at the Richland Correctional Institution and is eligible for release in 2065.
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Robbery [Halloween] (34 pictures)
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... all right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Well, I was trying some lighting setup with my small blue background and checking how big the space is I can use with it. Quite small honestly. Only classic portrait pictures are possible. Still good for some details and since its halloween time, I did a small dark robbery scene and tried to get some reflections with that knife.
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you really should see the bigger image on flickr!
... and see the whole set at my free website! :-)
Bookmark the URL to my website: llb1983.bplaced.net
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