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Nobel prizes for earth next year.

I'm considering going arms dealing in Syria and Isreal, should get myself in with a shot.

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Rocky Dennis

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Lighten up, the kid's alright. It's a funny story. Just look how ridiculous the headline is lol

I agree the headline is funny but as a parent of a toddler myself I'd be more than fuming, mind you, they did apologise so I spose thats OK?

Admittedly, I probably would find it funny If I didnt have a toddler myself :giggle:

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Not exactly amusing, but incompetence.

Lancashire police apologise after blind man with white stick was Tasered by officers who mistook it for samurai sword.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ashire-19979184

What the fvck, who was blind here? The police or the victim? How can you mistake a samurai sword for a white stick!!!

And in what circumstances is tasering a 61 year old walking down the street acceptable!!!

Tasers should only be used in self defence, not as a penis extension for some inadequate cop.

This is in the wrong thread, this should go in the cvnts thread, or at least we should have a separate thread for police incompetence, there is enough of it around.

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Not exactly amusing, but incompetence.

Lancashire police apologise after blind man with white stick was Tasered by officers who mistook it for samurai sword.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ashire-19979184

ffs lol

And some people seriously think this bunch of morons should be armed? Unbelievable.

I struggle to get through a day at the minute without coming across some sort of cock up from the boys in blue.

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ffs lol

And some people seriously think this bunch of morons should be armed? Unbelievable.

I struggle to get through a day at the minute without coming across some sort of cock up from the boys in blue.

Oh dear. It begs the question, how close was the officer to the man?

I'm not sure of the range of a tazer but I would've thought you'd need to be withing 10 metres or so. Surely close enough to notice he was elderly and that the thing in his hand was anything but a sword.

Just remember though, not everything is all the "boys in blue's" fault

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Not sure if it counts as amusing or not really. I cant decide.

http://www.mirror.co...ng-ugly-1415695

I was having this conversation with my girlfriend the other week, at what point do you need to admit certain things to your partner, and what shouldn't you have to admit, the example she used was about a sex change, at what point should you admit it, not sure why she brought that up. Likewise you should tell your partner you have an STD before you have unprotected sex with them...

...well you learn something new everyday.

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I was having this conversation with my girlfriend the other week, at what point do you need to admit certain things to your partner, and what shouldn't you have to admit, the example she used was about a sex change, at what point should you admit it, not sure why she brought that up. Likewise you should tell your partner you have an STD before you have unprotected sex with them...

...well you learn something new everyday.

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Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock fall to Senate defeats

Losses for Republican duo who made off-hand remarks on rape and abortion destroy GOP hopes of taking control of the Senate

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Todd Akin's remarks on 'legitimate rape' caused widespread offence among Republicans and Democrats. Photograph: Sarah Conard/Reuters

Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidates who made off-the-cuff remarks about rape and abortion, have both been defeated, destroying their party's hopes of taking control of the Senate.

Akin, who lost to incumbent Claire McCaskill in Missouri, was abandoned by his party after he made his notorious "legitimate rape" comments in August. The six-term congressman from suburban St Louis and a staunch pro-lifer, told a television interviewer who asked about his abortion stance: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Until that point, McCaskill was considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent senators because of her links to Barack Obama in a state that has leaned heavily to the right in recent national elections.

Immediately after the result was called on Tuesday night, Jason Whitman, the GOP chairman, expressed his frustration at Akin in a tweet, which read: I just want to say a quick thank you to @ToddAkin for helping us lose the senate"

Akin's remarks, at odds with basic biology as well as introducing the notion that rape was a crime on a sliding scale, caused widespread offence among Republicans and Democrats alike.

In Indiana, Mourdock, a Tea Party favourite who beat veteran incumbent Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, was initially tipped to win against Joe Donnelly, but he too lost ground after overstepping the line when talking about abortion and rape. He said that pregnancy resulting from rape is "something that God intended to happen."

The Republican party, who believed it would be impossible for Akin to beat McCaskill after the controversy, withdrew campaign funding and leaders, including Mitt Romney and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell called on him to step down in time for the party to name a replacement. Missouri has long been considered to be an important seat for Republicans if they are to win the Senate.

But Akin refused and, with a band of mostly Christian conservative supporters, portrayed himself as an anti-establishment figure.

When the national Republican senatorial committee and Crossroads for America, an influential Super Pac, withdrew funding, Akin began an online campaign for donations and found support from prominent Republicans, including former presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.

Akin's campaign concentrated on McCaskill's close ties with Obama, her support of the healthcare law and the 2009 fiscal stimulus and her family's links to federal money.

McCaskill featured video clips of Akin expressing opposition to the federal minimum wage and to the federal government's role in issuing student loans, which he had cited as an example of how the government suffers from "the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism."

In Indiana, the incumbent, Richard Lugar, had 87% of the vote when he won his sixth term in 2006, but he lost the seat he had held for almost four decades in a primary challenge earlier this year to Mourdock, the state treasurer and a Tea Party favourite.

Mourdock began the contest with momentum from his win over Lugar, but he slipped in the polls after he said he did not support a woman's right to abortion in the case of rape. He was also damaged by Lugar's refusal to involve himself in the campaign.

"I believe that life begins at conception," Mourdock said, in a televised debate with Donnelly in October. "The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. I just struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God – that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

His comments, attracted widespread criticism from both sides, including President Barack Obama and prominent Republicans. Mitt Romney distanced himself from Mourdock's comments but did not withdraw his endorsement of him.

Mourdock stood by his comments, apologising only for people misinterpreting them. But the most recent polls this week and last showed his opponent gaining ground.

Donnelly, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, also holds conservative views on abortion. He supports legal abortion only in the case of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger

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