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Started by Adios, January 17, 2011, 04:48:47 PM

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After spending nearly 12 hours behind bars, accused of slapping a police horse, a Florida woman is out of jail Monday facing misdemeanor charges in the incident.

"A horse was literally right in my face all of a sudden," Stephanie Six told CNN affiliate Bay News 9. "So I put my hand up into his face as a reaction."

Six, 29, was released after being arrested early Saturday in downtown St. Petersburg, a report from Pinellas County Sheriff's office said.

Police were using mounted patrols to try to control crowds outside a tavern, when they say Six hit the horse, according to local news reports.

Six told the local television station she did not strike the horse.

"They're saying I slapped this horse when that's not the case," said Six. "I was basically getting it out of my face. I did not hit him."

CNN contacted St. Petersburg police and the state attorney's office, but officials were unavailable for comment because of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Six is charged with battery on a police horse. In Florida statutes, any person who actually and intentionally maliciously touches, strikes or causes bodily harm to a police dog, fire dog, SAR dog or police horse commits a first-degree misdemeanor.

If convicted of the first-degree misdemeanor, Six could face a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison. A second-degree conviction is punishable by a $500 fine and up to 60 days behind bars.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/17/florida.horse.slapping/index.html?hpt=T2

Whatever

I'll withhold verdict until someone remembers they recorded this incident on their cellphone and we see if the horses head snapped back on the impact!! :lulz:

Suu

FUCK YEAH, DA BURG!

Pretty soon it will be because the woman is white and the horse is black, and there will be racial riots on 22 Ave Souf where they'll hang effigies of white drunk girls and burn out cars and shit like they always do!


-Suu
Used to live there, ya know.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

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As evidence of a slight rhetorical shift, House Speaker John Boehner abandoned labeling the current health care law as "job killing," and instead called it "job crushing" and "job destroying" in a new message posted on his webpage.

"Repealing the job crushing health care law is critical to boosting small business job creation and growing the economy," Boehner wrote in the post.

Boehner also said "job destroying" in his closing remarks at the GOP retreat Saturday.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/boehners-new-word-choice/

That will fix everything.

Adios

In a symbolic gesture toward more civil political discourse, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday that they will sit together at the upcoming State of the Union address.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/16/top-senators-to-sit-together-at-state-of-the-union-address/

I guess it's better than, you know, actually doing anything to fix shit.

Whatever

Quote from: Charley Brown on January 17, 2011, 04:59:21 PM
In a symbolic gesture toward more civil political discourse, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday that they will sit together at the upcoming State of the Union address.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/16/top-senators-to-sit-together-at-state-of-the-union-address/

I guess it's better than, you know, actually doing anything to fix shit.


AWWWWW are they BFFs now?

Suu

Quote from: Charley Brown on January 17, 2011, 04:59:21 PM
In a symbolic gesture toward more civil political discourse, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday that they will sit together at the upcoming State of the Union address.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/16/top-senators-to-sit-together-at-state-of-the-union-address/

I guess it's better than, you know, actually doing anything to fix shit.

Didn't they make a Coca-Cola commercial about this already?
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Adios

Quote from: Suu on January 17, 2011, 05:08:10 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 17, 2011, 04:59:21 PM
In a symbolic gesture toward more civil political discourse, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Sunday that they will sit together at the upcoming State of the Union address.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/16/top-senators-to-sit-together-at-state-of-the-union-address/

I guess it's better than, you know, actually doing anything to fix shit.

Didn't they make a Coca-Cola commercial about this already?

:lulz:

Adios

Worried that her job might be cut in Texas, IT professional Elisa Sumner took a big step by deciding to work on the other side of the world in Shanghai, China.

Sumner's high-tech company in Austin, Texas, was laying off people in her area of the business and hiring aggressively in Asia. The 45-year-old decided to take a job in Shanghai and move with her company, even though she could have eventually found work elsewhere in the United States.

Sumner's husband, Joel Sumner, a senior research and development manager, followed her to China with a job that has evolved into something "bigger" than his old one.

In addition to their careers, Elisa Sumner said the move was a chance at a "new and interesting" life experience for both of them, because they had never lived outside the United States together.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/01/17/americans.move.to.china/index.html?hpt=C2

:horrormirth:

The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.


Sister Fracture

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

Read the one about the census bureau.   :lulz:

The only job I ever really enjoyed, and I could be responsible for a shitload of bad things happening to other people.
Goddammit, Amerrica. STFU.
Roaring Berserkery Bunny of the North Endâ„¢

A Tucsonite is like a Christian in several important ways.  For one thing, they believe what they say about their god in the most literal, straightfaced way possible.  For another, they both know their god can hear them.  The difference between the two, however, is quite vast in terms of their relationship with their god; Christians believe in His benevolence, but Tucsonites KNOW of The City's spite and hate.

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Quote from: Sister Fracture on January 17, 2011, 05:21:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

Read the one about the census bureau.   :lulz:

The only job I ever really enjoyed, and I could be responsible for a shitload of bad things happening to other people.
Goddammit, Amerrica. STFU.

No worries if you're white......yet.....

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Sister Fracture on January 17, 2011, 05:21:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
http://www.cracked.com/article_18955_6-crackpot-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-happened.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

Read the one about the census bureau.   :lulz:

The only job I ever really enjoyed, and I could be responsible for a shitload of bad things happening to other people.
Goddammit, Amerrica. STFU.

Read that whole list.  They only covered about half of the US government's use of biological weapons on its own citizens, but they got some of the good ones, and one I hadn't heard.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Sister Fracture

Roaring Berserkery Bunny of the North Endâ„¢

A Tucsonite is like a Christian in several important ways.  For one thing, they believe what they say about their god in the most literal, straightfaced way possible.  For another, they both know their god can hear them.  The difference between the two, however, is quite vast in terms of their relationship with their god; Christians believe in His benevolence, but Tucsonites KNOW of The City's spite and hate.