Thursday - September 15, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (So Far)

Police Extract Stolen Mobile Phone From Woman’s Posterior
(THE REGISTER)

Just what is it about Romanian women and mobile phones? Back in April, there was the case of 34-year-old Ruxandra Gardian who attempted to make good her escape with a phone concealed in her vagina. Unfortunately for her, quick-thinking cops simply rang the thing and the game was up. We suggested at the time that perhaps turning it off was a good plan, but as several readers pointed out, that would have then required the PIN to reactivate the phone.

Fair enough, put it on vibrate then. Forget it, suggested several female readers, for obvious reasons. So, what’s the solution? We honestly don’t know, but we do know that sticking a (k)nicked mobile where the sun really doesn’t shine is not it. And here’s why:

Petronela Brandus, 24, has become the latest “body cavity phone blagger” to have her collar felt after police stopped the suspected thief as she got off a bus in Iasi. Passengers had apparently seen the 24-year-old lift the device, but cops could find no trace of it. In the time-honoured fashion, they then rang the number and heard the tell-tale sound of internal phone action. In this case, however, Brandus had not gone for the relatively-simple vaginal option, but rather the less convenient back passage route.

It did her no good. Back at the station, a strip search quickly retrieved the offending item. Officer Madalin Taranu told local daily 7 Plus: “We’ve had people hiding things in their bras and knickers before, but this was a new one.”

One question remains: what then happened to the phone? In contrast to the case of Ruxandra Gardian - and indeed that of the Jamaican fellow mobile-tamponer who started this intimate criminal trend - its owner subsequently accepted it back.

Officer Taranu explained: “The station doctor extracted the phone and we sprayed it with disinfectant.” We should hope so too.

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   Monday - September 12, 2005

Deadly City

Fact: There are 279 deaths in New Orleans either directly or indirectly related to Hurricane Katrina.

Fact: By mid August, there were already 197 murders in New Orleans.

Fact: IN 2004, there were 265 murders in New Orleans - ten times the national average.

Fact: More people are murdered in New Orleans each year than in any other American city.

Any questions?

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   Wednesday - September 07, 2005

The Man-Made Disaster

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
by Robert Tracinski

It took four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can’t blame them, because it also took me four long days to figure out what was going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.

If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city’s infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.

Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists—myself included—did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.

But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.

Go read the rest.  It’s not a P.C. article, but it sure hits the mark.

**Update** Woops.  Ronnie had already posted this article here.  I need to get some more coffee.  Closing this post due to redundancy.

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   Monday - September 05, 2005

Miranda Confusion In Florida

Fla. Scrambles to Change Miranda Warnings
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)

Gorman Roberts’ manslaughter conviction was overturned because of a single word. Roberts, now 20, was convicted of pushing 5-year-old Jordan Payne in February 2002 into a Pompano Beach canal, where he drowned. But his conviction and three-year prison sentence were thrown out in May 2004 when an appeals court ruled the Miranda rights warning he got from Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators was incomplete.

The warning, which said suspects “have the right to talk with a lawyer and have a lawyer present before any questioning,” failed to spell out that defendants also had the right to an attorney “during” police interrogation as well. It was corrected in November 2002.

Gorman Roberts’ manslaughter conviction was overturned because of a single word. Roberts, now 20, was convicted of pushing 5-year-old Jordan Payne in February 2002 into a Pompano Beach canal, where he drowned. But his conviction and three-year prison sentence were thrown out in May 2004 when an appeals court ruled the Miranda rights warning he got from Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators was incomplete.

The warning, which said suspects “have the right to talk with a lawyer and have a lawyer present before any questioning,” failed to spell out that defendants also had the right to an attorney “during” police interrogation as well. It was corrected in November 2002.

Since then, more than two dozen other Broward County cases—including murders, robberies and illegal drugs—have been affected because of the faulty Miranda warnings. Convictions have been reversed in some, defendant statements suppressed in others.

“It’s frustrating and disappointing because our detectives diligently investigate crimes and obtain good statements and confessions,” said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal.

Since the Supreme Court’s 1966 ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, which produced the well-known police rights advisory that begins “You have the right to remain silent,” state and federal courts have issued several decisions on how to put the ruling into practice. Few rulings, however, have focused on a single word, as Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal has in several cases.

“Miranda was meant to be easy to use,” said Stephen Saltzburg, law professor at George Washington University. “I think what you have is a court interpreting Miranda in an overly technical manner.”

But Ellis Rubin, the Miami defense attorney who first challenged Broward’s Miranda warning, said precise language is essential if criminal suspects are expected to understand their legal rights.

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   Thursday - September 01, 2005

Shoot To Kill

There are always human vermin who will prey on the weak and suffering. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is no exception. I remember back in 1969 when Hurricane Camille tore through Mobile and the Gulf Coast. Our house was destroyed as were the houses of thousands of others. The vermin descended on us almost immediately. The bastards came flooding in from all over, selling ice for $10 per bag and water for $5 per gallon. Yes, there was some looting but everyone was too stunned to take advantage of any “five-finger discounts”. The worst criminals were the jerks taking advantage of our misery. There were laws passed after Camille to make it illegal to do those kind of ripoffs again.

Nowadays, the only ripoffs are coming from the oil companies. The price of gas here in St. Louis jacked up to $3.09 per gallon yesterday and it’s only going to get worse. Meanwhile, in the devastated areas a new breed of “survivor” is running around New Orleans, armed with guns and grabbing everything that’s not nailed down ....

NEW ORLEANS (AP)—National Guardsmen in armored vehicles poured into New Orleans on Thursday to curb the growing lawlessness as Mississippi’s governor vowed to deal with looters in the neighboring state as “ruthlessly as we can get our hands on them.” An additional 10,000 National Guard troops from across the country were ordered into the Gulf Coast to shore up security, rescue and relief operations. The new units brought the number of troops dedicated to the effort to more than 28,000, in what may be the largest military response to a natural disaster.

“The truth is, a terrible tragedy like this brings out the best in most people, brings out the worst in some people,” said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on NBC’s “Today” show. “We’re trying to deal with looters as ruthlessly as we can get our hands on them.” New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin also ordered virtually the entire police force to abandon search-and-rescue efforts and stop thieves who were becoming increasingly hostile.

“They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas—hotels, hospitals, and we’re going to stop it right now,” Nagin said. President Bush said Thursday the federal government has launched the most massive relief effort in history to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, pledging to reach thousands of victims that still needed to be rescued. With more than a thousand people feared dead, some refugees that had been staying in increasingly deteriorating conditions at the Louisiana Superdome began arriving by bus at a new, more comfortable home at the Astrodome in Houston.

Conditions at the Superdome had become horrendous: There was no air conditioning, the toilets were backed up, and the stench was so bad that medical workers wore masks as they walked around. The first of 500 busloads of people arrived early Thursday at the Astrodome. Bush expressed sympathy for those who were still suffering but also said there should be “zero tolerance” for breaking the law during an emergency situation.

In a sign of growing lawlessness, Tenet HealthCare Corp. asked authorities late Wednesday to help evacuate a fully functioning hospital in Gretna after a supply truck carrying food, water and medical supplies was held up at gunpoint. “There are physical threats to safety from roving bands of armed individuals with weapons who are threatening the safety of the hospital,” said spokesman Steven Campanini. He estimated there were about 350 employees in the hospital and between 125 to 150 patients.

Tempers were starting to flare across the devastated region. Police said a man in Hattiesburg, Miss., fatally shot his sister in the head over a bag of ice. Dozens of carjackings were reported, including a nursing home bus. One officer was shot in the head and a looter was wounded in a shootout. Both were expected to survive.

(NY TIMES)—In a city shut down for business, the Rite Aid at Oak and South Carrollton was wide open on Wednesday. Someone had stolen a forklift, driven it four blocks, peeled up the security gate and smashed through the front door. The young and the old walked in empty-handed and walked out with armfuls of candy, sunglasses, notebooks, soda and whatever else they could need or find. No one tried to stop them.

Across New Orleans, the rule of law, like the city’s levees, could not hold out after Hurricane Katrina. The desperate and the opportunistic took advantage of an overwhelmed police force and helped themselves to anything that could be carried, wheeled or floated away, including food, water, shoes, television sets, sporting goods and firearms. Many people with property brought out their own shotguns and sidearms. Many without brought out shopping carts. The two groups have moved warily in and out of each other’s paths for the last three days, and the rising danger has kept even some rescue efforts from proceeding.

Some frightened homeowners took security into their own hands. John Carolan was sitting on his porch in the thick, humid darkness just before midnight Tuesday when three or four young men, one with a knife and another with a machete, stopped in front of his fence and pointed to the generator humming in the front yard, he said.

One said, “We want that generator,” he recalled.

“I fired a couple of rounds over their heads with a .357 Magnum,” Mr. Carolan recounted Wednesday. “They scattered.”

He smiled and added, “You’ve heard of law west of the Pecos. This is law west of Canal Street.”

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   Saturday - August 27, 2005

Weirdest Headline Of The Week

Question: when you go to look at new cars, do they let you test drive them by yourself?

Answer: No, ‘cause they’re afraid you might not come back.

As one prosthetics company in Iowa recently found out, the same rules should apply to artifical legs ....

Man Fitted For $17,000 Leg Runs Off Without Footing Bill

(DES MOINES REGISTER)—The suspect fled on foot - an artificial foot.

Police say a customer who tested a specially designed prosthetic leg at a Des Moines supplier walked away without paying the $17,000 bill. Spectrum Prosthetics and Orthotics, 1900 Ingersoll Ave., reported the theft this week. Sgt. David Murillo said the man came in on Aug. 19 to be fitted for the leg, which included some special features.

He “was allowed to take it for a couple hours to ensure that the fit was proper,” a police report said. But, Murillo said, the man just kept walking.

“We’d been working with him for about a week,” said Todd Schweizer, one of the owners of the company. “We were trying to meet his needs.”

Detective Robert Lewis said store officials have a cellular telephone number left by the man, but no one answers. Lewis attributed the five-day delay in reporting the crime to employees’ belief that the man would return. As days went by, that appeared less likely, Lewis said. The detective checked out an address listed for the customer, but no one answered the door Thursday.

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   Thursday - August 25, 2005

Cleaning Out The Gene Pool, Part MMDCLXVII

The moral of this story is really quite simple: never bring a tire-iron to a gun fight ....

15-Year-Old Burglar Dies After Being Shot By Woman

LOS ANGELES (AP)—A 15-year-old boy shot during a California burglary has died.

Police said a 59-year-old woman returned to her South Los Angeles home Tuesday morning after a walk and was confronted by a boy wielding a tire iron. She shot him with a handgun she keeps for protection. The woman wasn’t hurt.

The district attorney’s office will determine if the woman will face any charges.

Authorities aren’t releasing the boy’s name.

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   Monday - August 22, 2005

Sex Offenders Are Offended Over Ban

As a reaction to sex offenders and pedophiles raping and murdering children, many towns and states across the country are voting to establish sex offender free zones. Now the sex offenders, with assistance from civil liberties attorneys, are saying their rights are being infringed ....

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP)—Sex offender Steven Elwell thought he had paid his debt to society. He lost his job as a teacher and served a year in prison for having sex with a 16-year-old female student. Now, after three years on the outside, Elwell wants to move his wife and two children into a bigger home. They must find a house, though, that’s not encompassed by sex offender-free zones being established by communities across New Jersey. At least four towns ban sex offenders from living near schools, parks and playgrounds and others are considering similar restrictions. At least 14 states have such laws.

“We’re outgrowing our house fairly quick,” said Elwell, 34. “If we have to move, we’ll have to find a map, get a plot of land and figure out where (the pedophile-free zone) doesn’t reach.” Elwell, who now makes his living owning a pizzeria, doesn’t expect sympathy. But he argues the ordinances are too broad, providing a false sense of security at the expense of ex-cons already kept on a tight leash by Megan’s Law, the pioneering New Jersey sex offender registry law. A growing number of critics agree with him.

Restricting where sex offenders can live is misdirected and may be unconstitutional, say civil liberties advocates, defense attorneys and experts in the field. “These laws have absolutely nothing to do with the protection of children and everything to do with scare tactics, cheap political points and an anti-intellectualism that is driving public policy today,” said John S. Furlong, a defense attorney who brought the first court challenge to Megan’s Law . Megan’s Law was enacted in response to the 1994 slaying of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a sex offender who lived across the street from her. The law prompted dozens of other states to pass similar laws, requiring released sex offenders to register with police and for residents of the neighborhood to be notified.

High profile cases such as the slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Florida, allegedly by a sex offender who lived near her home, have prompted lawmakers nationwide to begin establishing “buffer zones” around places where children congregate. Concerns about the constitutionality of the bans have not stopped the passage of the laws, in part because of political pressure. “It’s pretty tough, if someone introduces an ordinance like this, to vote no,” said Joseph Scarpelli, mayor of Brick, which adopted its ordinance Aug. 1. The ordinance added bus stops to the list of locations off limits to offenders and included a 2,500-foot buffer zone. With more than 2,000 school bus stops in the town, the measure effectively bars sex offenders from living anywhere in Brick.

State Attorney General Peter Harvey has said he expects court challenges to the ordinances, although none has been filed. For now, Elwell is working at his pizzeria, attending support group meetings for sex offenders and answering to his state-appointed community supervision officer. Elwell said he plans to file a civil suit challenging the constitutionality of one or more of the laws targeting sex offenders, which he says unfairly lump all sex offenders together. “I see this as adult peer pressure,” he said. “Like high school kids drinking alcohol, all these towns are seeing what other towns are doing and doing it.”

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   Sunday - August 21, 2005

Dumbest Crook Of The Day

Speaking of dumb crooks (see below), who woulda thunk that breaking into and robbing a store in Britain would be so stupid? Well, most anyone with an IQ higher than their shoe size would realize right off the bat that a store selling closed-circuit television cameras would probably not be a good place for a heist. Today’s idjit criminal was caught on no fewer than eight separate surveillance cameras and images show the man from every single angle ....

(SKY NEWS)— A hooded man has been dubbed Britain’s thickest thief after stealing from a CCTV shop. The man was caught on eight separate surveillance cameras as he targeted the shop in Manchester and stole a laptop computer worth £700. He chose to raid the store despite numerous signs around the store warning that closed circuit television cameras were in operation.

CCTV images show the man from every single angle - one frame shows him handling a door, which forensic experts believe will provide them with a perfect set of fingerprints. There are even pictures of him looking through the shop window half an hour earlier, jumping up to get a better look. Owner of the shop, David Arathoon, 54, has said the thief’s actions are proving “the biggest boost to business imaginable”.

He said: “I didn’t know whether to laugh or be annoyed, and in the end I did both.” Mr Arathoon told the Daily Star: “Frame by frame, cameras filmed him around the shop. The stupidity to think stealing from a CCTV shop is a good idea is astonishing.” Manchester Police have said they will collect any evidence.

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   Thursday - August 18, 2005

Daily Shootout Report

Today’s courthouse shootout is brought to you by Lumpkin, Georgia ....

LUMPKIN, Ga. (AP) - The police chief, a county deputy and a paramedic were wounded during a shootout in this small town’s courthouse square Thursday and the suspected gunman was killed during an ensuing gunbattle, authorities said. The police chief in a nearby town also was wounded during the pursuit of the suspect.

The most seriously injured was the paramedic, who was shot in the leg after arriving at the scene to help the wounded officers, said John Bankhead, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The officers’ injuries were not considered life-threatening. Two people were taken into custody, but it was later determined they were hostages of the gunman. The suspected gunman fired at officers with a semiautomatic pistol and was shot and killed by police, Bankhead said.

The episode stemmed from an argument the gunman had earlier with family members, and the suspect may have opened fire on police as part of a desire to commit suicide by being killed by police, said Bankhead, citing statements from witnesses. The gunfire began about 2 a.m. when officers responded to a report of shots fired outside the Stewart County Courthouse in Lumpkin, a town of about 1,300 people near the Alabama border and 115 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Lumpkin Police Chief Jay Stripling and Stewart County Deputy Clinton Rivers were both shot in the face by a man firing from the courthouse steps, Bankhead said. The suspect then fled the scene. A few hours later, after more than 50 officers and a police helicopter swarmed the area, officers confronted the gunman near the courthouse. Marcus Dwayne Dalton, 26, fired at officers with a 9 mm pistol, striking Plains Police Chief Henry Brown.

Officers returned fire and killed Dalton, Bankhead said.

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   Tuesday - August 16, 2005

Freedom Of The Press In Mexico?

Yes, Mexico has a free press .... so to speak. They are free to print whatever they want. They are also free to get killed if they report on drug lords, as they found out recently. Needless to say, the courageous Mexican press did the only logical thing they could do .... they started ignoring the drug wars and printed more comics. This has led to fewer obituaries for reporters along the border. Can we declare the situation along the border “out of control” yet ....?

(EL UNIVERSAL ONLINE) Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas—A drug war is ripping apart northern Mexico, but you won’t find many details about who’s behind it in the local newspapers. Journalists after their colleagues have been killed, kidnapped and threatened with death have stopped investigating organized crime.

“It’s the new trend of drug gangs: Journalists are warned, paid off or killed,” said Daniel Rosas, the managing editor of the daily El Mañana, the oldest newspaper in this border city south of Laredo, Texas. “Drug battles have become bloodier, and gangs have no code of ethics. They don’t respect human life; why should they respect reporters?” El Mañana, founded in 1932 after the Mexican revolution with a motto to promote freedom of expression, has been self-censoring itself since its editor, Roberto Javier Mora García, was stabbed to death on March 19, 2004.

Earlier this year, a former El Mañana reporter, Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla, died after being shot outside her home. She’d gone to work for a radio station and had named some officials as involved in the drug trade before she was killed.

El Mañana, whose walls are covered with images of past front pages, now reports only official news, its editors said. Other major newspapers along the northern frontier followed suit after their reporters were killed, kidnapped or threatened. They said corruption, impunity and lack of police support made it almost impossible for journalists to research rampant violence accurately.

That means they don’t follow up on the 173 people who’ve disappeared since last fall throughout the state of Tamaulipas, deemed by journalism organizations the most dangerous place for reporters to work in Mexico. Twenty-three others missing are Americans from Texas. There has been at least 108 execution-style murders since January.

“We still inform the community of what’s happening but are more careful of what we say. It’s a painful decision. We are hostages to self-censorship, and it’s worse than censorship,” said El Mañana’s publisher, Ramón Cantú Deandar.

Cantú, 39, has grown cynical about covering organized crime in this city of nearly half a million people. “What’s the point of investigating? We can’t win. Drug mafias have billions and billions of dollars. They own this city: They buy police, government officials, investigators, you name it,” he said. “It’s better to write a crime novel.”

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   Wednesday - August 10, 2005

Bonnie & Clyde Captured In Ohio

The manhunt is over. The Tennessee couple who broke out of jail and killed a police officer have just been captured in Columbus, Ohio ....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Aug 10, 11:39 PM (ET)—A fugitive inmate and his wife, wanted in a brazen courthouse escape and shooting in Tennessee, were captured Wednesday night at an Ohio motel after a tip from a cab driver who had dropped them off, authorities said. George Hyatte and Jennifer Forsyth Hyatte were in a room at an America’s Best Value Inn in Columbus and were arrested without a struggle, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

“We have found weapons,” he said. “We don’t know if it’s the murder weapon, but we’re processing those as we speak.”

On Tuesday, authorities say Jennifer Hyatte, 31, ambushed two guards as they were leading her 34-year-old husband from a courthouse hearing in Kingston, Tenn., about 300 miles south of Columbus. Guard Wayne “Cotton” Morgan was fatally shot in the escape. Jennifer Hyatte had some injuries, Gwyn said, but he declined to elaborate. He said the couple would be brought back to Tennessee on warrants for first degree murder.

Authorities had already tracked the Hyattes to the Cincinnati area when they got a tip around 9 p.m. that the couple was at the Columbus motel. A cab driver who had apparently driven them from Columbus from Erlanger, Ky., just south of Cincinnati, called Erlanger police, U.S. Marshal John Schickel said. He declined to give any additional information or identify the cab driver.

After the tip, authorities surrounded the Columbus motel, said John Bolen, a supervisor for the U.S. Marshals Service in Columbus. Authorities called the motel room where the couple was staying, told them they were surrounded, and the couple came out of their room and surrendered around 10 p.m., Bolen said. They didn’t say anything during the arrest, he said.

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Stupid Criminals, Part II

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH ....

TAMPA TRIBUNE (AP) --Marvin Williams thought it would be funny to put a blue-and-red flashing light on the dashboard of his friend’s car and pretend to pull over another motorist, police said. But the joke backfired Sunday night when Williams picked a car with two undercover Tampa cops inside.

It didn’t help much when he laughed about it as he drove by. Then, when police followed him, the 22-year-old Williams ran from the vehicle, officials say. He left behind two female friends who were riding with him, and 7 grams of cocaine on the center console, police said. The officers caught up, caught him and found the drugs.

Williams was charged with cocaine possession, impersonating a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. Officers also arrested a woman riding in the front seat and charged her with cocaine possession. Williams posted $4,500 bail Monday night and was released. A working phone number could not be located for him Tuesday, and it wasn’t known if he had an attorney.

Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Williams joked with his passengers about pulling someone over in the moments before pulling behind Officers Sean Kruger and Jason Degagne shortly before midnight. “The joke was on him,” McElroy said. “His victims turned out to be police officers who escorted him to jail - with a real blue light.”

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   Tuesday - August 09, 2005

There Can Be Only One!

Michigan cops are still trying to figure out this asshat who .... well .... went medieval on them (link goes to The Smoking Gun by way of Fark) ....

Crusader Nabbed By Michigan Cops
Medieval sword, mallet, armor no match for ye olde Taser

AUGUST 5—Meet Robert McClain. The Michigan man, 42, was arrested last week after he attempted to literally go medieval on cops. According to the Royal Oak Police Department report, officers were dispatched to McClain’s home after a motorist called 911 to report that McClain had fled the scene of an auto accident. When they arrived at his crib, McClain allegedly tried to strike a cop with a four-foot sword.

After missing, McClain retreated to his basement, where he donned a chainmail armored vest and leather gauntlets to protect his arms. He also added a giant wooden mallet to his arsenal and beckoned officers to come downstairs and get him. “I’m gonna crush your fucking skulls,” McClain warned. Then, in a nice rhetorical flourish (for a lunatic, at least), he added, “I have a thousand years of power.”

That omnipotence, however, was no match for a police Taser, which felled McClain. He was then carted off and charged with felony assault and a misdemeanor count for failing to remain at an accident scene.

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