Category: The Absurd (Page 11 of 12)

March 31,2006 | WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — At least six men came to western North Carolina, some from as far away as South America, to have their genitals mutilated in what police described Friday as a sadomasochistic “dungeon.”
Three men have been charged with illegal castration in the case, Haywood County Sheriff Tom Alexander and District Attorney Michael Bonfoey said. The sheriff and prosecutor said the victims were willing participants in the procedures.
The men met through a Web site produced in North Carolina that published photographs of men engaging in sadomasochistic behavior at a house in Waynesville. Investigators found DVD recordings of the castrations during a search of the house Wednesday, authorities said.
“This right here beats everything I have ever seen,” Alexander said.
Michael Mendez, 60, Richard Peter Sciara, 61, and Danny Carroll Reeves, 49, each are charged with castration without malice, maiming without malice and practicing medicine without a license.
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It has taken several years and a travesty of a trial, but the truth about Zacharias Moussaoui finally seems to be out. He was a pest.
“An Al Qaeda operative known as Khallad said he cut off contact with Moussaoui when Moussaoui repeatedly called his telephone number after being instructed to use it only in an emergency.” He “managed to annoy everyone he came in contact with” said Hambali, a former leader of a South Asian terrorist group. He described Moussaoui as “very troubled, not right in the head and having a bad character”. Eventually he bought him a $2000 plane ticket just to get rid of him. Meanwhile, senior al-Qaeda leaders testified that Moussaoui had no involvement in the 9/11 plot.
And I, for one, am inclined to believe them. Anyone who has been involved in any kind of movement, organization or club, for that matter, has come across people like Moussaoui. At first they can appear very earnest and dedicated to whatever cause. Only later you realize that there is just something wrong with them, they come up with outlandish conspiracy theories and plots, they have to have everything done their way and have grandiose ideas of what should be accomplished. They need to be the center of attention – something which Moussaoui has shown time and again in his trial. If you have ever dealt with someone like that, you can almost feel sad for al-Qaeda. Almost.
Moussaoui was not part of 9/11 plan, ex-Al Qaeda officials say

March 21,2006 | MONTEREY, Calif. — A man’s pantyhose led to his arrest, authorities said. An unshaven man wearing a black evening gown, fishnet stockings, calf-high boots and a black wig robbed a USA Gas station Monday morning, authorities alleged.
The armed man stuffed $290 in cash into an ensemble-matching black purse.
“I’ve been with the department for 22 years, and this is the first time I’ve heard of this happening anywhere here,” police Lt. Phil Penko said.
About 35 minutes after the robbery, police Officer Chad Ventimiglia spotted a black Saab with fishnet pantyhose hanging from the front driver’s side door, dragging on the ground, investigators said.
The car was pulled over and Michael Leslie Clouse, 26, was arrested and booked for investigation of armed robbery.
A plastic replica handgun allegedly was found inside his purse, Penko said.

The documents on the detainees at Guantanamo released by the Pentagon last week show that many prisoners were detained on extremely flimsy grounds. Some, for example, were detained because they wore a very cheap style of Casio watches that terrorist have used to detonate bombs. But the watches are extremely popular and worn by thousands of Afghanis exactly because they are very cheap. It’s as if a person was arrested for having a cell phone, wearing jeans or drinking water – because terrorists do that too. If it wasn’t so tragic that so many people have lost so many years of their lives, their families, their sanity, their health and so much more – not to be mentioned had to endured torture and degrading treatment, the situation would almost be funny. You have to wonder whether the US forces are really that stupid as to believe that wearing a certain type of watch means you are a terrorist – and if so, no wonder we not only lost the war in Iraq but have pushed the country into civil war – or if they are just perverse, torturing people for the hell of it.
But anyway, now you too can become an object of suspicion by the US Government. You can buy one of those watches here. But be careful, you might find yourself in Guantanamo really soon.