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alexs
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Does anyone else think this is crazy? A homeless guy leaves a suitcase outside of a store and he's charged with inducing panic. Well he got a warm place to sleep anyway.

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — A homeless man from southwestern Ohio was arrested and charged with inducing panic after a bomb squad was called to investigate a suitcase he allegedly abandoned outside a bookstore in northeastern Ohio, police said yesterday.

The three-hour scene caused a scare for Christmas Eve shoppers, but it turned out that the bag wasn’t a threat.

A shopper reported the suspicious bag about 8 a.m. yesterday outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore near the Great Lakes Mall northeast of Cleveland, Mentor Police Lt. Ken Zbiegien said. Officers evacuated the store and used a robot to determine that the bag contained nothing hazardous.

As authorities were investigating, they learned that mall security had seen a man in the area on Friday night with a blue suitcase that matched the description of the one left at the store. Authorities found the man elsewhere on the mall property, and he acknowledged that the bag was his, Zbiegien said.

The 44-year-old Mason man told police he is homeless and had taken a bus from Cincinnati to Cleveland, where he was staying at a mission or shelter, Zbiegien said.

“We don’t know why he was up here,” Zbiegien said.

Police are withholding the man’s name until he is arraigned on Tuesday on the felony charge. He was in custody in Mentor.

The bookstore was open for business by lunchtime.

Posted 5 months ago #
Coremodels
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The sad thing is, they'll most likely allow him to plead to a misdemeanor instead...which he'll do out of fear and public defender advice...and end up with a conviction for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

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Setting aside the question about the extent to which the 9-11 attacks had at least some degree of inside help--if only by way of some opportunistic passive aggressiveness, Benjamin Barber has for years been writing and talking about the strategic jujitsu of those who use what we call 'terrorism.'

It's a bit old, but here is an excerpt from an interview with Bill Moyers. The is the link (Scroll to the bottom of the page for the original transcript at the PBS website).

MOYERS: You talk in here about terrorism's strategic jujitsu. What is that?

BARBER: By that I mean that this is the premise of all terrorism: powerlessness. People who have power don't use terror. It's only people with no economic power, no political power, no pull, no influence who turn to terrorism because their only weapon is fear.

They use our power against us. They make us fearful. Think of what happened after 9/11. They brought down three, four airliners, did terrible initial damage. But, we closed down the air transportation system for three or four days. They sent a shock through the stock market. We closed down trading for four days.

They threatened us and got us once. We've been on a perpetual war footing ever since, constricting our liberties. Al Qaeda didn't constrict American liberties. We did that to ourselves. The jujitsu they use is to use our fear to get us to do the things that they are powerless to do. So, the first lesson in fighting terrorism is not to permit fear, and fear's empire, to govern us in how we behave, how we take them on, and how we live out our lives.

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cheap
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the founders of this country were considerred "terrorists".

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alexs
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My late neighbor was a Pearl Harbor survivor. Once he had a party, and a circle of crusty old veterans were discussing how it's no longer safe to fly because you'll get blown up. I was really surprised to hear that from them.

But man, just leaving a package can draw a felony charge because that's all it takes to make people panic.

I wonder what would happen if I picked up passengers at the airport with this BBQ grill on the trailer hitch.

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alexs said:
My late neighbor was a Pearl Harbor survivor. Once he had a party, and a circle of crusty old veterans were discussing how it's no longer safe to fly because you'll get blown up. I was really surprised to hear that from them.

a lot of my customers are older folks,over 70.they are fox news viewers,period.

i get their right wing paranoid chain emails all the time.

crazy stuff,too.i just crack up and delete them.

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cheap said:
they are fox news viewers,period.

I give credit to RMM for naming the 610 AM demographic.

Posted 5 months ago #
Rockmastermike
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alexs said:
I give credit to RMM for naming the 610 AM demographic.

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Rockmastermike said:
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I thought it was you, anyway. The comment was something like you have to consider how the issue sounds to the listeners of that station. I've kept that in mind as I try to convince people that the Scioto is more than a turlet.

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alexs said:
My late neighbor was a Pearl Harbor survivor. Once he had a party, and a circle of crusty old veterans were discussing how it's no longer safe to fly because you'll get blown up. I was really surprised to hear that from them.

But man, just leaving a package can draw a felony charge because that's all it takes to make people panic.

I wonder what would happen if I picked up passengers at the airport with this BBQ grill on the trailer hitch.

If we use this gun for grilling meat,
Let’s aim this work-of-art at a similar creative feat,
Such as a mini Earth as a trash bin where we toss what we don’t eat,
As a token to those with less and less land for growing rice or wheat.
That would make the symbolism of this photo complete.

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TomOver
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alexs said:
I give credit to RMM for naming the 610 AM demographic.

As someone who seeks to engage with a broader range of people, keeping that demographic in mind can be useful.

Unlike small children, we adults have the capacity to form elaborate conceptions about the world around us. In many ways that's good. But it's bad when our conceptions detract from our ability to connect with a person.

In other words we can use our ideas to have a better grasp of reality or we can use our ideas --often subconsciously---to filter out parts of reality that don't jibe with our ideas.

So, I suggest we use the demographic info you mention wisely. We have to be able to set our conceptions aside and focus on engaging with another human being whose conception of reality is probably as real to her or him as it is to you or me.

I bring this up to compare notes, not to preach. Using this forum is one of many steps toward getting more of us to work together to achieve goals in our communities. To do that, we have to not let our differences, or our perceived differences, to get in the way. My work as a journalist has motivated me in this regard. But, as other users of this forum( as well as friends and family) may point out, I've got a long way to go.

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