Patrick Havens on May 24th, 2010

I’m not sure how reading this a few months ago may of affected me.  But I have to say as a father of two, this scared and upset me more then I thought anything could. (CNN) — When 4-year-old Ethan Stacy was reluctantly sent off to spend the summer with his mother late last month, [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 19th, 2010

A student has been saved from a vicious assault – not by the boys in blue but the men in black. Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune to attack the 27-year-old medical student outside their warrior school. The German exchange student had been targeted by the men while he was riding the [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 15th, 2009

One reason I’ve noted I do have swords nearby at my house.  A gun has bullets that can travel. A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said. According to preliminary reports, a resident of [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 30th, 2008

A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.The would be bank robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his computer remotely, prosecutor Thomas Balter [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 21st, 2007

I’ve read many stories of people who have lived from gunshot woulds. And even a few cases a few cases where bullets had been left in the body. But this bellow case is unusual. The death of Daniel Restrepo on Nov. 30 in Royal Palm Beach was a murder that began 12 years ago in [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 1st, 2007

I’ve heard of Spider bites causing festering and sores, of even limbs having to be amputated at times.  But below is the first time I’ve heard of it being used as a defense. An Australian man who kidnapped and raped a woman blamed his actions on a spider, local media reported on Thursday. Philip Spiers [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 24th, 2007

Never mess with short women… Fair warning, criminals: Do not mess with Hafize Sahin. Not letting her slight frame deter her, Sahin wielded an ax against a masked man who tried to rob her at gunpoint on Saturday, swinging with gusto at the would-be robber before he fled empty-handed. “I said, “Get out, get out!” [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 8th, 2007

Or at least his lack of knowledge about it… “NY Times blog piece about Interpol’s ‘untwirling’ of a photoshop-twirled photo, in the pursuit of a pedophile. Didn’t know you could untwirl! Apparently the criminals didn’t either, and Interpol’s not telling how.” About 200 photos of the suspect with 12 different young boys were located on [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 8th, 2007

A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable, authorities said Monday.Police in the western city of Duisburg found the 32-year-old man’s blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen. Only because [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 26th, 2007

Man whose photo ended up online tells police he bought the computer from a friend. A man who attained instant infamy by unwittingly using a stolen computer to upload a shirtless self-portrait to the Internet has turned the machine over to police in Victoria. The tattooed man, whose photo has been viewed hundreds of thousands [...]

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