Stupid things that don't happen in Connecticut

[Jim Johnson]

Canadian workers ill after cannabis brownie mix-up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14770359

Three office employees in the Canadian city of Victoria fell ill after a colleague unwittingly gave them chocolate brownies laced with cannabis.
Police were investigating a possible case of poisoning at the workplace after the three were taken to hospital feeling dizzy and disorientated.
The woman who brought in the cakes said she simply found them in her freezer.
But her son later admitted to police he had baked the cannabis cakes some time ago and forgotten about them.
Canadian media reports said police decided not to press charges because there had been no criminal intent.
But the son is expected to be ordered to take part in community work, said the Vancouver Sun.
All three affected colleagues were released from hospital after a few hours.

[Russell Kanning]

Fell ill?

[Jim Johnson]

Time was going reealllly slow, and when your at work that can be very unpleasant.

[Jim Johnson]

San Francisco program pairs panhandlers with pound puppies.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/10/panhandlers-paired-with-pound-puppies-in-california/?test=latestnews

Unwanted strays will go to people living in city-funded supportive housing shelters who agree to stop panhandling and get paid to take dogs.

[Jim Johnson]

Italian court convicts 7 scientists of manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/22/italian-court-convicts-7-scientists-for-failing-to-predict-earthquake/?test=latestnews

[WithoutAPaddle]

Italian court convicts 7 scientists of manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake.

From the article:

The verdict also calls for damage payments that could add up to hundreds of thousands of euros, Science magazine wrote.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/22/italian-court-convicts-7-scientists-for-failing-to-predict-earthquake/?test=latestnews#ixzz2A6WWH1kE

Unless there is a statutory cap on damages, then how can manslaughter damages be worth only hundreds of thousands of euros?  I'd think that each of the 300 lives wrongfully ended would be worth a million euros... and I don't even know how much a euro is.

[Pat K]

Italian court convicts 7 scientists of manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake.


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/22/italian-court-convicts-7-scientists-for-failing-to-predict-earthquake/?test=latestnews

'I thought I would have been acquitted. I still don't understand what I was convicted of.'
- Enzo Boschi, former head of the national Institute of Geophysics and

I can hear Ayn 's I told ya so, on the breeze.

[Tom Sawyer]

Come on people, someone has to pay.

[Jim Johnson]

That's odd, the fines are just enough to cover the trial/legal expenses.

[WithoutAPaddle]

There has to be a story-behind-the-story here. Might this whole fiasco have started with some undercurrent of political ill-will? Might the, "Great Risks Commission" have been a political money trough for well-connected fat cats that another political faction is now successfully using/abusing the court process to get back at? Did the trial judge have roots in the aggrieved community? Was the jury drawn from that community? Do friends and relatives of the jurors stand to benefit financially from this? Enquiring minds want to know.

[KBCraig]

There has to be a story-behind-the-story here.

Here's the story: It's Italy!

You know, the same country where Amanda Knox was officially accused of being a witch in open court.

[WithoutAPaddle]

'I thought I would have been acquitted. I still don't understand what I was convicted of.'
- Enzo Boschi, former head of the national Institute of Geophysics...

Maybe he was convicted of plagerizing Galileo.

[Russell Kanning]

Very funny

[Jim Johnson]

Police say a woman who was upset over the outcome of the presidential election ran over her husband because he didn't participate in his civic duty.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57548600/cops-ariz-woman-runs-over-husband-for-not-voting/?tag=cbsnewsHardNewsFDArea;fdmodule


This has happened before but I can't find the thread.

[Russell Kanning]

Man the programming works to a shocking level.