University of Missouri Police are investigating what appears to have been a racially motivated incident at the campus Black Cultural Center Friday morning.
Cotton balls were strewn across the center’s lawn, walkway and bushes between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. Police said two people in dark clothing were seen running from the center grounds.
Whoever is responsible could be charged with either littering or tampering, said MU Police Capt. Brian Weimer. State statutes contain no hate crime law, but if racial motivation was found, “it would enhance the punishment for the crime,” he said.
Roger L. Worthington, MU’s chief diversity officer, condemned it as “an aggressive act against the entire MU community.”
The Legion of Black Collegians, a student government group on campus, is holding a campus wide town hall meeting at 5 p.m. on Monday to discuss racial diversity.
“To say the least, I am disgusted by this action,” said graduate student Jennifer M. Wilmot, adding that it makes her feel unsafe on the campus.

For some reason this story reminds of the existence amputee fetish websites. The world really is a terrible place.
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The young woman warned her: ‘Look Teresa, you’ll regret this in the morning’ and finished making the bedtime drink. But Cottingham shouted ‘You know you want it, you’ve been parading your a*** in front of me’. ‘The defendant then pulled her onto the bed and there was a struggle,’ added the prosecutor. As she tried to subdue her victim, she bragged: ‘I know what I’m doing - I’m better than a man.’

If I was on the jury I’d demand to see a reenactment. You know, for legal reasons.

The 18-year-old German went into his garden and set about severing his organs after downing a tea made with the plant Angels’ Trumpet. The plant is a powerful and dangerous hallucinogen.
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Dr Andreas Marneros, from the local psychiatric hospital where the student was admitted to, said: “Andreas will have to receive psychological help for years.
The scorned teen also scrawled her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend’s name and phone number on the pictures, along with an unflattering comment about the size of his sex organ, Expressen reports.

Remember that kid in gym class who always showered with his swim trunks on?


When an officer approached the man, he noticed he was shirtless and wearing women’s pants with a hole in the crotch exposing his genitals. The man also was wearing his underwear around his neck, police said.
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What can crystal do for you?
By Rudyard Kipling
In a land that the sand overlays – the ways to her gates are untrod –
A multitude ended their days whose gates were made splendid by God,
Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall,
And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all!
When the wine stirred in their heart their bosoms dilated.
They rose to suppose themselves kings over all things created –
To decree a new earth at a birth without labour or sorrow –
To declare: “We prepare it to-day and inherit to-morrow.”
They chose themselves prophets and priests of minute understanding,
Men swift to see done, and outrun, their extremest commanding –
Of the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice –
Panders avowed to the crowd whatsoever its lust is.
Swiftly these pulled down the walls that their fathers had made them –
The impregnable ramparts of old, they razed and relaid them
As playgrounds of pleasure and leisure, with limitless entries,
And havens of rest for the wastrels where once walked the sentries;
And because there was need of more pay for the shouters and marchers,
They disbanded in face of their foemen their yeomen and archers.
They replied to their well-wishers’ fears – to their enemies laughter,
Saying: “Peace! We have fashioned a God Which shall save us hereafter.
We ascribe all dominion to man in his factions conferring,
And have given to numbers the Name of the Wisdom unerring.”
They said: “Who has hate in his soul? Who has envied his neighbour?
Let him arise and control both that man and his labour.”
They said: “Who is eaten by sloth? Whose unthrift has destroyed him?
He shall levy a tribute from all because none have employed him.”
They said: “Who hath toiled, who hath striven, and gathered possession?
Let him be spoiled. He hath given full proof of transgression.”
They said: “Who is irked by the Law? Though we may not remove it.
If he lend us his aid in this raid, we will set him above it!
So the robber did judgment again upon such as displeased him,
The slayer, too, boasted his slain, and the judges released him.
As for their kinsmen far off, on the skirts of the nation,
They harried all earth to make sure none escaped reprobation.
They awakened unrest for a jest in their newly-won borders,
And jeered at the blood of their brethren betrayed by their orders.
They instructed the ruled to rebel, their rulers to aid them;
And, since such as obeyed them not fell, their Viceroys obeyed them.
When the riotous set them at naught they said: “Praise the upheaval!
For the show and the world and the thought of Dominion is evil!”
They unwound and flung from them with rage, as a rag that defied them,
The imperial gains of the age which their forefathers piled them.
They ran panting in haste to lay waste and embitter for ever
The wellsprings of Wisdom and Strengths which are Faith and Endeavour.
They nosed out and digged up and dragged forth and exposed to derision
All doctrine of purpose and worth and restraint and prevision:
And it ceased, and God granted them all things for which they had striven,
And the heart of a beast in the place of a man’s heart was given… .
. . . . . . . . When they were fullest of wine and most flagrant in error,
Out of the sea rose a sign – out of Heaven a terror.
Then they saw, then they heard, then they knew – for none troubled to hide it,
A host had prepared their destruction, but still they denied it.
They denied what they dared not abide if it came to the trail;
But the Sward that was forged while they lied did not heed their denial.
It drove home, and no time was allowed to the crowd that was driven.
The preposterous-minded were cowed – they thought time would be given.
There was no need of a steed nor a lance to pursue them;
It was decreed their own deed, and not a chance, should undo them.
The tares they had laughingly sown were ripe to the reaping.
The trust they had leagued to disown was removed from their keeping.
The eaters of other men’s bread, the exempted from hardship,
The excusers of impotence fled, abdicating their wardship,
For the hate they had taught through the State brought the State no defender,
And it passed from the roll of the Nations in headlong surrender!
| — | Rudy K. |
“LOCKPORT — The last entry on Christopher K. Crego’s Facebook page already has been removed.
It was a thank-you note from the City of Lockport Police Department.
“It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed that now you are under arrest,” Capt. Richard Podgers, chief of detectives, typed onto the page. He said he also is considering nominating Crego for “America’s Dumbest Criminal.”“
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” Recently, officers had been hearing about his Facebook and MySpace accounts. When they checked Crego’s pages on those sites, police found everything they needed, Podgers said.
“It was actually perfect,” he said. “He gave us his address, where he worked, he actually filled out everything. I couldn’t have done better [investigating].”



A GARBAGE collector is suing for unspecified damages after he swallowed medical waste while lifting an unsecured bin. Barton Wallis, of Nundah, was this week granted leave in the Brisbane District Court to start proceedings against the Haematology and Oncology Clinics of Australasia.
In documents lodged in the court registry, Mr Wallis stated he was working as a garbage collector for SITA Environmental Solutions on March 13, 2007, when the incident occurred. Mr Wallis said the mechanical lift on the truck was broken so he had to manually load the wheelie bins from outside the Wesley Clinic for Haematology and Oncology at Auchenflower. Court documents allege an improperly secured bin spilled up to two litres of medical waste - including blood, human biopsies and chemotherapy chemicals - over Mr Wallis as he tried to lift it onto the truck. The documents stated he swallowed a portion of this waste before vomiting.
Hmmmmm, tasty! 