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From Kansas City police:
Email inquiry:
Why, yes I do:
"We had a negotiator response to a man threatening to jump off the bridge," KCPD spokesman Capt. Rich Lockhart told me. "It didn't last very long. He changed his mind and we got him back."
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The Kansas City police captain in charge of hostage situations and standoffs used to tell me patience was his best weapon. And he'd tally his success by the number of peaceful resolutions. It didn't work every time:
Man dies during standoff with KC police
A man who exchanged gunfire with police inside a Kansas City home this morning has died, police announced shortly before 10:30 a.m.
They were investigating whether the man was hit during the exchange of gunfire or whether he later killed himself. Police described him as a 21-year-old father of two with a third child on the way.
The incident began about 6:15 a.m. when someone called 911 to report a disturbance involving a man with a gun at a house near 29th Street and Highland Avenue. When officers arrived, all the occupants were outside. One man broke from the group and ran back inside as officers followed.
After the man threatened to kill himself with a knife, the officers called in a police negotiator. At 7:24 a.m., the man fired at police and the officers returned fire. No officers were hit.
After hearing nothing from the man for hours, police found him dead.
Of the 170+ comments that landed on 1 stabbed in street brawl at The Point, none were as acerbic as two emails I got from David H., a loan officer at a prominent local mortgage firm:
So there, Kansas City. A mortgage loan officer - whose job it is to spread the joy of home ownership in our town - has spoken!
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A loyal reader of this blog put me in touch with Karen L., who employed accused sado-sex killer Dena
D. Riley (right) as a groomer in her Harrisonville dog kennel a couple years ago.
"Dena was really kind and gentle with the dogs," Karen told me. "She
was one of the gentlest people around the animals I've ever had out
here."
But Dena also had trackmarks and infected sores all over her body and talked openly about her drug use, said Karen, a former psychiatric nurse.
"She steadily talked about the drugs she got the night before, how she used it and how great it was," Karen said. "She'd use anything. I don't think she was a pot-smoker - she was a needle freak. She also liked
pain pills."
Dena and a friend, Sheri, were homeless and living in Dena's car when an elderly Odessa vet took pity on them, Karen said.
"When the doctor's daughter told her mother about these girls being homeless and having to wash up in the gas station bathroom, the doctor's wife offered Dena and Sheri a job," Karen said. "They moved into the basement of the doctor's home in Odessa."
Dena Riley worked for only about two months before all the dogs were groomed and the work ran out, Karen said.
On the news about Dena?
"I'm really shocked," Karen said. "I've heard it said by people I've worked with in the past, that drugs can turn you into some kind of an animal. And that's got to be the case for her, because I just can't imagine her taking things that far."
From Olathe police, who are asking this be sent out ASAP:
Name: Alieghya R. Clark
Age: 21 DOB: 07/02/1984
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Sandy
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'00"
Weight: 120 lbs
Olathe PD case # 2006-0009459
Missing From: Her home in Olathe, KS
Missing Since: 05-27-06
Details: Alieghya was last seen by friends on 05-28-06; she has had no contact with her family since
05-27-06. The circumstances indicate that she may be endangered. She currently has curly hair that is just below her ears in length. If you see her please call your local police immediately.
Under the category public safety:
Forty-four laptop or notebook computers have caught fire in the past five years, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.
In a report today, CBS News says some of the fires have burned down houses, or worse. And they have a video of an exploding laptop.
From the CPSC:
Hewlett-Packard recalls notebook batteries
HP has received 20 reports of batteries overheating, including two in the
United States. One minor burn injury has been reported. Eleven cases of minor property damage were reported, including one in the United States.
Dell recalls notebook batteries
Dell has received three reports of batteries overheating. The incidents involved damage to a tabletop, a desktop, and minor damage to personal effects. No injuries have been reported.
Woman's body left in vehicle on Blue Ridge Boulevard
Kansas City police are investigating an incident in which the body of a woman left in a vehicle at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of Blue Ridge Boulevard.
A man reportedly brought the woman to a house in that area earlier in the evening. Police were investigating reports that she was dead when she arrived and was moved from one vehicle to another.
The man left in a blue Ford Ranger pickup truck.
Lenexa checkpoint yields variety of charges
A sobriety checkpoint Friday night at 95th and Monrovia streets in Lenexa netted several arrests for law enforcement agencies.
The Lenexa Police Department, Johnson County Sheriff’s Department and other Johnson County agencies conducted the checkpoint from 10 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. Here’s what they reported:
(7 / 504) * 100 = 1.4 percent
Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to eventually legalize sex at any age, sex with animals and child porn - ideas not universally accepted, even in the Netherlands.
From Reuters:
Pedophiles to launch political party
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles ...sparking widespread outrage.
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