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FW: WKYT – September 19, 2007

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> Fiery Crash Shuts Down I-75
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> A fiery crash on I-75 killed one man and shut down the highway for
> hours.
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> Teen Sisters Killed In Crash
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> Two sisters, both high school students, are dead after a crash in
> Harrison County Monday night.
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> Residents Concerned Some Wildcat Fans May Be Too Wild
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> A big win for the Wildcats turned into a big headache for some
> people who live near the UK campus.
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> Man Trapped In Truck Survives
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> by DeAnn Stephens
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> A man is dramatically rescued after being trapped inside his truck,
> upside down for two hours.
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> Vandals Leave Hate Messages At A Laurel County School
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> by Phil Pendleton
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> It was a shocking discovery for people at a Southern Kentucky
> school this morning.
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> It was another sunny and warm day on Tuesday across Central and
> Eastern Kentucky thanks to high pressure continuing to dominate our
> weather. You may have noticed a few more scattered clouds on
> Tuesday and a bit more haze as that return flow on the backside of
> the high picked up. Expect more of the same into the mid and late
> week and in fact summer may not go down without a fight as
> temperatures could run toward the upper 80s late this week with all
> the sunshine and the dry ground here in the commonwealth. A frontal
> system may get as close as western Indiana on Wednesday but all
> we’ll probably see out of that is a few more clouds around as that
> system sort of washes out.The quiet weather pattern may stick
> around until late in the weekend when some moisture from the Gulf,
> possibly tropical starts to stream northward and increases the
> chances for a few isolated to scattered storms into early next
> week…TG
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Andrew Meyer

Okay, so I just found out about this incident, thanks to reading my slashdot and countdown feeds… curiosity got the best of me so i hit Google and YouTube. Some of the vids from YouTube are embedded below, the last being the most complete. All videos show different perspectives of the incident.
An interesting spectacle, to say the least.
So, Andrew Meyer, for some reason, decides to get nutty and belligerent at an event, asks a whole bunch of ridiculous questions, attempts to incite a riot, resists detainment, and gets tazed. And the only thing he had to identify himself when the police were able to remove him, and begin filing reports was a business card. Now, please, tell me this wasn’t a stunt… I need a good chuckle.
What’s interesting is to see all of the blog reactions out there in reference to this incident. There are posts supporting Meyer, posts bashing Meyer, and posts picking fun at Meyer, the police, and Sen. Kerry. I even found an entry where a guy announced the sale of shirts, mugs, and all the other wonderful CafePress junk, carrying Meyer’s plea of “don’t taze me bro!”
Many are crying police brutality. One quoted the right for a person to resist arrest. One drew comparison to Kent State. Kerry’s even responded.
I did, however find two writings that I believe are worth reading–one being from the vantage point of a fellow student at the event, and the other being another one of us random people reading the stories and watching the videos on YouTube.
First, an eyewitness states:

While the final question was being read, some douchebag ran down the aisle, grabbed the mic from the other side of the room, interrupted the kid who was talking, and started yelling at Kerry, demanding that his questions be heard. He started ranting about how Kerry talks in circles or something, and everyone was getting annoyed. The cops are all over him in no time and try to escort him out, but he starts yelling and resisting. Kerry insists that they let him stay and even agrees to answer his question.

After the interrupted guy’s question was answered, Kerry keeps his promise and lets the angry guy talk. This is the point where people started taking their cameras and phones out. All the videos floating around youtube start around here. You can see in the videos that his questioning gets kind of inappropriate, so somebody cut his mic. Instead of shutting up, he starts yelling and making an even bigger scene. He struggled all the way up the aisle, and started violently trying to free himself. They threatened to taze him and he wouldnt stop fighting, so he got tazed. They only had to arrest him because he was causing a disruption and wouldn’t leave peacefully. He wasn’t being silenced for asking tough questions, trust me.

The latter person, Jamilah Kolocotronis, wrote in reference to the negative comments being theorized about Meyer:

He is a human being who had something to say. If some people think he was annoying, well, so what? Can you imagine arresting people just for being annoying? There wouldn’t be anybody left.

The point is that someone’s freedom of speech was violated. Freedom of speech is an essential right–an inalienable right–which cannot be or should not be taken away. In the United States of America, people are not to be arrested and electronically shocked simply for stating unpopular opinions. Without the freedom of speech, the USA will become just another police state.

Interesting stuff. So, what do you think?
Personally, I’ll back the police. I think the twerp went too far, and he should have been grateful for receiving attention, and quietly slipped away, rather than throwing a tantrum.
What do you think?

FW: WKYT – September 18, 2007

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> Teen Sisters Killed In Crash
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> Two sisters, both high school students, are dead after a crash in
> Harrison County Monday night.
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> Bite Robbery Suspect Facing Attempted Murder Charges
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> A robbery suspect accused of biting a store clerk plead not guilty
> to attempted murder, among other charges today.
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> Court Official Enters Alford Plea To Misconduct Charge
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> State police say a former central Kentucky court official has
> entered an Alford plea on a misdemeanor count of official
> misconduct.
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> Two Dead In Louisville Shooting
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> Police say two men are dead after an early morning shooting in
> Louisville.
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> Bank Robbery Suspects Enter Not Guilty Pleas
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> Three men accused of robbing a southern Kentucky Bank had not
> guilty pleas entered on their behalf, but they could now face more
> serious federal charges.
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> For more local and national news, visit our web site at:
> http://www.wkyt.com?source=enews&c=y
>
> ===================================
> Weather Updates
> ===================================
>
> It was another sunny and warm day on Tuesday across Central and
> Eastern Kentucky thanks to high pressure continuing to dominate our
> weather. You may have noticed a few more scattered clouds on
> Tuesday and a bit more haze as that return flow on the backside of
> the high picked up. Expect more of the same into the mid and late
> week and in fact summer may not go down without a fight as
> temperatures could run toward the upper 80s late this week with all
> the sunshine and the dry ground here in the commonwealth. A frontal
> system may get as close as western Indiana on Wednesday but all
> we’ll probably see out of that is a few more clouds around as that
> system sort of washes out.The quiet weather pattern may stick
> around until late in the weekend when some moisture from the Gulf,
> possibly tropical starts to stream northward and increases the
> chances for a few isolated to scattered storms into early next
> week…TG
>
> For more local weather and current radar, visit our Weather Page at:
> http://www.wkyt.com/weather?source=enews&c=y
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Through the miracles of radio technology, I now know that Becky Barnes has arrived at the HCHS front office.
What fun the high school must be facing today with all the media attention.
I don’t remember there being such media frenzy with the deaths that occurred throughout my high school years. We lost a lot of people during that four year time frame. I think there were something like four or five car wrecks, a suicide (maybe two) and a guy who died due to liver failure.
I wonder where Rick is buried…

BREAKING NEWS: HCHS students mourn deaths of two classmates

I don’t know what time the article was published, today, but sometime late this morning or early this afternoon, the Cynthiana Democrat published a story on the accident that occurred yesterday evening.

BREAKING NEWS: HCHS students mourn deaths of two classmates
By Becky Barnes, Editor
Two Harrison County High School students were tragically killed in a two-car accident Monday evening.

Their deaths have stalled many activities at the school as classmates and family mourn.

Sarah Riggs, 17, and Jennifer Riggs, 16, were in the front seats of a 1997 Camry, which Sarah was driving. They died at the scene. Backseat passengers Jake Stephens, 17, and Jennifer Edens, 16, were taken to Harrison Memorial Hospital.
All Homecoming activites that were planned for the balance of the week have been postponed. The football game against Bourbon County will go on as scheduled. However, high school soccer games and other activities have been cancelled through Thursday night.

More information will be released as it becomes available. See this week’s Cynthiana Democrat for the complete story.

The Lexington Herald-Leader has published an article as well. Two guestbooks are available for signing in remembrance of the teens.
As I drove back down the hill from picking the children up from school some twenty minutes ago I spotted two news vans making their way up church street towards HCHS. 27Newsfirst and WLEX18 are apparently going to have coverage for this story tonight. It’s, of course, a tragic tale which will be sure to grab at everyone’s heartstrings–two teenage sisters killed in a car accident during homecoming week, the school and classmates mourning, and homecoming events (all but the game itself) canceled.
I believe that Cynthiana was going to see the first homecoming parade in years, up until this event.
In regard to the parade, I believe that this was going to be the first parade in nearly fifteen years. I’m honestly uncertain of the last parade, or the date, but I believe that there hadn’t been a parade since the year that Bennie Doan had wrote a threatening letter in which he (writing anonymously) threatened to kill his daughter; if that was the last time, of a parade, then, yes, it’s been fifteen years – that was 1992. An interesting story there… maybe I’ll revisit it at a later date…

Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses

…and this is supposed to be surprising?

Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses
Technical Writing Geek writes “A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company’s own workers. ‘The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running “Computer Crime and Security Survey,” and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn’t come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'”

Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music"

Like people aren’t doing it anyway?

Trent Reznor Says “Steal My Music”
THX-1138 writes “A few months ago, Trent Reznor (frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails), was in Australia doing an interview when he commented on the outrageous prices of CDs there. Apparently now his label, Universal Media Group is angry at him for having said that. During a concert last night, he told fans, ‘…Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means — STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’. Because one way or another these mother****ers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that’s not right.'”

New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service

awesome… free news!

New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service
Mike writes “The New York Times has announced that it will end its paid Internet service in favor of making most of its Web site available for free. The hope is that this move will attract more readers and higher advertising revenue. ‘The longer-term problem for publishers like the Times is that they must find ways to present content online rather than just transferring stories and pictures from the newspaper. Most U.S. news Web sites offer their contents for free, supporting themselves by selling advertising. One exception is The Wall Street Journal which runs a subscription-based Web site. TimesSelect generated about $10 million in revenue a year. Schiller declined to project how much higher the online growth rate would be without charging visitors.'”

Countdown Monday: Greenspan's Bush Pan

Last night’s Countdown… I haven’t read any of the stories yet.. haven’t had the time to… I hope to read about Greenspan and Dubai… The other stories don’t interest me…

Countdown Monday: Greenspan’s Bush Pan

Thanks to all wishing Keith well in his recovery. Keith is out of the hospital, and home recovering after his emergency appendectomy on Friday. Alison is in for him tonight…

Fed Up: After spending nearly two decades as chairman of the Federal Reserve… Alan Greenspan is kind of like EF Hutton in those old television commercials: When he talks, people listen. So when — in our fifth story on the Countdown — Mr. Greenspan seemed to state in excerpts of his new memoir, that the invasion of Iraq was largely about oil… people were definitely listening, and the fiscal guru created a firestorm, to say the least.
You Say Dubai, I say Hello: President Bush announces his new pick for Attorney General. He goes with practicality over partisanship. Did the White House blink or open its eyes to the reality of the senate confirmation process. And will the former attorney general scandal taint the new confirmation?

ODDBALL: Drag racing crash…traffic cam crash, and a moose gets milked. It’s appointment tv.
The OJ Debacle: OJ‘s not so excellent adventure. Day number one behind bars. hey–you knew someone would start a countdown clock. After all, we could be in for another long run with orenthal james simpson. Our third story tonight.. allegations of stolen goods… men with guns barging into a cheezy vegas hotel room… and a secret audio recording of the whole mess that just materialized. It is a chain of events you couldn’t make up …and you don’t have to because they happened in the nevada desert.
Emmy Round-up: It was a “green” kind of awards show…the red carpet was made out of recycled material…coincidentally, some of the winners seemed a bit recycled, too. However, the biggest loser of the night appears to be the Fox network, with Sunday’s broadcast drawing nearly twenty percent fewer viewers than last year. Note to Ryan Seacrest, don’t wear costumes next time. At least not professionally. Britney? A no-show-good thing because she probably wouldn’t have made it to air…The Fox censors were working overtime. They DID try to silence Norma Rae and that guy everybody loves. Our number two story tonight…the Emmys. Our correspondent is Natalie Morales.

As the Spears Turns: Britney Spears custody battle has turned really ugly in our number one story on the Countdown. And she has reportedly been banned from a chi-chi restaurant because she spread food on her face. But the good news for Britney — compared to that, her performance at the “Video Music Awards” is looking better and better… Well, no, not really.

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Russian comment….

I had a comment left on an entry, and it was in Russian… I have no idea as to what it says… I’ve asked someone to translate it for me, because Google’s translation doesn’t make much sense…
The comment was:
Я хочу выпить за то, что Адам не пожалел своего ребра.
and Google translated it as:

I want to drink because Adam did not regretted his ribs.