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Gadgets
Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Baby Gets Hit By Train, Strolls Away…There’s a Hole In My Heart That Can Only Be Filled By—Stem Cells?…Beware Bobbies Bearing BlackBerries…Science Figures Out Why We Break Out Bubbly More »
Random Stuff
NYPD May Track Your Phone If You’re Arrested For…Any Reason
1:40PM Rosa Golijan | The folks at the NYPD are so sweet! No matter what you’re arrested for, they’re nice enough to remove your mobile phone’s battery “to avoid leakage” and jot down your IMEI number. They’ll even add it to a database. More »
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Undercover Police Can’t Resist Playing With A Drug Dealer’s Wii
4:20AM Sean Fallon | For many of us, the novelty value of the Wii wore off a long time ago—not so for undercover cops in Polk County, Florida. They were recently busted bowling on the job by a convicted drug dealer’s security camera. More »
Weapons
Police Taser Legless Man In Wheelchair
7:40PM Danny Allen | Internal Affairs are investigating witness reports that Merced police twice Tasered a 40 year-old double-amputee because he had a “big mouth”. Initial charges against him were dropped, so how much resistance could he have put up? Talk about overkill. More »
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Driver Uses Mobile Phone To Take Photos While Doing Illegal Things
8:20AM Jesus Diaz | Hookay. So we knew that texting while driving is stupid. But what about using your mobile phone to take photos of yourself while driving. Drunk. Speeding. Fishtailing. Running red lights. Crashing against a police car. And with no driver’s licence? More »
Phones
How Does A Blind Teenage “Swatter” Get 11 Years In Jail?
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Matt Weigman, “a fat, lonely blind kid”, received an 11-year jail sentence at age 19 for using the 911 phone service to harass and attack his enemies (including the FBI!). But how does a kid come to such a fate? More »
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Tasers Include Hidden Feature: Set Suspects On Fire
2:00PM Rosa Golijan | Poor Officer Lanham of the Lancaster PD: A day after he got his shiny new Taser he had to go through some additional training. Turns out that firefighting skills are a must after tasering a guy who’d been huffing keyboard cleaner. More »
Vehicles
Ugly Armoured Car Fights Crime With Cameras And Shame
6:20AM Sean Fallon | Behold the latest in crime fighting technology — the “Armadillo.” It’s mission: to shame evil doers into obedience using a potent blend of security cameras, heavy duty armour and sheer ugliness. More »
Online
Webcam Suicide Hoax And Bad Acting Result In Arrest
12:20PM Rosa Golijan | So this guy turns on a web cam and lays still on his back. Either he’s related to your ex-girlfriend or he decided to fake a suicide. No matter, NY authorities didn’t care and charged him for aggravated harassment. More »
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