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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-23-2017 09:28 PM
quote: San Bernardino Sun
A ton of illegal fireworks — literally — found at Rialto home
A task force arrested a man at a Rialto home Monday after finding a stolen trailer, another stolen vehicle and 2,644 pounds of illegal fireworks there, according to a San Bernardino police news release.
The man, who is not named, was arrested at a home in the 1600 block of W. McWethy Street in the city, according to the release.
The San Bernardino County Auto Theft Task Force — which consists of San Bernardino police officers, sheriff’s deputies and members of other agencies — went to the location as part of an investigation into a stolen trailer, officials said.
Not only did they find the trailer, they said, but also the other items.
The Rialto City Fire Department was called to the scene to collect and ultimately destroy the illegal fireworks.
The man and other suspects in the case could be facing felony charges that include possession of stolen property, possession of more than 100 pounds of fireworks and possession of dangerous fireworks, according to the release.
Anyone with information about illegal fireworks is encouraged to call the San Bernardino Police Department at 909-384-5742 or SANCATT at 909-388-4895.
That would have been quite a kaboom if they'd ignited...
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-10-2017 11:20 PM
quote: Fox News (my emphasis)
Self-proclaimed Nazi's name change to Hitler takes effect
HUNTERDON, N.J. – A self-proclaimed Nazi officially became Isidore Heath Hitler with a name change that took effect this week.
MyCentralJersey.com reported Hitler's name officially changed from Isidore Heath Campbell on Monday, the anniversary World War II's end in Europe after Germany's surrender.
"It's great. My driver's license is changed over, my insurance, my registration, all that I needed is changed over," he said. "I'm the new Hitler."
He said his initials, I.H.H., stand for "I Hail Hitler," and that he gave a prayer for the Nazis on the day his name officially changed.
Hitler first gained national attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for his son, who's named Adolf Hitler Campbell after the Nazi leader.
Hitler said he now wants to regain custody of his four children, who are all named after various Nazis and white nationalist groups.
During a family court hearing for his youngest son, Hitler reportedly entered a New Jersey courthouse dressed in a Nazi uniform.
Court records show Hitler was ordered to seek counseling. But he refused because he says his psychologist was Jewish.
Isn't Isidore a name with Jewish origins?! And something tells me that the "old" Hitler probably didn't spend much time worrying about his driver's license, insurance and registration...
This guy must be quite the source of local entertainment in his neighborhood.
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-22-2017 05:47 PM
The following is about as R-rated as it's possible to be, so those of a sensitive disposition might like to click here...
quote: HeatStreet (my emphasis)
Gay Porno Attacked for ‘Culturally Offensive’ Sex Scene Using Aboriginal Wind Instrument
A gay porn clip showing two men having sex using a didgeridoo has been attacked for appropriating Australian culture.
“Didgeridoo Me”, a scene by US publisher Men.com, features two actors effectively using the Aboriginal instrument as an enormous dildo.
Critics online lashed out at the scene, saying it is disrespectful to the didgeridoo, which plays a part in aboriginal spiritual life.
The scene features two white actors – named as Aspen and Jack.
One wakes his partner up by loudly playing the wind instrument while his opposite number is sleeping.
He then flies into a rage, snaps the instrument in two, and takes “revenge” by using it as a sex toy. It features the line “I’m gonna didgeridoo you in the ass”.
One angry viewer, cited by Australian newspaper the Star Observer, wrote: “So no one is going to mention the fact that this is incredibly racist and culturally offensive? Don’t laugh, get angry.”
Another derided it as “incredibly disrespectful to the Australian Aboriginal communities”.
The firestorm is a very explicit version of similar controversies happening at virtually all levels of culture.
Last week fashionistas at Chanel were accused of hijacking Australian native culture last week by putting a luxury boomerang on sale for more than $1,300.
In recent months hairclips, rompers, rugby songs, Samurai cartoons, and wanting to have a butt like Kim Kardashian have all been subject of similar claims.
Did the scriptwriter get a bonus for that line? If so, I'm definitely in the wrong profession! And there was me with my sheltered upbringing, naively thinking that Robert Mapplethorpe's stuff was risque...
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
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posted 07-05-2017 07:06 PM
It's been too long since I've last seen a "man does something stupid that involves causing a fire or an explosion" story...
quote: Breitbart
Michigan Man Tries to Take Out Bees with Fireworks, Burns Down His Garage
A Michigan man’s plan to get the bees out of his garage blew up in smoke — literally.
The man tried to use fireworks to take out a bees’ nest from his garage but wound up burning down his garage instead, fire officials say.
M Live reports that fireworks rocketed to the sky as the garage burst into flames Monday while firefighters from Grand Blanc, Burton, and Mundy Township rushed to put out the blaze at the house in Grand Blanc Township.
“The homeowner was doing something with a smoke bomb trying to get a bees nest out of the garage,” said Grand Blanc Fire Chief, Bob Burdette.
Officials say nobody was hurt and the fire only caused damage to the garage as well as a fence beside it.
Mike Tingley, the homeowner, said he is not happy with the damage to his garage but is happy his family is safe, and the rest of his house was not destroyed.
“We really weren’t going to celebrate the Fourth of July so much as we just have fun in our backyard, we like to have barbecues, we had a patio back there,” Tingley said.
“It is depressing losing a place where we had a lot of fun, but everyone is safe, and that’s the main thing,” he added.
Tingley’s situation could have been a lot worse. Several people suffered serious injuries, and one man died Monday trying to use fireworks for Fourth of July celebrations over the weekend.
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Frank Cox
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From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 07-18-2017 10:52 PM
B&B Theatres Hit in 2-Year Credit Card Breach
B&B Theatres, a company that owns and operates the 7th-largest theater chain in America, says it is investigating a breach of its credit card systems. The acknowledgment comes just days after KrebsOnSecurity reached out to the company for comment on reports from financial industry sources who said they suspected the cinema chain has been leaking customer credit card data to cyber thieves for the past two years.
Headquartered in Gladstone, Missouri, B&B Theatres operates approximately 400 screens across 50 locations in seven states, including Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
In a written statement forwarded by B&B spokesman Paul Farnsworth, the company said B&B Theatres was made aware of a potential breach by a local banking partner in one of its communities.
“Upon being notified we immediately engaged Trustwave, a third party security firm recommended to B&B by partners at major credit card brands, to work with our internal I.T. resources to contain the breach and mitigate any further potential penetration,” the statement reads. “While some malware was identified on B&B systems that dated back to 2015, the investigation completed by Trustwave did not conclude that customer data was at risk on all B&B systems for the entirety of the breach.”
The statement continued:
“Trustwave’s investigation has since shown the breach to be contained to the satisfaction of our processing partners as well as the major credit card brands. B&B Theatres values the security of our customer’s data and will continue to implement the latest available technologies to keep our networks & systems secure into the future.”
In June, sources at two separate U.S.-based financial institutions reached out to KrebsOnSecurity about alerts they’d received privately from the credit card associations regarding lists of card numbers that were thought to have been compromised in a recent breach.
The credit card companies generally do not tell financial institutions in these alerts which merchants got breached, leaving banks and credit unions to work backwards from those lists of compromised cards to a so-called “common point-of-purchase” (CPP).
In addition to lists of potentially compromised card numbers, the card associations usually include a “window of exposure” — their best estimate of how long the breach lasted. Two financial industry sources said initial reports from the credit card companies said the window of exposure at B&B Theatres was between Sept. 1, 2015 and April 7, 2017.
However, a more recent update to this advisory shared by my sources shows that the window of exposure is currently estimated between April 2015 and April 2017, meaning cyber thieves have likely been siphoning credit and debit card data from B&B Theatres customers for nearly two years undisturbed.
Malicious hackers can steal credit card data from organizations that accept cards by hacking into point-of-sale systems remotely and seeding those systems with malicious software that can copy account data stored on a card’s magnetic stripe. Thieves can then use that data to clone the cards and use the counterfeit cards to buy high-priced merchandise from electronics stores and big box retailers.
The statement from B&B Theatres made no mention of whether their credit card systems were set up to handle transactions from more secure chip-based credit and debit cards, which are far more difficult and expensive for thieves to counterfeit.
Under credit card association rules that went into effect in 2015, merchants that do not have the ability to process transactions from chip-based cards assume full liability for all fraudulent charges on purchases involving chip-enabled cards that were instead merely swiped through a regular mag-stripe reader at the point of purchase.
If there is a silver lining in this breach of a major silver screens operator, perhaps it is this: One source in the financial industry told this author that the breach at B&B persisted for so long that a decent percentage of the cards listed in the alerts his employer received from the credit card companies had been listed as compromised in other major breaches and so had already been canceled and re-issued.
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