From sentto-2242572-59585-1038249586-jm=jmason.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Mon Nov 25 21:05:18 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.spamassassin.taint.org Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB0416F1C for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:49:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:49:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.82]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAPJ9iW20103 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:09:44 GMT X-Egroups-Return: sentto-2242572-59585-1038249586-yyyy=spamassassin.taint.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.97] by n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2002 18:39:46 -0000 X-Sender: joe@flaneur.org.uk X-Apparently-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 25 Nov 2002 18:39:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 16656 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2002 18:39:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Nov 2002 18:39:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smarthost2.mail.uk.easynet.net) (212.135.6.12) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2002 18:39:45 -0000 Received: from fortean3.easynet.co.uk ([194.154.104.171]) by smarthost2.mail.uk.easynet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18GO91-000NUx-00 for forteana@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:39:43 +0000 X-Sender: fortean3@pop3.easynet.co.uk Message-Id: To: Yahoogroups Forteana From: Joe McNally X-Yahoo-Profile: wolf_solent23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com; contact forteana-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:36:09 +0000 Subject: [zzzzteana] Daft crimes etc Reply-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dogma.slashnull.org id gAPJ9iW20103 http://www.irishnews.com/access/daily/current.asp?SID=421083 Loo rolls of honour and the invisible man Paper Clips: A round-up of the weekly press By Steven McCaffery The powers-that-be tell us that crime does not pay. And they found an ally in the Ulster Herald this week, which carries a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of embarking on a criminal career. The Omagh-based paper's 'As the Man Says' column brings a story which originated in the Middle East. "A gent recently attempted to rob a bank in Tehran," the columnist reports. "He was unarmed and began seizing bank notes from customers' hands." It is then explained: "He had paid £625 to a local sorcerer and believed that he was invisible." In the Lurgan Mail there was also news of a dramatic robbery. "A Lurgan newsagent has told how thieves drilled their way through three walls to steal £10,000 worth of cigarettes recently in an attack which was well planned and professional," the paper reports. "The thieves broke through the back wall of a religious gifts shop next door to the newsagents and then drilled through the partition between the back hallway and the front shop. "Moving statues of religious icons out of the way, the gang then drilled into the back of the newsagent's cigarette stand removing the contents." The owner of the Paper Chase shop is pictured next to the gaping hole left in his store and is quoted as saying: "On Monday morning when my wife was opening, everything looked normal. "But when she opened the shutters she found herself looking into the shop next door." The paper reports that the shop was the target of "another well organised crime" 12 weeks ago when thieves escaped with a safe. The shop's owner says: "The closer it gets to Christmas the more people are going to be open to this." The issues of crime and punishment are tackled by a columnist in the Down Democrat. Writing in the Downpatrick-based newspaper John Coulter calls on the authorities to "birch the vandals" plaguing the local community. He is shocked at reports of the "wanton destruction by vandals" and issues a call for action. "The time has come to fight fire with fire," he writes, "before unemployed paramilitaries decide to impose vigilante rule and start using so-called kangaroo courts to dish out their own brand of sentences on those found 'guilty' of anti-social behaviour." As an alternative to such reckless violence, he recommends, controlled violence. "It was a sorry day that the Manx authorities banned the use of the birch as a weapon in dealing with unruly elements of the Isle of Man." Getting his defence in early, he immediately rounds on any woolly liberal who may oppose his plan. "In many Islamic countries, public flogging of convicted criminals is the order of the day. "You might laugh and say there is little chance of such measures being introduced in the United Kingdom or Ireland given that corporal punishment was abolished in the vast majority of northern schools in the late 1980s. "However, people seem to forget that Islam is the fastest growing faith on the British mainland and it's only a matter of time before it numerically passes Christianity." -- Joe McNally :: Flaneur at Large :: http://www.flaneur.org.uk -- "I am the centre which exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it." - Fernando Pessoa -- Currently playing: nothing. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: forteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/