Only in Amerika ...

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Burglar stole surveillance cameras
Burglar stole surveillance cameras, police say

A man broke into a laundry room in southwest Bakersfield and stole surveillance cameras, police said

 

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FLDS bishop Lyle Jeffs went missing while awaiting trial, but Feds suspect it's probably not rapture
FLDS bishop Lyle Jeffs went missing while awaiting trial, but Feds suspect it's probably not rapture
(Headline of the Day!)
All that was left of the onetime bishop was an oily ankle monitor.

What became of the ankle, and the rest of Lyle Jeffs, is a $50,000 question to the FBI in Salt Lake City.

Lyle Jeffs is brother to Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its enclave on the Arizona-Utah border. Lyle Jeffs disappeared on June 18, hours after a U.S. marshal checked his court-ordered monitor as he awaited trial on charges of orchestrating a food stamp fraud scheme.

The earth-bound explanations for his escape are of the more mundane variety: The FBI believes Jeffs slathered his ankle with olive oil to slip off the location monitor.

His lawyer, Utah federal defender Kathy Nester, whose office serves as the public defense agency for federal defendants, offered another theory.

Jeffs “is currently not available,” Nester wrote in a court filing in September. “Whether his absence is based on absconding, as oft alleged by the government in their filings, or whether he was taken and secreted against his will, or whether he experienced the miracle of rapture is unknown to counsel.”
(Those who watch the "Escaping Polygamy" TV show, know how "oily" these FLDS types are)

 

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PressTV-Man thrown off plane for saying 'inshallah'
A Muslim man in the United States was thrown off a plane for saying the Islamic phrase of “inshallah”, which means “God willing” in Arabic, a report says.

Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Berkeley graduate, was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport in April after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone, The Independent reported on Thursday.

Shortly after sitting on his chair Makhzoomi called his uncle in Baghdad, Iraq, to tell him about his excitement of having a brief encounter with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Before ending the call, he used the Islamic phrase of "inshallah.” The man noticed a female passenger staring at him but he thought she was irritated because he spoke loudly.

But within two minutes one guy came with police officers, and told him to get off the plane, he told CNN. "I can't believe how fast they were.”

An agent escorted him outside and questioned him why he spoke Arabic in "today’s political climate.”

"You need to be very honest with us with what you said about the martyrs. Tell us everything you know about the martyrs," the agent said to him.
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Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King said in a statement to The Independent the passenger was investigated after he made “potentially threatening comments."

 

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A Muslim man in the United States was thrown off a plane for saying the Islamic phrase of “inshallah”, which means “God willing” in Arabic, a report says.

When you're in America, you should be speaking American, mkay? And with the whole 9/11 thing, this man should've known better! Taught him a lesson, though. But if he'd truly learnt anything about American society, it would be that this is a golden opportunity to seek compensation for discrimination and psychological distress through the courts. There's nothing more American than that.

 

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There's nothing more American than that.

Indeed! Problem is, he's probably on a no-fly list so he'll never get back into the US.