Police fear retaliatory attack, vow crackdown on gangs
Police Chief Michael Chitwood said he is boosting patrols in anticipation of a retaliatory attack following the shooting Tuesday of a 58-year-old Denmark man at the Portland Tattoo Shop. The bullet grazed the victim’s groin before passing through his leg.
Police believe the shooting was a premeditated attack by members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang on a group believed to be allied with Hell’s Angels.
As H.B. says in the latest Soxaholix strip, “… motorcycle gangs? The Outlaws? The Hells Angels? Hello 1970!”
Seriously, though, once your “organization” has gone global enough to include a 58-year-old Dane as an associate, don’t you think you should move on from shooting people and dealing meth? I mean, there’s “keeping it old school” and “being in touch with your roots” and then there’s “being stuck in the Stone Age”…
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I picked up House of Flying Daggers yesterday and popped it in with the Wife last night.
It’s an eye-popper, that’s for sure. Hero (also by HoFD director Zhang Yimou) impressed me greatly with its stunning use of color in its costumes, but the scenery was mostly bleak (appropriately for the story, I think). In HoFD, the scenery is as lush as the remarkable wardrobe.
The scale is different, too. While Hero featured wide shots of vast armies, HoFD is much more intimate. Attackers number in the dozens at most and the outdoor landscape is mostly dense forrest, contrasted with the vast desert of the other film.
Getting past the visuals, HoFD also has a fantastic story.
If you have any fondness for Hero or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers is highly recommended.
So the Catholics have chosen a 78 year old German who “has disciplined church dissidents and upheld church policy against attempts by liberals for reforms” as the new pope. (Oh, and it seems he was a Hitler Youth back in the day…)
At least he picked a cool name.
DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than Estimated
DSW Shoe Warehouse said Monday that it has contact information for about half of those people and started sending letters notifying them of the thefts, which happened at 108 stores in 25 states between November and February. A list of the stores is available on the company’s Web site.
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Besides the credit card numbers, the thieves obtained driver’s license numbers and checking account numbers from 96,000 transactions involving checks, the company said. Customer names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not stolen, DSW said.
Suck. I’m a total show whore, and I love me some DSW. This doesn’t give me good feelings, though.
Luckily, we haven’t seen any untoward activity on our credit cards. Judging from the DSW site, though, it looks like we should keep watching:
… if you shopped in one of the following stores between mid-November 2004 and mid-February 2005, and you used a credit card, debit card or check to pay for your purchase, your information was most likely included in the stolen information …
Yep. We’re on there.
Whoa!
Seeing as how I make a living off a Macromedia product (ColdFusion, which gets no mention in the article, of course.), this bears watching.
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