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NewsOn6 • Wed 2016 May 18, 9:11pm

…man was in the kitchen of the residence… picked up a single-shot .410 shotgun. …told police he didn’t remember that the shotgun was loaded and accidentally fired off a round. …blast went upstairs and hit his roommate.… non-life threatening injuries…

NewsOn6 • Wed 2016 May 18, 9:09pm

TULSA, Oklahoma …officer was flagged down… by a person who was shot. …initially told them someone else had shot him but they now say the man accidentally shot himself in the leg while driving…

Tom Ciccotta, Breitbart • Wed 2016 Apr 6, 7:35pm

On Monday, students at Indiana University Bloomington mistook a priest for a Ku Klux Klan member, taking to social media to express their fear of the alleged Klansman, who they claimed was carrying a whip, and dressed in “white robes.”…

ABC News • Sun 2016 Jan 31, 7:28pm

Mexico City, Mexico — Early this morning, drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison once again.…

Jerusalem Post • Fri 2015 Aug 21, 4:50pm

n a Friday sermon in Jerusalem earlier this month, Muslim cleric Sheikh Issam Amira slammed presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to move the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Puerto Rico in order to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But the supposed plan was reported in satirical news piece posted on a comedy news site that produces spoof articles and the sheikh was seemingly duped.…

Richard Clark, NewsOn6 • Fri 2015 Aug 21, 3:19pm

August 18 OKTAHA, Oklahoma - The Muskogee County sheriff said a member of the group guarding an Oktaha gun shop accidentally shot himself Tuesday. … dropped his gun and a bullet hit him in the arm. …did not identify the man or offer any other details… The group of armed citizens and veterans is standing guard outside the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store after the owners said they received death threats from all over the world for putting up a sign saying Muslims weren't welcome.…

Guardian UK / AFP • Sat 2015 May 2, 9:47am

An Italian man hung up the phone on Pope Francis twice thinking he was being pranked, but later apologised to him for his error

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Washington Free Beacon • Thu 2015 Feb 19, 8:04pm

"Biden: Middle class ‘in worst shape since 1920s’, is currently ‘being killed’"

CBS, Washington DC • Wed 2012 May 2, 5:59pm

The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an apology Wednesday to a California student who was picked up during a drug raid and left in a holding cell for several days without food, water or access to a toilet.... was never arrested, was not going to be charged with a crime and should have been released... drank his own urine to survive and that he bit into his glasses to break them and tried to use a shard to scratch “Sorry Mom” into his arm.... lights went off at one point and stayed off for several days.... [My crystal ball suggests this student has a rich lawsuit in his future.]

KJRH • Tue 2012 Mar 13, 3:21pm

...officials with the 11th Judicial District Drug Task Force were sent to the 1500 block of Southeast Whitney Court in Bartlesville where a resident had gone into [his] room and discovered what appeared to be marijuana and a large amount of cash. The other residents being informed of the discovery called the Washington County Sheriff's Office.... [Um... not the most compatible roommate situation, I would say. Or someone got on someone's bad side.]

washingtonpost.com • Thu 2011 Sep 1, 10:10pm

court documents offer a rare glimpse of the costs and operations of the controversial rendition program. ... The CIA declined to discuss the case. "The CIA does not, as a rule, comment on litigation, especially that to which we are not a party," said spokeswoman Marie E. Harf.

theblaze.com • Fri 2011 Aug 12, 5:41pm

Gawker may have put it best: "As you'll see, his hips most definitely don't lie." During an appearance on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show last night, Dem. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) joined to talk about the economy. During that discussion, the almost unmistakeable sound of Frank passing gas... [video]

reuters.com • Sat 2011 May 14, 7:52am

Tom Edwards, the county attorney in rural Motley County east of Lubbock, said on Friday that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives was responsible on Tuesday for sparking a fire that consumed 150 acres. "You can quote me on it: That bunch has a real corner on stupid," Edwards told Reuters. Tom Crowley, a spokesman with the federal agency, said bureau officials were assisting four local bomb squads -- at their request -- to destroy some explosives. Firefighters were on hand, he said. The wind picked up, but the explosives were too dangerous to move, so the officials went ahead and destroyed the explosives.

times-georgian.com • Sun 2009 Jun 14, 7:54pm

...By the time he and the deputy got there, his 2,200-square-foot house and a barn, valued at $200,000, had been reduced to debris and dumped into four huge Dumpsters. The backhoe and crane were still in the yard... His grandmother's dining room set and china were in the house. So was the family Bible... "(He) said he was just given GP coordinates [!!!!!] and they lined up to my property..." the house intended for demolition is across the street and up the road about 150 yards....

cnn.com • Sun 2009 Jun 14, 12:32am

In what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.

newson6.com • Wed 2009 Jun 10, 2:33pm

An Oklahoma City filmmaker is apologizing for creating a scene of chaos near a busy highway... Upon closer inspection, police realized the torso in question was only a pair of pants that had been stuffed with soda bottles, chicken wire and lots of foam.... [film crew] accidentally left the fake torso behind...

nydailynews.com • Tue 2009 Jun 9, 8:00pm

SharkA red-faced Jessica Alba is apologizing for plastering shark-conservation posters around Oklahoma City - a stunt that sparked a police investigation.

usatoday.com • Tue 2009 Jun 9, 1:22pm

kept it on his boat for 10 days... very corroded... live and in a very unstable state.

foxnews.com • Tue 2009 Jun 9, 1:17pm

Vice President Biden, on a conference call Monday with reporters, claimed that the planned Hudson River tunnel between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan would provide a much-anticipated route for automobiles. Problem is, it's for trains.

nypost.com • Sun 2009 Jun 7, 3:55pm

"And so, next to Obama Beach, we join President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacular bravery of American soldiers," Brown said, oblivious to his Freudian slip.

digg.com • Tue 2009 Jun 2, 4:01pm

his costume was too realistic, and someone thought a masked gunman was walking into the store

tmz.com • Thu 2009 Apr 23, 9:55pm

Lawrence Summers, Director of the White House's National Economic Council, was caught dozing off during a meeting with credit card officials on Thursday.