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0:55 Live on CNN Brasil, reporter Bruna Macedo was robbed at knifepoint during her report on rising water levels from heavy rain at Bandeiras Bridge in São Paolo on Saturday. Macedo greeted the man, who pulled out a knife. As Macedo stepped back, the camera cut to the scene of a rain-soaked street. Macedo then handed the robber two mobile phones. After the robbery, host Rafael Colombo said, “It was impossible to understand at the time what was happening if it was a homeless person passing by. But after what happened, we cut the image.” He continued, “He threatened, and...

Image from Youtube at  tnoutdoors9 About 36 or 37 years ago, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I recall hearing a Christmas song over the radio. I would like to find it again. It was a rendition of Santa Clause is Coming to Town, but with a significant twist.  In the story line, Santa is mugged, and when he comes back, he comes prepared. As I recall, Santa comes to town armed with a .45. There are plays on "He knows who has been naughty and nice". I recall a memorable line about the reindeer.  Something like trample, trample,...

o the voters of Minneapolis, Mark Andrew was the guy who came in second in last month's mayoral election. To three robbers, he was just a mark. Andrew, 63, needed nine stitches to close a head wound suffered Thursday when, according to police, two female teenagers beat him after their male friend snatched Andrew's iPhone from a coffee shop table and ran. When Andrew gave chase, the two females allegedly jumped him and walloped him with a collapsible metal nightstick, police said. Although the attack took place outside a Starbucks at the busy Mall of America and was witnessed by...

If you are sick and tired of seeing politicians and others playing the race card, or if you are just disgusted with the grossly dishonest way racial issues in general are portrayed, then you should get a copy of Ann Coulter's new book, "Mugged." Its subtitle is: "Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama." Few things are as rare as an honest book about race. This is one of the very few, and one of the very best. Many people will learn for the first time from Ann Coulter's book how a drunken hoodlum and ex-convict, who tried to attack...

Join Best Selling Author Ann Coulter for a Book Party Happy Hour Highlighting Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama Hosted by Grover Norquist with Americans for Tax Reform, Brent Bozell, Human Events, Penguin Publishing USA and WMAL Friday, October 5th, 2012 4:00-6:00 pm American for Tax Reform 722 12th Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC RSVP is required. To RSVP, e-mail bookparty@atr.org

A UK diplomat has been mugged, leaving him blind in one eye, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said. George Fergusson, 56, was assaulted and robbed at about 19:30 BST on Friday while walking in Margravine Cemetery and Park, in Hammersmith, west London. Metropolitan Police officers are appealing for information. Mr Fergusson, who lost a small amount of cash in the mugging, works for the Foreign Office and is due to take up the post of governor of Bermuda. The governor acts as the Queen's official representative in Bermuda. A spokesman for the FCO said Mr Fergusson had had...

An elderly widow has died after muggers stole her handbag containing her husband's ashes - which she had carried for 17 years. Nellie Geraghty, 79, suffered fatal head injuries as she desperately tried to cling onto the bag during the robbery in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Police have launched a murder inquiry after she died in Royal Oldham Hospital at around midnight on Friday. Two youths, aged 14 and 17, have been arrested on suspicion of robbery. Mrs Geraghty was found collapsed in an alleyway near her home in Shaw just before noon on Thursday. Inside her handbag was a blue...

One of the many frustrating aspects of the political scene is that most young people have been voting for Democrats, even as the Democrats sell them down the river, mortgaging their future to pay off today's constituencies. By the time our children are stuck with the bill, with interest, liberals like Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank and Barack Obama will be long gone. But these poll data suggest that some youngsters who voted for Obama in 2008 may be sadder but wiser today: A new poll found that a majority of younger voters disapprove of President Obama's handling of the economy....

QUARTZ HILL, Calif. (AP) -- Don't mess with the marching band. That's what California authorities are saying after a 17-year-old girl used her marching band baton to beat back two would-be muggers. ...one got a punch in the nose and the other a kick to the groin. ..."The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls, or you just might get what you deserve. Final score: marching band 2, thugs 0."

Here’s how Chris Matthews teased a segment with Zack Wamp, a Republican critic of Dick Cheney who’s running for Tennessee governor. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Up next, Dick Cheney was one of the most unpopular Vice-Presidents ever, but you know it’s bad for Cheney when members of his own party, fellow Republicans want to see him quieted: mugged, I’m sorry, muzzled. We’ve got one of them coming up here: Tennessee Congressman Zack Wamp. You have view the video to appreciate that Matthews use of “mugged” was very much accidentally-on-purpose. View video here.

A series of brash daylight muggings in the West Village have residents on edge, with one frightened mom telling The Post yesterday she was robbed of her iPhone early on a Sunday afternoon while she out walking with her 6- and 8-year old sons. "A guy approached me [on West 12th Street] from the front, and he grabbed me all the way around," said the 41-year-old Street woman, who asked that her name not be used. "He said, 'It's going to be all right.' He tried to take my bag as well - that's when we started struggling. I started...

Candid Camera: Clerk Whacks Robber With Mug Clerk Says He Was Worried About How He Might Look On VideoPOSTED: 10:17 am EST December 12, 2007 ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- When a thief started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin' Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug. Caught On Tape: Clerk Fights Robber With Cup But Hoffmann admits he was less worried about the stolen cash than how he might look on the video-sharing site YouTube. "What was going through my mind at that point was that the security tape is...

Iraq and Afghanistan veteran survives 147 mortar attacks - then gets mugged on his doorstepLast updated at 01:37am on 2nd October 2007 Attacked: Squaddie Liam suffered prolonged and violent beating by thugs He survived active service in both Iraq and Afghanistan without a scratch, emerging unscathed from 147 separate mortar attacks.  When Liam Poole's luck finally ran out, however, it was not at the hands of the Taliban or insurgents in Basra or Baghdad. Shockingly, the young soldier was savagely attacked by his own countrymen, beaten to a pulp by three bat-wielding thugs in his home city of Coventry. The...

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Talk about royal humiliation. Prince Frederic von Anhalt—known for being husband to Zsa Zsa Gabor and supposed lover of Anna Nicole Smith—was mugged by three women who stole his money and jewelry, stripped him of his clothes and left him handcuffed naked to the steering wheel of his Rolls Royce Thursday morning. The self-proclaimed royal entered the public consciousness earlier this year when he came forward shortly after Smith's death to announce that he had carried on an affair with the former Playmate and could have fathered her daughter, Dannielynn. After DNA testing proved that...

A surveillance camera caught a New York mugger beating a 101-year-old woman for the mere $33 she was carrying; shortly later, the police say, the same man mugged an 85-year-old woman. He beat her, too, stealing $32. "There has to be a special rung of hell for him," said a police official familiar with the incidents, which occurred last weekend. The older woman suffered a fractured cheekbone that doctors at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens could not repair because of her age. The 85-year-old suffered facial cuts and bruises.

Marine Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers of Alden was handed a check for $40,960 Thursday evening from fellow veterans at Akron Post 3180, Veterans of Foreign Wars. "I'm still trying to take it in," he said as the three-hour party was breaking up. "I love the military family, I love the VFW, I love the community." Beyers, 27, who lost his right arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq a year ago, was attacked and robbed of $300 with his wife, Denise, on July 22 as he was taking a break from rehabilitation in Walter Reed Army Medical Center...

I used to be a liberal. I was in one of the first "open" classrooms growing up in very progressive Great Neck, New York, in the 1960s. In 1971, when I was 11, I wrote vitriolic letters to President Nixon demanding an end to the Vietnam War. My first vote, in 1980, was for Independent John Anderson, followed by Mondale, Dukakis, and Clinton-Gore. I read Thomas Friedman in the NY Times and tried to "understand" the "root causes" of the "despair" he said the Palestinians felt that drove them to blow up innocent Israelis. I wasn't an overtly political person...

An Australian man missing in the hurricane-devastated US city of New Orleans has been found safe and well, in jail. Tourist Ashley McDonald, of Narre Warren in Melbourne's south-east, was arrested in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit last week but was but transferred out of the devastated city, his sister Jasmine Mutnansky said this morning. "They evacuated the prisoners and they were scattered all over...," He has turned up in Huntsville (in Alabama). "It's not the most classy ending, but I'm glad he's safe and sound and it's over," she said. A spokesman for the Australian Department of Foreign...

A German man mugged in a nightclub was robbed two more times as he waited for police. Reiner Hamer, 27, from Oberhausen, near Dusseldorf, lost his wallet containing $310 and his cellphone when three men attacked him in the club's toilets. He called police from outside the club using a friend's mobile, but while he waited for them to arrive he was robbed by three other men, who stole his watch and cigarettes. As he leaned back against the wall to recover, another five men stole his jacket and the last of his small change.

Rock star and wife mugged by RICHARD SIMPSON and ROSS LYDALL, Evening Standard Phil Collins and his wife have been mugged while Christmas shopping with their young son in the West End. The rock star was making a rare visit to London from his £10million home in Geneva with third wife, Swiss-born Orianne, 30, and two-year-old Nicholas. The muggers snatched Orianne's handbag, which they stripped of cash and other personal belongings before dumping it in a backstreet. Exact details of the attack remain uncertain. The bag and what remained of its contents were found shortly afterwards by Westminster council "city...