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Shocking surveillance video captured the moment a crew of brazen would-be crooks burst into a California convenience store using a massive backhoe — only to leave empty-handed as a terrified clerk looked on. Footage of the Monday morning mayhem at the AMPM store in West Oakland shows the bucket of the construction vehicle crashing through bullet-proof glass and smashing an ATM machine while the unnamed clerk runs for his life, according to KGO-TV.

Vineland, N.J. – (Office of The Attorney General / News Release) – The Attorney General’s Office today released two 911 calls and video footage from four body worn cameras, two civilian cell-phones, and two residential surveillance cameras related to a fatal police-involved shooting that occurred on December 18, 2021 in Vineland, N.J. The decedent has been identified as Joshua Gonzalez, 20 of Millville, N.J. The fatal shooting remains under investigation by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA). The recordings are being released in response to an OPRA request and pursuant to policies established by the Attorney General’s Office...

The chair of the New York City Council’s health committee said on Monday that officials are considering temporarily burying people who die from the coronavirus in local parks. In a series of tweets, New York City Councilman Mark Levine said that trenches will be dug to hold 10 caskets in a line. The burials will only be temporary, he said, though he acknowledged the gravity of the situation. “Soon we'll start ‘temporary interment’,” Levine wrote. “This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in...

It's equipped with a 90 kWh lithium-ion battery and should be able to support an eight-hour workday in most of applications, offering: payback in around five years (the upfront cost is higher than diesel) . Utilities who operate their own backhoe fleets can power each machine off of the electricity they generate, essentially operating the machine at cost.

LAKE WORTH A Bobcat construction vehicle hauled by a large tow truck hit the 10th Avenue North overpass on Interstate 95 on Wednesday morning. The crash damaged the bridge, snarled northbound traffic on the highway for hours and shut down all eastbound lanes on 10th Avenue North, authorities said. Barbara Keller, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Transportation, said a combination front-end loader and backhoe struck a beam on the overpass. The backhoe was extended upward and that’s what damaged the concrete beam, she said. No other vehicles were involved and there were no injuries in the crash, according...

Half of John Higdon's broken home is barely standing while the other half is a crumbled mess. Police say Higdon had been arguing with his neighbor for the past few days. His brother said it all started when Higdon believed a group of men tried to break into his home, so he fired some shots into the woods - in the same direction as his neighbor's home. "This man over here decides to come 2 o'clock in the morning, comes over at 2 o'clock in the morning with a dozer, a tractor, and starts pushing the house down," Sammy Higdon...

A Pennsylvania man allegedly stole a $125,000 backhoe from a construction site in Chester County on Sunday and drove it all the way to Philadelphia during a trip that probably took about two-and-a-half hours. William Michael Pusey, 33, took major roads during the 30-mile trek to Philadelphia. "He drove up Route 202 to I-76 and drove I-76 down to Route 1," said Embreeville Trooper Wesley P. Foster. Foster wasn’t sure what roads Pusey took after leaving Route 1, but he was positive the backhoe ended up at a Philly scrap yard. Despite taking it to a scrap yard, Pusey wasn’t...

Our Dear Backhoe, lost his wife, Miss. Emily suddenly early Monday morning. The Source URL will take you to the thread he posted on FRee Dominion (Our sister site in Canada), and this link takes you to his announcement here on FR. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/833678/posts?page=12455#12455 Most of you know that Backhoe maintains the thread "DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...", and since his post was made there, very few have seen it. Our good FRiend could really use our support, so please post all replies to Backhoe. He is busy with funeral arrangements, so may not post...

      You got a crush on my missus?       Mangled ... remains of Simpson’s 4x4 after Wright was finished with it       Powerful ... 13-ton digger       By ALEX PEAKE Published: Today     JILTED plant hire boss Martyn Wright took revenge on a love rival – by destroying his car with a 13-ton digger. Wright, 30, turned Anthony Simpson’s Toyota Land Cruiser into a heap of metal. He went berserk after discovering risque text messages from childhood friend Simpson, 22, on his partner Linda’s mobile.   Revenge ... Martyn Wright...

First he encircled them with an 8ft metal fence. And when that failed to move the gipsy camp off his land, he dug a moat. Builder Francis Shiner resorted to the measures when two gipsy families set up home on the disused car park of a building site in Bedford.He asked them to move but they didn't. So he went on the offensive and managed to evict them within 48 hours. Mr Shiner said the gipsies were hindering work on the site owned by Bedford construction company SDC construction and action had to be taken. He said: 'We went...

Prayers to Backhoe for the Loss of Taffy Saint Francis Blessing  all creatures, great & small. "We who choose to surroundourselves with lives even more temporary than our own,live within a fragile circle,  easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan. "from The Once Again Princeby Irving Townsend ">click

BAALBEK, Lebanon -- People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader's scoop to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians. It was the deepest thrust into Lebanon by Israeli troops since fighting broke out between Israel and Hezbollah on July 12. Israel said its soldiers killed at least 10 Hezbollah guerrillas and captured five. A crowd of about 50 people from the village of Al Jamaliyeh carried pictures of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a...

This has to be right up there among the contenders for the Darwin Awards... Math Story Problem for the not-so-new century...let's see if our engineering section can solve this one. A backhoe weighing eight tons is on top of a flatbed trailer and heading east on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas. The extended shovel arm is made of hardened refined steel and the approaching overpass is made of commercial-grade concrete, reinforced with 1 1/2 inch steel rebar spaced at 6 inch intervals in a criss-cross pattern layered at 1 foot vertical spacing. Solve: When the shovel arm hits the overpass,...

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 John Bolton's Anita Hill Moment?    M.O.B.: Mothers Opposing Bush    Power Line: Pattern recognition... modus operandi at work in the accusation by Melody Townsel that John Bolton chased her through the halls ... is referring to the same Melody Townsel of Dallas).    "Melody Townsel is a single mother of a four-year-old girl, and an entrepreneur who runs Townsel Communications."  http://www.kera.org/about/pressroom/releases/20041012debate.html     Be advised, some ( not all ) of the following links are hostile sites & sources- for information:  Beltway Buzz on National Review Online Topix.net: News organized by topic and location The Majority Report Off the Kuff: The other MOB Right...

 Firsthand reports from days 5 and 6 of Minuteman Project -- The Minuteman Project takes this to a whole new level. There will be no denying that the border traffic can be stopped if there is someone there with the will to actually stop it.    After incident, man asked to leave Minuteman Project -- Thanks for the info the MSM won't report...    The Minutemen Will Make A Fool Of President Bush -- The Minuteman project is proving that the "Border Patrol" has not been doing their job - a job that has been rather limited by the "powers...

 Magnitude 5.3 - EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA (Another quake near the top of the world)  Magnitude 5.2 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON (First of two earthquakes in 15 minutes) Magnitude 5.3 - EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA2005 March 7 03:44:30 UTC Preliminary Earthquake ReportU.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information CenterWorld Data Center for Seismology, Denver A moderate earthquake occurred at 03:44:30 (UTC) on Monday, March 7, 2005. The magnitude 5.3 event has been located EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 5.3 Date-Time Monday, March 7, 2005 at 03:44:30 (UTC)= Coordinated Universal Time Monday, March...

Government Plans Crackdown On Bloggers    I would take great delight in unseating each and every one of their sorry asses.  A fairly extensive FR thread detailing the threat to political Blogs is here.      Blogs Bristle at FEC's Internet Political Speech Proposal (this affects you) -- "You can be assured that none of us in the blogosphere will fail to recognize those who do not act to defend our rights to free and unfettered political speech, and regardless of political party, none of us will rest until those voices of repression are stripped of office by the...

  Supreme Court's illegal ruling (on cap punishment) should TRIGGER THE NUCLEAR OPTION -- The problem is, SCOTUS is basically immune to public opinion. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing. We can protest at SCOTUS until we are blue in the face - but I doubt Sandra Day O'Connor would care. Now, if governors told SCOTUS that their ruling was illegitimate and carried no influence on their state perogatives, now THAT would get the attention of SCOTUS.    A MOVE TOWARD DEMOCRACY ... AND THAT'S A DANGEROUS MOVE    The Supreme Court and Foreign Law...

  "Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (Original full text) ( text of crackpot, American-hating prof )    Colorado Professor's Future on the Line (Campus COmmunist Alert)    Text of Ward Churchill statement -- (Pinko Alert!)      Prof Praising 9/11 Terrorists on School's Chopping Block(Please voice your outrage!)    Prof. Resigns as Dept. Chair Amid Furor Over 9/11 Remarks -- "He only resigned as chair, he's still a professor"Your right,and as soon as the publicity blows over he'll probably be reinstated as chairman of the dept.    Professor Resigns as Department Chair Amid Furor Over 9/11...