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  • Quick-thinking driver stops woman stealing his car by using a FORKLIFT to hoist the vehicle into the air and trapping the thief inside

    06/15/2022 9:33:54 PM PDT · by Morgana · 26 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 15, 2022 | Peter Vincent
    A quick-thinking driver has foiled an alleged car thief by using a forklift to trap her inside the vehicle she was attempting to steal. Brendan Mills came home to find a woman inside his red Volkswagen Polo at his Waterford West property, south of Brisbane on June 5. By sheer good fortune he had left the forklift parked beside the car, with the forks facing towards it. So he immediately jumped into his forklift and hoisted the car up six feet in the air, trapping the alleged car thief inside before calling Queensland police. The alleged car thief was unable...
  • Ben Carson Gets Hoisted on His Own Petard, and it Isn’t Pretty (VIDEO)

    02/03/2016 3:50:58 PM PST · by Walt Griffith · 88 replies
    REDSTATE ^ | February 3rd, 2016 at 04:42 PM | By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary)
    It is by now well understood that someone from the Ben Carson campaign is responsible for the whole "Carson going to Florida" mess, and during a press conference today, Carson admitted it.
  • Thune: What Corzine Won't Tell Us, the FBI, CFTC Will Tell Us

    12/27/2011 3:04:00 PM PST · by afraidfortherepublic · 13 replies
    Human Events ^ | 12-27-11 | Neil W. McCabe
    In an exclusive Human Events interview, the senior Republican on the Senate’s Agriculture Committee's Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation subcommittee discusses his take on the MF Global bankruptcy scandal. “I have heard from several South Dakotans who were affected by the apparent fraud that occurred in the final days of MF Global before its collapse,” said Sen. John R. Thune (R-S.D.), who worked in the Small Business Administration​ under President Ronald W. Reagan. [Video of Thune's December 13 questioning Corzine is at the bottom of the article.] The firm’s Halloween bankruptcy was followed by the November 4 resignation...