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  • Eight Philadelphia teens experience justice Florida-style after allegedly robbing Dick's Sporting Goods store while attending youth football tournament

    12/09/2025 9:03:34 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 90 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | December 9, 2024 | By WILL POTTER
    A gang of Philadelphia teenagers accused of robbing a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Florida while attending a football tournament have been named and shamed by a no-nonsense sheriff. Members of the eight-strong mob were arrested and hit with felony charges after their alleged December 6 theft spree - something they may not have expected in their Pennsylvania home city, whose district attorney is a notoriously woke prosecutor called Larry Krasner.
  • Dick's Sporting Good Theft Suspects [Sheriff Grady Judd]

    12/08/2025 3:10:04 PM PST · by Governor Dinwiddie · 108 replies
    Polk County Sheriff's Office ^ | December 8, 2025 | Juliana Rivera
    Sheriff Grady Judd Press Conference Eight teens from PA here in Polk to compete in football tournament arrested for felony retail theft at Posner Park Media Contact: Juliana Rivera, PIO The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has arrested eight teenagers who were caught in the act of conspiring to steal more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from Dick’s Sporting Goods in Posner Plaza, Davenport. Click here to see the news conference: https://youtu.be/U9sCasgpfOU On Saturday, December 6, 2025, at approximately 10:55 a.m., PCSO deputies responded to a report of retail theft in progress at the Dick’s Sporting Goods. The store manager contacted...
  • Obama Delegate Quits After Campaign Finds Remarks to Neighbor Kids to be ‘Unacceptable’

    04/08/2008 11:34:49 AM PDT · by JRochelle · 55 replies · 667+ views
    FoxNews ^ | 04/08/2008 | Staff
    A Barack Obama supporter has given up her role as a pledged delegate after the campaign found “unacceptable” her description of her neighbor’s children as “monkeys,” which she says she called them because they were climbing in trees. Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, an a Hispanic trustee for the Village of Carpentersville, Ill., was accused of racism following the interaction with her African-American neighbors. “Given the incident, she is stepping down and will be replaced as delegate,” Ben Labolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign told FOXNews.com, calling Sliwinski’s remarks “unacceptable.” The campaign discussed the incident with Ramirez-Sliwinski, who decided to step aside...
  • Kenyan Monkeys Make 'Lewd Signs' At Women

    08/24/2007 5:59:34 PM PDT · by blam · 53 replies · 1,289+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-24-2007 | Nick Wadhams
    Kenyan monkeys make 'lewd signs' at women By Nick Wadhams in Nairobi Last Updated: 3:10pm BST 24/08/2007 A troop of monkeys has been making "lewd signs" at women and children trying to harvest crops south of Nairobi, and the farmers feel so harassed that Kenya’s Wildlife Service is sending in animal-control teams to confront the animals. The creatures apparently have no respect for women The monkeys in the Kabete area even earned a mention in parliament last month when the local MP Paul Muite said his constituents feared the monkeys would sexually harass them. "Can the minister deploy game rangers...