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axman36:
There's been protests going on at London over the tripled Tuition fees. They recently received some pictures of them.
Quite the event...
Gpop:
White Guy Becomes Black Bank Robber With Super Realistic Hollywood Mask
--- Quote ---Last spring, a white Polish immigrant robbed several Ohio banks wearing a hyper-realistic Hollywood mask. To security cameras and witnesses, he looked like an undisguised black man. Which is why an innocent black guy was arrested for the crimes.
When Conrad Zdzierak called Hollywood mask-making company SPFXMasks inquiring about a mask of a young African American man called "The Player" and a matching set of black hands, he said he was doing the research as a movie producer. He was actually doing the research as a bank robber.
Zdzierak ordered the mask?the company's run from $600 to $1200?and donned it to commit a series of bank robberies in Ohio. Police acted quickly and mistakenly arrested a black man for the crimes. Six of seven eye witnesses identified the black man as the culprit in a lineup, and even the falsely accused man's mother thought it was her son when Police showed her a surveillance photo of the robber. That's a pretty effective disguise! The man was locked up until recently, when Zdzierak's girlfriend found the mask and a stash of money and contacted police.
Recently, a Chinese man used one of SPFXMasks' products to sneak onto a plane disguised as an elderly white man, and Zdzierak's robberies are leading authorities to believe that Southern California's "Geezer Bandit," an elderly bank robber who has gone unapprehended for months, might not be so elderly after all.
"We're proud of the fact that our masks look real, but I'm not proud of the way they were used," said Rusty Slusser, the owner of SPFXMasks. I think I might get one of those old person ones and retire really really early. [LAT]
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Man if it wasn't for his damn girlfriend he would've gotten away with it all.
Iryan:
--- Quote from: axman36 on December 11, 2010, 02:25:38 AM ---There's been protests going on at London over the tripled Tuition fees. They recently received some pictures of them.
Quite the event...
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Because random acts of vandalism show how much more rational your position is.
Because riding through protesters with horses can't possibly go wrong.
Because people on both sides are stupid.
Still not as bad as that peaceful protest that got pummeled into oblivion in Canada, but still.
Alfred F. Jones:
On the other hand, the photos are fantastic.
I've taken photos of education rallies against higher tuition rates myself, and I wish that my subjects were half as dynamic. Not destructive, just dynamic.
♛ Apher-Forte:
All in all, I thought it was total stupidity to suddenly jump the gun and triple the tuition fees when traditionally it was never charged at all.
They should have eased out, say... begin with 2K per annum to a 6 year plan, and a 12 year increase for the rest.
But then again, Europe is pretty much in deep shit now so yeah.
thank god I studied there when it was 2004.