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and crushed his right leg, which doctors had to whether they have what it takes to shoot anCurses, Foiled Again • Brian Hardman, 22, pointed a gun at Leonard amputate. Even though charitable foundations other person if their life depends on it. Owner Turner, who was putting air in his tires at a covered his six-figure medical bills, Jiminez Dave Kaplan greets customers, searches them Detroit gas station, and demanded his car. sued the church for $3 million. The church de- for concealed weapons and ammunition, and modifies their weapons to fire only a soft rubTurner, 47, a former middleweight boxer, nied any responsibility. (Associated Press) ber bullet. Participants then enter the range grabbed Hardman’s trigger finger and shot wearing protection for their head, neck and off the gun until it was empty, then threw For Whom the Toll Tolls Hardman to the ground. “He got up,” Turner • When Washington’s Capital Beltway opened private parts. Even so, the rubber bullets hurt, recounted, “and said, ‘Give me my gun back. I new toll express lanes in Virginia, adjacent more so than being shot with a paintball. got a CCW (carry concealed weapon permit).’ to the free but routinely congested lanes, six “There is supposed to be a degree of pain,” accidents occurred in the first 72 hours. Kaplan explained, “so that you do learn from Then I hit him with the gun.” All were caused by drivers swerving it.” (Orlando’s WKMG-TV) At Hardman’s trial, defense to avoid the toll lanes or the unex- • An employee at the Copper County Sporting attorney Jonathan Jones pected tie-ups resulting from the Arms gun shop in Silver City, N.M., was argued that his client accidents. Virginia State Police unloading a .45 caliber handgun when it acshouldn’t be charged urged drivers who mistakenly cidentally fired, shooting a 65-year-old cuswith carjacking betomer in the back. Police Chief Ed enter the express lanes not to cause he didn’t have Reynolds reported the victim the gun on him. “The was listed in stable condition. reason he didn’t have When Susan Cole showed up for jury duty (Las Cruces Sun-News) the gun on him,” Judge in Denver, she was wearing curlers in her hair • Firearms instructor Saulius Shannon A. Holmes notand mismatched shoes, according to a court af“Sonny” Puzikas was coned, “is because the defenfidavit. When Judge Anne Mansfield asked if any ducting a live-fire training exdant got his butt whipped, and prospective jurors had a mental illness, court reporter ercise at the Texas Defensive Mr. Turner took the gun from Kelli Wessels said Cole “stated she had difficulties getting Shooting Academy in Ferris him.” (Detroit News) ready in the morning” and added she suffered from post-traumatic stress using live ammunition to fire disorder. Judge Mansfield excused her but four months later heard someat targets in a house. As darkTourist Trade one brag on local radio about showing up looking disheveled and faking ness fell, he decided to run the • New York and New Jersey vicmental illness to evade jury duty. The woman was identified as Cole, who tims of Hurricane Sandy compleaded guilty to perjury and received a two-year suspended sentence and course himself and opened fire with a 9 mm semi-automatic plained their cleanup efforts are 40 hours of community service. (The Denver Post) pistol. He accidentally shot an interrupted by disaster tourists, instructor still inside the house, who’re drawn by curiosity to the real-life scenes of tragedy shown on televi- back up. “What we’re seeing out there is what once in the hand and twice in the abdomen. sion. “The gawking was amazing last week,” you’d expect with a traffic shift of this magni- Puzikas, whose gun did not have a light, insistStaten Island resident Joanne McClenin com- tude,” said Jennifer Aument, an official with ed he didn’t see the victim, who was airlifted mented. “It was kind of offensive as a home- Transurban, the company that contracted with to the hospital and listed in stable condition. owner, because I felt violated.” (Associated the state to build the variable-toll lanes. (The (The Ellis County Press) Washington Post) Press) • Seven years after Hurricane Katrina flooded • In its first six months, Maryland’s Different-Sex Marriages New Orleans, tour buses continue to visit the Intercounty Connector reported racking up • Authorities charged Frederick Hengl, 68, devastated Lower Ninth Ward, charging an nearly $670,000 in unpaid tolls—four times with murdering his wife after they found average of $45 per person to glimpse what the statewide violation rate. Vehicles that use her severed head in the freezer and her body some tour operators promote as the scene of the road without a transponder to record the parts cooking on the stove. District Attorney “America’s Greatest Catastrophe.” After years trip and automatically deduct the toll from Katherine Flaherty said there was no evidence of loosely enforcing a ban on motor coaches, an account are photographed and their own- of cannibalism. (Associated Press) police began turning back tours and fining vio- ers billed. Individual motorists accrued as • Police said Holly Solomon, 28, ran over lators. “Residents don’t like being gawked at much as $1,418, and one rental-car company’s her husband in Gilbert, Ariz., blaming him by tourists as though they’re sideshow attrac- debt amounted to $4,263. Officials said some for President Obama’s re-election because he tions,” city councilor Ernest F. Charbonnet de- people don’t pay because Maryland’s toll col- didn’t vote. She told police she was just tryclared, vowing to introduce legislation to limit lectors lack enforcement authority, such as ing to scare David Solomon by chasing him buses to 30 passengers along a designated suspending vehicle registrations and refer- all over a parking lot in her Jeep, but her foot ring scofflaws to the courts. State lawmakers slipped on the accelerator. He was hospitalized route. (The New York Times) promised to address collection methods next in critical condition. (Associated Press) year. “We can’t afford to leave money on the Litigation Nation David Jiminez, 43, spent hours at the table,” State Sen. Catherine E, Pugh said. Compiled from mainstream news sources by large crucifix outside St. Patrick’s Church in “The ICC was a very expensive road to build.” Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand. Newburgh, N.Y., praying for his wife, who (The Washington Post) was battling ovarian cancer. When she recovered, he offered to clean the crucifix in grati- Second-Amendment Follies tude. While he was scrubbing Christ’s face, • Combat City, a shooting range in Orlando, the 600-pound marble statuary toppled over Fla., lets its customers fire at each other to test December 2012 | Little Village
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