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12 Feb 2010 23:30

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Tech: Google’s Buzz privacy issues have a face: A domestic abuse victim

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11 Oct 2009 01:43

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World: This Good Samaritan rapist-catcher is a true class act

  • With the state that the girl was in after the incident, I really felt that it would go towards making her life a lot better over the next couple of years.
  • Lloyd Gardner • On giving up a huge reward to the victim of the crime. Gardner offered a key piece of evidence that solved a 2006 rape. He was offered a £10,000 reward for leading to the rapist’s conviction, but he deferred it to the victim. Class act. Gardner says, if he kept the money, he likely would have spent the money on “an expensive car or something which doesn’t seem right.” • source
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04 Oct 2009 00:05

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Culture: Roman Polanski may or may not have paid the victim a huge sum

  • $500,000 may have been paid out source
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03 Sep 2009 21:44

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Offbeat: Cash for Clunkers: Won’t anyone think of the demolition derbies?

They have to bring in cars from other state to demolish! This is such an awful, awful crime against mild entertainment. source
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10 Jul 2009 11:32

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World: Duh: Man killed by bull-goring during the running of the bulls

  • Most obvious headline we’ll write all day. Now, we’re not rocket scientists here, but if a bull is running after tons of people, it’s probably gonna hurt someone, right? Well, that’s Pamplona, Spain for you, where Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, was killed in a bull attack. He’s the 15th fatal victim of the bull running since records started to be kept in 1924, and – not counting a guy who died after being in a coma for six months – the first to die since 1995. It’s a stupid tradition which should end, both for the safety of the bulls and for that of the humans. source
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28 Apr 2009 20:33

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World: Meet the unlucky kid who got swine flu first

Edgar Hernandez, 4, was victim No. 1 of the outbreak. He’s OK now; he just (unintentionally) got everyone else sick. source
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22 Apr 2009 09:39

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U.S.: One of the Craiglist killer’s victims survived by “not fighting back”

  • I just complied with everything he wanted me to do. I didn’t resist him in any way and that’s why.
  • Trisha Leffler • One of the Craigslist killer’s apparent victims. She was bound and robbed of $800. She claims that she recognized Philip Markoff, the man accused of the attacks, from the surveillance stills released by police prior to his arrest. • source
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10 Jan 2009 19:37

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Offbeat: Here’s a general warning: Don’t be this stupid at the zoo

  • 3 mauling victims of Gu Gu, the cuddly-looking giant panda source
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