Rude enough for imprisonment

Colm 'Decency Free' Coss of Ardwick, Manchester (UK) is a world class loser. He found great joy in opening fake Facebook accounts and defiling tribute pages of the recently deceased. He seems to enjoy telling the traumatized family that he enjoyed having sex with the corpse of their loved ones.

Yeah. A real peach. A real fucking stand-up guy. The kind of guy you wouldn't mind meeting in a dark alley with a bunch of your friends.

So, how to handle this?
Do we stop making Facebook tribute pages? Nope. Couldn't do that. People like having tribute pages.
Perhaps we could set the comments section to be reviewed and approved? Nope. Couldn't do that. People like having tribute pages open to anyone in the world. After all, its a tribute page, no one would disrespect that!

Naw. Screw all that. Lets just throw him in jail!

After all, he was Very Mean in a public forum. And Very Mean people should be in jail!

Its a lot like the girl who recently decided to invite the entire world to her birthday party, then was surprised that a handful of them actually RSVPd to attend.
When will people learn that when you choose to allow the general public into your life online, its not just the fun ones that will show up?

Trial, room, and board because a disturbed man posted tasteless comments in a forum designed to allow anyone to post anything they want...

THIS is whyBRITSpaytaxes.

Read more: Jade Goody website 'troll' from Manchester jailed(bbc)

And you thought WE knew a thing or 2 about Medicare fraud

In a case of finding cures for diseases that don't exist that would make Big Pharma envious, 83 unnecessary operations were carried out in a private clinic in Milan, Italy. And I'm not talking a nip here, a tuck there... Oh no.

I'm talking unnecessary mastectomy on an 18 year old girl, 3 lung surgeries on an 88 year old woman when one would have done the trick, at least one unnecessary lung removal, and so many surgeries that 5 elderly patients died.

In the end, about $3.4 MILLION was charged to the Italian version of Medicare for surgeries that had no medical purpose.

In all, 14 people were arrested. The apparent ringleader, Brega 'Chop Shop' Massone said of his 15.5 year sentence: Its unfair, I was the scapegoat!
Imagine. 15.5 years in exchange for playing a part in forever scarring a young woman, scamming the citizens of Italy for millions of dollars, and killing off several elderly patients. And he thinks the sentence is unfair.

THIS is whyITALIANSpaytaxes.

read more: Italy doctors jailed for 'clinic of horrors' operations(bbc)

Now where'd I put those nukes?

Ok... So we didn't actually lose any nuclear weapons, but apparently our country was left without nuclear defenses for a span of months late in the Clinton Administration.

As it turns out, the Presidential aide that was responsible for the nuclear launch codes 'lost' them. Without these codes, even the President can't set forth a nuclear winter upon our enemies.

Not exactly a set of car keys you're dealing with here dude...

The best part, the watchdog for the codes from the Pentagon was easily sent chasing his own tail. Each time the aide was asked to show the codes, he said that Clinton had them on his person and was in a 'Very Important Meeting' and couldn't be bothered.
Rather than waiting around for the President to show up, the watchdog felt the aide's excuses were good enough for now. (I wonder if Presidents often keep the codes on them. The feeling of potential power must be a bit intoxicating...)

Building and implementing a fool proof system to safeguard a devastating system turns out only to be proof of fools...

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

read more: US presidential nuclear codes 'lost for months'(bbc)

Nothing to see here... Move along now

A few tax dollars at work here...

Hand picked

Suddenly, the Russian state-owned media begins attacking the mayor of Moscow for a variety of things like gridlock. A couple weeks later, President Puti... errr... Medvedev fires him. Not long after, Medvedev appoints a close aid to Prime Minister Putin as the new mayor.

Hand picked leadership...

THIS is whyrussianspaytaxes

read more: President Medvedev picks PM Putin's aide to run Moscow(bbc)

Did he just say election?

Taxpayer's receipt

Thanks to the folks at Third Way for throwing this one together. Its a look at what you spent your taxes on if you are a median wage earner in the U.S. in 2009.

Please visit Third Way for details, this is from page 3

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

read more: An itemized list of what your taxes pay for(Marketplace)

Monkey v. Smaller Monkey

In preparation for the Commonwealth Games, the Delhi officials in charge decided not to prepare.
Check out this slide show of the Athlete's Village a week before the athlete's are supposed to move in... Inside the athlete's village

One place they are well prepared for is monkey control. They're going to control the monkey problem by bringing in bigger monkeys. Black-faced langur monkeys to be exact.

Keep him busy while I get his wallet.

For the safety of everyone involved, they will keep these angry monkeys on a rope. The smaller monkeys that overrun dehli won't come near them, thus leaving the tourists alone. Its good to see these langurs finally getting back to work as productive members of society.

Preparation for Commonwealth Games...

THIS is whyindianspaytaxes.

read more: Delhi ropes in monkeys for Commonwealth Games security(bbc)
more fun: Monkeying Around(wipt)

Prostitutes for research

No... Its not the porn industry hiring whores for research. Nope. Its the U.S. Government!

Back in the late 40s, the U.S. government, with approval from the Guatemalan government, hired a bunch of whores with syphilis and brought them into the Guatemalan prison system to infect criminally insane people with syphilis. The test subjects had absolutely no idea they were test subjects.

Fun!

Ostensibly, they wanted to see what could be done to prevent syphilis from spreading. Then, when that didn't work, they wanted to see what could be done to better treat syphilis.

In the end, syphilis wins!

THIS is whyipaytaxes.
read more: US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala(bbc)

Thats funny, it didn't taste like syphilis...