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"Huge drug bust at San Diego State University"

the following might pique the interest of many a Slash reader:

"Authorities say among those arrested was a student who worked as an employee of the campus police and was one month away from graduating with a masters degree in Homeland Security. Another suspect found with 500 grams of cocaine and two guns is a criminal justice major. ... "

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/nearly-100-char.html

Obviously, this is not an isolated case. News is replete with examples of drugs stolen from evidence lockers, cops on the take, and so on. But, I wonder what these particular students were thinking. Imagine being stopped by LE or DHLS and having your morality or luggage questioned, and having this story pop up in your head as because you got the dreaded "SSSS" on your boarding pass....

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100198903&GT1=31036

"The organs removed during the 15-hour surgery were the stomach, pancreas, liver, spleen, small intestine and about two-thirds of the large intestine. Because of their delicate nature, the kidneys weren't taken out during the procedure, Tzakis noted."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004301567_yahoo24.html

"Long before the world learned that Google had turned the Internet into an amazing money-minting machine, Yahoo knew.

When Google was still a private company, it sent its financial statements to Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale like clockwork. Google had to because Yahoo was one of its earliest investors.

The statements showed the incredible growth of Google's search advertising business, with sales more than doubling from quarter to quarter.

But Yahoo executives didn't focus on the money; they were interested in how much traffic was being driven by search, recalled Ellen Siminoff, an executive who joined Yahoo in 1996.

In 2000, Yahoo agreed to use and promote Google, which it touted as "the best search engine on the Internet." Google co-founder Larry Page described the pact as a "major milestone."

The following year, Yahoo was even more generous, paying Google $7.2 million for its services (Google in turn paid Yahoo $1.1 million for promotional help). Google desperately needed the money, which helped push it into the black for the entire year.

Yet Yahoo was hardly flush with cash. After two years of profit, Yahoo reported an annual loss of $93 million in 2001. The value of its stock had collapsed from $118.75 a share in January 2000 to $4.05 in September 2001.

Meanwhile, Yahoo's promotional push was having an effect on Google."

More at the URL

http://kazza.id.au/2003/03/creative-cockroach-control.html

"# An open bottle of eucalyptus oil or tea-tree oil can be very effective in cupboards or near susceptible areas. Non-Chemical Sticky traps are available commercially (try a health food shop first). A heat gun which emits very hot air can be used to flush out and kill cockroaches or alternatively close windows and doors, turn on lots of heaters to get the temperature of the house to 50C for three hours - obviously the middle of summer is an ideal time to try this. Try a bait of icing sugar and borax in a jar placed near cockroach run. Fill a margarine container three quarters full of water: add a dessertspoon of cooking oil which will float on top of the water: the cockroach climbs into the container, but the floating oil makes it very difficult for it to escape. Place near cockroach sites.
# Make a non-toxic roach bait and set it out in roach infested areas:

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup shortening or bacon drippings
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup flour
8 ounces baking soda

Combine sugar and shortening. Add onion, flour, and baking soda. Mix in just enough water to make a dough-like consistency. Put small balls in plastic sandwich bags (other alternatives: spread some on margarine tub lids, or put in a lidded plastic container with small roach-sized holes cut in the bottom of the sides for the roaches to use to get in and out but that will keep pets out) and place in roach-infested areas. The bait creates gas in the roach when eaten. Because roaches can't belch, their digestive tracts explode."

I know when I first moved to San Fransideshow in 2005 I stayed in one of those "hotels". There was (probably still IS) a tenant who had/has umpteen a shitload of roaches streaming in and out of the like a colony of ants. Ants don't bother me. Motherf*cking roaches DO. Call em cockroaches or roaches, but they creep me OUT. My throat almost exploded at the sight of these.

Reminded me of when I was a kid when I caught a pregnant roach on the gas stoves cooking grill thingy. I turned on the flame and the sucker got immobilized. She couldn't go ANYwhere. But, her body started pulsating and expanding. Having watched too many sci-fi flicks as a kid, I hit the floor and took cover just before she exploded. I reached up to the knob, but she burst before I could turn off the flame.

That hotel had a sprayer come in about every 2 weeks, maybe. It was so unsettling to me that I thought all of the Tendergroin should be NUKED, or Borg-scooped from the face of the Earth. It's friggin' strange how people could live with all sizes and number of roaches in and out of their room. Two came into my room, and they were dead on sight.

Glad I don't live there anymore. I am not sure what purpose roaches serve except to transfer diseases and creep the hell out of people. Sharks, I can understand. At LEAST they can clean the seas of humans, but roaches are just electronics-fryers and book markers. And the ones that emerged from book bags in school embarrassed the living HELL out of students as everyone bolted radially from the roach-harboring book bag.

Rolly-pollies, ants, and an occasional moth don't bother me. Spiders, neither. I leave spiders and ants alone -- they are Nature's Cleanup Crew. Usually, though, any insect like those that I can catch I catch and release back to out of doors. I don't think I've intentionally killed an insect in maybe a year. Not because of becoming (officially becoming) Buddhist, but because some innate feeling just keeps me from outright killing insects that aren't trying to sting, poison, or kill me.

Any IT shops out there infested with roaches? In what state are you? What are your best successful eradication techniques? Organic or toxic tools? How do you feel about talking innumerable lives? Blase, or remorseful? Will you see those bugs in the hells?

Way to go, Cool Hand Luke...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/xbox_teen/

Or, if his name's Jeff, I'd look for something from "Transylvania 6-5000"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/dallas_darwin_award_nominee/comments/#c_142068

"One stupid american down"...

And, as one commenter astutely recounts of Inspector Harry Callaghan (Dirty Harry/Clint Eastwood):

""Real life Dirty Harry.

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a pistol, and would blow a whole in your head, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"