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A man allegedly tried to steal an automated teller machine from a credit union in Leavenworth, Kansas, by using a stolen Bobcat to rip the ATM off its mount. Then, to break open the ATM, he dropped the cash machine down an embankment behind the financial institution. But "it makes it easier when you let go of it," said Leavenworth Police Chief Patrick Kitchens. "That way you don't go with it." Police arrived to find the suspect trapped inside the stolen vehicle at the bottom of the embankment, right next to the battered ATM, which had not broken open. "It is stunning that he is still alive," Kitchens said. "We are talking about a 50-foot embankment -- basically straight down." The unnamed 49-year-old man was airlifted to a hospital in serious condition.
Ironically, he wanted the money because he couldn't afford health insurance...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
Last edited by uncle phil; 01-04-2009 at 03:49 AM..
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