So what is the most unusual thing you ever heard while listening to or reading the news?
Years ago I was having lunch at work when there was a news report on the radio about someone who was attempting a robbery and the victim said something to the effect of having no money or something like that and the would be robber responded by saying there were no bullets in his gun.
Full Version: Most Unusual Thing You've Heard In The News
Man Arrested For Allegedly Hiding In Women's Toilet
Suspect Charged With Criminal Trespass
BOSTON -- Truth really was stranger than fiction in New Hampshire where a man was arrested for allegedly being inside a women's room toilet.
Ed Harding reported that summer vacationers were disgusted when a man was discovered hiding inside a toilet in the women's room at a rest stop along the Kancamagus Highway near Carroll City. Police said he was in the waste tank beneath a log cabin restroom.
More at: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4664396/detail.html
Suspect Charged With Criminal Trespass
BOSTON -- Truth really was stranger than fiction in New Hampshire where a man was arrested for allegedly being inside a women's room toilet.
Ed Harding reported that summer vacationers were disgusted when a man was discovered hiding inside a toilet in the women's room at a rest stop along the Kancamagus Highway near Carroll City. Police said he was in the waste tank beneath a log cabin restroom.
More at: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4664396/detail.html
i heard that one of the companies that is involved in building that giant fence to keep the illegal mexicans out of the US, got busted for employing illegal mexicans to do the labor.
QUOTE (klc9100 @ Dec 11 2007, 09:52 AM) 
i heard that one of the companies that is involved in building that giant fence to keep the illegal mexicans out of the US, got busted for employing illegal mexicans to do the labor.
LMAO! That's too funny.
QUOTE (glorybebe @ Dec 11 2007, 06:06 PM)
LMAO! That's too funny.
i know, right. i couldn't believe it
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QUOTE (klc9100 @ Dec 11 2007, 05:52 PM)
i heard that one of the companies that is involved in building that giant fence to keep the illegal mexicans out of the US, got busted for employing illegal mexicans to do the labor.
LMAO, I'll join in as well!
QUOTE (Ghostdancer @ Dec 11 2007, 09:09 PM)
LMAO, I'll join in as well!
yeah, i can't decide which is crazier:
1 - the company hiring the very people they are trying to keep out.
2 - the mexicans building the fence to keep themselves out.
i think it's a toss-up.
QUOTE (klc9100 @ Dec 12 2007, 11:07 PM)
yeah, i can't decide which is crazier:
1 - the company hiring the very people they are trying to keep out.
2 - the mexicans building the fence to keep themselves out.
i think it's a toss-up.
1 - the company hiring the very people they are trying to keep out.
2 - the mexicans building the fence to keep themselves out.
i think it's a toss-up.
this will be in my head all night long. laughing. haha.
An obituary with my name on it. 
QUOTE (klc9100 @ Dec 12 2007, 07:07 AM)
yeah, i can't decide which is crazier:
1 - the company hiring the very people they are trying to keep out.
2 - the mexicans building the fence to keep themselves out.
i think it's a toss-up.
1 - the company hiring the very people they are trying to keep out.
2 - the mexicans building the fence to keep themselves out.
i think it's a toss-up.
Wow! It makes you wonder if it is all a hoax, this whole fence thing. LOL
QUOTE (glorybebe @ Dec 12 2007, 06:56 PM)
Wow! It makes you wonder if it is all a hoax, this whole fence thing. LOL
i had actually only heard it on the radio, but a google search turned-up this article:
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
by Scott Horsley
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.
Golden State Fence built millions of dollars' worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months.
It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift.
Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823
QUOTE (klc9100 @ Dec 12 2007, 11:11 AM)
i had actually only heard it on the radio, but a google search turned-up this article:
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
by Scott Horsley
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.
Golden State Fence built millions of dollars' worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months.
It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift.
Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
by Scott Horsley
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.
Golden State Fence built millions of dollars' worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months.
It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift.
Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823
Oh, wow! It's liek one big circle! They need the illegal immigrants to keep illegal immigrants out of the country.
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