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20 State of the Vine: What the @!$%# is wrong with everyone?Tue Aug 5, 2008 10:31 AM EDTBy Mykola Bilokonsky (Clipped by Digits) So, in case you missed it, Newsvine has gone insane. I'm not going to catch you up on everything, if you don't know what I'm talking about then please just walk away - you'll thank me.

Iman Morales, 35, is dead after falling 10ft headfirst onto the sidewalk in front of his Brooklyn home. This was no accident. He was tasered by a police officer, under orders from lieutenant Michael Pigott, a 21-year veteran of the force.

No, seriously, the NYPD will kill you. "Even if I'm a naked, unhinged man wielding only a light bulb?" you ask. Yes, even then. We can be sure of this because that's exactly what Iman Morales was: nude, screaming non sequiturs and maniacally waving around a neon light on a ledge about 10 feet off the ground in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Anytime we get lazy or can’t find a pic, we’re going to fall back on a handful of favorites, and Sophia Bush falls into that category … if any of you go and sign this, it will make us happy … if you want to watch Tom Brady limp through the streets of New York … man charged with battery for farting

Well, Round One goes to the cops. Gresham Sergeant Michael LeDuc said once in the parking lot Torreinte-Vela snapped. LeDuc said the 28-year-old Vancouver man started fighting with the two officers. One of them shot Torriente-Vele with a taser but it had no affect.

Submitted by Boats Blog Written by Michael Vass Something that caught my eye is a boating survey in Australian. The plan is that whis will be the largest survey about boating behaviour. It will take 18 months to get all its data, and will be made up of 4000 volunteers.

Sarah Palin, the newcomer to the presidential race is no doubt going to turn out to be no better than anything we’ve yet seen. After years of research into our worldly ills, it takes no more than a passing glance to figure out who is on who’s team. Of course, it’s really simple to figure out.

Just ask her father. Quoth L.D.: Instead, his daughter’s boyfriend (some 22-year old punk) laid down the smack on Flair in some parking lot. Not only that, but police were called in to help (probably Flair, who took a whuppin’).

As in: "I write to express my view that the Fourth Amendment forbids an officer from discharging repeated bursts of electricity into an already handcuffed misdemeanant--who is sitting still beside a rural road and unwilling to move--simply to goad him into standing up." So begins the dissent from a non-precedential ruling that the U.S.

Dandelion Salad By Gerri L. Elder CLGTotal Criminal Defense While most people are aware of police use of Taser weapons, many may be fairly shocked to learn of an alternate method used by police in Nashville, Tennessee to subdue “unruly” people.