Shooting a cop

K this is going to be a long one

Police officer shot in St. Petersburg
A St. Petersburg police detective is in serious condition after a shooting Monday night.

According to Public Information Officer Bill Poffitt, the officer was shot in the stomach multiple times after he confronted three robbery suspects.

Investigators say the altercation happened around 10:20 p.m. outside the Exxon gas station in the 3000 block of First Avenue North.

The assistant chief of police said undercover officers were performing surveillance on the gas station when the suspects tried to rob it.

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The two other teens -- Shaheed Wright, 16, and Desmond Creary, 17, both of St. Petersburg – were also apprehended after the shooting and charged in the gas station robbery and attempted murder.

After the teens first came to the attention of the two undercover detectives, the detectives watched as the three took their bicycles to an alley across the street from the gas station, police said.

One of the teens – Desmond Creary – stayed behind with the bicycles and served as a look-out while the other two went inside the gas station, according to police records and family members. One was wearing a mask, the other a red bandana, police said.

Mohammed Masud, the owner, was not there at the time but said two clerks and a homeless man were. Masud said two suspects entered with their faces concealed, and one of them pointed a gun in the direction of the chest of one of the clerks, Masud said.

They demanded the money that was in one cash register, asked if there were another cash register, and then left with the cash they were given, along with a porn DVD, Masud said. The same gas station was robbed on Nov. 4, but by different culprits, Masud said.

After the robbery, Seay and Wright ran back to their bicycles, where Creary was waiting, police said. In one account provided by police, the undercover detective grabbed Creary at about this time. That's when Seay approached the detective and shot several rounds from a mid-size caliber handgun, striking the officer several times in the upper and lower body, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said this morning.

The detective returned fire, but none of the teens was struck.

Seay's jail affidavit, however, says Seay shot the undercover officer when the detective confronted Seay and told him to halt.

"He's not that type of person at all," said Seay's brother, Ferrell Davis, who until recently had been in jail. Davis, who said he was recently released from jail, showed up at a press conference the chief gave at the police department's training building, but was escorted out.

Davis said his brother James had been robbed twice recently and might have been protecting himself or his alleged associate when he fired. "My brother is not the person they're making him out to be in the news," Davis said.

"The way they're blasting him is ridiculous," Kimberly Davis, James Seay's sister, said of her brother. "If you were dressed undercover – they are not in uniform – and you grab my arm, I'm going to defend myself, too."

They also said they hadn't heard from James Seay since his arrest, and wondered they he hasn't called them. "Who's to say they ain't verbally abusing him, if not physically abusing him," said Rev. Daryl Seay, his uncle, a self-described ex-convict.

Look this idiot smiles for the mug shot!

Well here we go

First this family is a bunch of criminals Brother Uncle

Second they question why the robbery wasn't stopped before it happened. This is the perfect example of a family looking for a lawsuit. If the cops stopped them before they went into the store then they will accuse the cops of profiling harassment. The cops would have found the gun yes stopped the crime but then it would be my son just had it for protection and wasn't going to rob nobody. Nobody forced this trash to have the gun then go into the store rob store run see his partner get apprehended then come back and shot a police officer. This is all on him and his family should just shut up and start writing letters to their kid in jail. This attorney should have his right to practice law removed for even taking this case. The rules should be if you take on a case that clearly is a media publicity shake down your done no more license. How in the world could this family even think that their kid nephew cousin has any chance of a story that this was at all justifiable. Simple facts wish we had public stoning or hangings outside city hall every Saturday.

Kelly Osbourne Back to Rehab

It's been a rough start to 2009 for Kelly Osbourne. After being arrested for allegedly slapping a journalist earlier this month, Sharon and Ozzy's daughter checked herself into a Los Angeles rehab facility for a 30-day stay.

"Kelly's always struggled with addiction," a source tells PEOPLE about Osbourne, 24, who's previously been to rehab for painkiller addiction in 2004 and 2005.

Can't this girl just do it right and die.

So now the change to the economy is going to take a few years. It really only took a year to get this bad and gets worse every day. Just wondering why we have to wait years for it to get better? If we as a whole (taxpayers) are bailing out all this stuff why is it that then to problem doesn't go away? Somebody please explain this to me. The banks had a shitload of bad dept they got money to pay that away so they now have no more bad dept and have the money to loan. They seam to scared to loan the money because of fears that it will happen again and well they will get bailed out again. If the banks aren't going to loan money to people then the government better get into the business of banking and loans. the government can keep bailing out business after business but if money isn't flowing from business to business it's completely pointless. It's like your dept free now the government paid off your home loan and you have 1000.00 extra a month now. If you save it all the country will fail, you save half every month better but not enough, spend 750.00 right on right one you now have helped save to country. My logic to this is if you saved all put it in to that nice CD or treasury bill etc.. when you go to use it in the future the value of that money will not have increased higher that the loss of value of the dollar getting to that point in time.

The 1000.00 you save a month for 20 years with interest let's say gets you 255,000 (I know i'm low but that's not the point) you have 255,000 and that's your retirement money you'll get a little every month as you pay check. The value of what just one of those dollars will buy you in the future will be greatly different in the future and savings doesn't cover inflation. $1.00 in 1970 had about the same buying power as $5.58 in 2008. $1.00 in 1980 had about the same buying power as $2.71 in 2008. $1.00 in 1990 had about the same buying power as $1.66 in 2008 $1.00 in 2000 had about the same buying power as $1.25 in 2008. I have only done the year since i have been alive but as you can see do to inflation saving it all woun't help you cause that box of oatmeal will soon be 6.00. If commerce get's flowing as it was last year and years before inflation doesn't increace as much. So save your 25% and spend the rest.

This is what the people and the government need to be telling the banks that were given bail out funds.

Man smears feces on his lawyer, flings it at jury

(SAN DIEGO) A San Diego judge has declared a mistrial in a kidnapping and assault case after the defendant smeared excrement on his lawyer's face and threw it at jurors. The judge boosted defendant Weusi McGowan's bail from $250,000 to $1 million after the Monday incident.

Prosecutor Christopher Lawson says McGowan was upset because the judge refused to remove public defender Jeffrey Martin from the case.

McGowan had smuggled a bag of feces into court and spread it on Martin's hair and face before flinging the excrement at jurors. No jurors were hit.

McGowan has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and other counts in connection with a 2007 home invasion

Oh this is great you get picked as a juror for this idiots trial only the have poop thrown at you. I know no juror was hit still sitting their and poops flying thats it I'm done going home arrest me but screw that I ain't dealing with that at all.

Boeing plans to cut 10,000 jobs

Boeing will eliminate about 10,000 jobs as part of ongoing cost-cutting measures, CEO Jim McNerney announced Wednesday during an earnings conference call. "We are targeting these reductions to exceed six percent of our current workforce,"

Boeing delivered just 50 planes in the last three months of 2008, compared with 112 planes during the same period a year earlier

Great Job to the International Association of Machinists(IAMAW) get it's people to strike 6 months ago and they go out picket and now looksee they will be let go. Great job people way to plan ahead should have keeped working. Now you'll be unemployed but at least the news loves you and you get to go on and cry about how hard life is and how bad Boeing treated you. 

Don't bitch to me about the white collars making ridicules money. I know they are just as bad and changes need to be made their too. But they don't make the product the IAMAW workers do they just went on strike for nothing then.

Really do they need to make this

Is this movie really necessary. I could really go on and on about the stupidity of this but really I think most of you know that this is going to be horrible.

Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks

Lending at many of the nation's largest banks fell in recent months, even after they received $148 billion in taxpayer capital that was intended to help the economy by making loans more readily available.

Ten of the 13 big beneficiaries of the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, saw their outstanding loan balances decline by a total of about $46 billion, or 1.4%, between the third and fourth quarters of 2008, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of banks that recently announced their quarterly results.

Those 13 banks have collected the lion's share of the roughly $200 billion the government has doled out since TARP was launched last October to stabilize financial institutions. Banks reporting declines in outstanding loans range from giants Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., each of which got $45 billion from the government; to smaller, regional institutions. Just three of the banks reported growth in their loan portfolios.

Bankers say it is unfair to expect them to funnel a large portion of their government capital into loans so soon after receiving it. They say it takes time to make prudent loans and to attract new deposits that will allow them to lend out their new capital efficiently.



Ahhh isn't that why they got the money? I'm not saying dole out the money to bad loans but really now 90% of the loans were given to good people under bad pretenses. Yes the people getting the loans should have been abit smarter about what they were signing but thats the crappy part about wanting the new house car or whatever. You got a salesman telling you that they have looked at your income and debt out look and tell you that you can affored that ARM morgage thats at 5.5 now and you got nothing to worry about. Then two years later your ARM is now 8.2 your payment has almost doubled. Yes the people were wrong in signing that deal but that doesn't make them a bad loan risk. If the loan was a 40 year fixed at 5.5 and they signed that then 90% of the problem wouldn't be going on now.

Very simple thing the banks got OUR taxpayer money now take that money and go to the people that defaulted or are about to and redue the loan as a fixed rate. They got the bailout money to cover their loss so what more do they have to lose?

Blowfish testicles poison 7 diners in Japan

Blowfish testicles prepared by an unauthorized chef sickened seven diners in northern Japan and three remained hospitalized Tuesday after eating the poisonous delicacy. Blowfish, while extremely poisonous if not prepared properly, is considered a delicacy in Japan and is consumed by thrill-seeking gourmets. Shortly after, they developed limb paralysis and breathing trouble and started to lose consciousness — typical signs of blowfish poisoning — and were rushed to a hospital for treatment.

First and foremost these guys are just idiots. It's not like jumping out of a airplane it's just eating something it doesn't get you high or buzzed if cooked right and eaten. It only causes problems if prepared wrong so whats the point? If steak cooked right got you high but cooked wrong could kill then it be worth the risk and the thrill but since it don't why take the chance if no go reward for the effort.

Sun Harbour Apartments: 60 Days Notice Required Before Dying

So I kinda thought this was funny that some apt manager would try and do this but in away I see their point. When you die your debt doesn't magically disappear, your credit card bills etc get processed thru your estate. When you die, your estate is responsible for paying off the balance. If the estate goes through probate, your administrator or executor will look at your assets and debts and, guided by law, determine in what order bills should be paid. Remaining assets will be distributed to heirs by following your will.

Why then isn't the apt then able to get the money the dead man signed a agreement and his estate should pay what they can of the missed rent. When we get to the security deposit and such then the apt is a bunch of pricks. I'm only kinda defending them about the rent part if its looked at as credit card debt.

Well crap see how this goes.

I have been reading cause I got time to do that more since I don't work right now. That to make myself feel better I need to get outside do something and also express myself still. Well since i don't have work to do and express myself I now have this! Oh and I go out everyday to go to the PO Box and check the mail.

I will do my best to post on this every day. I'm sure it will be just rambling about my hatred about something the Fed State or Local Government had done or plans on.

But I'll also post about how I hope to see my life and its future.