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I am glad Dollar Tree stores finally did the right thing. It was a good PR move, but I wonder if customers stopped patronizing their stores in the area, due to their initial decision not to issue death benefits to the family? I had read about this story on a news site just before taking my holiday break. To summarize the story, 26-year old Taneka Talley of Fairfield, California was a Dollar Tree cashier and was attacked and stabbed to death while she was on the job two years ago.
The attacker was white and as you can see she is black, so Dollar Tree refused to pay death benefits to her surviving child...hhhmm, I thought there was more than one child involved, but anyway they labeled it a hate crime and claimed they were not responsible for any compensation.
My recent search revealed they have settled with the family which will help her mother raise her 11 year old son and fund his college education.
SFGate.com:
"In a statement Monday, Dollar Tree said it was acting voluntarily because "we feel this is the right thing to do." But a lawyer for Talley's mother and guardian of her 11-year-old son said the company was clearly responding to the public anger that followed news coverage of the case." READ MORE...
If you left the house with a dollar and some change and returned and found out you lost 25 cents somewhere along the way you wouldn't fret and some of us probably would not think twice about it. What's gone is gone and a loss of 25 cents would be the least of our worries. That's what the latest cyber scam operatives are banking on.
The Boston Globe reports on a new scam:
"The charge shows up on statements as coming from "Adele Services" in Melville, N.Y. There is no business by that name listed in Melville, or registered to any business anywhere in New York, for that matter.
Two theories of what is going on have advanced on message boards and among consumer advocates: Someone is trying to find out whether an illegally obtained credit card number will work before making a bigger charge, or they're trying to rip off tiny amounts from tons of people."
The notion is if the culprits can rip off 25 cents from 1 or 10 million people, they can make a cool $250k or $2.5 million dollars while drawing very little attention to the crime. These people get brighter by the day.
Now if they could take all of that fabulous analytical thinking and figure out how use their brilliant minds for something legal and beneficial towards society, the world would be a much better place. READ MORE...
Reference:
Boston Globe
I thought this was a joke, but unfortunately, it's real and occurred in Nassau County at the Valley Stream mall. We have some real ignorant people in this country. People die from bombs and terrorist over in Mumbai, India, and a man dies from shopping terrorists here in the U.S. I don't get this Black Friday frenzy. It's just ridiculous.
The scene was described as: "a throng of shoppers... physically broke down the doors" and the police called it a "mob scene." It's WAL- MART. I mean what kind of deal could you get that was worth elbowing and stomping people on the ground to get to? If this had been a hip-hop concert...I'm not going to even go there. You would think someone yelled "Free $100 dollar bills."
They all need to be charged if he died as a result of any trauma. One person interviewed%2
This time they have taken control over a ship carrying $100 million worth of crude oil from a Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star pictured above. How do they keep gaining control of these ships. These companies know these rogues are out on the waters looking for anything to loot, and if $100 million were of product is on a ship, they couldn't even get the Keystone cops, Barney Fife...or somebody to man that vessel?
I am puzzled on this one. Are they not allowed to be armed on the ships or were people asleep or too busy with the XBox? And some of them keep control of the ships for weeks. That doesn't sound like a hijacking. It sounds like someone is looking for a warm bed and three square meals and is negotiating terms of a rental agreement. House guests that refuse to leave. Leave already. Baffling.
But seriously, hopefully, this nonsense will stop, because I would hate to be on my dream luxury cruise one day, and find myself startled by somes thugs climbing over the wall while I was enjoying my meal and fine music while soaking in the sun. It would definitely put a damper on the trip.
The NY Daily News:
"Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, who was raised in Bensonhurst, and his wife, Quiana, were found bound and gagged in the ransacked house, each shot in the head.
Pietrzak was the suspects' sergeant at Camp Pendleton, Quiana's mother said Wednesday.
"They're monsters," Faye Jenkins told the Daily News. "They're monsters."
Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, said she had prepared herself "for the possibility that my son could die in Iraq."
"But to die like this, in their own home?" she told The News. "They were good kids. They didn't deserve to die like this."
Investigators said the motive for murder was "financial gain." Neither mother believes that. "
The four accused are black males and if they are guilty, they need to fry. Extra crispy. Read the horror of how these two people were tortured and suffered before they died. I wonder how the psychological exams were before and after they entered and exited the military, and if that couple's family has some recourse against the marines...just a curiosity.
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It's odd saying good crime news, but the city of Miami went an entire month without experiencing a homicide. That is amazing and a momentous achievement. It will be nice to see this as a trend and spread across the U.S. way go Miami. According to the Miami Herald:
"October passed without a homicide -- meaning for the first time since May 1966, an entire month went by in the city of Miami without someone succumbing violently."
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In the wake of their family tragedy, Jennifer and her sister announced they are establishing the The Hudson-King Foundation for Families of Slain Victims is named in honor of the singer-actress's slain mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, brother Jason Hudson and nephew Julian King.
Announced in a family statement:
"The specific purpose of the Foundation is to care for the needs of families who have lost relatives to a violent crime....This encompasses their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter as well as grief counseling."
Donations to the Hudson-King Foundation can be sent:
c/o Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP
Attn: William L. Abrams, Esq.
237 West 35th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Reference:
People.com
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