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Deputy resigns in wake of prisoner’s escape at McDonald’s drive-through

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Deputy Matthew Kadel was taking a man to jail the morning of July 19 when he decided to grab some food. It was 9 a.m. and he’d been working since 5. He was hungry and thirsty and had at least a 20-minute drive ahead of him.

As Kadel, 45, pulled into the McDonald’s drive-through and placed his order, the man in the back seat — Richard Zukoski, 21, arrested on auto burglary and theft charges — used his own handcuff key to free himself. He took off through the parking lot off U.S. 19, just south of State Road 52.

A surveillance video from the McDonald’s, released this week as the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office wrapped up its investigation, shows Kadel running after Zukoski.

It also shows Kadel coming back, without his prisoner, to retrieve his food from the drive-through window.

Kadel, who has worked for the Sheriff’s Office since 1994, submitted his resignation on Monday after an internal affairs investigation found he violated an inmate transport rule: Deputies are to stop only for emergencies.

Spokesman Kevin Doll said if a deputy needs to stop – for food or to use the bathroom, for example – he or she needs to get a supervisor’s permission. Kadel did not, according to the investigation documents.

“I don’t make it a habit of stopping,” Kadel later told investigators, according to a report. “I mean, it’s probably the one and only time.”

But it was the third time someone escaped on his watch, according to sheriff’s reports.

In 2005, Kadel arrested Lawrence Bloom, then 47, on domestic battery charges, then took him to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point for treatment. Bloom escaped from the hospital after Kadel left him inside unattended, without handcuffs.

Kadel was suspended for five days without pay.

In 1999, Kadel was supposed to be watching Michael Webster, a 20-year-old arrested on two counts of armed robbery, as detectives took turns interviewing him and two other suspects. But Webster slipped away and was caught after a jogger saw him wading through a pond, still wearing handcuffs.

A document from the Professional Standards Unit concluded that “Dep. Kadel abandoned his responsibility by assuming someone other than himself was going to watch Mr. Webster.”

In all three escapes — including the latest incident at McDonald’s — deputies swarmed the area and quickly found the suspects.

Kadel has been reprimanded on previous occasions for failing to follow orders, unauthorized use of property and equipment, inaccurate statements, insubordination and tardiness.

Kadel also had many letters of appreciation and recognition in his file. He received the sheriff’s Medal of Valor Award in 2001 for pulling a suicidal man out of a burning house. In 2008, after seeing a needy family at a Denny’s restaurant, Kadel got the family medical care, prescriptions and toys. He received the sheriff’s Quarterly Incentive Award.

The McDonald’s incident began in the predawn hours of July 19, when Kadel responded to the Gulf Highlands neighborhood in Port Richey for a burglary complaint.

Boxes of power tools and lawn equipment had been stolen from a resident’s truck. Kadel found them on Zukoski’s porch.

As Kadel headed inside to make an arrest, Zukoski pocketed a handcuff key from a set he and his girlfriend bought a few years back.

“I was thinking, ‘I want to get home and see my mom,’ ” Zukoski told the Times in a jailhouse interview in July. “I didn’t want to go to prison.”

As the deputy went through the McDonald’s drive-through, Zukoski began to unlock his handcuffs. Then he asked the deputy to roll down the back window so he could spit. Instead, Zukoski reached out, opened the door and ran.

Documents from the investigation state Zukoski had been patted down by Kadel and at least one other deputy before being put in the cruiser. No one found the handcuff key, which was hidden in a small pouch in his gym shorts. He wore no shirt.

Kadel’s resignation letter does not mention the July 19 incident, but confirms he will receive pay for his unused vacation time and will be eligible to file for unemployment compensation.

Source: tampabay.com

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Takanakuy Festival at risk? – Strange Events

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250px-Location_of_the_province_Chumbivilcas_in_Cusco.svgDid you ever heard about “Takanakuy”? Did you have wanted the opportunity to straight up your differences with somebody you knew in a fight, enjoin a good food, special dress, dance and booze? Well a lot people call that Saturday night.

Chumbivilcas is a province in the Andes, South Peru, and according to the Peru 2005 Census 77,721 inhabitants, rural communities families with eight and more children are not unusual, one of the poorest regions of the country.

The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.

Takanakuy Festival for beginners

Each December 25th part of the population from Chumbivilcas Province reunite to the Takanakuy “festival”, where participants practice of fighting fellow community members.

Takanakuy Festival at risk - 02The practice started in Santo Tomás, the capital of Chumbivilcas, and has now spread to other villages and cities, the prominent ones being Cuzco and Lima.

The festival consists of dancing and of individuals fighting each other to settle old conflicts or simply to display their manhood.

Those holding the grudges call out their opponents by their first and last name.

Kicking and punching are allowed in the middle of the circle. Biting, hitting those on the ground, or pulling hair is not allowed during the fight, this is a civilized community!

Takanakuy Festival at risk - 01Although the government of Lima has tried to eradicate Takanakuy Festival, the celebration has diffused into urban areas such as Cuzco and Lima.

People of non-indigenous descent are now taking part in this originally indigenous cultural custom, yeah, why not?

Then everybody goes drinking to numb the pain and move on to a new year.

Now serious, tells us, don’t you have a co-worker, neighbor, a church member you have a beef with?

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Polish company to brew beer from a Czech model’s vagina bacteria

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Polish company to brew beer from a Czech models vagina bacteriaPolish brewery company launched a crowdfunding for its attempt to brew beer from a Czech model’s vagina bacteria.

There are large number of bizarre ingredients used in the manufacture of craft beers, but use a formula from a vaginal bacteria stands out in the crowd.

Warsaw-based The Order of Yoni — “Yoni” being a Sanskrit word for “vagina” — is seeking to raise about U$170,000 (£118,000 or 150,000 Euros) with an IndieGoGo campaign for Bottled Instinct, a beer brewed using lactic acid bacteria collected from the vagina of Alexandra Brendlova.

The Order of Yoni says the initial run of beers would include sour ales, lambics, flanders ales and sour stouts. Each bottle of beer will be stamped with Brendlova’s name as well as “the date of the collection of her vaginal swab.” Also it will brew six batches of 16,600 beers each, with funds going towards the ‘brewing process, ingredients and bottles’ decorations’.

The money will also cover the ‘model’s reward’ and a budget for the ‘perks’ offered to investors. However, there is no detail provided as to the breakdown of the costs.

The beers do not, however, feature the taste or odor of a vagina, the brewers say.

The company says their future plans include brewing other types of beers using bacteria harvested from other woman, as well as other products incorporating said bacteria including kefirs and yogurts.

Not as strange as vagina bacteria beer

In 2012 an Oregon brewery, developed a drink that led, among the ingredients, beard strands of his brewmaster. The drink was sold, including in other countries.

More informations on “The Order of Yoni” oficial website

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Roswell Spaceship Stoled, 1 Human arrested 2 on the loose

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Roswell Spaceship stoled, 1 Human arrested 2 on the looseRoswell Police Department informed on its Facebook page “Be on the lookout: missing spaceship,” the Identify Roswell Spaceship has been stolen from a UFO Museum.

The silver-colored saucer made of fiberglass and stainless steel was stolen about 3:30 a.m. Saturday from behind the International UFO Museum and Research Center on Roswell’s main drag by 3 allegedly human beings.

During the day Roswell police spokesman was proudly announcing that they were able to track down the 17-year-old boy who was one of the three suspects in the theft of the spaceship, because of a phone call.

Surveillance video shows the three males walking toward the spaceship, and two of them lifting it up.

They then walk away and out of the camera’s view with it, put the ship into a pickup truck and drove off. The UFO Museum is located just around the corner from police headquarters.

The allegedly human-teen in custody hasn’t said what the motivation behind for stealing the spaceship or who else was involved.

Roswell Spaceship stoled, 1 Human arrested 2 on the looseThe Identify Flying Saucer had a tough year, a blizzard this past winter knocked the saucer from its usual mount on the corner of the museum building on South Main Street, for over 24 years, as the picture to the right.

It recently had been repaired and was being stored under an awning behind the museum.

Now it was The New Mexico Department of Transportation sent an heart broken picture of the saucer in pieces to museum.

Roswell Police Department  are urging Roswell residents and from the surrounding areas to be on the lookout for the Roswell Spaceship’s thieves

Hopefully the other two suspects are still on Planet Earth and can be bring to justice.

“Only in Roswell.”

Source: Daily Mail

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