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National


Summary - Wyvetter H. Younge, a 77 year-old state representative for Illinois, was glad to be alive after she was robbed in her own home one day. The robbery happened during noon on a Friday. The woman thought it to be her son entering the house but instead found a man she wasn't familiar with wearing a red hat, jacket and dark pants. The man held the Democrat representative at gun point and took off with her purse. Younge said she'll pray for the man who did this.


Opinion - Well this is just terrible. Robbers should really leave the old folks alone. I believe it to be an unwritten rule of etiquette that robbers and burglars should stay within their age bracket. But, of course, criminals will be criminals. And as criminals go, they never do follow the rules. Anyhow, the robber was truly an idiot as he only made away with the representative's purse, which contained a GRAND total of $7. Very nice, robber-man. You managed to steal more than you're worth. Nicely done...



National



Summary - Police say a woman in Cedar Rapids, Iowa chased down a burglar with an ice scraper and made him pick up what he stole and dropped when he fled. It was the home of Derdre Rodriguez who police went to on Monday, when the incident occurred. When they got there they found the lady holding a sixteen-year-old Jake Merfeld at bay with the ice scraper. The incident took place after the woman showed up at her house to find Jake running across the yard with the stolen items. She then hit the burglar over the head with the ice scraper and he then surrendered. Merfeld, who was treated for a cut on his head, faces a second-degree burglary charge.



Opinion - What is it we have here? Some girl power at work maybe? Well, good for her. She took control of the situation and nabbed the criminal. So bravo to her! It is somewhat sad though that the burglar is only sixteen-years-old. I just hope he doesn't have to go to prison. He just seems to young to have to go there. Well.. that's what juvi's for, right? :/


International

Summary - In an Indonesian town, massage parlors have begun asking their female masseuses to put padlocks on their skirts and pants. The purpose behind this is to make clear to people that sex is not for sale there. The women's affairs minister of Indonesia did not like this act and protested it as massage parlors are often a front for prostitution. "It is not the right way to prevent promiscuity," said Meutia Swasono. "It insults women ... as if they are the ones in the wrong."

Opinion - Well, this is quite the predicament. I don't entirely understand if the women masseuses are being made to wear the padlocks or not. I guess if the business doesn't want their workers selling sex, then the owners should be able to force them to wear the locks. If the female masseuses don't like being forced to wear the padlocks then they could just work at a different massage parlor. If massage parlors are a common front for prostitution, then I'm sure a few of them won't take up the idea of padlocks on the masseuses.

International

Summary - In Stockholm, Sweden, the electrocution of a rat in an electric station caused power outages the city's central train station. Halting to the elevators and escalators followed."The rat had sneaked into a secondary substation and came into contact with some parts that caused it to short circuit," said Jesper Ekenlund, the spokesman for the power company Fortum. The outage that morning led to some delays in train traffic. "It must have been really big because there's a certain distance between the parts it touched."

Opinion - Okay.. That is somewhat disgusting. Well, first of all, there probably shouldn't have been rats in the electric station anyway. That just smells like disaster.. or rotting, charred rat in this case. The spokesman for the power company said the rat "must have been big". Because of how he worded it, it makes me think nothing (or not much) of the rat's body was left, which makes the incident even more disturbing. This doesn't even include the fact that, according to the spokesman, it must have been a good sized rat. Now isn't that just grand?..