'Inner tube robber' sent up-river for 6 years

MONROE, Wash. -- A man who stole thousands from an armored car in an elaborate scheme and then made his getaway on an innertube down Woods Creek was sentenced to six years in prison Monday.

Anthony Curcio, 28, will also face three years of supervised release.

The FBI says Curcio planned the robbery over a year. On Sept. 30, he sprayed an armored car guard in the face with pepper spray outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe. He made off with $400,000, then hopped on a yellow inner tube and escaped down the creek.

Agents cracked the case when they learned about two weeks before the robbery, a homeless man called 911 to report that he found a can of Mace, a wig and a two-way radio behind a trash bin nearby. When a man came to retrieve the items, the homeless man wrote down the license plate number of his car. The license plate was registered to Curcio's wife.

DNA was collected from evidence gathered at the scene, and on Oct. 28, the Washington State Patrol crime lab sent Monroe police a DNA report that matched Anthony Curcio's.

He was arrested a few days later in a new Range Rover following a shopping spree at an outlet mall.

A few days before the robbery, Curcio placed an advertisement on Craigslist for laborers to work a landscape job in the areas near the Bank of America.

Several workers showed up in work clothes, as requested by the advertisement, that were similar to what the robber was seen wearing, to confuse police searching for the suspect.

Court documents in the case said that Curcio was having financial troubles and began studying the armored car deliveries at the branch, as well as the best route of escape.

He manufactured a disguise with clothing that could be easily removed, and even strung a cable in a nearby creek so that he could use an inflatable raft and pull himself down the creek away from the scene of the robbery.

Agents recovered about $220,000 upon Curcio's arrest.

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what is a BASTARD?

*Question: What is a bastard exactly?*

Quite often we ask ourselves hard to answer questions, like, "What is a bastard?"

In the photo attached, the guy on the right is a member of a bomb squad in the middle of a deactivation.

The guy behind him, well, he's a bastard.

a joke for you~

After a day of fishing at a nearby island, Bob was on his way home. No sooner had he crossed the bridge to the mainland, that he saw a policeman following him with his lights flashing. Bob pulled over, like a good citizen.

The cop walked up to the window and said, "You know how fast you were going, BOY?"

Bob thought for a second and said, "Uhh, 60?"

"67 mph, son! 67 mph in a 55 zone!" said the cop.

"But if you already knew, officer" replied Bob, "why did you ask me?"

Fuming over Bob's answer, the officer growled, in his normal sarcastic fashion, "That's speeding and you're getting a ticket and a fine!" The cop took a good close look at Bob, in his stained fishing attire and said, "You don't even look like you have a job! Why, I've never seen anyone so scruffy in my entire life!"

Bob answered, "I've got a job! I have a good, well-paying job!"

The cop leaned in the window, smelling Bob's fish catch, said, "What kind of a job would a bum like you have?"

"I'm a rectum stretcher!" replied Bob.

"What did you say, BOY?" asked the patrolman.

"I'm a rectum stretcher!", repeated Bob.

The cop, scratching his head, asked, "What does a rectum stretcher do?"

Bob explained, "People call me up and say they need to be stretched, so I go over to their house. I start with a couple of fingers, then a couple more, and then one whole hand, then two. Then I slowly pull them farther and farther apart until it's a full six feet across."

The cop, absorbed with these bizarre images in his mind, asked, "What the hell do you do with a six foot asshole?"

Bob nonchalantly answered, "You give it a radar gun and stick it at the end of a bridge!"

Military Wisdom

• 
  "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it.
  That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
  
• - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.
  "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
  
• "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. - U.S. Marine Corps
  
• "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate.
  The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground."
  - USAF Ammo Troop
  
• "If the enemy is in range, so are you."
  - Infantry Journal
  
• "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
  - U.S. Air Force Manual
  
• "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword
  obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur
  
• "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal
  
• "You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.
  
• "Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance
  
• "Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal
  
• "Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last,
  and don't ever volunteer to do anything." - U.S. Navy Swabbie
  
• "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth
  
• "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal
  
• "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." - Joe Gay
  
• "Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once."
  
• "Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do." - Unknown Marine Recruit
  
• "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies
  
• "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop
  
• "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil.
  For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."
  - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan
  
• "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
  
• "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
  
• "Blue water Navy truism:
  There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky."
  - From an old carrier sailor
  
• "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage,
  it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."
  
• "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always
  have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
  
• "Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club."
  
• "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
  If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies."
  
• "Never trade luck for skill."
  The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are:
  
• "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" And "Oh S...!"
  
• "Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant."
  
• "Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."
  
• "A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication."
  
• "I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous."
  
• "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"
  
• "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight
  to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
  
• "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."
  - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
  
• "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."
  - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
  
• "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."
  
• "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when
  it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."
  As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft,
  having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing,
  the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks
  
• "What happened?". The pilot's reply: "I don't know,
  I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)

I am an individual of many interests

check out this cool bird called a Hoopoe

this drunk got taken for a ride!

Gerle Kittler lies asleep at a station blissfully unaware his mates carried him there after he dozed off at a party.

They wheeled still-sleeping Gerle, 25, and the sofa more than a mile to the local station near Warngau, Germany, and put him on a train after buying a single ticket for him and a bike ticket for the settee.

He only woke up on a platform four miles down the line in Warngau, Germany, still stretched out on his couch being quizzed by police.

"I always sleep like a baby so I didn't notice anything until the cops shook me awake and demanded my ID. I thought I was in the middle of a bad movie," said Gerle.

A second rude awakening came when he realised he had no cash and his mobile battery was flat.

"I ran four miles home and went straight back to bed," he said.

Baby Glutton the breastfeeding doll. A 'sucky' idea?

Because you shouldn't have to wait until you have breasts before you start breastfeeding your baby.

Baby Glutton the breastfeeding doll. A 'sucky' idea?

by Eric Ruhalter

For the child who has everything... A Breastfeeding Doll?!?!? Spanish toymaker Berjuan is proud to present (against their better judgment, I hope) Bebe Gloton, the first-ever breastfeeding doll. First-ever! I bet that's true. Because it's a bad idea. If I invented the combination Baby-Changing Table/Table Saw it would be the "first-ever." But that doesn't make it a good idea. I could easily be the first to market the "Shotgun-Rattle," too. Or the "Rooftop car seat." Am I digressing? I always do that!

The purpose of Bebe Gloton (Spanish for, roughly, "Gluttonous Baby",) allegedly, to promote breastfeeding. Reaching children early with the idea that breastfeeding is natural. However, of course it's natural!!! I don't think any mom (pre-teen or otherwise) is contesting the fact that breastfeeding is healthy and natural. I think it's the clogged ducts and the cracked nipples that put them off.

I'm all for breastfeeding. But, as a man, I'm quite certain no one cares what I think about it. My very courageous and unselfish wife breast fed our children for over a year apiece (including a set of twins.) I think it was great, and they grew strong and healthy, without costing us a nickel on baby formula.

To "play" with this toy, the young girl (or boy I suppose?) puts on a halter/bra type vestment and Bebe Gloton suckles on it around the nipple area. Weird. And I'm not sure that as elementary-school-aged children we need to be plugging anything too specific in terms of baby rearing. Especially right before they hit puberty and we start beating it into their heads that it'd better be a loooooong time before they get pregnant. Let's find a way to market the notion of breastfeeding to people who are approaching that stage in their life. I'd like to think that there's a less creepy way to instill the notion of breastfeeding in the minds of children if that's really something that it's necessary to do.

What's next? Bebe Sot - The doll who has a problem with a different kind of bottle, and loses his family, job and feelings of self worth? ? Bebe Limp - The male doll who experiences erectile dysfunction? Bebe Cell Mate - A weak unimposing doll that experiences all the indignation and humiliation of life in prison. Toy themes should be age appropriate. I think so anyway.