Teddy Bear Toss

This is just awesome. Apparently they do this annually, then the players distribute the stuffed animals at local hospitals the next day. This is what I want to happen at my funeral. Just throw teddy bears all over my casket. In fact, maybe bury me with one. Then donate the rest of them to little kids or something. That's exactly what I want to happen. And that's an order, family.




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we suggest you visit the greenhouse (or don't) then view this fine video.


Regardless of your view on climate change, this video is a great little piece of artwork with a fine message. The sound effects are plenty entertaining as well.

-Milo and Co.

41 Shots (American Skin)

Amadou Diallo was unarmed, had no criminal record, and was reaching for his wallet when he was shot at 41 times by police officers. 

New York Times- Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant with no criminal record, was 22 years old when he was killed on Feb. 5, 1999, by four New York City police officers.

The officers — Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy — acknowledged firing 41 shots that night, but said they thought that Mr. Diallo was carrying a gun. Mr. Diallo, who came to America more than two years before from Guinea and worked as a street peddler in Manhattan, was hit by 19 bullets while standing in the doorway of his Bronx apartment building.

The case set off massive protests across the city, and became a flashpoint for heightened frictions between minority leaders and the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

All four officers, who were in plainclothes, said they approached Mr. Diallo because they thought he fit the description of a man wanted in a rape case. They contended that when he pulled out his wallet to show identification they mistook it for a gun.

The officers faced prosecution on second-degree murder and other charges but were acquitted by a jury in Albany, where the trial had been moved because of concerns over pretrial publicity.

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