Chemist Annie Dookhan was ‘‘Superwoman,’’ a colleague at a Massachusetts state crime lab used to joke. She seemed unstoppable in her quest to please prosecutors, police and her bosses, testing two to three times more drug samples than anyone else, working through lunch and not bothering to put in for overtime.
‘‘The kind of person, if you owned your own business, you would want to hire her,’’ a supervisor would later tell police.
Beginning about four years ago, suspicions arose about the way she seemed to plow through so many cases so fast. After that, a supervisor complained he never actually saw her in front of a microscope. But her superiors let her work on.
Now, the startling explanation has come spilling out: Dookhan told investigators she faked test results on drug samples and cut other corners.
She faked data, and she fabricated her Resume. Now cases are being thrown out. Now the law of averages says that many of the people being let free are possibly innocent of the crimes they were convicted of…but many probably aren’t.
The big take-away is that the state really doesn’t give a shit, and let this wound fester. Just the fact that they let somebody put a falsified degree on a resume is enough to show extreme laziness on behalf of the state. I’ve had to fax in my college transcript to jobs to verify my resume was legit, and I’m sure most accredited schools have systems where enrollment and graduation can be quickly verified by employers.
And this is the STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, not some little 10 employee start-up business. You don’t think the state has a monster HR division that spends most of their time justifying their own employment?
And that’s not even getting into the fact that she was cooking the books under the nose of her supervisors, and not in a “ooops I messed up that Assay, well I’ll just adjust the numbers”, but in a way where people were both amazed at her workload AND surprised that they didn’t see her working very hard!
Carry your damn guns people, the state just left the barn doors open overnight!
Tax stuff enough, people will smuggle it
A joint US-Canadian investigation found C$200,000 (£125,600) of cheese and other products were illicitly brought over the border into southern Ontario.
The smugglers sold large quantities of cheese, which is cheaper in the US, to restaurants, it is alleged.
The other two men charged were civilians, one a former police officer.
This is one of the reasons why I’m cautious of the battle-cry of legalizing Marijuana that is “Legalize it and tax it!”, often the legalizing of the drug is promised massive tax revenue. Still you tax that weed too high people will just continue to buy it illegally. Its not like this was ILLEGAL cheese! It was just cheaper cheese!
Honestly not as strange as it sounds:
A local brewery went rogue to find yeast for a new batch of beer.
Rogue Brewery used a sample from the beard that Brewmaster John Maier has been growing since 1978.
As a joke, the brewery sent in the sample for testing. Then after hitting a wall while looking for a new yeast strain, they found out that the strain they had sent in was perfect for making beer.
Yeast is one of those ubiquitous organisms, and I imagine those who work with various strains of “domesticated” yeast in a non-laboratory environment, like bakers or brew masters might have their own body cultures be closer to those strains. I mean many of these yeast-using culinary traditions were started by simply exposing foodstuffs to the air, so why wouldn’t some be living in a beard?
Interesting gimmick too!
h/t Pissed
I wonder if there is more to this.
A man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor’s house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said….A woman who was alone in the house believed someone was breaking in and called the teen’s father, who lives next door, and he grabbed a gun and went outside to investigate, police said.
The father confronted someone wearing a black ski mask and black clothing and then fired his gun when the person went at him with a shiny weapon in his hand, police said….No charges have been filed. State police are investigating. An autopsy on the boy is planned.
Sounds like a legitimate defensive gun use, but man that is a STRANGE set of circumstances. Kid was attempting to break into his neighbor’s house while wearing a ski mask, and when his Dad, armed with a gun, confronts him, the kid charges and was shot.
I can’t say I’m too broken up by the loss of the kid, that’s one of those REALLY stupid things everybody should know NOT to do, and then to do anything but A) Run away, or B) take off the mask and take the punishment Dad feel’s fit, are the most logical things to do when caught.
Maybe he didn’t think his Dad had the stones to shoot? Well if that’s what he thought he was wrong…
Police say a man wielding a knife has injured four people in the third such rampage in South Korea in less than a week.
Note the commonality of this kind of attack in this nation. We’ve also documented a ton of these attacks in China, as well as a few in the Philippines.
Its not the tool, its the people. Even if guns were ever successfully removed from society, the people so inclined for mass violence will still find a way. Also the idea that guns CAN be removed is proven many times as an impossibility.
Of course those looking to hide this fact quickly turn to the made-up metric of “Gun Death” to conceal this, as attacks such as this are not “Gun Violence”. Does that make you feel safer?
When talking about the fading of global environmentalism, I missed Silent Spring.
Reason rips it apart!
I’m not a big Black Flag fan, but I love Rollins’ Spoken Word performances.
When seconds count, the police are minutes away!
I’ve always wanted to sell a quart of blood and buy a half-pint of Scotch….do they even sell half-pint bottles anymore?
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