A 14-year-old Saginaw boy has been charged with strong-arm robbery and assault in juvenile court after he pushed a woman and broke her cell phone while taking a walk naked with a large white poodle in Hart Township Monday, police say.

Lt. Craig Mast of the Oceana County Sheriff’s Office said a 14-year-old youth walked away from a youth behavioral treatment facility Monday morning, stripped down, and was with a “giant” white poodle when he approached a woman working in her yard just after 11:30 a.m. Monday in the area of Oceana Drive and Lake Road.

“The young naked man approached her with this poodle, and she immediately realized something peculiar,” Mast said.

When the woman asked the boy if he was all right, he told her some statements that didn’t make much sense, Mast said. The boy said his mother had kicked him out of her home in the Saginaw area.

When the woman, 53, of Hart Township, got out her cell phone to call for help for the boy, he assaulted her, pushing her in the upper chest, and took her phone. He fled the scene and broke the phone in half, the sheriff’s office stated.

The woman went to a neighbor’s house and called 911.

Deputies responded to the victim and shortly afterwards they located the boy near Oceana Drive and Lake Road in Hart Township near the American Legion Hall.

Mast said when dispatch gave information about the boy, deputies had an idea of who they were looking for because he had shown up naked along a roadway a few days earlier. He was picked up by a reserve officer and brought back to the placement facility after that incident.

He was taken into protective custody Monday and has since been moved to a more secure facility out of the area.

The boy is being charged with strong-arm robbery and assault and battery as a juvenile through the 10th Circuit Court in Saginaw.

Mast said because the boy is a juvenile he is referred back to his jurisdiction of residence, which is where the incident for his original charges occurred.

The name of the suspect and past charges were not released.

If your kids play interactive video games, like the Nintendo Wii, be on the lookout. The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning of predators using games like, “Animal Crossing- City Folk,” to target kids.

Using the game you create a character and create your own town and house. When hooked up to the internet you can talk to anyone across the country. Kids playing the game have no control over what other players might be saying. For example, the character we ran across could be the man in California police are warning about.

“There is no reason an adult should have this game,” says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.

Anderson says adults playing “animal crossing” and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.

You probably have told your kids never to talk to strangers, but when playing, the heart of the game is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as other players. To really reach the next level, the game urges you to exchange letters, gifts, and favors.

Anderson says it is going to take parents paying attention to keep this problem from exploding.

“The equipment is real expensive and we cannot afford to buy all of the systems and do not have the resources either to examine all of the possibilities,” Anderson explains.

(Ed note: It’s all part of the ongoing attempt to constantly keep parents completely terrified that their children will be buttraped at every opportunity.)

Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said.

On Friday, the Davis County Attorney’s Office filed first-degree felony charges of rape and sodomy on a child against Linda R. Nef, 46, and Valynne Bowers, 39.

Nef, a Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser, and Bowers, who teaches math, each confessed to having sex with the student, said Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett. Until recently, the two teachers did not know about each other’s relationship with the same boy, Pickett said.

The charges were filed after Nef arranged a meeting with police on Thursday and admitted having sex with the boy for more than a year, Pickett said. Their sexual relationship allegedly began in October 2007 and lasted until December 2008, he said.

During the meeting, Nef revealed Bowers’ relationship with the boy, Pickett said. Bowers allegedly began having sex with him in December, and she also has acknowledged the relationship, he said.

Nef was booked into the Davis County Jail on Friday afternoon and has her first court appearance scheduled for 1:30 p.m. March 27.

Bowers also was arrested and booked into the jail on Friday, Pickett said. She later appeared in court, where she waived her right to a preliminary hearing and was ordered to stand trial. A felony arraignment in her case is scheduled for 9 a.m. March 16.

Nef, who began her career with the Davis County School District in 2004 as a physical education teacher at Taylor Elementary School, resigned from her post at the junior high on Monday, said school district spokesman Chris Williams.

Bowers was placed on administrative leave while district officials conduct their own investigation. Bowers has taught in the district since 1996 and was an elementary school teacher for nine years before she transferred to Bountiful Junior High in 2006, Williams said.

“So far, there is nothing to indicate that there are any other students involved, or any other faculty or employees involved,” Pickett said.

In separate conversations, the boy and the two teachers began discussing personal problems, Pickett said. That led to text messages, including ones involving sexual matters, then phone sex and the alleged sexual assaults, Pickett said.

The investigation so far indicates none of the alleged sex acts occurred at the school, Pickett said. Instead, the teachers allegedly went with the student to homes, parking lots or parks in Bountiful, Woods Cross, Farmington and Kaysville.

Williams said parents picking up their children from the school Friday expressed disbelief and shock. Jenifer Wright, whose eighth-grade daughter attends the school, said the news alarmed her.

“It makes me very worried. I’m very protective about my children,” she said.

Holly Ruhr, whose seventh-grade daughter attends the school, said she is not worried by the charges because she has been “impressed in every way” by Bountiful Junior High.

“My daughter is thrilled to go to class every day,” she said. “This is just a case of one or two teachers. Not a bad school.”

Another parent struggled to believe the allegations, defending Bowers as a great teacher.

So I saw The Unborn this afternoon at the dollah theatre. Actually it was only fifty cents because I went to the first showing of the day. I didn’t buy any food or beverages there, so the poor theatre really lost month on me.

The movie was pretty typically tragic. Some weird fucked up shit about the Nazis, Jews, and Twins.

TWINS!!!

Who doesn’t love twins? (“Freakshow” features twins and is due out in late April, early May… /end plug.)

PG-13 horror gets stretched to the limit, a crappy looking exorcism takes place, and I can’t help but miss Toshio from The Grudge series, yanno?

I’d give The Unborn a D- because it didn’t completely fail. I mean, I actually did like the flashbacks with the Nazis experimenting on twins.

A trial date in the child molestation case against DragonCon founder Ed Kramer has been set at least three times since Kramer was arrested on Aug. 25, 2000, but one delay after another has forestalled it. Kramer’s chronic health issues have been the main reason for the repeated continuances, said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter. Attorneys for both sides on Wednesday tentatively to set a new trial date for May 11.

Kramer is a science-fiction author who founded DragonCon, a sci-fi, fantasy and gaming convention that brings thousands of visitors to Atlanta every year. He is accused of molesting three teenage boys.

Porter said special arrangments may have to be made to accomodate Kramer, who suffers from severe spinal cord injuries that affect his ability to breathe. Kramer’s doctor advised that he be tried for just two hours at a time, for no more than a total of four hours a day.

“We’re sort of trying to figure out a way, because you can’t really try a case at that pace,” Porter said.

Porter said some options that have been discussed are bringing in furniture that would allow Kramer to sit more comfortably. Prosecutors may also consider doing a Web-cast of the trial, if Kramer waives his right to be present in the courtroom.

Kramer has been awaiting trial under house arrest since 2001. A judge ruled in May that he no longer had to be tethered to his home by an electronic monitoring system as long as he checked in daily with the district attorney’s office concerning his whereabouts.

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Dragon Con founder Ed Kramer is suing the current director of Atlanta’s annual sci-fi/fantasy convention for allegedly shortchanging him on stock proceeds.

In the suit, filed in Fulton Superior Court, Kramer accuses Dragon Con president Robert Patrick Henry of misspending company funds on Las Vegas boondoggles and hiring unqualified family members.

Kramer also accuses Henry of hiding company financial records to trick him into selling his majority stake in Dragon Con for less than its worth. “Pat Henry initiated an aggressive, coercive, and nepotistic campaign,” the suit states, “to wrest control of the company away from its shareholders.”

Henry could not be immediately reached for comment. Kramer’s attorney, McNeill Stokes, refused to comment.

The civil case coincides with Kramer’s pending criminal trial on charges he molested three teenaged boys. The case, which began with Kramer’s arrest in August 2000, has been repeatedly delayed because of Kramer’s chronic health issues.

Kramer, 47, suffers from severe spinal cord injuries that affect his ability to breathe and make it difficult for him to stay alert. His doctor has said Kramer can only stay in court for two hours at a time.

Nevertheless Kramer is demanding a jury trial in the civil case, which, if granted, could prolong it.

Kramer founded Dragon Con in 1986. The first convention was held the following year at the Piedmont Plaza Hotel. The event attracted 1,400 people.

Since then, Dragon Con’s legions of impersonating Imperial storm troopers, Star Trek officers, orcs and double hair-bunned princesses have hit warp drive.

The 2008 event in downtown Atlanta drew more than 30,000 people, according to Dragon Con.

Kramer accuses Henry of underreporting attendance figures at past conventions to keep Atlanta’s fire marshall from materializing at the events.

According to the lawsuit, Kramer hired private investigators to stake out the 2008 convention. They counted more than 41,000 in attendance.

BOY dad Alfie Patten has said he WILL take a DNA test to prove he is the father of his teen girlfriend’s child.
Alfie, 13, was shockingly revealed as Britain’s youngest dad by The Sun last week after Chantelle Steadman gave birth to baby girl Maisie.

But it has emerged today that THREE other local youths are claiming to be the father of the child.

And Alfie has said he is happy to take a paternity test to prove he is the father and protect 15-year-old Chantelle’s reputation.

Speaking from his home in Essex yesterday Alfie said: “Other stupid boys are lying, saying bad things, like they have slept with Chantelle too.

“But I am the only boyfriend she has had and we’ve been together for two years, so I must be the dad.

“When she found out she was having a baby, I asked her ‘Am I the dad?’ and she went ‘Yeah’ so I believe her.

“I didn’t know about DNA tests before, but Mum explained it’s when they do a swab in your mouth and it tells you if you’re the dad.

“So, if I have that, they can all shut up. But I don’t really care what people say. And I don’t like them being bad about Chantelle.”

Alfie’s dad Dennis – who dumped wife Nicola, 43, for a teenage friend of her eldest daughter – is clearly pushing for the test. “A DNA test is the only way to settle this once and for all.

“When Nicola told me Alfie was going to be a dad, I said ‘How do you know it’s his?’ “I kept asking if she was sure because I thought a boy of his age wasn’t capable of conceiving.

“And Alfie looks so much younger than 13. That’s the point of all this. He looks a little kid himself and it’s so shocking.

The vehicle fitter walked out on Alfie and his mum for a 19-year-old friend of his teen-mum stepdaughter.

But Dennis defended his decisions and refused to take the blame for Alfie’s predicament saying: “I’ve been the best dad I could.

“But we all make mistakes.”

(Ed note: facepalm.jpg)

Falmouth, Mass — Six middle school students could face child porn charges after a boy took a nude photo of his 13-year-old girlfriend and “sexted” it to his pals’ cell phones, cops said.

The six boys, ages 12 to 14, will be summoned to Falmouth District Court for a hearing to determine whether they should be charged with possessing, exhibiting or distributing child porn in the form of a text message photo, according to The Cape Cod Times.

Wendy Murphy, who lectures on sex crimes at the New England School of Law, said “sexting” almost has become an “epidemic.” Murphy said, “I know it seems heavy-handed to bring child porn charges. Law enforcement is using the only tool it has for what has become a huge problem nationwide.”

Columbia University Professor Sari Locker said surveys suggest one in five teens has sent or received nude or semi-nude pictures. “When boys receive a nude picture of a girl, they think the next time they see her they can go further with her in a sexual way than before,” she said. “It becomes an invitation to advance a sexual relationship.” But Locker said she believes criminal charges are excessive: “Clearly these boys are not sexual predators or pedophiles.”

(Ed note: Good job on the whole continuing to fear sex education, America. And make sure all of these kids are labeled as Sex Offenders the rest of their lives. *rolls eyes*)

Reports suggest a new craze is sweeping high schools and universities, with girl students embarking on an unusual hunt for young boys, in order to see who can have sex with the youngest.

The competitions, said by local newspapers in Thailand’s Phitsanulok province to be spreading through the educational establishments of the region, are to secure the youngest male in a sexual encounter, and of course to provide proof of it.

Thus schoolgirls and students are said to be filming their trysts with the boys; a witness to the trend even claims that two boys who had been used so actually had the films and were sharing them amongst their own friends.

We do not hear what their victims actually think of their sporting encounters, although delight seems the most probable reaction, especially going by the rather optimistic photographs reproduced here.

Needville, Texas (South of Houston) — Five-year-old Adriel Arocha doesn’t have to stuff his hair into his shirt collar. And he doesn’t have to meet privately with a teacher, away from his classmates, for flouting the school’s policy on hair length.

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that the Needville Independent School District’s policy violated state law and the U.S. Constitution by punishing the American Indian kindergartner for religious beliefs that require him to wear his hair long.

“By the policy’s terms, A.A. must wear his hair in his shirt during recess, on field trips, and on the school bus. When he becomes older, he will have to wear his hair down the back of his shirt at football games, school dances, and, presumably, his high school graduation,” wrote U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison. “The policy will deny A.A. the opportunity to express a religious practice that is very dear to him and his father.”

Adriel’s father, Kenney Arocha, who is part Apache Indian, says that he considers his hair sacred — not to be cut except during major life events, such as the death of a loved one.

It’s been 11 years since Arocha has cut his hair. His son’s hair has never been cut, and is now about 13 inches long.

Needville’s policy does not permit long hair for boys, so Adriel’s parents applied for a religious exemption before the school year started. Administrators told him he would have to wear his hair in one long braid, tucked into the back of his shirt at all times.

When he came to school with two braids hanging outside his shirt, they made him attend classes in isolation from the other students.

The ACLU picked up the case, and in October, a judge granted a temporary injunction that allowed Adriel to go back to his regular classes.

Ellison’s Tuesday order makes that injunction permanent.

Needville’s superintendent, Curtis Rhodes, was not available for comment Wednesday evening.

ACLU spokeswoman Dotty Griffith said the family harbored no grudge against the school district, and that Adriel was thriving there.

“Children are very resilient and very forward-looking, and that’s the way this boy has been,” Griffith said. “Now that it’s resolved, life goes on.”

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider attempts to revive a 1998 law intended to protect children from Internet pornography, ending a legal conflict dating to the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Without comment, the court handed down an order declining to take the case of Mukasey v. A.C.L.U., No. 08-565. The administration of former President George W. Bush, through Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had asked the justices to review the law. The American Civil Liberties Union has been a leading foe of the statute.

The Child Online Protection Act has been the subject of court battles since Congress enacted it in 1998, and it has never taken effect. Some judges have called the controversy an agonizing conflict between the cherished right of free speech and society’s duty to watch over children, many of whom grow up as familiar with computers as earlier generations of children were with coloring books.

The high court’s refusal to take another look at the law was not surprising, given that the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, ruled last July that the law violated the First Amendment because filtering technologies and other tools offered less restrictive ways to shield children.

Signed by President Clinton in the fall of 1998, the law would have made it illegal for the operator of a commercial Web site to make sexually explicit material deemed harmful to minors available to those under 17. Violators would have faced fines of up to $50,000 per offense and six months in jail. A site that carried such material but gated it off from children through credit cards or other age-verifying measures would have had a defense under the statute.

Backers of the law contended that it was aimed primarily at “teaser” ads, or free samples offered by Web pornography sites. But opponents of the law complained that it was too broad and could have covered non-pornographic sexual material, like those dealing with gynecological issues.

The Child Online Protection Act was an attempt to fill a void created when the Supreme Court struck down a broader measure, the Communications Decency Act of 1996, the year after it had been enacted. The court ruled then that the decency act was defective because, among other things, it had not defined its key terms clearly enough.

The journey of the Child Online Protection Act through the court system began early in 1999, when Federal Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. in Philadelphia issued an injunction against the statute, concluding that the fears of the law’s critics were reasonable. But Judge Reed’s remarks were memorable for their ambivalence.

The judge wrote that he felt “personal regret” that his injunction would “delay once again the careful protection of our children.” But he went on to write that “perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if the First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection.”

Judge Reed’s injunction was upheld by a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit in June 2000. Then the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 ruling in June 2004, affirmed that the injunction against enforcement of the law should remain in effect pending a trial on the law’s constitutionality in Federal District Court.

Early in 2007, Judge Reed declared the law unconstitutional, while again voicing his regret. After the Third Circuit upheld Judge Reed last July, the Bush administration made one last attempt to revive it, which the Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday.

ROMULUS, Mich. – Police say an eight-year-old boy spent more than a week in a Michigan apartment with the body of his dead mother before anyone discovered his situation.

Police say the woman apparently died Jan. 9 in their apartment in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, and the boy survived by himself by eating dried rice, butter and flour.

Michigan’s WXYZ-TV reports that no one knew about the woman’s death until after the boy ventured outside yesterday to buy snacks.

Police Lt. John Leacher told the Detroit News the boy attracted attention because he tried to use his mother’s expired credit card. He said the boy didn’t seek help because he was scared.

Police say no foul play was suspected in the woman’s death.

TACOMA, Wash. — Debris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring another spectator, witnesses and city officials said Saturday.

A red truck came apart while doing doughnuts during the freestyle competition of Friday night’s Monster Jam show, the witnesses said. Debris from the truck flew 30 to 50 feet over a safety barrier into the stands.

“Parts were falling off and a piece flew up and hit a little boy,” Christine Moe told King Television of Seattle.

Police Officer Mark Fulghum said officers serving as security at the Tacoma Dome investigated the accident.

“At this point, there’s nothing to indicate that there’s anything criminal,” Fulghum told The Associated Press on Saturday night. “Right now it looks like a tragic accident.”

The Pierce County medical examiner’s office identified the boy killed as Sebastian Hizey of Puyallup.

The boy’s father, Jessie Hizey, issued a statement to KIRO-TV on Saturday that said his son was hit in the head by a Frisbee-sized piece of metal, weighing between 7 and 12 pounds.

“I cannot get the images” out of my head, the father said.

The man who was injured was taken to a hospital Friday night, but Robert McNair-Huff, community relations manager for the city, said the man’s identity was not available Saturday.

Some spectators told the TV station they had to throw cups off the stands to get the attention of medics. The show continued after the two were hurt, and many spectators left.

“They just kept going,” Moe said. “We grabbed our kids and just bee-lined out of there.”

Laurie Deranleau, 32, a nurse from Westport, told The News Tribune, “Everybody sitting around thought they should have dropped the show and gave the family some respect. Nobody was paying attention to the show.”

The Tacoma Dome was continuing with four Monster Jam shows on Saturday and Sunday.

McNair-Huff said the promoter, Feld Motor sports, promised more inspections of trucks in the show and that the truck involved in the accident would be withdrawn.

“All of us at Feld Motor Sports are saddened by the accident that occurred last night at the Monster Jam Show in Tacoma when two of our customers were seriously injured,” the Aurora, Ill., company said in a statement Saturday to the AP. “Feld Motor Sports is looking into this tragic accident as the safety of all our customers is our top priority and this type of incident has never happened before in the history of Monster Jam events.”

This is an update to this story.

A six-year-old who recently stole his parents’ car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto.

Rockstar Games’ controversial Grand Theft Auto video game series has been accused of many things in the past. Its violent gameplay, including car heists, bank heists, beatings, shootings, and absentee law enforcement, has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He’s since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft.

Perhaps that should be clarified. The six-year-old Virginia tyke didn’t actually blame Grand Theft Auto for the car heist, but did tell authorities afterwards that the game taught him how to drive. Early Monday morning, the little guy hopped into his parents’ Ford Taurus instead of taking the big yellow bus, and managed to drive it a surprising six miles before slipping over an embankment into a utility pole not far from school. According to reports, he passed several cars, made a pair of ninety-degree turns, and generally drove just as people do in the game.

Thankfully, the boy emerged from the incident with just a few scratches and actually resumed his journey to school on foot after the accident took place.

(Ed note: Yeah, um, as liberal as I am, I don’t think 6 year old’s should be playing Grand Theft Auto.)

WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. — A 6-year-old Virginia boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his family’s sedan — and crashed. His parents were charged with child endangerment. State police said the boy suffered only minor injuries and authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a local hospital for a bump on his head. He arrived shortly after lunch, Sgt. Tom Cunningham said.

It happened around 7:40 a.m. Monday on Route 360, about 61 miles east of Richmond.

The boy, whose name wasn’t released, missed the bus, took the keys to his family’s 2005 Ford Taurus and drove nearly six miles toward school while his mother was asleep, police said.

He made at least two 90-degree turns, passed several cars and ran off the rural two-lane road several times before hitting an embankment and utility pole about a mile and a half from school.

The boy told police he learned to drive playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam video games.

“He was very intent on getting to school,” said Northumberland County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins. “When he got out of the car, he started walking to school. He did not want to miss breakfast and PE.”

His parents, Jacqulyn Deana Waltman, 26, and David Eugene Dodson, 40, are each charged with child endangerment, Wilkins said. Waltman is being held without bond. Dodson was released on a $5,000 bond.

It was not clear if they had attorneys.

The boy and his 4-year-old brother were placed in protective custody.

“This really is a story of miracles,” Wilkins said. “The Lord was with him, along with everybody else on the highway.”

Here’s the results of the pairing poll and the top six will move on to a future poll to see who comes out on top. But for now…

Yuki X Shuichi 19%
Sasuke x Naruto 17%
Riku x Sora 15%
Sephiroth x Cloud 11%
Heero x Duo 8%
Kyle x Stan 8%
Matt x Mello 7%
Chico x Pico 7%
Phenoix x Edgeworth 7%
Basch x Larsa 3%

A new poll will be posted shortly.

A Supreme Court judge in Australia has ruled that an internet cartoon in which look-a-like child characters from The Simpsons engage in sexual acts is child pornography.

In a landmark finding, Justice Michael Adams upheld a decision convicting a man of possessing child pornography after the cartoons, depicting characters modelled on Bart, Lisa and Maggie engaging in sex acts, were found on his computer.

The main issue of the case was whether a fictional cartoon character could “depict” a “person” under law.

“If the persons were real, such depictions could never be permitted,”Justice Adams said in his judgement.

“Their creation would constitute crimes at the very highest end of the criminal calendar.”

Alan John McEwan had been convicted in the Parramatta Local Court of possessing child pornography and of using a carriage service to access child pornography material, the latter of which has a maximum penalty of 10 years’ jail.

The male figures in the cartoons had what appeared to be human genitalia, as did the mother and the girl depicted in the cartoons.

The magistrate had said that had the images involved real children, McEwan would have been jailed.

However, he was fined A$3000 and required to enter into a two-year good behaviour bond in respect to each of the charges.

McEwan appealed the decision arguing that fictional cartoon characters could not be considered people as they “plainly and deliberately” departed from the human form.

But Justice Adams agreed with the magistrate, finding that while The Simpsons characters had hands with four fingers and their faces were “markedly and deliberately different to those of any possible human being”, the mere fact that they were not realistic representations of human beings did not mean that they could not be considered people.

Justice Adams said the purpose of the legislation was to stop sexual exploitation and child abuse where images are depicted of “real” children.

However it was also to deter the production of other material, including cartoons, that could “fuel demand for material that does involve the abuse of children”.

He dismissed the appeal and ordered each party to pay its own costs as it was “the first case dealing with (this) difficult issue.”

(Ed note: -snicker- That’s so fucking retarded, I don’t even know where to begin. Then again Australia has been on a huge downward spiral for several years now.)

(Ed note: I’d hit it.)

While you can still try and solve the puzzles to get to the Pico x Chico x Coco secret site over on Shotalicious.org, you don’t have to in order to get the latest OAV from Natural High. That’s right, now that the storm has settled somewhat, you can download the third video directly on that site’s videos page.

You may find another surprise on the video page too if you’re paying attention.

If you DO have access to the secret site, make sure you do all your downloading before December 11th. That day I’m taking it and all of the Pico videos down and we’ll be (perhaps gratefully for some people) moving on to something else.

Enjoy and if you think about it and have the ability, I am very grateful for any and all donations you’d like to make to help with the hosting costs of the site. I’m pretty sure the bandwidth can hold now that many people have already downloaded the new video, but a few bucks to show your thanks is always appreciated.

THE Muslim wedding of a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl has been raided by police.

Cops arrested the Muslim cleric conducting the sick ceremony and the children’s parents in Pakistan’s largest city.

The cleric had not yet begun the ceremony of Mohammad Waseem, seven, and his bride Nishain Karachi, five – which was attended by 100 guests.

Pakistan law forbids marriage below the age of 18 – but some Muslim scholars say it is permissible if the bride and groom have reached puberty.

TV footage showed both children in traditional wedding clothes in the laps of policemen after the raid – the girl with tears running down her cheeks.

The parents said the wedding had been arranged to end an eight-year feud between the two families, according to a report on Express News TV.

Mr Mazhar said he had heard about similar cases in rural areas but “it is shocking to have this right in the centre of the city.”

The parents are due to appear in court tomorrow.

A Pakistan Human Rights Commission official Hina Gillani said the maximum possible punishment for the parents was one month in jail and fine of just over $10

Alright. We finally drew lines in the sand. Pico, the original trap. Chico, the boyish one. Coco, the new mystery. Which one did pixiesticks fans pick as their favorite?

No real surprise here, perhaps, Chico won the poll pretty soundly. Perhaps it’s the fact that he only cross-dresses part of the time. Maybe it’s because he was just absolutely adorable in both of the videos he’s been in. Whatever the case, winning the poll with 42%, Chico is our winner!

In second place, the title character, Pico. We’ve seen this boy come a long way from holding ice cream in the passenger side of an older man’s car. Pico’s cut his hair, molested his new found friend, and now is pretty much in charge of his own shota universe. Pico won over the votes of 29% of you.

Having to fight the fact he was the newest and most female in apperance, Coco still made a very strong third place showing. So mysterious and oh so sexy, Coco is introduced in third video as one who is with you always. He first enchants and sexes up Pico, then Chico, and then, after a brief disappearance nabs them both. Awesome. Coco obtained 17% of the vote.

So what about the 12% of the people who said Whatever. Well, obviously they are on the wrong fucking website.

A Smyrna mother traveled nearly 1,000 miles to abandon her 12-year-old son at a Nebraska hospital Saturday night, authorities said.

Tysheema Brown, 33, left her child at BryanLGH Medical Center East at 9:50 p.m., said Chief Tom Casady of the Lincoln, Neb., Police Department.

Brown was allowed to leave her offspring at a hospital without threat of prosecution. Nebraska’s “safe haven” law, unlike those in other states, has no upper age limit.

Efforts by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to reach Brown by telephone Sunday night were unsuccessful.

Todd Landry, director of the Division of Children and Family Services for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement that the boy has been placed in a residential shelter.

State officials are gathering information from Georgia and Nebraska, Landry said.

Nebraska’s safe haven law was intended to protect children who are in immediate danger of being harmed. It took effect in July.

Under the law, 20 children ranging in age from 1 to 17 years have been abandoned in the state since Sept. 13, Landry said. Sixteen youths were older than 10.

About half of all safe haven cases involved children who are former state wards, officials said.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said last week that the state legislature intends to amend the safe haven law so that it only applies to infants up to three days old. Unless a special session is called, though, the next legislative session does not begin until January.

“This law has had serious, unintended consequences,” Heineman said in a statement. “It needs to be changed to focus on its original intent — protecting infants. I also want to make Nebraskans aware of our efforts to ensure that families and children in need know about the services available to them.”

Casady said authorities were not surprised when people started abandoning older children.

“There’s a lot of desperate and frustrated parents who are at their wits’ end, dealing with behavioral and emotional issues,” Casady said. “Some kinds of services are hard to get and afford, so if you provide an easy button, you shouldn’t be surprised it would be hit.”

Brown traveled the farthest of any parent to date to leave a child in Nebraska. Two other children came from out of state, from Iowa and Michigan.

Casady said the county attorney’s office will file a petition in juvenile court and a judge will decide whether to keep Brown’s child under state protection or reunite the boy with his family.

Every state has a safe-haven law meant to save the lives of unwanted infants.

Most states let parents and guardians drop off children up to a month old at hospitals or other safe places. Sixteen states including Georgia have the 3-day-old age cap.

A national expert on safe-haven laws commended Nebraska officials for moving to impose an age limit, but he said action should be taken now to prevent older children from abandonment.

“When children are older they have the ability to understand what’s going on and they’re thinking, ‘Mommy and Daddy don’t want me anymore, so they’re throwing me in a hospital.’ That’s a psychological blow,” said Tim Jaccard, president of the National Safe Haven Alliance.

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Authorities will look a little closer at tall trick-or-treaters in Belleville this Halloween.

The city has limited trick-or-treating to kids in eighth grade or below in this city near St. Louis.

Mayor Mark W. Eckert signed the ordinance banning the tradition for older teens on Tuesday, saying homeowners complained about late-night door knocks on Halloween. He says the city’s government also believes Halloween is for small children.

Exceptions will be made for special-needs kids and teens accompanying younger siblings.

Belleville Police Chief William Clay says he expects parents to enforce the new rules. He says officers will stop older trick-or-treaters and make them go home. If they don’t, their parents can be fined $25.

(Ed note: Do we really need government to pass a law about this?)

Over on shotalicious.org’s video page tonight, I’ve posted my first AMV (and dare I say maybe the world’s first?) for Pico x Chico x Coco. It doesn’t require you to solve any puzzles or anything, so check it out!

Rasler and Ashe from Final Fantasy 12

Fran from Final Fantasy 12

Delicious winged bishounen (anime reference needed, tell me in comments!)

Ruroni Kenshin

OMFG delicious Envy from FMA.

Can’t label. Too busy fapping. Good God he’s fucking hot.

Vayne from Final Fantasy 12

Shota who later won Best In Show – Children’s Division

I Believe In Harvey Dent

Bunny Girl Maid

A Sim

It’s a trap!

DJ Seme/Uke and DJ Kaze

Jovokas being fucking hot.

An Alien and its Master

Rouge from Cruxshadows

Captain Spaulding from House of 1,000 Corpses / Devil’s Rejects.

I don’t really have anything particularly moving or interesting to say about turning thirty today. The party last night at Heretic was scarcely populated, though Kaze and Tat were there and that was great! Bartender Paul did give me birthday spankings. He even used his belt. It was hot I’m sure for those few to witness.

I had a few drinks. I danced a few dances. It was all in all a great night.

Today, as usual, I ate with my mother. My grammie was there too. We also went and spent it seemed like hours at Wal-Mart. I saw my cuz for a short while. He’s still darling.

Thanks to those who gave me birthday wishes. Thanks for the shotalicious pic I have posted over on the other site. Thanks for the cash. Thanks for the DVD. And thanks for making me an eternally young and happy webmaster.

So all in all, very cool birthday indeed.

With the impending arrival of Pico x Chico x Coco in the next week or so, I believe it’s safe to say that shota has begun to come into its own. While it will always raise eyebrows higher than even yaoi, I have hope that this new release (hehehe, I said release) becomes known as the Holy Grail of delicious shota on shota on shota action.

Happy October!

Here are three still shots taken from two new trailers that can now be downloaded if you have access to the Pico x Chico x Coco Secret Stash. And if you are still having trouble figuring out the puzzles (each of the symbols surrounding the banners on pixiesticks and shotalicious), you should consider joining the Shotalicious.org facebook group where I’ve posted three hint guides.

I’m still crossing my fingers that I get a hold of Pico x Chico x Coco as soon as it’s released on Oct 9th.

BEAVERTON, Ore. – A new invention could revolutionize solar energy – and it was made by a 12-year-old in Beaverton.

Despite his age, William Yuan has already studied nuclear fusion and nanotechnology, and he is on his way to solving the energy crisis.

It all started with Legos – after he learned nanotechnology to make robots take off. The seventh grader then got an idea inspired by the sun.

“Solar it seems underused, and there are only a few problems with it,” Yuan said.

Encouraged by his Meadow Park Middle School science teacher, the 12-year-old developed a 3D solar cell.

“Regular solar cells are only 2D and only allow light interaction once,” he said.

And his cell can absorb both visible and UV light.

“I started to realize I was actually onto something,” Yuan said.

At first, he couldn’t believe his calculations.

“This solar cell can’t be generating this much electricity, it can’t be absorbing this much extra light,” he recalled thinking.

If he is right, solar panels with his 3D cells would yield nine times more sunlight and absorb 10 percent more energy from the sun – even when it’s cloudy.

“Which would make solar energy actually a viable energy source for the Pacific Northwest,” Yuan said.

While college students have come up with unusual solar cars and the state of Oregon recently unveiled solar panels to power highway lights, Yuan is thinking global.

“It’ll have a really positive impact on society and the environment,” he said.

His next step is to get a manufacturer and market it.

Yuan is flying out to Washington D.C. on Monday to accept a $25,000 scholarship for his research. He earned the Davidson Fellow award, which normally goes to a graduate student.

You better get to cracking on one of the three puzzles that surround either the pixiesticks or shotalicious banner. Otherwise, you’ll be searching the world wide web for your own connection to the third Pico AMV.

Today I’ve posted 12 preview pics taken from the oversized feature that will introduce a third yummy character to the series. While Coco’s looks seem more feminine than even Pico, don’t fret… I have it on good authority he’s packing.

October 9th is the scheduled release date and my shota ninjas are all over the web scouring it for any new material we can get up to and including the flick itself. So get to solving a puzzle if you haven’t already. And if you have, remember to keep the site to yourself. If the site comes crashing down with stolen bandwidth, no one will be having any fun.

I have probably a dozen more but the roll of film (yeah, actual film) they are on is not yet used up. I’ll find something to take the rest of the shots with, but this should satiate you for now.

Candy and Geoff

Dark Elf perhaps?

Cyril works with Cruxshadows

Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance

Frank Conniff, TV’s Frank from MST3K

Trace Beaulieu, Dr. Clayton Forrester from MST3K

Joel Hodgson, Joel Robinson from MST3K

Drew

The hottest boy I found.

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

Beam me up.

Larsa from Final Fantasy 12 perhaps?

Wood Elf

Shota trap assassin.
(Formerly a loli who works for the Umbrella Corp.)

Sailor trap.

Handsome Cleric perhaps?

Edward Scissorhands Cosplay.

Parts 3 and 4 of Pico 2 Chico were added to the secret hype site. Check out either the valentine, the puzzle box, or the clock surrounding the banner if you need to find out how to reach the secret site. Solving just one of those puzzles will land you there.

With DragonCon behind me, Anime Weekend Atlanta is in TWO WEEKS!! Oh the humanity!! If you’ve never been to a convention, I highly recommend starting with a smaller one. Not that AWA, which is celebrating their 14th year, isn’t well attended. In fact, it’s one of the largest anime conventions in the Southeast.

As part of my weekly Top 5 series. Here are 5 reasons why YOU, YES YOU should go to Anime Weekend Atlanta.

5: Cost. AWA is pretty cheep. 35 bucks will get you a two day pass. Use it for Friday and Saturday and you’re set! (If you need the full experience, tickets are 45 dollars for the three day event.)

4: Age. Intimidated by the broad age-range of bigger conventions like DragonCon? Too young to get into Yaoi-Con? Anime Weekend Atlanta is perfect for you.

3: Anime. The genre is filled with fun for everyone. If you are completely fucking sick and tired of Naruto and at this point who really isn’t? There are so many series just waiting to be discovered in both the screening and dealers rooms.

2: Yaoi. While Yaoi After Dark may not be the place to go for discussions on shota, Lainey will still keep you quite entertained with her yaoi themed games and giveaways. It’s become one of the largest events at the convention.

1: Friends. Let’s face it, you like anime, you’re considered strange and weird to the outside world. And who needs them anyway? Come to AWA and meet people you already know but have never seen IN REAL LIFE. Ooooh. Oh, and you can come meet me, your faithful webmaster of pixiesticks and shotalicious!

So there you have it: Anime Weekend Atlanta, September 19th through the 21st. Come!

Oh and if you want more…

This is your last puzzle to try and figure out how to break into the shotalicious secret stash area. If you couldn’t figure out Pico’s cryptogram… If you couldn’t figure out Chico’s clock brain teaser… Maybe you’ll fare better with Coco’s rebus puzzle.

As always don’t give out any answers or hints in the tag-board or over on shotalicious.org’s message board. Keep it fun for everyone.

A western Pennsylvania woman with a fondness for author Edgar Allan Poe said in court papers that she found solace from memories of a tormented childhood by writing her own dark tales of children being kidnapped, raped and tortured.

Karen Fletcher, 56, of Donora pleaded guilty Thursday to six counts of transmission of obscene matters for sharing those stories with others over the Internet.

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti sentenced Fletcher to five years’ probation with six months’ house arrest, and fined her $1,000.

“If anyone would have read the story and acted on it, a child could have experienced devastation — that you’re well aware — they would live with for the rest of their life,” Conti said.

Fletcher, who suffers severe panic attacks from agoraphobia, apologized for the ordeal caused by her Web site and its content.

“I never meant for anything like this to happen, I’m sorry,” said Fletcher, who charged $10 a month to control who had access to the site and to keep children from reading the stories. “This was never my intention.”

Fletcher’s case was unusual in that it was the first brought in decades — and the first ever in Western Pennsylvania — in which the charges stemmed from text only, with no images or photographs. She was indicted in September 2006 and fought the charges on free speech grounds until prosecutors agreed not to seek jail time.

She faced up to five years in prison.

“It’s hard to swallow an obscenity case based on words,” said First Amendment lawyer Warner Mariani, who represented Fletcher. “But this wasn’t the case to push. How many defendants do you see walk out of federal court on probation?”

Though he asked for leniency, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman said this case was important.

“The government views this as a serious case,” Kaufman said. “Words have power.”

Fletcher’s stories included details of the kidnapping and molestation of 2-year-old “Mina” and “Katie,” 6, who was kidnapped, raped and tortured. Other stories featured young girls as sex slaves whose torment sometimes ended in murder.

In a sworn statement filed last year, Fletcher said she has blocked out all but a few memories of her childhood growing up in Michigan, but that she strongly believes she was sexually and physically abused. She said she ran away from home at age 14 and spent a year on the streets of Pontiac and Detroit before marrying a man who abused her.

Fletcher moved to Donora in 1999, after escaping that relationship, she said.

A recluse who lives on disability, Fletcher said she discovered that writing fictitious stories helped her cope with the sense of dread she felt. Later she found sharing these stories online brought support from people who were “damaged like me.”

Fletcher said she has always feared monsters, and created even worse ones in her stories as a form of self-therapy.

“I have tried to turn things around and write positive things, but I have no confidence in the concept of good overcoming evil,” Fletcher wrote. “I can unmask the horror of the monster, but I still cannot save the victims. But, leaving only the fictional victims as the helpless ones frees me.

“I may still be afraid of the monsters, but at least in the stories they prey on someone else, not me.”