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12 Detroit Houses Demolished Accidentally, Including Couple’s [2013]

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“The couple had purchased a dilapidated two-story townhouse in Detroit (pictured at left) for $500 at a tax auction in October 2012. But weeks later, when they drove to the home on the city’s east side to get measurements for boards that they were planning to have installed, the couple was shocked to discover that their house was nothing but ‘a pile,’ Diven told The Detroit News. And their house wasn’t the only one: 11 other properties, which had been purchased by a local investor, were also demolished.  It was a mistake made by the state’s Land Bank Fast Track Authority — who had demolished all 12 properties as part of a program to eliminate blight near three local schools.”

http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2013/01/11/detroit-houses-demolished-accidentally/

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Call of Duty loser calls in SWAT team hoax on kid who beat him

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“They arrived with guns drawn and ready for war — only to find out the call to cops was an act of revenge by a gamer whom the teen had just beaten in an online Call of Duty battle.  The disgruntled gamer had just been eliminated by Castillo and gave police the teen’s home address in a dangerous game called ‘Swatting,’ and the authorities went into full emergency mode.  In the two-hour standoff, authorities scrambled choppers over the house and rushed in more than 60 officers with weapons drawn — including Nassau County’s special operations unit.  Cops tried for 20 minutes to call Rafael and get him to come out, but he had headphones on and was still glued to his video game console.”

http://nypost.com/2014/04/22/call-of-duty-loser-calls-in-swat-team-hoax-on-kid-who-beat-him/

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No felony charges for Seattle firefighters who beat homeless man

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“The two firefighters were off-duty and accompanied by a woman when they became involved in a tussle at the Seattle Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Occidental Park.  According to Seattle police, the woman began yelling at the homeless man, who was sleeping on the memorial, and then kicked him. One of the firefighters hit the homeless man with a stick and the other firefighter joined in, police said. Police said it appeared that the firefighters and the woman were intoxicated.  Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, said lack of cooperation from the alleged victim also played into the decision not to file felony charges against the firefighters.”

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/04/no-felony-charges-for-seattle-firefighters-accused-of-assaulting-homeless-man/

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Fandango, Credit Karma exposed millions of smartphone users’ data

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“Developers of two popular smartphone apps—Fandango and Credit Karma—have been caught transmitting passwords, social security numbers, birth dates, and other highly sensitive user data over the Internet without properly encrypting it first, officials with the Federal Trade Commission said.  As a result, it was trivial for hackers to intercept the data when people used the apps on both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating systems, complaints filed by the FTC alleged. The complaints leveled charges of other shortcomings in the developers’ security, including the failure to properly test and audit the safety of apps before making them available for download.”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/how-fandango-and-credit-karma-exposed-millions-of-smartphone-users-data/

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Dallas Buyer’s Club Illustrates How Regulations Kill

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“Back in the mid-1980s, AIDS patients lived less than two years after being diagnosed. Using drugs available overseas, some of which are still not marketed in the US, Woodroof beats the odds.  While Woodroof was fighting the FDA, I was working at a major pharmaceutical firm. By the time that the FDA gave us permission to test our drugs in people, every AIDS patient in the country who wanted them had already tried them. The Buyers Clubs either obtained them overseas or hired black market chemists to make them. Much valuable information about how these drugs worked—or didn’t work—could have been obtained from these Clubs if their operations hadn’t been in legal limbo.”

http://isil.org/dallas-buyers-club-illustrates-how-regulations-kill/

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Feds to Hold Cell Carriers Responsible When Tower Climbers Fall

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“Tower climbing, a small field of roughly 10,000 workers, has been called the most dangerous job in America.  Cell phone carriers and tower owners have insulated themselves from legal and regulatory liability for on-the-job injuries by delegating this work to layers of subcontractors. Now, for the first time, OSHA is systematically tracking which companies subcontractors were working for when accidents occurred, collecting paperwork that spells out such relationships. In a letter sent in February to industry employers and state wireless associations, the agency criticized ‘check the box’ language written into contracts that doesn’t set out clear standards for safety.”

http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-to-look-harder-at-cell-carriers-when-tower-climbers-die

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Police Officer Arrests Firefighter At Accident Scene In California

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“An argument broke out between a California Highway Patrol officer and a firefighter from Chula Vista, as they clashed over where the Chula Vista crew’s fire engine should be stationed. Firefighters had placed their vehicle along the center road divider, close to where a car had flipped over, and behind an ambulance. Emergency personnel tended to the car’s two occupants as the conflict went on around them.  CBS 8’s cameras captured the incident, which ended with the firefighter being handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser.  The firefighter, Jacob Gregoire, 36, was held in the police car for about 30 minutes before being released, CBS 8 says.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272144424/police-officer-arrests-firefighter-at-accident-scene-in-california

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Beaten, Thrown in Solitary After Calling 911 To Help Crashed Bicyclist

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“I live in a new gilded age in a golden city. But sometimes the cracks show, even here. The façade crumbles and you find yourself naked, in solitary confinement, in a wretched, feces-stained prison.  How? As a result of my efforts to help injured bicyclists by calling 911, I was, in short order: separated from my friend, violently tackled, arrested, taken to county jail, stripped and left in a solitary cell. I am writing this story because, if it could happen to me, it could happen to you, and I feel the need to do something to help prevent this brutality from propagating.”

https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10

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‘Japanese Regulators Take Closer Look at Bitcoin’ (Wednesday)

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“Japan’s chief government spokesman and a member of the central bank’s policy board said authorities were looking into the regulation of bitcoin, a day after Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox shut its website and halted trading.  Compared with regulators in many other advanced economies, Japanese regulators have been relatively silent on bitcoin. But Wednesday morning, Japan’s top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said the government was looking into the matter, collecting information through the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance and the police.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304071004579406331583977114

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MtGox Subpoenaed By U.S. Prosecutor

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“MtGox has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York, the Wall Street Journal’s Christopher M. Matthews reports.  An unnamed source tells him simply that federal prosecutors sent the subpoena this month.  A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York decline to comment to BI.  MtGox shut trading operations last night over what it says were ‘recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox’s operations and the market.’  Soon after the WSJ broke the story, Reuters reported that Japanese authorities were also looking into the Tokyo-based exchange.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-mtgox-subpoenaed-by-us-prosecutor-2014-2

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