Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts
At Least 10 Fake Passports On Last Week's Deadly Mangalore Plane Crash
Fake passports have been found among some of the 158 dead victims of the May 22 plane crash in Mangalore, India as this terrorism, or simply the tragic exploitation of poor migrant workers? The black box was found on Tuesday (India time), but the cause is yet to be determined.
May 26, 2010, 02.50am IST - The Times of India - It now transpires that at least 10 passengers on-board the ill-fated flight may have been travelling on forged documents, which has complicated their identification and insurance claim.
The Times goes on to report that the tragedy "has brought into focus a thriving fake passport racket, known locally as 'Kasargod Embassy' in Kerala's northern district," and "Sources said discrepancies were noticed in the passport details of nine deceased and one survivor, indicating that there might have been something amiss. Some Malayalee travellers had Tamil Nadu addresses on their passports.... Kasargod Embassy, a term used for skilled forgers who manipulate passports by replacing the photo, first came to light in 1980s and has been thriving due to migrant workers' poverty and ignorance."
It's not the first time that the Kasargod Embassy has caught the attention of India's authorities. Keral Report blog reported that on July 6, 2008 "the Air Customs Intelligence, in a major operation, seized a number of forged documents from a Kasargod native. In the raid conducted the officials had seized 31 copies of Indian Passport, 15 copies of International driving License, 12 blank VISA and 10 blank Passport pages from Nizar Panalam, the Kasargod native. He was trying to transport it to Sharjah."
The investigation lost steam, however, "under the Malappuram Crime Detachment wing. The Air Intelligence wing that clearly indicated the hands of ‘Kasargod Embassy’ was verbally paid no heed hither to."
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Ukrainian man with forged passport removed from UK BBC News
FULL VIDEO, Crazy Driver Slamming Into Cop Cars at Crime Scene (Updated 2x)
The big Chicago media showed a few seconds of this on TV last night, but WE HAVE THE ENTIRE SCENE AS CAUGHT ON VIDEO (SEE IT BELOW). Chicago News Bench secured a copy of the entire incident from an amateur videographer last night, but the mainstream media cannot show it in its entirety. We, however, can. Chicago News Bench obtained the amateur video from a witness while we were photographing the scene.
UPDATE, APRIL 3: We found ANOTHER VIDEO of the scene. It's shorter, but offers another angle of the stolen car as it crashes into parked and police vehicles. See it below, under our video. *** Also see WGN's report, but note this: Their video only shows a few seconds of the scene. WGN also faked something: They took audio from one amateur video (our first one below) and inserted it over that of another amateur's video (the second one below). Shame on WGN for their misrepresentation, and for not showing the full video of the crash scene as we do. See "WGN's Unethical Video of Stolen Car Crash" ***
APRIL 1, 2010 - (Updated) - CHICAGO - Background: Around 7:30 on March 31, a fight between two residents of the Carlton Apartments at 4626 N. Magnolia, Chicago resulted in a bloody stabbing in front of the building. The Carlton is in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, near Truman College. Chicago police officers responded and set up their investigation.
Just past 8:00 p.m., a man driving a stolen car accidentally drove into the crime scene, only to find the car suddenly surrounded by a lot of police officers. The police were chasing the stolen car "for at least half an hour" before it turned off of N. Broadway, onto W. Leland, and then onto Magnolia.
In the videos below, police officers yell at the female passenger to get out of the car. She refuses, and the male driver puts the car in reverse and rams into police vehicles and cars parked nearby. Chicago News Bench was told this morning that there were "two kids" in the back seat of the car. Police were told by a sergeant on the scene to hold their fire. The sergeant told the officers, "baby on board."
Officers surround the car again, again yelling at the woman; and the man then drives over the curb, onto the sidewalk and gets away. Chicago News Bench also learned this morning that the car was initially abandoned "somewhere on Montrose," a few blocks south of the crime scene. There, a flatbed truck from Lincoln Towing hauled the car away, but the police still did not know where the car was. Minutes later, the truck was pulled over by police who recognized the car on the flatbed and ordered the driver to deposit the car at the intersection of N. Clark and W. Wilson. The police then spent "at least an hour" combing through the car for evidence.
Read more about this story here, here and here.
VIDEOS BELOW
Below: Another video, this one by Pikadroo. "Stolen Car Slams into Cop and Parked Cars in
Chicago Uptown/Sheridan Park Stabbing Crime Scene."
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UPDATE, APRIL 3: We found ANOTHER VIDEO of the scene. It's shorter, but offers another angle of the stolen car as it crashes into parked and police vehicles. See it below, under our video. *** Also see WGN's report, but note this: Their video only shows a few seconds of the scene. WGN also faked something: They took audio from one amateur video (our first one below) and inserted it over that of another amateur's video (the second one below). Shame on WGN for their misrepresentation, and for not showing the full video of the crash scene as we do. See "WGN's Unethical Video of Stolen Car Crash" ***
APRIL 1, 2010 - (Updated) - CHICAGO - Background: Around 7:30 on March 31, a fight between two residents of the Carlton Apartments at 4626 N. Magnolia, Chicago resulted in a bloody stabbing in front of the building. The Carlton is in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, near Truman College. Chicago police officers responded and set up their investigation.
Just past 8:00 p.m., a man driving a stolen car accidentally drove into the crime scene, only to find the car suddenly surrounded by a lot of police officers. The police were chasing the stolen car "for at least half an hour" before it turned off of N. Broadway, onto W. Leland, and then onto Magnolia.
In the videos below, police officers yell at the female passenger to get out of the car. She refuses, and the male driver puts the car in reverse and rams into police vehicles and cars parked nearby. Chicago News Bench was told this morning that there were "two kids" in the back seat of the car. Police were told by a sergeant on the scene to hold their fire. The sergeant told the officers, "baby on board."
Officers surround the car again, again yelling at the woman; and the man then drives over the curb, onto the sidewalk and gets away. Chicago News Bench also learned this morning that the car was initially abandoned "somewhere on Montrose," a few blocks south of the crime scene. There, a flatbed truck from Lincoln Towing hauled the car away, but the police still did not know where the car was. Minutes later, the truck was pulled over by police who recognized the car on the flatbed and ordered the driver to deposit the car at the intersection of N. Clark and W. Wilson. The police then spent "at least an hour" combing through the car for evidence.
Read more about this story here, here and here.
VIDEOS BELOW
Below: Another video, this one by Pikadroo. "Stolen Car Slams into Cop and Parked Cars in
Chicago Uptown/Sheridan Park Stabbing Crime Scene."
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Drunk Crashes Car Into Bike Race
An alleged drunk driver killed one person and injured 10 others when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into bicyclists in a Brownsville, Texas, race.
Juan Campos, 28, charged with the death of Alejandro Alvarez, 37, of Monterrey, Mexico, claims he is a legal U.S. citizen residing in the Texas-Mexico border town. However, according to Associated Press reports, the U.S. Consulate has not been able to confirm his status.
FULL STORY at World Net Daily...
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The driver, Juan Campos, was driving drunk, and claims to have fallen asleep at the wheel. He was returning from an all night drinking binge with his girlfriend on Playa Bagdad, according to Mexican authorities. He somehow managed to swing his 1989 Gran Marquis around the event's police escort before slamming into a dozen bicyclists. In the uncropped version of the photo, it looks like it wasn't too difficult. FULL POST at Xavier Thoughts...
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