Taran Noah Smith, Home Improvement Star, Found Guilty from February Arrest

Taran Smith, who played the youngest of the three boys portrayed in the 90's sitcom Home Improvement, was arrested in early February of this year and charged with possession of marijuana as well as with a DUI.

Taran Smith Marijuana DUI

Police reported that his 1998 Honda Accord was parked crooked in front of a fire hydrant, when they decided to investigate. As police approached the car they reported a strong odor of cannabis and then placed him under arrest.

Smith, who had relatively stayed out of the spotlight after the show's end, was sentenced to 6 month drug diversion program for the marijuana offense as well as a 12 hour program for the DUI conviction. As with all DUI convictions, he was also sentenced to 3 years of informal probation.

Marijuana laws are in constant flux, especially after it’s legalization in Colorado & Washington. Contact a local attorney to know your rights about local drug laws as well as state DUI regulations. 

Gunman kills 26, including Children in Connecticut

An early 20s gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children at a Connecticut Elementary School in Newton Connecticut, Friday morning. It was reported the gunman walked into a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where his mother taught, and opened fire. The shooting happened in a section of the school where the room spanned two classes. Separately, another adult was found dead at the shooter's home. Authorities identified that person as, Nancy Lanza, the shooter's mother.Weapons recovered at the scene were: a semi-automatic .223 Bushmaster rifle, a Glock and a Sig Saue pistols.

Several of the elementary school students reported hearing “popping noises,” and that “everybody was crying.” Aerial images report officers with rifles and dogs walking into the woods, near the scene of the crime. Gov. Dannel Malloy is "horrified" by what happened reports one of his representatives. The school's principal, who was frequently tweeting about the accomplishments of Sandy Hook students was reported dead, as well as the school's psychologist. All schools in the city remain on lock-down as police continue to assess the situation. Sandy Hook now sits at number two as the nation's second most deadliest school shooting, sitting only behind the 2007 Virginia Tech attack that left 32 people dead. President Barack Obama made an emotional statement Friday afternoon, saying, "Our hearts are broken today".

7th DUI for man who swerves to miss elephant

A man was arrested for Driving Under the Influence in Philadelphia, pulled over by the police for swerving off the road to avoid an elephant! Now, I don't know about you, but the only elephants I’ve seen in are the ones in the Santa Ana or Los Angeles zoos, definitely not on an east coast highway.

When further questioned by police he made it apparent that he had smoked marijuana earlier, but unfortunately for him, it was also laced with PCP. Regardless of the method of consumption, the effects it has on the mind, are apparently severe.

Most people realize drugs and alcohol (or drugs and more drugs in this case) are a bad combination, especially for a man with several DUI convictions already, and even more so when you throw a car, a high-way, and hallucinations of elephants in the mix.

The few good things we should take out of this arrest is; that for one, no one was hurt, and two, he successfully dodged hitting any living animals. 

Imaginary creatures set aside, Orange County DUIs are as serious as any DUI in the county. Anyone facing a DUI should seek the legal counsel of an expert DUI defense lawyer, licensed in their arresting state.

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Man dressed as big-foot meets his demise

A man from Montana decided it would be a good idea, as a hoax, to fake some 'big foot' sightings.

When was the sighting going to be witnessed? ................ at night!
Where was the sighting going to take place? ................... the freeway!
What was he going to us as 'big foot'? ............................ himself! (dressed in military camouflage)

What killed him? ........................................................... well, lets us ponder this question

What could've killed a camouflaged man running around the freeway at night time?

How about a car! How about two cars!


Yes, a man trying to trick people into thinking they saw 'big foot' on the freeway, at night, was struck by a car being driven by a 15 year old girl, followed closely by a car driven by a 17 year old male running him over.

A Montana state trooper was reported saying "He probably would not have been very easy to see". Without having been there myself... I would still have to agree.

Of course the teenagers aren't being held accountable in anyway, besides the inevitable spike in their likely already high insurance bill.       

The feds seize up to a billion dollars worth of agriculture this summer

Why do you ask...

Because it wasn't just any agriculture ......... it was marijuana!!!

It's not surprising that the United States, the biggest debtor nation in the the history of the entire world. Who's negative worth is astronomically high... is flushing a potential billion dollars down the drain.
All in the name of um... not wanting to admit the government's views on 'pot' was wrong in the mid 1900's?

The FBI has organized and executed a dozens of raids on 'pot' farms in these states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Seizing more the a half million plants, estimated at a billion dollars if cultivated and sold. They did all this in a two month time span, and only arrested 14 people in Californians (strange, must have been a busy group of people!).

The argument over the drug war, specifically the marijuana battle of the drug war, has been argued into the ground.
Hell any high school Sr can spout off how much money the government is:
     A) spending to fight the drug war, and
     B) how much money they are missing out on by not letting marijuana become a legitimized taxable industry
or how the health consequences have been
     A) grossly over exaggerated, or even better
     B) that marijuana actually has health benefits!!! haha

The fact that "legal medical marijuana dispensaries" have been spreading like wildfire in the states/cities that have allowed their presence, is only the writing on the wall that marijuana would make a sustainable and profitable industry for the government.

Regardless to which side of the drug war debate you sit on... thousands of pot users are wincing at the fact that half a million marijuana plants were set on fire, and no one was there to smoke them.

Read about the legal ramifications of driving after smoking marijuana.

Who is worthy of a $2.5 BILLION lawsuit from apple?

Samsung is the answer to this question.

But how much intellectual property theft must go one to rack up two and half billion bucks of damages?

Samsung is the largest manufacturer of smart phones on the planet... So I would imagine it wouldn't take long to rack up a pretty big law suit, pretty quick.

Apple claims that some of the technologies/features of the 'galaxy' series of phones and tablets are out right copies of the iPhone & iPad! Everything from the packaging, to the the rounded corners, to the 'black-space' between screen and edge of device, to the "small square app icons", even on down to the packaging itself.

Apple says that they have lost out on five hundred million dollars worth of sales. They also feel that they are owed twenty five million for royalty damages. Oh ya and let's not forget the "Samsung was unjustly 'enriched' a whopping two billion dollars..." cherry on top!

This is of course is only a drop in the bucket for Samsung, the Korean company that was started in the 30's, has it's hands in everything from electronics to engineering/construction, who in 2010 laid out a 10 year growth plan based around five businesses, one being a biopharmaceuticals company with which Samsung has set aside... 2.1 trillion bucks. Just that ".1"... is one hundred billion dollars.

2.5 billion may sound like a lot, but when you step back and look at how much money is in the world, and how much money these business wield... It's really nothing, almost inconsequential. Samsung as a company, is the 35th largest economy in the world? Samsung makes more money then entire countries gross in a year!

I wonder where apple and microsoft sit on that list?
I know California is the 8th largest economy in the world. Wow is right.


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Add "breathalyzers" to the list of driver requirements in France

If you're in France go ahead and add an 'alcohol breath test' machine to your driving check-list.

French politicians have passed a law that requires all drivers to carry breathalyzers in the vehicle at all times. The thinking behind this law is; that, those people who have been drinking will test their BAC once they get to their car and perhaps think twice before trying to drive home.

The number of vehicle deaths a year in France are around 4000, French law makers are hoping to save 500 lives per year once it is fully implemented.
While the law has already been passed in will not be enforced till November, as it isn't exactly easy to supply  tens of millions of drivers with breathalyzers.

On a side note... manufacturers of breathalyzers are fairly pleased by this turn of events. Some are even saying (not surprising of course), that the only reason this law was passed or even brought forth was because these manufacturers lobbied for it.

http://www.newser.com/story/149405/driving-in-france-gotta-carry-a-breathalyzer.html