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  • *I kid you not*: Road Rage turns into drive-by crossbow shooting (only in AR)

    10/17/2006 8:20:16 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 78 replies · 3,888+ views
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 17 OCT 06 | dcbryan1
    Road rage builds on I-630 until arrow hits Camaro Road rage took a decidedly medieval turn Sunday when a Little Rock man was arrested after police said he attempted to settle a traffic dispute with a crossbow. Police said Wayne Allen Dierks Jr., 26, of 300 Walnut St. in Little Rock fired a crossbow at a motorist who had made an obscene gesture at him. Dierks was charged with committing a terroristic act, possession of an instrument of crime, driving while intoxicated and driving on a suspended driver’s license. “It was a drive-by crossbow shooting,” said Steve Gilgenbach, a University...
  • THE EXECUTIONER'S MOAT (Interesting Discoveries in the dirt)!

    02/19/2004 1:28:53 PM PST · by vannrox · 50 replies · 1,108+ views
    Archaeological Institute of America ^ | Volume 57 Number 2, March/April 2004 | DAVID KEYS
    The remains of at least 60 criminals executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries were found in a medieval moat at Oxford Castle. Excavations in a medieval moat around Oxford Castle have so far yielded the remains of 60 to 70 criminals, mostly men in their twenties, executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Archaeologists believe that dozens more await discovery. "This excavation has given us a much greater understanding of the way in which the bodies of executed criminals were treated in postmedieval England," said Andrew Norton, the field archaeologist running the dig. The victims, all of whom are...