Cause I thought taking all those jet trips, having all those escort cars and limos, all that traveling across the country and all over the world (most of it to get more $$$ for re-election) was hurting the planet more than my little trips to Centerville and church and an occasional trip to Kzoo.

Parents' argument over gang affiliation results in death threat
Howard Pankratz

An argument between two parents over what street gang their 4-year-old son should join resulted in one parent threatening to kill the other, Commerce City police said.

Joseph Manzanares was sentenced to 12 months of probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in an incident Saturday, when he went to Hollywood Video, 5961 E. 64th Ave., where his ex-girlfriend and the mother of the boy works.

Manzanares, 19, began knocking over several displays in the video store and threatening the victim, including saying he was going to "kill" her, said Commerce City Sgt. Joe Sandoval. Manzanares was arrested a short time later. The victim said she is a member of one gang and Manzanares is a member of another, and "they have different ideas on how the baby should be raised," Sandoval said.

"Basically she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,' " Sandoval said.

Anywho, why does a 19 year old have a 4 year old freaking kid!!!

ST. PETERSBURG — At a bend in the road near Joe's Creek, birds sing and dogs bark. But the rooster no longer crows.

Most mornings, residents would hear the cries of Gilman the Rooster as he sat atop a roof greeting the day. But on Saturday, they awoke to shots from a .45-caliber handgun. Several of them. Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Bobbie Horton heard it. Deanna Schwartz did, too. Then she ran into her 5-year-old's room and peeked through the blinds.

That's when she saw him. A guy who lived in the neighborhood was standing next door, and she heard him declare, "I got him!"

The him being Gilman.

The guy yelling victory being Eric Nicastro, 30, who lives at 5000 74th St. N.

As turns out, Nicastro had been asking recently who owned the rooster. Gilman and the pack of chickens he leads had lived in this unincorporated neighborhood of modest houses near the creek for a few years, but no one could say who owned them.

So Saturday, Nicastro took a BB gun and went after the young auburn cock with a proud red comb, according to authorities. At some point, he upgraded to the handgun and chased the rooster into a neighbor's yard. That's when the shots came and the crows ended for good. Nicastro threw the body into the creek, said Jim Bordner, a spokesman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.