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By Katherine Wei, The China Post February 1, 2014, 12:01 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Taipei District Court yesterday ruled that truck driver Chang Teh-cheng (張德正) be released on bail of NT$ 150,000 and be confined to his residence in Taipei.
The driver was taken to court for the third time yesterday after the Taiwan High Court ruled twice for Chang’s release against the prosecution’s appeal to have him detained.
Chang, who had been hospitalized and interrogated after he ran his gravel truck through the front gate and up the steps of the Presidential Office last Saturday, was released without bail on Thursday after a four-hour hearing.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office filed an appeal early on Thursday morning after the court ordered Chang’s release for the first time on Wednesday night; the High Court simply sent the request for detention to the Taipei District Court without a ruling. The District Court then decided against the need to detain Chang as it would be highly unlikely for him to attempt an escape.
Chang’s brother Chang Shao-chi accompanied him to court yesterday, saying that the family felt helpless as Chang had to show up in court for Chinese New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. “Even our mother feels this is weird.”
On Thursday, the court remanded Chang to the custody of three lawyers, and retracted its ruling after the prosecution made another appeal. The trial began at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Chang’s attorney stated that although the prosecution felt Chang should be detained due to the possibility that he may commit a similar crime, the act of “ramming into the Presidential Office” does not call for preventive detention; the judge cannot stretch the law in order to detain him, said a lawyer, surnamed Tseng.
“It had been the residing judge’s decision that Chang should be committed to the custody of three lawyers, but there is no current law that decides if it would be less appropriate if he is entrusted to his family,” said Tseng, who added that the trial will determine the maturity of Taiwan’s judiciary laws.
There has been much speculation over the future course of Chang’s trial, given the fact that prior to driving the truck into the gates of the Presidential Office, Chang had written a letter to a local media outlet, saying that if anyone were to be killed as a result of his actions, he would accept the death penalty. If anyone were hurt, he said, he would accept a life sentence.
TAIPEI — A man who drove a gravel truck into the Presidential Office in Taipei Saturday aired his grievances against society in a letter delivered to a local TV station.
Chang Teh-cheng, the only one injured in the incident, said in his letter that he is willing to be sentenced to death if anyone was killed, or to serve a life sentence even if no one was killed.
The TV station said in a news report yesterday morning that it had turned Chang’s letter over to the police. The letter was sent by Chang before he drove his truck into the Presidential Office.
The incident took place early Saturday while President Ma Ying-jeou was in Sao Tome and Principe on the first leg of his eight-day, three-nation tour and the Presidential Office was closed for the weekend.
According to local news reports, Chang, who was transported to a hospital for treatment of his injuries after the incident, was angry following a court decision to sentence him to 40-day confinement after he was convicted of committing an act of violence against his ex-wife.
Prosecutors at the Taipei District Prosecutors Office said Chang received serious, though not life-threatening injuries, after his truck crashed into the bullet-proof glass door at the entrance of the Presidential Office.
Chang was the sole person injured in the incident and was treated at the hospital under the guard of police. He will be interrogated by prosecutors as soon as he is able to answer questions, said prosecution officials.
Chang posted a photo of the Presidential Office on his Facebook page, along with news about traffic incidents involving gravel trucks, adding that one day he might crash his truck into the Presidential Office to show his discontent with his court sentence.
He said that he would crash his truck into the Presidential Office in the early morning when there is little traffic and few pedestrians near the building.
But his postings didn’t draw much attention until Saturday.
He was asked by his employer to drive his truck from Taipei to Taoyuan Country to transport building debris to Keelung City that morning, but instead drove the truck to downtown Taipei and crashed it into the Presidential Office at high speed.
Before leaving his house in Wenshan District in Taipei early Saturday, Chang left a message to his two daughters urging them to take care of themselves and follow the straight and narrow in life.
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The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in a plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today.
Was Fuddy’s plane crash just a tragic accident, or was it a case of dead birth certificate forgers tell no tales?
Did she have knowledge that the release of the birth certificate was nothing more than a staged PR stunt?
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 12:02 pm
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Fans of “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker created a makeshift memorial Sunday at the site where a car he was riding in crashed, killing the actor and a friend.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says speed was a factor in the one-car crash in the community of Valencia, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Deputies found a 2005 red Porsche Carrera GT engulfed in flames when they arrived Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday, fans of Walker, 40, gathered to leave flowers, candles and memorabilia from the action film franchise.
Walker’s publicist said Sunday that the other person in the car was Roger Rodas, a friend of Walker’s who owned a sport car dealership in Valencia.
Ame Van Iden said the actor was the passenger, though the sheriff’s department did not confirm that.
The Porsche crashed into a light pole and tree and burst into flames. The downed light pole had a speed limit sign of 45 mph.
Sheriff’s deputy Peter Gomez said investigators are working to determine how fast the car was traveling and what caused it to go out of control, including whether the driver was distracted or something in the road prompted him to swerve.
Walker and Rodas had attended a fundraiser benefiting victims of the recent typhoon in the Philippines. The event was held by Walker’s Reach Out Worldwide, a charity he founded in 2010 to aid victims of natural disasters.
The fundraiser and toy drive took place at Rodas’ custom car shop, Always Evolving. Attendees rushed to the nearby crash to try to put out the flames with fire extinguishers.
Bill Townsend, who attended the event, told AP Radio that Walker appeared very happy at the fundraiser.
“He was smiling at everybody, just tickled that all these people came out to support this charity,” Townsend said. “He was doing what he loved. He was surrounded by friends, surrounded by cars.”
The “Fast & Furious” star had been on break from shooting the seventh installment of the Universal Pictures franchise. Production began in September and while much of the film has been shot, it’s incomplete.
Universal has not yet said what it plans to do with “Fast & Furious 7,” which is currently slated for release in July.
“Your humble spirit was felt from the start,” Ludacris, Walker’s “Fast & Furious” co-star, said on Twitter. “Wherever you blessed your presence you always left a mark, we were like brothers.”
His “Fast & Furious” co-star Vin Diesel posted a photograph of him and Walker arm-in-arm on Instagram with the message: “Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless.”
Walker rode the “Fast & Furious” franchise to stardom, starring in all but one of the six action blockbusters, beginning with the first film in 2001. The blond-haired, blue-eyed Los Angeles-native brought California surfer good-looks and an easy, warm charm to the popular street-racing series.
“Your humble spirit was felt from the start,” Ludacris, Walker’s “Fast & Furious” co-star, said on Twitter. “Wherever you blessed your presence you always left a mark, we were like brothers.”
Walker is survived by his 15-year-old daughter.
He stars in the upcoming Hurricane Katrina drama “Hours,” which Lionsgate’s Pantelion Films is to release Dec. 13. He also stars in “Brick Mansions,” a remake of the French action film “District B13″ that Relativity plans to release next year.
Chief Constable Sir Stephen House confirms eight deaths following the helicopter crash
Eight people are now confirmed to have died after a police helicopter crashed into a busy pub in Glasgow city centre.
Three people inside the helicopter and five people inside The Clutha were killed after the Police Scotland aircraft came down at 22:30 on Friday.
A further 14 people are being treated for “very serious injuries” in hospitals across the city.
A major investigation is under way and the Air Accidents Investigations Branch will conduct an inquiry into the crash.
Dr Jennifer Armstrong, medical director at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said that of the 32 people taken to local hospitals after the crash, 18 had now been treated and discharged.
She confirmed that 14 people were still being treated for serious injuries.
“The main injuries we have seen include chest injuries, head injuries, long-bone fractures and lacerations,” she said.
It is thought that about 120 people were in the pub at the time of the crash.
Many were rescued or escaped but others were trapped by a collapse on the left-hand side of the building.
The three occupants of the helicopter who died were two police officers and a civilian pilot.
A significant number of personnel from Police Scotland, The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Scottish Ambulance Service are still at the scene.
Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House told a news conference on Saturday afternoon that they would remain there for some time.
Strange to walk through Argyle Street to the scene and see so many people doing their Christmas shopping just a few hundred yards from the scene.
The King Street car park next to the scene is full of cars, and buses are passing just 100 yards from the cordon.
There is no debris on our side of the cordon – it’s hard to believe what has happened just a few yards away.
We can see the blue and green tarpaulins on top of the roof of the pub, but there is no activity on that roof.
On our side of the cordons, a pack of around 40 journalists and photographers are taking statements from eyewitnesses and waiting for news.
He said: “This is a complex and ongoing rescue operation. It will not be a quick operation. It is a very complicated and indeed dangerous scene.”
Chief Constable House said the operation would go on “for many days yet”.
He paid tribute to the emergency service personnel who were working at the scene and the people of Glasgow who disregarded their own personal safety to help survivors in the aftermath of the crash.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the same news conference that the increased death toll from the crash was “news that everybody today has been both dreading and expecting”.
“Our hearts go out to everyone who has been bereaved. It is impossible to imagine the grief and loss that they are experiencing,” she said.
“They should know that the thoughts and prayers of everyone across the city, and indeed across Scotland, are with them at this unimaginably difficult time.
Ms Sturgeon also praised the courage and fortitude of the emergency services and people of Glasgow in the aftermath of the crash.
She added: “I think we were all moved last night by the way in which those who were in and around the scene did everything possible to help and the outpouring of concern and kindness today, I’m sure, will be a comfort to those affected.”
A large area of the city centre has been cordoned off
Mass held at St Andrew’s Cathedral in city for those involved in crash and emergency services involved in response
Council has cancelled St Andrew’s Day celebrations in George Square as a mark of respect
A minute’s silence was held ahead of the Falkirk v Rangers match
Flags are flying at half-mast on Scottish government buildings
Injured were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Western Infirmary and the Victoria Infirmary
Police Scotland Casualty Bureau number is 0800 092 0410 - for those concerned about relatives
Glasgow City Council has opened a family reception centre at 40 John Street
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond earlier described it as a “black day for Scotland.”
Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the bravery of the “ordinary Glaswegians” who rushed to help.
The Queen has said her thoughts and prayers are with the victims of crash.
The Police Scotland helicopter which crashed was a twin-engine Eurocopter EC135 T2.
In a statement, Eurocopter said its experts were “on standby to support the investigation in every way possible”.
“An accident investigation team from Eurocopter is on its way to Scotland to assist the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch and the BFU (German AAIB) in its efforts to investigate the cause of the accident,” the statement said.
Helicopter operator Bond Air Services said it was working with the police and emergency services.
A statement added: “Our thoughts are with those who have been affected by this tragic incident.”
William Byrne, 45, from Coatbridge, who was in the pub when the helicopter came down, returned to the scene on Saturday morning.
“There was a loud bang. Then there was dust and the lights went out. It was surreal,” he told BBC Scotland.
“We didn’t know what had happened. At our side of the pub at least two people were trapped under the gantry. Myself and others lifted it up and managed to get them out. I spent some time with one injured man.”
He added: “At our side of the pub I would say there were less than 10 people injured, mainly walking wounded, not seriously injured. One girl had clearly been hit on the head – she had a big bump.
“The other side of the pub took the brunt. Myself and my friends managed to get out without a scratch. Everyone helped everyone else to get out.”
About 250 people attended a special service at St Andrew’s Cathedral on Saturday afternoon.
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia told worshipers: “We pray for those who have lost their lives, who are injured, the bereaved, and the emergency services and members of the public.
“We pray for our city of Glasgow, which is in mourning today.”
The band who were playing in the pub at the time of the crash, Esperanza, released a statement on their Facebook page.
Bassist Jess wrote: “Waking up and realising that it is all definitely horribly real. Despite the situation everyone was so helpful and caring of each other.
“The police, ambulances, firefighters all did a stellar job and continue to do so today in extremely difficult conditions.”
Eddie Waltham, a former firefighter who had a friend inside the pub, told the BBC: “A roof joist came down and hit him and pushed him towards the window which is at the left side of the left door.”
He added later: “My own reaction was to run straight up to the pub.
“It was amazing to watch just how people were trying so hard to get into this building.”
Gordon Matheson, the leader of Glasgow City Council, said his heart went out to the families affected.
He also praised the response of ordinary people in the area before the emergency services arrived.
Mr Matheson said: “People who were in the pub, the people who were in the streets and who just helped out their fellow human beings who were out having a good time.
“It’s Glasgow at its best you know, if people are in need the spontaneous response is to go to their help. And I want to pay great tribute to that and I’m very proud as leader of the city that that was the reaction. It doesn’t surprise me.”
First Minister Alex Salmond said: “This is a black day for Glasgow and Scotland but it is also St Andrew’s Day and we can take pride in how we respond to adversity.
“The response from our emergency services and citizens has been exemplary.”
Prime Minister David Cameron said: “This is a tragic event and our deepest sympathies are with the families and friends who lost a loved one last night.
“I want to thank the emergency services who worked tirelessly throughout the night and I also want pay tribute to the bravery of the ordinary Glaswegians who rushed to help.
“We have offered the Scottish government our support in any way we can and we are all wishing a speedy recovery to those who are injured.”
Labour leader Ed Miliband described the crash as an “unimaginable horror”.
He added: “My thoughts are with… the people of Glasgow who are an incredibly strong people, who showed, I think last night, in their reaction when the helicopter hit, a great bravery, a great courage, great calm in the midst of all this.”
In 1990, a police sergeant was killed when a Bell Jet 206 helicopter crashed in bad weather at Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire.
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BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday, but debris is unlikely to cause any casualties. Science Headlines
Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in Afghanistan that suffered the most U.S. military deaths in a single day in the war on terrorism.
Every day, Charlie Strange, the father of one of the 30 Americans who died Aug. 6, 2011, in the flash of a rocket-propelled grenade, asks himself whether his son, Michael, was set up by someone inside the Afghan government wanting revenge on Osama bin Laden’s killers — SEAL Team 6.
“Somebody was leaking to the Taliban,” said Mr. Strange, whose son intercepted communications as a Navy cryptologist. “They knew. Somebody tipped them off. There were guys in a tower. Guys on the bush line. They were sitting there, waiting. And they sent our guys right into the middle.”
Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in Afghanistan that suffered the most U.S. military deaths in a single day in the war on terrorism.
Every day, Charlie Strange, the father of one of the 30 Americans who died Aug. 6, 2011, in the flash of a rocket-propelled grenade, asks himself whether his son, Michael, was set up by someone inside the Afghan government wanting revenge on Osama bin Laden’s killers — SEAL Team 6.
“Somebody was leaking to the Taliban,” said Mr. Strange, whose son intercepted communications as a Navy cryptologist. “They knew. Somebody tipped them off. There were guys in a tower. Guys on the bush line. They were sitting there, waiting. And they sent our guys right into the middle.”
In what’s become something of a routine project in British schools, children arrived for class at York’s Clifton with Rawcliffe Primary School on Sept 13 of this year to be surprised by a “close encounter.” A mock alien craft had been arranged to look as if it had crash-landed in their playground, and the children were encouraged to share their experience afterward. Naturally, everything was well documented.
According to the York Press, the surprise crash scene included “police tape, a NASA investigation unit and a small silver craft billowing smoke and resting on the grass opposite the main entrance to the school.”
Teen actors from a nearby school were asked to be at the scene and claim to have seen extraterrestrials exit the crashed ship. Other players included local police who asked questions of “witnesses” and cordoned off the area; and members of the press who said they were sent to report on the “crash.” Adding to the realism was the presence of BBC Look North’s Phil Bodmer (whose son attends the school), who was there with a BBC cameraman reporting on the incident.
The North Harringay program was similar. Children arrived at the school to find a crashed saucer in the campus. According to the Tottenham and Wood Green Journal, the scene included a forensic officer inspecting the UFO “while police closely guarded the scene, which was roped off while investigations took place.”
According to Clifton with Rawcliffe Primary School’s head teacher Chris Wigley, the day-long UFO drill was intended to spark the children’s imagination prior to moving into a wider lesson on space. It was also “to test the youngsters’ investigative skills.”
In the recent years, school children across Britain have been surprised with crashed “spacecraft” in the school yard, complete with officers explaining what would take place at a such a scene — hypothetically of course. In October of 2010, for example, the Weston Mercury reported that officers at one UFO drill showed the children how to secure the scene, how to gather evidence, and how to interview witnesses.
(Newser) – A 72-year-old car crash victim had been in a German morgue for several hours Monday when a worker there noticed something odd: She was still breathing. The woman was injured when her 18-year-old grandson veered into oncoming traffic on a highway about 35 miles north of Hamburg. The resulting crash killed the woman’s daughter, who had been in the back with her four sons, the youngest of whom also died; paramedics believed the grandmother had suffered the same fate. Unable to find any signs of life, they assumed she’d died of head trauma, the Local reports.
“What exactly happened next, no one knows,” says a hospital spokesperson. When the morgue worker realized they were wrong, the woman was rushed to the hospital, where she was operated on for four hours. She is currently in a coma. (This is, of course, not the first time this has happened. See here, here, and here.)
Police officials examine the site of a bus crash in Indonesia’s West Java Province on August 21, 2013.
In Indonesia, at least 18 people have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in a bus crash incident in the country’s West Java Province.
Police sources said on Wednesday that a bus carrying 60 people and a car crashed into a wall in northern Jakarta before falling about eight meters (26 feet) into a river in Cisarua.
About 40 people were reportedly injured.
“We are still looking for two kids reportedly crossing the street when the accident happened,” local disaster management agency’s Budi Aksono said.
Reports say the bus had been returning from a church and was heading towards the resort town of Puncak when the accident took place.
Officials also say most of the victims were killed instantly.
According to local traffic police chief Capt. Muhammad Chani, the driver of the bus lost control when the vehicle’s brakes malfunctioned.
However, officials say they are still investigating the cause of the accident.
Due to poor road construction and safety standards, road accidents are common in Indonesia.
A relative of one of the missing passengers writes down contact numbers on Sunday at the office of the ferry involved in a collision, in Cebu City.
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A relative of one of the missing passengers writes down contact numbers on Sunday at the office of the ferry involved in a collision, in Cebu City.
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Divers in the Philippines are making scant progress in their efforts to recover survivors — or bodies — from the scene where a ferry sank after colliding with a cargo ship near the central port city of Cebu.
About 35 people have been confirmed dead from MV Thomas Aquinas, which was carrying more than 800 passengers when it was struck late Friday and then sank within minutes.
Authorities says 750 people were rescued in the hours after the collision, but that more than 80 are still missing and presumed trapped inside the ferry as it went down.
Earlier, officials said 170 remained missing, but the number was reduced after a tallying error was discovered.
Philippine Navy spokesman Lt. Cdr. Gregory Fabic was quoted by AFP as saying rough seas hampered what he still described as a rescue effort.
“It is possible that there are air pockets in its compartments and there might be survivors,” Fabic said. “There is still hope that there might just be survivors there.”
A relative of one of the missing passengers writes down contact numbers on Sunday at the office of the ferry involved in a collision, in Cebu City.
Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images
A relative of one of the missing passengers writes down contact numbers on Sunday at the office of the ferry involved in a collision, in Cebu City.
Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images
Divers in the Philippines are making scant progress in their efforts to recover survivors — or bodies — from the scene where a ferry sank after colliding with a cargo ship near the central port city of Cebu.
About 35 people have been confirmed dead from MV Thomas Aquinas, which was carrying more than 800 passengers when it was struck late Friday and then sank within minutes.
Authorities says 750 people were rescued in the hours after the collision, but that more than 80 are still missing and presumed trapped inside the ferry as it went down.
Earlier, officials said 170 remained missing, but the number was reduced after a tallying error was discovered.
Philippine Navy spokesman Lt. Cdr. Gregory Fabic was quoted by AFP as saying rough seas hampered what he still described as a rescue effort.
“It is possible that there are air pockets in its compartments and there might be survivors,” Fabic said. “There is still hope that there might just be survivors there.”
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