Mo Money...Mo Problems...

Majority of people tend not to like paying for a service they assume to be free, especially if you are already paying a form of subscription for a service that is viewed as poor. It is inventible that people will get upset and angry and a small group may even get physical, but a lady in the good ol' USA took her frustration to a whole new-level.  

The service provider in question is the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world based on revenue, one with massive political clout with easy access to the White House and at the centre of a scandal that could see it using its power to influence how much coverage internet-providers supply and forcing users to cough up more dough.

Shame the lady below didn't have access to the boardroom. 

Taken from http://www.abqjournal.com/

Unanticipated Comcast fees made one Albuquerque woman so angry she pulled a gun on a worker for the cable company, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.

Gloria Baca-Lucero, 48, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Monday and booked into jail. She was released later that day.

Police say a Comcast serviceman went to do work in Baca-Lucero’s house near San Pedro and San Antonio in the Northeast Heights on Monday, according to the complaint. Baca-Lucero said she thought the work would be free, but the worker told her there would be a fee. She called customer service, and someone on that line also told her she had to pay.

The worker then told her if she didn’t sign for the fee he would leave. She refused to pay, and the worker told police as he was loading tools into his vehicle, Baca-Lucero grabbed one of his tool bags and took it inside her house.

When the worker went to get it, he said she told him he couldn’t have his tools back and pulled out a black handgun from her pocket, pointing at his torso, the complaint states.

The worker told police he put his hands up because he “didn’t want to get shot,” and left the property before calling 911.

Baca-Lucero told police he left the tools and she took them inside, and wouldn’t give them back to him when he returned. When the worker refused to leave, she pointed the gun in the air. He left, and she then also called police, the complaint states.

When police searched her home, they found a black Glock, along with a Glock magazine and 11 rounds. They also found the tool bag, according to the court document.

This story took place in a rural Alabama Courtroom and could be viewed as yet another ‘Gun-Ho’ situation where law officers are all too quick to respond with firepower. Another interesting element is the fact there seems to be alterative views as to what happened. NewsSpeak is going with the Court’s take on things. Taken form the AP.
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A judge pulled a gun on a crutch-swinging defendant who went berserk in a crowded rural courtroom after being found guilty of harassment.

A police officer shot and wounded the man, who had a plaster cast on his leg, after he lunged at Judge Carlton Teel and tried to grab the weapon, authorities in Goodwater, Alabama, said.

But some witnesses disputed the account, saying the man never threatened the judge.

Struck by at least one bullet, the man, identified by witnesses as Bryant Ford, was taken by helicopter to the hospital at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where he was said to be in a good condition.

"The guy came over the bench at him trying to get it," said lawyer Keith Warren, who was in court representing another person. "He just literally got in the judge's face, then backed off and started swinging the crutch at the judge."

But some of the 40 or so people who were in the court in Goodwater, about 60 miles north of Montgomery, disagreed, saying they did not see the man attack the judge, who was sitting behind a tall desk, or attempt to grab a gun.

Sara Williams said she was sitting in the front row when the man, whom she knew, became agitated after the judge fined him about £500, waving one of his crutches in the air.

"The police were hollering for him to get down" when an officer opened fire, she said.

Ms Williams said she yelled: "Don't shoot him no more!" just before the officer fired again.

Later she and more than a dozen people stood across the road from City Hall chanting: "We want justice."

But Mr Warren said: "This gentleman forced the police officer to shoot him. There was no reason for the guy to become as irate as he got. He went nuts."

Anyone who claimed the man did not attack the judge was either unable to see or was telling an "outright lie", he added.

Court records showed that Ford, 25, was due in court on a harassment charge filed by a neighbour who claimed he swore at her in December after accusing her of talking to police about him. Judge Teel heard the case without a jury and the trial lasted less than five minutes.

Judge Teel's brother Frank, a lawyer in nearby Rockford, said district court proceedings were held once a month at Goodwater City Hall for people who could not get to the county seat.

"I've not talked to him, but I'm told he was OK," Mr Teel said of his brother. The judge's aide suffered powder burns, he said.

Plain anger for 'Dancing with the stars'.

Celebrities, politics and Reality TV - what a mix! This combination can evoke many emotion and each person has their own views.

NewsSpeak belongs to the train of thought that there are too many reality shows on our screens, yet understands it is a very populist choice.

Most of us who dislike such shows have the choice of switching over to the other side; others who enjoy this type of television can channel their joy or displeasure through various means. Some like to take this to the extreme. Some people get so wind-up that they do what NewsSpeak believes many of us would like to do; pull out a gun and fire off some rounds into the TV set.

Enjoy the following story; it features TV, guns, a famous daugther of a leading Tea-Party figure, the Police and all set in small-town America.

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Steven N. Cowan takes dancing very seriously.

The 66-year old Wisconsin man was arrested after he allegedly became so angrey watching Bristol Palin on 'Dancing with the Stars' that he fired off his shotgun at his television, leading to a 15-hour standoff with state police.

According to the criminal complaint, posted by The Smoking Gun, Cowan and his wife, Janice, were watching the show Monday evening when Cowan jumped and swore as the former vice-presidential candidate's daughter shimmied across the stage.

He said something to the effect of 'the ----ing politics'.

The complaint added, 'Steven was upset that a political figure's daughter was dancing on this particular show when Steven did not think she was a good dancer'.

Cowan, who lives in the small town of Vermont, then went upstairs for 20 minutes and returned with a signle-shot shotgun, which he loaded and fired into the television. His wife told cops that her husband had been drinking but she did not think he was drunk.

Scared, his wife fled the house and called 911. Police remained outside the home until 11 a.m Tuesday when he surrendered without incident, sheriff's spokeswoman Elise Schaffer told the Wisconsin State Journal.

The complaint said Cowan had been stressed out because of his financial situation and was currently receiving treatment for mental health issues.

It is unclear if Cowan is aware that Palin advanced to the next week's inals of the competition on Tuseday night.

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