Police say a driver passed out in his car at a Tennessee gas station while a batch of methamphetamine was cooking in the back seat.

An employee at the gas station in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, called police because the car was sitting at the pump for about an hour on New Year’s Day.

Police say a chemical process to make the drug was in progress. Some meth-making ingredients can be explosive. (did anyone reading this not know that?)

Murfreesboro Assistant Fire Chief Allen Swader told The Daily News Journal that gas pumps were shut off as a precaution.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has been accused by a whistleblower of spending $5 million on a Christmas party this month for 3600 managers and passing it off as a training conference to discuss a new contract with air controllers.

ABC’s Brian Ross reported on Tuesday that a tip received online had alerted the network to the “wasteful spending” on this “ridiculous junket” and claimed that the new contract — which is already in effect — could more cheaply have been explained by videoconferencing.

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A Memphis attorney has admitted to biting off part of a man’s nose during a confrontation at a popular Midtown restaurant.

According to a lawsuit filed by Greg Herbers, Mark Lambert bit off and swallowed part of his nose during a dispute last June at Dish on South Cooper Street.

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A Canadian man was sentenced to three years in prison for tearing off a woman’s toe with pliers for an unpaid debt.
May be time to toe the line with those you have left.

Daniel Theodore of Regina, Saskatchewan, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after he and two unidentified women took the victim for a ride in July and then attacked her for not paying a drug debt.

Somehow when I ran up on this headline, I thought ‘Drugs’ might be involved with such stupidity.

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Hugh Mcgee, who is Barclays Capital’s global head of investment banking, penned a rambling five-page letter to the board of trustees of Houston’s Kinkaid School, asking that the teacher and two other staff members be fired.

The banker, who was global head of investment banking at Lehman Brothers until its collapse last year, claims that a teacher told his son’s 11th-grade class “that somehow both Lehman and Barclays made a bunch of money on the Lehman bankruptcy, and that all investment bankers were ‘sleazeballs’ and dishonest”.

Sounds like a sleazeball to me. Obscenely rich bully trying to get a teacher on a tiny fraction of his salary sacked for her opinion.

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