Category: Randomness

Law Student Sues School For Lack Of Employment After Graduating

  

Anna Alaburda a graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law left school with roughly $150,000 in debt and says she was unable to find employment as a lawyer.

According to a report in the New York Times: 

“Alaburda argued that the school reported a higher percentage of its graduates landed jobs after graduation than was actually the case, and that she relied on the bogus data to choose to attend the school.” 

The jury disagreed that the school should be held liable.

Alaburda is one of many law school graduates across the country who have tried to sue their former schools for publishing what they argue were misleading statistics on graduates chances for high-paying employment after graduation, but the Alaburda case is rare in that it actually made it in front of a jury without being thrown out or settled.

Alaburda relied on California State anti-fraud statutes to argue that the school mislead her into believing that 80 percent of its graduates found employment as lawyers nine months after graduation. In fact, those statistics included graduates who found “such work as a pool cleaner, waitress or sales clerk,” according to the report.

Michael Sullivan, a lawyer for the Thomas Jefferson School of Law told the jury: 

“I’m not here to tell you a law degree is a guarantee of career success, is a guarantee of riches. It’s not. No degree is.”

WATCH: Drones Stand No Chance Against Trained Assassin Eagles

How can a rogue drone be taken down? 

For Dutch company Guard From Above, bird is the word. The firm claims to be “the first company in the world to use birds of prey to intercept hostile drones.” 
At the end of Jan., Guard From Above released a video in which one of its trained assassins incapacitates a quadcopter in mid-air. The raptor swings up, clenches the hapless, sputtering robot in its talons, and plants the device on a ledge—in what looks to be the avian equivalent of a choke-hold.

The company says it works “mainly for national and international governmental security agencies,” including a test partnership with the Dutch National Police. (The police department has apparently asked a Dutch scientific research organization to make sure no birds are harmed on the job.)

Killer eagles are not totally unexpected. At the end of 2014, Fortune predicted that drone hunting would become a sport. And from a counter-terrorism point of view, if we already use canines to sniff out drugs and bombs, why not use raptors to tackle drones?

Check out a video:

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Atlanta Police Officers Fist Fight Over Who Can Run Faster

Two Atlanta police officers are “off duty” after getting into a drunken brawl at a bar over who could run faster. LOL! 

The argument got so heated that it resulted in the two coppers going outside to fist fight, and one copper allegedly pulling his gun on the other! 

You CAN’T make this stuff up.  This has drunken written all over it.

Wouldn’t the more befitting thing to do to settle the score have been to just go outside and race? Winner takes all. 

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According to Channel 2 news– A local police officer is suspended and another has resigned after the two men got into a fight.

Investigators say the Atlanta police officers started arguing at the R. Thomas Deluxe Grill in Buckhead around 5 a.m. last Friday. The two were arguing over who could run faster.

Officers Stephen Green and Joseph Tyer decided to go outside where they started fighting.

According to a police report, Green said tension escalated, and Tyer told him, “I’m going to punch you in the face.”

The co-workers then began physically fighting, until other officers broke it up.

Officers say Tyer allegedly pulled his gun. No shots were fired.

Green has been relieved of duty, but is still being paid as the investigation unfolds. He’s been worked at the department for more than four years.

Tyer resigned Wednesday. He worked at the department for more than three years.
There’s an ongoing investigation within the police department and on a criminal level.