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A large group of Taliban soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand-dune say, "One Marine is better than ten Taliban." The Taliban commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune whereupon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice then calls out, "One Marine is better than a hundred Taliban soldiers." Furious, the Taliban commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence. The Marine voice calls out, "One Marine is better than one thousand Taliban." The enraged Taliban commander musters a thousand fighters and sends them over the dune. Cannon, rocket, and machine gun fire rings out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence. Finally one wounded Taliban fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men, it's a trap. Th...

I'M JUST GLAD THEY TOOK "" FRIENDLY MANITOBA"" OFF THE LICENCE PLATES!! FINALLY!!! A 25-year-old man -- no stranger to the justice system -- has been charged after leading police on a lengthy chase around the city Saturday. Jody Robert Duczminski remains in custody after being charged with theft, flight from police, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and three counts each of public mischief and uttering threats. 'CLEARLY DISTRAUGHT' The arrest isn't the Winnipegger's first brush with the law. Duczminski was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2002 to a string of car thefts and arsons that racked up more than $500,000 damage. In June 2003 he unsuccessfully appealed a three-year probation order that was part of his sentence. "I don't want to have to go see a parole officer every month and have all these conditions on me," Duczminski said at the time. "I think it's a bit excessive." In...

Well we had a nice quiet and very WARM weekend here in the boonies, ( PRAIRIES) and I was able to go on 2 and 1/2 fun dives this weekend just North of here in Gimili on Lake Winnipeg. The ice just went off it 6 weeks ago but I was amazed to find the water wasn't too bad, and the visibility still really good, ( kids still in school, no body at the beach stirring up silt, and I was at 57 feet!!) but come the second week of July when school's out, the beach's are crowed, is when all hell will break loose. The 1/2 dive was due to the fact that I had not noticed my knife had slipped out of the scabbard on my leg so it was back down I went. It was at 76 feet laying nicely on the bottom and not in any "loon shit" so it was easy to find. I don't mind doing a bounce dive ocassionally but don't make it a habit. Not good on the deco tables!!! And I must be geting old as the first dive I blew an 80 cu ft. tank in 46 mins!! Usually I can stretch one out to at least...

1) Man Ditches Weapon ( N. Vancouver BC 1986 I was a rookie) A call we received to a known drug area was to back up other police officers wanting to make a a traffic stop. The officers broadcasting the call were in plain clothes and driving a unmarked police car. All we knew was that they wanted a marked police car to stop the vehicle. When you hear these calls go out, they usually don't tell you the reason for the stop except for the violation they observed as the reason for the stop (i.e. running a red light). In this particular incident, it turns out the man either had a gun or narcotics and dumped them just before we arrived. The undercover officers didn't see anything thrown out, but lost them for a second while tailing them. When people throw out narcotics, they're sometimes extremely difficult to find if you don't have a specific spot to find them in. Most of the time however, police officers are keyed in on watching for contraband to be thrown out, as we're ...

On a hot summer day, a Redneck came into town with his dog. He tied the dog under the shade of a tree and went into the bar for a cold beer. About 20 minutes later a policeman came into the bar and asked who owned the dog tied under the tree. The redneck said that it was his. The policeman said, "Your dog seems to be in heat." The redneck replies, "No way dog's in heat she's cool kawse I got 'er tied unner the shade tree." The policeman says, "No! You don't understand your dog needs to be bred. "No way," the redneck says, "dog don't need bread, she ain't hongry, kawse I fed 'ER beef jerky this mornin'." Now the policeman gets mad and yells out; "NO! You don't seem to understand, your dog wants to have sex!" The redneck looks at him with a long pause and says, "Go 'head. I always wanted a police dog!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A drunk walks ...

I'll try to de-bunk the myth's of your local police/fire department dive teams here and show the importance of having one available in your community that is fully trained and functional!!! As the number of people using recreational waterways increases, so do the number of accidents, drownings, and violent crimes, including homicides, that occur in such settings. This increase coupled with the influx of criminals seeking a watery repository for weapons and other evidence of wrongdoing has caused law enforcement agencies to become more involved in underwater recovery operations. Historically fire departments departments provided personnel trained in search and rescue diving to the police when incidents occurred that required the retrieval of evidence submerged in water. For many years, law enforcement agencies believed that divers required no other special skills to provide this service. Agencies viewed the handling and processing of underwater evidence as nothing more than a ...

Enough police training talk for awhile, I thought it time to share a bit of my underwater world with you folks as I'm instructing an open water class this upcoming weekend out at West Hawk Lake for some returning servicemen based at Camp Shilo, a project that myself and other local SCUBA Instructors have been involved in since I brought up the topic at a Manitoba Underwater Council members meeting 2 years ago. At the meeting I put a motion on the floor challenging the other instructors to donate some of their time to " give back" to our servicemen/women for their role in keeping our country safer and to say " thank you your effort's are not un-noticed". I did not receive a single NO vote, the local dive shops donated the use of the equipment needed, I was in touch with the City Council which gladly donated the use of one of the cities indoor pools for the confined portion of the course, and it was off to the races. The only cost that these folks had to put...