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A US father who found his five-year-old daughter being raped, then beat the attacker to death will not be charged, prosecutors have said.

Good !! 


I don't think any father would disagree with what this man had done to the attacker of his five year old daughter..... He obviously didn't mean to kill the man because of his 911 call after the attack.... personally I couldn't give a toss that the rapist died as a result of his injuries...

I've been reading through some of the liberal wishy washy comments on the BBC news website about it, and quite frankly either these people don't have children or think it's perfectly ok for somebody to rape anyone, let alone a defenceless child. ..... such as .....

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 MARCPERRRY 

20TH JUNE 2012 - 16:39

I think you're all missing the point. This father took the law into his own hands. He savagely beat a man to death and then phoned the police. What right had he to beat anyone in such a way? The police are there for these things and then justice must prevail. If police had beaten the deceased man, would you all be saying the same thing?"

lets pick this statement apart ..... "I think you're all missing the point" .... erm I think not ......"This father took the law into his own hands. he savagely beat a man to death and then phoned the police" .... Well yes and the problem with that is ? what was he supposed to do tap the man on shoulder mid rape and ask him for ID ? or just call the police and stand there waiting for them to turn up while the rapist continued ?

Some people need their heads examining !!!

Anyway brilliant result for the father, as for his daughter lets hope she's too young to remember what happened in later years and lets hope the father can put behind him what he's done.... I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over slotting him ......

To save heartache with a Garmin Forerunner 205/305 on Debian

As you will have discovered Garmin have NO support for Linux so their Windoze only plugin doesn't work with Linux at all (even under Wine.... don't bother.... you'll never get that portion of your life back)

No....I'm afraid the only way to weld a Garmin Forerunner 205/305 (and others probably) into your lovely shiny Debian Linux is to do the following :-

( I apologise for laying it out "idiot's guide" style but you have to appreciate not everybody is an old code monkey)

go to this gentleman's website here and download either the Debian 386 or AMD64 bit deb file depending on your particular flavour and install it (Lucid is about the closest to Debian Squeeze)..... right click on the deb file and install with gdebi (it's quick and dirty and works)

Then once you've done that you'll need to do some semi scary stuff..... open a terminal as root or sudo/su once you're in the terminal and type or copy and paste :-

(red for filenames blue for content of files)

nano /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules

once the file comes up cut and paste this into its first line

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

(this has been deprecated so it "may" suddenly stop working on an update)

(also add yourself to the "plugdev" group later)

saved it by pressing "Ctrl O then Ctrl X" and you should drop back to terminal prompt

cut and paste this into the terminal 

nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

enter at the bottom of that file (or new line if nothing is in the file) the following 


# prevent garmin_gps from being loaded 
blacklist garmin_gps


save it (see above)

shutdown & reboot, plug in garmin forerunner 205/305 

go here and test it works or here
Enjoy