Patriot News Network

The following collection of articles by various authors are their opinions, inspiration and humor for your reading enjoyment.

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Action Alert: Firefighters let home burn due to unpaid fees!

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - October 6, 2010 - A small rural community in western Tennessee is outraged and the fire chief is nursing a black eye after firefighters stood by and watched a mobile home burn to the ground because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 municipal fee.

South Fulton city firefighters - equipped with trucks, hoses and other firefighting equipment - didn't intervene to sa

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School installs facial recognition cameras to stop tardiness!

LONDON, England - October 5, 2010 - It could make the time-honored tradition of taking the school register a thing of the past

Cutting-edge cameras are being used to scan children’s faces as they enter school. The face-recognition technology makes sure they have turned up, records whether they were on time or late, and keeps an accurate roll call.

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Catch a thief from your armchair and win cash!

LONDON, England - October 5, 2010 - Anyone who owns a laptop computer can now fight crime from the safety of their home and win cash prizes for catching thieves red-handed, under a new British monitoring scheme that went live this week.

The service works by employing an army of registered armchair snoopers who watch hours of CCTV footage from cameras in stores and high street venue

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Trucks encircle and challenge media to tell the truth!

NEW YORK - October 4, 2010 - Four billboard trucks bearing the message “Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell the Truth!” began circling the Manhattan headquarters of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times on Friday. The trucks will do so for eight hours every weekday for the next four weeks as part of a campaign run by the Media Research Center, a watchdog group that analyzes the med

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More states allowing guns in bars!

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - October 3, 2010 - Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonks and tourist shops, when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a loaded 9-millimeter pistol in the front pocket of his gray slacks.

Ringenberg, a technology consultant, is one of the state’s nearly 300,000 handgun permit holders

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Stop sign cameras raise revenues from inattentive drivers!

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - October 2, 2010 - Ashley Wilson's mission to drive to a park above Beverly Hills and hike every morning for a week came with a cost that eclipses the burg's famously pricey lifestyle.

After assuming that only wild creatures would witness her car roll through a remote stop sign, Wilson was stunned weeks later to get four tickets in the mail totaling $700. A

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Student badges equipped with tracking devices!

SANTA FE, New Mexico - October 1, 2010 - Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device.

The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mixed reviews from parents and students.