Transportation Worker Identification Card scanner

Transportation Worker Identification Card scanner

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PHILADELPHIA – Petty Officer 3rd Class Samuel Manka, a member of Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay in Philadelphia, uses a Transportation Worker Identification Card scanner to verify information of individuals entering the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, May 9, 2011. The Coast Guard and nine other federal and state agencies took part in Operation Pit Stop that consisted of security sweeps on personnel and cargo entering and leaving the terminal. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lindberg.

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Kindergartener's artistic rendering - Scissors ...item 2.. Law Students of the Weekend: Alleged Berkeley Bird Beheaders -- "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (14 Oct 2012 at 11:45 AM) ...

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Law students gone wild? What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas when the allegations get this ugly.

A pair of men who appear to be Boalt Hall law students have made national — and even international — news. Keep reading for the disturbing allegations against them….
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Police say the men claimed to study at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and had student identification cards. It's not clear if they have attorneys.
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Scissors .. Quote from a kindergartener's mom: "This is my kindergartener's artistic rendering of a pair of scissors. I wonder what his teacher thought. And I am so dang proud of myself.

I allowed myself just a small smirk when I saw it. I waited until he was out of the room before I started to cry from laughing so hard."
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Cal law students accused of beheading bird at casino
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Associated Press

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LAS VEGAS -- A shocking charge against two Cal law students -- the 24-year-old's were arrested after police say they killed and decapitated an exotic bird that was part of a Las Vegas resort attraction.

Eric Cuellar and Justin Teixeira were jailed Friday afternoon on suspicion of conspiracy and willful malicious killing of wildlife.

Police say the two men were seen Friday laughing and throwing around the body of a dead, 14-year-old bird at the Flamingo resort-casino. The bird was a helmeted guineafowl, like the one pictured above. It was part of the Flamingo's Wildlife Habitat, a garden area with ponds and streams that houses many types of birds.

Authorities say surveillance video captured the men chasing the bird into some trees. Witnesses say the two emerge carrying the body and severed bird head.

Police say the men claimed to study at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and had student identification cards. It's not clear if they have attorneys.

(ABC7 News contributed to this report)

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14 Oct 2012 at 11:45 AM ANIMAL LAW, BOALT HALL, CRIME, DEATHS, VIOLENCE
Law Students of the Weekend: Alleged Berkeley Bird Beheaders

By DAVID LAT

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Law students gone wild? What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas when the allegations get this ugly.

A pair of men who appear to be Boalt Hall law students have made national — and even international — news. Keep reading for the disturbing allegations against them….
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img code photo ... Eric Cuellar (left) and Justin Teixeira (right). Cuellar looks addled; Teixeira looks cute.

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The news has been covered everywhere (links collected below). We’ll go with Gawker’s write-up of the allegations because it gives us the most to work with:
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--- In an apparent attempt to empirically prove the veracity of Robert Frost’s 1962 poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” two men, Eric Cuellar and Justin Teixeira, were arrested in Las Vegas this week after being caught on tape killing an endangered 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl.

--- Security footage at the painfully named Flamingo Hotel showed them throwing the bird back and forth while laughing and discussing how they would kill it, because there is nothing good or innocent that will not eventually be brutally murdered. The two were identified as Berkeley law students because of course they are.
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Thank you, gentlemen, for enhancing our profession’s already stellar reputation.
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--- Security officers saw them emerging from a nearby grove with the decapitated corpse of something that was once beautiful, as well as the head itself, after which we can only assume the officers took a moment to privately weep for humanity’s collective loss. The men refused to speak to police or identify themselves in any way, presumably because they were supernaturally rendered speechless by shame and grief.
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Exercising the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination? Looks like someone was paying attention in Crim Pro class.

(By the way, in terms of how the men were identified, other news reports state that they had Berkeley student identification cards on their persons.)
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--- The two face felony charges for torturing and killing endangered wildlife; no word yet on what punishments await reporters who use the phrase “fowl play” in introducing the story.
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If there will be punishment, mete it out to the Las Vegas Sun: “Fowl play: Police arrest Cal law students in killing of exotic bird at Flamingo habitat.” And some Above the Law tipsters got punny too:
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--- “I think these guys were puffin something.”

--- “They turned a guinea fowl into a bird of paradise.”
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All joking aside, this is actually a sad — and disturbing — story. We agree with our many tipsters who opined that the alleged conduct is both “ridiculous” and “despicable.”

We’ll probably have more to say about this on Monday. Remember, of course, that we’re dealing only with allegations at this point. Cuellar and Teixeira haven’t commented, so we don’t know their side of the story or what might have been motivating them. According to the Daily Mail, the police do not believe drugs to be involved (no word on alcohol though).

If you know Eric Cuellar or Justin Teixeira and can provide us with additional information about them, please email us or text us (646-820-8477). Thanks.

UPDATE (10:50 PM): For the record, as noted in the comments, the helmeted guinea fowl is not endangered. Cuellar and Teixeira face felony charges of conspiracy and the willful, malicious torture or killing of wildlife. Endangered status is not an element of the offense.

Law Students Decapitate Rare Bird Because It’s Vegas, Baby [Gawker]
(Alleged) Douchebag Law Students Arrested For Beheading Rare Bird On Trip To Vegas [LAist]
Fowl play: Police arrest Cal law students in killing of exotic bird at Flamingo habitat [Las Vegas Sun]
Berkeley law students arrested after ‘decapitating and tossing around exotic bird’s body at Vegas casino’ [Daily Mail]
2 law school students accused of beheading exotic bird at Las Vegas casino’s wildlife exhibit [Washington Post]
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Checks identification cards

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U.S. Senior Airman Dimetrious Greer, an entry controller for the 51st Security Forces Squadron, checks identification cards during a security exercise at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov. 4, 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lakisha Croley/Released)

Hayward, California. Farmer of Japanese ancestry is showing his identification card to a Wartime Ci . . ., 05/08/1942

Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Hayward, California. Farmer of Japanese ancestry is showing his identification card to a Wartime Civil Control Administration Control Dispatcher as he is about to board the special bus for Tanforan Assembly center.

To read more about the photographic holdings of the National Archives, visit the "History Through the Camera Lens " blog post on the AOTUS Blog.

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 210-G-C175

From:: Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, compiled 1942 - 1945

Created By:: Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. (02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946)

Production Date: 05/08/1942

Photographer: Lange, Dorothea


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