Balko has this over at his place.
Seems like there is a turf war over the Nevada State Troopers drug dog program. Current and former thugs are alleging that that the dogs are trained to "alert" on a cues. Not actual drugs.
8 News
The dogs were being trained to alert their handlers by cues, instead of
by picking up a drug's scent by sniffing, the complaint said. When a dog
gives a false alert, this resulted in illegal searches and seizures,
including money and property, the complaint said.
Hit the link to see all the cool pictures and commentary of some guys up in BC that had a pod of Orcas hunt down a seal in front of them.
Greg shouted over that he was late and going to take off for the marina.
Before he could do that however, he spotted that the whales had a
harbour seal on the run and they were headed our way. The next 15
minutes were to cool for words…..
Rest of it HERE
Poor babies just work so hard.
Eight Transportation Security
Administration screeners were fired after they were captured by
surveillance cameras sleeping on the job, or violating other standards.
The former employees, who all worked at the Newark Liberty International Airport, were caught napping in a baggage room
To add insult to injury, the TSA is also
investigating photographs of government supervisors apparently sleeping
in front of bomb-detecting monitors.
