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An innocent blind man with a white stick has been shot in the back by police with a 50,000-volt Taser after officers mistook it for a samurai sword.

Colin Farmer, 61, was hit following reports of a man walking through Chorley, Lancashire, early on Friday evening, with a sword. He said that he initially thought he was being attacked by hooligans when he was struck by the Taser.

The matter is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) after Farmer, who has said he intends to take legal action, made a complaint to the force.

Full article at The Guardian.

I ship products all over the US. People enter their address info online, and I ship to whatever address they give me.

PayPal, however, thinks it's necessary to edit addresses to suit their needs, and won't let you continue until you give them the address that they think you should have written.

Today's example:

Gee, folks. How much of a difference is there between

JOHN Q. CUSTOMER
9999 ROBIN WOOD DR
FT. WAYNE, IN 46806

and

JOHN Q. CUSTOMER
9999 ROBINWOOD DR
FORT WAYNE, IN 46806

What I want to do, when I get a dialog that looks like this, is to click the checkbox that says:

I mean, the post office is having it's troubles these days, but their people aren't dumb. There was a time when a letter addressed

WOOD
JOHN
MASS

was successfully delivered to a Mr. John Underwood, in Andover, Massachussetts - I think today's postal workers could probably figure out where my package is going, especially if the ZIP Code is correct...

Sheesh! yarg snarl snap yarg