BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.
"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."
Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud. ;:"
Quote from: Homer on May 18, 2006, 04:30:18 PM
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.
"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."
Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud. ;:"
homer shame on you did you go back and pick up the lovely Tara :)) :)) reminds me of a song thats what friends are for :)) :))
Quote from: Homer on May 18, 2006, 04:30:18 PM
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.
"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."
Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud. ;:"
ROFL, I didn't read all of it when I started to imagine what exactly the payment was going to be. It was very funny but not PG-13 so I can't say it. However, I'm sure y'all know exactly what I was thinking. Now that I've read it all, it's a friendly reminder that friends aren't forever!
lmao.thats where she is :))
My mom ran out of gas one time when we were young and she left my little brother as a deposit for the gas can. The attendant gave him candy - unfortunately for me, she came back for my brother. LMAO...never heard of anyone else leaving a human as a deposit. Too funny. :)) :)) :))
CANTON, N.Y. - A man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief Thursday after he allegedly broke into a funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin.
Joel Fish, 20, of Queensbury, was arrested after he was discovered at the O'Leary Funeral Home in Canton, 127 miles north of Syracuse.
Debra White, wife of the home's funeral director Joe White, said she noticed a broken window and open door to the casket display room when she awoke at 6:30 a.m. Inside, she saw a boot and pair of pants on the floor and a pair of knees sticking out of a stainless steel coffin.
Fish, who police said was intoxicated, was treated at Canton-Potsdam hospital for cuts. He was arraigned and released to return to court at a later date.
The funeral home estimates the damage from the burglary, mostly to the coffin, at $4,000.
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lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that
Quote from: hades on May 19, 2006, 08:05:16 AM
lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that
Maybe he soiled it? :o
I have some strange news of my own.
Government in Action
The board of zoning appeals in Anderson Township, Ohio, turned down a couple's request to build a cedar fence around their yard even though the proposal was supported by neighbors and another municipal agency. Angry, according to an April Cincinnati Enquirer report, the couple instead set up over 30 brigh neon colored donated toilets as flower pots in the fenceless yard. Even though the zoning board can deny their request to build a fence, local laws phorbit the township from ordering the couple to remove the toliets.
The newly installed municipal sewer system in the Florida Keys town of Islamorada is scheduled to go on line later this month, but the real test will come shortly after that if the town cannot hook up enough of the residents in time to allow the system full, efficient functioning. The fallback plan, according to the town government, will require it to buy enough out-of-town sewage to boost the weak flow that would be running through the system.
To free up soldiers, the Army hires contractors to man the gates at 57 domestic installations, including Fort Bragg and West Point. In April, the Government Accountability Office announced that some of the contractors have hired an alarming number of convicted felons as security guards at said gates.
Least Competent People
In Red Deer, Alberta, in April, Jesse Maggrah, 20, listening through earphones to heavy-metal music while walking on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, was hit from behind by a train moving at about 30 mph, but survived. In his hospital bed (broken ribs, punctured lung, other injuries), Maggrah said he remembers the immediate aftermath: "I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train. Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me, and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them."
Benjamin Thornton, 20, was charged with impersonating a police officer and attempted kidnapping in Pearland, Texas, in April. And what did he do to find himself in this pickle? He tried to convince a 9-year-old girl that the school books in her backback and her homework could not legally be held by anyone waiting for a school bus. The girl was too smart for him.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Family visits in Sao Paulo prisons only take place once a week but jailed Brazilian gangsters chat on their contraband cell phones every day.
Smuggled cell phones are used to keep in contact with families but also to direct criminal operations outside the penitentiary walls -- such as the gangster offensive unleashed in Sao Paulo in the past week.
Godofredo Bittencourt, chief of the anti-organized crime police unit, said the mobile phone has become "deadlier than the gun" in Brazilian prisons.
The wives of two members of the First Command of the Capital (PCC) criminal gang said they had easy telephone contact with their imprisoned husbands until a few days ago.
"Normally they call, a number appears and we know it's from the inside," said one of the women, a 32-year-old, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity.
Her husband has spent 12 years behind bars for robbery and murder. She and the other woman, 18, who has the photo of her jailed husband on her mobile phone screen, visit their spouses weekly.
"How often do I speak to him? Every day," she said.
The prison is a maximum-security penitentiary and cell phones are banned.
But PCC leaders in prison used mobile phones to give the orders for a wave of attacks in Sao Paulo city and state in which about 150 people have been killed since last Friday.
Police said the gang ordered the attacks in retaliation for the transfer of jailed gang leaders and members to a remote high-security prison. Related uprisings broke out in dozens of prisons across the state to demand better conditions.
PRISONERS DON'T CHARGE
Among the rules imposed by the PCC in Sao Paulo state prisons is one that regulates communications. A prisoner who has a cell phone can never charge another for the phone use.
Sao Paulo state Penitentiary Administration Secretary Nagashi Furukawa acknowledged this week that the state has problems controlling the flow of cellular phones into prisons.
Phones are delivered to prisoners by visiting relatives, corrupt prison officials or inside service trucks.
Wednesday, the authorities ordered mobile phone operating companies to cut the signal in six state prisons.
According to the Pastoral Carceraria human rights group, the PCC controls practically all the 140 penitentiaries in Brazil's biggest state.
The PCC watches over low-income families of its members, the two women said.
"They give medicines to those who need medicines. Many things that people need and the government doesn't do, they do. They even pay for funerals," said the younger woman, whose husband is serving a 13-year sentence for robbery and murder.
It also helped out with food baskets and provided buses to take relatives to prison visits, she said.
They said the PCC wanted to improve general prison conditions when it ordered the attacks.
"It doesn't want things to get worse, doesn't want turmoil or the end of the world," the younger woman said.
Quote from: Homer on May 19, 2006, 08:06:14 AM
Quote from: hades on May 19, 2006, 08:05:16 AM
lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that
Maybe he soiled it? :o
or was dead tired :)) :)) :))
BOSTON (Reuters) - The word "boom" found scrawled in the bathroom of a US Airways airplane during a flight from Washington DC to Boston caused a brief bomb scare on Thursday.
Massachusetts state police with bomb-sniffing dogs swept flight 2024 after it landed in Boston's Logan International Airport but found no explosives, said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman at the federal Transportation Security Administration, or TSA.
"The pilot and command called ahead and notified TSA and the Massachusetts state police who met the aircraft and ultimately swept the aircraft using explosive detection canines," she said.
Davis said the writing was found by flight crew while the plane was in the air.
THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home
05/18/2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.
Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.
Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.
"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."
Quote from: Homer on May 20, 2006, 02:29:53 PM
THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home
05/18/2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.
Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.
Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.
"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."
okely dokley then....
Quote from: Homer on May 20, 2006, 02:29:53 PM
THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home
05/18/2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.
Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.
Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.
"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."
LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz
That is weird though.
Quote from: Tara on May 20, 2006, 02:32:23 PM
Quote from: Homer on May 20, 2006, 02:29:53 PM
THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home
05/18/2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.
Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.
Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.
"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."
LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz
That is weird though.
Does that mean you get to charge $29.99 to her credit card? :P
Quote from: Homer on May 20, 2006, 02:33:21 PM
Quote from: Tara on May 20, 2006, 02:32:23 PM
Quote from: Homer on May 20, 2006, 02:29:53 PM
THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home
05/18/2006
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.
Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.
Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.
"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."
LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz
That is weird though.
Does that mean you get to charge $29.99 to her credit card? :P
I might as well, everyone else has been charging to it... :)) :))
another one from least compent people file
(17 April 2006, England) There's always someone who thinks that good advice doesn't apply to them. For example, if advised by a doctor that you are to be covered wtih a flammable material, and the one thing you must not do is go near a naked flame, most people would be able to take this advice onboard, and not strike a match until the flammable material smeared on your body had been taken off.
However, Phillip, 60, decided he knew better. He was in hospital for the treatment of a skin disease, which consisted of being covered with a paraffin-based cream. He was warned that the cream was flammable and that he definitely shouldn't smoke. But Phillip couldn't live without his cigarettes.
Smoking was not permitted in the ward, but Phillip took this setback in stride, and sneaked out onto a fire escape. Once he was in his little hiding place, he lit up... ahh. Everything went well as he got his nicotine fix; things went downhill only after he finished his cigarette, and ground out the butt with his heel.
Unfortunately, the paraffin skin cream had been absorbed by his clothing. As he stamped out the butt, it lit the fumes coming off his clothing. The resulting inferno treated his skin ailment, and left him with second and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Despite excellent emergency treatment, he died in the intensive care unit.
Quote from: bubblegum on May 20, 2006, 02:38:49 PM
another one from least compent people file
(17 April 2006, England) There's always someone who thinks that good advice doesn't apply to them. For example, if advised by a doctor that you are to be covered wtih a flammable material, and the one thing you must not do is go near a naked flame, most people would be able to take this advice onboard, and not strike a match until the flammable material smeared on your body had been taken off.
However, Phillip, 60, decided he knew better. He was in hospital for the treatment of a skin disease, which consisted of being covered with a paraffin-based cream. He was warned that the cream was flammable and that he definitely shouldn't smoke. But Phillip couldn't live without his cigarettes.
Smoking was not permitted in the ward, but Phillip took this setback in stride, and sneaked out onto a fire escape. Once he was in his little hiding place, he lit up... ahh. Everything went well as he got his nicotine fix; things went downhill only after he finished his cigarette, and ground out the butt with his heel.
Unfortunately, the paraffin skin cream had been absorbed by his clothing. As he stamped out the butt, it lit the fumes coming off his clothing. The resulting inferno treated his skin ailment, and left him with second and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Despite excellent emergency treatment, he died in the intensive care unit.
Dang, Thats sad
out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?
Quote from: krispy on May 20, 2006, 04:13:55 PM
out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?
stuff is a good aussie word i can say not tonight AutoLover im stuffed or i can say stuff it i'm stuffed , lots of stuff i can say about stuff
:)) :)) :-* :-* O0
Quote from: GeckoDundee on May 20, 2006, 04:32:08 PM
Quote from: krispy on May 20, 2006, 04:13:55 PM
out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?
stuff is a good aussie word i can say not tonight AutoLover im stuffed or i can say stuff it i'm stuffed , lots of stuff i can say about stuff
:)) :)) :-* :-* O0
better get to the bank and start converting that money to send to tara :))
Here is one under the STRANGE NEWS Topic. Please its not ****, I found it on the internet and thought OMG how odd. Clash Over Nude Britney Spears Statue
Sculpture Of Pregnant Pop Idol To Go On Display At Brooklyn Gallery
NEW YORK, March 29, 2006
This photograph, released by sculptor Daniel Edwards on Tuesday, March 28, 2006,shows his sculpture of singer Britney Spears giving birth.
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A life-size sculpture of a naked Britney Spears kneeling on a bearskin rug as she gives birth will be on display next month at Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery.
The sculpture is to appear next to a display case filled with anti-abortion materials. It was created by Daniel Edwards, who said he never spoke to the 24-year-old pop star or met her, and fashioned her face and figure from photographs.
"I admire her. This is an idealized figure," Edwards said Tuesday in a phone interview from his home, which is near his studio in Moosup, Conn.
"Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself — seductively. Suddenly, she's a mom."
Spears, who is married to her former backup dancer Kevin Federline, gave birth to their son, Sean Preston, last year. He is the couple's first child.
The singer's publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
When some bloggers heard about the exhibit — "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" — the gallery said it received about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between anti-abortion and abortion rights opinions.
"We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument."
The gallery, located in Brooklyn's artsy Williamsburg neighborhood, said it would hire extra security guards for the free exhibit, which will open April 7 and run for two weeks.
Edwards, whose sculpture of Ted Williams' decapitated head — which was frozen in the hope that medical science could one day revive the baseball great — stirred up an artistic storm, said the sculpture of Spears was a "new take on pro-life."
"Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth," he said.
When Edwards was asked why he creates art that generates publicity by selecting subjects hyped in the media, he said: "You're bombarded with these stories. And there's a thread that winds back to the art. That's not a bad thing. People are interested in these topics, and it works for art as well."
Asked whether he's anti-abortion, Edwards said, "You nailed me. I'm not saying that I am. I wouldn't march with either pro-life or pro-choice advocates. This is not meant to be political."
Update...
Britney Spears doesn't like naked statue
Thursday, May 11 2006, 11:48 BST - by Fiona Edwards
Britney Spears has apparently laughed at a statue of herself giving birth, and said she wouldn't have it in her home.
The 'Toxic' star found a sculpture created by Daniel Edwards depicting herself naked and giving birth, entitled "Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston", to be not to her taste.
She said: "I think it's the most hysterical thing I've ever seen in my life. My assistant and I were totally dumbfounded when we saw it. We couldn't believe somebody actually did this."
When jokingly asked if she would buy it to put it in her home she said: "No thanks. They can display it somewhere, but not in my beautiful home."
Quote from: krispy on May 20, 2006, 04:13:55 PM
out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?
I'm not 30% sure on this but I believe it's because people were using the word "stuff" in every sentence they may have been using instead of actual words so it was a way to have fun at the fact "stuff" is overly used.
Quote from: SaintHippo on May 20, 2006, 11:01:01 PM
Quote from: krispy on May 20, 2006, 04:13:55 PM
out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?
I'm not 30% sure on this but I believe it's because people were using the word "stuff" in every sentence they may have been using instead of actual words so it was a way to have fun at the fact "stuff" is overly used.
thank you for clearing that up for me saint.
Star Trek will Hold a Garage sale
By Chris Michaud
Fri May 19, 10:29 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trekkies will be setting their phasers to "bid" this fall when Christie's holds the first official studio auction of memorabilia from all five "Star Trek" television series and 10 movie spinoffs.
CBS Paramount Television Studios is cleaning out its vaults for the sale, comprising more than 1,000 lots totaling some 4,000 items, to be held from October 5 to 7 in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the original "Star Trek" series, Christie's announced on Thursday.
Fans and collectors will have a chance to acquire "Star Trek" artifacts ranging from models of the "Starship" USS Enterprise to Capt. James Kirk's uniform or Capt. Jean-Luc Picard's jumpsuit in an auction where Christie's expects to raise more than $3 million.
Other items to hit the block include props, weapons, prosthetics and set dressings unearthed from five Paramount warehouses.
Among the highlights are a miniature of the Starship Enterprise used in visual effects for the film "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country," expected to sell for $15,000 to $25,000, and a replica of Kirk's chair from the original TV series that was recreated for the 1996 "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," which is estimated at $10,000 to $15,000.
Fans with more modest budgets can train their sights on a host of Trekkie ephemera like the 10-inch Resikkan nonplaying prop brass flute used by Patrick Stewart as Picard in the episode "The Inner Light" in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," which carries a low estimate of just $300.
Cathy Elkies, director of special collections at Christie's, said the value of the objects was difficult to gauge because "we don't factor in that emotional fury generated around this kind of material."
Past estimates for auctions associated with the likes of Marilyn Monroe or Jacqueline Kennedy, who enjoyed dedicated followings, have been far off the mark as actual sale prices soared to five, 10 and even 100 times presale projections. "Star Trek" fans, with their Web sites, conventions and clubs, have proven among the most wildly devoted in all of pop culture.
'CULTURAL ICON'
"To several generations of people, 'Star Trek' was a cultural icon that represented our dreams, our hopes and our aspirations -- what we can become as a species, what we aspire to," said Mike Okuda, a graphic designer on four of the TV series and seven of the motion pictures as well as co-author of "The Star Trek Encyclopedia." "And to have a tangible piece of that is to have a tangible piece of a dream."
With the original captain's chair from the first "Star Trek" series in the Museum of Science Fiction in Seattle and the original Enterprise miniature at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, other items from the 1960s show could be the most sought-after at auction.
Okuda said many of the first "Star Trek" props were reused, destroyed or disappeared. But the auction will feature a mustard-colored mini-dress from the first series as well as costumes worn by guest stars, such as a gown worn by famed attorney Melvin Belli who played an evil alien entity.
"Star Trek" fans will get a peek at the collection when the memorabilia goes on tour this week in Germany.
Conceived by author Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s, the original "Star Trek" series debuted in 1966.
The last TV series, "Enterprise," set in the early 22nd century, about 100 years before the adventures of Kirk's five-year mission, ended its run on the UPN network in 2005.
TIOGA-NICETOWN - May 17, 2006 - A Philadelphia man is recovering from an attack, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The assault on his private parts has become public knowledge. In an interview with Action News after his release from, the 52-year-old victim spoke of his terrifying ordeal.
The 52-year-old Tioga-Nicetown man, who we are identifying only by his first name of Howard, arrived home late Wednesday, hours after his wife allegedly tore off two parts of his genitalia with her bare hands. Surgeons at Einstein successfully managed to repair the damage.
Howard/Tioga-Nicetown: "Doctors did a beautiful job in E.R. and the paramedics did a wonderful job, they only took 4 minutes to get here."
Howard says his 40-year-old wife Monica, who he says is bi-polar, somehow conceived the notion that he was cheating on her. So while he was asleep last night, she attacked him.
Police outside the home in Tioga-Nicetown following the domestic incident early Tuesday morning.
Howard: "I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails."
Police and paramedics rushed to the man's row home in the 3800 block of Pulaski where they found him bleeding profusely. He was rushed to Einstein where doctors first labeled his condition critical. He was later upgraded to stable after having reattachment surgery and a few doses of morphine. Howard still cannot believe his wife of 11 years would allegedly do this him.
Howard: "I can see doing something like that to a rapist, or mugger but not a husband, not something like..."
Dann: "She thought that you were cheating on her?"
Howard: "I wasn't cheating on nobody, I'm home in bed at 8' 0 clock every night, I mean I'm not out there messing around."
Brian Lawson/neighbor: "I mean men cringing when they hear the story, I mean uh, I'm just cringing thinking about it."
Antoinette Fortune/Neighbor: "Who would wanna do something like that?"
Unidentified Neighbor: "That's kinda nasty. That's drastic isn't it? He's lucky to be alive."
Some neighbors say Howard's had problems with his wife before and has thrown her out only to let her back in. They worry what'll happen next.
Dann Cuellar: "Howard, you're not gonna let her back in here are you?"
Howard: "Oh no, no, no. She's in jail where she belongs."
At one point, Howard's wife Monica was facing attempted murder charges but now, the D.A.'s office has asked that a psychiatric evaluation be performed before any charges are filed.
Quote from: bra on May 21, 2006, 09:31:22 AM
TIOGA-NICETOWN - May 17, 2006 - A Philadelphia man is recovering from an attack, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The assault on his private parts has become public knowledge. In an interview with Action News after his release from, the 52-year-old victim spoke of his terrifying ordeal.
The 52-year-old Tioga-Nicetown man, who we are identifying only by his first name of Howard, arrived home late Wednesday, hours after his wife allegedly tore off two parts of his genitalia with her bare hands. Surgeons at Einstein successfully managed to repair the damage.
Howard/Tioga-Nicetown: "Doctors did a beautiful job in E.R. and the paramedics did a wonderful job, they only took 4 minutes to get here."
Howard says his 40-year-old wife Monica, who he says is bi-polar, somehow conceived the notion that he was cheating on her. So while he was asleep last night, she attacked him.
Police outside the home in Tioga-Nicetown following the domestic incident early Tuesday morning.
Howard: "I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails."
Police and paramedics rushed to the man's row home in the 3800 block of Pulaski where they found him bleeding profusely. He was rushed to Einstein where doctors first labeled his condition critical. He was later upgraded to stable after having reattachment surgery and a few doses of morphine. Howard still cannot believe his wife of 11 years would allegedly do this him.
Howard: "I can see doing something like that to a rapist, or mugger but not a husband, not something like..."
Dann: "She thought that you were cheating on her?"
Howard: "I wasn't cheating on nobody, I'm home in bed at 8' 0 clock every night, I mean I'm not out there messing around."
Brian Lawson/neighbor: "I mean men cringing when they hear the story, I mean uh, I'm just cringing thinking about it."
Antoinette Fortune/Neighbor: "Who would wanna do something like that?"
Unidentified Neighbor: "That's kinda nasty. That's drastic isn't it? He's lucky to be alive."
Some neighbors say Howard's had problems with his wife before and has thrown her out only to let her back in. They worry what'll happen next.
Dann Cuellar: "Howard, you're not gonna let her back in here are you?"
Howard: "Oh no, no, no. She's in jail where she belongs."
At one point, Howard's wife Monica was facing attempted murder charges but now, the D.A.'s office has asked that a psychiatric evaluation be performed before any charges are filed.
Oh my. Poor guy eh?
Man Takes Police Station Gumball Machine
New York
While waiting for his friend to be processed on a drunken driving charge Friday morning at the R o t h dam Police Department, 21-year-old Adam Jewett picked up the gumball machine in the lobby and walked out the door with it, authorities say.
Jewett was riding in Zachary Peek's vehicle when it was stopped by an officer about 3 a.m. in R o t h dam, police said. A dispatcher watching the surveillance system saw Jewett carry away the gumball machine. He told the officer processing Peek on the driving while intoxicated charge. Patrolman Stephen Dixon found Jewett in the parking lot with the gumball machine.
Jewett, who lives in R o t h dam, was charged with petit larceny, a misdemeanor, police said. He and Peek, 21, from nearby Schenectady, were issued appearance tickets for R o t h dam Town Court.
Malfunction Cuts Gas Price to 29 Cents
- When a pump at a gas station malfunctioned, opportunistic motorists were able to buy gas for 29 cents per gallon.
A Marathon station sold a gallon of fuel for less than the price of a first-class stamp for about 90 minutes Friday before the mistake was detected and and the price corrected to $2.79.
While still answering questions from customers about why the price had suddenly gone up, clerk Nida Tayyab said more than 50 people had crowded the store, likely thinking the mishap was a price promotion, and received the bargain. Normally, the station serves about 10 people per hour.
"I was really confused," she said. "It was so messed up. I can't explain here how it was."
When Tayyab figured out what was going on, she called her father, who works at another store, for help fixing the situation.
"It's fine now. It's all working," Tayyab added.
This was under strange news...But I think the judge should be shoot. This is a crock of bullchit. I say let the MF rot...
Judge Says Man Too Small for Prison
By Associated Press
Thu May 25, 7:14 PM
SIDNEY, Neb. - A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.
His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.
"You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child," she said.
But, she said, "That doesn't make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category."
Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his ****ography.
He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.
"I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life," the judge told Thompson. "I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced."
Quote from: Tara on May 27, 2006, 07:05:38 PM
This was under strange news...But I think the judge should be shoot. This is a crock of bullchit. I say let the MF rot...
Judge Says Man Too Small for Prison
By Associated Press
Thu May 25, 7:14 PM
SIDNEY, Neb. - A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.
His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.
"You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child," she said.
But, she said, "That doesn't make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category."
Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his ****ography.
He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.
"I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life," the judge told Thompson. "I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced."
so what is he gonna do - invite him to live at his house?
that just stinks. having dealt with a gd predator who abused my daughter, i am sure the gun i have could watch him just as well.
I have been watching this story on TV all day. This a$$hole didn't just rape some girl, he raped his step-daughter and got away with it. The judge that sentenced him to 10 years probation because he was only 5' 1" tall should be taken out in the woods and shot and the sex offender should have his appendage removed if he's too short to do time in prison!
I was watching CNN at work when this story broke. How in effen gawds name can you be to "short" for jail? So does that mean when a little person kills someone or something, does that mean he doesn't have to go to jail as well?
apparenly "short" people cant defend themselves against the taller prisoners in the prisons. In the case of the rapist I can't for the life of me see what the problem with that is????????????
Quote from: PogoSlave on May 27, 2006, 07:23:32 PM
apparenly "short" people cant defend themselves against the taller prisoners in the prisons. In the case of the rapist I can't for the life of me see what the problem with that is????????????
He sexually abused a child..thats exactly where he needs to be....and what they would do to him...oh welllllllllll
now i am in a real b!tchy mood after reading that crap. i am gonna go for a while before i get in trouble.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Earlier this year in separate incidents, two physical education
teachers at Ernest Ward Middle School in Pensacola, Fla., were
arrested and charged with bribery for allowing students to avoid
gym classes by paying the teachers money. Tamara B. Tootle, 39,
charged in April, allegedly gave students credits at $1 per student
per class, and Terence Braxton, 28, arrested in February, pleaded
guilty in May to a similar scheme, admitting to making at least
$230.
A highly-publicized attraction of the Isdaan restaurant in Gerona, Philippines (according to a March Reuters dispatch) is its "wall of fury," against which diners can vent frustrations by smashing things (with fees ranging from the
equivalent of 30 U.S. cents for a plate up to $25 for an old TV set).
In July, according to BBC News, British farmer David Lucas will be forced by European Commission rules to give up his lucrative sideline of building gallows for Zimbabwe and other governments that still employ hangings. Lucas's single gallows sells for the equivalent of $22,000, and the Multi-Hanging Execution System, mounted on a trailer, goes for about $185,000.
Workplace Traumas
In Miami, Fla., actress-dancer Alice Alyce, 29, sued the owners and managers of the musical "Movin' Out" for $100 million in March after they fired her, allegedly because they believed her breasts are too large for her role.
Schoolteacher Sue Storer, 48, filed a lawsuit against the government in Bristol, England, in March, asking the equivalent of $1.9 million for
having fired her when she complained of, among other things,
never getting a replacement for her classroom chair, which she said
emitted a "farting" noise every time she sat down.
Government in Action
Politicians: Only the Best and the Brightest
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate (and football hall-of-famer) Lynn Swann, who says state taxes are too high, was revealed by the Allentown Morning Call in March to have been neglecting to collect legally required state sales tax from the Pennsylvania customers of his football memorabilia
website.
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris donated $100,000 of his own money to his campaign in April, six months after successfully begging a judge to cut his $2,000-per-month child-support payments in half (and conceding that he had not disclosed that he owed his ex-wife $44,000 more from a property sale). Harris said even paying $1,000 a month was "pretty darn generous" of him.
Pasco County, Fla., candidate John Ubele, 28, a proud member of the white separatist National Alliance, said he's more concerned with runaway government expenses than with race as he campaigns for a seat on the county's Mosquito Control Board.
New York state Sen. David Paterson, running for lieutenant governor, said in March that he now regrets introducing unsuccessful legislation for 14 straight years (until 2001) to make it legal for suspects to physically resist police.
People With Issues
In April, Michael Theleman, 45, finding true love hard to come by in the isolated town of Bray, Okla. (pop. 1,035), posted a yard sign offering to pay $1,000 for help in finding a "virgin" bride between the ages of 12 and 24. Offended neighbors convinced him to take it down, but he replaced it with another, stating that his future wife must not be "pig-worshipping, heathen [or] white supremacist." Theleman said he couldn't understand the
neighbors' furor, recalling that his grandmother was married at 14 to "a much older man."
Salt Lake City high school student Travis Williams was bitten by a baby rattlesnake in May, even though a companion had warned him to avoid it. Said Williams, "[E]ven though she told me not to . . . I picked it up anyway. I'm not too bright that way."
Chesterton, Ind., high school student Michael Morris was hospitalized in May with a broken leg and broken arm after being run into by a friend driving an Acura at about 25 mph, but it was consensual. The friend described Morris as an adrenaline junkie who had had the friend run over him before, but Morris told the Times of Northwest Indiana, "I won't do this no more."
Wow, Bree's soon-to-be-husband is hard at work:
If you think keeping fit is merely mind over matter, Lester Clancy has an invention for you — a cordless jump-rope. That's right, a jump-rope minus the rope. All that's left is two handles, so you jump over the pretend rope. Or if you are truly lazy, you can pretend to jump over the pretend rope.
And for that idea kicking around Clancy's head since 1988, the U.S. Patent Office this month awarded the 52-year-old Mansfield, Ohio, man a patent. Its number: 7037243.
What makes this invention work is the moving weights inside the handles. They simulate the feel of a rope moving, Clancy said. Well, it's only one handle so far because Clancy is waiting for financial backers before building its partner.
But why jump rope without a rope?
It's perfect for the clumsy, Clancy said. "If you are still jumping, you're still using your legs as well as your arms, and getting the cardiovascular workout. You just don't have to worry about tripping on the rope."
It is also good for mental institutions and prisons where rope is a suicide risk, said Clancy, who works as a laundry coordinator in a state prison. And low ceiling fans aren't a hazard any more, he said.
Daniel Wright, who features the cordless jump-rope on his Web site http://www.patentlysilly.com, can barely talk about Clancy's invention without laughing.
"What really grabbed me," Wright said, was the name the item has in its patent, Wright said.
The idea isn't all that crazy, said Mike Ernst, a professor of kinesiology at California State University in Dominguez Hills.
"I think it's silly but at the same time if somehow, some way it promotes physical activity, gets kids active, then I'm all for it," Ernst said.
The more he thought about it, the more Ernst said he could see the benefit, adding that the act of jumping, not the rope itself, is what provides exercise.
"Do you need to jump with a rope? You don't," Ernst said. "But I wouldn't buy the product, I can tell you that. I'm not an idiot."
High-tech handles aren't needed. You could even use toilet paper holders, Ernst said. On second thought, he wondered if he could patent that idea.
CEDAR CITY, Utah - A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin's Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.
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Customers didn't notice the woman until she would stand up from the cart and bend over to look at items on the shelf, exposing her buttocks.
The woman told police she arrived in Cedar City with a circus but was left behind.
Has anyone seen nanners? :)) :P
Quote from: Homer on June 12, 2006, 02:37:35 PM
CEDAR CITY, Utah - A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin's Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.
Customers didn't notice the woman until she would stand up from the cart and bend over to look at items on the shelf, exposing her buttocks.
The woman told police she arrived in Cedar City with a circus but was left behind.
Has anyone seen nanners? :)) :P
ROFL.... nanners? Oh nannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnners? :)))
Not really sure this is appropriate for this topic...but I didn't want to start another one...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/16/severed.head.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/16/severed.head.ap/index.html)
I think it's pretty obvious what the cause of death was for the woman....ya think? It's a no brainer.
Quote from: bubblegum on June 16, 2006, 11:32:54 AM
I think it's pretty obvious what the cause of death was for the woman....ya think? It's a no brainer.
Well...he could have strangled her or something first...and then cut her head off...
Ew.
Am I the only one who think Foxx did it? I mean, look at her avatar and tell me it just way too weird to see that picture there?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A man decided that running naked through his neighborhood would be a good way to show his hesitant girlfriend that risk-taking is important. The only thing this stunt actually showed her was that it's a good way to be chased and shot at. The couple had been talking about marriage when the woman said she wasn't sure if she was ready. It was then the man began running naked down the street, ducking into some bushes when he saw a couple walking. A man walking past saw the rustling bushes and bare feet sticking out, and drew his .40-caliber handgun. The naked man took off, but the armed man ran after him and fired a shot, injuring the naked guy.
crazyness.
Quote from: Homer on May 19, 2006, 05:49:47 AM
CANTON, N.Y. - A man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief Thursday after he allegedly broke into a funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin.
Joel Fish, 20, of Queensbury, was arrested after he was discovered at the O'Leary Funeral Home in Canton, 127 miles north of Syracuse.
Debra White, wife of the home's funeral director Joe White, said she noticed a broken window and open door to the casket display room when she awoke at 6:30 a.m. Inside, she saw a boot and pair of pants on the floor and a pair of knees sticking out of a stainless steel coffin.
Fish, who police said was intoxicated, was treated at Canton-Potsdam hospital for cuts. He was arraigned and released to return to court at a later date.
The funeral home estimates the damage from the burglary, mostly to the coffin, at $4,000.
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people always seem to amaze with the stupid things they do
stupid and sometimes incredibly dumb.... :o
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia - It was a real-life version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears — only in reverse — when a woman came home to find a young bear eating oatmeal in her kitchen.
The bear apparently entered through an open sliding glass door, broke a ceramic food container and started eating, West Vancouver police Sgt. Paul Skelton said.
"It sounds like a nursery rhyme, doesn't it?" Skelton said. "At least we have a health-conscious bear on our hands."
Three police officers who went to the home Thursday couldn't get the bear to budge, so authorities let the animal finish its meal.
"The bear didn't appear to be aggressive and wasn't destroying the house, so they just let it do what it was doing and eventually the bear decided to make its way out of the residence and down toward a forested gully," Skelton said. "It ended the best it could."
Skelton said bears in the suburbs north of Vancouver have been coming out of hibernation as hungry as ever but later than usual but this spring because of a heavier than normal snowpack from the winter. The report Thursday was one of six complaints police said they received about bears in the area that day.
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LINCOLN PARK, Mich. - A woman was wondering why she was having a hard time steering her car so she pulled into a gas station. The problem? There was a man's body wedged under her vehicle. Dominique Page, 19, apparently didn't realize she had run over the man as he lay in a Detroit street. "The young woman was the not first person to hit him," said Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens Bell. "He apparently was already a hit-and-run victim when she ran over him." Page discovered the body when she stopped at a gas station about two miles down the road. The Detroit News identified the victim as Edison Fowler, 43.
:o
RYE, N.H. - Police in a New Hampshire coastal resort believe a flasher who likes to wear underwear on his head and nothing below the neck is back. The most recent report, on Sunday, was from a woman sunbathing in Odiorne State Park in Rye, the Manchester Union Leader reported. She said a man with gray shorts on his head flashed her and then disappeared into the woods as she dialed 911 on her cell phone. From her account, the flasher might be more attractive with clothes. She described him as a middle-aged man with a big stomach and gray hair on his chest. Police Lt. Kevin Walsh said a similar man engaged in similar behavior in past years, generally approaching a woman alone and disappearing into the woods. But in one case last year, the flasher also fondled a woman.
Docs Remove 119 Nails From Woman's Stomach
By Associated Press
Sat Jul 1, 6:45 AM
HANOI, Vietnam - Physicians removed 119 nails _ many of them rusty _ from a woman's stomach months after she apparently swallowed them, a doctor said.
The 43-year-old woman arrived Wednesday at Hospital No. 121 in the southern city of Can Tho City, complaining of a severe stomachache, Dr. Tran Van Nam said Friday.
"After having her stomach X-rayed and scanned, we found a stack of strange objects and decided to operate as soon as possible," he said.
During surgery, doctors removed 119 nails, each about 3 inches long. Many were rusty, indicating they could have been in her stomach for months, Nam said.
The woman's stomach was scratched by the nails, but she did not suffer any major injuries, he said.
"Her life is not at risk now, and she is recovering," Nam said, adding that the patient was expected to be discharged soon.
There's a show like this on TLC on Monday nights, I believe... the strangest was a MAN had a fetus removed from his body.
Man Eats 53 3/4 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jul 4, 12:54
NEW YORK - A 160-pound wonder from Japan set a new record by devouring 53 3/4 frankfurters in 12 minutes to win the annual Independence Day hot dog eating competition on Coney Island.
The feat earned Takeru Kobayashi, 27, his sixth straight title in the event, held at the original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand on Brooklyn's seashore.
He broke his own record of 53 1/2 hot dogs, set at the same competition two years ago.
Kobayashi's nauseating triumph was witnessed by thousands of raucous spectators who jammed the streets in front of the hot dog stand a block from the famed Coney Island boardwalk.
The champion eaters arrived just before noon in a bus from Manhattan, accompanied by a police escort.
Seasoned fans were on hand to see whether anyone would unseat Kobayashi _ a top-ranked eater who once ate 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains to win $25,000.
Kobayashi's strongest competition was Joey Chestnut, a 220-pound civil engineering student from San Jose, Calif., who set an American record by eating 50 hot dogs during a recent qualifying tournament in Las Vegas.
Other competitors included 100-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., who once ate 65 hard boiled eggs in a little more than 6 1/2 minutes, and local favorite Eric "Badlands" Booker, a 6-foot-4, 425-pound subway conductor from Long Island who holds speed-eating records for pies and matzo balls.
Chestnut jumped out to an early lead in the competition, sometimes jamming franks into his mouth with two hands as the crowd roared.
But he was passed by Kobayashi with about three minutes left in the contest.
As Chestnut struggled, red-faced, with veins bulging in his forehead, the Japanese star methodically chomped dog after dog, often dipping them in a soft drink before cramming them into his mouth.
When the clock expired, Chestnut had swallowed 52 Nathan's franks _ not quite enough.
Quote from: Tara on July 04, 2006, 05:09:21 PM
Man Eats 53 3/4 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jul 4, 12:54
NEW YORK - A 160-pound wonder from Japan <SNIP> who once ate 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains to win $25,000.
OK, that was not enough money for me to even LOOK at the cow brains much less eat them?
STATELINE, Nev. - A bear cub drew a crowd of spectators at a Lake Tahoe neighborhood as it munched on barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeno pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible.
It also apparently washed it down with a swig of a Jack Daniel's mixer, an Absolut vodka and tonic, and a beer taken from a cooler, the vehicle's owner said.
About 30 people watched the cub lumber around a parking lot in upper Kingbury Grade on Sunday before it homed in on the Buick and the spicy pizza on the floor.
The bruin was unfazed by the car's horn the blew nonstop as the cub pressed the seat into the steering wheel.
"The bear was loping along in the parking lot and then decides to get inside the car," said resident Jerry Patterson.
"People were screaming at him, the horn was going off, but he was completely unaware. He did what he wanted to do and the people didn't matter."
The bear remained inside the 1964 Buick Skylark for about 20 minutes and at times put his paws on the dash as if he were holding on for a ride, Patterson said.
The owner of the car, David Ziello of South Lake Tahoe, said the bruin didn't cause any damage, but slopped cheese and jalapenos on the seats and floor.
Carl Lackey, a biologist with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, said up to two dozen bears live in the Kingsbury region near the south shore of Lake Tahoe.
The residential area sees more of them because the bears have found a primary source from Dumpsters and people who leave their food and trash in the open, said Lackey, who tracks and relocates bears on the Nevada side of the Tahoe basin.
Lackey warned visitors and residents against keeping food inside their vehicles.
"When you are in bear habitat, regardless of the time of year, you cannot leave any kind of food out — whether it's food inside the car, trash inside or outside your car, or pet food," Lackey said.
"Bears will find it and in doing so, it is increasing your chances of serious conflict."
wonder if he got a buzz.lol
Ga. Dad Allegedly Taints Kids' Soup to Sue
By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 7, 9:58 PM
ATLANTA - A father accused of poisoning his children's soup in a scheme to sue the Campbell Soup Co. was indicted on tampering and fraud charges, authorities said. The children, a 3-year-old boy and his 18-month-old sister, were taken to hospital emergency rooms three times in January.
According to investigators, their father fed them tainted soup each time. On the third occasion, authorities said, he used the prescription drugs Prozac and Amitriptyline _ both used to treat depression _ making his young daughter so ill she was flow by helicopter to an Atlanta hospital.
William Allen Cunningham, 40, was charged with tampering with consumer products with reckless disregard for the risk that another person would be placed in danger of death or serious bodily injury. He also was charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and communicating false statements that a consumer product had been tampered with.
U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said Cunningham wanted to get money from the manufacturer by claiming its soup caused his children's illnesses. Cunningham contacted Camden, N.J.-based Campbell by mail and phone to complain, but there was no evidence the soup was tainted when it was purchased, Nahmias said.
The children are now in the custody of their mother, who has not been charged, he said. He declined to comment on their health.
Cunningham, in custody, was expected to appear before a federal judge next week. If convicted, he could face up to 75 years in prison. It wasn't immediately clear Friday if he had an attorney who could comment.
I heard about that on the news yesterday. That's pretty messed up.
What people will do for $$$. :oo
thats so true...many would do just about anything. :-X
'Nude Man Beats Car With Pigeon'
Two Whaleyville, Va., residents were stunned when a naked man accosted their car in the driveway of their home and began hitting it with a pigeon. Their pet pigeon.
The couple had just pulled into their driveway Friday night when Juan Lopez, 30, of Virginia Beach, appeared naked and began striking their car with the bird. They fled to a neighbor's house and called police who found the suspect in nearby woods.
A Suffolk, Va., police spokeswoman said Lopez was "obviously having some sort of issues that night."
He had allegedly gotten into the homeowners' bird cages that held 15 chickens and four pigeons. Four of the birds were killed...apparently from terminal windshield interface.
Lopez was charged with burglary, destruction of property and larceny of poultry.
I didn't know pigeons counted as poultry.
Quote from: Jewel on July 22, 2006, 09:29:05 PM
I didn't know pigeons counted as poultry.
Me either!
Exotic dancer in body parts case caught
Bail bondsman helps get stripper who had 'Freddy' the hand, 6 skulls
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - An exotic dancer accused of illegally keeping human body parts in her home was arrested Friday, two days after she skipped a court appearance, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office said.
Linda Kay was taken into custody with the help of the bail bondsman who had posted her $100,000 bail, the office said. No new court date has been set.
Messages left Friday for her lawyer, Donald DiGioia, were not immediately returned.
The prosecutor's office had no immediate comment on where Kay was found and where she was being held.
Kay, 31, of South Plainfield, was charged last week after police were called to her house on a report that a roommate, Sean McDonough, was suicidal. When police arrived, he was not there, but Kay was home. Officers who looked around the house found six human skulls and a severed human hand preserved in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom.
Friends have said she called the hand "Freddy."
She has been described as a "Goth" devotee. Se dances at the Hott 22 nude bar in Union under the stage name "Zilla."
Andrea Leipow, a former roommate, has said the hand was a gift from a medical student who liked Kay's dancing. Kay's mother told The Star-Ledger of Newark she believed the skulls were bought from a mail order catalog.
'Lunatics'
The skulls-and-hand incident was not the first bizarre happening at the South Plainfield house. McDonough faces charges that he held guns and knives to Leipow's head and stomach, threatening to gut her.
Leipow, who said she lived with pair about two months, termed Kay and McDonough "lunatics."
"It's kind of a cult-like environment," the 25-year-old Leipow said. "I do not know what word to use to describe it."
On April 28, McDonough held her down on the floor for more than five hours, pointing a knife to her neck and an unloaded shotgun at her head, eventually pulling the trigger, according to court documents.
At one point, he threatened to sever her jugular vein and held a 6-inch switchblade to her neck and to her stomach, musing that perhaps "he should cut her open," according to court documents.
He is awaiting trial in state Superior Court on those charges, which include making terroristic threats and weapons offenses. There was no answer at the house he shares with Kay on Wednesday.
Kay was charged last week after someone called police and reported that McDonough was suicidal and threatening to kill himself with a hammer. When police arrived, he was not there, but Kay was home. Officers who looked around the house found the skulls and hand.
Her lawyer said earlier he didn't know why she skipped out on the court appearance. "I told the judge I was trying to locate her," DeGioia said Wednesday. "She looks forward to her day in court."
Seeking origins of skulls, hand
After the missed appearance, municipal court Judge John Leonard revoked Kay's $100,000 bail, issued an arrest warrant for failure to appear, and set a new $100,000 bail on the new charge.
"We're currently trying to determine who the skulls and hand belong to," Police Chief John Ferraro said. The body parts were taken to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office for examination and forensic testing.
Ferraro said police had been called to the house with the overgrown front yard weeds and a gargoyle-guarded door several times before on noise violations and other complaints.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 70-year-old German shoplifter who tried to bite his way out of the clutches of police might have had more success if he had remembered to put his teeth in.
Police went to arrest the man after he failed to pay a fine for shoplifting. But when the squad arrived, he tried to flee through the back door, a police spokesman in the western German town of Braunschweig said Thursday.
"It looks like he forgot to put his teeth in ... One of our police officers got bitten several times, but the man didn't leave anything but a wet patch," he said.
:oo
:))
Quote from: fiz on July 08, 2006, 12:47:52 PM
What people will do for $$$. :oo
what people will do for tokens as well lol why i might even use the odd auto or 3 who knows :))
OMG those stories are crazy! What the h-e-double hockey sticks is wrong with people these days? I think the world is going insane :OO
Quote from: swissmissy63 on August 01, 2006, 08:24:26 PM
OMG those stories are crazy! What the h-e-double hockey sticks is wrong with people these days? I think the world is going insane :OO
i think the world is already insane.
Quote from: Krissy*Kitty on August 01, 2006, 09:02:59 PM
Quote from: swissmissy63 on August 01, 2006, 08:24:26 PM
OMG those stories are crazy! What the h-e-double hockey sticks is wrong with people these days? I think the world is going insane :OO
i think the world is already insane.
I'm the only sane person I know. And so am I.
OK i need someone to define the word sane......... so i can check to see if i am sane or insane :OO
Quote from: lostinpogoland on August 02, 2006, 03:48:19 AM
OK i need someone to define the word sane......... so i can check to see if i am sane or insane :OO
Well, I've heard it said that 1 out of 4 people are insane. Take a look at your friends... if they seem normal to you then I guess that makes you the 1. :ooo
:'(( its meeeeeeeeeee
1 out of 4 of my personalities are insane. Can you guess which ones
Quote from: Munkee on August 02, 2006, 04:43:08 PM
1 out of 4 of my personalities are insane. Can you guess which ones
:)) :))
:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD
Quote from: Munkee on August 02, 2006, 06:59:46 PM
:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD
Mighty Powerful Doodoo? :))
Quote from: Tara on August 02, 2006, 07:03:00 PM
Quote from: Munkee on August 02, 2006, 06:59:46 PM
:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD
Mighty Powerful Doodoo? :))
:-X I said dont tell. thanx tara :D
Quote from: Tara on August 02, 2006, 07:03:00 PM
Quote from: Munkee on August 02, 2006, 06:59:46 PM
:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD
Mighty Powerful Doodoo? :))
you're just like my boyfriend then... trust me i have a funny story about might powerful doodoo :))
Quote from: Krissy*Kitty on August 02, 2006, 07:09:55 PM
Quote from: Tara on August 02, 2006, 07:03:00 PM
Quote from: Munkee on August 02, 2006, 06:59:46 PM
:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD
Mighty Powerful Doodoo? :))
you're just like my boyfriend then... trust me i have a funny story about might powerful doodoo :))
::)
Has anyone seen bubbles? :)))
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.
The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.
Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.
Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.
The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.
Quote from: Homer on August 04, 2006, 05:46:10 PM
Has anyone seen bubbles? :)))
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.
The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.
Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.
Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.
The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.
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Has anyone seen bubbles? :)))
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.
The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.
Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.
Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.
The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.
thats awesome. lol poor lady. can't even take a poo in private. :))
wow :))
Would you call that a *stuck poo poo*? :))
Quote from: justahumping on August 04, 2006, 09:08:54 PM
Would you call that a *stuck poo poo*? :))
that would seriously suck, really bad.
especially having it happen in a MALL.
wow, id die...
I would laugh my azz off if I saw it happen but I'd be sooooo :-[ if it happened to me that I probably wouldn't show my face anywhere. :))
Quote from: Lynne on August 04, 2006, 09:16:00 PM
I would laugh my azz off if I saw it happen but I'd be sooooo :-[ if it happened to me that I probably wouldn't show my face anywhere. :))
lol yea id defaintly be laughing if i saw it happen as well...
Boyfriend's Stunt Get Under Girlfriend's Skin
DES MOINES, Iowa - A woman went to sleep with bare skin, but woke up to find a tattoo on her ankle. Hillary Snyder, 20, said she had taken a painkiller with a sleeping pill before going to bed on Saturday night. When she woke up, she saw a tattoo of a five-pointed star on her right ankle - allegedly done by her boyfriend. Snyder had told her boyfriend before that she didn't want a tattoo, but he was determined for her to have a five-pointed star that matched his own. Needless to say, the relationship with Snyder and her unidentified boyfriend is over, and a police report accuses him of domestic assault. However, Snyder doesn't agree with the assault charge. "I mean it's not like he beat me up. There were no bruises or blood or anything. I'm just not going to see him again."
Passport Office Doesn't Shrug Off Bare Shoulders In Photo
SHEFFIELD, England - The passport application of a 5-year-old girl in Sheffield, England, was rejected because her sundress showed her shoulders, which might offend Muslims. Hanna Edwards' mother, Jane, was told by a postal clerk the passport office would reject the photo because it might offend people in a Muslim country. "I was incensed," said Edwards, a family doctor, who wanted to take her daughter to France. "I went back home and checked the form. Nowhere did it say anything about covering up shoulders. If it had, I would have done so." "How can the shoulders of a 5-year-old girl offend anyone?" she asked London's Daily Telegraph.Edwards had Hanna's photo retaken, shoulders covered. The post office accepted the application.
DOH! what people are willing to do to steal...i tell ya... :oo
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China Bans 'Simpsons' From Prime-Time TV
By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer
Mon Aug 14, 6:42 AM
BEIJING - D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves.
Foreign cartoons, especially from Japan, are hugely popular with China's 250 million children and the country's own animation studios have struggled to compete. Communist leaders are said to be frustrated that so many cartoons are foreign-made, especially after efforts to build up Chinese animation studios.
The ban hasn't been formally announced, but newspapers already were criticizing it Sunday as the wrong way to improve programming.
"This is a worrying, shortsighted policy and will not solve the fundamental problems in China's cartoon industry," the Southern Metropolis News said. "The viewing masses, whether adults or children, will have no choice but to passively support Chinese products."
Chinese animators produce hundreds of hours of programs a year but aren't known for flair or originality. They draw on traditional stories such as "Journey to the West," about the adventures of the Monkey King, and have yet to invent characters to match the appeal of Mickey Mouse or Japanese icons such as Pokemon.
The cartoon campaign comes amid efforts by President Hu Jintao's government to tighten control over other pop culture, ranging from movies to magazines and Web sites.
TV stations have been told to limit foreign programming, stop showing scary movies in prime time and have their hosts dress more conservatively and use fewer English words on the air.
Most cartoons on China Central Television, the national broadcaster, are Chinese-made. But more freewheeling local broadcasters show everything from "The Simpsons" to Japanese, South Korean and European cartoons dubbed into Chinese.
Film studios have been pushed to merge in order to create big, well-financed competitors. Officials have set up 15 animation centers to nurture the industry, invoking communist guerrilla vocabulary by dubbing them "production bases."
"The reason for the regulation is clear. It is to protect domestic cartoon production," the Southern Metropolis said.
The newspaper cited what it said was a recent study that found that 80 percent of Chinese children surveyed liked foreign cartoons and disliked domestic animation.
Chinese studios employ thousands of skilled animators, but many focus on doing work subcontracted by Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. and other Western or Japanese studios.
Broadcasters were told to limit use of foreign cartoons in 2000 at a time when Japanese animation dominated the market. In 2004, the government stepped up controls, saying Chinese cartoons had to account for at least 60 percent of the total shown in prime time.
In February, regulators banned programs that mix animation with live characters in an apparent effort to protect Chinese studios, which don't produce such programming. Regulators haven't released details, but the ban could affect popular children's TV shows such as "Blue's Clues" from the United States and Britain's "Teletubbies."
The government also protects Chinese film studios by limiting imports of foreign titles. But that strategy appears to have backfired by creating a market for pirated movies, which both foreign and Chinese studios say robs them of box office revenues.
On Sunday, Chinese moviemakers accused TV stations of becoming part of the nation's thriving movie piracy industry, airing up to 1,500 pirated Chinese movies a year.
Beijing also has thrown up barriers to other pop culture.
In April, the government disclosed it was no longer granting publishing licenses for foreign magazines in an effort to protect its domestic industry. That came after a joint venture that published a Chinese edition of "Rolling Stone" was forced to dissolve after a single issue.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50.
The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of "human organs, people, blood, bones or skin."
The advertisement was no longer visible on the site Saturday.
It was posted by a man who gave his name as Breno and said: "I sell my wife for reasons I prefer to keep short ... I really need the money."
The described his wife physically and listed her qualities as a homemaker and companion. He reportedly said she was 35 and "worth her weight in gold."
The Estado news agency said it wasn't clear if the ad was meant as a joke. It said Mercado Livre told it the ad hadn't been noticed earlier because of the large number of products offered on the site -- nearly 1 million.
There was no answer Saturday at phone numbers for Mercado Livre or its public relations agency.
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) -- Where is an orange-haired bank robbery suspect most likely to hang out? The salon, of course.
That's where police found Mark Dennis, who was wanted in a Tuesday robbery in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The 24-year-old may have been trying to change his hair color to conceal his identity, said J.J. Kalaver, an agent in the FBI's Philadelphia division.
"Maybe in a big city you can get away with walking around with orange hair, but in a smaller town you probably stand out," he said.
Dennis was found Thursday at the Boardwalk Mane Styling Salon, Lt. Ron Birt said.
FBI agents are looking into whether Dennis robbed another four banks in the Scranton area in the last month, Kalaver said. He's also charged in Ohio with possession of drugs and a drug instrument, Birt said.
Dennis was likely in Bellefontaine, about 50 miles northwest of Columbus, because he had relatives in the area, Birt said. He was being held without bond Friday night in the Logan County jail, according to the sheriff's office.
Oh Hell, at least He thought She was worth something, Some husbands would be glad to just get rid of thier wifes by giving them away :)) :)) :))
uhh thats a pretty crazy story!!!! (O+O)
Airline Tells Woman Her Outfit Won't FlyThe Associated Press
SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.
Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego's Lindbergh Field on July 3.
Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor's appointment, said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight.
"You're dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You're too provocative to fly on this plane," she quoted the employee as saying.
"I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' And he said the whole thing."
Ebbert was eventually allowed back on the plane after offering to adjust her sweater but said she was humiliated and embarrassed.
"I felt like everybody was staring at me. They had all heard him lecturing me," she told "Today" show host Matt Lauer. She appeared on the show in the same short white skirt, white shirt and green sweater that she said she wore on the flight.
Chris Mainz, a spokesman for the Dallas-based airline, said a customer service supervisor asked Ebbert to leave the plane and addressed her in the walkway leading back to the terminal, "away from the other customers."
The employee felt the outfit "revealed too much" but was placated after Ebbert made adjustments that included covering her stomach, Mainz said.
Calif. Carpenter Can Work in the BuffThe Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. - A carpenter caught hammering nails and sawing wood in the nude has been found by a judge to be not guilty of indecent exposure.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger ruled Thursday that although Percy Honniball of Oakland was naked, he was not acting lewdly or seeking sexual gratification.
Honniball, 51, was arrested last year after he was spotted building cabinets in the buff at a home where he had been hired to work.
The carpenter has said he likes to work in the nude because it's more comfortable and it helps him keep his clothes clean.
Honniball earned two years' probation in 2003 after being caught three times working naked in Berkeley, which prohibits public nudity. Oakland does not have a similar ban.
Bank Robber Uses Own Check in RobberyThe Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - A man robbing a bank demanded the money by writing a note on one of his own checks, authorities say. Not surprisingly, he was caught soon afterward.
Forest Kelly Bissonnette, 27, apparently tried to cover his name on the check, then handed the note to a teller Sept. 5 at the Bank of the West in Englewood, according to authorities.
"We could still make it out even though he blacked it out," FBI agent Rene VonderHaar said. Nearly $5,000 was taken.
Surveillance video showed a suspect similar to Bissonnette's description, and a tipster said a man named Forest Kelly claimed he got $5,000 in a bank robbery, according to a federal complaint.
Bissonnette remained in federal custody Tuesday after turning himself in Friday. A public defender was to be appointed for Bissonnette, who doesn't have a listed phone number.
Buffet Worker Stomps Garlic With BootsThe Associated Press
NANUET, N.Y. - Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors.
"I go back there, and the guy's stepping on garlic," said Dan Barreto, who used to eat at the restaurant. "There he was just jumping up and down on it, smashing it up, having a good time."
The health department does not consider a person's shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation, senior public health sanitarian John Stoughton said Tuesday.
"It was a novel way to prepare food," he acknowledged.
Great China Buffet owner Jiang Shu said the worker has been fired over the incident.
The health department said it would inspect the restaurant again.
Woman Allegedly Shoots Cheating HusbandThe Associated Press
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A woman is accused of shooting her husband four times with a 16-gauge double-barreled shotgun after learning of an affair.
Eddie Martin, 51, survived the attack, but may have to have a limb amputated. Sheryl Martin, also 51, had to reload after the first two shots.
Martin made her first appearance on Monday in Clark County Superior Court. Martin was released on bail and will live with her parents. She will be formally charged September 21st.
Eddie Martin told his wife he was having an affair and wanted a divorce.
They argued and Eddie went to sleep in a camper. Sheryl found a shotgun, loaded it and allegedly shot him while he was in bed.
Sheryl Martin called 911 and told a dispatcher what she had done and was arrested on Saturday.
The pair have been married for 30 years.
Officer Bitten by Boa in Woman's CarThe Associated Press
DELAND, Fla. - A animal control officer was recovering on Tuesday after being bitten by a boa constrictor he was removing from a woman's car on Friday.
Gary Thomas was bitten twice by the 5-foot boa, on the back of the hand and on the finger. The snake bit Thomas after another officer dropped it.
Police and animal control believe the snake had either been released or escaped from its owner. It coiled itself around coil springs in the wheel well of the woman's car when it had to be removed.
Anybody who says they got bit by a snake and it didn't hurt is a liar," Thomas said.
Police Look for Nude Man Walking Dogs
The Associated Press
LITCHFIELD, Conn. - Police say they are on the lookout for a nude man who was spotted taking a stroll with two dogs on Monday. Police say the man was seen by a female jogger in the woods of the White Memorial Foundation.
The woman, a teacher at nearby Wamogo Regional High School, was also out jogging.
Wamogo athletic director Mary Stolle says when word of the naked dog walker got around, the school's cross country teams were diverted from the woods where they had been training into White Memorial's museum as a precaution.
The suspect is a tall white man with thin hair who is believed to be in his 50s.
Woman Drives Stolen Car to Courthouse
The Associated Press
MANNING, S.C. - Amber Renee Helton was trying to avoid legal problems by paying a traffic ticket. She ended up behind bars when authorities found out she drove a stolen car to the courthouse, police said. Clarendon County deputies received a tip that Helton was going to be in a stolen car when she paid the ticket, Chief Deputy Joe Bradham said.
So officers arrested Helton as she opened the door of the 2001 Dodge Intrepid at the courthouse Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Helton, 21, and her passenger, 35-year-old Terry Lynn Alvery, were charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, Bradham said.
Helton was being held at the Clarendon jail Wednesday on $5,000 bail. It was unclear whether she had an attorney. A message left at the public defender's office was not immediately returned.
The vehicle had been reported stolen Aug. 28 in Dayton, Tenn., authorities said.
Helton had been in court less than a week before. She was found not guilty of possession of a stolen tag and guilty of driving without possession of a state driver's license, Bradham said.
"I guess she thought 'Hey, I got away with having a stolen tag. I might get away with the entire car,'" Bradham said.
Lost Planner Found in Demolition Rubble
WAYNE PARRY
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - For six years, Avis Kirk had been wondering what the heck she had done with her small leather planner book that held her checkbook, credit cards, ID and about $60.
The planner had vanished without a trace after the former Sands Casino Hotel food service worker set it down near the buffet for a few moments in 2001.
"I couldn't even imagine where it went," she said. "I thought it had been stolen. So many people helped me look for it."
But it wasn't until Ed Ensman, a demolition crew supervisor helping tear down the former Sands building spotted it in the rubble on Aug. 30 that the mystery was solved.
"We were doing interior demolition, tearing down some inside walls, and one of the Bobcat front-end loaders we use was right next to a wall," he said. "I was watching it pretty closely, and as soon as the Bobcat moved away, I saw it on the ground."
He speculated that the planner fell behind a low wall when Kirk put it down, and was simply overlooked as new walls were put up.
Pinnacle Entertainment, the Las Vegas-based company that will build a new $1.5 billion casino on the Sands site, used old personnel records to track Kirk down by contacting a reference she had listed on her employment application, and with whom she had fallen out of contact.
"The most exciting part is that I'm back in touch with my friend after almost seven years," said Kirk, who lives in State College, Pa. "We plan to get together again very soon. Life is amazing."
It wasn't the first unusual discovery at the former Sands building this year. Last spring, Pinnacle workers discovered $17,000 , most of it in coins , that had fallen under or around the casino's 2,350 slot machines over the past three decades
Man Builds Guillotine to Kill Himself
The Associated Press
ALLEN PARK, Mich. - The body of a 41-year-old man was found in a wooded area next to a guillotine he built and used to kill himself, police said. The man, from the Detroit suburb of Melvindale, was discovered Monday by workers from a shopping center near his home.
Allen Park Deputy Police Chief Dale Covert said the roughly six-foot tall guillotine was bolted to a tree and included a swing arm. Covert said police also found several store receipts detailing the materials used to assemble the device.
"I can't even tell you how long it must have taken him to construct," he said. "This man obviously was very determined to end his life."
Bald Man Accused in Hair-Loss Theft
The Associated Press
OSSINING, N.Y. - A bald man went into a pharmacy and stole five bottles of a liquid used for treating hair loss but was caught while running away, police said.
Mark Hoousendove, 42, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of petty larceny and resisting arrest, Detective Lt. William Sullivan said. The hair-loss product was worth about $50.
Hoousendove, of Freeport, had just dropped off friends who were visiting an inmate at Sing Sing prison on Sunday when he went into the pharmacy, police said. An officer patrolling near the pharmacy chased him and grabbed him, but someone who was with him got away, they said.
Hoousendove was jailed on $3,000 bail and was due in court Thursday.
There was no telephone listing for Hoousendove at the home address provided by police, and a call to the only listing for a Hoousendove in Freeport rang unanswered.
Police: Man Sets Off His Own Booby Trap
The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. - A man tired of burglars nearly blew off his hand when bomb-like devices he set around his house exploded in his presence instead, authorities said.
Victor Iacobescu, 50, ran to a neighbor's house Thursday with a bloody towel wrapped around his right hand.
"Apparently, he was trying to set booby traps to get the next guy who tried to break in," fire Lt. Maggie Murphy said.
Iacobescu had been the victim of several break-ins, she said.
The neighbor, Patrick Struble, said the explosives were "like a pipe bomb. He accidentally triggered it, and it almost blew his hand off."
Police were investigating with the intent to pursue charges.
"Anything that goes `bang' is illegal," police Lt. Bruce Ferguson said. "I can't think of any (legal) reason why someone would be making a bomb.
Woman Gored by Deer at Hunting PreserveThe Associated Press
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - A woman studying wetlands for an engineering firm was gored by a deer at a hunting preserve. Jamie Detweiler, 35, of Ligonier, was gored in the leg when the buck charged her at 6 Springs Hunts near Shanksville on Wednesday.
She was taken to Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, where officials would not release her condition.
Randy Musser, who owns the engineering firm where Detweiler works, said she was expected to get out of the hospital Thursday.
"She's beat up a bit and has puncture wounds, but she seems to be doing pretty good," Musser said.
Roger Harmon, who opened the preserve for deer, rams and wild boar five years ago, said it's the first time anyone has been gored at the site.
Inmates Go on Sausage 'Temper Tantrum'The Associated Press
HOBBS, N.M. - Some Lea County inmates set fires and broke toilets and windows after being told they would be allowed only one sausage at dinner. Jail officials said the inmates began yelling and banging on their doors in what they described in a news release as a "temper tantrum."
Officers from the Lea County Sheriff's and Hobbs Police departments were called in to restore control, and the jail was locked down after Tuesday night's incident.
Some 33 prisoners were involved, Warden Jann Gartman said.
The remaining 300-plus prisoners at the jail accepted the meal without incident, authorities said.
The damage to the jail was light, with some smoke damage and broken toilets and windows, the warden said.
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Cops Charged With Stealing Snacks
The Associated Press
ROBELINE, La. - This village's only convenience store decided to do something nice for its police officers: give them a free fountain drink or coffee at closing time. But somewhere along the way, investigators say, it got out of control. Now, all three of the village's officers are accused of stealing snacks.
"Over a period of time, it evolved into regular drinks and more," Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's investigator Travis Trammell said. "There's no telling how it got to this point, but the store started experiencing losses and they watch their videotapes and see all of this going on."
Surveillance tapes showed each officer going into the Shop-A-Lott at Lott Oil around closing time and filling plastic bags with dozens of bottled soft drinks, Trammell said. The officers also are reportedly seen eating an assortment of other snacks without paying.
Police Chief Gordon O'Con confirmed that the officers remain on active duty, but said he was advised not to commment about their arrests. There was no answer at the police department Friday when The Associated Press made repeated calls seeking comment from the officers.
Spat Over Horse Manure Wafts Into Court
The Associated Press
MILFORD, Conn. - A man has filed a lawsuit against his neighbor, claiming he can't sell his house because of the smell of horse manure from next door. In court documents filed in Superior Court, Gino Sciortino claims Helen Catlin is permitting significant quantities of horse manure to accumulate in piles on her property and the foul odor can often be smelled at his home.
Helen and David Catlin have lived on Park Road more than a year and own three horses.
Sciortino said that at times, the smell is overpowering.
"When the wind blows, everything smells of horse manure," Sciortino said Thursday, saying the odor has made it difficult to sell his house for the past year.
Sciortino is asking for monetary damages as well as an injunction ordering Helen Catlin to relocate the horse manure and other debris and to re-grade the soil near their property line.
"Once this is resolved, I will try to sell again," Sciortino said.
David Catlin, the husband of the woman named in the lawsuit, said Thursday that he mixes the manure with other material to create compost, which he sprinkles with lime to prevent the scent from wafting across the property.
"Nobody else seems to be able to smell it," Catlin said of his other neighbors. "He's misleading a lot of people."
Staffers at the Pomperaug Health District have not reported any complaints about horse manure on Park Road.
Firefighters Save Donkey Trapped in Well
The Associated Press
UNDERWOOD, Minn. - A donkey is happily eating grass again after falling down a dry, abandoned well and being freed in an intensive rescue effort. It appeared that the animal wandered away from its farm and onto some boards covering the well, which broke, said Bruce Huseth, fire chief in this western Minnesota town.
Firefighters quickly realized that the animal, which belongs to farmer Warren Gundberg, couldn't just be pulled from the abandoned well on Bryan Nelson's land.
So they started pulling away earth with a tractor and dismantling the well block by block Thursday. Once one wall had been taken apart, firefighters put a harness around the donkey and guided it out with a rope.
"Whatever it takes," Nelson said as he watched his well come down. "I love animals, and I'm just glad it's OK."
Gundberg admonished the animal after the rescue: "I bet you'll think twice about doing that again. If you would have stayed home you wouldn't be in this trouble."
Huseth said that he has rescued cows that have fallen through ice, but that the donkey was a first.
Woman Surprised by Zebra Visit
The Associated Press
MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Sharon McConough says a zebra has been visiting her home and she has the photograph to prove it. McConough, who lives in the Ranger Creek area east of Fort Gibson Dam, said her dog starting barking and she went outside to see what was causing the disturbance. A zebra was trotting down her driveway. It was wearing a halter.
She ran to get her camera because she knew no one would believe her.
"It's so weird, you can't imagine what it's like to look out a glass door and see a zebra trotting down the driveway," she said.
McConough thinks it wasn't the first time the zebra has come around. She has found various clues, including dog food scattered from an outside bowl.
Venezuela Claims Big Soup Record
SANDRA SIERRA
The Associated Press
Howard Yanes
Government workers stand on a platform as they stir a soup in Caracas, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007. Venezuelan officials claimed a world record Saturday for the world's largest pot of soup, a giant cauldron of stew prepared by President Hugo Chavez's government.(AP Photo/Howard Yanes)
The hulking stainless steel cooking pot, set up outdoors in downtown Caracas, contained about 3,960 gallons of "sancocho" stew, Food Minister Rafael Oropeza said. That would dwarf the current record-holder listed on the Guinness World Records Web site, a pot of 1,413 gallons of spicy soup prepared in Durango, Mexico, in July.
Oropeza called it "Bolivarian stew" , a play on the name of Chavez's socialist movement, named in honor of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. He said it was enough to feed 60,000 to 70,000 people.
Workers stood on raised platforms stirring the soup with poles, and then dished out servings to a crowd at a state-run market.
It contained 6,600 pounds of chicken, 4,400 pounds of beef and tons of vegetables.
Addressing reporters next to the pot, Oropeza said the government is solving supply problems that have made it difficult for Venezuelans to find staples like milk and eggs in recent months. He said the state-run market had ample reserves of all products.
With price controls in place, rising demand has outstripped domestic production of some foods, prompting an increase in imports. Oropeza said the only product that remains in short supply is milk, a situation he blamed on a "world problem" of unusual cold snaps and dry spells hurting milk production.
As for the soup, he introduced a representative of Guinness World Records who he said was on hand to certify the record.
The 5,413-gallon pot was about three-quarters full.
"We didn't add more for security reasons," Oropeza said. "There's plenty for second helpings."
Burglar Says TV Taught Him His Craft
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Ky. - A man who says he learned how to rob homes by watching a TV show was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a string of burglaries in central Kentucky.
Michael W. Hobbs, 36, of Waco, Ky., pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary. He was sentenced Thursday.
Police said Hobbs learned how to break into homes by watching the Discovery Channel TV show "It Takes a Thief." The show features two ex-convicts who show property owners how vulnerable they are to theft.
Police Maj. Steve Gregg said the ex-cons on the show say skilled burglars typically don't keep stolen items.
"He didn't hold onto any of the property," Gregg said of Hobbs. "He had no physical evidence at his residence whatsoever. When we entered a couple times, he said, 'Come on in, look around. I've done nothing.'"
But Gregg said Hobbs always showed up at the burglary sites.
"He was one of the type of people who would come to the door and ask if (the homeowner) needed any gutter help," Gregg said. "Then the houses around there would get burglarized. That's just not coincidental."
Would-be burglar runs off with no loot and no clothes
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A man who allegedly tried to burglarize a home lost his clothes in a scuffle with the 69-year-old homeowner and then tried to streak away before he was arrested.
Wayne and Kathie Boniface returned home from dinner Thursday night at a neighbor's to find the man in their house. Wayne Boniface said the man made the mistake of grabbing his wife.
"As soon as he grabbed my wife, I had him in the kitchen wrestling him to the ground in a headlock and arm-lock," Boniface said.
First, Boniface said, he ripped the man's shirt off. Then, "his head was down over the railing, and in today's world, pants are worn fairly loose. I pulled his pants, and his pants and underpants and shoes came completely off. He was completely nude."
When police asked Boniface if he could identify the suspect, he said: "Oh, yeah. I believe he's the only guy running nude in Duluth."
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Police find meth lab after man misdials
ESCATAWPA, Miss. (AP) — A man trying to call a news station to complain about not getting a FEMA trailer after Hurricane Katrina accidentally dialed 911 and was charged with making methamphetamine after police arrived, authorities said.
Curtiss Randall Coleman was trying to get the number for Biloxi's WLOX-TV on Wednesday just before the 6 p.m. newscast, investigators said. He misdialed when trying to reach directory information and called 911 instead of 411.
When he hung up on the emergency dispatcher, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department was sent to the home to see if anyone was in need of assistance.
Deputies said that when they arrived at Coleman's house, no one answered the door. Officers broke in and allegedly found a methamphetamine lab.
Coleman, 53, and four others were arrested, including Coleman's son, Christopher, 30. A fifth suspect remains at large.
"It was a calamity of errors on Mr. Coleman's part," said Sgt. Curtis Spears, commander of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County.
Along with the Colemans, narcotics agents also arrested Erin Paula Oliver, 35, of Moss Point, and Leslie Renee McMahon, 27, of Ocean Springs. All four were charged with conspiracy to manufacture meth.
A person who answered the phone at the Jackson County jail declined to say whether Coleman and the others had attorneys.
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
Back Seat Tryst Blamed for SUV Crash
The Associated Press
MOSCOW, Idaho - A carnival worker who hit a telephone pole with his SUV blamed the crash on two friends having sex in the back seat.
Joshua D. Frank, who had been living on the Latah County Fairgrounds, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. He was fined $188.
Frank told Moscow police he was driving near downtown early Saturday while a man and woman were having sex in the rear of the vehicle. According to a probable cause affidavit, he said the movement caused the SUV to become "tippy" and he lost control of it.
Frank, 22, suffered a minor head wound in the crash and his friends were treated for unspecified injuries, according to the affidavit.
Someone Tries to Sell Belgium on eBayPAUL AMES
The Associated Press
VIRGINIA MAYO
Shown on a computer screen is the Belgian site of ebay which highlights the country of Belgium for sale with a bid of euro10 million (US$ 13.8 million) in Belgium, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2007. Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item BRUSSELS, Belgium - Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts ... free premium: the king and his court (costs not included)."
The odd ad was posted by one disgruntled Belgian in protest at his country's political crisis which reached a 100-day landmark Tuesday with no end in sight to the squabbling between Flemish and Walloon politicians.
"I wanted to attract attention," said Gerrit Six, the teacher and former journalist who posted the ad. "You almost have to throw rock through a window to get attention for Belgium."
Six placed the advertisement on Saturday, offering free delivery, but pointing out that the country was coming secondhand and that potential buyers would have to take on over $300 billion (euro220 billion) in national debt.
Like many of Belgium's 10 million citizens, Six is exasperated that the power struggle between the county's French- or Dutch-speaking political parties has left Belgium in political limbo since June 10 elections.
Demands for more autonomy from the Dutch-speaking Flemish are resisted by the French-speaking Walloons, making it impossible to form a government coalition and triggering concern the kingdom is on the verge of a breakup.
Six decided to vent his frustration through the Internet ad.
"My proposal was to make it clear that Belgium was valuable, it's a masterpiece and we have to keep it," he told Associated Press Television News. "It's my country and I'm taking care of it, and with me are millions of Belgians."
Six' idea got a mixed reaction on the streets of Brussels.
"Very funny, typical Belgian humor," said Anne Graux. "It's ridiculous," snapped Nathalie Ginot, a Brussels resident who had her own pragmatic solution to Belgium's woes. "We think it would be good to split Belgium into the three and make Brussels a tax-haven, a capital exempt from all taxes," she said hopefully.
Six vaunted Belgium's attractions to potential buyers from art nouveau architecture to the headquarters of NATO and the European Union and some great beers. But he also warned of the pitfalls of taking on the cacophonous mix of Flemish nationalists, Walloon Socialists and the mayors of all 19 Brussels' boroughs.
EBay was happy to take Six' advertisement.
"It was a really fun listing made by a Belgian," Peter Burin, PR manager of eBay Belgium. "This person, in a very funny way, reminded the Belgians what a great country Belgium actually is and it would be a shame to sell it."
However, the company decided to pull the add Tuesday after receiving a bid of euro10 million ($14 million)
"We decided to take it down, just to avoid confusion," he told APTN.
Bees Escape Hives in Mont. Road Accident
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. - Thousands of bees got loose when the truck carrying their hives ran off a highway and overturned near a Montana community, the Highway Patrol said.
State trooper Dell Aman said he was stung twice but didn't know of anyone else who was.
"The public was in no way in danger, as long as they didn't stop to get out of their vehicles," he said. "If they did get out, they figured out pretty quickly that that wasn't the place to be , no pun intended."
The truck, headed from North Dakota to California, veered into a ditch Tuesday along Interstate 94 near the exit for Huntley, a community just northeast of Billings, the Highway Patrol said.
The truck was hauling 465 beehives , nearly 13.7 million bees, Aman said.
Most of the bees stayed in their hives but a "couple thousand" got loose, he said.
The driver, Robert Esper, 66, of Winnemucca, Nev., was uninjured. Aman said Esper wasn't speeding but was cited for alleged careless driving.
Aman said the escaped bees returned to their hives as the weather cooled in the evening. "The temperature dropped about 10 degrees while I was there, and they started going home," he said.
On Wednesday, the hives and their trailer were at a storage yard awaiting further arrangements, said Scott Hanser of Hanser's automotive and towing business in Billings
Naked man tries robbing Pa. convenience store
The Associated Press
CARBONDALE, Pa. - Lackawanna County authorities say a man wearing nothing but a hat tried to rob a convenience store in Carbondale.
Police say the 24-year-old man charged in last month's robbery attempt often stands naked in front of the window of his apartment. He was first arrested on an accusation of exposing himself to two women at his apartment building. Carbondale Police Sgt. Thomas Heller says the man ultimately confessed to being the one who tried to rob the store , and said he did so because he was bored.
The clerk at the store kept her cool during last month's robbery attempt. She refused to give the man money and dialed 911. The man left, still undressed, without getting any cash.
New Seattle Trolly Line Has Acronym SLUT
The Associated Press
SEATTLE - Officially it's the South Lake Union Streetcar. Within the old Cascade neighborhood, part of the area to be served by the new line, it's popularly known as the South Lake Union Trolley , or SLUT.
At Kapow! Coffee, 100 T-shirts bearing the words "Ride the SLUT" sold out in days and another 100 are on order.
"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista.
Trolley tracks have been laid from downtown along Westlake Avenue to Lake Union and project officials say the $50.5 million project should be completed and streetcars running in December
Some claim , incorrectly, according to representatives of Vulcan Inc., a company owned by billionaire Paul G. Allen which is developing the area , that South Lake Union Trolley was the original name and that it was changed when officials belatedly realized the acronym.
Underlying the lightheartedness is resentment over changes in the old working-class neighborhood north of the downtown area.
"There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago," Johnson recalled.
"They asked us, 'What we could do for you?' Most people raised their hands and said, 'Affordable housing,'" he said. "Then the people from the city huddled together , 'whisper, whisper, whisper,' , and they said, 'How about a trolley?'"
Since then Cascade has been ignored in Vulcan brochures that lump the neighborhood together with Denny Park and Denny Triangle under the term South Lake Union.
With the streetcar, said Don Clifton, a Cascade resident, "We learned how fun it is to change the name of things."
My hubby wants that t-shirt!
Vicar ends up in hospital after potato gets stuck in his bottom
London, Nov 1 : A vicar ended up visiting a hospital for help after a potato got stuck in his bottom, causing him great agony.
According to the clergyman, he was hanging curtains at his home without his clothes on, when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table.
The reverend, who is in his 50s, had to undergo a delicate operation to extract the offending vegetable, which medics in Sheffield revealed were among the many things which got stuck in people's nether regions.
The vicar was very embarrassed with the whole situation, and kept on insisting to staff at the city's Northern General Hospital that his predicament was not the result of a sex game gone wrong.
"He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato," the Sun quoted A & E nurse Trudi Watson as saying.
"But it's not for me to question his story.
"He had to undergo surgery to have it removed," she said.
She admits that some of the sex-related cases make the staff chuckle, and has urged anyone contemplating such a stunt to think twice about doing it.
"My advice? Don't do it," she said.
"It can be very dangerous and potentially life-threatening.
"Surgery can lead to infection, nasty scarring, and it could possibly end up with the person having to use a colostomy bag as a result," she added.
Health staff across Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster say that they are no longer surprised at the things people use to spice up fun in the bedroom.
"Like all busy hospitals we do see some unusual accidents," a hospital trust spokeswoman in Sheffield said.
"But our staff deal with them in a discreet, professional and kind way," she added.
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That story has to be true because we all know that everyone hangs curtains in the nude. :)) :)) :))
Oh my. :)) :)) :))
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Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early
Wed Nov 12, 2:13 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Michel Lapointe -- known as Big Mike -- was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded six inches on either side.
A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health".
The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.
"I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he told the paper outside the prison.
"I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them," he said.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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Quote from: Monkey on November 16, 2008, 09:26:20 PM
Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early
Wed Nov 12, 2:13 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Michel Lapointe -- known as Big Mike -- was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded six inches on either side.
A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health".
The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.
"I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he told the paper outside the prison.
"I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them," he said.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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Another prison story.... :)) :)) :)) :-[
Inmate escapes German jail in box
A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
The 42-year-old Turkish citizen - who was serving a seven-year sentence - had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops.
At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.
The chief warden of the jail told the BBC this was an embarrassing incident.
The prison authorities in Willich, near Duesseldorf, said the man, who was tall and broad-shouldered, had hidden in a box that was about 150cm by 120cm.
For years I had been asking for more security guards from the government - but now they'll have to listen
Chief warden Beate Peters
When the weekly express courier arrived to pick up several boxes of merchandise, the one containing the prisoner was also loaded into the back of the lorry.
Shortly after it had passed through the prison gates, the inmate made his dash for freedom by cutting a big hole in the tarpaulin of the lorry and jumping off.
The driver alerted the police after he noticed the tarpaulin flapping in the breeze.
Lying low
The jail's chief warden, Beate Peters, said the man must have had accomplices outside the prison.
"As soon as the prisoner jumped off the back of the lorry his friends would have picked him up," she told the BBC.
"We have no idea where the fugitive is hiding. We assume that he is still in the county and is lying low before making his move."
Ms Peters said fellow convicts must also have known of his plan but that they would not talk because of a "code of honour" and because it is a criminal offence in Germany to help somebody escape from jail.
She said the incident showed that security needed to be beefed up urgently, something she had been lobbying for in the last few years.
"I was not surprised that an escape happened on my watch. For years I had been asking for more security guards from the government. But now they'll have to listen."
LMAO...OMG I guess they don't question heavy packages going out. :))
Has anyone seen swamp? ?.? ?.? ?.?
Florida Boy Arrested For Gas Attack
12-year-old charged after deliberately "breaking wind" in class
NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers." The boy, whose name was redacted from the police report released today, was turned over to his mother following the arrest. The young perp turned 13 on November 15.
Quote from: Homer on November 22, 2008, 07:00:01 PM
Has anyone seen swamp? ?.? ?.? ?.?
Florida Boy Arrested For Gas Attack
12-year-old charged after deliberately "breaking wind" in class
NOVEMBER 21--A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police. The child, who was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Stuart's Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School, was busted November 4 for disruption of a school function. A Martin County Sheriff's Office report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that the 4' 11" offender admitted that he "continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers." The boy, whose name was redacted from the police report released today, was turned over to his mother following the arrest. The young perp turned 13 on November 15.
:ooo it was my daughter. she makes me so proud. 6_6.gif :-[ :))
Quote from: swamp on November 22, 2008, 07:32:30 PM
:ooo it was my daughter. she makes me so proud. 6_6.gif :-[ :))
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How does farting turn a computer off? :-\
I just tried it and it didn't work. :)) :))
Disclaimer: I really didn't try it.
Quote from: Tara on November 22, 2008, 09:24:48 PM
How does farting turn a computer off? :-\
I just tried it and it didn't work. :)) :))
Disclaimer: I really didn't try it.
Yes she did. (https://www.pogocheats.net/proxy/?http://smilies.sofrayt.com/eng/stink.gif)
Quote from: Homer on November 23, 2008, 06:18:04 AM
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Do you not see this ~~~~~~> in stuff you quote, before a smiley? Why is it doing that? >:D I've asked liked 20 friggen times. It's getting on my last nerve. >:D
Your smileys have a friggen virus just like you. :P
Quote from: Tara on November 23, 2008, 07:19:29 AM
Do you not see this ~~~~~~> in stuff you quote, before a smiley? Why is it doing that? >:D I've asked liked 20 friggen times. It's getting on my last nerve. >:D
Your smileys have a friggen virus just like you. :P
Ask Mayhem. He probably broke something again. ::)
Quote from: Homer on November 23, 2008, 07:21:33 AM
Ask Mayhem. He probably broke something again. ::)
I would ask him but he has bad breath first thing in the morning.
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Runs and hides....
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.
Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest.
Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
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Yeah Mayhem I live close enough its on my local news broadcast. You should here the audio tape of the 911 call :))
I shot my wife while we were having sex... 911- where is she shot sir? man- right in the chest 911- is she breathing? man- yeah she's o.k :)) Last I knew she was in critical condition. That part isn't funny but the guys story and nonchalantness about it, just well.... he just had a restraining order out against him by her??
Tara, I have a strange question for you... Is that girl in your signiture really you? "" I was just wondering where you got it from because I was making a card for my husband's birthday and wanted to put some pictures lilke that in it. So ask Homer if he will share some more pictures of you will ya?? :))) :)) Thanks.
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oddly enough, i was wondering the same thing as the last post.....is the girl in the signature really you? Nice indeed if it is. If it isn't, still very nice.
Isn't that a picture of Carmen Electra?
:)) :)) @ the last few posts in this thread. :-[
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Supermarket defends itself over Adolf Hitler cake
Wed Dec 17, 6:11 pm ET AP – Heath Campbell, left, with his wife, Deborah, and son Adolf Hitler Campbell, 3, pose in Easton, Pa., ...
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EASTON, Pa. – A supermarket is defending itself for refusing to a write out 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell's name on his birthday cake. Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the store denied similar requests from the Campbells the last two years, including a request for a swastika.
"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said Tuesday. :ll
A Wal-Mart spokesman told The Associated Press on Wednesday that in light of the incident, the company would review its guidelines regarding cake decorations and other requests.
"It's clear that in serving this customer, some people were offended," spokesman Greg Rossiter said. "As a result, we're going to review our policies."
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name." :ll
The Campbells' two other children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in a few months, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who will be 1 in April.
Campbell said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.
"Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."
He said about 12 people attended the birthday party Sunday, including several children of mixed race.
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