YouTube – Dance Off USF vs Uconn 2009 Big East Baseball Tournament as seen on PTI.
As seen on PTI. The 2009 Dance off between USF and UCONN which took place at bright house field May 21st, 2009. Filmed by the staff at Bright House Field. This dance off was a result of the two teams waiting though a 5 hour rain delay. This is the most complete video of the of the event and is largely un-editied.
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Tennessee man fathers 21 kids – WTOL.com, Toledo’s News Leader, News 11 |
TENNESEE (CBS) – A Tennessee man who’s fathered more than 20 kids says he can’t pay all their mother’s child support. 29-year-old Desmond Hatchett works a minimum wage job. His children range in age from newborn to 11. They were born to at least 11 different women. “I had four kids in the same year. Twice,” said Hatchett. When his paycheck is split up, some get less than $2.00 in child support. “The children can’t be supported all by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in,” Hatchett’s attorney Keith Pope said. The state says it can’t stop him from having more kids, but are working out how to pay the mothers.
Police: Shoplifting aunt used baby as weapon
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – Memphis police are searching for a shoplifting suspect who used a tiny baby as a weapon against a security guard during an escape attempt Wednesday. The incident happened early Wednesday afternoon at Wal-Mart on Austin Peay in Raleigh, where police say a woman was caught shoplifting. While attempting to escape, the woman hurled her two-month old nephew at a security guard. The infant, seated in a carrier, fell onto the concrete floor. The suspect then threw the baby at a good samaritan who tried to tend to the infant. The suspect ran from the store and escaped in a blue Ford Escort, abandoning the baby and his mother, who was in the women’s restroom during the incident. The child’s mother tended to him as the infant was treated in the back of an ambulance. Child abuse investigators are working with the infant’s family to locate the suspect. Officials said the baby will be okay. Neither the loss prevention officer nor the good samaritan were seriously injured. All requests for comment from Wal-Mart management were referred to the retailer’s corporate office.
Passer-By Pushes Man Contemplating Suicide Off Bridge in China
BEIJING — Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge. Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen’s “selfish activity,” Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area. “I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest,” Lai was quoted as saying by Xinhua. “They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities’ attention to their appeals.” Xinhua said Lai was “taken away by police” but did not elaborate. A police officer who answered the telephone Saturday at a station close to the bridge confirmed the incident and said it was under investigation. He refused to give any other details and hung up.
Houstonian gets 2 years for bribing IRS — with pizza | News Bizarre | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Moral of this story: Don’t try to bribe the IRS with pizza, officials aren’t that hungry. Ramesh G. Khilnani, 51, a native of India and a Houston-area resident, learned that lesson to the tune of the two-year prison sentence he received from a federal judge on Friday for bribing a public official. In February 2008, the restaurant owner asked the IRS agent investigating him if she wanted to “work” for him after the audit showed Khilnani owed about $49,000 in back taxes from 2004 to 2007, a release from the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson said. The auditor reported the suspicious incident to her supervisor and started recording her future meetings with Khilnani. That’s how the IRS got him for not only nearly $50,000 in back taxes but also for offering the agent a $2,500 bribe. He delivered $2,000 of the bribe before his arrest, the release said. Authorities said Khilnani, who is subject to deportation to India after he serves his sentence, “repeatedly offered the agent pizza from his restaurant as part of the deal.”
Police searching for “ninja biker”
SPOKANE – There is a man on a motorcycle riding around Spokane, and some police officers are calling him the “ninja biker”. Some officers and neighbors tell KREM 2 News, the rider speeds through North Spokane neighborhoods topping speeds in the triple digits. Police say they won’t even pursue the driver, because it’s too dangerous. Police say the “ninja biker” is on a bright lime green motorcycle with no license plate. He is a white man, possibly in his early 20’s. He wears a black and blue full faced helmet.
WOMAN GETS ARM STUCK AFTER DROPPING GOLD TOOTH IN CITI FIELD TOILET – New York Post
A hapless Mets fan tried to make a diving catch when her gold tooth fell into a Citi Field toilet — and got her arm stuck in the commode. The unidentified woman’s bizarre Flushing adventure happened during last Wednesday’s game against the Atlanta Braves, sources said yesterday. It’s unclear how long she was trapped screaming in the john, but stadium security guards and emergency medical personnel eventually showed up. But they could not pry her loose on their own. They called for back-up — dialing up a worker from Cardoza Plumbing, the company that installed all 646 ultra-low-flow toilets at Citi Field. He rushed to the scene from his company’s Jamaica headquarters 7.2 miles away, the sources said. The anxious victim, meanwhile, could only wait as the toilet continued to flush over her arm. At one point, she became more entertaining than the game — which the Mets lost 8-7 — as fans gathered outside the bathroom near Section 338 to see the off-field action. It’s unclear if the toilet had to be destroyed to free her. The woman did not recover her tooth, but was plenty relieved just to leave the bathroom. The Mets and Cardoza Plumbing declined to comment. Some low-flow toilets use powerful vacuum suction to minimize the amount of water needed, but it’s unlikely that contributed to the woman’s hand being stuck, a Queens plumber said. “The truth is, this kind of thing happens all the time — usually with wedding rings or cellphones,” he said. “People have probably been getting their hands stuck in toilets as long as there have been toilets.” In 2003, 41-year-old Edwin Gallart dropped his phone in the toilet on a rush-hour Metro-North train, and went in after it. Railroad employees could not pry his arm loose, and it took an army of emergency personnel 90 minutes, using Jaws of Life rescue equipment, to free Gallart and his phone. During the rescue, the track was shut down, passengers were evacuated, and dozens of other trains were delayed. Last year, a woman in China spent two days with her hand stuck down a toilet when she tried to save a pet turtle that she had accidentally flushed.
Phoenix man killed in gun-safety demo | www.azstarnet.com ®
A 26-year-old Phoenix man accidentally killed himself early Sunday while explaining gun safety to two Sierra Vista residents. Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment on West Tacoma Street when he said guns should be kept unloaded because people could point them at their heads, said Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell. Benally then demonstrated by putting his own 9mm Ruger, which he believed to be unloaded, to his head and firing it, Mitchell said. Benally was flown to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Mitchell said. An investigation is ongoing, but police do not believe alcohol or drugs were involved, Mitchell said.
Robber leaves name, address inside bank he allegedly robbed – 5/19/09 – Raleigh News – abc11.com
DURHAM (WTVD) — Police say they caught a suspected bank robber after he left identifying paperwork inside during the holdup. The suspect, 51-year-old William Richard Bullock of Cary, is charged with armed robbery. On the afternoon of May 15, Durham police say a man entered the RBC Centura Bank at 2313 E. NC Highway 54. After approaching a teller and having a conversation, the teller asked the man if he was “all set.” According to the teller, the man, who wore a gauze patch on his right eye replied, “I’ll be all set after you give me all your money.” Then the man allegedly revealed a gun and pointed it at the teller before demanding that several other employees come out of their offices. The teller said the suspect forced another teller to open the cash drawers. That’s when he grabbed money and fled the bank to a Nissan Altima that was parked outside. Employees say after the suspect got into his car, he got out, returned to the bank and tried to re-enter. The door was locked, but he eventually broke it after repeatedly and forcefully pulling on the handle. Employees told police the suspect retrieved a notebook he had dropped on the floor and then left the bank a second time. He got away with over $19,000. When officers arrived at the scene, they found papers, presumably left in the bank by the suspect. On the papers, were Bullock’s name and address. Police also used the information to search for a registered vehicle through the DMV. That search revealed a 2003 Nissan Altima registered in Bullock’s name. It was similar to the one described by witnesses at the bank. Investigators say they positively identified Bullock by taking a surveillance photo from the robbery and comparing it to Bullock’s DMV photo.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Authorities say a North Carolina teen who was thwarted as he tried to rob a store with a banana ate it before they could arrive. Winston-Salem authorities say 17-year-old John Szwalla held the banana under his shirt when he entered the store Thursday, saying he had a gun and demanded money. Owner Bobby Ray Mabe says he and a customer jumped Szwalla, holding him until deputies arrived. While they waited, Mabe says the teen ate the banana. Mabe says deputies took pictures of the banana peel. Forsyth County Sheriff’s office spokesman Maj. Brad Stanley says deputies joked about charging Szwalla with destroying evidence. Szwalla faces a charge of attempted armed robbery. Jail officials say he doesn’t have an attorney.
Girl, 12, takes takes dad’s car on joy ride in Plantation — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
PLANTATION – A 12-year-old girl who took her dad’s car on a joy ride and initially refused to stop for police has been charged with grand theft auto at her father’s request, police said today. Police quickly spotted the girl Monday because she forgot a basic tenet of night driving: headlights. The child disappeared with the yellow Nissan about 10:30 p.m. while her father was visiting her ailing 19-month-old sibling at Plantation General Hospital, said police Detective Robert Rettig. The ordeal started and ended in the hospital parking lot at 401 NW 42 Ave., Rettig said. She drove south on State Road 7 and made a U-turn, but didn’t get far, hitting a police car near the hospital, Rettig said.
Daily Express | UK News :: Red faces as fireman’s college burns down
Bosses of a college which trains firefighters are red-faced after one of their own buildings went up in smoke – destroying 11 fire engines worth £1.3million. Workers at the National Fire Service Training College say the damage would have been much less serious if the building had been equipped with sprinklers. “We are always told that large commercial buildings should have sprinklers but it seems the fire college did not practise what it preaches,” said one worker who did not want to be named. The fire broke out in the large workshop at the College in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, early on Saturday. Almost 60 firefighters from Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire raced to the college but were unable to save 11 of the 12 elderly fire engines stored in the single storey workshops. A Gloucestershire fire service spokesman said: “The building was well alight but the fire was brought under control without injury and without it spreading to any other buildings. The building contained 12 fire engines, 1,200 litres of diesel fuel and 500 litres of hydraulic oil.” The college offers training courses in fire prevention and control to students from brigades all over the world. Phil Abraham, group manager at the county fire service, said: “Firefighters quickly stopped the spread of the blaze, and no one has been injured. The building which caught fire contains old equipment, the loss of which won’t impact on the day-to-day running of the college.” The college said the building was severely damaged in the fire, but that the majority of other buildings and the training fleet had been saved.
Mother-son duo charged in drive-by murder :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime
A mother and son are scheduled to appear in court today after being charged in a killing last week. The son is accused of pulling the trigger, and the mom is charged with driving the getaway car and hiding evidence, police said. Delfino Juarez, 18, is charged with first-degree murder. His mother, Karen Juarez, 49, is charged with obstruction of justice. Delfino Juarez allegedly shot 18-year-old Jesus Sanchez Friday in the 2000 block of West Garfield after exchanging gang signs with him. Karen Juarez allegedly was driving the van that her son fired from, police said.
Woman Dies After Using Jackhammer As Dildo « decent community
ARNDALE, OK – Sheriff’s investigators have closed the unsettling case of a 49-year-old female construction worker found dead in her driveway after a neighbor witnessed her using a high-powered jackhammer to pleasure herself. After a two-day investigation in which officials initially suspected foul play–Shirley Dent’s death on May 1 has now been ruled an accident “after severe internal distress induced by the machine was discovered,” Det.-Sgt. Karl Sprout of the Alpara County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday. On May 1, a neighbor witnessed a naked Ms. Dent in her driveway “struggling to direct a jackhammer toward her mid-section.” The alarmed neighbor notified police after hearing ear-splitting moans of distress that carried over the raucous jackhammer. Authorities arrived at the scene to an unresponsive Ms. Dent, who was then transported to West Grenier Hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The recently divorced Ms. Dent had been questioned by authorities three times over the past month after neighbors complained of her running a prostitution ring from her home. Records also show that Ms. Dent supplemented her income as the sole proprietor of a sex toy distributor. Ms. Dent’s alleged extracurricular activities appear to be unrelated to her death. A neighbor who declined to be identified said, “She was a horny lady, especially after her husband moved out. My family could hear moans coming from her place all the time.”
STAR TREK: The Jewish Origin of the Vulcan Salute
Back in the 1960s, hippies who watched “Amok Time” thought the salute was a variation of the two-fingered peace sign. But we Jews knew better. The Vulcan salute came not from protest marches, but from the pulpit of Nimoy’s childhood synagogue. The Vulcan greeting is based upon a blessing gesture used by the kohanim (koe-hah-NEEM) during the worship service. The kohanim are the genealogical descendants of the Jewish priests who served in the Jerusalem Temple. Modern Jews no longer have priests leading services as in ancient times, nor do we have animal sacrifices anymore. (Yes, people really do ask about that!) The sacrificial system ended with the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in the year 70. C.E. However, a remnant of the Temple service lives on in the “kohane blessing” ritual (duchenen in Yiddish) that is performed on certain holy days. The actual blessing is done with both arms held horizontally in front, at shoulder level, with hands touching, to form the Hebrew letter “shin.” This stands for the Hebrew word for “Shaddai”, meaning “Almighty [God].” Nimoy modified this gesture into one hand held upright, making it more like a salute. So, technically, the Vulcan greeting is not the same thing as the ceremonial Jewish blessing. Still, the resemblance is close enough to evoke instant recognition among knowledgeable Jews.
Belgian bodybuilding championship canceled after competitors flee doping officials – ESPN
BRUSSELS — The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled. A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room. “I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” doping official Hans Cooman said Monday. Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition. Cooman says the sport has a history of doping “and this incident didn’t do its reputation any good.” During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium’s Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive.
Friday Night Quickies: Bills RB Charged With Public Wanking « Style Points
Bills running back Corey McIntyre allegedly took excessive measures to practice his no-huddle offense. The journeyman back faces a misdemeanor exposure of sexual organs charge after a 59-year old woman told police that she heard a knock at her window, then witnessed McIntyre masturbating outside. There has been no report as to what he used to knock on the window. McIntyre denied the charges, described his activities as his usual bicycle routine, and says he did not actually run the waggle in front of the woman. His agent has released a statement:
Corey McIntyre is one of the highest character people around and the last guy who would do what he’s been accused of. We look forward to proving that these embarrassing accusations are completely false and that Corey is guilty of absolutely nothing.Although McIntyre is a former Saint, at this time there seems to be no connection between this incident and the similar charges recently brought against current Saints players Biren Ealy and Kolomona Kapanui. There also appears to be no truth to rumors that McIntyre was practicing the naked bootleg in anticipation of a position switch to quarterback.
Women gives birth to twins with different fathers – Telegraph
Mia Washington, an American mother, has given birth to twins who have different fathers. Miss Washington admitted she was having an affair when she conceived, when two eggs were fertilised by the sperm of two men. “I have twins, but they’re by different fathers,” said Miss Washington told Fox News. Miss Washington and her partner James Harrison took DNA tests after noticing twins 11-month-old Justin and Jordan, had different facial features. “Out of all people in America and of all people in the world, it had to happen to me. I’m very shocked,” Miss Washington said. According to the paternity test, there’s a 99.999 percent chance Justin and Jordan do not have the same father, and zero percent chance they do. The lab claims it has never seen this type of result, nor do they expect to see it again. “It is very crazy. Most people don’t believe it can happen, but it can,” said Clear Diagnostics President Genny Thibodeaux. Only a handful of cases – of what doctors call heteropaternal superfecundation – are documented in the world.
Paris Hilton: Sex tape ruined my chance to be like Princess Diana | The Sun |Showbiz|Film
PARIS HILTON says her scandalous life has prevented her from fulfilling her dream of being like PRINCESS DIANA. The heirhead socialite makes the claims in a new documentary on her life, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and was shown in Cannes at the weekend. You can watch the trailer below: Hilton’s bad behaviour includes her infamous sex tape with RICK SOLOMON, other leaked saucy videos and pictures, a charge for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and a short spell behind bars. Talking about that sex vid, she says: “When I heard about it I thought: ‘Yeah right. It’s going to be a look-a-like. It’s going to be a joke.’ “But a couple of hours later it was all over online and then I saw it. “It’s the most intimate thing you can do and the whole f***ing world is watching it and laughing at you. “That’s not what I wanted when I was a little girl. It’s not what I planned. I always looked up to people like Princess Diana and now I can never be like that.” The documentary Paris, Not France – shot in London, New York, Tokyo, LA and Las Vegas – explores the empire the millionaire has created for herself and the girl that lies beneath the public persona. She says: “People see me as a Barbie with a perfect life, a fantasy… maybe that’s what they like.” “There’s a mystery about me because how I am in public is completely different to how I am in private.”
CHEYENNE, Wyo. –Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser. Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off-trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years. The second employee’s case is pending. The park’s dispatch centre was called after someone watching a webcam on the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and walking on Old Faithful on May 4. The geyser was not erupting at the time.
43 stun-gunned at prisons’ Take Your Kids to Work Day | McClatchy
A total of 43 children were directly and indirectly shocked by electric stun guns during simultaneous ”Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day” events gone wrong at three state prisons, according to new information provided Friday by the Florida Department of Corrections. Also, a group of kids was exposed to tear gas during a demonstration at another lockup. Three prison guards have been fired, two have resigned and 16 more employees — from corrections officers to a warden — will be disciplined due to the incidents that unfolded April 23, said DOC Secretary Walt McNeil. An investigation is ongoing. None of the children in any of the incidents required medical attention or was notably harmed, McNeil said. He said the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 17, were all children of prison officials. In nearly every case, the guards had permission from parents or grandparents to administer the ”electronic immobilization devices,” McNeil said. ”I can’t imagine what these officers were thinking to administer this device to children, nor can I imagine why any parent would allow them to do so,” McNeil said. “This must not happen again.” McNeil called the episode ”embarrassing” for the nation’s fourth-largest prison system. It has been rocked by far more serious scandal.
Mentally Disabled Forced Into ‘Fight Club’
May 12, 2009— Terrified residents at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for the mentally disabled were forced to be part of a brutal “fight club” operated by night shift employees, who made videos of the sessions with their cell phones, the newly released videos show. On the videos employees can be seen and heard laughing and prodding the residents to fight. One resident is seen on the video trying to run away from his attacker and a large group of employees and residents tracking him through the halls. When cornered, he wails and moans and tells the employees, “I will behave.” The videos were discovered by police in March when one of the school employees left his phone at a hospital and it was turned over to police. In an effort to find its owner, officers saw the disturbing videos. A judge ordered the tapes released to an attorney suing the state on behalf of a former resident also forced into the “fight club.” “It happened for over a year and it happened for many nights out of the week,” said the attorney, Bob Hilliard. Hilliard’s client, Armando Hernandez, says he was told he would “go to prison” if he did not fight. Hernandez, who is mentally disabled, says he was fearful to even tell his mother of what was happening inside at night. “They say ’snitches get stitches,’” Hernandez told ABC News. A judge ordered police to provide the tapes to Hilliard on Friday for use in his lawsuit against the state, without any restriction on their use. They were played twice in open court. “There are no words as strong as the faces of these residents,” Hilliard said. “It’s a place past fear. It’s a place where they have almost accepted that the school where they’re locked into could very well end up being a coffin for them.” A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, which oversees the state schools, says the agency was “shocked and disgusted by the unconscionable actions of a few employees.” Spokesperson Cecilia Fedorov said the department has taken a number of steps to “stop this kind of abuse again,” including hiring additional security and increased supervision of night shifts.
Bring Your Gun, Get Free Brats and Burgers
TOWN OF ONALASKA, Wis. (AP) — A picnic open to the public at a park in La Crosse County will offer free brats and hamburgers and an invitation to bring your gun. Organizer Hubert Hoffman says Sunday’s picnic at Marvin Gardens Park in the Town of Onalaska celebrates a recent opinion from state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen that citizens who openly carry firearms should not be cited for disorderly conduct. Hoffman says the picnic is open to everyone, including children and those who don’t want to bring a gun. The gun rights advocate says it’s a way to let the public know that openly carrying a firearm isn’t dangerous or risky. La Crosse County sheriff’s Capt. Mike Horstman says Hoffman is “legally entitled” to host the open carry picnic.
Police: Man Wanted 1 Last Burrito Before Jail – Indiana News Story – WRTV Indianapolis
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A suspected drug dealer who led police on a high-speed chase was arrested after he got a case of the munchies, police said. Several officers were chasing Jermaine Cooper, 36, Tuesday when he suddenly pulled into a Taco Bell parking lot. Fort Wayne police Sgt. Mark Walters said Cooper told them he “knew he was going to jail for a while” and wanted to get one last burrito. Cooper was held without bail on four counts of dealing cocaine and other charges, and he never got the burrito he craved. A voicemail mailbox for a listing for a Jermaine Cooper in Fort Wayne was full and not accepting messages. Police said the chase began Tuesday after Fort Wayne officers spotted Cooper, who was wanted on other charges, and started the chase that ended in the nearby city of Decatur.
Police: Bank robber nabs $3K, leaves wallet behind
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Police didn’t have to dust for fingerprints to find this suspect — they just rifled through the wallet he left behind at the scene. Albert Vincent Perkins was charged with robbing First Federal Bank in Kansas City on Thursday. Police said he walked into the bank, handed the teller a plastic bag and ordered her to give him all of the $100 bills. Then he walked out of the bank — but left his wallet sitting on the counter. The U.S. attorney’s office said the teller and a customer in the bank identified the photo on the driver’s license and another photo in the wallet as the robber. Perkins was arrested Thursday night. Police say he took about $3,100.
Raffle ticket helps nab liquor thief, police say – JSOnline
Hartford – A 20-year-old shoplifter with a bottle of whiskey in his pants delayed his escape from a liquor store this week just long enough to write his name and address on a raffle ticket before running out the door, a criminal complaint says. Authorities say Shawn M. Piering of Hartford can be seen on security camera video stuffing the bottle of Jack Daniel’s into his clothing. Then he decided to try his luck at winning a ticket to a Slinger Speedway race through the store’s weekly raffle drawing, B&S Liquor owner Steve Jost said Friday. After filling out the form at the store’s counter, Piering snatched two more whiskey bottles before he fled the store, the complaint says. A store clerk working Wednesday evening watched Piering fill out the raffle ticket, Jost said. “So she wasn’t going to chase him after he ran out the door,” he said. The box for tickets had been emptied the previous day, so the clerk simply opened the box after calling police. Officers recognized the man’s name from other incidents and drove to his home on E. Monroe Ave. “This is one of the stupidest crimes I’ve ever seen,” Jost said. Police and the store owner could watch the crime unfold: More than a dozen security cameras, inside and outside the store at 696 Grand Ave., captured the thief’s every move. When officers confronted Piering at his home Wednesday, he appeared to be intoxicated, the complaint says. Though Piering turned over the store’s missing liquor bottles, he struggled with an officer attempting to arrest him. Thursday, Piering was charged in Washington County Circuit Court with misdemeanor retail theft, resisting an officer and disorderly conduct. Judge Patrick Faragher set a May 28 hearing on the charges. Faragher prohibited Piering from entering B&S Liquor and ordered him to maintain absolute sobriety as conditions of his release from the County Jail on a $750 signature bond.
Reports Claim Man Has Not Bathed, Brushed Teeth in 35 Years – Incredible Health – FOXNews.com
An Indian man with seven daughters has not bathed or brushed his teeth in 35 years, Agence France-Presse reported. Kailash “Kalau” Singh, 63, told the Hindustan Times he will bathe when his nation’s troubles are over, but not everyone is buying that story. According to one person, Singh’s ritual is an attempt to guarantee his next offspring will be a male heir. “A seer once told Kalau that if he does not take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child,” a man named Madhusudan told the newspaper. Each evening, Singh takes a “fire bath” to rid himself of germs. A fire bath consists of praying to the Lord Shiva next to a bonfire and smoking marijuana.
Port Orange man calls 9-1-1 to report robbery of drug money
Instead of scoring 20 pounds of pot, two men were robbed at gunpoint of the $12,000 they were carrying to make the purchase, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. The men even called 9-1-1 to have deputies help them recover the money. “Yeah I was scared,” said Wesley Fehl of Port Orange. “I had two guns pointed at my head.” Fehl, 22, said Tuesday by phone that he and Kenneth Jones, 20, South Daytona, drove to a house on Sunset Boulevard near Holly Hill about 6:30 p.m. Monday to buy marijuana from two acquaintances of Jones. “They invited me inside the house so they could do this,” he said. “They both jumped me. My buddy had walked outside. When he came back in they threw him to the ground.” By then, Fehl had already been relieved of the $12,000, his wallet, and cell phone. Jones’ acquaintances ran out of the house and drove off. Fehl and Jones jumped into their own vehicle, drove after their assailants and called 9-1-1 to report the robbery, sheriff’s spokesman Gary Davidson said in a written report. “I was just held at gunpoint trying to buy drugs. We’re following the dude right now,” the caller told a Sheriff’s Office dispatcher. The dispatcher urged the men not to follow the car and put themselves in further danger, Davidson said. “But he’s got my money,” the caller said. “I don’t want him to get away with my money.” Fehl still feels that way. “I don’t think police have gone back to the house yet,” he said. “As far as they know, they aren’t in trouble. And, I want my money back.” But investigators followed up, Davidson said. Suspects were identified and after warrants were issued for their arrest, the home was raided. Craig Anthony Williams, 34, who lives in the house, was arrested charged with one count of armed robbery. He was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail with no bail allowed Tuesday night. Investigators continue to look for Lavarus Peterkin, 29, Daytona Beach. He is described as about 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a tattoo on his right hand. Because the investigation is ongoing, Davidson would not say if deputies found marijuana in the house when it was searched. He didn’t know if the guns had been recovered. While all of the men have criminal records, Fehl’s is the longest and includes drug-related arrests, according to court records. Pending the completion of the investigation, charges could be filed against the victims — including a third man, Patrick Marsh, 22, Lake Helen, who was not with Fehl and Jones but reportedly supplied the money, Davidson said. “We’re still evaluating everyone’s actions,” he said Tuesday.
Maryland man sentenced after riding bike 180 miles here for teen sex – News – The Times-Tribune
A man who rode his bicycle 180 miles to have sex with a Scranton teen he met on the Internet will serve one to four years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday. William Wagner, 26, 414 Battery Drive, Havre de Grace, Md., met the 15-year-old girl through the social networking Web site MySpace. In June, he biked to Scranton to meet the teen. In February, Mr. Wagner pleaded guilty to unlawful contact with a minor. He slept at Pine Brook baseball field, Sanderson Avenue and Green Place, while he was in Scranton. He took the teen to the baseball field and had intercourse with her there several times, police said. After he left Scranton, the girl told her parents she had sex with Mr. Wagner, who reported it to police. The Times-Tribune does not identify sexual assault victims. The teen told police she considered herself to be “in a relationship” with Mr. Wagner at one time. He knew she was only 15, she told police. “It was a peculiar set of circumstances, including that he rode his bike to meet her,” said Deputy District Attorney Michelle Olshefski. “I think the sentence is very fitting. He acknowledged that he knew her age and what he did was wrong.” After serving his prison sentence, Mr. Wagner will have to register as a sex offender under the state’s Megan’s Law requirements for 10 years.
Man Smoking Pot Sets Fire To Parents’ Garage – San Diego News Story – KGTV San Diego
SAN DIEGO — A 23-year-old man smoking marijuana in his parents’ garage sparked a fire at a Rancho Peñasquitos home, injuring himself and a firefighter and causing $100,000 in damage, authorities said Friday. It took firefighters about 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze, which broke out at a two-story home in the 8800 block of Adobe Bluffs Drive shortly after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a San Diego fire-rescue dispatcher. The young man blamed for the blaze was using some sort of torch device to smoke marijuana and apparently left the torch on, setting fire to a couch in the garage, San Diego police Sgt. Alan Hayward said. He went to get water from another room and returned to find the garage and its contents ablaze, including his Jeep, which he tried to push out of the structure, according to the sergeant. As flames continued to spread, the young man scrambled to alert his family members, who were in other parts of the house, Hayward said. Paramedics later took the man and a firefighter to the hospital, the fire dispatcher said. The man was treated for second-degree burns to two fingers, while the firefighter was treated for second-degree burns to his face and later released, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. San Diego fire Battalion Chief John Thomson told the newspaper that firefighters found a large hookah pipe, bongs and other pipes in the garage. Damage was estimated at $80,000 to the structure and $20,000 to its contents, according to the fire dispatcher.
A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son’s virginity as a present was spared jail today. The Polish national drove the boy to a red-light district in Nottingham, suggesting he pick a woman they saw standing at the roadside. But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard. Today, the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a ten-month prison sentence, suspended for a year. The full-time carer, from Bulwell, Nottingham, earlier admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child. The court heard that the father was arrested in the Mapperley area of the city at 11.30pm on July 26 last year during an undercover vice squad operation. Adrian Harris, prosecuting, told the court how the officer kept up the pretence until a deal had been struck. ‘An undercover police officer whose codename was Sarah said a car drove up to her,’ he said. ‘It was driven by the defendant who beckoned her over. ‘He was not alone in the car and in the passenger seat was a boy. The defendant said: “Hello baby, how much?” ‘She said, “It depends what you want.” He replied, “Come on baby, what is it that you do? How much for a proper sh*g for him?” And then he pointed to his son.’ Mr Harris said the undercover officer gave a price of £25 which was negotiated down to £20. ‘The defendant said he would pull over and at this point he was arrested by plainclothes police officers and both he and the boy were interviewed separately.’ Mr Harris added: ‘The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said “Will she do?” ‘He said yes and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him.’ Judge Jonathan Teare said he was sparing the man from jail because of his otherwise excellent character. The judge told him: ‘You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute.’ The father listened with the help of an interpreter as his barrister Matthew Smith said: ‘There is a thorough sense of shame the defendant feels – it’s completely at odds with every other part of his character.’ The court heard the two arrived from Poland eight years ago following the death of the boy’s mother. The father had remarried but his new wife suffered from schizophrenia. The boy will be allowed to stay with his father, who must sign the sex offenders register for five years.
Woman Dies After Using Jackhammer As Dildo « decent community
ARNDALE, OK – Sheriff’s investigators have closed the unsettling case of a 49-year-old female construction worker found dead in her driveway after a neighbor witnessed her using a high-powered jackhammer to pleasure herself. After a two-day investigation in which officials initially suspected foul play–Shirley Dent’s death on May 1 has now been ruled an accident “after severe internal distress induced by the machine was discovered,” Det.-Sgt. Karl Sprout of the Alpara County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday. On May 1, a neighbor witnessed a naked Ms. Dent in her driveway “struggling to direct a jackhammer toward her mid-section.” The alarmed neighbor notified police after hearing ear-splitting moans of distress that carried over the raucous jackhammer. Authorities arrived at the scene to an unresponsive Ms. Dent, who was then transported to West Grenier Hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The recently divorced Ms. Dent had been questioned by authorities three times over the past month after neighbors complained of her running a prostitution ring from her home. Records also show that Ms. Dent supplemented her income as the sole proprietor of a sex toy distributor. Ms. Dent’s alleged extracurricular activities appear to be unrelated to her death. A neighbor who declined to be identified said, “She was a horny lady, especially after her husband moved out. My family could hear moans coming from her place all the time.”
Lowell man and his daughter, 16, badly burned – Lowell Sun Online
LOWELL — A 49-year-old man and his 16-year-old daughter were flown to Boston hospitals last night after they were badly burned when a pipe they had filled with gunpowder exploded inside the garage of a home on Riverside Street, authorities said. Exactly what they were up to, and why, remains under investigation. Deputy Fire Chief Jeffrey Winward said firefighters were called to the rear of 447-449 Riverside St., at 6:53 p.m., for a report of a structure fire in which a girl had been burned. They soon learned that the girl and her father had filled a pipe with gunpowder and ignited it, apparently without incident. But then they went into a garage behind the tan duplex home on Riverside Street and began filling the pipe with more gunpowder. The gunpowder ignited this time, causing a flash fire that also ignited a can of gasoline nearby.
globeandmail.com: Woman cuffed for not holding escalator handrail
MONTREAL — Anyone who has ridden an escalator and bothered to pay attention has seen – and likely ignored – little signs suggesting riders hold the grimy handrail. In Montreal’s subway system, the friendly advice seems to have taken on the force of law, backed by a $100 fine. Bela Kosoian, a 38-year-old mother of two, says when she didn’t hold the handrail Wednesday she was cuffed, dragged into a small holding cell and fined. “It was horrible, disgusting behaviour [by police],” said Ms. Kosoian, a 38-year-old student of international law. “I did nothing wrong. They should go find the guys who stole my tires off the balcony.”
NBA star Corie Blount jailed over Cheech and Chong size stash
Former NBA player and University of Cincinnati basketball star Corie Blount has been sentenced to one year in prison on two charges of marijuana possession. Forty-year-old Blount pleaded guilty in Butler County Common Pleas Court last month to two felony possession charges as part of a plea bargain which saw prosecutors withdraw two trafficking charges. Bount was arrested on December 4, 2008 after sheriffs deputies intercepted 11 pounds (4.99kg) of marijuana sent to him at a relatives house through the US Postal Service. A search of Blount’s home later unearthed an additional 18 pounds (8.16kg) of marijuana. Facing a maximum 10-year sentence, Blount’s claim that the marijuana was for personal use was rejected by Judge Craig Hedric, who told Blount at todays sentencing hearing, “Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much,”
Study: Only 58.5% of Houston freshmen graduate | Chronicle | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
As thousands of Houston-area high school seniors prepare to accept their diplomas in the coming weeks, a study released Friday shows that only 58.5 percent of the region’s freshmen make it to graduation day. Children at Risk, a Houston-based advocacy group, commissioned the Texas Education Agency to conduct study of six-year graduation rates for the region’s 130 high schools. They learned that 53 percent of the students who begin as ninth-graders in the Houston Independent School District had not graduated from any Texas high school in six years. The combined graduation rate for the entire region’s high schools is 58.5 percent.
New Zealand couple who benefited from bank mistake take $2.3 million and run
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The bank that mistakenly handed a New Zealand couple a $6.1 million credit limit said Friday it had recovered less than a third of the money from the pair, who have disappeared. An international police search is under way for the couple, who are believed to have gone on the run to avoid having to give the money back. Police have not identified the couple. Detective Senior Sgt. David Harvey said Interpol was investigating in Hong Kong and was also working with officials in Beijing. Westpac Bank on Friday offered more details of its mistake. The bank said in a statement that the couple, who ran a gas station in the city of Rotorua, had a bank overdraft of New Zealand $100,000 ($61,000). Westpac had said on Thursday that the couple’s overdraft was worth NZ$10,000. The bank “sought to formalize that limit, at which stage an error occurred, the consequence of which was opening up that limit to” NZ$10 million ($6.1 million), the statement said. The account holder had tried to transfer about NZ$6.7 million ($4 million) out of the account, but the bank had been able recover NZ$2.8 million ($1.7 million) of it. The statement did not specify just how it got the money back. “Westpac is continuing to vigorously pursue the outstanding amount,” of NZ$3.8 million ($2.3 million), the bank said. Westpac says it considers the money to have been stolen but conceded it was human error at the bank that made the couple accidental millionaires.
TWO Chinese gangs involved in a bloody straightener at a Liverpool restaurant were rival karaoke performers. Prominent members of Liverpool’s Chinese community said a turf war over cockle picking was behind the violent brawl. Detectives were today investigating the mass fight which saw meat cleavers, machetes, hammers and a Samurai sword wielded in Chinatown’s Chilli Chilli. Up to 40 men sat at a table in the Nelson Street restaurant enjoying drinks together before a signal was given for a mass brawl to begin. Mob members drew out their weapons and began hacking at each other. Today it emerged the two gangs were well known karaoke singers who frequent bars and restaurants in the city. Detectives from Merseyside Police are probing the cockle picking allegations – but dismissed suggestions that Triad gangs were behind the violence. A source told the ECHO: “Everyone knows these people like to sing karaoke in Liverpool and it’s a big deal in the community. They aren’t established members of the Chinese community here and are comparatively new groups. They are dangerous. It’s incredible that after the fighting they walked out of the restaurant arm in arm.”
World Briefing – The Americas – Mexico – Drug Cartel’s Code of Ethics – NYTimes.com
The reputed leader of a Mexican drug cartel arrested over the weekend told authorities that he trained his members in ethics and personal development and that he urged them to avoid drugs and alcohol, the federal police said Monday. Rafael Cedeño, 47, whom authorities consider a leader of the criminal group known as “The Family,” was arrested Saturday. The federal police said that the training Mr. Cedeño provided was intended to keep “better motivational and emotional control over the members.”
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