Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Small Bits of News
Self-inflicted double shotgun blast
A 20-year-old man shot himself in the groin early Sunday while trying to hide a shotgun down his pants, city police said.
A news release did not describe the injury except to say that it was "serious."
The victim was being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His injuries were not expected to be life-threatening, medical officials told police.
Officers responded to the 700 block of North 24th Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. They found the victim on the side of the road. He had fired two rounds from the double-barreled weapon, police said.
Police were continuing to investigate after they recovered the shotgun and an additional firearm reported stolen at the house where the shooting took place.
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Nervous thief left his DNA at the crime scene
A thief who threw up before fleeing the scene of a hold-up last year has been jailed after police matched his DNA with vomit left at the crime scene.
Ahmed Habib Jalloul, 20, was found guilty of aggravated robbery in the District Court earlier this month for his involvement in the robbery of the Kensington Gardens post office in April 2007.
The court heard that Jalloul had vomited "out of fear" outside the post office, in a nearby car park after the robbery, before fleeing in a stolen car with two accomplices and $3700 in cash.
A later DNA analysis of the vomit slick matched Jalluol's DNA. An eye-witness also placed him at the scene.
Norwood Officer in Charge Col Phillips said being convicted by a vomit DNA sample was "very unusual". "These days we use hair, blood, cigarette butts, spit, semen, everything to place someone at a crime scene," he said.
"The database (of DNA samples) is getting bigger and bigger, which makes it a lot easier too."
Recent changes to South Australian DNA laws give police the power to take samples from suspects in crimes.
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Girl, Started Drinking at 12, Had Liver Failure at 14
She started drinking alcohol at the age of 12. One year later, Natasha Farnham was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day.
And even when she was diagnosed with liver failure at the age of 14, Farnham, of Twerton in Bath, Somerset, England, didn’t stop drinking.
In fact, she was rushed to the hospital after drinking 16 bottles of wine, hard cider and other alcoholic beverages over the course of three days.
Now, at the age of 18, Farnham has entered rehab and suffers from permanent memory loss, it is being reported by London’s Daily Mail.
“I didn’t think my drinking was a problem because all my friends were getting wasted every weekend as well,” Farnham told the newspaper. “But, now I have no short-term memory and doctors warn me that if I drink anymore I will die.”
Farnham hopes her story will reach other teenagers who think it is OK to drink alcohol.
The teenager, who dropped out of school at the age of 14, is unemployed. It was only after she was charged with burglary that she decided to enter rehab, she said.
Farnham takes medicine daily to reverse the effects of her failing liver.
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Ominous Calls To 911 Land Man In Jail
TAMPA - Lawrence Thomas Tucholski called 911 and said Tampa police are useless and that some of them are going to die, police say. Then he called 911 again and said Mayor Pam Iorio should be executed.
Police arrested the 37-year-old Tampa man Sunday night at his home, 506 Lincoln Ave.
He was charged with corruption by threat against a public servant and misuse of the 911 system.
Tucholski told police he made the calls after a domestic dispute and that he didn't intend to harm officers or the mayor, a criminal arrest affidavit states. Tucholski remained in jail today.
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Stink bomb smashes through ceiling
A family had a narrow escape when a huge block of ice from a plane’s toilet crashed into their home. The TV-sized hunk of waste punched through the ceiling and hit a bed where Peta Simey and baby Jake had just been playing. Shocked Peta, 33, said yesterday: “I heard a massive bang and thought a bomb had gone off.” She said six-month-old Jake often slept in the bed with her and husband Piers, 36, adding: “We could have all died.” The couple has kept the remains of the ice in their freezer.
A 20-year-old man shot himself in the groin early Sunday while trying to hide a shotgun down his pants, city police said.
A news release did not describe the injury except to say that it was "serious."
The victim was being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His injuries were not expected to be life-threatening, medical officials told police.
Officers responded to the 700 block of North 24th Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. They found the victim on the side of the road. He had fired two rounds from the double-barreled weapon, police said.
Police were continuing to investigate after they recovered the shotgun and an additional firearm reported stolen at the house where the shooting took place.
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Nervous thief left his DNA at the crime scene
A thief who threw up before fleeing the scene of a hold-up last year has been jailed after police matched his DNA with vomit left at the crime scene.
Ahmed Habib Jalloul, 20, was found guilty of aggravated robbery in the District Court earlier this month for his involvement in the robbery of the Kensington Gardens post office in April 2007.
The court heard that Jalloul had vomited "out of fear" outside the post office, in a nearby car park after the robbery, before fleeing in a stolen car with two accomplices and $3700 in cash.
A later DNA analysis of the vomit slick matched Jalluol's DNA. An eye-witness also placed him at the scene.
Norwood Officer in Charge Col Phillips said being convicted by a vomit DNA sample was "very unusual". "These days we use hair, blood, cigarette butts, spit, semen, everything to place someone at a crime scene," he said.
"The database (of DNA samples) is getting bigger and bigger, which makes it a lot easier too."
Recent changes to South Australian DNA laws give police the power to take samples from suspects in crimes.
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Girl, Started Drinking at 12, Had Liver Failure at 14
She started drinking alcohol at the age of 12. One year later, Natasha Farnham was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day.
And even when she was diagnosed with liver failure at the age of 14, Farnham, of Twerton in Bath, Somerset, England, didn’t stop drinking.
In fact, she was rushed to the hospital after drinking 16 bottles of wine, hard cider and other alcoholic beverages over the course of three days.
Now, at the age of 18, Farnham has entered rehab and suffers from permanent memory loss, it is being reported by London’s Daily Mail.
“I didn’t think my drinking was a problem because all my friends were getting wasted every weekend as well,” Farnham told the newspaper. “But, now I have no short-term memory and doctors warn me that if I drink anymore I will die.”
Farnham hopes her story will reach other teenagers who think it is OK to drink alcohol.
The teenager, who dropped out of school at the age of 14, is unemployed. It was only after she was charged with burglary that she decided to enter rehab, she said.
Farnham takes medicine daily to reverse the effects of her failing liver.
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Ominous Calls To 911 Land Man In Jail
TAMPA - Lawrence Thomas Tucholski called 911 and said Tampa police are useless and that some of them are going to die, police say. Then he called 911 again and said Mayor Pam Iorio should be executed.
Police arrested the 37-year-old Tampa man Sunday night at his home, 506 Lincoln Ave.
He was charged with corruption by threat against a public servant and misuse of the 911 system.
Tucholski told police he made the calls after a domestic dispute and that he didn't intend to harm officers or the mayor, a criminal arrest affidavit states. Tucholski remained in jail today.
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Stink bomb smashes through ceiling
A family had a narrow escape when a huge block of ice from a plane’s toilet crashed into their home. The TV-sized hunk of waste punched through the ceiling and hit a bed where Peta Simey and baby Jake had just been playing. Shocked Peta, 33, said yesterday: “I heard a massive bang and thought a bomb had gone off.” She said six-month-old Jake often slept in the bed with her and husband Piers, 36, adding: “We could have all died.” The couple has kept the remains of the ice in their freezer.
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Man has been Arrested 53 Times
NEW YORK — About two weeks after he was released from prison, Freddie Johnson boarded a crowded subway train during morning rush hour in Manhattan, squeezed in behind a woman and ground his pelvis into her backside, authorities said.It is a fairly common crime on subways in New York. But this was no common criminal.
Johnson has been arrested a staggering 53 times — the majority for groping women on the subway.
Johnson, a registered sex offender, has been convicted at least twice of persistent sexual abuse within the last decade, prosecutors said. And he has a lengthy rap sheet, with 30 arrests for sex abuse, 13 for jostling and two for grand larceny, police said.
He was released from prison on March 25 after serving four years for persistent sexual abuse, according to correctional records. The state attorney general's office had argued that the 49-year-old should be confined under the state's civil commitment law for sex offenders, which went into effect last year, because he was at risk for repeat offenses.
"PEDOPHILE"
Is this your "Son, Brother or Friend?"
mightyattom said...
He probably answers to "Hello Kitty."
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The Man said...
Probably says you're "Purrrfect"
He probably answers to "Hello Kitty."
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The Man said...
Probably says you're "Purrrfect"
Not purrrrrfect........
She still a Blonde
I find a very few blonde's attractive
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Lake Effect said...
Oh - you're the guy.
Oh - you're the guy.
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The Man said...
No - I'm The Man
Small Bits of News
Trading Nude Photos via Mobile Phone Now Part of Teen Dating
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said. The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.
"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed," said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."
Westerville Central High School senior Jerome Ray said he's received such unsolicited messages, including one from a classmate while he was sitting with his girlfriend.
"A lot more girls are aggressive," said Ray, 18. "Some girls are crazy and they are putting themselves out there."
Candice Kelsey, a teacher from California, said some teenage girls think they have to be provocative to get boys' attention. As a result, they will send photos they hope their parents never see.
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Couples could win the right to have deaf babies
Deaf couples could be allowed to use embryo-screening technology and choose to have a deaf child, after a climb-down by the Government in the face of campaigning. Under the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, using embryo-screening deliberately to create a child with a serious medical condition - which officials had said includes being deaf - would be illegal. Now, however, the Department of Health has agreed to cut from the Bill any reference to deafness as a serious medical condition. The move could pave the way for the Bill to be amended, when it passes through the Commons later this year, permitting a challenge over whether deafness should be classed as a serious medical condition for the purposes of the bill and allowing parents to pick an embryo, using IVF treatment, that will develop into a deaf child.
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Cigarette store clerk pelts would-be robber with chewing tobacco
DES MOINES, Iowa - A cashier at a Des Moines cigarette store has snuffed out a robbery. Police say the clerk at the Cigarette Outlet pelted the would-be robber with chewing tobacco last Friday night. Authorities say the suspect flashed a knife and forced one employee to the floor. The robber demanded money from a second employee, Ruth Wright, who refused. Wright then threw two cans of chewing tobacco at the robber, and one hit him in the face. A customer tackled the man, but the robber broke free and bolted out the door.
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Woman charged after making rude gesture to deputy
SPENCER (AP) -- A woman accused of making a rude gesture to a Clay County sheriff's deputy during an apparent case of road rage has been charged with disorderly conduct. Lisa Blazek, of Spencer, was arrested Friday afternoon. Police say she made the gesture after trying several times to merge her sports utility vehicle into heavy traffic.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said. The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.
"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed," said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."
Westerville Central High School senior Jerome Ray said he's received such unsolicited messages, including one from a classmate while he was sitting with his girlfriend.
"A lot more girls are aggressive," said Ray, 18. "Some girls are crazy and they are putting themselves out there."
Candice Kelsey, a teacher from California, said some teenage girls think they have to be provocative to get boys' attention. As a result, they will send photos they hope their parents never see.
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Couples could win the right to have deaf babies
Deaf couples could be allowed to use embryo-screening technology and choose to have a deaf child, after a climb-down by the Government in the face of campaigning. Under the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, using embryo-screening deliberately to create a child with a serious medical condition - which officials had said includes being deaf - would be illegal. Now, however, the Department of Health has agreed to cut from the Bill any reference to deafness as a serious medical condition. The move could pave the way for the Bill to be amended, when it passes through the Commons later this year, permitting a challenge over whether deafness should be classed as a serious medical condition for the purposes of the bill and allowing parents to pick an embryo, using IVF treatment, that will develop into a deaf child.
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Cigarette store clerk pelts would-be robber with chewing tobacco
DES MOINES, Iowa - A cashier at a Des Moines cigarette store has snuffed out a robbery. Police say the clerk at the Cigarette Outlet pelted the would-be robber with chewing tobacco last Friday night. Authorities say the suspect flashed a knife and forced one employee to the floor. The robber demanded money from a second employee, Ruth Wright, who refused. Wright then threw two cans of chewing tobacco at the robber, and one hit him in the face. A customer tackled the man, but the robber broke free and bolted out the door.
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Woman charged after making rude gesture to deputy
SPENCER (AP) -- A woman accused of making a rude gesture to a Clay County sheriff's deputy during an apparent case of road rage has been charged with disorderly conduct. Lisa Blazek, of Spencer, was arrested Friday afternoon. Police say she made the gesture after trying several times to merge her sports utility vehicle into heavy traffic.
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