Yellow lines to show pedestrians where to walk

Yellow lines are normally used to stop motorists parking on the road - but now they have been painted on a pavement in a town center to show pedestrians where to walk.

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Two lines stretch for 100m (328ft) down a high street. Other yellow lines have been painted around trees, a post box and cash points.

The path has caused confusion for residents in Ripple Road, Barking, east London, who cannot see the point of it.

‘We have all managed until now to walk along the path without tripping over things in the way, so why do we suddenly need guidelines?’ said 49-year-old Martin Harris. ‘It’s completely over the top and another sign of health and safety gone mad.’

Sarah Waldram, 32, added: ‘I’ve never seen anyone bump into a post box, why do we need yellow lines to show us the way?’

A Barking and Dagenham Council spokesman said the lines provided ‘a marked walk-through’ and a decision on whether to keep them would be made within three months.

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Choose Your Nickname Carefully

The Internet is filled with perverts and deviants and many of these degenerates use peer-to-peer networks to search for (and/or share) illicit images and videos of children. Federal agents, of course, spend much time monitoring these networks--like Gigatribe--looking for suspects possessing child pornography.

Some creeps, thankfully, make it easy for investigators to recognize their illegal intentions, as seen in the below excerpt from search warrant affidavit sworn by a Department of Homeland Security agent.

The DHS raid on a Texas residence was prompted by the probe target’s downloading of several videos depicting boys involved in explicit sexual activity with adult males.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Man Spots His Stolen Car At Stop Light
A Central Florida man is happy to have his stolen car back after he randomly pulled up behind it at a red light Monday.

VIDEO: Man Finds His Stolen Car In Traffic

Ben Gaskill said he left on Friday with his family to New Smyrna Beach for a weekend vacation. He said when they came back his wife's 2005 Hyundai Sonata was gone from the driveway.

Gaskill said someone broke into their house and stole the spare keys.

He said he was driving to the hardware store after work on when he stopped at a red light he looked up; he was stopped directly behind the stolen car.

He said the car had the familiar flower sticker in the back window that he had put there for his wife.

"You never really think you're going to see it again," Gaskill said.

He said he called 911 and stayed on the phone with the dispatcher until deputies arrived and arrested the suspects.

According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, three 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old were arrested.

Deputies said they also found marijuana in the car.

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Man accused of shooting AK-47 at paramedics

Paramedics were summoned to a St. Petersburg Beach residence on behalf of a man that was having seizures.

But when they arrived to help the man, his girlfriend wouldn't let them inside.

Another man then came running out of the residence warning everyone to "run."

And with good reason.

The man that was supposedly having seizures, Calvin Teodoro Foronda, 20, fired an AK-47 at the paramedics from inside the home.

They must have had good duck 'n cover training — nobody was hit with the bullet.

But Foronda was hit with 4 counts of aggravated assault on a firefighter and a $40,000 surety bond, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.

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Police find laptops in trash can

Two stolen laptops were recovered from a garbage can -- along with marijuana -- suburban Chicago police say. Wilmette, Ill., police said they were called to a house Thursday and told that two Apple laptops valued at $2,200 and $360 were missing.

Officers found the computers in pillow cases inside trash can in the back yard, but they also found an undisclosed amount of marijuana and two pipes, along with whiskey and beer bottles, police said.

One of the home's four residents said the drugs and paraphernalia were taken from the room he shared with a roommate on the first floor.

The other two residents, whose rooms are on the second floor, reported nothing stolen, and one of them slept through the burglary.

Police Chief Brian King said none of the residents has been charged, but the investigation is not over.

"Obviously, it's an unusual burglary," he said.

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Lady looks like a Dude

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Man fell asleep in restroom trigger alarm

Pittsburgh police say a man who triggered a burglar alarm at Macy’s Department Store didn't break into the store -- he merely fell asleep in a restroom and didn't leave before the store closed.

Officers were responding to the alarm Thursday night when police got another call from the man who told them of his unfortunate situation

Police located the man who had been locked in the store and verified his story. Police didn't charge the man, so they're not releasing his identity.

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Man texts friend before burglarizing him

A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges he burglarized a former high school friend's home after text messaging the victim to ensure he wasn't home.

Thirty-one-year-old James Hill, of Murrysville, waived his right to a preliminary hearing and is awaiting trial on burglary and other charges. Murrysville police say this incident happened on April 4, and that they're investigating similar incidents involving at least two other former classmates at Franklin Regional High School.

Police say the homeowner left work and saw Hill exiting the residence and called police after another friend saw Hill entering the home through the garage and alerted the victim.

Police say Hill pawned jewelry he stole to support a drug habit.

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College paper goes topless for exotic dancer story

A Philadelphia college newspaper has gone topless to publish a story alleging a professor used exotic dancers in a business seminar.

La Salle University students say administrators would not let them print the story above the fold on the front page. The top half is blank, except for the words "See below the fold."

Officials at the private Catholic University have previously confirmed an investigation of the March 21 seminar.

The newspaper's executive editor, Vinny Vella, says administrators initially forbade him from printing the article at all until their investigation was complete.

They relented after the Philadelphia City Paper broke the story April 8 but issued the story-location caveat. The university's dean declined to comment.

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Man bites police dog

A 33-year-old man who bit back after he was caught by a Phoenix police dog is suing police.

Erin Sullivan alleges the dog violated his civil rights and used excessive force to capture him after he ran from officers in Glendale during a burglary investigation last year.

Police say Sullivan bit the dog back, injuring it.

The lawsuit names the cities of Phoenix and Glendale and four officers.

Precursor filings to the lawsuit sought $200,000 from Glendale and $250,000 from Phoenix.

Sullivan also alleges Glendale police refused to give him insulin to treat his diabetes. Sullivan's attorney, Keith Knowlton, has said his client suffered a diabetic seizure in a Glendale cell.

Officials in Glendale and Phoenix have declined comment.

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Traffic Light Sex Couple

Red-faced traffic bosses are investigating how pranksters altered a set of pedestrian lights to show a couple having sex whenever they turned green.

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The lights - in Nimwegen, Holland - literally stopped the traffic when passers by stopped to gawk at them during rush hour.

One officer said: 'People kept pressing the button to see the couple having sex and of course every time they did, the traffic had to stop suddenly. We had quite a lot of rear end shunts from drivers who were too distracted.'

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Transport officials are investigating how computer hackers managed to get into the town's traffic light system to manipulate the image.

A Town Hall spokesperson said: 'We are looking at who had access and opportunity.'

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Letter Carrier in Deep S@#t

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Burglar use baby stroller to move his 110 frozen dinners

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Surveillance video from a nearby convenience store caught Glenn Evan Byers, 47, entering the backyard of a Bradenton home.

His haul from a backyard shed and carport freezer: About 110 frozen dinners, comic books, toys -- hauled off in a swiped baby stroller.

Cops weren't about to let the case get cold — they caught up with Byers before the food had yet to thaw.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Woman who wouldn't stop except for McDonald's

Police in Florida say Roberta Spen wouldn't stop for anything -- except McDonald's.

Cops in Coral Springs say they tried to pull over the 64-year-old motorist when they noticed that her brake lights were malfunctioning as she pulled into a McDonald's drive-thru lane at around 2 p.m. Monday.

Officers flashed their lights and ordered Spen to park her car in the burger joint's parking lot for a traffic stop.

But Spen wasn't lovin' it, according to police.

Instead, the suspect is accused of placing her order, paying for food and speeding away.

According to a police report, an officer managed to flag Spen down after she pulled out of the restaurant.

Police said that Spen "lower her window 1 inch and said she was not speeding and would not lower her window down," the document indicates.

She also refused to hand over her license and registration, then drove off -- sparking a police chase involving multiple law enforcement vehicles.

Cops say they attempted to use their cars to box Spen in, but she managed to escape by putting her vehicle into reverse.

Officers then say they blocked her vehicle a second time, smashed the driver's side window and dragged the suspect from the car.

Spen was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest without violence and driving with defective equipment, according to the paper.

It's unclear whether she was able to finish her meal before her arrest.

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“Cop Busted” Trying to have sex with ‘teen’ and ‘mom’

Christopher Jonathan Albritton, an active U.S. Navy reservist and a NASA police officer, thought he hit the sicko jackpot when he found an ad on the internet offering ‘family fun’ with a mom and her daughter.

Yes, he actually thought a mom and her 14-year-old daughter wanted to hook-up with him for sex.

But the "‘mom’ and ‘daughter’ were actually undercover detectives.

On April 13, Albritton arrived for his rendezvous and was promptly busted and booked into the Citrus County jail.

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Armed robber had an unusual request

They'll steal just about anything these days...

An armed robber had an unusual demand early Saturday morning.

He wanted another man’s shoes.

Ricardo Emanuel Maldonado-Agostini told the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office that an armed robber demanded his Globe brand shoes and a cell phone early Saturday.

The man reportedly fled on foot after he got the skate shoes and the phone.

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Drug store thief steals beans, not pills

A pharmacist in southeastern Mississippi says some drug store burglar got a surprise when they broke into his business to steal the pain medication Lortab - the pills had been replaced with beans.

Pharmacist Mac Clark works at Fred's Drug Store in Pascagoula and said the store has broken into several times in the past six months, and each time the burglars got Lortab. He decided he needed a decoy.

Around 6 a.m. Wednesday, the burglars came back. The only thing stolen was the Lortab bottle filled with beans.

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Teen faces charges for child porn on phone

Police in the northwestern Indiana city of Portage say a 15-year-old boy is being charged in juvenile court with possession of child pornography after pictures of two nude female classmates were found on his cell phone.

The freshman was removed from Portage High School last week and sent to the Porter County Juvenile Detention Center. According to a Portage police report released Wednesday, school administrators received a call from a 15-year-old freshman girl's mother saying a boy was threatening to post a nude photo of her daughter on MySpace if she didn't let him borrow a musical instrument.

The boy told police he wasn't dating either girl and that they sent the photos on their own. He denies he threatened to post the photos.

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Lingerie football goes to Toronto

The U.S. Lingerie Football League is broadening its horizons to include a Canadian scantily clad franchise in Toronto, the league announced. League founder Mitchell Mortaza said the as-yet unnamed team will compete in the 2-year-old league's Eastern division.

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GALLERY: Lingerie Football League

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The women play seven-per-side full-contact football on a half-sized field wearing helmets, shoulder, knee and elbow pads, bras, and panties.

The players in the league's 10 teams don't get paid, but their uniform and travel expenses are covered by the league.

Mortaza said the experience exposes the women to careers in entertainment.

"It's really an opportunity for them to be elevated to (the level) of major sports for guys, and be on the cover of everything ranging from Playboy to ESPN to Fox News channel," he said.

Try-outs for the Toronto team will begin April 30, Mortaza said.

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GALLERY: Lingerie Football League part 2

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Toronto mother Judy Pfeifer told the Star she wasn't impressed by the concept of a league of attractive female athletes in skimpy clothing.

"What's next -- thong soccer?" she said. "I don't think this does much for gender equality."

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