.Saturday, October 31, 2009
Man Sends Porno X-mas Cards To Ex's Family
57-Year-Old Pleads Guilty To Unlawful Photography, Other Charge
A man in Murfreesboro, Tenn., was sentenced to two years of probation for sending sexually explicit Christmas cards of his ex-girlfriend to her relatives.
57-year-old David Simmons was accused of surreptitiously taking pictures of his ex-girlfriend while she performed sexual acts on him. After a bad break up, Simmons sent one of the pictures to the woman's relatives as Christmas cards.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of unlawful photography and criminal impersonation. In exchange for the plea he was given a suspended sentence.
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A man in Murfreesboro, Tenn., was sentenced to two years of probation for sending sexually explicit Christmas cards of his ex-girlfriend to her relatives.
57-year-old David Simmons was accused of surreptitiously taking pictures of his ex-girlfriend while she performed sexual acts on him. After a bad break up, Simmons sent one of the pictures to the woman's relatives as Christmas cards.
He pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of unlawful photography and criminal impersonation. In exchange for the plea he was given a suspended sentence.
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Jungle woman wants to return to the wild
A Cambodian woman who spent 18 years living in a forest after going missing as a child has struggled to reintegrate in village life and wants to return to the wild.Rochom P'ngieng, dubbed "jungle woman" when she emerged in Feb 2007, has still has not learnt to speak and refuses to wear clothes.
Her father said she had been admitted to hospital after refusing to eat for a month and had made several attempts to return to the forest.
Sal Lou said: "Her condition looks worse than the time we brought her from the jungle. She always wants to take off her clothes and crawl back to the jungle.
"She has refused to eat rice for about one month. She is skinny now... She still cannot speak. She acts totally like a monkey. Last night, she took off her clothes, and went to hide in the bathroom."
Rochom P'ngieng disappeared in 1989 when she was eight years old while herding water buffalo in the province of Ratanakkiri bordering Vietnam, north-east of the capital, Phnom Penh.
Her parents had long given up hope of ever seeing her. But in 2007, she emerged from the jungle naked and dirty, hunched over like a monkey, and was caught trying to steal by a farmer.
She was said to have been scavenging food in the forest and could utter only unintelligible words. Sal Lou described the sounds she made simply as "animal noises".
The drama of her disappearance and unlikely reappearance gripped Cambodians who described her as "half animal girl" and "jungle woman", though there were also many questions raised about her identity and whether she could really have survived in the jungle.
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It's just water
Pepsi Cola was ordered to pay more than $1 billion to two Waukesha County men who accused the company of stealing their idea to bottle and sell purified water.The company didn't show up in court, so a Wisconsin judge ordered Pepsi to pay Charles Joyce and James Voigt more than $1.2 billion in a default judgment.
According to an article in the National Law Journal, "The men sued the soft drink maker and two of its distributors, alleging they had misappropriated trade secrets from confidential discussions the plaintiffs had with the distributors in 1981 about selling purified water."
The article said, "PepsiCo argues that the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit, brought 15 years after the company started selling Aquafina and more than two decades after the alleged confidential talks."
The company is appealing the decision; saying is wasn't aware of the lawsuit until after the decision was handed down earlier this month.
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Crazy drivers & stupid people
Gangs of drivers in Sofia are defying death for bets of up to £5,000 by speeding through red lights at 120mph.
A new game, known as "Russian road roulette", is played every night at intersections throughout the Bulgarian capital.
As many as five people have been killed and many injured since the craze took hold in the summer. According to the rules, participants must drive at top speed and not apply their brakes.
The 50 or so drivers, most of them in their twenties and driving sports utility vehicles, gather at midnight at designated meeting points in the north of the city.
While lookouts watch for the police, the participants decide on the venue for the night. Other gang members are informed via texts and the gambling starts.
To win at Russian road roulette, the driver must jump red lights at busy crossroads at full speed and not collide with another vehicle, pedestrian or leave the road. If he hits an object, he loses the bet. Onlookers also take part by gambling on the outcome.
In a variation of the game, drivers approach roundabouts at high speed and go around the wrong way. Rivals also race each other along the dual carriageway of the city's ring road. On some occasions the gangs have even blocked sections of the highway to other traffic while the race takes place.
Rumen Georgiev, a taxi driver, said he was now afraid to be on the city's roads after dark. "I – like every other taxi driver in Sofia – stop at a green light to make sure nothing is coming the other way," he said. "I have to apologize to clients for the slow journey. It's a jungle out there."
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A new game, known as "Russian road roulette", is played every night at intersections throughout the Bulgarian capital.
As many as five people have been killed and many injured since the craze took hold in the summer. According to the rules, participants must drive at top speed and not apply their brakes.
The 50 or so drivers, most of them in their twenties and driving sports utility vehicles, gather at midnight at designated meeting points in the north of the city.
While lookouts watch for the police, the participants decide on the venue for the night. Other gang members are informed via texts and the gambling starts.
To win at Russian road roulette, the driver must jump red lights at busy crossroads at full speed and not collide with another vehicle, pedestrian or leave the road. If he hits an object, he loses the bet. Onlookers also take part by gambling on the outcome.
In a variation of the game, drivers approach roundabouts at high speed and go around the wrong way. Rivals also race each other along the dual carriageway of the city's ring road. On some occasions the gangs have even blocked sections of the highway to other traffic while the race takes place.
Rumen Georgiev, a taxi driver, said he was now afraid to be on the city's roads after dark. "I – like every other taxi driver in Sofia – stop at a green light to make sure nothing is coming the other way," he said. "I have to apologize to clients for the slow journey. It's a jungle out there."
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In The Streets Of Sofia Bulgaria
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Friday, October 30, 2009
14 illegal immigrants caught in tanker of corn starch
A tanker driver looked on in astonishment as he watched 14 illegal immigrants emerge from his cargo covered from head to toe in maize starch.Frenchman Ludovic Buns had transported 25 tons of the powder from Calais, France, to a packaging company in Devizes, Wiltshire.
But when he pulled up at DS Smith Packaging on Tuesday evening he heard strange noises echoing inside the tanker drum.
He peered inside to find 14 stowaways - seven men and seven teenagers from Iraq and Afghanistan - caked in white powder.
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Monkey Pulls Down Girl’s Shirt
“A bunch of wild monkeys invade this couples car and when the girl attempts to push one away the monkey pulls down her shirt and runs off.”
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Woman 'offered sex for World Series tickets'
A woman charged with offering sex for World Series tickets on the Craigslist website says she did nothing wrong and still hopes to make the game.Susan Finkelstein, 43, was arrested after meeting an undercover police officer responding to the advertisement in a bar.
"I didn't do anything wrong, so I'm not embarrassed about my actions. I'm embarrassed about how I was arrested," she said.
The University of Pennsylvania graduate said she had wanted to take her husband to a baseball game between her beloved Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees.
The self-described "buxom blonde" said she was simply trying to score tickets online, as she had in the past.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Council bans parents from play areas
Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks.
Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.
The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labeled as potential pedophiles.
It will further fuel concerns over a growing nanny state amid the deepening row over the Government's new national anti-pedophile database.
Councilors in Watford claim they are only following Government guidelines and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds "unchecked".
But Osfted dismissed the ban while parents branded it "a joke".
"The whole thing is just a joke and I will certainly not be adhering to the new rules which frankly are crazy."
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Student caught at school with sawed-off shotgun
A student was arrested after bringing a sawed-off shotgun to the Life Skills School on S. Orange Blossom Trail on Monday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.
Bryan A. Chavis and another student walked into the school Monday morning, each carrying a gym bag, the second student told a deputy, according to the sheriff's office. They dropped the bags off at the reception counter, saying they needed to be locked in the school's security room.
When the security officer picked up one of the bags, its heavy weight led him to ask someone else in the front office to look inside, according to an arrest affidavit signed by Deputy Martin Jiminez.
Deputies found a silver, 20-gauge, New England firearms shotgun. The barrel was silver but rusted and had been cut off to about 13 inches, according to the affidavit. The butt of the gun also was sawed off.
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Zero tolerance strikes again!
An 11-year-old Des Moines girl on suspension for bringing a handful of empty shotgun shells to school last week.
Jazmine Martin, a sixth-grader at Brody Middle School, picked up the shells as souvenirs during a family trip to a ranch in South Dakota, where the rounds were fired as part of a show. They were blanks.
"I didn't think they were going to hurt anyone," Jazmine said. "I wanted to show them to my science teacher because he's into stuff like this."
Principal Randy Gordon said the shells were considered ammunition even though they were empty, and were therefore against school policy.
A copy of the school policy shows that it specifically bans "live ammunition or bullets" but makes no reference to empty shells or casings. However, the policy says it is not limited to the items specifically listed as being banned.
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School Nurse Found Passed Out with Painkillers
Parents in Macclenny, Florida were shocked after hearing a school nurse was found passed out last week next to several prescription painkillers.
The report said three practically empty bottles of liquid prescription painkillers were found next to her purse.
Documents said she got the powerful, liquid painkillers from the Baker Community Hospital, where she worked as an Emergency Room nurse.
Documents said it had been logged out for a patient. According to the documents, Bennett told investigators the patient refused the painkillers and she forgot she had them.
Dennis Markos, CEO for Baker Community Hospital, said the painkillers are toxic and deadly if misused.
"Ms. Bennett was terminated from our facility. It was a serious breach of professional ethics," said Dennis Markos, the hospital's CEO.
Meanwhile, the school's superintendent Sherrie Raulerson said Bennett turned in her resignation letter and no longer has contact with students.
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Rapping teens cited for disorderly conduct
A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald's has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah City.
The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.
The teens said they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce ..." once quickly before repeating it more slowly.
Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave.
American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow says a manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called police. The teens were later cited by officers.
Disorderly conduct citations are issued when someone does something to cause annoyance or alarm, Ludlow said.
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Man sues over lack of 'AXE' effect
An unlucky Indian man is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.
Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £26,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.
Court officials in New Delhi have agreed to order forensic laboratory tests on dozens of his half-used Lynx body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels.
Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.
But Bedi says in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe."
"I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."
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Judge pleads guilty to tampering with vehicle
A Maryland judge has apologized for engaging in a bit of vigilante justice when he let the air out of the tire of a courthouse employee who parked in a restricted area.
Charles County Circuit Judge Robert C. Nalley entered a guilty plea and was given a $500 fine Wednesday for tampering with a vehicle at the courthouse where he usually presides. He also said he was ashamed that he let the air out of the courthouse cleaning woman's tire and said he was "embarrassed for the community."
A visiting judge who handled the case also required Nalley to write a "heartfelt letter of apology" to Jean Washington, the woman whose tire he deflated.
Nalley has been suspended from hearing criminal cases since the Aug. 10 incident. He could face sanctions from state officials.
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Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks.
Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.
The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labeled as potential pedophiles.
It will further fuel concerns over a growing nanny state amid the deepening row over the Government's new national anti-pedophile database.
Councilors in Watford claim they are only following Government guidelines and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds "unchecked".
But Osfted dismissed the ban while parents branded it "a joke".
"The whole thing is just a joke and I will certainly not be adhering to the new rules which frankly are crazy."
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Student caught at school with sawed-off shotgun
A student was arrested after bringing a sawed-off shotgun to the Life Skills School on S. Orange Blossom Trail on Monday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.
Bryan A. Chavis and another student walked into the school Monday morning, each carrying a gym bag, the second student told a deputy, according to the sheriff's office. They dropped the bags off at the reception counter, saying they needed to be locked in the school's security room.
When the security officer picked up one of the bags, its heavy weight led him to ask someone else in the front office to look inside, according to an arrest affidavit signed by Deputy Martin Jiminez.
Deputies found a silver, 20-gauge, New England firearms shotgun. The barrel was silver but rusted and had been cut off to about 13 inches, according to the affidavit. The butt of the gun also was sawed off.
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Zero tolerance strikes again!
An 11-year-old Des Moines girl on suspension for bringing a handful of empty shotgun shells to school last week.
Jazmine Martin, a sixth-grader at Brody Middle School, picked up the shells as souvenirs during a family trip to a ranch in South Dakota, where the rounds were fired as part of a show. They were blanks.
"I didn't think they were going to hurt anyone," Jazmine said. "I wanted to show them to my science teacher because he's into stuff like this."
Principal Randy Gordon said the shells were considered ammunition even though they were empty, and were therefore against school policy.
A copy of the school policy shows that it specifically bans "live ammunition or bullets" but makes no reference to empty shells or casings. However, the policy says it is not limited to the items specifically listed as being banned.
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School Nurse Found Passed Out with Painkillers
Parents in Macclenny, Florida were shocked after hearing a school nurse was found passed out last week next to several prescription painkillers.
The report said three practically empty bottles of liquid prescription painkillers were found next to her purse.
Documents said she got the powerful, liquid painkillers from the Baker Community Hospital, where she worked as an Emergency Room nurse.
Documents said it had been logged out for a patient. According to the documents, Bennett told investigators the patient refused the painkillers and she forgot she had them.
Dennis Markos, CEO for Baker Community Hospital, said the painkillers are toxic and deadly if misused.
"Ms. Bennett was terminated from our facility. It was a serious breach of professional ethics," said Dennis Markos, the hospital's CEO.
Meanwhile, the school's superintendent Sherrie Raulerson said Bennett turned in her resignation letter and no longer has contact with students.
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Rapping teens cited for disorderly conduct
A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald's has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah City.
The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.
The teens said they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce ..." once quickly before repeating it more slowly.
Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave.
American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow says a manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called police. The teens were later cited by officers.
Disorderly conduct citations are issued when someone does something to cause annoyance or alarm, Ludlow said.
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Man sues over lack of 'AXE' effect
An unlucky Indian man is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.
Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £26,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.
Court officials in New Delhi have agreed to order forensic laboratory tests on dozens of his half-used Lynx body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels.
Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.
But Bedi says in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe."
"I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."
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Judge pleads guilty to tampering with vehicle
A Maryland judge has apologized for engaging in a bit of vigilante justice when he let the air out of the tire of a courthouse employee who parked in a restricted area.
Charles County Circuit Judge Robert C. Nalley entered a guilty plea and was given a $500 fine Wednesday for tampering with a vehicle at the courthouse where he usually presides. He also said he was ashamed that he let the air out of the courthouse cleaning woman's tire and said he was "embarrassed for the community."
A visiting judge who handled the case also required Nalley to write a "heartfelt letter of apology" to Jean Washington, the woman whose tire he deflated.
Nalley has been suspended from hearing criminal cases since the Aug. 10 incident. He could face sanctions from state officials.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
How Dumb Can A Person Be?
Suspects in an attempted burglary at a Carroll apartment Friday night weren't too difficult to identify.
A resident of 1844 Randall Road called 911 to report two men with their faces painted black were trying to break into an apartment.
Moments later, Carroll police officers pulled over a car matching the suspects' vehicle a couple blocks away and found the two occupants with faces blackened by a permanent marker.
Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, were arrested without incident.
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"SUDS"
Beer lovers are being given the chance to take the plunge in a health spa pool - filled with 42,000 pints of lager.Spa bosses in Starkenberg, Austria, claim that beer can treat skin conditions, blood circulation and can even help cure wounds.
The spa - part of a local brewery - contains seven 13ft long pools filled with beer which you can even ask to be served chilled or heated.
Bathers can try drinking the bathwater but head barman Markus Amann, 23, said: "I'd rather swim than swallow, as we have enough cold beer on tap at the bars next to the pools.
"These pools really can help some health problems - but if they don't work for you, you'll probably have drunk enough not to care about it any more," he added.
Beer bath bosses at nearby Schrammel reckon warm beer is the best for health cures and bathers sit in cut down lager barrels.
Meanwhile, even monks are getting in on the craze for health on tap.
Brewers of the distinctive dark Klosterbrauerei in rural eastern Germany have produced a spa supplement for customers to put in the tub at home.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
The $400,000,000.00 Question?
Officials in Hartford, Connecticut are trying to solve a $400 million mystery: Who owns the cash?
The state treasurer's office says the unclaimed funds include dormant balances in savings and checking accounts, unclaimed wages and uncashed checks for insurance benefits. The agency says the money belongs to 887,000 people.
The state published the names of nearly 34,000 people who have been recently added to Connecticut's unclaimed properties list, in an effort to find the rightful owners.
Officials say they returned more than $32 million last year to nearly 15,000 people who filed claims.
All unclaimed property and the owners are listed on the Web site
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112-year-old man, marries 17-year-old girl
A Somalian man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, to a 17-year-old girl.
A crowd of hundreds attended the wedding between Ahmed Muhamed Dore and Safia Abdulleh in Guriceel, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Mr. Dore said: "Today God helped me realize my dream."
Mr. Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing.
He said: "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry."
The bride’s family said she was "happy with her new husband".
At 95 years older than her – if his claimed age is accurate – he is old enough to be her great-great-great-grandfather.
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Dead man found at police station
The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said today.
The body of Chukkan Nishad, a 22-year-old who went missing in July 2007, was meant to be sent for DNA testing but was instead put in a body bag and placed on the roof.
Nishad's father and local officials, said the family kept requesting the body at the police station but were repeatedly told there was an investigation underway.
"I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind,'' said Ram Sabad Ram, the new station master in Azamgarh in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"I joined here only recently and didn't know that the corpse was kept on the roof.''
The body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for the DNA test on Nishad, whose death remains a mystery.
Mr Ram said police were now completing the formalities to return Mishad's remains -- no more than bones after two years exposed to the elements - to his family.
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Drug-Sniffing Dog ODs On Methamphetamine
A drug-sniffing dog was recovering in a veterinary hospital -- with his human partner at his side -- after accidentally ingesting methamphetamine.
Thousand Oaks Senior Deputy Dean Worthy said that Balu, a 4-year-old German shepherd, had been commanded to search for a bag of drugs near where a suspect had dropped something else.
"He did his job," Worthy says. Balu alerted to a bag of meth.
However, Balu must also have inhaled or licked up some remnants from the bag. Hours later, he had a bad reaction.
Worthy said the dog had a seizure in the back of his patrol car that last more than two minutes.
He took his K-9 partner to a veterinary hospital where he appears to be on the road to recovery.
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Dead Man Leaves $1.7 Million Estate To Cats
Cats Charities Nip All Of Man's Estate
A Raleigh man has left his nearly $1.7 million estate to four North Carolina cat charities.
Emil Campbell died suddenly last month and left instructions for his lawyer to bequeath his entire estate to cats.
Attorney Bobby Khot said Campbell left the money to four charities: Snowflake Animal Rescue, Marley's Cat Tales, SAFE Haven for Cats and Second Chance Pet Adoptions.
A spokeswoman for Snowflake Animal Rescue said her organization typically gets less than $6,000 a year in donations. She said she had to read the letter about Campbell's donation twice before she believed it.
Khot said his client didn't work at a high paying job but was very frugal and saved money. He said Campbell had one surviving daughter.
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Man drinks water and dies
A boozer banned from supping Stella at his local downed six pints of water in protest – and died.
Heavy drinker Tony Holtam, 47, collapsed on the floor in a corner of the pub “looking like he was having a fit”.
Guzzling so much water so quickly had left him with dangerously low levels of sodium in his bloodstream, an inquest heard.
Locals regularly saw the forestry worker knock back his favorite strong lager at a rate of five pints an hour.
But he had a reputation for “acting up” afterwards and finally pub landlady Sian Davies refused to serve him with the 5% ABV brew.
So I would only allow him to drink weaker lagers. On the day he died Tony came in and only drank water.
“He was in his corner watching the Grand Prix and it looked like he was having a fit. He just went rigid and was clutching his chest.”
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Officials in Hartford, Connecticut are trying to solve a $400 million mystery: Who owns the cash?
The state treasurer's office says the unclaimed funds include dormant balances in savings and checking accounts, unclaimed wages and uncashed checks for insurance benefits. The agency says the money belongs to 887,000 people.
The state published the names of nearly 34,000 people who have been recently added to Connecticut's unclaimed properties list, in an effort to find the rightful owners.
Officials say they returned more than $32 million last year to nearly 15,000 people who filed claims.
All unclaimed property and the owners are listed on the Web site
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112-year-old man, marries 17-year-old girl
A Somalian man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, to a 17-year-old girl.
A crowd of hundreds attended the wedding between Ahmed Muhamed Dore and Safia Abdulleh in Guriceel, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Mr. Dore said: "Today God helped me realize my dream."
Mr. Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing.
He said: "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry."
The bride’s family said she was "happy with her new husband".
At 95 years older than her – if his claimed age is accurate – he is old enough to be her great-great-great-grandfather.
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Dead man found at police station
The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said today.
The body of Chukkan Nishad, a 22-year-old who went missing in July 2007, was meant to be sent for DNA testing but was instead put in a body bag and placed on the roof.
Nishad's father and local officials, said the family kept requesting the body at the police station but were repeatedly told there was an investigation underway.
"I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind,'' said Ram Sabad Ram, the new station master in Azamgarh in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"I joined here only recently and didn't know that the corpse was kept on the roof.''
The body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for the DNA test on Nishad, whose death remains a mystery.
Mr Ram said police were now completing the formalities to return Mishad's remains -- no more than bones after two years exposed to the elements - to his family.
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Drug-Sniffing Dog ODs On Methamphetamine
A drug-sniffing dog was recovering in a veterinary hospital -- with his human partner at his side -- after accidentally ingesting methamphetamine.
Thousand Oaks Senior Deputy Dean Worthy said that Balu, a 4-year-old German shepherd, had been commanded to search for a bag of drugs near where a suspect had dropped something else.
"He did his job," Worthy says. Balu alerted to a bag of meth.
However, Balu must also have inhaled or licked up some remnants from the bag. Hours later, he had a bad reaction.
Worthy said the dog had a seizure in the back of his patrol car that last more than two minutes.
He took his K-9 partner to a veterinary hospital where he appears to be on the road to recovery.
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Dead Man Leaves $1.7 Million Estate To Cats
Cats Charities Nip All Of Man's Estate
A Raleigh man has left his nearly $1.7 million estate to four North Carolina cat charities.
Emil Campbell died suddenly last month and left instructions for his lawyer to bequeath his entire estate to cats.
Attorney Bobby Khot said Campbell left the money to four charities: Snowflake Animal Rescue, Marley's Cat Tales, SAFE Haven for Cats and Second Chance Pet Adoptions.
A spokeswoman for Snowflake Animal Rescue said her organization typically gets less than $6,000 a year in donations. She said she had to read the letter about Campbell's donation twice before she believed it.
Khot said his client didn't work at a high paying job but was very frugal and saved money. He said Campbell had one surviving daughter.
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Man drinks water and dies
A boozer banned from supping Stella at his local downed six pints of water in protest – and died.
Heavy drinker Tony Holtam, 47, collapsed on the floor in a corner of the pub “looking like he was having a fit”.
Guzzling so much water so quickly had left him with dangerously low levels of sodium in his bloodstream, an inquest heard.
Locals regularly saw the forestry worker knock back his favorite strong lager at a rate of five pints an hour.
But he had a reputation for “acting up” afterwards and finally pub landlady Sian Davies refused to serve him with the 5% ABV brew.
So I would only allow him to drink weaker lagers. On the day he died Tony came in and only drank water.
“He was in his corner watching the Grand Prix and it looked like he was having a fit. He just went rigid and was clutching his chest.”
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Man Feeds Fish Milk
Koi Carp which has the right coloration can sell for tens of thousands of pounds and aquarium owner Ding Feng said making sure the fish grew rapidly so that they could be sold for more money was very important.Feng, 47, who owns the Hanzhou Aquarium in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, said: "All my colleagues are doing it. I started to test feed the carps with milk three months ago."
I visited a carp farm, and found they fed the fish with powdered milk from a bottle, and the carp were strong and active.
"It took my fish a little while to get used to it but now they love the new feed.
"I don't use regular food anymore - I just give them milk."
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Illinois man pleads guilty to stealing $470,995
An Illinois man will be sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $470,995.53 from a township company by accepting paychecks for a job he didn't have.
Anthony Armatys, 35, pleaded guilty to receiving the money in direct deposits from Avaya, a telecommunications firm for a job as a senior systems analyst/systems architect that he accepted in September 2002.
Armatys filled out the necessary paperwork with Avaya's human resources department, but he then turned down the job because of the terms of his employment contract with his then current employer.
A new computer system at Avaya terminated Armatys from the company's human resources database but failed to remove him from the company's payroll system. Armatys continued receiving a paycheck from the company until February 2007.
The investigation began when Avaya auditors discovered that payroll checks had been mistakenly deposited into Armatys' account.
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Cop Pulls Gun At Haunted House
Witnesses Say Off-Duty Officer Was Drunk
A Baltimore city police officer was charged with assault after he pulled a gun on a haunted house character wielding a chainsaw.
Baltimore County police said Sgt. Eric Janik, 36, pulled his gun on a haunted house employee dressed up as the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at the House of Screams show.
Police said that the employee approached Janik after the haunted house tour was over in an effort to get "one last scream."
Instead, it was the employee that got a scare when Janik pulled his service weapon and pointed it at the Michael Morrison's chest, authorities said.
"I was doing my normal scene at the haunted house, and as I was going out the back door with the chainsaw, the officer pulled his gun on me. He put his gun to my chest and as I was going back in, he said he was a cop
He said he dropped the chain saw, which had no chain and was not dangerous.
Janik denied pointing his loaded service weapon at Morrison. He said he pointed it at the ground.
When he was being processed, two of the officers noticed his speech was slurred and there was a moderate odor of alcohol coming from his breath.
Janik, a 14-year veteran, has been suspended without pay pending a formal suspension hearing.
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An Illinois man will be sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $470,995.53 from a township company by accepting paychecks for a job he didn't have.
Anthony Armatys, 35, pleaded guilty to receiving the money in direct deposits from Avaya, a telecommunications firm for a job as a senior systems analyst/systems architect that he accepted in September 2002.
Armatys filled out the necessary paperwork with Avaya's human resources department, but he then turned down the job because of the terms of his employment contract with his then current employer.
A new computer system at Avaya terminated Armatys from the company's human resources database but failed to remove him from the company's payroll system. Armatys continued receiving a paycheck from the company until February 2007.
The investigation began when Avaya auditors discovered that payroll checks had been mistakenly deposited into Armatys' account.
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Cop Pulls Gun At Haunted House
Witnesses Say Off-Duty Officer Was Drunk
A Baltimore city police officer was charged with assault after he pulled a gun on a haunted house character wielding a chainsaw.
Baltimore County police said Sgt. Eric Janik, 36, pulled his gun on a haunted house employee dressed up as the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at the House of Screams show.
Police said that the employee approached Janik after the haunted house tour was over in an effort to get "one last scream."
Instead, it was the employee that got a scare when Janik pulled his service weapon and pointed it at the Michael Morrison's chest, authorities said.
"I was doing my normal scene at the haunted house, and as I was going out the back door with the chainsaw, the officer pulled his gun on me. He put his gun to my chest and as I was going back in, he said he was a cop
He said he dropped the chain saw, which had no chain and was not dangerous.
Janik denied pointing his loaded service weapon at Morrison. He said he pointed it at the ground.
When he was being processed, two of the officers noticed his speech was slurred and there was a moderate odor of alcohol coming from his breath.
Janik, a 14-year veteran, has been suspended without pay pending a formal suspension hearing.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Being Motorized
Motorized Mechanics Creeper That Goes 30mph
It was built with a mechanics creeper, a 2.5HP 80cc motor, and garage junk.
It was built with a mechanics creeper, a 2.5HP 80cc motor, and garage junk.
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Motorized Beer Crate
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This sounds like bs.
Pilots Were Working on Their Laptops
2 Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptops, in violation of company policy, while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the NTSB said Monday. (Oct. 26)
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2 Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptops, in violation of company policy, while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the NTSB said Monday. (Oct. 26)
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Dealer finally gave up after 16 days
A drug dealer who refused to go to the toilet for 16 days to avoid producing the evidence that would convict him has been jailed for 52 months today.
Damien Ankrah, aged 28, was arrested on July 13th on suspicion of transporting heroin by placing the drugs in condoms and placing them inside himself.
Police became even more suspicious when he refused food or drink in his cell at Pembroke Dock police station, west Wales.
An officer was stationed full time outside his cell door and police used special legislation to keep him in custody beyond the normal time limits.
Ankrah began to accept drinks only but after local magistrates granted a further extension of time for his detention on July 17th he started to eat small quantities of food.
But he kept his legs crossed until July 29th, when he finally came clean and produced five bags of heroin.
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One-legged man held after one shoe goes missing from store
Police say a one-legged suspect was caught after only one shoe went missing in a store in Belgium.
An amputee was an immediate suspect when a store attendant found one shoe missing from a shop in the western Belgian town of Maldegem.
Police spokesman Rik Decraemer said Monday authorities were alerted and quickly found the man who fit the description by shopkeepers. The shoe was also recovered.
The suspect, a Russian asylum seeker, faces possible charges and was handed over to judicial authorities.
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Panty raid at Victoria's Secret Store
$8,000 in undies stolen from Victoria's Secret
Five hundred pairs of panties were reported stolen Thursday from the Victoria's Secret store in the Bell Tower Shops.
Employee Michelle Birch told deputies that at 5:30 p.m. two women came into the store with a child.
According to reports, the child went into the beauty section and opened several drawers, possibly to distract Birch while the mother continued to shop.
During that time, a man and woman also came into the store, and employee Tonia Wiesner helped them.
Wiesner told police the man stood uncomfortably close to her face and asked several questions in Spanish.
Birch noticed the two women had left the store, and then discovered 500 pairs of panties, each valued at $16.00, were missing from trays.
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Woman has been in mortuary cold storage for 30 years.
A nurse who fell to her death at a party in Saudi Arabia will finally be given a funeral more than 30 years after she died.
Helen Smith was 23 when she fell from the balcony of a block of flats in the city of Jeddah in May, 1979.
Her father Ron, who is 83 and now in poor health, has finally given the go-ahead for her to be cremated after three decades of campaigning for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding her death.
Helen and fellow partygoer Johannes Otten - a Dutch sea captain - were both killed in the fall and police concluded they had been having sex when they lost their footing.
Mr. Smith, a retired police officer, always denied this and refused to accept the open verdict at her inquest.
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Police Looking for Dogs That Rip Bumper off Car
Animal control officers in Fort Smith, Ark. were searching for two pit bulls that ripped apart the front of a car with their teeth.
Police said a 911 call led them to a home where they found two pit bulls. There were one on top of the car and one on the hood," said resident Ima Jean Vervack.
Police chased the dogs and searched nearby neighborhoods.
Vervack said it's shocking to look at the front bumper of her car, which was torn apart by the dogs' teeth.
"The whole front is torn up. The fender is torn off. There was blood where they cut their mouth trying to tear this stuff off," Vervack said.
Vervack said police rushed to her home just before 4 a.m. when her daughter called 911.
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A drug dealer who refused to go to the toilet for 16 days to avoid producing the evidence that would convict him has been jailed for 52 months today.
Damien Ankrah, aged 28, was arrested on July 13th on suspicion of transporting heroin by placing the drugs in condoms and placing them inside himself.
Police became even more suspicious when he refused food or drink in his cell at Pembroke Dock police station, west Wales.
An officer was stationed full time outside his cell door and police used special legislation to keep him in custody beyond the normal time limits.
Ankrah began to accept drinks only but after local magistrates granted a further extension of time for his detention on July 17th he started to eat small quantities of food.
But he kept his legs crossed until July 29th, when he finally came clean and produced five bags of heroin.
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One-legged man held after one shoe goes missing from store
Police say a one-legged suspect was caught after only one shoe went missing in a store in Belgium.
An amputee was an immediate suspect when a store attendant found one shoe missing from a shop in the western Belgian town of Maldegem.
Police spokesman Rik Decraemer said Monday authorities were alerted and quickly found the man who fit the description by shopkeepers. The shoe was also recovered.
The suspect, a Russian asylum seeker, faces possible charges and was handed over to judicial authorities.
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Panty raid at Victoria's Secret Store
$8,000 in undies stolen from Victoria's Secret
Five hundred pairs of panties were reported stolen Thursday from the Victoria's Secret store in the Bell Tower Shops.
Employee Michelle Birch told deputies that at 5:30 p.m. two women came into the store with a child.
According to reports, the child went into the beauty section and opened several drawers, possibly to distract Birch while the mother continued to shop.
During that time, a man and woman also came into the store, and employee Tonia Wiesner helped them.
Wiesner told police the man stood uncomfortably close to her face and asked several questions in Spanish.
Birch noticed the two women had left the store, and then discovered 500 pairs of panties, each valued at $16.00, were missing from trays.
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Woman has been in mortuary cold storage for 30 years.
A nurse who fell to her death at a party in Saudi Arabia will finally be given a funeral more than 30 years after she died.
Helen Smith was 23 when she fell from the balcony of a block of flats in the city of Jeddah in May, 1979.
Her father Ron, who is 83 and now in poor health, has finally given the go-ahead for her to be cremated after three decades of campaigning for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding her death.
Helen and fellow partygoer Johannes Otten - a Dutch sea captain - were both killed in the fall and police concluded they had been having sex when they lost their footing.
Mr. Smith, a retired police officer, always denied this and refused to accept the open verdict at her inquest.
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Police Looking for Dogs That Rip Bumper off Car
Animal control officers in Fort Smith, Ark. were searching for two pit bulls that ripped apart the front of a car with their teeth.
Police said a 911 call led them to a home where they found two pit bulls. There were one on top of the car and one on the hood," said resident Ima Jean Vervack.
Police chased the dogs and searched nearby neighborhoods.
Vervack said it's shocking to look at the front bumper of her car, which was torn apart by the dogs' teeth.
"The whole front is torn up. The fender is torn off. There was blood where they cut their mouth trying to tear this stuff off," Vervack said.
Vervack said police rushed to her home just before 4 a.m. when her daughter called 911.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Man Breaks Cockroach World Record! 2009!
Sean Murphy of Lansing, Michigan breaks the world record of putting the most Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches in his mouth by stuffing 16 live roaches into his mouth at one time.
Here are the Rules...
1. The Roaches have to be over 2 1/2 inches making it an adult Madagascar hissing cock roach.
2. Sean has to put more than 11 in his mouth to break the record.
3. Once more than 11 are placed in his mouth he has to keep them in there for at least 10 seconds.
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Here are the Rules...
1. The Roaches have to be over 2 1/2 inches making it an adult Madagascar hissing cock roach.
2. Sean has to put more than 11 in his mouth to break the record.
3. Once more than 11 are placed in his mouth he has to keep them in there for at least 10 seconds.
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Man swearing could get him 3 years in Prison
Australian man Sun McKay, 32, was arrested for swearing at an airport policeman at
Dubai late last month
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Man sues hospital over unnecessary surgery
A Japanese man has sued a hospital, arguing it unnecessarily gave him an artificial rectum after misdiagnosing him as suffering rectal cancer, a hospital official says.
The man underwent surgery in March at a university hospital in western Miyazaki prefecture to remove the tumor.
But his doctor told the man, whose age and name were not reported, that a later examination found no cancer cells in the removed tissue, the report said.
The man, who now has an artificial rectum, is demanding 35 million yen ($416,171) in compensation, the report said citing the complaint filed with the Miyazaki District Court.
"We realized the complaint has been filed,'' a hospital official said.
"We will take appropriate action after examining the case.''
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The man underwent surgery in March at a university hospital in western Miyazaki prefecture to remove the tumor.
But his doctor told the man, whose age and name were not reported, that a later examination found no cancer cells in the removed tissue, the report said.
The man, who now has an artificial rectum, is demanding 35 million yen ($416,171) in compensation, the report said citing the complaint filed with the Miyazaki District Court.
"We realized the complaint has been filed,'' a hospital official said.
"We will take appropriate action after examining the case.''
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Setting Fire To Your Nuts
When you pour gasoline over your crotch…
Don’t forget that peoples natural reaction will be to stomp it out.
Don’t forget that peoples natural reaction will be to stomp it out.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Man has world's strongest finger
Bingli – who has been studying martial arts for 32 years since the age of just seven – can stand upside down supporting himself on just one index finger.On Monday he scooped the Guinness world record for completing 12 press ups on just one finger of his right hand.
"I've been training since I was seven years old and my index finger has as much strength in it as most people's entire body," said Fu of Lianyungang, eastern China.
Shopowner Strikes Back With Shock Tactics
John O’Connor has installed a device at Custy’s Traditional Irish Music Shop that will give anyone who relieves himself on the premises an electric shock.He also put up a sign warning ‘Electric Current in Operation – Urinate at Your Own Peril’ to let revelers’ know of the consequences of what he called "al-fresco urination".
The music shop is located on Cooke’s Lane off Ennis’s main street, O’Connell Street and Mr. O’Connor described installing the electric shock treatment as "total desperation".
"I hate having to do this, but I’m not willing every Monday to be confronted with human detritus where I have to clean up human feces, urine and vomit. Sometimes it can take 40 minutes to clean it all up."
He said last Monday was particularly bad when the urine seeped into the building.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
10-year-old girl got gassed at party
A furious mother yesterday claimed her 10-year-old daughter was sprayed in the face with CS gas by police who raided a birthday party.
Abbie Symonds spent five hours in hospital being treated for swollen eyes.
They arrested her step-brother Robert, 20, on suspicion of breaching his bail curfew. He was dragged from the garden in handcuffs but a court later threw out the case for lack of evidence.
Officers in riot gear also arrested Abbie's dad Nigel,50, and birthday boy Nigel for alleged public order offences during the raid in the quiet cul-de-sac on Saturday.
Careworker Delia said: "I asked why they used the gas and they told me that if officers felt threatened they could use it without warning. But how is my 10-year-old a threat to a fully grown policeman? I think it is disgusting.
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Man prefers prison to house arrest with wife
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home.
Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and made him go home and patch things up with his wife.
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Store clerk ran off with $1M lottery ticket
A 25-year-old Austin, Texas convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi took 67-year-old Willis Willis' winning Mega Millions megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said in a search warrant affidavit last month.
Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at the lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.
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You won’t take me alive
A convicted sex offender burned to death when he set himself on fire as authorities served a warrant at his rural Tulsa County home Thursday.
Law officials went to a house in the 14100 block of East Apache Street to contact Johnnie Joe Hobbs, 47, Capt. John Bowman said.
After finding the house empty, the squad peered into a cargo van that sat in the cluttered yard about 3 p.m. Hobbs, who was inside the van, reached out and slammed the door shut, Bowman said.
He then doused the van with gasoline and ignited it, Bowman said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Bowman said Hobbs had spent time in prison and had indicated that he would do anything to avoid capture.
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A furious mother yesterday claimed her 10-year-old daughter was sprayed in the face with CS gas by police who raided a birthday party.
Abbie Symonds spent five hours in hospital being treated for swollen eyes.
They arrested her step-brother Robert, 20, on suspicion of breaching his bail curfew. He was dragged from the garden in handcuffs but a court later threw out the case for lack of evidence.
Officers in riot gear also arrested Abbie's dad Nigel,50, and birthday boy Nigel for alleged public order offences during the raid in the quiet cul-de-sac on Saturday.
Careworker Delia said: "I asked why they used the gas and they told me that if officers felt threatened they could use it without warning. But how is my 10-year-old a threat to a fully grown policeman? I think it is disgusting.
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Man prefers prison to house arrest with wife
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home.
Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and made him go home and patch things up with his wife.
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Store clerk ran off with $1M lottery ticket
A 25-year-old Austin, Texas convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi took 67-year-old Willis Willis' winning Mega Millions megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said in a search warrant affidavit last month.
Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at the lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.
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You won’t take me alive
A convicted sex offender burned to death when he set himself on fire as authorities served a warrant at his rural Tulsa County home Thursday.
Law officials went to a house in the 14100 block of East Apache Street to contact Johnnie Joe Hobbs, 47, Capt. John Bowman said.
After finding the house empty, the squad peered into a cargo van that sat in the cluttered yard about 3 p.m. Hobbs, who was inside the van, reached out and slammed the door shut, Bowman said.
He then doused the van with gasoline and ignited it, Bowman said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Bowman said Hobbs had spent time in prison and had indicated that he would do anything to avoid capture.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
SC man drives 160 miles to give explosives to cops
Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation.
After the man's uncle died, he discovered that his relative had collected potentially explosive materials including grenades, dynamite and black powder.
The man, who was not identified by police, feared the materials might fall into the wrong hands, so he drove 80 miles to his uncle's house and loaded his truck with some of the items. Then he drove back to his home county of Union on Wednesday to give the materials to police.
Union County Sheriff David Taylor says the man brought the items to him because the two know each other.
Taylor says deputies closed off several streets and called the bomb squad when they learned about the items. The materials were later destroyed.
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Woman flashes $27,000 at Mass. bar, gets robbed
Massachusetts police say they are searching for two men suspected of robbing a woman of $27,000 after she flashed the cash in a Springfield bar. Sgt. John Delaney said on Friday that the 22-year-old woman was robbed Monday night by two men wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun.
According to police, the woman bragged in the bar of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim. Police say she was later robbed after she left the bar with a male friend.
Delaney said the woman should have put her cash settlement in a bank.
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Man climbs on Walmart roof to evade police
Gerald Linwood "Tay Tay" Hayes III, 28, needed money to pay court fees from a criminal case.
So he devised a criminal plan to get the money: stealing several flat screen televisions from a Wal-Mart store.
A surveillance video caught him in the act -- twice.
It caught Hayes picking up a 46-inch TV and placing it near the entrance to the store's garden center. He then scoped out the area for watchful eyes. When the coast was clear he slipped into the darkened garden center and headed toward the rear where there's a large gate. He slipped the TV through the gate doors, then scaled the fence and walked away with the TV.
Employees recognized him the next time he came into the store and called cops.
He tried getting away by climbing up on the roof.
Cops got him.
Now he has to figure out how to pay for two criminal court cases.
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Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation.
After the man's uncle died, he discovered that his relative had collected potentially explosive materials including grenades, dynamite and black powder.
The man, who was not identified by police, feared the materials might fall into the wrong hands, so he drove 80 miles to his uncle's house and loaded his truck with some of the items. Then he drove back to his home county of Union on Wednesday to give the materials to police.
Union County Sheriff David Taylor says the man brought the items to him because the two know each other.
Taylor says deputies closed off several streets and called the bomb squad when they learned about the items. The materials were later destroyed.
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Woman flashes $27,000 at Mass. bar, gets robbed
Massachusetts police say they are searching for two men suspected of robbing a woman of $27,000 after she flashed the cash in a Springfield bar. Sgt. John Delaney said on Friday that the 22-year-old woman was robbed Monday night by two men wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun.
According to police, the woman bragged in the bar of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim. Police say she was later robbed after she left the bar with a male friend.
Delaney said the woman should have put her cash settlement in a bank.
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Man climbs on Walmart roof to evade police
Gerald Linwood "Tay Tay" Hayes III, 28, needed money to pay court fees from a criminal case.
So he devised a criminal plan to get the money: stealing several flat screen televisions from a Wal-Mart store.
A surveillance video caught him in the act -- twice.
It caught Hayes picking up a 46-inch TV and placing it near the entrance to the store's garden center. He then scoped out the area for watchful eyes. When the coast was clear he slipped into the darkened garden center and headed toward the rear where there's a large gate. He slipped the TV through the gate doors, then scaled the fence and walked away with the TV.
Employees recognized him the next time he came into the store and called cops.
He tried getting away by climbing up on the roof.
Cops got him.
Now he has to figure out how to pay for two criminal court cases.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Heads up, Postmaster General John E. Potter
The coconuts are coming, 500 of them, stamped and addressed to your office on L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C.The bulky brown seeds are serving as postcards, bearing about $4 worth of postage, paid for by post office fans from Lantana and nearby communities, who use the small post office on Ocean Avenue just off Federal Highway.
On the back are polite messages written in marker pens, entreating Potter to reconsider the proposed closing of the Lantana post office, one of three Palm Beach County branches on the chopping block for the fiscally challenged U.S. Postal Service.
Around the nation, 371 stations are being considered for closing, although postal officials have said the final number closed could be around 200.
Besides coconuts, residents have collected more than 5,300 signatures on petitions and filled out public-comment forms left in the post office, which must be returned (no postage required) to the regional postmaster by Oct. 25. About 102 comment forms had been received by this afternoon.
The coconut mailing is no mere goofy publicity stunt. It is a historically based publicity stunt.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
I tell you my real name, if let me go
A woman stopped for having an open container of alcohol in a public place told police she was from North Carolina and her name was not in the computer, according to her arrest report.
She then gave a name to the Fort Walton Beach Police Officer.
As she was being put in the patrol car, she said, "If I tell you my real name, will you let me go?"
A criminal check revealed that she uses a number of names when dealing with law enforcement officers.
She was charged with providing a false name while detained.
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'I haven't smoked meth in four days'
Kimberly Smith, 18, and James Moore, 21, were a little too talkative with Bay County Sheriff’s deputies Monday.
Deputies arrived at the couple’s Panama City residence to deal with a dispute over money. But as they were settling that problem, Moore told one of the deputies that he smoked meth about four days ago, officials wrote in an incident report.
After that confession, one of the couple’s neighbors accused them of cooking meth around their baby.
“She is crazy,” Moore replied. “I have not smoked meth for four days.”
Smith agreed telling the deputies that she had not smoked meth in “three or four days,” deputies wrote in an incident report.
That was not much of a defense, the deputies decided, and they got permission to search the couple’s residence. They found a bong with marijuana residue, according to the report, and they then asked Smith and Moore if they would agree to a drug test.
Moore said no.
“I will fail the drug test. I will tell you what I will test positive for,” he added.
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Man Feeds Young Girls Drug-Laced Ice Cream
Prosecutors say a Kansas City, Mo., man gave sedative-laced ice cream to several young girls and filmed them in pornographic poses while they were unconscious.
James Phillips Edwards was charged Wednesday with advertising, possessing and attempting to distribute child pornography.
Investigators say in court documents that computers seized from the 60-year-old Edwards' home contained pornographic images of at least eight girls. They say one video showed three girls being given drinks and ice cream before they are shown apparently unconscious.
Authorities say all of the girls have been found safe.
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Driver downs drink as cops arrest him
James Robinson had one more for the road, police said.
After all, they don’t serve hard liquor in jail.
When police caught the 32-year-old Florence man early Monday driving with an open bottle of Smirnoff Vodka, Robinson finished off the final sips as he was being arrested, police said.
That last drink resulted in an additional charge of tampering with evidence. Robinson is facing charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and having an open container of alcohol.
Springdale police were called to Ventura Court after getting a call that Robinson was trying to break into his former wife’s home. Robinson had fled in a white Toyota by the time officers arrived, setting in motion a search, police said.
Officers pulled Robinson over down the road, quickly noticing “a strong odor of alcohol on his person and bloodshot, glassy eyes,” according to the arrest report.
Robinson failed a field sobriety test, police said.
That’s when he guzzled down the remaining vodka, police said.
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A woman stopped for having an open container of alcohol in a public place told police she was from North Carolina and her name was not in the computer, according to her arrest report.
She then gave a name to the Fort Walton Beach Police Officer.
As she was being put in the patrol car, she said, "If I tell you my real name, will you let me go?"
A criminal check revealed that she uses a number of names when dealing with law enforcement officers.
She was charged with providing a false name while detained.
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'I haven't smoked meth in four days'
Kimberly Smith, 18, and James Moore, 21, were a little too talkative with Bay County Sheriff’s deputies Monday.
Deputies arrived at the couple’s Panama City residence to deal with a dispute over money. But as they were settling that problem, Moore told one of the deputies that he smoked meth about four days ago, officials wrote in an incident report.
After that confession, one of the couple’s neighbors accused them of cooking meth around their baby.
“She is crazy,” Moore replied. “I have not smoked meth for four days.”
Smith agreed telling the deputies that she had not smoked meth in “three or four days,” deputies wrote in an incident report.
That was not much of a defense, the deputies decided, and they got permission to search the couple’s residence. They found a bong with marijuana residue, according to the report, and they then asked Smith and Moore if they would agree to a drug test.
Moore said no.
“I will fail the drug test. I will tell you what I will test positive for,” he added.
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Man Feeds Young Girls Drug-Laced Ice Cream
Prosecutors say a Kansas City, Mo., man gave sedative-laced ice cream to several young girls and filmed them in pornographic poses while they were unconscious.
James Phillips Edwards was charged Wednesday with advertising, possessing and attempting to distribute child pornography.
Investigators say in court documents that computers seized from the 60-year-old Edwards' home contained pornographic images of at least eight girls. They say one video showed three girls being given drinks and ice cream before they are shown apparently unconscious.
Authorities say all of the girls have been found safe.
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Driver downs drink as cops arrest him
James Robinson had one more for the road, police said.
After all, they don’t serve hard liquor in jail.
When police caught the 32-year-old Florence man early Monday driving with an open bottle of Smirnoff Vodka, Robinson finished off the final sips as he was being arrested, police said.
That last drink resulted in an additional charge of tampering with evidence. Robinson is facing charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and having an open container of alcohol.
Springdale police were called to Ventura Court after getting a call that Robinson was trying to break into his former wife’s home. Robinson had fled in a white Toyota by the time officers arrived, setting in motion a search, police said.
Officers pulled Robinson over down the road, quickly noticing “a strong odor of alcohol on his person and bloodshot, glassy eyes,” according to the arrest report.
Robinson failed a field sobriety test, police said.
That’s when he guzzled down the remaining vodka, police said.
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Four-story treehouse structure ordered torn down by city
Spiraling around the old oak tree are more than a ton of pressure-treated lumber, some 500 lag screws and nuts, 1,000 feet of jute rope, and 48 feet of rebar.Atop it all, about 50 feet in the air amid large, golden leaves, sits a copper squirrel fixed on a patina-covered weathervane.
The elaborately designed, four-platform treehouse cost Michael Chapman about $12,000 and just about every waking hour of the past three months. It was a work of love, a childhood dream come true, he said.
Now, after a city inspection and complaints from neighbors - one neighbor allegedly threatened to kill him - his lair in the sky must come down.
If he doesn’t, the city could fine him up to $300 a day.
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Why didn't he check zoning laws first?
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Paper seeks medical marijuana dispensary reviewer
"Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words? If so, Westword wants you to join the ranks as our freelance marijuana-dispensary reviewer."The local "burgeoning medical marijuana scene" in Denver, Colorado, is growing and the weekly publication Westword wants to be on the forefront, said Joe Tone, the paper's Web editor. "We want someone who can get in and relay to our readers what it is like inside these dispensaries."
It's not exactly like a food critic job. The online-only reviewer won't be showing up anonymously and sampling the wares.
"They are to review the places, not the weed," Tone said.
"We can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time," he quipped.
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These things only happen in China
6-year-old girl has baffled medics after her skin apparently turned into boar hide.Until just a few months ago she had just a small birthmark on her back.
But the hairy hide has grown and grown and now it covers Li Xiaoyuan's entire back and is starting to grow on her arms and face.
The schoolgirl, from Fengkai, southern China, is under near constant medical supervision as doctors try to work out what's wrong.
Her dad Li Yan said: "Doctors told us it was just a birthmark even when it started spreading but now it covers half her body.
"None of the other children want to play with her – they are really mean."
Mum Li Jiang added: "It breaks our hearts to see her suffer like this."
Surgeon Dr Lou Zhongquan believes the youngster may be suffering from a rare hereditary disease that has sent normal moles out of control.
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China Hush
Pollution in China
Pollution in China
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Doctor writes 93,000 prescriptions in 3 ½ years
The Indiana Attorney General is seeking to suspend the license of a Middletown doctor who allegedly wrote 93,000 drug prescriptions in 3½ years and is linked to nine overdose deaths.
In a complaint to the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, the attorney general calls Dr. Phillip Delano Foley a “clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”
The attorney general is asking for a 90 day suspension of Foley’s license and has a hearing scheduled Thursday before the review board.
The complaint documents 10 overdoses -- nine fatal -- since June, 2004, it says were caused by drugs prescribed by Foley.
An investigation by the National Drug Intelligence Center, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that Foley wrote as many as 400 prescriptions a day.
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Man bites neighbor on mouth
Police say a Detroit-area man bit through a neighbor's lips after he picked up a football that accidentally had been tossed onto his lawn by some teenagers. The man was accused of confiscating the football Sunday evening and refusing to return it until a 28-year-old parent walked up to him and asked for the ball.
Clinton Township Detective Capt. Richard Maierle said the suspect attacked the man, and "the bite went nearly all the way through his mouth."
The man, 44, was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault with intent to maim. That's a 10-year felony.
He was being held in the Macomb County jail.
The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of deep lacerations on the upper and lower lips.
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Shiga man arrested for calling 110 number more than 12,000 times
Police arrested a 61-year-old man on Tuesday for obstruction of duty after he allegedly called the 110 emergency number over 12,000 times. Hisao Sumitani, a resident of Otsu, has admitted to the charge but was quoted by police as saying “the whole case is ridiculous.”
According to police, Sumitani called the Shiga Prefecture emergency number 12,300 times between December 2006 and Sept 30 of this year. Sumitani would shout into the phone at operators, and is accused of disrupting their duty. He also reportedly dialed the Otsu fire department 1,390 times on the 119 number.
Authorities visited Sumitani’s home four times requesting him to stop, but he refused to comply.
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980-Pound Man
Doctors blame a British man's 20,000-calorie a day diet for causing him to balloon up to a whopping 980-pounds and leaving him in need of a life-saving operation.
Paul Mason, 48, needs a nearly $33,000 life-saving operation after a compulsive eating disorder left him "super-obese."
Mason scoffs three family-sized takeout meals a night and wolfs down roasts like snacks.
He has spent much of the past eight years in bed at his home in Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
His health care costs taxpayers an estimated $165,000 a year.
And now he needs drastic stomach surgery to curb his eating and keep him alive, which the country's National Health Services will have to foot the bill for.
Mason will travel in a 5-ton ambulance specially built for obese people at a cost of $148,000 to get the surgery.
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The Indiana Attorney General is seeking to suspend the license of a Middletown doctor who allegedly wrote 93,000 drug prescriptions in 3½ years and is linked to nine overdose deaths.
In a complaint to the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, the attorney general calls Dr. Phillip Delano Foley a “clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”
The attorney general is asking for a 90 day suspension of Foley’s license and has a hearing scheduled Thursday before the review board.
The complaint documents 10 overdoses -- nine fatal -- since June, 2004, it says were caused by drugs prescribed by Foley.
An investigation by the National Drug Intelligence Center, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that Foley wrote as many as 400 prescriptions a day.
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Man bites neighbor on mouth
Police say a Detroit-area man bit through a neighbor's lips after he picked up a football that accidentally had been tossed onto his lawn by some teenagers. The man was accused of confiscating the football Sunday evening and refusing to return it until a 28-year-old parent walked up to him and asked for the ball.
Clinton Township Detective Capt. Richard Maierle said the suspect attacked the man, and "the bite went nearly all the way through his mouth."
The man, 44, was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault with intent to maim. That's a 10-year felony.
He was being held in the Macomb County jail.
The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of deep lacerations on the upper and lower lips.
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Shiga man arrested for calling 110 number more than 12,000 times
Police arrested a 61-year-old man on Tuesday for obstruction of duty after he allegedly called the 110 emergency number over 12,000 times. Hisao Sumitani, a resident of Otsu, has admitted to the charge but was quoted by police as saying “the whole case is ridiculous.”
According to police, Sumitani called the Shiga Prefecture emergency number 12,300 times between December 2006 and Sept 30 of this year. Sumitani would shout into the phone at operators, and is accused of disrupting their duty. He also reportedly dialed the Otsu fire department 1,390 times on the 119 number.
Authorities visited Sumitani’s home four times requesting him to stop, but he refused to comply.
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980-Pound Man
Doctors blame a British man's 20,000-calorie a day diet for causing him to balloon up to a whopping 980-pounds and leaving him in need of a life-saving operation.
Paul Mason, 48, needs a nearly $33,000 life-saving operation after a compulsive eating disorder left him "super-obese."
Mason scoffs three family-sized takeout meals a night and wolfs down roasts like snacks.
He has spent much of the past eight years in bed at his home in Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
His health care costs taxpayers an estimated $165,000 a year.
And now he needs drastic stomach surgery to curb his eating and keep him alive, which the country's National Health Services will have to foot the bill for.
Mason will travel in a 5-ton ambulance specially built for obese people at a cost of $148,000 to get the surgery.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Lost and not found: Cocaine
Tiny bars of soap, stiff towels, Gideon Bibles — there are just some things that guests expect when checking into any hotel.But some lucky guest may have found an unexpected gift inside a Naples hotel room last spring — a package of cocaine — thanks to the Naples police department, no less.
Two veteran Naples police officers lost a packet of cocaine during a training exercise last spring, according to a recently released internal affairs investigation. The cocaine was believed to have been left in a local Best Western hotel room.
However, even though the allegations were sustained, neither officer was reprimanded in the case.
You’re Reading Right
Gordon Hageman couldn’t believe the credit card offer he got in the mail.“My first thought, it was a mistake,” Hageman said.
The wine distributor called the number on the offer, gave them the offer code and verified his information. Sure enough, it was right: the pre-approved credit card came with a 79.9 percent APR.
Yes, 79.9 percent.
The offer is for a Premier card from First Premier Bank, which is based in South Dakota. On its Web site, First Premier says it is the country’s 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards. The site also says it “focuses on individuals who have less than perfect credit but are actually still creditworthy.”
“I think they’re trying to take advantage of me,” said Hageman.
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Girl in tuxedo denied a place in school yearbook
Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as "a perfect child": a straight-A student, a goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Destructive Decisions.Sturgis also is gay and feels more comfortable in boys' clothes, her mother says. So Rodriguez supported her daughter's decision to wear a tuxedo, rather than the drape customary for girls, when she had her senior portrait made in July. Now she is battling officials at Wesson Attendance Center in the Copiah County (Miss.) School District. Rodriguez said she received a letter from the school in August stating that only boys could wear tuxedos and have since refused to include the photo in the school yearbook.
The conflict is one of several this year involving how school districts handle cross-dressing students.
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