Friday, October 3, 2008
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Man impersonating friend arrested on friend's warrant
A New Castle man showed police his friend’s driver’s license to avoid arrest, but was arrested anyway when police learned the friend was wanted on a warrant, according to court records.
Police allege Jared Maddock, 25, of 174 Wentworth Road, was taken into custody on his friend’s warrant, but when his true identity was revealed, it showed Maddock was also wanted on a warrant. Five other charges followed.
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Robber foiled by text message
An armored car guard has been arrested for a New York heist thanks to surveillance footage and a concerned text message to his co-worker, police allege.
Police said while 34-year-old Robert Blackmon allegedly made off with $330,000 during an armored car heist this week, he then contacted the co-worker he robbed via text message to make sure she was all right, the New York Post said Thursday.
Technology in the form of an automated teller machine camera also proved to be Blackmon's undoing as his image was allegedly captured six times during Tuesday's brazen heist, the report said.
Police allege that Blackmon lied in order to get off of work Tuesday then used a gun to rob his co-worker, Janell Nelson, as she was leaving a bank with a cash delivery.
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Man Busted Driving Stolen Forklift
He said he needed it to pull his brother out of the mud.
The stupid criminal of the week award goes to a guy named James Bailey Jr. Manatee County Sheriff's deputies say they caught the guy driving a forklift down Moccasin Wallow Road in the middle of the night. They determined that Bailey had stolen the machinery from his former employer. When cops asked him why he did it, he said he had to pull his brother out of the mud. Bailey's in some deep doo doo, charged with Grand Theft Auto (or Fork Lift in this case), Burglary and Theft.
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Vietnamese 'Borats' Obscene
Two students who dressed up as the TV character Borat are at the centre of a row in Vietnam.
The pair performed a dance act at a company party dressed as the spoof Kazakh journalist in his notoriously skimpy "mankini" swimming costume.
They have now found themselves suspended from college for 12 months.
The incident, dubbed the "nude dance of FPT Arena students", has stirred up a storm on internet forums and also in the domestic media.
A video clip posted on the internet showed the two youths dancing and wrestling each other to the tune of a famous revolutionary song.
Both were dressed as the Borat character created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
In the background, members of a choir were struggling to stifle their giggles.
The clip has since been taken off the internet, but images remain widely available on private blogs.
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DUI charge dropped: It was mare's (horse's) milk, not beer
A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had a few drinks before he was arrested. The reason? He'd consumed fermented mare's milk, not beer or liquor.
Fermented mare's milk, or kumys, is not listed as an alcoholic beverage in Kazakhstan, although it can contain up to 4 percent alcohol. The popular drink is believed to have health-boosting properties
The man, identified only as R. Iskendirov, told a court he had drunk about 1.6 quarts of kumys for medicinal purposes before getting behind the wheel in June. He was arrested on suspicion of being drunk from beer.
But prosecutors said Thursday that Iskendirov produced a doctor's prescription for a daily ration of kumys. The court dropped the charges.
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Decoy’s Wanted
Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway
In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.
The robbery happened about 11 a.m. on an armored truck guard at a Bank of America branch.
"He was wearing a dust mask, a particle mask. At first I thought it might be a surgical mask. I still didn't think anything was wrong, just unusual. Then I noticed he had a pump sprayer," said Mitch Ruth, who had looked out his office window and noticed the man walking into the bank.
"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.
He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.
"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said.
Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.
From there, the cook made his watery escape in a creek that dumps out into the Skykomish River. One witness said the robber swam away, but another said he used an inner tube to get away.
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Man Shoots Self After Girlfriend Didn't Want Sex.
A 29-year-old Fort Myers man was arrested for threatening violence and firing a weapon in an occupied dwelling after Lee County Sheriff’s deputies say he shot himself after his girlfriend refused him sex.
Jonathon Guabello was first treated for a gunshot wound to the arm at Lee Memorial Hospital before being booked early this morning in county jail, where he is being held on $100,000 bond. According to deputy Ryan Mackinnon, Guabello’s live-in girlfriend of five months called 911 after an intoxicated Guabello shot himself before falling on the oven, knocking him unconscious, following an argument.
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Kate Moss gold statue unveiled at British Museum
A life-size gold statue of Kate Moss as a "modern-day Aphrodite" with her legs tucked behind her head has been unveiled at the British Museum.
Siren is made entirely of 18 carat gold and will be displayed in the museum's Nereid Gallery among statues of Greek goddesses including Aphrodite.
It is the largest gold statue made by man since ancient Egyptian times, weighing 50kg, around the same as its subject.
Artist Marc Quinn, whose previous works include the sculpture of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs that now sits on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, said Siren cost £1.5m to make, £1m of which was the price of the gold.
He expects it to fetch up to £10m when it is sold following its time with the British Museum in January.
Speaking at the unveiling, Mr Quinn said he saw Miss Moss, who posed for him for a day though not in the position of the statue, as a "modern day Aphrodite".
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A New Castle man showed police his friend’s driver’s license to avoid arrest, but was arrested anyway when police learned the friend was wanted on a warrant, according to court records.
Police allege Jared Maddock, 25, of 174 Wentworth Road, was taken into custody on his friend’s warrant, but when his true identity was revealed, it showed Maddock was also wanted on a warrant. Five other charges followed.
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Robber foiled by text message
An armored car guard has been arrested for a New York heist thanks to surveillance footage and a concerned text message to his co-worker, police allege.
Police said while 34-year-old Robert Blackmon allegedly made off with $330,000 during an armored car heist this week, he then contacted the co-worker he robbed via text message to make sure she was all right, the New York Post said Thursday.
Technology in the form of an automated teller machine camera also proved to be Blackmon's undoing as his image was allegedly captured six times during Tuesday's brazen heist, the report said.
Police allege that Blackmon lied in order to get off of work Tuesday then used a gun to rob his co-worker, Janell Nelson, as she was leaving a bank with a cash delivery.
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Man Busted Driving Stolen Forklift
He said he needed it to pull his brother out of the mud.
The stupid criminal of the week award goes to a guy named James Bailey Jr. Manatee County Sheriff's deputies say they caught the guy driving a forklift down Moccasin Wallow Road in the middle of the night. They determined that Bailey had stolen the machinery from his former employer. When cops asked him why he did it, he said he had to pull his brother out of the mud. Bailey's in some deep doo doo, charged with Grand Theft Auto (or Fork Lift in this case), Burglary and Theft.
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Vietnamese 'Borats' Obscene
Two students who dressed up as the TV character Borat are at the centre of a row in Vietnam.
The pair performed a dance act at a company party dressed as the spoof Kazakh journalist in his notoriously skimpy "mankini" swimming costume.
They have now found themselves suspended from college for 12 months.
The incident, dubbed the "nude dance of FPT Arena students", has stirred up a storm on internet forums and also in the domestic media.
A video clip posted on the internet showed the two youths dancing and wrestling each other to the tune of a famous revolutionary song.
Both were dressed as the Borat character created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
In the background, members of a choir were struggling to stifle their giggles.
The clip has since been taken off the internet, but images remain widely available on private blogs.
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DUI charge dropped: It was mare's (horse's) milk, not beer
A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had a few drinks before he was arrested. The reason? He'd consumed fermented mare's milk, not beer or liquor.
Fermented mare's milk, or kumys, is not listed as an alcoholic beverage in Kazakhstan, although it can contain up to 4 percent alcohol. The popular drink is believed to have health-boosting properties
The man, identified only as R. Iskendirov, told a court he had drunk about 1.6 quarts of kumys for medicinal purposes before getting behind the wheel in June. He was arrested on suspicion of being drunk from beer.
But prosecutors said Thursday that Iskendirov produced a doctor's prescription for a daily ration of kumys. The court dropped the charges.
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Decoy’s Wanted
Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway
In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.
The robbery happened about 11 a.m. on an armored truck guard at a Bank of America branch.
"He was wearing a dust mask, a particle mask. At first I thought it might be a surgical mask. I still didn't think anything was wrong, just unusual. Then I noticed he had a pump sprayer," said Mitch Ruth, who had looked out his office window and noticed the man walking into the bank.
"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe.
He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.
"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said.
Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.
From there, the cook made his watery escape in a creek that dumps out into the Skykomish River. One witness said the robber swam away, but another said he used an inner tube to get away.
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Man Shoots Self After Girlfriend Didn't Want Sex.
A 29-year-old Fort Myers man was arrested for threatening violence and firing a weapon in an occupied dwelling after Lee County Sheriff’s deputies say he shot himself after his girlfriend refused him sex.
Jonathon Guabello was first treated for a gunshot wound to the arm at Lee Memorial Hospital before being booked early this morning in county jail, where he is being held on $100,000 bond. According to deputy Ryan Mackinnon, Guabello’s live-in girlfriend of five months called 911 after an intoxicated Guabello shot himself before falling on the oven, knocking him unconscious, following an argument.
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Kate Moss gold statue unveiled at British Museum
A life-size gold statue of Kate Moss as a "modern-day Aphrodite" with her legs tucked behind her head has been unveiled at the British Museum.
Siren is made entirely of 18 carat gold and will be displayed in the museum's Nereid Gallery among statues of Greek goddesses including Aphrodite.
It is the largest gold statue made by man since ancient Egyptian times, weighing 50kg, around the same as its subject.
Artist Marc Quinn, whose previous works include the sculpture of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs that now sits on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, said Siren cost £1.5m to make, £1m of which was the price of the gold.
He expects it to fetch up to £10m when it is sold following its time with the British Museum in January.
Speaking at the unveiling, Mr Quinn said he saw Miss Moss, who posed for him for a day though not in the position of the statue, as a "modern day Aphrodite".
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Testicles on the menu with a nutty cookbook
Squeamish men look away now: a Serbian chef is bringing out a no-holds-barred guide to cuisine with a twist: The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls.Hailed as the world's first testicle recipe collection by e-book publishers YUDU, the cookbook includes author Ljubomir Erovic's favourite dishes, like testicle pizza, battered testicles and and barbecued testicles and giblets.
The e-book, available for download from the internet, comes with handy video guides showing the Serb peeling the skin off testicles and slicing them up into bite-size chunks.
Several different animals, including stallions, ostriches, bulls, pigs and turkeys, get the Erovic treatment.
A "very sharp knife" is needed for traditional style testicles, which get boiled, cut up and deep fried in hot oil.
Mr Erovic, 45, may be self-taught in the art of testicle cuisine but his 20 years of "cooking with balls" make him a world authority in the field.
"The tastiest testicles in my opinion probably come from bulls, stallions or ostriches, although other people have their own favorites," he said.
"All testicles can be eaten."
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
School board trustee accused of ketchup theft
An Orange school board trustee known for his dark glasses, knit cap and rants at meetings was suspected of condiment stealing.
A Chapman University spokeswoman said the man was cited for petty theft on Saturday after he put a ketchup bottle under his clothing and left the school's cafeteria.
He could face 45 days in jail.
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Woman found guilty of 'bra-bery' attempt
Joy Sartin claimed she kept her money in her bra because she didn't have her purse with her, and she was only offering to pay a traffic ticket with it.
A jury, however, decided the 25-year-old lingerie model was trying to bribe a police officer who had stopped her for rolling through a stop sign and other traffic infractions.
Portland police Officer Cody Berne testified that Sartin offered him $270 she withdrew from her bra when he explained her car would be towed because her license had been suspended for drunken driving.
Sartin claimed she was just in a hurry to get home to her 4-year-old son after work.
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Condom Thief At Large In Mexico
Missing in Mexico: 5,000 condoms, sound equipment and a motor used to inflate a giant prophylactic, all stolen from a "condom-mobile" used to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.
The coordinator of an HIV/AIDS awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said the truck was taken Sunday from its parking spot in front of a friend's house in Mexico City.
It was recovered Wednesday in a shopping mall parking lot in a northern suburb - minus the condoms and the equipment. Gomez said the thieves left some 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot inflatable prophylactic, which were also in the vehicle.
The truck wasn't hard to locate. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: "I protect myself. Do you?"
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Man gets burned while using lighter to siphon gas
Police said a man was arrested after he used a cigarette lighter while trying to siphon gasoline from a van. The man, who was visiting friends, went to drive home early Saturday but realized that he didn't have enough gas in his SUV.
Police said the man tried to siphon the gas with help from another woman, but he couldn't see how much gas was in the container, so he used the lighter to check.
A blast of fire burned his hands and caused nearby residents to call police.
Police said he and the woman were located later in a store parking lot. He was arrested for theft and negligent use of burning materials.
The woman was referred to authorities for being party to theft.
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Bank Robbed Twice in Same Day by Two Different Bandits
A San Diego-area Wells Fargo bank was robbed twice on the same day — by two different robbers, according to the FBI.
The thieves, nicknamed "The Hard Hat Bandit" and "The Chatty Bandit" by federal agents, held up the La Mesa, Calif., branch about three hours apart, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell.
"The Chatty Bandit," wanted in at least nine bank robberies since March, strolled into the bank about 3 p.m. Monday, brandishing a handgun and demanding cash.
Three hours later, the Wells Fargo was hit again when "The Hard Hat Bandit" — who has struck three times in the past week alone — walked in with a note ordering employees to give him money.
Neither thief has been arrested.
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Woman Wins House on eBay for $1.75
With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw, Michigan.
Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported. Her bid was one of eight for the home.
"I am going to try and sell it," she told the newspaper. "I don't have any plans to move to Saginaw."
Smith said she hasn't seen the property or visited Saginaw, which has been hard-hit by economic troubles in recent years.
There's a notice on the door of the home saying a foreclosure hearing is pending, the newspaper said. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.
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'How Far Can You Bounce?'
Jeering onlookers goaded a teenager in Britain to jump to his death, undermining police efforts to talk him down, and then took pictures of the body.
Tuesday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: "How far can you bounce?"
As Dykes hesitated for three hours on the ledge while police unsuccessfully tried to reason him out of taking his life, teenagers who had gathered below shouted "Jump" and "Get on with it," according to police and witnesses.
Then after Dykes lay in a crumpled heap on the pavement the same hecklers rushed out from behind the police cordon to take photos of the body.
"When he (Dykes) fell, lots of people were screaming and crying but there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and they were taking pictures with their mobile phones."
"I found that sickening -- why would anyone want to take pictures of something like that?"
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Train engineer texted message 22 seconds before LA crash
A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in Southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said Wednesday.
Cell phone records of Robert Sanchez, who was among the dead, show he received a text message a minute and 20 seconds before the crash and sent one about a minute later.
The finding led Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph H. Boardman to announce an emergency order prohibiting use of personal electronic devices by rail workers operating trains and in other key jobs. The order must be published in the Federal Register to take effect. Spokesman Rob Kulat said that would happen "soon." California regulators have already enacted a ban.
Sanchez sent his last text message at 4:22:01 p.m. According to the freight train's on-board recorder, the accident occurred at 4:22:23 p.m.
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An Orange school board trustee known for his dark glasses, knit cap and rants at meetings was suspected of condiment stealing.
A Chapman University spokeswoman said the man was cited for petty theft on Saturday after he put a ketchup bottle under his clothing and left the school's cafeteria.
He could face 45 days in jail.
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Woman found guilty of 'bra-bery' attempt
Joy Sartin claimed she kept her money in her bra because she didn't have her purse with her, and she was only offering to pay a traffic ticket with it.
A jury, however, decided the 25-year-old lingerie model was trying to bribe a police officer who had stopped her for rolling through a stop sign and other traffic infractions.
Portland police Officer Cody Berne testified that Sartin offered him $270 she withdrew from her bra when he explained her car would be towed because her license had been suspended for drunken driving.
Sartin claimed she was just in a hurry to get home to her 4-year-old son after work.
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Condom Thief At Large In Mexico
Missing in Mexico: 5,000 condoms, sound equipment and a motor used to inflate a giant prophylactic, all stolen from a "condom-mobile" used to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.
The coordinator of an HIV/AIDS awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said the truck was taken Sunday from its parking spot in front of a friend's house in Mexico City.
It was recovered Wednesday in a shopping mall parking lot in a northern suburb - minus the condoms and the equipment. Gomez said the thieves left some 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot inflatable prophylactic, which were also in the vehicle.
The truck wasn't hard to locate. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: "I protect myself. Do you?"
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Man gets burned while using lighter to siphon gas
Police said a man was arrested after he used a cigarette lighter while trying to siphon gasoline from a van. The man, who was visiting friends, went to drive home early Saturday but realized that he didn't have enough gas in his SUV.
Police said the man tried to siphon the gas with help from another woman, but he couldn't see how much gas was in the container, so he used the lighter to check.
A blast of fire burned his hands and caused nearby residents to call police.
Police said he and the woman were located later in a store parking lot. He was arrested for theft and negligent use of burning materials.
The woman was referred to authorities for being party to theft.
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Bank Robbed Twice in Same Day by Two Different Bandits
A San Diego-area Wells Fargo bank was robbed twice on the same day — by two different robbers, according to the FBI.
The thieves, nicknamed "The Hard Hat Bandit" and "The Chatty Bandit" by federal agents, held up the La Mesa, Calif., branch about three hours apart, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell.
"The Chatty Bandit," wanted in at least nine bank robberies since March, strolled into the bank about 3 p.m. Monday, brandishing a handgun and demanding cash.
Three hours later, the Wells Fargo was hit again when "The Hard Hat Bandit" — who has struck three times in the past week alone — walked in with a note ordering employees to give him money.
Neither thief has been arrested.
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Woman Wins House on eBay for $1.75
With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw, Michigan.
Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported. Her bid was one of eight for the home.
"I am going to try and sell it," she told the newspaper. "I don't have any plans to move to Saginaw."
Smith said she hasn't seen the property or visited Saginaw, which has been hard-hit by economic troubles in recent years.
There's a notice on the door of the home saying a foreclosure hearing is pending, the newspaper said. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.
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'How Far Can You Bounce?'
Jeering onlookers goaded a teenager in Britain to jump to his death, undermining police efforts to talk him down, and then took pictures of the body.
Tuesday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: "How far can you bounce?"
As Dykes hesitated for three hours on the ledge while police unsuccessfully tried to reason him out of taking his life, teenagers who had gathered below shouted "Jump" and "Get on with it," according to police and witnesses.
Then after Dykes lay in a crumpled heap on the pavement the same hecklers rushed out from behind the police cordon to take photos of the body.
"When he (Dykes) fell, lots of people were screaming and crying but there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and they were taking pictures with their mobile phones."
"I found that sickening -- why would anyone want to take pictures of something like that?"
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Train engineer texted message 22 seconds before LA crash
A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in Southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said Wednesday.
Cell phone records of Robert Sanchez, who was among the dead, show he received a text message a minute and 20 seconds before the crash and sent one about a minute later.
The finding led Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph H. Boardman to announce an emergency order prohibiting use of personal electronic devices by rail workers operating trains and in other key jobs. The order must be published in the Federal Register to take effect. Spokesman Rob Kulat said that would happen "soon." California regulators have already enacted a ban.
Sanchez sent his last text message at 4:22:01 p.m. According to the freight train's on-board recorder, the accident occurred at 4:22:23 p.m.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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