Elderly Man Strapped To Oxygen Tank Robs Bank
Authorities say a well-dressed elderly man carrying an oxygen tank has robbed a bank in the California beach town of La Jolla.
San Diego police Sgt. Ray Battrick says the suspect presented a demand note to a teller at the San Diego National Bank Saturday. He fled with an unknown amount of cash.
Battrick says it's unclear whether the suspect had a weapon.
The robber is described as a tall man in his 70s with white hair, a gray mustache and glasses. He was wearing a white beret, argyle sweater and brown sports jacket.
Battrick says the oxygen tank was in a black bag and connected to the man's nose with plastic tubing.
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Parents accused of dumping daughter's body in concrete
An eight-year-old French girl who was reported missing by her parents last week has been found encased in concrete at her father's workplace in Le Mans, northern France.
The parents of the girl, who had mild Down's syndrome and has been named only as Marina, have been arrested and placed under official investigation for murder.
The father first claimed Marina had disappeared, saying he had left her for a couple of minutes asleep in his car in a McDonald's car park, and that she was no longer there on his return. He later claimed the child died of natural causes.
But prosecutors allege Marina, who was slightly physically handicapped, died after being beaten and that the body was kept in the freezer before being covered in concrete in a Mafia-style attempt to hide her corpse from the police.
Update: Parents who claimed their disabled daughter had been kidnapped are charged with her murder.
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Wal-Mart Porno Prank
Most people go to Wal-Mart for their low prices, but shoppers at the Fort Smith, Ark., location got an eyeful when two enterprising twenty-something's placed a porno DVD into a player that connected to the store's TV's.
While it's certainly one way to test TV's, police have charged Cody Allen Sexton and Kenny Dean Andrews, two young Oklahoma guys, with felony obscenity complaints.
The X-rated DVD played on at least six televisions, and was removed when a customer notified a Wal-Mart store manager.
Police Sgt. Levi Risley says the two thought they were just pulling a prank.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
I'm Too Sexy / I'm Pretty
Amitjo Kajla, 22, today won her case against
HM Prison Service after she was unfairly dismissed for being too sexy
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What Nerve!
Blonde Beats Speeding Tickets with “I’m Pretty Sign”
Her friends told her to paint "ATTN: Police Please Do Not Pull Me Over Just Because I'm Pretty" on the rear windshield of her car because the bubbly blonde was constantly being pulled over. Dasha, a Washington state resident who wasn't willing to give her last name, claims to have been stopped by police for speeding 30 times in the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle, and only received two citations — both of which were dismissed.
Blonde Beats Speeding Tickets with “I’m Pretty Sign”
Her friends told her to paint "ATTN: Police Please Do Not Pull Me Over Just Because I'm Pretty" on the rear windshield of her car because the bubbly blonde was constantly being pulled over. Dasha, a Washington state resident who wasn't willing to give her last name, claims to have been stopped by police for speeding 30 times in the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland and Seattle, and only received two citations — both of which were dismissed.
Good luck? Maybe good looks are more like it.
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6-year-old driver says mother was ‘smoking the smelly stuff’
A Pennsylvania mother’s 6-year-old daughter was reportedly driving the family car when police say mom was too impaired.Police spotted the 6-year-old driving a Dodge Durango while her mother rode in the passenger seat.
When police stopped the vehicle, the mother, Lakisha Hogue, allegedly told them she was teaching her daughter to drive.
The officers believed Hogue was intoxicated or high and didn’t quite know what was going on.
The 6-year-old girl told police her mother was just tired, but while calling her aunt from the scene, admitted mom had been “smoking smelly stuff” again.
Police said a DUI or toxicology test was not conducted on Hogue because she was not behind the wheel. She was arrested, though, and was being held on a $15,000 bond. Hogue’s four children are staying with family.
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Medieval Medicine Today
Medicinal maggots and leeches are saving lives and limbs in Australian hospitals.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Stockpile
Woman stockpiles 1,100 banned light bulbs so she can read for rest of her lifeA pensioner has defied an EU ban by hoarding more than 1,000 traditional light bulbs - enough to see her 'into the grave'.
Valerie Hemsley-Flint, 62, has spent more than £500 of her pension money stockpiling the old-style 100-watt bulbs.
September 1, EU countries were banned from producing or importing incandescent bulbs and shops can sell only energy-efficient ones.
But Miss Hemsley-Flint said the light from them is not good enough for her to read by and the flickering sets off her epilepsy.
So she has bought 1,100 old-style bulbs and is calling on the Government to scrap the ban.
From her home in Sittingbourne, Kent, Miss Hemsley-Flint said: 'I suffer from photosensitive epilepsy, which means I can't get near any screen or anything that flickers.
'I worked out that if I live as long as my aunts did - into their 90s - I would need about 30 years' worth of the old-style bulbs for each room.
'I have more than 1,000 now - in fact 1,100. It has cost me a small fortune but for me it's worth it and will see me through to the grave.'
The former teacher, estimates she needs about 20 bulbs at a time to light her £300,000 three-bedroom country cottage.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Runner is a 'Hermaphrodite'
The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a HERMAPHRODITE.
South African gold-medalist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed.
And sources close to the International Association of Athletics Federations — who ordered extensive tests on the teen after her amazing 800m win at the World Athletics Championships last month — say the results mean she could still be stripped of her medal.
Semenya is claimed to have NO womb or ovaries — and has internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone.
The row over Semenya's biology has caused huge divisions — with South African politicians calling slurs she is a man "racist and sexist." Her birth certificate has the teen listed as female and urine tests showed that, despite her having higher than average male hormone levels, they are within the official limits for a woman.
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Police shut down kick-my-crotch-for-cash operation
A Rainier man came up with an innovative — if rather painful — money-making idea and decided to give it a test run Tuesday at the Triangle Center in Longview.
The 23-year-old man held a sign inviting people to kick him in the groin for the bargain price of $5.
Perhaps fortunately for him, only one customer took him up on the deal before police decided to break up his enterprise.
And even worse, he’d dropped the price to $3 for his one customer because she was female, he told Longview police.
After receiving a complaint about the man, Longview police made him leave the area and told him not to return.
He got off lightly compared with a Canadian man who, in 2007, asked women in Guelph, Ontario, to do the same thing to him at no charge. According to a Canadian newspaper, one of the women kicked him repeatedly.
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51,000 marijuana plants found in Washington
Drug task force investigators have reported the discovery of 51,000 marijuana plants at five sites in north central Washington.
Okanogan County Frank T. Rogers says 30,000 pot plants were removed Tuesday from four sites in the Methow Valley. Three people were arrested at a site near Sun Mountain Lodge in Winthrop.
Meanwhile, Colville tribal police asked for help in finding whoever was growing more than 21,000 marijuana plants on the reservation.
Tribal police were joined by police from Republic and Spokane, Border Patrol and FBI agents and sheriff's deputies from three counties in an eradication effort that began Tuesday. The pot was valued at about $21 million.
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The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a HERMAPHRODITE.
South African gold-medalist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed.
And sources close to the International Association of Athletics Federations — who ordered extensive tests on the teen after her amazing 800m win at the World Athletics Championships last month — say the results mean she could still be stripped of her medal.
Semenya is claimed to have NO womb or ovaries — and has internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone.
The row over Semenya's biology has caused huge divisions — with South African politicians calling slurs she is a man "racist and sexist." Her birth certificate has the teen listed as female and urine tests showed that, despite her having higher than average male hormone levels, they are within the official limits for a woman.
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Police shut down kick-my-crotch-for-cash operation
A Rainier man came up with an innovative — if rather painful — money-making idea and decided to give it a test run Tuesday at the Triangle Center in Longview.
The 23-year-old man held a sign inviting people to kick him in the groin for the bargain price of $5.
Perhaps fortunately for him, only one customer took him up on the deal before police decided to break up his enterprise.
And even worse, he’d dropped the price to $3 for his one customer because she was female, he told Longview police.
After receiving a complaint about the man, Longview police made him leave the area and told him not to return.
He got off lightly compared with a Canadian man who, in 2007, asked women in Guelph, Ontario, to do the same thing to him at no charge. According to a Canadian newspaper, one of the women kicked him repeatedly.
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51,000 marijuana plants found in Washington
Drug task force investigators have reported the discovery of 51,000 marijuana plants at five sites in north central Washington.
Okanogan County Frank T. Rogers says 30,000 pot plants were removed Tuesday from four sites in the Methow Valley. Three people were arrested at a site near Sun Mountain Lodge in Winthrop.
Meanwhile, Colville tribal police asked for help in finding whoever was growing more than 21,000 marijuana plants on the reservation.
Tribal police were joined by police from Republic and Spokane, Border Patrol and FBI agents and sheriff's deputies from three counties in an eradication effort that began Tuesday. The pot was valued at about $21 million.
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