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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
JOKE: A Woman Went to the Dentist
Crossing guard beats up kid who called him "fatso,"
Here's one crossing guard you don't want to cross.
Gerald Kelly, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound crossing guard at Drexel Hill Middle School was arrested last week for beating up a 14-year-old boy who'd called him names, according to police.
Kelly, 60, was off duty and coming out of the Shadeland Pharmacy, on Shadeland Avenue, Thursday afternoon when he saw the teen sitting on the steps outside, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.
"During the school year, the victim apparently had challenged this guy, calling him 'fatso' and 'fat man,' " Chitwood said. "But on this day, as far as we know, he wasn't taunting him."
Still, Kelly allegedly "went after the kid," kicking him, knocking him to the ground and putting his foot on the teen's throat and chest, police said. The assault was witnessed by several adults, according to Chitwood.
"I certainly wouldn't want this guy crossing my kids," he said.
The victim did not require hospitalization but did suffer a bump to the back of his head when he fell to the sidewalk, according to police.
Chitwood said he was shocked when he took a look at Kelly's background and realized that he had an arrest record dating from 1971 that includes assaults, possession of a firearm and possession of an instrument of a crime.
Most of the cases against Kelly were dismissed, but he did serve time in county prison on a theft case, Chitwood said.
Aside from saying that Kelly was hired last October, Upper Darby School District spokeswoman Dana Spino declined to comment on the case or the district's hiring policy for crossing guards.
Kelly, of Shadeland Avenue, has been charged with simple assault and harassment, Chitwood said.
Donald Duck Arrested For Marijuana, DUI
Officers said Duck, 51, was arrested at about 5:25 p.m. Saturday after he repeatedly struck the car in front of him while at a drive-through pizza line on Lincoln Way East in Massillon. Police said Duck was charged with drug paraphernalia offenses and possession of marijuana.
Buddhist Monk Secretly Taped Hundreds of Naked Women
A Cambodian court charged a Buddhist monk on Tuesday for secretly filming hundreds of women as they bathed naked with holy water at a temple and then sharing the clips. Net Khai, 37, faces up to a year in jail after being charged with "producing and distributing pornographic images'' by Phnom Penh Municipal Court, prosecutor Ek Chheng Huot said.
He was arrested at his pagoda in the Cambodian capital on Saturday over allegations that he secretly taped the women pouring sacred water over themselves in a pagoda bathroom, said police chief Touch Naruth.
Net Khai was arrested after a victim approached police and said that video clips showing the naked women had been shared among people via their mobile phones in recent weeks.
He was subsequently stripped of his religious status. "He has filmed hundreds of women since 2008. They came to the monk to be blessed with holy water, but they were secretly filmed," Touch Naruth said.
"His act affects other monks and Buddhism and seriously harms our tradition," he said, adding that Net Khai had confessed to his crimes. Police said they were looking for the man's accomplices.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Woman Gives Cops the Finger..Family Says Take Her She's Your's
Joynee Carter, 19, of Stafford, Va., got into trouble June 6 for showing police officers "an obscene finger gesture."
Officers say Carter ignored a detour through a parking lot they had set up around a vehicle accident they were investigating. She allegedly nearly struck one of the deputies with her silver Honda. When officers called to the woman, she allegedly gave them the finger.
Officers followed her for 8 miles as Carter refused to stop. During the pursuit she ran a stoplight, and when she did pull over -- in her own driveway -- she locked her doors and windows and sounded her car horn.
A family member gave police a key to Carter's car, and they arrested her for felony eluding, obstruction of justice, reckless driving, and running a red light.
iPadded Cell
Jacob Walker of Gilbert, Ariz., wanted an Apple iPad, so he decided to post an ad on Craigslist on June 5 offering a trade. The problem was what he wanted to trade for it.
Police became interested when a citizen called their tip line and reported the ad, complete with picture, offering the trade:
If you can't quite read that, it says:
Wanted IPAD 32GB READ THIS!!! (gilbert)
i am willing to trade my 32 gb ipod touch 3rd generation and a quarter of DANK. blue dream straight outta cali. the ipod is in PERFECT condition. not one scratch it has been in the case the whole time and has never had screen cover removed!!!! let me know!!!!"
The photo with the ad shows the iPod in a case, and some "Cali" marijuana sitting on a scale, police spokesman Mark Marino said.
Detectives replied to the posting and set up a meeting with Walker. Marino says Walker arrived at the designated meeting place with another man, Joseph Velarde, and gave the marijuana to an undercover detective.
JOKE: PANTIES ON A PLANE
There were three black ladies getting ready to take a plane trip for the first time.
The first lady said, "I don't know bout y'al but I'm gunna wear me sum hot pink panties beefo I gets on dat plane.
"Why you gonna wear dem fo?" the other two asked.
The first replied, "Cause, if dat plane goes down and I'm out dare laying butt-up in a conefield, dey gonna find me first."
The second lady said, "Well, I'm a-gonna wear me some floe esant orange panties." Why you gonna wear dem?" the others asked.
The second lady answered, "Cause if dis hare plane is goin' down and I be floating butt-up in the oshun, dey can see me first."
The third old lady says, "Well, I'm not gonna wear any panties..... "What? No panties?" the others asked in disbelief.
The third lady says "Dat's right girlfriends, you hears me right. I ain't wearin' any panties, cause if dis plane goes down, honey, dey always look fo da black box first.
'Fully sick TB rapper' to leave hospital
Countless videos and over six months in isolation later, Christiaan van Vuuren - the TB-afflicted man who became a YouTube star after posting rap videos from quarantine - has finally been given the all-clear to leave hospital today. Rising to fame as the "Fully sick rapper", van Vuuren used YouTube and social media to stay connected with the outside world while being confined to a small Sydney hospital room, after he was struck down with a multi-drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis in December last year.
His spoof clips and comedic raps about his time in hospital - about 13 of them have been posted to YouTube - have been viewed nearly 1.5 million times and van Vuuren's online celebrity even got him a regular gig on prime time national news in New Zealand, rapping the news of the day. Asked how he felt about his imminent departure from hospital, van Vuuren said he was "buzzing". His clear test results only came back on Friday.
"I'm just pumped to get home and sleep in my own bed, breathe fresh air and enjoy some of the sunlight ... I'm just excited to get back into life in the real world again," he said in a phone interview. Out of his six months in isolation, van Vuuren has only left his room for x-rays, tests, and just in the last few weeks, limited outdoor time upstairs in hospital to get some vitamin D.
"The only things I could really do was exercise, go online or watch or read something," he said. His doctors say he has to lay low at home for a week or two to gauge the effects of stopping one of his six medications, which was causing nasty side effects. "Then I'm going to fricken run a muck," van Vuuren said, adding he would be able to properly celebrate his 28th birthday on July 6. But ongoing medication means he won't be able to drink alcohol for about another year.
56 Pound Woman Must Eat Every 15 Minutes Just to Stay Alive
Lizzie Velasquez weighs just 56 pounds and has almost zero per cent body fat but she is not anorexic. In fact, the 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, must eat every 15 minutes to stay healthy. Miss Velasquez has a rare condition which prevents her from gaining weight even though she eats up to 60 small meals a day.
Despite consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student, has never tipped over 59 lbs. "I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited," said 5ft 2 ins Miss Velasquez, who wears size triple zero clothes. "I eat every 15-20 minutes to keep my energy levels up.
"I eat small portions of chips, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic." She was born four weeks prematurely weighing just 2lb 10oz. Doctors found there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb. "They told us they had no idea how she could have survived," said Miss Velasquez's mother Rita, 45, a church secretary.
Doctors speculated Lizzie might have the genetic disorder De Barsy syndrome but soon ruled it out as it became clear she did not have learning difficulties. "They kept on trying to figure out what was wrong with her but we treated her like any other child," said Mrs Velasquez, who charted her daughter's health in dozens of notebooks. She was taken to see genetic experts but they still could not diagnose her.
Miss Velasquez's case has fascinated doctors all over the world and she is part of a genetic study run by Professor Abhimanyu Garg, MD, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Professor Garg and his team now believe Lizzie may have a form of Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS) which causes accelerated ageing, fat loss from the face and body, and tissue degeneration. People with PRS often have triangular and prematurely aged faces with a pointy nose.
He said: "I am aware of a small number of people that have similar conditions to Lizzie but each case is slightly different. We cannot predict what will happen to Lizzie in the future as the medical community are yet to document older people with NPS. However Lizzie is lucky to have healthy teeth, organs and bones so the outlook is good. We will continue to study her case and learn from her."
JOKE: Back in the days of the Wild West
Monday, June 28, 2010
Love at long last: Texas High School sweethearts marry 68 years later
It’s been more than 68 years since West High School sweethearts Carl King and Dorothy Stallings started dating.
After decades apart, they got married Saturday in Waco.
She was a teacher’s daughter, and he ran track, winning the 1942 state championship in the high jump and a scholarship to Texas A&M.
The couple corresponded when King joined the Navy and was shipped out to the Pacific during World War II. When King returned to Texas in 1946, he and Stallings dated for two more years.
But they broke it off. Stallings stayed in the Waco area, where she was a school teacher. King got married and moved to the Gulf Coast, taking a job at a chemical company.
And that could have easily been the end of the story. But it wasn’t.
“When he married, I had to just put it out of my mind,” Stallings said in a phone interview Friday.
They went on with their lives. King, who’s 85, and his wife, Peggy, had four daughters (he now has about 40 grandchildren and great-grandchildren).
Stallings, 84, dated, but never married.
“No one ever measured up to him,” she said. “I knew how much he cared for me.”
When King’s wife died in 2007, Stallings got in touch with King.
“I knew he was hurting and I wrote and told him if there was anything I could do I’d be glad to help, and sometimes it just helps to have someone to talk to,” she said.
King and Stallings started talking on the phone, and she would occasionally write letters.
In Houston for Christmas that year, Stallings said she asked if she could visit him in League City, where he was staying with one of his daughters, but he said he didn’t think it was a good idea.
On Easter in 2008, she asked again.
Stallings recalled telling King “ ‘there are some things I want to say, and I want to say them in person, not over the phone.’ ”
King agreed to the visit.
“We talked for four or five hours and didn’t even take time for lunch,” she said. “We started talking, and we said that there wasn’t a day that passed when we didn’t think of each other.”
Two months later King visited Stallings in Waco.
The newlyweds, Dorothy Stallings and Carl King, kiss Friday after their marriage ceremony at First Baptist Church of Waco.
Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald“He’s been coming from time to time, and each time he’s stayed longer,” she said. “And then five weeks ago he proposed to me.”
Flash forward to Saturday afternoon. King and Stallings were at First Baptist Church of Waco getting ready to tie the knot. It would be the first wedding for both Stallings and King, who eloped his first time around.
Before the afternoon wedding the couple discussed details with Don Cannata, who was officiating.
Asked if they wanted to do a cake-cutting ceremony after, Stallings said, “No. We’re not young and foolish any more.”
On the length of the wedding itself, King answered, “Short and sweet.”
Cannata honored their wishes. In about 10 minutes rings were on fingers and the couple had been pronounced man and wife.
But there was one slight hiccup.
Cannata nearly forgot to instruct the couple to kiss.
When it became clear King and Stallings might leave the altar without locking lips, the audience was quick to remind the minister.
After nearly seven decades the couple was united, and the bride said she was happy with the timing.
“God works on his own time, and this was a good time for me,” Stallings said. “I’m an only child, but now I’m getting four daughters, three sons-in-law and 16 grandchildren.”
Australia's Hottest Grandmother
Men's magazine Zoo Weekly awarded the title to 65 year old Leila Benussi from Alexandra Hills after husband George answered the call to find the nation's sexiest grandmother.
He sent in some saucy shots of his wife in her 'smalls', which did the trick.
"My husband talked me into it. He said there weren't many women with a body like mine at my age," Leila said.
"I just hope all the 20-year-old boys at the gym don't recognize me in their mag."
Leila pumps iron four or five times a week, but only went into her first gym at 57 to help with arthritis.
The Hottest Nanna title came with a $5000 prize, some of which she will put towards a holiday.
And while hubby George supports his wife's burgeoning modelling career, this is about as far as he will go.
"He won't go to the gym with me. He just drops me off," Leila said.
Police taser 86-year-old, bed-bound Oklahoma woman
Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, "Don't Taze my granny!" an El Reno police officer told another cop to "Taser her!" and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed," according to the complaint.
Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, "connected to a portable oxygen concentrator with a long hose." She is "in marginal health, [and] takes several prescribed medications daily," and "was unable to tell him exactly when she had taken her meds," so, Tinsley says, he called 911 "to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her."
In response, "as many as ten El Reno police" officers "pushed their way through the door," according to the complaint.
The grandma, Lona Varner, "told them to get out of her apartment."
The remarkable complaint continues: "Instead, the apparent leader of the police [defendant Thomas Duran] instructed another policeman to 'Taser her!' He stated in his report that the 86 year-old plaintiff 'took a more aggressive posture in her bed,' and that he was fearful for his safety and the safety of others.
"Lonnie Tinsley told them, 'Don't taze my Granny!' to which they responded that they would Taser him; instead, they pulled him out of her apartment, took him down to the floor, handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a police car.
"The police then proceeded to approach Ms. Varner in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation.
"The police then fired a Taser at her and only one wire struck her, in the left arm; the police then fired a second Taser, striking her to the right and left of the midline of her upper chest and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain and to pass out.
"The police then grabbed Ms. Varner by her forearms and jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed; they then handcuffed her.
"The police freed Lonnie Tinsley from his incarceration in the back of the police car and permitted him to accompany the ambulance with his grandmother."
Tinsley says the cops capped it all off by having his grandmother "placed in the psychiatric ward at the direction of the El Reno police; she was held there for six days and released."
"As a result of the wrongful arrest and detention, the plaintiff Lona M. Varner suffered the unlawful restraint of her freedom, bodily injury, assault, battery, the trashing of her apartment, humiliation, loss of personal dignity, infliction of emotional distress and medical bills."
They seek punitive damages for constitutional violations, from the City of El Reno, Duran, Officers Frank Tinga and Joseph Sandberg, and 10 Officers Does.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
JOKE: A woman was at the hairdresser
A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband.. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded:
" Rome ? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded and dirty... You're crazy to go to Rome . So, how are you getting there?"
"We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got a great rate!"
"Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser. " That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome ?"
"We'll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome's Tiber River called Teste."
"Don't go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it's gonna be something special and exclusive, but it's really a dump."
"We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope."
"That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant.
Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome .
"It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not only were we on time in one of Continental's brand new planes, but it was overbooked, and they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot.
And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a $5 million remodeling job, and now it's a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner's suite at no extra charge!"
"Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well and good, but I know you didn't get to see the Pope."
"Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me.
Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me."
"Oh, really! What'd he say ?"
He said: "Who fucked up your hair?"
Cat's incredible journey.. 2,000 miles to find owners
A cat reportedly trekked 2,000 miles to find his owners after they moved house without him.
Ravila Hairova, 52, thought her grey cat Karim would find the change too upsetting so she asked neighbors to take him in.
She even left his favorite chair, cushion and food bowls behind in Gulistan, Uzbekistan, so he would feel at home.
But two years later she found her bedraggled, starving pet waiting on her doorstep at her new home in Liska, Russia.
"I knew he had disappeared from my neighbors' home a few days after we left which was very sad but we never heard another word about him," she said.
"Then I was walking along the road and I saw this cat which seemed to be waiting for me. When I got closer I saw it was Karim - thin, and in very poor condition but it was him.
"He is very happy now and so are we. I've no idea how he found us but I'm very glad he did."
Ravila's husband Lev Kondratyev, 46, said: "He looks like he used up all of his nine lives to get to us - but it's definitely him.
"There are certain marks on his body including a scar on his tail when it was caught in the door that show us he is 100 per cent our Karim - and he obviously recognized us as well."
MOOSE ON THE LOOSE AT THE BEACH
It was a perfect day for a dip Friday at Long Sands Beach in York, Maine - and that was true for both man ... and moose.
A female moose surprised surfers and sunbathers on Friday morning by swimming through the waves, startling beachgoers when it rose up out of the water.
The moose then jogged down the beach and headed back inland - it was last seen heading toward Shore Rd. in York. Moose are not an uncommon sight, even in Southern Maine - but it is rare to see one at one of southern Maine's more popular beaches.
DOH: 6-Year-Old Ohio Girl on Homeland Security's 'No Fly' List
WESTLAKE, Ohio - Alyssa Thomas, 6, is a little girl who is already under the spotlight of the federal government. Her family recently discovered that Alyssa is on the "no fly" list maintained by U.S. Homeland Security.
"We were, like, puzzled," said Dr. Santhosh Thomas. "I'm like, well, she's kinda six-years-old and this is not something that should be typical."
Dr. Thomas and his wife were made aware of the listing during a recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis. The ticket agent at the Continental counter at Hopkins Airport notified the family. "They said, well, she's on the list. We're like, okay, what's the story? What do we have to do to get off the list? This isn't exactly the list we want to be on," said Dr. Thomas.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations in Cleveland will confirm that a list exists, but for national security reasons, no one will discuss who is on the list or why.
The Thomas family was allowed to make their trip but they were told to contact Homeland Security to clear-up the matter. Alyssa just received a letter from the government, notifying the six-year-old that nothing will be changed and they won't confirm nor deny any information they have about her or someone else with the same name.
"She's been flying since she was two-months old, so that has not been an issue," said Alyssa's dad. "In fact, we had traveled to Mexico in February and there were no issues at that time."
According to the Transportation Security Administration, Alyssa never had any problems before because the Secure Flight Program just began in June for all domestic flights. A spokesperson will only say, "the watch lists are an important layer of security to prevent individuals with known or suspected ties to terrorism from flying."
Right now, Alyssa has other priorities. "My Barbies, my magic mirror and jumping on my bed!" But her name will likely stay on the list and as for the next time she flies, the FBI says they'll rely on the common sense of the security agents.
"She may have threatened her sister, but I don't think that constitutes Homeland Security triggers," said Dr. Thomas.
The Thomas family can still fly, but the check-in process will likely take much longer. They plan on making another appeal to U.S. Homeland Security.
King of the swimmers: How orangutan Suryia loves a summer dip
When people talk about getting an all-over tan for summer, they're not usually talking about getting an all-over orangutan.
But 30-year-old Moksha Bybee has the most unusual of swimming partners - a seven-year-old urangutan who clings to her as she dives beneath the surface.
The jungle-dwelling creatures are not known for their love of the water, but Suryia appears to have permanently swapped tree trunks for swimming trunks.
Last one in's a chimp: Suryia, a seven-year-old urangutan, has taken a shine to diving into a pool with bikini-clad trainer Moksha Bybee at at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina
Smiles all round: Moksha and Suryia smile for the underwater camera, and Suryia even manages a wave
And Mrs Bybee says it's virtually impossible to keep Suryia from the pool on a nice day.
The two make an unusual sight as they lark about at the Myrtle Beach Safari park in South Carolina.
Mrs Bybee said that Suryia spent only three weeks learning how to swim and now can't get enough of his new skill.
Staff introduced Suryia to their 67ft pool after they noticed he had an unusual love for splashing around in the bath.
Woohoo! With his hair streaming back as Moksha swims through the water, Suryia certainly looks like he's having a whale of a time in the safari park pool
Swimming buddies: Moksha says Suryia only took three weeks to learn how to swim, and can now paddle up to 20ft unaided - having come up with a unique 'Borneo Crawl'
She said: 'Suryia's learning curve has been incredible. His favourite thing is to dive into the water on my back. 'When I surface he pulls at me almost to say, "Again, again".'
And he's not just a dab hand at diving - Suryia is able to swim up to 20 feet unaided using his rudimentary 'Borneo crawl'.
Staff at the park believe that the plucky seven-year-old is the world's first aquatic orangutan.
Jacuzzi anyone? Staff at the Myrtle Beach Safari believe that Suryia might be the world's first aquatic orangutan. If nothing else, he's been working on his poolside manner
Saturday, June 26, 2010
JOKE: A priest, a pentecostal minister, and a rabbi would get together twice a week
A priest, a pentecostal minister, and a rabbi would get together twice a week for coffee to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really all that hard. A real challenge would be to preach to a bear. One thing led to another and they decided to do an experiment. They would all go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convert it. Seven days later, they're all together to discuss the experience. Father Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various bandages on his body and limbs, goes first. "Well," he says, "I went into the woods to find me a bear. And when I found him I began to read to him from the Catechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slap me around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and, Holy Mary, he became as gentle as a lamb. The bishop is coming out next week to give him first communion and confirmation."
Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm and both legs in casts, and an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, "WELL brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to my bear from God's HOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do with me. So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled down one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we came to a creek. So I quick DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became as gentle as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus."
They both looked down at Rabbi Goldberg, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors running in and out of him. He was in bad shape. The rabbi looks up and says, "Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start."
Woman flashes breasts to get peace and quiet
Marika De Florio is using bare breasts to win a feud with her neighbours. The 56-year-old says she is sick and tired of her neighbours' five-year-old grandson driving a loud all-terrain vehicle for hours on her quiet street in Seeley's Bay, near Kingston. So she found a solution under her shirt. De Florio has discovered that if she goes out topless, the boy's horrified grandparents rush the child into the house.
And she said she will continue to go topless every time the child rides the ATV. "It is maddening," she said of the noise. "I'm going mental. I can't breathe and I'm not moving, but I need some peace. I can't believe I did this, but they pulled the kid inside and then called police because of their small-town mentality."
De Florio says the problems with her neighbours, Mike and Nancy Berry, started two years ago when she moved to the area. Leeds OPP, which covers Seeley's Bay, have received complaint calls from both De Florio and the Berrys. She is not breaking the law, because in Canada women are allowed to be topless.
"There is not a criminal charge for that ... not since 1996," said Toronto Police Const. Isabelle Cotton. De Florio says she decided to go topless to solve the problem because police wouldn't do anything about the ATV noise. She said it's the bravest thing she has ever done. "I'll do what I have to to eradicate this problem," she said.
Painter puts a new spin on Wisconsin landmark
The good news about Stoughton's new water tower: They spelled the name of the city correctly on one side.
The explanation: The painting contractor that misspelled the name of the city on the other side of the tower is based in Illinois.
The fix: They're working on replacing the missing "t."
Residents who have been watching crews build a $1.2 million water tower for Stoughton since last fall got a laugh this week as a painting contractor screwed up on one of the finishing touches. "Stoughton" became "Stoughon."
Painter Mark Sandmire told the La Crosse Tribune that he discovered the error as he was painting, but he had to finish the paint job anyway. He couldn't paint the correct letters over the wet paint.
Sandmire, a painter for 20 years, told the paper this was the first time he's made such a misspelling in big block letters.
Kim Jennings, the finance manager for Stoughton's utilities department, said Friday the painting contractor should have Stoughton's T in its rightful place by the weekend. The tower will be repainted as soon as the weather cooperates, she said.
Meanwhile, no one seems to be taking offense at the misspelling. "I think most people around here just think it's funny," Jennings said.
The best joke Jennings has heard so far could become the city's tourism slogan. "Come to Stoughton," she said. "You'll fit in like a T."
Why did the 15-year-old girl steal 44 pairs of underwear?
Why did a 15-year-old girl steal 44 pairs of underwear from a St. Paul store?
The teen reportedly posed a question of her own to a police officer: "Do you expect me to wear dirty underwear?"
She was cited for misdemeanor theft. It was the second panty raid at a St. Paul store that showed up in this week's police reports.
Police cited a 47-year-old man on June 10 for shoplifting "numerous pairs" of women's underwear from the Midway Walmart.
The case with the teen girl happened June 19 at the Maryland Avenue Kmart. She stashed the 44 pairs of women's underwear in a tote bag and walked out without paying, police said.
Thirty-one of the pairs were valued at $4.99 and 13 at $3.99, police said.
JOKE: A hooker was visiting her doctor
A hooker was visiting her doctor for a regular
checkup. "Any specific problems you should tell me about," the doctor asked?
"Well, I have noticed lately that if I get even the
tiniest cut, it seems to bleed for hours," she replied.
"Do you think I might be a hemophiliac? "
"Well," the doctor answered, "hemophilia is a genetic disorder and it is more often found in men, but it is possible for a woman to be a hemophiliac. Tell me, how much you lose when you have your period?"
After calculating for a moment the hooker replied, "Oh,about seven or eight hundred dollars, I guess."
Friday, June 25, 2010
Couple tries to sell baby at Wal-Mart for "every day low price"
Salinas California police arrested a couple who they say tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 Tuesday night outside of Walmart.
Police spokesman Officer Lalo Villegas said the father tried to sell the child about 7:20 p.m. outside the store on North Davis Road.
Villegas said Salinas resident Patrick Fousek, 38, had approached two women and asked to use their cell phone. * After he finished his phone call, police said, Fousek asked the women, who had been playing with the baby, if they would like to purchase his daughter for $25.
"They thought he was joking," Villegas said. "They laughed, but he was very persistent. That's when they knew this guy was serious."
Police said Fousek immediately left and went to the car where the mother, Samantha Tomasini, 20, was waiting. As the couple drove away, Villegas said, the two women were able to get the pair's license plate number.
About 1 a.m. Wednesday, Villegas said, police officers tracked down the couple at their residence in the 700 block of East Romie Lane.
Officers said the couple appeared high on methamphetamine and the house was in disarray. A police report also claimed that Tomasini told Child Protective Services, who took the baby, that she had breast-fed the infant while under the influence, Villegas said.
Police arrested Fousek and Tomasini on suspicion of child endangerment and being under the influence of a controlled substance. Fousek, police said, was also on probation. The pair was booked into the Monterey County Jail.
The couple was expected to be in court for an arraignment Friday, at which time they would be assigned public defenders.
Tiny turtle causes big problem at Atlanta airport
A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn't bring their pet along.
The sisters threw the animal and cage in the trash and returned to their seats crying Tuesday after AirTran Airways employees on the jetway said they couldn't care for the turtle while their father drove to retrieve it. Two days later, however, Carley Helm was reunited with Neytiri even though at first the family thought the pet was emptied with the trash.
Carley was heading home to Milwaukee after visiting her father in Atlanta with sisters Annie, 13, and Rebecca, 22, when the flap unfolded.
Rebecca said the three were led onto the jetway and told they'd have to get rid of the baby red ear slider -- named Neytiri after the princess in the movie "Avatar" -- if they wanted to reboard.
"I asked, 'What do you mean get rid of it?' and they said throw it away," she said. "I was very sad, and I felt bad for my littlest sister because it was her first pet and she was planning to take care of it herself."
While the sisters say they were told to put the animal in the trash, AirTran says they chose that themselves, despite an offer to fly later at no extra charge.
AirTran company policy bars animals other than cats, dogs and household birds in the cabin, said spokesman Christopher White. White cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that says the reptiles have been known to carry salmonella bacteria.
The sisters say they made it past security screeners and an AirTran gate agent before boarding. One flight attendant told them to stow the cage under their seat, they say.
But with the flight rolling toward its takeoff, an attendant told them the turtle wasn't allowed in the cabin.
Rebecca Helm called their father, and he began driving back to the airport. She asked an AirTran employee to make arrangements with her father to look after the pet until he could get there, but the employee refused.
"I basically had to make a really fast decision because the whole plane was being delayed," Rebecca Helm said. The bin wasn't very full and she thought the turtle could be found easily once her dad arrived, she said.
Rebecca twice declined the offer to take a later flight, White said.
"We don't have the personnel or the facilities to care for people's pets," White said.
Rebecca asked if throwing the pet away would allow for them to get back on the flight, White said. The gate agent did not tell the sisters what to do but said they could not get on the plane with the turtle, White said.
"At no time did any AirTran Airways crew member order or suggest that they put the turtle in the trash," he said.
Half an hour later, the sisters' father called, saying he wanted to come look through the trash, White said. The gate agent looked, couldn't find the turtle and assumed it had been emptied, he said.
The airline, a unit of AirTran Holdings Inc. discovered Wednesday that the ramp supervisor had rescued the turtle from the trash "out of his own compassion" and given it to another crew member, who took it home for her 5-year-old son, White said.
AirTran told that crew member the original owners wanted it back, and the airline arranged for the turtle to fly as cargo to Milwaukee on Thursday, White said.
The sisters' mother reported what happened to animal rights group PETA, which sent a letter to AirTran demanding an investigation and disciplinary action.
For their part, Rebecca Helm says her sisters "are very happy to have the turtle back."
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JOKE: A man visiting a cemetery heard a second man
A man visiting a cemetery heard a second man who was kneeling at a nearby grave crying-out loudly, "Why did you have to die? Why did you have to die?".
The first man was so moved by the other man's obvious pain, that he walked over and lightly placed a comforting hand on the distraught man's shoulder and asked him, "Is this your wife?".
"No," replied the weeping man, "Her first husband!"
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JOKE: an old man had a heart transplant
An old man just had a heart transplant and was getting instructions from his doctor. He was placed on a strict diet, denied tobacco and alcohol, and advised to get at least eight hours sleep a night.
"What about my sex life?" asked the old man "Will it be all right for me to have intercourse? "
"Only with your wife," said the doctor. "We don't want you to get too excited."
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