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Texan accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet

A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.

Austin police arrested Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, on Wednesday, charging him with felony breach of computer security.

Ramos-Lopez used a former colleague's password to deactivate starters and set off car horns, police said. Several car owners said they had to call tow trucks and were left stranded at work or home.

"He caused these customers, now victims, to miss work," Austin police spokeswoman Veneza Aguinaga said. "They didn't get paid. They had to get tow trucks. They didn't know what was going on with their vehicles."

Ramos-Lopez was in the Travis County Jail on Wednesday with bond set at $3,000. The Associated Press could not find a working phone number for his family.

The Texas Auto Center dealership in Austin installs GPS devices that can prevent cars from starting. The system is used to repossess cars when buyers are overdue on payments, said Jeremy Norton, a controller at the dealership where Ramos-Lopez worked. Car horns can be activated when repo agents go to collect vehicles and believe the owners are hiding them.

"We are taking extra measures to make sure this never happens again," Norton said.

Starting in mid-February, dealership employees noticed unusual changes to their business records. Someone was going into the system and changing customers' names, such as having dead rapper Tupac Shakur buying a 2009 vehicle, Norton said.

Soon, customers began calling saying their cars wouldn't start, or that their horns were going off incessantly, forcing them to disengage the battery. Norton said the dealership originally thought the cars had mechanical problems.

Then employees noticed someone had ordered $130,000 in parts and equipment from the company that makes the GPS devices.

Police said they were able to trace the sabotage to Ramos-Lopez's computer, leading to his arrest.

Norton said Ramos-Lopez didn't seem unusually upset about being fired.

"I think he thought what he was doing was a harmless prank," Norton said. "He didn't see the ramifications of it."

JOKE: A Man Was Having Problems With His Eyes

There is this man, he has had problems lately with his sight, and feels it is now time to go see an optometrist.

When he comes in, the doctor tells him he will first do some simple testing, and shows him the standard sheet with letters of diminishing size: W X Z Y ...

So the doctor asks the man: "Can you read this?"

The man answers: "Of course I can. I am Polish!"

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Do Anything But Don't Mess With My Little Debbie Cookies

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FL-- An 80-year-old man who accused his neighbors of swiping seven boxes of "Little Debbie Oatmeal Cookies" was arrested after beating their door with a garden hoe, according to recently-released St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office records.

When a deputy on Sunday arrived at the scene in the 4100 block of John Cook Way, Gene Edward Chambers had a garden hoe raised above his head "approaching the residence."

Chambers told investigators his neighbor came in his house during the night and pilfered seven boxes of "Little Debbie Oatmeal Cookies."

"He went to the residence and knocked on the door," a report states. "When they didn't answer, he started hitting the door with the garden hoe."

The neighbors said they were sleeping and heard a "loud banging at the door." Chambers was hitting their door with the hoe and alleging they stole his snack cakes. They used the living room couch to block the door, which was valued at $200 and "damaged beyond repair."

A deputy checked Chambers' home for signs of any theft, finding five boxes of Little Debbie snack cakes in a cabinet. They also turned up a receipt showing he bought five boxes of snack cakes the day before from Wal-Mart.

"Chambers was mistaken thinking he had bought seven boxes," the report states.

Chambers, listed as retired, was arrested on a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge.

VIDEO: Peruvian man hits waves with surfing alpaca

Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca.

Pianezzi, 44, has slowly introduced his alpaca Pisco, a domesticated Andean highland animal that resembles a small llama, to the waters of the Pacific Ocean over the past several months.

The duo caught three waves on a yellow 10-foot (3-metre) longboard on Tuesday at a small break south of Lima, Peru's capital. Pisco, wearing a flotation vest, crouched on the board while taking off on each wave and cruised for a few seconds before bailing into the water with a bit of a fright.

Pianezzi, who teaches surfing to kids and has competed before at international contests for people and their surfing dogs, came up with the idea of hitting the waves with an alpaca while visiting Australia.

"I've surfed with a dog, a parrot, a hamster and a cat, but when I was at a competition in Australia I saw people surfing with kangaroos and koalas," said Pianezzi, who trains the alpaca in the Peruvian beach town of San Bartolo.

"So I thought that, as a Peruvian, it would be interesting to surf with a unique animal that represents Peru." Pianezzi says some San Bartolo residents have accused him of mistreating Pisco by taking a mountain animal into the ocean. Others, however, regard him as an innovator.

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