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College professor arrested in student voyeurism investigation

A 71-year-old drama professor at Green River Community College, Washington tried to get video of a young woman changing, but was caught after she found the camera and video of him placing it in the drama department's dressing room, police say.

The professor, who has taught at the college since 1967, was arrested for investigation of voyeurism and made his first court appearance Friday afternoon in Kent. He has been released from jail on personal recognizance and ordered not to have contact with the young woman. The professor has not yet been charged and for this reason remains unnamed.

The drama professor, who is married, asked the student if she would be interviewed for an article in the school newspaper. He advised that there would be photographs, "and he wanted her to try on different dresses to see which one she should wear to the interview," Auburn Detective Aaron Williams wrote in a probable-cause document.

The woman, 20, tried on four dresses while the professor waited outside, and stepped out to show him two. She then began to re-dress.

"As she did this, (the victim) noticed a small black Sony video camera that was sticking out just slightly from between some pillows placed on an upper shelf inside the dressing room," Williams wrote. "(She) removed the camera and found that it had been aimed at her and had been recording her as she changed into the various dresses.

"(She) recognized the camera as a camera similar to one she had seen (the professor) using to tape past performances at the school."

The young woman went to campus security and reviewed the recording while waiting for police.

"(She) told officers that at the beginning of the recording she clearly saw (the professor) placing the video camera on the shelf in the woman's dressing room."

The woman became upset and turned it off. An officer viewed the recording and reported it captured images of the woman nude.

The professor is on emergency leave, but remains on the payroll, according to the school newspaper, The Current.

The newspaper never ran a story solely on the play. Instead they wrote about the professor's arrest, quoting a former student describing him as "creeptastic."

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JOKE: BRIT SAYS AMERICANS NEVER GET IT RIGHT

The train was quite crowded, so a U. S. Army soldier walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well dressed, middle-aged, French woman's poodle.

The war-weary soldier asked, "Ma'am, may I have that seat?"

The French woman just sniffed and said to no one in particular, "Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat."

The soldier walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was under that dog.

"Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired."

She snorted, "Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!"

This time the soldier didn't say a word; he just picked up the little dog, tossed it out the train window, and sat down.

The woman shrieked, "Someone must defend my honor! This American should be put in his place!"

An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up, "Sir, you Americans often seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your cars on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you seem to have thrown the wrong bitch out the window!"

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Milwaukee has real-life masked avenger

He calls himself the Watchman. Armed with a flashlight, pepper spray and a cell phone, he spends his weekend evenings hunting out suspicious activity in Riverwest.

When the two main loves in your life are helping people and reading comic books, the call is loud and clear: Become a superhero.

He calls himself the Watchman. He won't give his real name.

His identity is obscured by a bright red mask that covers half his goateed face. He wears black boots, black pants, black leather gloves and a black trench coat, but there's a large yellow circle on the chest of his black hooded sweatshirt, with a big W.

"I'm what people refer to as a real-life superhero," he says.

By night, on weekends, he patrols Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, looking for injustice and evildoers. By day? That's a mystery.

"While most reactions to what I do are positive, there are a few negative responses," he explains, adding that the disguise protects his family - a wife and two young sons - from any of that. "I'm the one who decided to do this, not them," he says. "They should not have to suffer for it."

For him, it's not about fulfilling a childhood fantasy, or getting the attention of late-night bar patrons.

"Somebody needs to do something," explains the Watchman, who contemplated becoming a police officer before donning his mask.

"There's something everybody can do to make the world a little bit better," he says.

So the 6-foot, 200-pound, 30-something crime fighter patrols Riverwest in costume, with a flashlight and pepper spray on hand - and a black Motorola cell phone as his weapon of choice.

"It's about reporting it," he says. "Contacting police, or getting an ambulance out here if it's a medical situation."

As for super powers? None, he says. "I'm just a guy. I may look a little funny, but I'm just a guy. And I'm out here to let everybody know that they can do their part."

He's not the only guy. The Watchman belongs to the Great Lakes Heroes Guild. "We combine resources, work together and share information," he says.

Milwaukee area freelance writer Tea Krulos is chronicling him and others like him around the nation.

"Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement" is a book Krulos hopes to self-publish by December or January.

"I think one of the most interesting things about this story is that most of the guys are pretty normal," Krulos says. "They're just sick of sitting around watching TV. They want to go out and do something, even if it is a small act, to make their community a better place."

But on a typical night in the Riverwest area, the Watchman needs no book to draw attention. The mysterious red mask does the trick as reactions from mortals come throughout the night.

Patrick Georgeson is hanging out with a few friends in his garage as the Watchman makes his rounds. "I've seen him around here before," says Georgeson.

His friend Meghan Bundy chimes in: "It's awesome to know we have a little Batman here."

"I really think he actually cares." Georgeson says. "There's enough stuff that goes on in this neighborhood that I've seen. If there's one more person looking out for it, it's probably a good thing."

Looking out for people is what the Watchman plans on doing for a long time to come.

"In some form or another, I will do this for the rest of my life."

Memphis man shoots teen who refuses to pull up saggy pants

Memphis man angered by two teenagers who would not pull up their sagging pants shot one in the rear and faces aggravated assault charges.

Police on Saturday charged Kenneth E. Bonds, 45, with two counts of aggravated assault, according to a court affidavit. Bond was held in Shelby County Jail on $25,000 bond.

On Sept. 25 about 7:30 p.m., Bonds began yelling at two youths, ages 16 and 17, about pulling up their pants as the young men walked in the 4400 block of Whiteside, near Shelby Drive and Tulane in Whitehaven, according to the court document.

On their way to buy candy, the pair and Bonds were in a heated argument when Bonds pulled a black semiautomatic pistol from his waistband and fired one shot at the 17-year-old, missing him.

As the young men ran away, Bonds fired several more shots, hitting the older youth in the buttock with a bullet that exited through his thigh, according to the affidavit. He was treated first at Methodist South Hospital and then the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.

Motorist plunges to death while urinating

AN Italian motorist plunged to his death early Sunday after stopping at the side of the road to urinate without realizing in the darkness that he was on a viaduct nine meters (30 feet) above the ground, a report said.

His companion told emergency services that 36-year-old Ermes Calautto jumped over a security rail after stopping the car near Cavolano di Sacile in the northeast at around 3:00am local time, the ANSA news agency reported.

When he had not returned after a few minutes, she got out of the car to see what happened and heard him groaning in the darkness, the report said.

The woman alerted authorities but he was dead when they arrived.

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JOKE: A government employee sat in his office

A government employee sat in his office, and out of boredom, decided to see what was inside his old filing cabinet.
He poked through the contents and came across an old brass lamp.
"This will look good on my mantel," he said, and took it home with him.
While polishing the lamp, a genie appeared and, as usual, granted him three wishes.
"I would like an ice-cold Coke right now."
He gets his Coke and drinks it.
Now that he can think more clearly, he states his second wish.
"I wish to be on an island with beautiful women, who find me irresistible. "
Suddenly, he's on an island with gorgeous women. eyeing him lustfully.
He tells the genie his third and last wish.
"I wish I'd never have to work again."
Instantly, he was back in his government office.

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