‘An armed robber was no match for a 7-year-old girl in Reidsville, North Carolina.
The gunman tried to hold-up the convenience store where little Alisha’s mom was working. (She didn’t want to reveal her last name.)
Alisha rushed to her mom’s defense when the robber pushed her. Alisha shoved him right back.
“I was pushing on him and telling him to ‘back away, back away man.’
“I didn’t want him to hurt mommy.”
Stymied by the little girl, the gunman gave up on the cash and stole some cigarettes. Then he ran from the store.’
‘Take your breasts off at the door and sit down.’
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‘A man confessed to breaking into a Porter County probation office and stealing two urine samples, including his own, police said.
Joseph Klinkman, 23, of Valparaiso faces a burglary charge for Tuesday night’s break-in. The theft was discovered Wednesday morning at the Porter County PACT office, which operates programs for prisoners, ex-offenders, victims and witnesses.
A judge had ordered Klinkman to undergo programs through PACT because of an earlier drug possession charge. [..]
“He’d been in a few hours before and gave a urine sample,” Balon said. “He saw they were testing for a drug he didn’t think they were testing for. He panicked.”‘
‘A Monessen High School teacher resigned after winning a date with a porn star during a satellite radio contest.
The school board voted to accept Jaison Biagini’s resignation on Tuesday.
While listening to the “Bubba the Love Sponge” radio show on Sirius satellite radio, Mr. Biagini won the trip last month to St. Petersburg, Fla., to meet with porn star Akira.
Mr. Biagini, who uses a wheelchair, was interviewed on the radio show after returning home. He said that he was ridiculed for his disability and offended by how he was portrayed on the show. He also expressed concerns about his teaching job. [..]
Mr. Biagini, who taught art for 14 years at the school, said he entered the contest because he wanted to win the free trip and visit the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg. He described the date as being “all fake and staged.”‘
‘A local woman killed a raccoon with her bare hands Thursday when the animal attacked a young boy.
Officials with Cheshire animal control say the woman was walking in the woods around 11 a.m. with a group of children when the animal bit the 5-year-old son of a friend. She pulled the raccoon off the child, told the children to run home and strangled the animal, authorities said.
The carcass was taken to a state laboratory in Hartford where it tested positive for rabies.’
‘A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville’s Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.
Lawton said he was trying to milk the goat. [..]
He’s the second person charged in the county since the Legislature made bestiality a crime in response to the fatal injury to a man having sex with a horse in Enumclaw.’
Followup to Mr Hands.
‘Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell has had close encounters with vampire bats and angry bees, but his latest brush has been with a rather odd dog.
He spotted a rare breed of Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, which has two noses, on a recent trip to Bolivia. [..]
He said: “While we were there, sitting by the fire one night, I saw an extraordinary-looking dog that appeared to have two noses.
“I was sober at the time, and then I remembered the story that the legendary explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett came back with in 1913 of seeing such strange dogs in the Amazon jungle.
“Nobody believed him, they laughed him out of court.”‘
‘A woman attacked a karaoke singer belting out Coldplay on Thursday night, telling him he “sucked” before she pushed and punched him to get him to stop singing, bar staff said.
The man was singing “Yellow” when it happened.
“It took three or four of us to hold her down,” bartender Robert Willmette said.
When she was escorted outside, the 21-year-old woman “went crazy,” Willmette said, throwing punches at him and others, including an off-duty police officer.
Patrol officers and detectives then arrived at the neighborhood bar and blocked off the street, which inflamed the woman’s rage even more, a police report said. Before police could handcuff the woman, she headbutted the off-duty officer at least twice.’
‘Building boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by castrating himself so he could become a woman.
The 42-year-old dad of two decided on the drastic move after being told he would have to wait at least two years for a sex change on the NHS.
He found a website which gave a step-by-step guide to the eye-watering home surgery, then waited till wife Janet went out before setting to work with a kitchen knife in the loo. [..]
“In the end, I turned to the Net — it’s amazing what you can find. [..]
“The worst bit was steeling myself for the first cut. The whole thing took six minutes. It was agony, but I knew I couldn’t stop.”‘
‘The Orange County Health Department issued a warning to swimmers Wednesday concerning freshwater ponds and lakes after a 10-year-old boy died when an amoeba apparently entered his body.
Officials said Will Sellers was treated at Arnold Palmer Hospital for amoebic encephalitis after swimming in Lake Conway, WKMG-TV reported. Sellers died Wednesday at the hospital from amoebic encephalitis, or acute swelling of the brain
The amoeba suspected of infecting the boy usually enters a swimmer’s body through the nose and travels to the brain and spinal cord.’
‘An exotic dancer is credited with reviving a client who passed out during a private strip show early Friday morning, police said.
Karnesha Nantz, 25, was hired early Friday morning to perform a personal show for Daniel Karpinski, 46, at Karpinski’s home on the 400 block of Southeast Evans Avenue in Port St. Lucie, police said.
According to a police report, while Nantz was dancing, she turned and faced away from Karpinski for approximately 20 seconds. When she turned around again to face him, Karpinski was slumped down on the couch and was having trouble breathing, police said.’
‘This is a show where two contests go head to head trying to steal different things without getting caught.’
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‘A 60-year-old Stuart man was arrested and charged with domestic battery after he allegedly urinated on his sleeping girlfriend and her son early Saturday morning.
Wilfred Hart, of the 2100 block of Northwest 20th Avenue, allegedly woke the woman and her 13-year-old son at about 5:45 a.m., called her “dirty trailer trash,” and then forced her out of bed and into the shower because she smelled bad, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s Office report.’
‘A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported on Monday.
Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.
“The pencil went right through my skin — and disappeared into my head,’ Wegner told the newspaper.’
‘A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.
Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre (8-foot) tall model with a yellow head and blue torso.
“We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water,” said a stall worker. “It was a life-sized Lego toy.”
A woman nearby added: “I saw the Lego toy floating towards the beach from the direction of England.”
The toy was later placed in front of the drinks stall.’
‘An Upper Dublin man with what a Montgomery County prosecutor labeled a “disturbing” sexual fetish involving dirty diapers will remain under the close eye of county probation officials for the next three years.
Judge William J. Furber this week sentenced C. D. A., of the 400 block of Hutchins Drive, to a three-year probationary sentence for prowling about a home in the 400 block of West 10th Avenue in Conshohocken and removing and/or rooting around in trash bags containing a child’s dirty diapers.
A condition of the probation will require that the probation department’s intensive supervision unit closely monitor A.’s activities.
Another condition of the sentence requires A. to continue to receive outpatient therapy. A third condition bars A. from having any unsupervised contact with children under the age of 13 other than his niece.’
‘China has banned the use of slogans like “Raise fewer babies but more piggies” to promote family planning, worried crude language may hamper its message in the world’s most populous country, state media said on Sunday.
The slogans are painted on walls and houses across China, but many are too coarse or even mis-written, the official Xinhua news agency cited a notice from the National Population and Family Planning Commission as saying.
Others judged offensive include “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected” and “One more baby means one more tomb”, it said.’
‘A library patron suspected of selling hundreds of books, tapes and DVDs he had borrowed has cost Denver-area libraries tens of thousands of dollars, officials said.
Thomas Pilaar, 33, was suspected of using different names to obtain seven library cards from the Denver Public Library, then checking out 300 items per card and selling at least some of the items, KCNC-TV in Denver reported.
“It appears his intent was to sell 2,100 (items) from the Denver Library collection,” Denver Public Library spokeswoman M. Celeste Jackson told the station. She estimated the losses at about $35,000.’
‘A special council ‘dog fouling squad’ described today how an undercover surveillance operation caught a serial offender – but it wasn’t a dog. It was a man.
The CCTV operation was set up after a member of the public made a complaint to the environmental health service at Kirklees Council, West Yorkshire.
She was suspicious that the offending individual, who regularly left a mess in the same place in Cleckheaton, was not a dog.
Councillor Martyn Bolt, cabinet member for the environment, said: ‘An investigation confirmed the suspicions and concluded that the pile of excrement was not from a dog, but was of the human variety. [..]”
‘A man with no arms and one leg who would not stop driving despite a long list of traffic violations was sentenced to five years in prison today on the latest charges.
Michael Francis Wiley, 40, was also sentenced to 15 years of drug offender probation. He pleaded no contest in June to a variety of felony driving and drug charges.
“I’d just like to say I know what I did was wrong,” Wiley said in court today. “I am truly sorry your honour. I am.”
Wiley taught himself to drive after losing both arms and a leg in an electrical accident when he was 13. He has already spent more than three years in prison for habitually driving without a licence, kicking a state trooper and other charges.’
Followup to Armless, One-Legged Driver Leads Chase.
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‘A 24-year-old man has been crushed to death by a mechanical claw while in a van at a Southampton scrapyard.
Barry Collins, of Millbrook, Southampton, died after the accident at James Huntley and Sons Scrap Metal and Merchants in Sholing, on Thursday. [..]
Mr Collins had taken a vehicle to the site to be scrapped.
It is believed he then returned to get something from a van after the crushing process began.
A crane with pincers designed to break vehicles picked up the van and crushed it before he could get out.’
‘Oliver, a nine-year-old, white-faced capuchin monkey, has escaped from the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo.
The Tupelo Zoo is asking residents Tuesday to help find Oliver. [..]
Park employee Ann Stewart said Oliver will respond to his own name and may take bait of bananas, marshmallow or grapes.
She urged people to call the park if they spot the mammal and warns that he does bite.
She also says he can outrun a horse.’
‘A three-day-old lamb at Canterbury Vets’ Methven surgery bleats for its feed just like any other newly born sheep. But this one has seven legs.
Two of the legs hang useless behind the lamb’s forelegs. The lamb has three rear legs, one of these with two hoofs. It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs. [..]
Canterbury Vets veterinarian Steve Williams said he believed a misprint in embryo formation had resulted in the lamb being polydactyl – with many legs – occurring once in several million sheep.
Williams said the lamb was also hermaphrodite, and was missing a portion of its bowel so was unable to pass faeces and so would have to be destroyed.’
‘One of the things you get no hint about before you come to Peru but then you find everyone assumes you should know about it once you are here is Chicha Morada.
Any restaurant in Peru will offer this deep purple colored beverage and the natives drink it like a southerner can imbibe Iced Tea. And, after you try it and get used to it’s taste, you’ll admit its damned refreshing. [..]
The drink is made from dark corn that is allowed to soak with the peelings of a large pineapple. Peruvians will use the ‘meat’ of the pineapple for a dish then save all the exterior cuttings as well as the core to use in this drink. Although the drink includes sugar, the pineapple adds a sweet zing to the drink that really sets it apart.’
‘Police in Johnson City arrested a Bristol, Virginia, minister for driving under the influence and indecent exposure.
Police say 58-year-old Tommy Tester urinated in front of children at a car wash while wearing a skirt. He will remain free on bond until an October court hearing.
He is also charged with having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle.
Tester is a minister of Gospel Baptist Church and works for Christian radio station W-Z-A-P, 690 A-M. The owner of the radio station, Al Morris, is asking for people to pray for Tester.
A report also accuses Tester of offering police officers oral sex and says an open bottle of vodka and empty oxycodone prescription bottle was found in his car when Tester was arrested Friday.’
‘A man has been banned from talking to women for five years after committing a number of indecent assaults.
Paul Jennings, 23, pedalled up behind and grabbed the bottoms of five women jogging, cycling or walking in a park.
He would brake when confronted by an angry victim, hurl verbal abuse, blow them a kiss and pedal off.
The father-of-two from Swindon is forbidden from approaching any woman he does not know in the open air, unless for legitimate reasons.’
‘The owner of a car dealership has been accused of killing two employees because they kept asking for pay raises. [..]
Milinavicius, 38, turned himself in two days after the shootings and confessed to the killings, Popham said.
“As I understand, the employees were not really happy about the pay, and they had questioned him about it over the course of time,” Popham said. “That morning he said he just snapped.”’
‘Recently some restaurants in Guangdong, China, have been promoting a popular dish called “water boiled live cat”.
The way the restaurants kill the cats is very cruel and inhumane. One of the chefs even says “the more torture the cats receive, the better they taste.”
They use a bat and beat the cats until they pass out; then throw them into hot water and boil them alive, then de-skin and cook them again.’
‘Police in Blackpool are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a woman who was performing as a living statue.
The attack happened during a corporate event in a marquee in the grounds of the De Vere Hotel on 18 July.
Police said the victim was indecently assaulted by a drunk, rowdy man after she tapped him on the shoulder.
After checking the list for the event police do not believe he was invited and are appealing for anyone who remembers the incident to come forward.’
