‘An intoxicated, visually impaired man entered the wrong northeast Harris County home early today and suffered minor wounds after the frightened homeowner fired a shotgun, officials said.
“It was not his residence,” said Lt. Michael Young of the Harris County Precinct 4 constable’s office. “The homeowner requested that this person leave and the interloper refused, insisting it was his house.”
When the confused man advanced on the homeowner, the homeowner fired a round of bird shot that grazed the man on his face and head, Young said.
The man, whose family told deputies he has been involved in similar incidents before, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he remained this morning, Young said. The man lives nearby, he said.’
‘A woman whose purse was stolen and the thief who took it inadvertently stood next to each other at a Prescott bookstore – she to complain about the unauthorized use of her credit card, he to get some cash.
The 59-year-old victim went to Hastings Books and Music on Tuesday to tell the store that someone had stolen her purse and used her credit card to buy $200 in DVDs.
Minutes later, while the woman was standing there, a man came up to the counter and tried to return eight DVDs in exchange for cash. The two didn’t recognized each other, and the woman even politely made room for the man when he walked up.
When the manager came to handle both transactions, she connected the dots.’
‘Druken yobs are roaming towns and cities like “an occupying army”, MPs claimed yesterday.
But ministers have no idea whether the £3.4billion a year spent tackling yobs is effective.
Anti-social behaviour is turning many places into no-go areas, with a small number of families causing “misery and despair” to their communities, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said. [..]
He said: “No civilised country should have to put up with what can seem like an occupying army loose in the streets.”‘
‘A panicky man left a blazing trail behind him as he dashed around the countryside looking for a hose to put out his burning hay wagon, authorities said. [..]
The malfunctioning brakes apparently set the hay on fire, Hart fire Chief Ken Klotz said. The man was unable to unhook the trailer as the fire grew.
“The wind caught it, and I guess it singed the hat right off his head,” Klotz told the Ludington Daily News. “He panicked and just floor-boarded it to get to an open area.”
The man said he was looking for a house with a hose to put out the fire, but traveled about five miles through the rural countryside before stopping, Klotz said.
“The whole thing was on fire — the back of his pickup truck and the trailer,” Klotz said. “One guy saw him driving by and said he saw 30-foot flames coming out of the hay as he was going down the road.”‘
‘While trying to set a prank on his girlfriend this guy slips, hits his head and knocks himself out cold. Apparently his girlfriend found him 10 minutes later with a 3 inch gash on his head and had to rush him to the ER.’
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‘A man man who took a wheelchair for a joyride was seriously injured when it tipped and he plunged down a lift shaft in southwest Germany.
Police in the town of Neckargemuend said the able-bodied 20-year-old man was sitting in the chair while another man pushed it at high speed along an 11th-floor corridor at a trade-training school yesterday evening.
When the chair hurtled into the closed door of a lift, the lower bolts of the door broke and the chair tipped forward, catapulting the man through the gap, Deutsche Presse -Agentur reported.
The man fell 12m onto the roof of the lift car.’
‘After laying siege to a house for five hours, police gave a final warning before storming the house where a gunman had been reported inside.
A police dog rushed upstairs and, finding a woman in bed, proceeded to sink its teeth into her arms.
But as armed officers surrounded a terrified Sonia Pellow, they realised two things. First, she wasn’t a gunman.
Second, she was deaf and had been sleeping throughout the entire stand-off.
Yesterday Miss Pellow, 36, was still too afraid to return to her home in Hayle, Cornwall, after the ordeal, which followed a hoax call to police that a gunman was inside.
“I don’t know what happened – I was asleep but then this dog was all over me,” she said. “I got bitten on both of my arms. I was terrified.”‘
‘An elderly woman who was mugged for 11 cents said she hopes her attacker learned a lesson, NBC 5 reported. [..]
“He got right in my face and said very quietly, ‘Give me your wallet. I have a gun and I will shoot you,'” Rose said. “I felt sick. I was disappointed in me and in him.”
Rose said she thought he was kidding, but gave him everything she had: 11 cents.
“I said, ‘What would your mother think of you?’ He didn’t reply,” Rose said.’
‘Debbie Hulleman’s pet dog Pepper likes to chew things. She’s gnawed on lipstick canisters, shampoo bottles, ball point pens, toothpaste, and now the list includes nearly $750 in cash — gobbled right down.
“This is probably the worst,” Ms. Hulleman said yesterday, recalling the nasty chore of recovering the money from vomit and — you guessed it — dog piles left in the yard. [..]
Pepper got into a purse belonging to a friend of her mother’s and chewed the cash from an envelope. [..]
“It wasn’t that bad. I soaked it and strained it and rinsed it. I just kept rinsing it and rinsing it. I had rubber gloves on of course,” she said. “Everyone said, ‘I can’t believe you did that.’ Well, for $400, yeah, I would do that.”‘
This woman is absolutely terrified of clowns. I s’pose it’s better than pickles. 🙂
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‘Well, after wearing them my feet would be red and sort of tingly, but I figured that it was just because it was first flip flops of the year so my feet need to get used to them. Blabity blabity… Well I have now had this chemical burn for 11 days, (As of July 3rd) I really thought it would just go away on it’s own. It is absolutely going away very well at all…this started on June 22nd 2007 and has just gotten worse basically. I have only worn those shoes 15 minutes here, half an hour there, hour there…and so on, NOT enough time to burn my feet like this!
I apologize for you having to look at my feet, really….. sorry!’
‘A Holly Hill woman said a cross-dressing prostitute assumed her look and stole her identity.
Brittany Ossenfort said her old roommate, who was identified as Richard Phillips, is pretending to be her as he sits in the Orange County Jail on a prostitution charge under her name.
“We had gotten a phone call while I was at work that he was in jail, and he was asking my boss to go bail him out,” Ossenfort said.
Ossenfort said she did some checking online.
“There it was, my name, my address, my birthdate, his picture looking like a girl,” Ossenfort said.’
‘Some stupid rich kid ruins a BMW 740i while attempting a burn out. Its ok you can just drive it home backwards, daddy will never know.’
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This is a bit of a followup to Random Acts Of Reality from the other day.
I’ve been reading blogs by emergency medical people all day, and they’re very interesting. Some of the stuff they do [and shit they put up with] is amazing.
Another story that I liked on a different site is called T’was the night before the night before Christmas.
‘Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.
A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas’ head.
“I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head,” Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.
“I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy.” [..]
Dallas’ wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.
“I told him, ‘I will love you through your maggots,'” she told the newspaper.
But Dallas saw little to laugh about.
“It’s much funnier to everyone else,” he said. “It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel.”‘
I once did a massive belly flop that bruised my stomach on one of these things.
Apparently, that was also hilarious to watch. 🙂
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‘A young mother, carrying her 3-month-old infant in her arms, visited a construction site Wednesday only to have a nail fired from a pneumatic nailing gun ricochet off a board into the infant’s head.
The infant was rushed to Delta Memorial Hospital, then flown Wednesday night to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction for surgery. The infant’s condition is unknown.
Delta police chief Rich Bacher said that the initial investigation shows “this appears to be a very tragic accident.” He said the investigation is continuing “until we know all the facts.”‘
‘Emergency workers labored through the night to rescue an ailing 500-pound man who was stranded on a stretch of the St. Croix River so shallow that rescue vehicles – including a hovercraft – were unable to approach. [..]
Rike and three friends were floating down the river Monday afternoon when Rike’s tube hit a rock and deflated, said Chief Deputy Steve Ovick of the Pine County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota. [..]
Rike’s group called 911 shortly after 8 p.m. to report that he was ill. A paramedic who arrived by helicopter stabilized Rike, but the pilot couldn’t take him to a hospital.
“The aircraft that found him said they could not lift that amount of weight,” Ovick said.
As many as 50 rescuers on the ground eventually responded, with the first reaching Rike about 9 p.m.’
‘The Braintree Fire Department is investigating how a firefighter training exercise ended up tearing apart the wrong house.
NewsCenter 5’s Rhondella Richardson reported that a Braintree family invited the fire department to conduct a training exercise at their home that was slated to be torn down. But instead of going to 6 Harrison Ave., firefighters ended up a few blocks away at 30 Coolidge Ave. [..]
The firefighters were practicing ventilating burning buildings by tearing holes in the roof.
After waiting for the fire department to arrive, contractors ended up demolishing the Harrison Avenue home.’
‘Welcome to Random Acts Of Reality, a Blog based in London, England, written by an E.M.T working for the London Ambulance Service. Also, number one search result for “Womble porn”. All names have be changed to protect the guilty. This Blog was previously known as “Why I Hate Humanity” but the antipsychotic medication seems to have kicked in.’
There’s also a book out, under Creative Commons license, that you can download for free. It’s called Blood, Sweat and Tea.
‘Wearing his gold-framed glasses and gold headphones and sipping from his gold-rimmed cup yesterday, veteran broadcaster John Laws was down one vital glistening item – his golden mike.
Police are treating as suspicious the disappearance from his production office of the $10,000 nine carat gold microphone presented to Lawsie in 2003 as a gift from 2UE management for his 50th year on the airwaves.
It is a one-off German Sennheiser, serial number JL 0001.
Laws has been using another golden microphone, given to him for his 40th anniversary, since the brazen bandit looted the king of his prized instrument. “I’m very upset about it. It’s been part of my life,” Laws said yesterday.’
‘Predictably, I slid in with ease. She was a little tense at first, but with an Exxon Valdez size load spilled into her poop chute, she quickly loosened up and got into it. I liked it also; it had a different feel to it. Not as good as vaginal sex, a little grainy, kinda tight, but still very nice.
Before I knew it I was fucking her like the apocalypse was imminent, burying it to the hilt with impunity. After a few minutes I was ready to come. My urgency was expressed in my tempo, and I began really jackhammering her. As the excitement got the best of me, I pulled out too far and my dick came out of her ass. I kinda scrambled to grab my dick and put it back in so I could finish off inside of her, but before I could even get a hold of it and put it back in her ass, I heard a faint “psssst” sound and felt something wet and warm hit my crotch.’
‘The Gippsland floods in Victoria’s south-east have triggered an explosion in the the birth rate – of the spider population.
Local residents have reported an unusually high number of spiders taking up residence in their homes.
Senior curator of spiders at Queensland Museum, Robert Raven, said the recent heavy drought-breaking rains had led to abnormally high spider hatchings.
“They have been hanging around waiting for this change in moisture level because things have been dry,” Mr Raven told Southern Cross Broadcasting.’
‘A strong earthquake struck central Japan, killing at least eight people, injuring hundreds and causing a fire and radioactive leak at the world’s biggest nuclear power plant.
The 6.8-magnitude quake levelled buildings, derailed trains and buckled roads after it struck about 10 miles off the coast of Niigata yesterday. The local media reported that four elderly women and a man were crushed to death by falling buildings and at least 800 people were hurt, some seriously. [..]
The quake, which hit just after 10am local time, also started a fire at the No 3 reactor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa light-water nuclear plant, the largest nuclear complex in the world. A spokesman for the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said there was a “small leak” of radioactive water from reactors 3 and 6 into the sea but denied the reactor was ever in any danger. “The radiation was well within safe limits,” he said.’
‘Police are looking for whoever stole and mutilated an autistic California child’s 42-pound pet tortoise.
Bob, an African spurred tortoise, was in guarded condition Saturday after thieves stole him July 7 and tried to cut his neck and slice his legs from his shell, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. [..]
William, whose autism makes him wary of talking to people, freely chatted with 25-year-old Bob, whose species is known to grunt, whistle and croak in response.
“Now he’s scared to death that not only has he lost his friend, but that whoever did this are going to come after him too,” Vaughan said.’
‘Prince Harry revealed this week that he’s been bullied because he has red hair. That takes some nerve — bullying someone whose grandma holds the keys to the Tower of London.
In Britain, redheads don’t have it easy, but since you can no longer say nasty things about race, religion, ethnic origin, disability or gender orientation, the only ones left to abuse seem to be redheads. It’s being called “gingerism.” In Britain, red hair is called ginger, and redheads, gingers. [..]
In the meantime, it looks like another home for the Chapman family in Newcastle. The Chapmans have already moved three times in as many years because of the abuse suffered by the six red-haired family members. Kevin Chapman says his 11-year-old son attempted suicide over it — not uncommon. According to the International Gingerkids Foundation, 10 percent of red-headed kids commit suicide by the age of 16.’
‘Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl’s mother, is not his daughter. [..]
He now has DNA results that show the 15-year-old girl wasn’t fathered by him. He even has an affidavit from the girl’s mother — a former girlfriend from 1990 — saying he’s “not the father” and asking that Rodriguez no longer be required to pay child support.
Yet the state of Florida is continuing to push him to pay $305 a month to support the girl, as well as the more than $10,000 already owed. He spent a night in jail because of his delinquent payments. [..]
Rodriguez and his family continue to wait for answers.
“It’s hard when your daughter needs sneakers and you have to pay $305 or your husband goes to jail,” said Rodriguez’s wife, Michele. “It’s just unfair.”‘
‘His power and influence is legendary in his native Melbourne but Eddie McGuire has found out that his name will not open the same doors in Sydney.
The former Nine Network chief executive got a rude awakening when he tried to jump the queue at a motor registry last week. [..]
McGuire’s final tactic was to turn up in person at 4.50pm – 10 minutes before the registry was due to close – go straight to the counter and demand to be served.
But that did not work either, prompting the furious multi-millionaire to demand to see a manager.
After a heated argument with RTA management, McGuire, 42, was told his only option was to take a numbered ticket and wait like everyone else.’
A long jumper is stretching on the side of a field whilst another athlete throws his javelin. I don’t think he threw the javelin where he wanted to.
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