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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:36 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Mesa, Ariz., police arrested Sebastian Mancilla, 41, in November after a security camera at Mervyn's department store caught him being not too subtle in looking up the skirt of a female shopper. According to an Arizona Republic reporter, citing a police source: "At one time Mancilla approached the woman from behind and laid down on the floor to look up her skirt. He then got back to his feet and continued to act as if he was shopping." Mancilla allegedly tried again with the same woman, dropping to his knees, but to no avail, as the woman walked away. [Arizona Republic, 11-12-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:37 PM |
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A man in a werewolf mask tried to rob a Subway sandwich shop in Pittsburgh in October, but came away empty as the two employees on duty refused to give up money even though he implied that he had a gun (covered with a paper bag). The employees said the man argued a bit and then in frustration removed his mask and fled, saying, "I can't believe you won't listen to a man with a mask and a gun." [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10-31-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:38 PM |
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Gregory Holley was arrested in Largo, Fla., in November and charged with robbing three stores and a bank. He was picked up the day after the bank robbery, carrying cash from the bank and wearing the same clothes that the robber wore, with stains from the bank's chemical dye pack. [WFLA Radio (Tampa), 11-16-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:39 PM |
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A court in Preston, England, convicted Akinwale Arobieke, 46, of violating an earlier court order by doing the same prohibited behavior: He accosted a man in public at a mall and fondled his bicep. [Lancashire Evening Post, 11-14-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:15 AM |
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The Portland Young Offenders' Institute in Dorset recently began holding classes, for up to 30 inmates, in pole-vaulting (but reassured critics that even the most athletic inmates would only get about 13 feet high, whereas the prison walls are 20 feet tall, topped by razor wire). [Sunday Express (London), 11-3-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:21 AM |
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The Army Corps of Engineers announced with great fanfare in June that its repairs and upgrades of levees in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina, would allow the system to hold back a future storm's flood waters even if the level rose more than 5 feet beyond the Katrina level. However, in November, the corps announced that because of a mistake in calculation (an engineer had used a "minus" sign when a "plus" sign was called for), the expensive levee repairs would actually protect against flooding only 6 inches above the Katrina level. (However, two days after it corrected its measurement, the corps corrected its correction and now says it stands by the original calculation of more than 5 feet. [Times-Picayune, 11-17-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:37 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Least Competent Florida Police:
(1) Sheriff's deputies arrested Cynthia Hunter, 38, in Brandon, Fla., in October, and she remained in jail for 50 days until a lab finally concluded that the "methamphetamine" in her purse was really dried cat urine that she had legally purchased for her son's science project. [Tampa Tribune, 10-8-07]
(2) Deputies arrested Andrew Johnson, a white man, in Ocoee, Fla., in November, believing he was Anthony Johnson, a black man wanted on a felony drug charge. Andrew Johnson was allowed to post bond while the case was under investigation, but his driver's license was confiscated, and his mother had to drive him to and from work. [WFTV (Orlando), 11-17- 07]
(3) A dozen deputies, lights flashing and sirens blaring, driving in circles for 15 miles as they chase a suspect in a stolen sports car at speeds reaching 117 mph.
One sheriff's cruiser skids out on a patch of sand, colliding with an oncoming vehicle. Another blows a tire and pulls out of the chase. Two deputies, blinded by the dust kicked up by the stolen car on a lime rock road, crash cruisers through a T-stop intersection. One drives through a fence, the other hits a dirt berm and goes airborne.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/1401236691.html?dids=1401236691:1401236691&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+19%2C+2007&author=JOHN+FRANK&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=1&desc=13+DEPUTIES+DISCIPLINED+FOR+CAR+CHASE
[Edited on 12/23/2007 10:40 AM]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:39 AM |
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When three men stole drugs from a dealer in Edwardsville, Ill., the dealer and a partner allegedly snatched one of the men and roughed him up, seeking payment for the drugs. In November, police arrested the alleged dealers after the roughed-up victim reported that he had been held down, paddled, had some hair shaved off, and then deliberately burned on the neck and shoulders by having freshly baked cookies taken straight from an oven and held against his skin. [Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, 11-6-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:42 AM |
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In recent incidents, two Wal-Mart customers were arrested for shoplifting after yielding to temptation while walking the aisles of stores in Mukwonago, Wis., and Okaloosa County, Fla.
The Wisconsin man (reportedly sober for 16 months) impulsively downed seven 12-ounce bottles of Jack Daniel's Lynchburg Lemonade that he saw on a shelf. [WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee)-AP, 10-25-07]
Florida's Christopher White said "the temptation was too great" when he spotted the White Rain hair spray, and that he removed the nozzles of two containers and drank the contents (and returned the empty containers to the shelf). [Northwest Florida Daily News, 11-13-07]
[Edited on 12/23/2007 10:55 AM]
[Edited on 12/23/2007 10:55 AM]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:43 AM |
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In January, Jerome Felske was fired as a truck driver for the city of Chicago when investigators learned that he had 22 criminal convictions on his record. Felske appealed, and in September, the city's Human Resources Board reinstated him, noting that Felske had actually disclosed six of them on his original application and, as to the others, the board said, the city had not proved Felske "intentionally" hid them. Felske, his lawyer had argued, had simply forgotten about the other 16 (all of which occurred before 1991): "I challenge anyone ... to recall their grocery list from ... two weeks ago." [Chicago Sun-Times, 11-15-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:47 AM |
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Australian Wayne Scullino, 30, quit his telecom job in Sydney in early 2007, and, after convincing his wife, they sold their house and moved to Wisconsin for the sole purpose of rooting for the Green Bay Packers, about which he had enjoyed an almost inexplicable fascination since age 15. Said Scullino, "At some point, you've got to stop living the life you've fallen into, and start living the life you want to," and he feared waiting even one more year, since quarterback Brett Favre might retire after this season. He told the Associated Press in October that the family would probably move back to Australia after the Super Bowl and start all over with a new house and new job. [Star Tribune (Minneapolis)-AP, 10-29-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:48 AM |
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Alexander Smith, 46, was arrested in Wake Forest, N.C., in November after a serial dumping spree alongside rural roads, starting about a block from his own home. He had allegedly pushed off his truck, at different stops, a washing machine, then a dryer, then two stoves and finally a freezer. He was charged with felony littering. [News and Observer (Raleigh), 11-7-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:50 AM |
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Not Ready for Prime Time:
(1) Francis Rocca, 24, was arrested in Pittsfield, Mass., and charged with robbing a gas station in November after being identified by his victim, who pointed out that Rocca's distinctly pimpled face was easily visible underneath the clear plastic bag he wore as a "disguise." [Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield), 11-29-07]
(2) Michael Chatman, 35, and two others were arrested in Augusta, Ga., in November after Chatman, in a Target store, tried to return the laser printer the three had allegedly used for counterfeiting. However, they had accidentally left in the machine not only copies of the counterfeit bills but also the original $20 bill they had used as a model. Said a deputy, "People get wrapped up in the crime, and they forget things." [Savannah Morning News, 11-30-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:12 PM |
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MamMan
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Lady Frenzy.....
Where do you find ALL of this weirdness, if I may ask????
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| Dec 24, 2007 @ 9:43 PM |
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wouldn't you like to know? - heehee (go check your email) 
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 8:52 AM |
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Darren Mack, 46, pleading guilty in Las Vegas in November to murdering his wife, and also accepting a judgment for attempting to kill the judge handling his divorce (after first insisting on his innocence): "I do understand ... in my (current) state of mind that shooting at the judiciary is not a proper form of political redress." [Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11-5-07]
Gee....ya think?
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 8:53 AM |
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A few days after professional skier Stoil Popow was killed while kite-surfing in the rough winter waters off of Connecticut's Long Island Sound in 2004, his widow told the Connecticut Post that she had "begged" her husband not to go out "because it's January." Nonetheless, in November 2007, she filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court, charging that her husband's tragic demise was actually caused by the town of Stratford, Conn., which was negligent in not posting warning signs along the stretch of beach used by Popow (of "hazardous and unsafe conditions") and for not having lifeguards on duty. [Connecticut Post, 12-7-07]
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 9:01 AM |
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A 21-year-old man was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in the early morning hours of Nov. 3, in Suffolk County, N.Y., as he was walking away from his disabled SUV. Police said that the victim was probably the same driver who, a few minutes earlier, had himself rear-ended a sedan and driven off without stopping.
Karma!
And the day before, in Jacksonville, Fla., a 19-year-old man was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver when he climbed over a barricade after being hit by another hit-and-run driver. [Newsday, 11-3-07] [WKMG-TV (Orlando)-AP, 11-3-07]
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 9:03 AM |
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Many of today's environment-friendly new buildings are apparently terrible for birds. According to ornithologist Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College, between 100 million and 1 billion birds are killed each year colliding with glass, with a big culprit being the generous glass construction on buildings meeting the rigorous energy and environmental standards of the U.S. Green Building Council. [Atlanta Journal Constitution, 11-23-07]
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 9:07 AM |
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Failed to Master the Art of the Getaway:
(1) Robert Hickey Jr., running from a Hamilton County (Tenn.) sheriff's deputy in October, dashed into nearby woods, fell into a well and had to be rescued. [Chattanoogan, 10-30-07]
(2) Rudy Aguas, 25, running from a Reno, Nev., police officer in November after a failed carjacking, ducked into a building but got stuck in a freshly poured concrete floor. [KOVR-TV (Sacramento), 11-23-07]
(3) A suspect in car break-ins, running from Miccosukee Indian Reservation police near Miami in November, dove into a retention pond but apparently failed to notice a "Live Alligator" sign, and was killed by "Poncho," a gator well-known to locals. [WPLG-TV (Miami), 11-13-07]
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