`Drivers swerved cars and trucks into other lanes to avoid a 3-year-old boy, wearing only a diaper and T-shirt, who was playing along a busy highway after wandering away from home while his mother slept, police said.
Some motorists stopped along Interstate 465 on the city’s west side Saturday to take care of the boy until officers arrived, the Indiana State Police said.
“I looked up and I seen this little … boy running down the middle of the slow lane in the interstate. I just could not believe what I was seeing,” said Troy Crady, one of those who stopped to help. [..]
Senior State Trooper Cedric Merritt said that when Dyer was told of her son’s activities, she responded: “Oh, he got out again.”‘
`An emu has been stolen from an animal centre by burglars who then hid it in a wheelie bin to make their getaway.
Volunteers at Lords House Farm in the Rishton area of Blackburn, Lancashire, said they fear the emu will have died.
Burglars took the bird from the farm, which offers riding and animal therapy, then hid it in a bin stolen from a neighbouring property.
Lancashire police said the bin was pushed for almost a mile, before being abandoned and the emu taken.’
Whether you spell is Sadam or Saddam, he’s still dead. [shrug] :)
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`A man was caught with a quarter million dollars’ worth of marijuana Thursday evening after he was caught allegedly smoking a joint when police pulled him over on a traffic stop.
Police saw a man run a stop sign in at Kenneth Avenue and George Street on the city’s Northwest Side around 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police said the man, Jeffrey Populorum, 46, was smoking a joint when they pulled his car over.
When officers looked some more, they found 92 pounds of marijuana in the car, amounting to $250,000 worth.
Populorum was charged with felony possession of cannabis.’
`A berserk Bronx woman who received a samurai sword as a Christmas gift used the blade to attack her mother yesterday during a fight over cigarettes, police and relatives said.
Erica Torres, 22, repeatedly cut her mother, Sylvia Pantoja, with the sword at about 8 a.m. after the mom attempted to stop Torres and her sister from arguing over a pack of smokes, police and relatives said.
“She just went lunatic on everybody,” said Torres’ 14-year-old sister, Jasmin Cabrera. “She was up until 2 saying she was going to kill everybody. Then she took the sword and went wild.”‘
If you give a sword as a present to a lunatic then I s’pose you reap what you sow. [shrug] :)
`In a ground-breaking case, a 24-year-old Norwegian woman has been sentenced to nine months in prison and fine after being convicted of forcing sex on a sleeping man. [..]
The incident took place on Jan. 4, 2004, at an apartment in Bergen, Norway. According to court documents, the man said he found the woman performing oral sex on him as he was sleeping on the couch.
The woman however said that she did indeed perform fellatio on the man but claimed he was awake and approved of what she was doing.
However the man disagrees and says that the incident scared him and subsequently caused mental anguish and psychological difficulties.’
`A woman who falsely accused two men of rape while retaining her anonymity has been ordered to pay them nearly £700,000 in compensation, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 48-year-old married mother of two is facing bankruptcy after a judge branded her a cold-blooded liar who ruined lives with a string of fabricated allegations.
In a landmark High Court ruling, the woman, who still cannot be named, was ordered to pay £615,711 damages to Raman Kumar, and a further £58,000 to Baldev Singh for “falsely and maliciously” accusing them of rape.
`A woman attacked a man in his genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said Friday. Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the 38-year-old man’s girlfriend, police said.
All three were heavily intoxicated, police Chief Frank Powers said.
Dawson is accused of grabbing the man’s genitals. Police said a weapon was not used. He declined to elaborate.
“I believe he needed more than 50 stitches to repair the damage, but he is back home at this point,” police Cpl. Brad Stevens said. “All we can tell you is that the injury was done with her hands.”‘
`Principal Jill Bullo assured parents in a letter last week that salad dressing contaminated by a Wheaton North High School student poses no health hazards.
“We are pleased to report that no follow-up medical attention is needed for any student who ingested Ranch salad dressing,” Bullo said in the letter mailed to parents Dec. 22.’
Followup to: Student Accused Of Putting Bodily Fluids In Food
`Robert Hale, a Bible-toting father of 15 who calls himself Papa Pilgrim, became an anti-government celebrity in Alaska by driving a bulldozer across a national park that encircles his land.
The Lord told him that using the bulldozer to clear 14 miles of derelict road through the park was a loving thing to do, Hale said in an interview three years ago.
In 2003, Robert Hale, also known as Papa Pilgrim, invited reporters to his Alaska ranch to discuss his battle with the U.S. government over access to his land inside a national park.
“In order for me to love my children, I have to be a provider,” Hale said then, explaining that he needed the bulldozer to fetch supplies for his children, whom he and his wife were home-schooling in an ultra-strict Christian way.
He said his children read only the Bible, always bathed with their clothes on and were not allowed to see one another naked.’
`A 31-year-old man in Titusville, Fla., was caught on tape being dragged at speeds of 45 mph by a vehicle he allegedly intended to steal, according to Local 6 News. [..]
Investigators said Davis forced his way into an apartment on Wednesday, pulled a knife on a woman and repeatedly hit her.
Davis then stole the woman’s vehicle but blew out the vehicle’s tires after being spotted by officers, police said.
Detectives said Davis then jumped out of the damaged vehicle and tried to carjack another vehicle. But, since the doors to the second car were locked, Davis grabbed and held on to the vehicle.
Video showed Davis being dragged by the accelerating vehicle.’
`Two brothers in Peabody say they caught a man who allegedly broke into their mother’s home Christmas Eve by pulling down his pants to slow him down before police arrived. [..]
While John Medeiros struggled with Wallace, George Medeiros was able to call police.
But Wallace kept trying to get away, so George Medeiros said he came to a last resort – he “pantsed” him – including his underwear – all down to his ankles.
“I figured it would slow him down if he got up to run,” he told the paper.’
`Salvador Celaya, a 73-year-old with Alzheimer’s disease, wore black rubber boots, dirty blue jeans and a flannel shirt Friday as he rummaged through the charred remains of the Phoenix home where he and his wife raised six children. [..]
The future for Salvador Celaya and his 69-year-old wife, Carlota, was uncertain two days after police serving a search warrant pried open the front door and launched a diversionary grenade through a bedroom window that started a fire that destroyed the house. [..]
“This is not a botched search warrant,” said Gilbert police spokesman Lt. Joe Ruet. “It’s not the wrong house, and it’s a very serious criminal that we’re after.”’
`A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to four years in a juvenile treatment program after deputies stopped him driving a stolen bus along a public transit route, picking up passengers and collecting fares. [..]
Davis also lost his driving privileges for a year, though he doesn’t have a license. The sentence means he won’t be able to drive for a year after getting a permit or license.
He was already on probation for taking a tour bus and driving passengers around in January, authorities said.’
`It’s Saturday night in Middlesbrough, England, and drunken university students are celebrating the start of the school year, known as Freshers’ Week.
One picks up a traffic cone and runs down the street. Suddenly, a disembodied voice booms out from above:
“You in the black jacket! Yes, you! Put it back!” The confused student obeys as his friends look bewildered.
“People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,” said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the incident. The city has placed speakers in its cameras, allowing operators to chastise miscreants who drop coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight outside bars.’
`An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days.
Human rights groups condemned his trial as seriously flawed and called on the government not to carry out the sentence, which comes amid raging violence between Saddam’s fellow Sunni Arabs and majority Shi’ites.
The White House called the court’s decision a “milestone” in replacing tyranny with rule of law.’
`A container packed with radioactive material has been stolen from a fortified research facility in eastern India, prompting a major hunt and fears of contamination, officials said.
“It carries uranium and radiation and could have an adverse effect in an area of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mile),” Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Khoda warned.
Khoda said the uranium was stolen nearly three weeks ago after being moved to a research site at the densely-populated town of Rajrappa from a federal atomic facility near Mumbai.’
`A hungry 10-year-old girl from India’s lowest Hindu caste had all the fingers of her right hand chopped off by an upper-caste landowner for taking a few spinach leaves from his field, the Hindustan Times reported today.
The attack took place in a village in Bhagalpur district last week in impoverished Bihar state in the east where caste prejudice against Dalits – formerly called “untouchables” – is widespread and sometimes results in violence against them.
Police in Bhagalpur, in eastern Bihar, said they would soon arrest the upper-caste landowner who used a sickle to wound the girl whose name was given as Khushboo.
“We will get results. This is terrible,” said police superintendent J. S. Gangwar, quoted by the newspaper.’
`BRITISH forces have killed seven gunmen and blown up the headquarters of the police serious crimes unit in southern Basra in a raid to rescue prisoners who were about to be killed, the British military said.
Calling the police station a centre of “criminal enterprise” and a symbol of oppression for the city’s residents, the military said the building was demolished with explosives after a pre-dawn assault by around 1000 troops backed by tanks. [..]
British military spokesman Captain Tane Dunlop said the unit had been taking the law into its own hands.
“Crimes unit? That’s pretty much what it does, rather than prevent,” he said.’
`Someone slipped a little something extra into a batch of cookies brought for a holiday party.
Earlier in the week, 15 workers at the Weyerhaeuser plant in Stayton were hospitalized after complaining of dizziness and light headedness.
Investigators determined that the illness was caused by employees eating homemade cookies they believe were intentionally baked with a foreign substance. They suspect the substance to be marijuana.
The Stayton police are offering a $500 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the case.’
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`Police said the robber entered the bank and shot 25-year-old James R. Garrison in the chest, fatally wounding him. [..]
The robber then approached another teller and said, “Give me all of it,” and the teller gave him an undisclosed amount of money, according to police. The robber said, “Merry Christmas,” and fled.
Garrison was pronounced dead at a hospital.’
`David Lillie, 29, was arrested Sunday and booked for investigation of kidnapping and aggravated assault, said police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill.
Police were responding to a 911 call that a woman could be heard yelling and screaming in the back of a box truck parked in a church parking lot when they stopped the truck as it was pulling away, Hill said.
The man told police there was a woman in the back of the truck. Officers found her unconscious with numerous staple wounds on her face and scalp and a staple gun next to her, Hill said.’
‘The communications director for Montana’s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire — with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA — during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.’
The emails are hilarious.
`A woman jailed after four of her infant daughter’s toes were gnawed off says the family’s pet ferret did it, not their pit bull pup as police had said.
But her husband blames the dog, a city official said.’
`Child molester Jessy Gene Moore must have been astonished when jail deputies told him he was free to go Wednesday, the day after a judge had sentenced him to 41/2 years in prison.
For at least an hour, Moore played it cool as he worked his way through the release process — riding an inmate bus from Inverness Jail to the Justice Center downtown, signing release papers, changing into his street clothes and eventually walking out the front doors of the center and into the night.
Moore, 21, was living every inmates’ dream.
And technically, Moore did nothing illegal by failing to utter a peep, officials say.’
`A 14-year-old boy who was shot six times as he walked home remained in an area hospital in critical but stable condition on Thursday. His mother said the motive for her son’s shooting was robbery. [..]
“My son was laying in that ditch about to die last night, and you have no heart,” Deal said, sending a message to whomever shot her son.
Deal said she broke her arm trying to get to her son after he was shot. She said she held him tightly, making sure he did not die.’
`Police say a drunken P-plate driver has been caught towing a friend in a bathtub through the streets of Griffith in the NSW Riverina.
The 18-year-old returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.145 when stopped just after 8pm yesterday with the bathtub attached to his utility by a rope, police say.
His friend, aged 30, was sitting in the porcelain bathtub dressed in overalls, a helmet and motorcycle boots.’
`Police are looking for two teenagers who broke into a woman’s home, stole Christmas presents meant for her family and then cut her with a knife when she caught them in the act. [..]
When she returned home, she found two teenagers ransacking her home. The two white male teens had filled a large, plastic garbage bag with Christmas gifts intended for her family, police said.
When she confronted them, they attacked her with a pocketknife, police said.’
