Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Multitasking: that’s the way he rolls
Police in Lockport, New York say a tow truck driver hit a car and sideswiped a house before landing in a pool, after texting on one phone while talking on another.
Sheriff’s deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
“We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization”
Horizon Group Management LLC filed a libel lawsuit Monday against former tenant Amanda Bonnen, for $50,000 in damages for writing a Twitter post about her apartment at 4242 N. Sheridan, Chicago and the company managing it “maliciously and wrongfully”.
Bonnen, who apparently was unhappy with Horizon [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A man in a gorilla suit tried to rob an Asian restaurant in Conway, SC, and left with an unexpected gift of a meat cleaver, lodged in the right arm his gorilla suit, according to a police report.
An employee of Jimmy’s Japanese Hibachi was taking the garbage out to the dumpster outside the restaurant, when [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
We only hurt the ones we love
A man in Kalamazoo, Michigan was rushing to the aid of his son, according to police, and accidentally ran his car into a group of people, including his son.
The son had called to say he was about to be assaulted, reportedly.
Police say the motorist’s car slid on wet pavement [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Should have called it a night
Police in Swansea, Wales say two burglars who had stolen over $1100 worth of liquor had stocked the stolen stash of drink outside the premises when they decided to celebrate by going back inside for a drink.
Keith Cullen and Paul Wiggins were allegedly found by police asleep inside after having [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Is that a gun in your bikini, or are you just happy to see me?
Police say a 24 year-old woman in Mississippi who was dressed in a bikini is being charged with attempted robbery as well as carjacking a woman shortly before that.
The bikini-clad woman allegedly demanded another woman surrender her car to her in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Can’t we all just get along?
A Houston man tried to rob a Subway sandwich shop Monday night, according to police.
When the cashier, Yava Matthews, opened the drawer, 29 year-old Tracy Armstead lunged for the cash drawer and snatched it.
But the Subway employee was not about to just Armstead leave with the cash without a [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Stupidity knows no boundaries
In a bizarre and twisted turn of events, a man in Australia was electrocuted during what appears to have been an attempt to steal copper wiring from a west Melbourne power substation.
The story is somewhat reminicent of a similar story here in the states where an Ohio man apparently died doing the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
HER job too sleazy to let HIM stay in something as pure and proper as government
The manager of the town of Fort Myers Beach, Florida was fired after city officials learned of his wife’s profession as an adult film actress.
Mayor Larry Kiker called an emergency meeting town council meeting in which the group voted 5-0 [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Are you kidding me?
The lives of society’s most beloved creatures were made safer when a man who made threats to an auto warranty telemarketer was arrested for his heinous acts.
Charles W. Papenfus, 43, of Fostoria, Ohio, allegedly told a sales representative during a May 18 telephone call that he would burn down the building [...]