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Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before Arrest?

Sacramento, Ca -- A state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, early Wednesday morning, sources tell CBS station KOVR-TV in Sacramento. The California Highway Patrol pulled over Sen. Roy Ashburn at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday after an officer noticed a black Chevy Tahoe swerving at 13th and L Streets. When the officer stopped the state-issued vehicle, the driver identified himself as Senator Ashburn. He was arrested without incident and charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level higher than .08% or higher.

A male passenger, who was not identified as a lawmaker, was also in the car but was not detained. Ashburn was booked into the Sacramento County Jail and released on $1,400 bond. Ashburn, a father of four, is a Republican Senator representing parts of Kern, Tulare and San Bernardino Counties with a history of opposing gay rights. Ashburn issued a statement on the arrest Wednesday afternoon:

"I am deeply sorry for my actions and offer no excuse for my poor judgment. I accept complete responsibility for my conduct and am prepared to accept the consequences for what I did. I am also truly sorry for the impact this incident will have on those who support and trust me – my family, my constituents, my friends, and my colleagues in the Senate."

Ashburn served six years as a state Assemblyman before being elected to the State Senate.

What didn't this lady understand about the word: BEAR!!

MANITOWOC, Wis. - Police say a bear bit off a woman's fingers at a Wisconsin zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal. The Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc closed after the incident Friday morning. Police say the 47-year-old woman lost a thumb and a forefinger, and two other fingers were partially severed. The woman's boyfriend was bitten as he tried to pry the bear's mouth off her hand, but he didn't lose any fingers. Her 3-year-old granddaughter wasn't injured. A mayor's office statement says alcohol played a factor. It's unclear which of two Asiatic black bears bit the women when she put her hand through their enclosure's fence. Police tell the Herald Times Reporter the bears likely won't be euthanized. Manitowoc is about 80 miles north of Milwaukee.

Pastor accused of pulling gun on son at church

The son of a well-known Alcoa pastor has taken out an order of protection against his father, claiming he was threatened with a gun during an argument at a church over his lack of church attendance. The order of protection was filed by 32-year-old Michael Louis Colquitt against 60-year-old Joe Colquitt, pastor of St. John Missionary Baptist Church.

Kid stabs dad for criticizing his PlayStation soccer tactics

The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009.

Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old storekeeper offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son's behavior.

Fetching a knife from the kitchen, Mario stabbed his father in the neck before returning to clean the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother and leaving it to dry on the draining-board. Forty-six year-old housewife Monica B,. told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera that she had no idea what had happened until her husband stumbled into the room, clutching his throat.

Cops: Pair allegedly use jury box to smuggle drugs

PUEBLO, Colo. – It was a dumb way to try to sneak drugs into prison. Pueblo County authorities said a 22-year-old woman worked out a plan with her boyfriend to get narcotics into jail Wednesday through a courtroom exchange at her own sentencing hearing. Officials learned of the plot because the woman in jail, Felisha Trujillo, and her boyfriend talked about the plot on a monitored phone line.

Phil Martinez, 26, allegedly dropped a bag of narcotics in the jury box before Trujillo's hearing, when the courtroom was empty. The alleged drug drop happened minutes after elementary school students had finished a mock trial in the same courtroom.

Detectives were watching, and Martinez was arrested. Both Martinez and Trujillo face drug and contraband charges.

Priest accused of shoplifting butter, sofa cover

A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Walmart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He's charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the store's bedding section, picked up a memory foam mattress and switched the pricing bar code. That caused the $145 item to be scanned for $31.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to everyone from the show. We hope you have a prosperous and healthy new year.

Driver’s blood alcohol was .708

RAPID CITY, S.D. - South Dakota authorities say a woman found passed out in a stolen delivery van earlier this month registered a blood alcohol content of .708 — nearly nine times the legal limit and a possible record for the state. Meade County State's Attorney Jesse Sondreal said Wednesday that 45-year-old Marguerite Engle was found slumped over the van's steering wheel along a highway on Dec. 1.

He says the highest blood alcohol content state chemists he spoke with could recall was a .56. The state's legal limit is .08.

Authorities say Engle missed an initial court hearing Dec. 15, but that they found her Monday in another stolen vehicle, and that she had been drinking. She was being held on two counts of driving under the influence. It wasn't immediately clear if she was facing other charges. Her attorney declined comment.

Beer-buzzed boy, 4, wanted to visit jailed dad

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Tennessee investigators say a 4-year-old boy was found roaming his neighborhood in the night, drinking beer and wearing a little girl's dress taken from under a neighbor's Christmas tree.

The child's mother, 21-year-old April Wright, told WTVC-TV that the boy "wants to go to jail because that's where his daddy is."

Wright said she and the boy's father are going though a divorce.

The boy, found outside his house in Chattanooga on Tuesday, was taken to a hospital and treated for alcohol consumption. Hamilton County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Janice Atkinson said the incident is being investigated but the department declined to release the report. The boy's mother said she met with child protective services and was told she will get to keep custody of her son.

Jesus vs Santa: The Showdown

A California neighborhood reportedly is up in arms after a resident decorated his lawn with a depiction of Jesus shooting Santa Claus. The controversial Christmas display shows Jesus pointing a double-barrel shotgun at Santa's dead body as Rudolph lays sprawled across the hood of a pickup truck nearby, WNCT reported. Neighbors in Nipomo, Calif., called for the display to be removed, but its maker Ron Lake called it a work of art - in which Santa represents the commercialization of Christmas, the station reported. "It's an expression of my repressed creativity," Lake told WNCT. Police said that because Lake built the display on private property they cannot force him to take it down. Some residents plan to start a petition, the station reported.

Teacher on leave for taking choir to Hooters

PHOENIX - An Arizona music teacher whose students performed at a presidential inauguration event is on administrative leave after taking 40 high school students to a Hooters restaurant.

Paradise Valley school district spokeswoman Judi Willis says choir director Mary Segall accompanied the students to a performance in downtown Phoenix last week, and during the outing, they ate lunch at Hooters. Willis says Segall explained that the restaurant, known for its waitresses' somewhat revealing attire, was the only place that could accommodate a group of that size. But district officials believe there were other options for lunch in the area. Segall could not be reached for comment.

The teacher plans on retiring in January, and Willis says she does not know if she'll return before then.

Credit card's newest trick: 79.9 percent interest

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's no mistake. This credit card's interest rate is 79.9 percent.

The bloated APR is how First Premier Bank, a subprime credit card issuer, is skirting new regulations intended to curb abusive practices in the industry. It's a strategy other subprime card issuers could start adopting to get around the new rules. Typically, the First Premier card comes with a minimum of $256 in fees in the first year for a credit line of $250. Starting in February, however, a new law will cap such fees at 25 percent of a card's credit line. In a recent mailing for a preapproved card, First Premier lowers fees to just that limit -- $75 in the first year for a credit line of $300. But the new law doesn't set a cap on interest rates. Hence the 79.9 APR, up from the previous 9.9 percent.

"It's the highest on the market. It's the highest we've ever seen," said Anuj Shahani, an analyst with Synovate, a research firm that tracks credit card mailings.

The terms are eyebrow raising, but First Premier targets people with bad credit who likely can't get approved for cards elsewhere. It's a group that tends to lean heavily on credit too, meaning they'll likely incur the steep financing charges.

So for a $300 balance, a cardholder would pay about $20 a month in interest.

First Premier said the 79.9 APR offer is a test and that it's too early to tell whether it will be continued, according to an e-mailed statement. To comply with the new law, the bank said it will no longer offer the card that has $256 in first-year fees as of Feb. 21, 2010. However, customers will still be able to use their existing cards. The bank said "no final decisions" have been made regarding any rate changes for those cards. First Premier noted that it needed to "price our product based on the risk associated with this market."

The bank declined to specify how many people were offered the 79.9 APR card.

Police: Burglar tried to use BUS to get away

Austin police officers Monday arrested a man who was trying to get on a Capital Metro bus with a shotgun and other items he allegedly took in a burglary minutes earlier. Erick James Robinson, 26, is being held today in the Travis County Jail on charges of burglary of a habitation and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, both felonies, according to an affidavit filed today. A security officer at the Littlefield Quarters Apartments, 119 E. Sixth St., called 911 at 7:51 p.m. Monday, reporting that a man was fleeing an apartment with the tenant in pursuit after a burglary, the affidavit said. The tenant later told police he had been awakened and saw a man in a red flannel coat and ski hat taking items from his room, the affidavit said. Two officers spotted the suspect at 7:53 p.m. attempting to board a bus at Seventh Street and Congress Avenue. The suspect was carrying a double barrel shotgun sheathed in a soft gun case. The arresting officers found a watch, a smart phone, a camera and other items that, along with the shotgun, had been taken in the burglary.

Ding Dong Showdown

A 40-year-old Austin man responded to a child's prank by drawing down on pre-teenage boys with a semi-automatic rifle, according to arrest affidavits filed in Williamson County. Richard Yax was taken to the Williamson County Jail and charged with aggravated assault and possession of a prohibited weapon, both felonies. He made bail, which was set at $30,000. Austin police responded to a disturbance call placed by the family of one of the boys at 8:40 p.m. Friday in a neighborhood on the east side of the Avery Ranch Golf Club, the affidavits said.

Three boys, the oldest of them 12, told police they had been ringing the doorbells of neighbors and running away. The boy who rang the doorbell at Yax' home in the 16400 block of Broadbay Drive told police that he heard what sounded like a rifle being bolted, just on the other side of the front door, the affidavit said. A man, later identified as Yax and carrying what appeared to the boys to be a semi-automatic rifle, stepped onto the porch, the affidavit said. Yax looked around, walked back into the house and closed the door behind him, the boys told police. As the boys ran from their hiding places, one of them noticed a woman step outside and point to them as they were running, the affidavit said. Yax came out of the house again with the rifle, running after the boys until catching up with them in the Broadbay Cove cul-de-sac. Yax told the boys they had five minutes to return to his house with an apology for waking his family, they told police. Yax drew the muzzle of the gun to five or six inches from the head of one of the boys and said "I'll put a ---- hole in your head," according to the affidavit. The boy said he could see that the rifle had no magazine in its well, but did not know if there was a bullet in the chamber, the affidavit said. Yax then walked away, and the boys ran to tell a parent who was hosting a sleepover. The parent called police.

Officers arriving at Yax's front door found a handwritten sign taped to it warning not to ring the doorbell again and to go home. Yax told police that he had caught up with boys who had rung his doorbell six or eight times and demanded they apologize to his family. Yax did not mention a weapon, the affidavit said. When pressed, Yax said he said he had been carrying an airsoft gun, the affidavit said. Questioned further, he allowed the officers into the house. They found an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in the study and a magazine fully loaded with armor piercing shells on a table next to the front door, the affidavit said. Yax told police that he had grabbed the rifle because he feared for his safety. Officers asked why, if that was so, he chose not to put in the magazine, the affidavit said. Yax had no response, the affidavit said.

Yax denied pointing the rifle at anyone's head and threatening to shoot, the affidavit said.

Wis. man gets 1 year in jail for urinating on officer

A Waldo man accused of urinating on a police officer during his fifth drunken-driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records released today show 36-year-old Daniel L. Shilts Jr. of Waldo was also fined about $3,600 and had his driver's license revoked for three years. The Sheboygan Press says according to the criminal complaint, Shilts was pulled over in November 2008 in Plymouth after an officer saw his vehicle hit a pole at a gas station. The complaint says Shilts failed field-sobriety tests. It says as he was taken to the police station, he urinated in the back of the squad car, spraying the back of the officer's head. Defense attorney Chris Eippert says he thinks the sentence was appropriate to help Shilts deal with his acknowledged alcoholism.

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Holy cow! Divine bovine has cross on his head

The month: December. The place: A humble farm. The setting: Just perfect for an auspicious event.

On a cold, dark night in the wee hours of the morning, a baby calf was born. His nurturing mother, Fuzzy, welcomed him into the world by licking and licking his head — an act that obscured a special detail about the little guy that would soon generate headlines all over the planet. “When we first saw the calf ... the mother had licked the hair and it was all sideways and we thought it was a regular calf,” recalled Connecticut dairy farmer Brad Davis. “Then a little later on in the morning we went in and there it was, standing right out. It was really quite a sight.”

“It” was none other than the distinctive markings of a white cross on the newborn calf’s forehead. The image had quite an effect on Davis, Davis’ relatives and friends and families all around the dairy farm.

“The first night that he was here, when we shut the lights out that night late at night, the only thing you could see in here was that cross showing in the dark,” Davis told the local Norwich Bulletin newspaper. “It was really quite a feeling. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, actually.”

Pair busted for selling moonshine at day care

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Authorities charged a North Carolina woman with selling moonshine out of her day care center.

The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement arrested a 57-year-old woman last week at Parkview Community Center in Charlotte.

Agents said children were in the day care center when they sent in an undercover agent to buy two gallons of moonshine

25 pounds of pot in fruit crate at Texas prison

EDINBURG, Texas — A police department's gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana. The illegal harvest that was missed in an earlier search was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate. Edinburg police Chief Quirino Munoz says the fruit originally came from a produce truck that also had about 1,000 pounds of pot that was confiscated. Loads of legitimate produce that are found to have yielded drugs are often barred from being sent on to the intended location.
Munoz says the Segovia Unit near Edinburg accepts such food donations, which are inspected by police before being sent to the prison. Munoz says this time the additional marijuana apparently was missed by officers and drug-sniffing dogs. Prison spokesman Jason Clark says inmates who reported finding the drug on Friday were strip searched to make sure nobody kept any of the marijuana.

Ice-Skating Bear Kills Trainer

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Oct. 22) -- An ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another, the director of a circus arena said Thursday. Kurmangazy Isanayev said workers dragged the trainers with a visiting Russian troupe away from the bear following Wednesday's attack, which occurred as they were rehearsing for a show in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The exits were then closed and rescue services called in. Police said they shot the bear dead. The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported that the 5-year-old bear was wearing ice skates when it lashed out at its handlers before a scheduled performance of "Bears on Ice" by the Russian state circus. The animal dragged trainer Dmitry Potapov, 25, across the rink by his neck, killing him, the Telegraph and BBC News reported. A 29-year-old worker who tried to help Potapov was seriously mauled, the BBC said. Performing bears on ice are common attractions at Russian circuses. Some are equipped with helmets and sticks and trained to play hockey.

I Hope This Guy is NOT Related to Us

Burglary suspects wear permanent marker

CARROLL, Iowa - Police had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into an apartment.

Police were responding to a call about an attempted burglary when they pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects' vehicle. Inside the car, officers found two men with their faces blackened with permanent marker. Police said the caller described two men with painted faces attempting to break into an apartment Friday night before driving off. Matthew McNelly, 23, and Joey Miller, 20, were arrested at gunpoint after officers were told they might be armed. Neither man had a weapon. McNelly and Miller were each charged with attempted second-degree burglary. Both men were released after posting bond.

Wal-Mart Now Selling Casket... And Urns, Too

The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die... Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its website at prices that undercut most funeral homes, the major seller of caskets. The move follows a similar one by discount rival Costco, which also sells caskets on its website.
Wal-Mart quietly put up about 15 caskets and dozens of urns on its Web site last week. Prices range from $999 for models like "Dad Remembered" and "Mom Remembered" steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 "Executive Privilege." All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199. Caskets ship within 48 hours. Federal law requires funeral homes to accept third-party caskets. Is There Anything Wal-Mart Doesn't Sell? Click here to get your casket today!

Wanna know where to find the best BBQ?

These guys know everything about BBQ and they can tell you anything you want to know. They have been all over this great state eating the best of the best. Listen to the Podcast to hear the interview with the Man Up Texas BBQ crew. Also, visit their blog to learn more.

Damn... What has happened to Playboy?

Marge Playboy Cover

Last week, Playboy announced that its November issue would feature a Marge Simpson spread; the cartoon mother-of-three also adorns its cover and submits to an interview, available online, along with a slideshow of the Julie Kavner-voiced character with her privates discretely obscured. The artwork, according to the signature, is by Matt Groening himself.

Pet Bear Kills Owner... Who the hell has a pet bear?

A 37-year-old Pennsylvania woman died Sunday after being mauled by her pet black bear, authorities said. Kelly Ann Walz was attacked when she entered the bear's cage to feed the 350-pound animal and clean its cage, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The bear lived in a 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete enclosure on Walz's property in Ross Township. The bear wasn't the only unusual animal living on the property, an official with the State Game Commission told CNN affiliate WFMZ-TV. The homeowner had a permit to keep a Bengal tiger and an African lion, and the property routinely passed inspection and had no violations, he said. A neighbor shot and killed the bear that attacked the owner, state police said.

Neb. Woman Accused of Throwing dog at Officer

LINCOLN — Police said a woman will not face charges for throwing a dog at an officer during a domestic violence investigation. Police Capt. Davidsaver said officers were called to southeast Lincoln for a report of domestic violence late Monday. He said the woman was suspected of throwing a cell phone that hit her boyfriend in the face. Police said the woman was holding a small dog when officers arrived, and at some point, she threw the dog, named Flash, at an officer. Police said neither the dog nor the officer were injured. The woman was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault.

'Pin-up Boys' calendar hits stands

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, the calendar featuring nearly-nude seniors from Atlantic Shores Retirement Community in Virginia Beach had sold more than 2,500 copies. The Calendar was unveiled Tuesday and features the so-called "Pin-up Boys." The "Pin-up Boys," aged 69 to 90 years young, agreed to pose for the senior calendar to raise money for their local rescue squad. "The seniors went above and beyond what a normal person and/or group or community would do for us and this is just...we're flabbergasted," said Richard Otto of the PA Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad. Otto was referring to more than just the somewhat racy pictures. The calendar is generating much needed cash for the rescue squad. "This project has exploded. It's gone beyond our wildest dreams. We didn't think that we would sell the first calendar until they were printed last week and we've already sold over 2,000," Executive Director of Atlantic Shores, Eden Jones, told WAVY.com. Each calendar costs $14.

You can easily purchase one of the calendars at the Atlantic Shores Website or at select area retail stores.

Be careful who you say "Boo!" to

BANDERA, Texas - A Bandera County jailer was shot in the thigh after he jumped out and roared at a deputy in a darkened room at Bandera County Sheriff's Department office. Chief Deputy Don Berger says Deputy A.J. Griffin shot 22-year-old Daniel Spengler before dawn Sunday. Spengler was airlifted to Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio for treatment. Berger says the 36-year-old deputy "revert to his training" when the jailer jumped at him, shooting Spengler once, then giving him first aid. Griffin is on paid leave until the Texas Rangers complete their investigation. Berger says Spengler's wound does not appear to be life-threatening, but he faces possible disciplinary action after he recovers.

Sex with parking meter

A FOOTBALLER has been fined $150 for drunkenly simulating sex with a parking meter in Cairns while shouting ''Yeah baby you know you want it!''.

Rugby league player Adam Michael Kelly, 25, of Smithfield, spent the night in the watch-house after his offensive performance in which police say he was caught on the kerbside making large pelvic thrust actions and yelling obscenities.

Cairns Magistrates' Court heard passers-by were disgusted at what they saw - and one woman was racially abused by boozed-up Kelly, who was out celebrating the end of the footy season.

Lucky the injured turtle gets coasters for feet

Box turtle whose legs were chewed off by raccoon now glides through life

The joke is as old as the hills: “Lost Dog: Three legs, blind in one eye, ear torn. Answers to the name ‘Lucky.’ ”

But for a Petaluma, Calif., box turtle, that name held true and then some after he got his front legs chewed off by a raccoon.

Injured in July, Lucky came within a whisker of being euthanized after his unfortunate run-in with a masked turtle mauler. But thanks to the quick thinking and ingenuity of veterinary surgeon Robert Jereb, the turtle now happily skids his way through life on plastic sliders, stacked two high where his front legs used to be.

Did Yo Finish the Burrito?

The answer to that question is simply "HELL NO". This burrito was absolutely intimidating, it was like seeing Tyjuaneisha with her shirt off. Actually its not that bad, but it was pretty bad.

Woman shoots 2 holes-in-one — in same round

WHITLEY BAY, England - Ruth Day, a 64-year-old retiree from northern England, had the day of her life on the golf course last week.

Day shot two holes-in-one in the same round at Whitley Bay Golf Club, where she is a member.

“A hole in one in itself is usually pretty amazing,” Day said in Friday’s edition of The Journal, a newspaper in northeast England. “But I couldn’t believe it when I did the same thing 10 holes further on.”

Patient dies after catching fire during surgery

ST. LOUIS - A woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms.

Janice McCall, 65, of Energy, Ill., died Sept. 8 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., six days after being burned on the operating table at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill., her family's attorney said.

Attorney Robert Howerton said he had requested medical records from the Marion hospital and that he had few details about what happened. He declined to say why McCall was having surgery.

Surgical flash fires are most often sparked by electric surgical tools when oxygen builds up under surgical drapes. They occur an estimated 550 to 600 times a year — a tiny fraction of the millions of surgeries performed in the U.S. annually — and only kill about one or two people each year, said Mark Bruley, vice president for accident and forensic investigation at the ECRI Institute, a nonprofit health research agency.

Police: Fake officer tries to stop a real one

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police say a man impersonating a police officer tried to pull over a real undercover officer and was arrested.

Police say 21-year-old Antonio Fernandez Martinez of Oakland was arrested Wednesday in the Fruitvale district after trying to pull over an unmarked police vehicle. Martinez was driving a Ford Crown Victoria outfitted with flashing lights, a microphone and speakers.

Martinez, a convicted car thief, will have his felony probation revoked and could face a prison term.

09/09/09 BABY

Baby born at 9:09 on 9/9/09 weighs 9 lbs., 9 oz.
The nines have it. Chuck Berendes said he will never forget the birthday of his third child, born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 2009. Nor will Berendes and his wife, Polly, forget Henry Michael's arrival time - at 9:09 a.m. - or his weight, 9 pounds, 9 ounces.

Man accused of flinging jellyfish on beachgoers

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. - A 41-year-old man faces charges after witness said he pretended to drown and then allegedly began to throw jellyfish at beachgoers. According to a sheriff's office report, Keith Edward Marriott caused "concern for his safety" when he repeatedly submerged himself and floated back to the top of the water and he was also "loud and disruptive." He then started throwing the sea creatures. Marriott was arrested Monday and charged with disorderly intoxication and carrying a concealed weapon. According to the St. Petersburg Times, Marriott was carrying a pocketknife in his shorts. Jail records indicate that Marriott was being held on $250 bond. A message left after-hours at the public defender's office was not immediately returned late Tuesday night.

Pigeon transmits data faster than leading South African internet provider

Here's a sure-fire way to get noticed: take an overly trite expression and apply it literally to your complaint. Case in point: Unlimited IT, so exasperated by South Africa's leading supplier of slow internet connectivity that it pitted a Telkom ADSL line against a real-live homing pigeon in a 60-mile data transmission race. The pigeon arrived with the 4GB memory stick in just over an hour with another hour required to load the data onto the computer. As for Telkom? Well, after 2 hours it had barely reached 4%. Point made.

Missing

Diabetic man's "spare" leg taken out of his car.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Omaha police are looking for a prosthetic leg stolen from a diabetic Texas man's car.

Police said Stewart Szymczak of El Paso, Texas, reported the leg stolen Sunday night.

Police said someone smashed a window of his car as it sat in a hotel parking lot, taking the leg, a bottle of vanilla, tequila and 12 pairs of shorts.

Szymczak said the $31,000, custom-fit prosthetic replaces one of his legs lost to diabetes in 1998. If there is good news to be had, the stolen prosthetic is a "spare" he carries with him as he travels.

The Weekly Florida Report -- Part 1

A WOMAN NAMED CRYSTAL BETH WAS ARRESTED FOR MAKING CRYSTAL METH:

We mean no offense to the good people of Florida, but there are things that happen in your state which just wouldn`t occur in any other part of the world. --For example, take 21-year-old Crystal Beth Williams. She's from DeFuniak Springs, Florida. --On Saturday, Crystal Beth and 52-year-old Jason Clayborn were arrested for operating a drug lab that produces crystal methamphetamine. --Just so we're clear, yes, a woman named CRYSTAL BETH was arrested for making CRYSTAL METH!

A 59-YEAR-OLD WOMAN USED A TASER TO ROB A GAS STATION AND A SUBWAY RESTAURANT:

Let's face it . . . there's nothing all that threatening about a typical 59-year-old woman. That is, unless she's a desperate JUNKIE like Rose Tyrka of Largo, Florida.

--Rose went into a local gas station and asked to buy some scratch-off lotto tickets. But when the clerk reached for the tickets, Rose walked up behind him, shocked him with a TASER, and stole $130 from the register.

--Then Rose went to a nearby Subway restaurant and tried to pull the exact same stunt on the clerk there. Fortunately, the clerk at Subway was able to avoid the Taser, and her manager called 911 to report Rose to the cops. So what exactly was Rose thinking?

--Apparently, Rose is a drug addict, and she was going to use the stolen money to buy prescription painkillers.

--Anyway, Rose was arrested and charged with felony armed robbery and attempted armed robbery. She's being held on $200,000 bond.

Police: Man leaves kids in car, goes to strip club

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Authorities said a man was arrested after being accused of leaving two small children in his vehicle while he was in a Clearwater strip club. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reports that the 33-year-old man left a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in a car late Sunday night. The report said the man was in the club, drinking at the bar, for 30 to 60 minutes. The nature of the relationship between the man and the children was not released. He was arrested on two felony counts of child neglect and is being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $10,000 bail.

This is NUTS!!!

A GUY STOLE A PAINTING FROM A CHURCH . . . SO HE COULD GET AN ABORTION FOR THE TEENAGER HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED:

39-year-old Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez of Omaha, Nebraska, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft. So what exactly did Aurelio do? --In 2006, he sexually assaulted an unidentified 14-year-old girl, and a few months later, the girl realized she was pregnant. --So Aurelio broke into a local church, stole a 300-year-old painting of the Virgin Mary worth $100,000, and fled to Mexico with the girl. --The idea was to sell the painting, and use the money to get the girl an ABORTION.

Let's Make A Deal

Last week, 52-year-old Anthony Myles of Richmond, California, was arrested for driving on a suspended license. But the reason Anthony was pulled over in the first place is much more interesting. Get this . . . --It seems Anthony had been hanging out in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart trying to sell a 37-inch flat-screen TV for $100 . . . which is a great price. --Except that it WASN`T actually a flat-screen TV Anthony was trying to sell. It was a GLASS OVEN DOOR that he had disguised with stickers and other nonsense to make it LOOK like a flat-screen TV. --According to the cop who arrested Anthony, quote, "It was very ingenious. If you were a bargain hunter, you might think, `Wow, this is the deal of the day.`"

60-plus arrests: Shoplifter, 86, pleads guilty

CHICAGO - An 86-year-old Chicagoan who's been arrested more than 60 times pleaded guilty to the latest charge against her after being accused of stealing wrinkle cream and other items from a grocery store. Ella Orko was arrested Aug. 2 after authorities say she stuffed $252 worth of items into her pants, including cosmetics, salmon, batteries and instant coffee. Orko had been charged with felony shoplifting, but that was reduced to a misdemeanor in exchange for her guilty plea Monday. Judge Marvin Luckman sentenced her to two days in jail, which is what she's already served.

The Half-Million Dollar Weiner Seller

A hot dog vendor was kicked from the curb outside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for failure to pay his monthly rent—of $53,558. Pasang Sherpa was under contract to pay the Parks Department $362,201 a year for a stand! on the south side of the Met's entrance and $280,500 for another on t he north side. That's a lot of hot dogs. With rent astronomically high, how much do New York City hot dog vendors actually make?

It's hard to say. Neither the Parks Department nor the Health Department (which oversees food sales outside parks) requires vendors to report income. They don't bother calculating expected sales, either—in part because rent is set at auction (with vendors battling it out) rather than by the city. What we do know is that even though Sherpa, a rookie, got in over his head, vendors have long been willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to push $2 dogs outside the Met. (The museum attracts 5 million visitors a year, and the hot dog stands are the only food outlets for blocks.) Last year's occupant paid $415,000 a year for the Met stands plus at least $25,000 for supplies and labor, and didn't go under—so we can assume he brought in significantly more than $440,000.

Talk about LUCK

A 30-year-old UK man bled to death when he was pierced by a large shard of glass after throwing his girlfriend through a shop window in a street row. The victim was seen arguing with his girlfriend in the Regent Street area of London's West End shortly after 2am yesterday. Witnesses told police he hurled the woman against the outside window of a branch of Banana Republic about three times. After several blows, the glass shattered and the couple fell through, leaving the man fatally wounded. He is believed to have suffered injuries to an artery and bled to death. Members of the public flagged down a police officer called paramedics who arrived at the scene but were unable to save him. The woman, also 30, was taken to hospital for treatment to multiple cuts, none of which are thought to be life-threatening. Police believe they know who the dead man is but are trying to contact his next of kin before releasing his name. The couple were believed to be homeless.

Do Not Walk The Streets Around This City

DES MOINES, Iowa – Honk if you love pedestrians. In response to several instances in which pedestrians were struck by buses — including one on Monday — Des Moines this week began temporarily requiring bus drivers to honk every time they make a turn. And since every accident happened when the buses were turning left, drivers now follow routes that allow only right-hand turns in the city's downtown. Seven people have been struck by buses in the past two years, including two this month, although none was fatal. While the number may seem small compared with the city's population of about 200,000, Des Moines transit officials are in the process of settling a lawsuit of more than $2 million involving a pedestrian who was struck in 2007. Several other similar lawsuits are pending.

Controversial Doll Lets Little Girls Pretend to Breast-Feed...

A controversial new doll is leaving some parents wishing for the good old Cabbage Patch days. A Spanish toymaker known as Berjuan has developed a breast-feeding doll that comes with a special halter top its young "mothers" wear as they pretend to breast-feed their "babies." The halter top has daisies that cover the little girls' nipples and come undone just as easily as the flaps of a nursing bra would. The doll - called Bebe Gloton, which translates as "gluttonous baby" - makes sucking noises as it "feeds."

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Landmine Left In Goodwill Donation Box

ARVADA, Colorado - A land mine found in a suburban Denver Goodwill donation box forced the evacuation of a strip mall. The rectangular, olive-green box with the words "Front Toward Enemy" raised the suspicions of Goodwill workers Tuesday. Arvada police say the Claymore land mine didn't go off in the donation box and no one was hurt. A bomb squad disposed of the device. Police Sgt. Jeff Monzingo says it's unclear whether the device was operational or where it came from. No suspects have been identified. Claymore mines were widely used during the Vietnam war.

Man Scaled Buildings To Steal Copper

A man has been charged with theft in San Marcos after police say he used gymnastics skills to scale buildings there and in New Braunfels and San Antonio in order to steal copper from air-conditioning units.
Clifton Ashworth has been charged with theft and is in custody at the Hays County Jail, San Marcos Police Commander Terry Nichols said. Charges are pending from New Braunfels and Bexar County as well, Nichols said, and Ashworth's bond has been set at $180,000. Ashworth is accused of using pipes and other structures to climb to to the tops of buildings where he would steal condenser coils from 20-ton air-conditioning units, Nichols said. He would then sell the lucrative copper inside, which goes for about 90 cents a pound, Nichols said. All told, investigators believe Ashworth stole about 3 tons of copper. "He used to be a gymnast," Nichols said of Ashworth's wall-crawling escapades. "It took some strength to get up there." Nichols said that copper wire theft from air-conditioning units and construction sites has been on the rise in recent weeks because the price of copper has gone up. However, "No one's done it on the level (Ashworth) did it," Nichols said.

Golf course goose hunts OK'd

The Rochester City Council escalated the war on Canada geese at Round Barn Golf Club at Mill Creek Tuesday.

Next up: gunfire.

The council approved 6-0 an amendment to city ordinance that will allow goose hunting at the golf course under guidelines set by course pro Lyle Lingenfelter. He wants about five people to hunt and take the daily bag limit - police officers if possible. He believes they are responsible, knowledgeable gun users, he said. Police Chief Jodi Miller said it wouldn't be any problem finding enough hunters. "The problem's going to be deciding who gets to do it. We'll have to draw straws or something," she said. The course will be closed during specified goose hunts, Lingenfelter said. Honkers like Mill Creek. They assemble there in great numbers - up to 1,000 in the winter, Lingenfelter told the council. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources recommended city law be amended to allow hunting on the golf course to scare the geese away, he said. Where there's dead geese, Lingenfelter said, there's scared geese who choose safer places to gather. The geese cause several problems: turf degradation, health and play hazards, and a big mess. One goose, Lingenfelter said, can eat as much as 5 pounds of turf per day. That same goose can leave behind as much as 1.5 pounds of waste per day. That equates to 55,000 pounds of goose manure a year from 500 geese, Lingenfelter said, and 150,000 pounds of grass eaten by the same geese. The goose manure can include cryptosporidium, a parasite which can cause gastrointestinal illness. It can be tracked into the clubhouse, creating a health issue, Lingenfelter said. Also, goose poop creates a play hazard for golfers, especially on the green where "you want your ball to roll freely," he said. So far, Lingenfelter said, other geese control measures haven't worked. Fishing line was strung around the ponds they frequent most. The birds knocked their way through it. Starter pistols and air horns were ineffective and useless until eggs hatched. The parents just came back when the noise stopped. Permits for egg destruction were received. But inevitably, Lingenfelter said, some clutches would be missed and their would be 10 or so nests of goslings trekking across the course in the spring. And there were fake swans, which only worked until the geese figured them out. "They're going to stay where there's good grass, fresh water and nobody's getting killed," he said.

Tiger flees Vegas Magic Act.. Found Wandering the Streets

Las Vegas -- A tamed tiger that escaped from a magic act has been captured, police in Las Vegas said. Police said the residents in the city's northwest section reported seeing the tiger wandering their streets Thursday night. Police Lt. Les Lane said the cat belongs to Fernando's Brothers magic act. He said the cat got loose, but "they got it back into custody." The tiger was found in a resident's backyard. Animal Control and Metro Police were investigating the incident.

Visa card surprise: $23,148,855,308,184,500

A few dollars off on a bill might not be a big deal, but $23 quadrillion and change? That's what happened to "a small number" of prepaid Visa cards recently, according to Visa.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31920273/ns/us_news-weird_news/from/ET

Morgan Freeman is Gross

The National Enquirer is reporting that actor Morgan Freeman is planning to re-marry. The problem? His new wife-to-be is his STEP GRANDDAUGHTER. Less than a month ago, the tabloid claimed that Freeman had been having a sexual relationship with 27-year-old E’Dena Hines for the better part of a decade. She’s the granddaughter of Morgan’s first wife, and even sicker, he and his second wife, Myrna, raised the girl from childhood. This affair is what some claim broke up Morgan and Myrna’s marriage.

27,900 Murders... ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- Alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk was formally charged Monday with being an accessory to about 27,900 murders during World War II. File image of John Demjanjuk during his trial in an Israeli court in 1993 The Munich State Court ruled 10 days ago that the 89-year-old retired auto worker from Cleveland, Ohio, was fit to stand trial. Demjanjuk, a native Ukrainian, denies any role in the Holocaust. He says he was a prisoner of war during the conflict, not a camp guard. He was deported in May from the United States to Germany, where he was wanted for his alleged involvement during World War II in killings at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. The German court originally accused him of complicity in about 29,000 murders. The prosecutor's office said it revised the number downward because some of those who had allegedly died in the camp when Demjanjuk was there were already dead during the transport to Sobibor.

Gay Penguin Couple.. Split After 7 Years

A romantic triangle has led to hurt feelings and a nasty breakup at the San Francisco Zoo. Its same-sex penguin couple, Harry and Pepper, has split -- over a female, according to CBS station KPIX-TV in the City by the Bay. The two had been together for six years. They nested together and incubated an egg laid by another penguin. Zookeepers say, earlier this year, a female penguin named Linda became friends with Harry, after Linda's longtime companion died. That didn't go over well with Pepper, and led to a violent confrontation between Pepper and Harry. Zoo officials kept the three penguins separated until recently. They say Harry and Linda are now a happy couple and have successfully nested this year.

How Can I Get In Her Class

ELK GROVE, Calif. - A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch. Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher's 24 students to get rid of the DVD after the unintended clip was found spliced in a scene where children were sharing stories in class. "Just destroy them," said spokeswoman Torrey Johnson. Johnson said the teacher, whose name isn't being released, sent the DVD home with her students from Isabelle Jackson Elementary on the last day of class Friday. She learned of the mistake after a parent called her. She then called all the parents to ask them to destroy the DVD. The school district, located just south of Sacramento, initially sent a letter home to parents asking them to return the DVDs, but then asked parents to simply destroy them.

KIDS LISTEN: DO YOUR CHORES.. OR ELSE!!!

A 71-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico man says he fired a gun on his two adult sons after they refused to clean the stove. On Monday evening, police say the father, Sammy Shannon, pulled a .38 revolver and fired at his sons after an argument about chores. Shannon doesn't dispute that he fired the gun-he says it's his form of discipline. The father says all he asked of his 22 and 29-year-old sons, who still live with their parents, was to do their chores. "They didn't want to, so they got smart," Shannon said. That's when things got physical. "Both of them jumped on me, they knocked me down, got my arm all swolled up," he said. A police report says the sons jumped Shannon after he hit one of them. Then the men pinned their father down until their mother ordered them to let him up. Shannon says he then decided to use his own brand of discipline. "I'll even it up-I went and got my gun," he said. Shannon admits he fired his .38, but says he didn't aim it at his sons and would never actually shoot them. Shannon's sons told police they didn't see where their father was shooting-they just started running when he started pointing the gun their way. Shannon says his kids can still live with him, but they have to follow his rules. "I can't feed you every day, every night, take you where you want to go, send you to college and just come here, lay up and play video games all day," he said. Shannon is out on bond for now. He's being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police: Woman stole remains of neighbor's husband

Cassandra Hom didn't steal her neighbor Bonnie Cumiford's husband, but she did take off with her husband's ashes, according to an arrest affidavit. The affidavit said that Hom, 42, forced her way into Cumiford's Austin home looking for a necklace Hom had previously given Cumiford. Cumiford told Hom she no longer had the necklace, which had belonged to Hom's mother. Hom took the urn that contained Cumiford's husband's ashes and then left the house, the affidavit said. Cumiford later found the urn broken and her husband's ashes in a ditch near the women's houses. Police arrested Hom, who is charged with burglary of a habitation, a second degree felony. After she was arrested, police discovered outstanding warrant for Hom's arrest in Oregon in 2002. Hom is currently being held at the Travis county Jail, officials said. Bail is set at $20,000.

Benefits Of Being On A Terrorist Watch List

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When people on the government's terrorist watch list have tried to buy guns or explosives in recent years, the government has let them the vast majority of the time. That's the finding of a new report by the Government Accountability Office, sent to lawmakers last month and released publicly Monday. From February 2004 to February 2009, 963 background checks using the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System "resulted in valid matches with terrorist watch list records; of these matches, approximately 90 percent were allowed to proceed because the checks revealed no prohibiting information," the GAO report says. About 10 percent were denied. "Under current law, there is no basis to automatically prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives because they appear on the terrorist watch list," wrote the GAO's director of homeland security and justice issues, Eileen R. Larence. "Rather, there must be a disqualifying factor (i.e., prohibiting information) pursuant to federal or state law, such as a felony conviction or illegal immigration status." Of the 963 background checks, 865 were allowed to proceed, and 98 were denied, the report said.

A HOOKER IN OKLAHOMA TRADED SEX . . . FOR A BOX OF CHIPS:

If you're wondering just HOW BAD the economy has gotten . . . I think THIS sums it up . . . Police in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, arrested a 36-year-old prostitute named Lahoma Smith . . . after they caught her doing the deed with an unidentified guy. But get this . . . When the guy propositioned Lahoma, he didn't have any cash on him. So, instead, he traded Lahoma a $30 box of Frito-Lay chips . . . which he had in the backseat of his car. Anyway, Lahoma was found guilty of prostitution last week . . . and she was fined $1,142 (--which is the equivalent of 38 boxes of chips).

DON'T FALL ASLEEP AT THE TATTOO PARLOR:

A teen girl fell asleep at the tattoo parlor and awoke to discover 56 Stars on her face. The girl claims that she asked for "3 little stars" near her left eye. She somehow fell asleep while the tattoo artist created an elaborate design, consisting of stars, around her left eye, on the left side of her nose, down the left side of her face and along her jaw. It's a mystery how the girl asleep and stayed out during all of this. The artist denies drugging or hypnotizing the teen.

This is called Karma...

MARCH 18--Meet Michelle Owen. Concerned that an ex-boyfriend had used her laptop to search for child pornography, the Indiana woman asked police to search the computer for illegal images, but had her plan backfire when cops discovered two videos of her engaged in illicit acts with a dog. Owen, 24, was charged last week with two felony bestiality counts in connection with the video files, which a detective found in the laptop's "recycle bin." At the time Owen asked cops to search the computer, she was locked up in the Johnson County Jail on a public intoxication charge (which violated the terms of her release in a prior drunk driving case). According to a police affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, a cop told Owen that he had found videos of her on the laptop and asked if she "knew what those files might be." Owen, pictured in the below mug shot, replied, "The one with the dog." Cops believe that the dog in question, Toby, is a beagle. After asking if she was "going to be charged with this," Owen said that the videos "were just something she did when she was drunk and barely remembers it," adding that she tried to "delete them the next day when she was sober."

72 yr old Woman Tased in Texas

Travis County law enforcement officials are standing behind the actions of a constable who used a Taser on a 72-year-old woman during a May traffic stop, saying the officer acted properly in a dangerous situation. Deputy Constable Christopher Beize used a Taser on Kathryn Winkfein after she resisted arrest when he pulled her over for speeding, according to an incident report. Winkfein was driving west on Texas 71 in western Travis County on May 11 when Beize pulled her over, the report says. Beize wrote a citation for Winkfein for going 60 mph in a 45 mph construction zone, but the 4-foot-11-inch woman refused to sign it and told Beize that he was "going to have to take her to jail," the document says. Beize told her she was going to be arrested for refusing to promise to appear by signing the top of the citation, the report says. At that point, Winkfein got out of the truck and began to yell profanities at Beize, an arrest affidavit says. She yelled at Beize to give her the citation and said she would sign it but was not following commands, the report says. Beize said Winkfein tried to take his ticket book away, telling Beize to Tase her or take her to jail, according to the affidavit. As Beize was trying to arrest her, she tried to get back in her truck, the affidavit says. Sgt. Maj. Gary Griffin of the constable's office said Winkfein was belligerent, pushed Beize into oncoming traffic and nearly stepped into it herself. "She was using language I wouldn't expect any woman to use, let alone a 72-year-old woman," Griffin said. She continued to not listen to Beize's demands and was Tased, the incident report says. She was Tased again after not staying on the ground, as commanded, according to the report.

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Fla. Fisherman Hooks Test Missile in Gulf Waters

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. – A commercial fisherman unveiled a curious catch when he returned from an expedition through the Gulf of Mexico this week: A corroded missile that had been fired from an F-15 fighter jet. Fisherman Rodney Salomon hooked the missile about 50 miles off the Panhandle town of Panama City and then kept it on his boat, the Broad Venture, for ten days. Salomon hoped to keep it as a souvenir, but took precautions because he didn't know if it was live. "I had it secure. I keep it cool," he said, adding that he packed it with ice. Local authorities first said the projectile was live and unstable, but Eglin Air Force Base later said it was a telemetry missile that carried no explosives. Still, the MacDill Air Force Base Bomb Squad inspected and dismantled the missile after Salomon returned to port on Monday evening in Madeira Beach, near St. Petersburg. Eglin spokesman Samuel King said the bomb squad was needed to retrieve and dispose of sensitive technology used to measure and transmit data on the missile, which was fired in August 2004 from an F-15 fighter jet during a test. "Once we found out it was ours, our guidance was that it needed to be destroyed," King said. The Air Force and Navy use Gulf waters off the Panhandle for weapons training. King said that the weapons evaluation group tests about 300 missiles over the Gulf each year. Salomon told authorities he had seen other missiles in the same area and asked if he could keep his catch once it had been dismantled. The request was denied.

The Economy is Affecting EVERYONE

A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep. But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported. The spurned mistress died and the other passengers were injured, the reports said. Police initially thought the car had plummeted off a mountain road in eastern China on December 6 by accident. Then they learned of the contest through a letter the dead woman had left behind, the Shanghai Daily newspaper said. The 29-year-old woman, identified only as Yu, was a waitress when she met the businessman at a restaurant in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000. At the time, the businessman, identified only by his last name - Fan - was married and had four other mistresses, according to the Peninsula Metropolis Daily newspaper in Qingdao. The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said. When the economy soured, the businessman apparently decided to let go of all but one mistress. He staged a private talent show in May, without telling the women his intentions. An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said. The judge knocked out Yu in the first round of the competition based on her looks. Angry, she decided to exact revenge by telling her lover and the four other women to accompany her on a sightseeing trip before she returned to her home province, the media reports said. It was during the trip that Yu reportedly drove the car off the cliff. Fan shut down his company after the crash and paid Yu's parents 580,000 yuan ($84,744) as compensation for her death. The four other women left him, as did his wife when she learned of the affairs.

Obama bobblehead dolls released from captivity - No One Harmed