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| LOST BOY ? |
Posted by hamburger on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
i bet the boy enjoyed the bus ride .
perhaps he would have liked to stay on a while longer .
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Missing boy took 28-mile bus trip
A three-year-old boy who went missing while out shopping with his mother went on a 28-mile (45km) bus journey before being found by a police officer.
Lee Loram was reported missing at 1240 BST after becoming separated from his mother and brother in Blackburn market.
A major search was launched and extra officers were drafted in from around Lancashire to look for him.
Police said Lee had got on a bus in Blackburn town centre and travelled to Bolton and back before he was spotted.
He was reunited with his mother soon afterwards, having been separated from her for more than three hours.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7405284.stm
Published: 2008/05/16 16:34:20 GMT
© BBC MMVIII
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| Man cuts up car in clamp protest |
Posted by Walter Hinteler on May, 12. :: 3 Comments
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Monday, 12 May 2008
Man cuts up car in clamp protest
A man has sawn his car in half with an angle-grinder in protest at it being clamped outside his home.
Ian Taylor, from Tredworth, Glos, said the untaxed Ford Fiesta was parked on his drive with only part of a rear wheel poking out on to the pavement.
The 40-year-old builder said the vehicle was going to be scrapped anyway, but he wanted to make a point.
A spokesman for NCP Services said half of the car was parked on the road and should therefore have been taxed.
'Jobsworths'
Mr Taylor bought the Fiesta for his stepson with the intention of restoring it, but it was beyond economical repair.
"I told [my stepson] not to bother, so we parked it up, we were going to get rid of it. I came home from work the other day and it'd been clamped," he said.
Mr Taylor said he made several efforts to explain that the car had a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) certificate verifying it had not been driven on the road and that it had been parked on his drive.
"We tried to talk to [NCP]. I said, 'you're not taking it'. I got my cutter and cut it in half," he said.
"[I'm] happy I got one over on them. They're jobsworths, for the sake of an inch and a half on the path."
James Pritchard, communications manager for NCP Services, said clamping staff had photographs to prove that half the car was on the public pavement.
"We were astonished at the reaction this gentleman had to the fact we put a clamp on his car.
"It was a remarkable incident which highlighted some of the problems my colleagues face while they're doing what is a very important job in ensuring that motorists tax their vehicle," he said.
"And in cutting his car in two, he managed to put both himself at risk and also a number of bystanders - along with ourselves, the police had to be called and the fire brigade, as he set fire to the car while cutting it in two.
"Fortunately, the only damage was done to his car and as far as our people are concerned we stand by what they did." |
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| Dead Woman on Toilet Since March 4th |
Posted by edgarblythe on May, 09. :: 1 Comment
Body of woman, 90, found on toilet in inhabited Wis. home
© 2008 The Associated Press
NECEDAH, Wis. — A sheriff's deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she apparently shared with a woman and two children.
Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth charged 35-year-old Tammy Lewis and 57-year-old Alan Bushey on Friday with two felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child. Southworth also charged Lewis with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.
According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Bernice Metz contacted the Juneau County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday and asked if a deputy could check on her 90-year-old sister, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth. Metz said no one had heard from Middlesworth for some time.
When Deputy Leigh Neville-Neil arrived at the house in the town of Necedah, she encountered Lewis, also known as Sister Mary Bernadett, the complaint said. Lewis initially refused to allow the deputy to check on Middlesworth, telling her Middlesworth was on vacation but she didn't know where or how long she would be gone.
The deputy told Lewis she needed to be sure Middlesworth was alive and well. Lewis began to tear up but told the deputy Middlesworth was fine.
When the deputy asked to come inside again, Lewis told her she had to go in and call her "superior."
When Lewis returned, she seemed calmer, and she let the deputy inside.
The house smelled of incense and burnt wood, had religious materials everywhere and also had religious hymns playing on the stereo, according to the complaint.
As the deputy opened doors in the house, Lewis again told her Middlesworth wasn't home.
When the deputy opened the last closed door, she smelled "decaying matter" and noticed something piled on what appeared to be a toilet, and Lewis told her it was Middlesworth's body, the complaint said.
The deputy ordered Lewis' children — a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — out of the house because of the stench. Lewis and the children began crying hysterically outside.
Lewis told the deputy Middlesworth died about two months earlier, but God told her Middlesworth would come to life if she prayed hard enough.
She said she couldn't say anything more until she spoke with her "superior" Bushey, also known as Bishop John Peter Bushey.
When Bushey arrived, Lewis told the deputy Middlesworth appeared to pass out while Lewis was helping her into her underwear.
She said she had propped Middlesworth on the toilet and left the room to call Bushey, who told her to leave the woman be and pray for her, the complaint said. He said he had received signs from God that God would raise her from the dead with a miracle.
Lewis went on to say she thought Middlesworth was still breathing when she put her on the toilet and called Bushey rather than an ambulance. She later told a detective she put the woman on the toilet on March 4.
The boy told a detective on Thursday he referred to Middlesworth as "grandmother," although the complaint doesn't explain whether Middlesworth was related to anyone in the home. The boy said he considered running away because he was uncomfortable with the situation.
The boy said Bushey told him Middlesworth looked bad because demons were trying to make it look like she wouldn't come back to life, and if she were to be discovered he and the girl would have to go to public school and get jobs because Middlesworth paid the bills.
The complaint did not include any charges specifically related to the body.
A message The Associated Press left for Southworth seeking further comment wasn't immediately returned.
Bushey and Lewis are scheduled to make an initial court appearance May 19.
Computerized state court records had no attorney listed as yet for them.
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| Elementary school student abducted penguin |
Posted by Walter Hinteler on May, 09. :: 3 Comments
According to a newspaper report from this afternoon ("Westfälische Rundschau") an elementary student abducted a penguin during a class trip from the Cologne zoo.
The head of a forestry office accompanied the class as a specialist.
He told the newspaper that on their way back home he noticed that one of the boys had "wet" trousers. He had thought that it was "an accident" - though there was a loo on board of the coach.
When he noticed that "accident" a second time, classmates showed him the dripping penguin in the boy's rucksack.
The bus returned to the zoo and the unharmed penguin was happily reunited with his family.
No-one at the zoo will have noticed its disappearance ...
The next headline might be: "Elementary student rides home from the zoo visit on an elephant" .... unless they make strict exit controlls in the zoo(s) 
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| pot heads dig heads |
Posted by dyslexia on May, 09. :: 12 Comments
what really seems weird to me is that there is a law against abusing a corpse.
HOUSTON — Three Kingwood teens have been arrested and accused of digging up a secluded grave and removing a skull in Humble, a city north of Houston.
Kevin Wade Jones, 17, and Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, both of Kingwood, told Houston police that around March 15 they and a 16-year old juvenile dug up a grave, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a "bong," a device used to smoke marijuana, according to court documents.
Jones and Gonzalez were arrested Wednesday night and are being held on misdemeanor abuse of a corpse charges, said Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak. The juvenile was referred to Harris County juvenile justice system.
Houston police were initially interviewing Jones about the use of a stolen debit card when Jones told them about the grave theft, according to court records. Asked why Jones would volunteer such a story, Chomiak said, "we can only speculate and guess to what goes on in the criminal mind."
Gonzalez confirmed the story to investigators in a follow-up interview. Police were led to a heavily-wooded site in Humble where they found a knocked-over headstone and water-filled hole more than four feet deep. At the time, the muddy water did not allow police to see if the coffin had been disturbed.
"They dug into this gravesite and that was enough to warrant the abuse of corpse charge," Chomiak said. "There has to be further investigation into the actual gravesite."
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