Saturday, May 31, 2014
Two-legged cat descends stairs
Boots the cat was rescued aged 10-days-old missing her rear paws and has since learned to get around on her prosthetic legs. Recently she has started doing this.
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Man in possession of stolen GPS device called 911 to report himself lost
A Florida man who called 911 to say he was lost and being chased by wild hogs was found to have a stolen GPS device in his backpack.
Andrew James Joffe, 24, of Chuluota, called 911 at around 1:50am on Thursday, saying he didn't known his exact location, but that he was walking somewhere along Deen Still Road.
Deputies found him still on Deen Still Road. They discovered that he had an open warrant for driving with a suspended/revoked driver’s licence and was taken into custody. As Joffe’s backpack was being inventoried for safe keeping, a deputy found items ranging from electronic equipment, cell phones, ear rings and a GPS device.
The GPS was turned on and a “home address” was programmed in the GPS. The home address was not Joffe’s. It was determined that the resident was a victim of a burglary from her car and was missing her GPS device. Upon questioning, Joffe admitted to deputies that he illegally entering the vehicle and taken the GPS.
“We have had people with warrants call us to turn themselves in before, but it’s unusual for someone with an active warrant, who just burglarized a car, to get lost and call us for help. In his defence, it does get pretty dark out on Deen Still Road in the middle of the night ,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Joffe was arrested and taken to jail in Bartow.
Deputies found him still on Deen Still Road. They discovered that he had an open warrant for driving with a suspended/revoked driver’s licence and was taken into custody. As Joffe’s backpack was being inventoried for safe keeping, a deputy found items ranging from electronic equipment, cell phones, ear rings and a GPS device.
The GPS was turned on and a “home address” was programmed in the GPS. The home address was not Joffe’s. It was determined that the resident was a victim of a burglary from her car and was missing her GPS device. Upon questioning, Joffe admitted to deputies that he illegally entering the vehicle and taken the GPS.
“We have had people with warrants call us to turn themselves in before, but it’s unusual for someone with an active warrant, who just burglarized a car, to get lost and call us for help. In his defence, it does get pretty dark out on Deen Still Road in the middle of the night ,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Joffe was arrested and taken to jail in Bartow.
Man has found the face of Jesus on rusting air conditioning unit
A man from Jackson County, Mississippi, says his air conditioning unit actually shows the face of Jesus.
Christopher Goldsberry just bought the unit from a friend, who he describes as a junk dealer. The friend had just bought a trailer full of stuff, and Goldsberry was looking over the haul when he spotted the face on the old, rusty AC unit.
"When I saw that, I was taken aback. I knew who that was immediately," said Goldsberry. Goldsberry said he couldn't let the peculiar find go, so he bought the unit for $10. What he finds truly amazing is that the man he bought the unit from did not recognize the face of Jesus in the rust.
Goldsberry said he is Catholic, but does not attend church regularly. He is wondering why what is so clear to him is invisible to others. "The gentleman I purchased it from didn't see any of it. Think about it," Goldsberry urged. "They don't recognize what it is. Some people see it, some people don't. Think about that."
Christopher Goldsberry just bought the unit from a friend, who he describes as a junk dealer. The friend had just bought a trailer full of stuff, and Goldsberry was looking over the haul when he spotted the face on the old, rusty AC unit.
"When I saw that, I was taken aback. I knew who that was immediately," said Goldsberry. Goldsberry said he couldn't let the peculiar find go, so he bought the unit for $10. What he finds truly amazing is that the man he bought the unit from did not recognize the face of Jesus in the rust.
Goldsberry said he is Catholic, but does not attend church regularly. He is wondering why what is so clear to him is invisible to others. "The gentleman I purchased it from didn't see any of it. Think about it," Goldsberry urged. "They don't recognize what it is. Some people see it, some people don't. Think about that."
Injured deer ran into hospital
A startled deer ran into the Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord, North Carolina, on Thursday morning, much to the surprise of hospital workers.
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A source inside the hospital says the deer was loose in the hospital's kitchen-storage area before being trapped inside a mop closet. Animal control officers were called to the hospital to capture the injured buck. The deer was tranquilized and removed from the hospital on a rolling cart.
It appears the deer came from a wooded, residential area across from the hospital. It is believed the buck ran across traffic, leapt over the bushes and landed on a vehicle in the parking lot of the hospital, shattering the windscreen. The deer then entered the hospital. Animal control officers say the deer was taken about three or four miles away from the hospital and released in a wooded area.
Officers stayed with the deer until the tranquilizer wore off, which took about 15 to 20 minutes. Once the deer got his bearings, he was able to walk away and into the woods. The deer was reportedly only injured along the protective coating on his antlers. Considering that he'd crashed into a car windscreen, officers say he was in good condition.
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A source inside the hospital says the deer was loose in the hospital's kitchen-storage area before being trapped inside a mop closet. Animal control officers were called to the hospital to capture the injured buck. The deer was tranquilized and removed from the hospital on a rolling cart.
It appears the deer came from a wooded, residential area across from the hospital. It is believed the buck ran across traffic, leapt over the bushes and landed on a vehicle in the parking lot of the hospital, shattering the windscreen. The deer then entered the hospital. Animal control officers say the deer was taken about three or four miles away from the hospital and released in a wooded area.
Officers stayed with the deer until the tranquilizer wore off, which took about 15 to 20 minutes. Once the deer got his bearings, he was able to walk away and into the woods. The deer was reportedly only injured along the protective coating on his antlers. Considering that he'd crashed into a car windscreen, officers say he was in good condition.
Two people killed and three injured after woman dropped her phone into toilet
Two people died and three were injured after wading into a cesspit in an attempt to retrieve a woman's mobile phone and rescue those who fainted.
The two fatalities were the woman's husband and mother-in-law.
The tragedy unfolded after the young woman in Xinxiang city, Henan, China, accidentally dropped her brand new phone into a cesspit when she went to the open-pit toilet on Wednesday.
Her husband jumped in to find the 2,000-yuan (£190, $320) phone but he could not breathe and soon lost consciousness. Then, the husband's mother jumped in to save him but she, too, soon lost consciousness. In panic, the young woman followed and suffered the same fate. Seeing his family lying helpless in waste, her father-in-law called to neighbours for help.
When they arrived, the old man also entered the cesspit but could not get out while two neighbours who jumped inside fainted. “The smell was too strong. I lost consciousness before I could see anything,” said a neighbour. Other villagers found a rope and tied it on rescuers who, taking turns, pulled six people out of the pit.
The husband and mother-in-law died in hospital while the woman and a neighbour remain in the intensive care unit. The father-in-law was also injured. The woman and her husband had a one-year-old son. Villagers said the victims were in the pit, which was knee deep in waste, for no more than five minutes. A hospital doctor said the victims suffocated. Villagers said the dead victims had pulses after being pulled out but the ambulance did not arrive for more than an hour.
Her husband jumped in to find the 2,000-yuan (£190, $320) phone but he could not breathe and soon lost consciousness. Then, the husband's mother jumped in to save him but she, too, soon lost consciousness. In panic, the young woman followed and suffered the same fate. Seeing his family lying helpless in waste, her father-in-law called to neighbours for help.
When they arrived, the old man also entered the cesspit but could not get out while two neighbours who jumped inside fainted. “The smell was too strong. I lost consciousness before I could see anything,” said a neighbour. Other villagers found a rope and tied it on rescuers who, taking turns, pulled six people out of the pit.
The husband and mother-in-law died in hospital while the woman and a neighbour remain in the intensive care unit. The father-in-law was also injured. The woman and her husband had a one-year-old son. Villagers said the victims were in the pit, which was knee deep in waste, for no more than five minutes. A hospital doctor said the victims suffocated. Villagers said the dead victims had pulses after being pulled out but the ambulance did not arrive for more than an hour.
Jail for 'spiritual healer' who promised to hang cash from magical tree in Amazonian rainforest
A woman described as “pure evil” has been has been jailed for 10 years after swindling £1 million from vulnerable people by claiming to be spiritual healer who could cure cancer or help them to get pregnant by sending money to the Amazon jungle.
Juliette D’Souza, 59, extracted huge sums of cash from 11 people across Hampstead and north London – including opera singers, photographers and solicitors – by claiming to be a shamanic healer with links to the rainforest in Suriname.
D’Souza was such a persuasive con-artist that she managed to convince her victims she could cure terminal illnesses, help disabled children or enable them to conceive by sending cash to the South American jungle – to be hung from a sacred tree. Her victims believed she was working with two other shamans in Suriname, known as Pa and Oma, who would hang their cash “sacrifices” on the tree in the heart of the jungle. Instead, D’Souza spent the money on a lavish lifestyle, renting three or four luxury flats at a time in Hampstead and splashing a fortune on Louis Vuitton bags, jewellery, antique furniture and holidays. She boasted of celebrity clients including Princess Diana and Simon Cowell.
Her victims described her as confident, well-spoken and attractive, and said she was incredibly manipulative and persuasive, convincing them that terrible things would happen if they did not hand over cash sacrifices. The victims were so under her spell during the 12-year scam that one woman, who cannot be named, had an abortion at her say so, while another, Ruth Fillingham, sold her home because D’Souza said it was “spooked”. The woman who had the abortion had previously given D’Souza more than £170,000 in the belief it would help her to conceive. Ms Fillingham, had paid £169,000 from 1998 to 2004 to ward off the evil spirit of her deceased brother, save her partner from a nonexistent tumour and ensure her eye surgery would be a success – which it was not.
Her boyfriend, Geoff Wheeler, handed over £195,000 in the same period. Much of the money was supposed to secure his job, but he was still made redundant. Retired opera singer Sylvia Eaves, 83, was conned out of a total of £353,000. D’Souza had multiple identities and a litany of addresses across Hampstead, as well as in West Hampstead, Belsize Park, Kensington and St John’s Wood. She would pay up to a year’s rent in advance – in cash – and occupy several flats at once. It emerged during the trial that she was previously convicted of 28 counts of fraud and four of theft, spending time in Holloway prison in the 1980s. Sentencing her to 10 years in prison for each of 23 counts to run concurently - the maximum sentence allowed by Parliament, Judge Ian Karsten QC said: “It is the worst confidence fraud I have ever had to deal with or indeed that I have heard of”.
D’Souza was such a persuasive con-artist that she managed to convince her victims she could cure terminal illnesses, help disabled children or enable them to conceive by sending cash to the South American jungle – to be hung from a sacred tree. Her victims believed she was working with two other shamans in Suriname, known as Pa and Oma, who would hang their cash “sacrifices” on the tree in the heart of the jungle. Instead, D’Souza spent the money on a lavish lifestyle, renting three or four luxury flats at a time in Hampstead and splashing a fortune on Louis Vuitton bags, jewellery, antique furniture and holidays. She boasted of celebrity clients including Princess Diana and Simon Cowell.
Her victims described her as confident, well-spoken and attractive, and said she was incredibly manipulative and persuasive, convincing them that terrible things would happen if they did not hand over cash sacrifices. The victims were so under her spell during the 12-year scam that one woman, who cannot be named, had an abortion at her say so, while another, Ruth Fillingham, sold her home because D’Souza said it was “spooked”. The woman who had the abortion had previously given D’Souza more than £170,000 in the belief it would help her to conceive. Ms Fillingham, had paid £169,000 from 1998 to 2004 to ward off the evil spirit of her deceased brother, save her partner from a nonexistent tumour and ensure her eye surgery would be a success – which it was not.
Her boyfriend, Geoff Wheeler, handed over £195,000 in the same period. Much of the money was supposed to secure his job, but he was still made redundant. Retired opera singer Sylvia Eaves, 83, was conned out of a total of £353,000. D’Souza had multiple identities and a litany of addresses across Hampstead, as well as in West Hampstead, Belsize Park, Kensington and St John’s Wood. She would pay up to a year’s rent in advance – in cash – and occupy several flats at once. It emerged during the trial that she was previously convicted of 28 counts of fraud and four of theft, spending time in Holloway prison in the 1980s. Sentencing her to 10 years in prison for each of 23 counts to run concurently - the maximum sentence allowed by Parliament, Judge Ian Karsten QC said: “It is the worst confidence fraud I have ever had to deal with or indeed that I have heard of”.
Railway station platform closed by pair of jogging bottoms
Trains in and out of Coventry railway station were stopped by a pair of jogging bottoms hanging on overhead lines.
Virgin Trains, said one platform was closed for over an hour and ten trains had to be re-routed to other parts of the station. A Virgin Trains’ customer service manager called Dotty later said: “We have no idea how the trousers got up there in the first place.
“Sadly, we haven’t seen anybody running around half naked - although we have been looking. Network Rail came and they had to take the power out of the lines so they could safely remove the offending item.
“Since they’re 25,000 volt lines, they couldn’t have removed the trousers without cutting the power, or they’d have been hot pants. The workmen used a litter-picker to reach up nine feet to take them off.”
Virgin Trains, said one platform was closed for over an hour and ten trains had to be re-routed to other parts of the station. A Virgin Trains’ customer service manager called Dotty later said: “We have no idea how the trousers got up there in the first place.
“Sadly, we haven’t seen anybody running around half naked - although we have been looking. Network Rail came and they had to take the power out of the lines so they could safely remove the offending item.
“Since they’re 25,000 volt lines, they couldn’t have removed the trousers without cutting the power, or they’d have been hot pants. The workmen used a litter-picker to reach up nine feet to take them off.”
Blue tit family have taken up residence in welly boot
A welly boot decoration at the entrance of a playground in Gloucestershire has been chosen as home for a family of birds.
Slimbridge Wetland Centre grounds manager Nathan Dixon spotted the pair of blue tits flying to and from a gatepost leading to the playground Welly Boot Land.
To his surprise, he noticed the pair were flying into one of the boots to feed chicks in the toe. Mr Dixon said: “Welly Boot Land gets the vote with all our family visitors and now these feathered ones too.
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“I watched them for a while on a busy day and they seemed oblivious to the noise from the play area. They are high up and their nest is obviously waterproof so, on reflection, it is a fairly good nesting spot. “It is a nice reminder of how wildlife will adapt and use different environments.”
Slimbridge Wetland Centre grounds manager Nathan Dixon spotted the pair of blue tits flying to and from a gatepost leading to the playground Welly Boot Land.
To his surprise, he noticed the pair were flying into one of the boots to feed chicks in the toe. Mr Dixon said: “Welly Boot Land gets the vote with all our family visitors and now these feathered ones too.
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“I watched them for a while on a busy day and they seemed oblivious to the noise from the play area. They are high up and their nest is obviously waterproof so, on reflection, it is a fairly good nesting spot. “It is a nice reminder of how wildlife will adapt and use different environments.”
Police called to rescue distressed woman from squirrel
A mischievous squirrel was the
unlikely subject of a bizarre call to police after the rodent jumped into a
woman's handbag and refused to leave.
The distressed woman was outside the Shropshire Arms pub in Chester when the grey squirrel climbed into her bag.
Detective Constable Nigel Thake attended and eventually managed to send the persistent animal on its way.
A spokesman for Cheshire Constabulary said: "At around 7.40pm on Thursday, police received a call from a woman reporting that a squirrel had climbed inside her handbag and would not leave her alone. DC Nigel Thake attended the incident and released the squirrel back into the wild."
The distressed woman was outside the Shropshire Arms pub in Chester when the grey squirrel climbed into her bag.
Detective Constable Nigel Thake attended and eventually managed to send the persistent animal on its way.
A spokesman for Cheshire Constabulary said: "At around 7.40pm on Thursday, police received a call from a woman reporting that a squirrel had climbed inside her handbag and would not leave her alone. DC Nigel Thake attended the incident and released the squirrel back into the wild."
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