Friday, August 29, 2014
Woman's stuck flip-flop led to her car being hit by camel-towing pick-up
While driving on Highway V in Caledonia, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon Kelly Ellison, 28, caught her flip-flop on something and was unable to stop at a stop sign, according to the Caledonia Police Department in Racine County.
That's when she was struck by a pick-up truck towing a camel named Eli. The truck-and-trailer was from Jo-Don Farms, a zoo in Franksville that features camel rides and hundreds of other exotic and familiar animals.
The rig went into the ditch on the south side of the road. The driver, Nathan Gaines, 35, suffered a possible broken leg and was complaining of back pain, according to police.
Ellison and a 3-year-old boy in her car were not injured. Neither was the camel, police said. Ellison was cited for failing to yield the right of way at a stop sign, and causing injury.
There's a news video here.
That's when she was struck by a pick-up truck towing a camel named Eli. The truck-and-trailer was from Jo-Don Farms, a zoo in Franksville that features camel rides and hundreds of other exotic and familiar animals.
The rig went into the ditch on the south side of the road. The driver, Nathan Gaines, 35, suffered a possible broken leg and was complaining of back pain, according to police.
Ellison and a 3-year-old boy in her car were not injured. Neither was the camel, police said. Ellison was cited for failing to yield the right of way at a stop sign, and causing injury.
There's a news video here.
Teenager arrested for waggling rubber penis at passing motorists
A young man has been arrested in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Skyler Connor, 18, of New Derry, is facing a disorderly conduct charge for waggling a rubber penis at passing motorists.
According to police, the incident happened on Route 30 in Unity Township at around 6pm on Monday.
Connor was a passenger in the back seat of a vehicle at the time.
Skyler Connor, 18, of New Derry, is facing a disorderly conduct charge for waggling a rubber penis at passing motorists.
According to police, the incident happened on Route 30 in Unity Township at around 6pm on Monday.
Connor was a passenger in the back seat of a vehicle at the time.
Woman stabbed man she babysits for after he refused to have sex with her
A 22-year-old Florida woman stabbed a man in the neck earlier this month after he declined her requests to have sex, police allege.
Shakieria Anquanette Shan Long was “barbecuing and drinking” with friends at a Fort Pierce home on August 12 when trouble began, according to a witness.
The witness said that he was lounging on a couch when Long and the victim, Eugene Sylvester, entered the residence. “The suspect was screaming that she wanted the victim to have sex with her,” police reported. But Sylvester, 32, declined Long’s advances, telling her to “go back where she had been all day and have sex.” Sylvester told officers that Long was his children’s babysitter.
Long, who is known as “Sha Sha,” subsequently followed Sylvester to his room, where she allegedly “grabbed a knife and started jabbing” at him with the weapon. She then beckoned the witness, telling him that she had stabbed Sylvester (and that he was “leaking”). The witness told investigators that he pressed a towel to Sylvester’s neck and began walking him home. But Long ran after them and “started punching the victim in his face.”
During police questioning, Sylvester, whose wound needed a few stitches, said he did not want to have sex with Long due to her heavy drinking. While confirming that Long stabbed him in the neck, Sylvester said that he did not want to press charges against her. Arrested for felony battery, Long was booked into the St. Lucie County jail, where she remains locked up. At the time of the stabbing, Long was free on $3,750 bond in connection with a June 6 arrest for disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest, and battery on a law enforcement officer. That bond was cancelled following this month’s incident.
The witness said that he was lounging on a couch when Long and the victim, Eugene Sylvester, entered the residence. “The suspect was screaming that she wanted the victim to have sex with her,” police reported. But Sylvester, 32, declined Long’s advances, telling her to “go back where she had been all day and have sex.” Sylvester told officers that Long was his children’s babysitter.
Long, who is known as “Sha Sha,” subsequently followed Sylvester to his room, where she allegedly “grabbed a knife and started jabbing” at him with the weapon. She then beckoned the witness, telling him that she had stabbed Sylvester (and that he was “leaking”). The witness told investigators that he pressed a towel to Sylvester’s neck and began walking him home. But Long ran after them and “started punching the victim in his face.”
During police questioning, Sylvester, whose wound needed a few stitches, said he did not want to have sex with Long due to her heavy drinking. While confirming that Long stabbed him in the neck, Sylvester said that he did not want to press charges against her. Arrested for felony battery, Long was booked into the St. Lucie County jail, where she remains locked up. At the time of the stabbing, Long was free on $3,750 bond in connection with a June 6 arrest for disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest, and battery on a law enforcement officer. That bond was cancelled following this month’s incident.
Young man catches fish from sewer system outside his home
A teenager from Katy, near Houston in Texas has taken to using the sewer grate in front of his home to catch fish.
It's 16-year-old Kyle Naegeli's hobby. And the Katy High School junior is quite good at it. He claims to have caught hundreds of fish using this method.
YouTube link.
Naegeli has been a drain angler for four years now, using a hook and fishing line, with hot dogs (“the cheap ones” he says) and shad fish acting as bait.
YouTube link.
“Sometimes it takes a few hours to catch something,” he says, maintaining that sewer fishing takes patience. Naegeli doesn't eat the sewer fish, owing to its questionable origins. The fish swim into the sewer line from a nearby pond.
There's a news video here. Kyle TheFishWhisperer's YouTube channel.
It's 16-year-old Kyle Naegeli's hobby. And the Katy High School junior is quite good at it. He claims to have caught hundreds of fish using this method.
YouTube link.
Naegeli has been a drain angler for four years now, using a hook and fishing line, with hot dogs (“the cheap ones” he says) and shad fish acting as bait.
YouTube link.
“Sometimes it takes a few hours to catch something,” he says, maintaining that sewer fishing takes patience. Naegeli doesn't eat the sewer fish, owing to its questionable origins. The fish swim into the sewer line from a nearby pond.
There's a news video here. Kyle TheFishWhisperer's YouTube channel.
Canadian Hazmat team say skunk probably to blame for unpleasant smell at apartment building
The Ottawa Fire Services Hazmat team says a skunk is most likely responsible for a foul odour that caused a number of residents to feel nauseous at an apartment building on Wednesday.
Eleven people were assessed by paramedics following the midmorning call. First responders to the scene detected “a very strong odour of skunk” outside the three-storey commercial-residential structure. Hazmat readings were negative both at the apartment building and at the building next door.
“Seems it was the skunk odour that was the culprit,” a fire service spokesperson said. Paramedics spokesperson JP Trottier says the people the assessed at the scene were reporting mild respiratory irritation, nausea, and headaches because of the odour.
"If you've been doused with one, you will certainly find out that it's meant to ward you away and it certainly does that," he said. "It can be irritating a little bit." He says no one needed to be treated in hospital, and everyone was fine after getting some fresh air. Ottawa Fire says the skunk has since left the building.
Eleven people were assessed by paramedics following the midmorning call. First responders to the scene detected “a very strong odour of skunk” outside the three-storey commercial-residential structure. Hazmat readings were negative both at the apartment building and at the building next door.
“Seems it was the skunk odour that was the culprit,” a fire service spokesperson said. Paramedics spokesperson JP Trottier says the people the assessed at the scene were reporting mild respiratory irritation, nausea, and headaches because of the odour.
"If you've been doused with one, you will certainly find out that it's meant to ward you away and it certainly does that," he said. "It can be irritating a little bit." He says no one needed to be treated in hospital, and everyone was fine after getting some fresh air. Ottawa Fire says the skunk has since left the building.
Jewellery thieves getaway hampered as one had a broken leg and the other a prosthetic leg
A pair of would-be jewellery thieves in New Zealand were hampered in their getaway on Wednesday night due to only having two good legs between them.
The men were arrested and charged with attempting to burgle a jewellery store on Auckland's North Shore.
They were unable to run away as one had a broken leg and the other a prosthetic leg. Police said they were spotted at 3.30am in Takapuna when a patrol officer noticed a suspicious parked vehicle. The officer ran some checks, and discovered the number plates did not match the vehicle. Two men, one wearing a balaclava and the other a hood pulled over his face, then walked down the street to get into the car.
One was holding a screw driver. They were both arrested at the scene and a search of the car revealed a crowbar, hatchet and gloves under the front seats. A piece of timber door frame, which had allegedly been dropped by one of the men, was found to have been from a window frame of a nearby Michael Hill Jewellers, police said.
"Police can confirm that any possible getaway attempt was perhaps thwarted by the fact that one of the men had a prosthetic leg and the other had recently broken a leg." Both men were charged with attempted burglary and possession of instruments for burglary. The pair appeared in North Shore District Court on Thursday. The 40-year-old was remanded on bail to appear on September 18. The 44-year-old was remanded in custody to re-appear on Friday.
They were unable to run away as one had a broken leg and the other a prosthetic leg. Police said they were spotted at 3.30am in Takapuna when a patrol officer noticed a suspicious parked vehicle. The officer ran some checks, and discovered the number plates did not match the vehicle. Two men, one wearing a balaclava and the other a hood pulled over his face, then walked down the street to get into the car.
One was holding a screw driver. They were both arrested at the scene and a search of the car revealed a crowbar, hatchet and gloves under the front seats. A piece of timber door frame, which had allegedly been dropped by one of the men, was found to have been from a window frame of a nearby Michael Hill Jewellers, police said.
"Police can confirm that any possible getaway attempt was perhaps thwarted by the fact that one of the men had a prosthetic leg and the other had recently broken a leg." Both men were charged with attempted burglary and possession of instruments for burglary. The pair appeared in North Shore District Court on Thursday. The 40-year-old was remanded on bail to appear on September 18. The 44-year-old was remanded in custody to re-appear on Friday.
Man died after accidentally running himself over while using unusual method to start his car
A man from Corby in Northamptonshire died after being crushed underneath his own car, an inquest has found.
Scott McKimmie, 39, died in the early hours of February 18 this year in a car park outside the Phoenix pub in the town.
An inquest held at Kettering Magistrates Court on Thursday heard father-of-two Mr McKimmie had suffered 36 separate injuries when he was struck by the vehicle.
Mr McKimmie’s car, a purple Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, would only start if wires were connected underneath the bonnet with the ignition switched on, the car in gear and the handbrake applied, a police collision investigation expert said. However, on the night of Mr McKimmie’s death he had not applied the handbrake, so when he reached underneath the bonnet to touch the wires together the vehicle lurched forward, knocking him over.
It continued to move forward, trapping Mr McKimme underneath. He died at the scene of crush asphyxia, according to Leicester Royal Infirmary pathologist Dr Mike Biggs. Collision investigator PC Brian Johnson told the hearing: “The Volkswagen travelled across the car park area, moved some unknown distance, colliding with then running over its owner. The parking brake was not operated and it was in gear, causing it to lurch forward when Mr McKimmie started it.”
The car’s engine had been modified to run at about 1,000 rpm when idle in order to lower the risk of it stalling – which would have required the driver to have got out of the vehicle to restart the engine. But PC Johnson said that modification also meant the car would move forward and not stall when it was in first, second or third gear, as demonstrated in a police investigation video shown to the court. Coroner Anne Pember, who recorded a verdict of accidental death, said: “It’s quite clear that the cause of this tragedy was the unusual starting method Mr McKimmie used to start his car.”
Mr McKimmie’s car, a purple Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, would only start if wires were connected underneath the bonnet with the ignition switched on, the car in gear and the handbrake applied, a police collision investigation expert said. However, on the night of Mr McKimmie’s death he had not applied the handbrake, so when he reached underneath the bonnet to touch the wires together the vehicle lurched forward, knocking him over.
It continued to move forward, trapping Mr McKimme underneath. He died at the scene of crush asphyxia, according to Leicester Royal Infirmary pathologist Dr Mike Biggs. Collision investigator PC Brian Johnson told the hearing: “The Volkswagen travelled across the car park area, moved some unknown distance, colliding with then running over its owner. The parking brake was not operated and it was in gear, causing it to lurch forward when Mr McKimmie started it.”
The car’s engine had been modified to run at about 1,000 rpm when idle in order to lower the risk of it stalling – which would have required the driver to have got out of the vehicle to restart the engine. But PC Johnson said that modification also meant the car would move forward and not stall when it was in first, second or third gear, as demonstrated in a police investigation video shown to the court. Coroner Anne Pember, who recorded a verdict of accidental death, said: “It’s quite clear that the cause of this tragedy was the unusual starting method Mr McKimmie used to start his car.”
Children's swings removed from park due to deliberate and repeated vandalism by dogs
Dogs have caused damage put at hundreds of pounds to children's swings by taking bites out of them.
Newbury Town Council in Berkshire has removed the swings at Dickens Walk, after what it described as "deliberate and repeated acts of vandalism".
It is thought owners are deliberately encouraging the animals to bite the swings. The leader of the council said he was "appalled" by the vandalism to the swings, which cost £400 to replace. Councillor Julian Swift-Hook said: "I am appalled that this valuable community facility is being repeatedly vandalised.
"Children have now been left with no swings to play on at Dickens Walk until this is resolved." Granville Taylor, the council's community services manager, said new seats had been chewed just two days after they had replaced previously damaged ones.
"We believe that people are training their dogs to bite them," he said. "We are worried that if we replace them again we will have another bill for £400 to replace them within a few days." Anyone with any information about the damage has been asked to contact the council or Crimestoppers.
It is thought owners are deliberately encouraging the animals to bite the swings. The leader of the council said he was "appalled" by the vandalism to the swings, which cost £400 to replace. Councillor Julian Swift-Hook said: "I am appalled that this valuable community facility is being repeatedly vandalised.
"Children have now been left with no swings to play on at Dickens Walk until this is resolved." Granville Taylor, the council's community services manager, said new seats had been chewed just two days after they had replaced previously damaged ones.
"We believe that people are training their dogs to bite them," he said. "We are worried that if we replace them again we will have another bill for £400 to replace them within a few days." Anyone with any information about the damage has been asked to contact the council or Crimestoppers.
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