Friday, November 14, 2014
Bra-wearing man with women's underwear in his pocket arrested after not letting people use ATM
A bra-wearing man with women’s underwear in his pocket was arrested after a report that a person was refusing to let people use an automated teller machine, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.
Police encountered the man at about 11pm on Nov. 3 in Fort Pierce, Florida, after an incident at a BB&T bank. Officials reported a man wearing a jacket and riding a bicycle was standing in front of the ATM and not letting customers use it. Police found the man, identified as 33-year-old Gregory Herndon.
Asked if he could empty his pockets, Herndon said, “I guess so.” He pulled out women’s underwear, a crack pipe, brass wool and two drug needles. He also had a BB&T card and a pill bottle, each belonging to the same woman. Police also discovered Herndon was wearing a brassiere.
Police called the woman who owned the BB&T card and pill bottle. She said she knew Herndon had the items. The affidavit did not state whether she also owned the bra and underwear. Herndon, of Fort Pierce, was arrested on drug equipment possession and/or use and resist officer obstruct without violence charges.
Police encountered the man at about 11pm on Nov. 3 in Fort Pierce, Florida, after an incident at a BB&T bank. Officials reported a man wearing a jacket and riding a bicycle was standing in front of the ATM and not letting customers use it. Police found the man, identified as 33-year-old Gregory Herndon.
Asked if he could empty his pockets, Herndon said, “I guess so.” He pulled out women’s underwear, a crack pipe, brass wool and two drug needles. He also had a BB&T card and a pill bottle, each belonging to the same woman. Police also discovered Herndon was wearing a brassiere.
Police called the woman who owned the BB&T card and pill bottle. She said she knew Herndon had the items. The affidavit did not state whether she also owned the bra and underwear. Herndon, of Fort Pierce, was arrested on drug equipment possession and/or use and resist officer obstruct without violence charges.
With underwear bandit on the loose residents of Alaska briefed to be vigilant of their surroundings
During the past week, Alaska State Troopers in Kodiak have received a series of burglary reports, criminal trespass, and theft that they believe are related.
The troopers say citizens are returning home to find their residences have been entered and various items, but mostly womens' underwear, have been stolen and or rifled through. While investigating these crimes, AST has learned that other citizens in town have encountered similar events in the recent months, but have not reported them to law enforcement.
One of those is Hannah Clark, a fisherman who lives in Bells Flats. She said she started noticing some of her things were moved around in her home over the summer when she'd come back in from fishing. She said it didn't really sink in until on Wednesday that those incidents and her missing underwear were related.
“I can't believe there is an actual underwear bandit,” she said. What makes it worse, Clark said, is she just got a $150 order from Victoria Secrets and they're all gone. Clark said at least the underwear bandit has good taste. Troopers are reminding the public not to leave their homes unsecured and to be vigilant of their surroundings, and to report any suspicious activity. The investigation by troopers is ongoing and they're asking anyone with further information regarding this or similar activity to contact them.
The troopers say citizens are returning home to find their residences have been entered and various items, but mostly womens' underwear, have been stolen and or rifled through. While investigating these crimes, AST has learned that other citizens in town have encountered similar events in the recent months, but have not reported them to law enforcement.
One of those is Hannah Clark, a fisherman who lives in Bells Flats. She said she started noticing some of her things were moved around in her home over the summer when she'd come back in from fishing. She said it didn't really sink in until on Wednesday that those incidents and her missing underwear were related.
“I can't believe there is an actual underwear bandit,” she said. What makes it worse, Clark said, is she just got a $150 order from Victoria Secrets and they're all gone. Clark said at least the underwear bandit has good taste. Troopers are reminding the public not to leave their homes unsecured and to be vigilant of their surroundings, and to report any suspicious activity. The investigation by troopers is ongoing and they're asking anyone with further information regarding this or similar activity to contact them.
Man and his fish rescued from lake
A boater who was reeling in a big fish on Canandaigua Lake, New York, on Tuesday morning was rescued after falling into the lake. A woman on the southeast shore of the lake heard the man yelling and a crew removing docks came to the man’s rescue, pulling John R. Maloney, 63, of Rochester, safely out of the lake as Maloney hung onto his fishing pole and his 2-foot long rainbow trout.
“He was cold when we got him,” said Andrew Buchanan, owner of ACS Docks.
Buchanan and his crew pulled Maloney from the 50-degree water onto their barge. “He had a cooler around his neck and he told one of my guys he didn’t want to lose his fish so we reeled his fish in,” Buchanan said. Ontario County Sheriff’s deputies said they responded at about 9:30am to the south end of the lake for a boater who had fallen in and was yelling for help. Deputies said Ann Berry who was at a rental property in Middlesex, observed Maloney fall into the water and heard him yelling to her to call for help.
Maloney was fishing about 200 yards from shore and while trying to reel in a fish his 10-foot aluminum boat started taking on water, causing the boat to shift and sending Maloney into the water, deputies said. Maloney was in the water for 15 minutes before he was rescued by Buchanan and his crew. The crew was working in the area, going from one cottage to another removing docks. After being pulled up on the barge Buchanan was operating, Maloney was taken to Smiths Marina in Woodville.
Naples Fire department and ambulance responded to the scene, along with the Ontario County Sheriff’s boat patrol. Maloney was treated and released at the scene for exposure to the cold. Maloney was wearing a life jacket/vest that saved his life, deputies said. The lake is 100 feet deep in the area where the incident occurred and the temperature of the water was 50 degrees, deputies said. Maloney’s boat was not recovered and is believed to be submerged about 100 feet down. The boat had an electric motor so no fuel was released into the lake, deputies said. Deputies noted in their report that Maloney “was able to hang onto his fishing pole and the 2' rainbow trout he caught.”
Buchanan and his crew pulled Maloney from the 50-degree water onto their barge. “He had a cooler around his neck and he told one of my guys he didn’t want to lose his fish so we reeled his fish in,” Buchanan said. Ontario County Sheriff’s deputies said they responded at about 9:30am to the south end of the lake for a boater who had fallen in and was yelling for help. Deputies said Ann Berry who was at a rental property in Middlesex, observed Maloney fall into the water and heard him yelling to her to call for help.
Maloney was fishing about 200 yards from shore and while trying to reel in a fish his 10-foot aluminum boat started taking on water, causing the boat to shift and sending Maloney into the water, deputies said. Maloney was in the water for 15 minutes before he was rescued by Buchanan and his crew. The crew was working in the area, going from one cottage to another removing docks. After being pulled up on the barge Buchanan was operating, Maloney was taken to Smiths Marina in Woodville.
Naples Fire department and ambulance responded to the scene, along with the Ontario County Sheriff’s boat patrol. Maloney was treated and released at the scene for exposure to the cold. Maloney was wearing a life jacket/vest that saved his life, deputies said. The lake is 100 feet deep in the area where the incident occurred and the temperature of the water was 50 degrees, deputies said. Maloney’s boat was not recovered and is believed to be submerged about 100 feet down. The boat had an electric motor so no fuel was released into the lake, deputies said. Deputies noted in their report that Maloney “was able to hang onto his fishing pole and the 2' rainbow trout he caught.”
Pregnant schoolgirl mannequins shock shoppers in Venezuelan shopping mall
A display showing mannequins of pregnant schoolgirls at a Caracas mall is shocking shoppers and stirring debate over sex education in Venezuela.
Two local charities have dressed up three mannequins behind a shop window as girls with bulging stomachs under the blue uniforms used by school children here until age 15.
The idea is to draw attention to an adolescent pregnancy rate they say is one of the worst in South America with one girl under-18 becoming pregnant every three minutes and 23 percent of all births coming in that age category.
"I think it's horrible, awful. If I was a mother, I wouldn't want my child to see that," said scandalised student Kelly Hernandez, 18, clasping her hand over her mouth as she took a double-take at the display on Wednesday. Her friend Auriselvia Torrealba, 20, was more sympathetic, seeing a higher purpose to the shock campaign. "Yes, it's disturbing to see in a window. But it's the truth. You see pregnant girls all the time on the streets. So this forces you to think about the problem, doesn't it?"
While Venezuela's socialist government says education and children's rights have improved enormously during its 15 years in power, non-governmental agencies say sex education needs to be improved and parents need to take the subject more seriously. The two children's charities behind the campaign, Fundana and Construyendo Futuros, are delighted with the controversy and publicity around their display. "It's amazing seeing people react as they walk by. This is such a taboo subject in Venezuela, we want people to talk about it,"
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Construyendo Futuros president Thalma Cohen said. "Some people get angry and complain. Others congratulate us." The display runs for a month and may be extended to other malls around the nation of 30 million people. It comes days after a United Nations women's rights watchdog expressed "deep concern" to Venezuela about the high number of teenage pregnancies and associated maternal mortality. According to the most recent U.N. data, Venezuela had an adolescent birth rate of 101 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, one of the highest in Latin America, in 2010. Maternal mortality was 92 per 100,000 live births, which is around mid-range for the region.
"I think it's horrible, awful. If I was a mother, I wouldn't want my child to see that," said scandalised student Kelly Hernandez, 18, clasping her hand over her mouth as she took a double-take at the display on Wednesday. Her friend Auriselvia Torrealba, 20, was more sympathetic, seeing a higher purpose to the shock campaign. "Yes, it's disturbing to see in a window. But it's the truth. You see pregnant girls all the time on the streets. So this forces you to think about the problem, doesn't it?"
While Venezuela's socialist government says education and children's rights have improved enormously during its 15 years in power, non-governmental agencies say sex education needs to be improved and parents need to take the subject more seriously. The two children's charities behind the campaign, Fundana and Construyendo Futuros, are delighted with the controversy and publicity around their display. "It's amazing seeing people react as they walk by. This is such a taboo subject in Venezuela, we want people to talk about it,"
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Construyendo Futuros president Thalma Cohen said. "Some people get angry and complain. Others congratulate us." The display runs for a month and may be extended to other malls around the nation of 30 million people. It comes days after a United Nations women's rights watchdog expressed "deep concern" to Venezuela about the high number of teenage pregnancies and associated maternal mortality. According to the most recent U.N. data, Venezuela had an adolescent birth rate of 101 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, one of the highest in Latin America, in 2010. Maternal mortality was 92 per 100,000 live births, which is around mid-range for the region.
Criticism after genitalia replaced by ducklings, dolphins and polar bears in Turkish schoolbooks
Images of human genitalia have been removed from some school textbooks in Turkey, stirring a new debate on censorship and the imposition of a conservative agenda.
Abdullah Tunalı, a psychology expert who once chaired the İzmir branch of the teachers’ union Eğitim Sen, compared this year’s sixth grade science and technology textbooks with those used in last year’s curriculum, finding that the images in a chapter titled “Reproduction, Growth and Development in Living Beings” had been controversially changed this year.
“In the past, the inner structure of genitalia was explained to children in appropriate ways for their development, just like heart and kidneys were pictured. But the sixth grade science and technology textbook has been seriously censored this year,” Tunalı said. In the new version of the book, genitalia have only been drawn on the cell level, while the reproduction chapter has been “evaded” with photos of a mother and a baby, as well as cute animals such as ducklings, dolphins and polar bears, he added.
Tunalı also claimed that the same section is now being taught “shortly, superficially and in a slapdash manner.” “We think the introductory information about a subject that is covered in more detail in the eighth class is not being taught healthily, as it has been censored,” he said. “If scientific information is not taught at schools, a child’s development can be harmed,” Tunalı added, warning that such “censorship” may lead children to look for adult-only, missing or misleading material on the Internet.
Abdullah Tunalı, a psychology expert who once chaired the İzmir branch of the teachers’ union Eğitim Sen, compared this year’s sixth grade science and technology textbooks with those used in last year’s curriculum, finding that the images in a chapter titled “Reproduction, Growth and Development in Living Beings” had been controversially changed this year.
“In the past, the inner structure of genitalia was explained to children in appropriate ways for their development, just like heart and kidneys were pictured. But the sixth grade science and technology textbook has been seriously censored this year,” Tunalı said. In the new version of the book, genitalia have only been drawn on the cell level, while the reproduction chapter has been “evaded” with photos of a mother and a baby, as well as cute animals such as ducklings, dolphins and polar bears, he added.
Tunalı also claimed that the same section is now being taught “shortly, superficially and in a slapdash manner.” “We think the introductory information about a subject that is covered in more detail in the eighth class is not being taught healthily, as it has been censored,” he said. “If scientific information is not taught at schools, a child’s development can be harmed,” Tunalı added, warning that such “censorship” may lead children to look for adult-only, missing or misleading material on the Internet.
Woman who suffers seizures every time she hears a Ne-Yo song has part of brain removed
A woman has had part of her brain removed in a bid to stop crippling brain seizures which are triggered by the sound of Ne-Yo's voice.
Zoe Fennessy, 26, has an epileptic seizure within seconds of hearing his voice, making her freeze, vomit and unable to react to the world around her.
She has to wear earphones whenever she goes shopping just in case the singer's tunes are played.
And if she hears one of his song's she has to cover her ears and run away otherwise she has a seizure which can leave her exhausted for days.
Surgeons removed part of her left frontal lobe in June in a bid to stop the affliction, but it didn't work and baffled medics reckon the mum will have the condition forever.
Zoe said: "I don't dislike Ne-Yo or his music, it just dislikes me unfortunately.
"I'll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on. It's the same with most shops. I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don't have Ne-Yo on. If he ever releases a greatest hits album it's going to be a nightmare. Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run. People might think it is funny - and I can laugh at it myself - but it has taken over my life. It's ruined my life." Zoe, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, had her first seizure on New Year's Day in 2006 after a long period of sickness and doctors put it down to tiredness and stress. But when her seizures increased to six a DAY her GP booked her in for a brain test and doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy in 2008. But it wasn't until she heard Ne-Yo's 'Give Me Everything' featuring Pitbull - which topped the charts in May 2011 - that she had her first music-induced seizure.
"It took me a while to realise that they were being triggered by his songs, and I think it wasn't until I had heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on," said Zoe, who hasn't been able to work for six months. "The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and I said 'I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this song I have a seizure'. He said it was fascinating and that he had never heard anything like it, and I said that while it might be fascinating, I was really struggling - the song was everywhere at the time." She was referred to Sheffield's Hallamshire hospital where doctors played her Ne-Yo songs and were amazed when they induced a seizure. Her doctors notes from the time say: "We recognised a few musicogenic seizures arising from the right temporal lobe stimulated by songs sung by Neyo." Another added: "During her admission she was listening to the radio on [her] iPhone when a specific song came on the radio that triggers her fits (Pitbull Ne-Yo - Tonight). She called for assistance at this point and she was noted to be shaking and looking rather anxious and acting a bit confused.
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"The following day we deliberately played the song and exactly the same symptoms arose." The music attacks got more difficult to manage as the singer became more popular with every song he released, including top ten hits 'Let's Go' and 'Turn Around' in 2012. The 15 second seizures, which happen in her right temporal lobe, leave her 'staring blankly' and after they pass she will vomit, be very thirsty and feel extremely sleepy. In June this year Zoe endured a six-hour long operation to remove a huge chunk of her left temporal lobe where doctors thought all her seizures may originate. But while the number of fits were dramatically reduced, she still has a fit every time she hears Ne-Yo's voice. She said a recent holiday to Majorca - just after the singer released his song Play Hard with David Guetta - was a 'nightmare' with the song playing in every bar. "I have had to go up to DJs in places and say 'look can you not play Ne-Yo' and they just look at me like I'm an alien," said Zoe. "[Doctors] are saying it could possibly be something in the tone of his voice, something like that, but it doesn't happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound. It is only him, only Ne-Yo. Our holiday this year to Majorca was a nightmare. Honestly it was like being at a Ne-Yo concert - the song was everywhere. I had to stay in the hotel room for most of the holiday because it got so bad."
"I'll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on. It's the same with most shops. I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don't have Ne-Yo on. If he ever releases a greatest hits album it's going to be a nightmare. Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run. People might think it is funny - and I can laugh at it myself - but it has taken over my life. It's ruined my life." Zoe, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, had her first seizure on New Year's Day in 2006 after a long period of sickness and doctors put it down to tiredness and stress. But when her seizures increased to six a DAY her GP booked her in for a brain test and doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy in 2008. But it wasn't until she heard Ne-Yo's 'Give Me Everything' featuring Pitbull - which topped the charts in May 2011 - that she had her first music-induced seizure.
"It took me a while to realise that they were being triggered by his songs, and I think it wasn't until I had heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on," said Zoe, who hasn't been able to work for six months. "The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and I said 'I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this song I have a seizure'. He said it was fascinating and that he had never heard anything like it, and I said that while it might be fascinating, I was really struggling - the song was everywhere at the time." She was referred to Sheffield's Hallamshire hospital where doctors played her Ne-Yo songs and were amazed when they induced a seizure. Her doctors notes from the time say: "We recognised a few musicogenic seizures arising from the right temporal lobe stimulated by songs sung by Neyo." Another added: "During her admission she was listening to the radio on [her] iPhone when a specific song came on the radio that triggers her fits (Pitbull Ne-Yo - Tonight). She called for assistance at this point and she was noted to be shaking and looking rather anxious and acting a bit confused.
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"The following day we deliberately played the song and exactly the same symptoms arose." The music attacks got more difficult to manage as the singer became more popular with every song he released, including top ten hits 'Let's Go' and 'Turn Around' in 2012. The 15 second seizures, which happen in her right temporal lobe, leave her 'staring blankly' and after they pass she will vomit, be very thirsty and feel extremely sleepy. In June this year Zoe endured a six-hour long operation to remove a huge chunk of her left temporal lobe where doctors thought all her seizures may originate. But while the number of fits were dramatically reduced, she still has a fit every time she hears Ne-Yo's voice. She said a recent holiday to Majorca - just after the singer released his song Play Hard with David Guetta - was a 'nightmare' with the song playing in every bar. "I have had to go up to DJs in places and say 'look can you not play Ne-Yo' and they just look at me like I'm an alien," said Zoe. "[Doctors] are saying it could possibly be something in the tone of his voice, something like that, but it doesn't happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound. It is only him, only Ne-Yo. Our holiday this year to Majorca was a nightmare. Honestly it was like being at a Ne-Yo concert - the song was everywhere. I had to stay in the hotel room for most of the holiday because it got so bad."
Young swan saved from harm with toy cones as PCSOs have Hot Fuzz moment
A cygnet that had a snooze in the middle of a road in Bath on Thursday morning was saved from harm with the help of some toy cones.
It had been pursued by PCSOs, just like in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz, before the young swan decided to take a nap. It is thought the coloured cones came from a nearby playgroup.
Another cygnet was discovered trapped in a nearby cemetery. PCSO Mike Symonds said it was not the first time he had dealt with swans so he and his colleague knew what to do. "We put blankets over their heads to pacify them and carried them to the canal," Mr Symonds said.
Fellow PCSO Ashley Bintcliffe said: "They were young birds but pretty big and strong. Luckily they stayed quite calm, although one tried to give me a good pecking and the other left Mike needing a change of trousers. They seemed happy enough to be back on water and soon paddled off. Hopefully they'll stay off the roads in future."
It had been pursued by PCSOs, just like in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz, before the young swan decided to take a nap. It is thought the coloured cones came from a nearby playgroup.
Another cygnet was discovered trapped in a nearby cemetery. PCSO Mike Symonds said it was not the first time he had dealt with swans so he and his colleague knew what to do. "We put blankets over their heads to pacify them and carried them to the canal," Mr Symonds said.
Fellow PCSO Ashley Bintcliffe said: "They were young birds but pretty big and strong. Luckily they stayed quite calm, although one tried to give me a good pecking and the other left Mike needing a change of trousers. They seemed happy enough to be back on water and soon paddled off. Hopefully they'll stay off the roads in future."
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