Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Pig on ice
Phinny the pig struggles on a frozen path.
YouTube link. Original YouTube video. (Sadly poor quality.) Original Facebook video.
YouTube link. Original YouTube video. (Sadly poor quality.) Original Facebook video.
Suspected arsonist and frozen sausage and elk meat thief found fully clothed in hot tub
At his court appearance last Tuesday afternoon, William Alva Riley didn't explain exactly what he was doing the morning of his alleged crime spree.
Whatever it was put him fully clothed and wearing a parka, sitting in someone's hot tub.
The unusual case started when Marion County Sheriff’s investigators believe Riley crashed a U-Haul truck not far from the crime scenes in Salem, Oregon.
Riley was discovered in the hot tub after he'd apparently turned off one home's electricity and the homeowner came outside to investigate. Deputies said Riley ran to hide in another neighbour's pickup truck. Looking over his property near Salem, Jim Roth believes the man suspected in the early Monday morning crime spree along his road also got into his stuff.
“I've got a couple of fuel tanks over here and he had tampered with those," he said. Roth also found stolen packages of frozen sausage and elk meat. “He was maybe trying to warm some frozen food up," he said. "And then he brought it with him over here apparently.” Jim Roth said no one knew at first that Riley had got his hands on a machete. “My neighbour there also had a machete that was missing,” Roth says, “And they noticed that after they arrested him.
“The machete was in the pickup that they actually found him in.” Roth said evidence was found everywhere, “So he had been evidently going back-and-forth between two or three different places during the course of the night and, you know, doing who knows what.” At another nearby home, there was a torched lawn mower, a burned wall and smoke damage. The residents had been on vacation and came home to find their house damaged.
With news video.
Riley was discovered in the hot tub after he'd apparently turned off one home's electricity and the homeowner came outside to investigate. Deputies said Riley ran to hide in another neighbour's pickup truck. Looking over his property near Salem, Jim Roth believes the man suspected in the early Monday morning crime spree along his road also got into his stuff.
“I've got a couple of fuel tanks over here and he had tampered with those," he said. Roth also found stolen packages of frozen sausage and elk meat. “He was maybe trying to warm some frozen food up," he said. "And then he brought it with him over here apparently.” Jim Roth said no one knew at first that Riley had got his hands on a machete. “My neighbour there also had a machete that was missing,” Roth says, “And they noticed that after they arrested him.
“The machete was in the pickup that they actually found him in.” Roth said evidence was found everywhere, “So he had been evidently going back-and-forth between two or three different places during the course of the night and, you know, doing who knows what.” At another nearby home, there was a torched lawn mower, a burned wall and smoke damage. The residents had been on vacation and came home to find their house damaged.
With news video.
Crash between bus and dump truck gave flasher a captive audience
A collision between a bus and a dump truck restricted traffic in central Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday afternoon. But the incident took a more vulgar turn when a flasher appeared at the scene.
Shortly after the crash a man ran out from behind a nearby row of bushes and flashed everyone gathered in the area before running away, according to passengers at the scene.
The flasher seized the opportunity that arose at about 1 pm, according to passengers and eye witnesses. The dump truck had exited a nearby construction zone and hit the front, right bumper of the bus.
The dump truck was removing debris from a canal construction site. A new bus came to pick up the passengers and re-start the route. No one was injured in the incident.
Shortly after the crash a man ran out from behind a nearby row of bushes and flashed everyone gathered in the area before running away, according to passengers at the scene.
The flasher seized the opportunity that arose at about 1 pm, according to passengers and eye witnesses. The dump truck had exited a nearby construction zone and hit the front, right bumper of the bus.
The dump truck was removing debris from a canal construction site. A new bus came to pick up the passengers and re-start the route. No one was injured in the incident.
Hunter attacked by deer he'd shot with arrow
A man was injured on Friday evening in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, when he was attacked by the deer that he had wounded with an arrow.
The 72-year-old man was transported by ambulance to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, according to Fond du Lac Sheriff's Officer Jeff Bonack. The ambulance call came in at around 7:30pm.
The man was out bow hunting earlier with a crossbow on the Peebles Trail in the town of Taycheedah. He wounded the doe with an arrow and went back out later to track the animal, Bonack said.
"Apparently the man was going through some thick brush and the deer leaped out and went after him," Bonack said. "The doe struck him in the leg with her head." Bonack said the 72-year-old had been out hunting with other family members. "I'm guessing the deer got away," Bonack said. The man's condition is unknown.
The 72-year-old man was transported by ambulance to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, according to Fond du Lac Sheriff's Officer Jeff Bonack. The ambulance call came in at around 7:30pm.
The man was out bow hunting earlier with a crossbow on the Peebles Trail in the town of Taycheedah. He wounded the doe with an arrow and went back out later to track the animal, Bonack said.
"Apparently the man was going through some thick brush and the deer leaped out and went after him," Bonack said. "The doe struck him in the leg with her head." Bonack said the 72-year-old had been out hunting with other family members. "I'm guessing the deer got away," Bonack said. The man's condition is unknown.
Emu spotted running through traffic in Israel
Residents of the coastal Israeli city of Herzliya saw an unusual sight on Sunday afternoon, as an emu ran down a road in the rain.
One resident said he was concerned the bird, which was running at nearly 40 kilometres (about 25 miles) an hour, could cause an accident.
"I called the police and reported the emu sighting. They were stunned. As I drove, I noticed that a city vehicle had arrived to deal with the emu and was zigzagging between lanes, but I was the only one who managed to chase after it with my scooter," he said. He said he tried to stop the emu a number of times, but it tried to attack him.
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After several minutes of chasing the bird, the resident managed to steer it towards a lawn. Two employees of Herzliya's City Hall Veterinarian Department arrived after a few minutes and joined the attempt to capture the emu; one of them managed to grab it by the neck, but the emu went wild and tried to kick and peck at him.
Herzliya City Hall confirmed the report and said they were holding the emu until the Nature and Parks Authority had looked into the incident. Sources said the emu probably escaped from an unregistered farm somewhere in Israel's centre. City Hall has been attempting to find the owner.
With additional video, including the bird's capture.
"I called the police and reported the emu sighting. They were stunned. As I drove, I noticed that a city vehicle had arrived to deal with the emu and was zigzagging between lanes, but I was the only one who managed to chase after it with my scooter," he said. He said he tried to stop the emu a number of times, but it tried to attack him.
YouTube link.
After several minutes of chasing the bird, the resident managed to steer it towards a lawn. Two employees of Herzliya's City Hall Veterinarian Department arrived after a few minutes and joined the attempt to capture the emu; one of them managed to grab it by the neck, but the emu went wild and tried to kick and peck at him.
Herzliya City Hall confirmed the report and said they were holding the emu until the Nature and Parks Authority had looked into the incident. Sources said the emu probably escaped from an unregistered farm somewhere in Israel's centre. City Hall has been attempting to find the owner.
With additional video, including the bird's capture.
Farmer forced to cut his herd of Nazi cows due to their aggressive behaviour
A farmer who owns Britain's only Nazi cows has been forced to cut the size of his herd because they are too aggressive.
The once-extinct aurochs were brought back to life by Adolf Hitler's scientists in the 1930s after officially dying out 4,000 years ago.
They arrived in Britain for the first time in 2009 when farmer Derek Gow imported 13 'Heck' cattle from Belgium to his Upcott Grange Farm at Lifton near Okehampton, Devon.
It was the first time the creatures had set foot on British soil since the Bronze Age.
But Mr Gow, 49, has now been forced to get rid of seven of the cows as he could not handle their "incredibly aggressive" nature.
He said: "We have had to cut out herd down to six because some of them were incredibly aggressive and we just couldn't handle them.
What the Germans did with their breeding programme was create something truly primeval."
Hitler saw the 'super cows' as a symbol of German and Aryan might and tasked leading geneticists, brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck, to bring the aurochs ''back into existence''. The pair traced the species' descendants to domestic breeds and managed to ''pull the wild genes out'' in a Jurassic Park-style experiment. The Hecks' programme at zoos in Berlin and Munich was so successful that the new aurochs flourished and were used in propaganda material during the Second World War. Derek says they were shorter than the aurochs, but retain their ancestors' muscular build, deep brown complexion, and shaggy, coffee-coloured fringe. He added: "Importing the cattle has been an interesting project for us - they have such an unusual history. There was a thinking around that time that you could selectively breed animals for Aryan characteristics, which were rooted in runes, folklore and legend."
The cattle, which have lethal-looking horns and a muscular build, are unlike any modern commercial breed of cow. They were almost destroyed following the defeat of Nazism in 1945, but some survived after they were shipped to game parks in Western Europe. Mr Gow said: "As far as being a commercial breed is concerned, they have little value, but they are a significant animal from a conservation point of view. For instance, each cow can produce its own weight in dung every year, which is a great source of food for insects and bugs and nutrients for the environment." Mr Gow said he got rid of some of the cows because they tried to kill his staff. But because the reserve they came from didn't want them back they have been sent to an abattoir. He said: ''The ones we had to get rid of would just attack you any chance they could. They would try to kill anyone. Dealing with that was not a lot of fun at all.
"I have worked with a range of different animals from bison to deer and I have never come across anything like these. They are by far and away the most aggressive animals I have ever worked with. Some were perfectly calm and quiet and they are the ones we have kept. The others you could not go near. We made sure no one went near them so there were never any incidents. To get them into the trailer to get them off the farm we used a young and very athletic young man to stand on the ramp and they charged at him before he quickly jumped out the way. They were so aggressive that was the only way. But that was as near as they came. No one else went anywhere near them. The reason the Nazis were so supportive of the project is they wanted them to be fierce and aggressive Despite these problems, I have no regrets at all. It has been a good thing to do and the history of them is fascinating."
Hitler saw the 'super cows' as a symbol of German and Aryan might and tasked leading geneticists, brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck, to bring the aurochs ''back into existence''. The pair traced the species' descendants to domestic breeds and managed to ''pull the wild genes out'' in a Jurassic Park-style experiment. The Hecks' programme at zoos in Berlin and Munich was so successful that the new aurochs flourished and were used in propaganda material during the Second World War. Derek says they were shorter than the aurochs, but retain their ancestors' muscular build, deep brown complexion, and shaggy, coffee-coloured fringe. He added: "Importing the cattle has been an interesting project for us - they have such an unusual history. There was a thinking around that time that you could selectively breed animals for Aryan characteristics, which were rooted in runes, folklore and legend."
The cattle, which have lethal-looking horns and a muscular build, are unlike any modern commercial breed of cow. They were almost destroyed following the defeat of Nazism in 1945, but some survived after they were shipped to game parks in Western Europe. Mr Gow said: "As far as being a commercial breed is concerned, they have little value, but they are a significant animal from a conservation point of view. For instance, each cow can produce its own weight in dung every year, which is a great source of food for insects and bugs and nutrients for the environment." Mr Gow said he got rid of some of the cows because they tried to kill his staff. But because the reserve they came from didn't want them back they have been sent to an abattoir. He said: ''The ones we had to get rid of would just attack you any chance they could. They would try to kill anyone. Dealing with that was not a lot of fun at all.
"I have worked with a range of different animals from bison to deer and I have never come across anything like these. They are by far and away the most aggressive animals I have ever worked with. Some were perfectly calm and quiet and they are the ones we have kept. The others you could not go near. We made sure no one went near them so there were never any incidents. To get them into the trailer to get them off the farm we used a young and very athletic young man to stand on the ramp and they charged at him before he quickly jumped out the way. They were so aggressive that was the only way. But that was as near as they came. No one else went anywhere near them. The reason the Nazis were so supportive of the project is they wanted them to be fierce and aggressive Despite these problems, I have no regrets at all. It has been a good thing to do and the history of them is fascinating."
Man exposed himself on miniature railway platform
A man has been given a community order for exposing himself on the platform of a miniature railway.
Phillip Plumridge, 47, was seen carrying out a sex act near the ice cream kiosk at the Trago Mills shopping destination in Newton Abbot, Devon.
Magistrates in Torquay had previously been told that Plumridge had exposed himself on the platform of the railway and carried out a sex act in front of a female employee of Trago Mills on Tuesday, April 29.
The woman told the court she had struck up a conversation earlier with Plumridge while he was having an ice cream in the cafe. She said later she noticed his flies were undone and she could see his private parts. She continued: “I was shocked and did not say anything as I could not believe it.” She said she saw him carrying out a sex act. She told magistrates: “He was staring at me. I felt sick and his action worried me.” Plumridge said he was actually urinating, or trying to.
In his police interview he said his flies had no button and he was unaware that his penis was showing. “I was trying to pee,” he said in his police statement. “When you have to pee, you have to pee. Sometimes I have to do it for a few minutes and to pee I have to press on my bladder.” The court was also told that Plumridge had a medical condition resulting from gall bladder surgery that means he could get caught short and takes longer to urinate.
Plumridge said he did not think he could be seen and did not want to be seen, and thought the railway was closed that day and it was all quiet. “I was going for a pee in public, I am guilty of that,” he added in his statement. Plumridge had denied the charge of exposure but was found guilty in his absence earlier this year. The matter was adjourned for reports. Returning to court for sentence this week Plumridge was given a three year community order to include supervision along with a 28 day sex offenders’ treatment programme. The defendant, now of Fordingbridge in Hampshire, was also fined £300, ordered to pay £240 towards costs and a victim surcharge of £60.
The woman told the court she had struck up a conversation earlier with Plumridge while he was having an ice cream in the cafe. She said later she noticed his flies were undone and she could see his private parts. She continued: “I was shocked and did not say anything as I could not believe it.” She said she saw him carrying out a sex act. She told magistrates: “He was staring at me. I felt sick and his action worried me.” Plumridge said he was actually urinating, or trying to.
In his police interview he said his flies had no button and he was unaware that his penis was showing. “I was trying to pee,” he said in his police statement. “When you have to pee, you have to pee. Sometimes I have to do it for a few minutes and to pee I have to press on my bladder.” The court was also told that Plumridge had a medical condition resulting from gall bladder surgery that means he could get caught short and takes longer to urinate.
Plumridge said he did not think he could be seen and did not want to be seen, and thought the railway was closed that day and it was all quiet. “I was going for a pee in public, I am guilty of that,” he added in his statement. Plumridge had denied the charge of exposure but was found guilty in his absence earlier this year. The matter was adjourned for reports. Returning to court for sentence this week Plumridge was given a three year community order to include supervision along with a 28 day sex offenders’ treatment programme. The defendant, now of Fordingbridge in Hampshire, was also fined £300, ordered to pay £240 towards costs and a victim surcharge of £60.
Space hopper man pulled over by police while bouncing through underpass
Police pulled over a man bouncing along on a space hopper through the Marketgait underpass in Dundee at around 3am on New Year's Day.
Witness Jamie Shankland, 25, said he spotted a police presence as he was driving west toward the underpass entrance.
He said: “I was driving up towards the tunnel on my way to pick up a friend when I noticed the police were speaking to a guy at the entrance. He was running out from inside the tunnel when police stopped him. He looked very drunk and police had blocked the left-hand lane because he was on the road.
“I had to pass slowly and, as I did, I saw another policeman walking up the tunnel to pick up a red space hopper. At first I wondered what it was, but then I saw the two wee horns sticking out the top.” Jamie says the man who had been stopped looked a little sheepish when he realised he had been caught. “The look on his face was priceless,” he said.
“You could tell he was thinking ‘what have I done?’.” He added: “Only in Dundee would you see someone on a space hopper getting stopped by the police, going through the tunnel in town. God knows where he even got the space hopper from. He must have taken it out with him.” A spokesman for Police Scotland Tayside Division confirmed a space hopper had been spotted in the area around the time the incident took place, but said no formal action was taken.
He said: “I was driving up towards the tunnel on my way to pick up a friend when I noticed the police were speaking to a guy at the entrance. He was running out from inside the tunnel when police stopped him. He looked very drunk and police had blocked the left-hand lane because he was on the road.
“I had to pass slowly and, as I did, I saw another policeman walking up the tunnel to pick up a red space hopper. At first I wondered what it was, but then I saw the two wee horns sticking out the top.” Jamie says the man who had been stopped looked a little sheepish when he realised he had been caught. “The look on his face was priceless,” he said.
“You could tell he was thinking ‘what have I done?’.” He added: “Only in Dundee would you see someone on a space hopper getting stopped by the police, going through the tunnel in town. God knows where he even got the space hopper from. He must have taken it out with him.” A spokesman for Police Scotland Tayside Division confirmed a space hopper had been spotted in the area around the time the incident took place, but said no formal action was taken.
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