Friday, January 30, 2015
Lioness reunited with her pride
After somehow becoming separated for three days, this lioness in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, was reunited with the rest of her pride.
They seem quite pleased to see each other again.
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They seem quite pleased to see each other again.
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Woman naked from the waist down and sitting on top of empty whisky bottle arrested for DUI
A female driver who was not wearing pants or underwear was sitting on top of an empty bottle of Black Velvet whisky when police approached her following a recent traffic accident, according to a court complaint charging the motorist with drunk driving, lewdness, and other criminal counts.
Pennsylvania police allege that Justine King, 33, struck another vehicle at around 11pm while driving near her home in Aliquippa, a city outside Pittsburgh.
Police found King in the driver’s seat of her 2003 Chevrolet Malibu “with airbags deployed.” The vehicle was sitting in an intersection. When told that she had hit another car, King replied, “No I did not. I live around the corner and was just picking up my boyfriend.” While peering into the vehicle, an officer “observed that King was not wearing any pants or underpants.” The garments, the officer added, “were on the driver’s side under the pedals.”
Officer Joshua Stanga also reported that King “was sitting naked on top of an open empty bottle of Black Velvet liquor.” When directed to put on her clothes and exit the vehicle, King said, “I don’t have any pants! I left my home without them!” After ignoring several demands to get out of the car, King was pulled from the vehicle, handcuffed, and placed into a police cruiser. She was “extremely belligerent, kicking, pulling away, and struggling” as Stanga sought to detain her, according to the complaint.
Asked to identify herself, King responded, “The government got my name. You ain’t getting it! Ask the government.” King, who eventually provided her name, kicked out the cruiser’s back window, while also “continuously banging her head off the inside of the window panel.” King was charged earlier this month in connection with the September 30 incident. The January 15 complaint accuses her of drunk driving, resisting arrest, reckless driving, open lewdness, and disorderly conduct. She is scheduled for a February 20 District Court arraignment.
Police found King in the driver’s seat of her 2003 Chevrolet Malibu “with airbags deployed.” The vehicle was sitting in an intersection. When told that she had hit another car, King replied, “No I did not. I live around the corner and was just picking up my boyfriend.” While peering into the vehicle, an officer “observed that King was not wearing any pants or underpants.” The garments, the officer added, “were on the driver’s side under the pedals.”
Officer Joshua Stanga also reported that King “was sitting naked on top of an open empty bottle of Black Velvet liquor.” When directed to put on her clothes and exit the vehicle, King said, “I don’t have any pants! I left my home without them!” After ignoring several demands to get out of the car, King was pulled from the vehicle, handcuffed, and placed into a police cruiser. She was “extremely belligerent, kicking, pulling away, and struggling” as Stanga sought to detain her, according to the complaint.
Asked to identify herself, King responded, “The government got my name. You ain’t getting it! Ask the government.” King, who eventually provided her name, kicked out the cruiser’s back window, while also “continuously banging her head off the inside of the window panel.” King was charged earlier this month in connection with the September 30 incident. The January 15 complaint accuses her of drunk driving, resisting arrest, reckless driving, open lewdness, and disorderly conduct. She is scheduled for a February 20 District Court arraignment.
Poo on gym floor led to school forcing students to pull down their underwear for inspection
Parents in Gustine, a small town 90 miles south west of Fort Worth in Texas, want answers after elementary students were ordered to pull down their pants after faeces were found on the floor of the school gym.
"I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't want to do it," said 11-year-old Eliza Medina. "I felt like they violated my privacy."
Eliza's mother, Maria Medina, said boys were taken to one room, girls to another, and they were ordered "To pull down their pants to check them to see if they could find anything."
Eliza's mother explained that educators "have been finding poop on the gym floor." She can imagine the frustration, but said even for faeces on the floor you don't partially strip search a group of students to find the culprit. "I was furious... I mean, I was furious," Medina said. "If you can't do your job or you don't know what you're doing, you need to be fired. You shouldn't be here." Eliza said she tried to protest. "I said I didn't want to, but I was told I had to because all the kids had to."
Gustine Independent School District Superintendent Ken Baugh acknowledged that making kids drop their drawers goes too far. "That's not appropriate, and we do not condone that. So you would take disciplinary action." But Baugh said early into the investigation, his understanding is that the children were told to lower their pants just a little. Eliza Medina insists it was more than that. "Like... to where your butt is," is how she put it.
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And her mother contends that even if it were just a little (which she doesn't think it was), having kids line up and expose their underwear for inspection is simply unacceptable. "Wrong is wrong," Medina said. The superintendent is hoping to have his investigation into this incident wrapped up soon, after he has heard from all parties involved. However, some angry parents are already planning to show up at the next school board meeting to demand that someone be held accountable. "Maybe we can find a much better way to solve this," Superintendent Baugh added.
Eliza's mother explained that educators "have been finding poop on the gym floor." She can imagine the frustration, but said even for faeces on the floor you don't partially strip search a group of students to find the culprit. "I was furious... I mean, I was furious," Medina said. "If you can't do your job or you don't know what you're doing, you need to be fired. You shouldn't be here." Eliza said she tried to protest. "I said I didn't want to, but I was told I had to because all the kids had to."
Gustine Independent School District Superintendent Ken Baugh acknowledged that making kids drop their drawers goes too far. "That's not appropriate, and we do not condone that. So you would take disciplinary action." But Baugh said early into the investigation, his understanding is that the children were told to lower their pants just a little. Eliza Medina insists it was more than that. "Like... to where your butt is," is how she put it.
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And her mother contends that even if it were just a little (which she doesn't think it was), having kids line up and expose their underwear for inspection is simply unacceptable. "Wrong is wrong," Medina said. The superintendent is hoping to have his investigation into this incident wrapped up soon, after he has heard from all parties involved. However, some angry parents are already planning to show up at the next school board meeting to demand that someone be held accountable. "Maybe we can find a much better way to solve this," Superintendent Baugh added.
Company apologise for changing customer's name to Asshole
Lisa Brown from Spokane, Washington, was shocked on receiving her cable bill from Comcast to find that her husband’s name had been changed.
Instead of “Ricardo Brown”, it read “Asshole Brown”.
To make matters worse, Mrs Brown met resistance trying to get the billing name corrected.
"You know employees talk about customers behind their back and say things like this," ahe said. "But I've never seen anyone put something like this in writing. This falls into the category of 'What were they thinking?'" Brown said the family were having financial difficulties. She'd called Comcast to cancel the cable portion of her account, for which she had to pay a $60 fee.
The representative, however, escalated her call to a retention specialist who tried to persuade her to keep the cable service and sign a new two-year contract. "I am shocked," Brown said. "I was never rude. It could have been that person was upset because I didn't take the offer." Comcast's vice president of communications for the Washington region, said: "We have spoken with our customer and apologised for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change.
"We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behaviour and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again." "I'm a bit stunned by this" said Elliott. "Comcast is a big company. They can't control all their employees. But you'd think this is part of the basic training they give to their employees - don't call your customers assholes"
"You know employees talk about customers behind their back and say things like this," ahe said. "But I've never seen anyone put something like this in writing. This falls into the category of 'What were they thinking?'" Brown said the family were having financial difficulties. She'd called Comcast to cancel the cable portion of her account, for which she had to pay a $60 fee.
The representative, however, escalated her call to a retention specialist who tried to persuade her to keep the cable service and sign a new two-year contract. "I am shocked," Brown said. "I was never rude. It could have been that person was upset because I didn't take the offer." Comcast's vice president of communications for the Washington region, said: "We have spoken with our customer and apologised for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change.
"We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behaviour and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again." "I'm a bit stunned by this" said Elliott. "Comcast is a big company. They can't control all their employees. But you'd think this is part of the basic training they give to their employees - don't call your customers assholes"
Stressed railway employee who masturbated over sleeping pregnant passenger avoids jail
An employee of Metro-North Railroad who masturbated over a sleeping, pregnant passenger was given a suspended sentence on Monday.
Manny Ramos, who claimed he masturbated on the woman to relieve stress that had built up while training to be an engineer, pleaded guilty before state Superior Court Judge Earl Richards to fourth-degree sexual assault, public indecency and second-degree breach of peace.
"My daily commute from New York City to New Haven was really tough, and especially, being six months pregnant back then, I really, really felt tired," the 33-year-old victim stated in a statement read to the judge by Assistant State's Attorney Tatiana Messina. "But after the incident, I never snoozed or slept again on the train, since I was afraid that it could happen again. Considering that this horrible event happened during working time, I really think his future employers should know about what happened ... This clearly was a sexual attack, and he should have a record of this."
Richards sentenced 35-year-old Ramos to a two-year suspended term and three years' probation. The judge also ordered Ramos to register as a sex offender. "I believe that is in the interest of public safety," the judge added. Ramos, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was accused of masturbating on the woman at around 8am on Jan. 28, 2014, as the train travelled from Grand Central Terminal to New Haven. The woman, a medical researcher at Yale University, told Metropolitan Transportation Authority police that she yelled, and a startled Ramos immediately began zipping up, claiming, "It wasn't me."
Police said the woman screamed for other train riders to stop Ramos as he fled the train at the Fairfield station, but no one would help her. Ramos was arrested by Fairfield police as he was walking from the station. Ramos later provided a written confession, according to police reports, stating he was under a lot of stress because of problems with his wife and because he was about to take a final test to become an engineer. "I was studying for the test when I started to have unwanted thoughts," he told MTA police. "I began to touch myself when I felt ill with a headache and stressed, the next thing I knew I was masturbating." Ramos declined to comment as he left the courthouse.
"My daily commute from New York City to New Haven was really tough, and especially, being six months pregnant back then, I really, really felt tired," the 33-year-old victim stated in a statement read to the judge by Assistant State's Attorney Tatiana Messina. "But after the incident, I never snoozed or slept again on the train, since I was afraid that it could happen again. Considering that this horrible event happened during working time, I really think his future employers should know about what happened ... This clearly was a sexual attack, and he should have a record of this."
Richards sentenced 35-year-old Ramos to a two-year suspended term and three years' probation. The judge also ordered Ramos to register as a sex offender. "I believe that is in the interest of public safety," the judge added. Ramos, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was accused of masturbating on the woman at around 8am on Jan. 28, 2014, as the train travelled from Grand Central Terminal to New Haven. The woman, a medical researcher at Yale University, told Metropolitan Transportation Authority police that she yelled, and a startled Ramos immediately began zipping up, claiming, "It wasn't me."
Police said the woman screamed for other train riders to stop Ramos as he fled the train at the Fairfield station, but no one would help her. Ramos was arrested by Fairfield police as he was walking from the station. Ramos later provided a written confession, according to police reports, stating he was under a lot of stress because of problems with his wife and because he was about to take a final test to become an engineer. "I was studying for the test when I started to have unwanted thoughts," he told MTA police. "I began to touch myself when I felt ill with a headache and stressed, the next thing I knew I was masturbating." Ramos declined to comment as he left the courthouse.
Woman unwittingly drove around for more than a decade with 13 pounds of marijuana in van door
A New Mexico woman got a big surprise this week when she discovered her van had a hidden secret.
Melodie Peil bought the 1990 Chevy at an Alamogordo dealership in the early 2000s. Since then, she’s used it to shuttle her four kids and two grandkids all over the state, but that’s not all the eight-seater has been shuttling around.
“Lo and behold, we discovered something that didn’t belong there,” said Peil. Tucked away in the passenger side door of the family-friend van was 13.5 pounds of marijuana. “It was pretty shocking,” she said. Peil said she was having a hard time getting the door to lock, so a friend pried open the panel to fix it. That’s when bricks of more-than decade-old marijuana fell out.
Police say the drugs were likely stashed there by the van’s previous owner, more than 13 years ago. “It was packaged typically how the drug traffickers package marijuana. You know, they wrap it in foil, they wrapped it in saran wrap real tightly,” said Alamogordo Detective Lieutenant Roger Schoolcraft.
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Peil didn’t just drive the van to the grocery store and back. It’s gone through at least 10 border patrol checkpoints in New Mexico and it passed every time. Police say it’s likely because the weed was so old and it was packaged so well. Police have now destroyed the pot. As for the previous owner, all the family knows is that he is from Germany.
“Lo and behold, we discovered something that didn’t belong there,” said Peil. Tucked away in the passenger side door of the family-friend van was 13.5 pounds of marijuana. “It was pretty shocking,” she said. Peil said she was having a hard time getting the door to lock, so a friend pried open the panel to fix it. That’s when bricks of more-than decade-old marijuana fell out.
Police say the drugs were likely stashed there by the van’s previous owner, more than 13 years ago. “It was packaged typically how the drug traffickers package marijuana. You know, they wrap it in foil, they wrapped it in saran wrap real tightly,” said Alamogordo Detective Lieutenant Roger Schoolcraft.
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Peil didn’t just drive the van to the grocery store and back. It’s gone through at least 10 border patrol checkpoints in New Mexico and it passed every time. Police say it’s likely because the weed was so old and it was packaged so well. Police have now destroyed the pot. As for the previous owner, all the family knows is that he is from Germany.
Grave undertaking for police after 17 coffins stolen from warehouse
Proving that thieves will steal just about anything, 17 coffins have been stolen from a warehouse in the Braybrook suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
“This break-in is one out of the box,” Inspector Tony Long from the Maribyrnong local area command said.
“I’m deadly serious, this is a weird one.” In a statement posted on Wednesday to the command’s Facebook page, Long wrote that on 15 January two men broke into the warehouse and “helped themselves” to the coffins, loading them into a small truck. Neither the men, nor the coffins, had been seen since, he wrote.
“I’ve heard of some strange things being pinched in the past, but this one just about tops the list,” Long said. The coffins were excess stock being stored by a Melbourne funeral parlour. “If you happen to be at your local watering hole and someone sidles up to you with a, ‘Psst – do you want to buy a cheap coffin, fell off the back of a truck,’ give Crime Stoppers a call,” he said.
The coffins were worth $2,000 each, Long said, and he suspected the men would try to sell them “or make fish tanks out of them”. The parlour owner had been overseas and did not report the theft until this week. “They’re not too happy of course, but being in the line of business they are they would have to look on the brighter side of life.”
“I’m deadly serious, this is a weird one.” In a statement posted on Wednesday to the command’s Facebook page, Long wrote that on 15 January two men broke into the warehouse and “helped themselves” to the coffins, loading them into a small truck. Neither the men, nor the coffins, had been seen since, he wrote.
“I’ve heard of some strange things being pinched in the past, but this one just about tops the list,” Long said. The coffins were excess stock being stored by a Melbourne funeral parlour. “If you happen to be at your local watering hole and someone sidles up to you with a, ‘Psst – do you want to buy a cheap coffin, fell off the back of a truck,’ give Crime Stoppers a call,” he said.
The coffins were worth $2,000 each, Long said, and he suspected the men would try to sell them “or make fish tanks out of them”. The parlour owner had been overseas and did not report the theft until this week. “They’re not too happy of course, but being in the line of business they are they would have to look on the brighter side of life.”
Elderly lollipop man too distressed to return to work after thief stole his stick
An elderly lollipop man who had his stick stolen in a shocking robbery is too distressed to return to his job.
The 82-year-old, who has spent 14 years working on school crossing sites across Coventry, was targeted last Wednesday by a man in dark clothing.
The attacker approached the lollipop man in Humber Road, Stoke, wrestling the 82-year-old to the ground before running off with the stick.
The lollipop man, from Nuneaton, escaped with minor injuries.
Det Insp Gareth Mason said: “The pensioner has done this job for over 14 years and he was not prepared to just hand over his treasured crossing sign. He refused to let go and ended up in a struggle with his assailant, ultimately leading to the robber pushing his elderly victim to the floor before running off with the lollipop stick. This is a particularly senseless offence against an elderly man, who is carrying out a public duty.
“Since the attack the victim has been too distressed and shaken by what happened to return to work - something that has devastated him after so many years of devoted service. He also suffered injuries to his left side as a result of the fall. It is only through fortune that the injuries were not more serious. We are determined to identify the offender and request the help of the local community or anybody who witnessed the offence.”
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The well-known lollipop man was helping pupils from Gosford Park Primary School, All Saints Church of England Primary School and Coventry Blue Coat School on the day he was targeted. The robber is described as white, 6ft 2ins tall, of athletic build and in his late 20s to early 30s. He had bushy or thick hair and was wearing dark clothing. After the attack a passer-by spotted a blue Vauxhall Vectra driving away and stopping in a nearby street. Three men got out, one of whom was carrying the lollipop stick. The brave passer-by confronted him and got the stick back. If you can help call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously.
Det Insp Gareth Mason said: “The pensioner has done this job for over 14 years and he was not prepared to just hand over his treasured crossing sign. He refused to let go and ended up in a struggle with his assailant, ultimately leading to the robber pushing his elderly victim to the floor before running off with the lollipop stick. This is a particularly senseless offence against an elderly man, who is carrying out a public duty.
“Since the attack the victim has been too distressed and shaken by what happened to return to work - something that has devastated him after so many years of devoted service. He also suffered injuries to his left side as a result of the fall. It is only through fortune that the injuries were not more serious. We are determined to identify the offender and request the help of the local community or anybody who witnessed the offence.”
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The well-known lollipop man was helping pupils from Gosford Park Primary School, All Saints Church of England Primary School and Coventry Blue Coat School on the day he was targeted. The robber is described as white, 6ft 2ins tall, of athletic build and in his late 20s to early 30s. He had bushy or thick hair and was wearing dark clothing. After the attack a passer-by spotted a blue Vauxhall Vectra driving away and stopping in a nearby street. Three men got out, one of whom was carrying the lollipop stick. The brave passer-by confronted him and got the stick back. If you can help call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously.
Retired Army captain defends parking space outside his house with a cannon
A retired Army captain has become so fed up with people parking outside his house that he's started protecting it with a cannon.
Paul Davis, 67, has put the weaponry on his driveway, pointing towards the street outside his home in Charlton, south east London.
Beside it, beneath a World War Two helmet, is a sign warning drivers: "Don't even think of parking here." He said: "I just put it there to stop people parking at the front of the house. No one parks there now. Not if they've got any sense."
He added: "The neighbours think I'm eccentric." However, the cannon, which includes a set of cannonballs, won't be blasting away cars any time soon as it is actually made of solid oak.
Paul Davis, 67, has put the weaponry on his driveway, pointing towards the street outside his home in Charlton, south east London.
Beside it, beneath a World War Two helmet, is a sign warning drivers: "Don't even think of parking here." He said: "I just put it there to stop people parking at the front of the house. No one parks there now. Not if they've got any sense."
He added: "The neighbours think I'm eccentric." However, the cannon, which includes a set of cannonballs, won't be blasting away cars any time soon as it is actually made of solid oak.
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