Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Cat surprised by cucumber
I don't think this is the original upload of this video but I've had an enormous amount of computer problems and just don't have the time to search for it.
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Police seek leads in case of stolen nuts
Police in Shelby Township, Michigan, are seeking help in locating 28,000 pounds of stolen nuts.
Late last week a semi-tractor and loaded trailer were stolen. The truck and trailer were recovered in Detroit, but the cargo was missing.
Stolen were 18 pallets (roughly 28,000 pounds) of packaged walnuts and other snack nuts valued at over $128,000.
On Tuesday they issued an appeal for information. They note that the squirrel is not a suspect and request that people don't call in squirrel sightings.
Late last week a semi-tractor and loaded trailer were stolen. The truck and trailer were recovered in Detroit, but the cargo was missing.
Stolen were 18 pallets (roughly 28,000 pounds) of packaged walnuts and other snack nuts valued at over $128,000.
On Tuesday they issued an appeal for information. They note that the squirrel is not a suspect and request that people don't call in squirrel sightings.
Man charged with battery after accusing ex-wife of cheating on him with sex toy
A Florida man battered his ex-wife after accusing her of cheating on him with a sex toy, according to police who arrested him for domestic battery.
As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, Triston Horne, 36, was visiting his former spouse’s Bradenton home last Wednesday when the pair began to argue.
Misty Clark told police that Horne does not live at the residence, though she “does invite him over to the house.” Clark invited Horne over on July 1 to spend the night because “he was going to take her to work” the following day, police noted. While in Clark’s bedroom, the duo quarreled.
When Clark repaired to the bathroom, Horne barged in and “began accusing her of cheating on him. He told her that she was cheating on him with a sex toy,” according to the affidavit. After allegedly twisting Clark’s hand, Horne returned to the bedroom, where he “grabbed Misty’s sex toy and went back to the bathroom.” Horne then "snapped the sex toy in half and walked away."
With the help of her teenage daughter, Clark subsequently pushed Horne out of the residence. Clark told officers that she used to be married to Horne, but “later learned that Triston was already married to another person and that their marriage was null and void.” Horne was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge. He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $1500 bond.
Misty Clark told police that Horne does not live at the residence, though she “does invite him over to the house.” Clark invited Horne over on July 1 to spend the night because “he was going to take her to work” the following day, police noted. While in Clark’s bedroom, the duo quarreled.
When Clark repaired to the bathroom, Horne barged in and “began accusing her of cheating on him. He told her that she was cheating on him with a sex toy,” according to the affidavit. After allegedly twisting Clark’s hand, Horne returned to the bedroom, where he “grabbed Misty’s sex toy and went back to the bathroom.” Horne then "snapped the sex toy in half and walked away."
With the help of her teenage daughter, Clark subsequently pushed Horne out of the residence. Clark told officers that she used to be married to Horne, but “later learned that Triston was already married to another person and that their marriage was null and void.” Horne was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge. He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $1500 bond.
Woman punched mother in eye and attacked boyfriend after he refused to have sex with her
An Augusta woman was arrested after she attacked her boyfriend for refusing to have sex with her.
Tabathia Lee Grooms, 35, came home at around 11:30pm on June 24 and attacked her boyfriend while he was sitting on the couch, according to a Richmond County Sheriff's Office incident report.
She said she was angry that he refused her advances earlier that day, so she scratched him on the face, head and neck, then bit him on the arm. He ran into a bathroom and called 911. When deputies responded to the house, Grooms would not give her name at first and threatened to run over a deputy with a baby stroller.
She admitted she had been drinking. Grooms also punched her 66-year-old mother in the eye during the ordeal, according to the incident report. Grooms was arrested and charged with simple battery family violence. She was booked at the Richmond County jail.
Tabathia Lee Grooms, 35, came home at around 11:30pm on June 24 and attacked her boyfriend while he was sitting on the couch, according to a Richmond County Sheriff's Office incident report.
She said she was angry that he refused her advances earlier that day, so she scratched him on the face, head and neck, then bit him on the arm. He ran into a bathroom and called 911. When deputies responded to the house, Grooms would not give her name at first and threatened to run over a deputy with a baby stroller.
She admitted she had been drinking. Grooms also punched her 66-year-old mother in the eye during the ordeal, according to the incident report. Grooms was arrested and charged with simple battery family violence. She was booked at the Richmond County jail.
Parents forced daughter to live in tent in the woods after eating unauthorized Pop-Tart
Two South Carolina parents were arrested this week after forcing their 14-year-old daughter to live in a tent in the woods because she ate a Pop-Tart without permission, authorities said.
The Sumter County Sheriff's Office said on Tuesday James Driggers, 33, and his wife Crystal Driggers, 36, had been denying their child entrance to their home for two days - and she was expected to remain away from the home for a week.
The child was ordered by her parents to set up a tent, in a wooded area known to have wild hogs, and was provided with only a roll of toilet paper, a flashlight, a whistle, and a watch, police said. The girl was allegedly told by her parents to meet "someone" at a fence on the family's property at specific times during the day if she wanted to receive any food: Her brother delivered her an open can of Spaghetti-Os with a plastic spoon one afternoon, authorities said. The child was also left to fend for herself during severe thunderstorms that hit the town last Thursday night, police said.
The girl's grandmother called police after hearing she was outside on Thursday. The grandmother went out in the rain to take the child to her own home right around the corner, authorities said. After the child was returned home later on Thursday night and police talked with the parents, the child was sent back outside. In a follow-up on Friday afternoon, police discovered the girl had been sent back to the tent, more than a quarter-mile from the home. Investigators also learned that during the previous month, the child had been sent from the home every day at 8am and prohibited to return until 6pm.
"She couldn't return for any reason," Police spokesman Braden Bunch said. "Not to get a drink, not to use the bathroom, nothing." Bunch also said Sumter County had been experiencing heat issues during the month with temperatures regularly surpassing 100 degrees. The Driggers have five other children, four of which were in the home at the time. Those siblings have been placed in the custody of their grandparents while the 14-year-old girl is with the South Carolina Department of Social Services. "We feel very confident that the parents were overstepping their bounds," Bunch said. "From trying to correct a child's behaviour to true criminal punishment." Both parents have been charged with a single count of unlawful neglect of a child and more charges are possible as the investigation continues, police said.
The child was ordered by her parents to set up a tent, in a wooded area known to have wild hogs, and was provided with only a roll of toilet paper, a flashlight, a whistle, and a watch, police said. The girl was allegedly told by her parents to meet "someone" at a fence on the family's property at specific times during the day if she wanted to receive any food: Her brother delivered her an open can of Spaghetti-Os with a plastic spoon one afternoon, authorities said. The child was also left to fend for herself during severe thunderstorms that hit the town last Thursday night, police said.
The girl's grandmother called police after hearing she was outside on Thursday. The grandmother went out in the rain to take the child to her own home right around the corner, authorities said. After the child was returned home later on Thursday night and police talked with the parents, the child was sent back outside. In a follow-up on Friday afternoon, police discovered the girl had been sent back to the tent, more than a quarter-mile from the home. Investigators also learned that during the previous month, the child had been sent from the home every day at 8am and prohibited to return until 6pm.
"She couldn't return for any reason," Police spokesman Braden Bunch said. "Not to get a drink, not to use the bathroom, nothing." Bunch also said Sumter County had been experiencing heat issues during the month with temperatures regularly surpassing 100 degrees. The Driggers have five other children, four of which were in the home at the time. Those siblings have been placed in the custody of their grandparents while the 14-year-old girl is with the South Carolina Department of Social Services. "We feel very confident that the parents were overstepping their bounds," Bunch said. "From trying to correct a child's behaviour to true criminal punishment." Both parents have been charged with a single count of unlawful neglect of a child and more charges are possible as the investigation continues, police said.
Man who flew in lawn chair attached to helium-filled balloons charged with causing mischief
A man from Calgary, Canada, used helium-filled balloons to fly over the city on Sunday, risking his life to draw attention to his cleaning products company, and also landing himself in trouble with the law.
Daniel Boria, 26, pulled off the potentially deadly stunt by attaching about 110 balloons to a lawn chair. "At one point I was looking up at the balloons, they were popping, the chair was shaking and I was looking down at my feet dangling through the clouds at a 747 flight taking off and a few landing," he said.
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"It was incredible. It was the most surreal experience you can ever imagine. I was just by myself on a $20 lawn chair up in the sky above the clouds." Boria was detained on Sunday evening and released on Monday morning. He has been charged with one count of mischief causing danger to life. "I knew I would get arrested, but I didn't think they would pursue it as heavily as they did," he said.
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"I've never done anything wrong before and this was with good intentions." Boria said he sprained his ankle, but was otherwise unharmed. "We did make it as safe as possible for everybody else," he said. "Our end goal was to only put myself in danger." The charge of mischief is related to the lawn chair, which could cause damage or hurt someone when the balloons pop and it falls to the ground, said Insp. Kyle Grant from Calgary police. He expects more charges will be laid under the federal Aeronautics Act.
Daniel Boria, 26, pulled off the potentially deadly stunt by attaching about 110 balloons to a lawn chair. "At one point I was looking up at the balloons, they were popping, the chair was shaking and I was looking down at my feet dangling through the clouds at a 747 flight taking off and a few landing," he said.
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"It was incredible. It was the most surreal experience you can ever imagine. I was just by myself on a $20 lawn chair up in the sky above the clouds." Boria was detained on Sunday evening and released on Monday morning. He has been charged with one count of mischief causing danger to life. "I knew I would get arrested, but I didn't think they would pursue it as heavily as they did," he said.
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"I've never done anything wrong before and this was with good intentions." Boria said he sprained his ankle, but was otherwise unharmed. "We did make it as safe as possible for everybody else," he said. "Our end goal was to only put myself in danger." The charge of mischief is related to the lawn chair, which could cause damage or hurt someone when the balloons pop and it falls to the ground, said Insp. Kyle Grant from Calgary police. He expects more charges will be laid under the federal Aeronautics Act.
Fishermen surprised to catch wild boar several kilometres out at sea
Two fishermen in Whitianga, New Zealand, nailed a massive 63kg catch, but it was a bit hairier than they'd bargained for.
Glen Dobbs and a friend, named only as Adrian, were out fishing in a tournament over the weekend when they encountered a wild boar swimming a few kilometres off the coast of the Coromandel town. They were cruising along on their way to a fishing spot when they noticed a black shape bobbing up and down right in front of them and it was the pig swimming way out in the ocean.
Luckily they had a solid hull because they hit the pig doing about 15-20 knots. It floated up behind the boat and they turned around and went back. The baffled pair struggled to haul the tired animal out of the water, before putting it out of its misery with a fishing knife. Once the bewilderment wore off, they set to gutting it in the hope of keeping the meat.
"As soon as we gutted it and chucked all of that over, heaps of sharks came around and that was the end of the fishing," he said. "We put up with the smell for a couple of hours, and in the end, I said, mate, we've got to chuck the rest over. I've been fishing heaps and I've never seen anything like it," Mr Dobbs said. The pig didn't win the men the competition
Glen Dobbs and a friend, named only as Adrian, were out fishing in a tournament over the weekend when they encountered a wild boar swimming a few kilometres off the coast of the Coromandel town. They were cruising along on their way to a fishing spot when they noticed a black shape bobbing up and down right in front of them and it was the pig swimming way out in the ocean.
Luckily they had a solid hull because they hit the pig doing about 15-20 knots. It floated up behind the boat and they turned around and went back. The baffled pair struggled to haul the tired animal out of the water, before putting it out of its misery with a fishing knife. Once the bewilderment wore off, they set to gutting it in the hope of keeping the meat.
"As soon as we gutted it and chucked all of that over, heaps of sharks came around and that was the end of the fishing," he said. "We put up with the smell for a couple of hours, and in the end, I said, mate, we've got to chuck the rest over. I've been fishing heaps and I've never seen anything like it," Mr Dobbs said. The pig didn't win the men the competition
Naked man thrown from horse says he was conducting a ritual in memory of his dead father
A man injured in a naked horse ride in County Down, Northern Ireland, last week has said he was conducting a ritual in memory of his dead father.
Tomas Finnegan, 53, said that he was carrying out an act of remembrance when he fell in a field near Castlewellan Forest Park, breaking his arm and dislocating his shoulder.
“I was doing a ceremony for my father the night that I hurt my arm - it was a ceremony of remembrance in a sacred place to me,” he said. “So I did the ceremony and these horses were in the field, the horse that I tried to ride was rubbing its nose up and down my back. I’ve ridden horses all my life and I thought this horse has been ridden before and it’s looking to be ridden.” He added: “I ended up on the horse and the horse bolted because it hadn’t been broken.”
Tomas, who works as an artist, suffered a badly broken arm and a dislocated shoulder and had to be rescued by the police and ambulance service after his adventure. “I shouted for help and lay in that field for three hours,” he said. Tomas, originally from Kircubbin, got the idea for the ceremony after spending time at a spiritual community based at an eco-village in Scotland. “I did a healing thing with them earlier in the year.
"At some point I was to find a sacred spot of my own to do something for my father and my father’s father,” explained Tomas. Tomas said he grew extremely close to his father, also called Tomas and the former owner of Finnegan’s Bar in Kircubbin, as he cared for him before his death from cancer four years ago. The owner of the field recalled the strange incident. Patsy King, was alerted by the police who wanted access to his field to help an injured man. Describing the scene, Patsy said: “He (Tomas) was lying along the wall, completely starkers and there was a police woman shining a torch on him while the ambulance crew were treating him.”
“I was doing a ceremony for my father the night that I hurt my arm - it was a ceremony of remembrance in a sacred place to me,” he said. “So I did the ceremony and these horses were in the field, the horse that I tried to ride was rubbing its nose up and down my back. I’ve ridden horses all my life and I thought this horse has been ridden before and it’s looking to be ridden.” He added: “I ended up on the horse and the horse bolted because it hadn’t been broken.”
Tomas, who works as an artist, suffered a badly broken arm and a dislocated shoulder and had to be rescued by the police and ambulance service after his adventure. “I shouted for help and lay in that field for three hours,” he said. Tomas, originally from Kircubbin, got the idea for the ceremony after spending time at a spiritual community based at an eco-village in Scotland. “I did a healing thing with them earlier in the year.
"At some point I was to find a sacred spot of my own to do something for my father and my father’s father,” explained Tomas. Tomas said he grew extremely close to his father, also called Tomas and the former owner of Finnegan’s Bar in Kircubbin, as he cared for him before his death from cancer four years ago. The owner of the field recalled the strange incident. Patsy King, was alerted by the police who wanted access to his field to help an injured man. Describing the scene, Patsy said: “He (Tomas) was lying along the wall, completely starkers and there was a police woman shining a torch on him while the ambulance crew were treating him.”
Python made high-wire escape bid along telephone line after slipping out of window
A python was caught making a bid for freedom across a telephone wire 20ft up in the air.
The python's high-wire escape act was spotted over a quiet residential street in North Wales by worried neighbours.
Police say the Burmese python escaped its tank and managed to climb out of the upstairs window before slithering along the telephone wire at a property in Anglesey. The Burmese python was photographed mid-flight by Sergeant Rob Taylor.
Sgt Taylor, from North Wales Police's rural crime unit, said the Asian python managed to make it across the wire to the opposite house and was halfway down the drainpipe before it was captured. "The vast majority of people who own reptiles keep them in secure tanks - but for those who don't this is a timely reminder to do so," he said.
The Burmese python is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern and Southeast Asia. They often live near water but are good climbers and can be found in the treetops of jungles catching birds. Special care is required when handling them as a three-metre long Burmese python is capable of killing a child and a five-metre long snake is capable of overpowering and killing a fully grown adult. The python, who has not been named, was returned safely to his owner with advice on keeping him secure.
Police say the Burmese python escaped its tank and managed to climb out of the upstairs window before slithering along the telephone wire at a property in Anglesey. The Burmese python was photographed mid-flight by Sergeant Rob Taylor.
Sgt Taylor, from North Wales Police's rural crime unit, said the Asian python managed to make it across the wire to the opposite house and was halfway down the drainpipe before it was captured. "The vast majority of people who own reptiles keep them in secure tanks - but for those who don't this is a timely reminder to do so," he said.
The Burmese python is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern and Southeast Asia. They often live near water but are good climbers and can be found in the treetops of jungles catching birds. Special care is required when handling them as a three-metre long Burmese python is capable of killing a child and a five-metre long snake is capable of overpowering and killing a fully grown adult. The python, who has not been named, was returned safely to his owner with advice on keeping him secure.
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