Sunday, September 18, 2016
Police hunt thief who broke into YMCA before stealing fake money from toy cash register
Police in Palm Springs, California are asking for help identifying a hapless thief.
They say he broke into the Child Development Center at Indio YMCA last weekend and emptied a toy cash register of it's play money.
The incident was caught on surveillance video. The suspect kicked his way in through the duct work in the ceiling.
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He then dropped to the floor and went through a children's toy cash register, stealing the fake money inside, before making a daring escape out of the door.
They say he broke into the Child Development Center at Indio YMCA last weekend and emptied a toy cash register of it's play money.
The incident was caught on surveillance video. The suspect kicked his way in through the duct work in the ceiling.
YouTube link.
He then dropped to the floor and went through a children's toy cash register, stealing the fake money inside, before making a daring escape out of the door.
Man named Weed faces charges for marijuana offences
Three men from Belleville, Ontario, Canada, have been charged following an investigation focusing on the illegal production of marijuana in unsuspecting farmers’ fields. Members of the Belleville Police Service Drug Unit, Emergency Response Team and members of the OPP Drug Enforcement Unit conducted a traffic stop in Thurlow on Tuesday and arrested two men.
Following the traffic stop, police executed three Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants at residences in Belleville and Thurlow. The investigation and searches revealed the accused had planted marijuana plants throughout fields in the Thurlow ward of Belleville, in Thomasburg and the Melrose area.
As a result of the search warrants and the vehicle stop, police seized a quantity of marijuana plants, cash, digital weigh scales and a Ford F-150 pick-up truck. Adam Rushlow, 39, has been charged with five counts of production of marijuana, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds of crime.
Jeff Gray, 45, faces three counts of production of marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. And 34-year-old appropriately named Ian Weed has been charged with two counts of production of marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Gray and Weed were released on a promise to appear with a future court date and Rushlow was detained in custody pending a show cause hearing.
Following the traffic stop, police executed three Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants at residences in Belleville and Thurlow. The investigation and searches revealed the accused had planted marijuana plants throughout fields in the Thurlow ward of Belleville, in Thomasburg and the Melrose area.
As a result of the search warrants and the vehicle stop, police seized a quantity of marijuana plants, cash, digital weigh scales and a Ford F-150 pick-up truck. Adam Rushlow, 39, has been charged with five counts of production of marijuana, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of proceeds of crime.
Jeff Gray, 45, faces three counts of production of marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. And 34-year-old appropriately named Ian Weed has been charged with two counts of production of marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Gray and Weed were released on a promise to appear with a future court date and Rushlow was detained in custody pending a show cause hearing.
Teacher in trouble after allegedly asking student 'Why don’t you lick me where I fart?'
Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who teaches English at Dunnville Secondary School in Ontario, Canada, is facing disciplinary action after allegedly saying to a student: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”
Ms Green-Johnson has been a frequent visitor before the Ontario College of Teachers and the Grand Erie District School Board's disciplinary committees. Most recently she was suspended for 30 days last January for professional misconduct.
Among the most recent allegations, that date to 2015, are that she slapped a student on head, called him an idiot and told him to “grow some balls.” Ms Green-Johnson allegedly called one student a “bloody paedophile”. She also reportedly told a female student she "looked like a frumpy old lady today."
In one earlier disciplinary action, she slammed her students as stupids, idiots, gay and a “bitch”. She has also repeatedly been disciplined by her school board with disciplinary letters and suspended with, and without, pay. Ms Green-Johnson is currently suspended without pay.
Ms Green-Johnson has been a frequent visitor before the Ontario College of Teachers and the Grand Erie District School Board's disciplinary committees. Most recently she was suspended for 30 days last January for professional misconduct.
Among the most recent allegations, that date to 2015, are that she slapped a student on head, called him an idiot and told him to “grow some balls.” Ms Green-Johnson allegedly called one student a “bloody paedophile”. She also reportedly told a female student she "looked like a frumpy old lady today."
In one earlier disciplinary action, she slammed her students as stupids, idiots, gay and a “bitch”. She has also repeatedly been disciplined by her school board with disciplinary letters and suspended with, and without, pay. Ms Green-Johnson is currently suspended without pay.
Motorist and girlfriend hospitalised after she bit his penis when deer jumped in front of their car
A pair of young lovers ended up in hospital after engaging in some sexual activity whilst driving through the Waldviertel in north west Austria and crashing their car.
The woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was giving her partner oral sex on a quiet country road not far from Krems when a deer suddenly jumped in front of the car, causing the driver to suddenly brake.
His girlfriend was taken by surprise, and accidentally bit into his penis. The emergency services were surprised to get a call saying that an ambulance was needed because of a “penis bite after a car crash.”
The couple were taken to hospital and the man received some minor surgery. Surgeons told him that the wound was only superficial and that his bitten manhood should soon be back in full working order.
The woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was giving her partner oral sex on a quiet country road not far from Krems when a deer suddenly jumped in front of the car, causing the driver to suddenly brake.
His girlfriend was taken by surprise, and accidentally bit into his penis. The emergency services were surprised to get a call saying that an ambulance was needed because of a “penis bite after a car crash.”
The couple were taken to hospital and the man received some minor surgery. Surgeons told him that the wound was only superficial and that his bitten manhood should soon be back in full working order.
Jail for drug dealer thought to be first in country to use a chip and pin machine to take payments
A drug dealer who used a chip and pin machine to accept payments has been jailed for seven years.
Mark Slender, 35, of Cheltenham, pleaded guilty at Gloucester Crown Court to possession of class A drugs with intent to supply.
Police said £12,000 worth of payments were taken on the card reader. A spokesman said it was thought to be the first time in the county that a drug dealer had used a chip and pin device to take payment for drugs. Slender was arrested in August after officers searched his home in Bishops Cleeve.
They found £5,800 worth of drugs, including cocaine with a purity of 93% which police said was some of the purest recently seized in the county. The card reader, which was plugged into Slender's car and charging when he was arrested, recorded almost £12,000 worth of drug deals between 21 March and 15 August.
Slender is also known as Mark Wilson, and goes by the nicknames Guppy and Gup. Officers found receipts from the card reader, which read "Cheers, Gup". PC Thom Finnikin said: "He attempted to bring drug dealing into the 21st century by using a chip and pin machine to take payment for cocaine and subsequently showed his arrogance by putting a tag line at the top of each receipt supplied to his drug buyers."
Police said £12,000 worth of payments were taken on the card reader. A spokesman said it was thought to be the first time in the county that a drug dealer had used a chip and pin device to take payment for drugs. Slender was arrested in August after officers searched his home in Bishops Cleeve.
They found £5,800 worth of drugs, including cocaine with a purity of 93% which police said was some of the purest recently seized in the county. The card reader, which was plugged into Slender's car and charging when he was arrested, recorded almost £12,000 worth of drug deals between 21 March and 15 August.
Slender is also known as Mark Wilson, and goes by the nicknames Guppy and Gup. Officers found receipts from the card reader, which read "Cheers, Gup". PC Thom Finnikin said: "He attempted to bring drug dealing into the 21st century by using a chip and pin machine to take payment for cocaine and subsequently showed his arrogance by putting a tag line at the top of each receipt supplied to his drug buyers."
Researchers criticised over death of tagged hedgehog that 'looked like a bad joke'
Animal welfare organisations have criticised the treatment of hedgehogs in a research study after one was found looking like "a bad joke".
Russet the hedgehog, who later died, had 26 plastic tags attached to his spines and a radio tracker on his back.
The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has defended the Nottingham Trent University study, which it part-funded.
But three other animal welfare organisations have raised concerns.
Lynda Britchford from Oxton Wild Hedgehog Rehab, which cared for Russet after he was found, said: "Having been presented with the hog, to be honest it looked like someone's idea of a bad joke.
Ultimately, we feel that this places hogs at a disadvantage and risk, and don't agree with it."
Russet was dehydrated, underweight, had mange, severe colitis, broken toes on one foot and intestinal fluke, and died despite attempts to treat him. Hedgehogs do not have distinctive markings like other animals so some researchers identify them by heat-shrinking or gluing plastic to their spines. This method has been used since 2004 and has been likened to adding false finger nails or hair extensions to humans. Radio-tracking of hedgehogs began in the 1970s. Trackers have become smaller over time, and international guidelines stipulate they weigh a maximum of 5% of the animal's weight. Caroline Gould from Vale Wildlife Hospital said: "Vale is totally against studies such as this. The tracker is far too big and will almost certainly cause problems, get entangled or prevent the hedgehog from getting through or under hedges, gates, fences and sheds. It should not be legal to use these on hedgehogs."
The RSPCA has used plastic tags and radio transmitters itself but said it has "some concerns" about the images of Russet. "We feel that the number of coloured tags, and the fact that they are longer than the spines they are attached to, may present problems, although we have no evidence for this," it said in a statement. Lynda Britchford from Oxton Wild Hedgehog Rehab said the placement of the trackers "would impact upon males trying to mate with females who had them attached". She also said the attachments would impede a hedgehog's ability to squeeze into small gaps and make them less camouflaged. "Sticking 30 brightly coloured long reflective tubes on them makes them stick out like a sore thumb - particularly to unscrupulous kids or adults, and potentially to predators," she said. Hugh Warwick from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which part-funded the study, said: "Over 30 years of work there is no evidence that our research interferes with the well-being of hedgehogs at all.
"The heat-shrink plastic tags that are now the standard marking technique do not require plastic to be melted onto the spines and cause the hedgehog no trouble at all. It is not far off humans getting hair-extensions." Nottingham Trent University said: "The animal is completely unhindered and able to go about its activities - such as feeding and breeding - in the usual way. Research is crucial to furthering our understanding of the threats hedgehogs face and to develop appropriate responses to those." The aim of the study was to gather information on the distribution and abundance of hedgehogs in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The woman who found Russet said the transmitter was twisted around him. "He looked distressed and I think he was a bit wobbly," she said. "We thought either he'd been rolling in wire and got it stuck to him or somebody had thought it was funny to put Christmas tree lights or something around him. When my husband went to get him to pick him up he couldn't curl up, he couldn't curl and protect himself, so that upset us because we thought, there's something wrong there."
Russet was dehydrated, underweight, had mange, severe colitis, broken toes on one foot and intestinal fluke, and died despite attempts to treat him. Hedgehogs do not have distinctive markings like other animals so some researchers identify them by heat-shrinking or gluing plastic to their spines. This method has been used since 2004 and has been likened to adding false finger nails or hair extensions to humans. Radio-tracking of hedgehogs began in the 1970s. Trackers have become smaller over time, and international guidelines stipulate they weigh a maximum of 5% of the animal's weight. Caroline Gould from Vale Wildlife Hospital said: "Vale is totally against studies such as this. The tracker is far too big and will almost certainly cause problems, get entangled or prevent the hedgehog from getting through or under hedges, gates, fences and sheds. It should not be legal to use these on hedgehogs."
The RSPCA has used plastic tags and radio transmitters itself but said it has "some concerns" about the images of Russet. "We feel that the number of coloured tags, and the fact that they are longer than the spines they are attached to, may present problems, although we have no evidence for this," it said in a statement. Lynda Britchford from Oxton Wild Hedgehog Rehab said the placement of the trackers "would impact upon males trying to mate with females who had them attached". She also said the attachments would impede a hedgehog's ability to squeeze into small gaps and make them less camouflaged. "Sticking 30 brightly coloured long reflective tubes on them makes them stick out like a sore thumb - particularly to unscrupulous kids or adults, and potentially to predators," she said. Hugh Warwick from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which part-funded the study, said: "Over 30 years of work there is no evidence that our research interferes with the well-being of hedgehogs at all.
"The heat-shrink plastic tags that are now the standard marking technique do not require plastic to be melted onto the spines and cause the hedgehog no trouble at all. It is not far off humans getting hair-extensions." Nottingham Trent University said: "The animal is completely unhindered and able to go about its activities - such as feeding and breeding - in the usual way. Research is crucial to furthering our understanding of the threats hedgehogs face and to develop appropriate responses to those." The aim of the study was to gather information on the distribution and abundance of hedgehogs in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The woman who found Russet said the transmitter was twisted around him. "He looked distressed and I think he was a bit wobbly," she said. "We thought either he'd been rolling in wire and got it stuck to him or somebody had thought it was funny to put Christmas tree lights or something around him. When my husband went to get him to pick him up he couldn't curl up, he couldn't curl and protect himself, so that upset us because we thought, there's something wrong there."
13-week-old parrot rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in tree on the day he'd learnt to fly
A 13-week-old parrot had a first flight he'll want to forget after getting lost and stuck in a tree.
It took ingenuity and improvisation from Red Watch from Newark Fire Station in Nottinghamshire to rescue Bobo who seemed set on resisting their attempts.
A ladder was extended so firefighter Richard 'Fergie' Ferguson could use a pole to try and tempt Bobo to perch on it so he could be brought safely to ground - and for a while it looked like it would work.
However, as the rain began to teem down, Bobo got unnerved, squawked and fluttered agonisingly out of reach.
Back on the ground, Fergie and the rest of Red Watch, now joined by the fire station's rescue tender, were hatching a plan. They emptied a rope bag and fixed it to a pole using gaffer tape, cut a hole in it and used a stick to keep the bag rigid. Up went Fergie again, and within minutes Bobo had been encouraged to climb into the bag and Fergie was able to grip him by the legs and bring him down to earth, earning himself several pecks on the hand for his trouble. The drama unfolded when Rowan Cozens decided to cut the lawn of her property in Newark before the rain started in earnest on Friday.
"I decided to get up really early and cut the lawn. I was part of the way through it and thought 'that's a parrot I can hear - I didn't have that much wine last night surely," she said. "There he was - in the tree." The fire service were summoned and a message reached Bobo's owner Emily Portrey who had advertised the bird as missing on social media. "He's the second parrot but the first macaw I've owned," Emily said. "He only learned to fly the day he went missing. It was his first flight. He's only 13 weeks old. He always stands on my shoulder and I have a harness for him but before I could attach it he took off and just kept on going.
"I was so worried as to where he could have got to. He was missing the whole night. He's only a baby." Crew manager John Fox, from Red Watch, said: "This is only my second bird rescue in 27 years' service and it's one for the memoirs. We've used a rope bag for bringing tiles down from a roof before but never for anything like this. It was true improvisation. We're glad it's a happy ending. We were a bit worried he'd just hop from branch to branch or, worse, take flight again." Emily added: "I can't thank the fire service enough or Rowan for finding him."
Back on the ground, Fergie and the rest of Red Watch, now joined by the fire station's rescue tender, were hatching a plan. They emptied a rope bag and fixed it to a pole using gaffer tape, cut a hole in it and used a stick to keep the bag rigid. Up went Fergie again, and within minutes Bobo had been encouraged to climb into the bag and Fergie was able to grip him by the legs and bring him down to earth, earning himself several pecks on the hand for his trouble. The drama unfolded when Rowan Cozens decided to cut the lawn of her property in Newark before the rain started in earnest on Friday.
"I decided to get up really early and cut the lawn. I was part of the way through it and thought 'that's a parrot I can hear - I didn't have that much wine last night surely," she said. "There he was - in the tree." The fire service were summoned and a message reached Bobo's owner Emily Portrey who had advertised the bird as missing on social media. "He's the second parrot but the first macaw I've owned," Emily said. "He only learned to fly the day he went missing. It was his first flight. He's only 13 weeks old. He always stands on my shoulder and I have a harness for him but before I could attach it he took off and just kept on going.
"I was so worried as to where he could have got to. He was missing the whole night. He's only a baby." Crew manager John Fox, from Red Watch, said: "This is only my second bird rescue in 27 years' service and it's one for the memoirs. We've used a rope bag for bringing tiles down from a roof before but never for anything like this. It was true improvisation. We're glad it's a happy ending. We were a bit worried he'd just hop from branch to branch or, worse, take flight again." Emily added: "I can't thank the fire service enough or Rowan for finding him."
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