Posted in Astonishing, Bad Cops, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Crime, Funny, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Oddly, Terrible, To Ponder, Transportation, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 26 July, 2008 | No Comments »
MIAMI — Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of stealing at least three county buses and driving them on their routes.
James L. Harris is charged with three counts each of third-degree grand theft and burglary of an occupied conveyance, WPLG-TV reported.
The most recent theft occurred Tuesday, when he was arrested and charged.
According to Miami-Dade [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Emergency, Entertainment, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Media, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 25 July, 2008 | No Comments »
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said.
WTLR station manager Mark VanOuse said the station received a tip around 10 a.m. that [...]
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Posted in Alert, Celebrities, Crime, History, Impressive, In Their Own Words, International, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Search & Rescue, Time, To Ponder, Wow on Thursday, 17 July, 2008 | No Comments »
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The world’s top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he’s made progress in finding 94-year-old “Doctor Death,” a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Bad Teachers, Caught, Children, Crime, Education, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Relationships, Schools, Sexual, Shocking, Signs of the Times, Students, Terrible, To Ponder, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 14 July, 2008 | No Comments »
SAN DIEGO - Grossmont Union High School District Governing Board President Larry Urdahl still can’t believe that four Helix High School teachers violated students’ trust by allegedly engaging in inappropriate relationships with them.
That’s why the board wants the charter school to give them evidence it’s curing these types of problems.
“This is not about the Grossmont [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Caught, Communication, Decision, Funny, Government, Illegal Immigration, Impressive, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Ranting, To Ponder, Wow on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OMAHA - A proposed law aimed at banishing illegal immigrants from Fremont, Neb. — believed to be the first such city-sponsored initiative in the state — has sparked an outcry from a state agency that advocates for Latinos.
Though Fremont’s appears to be the state’s first elected city council to propose an ordinance that would ban [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Impressive, International, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Military, Royal Family, Wow on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 | No Comments »
THIS is the dramatic moment when Prince William helped to nick drug runners trying to smuggle £40million-worth of cocaine across the Atlantic.
Wills, 26, was a lookout on a Navy helicopter that swooped on a suspicious powerboat north east of Barbados.
The six-strong crew put themselves in dire danger as they hovered just feet [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Scams & Scandals, Terrible, Wow on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK — A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who had been on the lam for nearly a month since a faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Samuel Israel turned himself into Southwick, Mass., police between 9:15 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, said Suzanne Anderson, police Chief Mark Krynicki’s [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Decision, Dictators, Horrific, Hypocrisy, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Money, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Wellness, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 27 June, 2008 | 4 Comments »
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Decision, Government, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Morons, Shocking, Time, Wow on Saturday, 21 June, 2008 | No Comments »
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents 14 years ago was executed in the state’s electric chair Friday night after a last-ditch effort to halt the sentence was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
James Earl Reed was pronounced dead at 11:27 p.m. Friday in the state’s death chamber [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Family, Funny, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Morons, Oddly, Terrible, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican woman and her three American daughters have been caught smuggling $1.16 million worth of cocaine into Texas from Mexico, a rare case of a mother and her family trafficking drugs, U.S. customs said on Friday.
The four women stashed the cocaine under their clothes and inside their 2006 Mercedes Benz [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Law Enforcement, Morons, Oddly, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian drunk driver knocked over a traffic policeman then drove for about 1 km (0.6 miles) with the officer clinging to the roof of his car, local police said on Friday.
The motorist only came to a halt after the policeman on the roof fired eight rounds from his pistol, police [...]
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Posted in Aviation, Bad Celebrities, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Celebrities, Crime, Entertainment, Law Enforcement, Morons, Ranting, Time, Transportation on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LONDON (AP) — Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an “air rage” incident at Heathrow Airport.
She was also ordered to pay 200 pounds ($400) to each of the police officers she attacked and 150 pounds ($300) to Miles Sutherland, [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Teachers, Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Schools, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - A public school teacher preached his Christian beliefs despite complaints by other teachers and administrators and used a device to burn the image of a cross on students’ arms, according to a report by independent investigators.Mount Vernon Middle School teacher John Freshwater also taught creationism in his science class and [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Aviation, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Emergency, Law Enforcement, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Transportation, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Passenger Accused Of Punching Attendant In Face, Screaming Racial Epithets
DENVER (CBS) ― An unruly JetBlue passenger from Queens who lit up a cigarette mid-flight Tuesday forced the 145-passenger flight to be diverted after she became violent and uncooperative when asked to stop smoking, CBS 2 HD has learned.
Christina Szele, 35, was arrested and charged [...]
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Posted in Caught, Computers & Technology, Crime, Funny, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 | No Comments »
It could be a long time before Omar Khan goes to college: as long as 38 years, according to Orange County prosecutors, who have arrested and charged the 18-year-old student with breaking into his prestigious high school and hacking into computers to change his test grades from Fs to As.
If convicted on all 69 [...]
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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Horrific, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Morons, Shocking, Terrible, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 6 June, 2008 | 21 Comments »
HARTFORD, Conn. — A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the [...]
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Posted in Caught, Entertainment, Homosexuality, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 6 June, 2008 | No Comments »
SEATTLE — Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch.
But then last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it was making another fan uncomfortable.
The incident [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 5 June, 2008 | No Comments »
TAMPA, Florida - Sometimes hiring a sexy lady do the housework without her clothes on can cost a little more than the $100-an-hour you were expecting to pay. A 50-year-old man in Tampa, Fla., found this out the hard way when a woman allegedly came to his house, took her clothes off, did a little [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Anti-Americanism, Astonishing, Bad Cops, Business, Campaigns & Elections, Caught, Decision, Entertainment, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Political, Ranting, To Ponder, Wow, Writings, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NEW YORK CITY (NY Times) Updated, 2:07 p.m. | This morning, a Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the [...]
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173,000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday.
Bahia’s Prison Affairs Department head Jose Francisco Leite said police raided the cell Monday in a [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Law Enforcement, Oddly, Terrible, Transportation on Monday, 2 June, 2008 | No Comments »
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Nearly 100 cars sank and became stuck in unusually soft sand on Daytona Beach, forcing beach patrol officers to close parts of the beach to all vehicles.
“I have not seen it this bad in my lifetime,” Beach patrol Capt. Tim Cunningham said. “Right now, the sand is like powder. It [...]
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341 ($243,600) in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The Straits Times said that Gandaruban Subramaniam fled Singapore more than 20 years ago [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Celebrities, Caught, Celebrities, Crime, Drugs & Alcohol, Entertainment, Law Enforcement, Morons, Shocking, Terrible, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 2 June, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK — Police say Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal has been arrested after buying crack cocaine near her home in Manhattan.
Police say the 44-year-old actress was seen making the illicit purchase at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. She is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
O’Neal, daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal, appears regularly on [...]
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Posted in Bad Celebrities, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Crime, Law Enforcement, Morons, Ranting, Transportation on Thursday, 29 May, 2008 | No Comments »
LONDON (AP) — Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers during an alleged luggage rage incident at Heathrow Airport, her lawyer and prosecutors said Thursday.
The 38-year-old supermodel was charged when she reported to Heathrow police station to answer bail over the April 3 fracas, lawyer Simon Nicholls said.
The Crown Prosecution Service said [...]
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