It's days like this that I get the urge to do the Weird Newz again... - Freeze-Frame Radio

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

It's days like this that I get the urge to do the Weird Newz again...

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Police: Shoplifting mother caught with parenting book

Friday, January 09, 2009

Shoplifting mother caught with parenting book

A 37-year-old Oxford woman was arrested Jan. 2 for allegedly shoplifting a parenting book while accompanied by her two young children.

Callie Rough, 5032 College Corner Pike #38, reportedly entered the Dollar General Store on College Corner Pike along with James Rogers and their two children. An employee told officers the four seemed to act suspiciously while in the store, but it wasn't until they attempted to leave that she noticed Rough's purse appeared to be noticeably larger than it had been minutes earlier.

Rough reportedly refused to allow the clerk to search her purse, then ran to the back of the store and began unloading stolen items from the bag. As the four subjects fled from the store, the clerk said Rough threw an additional handful of items at her.

The clerk told police Rough had concealed wash clothes, small hand towels, a small rug and a book entitled "101 Ways to Be a Great Mom" in her purse.

Police located Rough, Rogers and their children running along College Corner Pike in front of the Hampton Inn. Officers spoke with the family and placed Rogers under arrest after learning of an active warrant out of the Butler County Sheriff's Office for a traffic violation. Rogers reportedly had a package of garbage bags hidden on his person, which he told police Rough had given to him.

Rogers was issued a citation for receiving stolen property and turned over to the Butler County Sheriff's Office. Rough, who had an active warrant out of the Monroe Police Department, was charged with theft and later released.

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Don't forget the felon that ate both of his own eyes

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

And the bikers rescuing kittens. And the Force toy. And, there's been more. It's a new year, and people are getting weirder.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Gee... I know what I'll do to get out of my fraud charges... I'll fake my own death! That always works!! No one would ever suspect!!

Okay now kids... see what mommy is doing? Mommy is shoplifting. This is a no-no. You should ever do what I'm doing right now... cuz mommy said so.

And people wonder why humanity is in such a world of hurt right now.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

MzHartz wrote:

It's a new year, and people are getting weirder.

That can't be good. We aren't even 15 days into the new year yet.

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Car, Driver Dragged Half-Mile By Snowplow
Plow Driver Didn't Know He Had Been Hit Until Drivers Flagged Him Down

COLORADO CITY, Colo. -- A Colorado Department of Transportation plow driver rear-ended in a crash in Colorado City didn't even realize he had been in an accident until nearby drivers flagged him down to stop.

That's when the plow driver found out he was dragging the car that hit him.

John Archuleta, 70, of Colorado Springs rear ended the CDOT snow plow at 9:18 a.m. Monday.

Archuleta said he was driving through blowing snow when he suddenly saw the CDOT plow, but he was unable to stop.

Archuleta's 1999 Chrysler Cirrus became entangled with the sanding unit of the CDOT snow plow.

The plow driver, Fredrick Parrent, Jr, 58, was unaware he had been hit and kept plowing dragging Archuleta's car until he was flagged down by other passing motorists.

No one was injured.

Police said neither alcohol or drugs were suspected as factors in the crash, but Archuleta was cited for careless driving.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Worker shoots himself in arm without a gun
By GARY TAYLOR - The Orlando Sentinel

DELAND DeLand police are investigating a bizarre shooting at a cemetery that involved bullets used in a military funeral service but no gun.

Howard Sheppard, 30, of Deltona, was shot in the left biceps and went to Florida Hospital DeLand for treatment, Officer Jacob Hudson wrote in a report.

Sheppard, who works at DeLand Memorial Gardens, told a nurse he picked up six rounds of ammunition and one of them discharged and struck him in the arm, Hudson said. When Sheppard said the other five rounds were in his shirt pocket, a security guard took the shirt and called police.

Sheppard initially said the ammunition was on a shelf and one of the bullets may have discharged because he threw a hammer and a string trimmer on the shelf, police said. After being pressed, he told Hudson that he secured the sixth bullet in a vise clamp, placed a metal punch into the cartridge primer and hit the punch with a hammer.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

People aren't too bright.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

That guy sounds like a future Darwin Award winner!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

And they keep on comin'!
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Dad Sells Girl, Calls Cops to Complain He Wasn't Paid

Updated 8:34 AM PST, Tue, Jan 13, 2009

A 36-year-old California man was arrested and booked in the Monterey County jail after allegedly selling his daughter for marriage and then calling police to complain that her buyer had not paid off his debt.
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According to police, a father tried to trade his 14-year old child for some Corona.

Greenfield, Calif., police said Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, tried to arrange for his 14-year-old daughter to marry Margarito de Jesus Galindo, 18, for $16,000 and 100 cases of beer, along with several cases of meat and other items.

After the girl moved in with Galindo, Martinez called police to complain that he hadn't been paid. Police said he asked for their help getting his daughter back.

Martinez's daughter did return home, but he was arrested and booked on suspicion of bartering her "receiving money for causing person to cohabitate."

Galindo, the intended buyer/groom, was booked on suspicion of statutory rape, police said.

Police said the practice of arranged marriage in some cultures is not relevent in the case, and even if it were, California law doesn't go for it when one or both parties have been coerced.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

MzHartz wrote:

Search continues for missing Geist pilot

Milton, Florida - A search is on for an Indiana pilot who vanished after his plane crashed in a Florida swamp. The pilot, who runs an investment firm in Geist, is also under investigation for fraud.

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Alabama authorities say that after checking into a hotel under a different name, Schrenker put on a black cap and moved into the woods. His plane hit the ground miles away, empty.

Numerous local, state, and federal agencies are assisting in Alabama, Indiana, and Florida in the effort to locate Schrenker.

The FAA and the NTSB is investigating at the crash site.

As an update to this, they found him. He was camping in a tent at a campground in Florida and had attempted to slit his wrists.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Father and son try to cut to front of line, go to jail

By RICK YENCER ryencer@muncie.gannett.com January 13, 2009

MUNCIE -- City police said a Frankfort man picked the wrong time to cut in line at the north Walmart store on Sunday, setting the stage for events that landed both him and his father in the Delaware County jail.
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Edward R. Pluhar Jr., 26, was preliminarily charged with battery on police officer Chris Kirby, while his father, 61-year-old Edward R. Pluhar Sr., was preliminarily charged with criminal recklessness with a vehicle and intimidation.

According to police reports, officer Kirby was off duty as he waited in Walmart's customer service line with his wife and daughter Sunday afternoon, and watched the younger Pluhar walk past him and directly to the service desk.

The police officer told Pluhar Jr. he needed to wait his turn, but the Frankfort man purportedly refused.

The elder Pluhar then allegedly approached the off-duty officer, told him to mind his own business and asked whether Kirby wanted to take the dispute outside.

When Kirby asked Pluhar Sr. what his intentions were, the Frankfort man purportedly said he would kick Kirby's posterior and also suggested he might shoot him.

Kirby then informed the father and son that he was a police officer and called emergency dispatchers to send an on-duty officer to the scene.

The Pluhars then left the store, at 4801 W. Clara Lane, with Kirby following them to the parking lot and then standing behind their van as they attempted to leave.

The van, driven by the elder Pluhar, allegedly hit the officer's leg. Kirby and the younger Pluhar then fought, reports said.

Patrol officers Kevin Durbin and Jess Neal then arrived and arrested the father and son without incident.

Edward Pluhar Sr. was released from the county jail Sunday after posting a $5,000 bond, while his son was released on a $2,500 bond.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

MzHartz wrote:

As an update to this, they found him. He was camping in a tent at a campground in Florida and had attempted to slit his wrists.

Let me guess... he was weilding a plastic knife? As sincere an attempt at slashing his wrists as was made at dying in a plane crash?

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Mad Mema wrote:

MzHartz wrote:
As an update to this, they found him. He was camping in a tent at a campground in Florida and had attempted to slit his wrists.

Let me guess... he was weilding a plastic knife? As sincere an attempt at slashing his wrists as was made at dying in a plane crash?

No, this time they think he was actually trying. He was almost unconscious from blood loss when they found him and they had to take him to the ER.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Interesting. Guess if nothing else, he is setting himself up for an insanity plea.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Text message trick leads to carjackers' arrest

BY JANE H. FURSE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, January 11th 2009, 8:28 PM

The promise of women and drugs helped nab the world's dumbest crooks after they carjacked an Ohio man's car - and his cell phone.

Alan Heuss was sitting in his BMW outside a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant, finishing up a cell phone conversation when a young man yanked open the passenger door, shoved a gun in his face and ordered him to get out, he told the Daily News Sunday.

The thief and two other men fled with his car, cash and cell phone late Thursday. Heuss called the cops from the nearby restaurant and stayed inside with friends to drown his sorrows.

That's when one of Heuss' buddies hatched a scheme to lure the bad guys into the open.

"My friend at the restaurant said, 'So, Alan, why don't I text them and pretend I'm a girl?' I said 'Yeah! And [say] you have cocaine too!'" Heuss said.

As luck would have it, one of Heuss' female friends was also calling his mobile number and her picture was appearing on the stolen cell phone screen.

Heuss went home, but his friends knew the crooks had taken the bait when they got a text.

They contacted Columbus police, got advice on how to reply, and the bad guys ended up disclosing their address. The three men - caught in the stolen vehicle - are suspects in a series of car thefts, cops told Columbus news station TV10. Heuss got his car back Friday.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

Here's one:

Life Imitates Buffy

Mom stole daughter's ID to shake pom-poms

Enrolled in high school to pursue cheerleading dream

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 14th January 2009 13:43 GMT

A 34-year-old mother who stole her teenage daughter's identity and used it to enroll in high school to pursue her dream of becoming a cheerleader was yesterday committed to three years in a psychiatric unit, the Times reports.

Wendy Brown. Pic: Brown County Sheriff's Office Wendy Brown (pictured), signed up at Ashwaubenon High School near Green Bay, Wisconsin, and subsequently "went to a pool party with other students and even attended a class" as well as trying out for the cheerleading team.

While her fellow alumni later admitted she "appeared suspiciously older that the rest of the students", she apparently had "the convincing demeanour of a teenager".

The wheels came off Brown's pom-pom plan when she was reported last August for truancy after failing to turn up at school. She was found languishing in a police cell, having been charged on an unrelated forgery rap.

In fact, Brown had a history of fraud and cops described themselves as "not surprised that she had been able to convince people she was her 15-year-old daughter, who is living with a relative in another US state".

While Brown "stated that she wanted to get her high school degree and be a cheerleader because she had no childhood and was trying to regain a part of her life she missed", as court papers put it, police are sceptical.

Lieutenant Jody Crocker, an Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer, said: "Ms Brown's criminal history says she's been involved in fraud and deceptive practices across the country for most of her adult life. It comes to no surprise to us that she was able to pull something like this off.

"I can only guess if history repeats itself her motive has something to do with money. Unless we take it at face value that she wanted to go and relive her childhood. I personally don't buy that."

A court yesterday cleared Brown of identity theft on the grounds of mental impairment and instead dispatched her to the aforementioned psychiatric unit. ®