WATERLOO, Iowa - A northeast Iowa man who filed a fake obituary with a newspaper is headed to jail. James Snyder, of Stout, was accused of submitting the obituary for his girlfriend's 17-year-old son to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier last December to get out of work. The obituary said the teen died after a lengthy illness.

Snyder was charged with tampering with records. On Monday, he entered an Alford plea, and was sentenced to a year in jail — suspended to seven days.

Under an Alford plea, he admits no guilt, but agrees prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.

The teen's mother, Mary Jo Elizabeth, was charged with accessory after the fact. She was sentenced in June to 30 days in jail, which was suspended to a year's probation.

The scam was discovered when people who knew the teen saw him at Waterloo restaurant and called authorities.

-- Edited by Ruby at 11:59, 2006-09-21

This lady walks close to JD and JR!

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Sex! The Green Bay Packers! Sex WITH the Green Bay Packers!

The usually ho-hum race for Wisconsin secretary of state is being spiced up by one candidate's naughty tell-all book about her bed-hopping exploits with Green Bay football legends during the team's glory days under Vince Lombardi in the 1960s.

Sandy Sullivan, a 65-year-old Republican with no political experience, self-published a gushing memoir in 2004 titled "Green Bay Love Stories and Other Affairs" in which she claims she was the girlfriend of Green Bay Packers Paul Hornung and Dan Currie, deflected a pass from Hall of Famer Don Hutson and was on the receiving end of a saucy comment from Richard Nixon.

If the book is to be believed, the Packers did a lot of their scoring off the field, and Sullivan got her share of playing time.

In football-crazy Wisconsin, it is unclear whether the book will be a gain or a loss for Sullivan, who is not given much of a chance of beating Secretary of State Doug La Follette, a 28-year incumbent and a member of one of Wisconsin's most distinguished political families. But the book is getting people talking.

In it, she confides that her goal was always to marry a pro football player, saying they are "fast, sleek and clean," are built like "Greek gods" and love women.

"The football players of the 1950s and '60s were every bit as 'HOT' as the men of the present day, if not more so," Sullivan writes of the days when she was a trim, miniskirted brunette who did some modeling. "Remember, the '60s was the 'dawning of the Age of Aquarius' and some women ... were thrilled to experience this brave, new freedom, and celebrate our sexuality ... and the football players loved it!"

Sullivan, who is now a blonde and owns a marketing company that she says sets up autograph sessions and Packer appearances, is not hiding from her past. If anything, she is reveling in it. Her campaign Web site prominently mentions the book and features a picture of her with former Packers quarterback Bart Starr.

To those offended by the notion that a Packers groupie wants to run for state office, Sullivan said: "It tells a little bit about my youth, which was 50 years ago. If anybody has any problems with it, they ought to look in their own closet."

Rick Wiley, executive director of the state Republican Party, downplayed any concerns that the book could hurt her campaign. "Everyone has a past out there," he said.

He described Sullivan as a breath of fresh air and suggested her candidacy has served a useful civic purpose: "She's been a fantastic candidate for an office that not many people take a long look at at all."

As for her opponent, La Follette -- a distant cousin of Bob La Follette, a former governor, senator and one of the foremost figures of the clean-government Progressive movement of the early 20th century -- bemoans the attention the book is getting.

But "it's sort of amusing, quite honestly," the 66-year-old Democrat said. "She has a right to her life and if she wants to put it in a book, it's OK."

Sullivan says she was 19 in 1961 when she took a job with the Packers selling tickets and met Hornung, the Heisman Trophy-winning running back. She was instantly smitten with the wavy-haired golden boy known for his off-the-field romantic exploits.

"Here he was, in the flesh! Oh! My God! He was soooo CUTE! ... He immediately asked me out and I immediately accepted," Sullivan wrote. She quickly learned "there are two things football players think about all the time ... FOOTBALL AND SEX ... and seldom in that order."

She recounted an encounter with Hornung during training camp in which Hornung picked her up at 5:30 a.m. and drove to a Green Bay hotel for sex. Some Packer coaches were in the lobby, so Hornung made her climb the fire escape to the fifth floor while he went in through the lobby.

Hornung broke down the door to the fire escape, almost knocking her over the railing, she wrote. She wrote she doesn't remember having sex with him that night, "although I must have!"

Hornung did not return numerous messages left by The Associated Press. The book, however, includes a foreword in which he describes Sullivan as a "carefree, fun-loving girl who fit right in with me and the rest of the 'Pack.' "

When she was 20 she met Hutson, who was 50 then and long past his playing days. She said Hutson asked her to sleep with him, but she turned him down because he was a "relic from the Stone Ages" and she was in love with Hornung.

She also fell for Currie, a Packers linebacker. ("SIGH! One would have to be in a coma not to want him," Sullivan wrote.) She later married Currie's dentist, Matt Sullivan. He died in 1984.

One time, Nixon came to Green Bay for a ceremony to honor Starr, and Sullivan attended in a miniskirt. When Nixon began to speak, she started swinging her legs and smiling at him. He returned the smile.

Later he shook her hand, leaned over into her and softly said, "Hello there ... so you must be the CHERRY of the evening." No one was sure what Nixon meant, Sullivan wrote, though she speculated he had confused her with Starr's wife, Cherry.

Packers fans at Lambeau Field on Monday said her stand on the issues -- not her one-night stands -- would determine whether they would vote for her.

Seventy-eight-year-old Carol Williams of Menasha said she was surprised at Sullivan's openness, but not her exploits.

"Who isn't doing things like that these days?" she said.

Barb Hill, 65, of Luxemburg, said of Sullivan's love life: "I can't see what that has to do with voting, why you'd need to know."

For her part, Sullivan wrote that her book could prove educational.

"Many of my football player friends tell me they have not read a book in years," she wrote. "If they want to know what I've written about them, they will have to read the book. Consider this book my personal contribution to the literacy of some of the former Green Bay Packers!"

A guy comes into my shop with an oil change coupon for a corporate owned Econo-Lube store.  Normally I don't accept corporate coupons because I take such a loss at their rate. Initially I declined this guy too, but then he told me he had 2 other cars he wanted done today too. Well, that changes the picture a bit so I told him if he was going to bring the two other cars in today then I would go ahead and give him the corporate rate on one and our oil change rate on the other two. We are running a special for $17.98 for a standard 5 quarts of oil and an oil filter change.  He agreed.  We did all three cars, then he wants to argue me on why he didn't get the $9.98 rate on all three.  If I'm telling you that I don't normally take the coupon in the first place because I lose money on that oil change AND the corporation won't accept my coupons either... why the heck would you think I would give you that rate on 3 vehicles and triple my loss?!?  Not to mention I covered the ground with him before that the other two would be at our advertized sale rate...

They don't WANT to listen!

Man oh man! I know that when I get depressed I just run right out there and post all sorts of pics like these of me!

Man steals 5,000 pairs of shoes to savor the odor
A police officer examines shoes confiscated from a warehouse rented by Masashi Kamata.

NAGOYA -- A man suspected of stealing about 5,000 pairs of shoes in order to enjoy their odor has been arrested, police said Wednesday.

"I was enjoying their smell," Masashi Kamata, 28, a resident of Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, was quoted as telling investigators. "Indoor shoes for school sexually stimulate me. I couldn't throw away the shoes I obtained."

In the specific case for which he was arrested, Kamata stole two pairs of shoes from a girl that were being dried on the premises of her home in Owariasahi, Aichi, in September last year.

Local police confiscated about 5,000 pairs of school indoor shoes for girls and boys from a warehouse he had rented in Moriyama-ku on Wednesday.

Police had received numerous complaints that indoor shoes have been stolen in Moriyama-ku and surrounding areas.

Investigators suspect that Kamata stole the shoes from shoe cabinets at schools and homes, and are trying to seek further charges against him. (Mai

Shakira performs during her concert in San Salvador, El ...

NEW YORK - A woman who said she fell off a slippery bar and injured herself while dancing in a "Shake-It-Like-Shakira" contest is suing the Manhattan saloon that sponsored the competition.

Megan Zacher, 22, of Delanco, N.J., fell at Calico Jack's Cantina on 42nd Street and Second Avenue on July 8, 2006, her lawyer, Lawrence Simon, said Tuesday. He said the fall caused a torn knee ligament that required surgery.

Simon said Zacher and two friends were celebrating a birthday. She had been at the crowded establishment about an hour, was working on her second drink and was dancing on the bar, vying for the $250 "Shake-It-Like-Shakira" prize, when she fell, Simon said.

Shakira, pop songstress originally from Colombia, who also has Lebanese ancestry, is famous for her eye-catching belly dance moves in her videos and in-person appearances. Her latest hit is "Hips Don't Lie."

Simon said there were about 10 other women on the bar. Her friends, schoolmates from Staten Island's Wagner College, did not take part in the jiggle competition, which required a $35 entry fee, Simon said.

Zacher's lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan's State Supreme Court, says the bar's operators should have known the contest was "dangerous and likely to lead to injury."

Calico Jack's was "negligent, reckless and careless" in "permitting the bar area to become and remain wet and otherwise in an unsafe condition, and by failing to warn customers of the hazards presented," court papers say.

The lawsuit asks unspecified damages from Calico Jack's. A man at Calico Jack's who identified himself as the manager, who identified himself as "Tom" but refused to give his last name, said he had no comment.

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Here's one I just don't get.

We usually watch the news from a Lincoln, NE station.

About once a week or so, during the noon news, they will do a poll. They post their phone number so viewers can call in, vote and then later during the evening news, they will report the results of the poll.

Every time they do this, they have a certain number of "for" a certain number "against" and a few "undecided".

The question I have is why on earth would you call up a telephone poll only to say "I don't know"? Who are these people? Are they retired and have nothing better to do than call the TV staion to say "In regards to your poll, I don't know". Do they sit there and feel that the reporters are speaking directly to them and they must answer this poll question in order to be able to remain a viewer?

Why make an effort to make this call only to say "I don't know" ?

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is this a trick question?

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I really need to change this to drive!

 

NEWTON -- Police said it took several minutes of an officer yelling at an Attleboro man and banging on his Pontiac Grand Prix with a flashlight before he woke up and found himself sitting at a red light Saturday.
    Christopher Bordne, 17, had his foot on the brake and was sitting at the intersection of Boylston and Woodward streets when an officer approached in his cruiser about 1:40 a.m., police said.
    The officer sat behind Bordne's car, waiting for the light to turn green. When the car did not move, the officer got out and tried to wake Bordne up, according to a police report. 
    "I tapped on the window to get the driver's attention, but he did not respond. I then shouted out for him to wake up while knocking on the window, again with no response," an officer wrote in the police report. "I then took out my flashlight and banged the end of it on the roof of the car with a limited response from the driver where he licked his lips and moved his head a little bit without opening his eyes."
    The report states Bordne looked at the officer after several minutes, but drove away through the red light.
    The officer followed Bordne's car, and watched as it crashed into the same telephone pole on Glenmore Terrace three times, according to the report.
    "(I) observed the vehicle drive into the telephone pole located at the end of the street. I then observed the vehicle reverse approximately 3 to 4 feet and then again drive straight into the telephone pole. The vehicle then reversed a second time and then a third time drove into the pole," the officer wrote.
    Bordne, of 4 Mount Vernon Ave. North, was arrested about 1:50 a.m. after the officer was able to trap Bordne's car between the cruiser, a tree and the house at 13 Glenmore Terrace.
    Police said Bordne, who had to be removed from his car and failed field sobriety tests, had driven on the lawn in an attempt to escape police.
    He was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, failure to stop for police, operating to endanger and failure to stop at a red light, police said.

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You're right Sparky, the guy operating this motor vehicle is from my city.... Lots of morons live here in Attleboro    It only took me 2 months to see it and respond...

-- Edited by darleneapd at 13:54, 2006-11-08

INCOLNTON, N.C. -- Lincolnton authorities say they've arrested the man who used a hammer to rob a gas station earlier this week, and then went on to try to hold up two banks.

Police said Michael Shane Lineburg is the man seen in surveillance video robbing the Petro Express on Tuesday.

Officers say Lineburg then attempted to rob the First Charter Bank in downtown Lincolnton early Wednesday by handing the teller a note that stated, “Give me money I need help.”

“But he didn’t have it worded as this was a robbery of any type. They couldn’t figure out what he wanted and kept asking him. Finally he got frustrated with the questions that the clerk was asking him and he left the bank without anything,” said Det. Kameron Keener.

Police say he went two blocks to the Bank of America on Aspen Street and this time spoke for himself.

“Said, ‘I’m not a bad person. I really hat to do this, but I need $1,000 dollars,’ and she asked him for his account number and he said he didn’t have any and this is a robbery,” Keener said.

Police say the strange series of crimes came to an end when Lineburg left his pants with his wallet near the scene of the crime.

“Sometimes people just do some unorthodox things, and this is one of them,” Keener said.

Witnesses told police they saw a man stripping off his top layer of clothes near the bank, which investigators say was part of a plan to disguise his appearance. He dropped his pants in an alley and police recognized the face on his identification.

“We had a pretty good idea who the suspect was, but that pretty much confirmed it,” an officer said.

Lineburg’s wife was also arrested and charged as an accessory to bank robbery.

Police said they believe the man committed the crimes for drug money.

wow that is sad...

Man Claims Prince's Super Bowl Show Gave Him Erectile Dysfunction

The Federal Communications Commission has received bizarre complaints about Prince’s Super Bowl half-time performance.

Official moans and groans received by the FCC, following the televised spectacular last month, include one from a man who claimed the performance left him with erectile dysfunction.

Another woman complained she feared Prince's performance would turn her son gay.

The pop superstar made headlines for a naughty guitar pose he made behind a huge sheet towards the end of his 15-minute performance.

Man hits woman on way to anger control class
27-year-old Minnesota man pleads guilty to fifth-degree assault charges
The Associated Press
updated 2:54 p.m. ET, Sat., March. 1, 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Justin John Boudin may have done his anger management homework, but he apparently didn't learn his lesson.

The 27-year-old Minnesota man pleaded guilty to fifth-degree assault charges for losing his temper on the way to class.

According to the criminal complaint, Boudin was waiting at a bus stop in August when he harassed a 59-year-old woman. Witnesses say he yelled "Why don't you show me some respect?" at the woman.

The complaint says when she took out her cell to call police, he punched her in the face. When a 63-year-old man tried to stop him, Boudin hit him with a blue folder. Then he ran, dropping the folder.

Police were able to track him down using the papers inside, which included his name and his anger management homework.

Prosecutors expect at a hearing in May he'll be sentenced to time served, which will be at least 120 days, and probation.