Farmer, Andrew Marsinko, has achieved fame as the subject of a slightly risque birthday card. However, the poultry farmer from Botetourt County doesn't seem to appreciate the fame that has been thrust upon him. Far from it, he has filed a complaint in Roanoke County Circuit Court seeking $7.5 million in damages from the photographers who took the photo, the companies that offered the photo as a stock image and the companies that created and sold the card.

Nope - he sure don't wanna be famous.

Apparently the case hinges on whether Marsinko signed a release for commercial use of the picture or not; he says he didn't. If he is proved right, then the goose of the defendants is well and truly cooked.

See the picture and the rest of the story here:

Roanoke

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 10:18 AM | Permalink

Sal Inghilleri, a convicted sex offender, had been on the run for two months. The felon, who served twelve years for the molestation of Katie Beers in 1993, had been released from jail on the condition that he report to the authorities every 90 days for the rest of his life.

His two months of freedom was brought to an end when he filled out a credit application at a car dealership in North Carolina using his own name.

In 2002 a judge labeled him 'perverse and abhorrent.' He forgot 'dumb.'

New York Times

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:38 AM | Permalink

An astrologer from Saloníka in Greece has pocketed $204,000 from a woman who believed that the star-gazer could bring back her ex-lover.

After nine-months of waiting, the astrologer's client gave up and reported her soothsayer to the police. The astrologer was charged with fraud. Surprising she didn't see that coming really.

It really wasn't the criminal who was dumb in this case, was it? Morally bankrupt perhaps but not dumb.

AFP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 10:06 AM | Permalink

Forty-two year old mother Sheryl Lenora Ross was arrested early Saturday.

Ross and her husband were involved in a domestic dispute shortly before midnight on the Friday, following which Ross' husband took the couple's ten year old son and hunkered down in the car in an effort to put some distance between them and his wife. Not to be thwarted, Mrs Ross then started to throw large rocks at the car, smashing windows in the process. Her final flourish was to strip naked and drape herself across the hood of the car.

Surely there are easier ways for a woman to make the point that she has simply nothing to wear!

News 5

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:57 AM | Permalink

In the days of yore, when handsome young men fought for the hands of beautiful maidens, some maidens were less than ethical. Indeed, I knew of at least two maidens, perhaps not quite as pure as the driven snow, who indulged in serial engagements simply to get the rings. Get the ring, drop the man. Ah, the romance.

These erstwhile friends of mine would have problems in modern-day Tennessee, where Judge Charles D. Susano has proclaimed that If the marriage doesn't take place, the engagement ring should be returned to the one who gave it.

The decision stems from a legal battle over an engagement ring that began in a Knox County court. The battle concerned a ring given to Catharyn Campbell on Christmas Day, 2005 when her boyfriend, Jason Crippen, proposed. The couple eventually broke up and Crippen asked for his ring back. Campbell preferred to keep it and Crippen sued for its return. In the first hearing, the court ruled that the ring was a gift and, as such, Campbell was entitled to keep it. Crippen was dissatisfied with this ruling and went to appeal. This time things went his way and Campbell was ordered to return the ring.

She's better off out of it, after all, who wants to be married to a man who asks for his Christmas gifts back...

Tenessean.com

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:29 AM | Permalink

As if things weren't bad enough, Britney Spears has been charged with an alleged hit and run and driving without a valid license. Like the rest of her life, the moment when Britney steered into another car was caught on camera.

I don't know about you but what with her custody battle, I might soon begin to feel sorry for her.

CNN

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:04 AM | Permalink

The rapidly growing Celebrity in Jail Club that is....

Entertaining his latest girlfriend, Sarah Larson, by cruising around New Jersey on his motorbike, actor George Clooney was involved in an accident. Apparently poor Sarah suffered two broken toes, while the cuddlesome Clooney fractured a rib.

Seems though, that our George might be done for dangerous driving, Weehawken Police Sergeant Sean Kelly is quoted as saying: "you can't pass on the right in Weehawken or anywhere in Jersey."

They should have stayed at home.

Celebrity Gossip

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:13 AM | Permalink

A Los Angeles judge declared a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case on Wednesday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked, but prosecutors quickly vowed to put the legendary rock music producer on trial a second time.

Spector's attorney, Howard Weitzman, stressed that his client is at a stage in life where imprisonment could be life-threatening.

Oh dear. What a shame.

Reuters

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 07:36 AM | Permalink

A rape victim was at home in February 2005 when she was grabbed by a masked man, gagged with duct tape, bound and then raped.

She was able to identify her attacker as her boss because she recognized his bad breath. Her hunch was corroborated by DNA evidence found at the scene and her boss was arrested eight days later.

After three days of deliberation, the attacker was convicted this week by a Norfolk Superior Court jury of four counts of aggravated rape, one count of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape, one count of indecent assault and battery and one count of assault and battery.

However, Tuen K. “Dickie” Lee is now on the run, having failed to turn up for the last day of his trial. If an oriental looking gentleman with bad breath appears in your vicinity, call the cops.

Seriously! Anyone with information can contact state police detectives at 508-820-2121, or Quincy police at 617-479-1212.

Boston Herald

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:02 AM | Permalink

He might be able to elude the most deadly enemies in his role as counter-terrorist expert Jack Bauer but Kiefer Sutherland, actor, is far less cunning.

He was apparently stopped at La Cienega and Beverly at 1:35 a.m. on Tuesday morning and was booked on DUI charges at LAPD's Hollywood station shortly after 4 a.m. According to a police spokesman, Sutherland failed a field sobriety test before being taken into custody. He was eventually released at around 5 a.m. on bail.

That's five episodes worth of, apparently, drunken action. Can't wait to see it on air.

Celebrity Gossip

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:30 AM | Permalink

Our story today features the somewhat misguided action of prison inmate, Charles Jay Wolff.

Wolff, who is serving 10 to 20 years for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl, says he cannot tolerate hard-boiled eggs and is suing the state Dept of Corrections for $10 million. As part of his complaint, he sent a hard-boiled egg, packaged in a manila envelope, to U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead. With admirable literary taste, the good judge penned the following:

I do not like eggs in the file,
I do not like them in any style.
I will not take them fried or boiled.
I will not take them poached or broiled.
I will not take them soft or scrambled
Despite an argument well-rambled

No fan I am
Of the egg at hand.
Destroy that egg! Today! Today!
Today I say!
Without delay!

Assistant Attorney General Andrew Livernois, who also received an egg in the mail, is far more prosaic, having told Wolff 'if you don't like the eggs, don't eat them.

AP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:12 AM | Permalink

As far as efforts to escape detention go, Richard D. Brown's is up there with the dumbest. Having spotted Brown's involvement in a potential drug deal, a police officer attempted to stop him. As he made his getaway, Brown jettisoned a cigarette pack, which was found to contain over an ounce of cocaine. For reasons best known to himself, Brown had in his possession a live chicken. Maybe he thought it was gonna lay a golden egg.

When a pursuing officer caught up with our animal lover he punched him in the head, knocking him to the ground. When Brown tried to run again, a second officer zapped both Brown and officer number one with a stun gun as they were struggling. Brown was once again zapped before he was handcuffed.

After arrest, Brown required six stitches to cuts on his face. We are not told about the wellbeing of officer number one, but I expect it could be summed up in one word - stunned.

As for the chicken, it was taken to Sheboygan County Humane Society. I do hope its okay.

Sheboygan Press

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:58 AM | Permalink

Just imagine for a moment that you have decided to turn to a life of crime. More specifically, you have decided to go into bank robbing. Then imagine you are actually robbing a bank. Do the old faithful, you know, order the teller to: put up your hands, don't do anything stupid, this is a stick up...

Okay, got the picture in your head? Good.

Now, look at that picture - are you by any chance in your local bank; the one where you are a regular customer and they know you? No, didn't think so.

Sadly, Kevin Williams of New Zealand, did try to stick up his local bank but, hey, it was okay because he had his underpants over his head, with a cap on top of them.

Not his best career move. Read the full story at:

Daily Telegraph

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:44 AM | Permalink

Apparently, Australia's legal community are involved in discussion over whether they should continue to wear the horsehair wigs favored by their British counterparts.

Given that, in New South Wales and Victoria, two of the States involved in this wrangle, temperatures can reach a high of 47 degrees Celsius, I would suggest that this is something of a hot debate.

It seems that New South Wales legal eagles are all for marching ahead, and have all but relegated their ringlets to the refuse. Their Victorian (State and attitude) colleagues, however, have been wary in waiving their wigs. A tardiness that has caused one Australian barrister to comment: "we are such troglodytes that we can't even move a foot ahead."

Damned if you toupee, damned if you don't.

AFP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:47 AM | Permalink

It was 2004 when 27 year old Jamie Lacey broke into a neighbor's house and scattered pornographic magazines around the bathroom. He also made a 'recreational' device from a bottle of detergent, a piece of wood and a rubber glove. He was finally arrested in 2006 when police were able to match his DNA with the DNA left on the rubber glove.

There is also a vacuum cleaner involved in this story, which the defense argued could not be proved to have been used for pleasurable purposes. The Judge's retort?

I'm sure that your client didn't Hoover the carpets,

Yes, quite.

Lacey was sentenced to 12 months community service. The judge declined to send him to jail because he had held a steady job for two years and was now a father.

Obviously, he has graduated from rubber gloves.

Reuters

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:27 AM | Permalink

If you booked a limo to take you to some fancy uptown engagement, would you expect to ride in a vehicle that has four doors, seats five, including the driver, and has black leather seats, plus access to bottled water and a newspaper?

Would you, instead, be expecting a luxury vehicle, with top of the range exterior and interior, plus TV, bars, and refrigerators?

Or, maybe, as long as the vehicle that arrived to pick you up was cut and stretched and carried at least six to eight people in the back, you would be happy to call it a limo?

Something to ponder on a long night when you can't sleep eh? Especially when I tell you that all three of these descriptions have been given as constituting a limo in Hillsborough County, Florida. Admittedly, all by different people.

Mr Lieb, of TB Limo, is suing the Hillsborough Public Transportation Agency in the Federal Court. They are, he says, infringing his right to earn a living. His Prius is the four-door car of my first description. However, as it is a fuel-efficient green vehicle Mr Lieb thinks it should be classified as luxury, giving his customers the facility to save the planet while they ride. The Public Transportation Commission disagree, they say that Mr Lieb's car is a sedan. This means that he is not allowed to pick customers up in Hillsborough County, not even at the airport, although he can drop people off there.

The Public Transportation Commission think more in terms of TV's and refrigerators when defining a luxury vehicle. A competitor of Mr Lieb's just thinks along the lines of stretch and seating a lot of people. The truth is, nobody knows. A limo is in the eye of the beholder.

As Lieb's attorney aptly put, it the Commission's rules are so nebulous you could drive any size limo through them.

Tampa Tribune

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:38 AM | Permalink

I suspect that will be the motto of Christopher Bevan of Bloomsburg University from now on.

Bevan is the recent author of a letter to the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg, in which he complained that media coverage of the College's annual block party was unfair. He said that the stories had "painted BU students with a broad and negative brush and are both inaccurate and extremely unfair to the thousands of responsible, mature Bloomsburg students who are an asset to the school and this community..."

Last weekend, Bevan was pulled by a Campus Police Officer for driving at speeds in excess of 50mph in a 15mph zone. Blood alcohol levels were almost twice the legal limit and he was charged with driving under the influence, driving at an unsafe speed and careless driving. Oh, and this wonderful example of mature and responsible behaviour just happens to be the Student Government President at the University.

Boy, its gonna be a steep learning curve.

AP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:32 AM | Permalink

An interview with Spector appeared in the British press on Sunday, in which the 67 year old suspected murderer protests that the trial judge, Larry Paul Fidler, doesn't like him. Additionally, he laments, his future is in the hands of twelve people who voted for George Bush.

Doesn't your heart just bleed for him?

LA News

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:15 AM | Permalink

In a classic story of jealousy and revenge, mouth-artist, William "Rusty" Redfern, had a fight with his girlfriend's ex and ended up head-butting him to the ground. The victim, Charles "Keith" Teer of Snellville, died within seconds of the attack. His attacker personally dialed 911 and drove to the police station to report the fight. It was, as they say, an open and shut case.

Or was it?

An autopsy revealed that Teer had died from a heart attack and that he had heart disease of which he had been unaware when alive. This means that, currently, there are no charges that can be brought against Redfern. Teer's friends and family accept that Redfern didn't intentionally kill his love rival but, they say, the fact that he died within seconds of the head butt links the two events. Intentionally or not, they believe that Redfern killed Teer and should, therefore, be punished.

What do you think?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:05 AM | Permalink

A man who broke into a Cyprus bank to steal from the ATM machine was found fast asleep on the floor.

He was discovered by a cleaner just two hours before the bank was due to open. Naturally, given such a worrying welcome to work, the cleaner called the police, who arrived just as the exhausted would-be robber was staggering out of the bank. Apparently, despite managing to enter the bank, the fatigued felon couldn't fathom the code that would let him access the money.

Aah!

AFP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 10:36 AM | Permalink

In Lebanon, Ohio, three people have been caught mixing vinegar with fish-bait and trying to sell it as heroin. Apparently, they have also been caught trying to sell fake LSD.

Just what the effects on the body would be if somebody were to inject vinegar and fish-bait is not clear - nobody has come forward to report on that. Hardly surprising.

So far two of the three have been sentenced, the third dumbo awaits his fate. Perhaps being forced to take some of his own medicine might be a good deterrent?

Yahoo News

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:23 AM | Permalink

Police in Litchfield, Connecticut are on the lookout for a 50 year old man with thinning hair after he was spotted walking his dogs. Nothing wrong there, you might think, until I tell you this guy was naked. Apparently the cross country teams from a nearby school were diverted as a precaution.

I should think so too - in my experience, 50 year-olds look much better with their clothes on.

Yahoo News

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 10:17 AM | Permalink

Violent felon Larry A Crump escaped his incarceration at
Bourbon County Jail by fleeing through the mail box.

Some statistics for you here: the mailbox is 15" by 15" square; Crump is 6 feet tall and weighs 180 pounds.

He apparently escaped during a smoke-break. A video shows Crump escaping through the mail slot in the wall between the lobby of the jail and a guard's desk. The lobby leads to the front entrance of the jail. It took fifteen hours before anybody noticed that Crump was missing but, when the alarm had been raised, three bars were placed into the mailbox in an attempt to make it escape-proof.

Jail Administrator, Brent DeWeese, said the jail is now a non-smoking facility.

Kentucky.com

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:00 AM | Permalink

In an attempt to make the punishment fit the crime, Judge Paul Sacco, of Fort Lupton, Colorado, has come up with a terrible punishment: he puts violators of the City's noise ordinance law into a small room and forces them to listen to Barry Manilow. Or Dolly Parton. Or Karen Carpenter.

When you have a person playing rap at extreme volumes all over the city, and they have to sit down and listen for an hour to Barry Manilow, its horrible punishment, says Judge Sacco.

Quite.

Between you and me, I'm quite partial to Karen Carpenter, but even I would balk at being forced to listen to her at full volume for an hour. It doesn't take much imagination to understand what effect an hour of this same music would have on somebody who is into gangsta rap. During the punishment offenders are banned from eating, drinking, chewing, reading, or sleeping. So no escape there then.

Apparently, after having suffered an hour of Barry Manilow, there are few repeat offenders.

CBS

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:15 AM | Permalink

Convicted peeping tom, Dennis Saunders, did the crime, did the time and then sued a police department for the return of his massive porn collection, of which had been relieved during the investigation. His lawyer said that the 500 porno movies and 250 magazines were unrelated to the peeping case.

City authorities are questioning the wisdom of returning such in depth material to a man who has almost thirty years of peeping related arrests under his belt.

AP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:00 AM | Permalink

That was the response to Justin Delfino's emergency call reporting the firing of tear gas cannisters into his neighbor's home. Shortly afterwards, the besieged house erupted into flames; flames that threatened to engulf the entire neighborhood. And there wasn't a fire truck in sight.

The search warrant had been served by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's SWAT team because they believed a cache of stolen automatic weapons and armor-piercing ammunition was stored inside the house.

Strangely reminiscent of a much larger, but eerily similar, recent overreaction - no weapons were found.

Phoenix New times

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:00 AM | Permalink

For our second martial arts story in as many days, we visit Giessen in Germany, where a seventeen-year-old thief got more than he bargained for when trying to steal cigarettes.

When the would-be-thief spotted a blind thirty-three year old at the local railway station, he threatened the man and punched him in the face. What he didn't know is that his easy prey was, in fact, a world class judo-wrestler champion. It seems that the martial artist recovered quickly from the punch to his face and then flipped over his assailant, pinning him to the ground until the police arrived.

If that doesn't make him give up smoking, nothing will.

Reuters

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:32 AM | Permalink

The robber who entered a karate academy in Bucaramanga, Colombia, obviously had not thought things through properly. Despite wielding a firearm, the dozens of students present were far from intimidated; in fact, the group reacted as one to disarm the intruder. When police arrived at the scene, the only task that remained for them was to get the would-be robber to the ER for treatment of his multiple contusions. Or should that read multiple confusions.

Don't you just love it when baddies get chopped down to size!

AFP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:03 AM | Permalink

Following some "high-profile legal cases that garnered national attention," Merrimack High School Principal, Ken Johnson, has banned props from school year book photographs; a decision too late for Melissa Morin, who had already been photographed holding a red flower. Johnson turned a deaf ear to the pleas of Morin's mother saying, in effect, rules is rules

The case to which Mr Johnson refers concerned Londonderry High School Senior, Blake Douglas, who submitted a year book photograph of himself holding a gun - symbolizing his love of trapshooting. When the picture was prohibited, Douglas argued that his right to personal freedom had been breached. The judge asserted his right to rule against him.

I can understand disallowing the negative imagery of a gun. After all, it is to be hoped that gun toting does not reflect the reality of high school life. But. other than for sufferers of hay fever, I fail to see the negativity in brandishing a flower - symbolism that was adopted by a whole generation to represent love and peace, man.

It is also interesting to note that Ms Morin and her flower can gain entry to the year book if she purchases advertising space on the back page. Mr Johnson, it seems, does not understand the language of flowers, although he does seem to speak fluent money.

Nashua Telegraph

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 07:08 AM | Permalink

Apropos my recent post concerning Fanny Flaunters in LA, it seems this mode of dress is inadvisable for some occupations.

In Duluth, Minnesota, a loose-trousered would-be burglar was foiled when his 69 year old victim caught him in a headlock and stripped him naked. When asked if he would be able to identify the suspect, the valiant victim replied, "Oh, yeah. I believe he's the only guy running nude in Duluth."

When the 20-year-old, trouserless, man was apprehended 20 minutes later, he was charged with two counts of first-degree burglary.

One should always be smartly dressed for work.

AP

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 04:01 AM | Permalink

For those of you who, like me, have puzzled at the popularity of rapper Li'l Wayne and similar artists, a report from MSNBC may help to throw some light on the situation.

It appears that L'il Wayne, or Dwayne Michael Carter as he is known to his mother, likes to reward applause with cash. Oh, and he pays in advance by getting his entourage to throw large amounts of money into the audience. Unfortunately, such generosity can go to some folks head, literally. When the rap artist pulled this stunt in a concert at Morgan State University, three women were trampled in the ensuing brouhaha, one of whom is now suing Li'l Wayne for $1,000,000.

According to the complaint, 17 year old Tyrique Layne now suffers from memory loss, lapses in concentration and frequent and severe headaches. Somebody should tell the poor girl that these symptoms are common to many people subjected to Mr Wayne's particular brand of artistry.

USA Today

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 03:07 AM | Permalink

Have the British hoodie-phobics taken things too far by asking a four-year old to expose her face for the benefit of the CCTV cameras?

Tiny Karen Lewis was happily feeding 2 pence pieces (equivalent to 4 cents) into a slot machine when she was asked by a young male employee to take down the hood on her purple cardigan. On challenging this edict, the four-year-old's mother was told, "It's policy, they don't allow any hoodies in there."

When questioned, the manager said:

"If anything happened, I don't really want to see a hoodie with a hoodie. I want to see and be able to recognize him."

I suppose you can't be too careful nowadays.

BBC

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 06:38 AM | Permalink

Actor Bill Murray was stopped by police in Stockholm, believed to be drunk in charge of a golf cart. He refused to be breath tested and, following the subsequent blood test, could face a charge of drunken driving. Mr Murray explains that he was acting as unofficial chauffeur to his friends, following a pro-am golf tournament party.

In his defense, the actor apparently told officers that he was not drunk, he was a golfer. Do I take from this that golfers don't drink and that the 'rest and relaxation' that takes place at the 19th hole involves soft drinks and cookies only?

MSNBC

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 05:54 AM | Permalink

To my mind, chewing tobacco is pretty unsavory but, when folk start to chew meat with their tobacco, well, I just can't swallow that at all. However, Bryson Pillars of Mississippi did just that. The fact that the flesh was human makes the whole story even more indigestible.

I must be honest here and explain that Pillars didn't intentionally add meat to his vegetarian vice, it was just sort of there. Unfortunately, he didn't know it was there until his teeth came into contact with something rather more solid than tobacco, by which time he was foaming at the mouth. On further examination, playing hide and seek within his tobacco he found a human toe, with flesh and nail intact. And as if that wasn't enough, the toe was in a state of putrefaction! I thought the diagnosis of ptomaine poisoning was particularly apt.

Amazingly, when Pillars took the tobacco company to court he lost, because, "generally speaking, the rule is that the manufacturer is not liable to the ultimate consumer for damages resulting from the defects and impurities of the manufactured article."

Happily, the upstanding Pillars of the community won on appeal, the Mississippi Supreme Court unable to imagine any reason why, "with ordinary care human toes could not be left out of chewing tobacco, and if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it seems to us that somebody has been very careless."

The suppliers obviously didn't have a leg to stand on.

Pillars v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. et al., 78 So. 365 (Ms. 1918)
LegalJuice

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 03:25 PM | Permalink

Run that by me again? Police called to a reported problem in a Florida bar decided that their best course of action was to ask the troublemaker to move on. Not content with getting off lightly, and obviously blind drunk, the troublemaker called the Largo police on 911 to complain that he was surrounded by, err, Largo police.

Only after much head-scratching did the police come up with a 'misuse of 911' charge.

MSNBC

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:43 AM | Permalink

Hunan huggers who enjoyed a cuddle by the Jinshi river in Hunan, Central China, were fined for their public display of affection. Apparently, their squeeze failed to please the three plain-clothed policemen who separated them, questioned them, and then took them to the police station. The couple were made to pay the $660 fine before release.

The following internet frenzy forced officials to look at the case and, striking a blow for all Hunan Huggers, the policemen were punished and the fine was returned to the couple.

The path of true love ne'er did run smooth

Pakistan Daily Times

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:26 AM | Permalink

A San Francisco man entered his local branch of the Bank of America and, intent on withdrawing money, even though he didn't have an account, wrote on the back of a form, this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag. As he waited in line, he began to worry that somebody may have seen him writing the note; in his wisdom he decided to rob Wells Fargo across the street instead.

He waited patiently in line for the teller and, when his turn came, duly showed her the note. Deciding that the robber's intellect left something to be desired, the teller informed him that she couldn't possibly fulfill his request because it was not on the correct form. She advised him that he would either need to put his request on the correct form or return to the Bank of America. After due consideration, our fumbling felon returned to the bank across the street. His response at his arrest as he waited in line is not recorded.

It seems that even criminals have to get the paperwork right nowadays.

CFIF

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:24 AM | Permalink

Practice certainly didn't make perfect for Barbara S Joyner. On hearing that the robber of a bank in Callahan, Florida, beat a hasty retreat in a yellow car, the FBI visited Joyner at home. Of course, it could have been coincidence that she also had a yellow car. And maybe there is a limited selection of notepads to be had in Callahan, thus explaining why the note used for the robbery came from a pad exactly the same as one found in Joyner's home. FBI credulity was stretched beyond breaking point, however, when they uncovered several hold up notes written on the same pad. Joyner said that she had written these notes for practice but that she was not guilty of the Callahan robbery; an innocence she persisted in proclaiming, even when the FBI found bank-wrapped bundles of notes.

Would-be bank robbers, please take note.

Jacksonville Times
cited at This is True

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 04:01 AM | Permalink

Several Louisiana cities have plans to ban bare behinds. Those young folk who are stuck in the flaunted fanny groove may well find themselves out of pocket as well as out of their droopy drawers. Although some degree of sag will be tolerated, anybody baring more than 3 inches of butt or parading their pants can expect to pay up to $200 in fines and be required to do community service. One wonders if law enforcers will be equipped with especially developed measuring equipment. And surely just pulling up the disagreeable drawers will be a service to the community.

In Atlanta, baggy baggies are apparently seen as a measure of emotional health - the lower the pants, the lower the self esteem. Gives a fresh meaning to the old edict of 'pull your pants up.'

CNN

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 07:25 AM | Permalink