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Woman: Bowel caused alleged shoplifting
CAPE CORAL, Fla.- A woman arrested for shoplifting has blamed the crime on irritable bowel syndrome, authorities said. Helen Gallo, 61, of Clearwater, was arrested Sunday after allegedly shoplifting from a Cape Coral grocery store, The Daily Breeze of Cape Coral reported.
Gallo reportedly told authorities that she could not wait in line because she has [...]
Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction
A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
Muslims pray five times a day, [...]
Boy dupes YouTube to delete videos
A 15-year-old West Australian pretending to represent ABC TV succeeded in having more than 200 clips removed from the video-sharing website YouTube.
The boy signed a form claiming, “under penalty of perjury”, that he represented the clips’ copyright owners.
The segments, taken from The Chaser’s War on Everything, were removed over a month and replaced by this [...]
Suspected nude car thief pleads not guilty
Lisa Isidro, the 35-year-old woman who was shot by a police officer as she allegedly fled in his patrol car Saturday, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony assault and auto theft.
Watsonville officer Randy Pecse, who shot Isidro in the left biceps, continues to carry out his regular duties during a probe into the shooting.
Police Capt. [...]
Naked woman shot by Watsonville police
WATSONVILLE, Calif. A naked woman who was shot by a Watsonville police officer over the weekend is in jail facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon, hit-and-run and auto theft.
Lisa Isidro was arrested about early Saturday after a struggle with a police officer that ended in her being shot in the arm and then [...]
Roseville Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Minor
ROSEVILLE, Calif. Roseville Police arrested a Silverado Middle School teacher for allegedly engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
Twenty-eight-year-old Christine Spaich was arrested at her Roseville home Saturday and booked into the Roseville Police Department Jail on suspicion of having sex with the 16-year-old male. The victim is a former student at Silverado [...]
Falling woman saved by pile of…
A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said.
The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Kuaibao tabloid said on its Web site (www.kuaibao.net).
“Workers happened to [...]
101 year-old man passes driving test, first learned to drive in a Model T
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) - Alden Couch just celebrated his 101st birthday. And he passed his Washington state driver’s test with flying colors, if you listen to him. “I haven’t parallel parked for 10 years and I sailed through it like nothing,” he said.
A resident of the Whidbey Island town of Langley, Couch planned to take [...]
10 yr old boy is quizzed by police for sending email with word gay in it
A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
Company director Alan Rawlinson said he was astounded after two police officers arrived at his home in Bold Heath, Cheshire, to speak to his son George.
The officers were called earlier this month after [...]
Student punished for spaghetti beliefs
A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a [...]
World’s tallest man ties knot
BEIJING, China (AP) — After searching high and low, the world’s tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch (2.36-meter) herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 meters) tall, several days ago, the Beijing New reported.
Bao’s 28-year-old bride [...]
Dog saves choking owner with ‘Heimlich’
CALVERT, Md. (AP) - Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman’s chest. The dog’s owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.
Debbie Parkhurst, 45, of Calvert told the Cecil Whig she was [...]
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