Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Man in police station asks for light - for crack pipe
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - A Peterborough man now knows that not only is smoking in a police station illegal - smoking crack in a police station is really illegal.
City police say a man walked into the station early Tuesday morning and asked the desk sergeant for a light.
That's when the man pulled out a partially filled crack pipe.
Needless to say, the man was immediately arrested. The 54-year-old man is charged with possession of a controlled substance.
Students find real body while investigating fake crime scene
Truth proved to be stranger than fiction for a high school criminology class investigating a fake crime scene after students discovered a real body on a field trip.
Teacher Sue Messenger has been planting fake skeletons with bullet holes and other evidence at mock crime scenes for more than 20 years during her forensics courses to give her students a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.
"I think they kind of went into shock and disbelief, but also, you have to say it's completely bizarre," Messenger said. "I mean ... what are the odds that we would be out here?"
The discovery Monday at Fort Lauderdale's Holiday Park by 29 students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School jolted the class.
"It was a good crash course," said student Juan Cantor, 15. "The first thing we thought was, 'That's a real good dummy she set up.'"
Police on Tuesday identified the body as David Wayne Bodie, 45, a homeless man who apparently died of natural causes.
Parents Realize Next Day They Left Son At Chuck E. Cheese
A 6-year-old Florida boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant will temporarily remain in state custody.
A judge said the state Department of Children and Families will likely determine Tuesday whether Michael Emanuel can live temporarily with a relative.
Emanuel's family said they accidentally left him Saturday night and didn't notice he was missing until the next day. Each relative thought the child was with another family member.
Employees at the Boca Raton restaurant called police and the child was taken into state custody.
An attorney for the boy's mother told the judge there were 12 youngsters at the party and as they all piled into cars to leave, the boy was simply overlooked.
Time To Impeach This Asshole
President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.
Man accused of setting fire to girlfriend
A Fort Smith woman who police say was set on fire Sunday by her boyfriend didn’t want to call police or an ambulance for fear the man would get into trouble.
But after talking on the phone for almost an hour with a volunteer from the Women’s Crisis Center, Tracy Long, 46, allowed a friend to take her to Sparks Regional Medical Center where doctors believed her injuries to be life-threatening.
Long’s friend, Alice Franklin, said Long was in critical condition and underwent surgery Monday at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, where she was airlifted Sunday. Hospital officials would not release Long’s condition Monday.
Russian Boss Punishes Lazy Employee By Chaining Him Naked to a Tree
Russian police are investigating a case of a boss who chained his subordinate naked to a tree in the forest to punish him for badly done work.
On May, 26 a naked man covered in bangs and bruises was found standing chained by a pair of handcuffs to a tree in the forest near the Belogorsk town in Russia’s Far East.
According to Interfax, the man had spent almost 24 hours in the forest before he was found by railway workers; Regnum news agency reports he spent several hours at the tree.
The man, 39, told the police he had been punished by his boss, director of a Belogorsk enterprise, for refusing to engage in illegal actions.
Finger nickin' good farce
A YOB who spent all day on a roof lobbing bricks at cops was “rewarded” with a KFC takeaway.
Police gave him the meal because of his HUMAN RIGHTS as the suspected car thief staged his second rooftop siege in seven months.
Last night, furious locals blasted his soft treatment.
One, Leanne Roberts, 19, said: “It’s disgraceful. People are starving while he is served like a king.”
Citizen Helps Officer Arrest Towering Suspect
A Cherokee County city plans to honor a Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall. Officer Julie Ann Welch stopped a car on May 10 on Highway 5 because the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt. She says the passenger, Mike Schmidt, of Canton, was acting suspiciously so she told him to get out of the car. "He just continually disobeyed my commands," Welch tells WSB-TV. "He kept putting his hands in his pocket. He was shaking horribly. "Welch says she found cocaine and drug paraphernalia on Schmidt.
Her dashboard camera caught the following scene: As she starts to handcuff Schmidt, he struggles and tries to run but Welch refuses to let go. "I would pull him backwards off balance and try to pull his shirt, but I couldn't reach that far up," she said.
Worm-inspired robot crawls through intestines
A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients' bodies.
The team behind the robot includes scientists from Italy, Germany, Greece and the UK. They modelled it on polychaetes, or "paddle worms", which use tiny paddles on their body segments to push through sand, mud or water.
"We turned to biological inspiration because, in the peculiar environment of the gut, traditional forms of robotic locomotion don't work," says Arianna Menciassi, a roboticist from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.
"Worms have locomotion systems suited to such unstructured, slippery environments."