Leave it to Cleaver, not Beaver
November 21, 2008
If you’re arguing with a guy who’s wearing a meat cleaver as a necklace, it’s probably wise to let him have the last word. An unidentified 22-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah man has been charged with felony aggravated assault for slicing up another man with a meat cleaver he wore around his neck when they got into a fight last week.The victim claims the suspect called his girlfriend, quote, “bad names,” so he tossed a soda on the suspect. The man responded by taking a meat cleaver he wore as a necklace and swinging it at the victim, connecting with his face, arm and chest. The victim required 65 stitches to close his wounds. It’s unclear where the incident took place.
Mother turns in her children after robbery
November 21, 2008
A Milwaukee woman is getting some help from the police when it comes to teaching her children the difference between right and wrong. The unidentified woman called police last week after she saw a video on a local TV station of her 17-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son robbing a gas station. After she turned her kids in, cops arrested the siblings and praised the mother for doing the right thing.
Funeral arrest goes wrong, way wrong…
November 20, 2008
Talk about not knowing how to pay your respects to the deceased. Two deputies in Wilmington, North Carolina Tasered a pallbearer while trying to arrest him at his father’s funeral last Saturday.The two undercover officers said they hoped to quietly arrest 42-year-old Gladwyn Taft Russ III for threatening his ex-wife. For these cops, though, “quietly” meant grabbing him from behind, giving him a swift kick in his back and then using the Taser on him. As officers confronted Russ, he spat on them, earning him additional misconduct charges.
Russ’ sister said the officers pointed their guns at her as she got out of her car and threatened to shoot if she didn’t move back, although the deputies say they did so to stop people from coming towards them. The sister claims some people who planned to attend the service left amidst the chaos, while another pallbearer said they almost dropped the casket.
A spokesman for the county sheriff’s department said the officers should have waited until after the funeral to cuff Russ, especially given that he had already agreed to turn himself in when the service was over.
Man arrested after breaking into radio station and going “LIVE”
November 20, 2008
A man in Britain went from being on-air to being hauled off to jail yesterday. Police arrested the unidentified man for breaking into a radio station and using foul language on the air. The man broke into the studios of Galaxy 102.2 in Birmingham around 5 a.m. and let the salty language fly. It’s unclear how he managed to get into the station, but cops did arrest him before he had a chance to leave. No one called to complain about the man’s choice of words.
Bandit busted due to bad odor
November 20, 2008
Raise your hand if you’re sure…that William Whitt is a doofus. Police arrested the 19-year-old Gallagher, West Virginia man for trying to steal deodorant from a supermarket last Saturday. When a manager and a security guard confronted him, Whitt whipped out a box cutter and threatened them. He tried to run away, but both the guard and the manager held him until police arrived. Hopefully, Whitt never let ‘em see him sweat, because he sure had reason to. When cops frisked him, they found marijuana, as well as a clonazepam pill, an anti-anxiety drug for which he did not have a prescription.
Jailer accused of telling inmate a vote for McCain means freedom
November 20, 2008
A vote for John McCain was a vote for freedom. An official at Denton City Jail in Denton, Texas has gotten into hot water for telling a detainee on Election Day he would be set free if he voted for John McCain. Twenty-five-year-old Aruto Ntel was pulled over for speeding and arrested on an outstanding warrant of driving without insurance. Surveillance video shows that when Ntel got to the jail, employee Chris Saunier told him, quote, “If you vote for McCain, I’ll let you out right now.” Town officials say they plan to decide in the next week how they’ll punish Saunier.Ntel decided to be released the old-fashioned way when a friend bailed him out. He then went to vote — for Barack Obama.
Escaped prisoner has change of heart
November 20, 2008
Freedom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Twenty-one-year-old Chad Toy returned to Kentucky’s McCracken County Regional Jail the same day he escaped. Toy fled Monday when a guard left the front door open while Toy was on cleanup duty in the lobby of the facility. Toy came back in the afternoon, though, covered in grime, claiming his sister convinced him to return to the slammer because his family was worried for his safety. A jail official doesn’t believe his story, though, claiming he thinks Toy simply hid out near a river for a few hours. Whatever the reason, Toy regrets his decision. He said, quote, “I am sorry about what I did. If I had to do it over again, I would have never run out of the door.”Toy, who’s serving a four-year sentence for theft, is also awaiting trial for his role in a July burglary. There’s no word on whether he faces new charges for his escape.
Man wanted in Tennessee arrested in South Carolina after strange incident
November 19, 2008
They say criminals often return to the scene of the crime, and nowhere is that truer than in Bishopville, South Carolina. Police arrested 48-year-old Johnny Lindner for robbing a supermarket after the driver of his getaway taxi went back to the store to ask for directions.After Lindner stole money and cigarettes from Young’s Food Store last Friday, his getaway truck broke down, so he hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take him to a town called Lydia, South Carolina. The cabbie had no clue where that was, so he drove to the grocery store Lindner had just robbed to ask for directions. Once he pulled up, they were greeted by cops who, having watched surveillance video of the robbery, realized Lindner was sitting in the backseat. They arrested him on the spot. It also turns out he’s wanted on other charges HERE in Tennessee.
Man hits wife with sandwich, breaks windshield
November 19, 2008
Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida arrested 19-year-old Emmanuelle Rodriguez for hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich while she drove along a highway last Friday. Rodriguez bashed the woman with such force her glasses fell off, causing her to lose control of the car. Rodriguez also ripped off the rearview mirror, which he allegedly used to shatter the windshield. It’s also worth noting the couple’s seven-month-old son was sleeping in the backseat at the time.
It’s unclear why Rodriguez was upset with the woman, nor is it clear what kind of sandwich he hurled at her. The woman managed to drive to an exit, where she kicked Rodriguez out of the car and told him to get a ride home from his mother.
BOXING RING - Stolen
November 17, 2008
Boxers who train at the Glass City Boxing facility in Toledo, Ohio had trouble climbing into the ring this week — someone stole it. WNWO-TV reports the entire ring was discovered missing on Sunday. Trainer Tom Urbina says upcoming boxing exhibitions will have to be canceled if the ring isn’t returned. Urbina is asking anyone with information about the missing ring to contact Toledo police.
Hair styles of the RICH
November 17, 2008
It’s easy to have great hair when you have a team of stylists doing your “do” before every red carpet event and TV appearance. But even with all that attention, some celebrities just look better than others. A new survey recently asked ten thousand professional hair stylists who they thought had the best hair in Hollywood.Here are the results of the survey of hair stylists at Fantastic Sams Salons nationwide:
Celebrity Couple with the Best Hair:
Brad and Angelina — 35 percent
Fergie and Josh Duhamel — 17 percent
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake — 12 percent
Jay-Z and Beyoncé — 7 percent
Blake Lively and Penn Badgley — 6 percent
Reality TV Goddess with the Best Hair:
Heidi Klum — Project Runway, 23 percent
Kim Kardashian — Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 18 percent
Lauren Conrad — The Hills, 16 percent
Tori Spelling — Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, 9 percent
Jo de la Rosa — Date My Ex, 7 percent
Celebrities’ Hair Color Women Request the Most at Fantastic Sams Salons:
Jessica Alba’s sexy highlights — 28 percent
Carrie Underwood’s golden blonde — 25 percent
Reese Witherspoon’s sun-kissed blonde — 12 percent
Jennifer Lopez’s luscious brown — 10 percent
Lindsay Lohan’s rockin’ red — 6 percent
Celebrity with the Sexiest Blonde Hair:
Jessica Simpson — 29 percent
Taylor Swift — 20 percent
Hayden Panettiere — 13 percent
Paris Hilton — 7 percent
Blake Lively — 6 percent
Sexy Celebrity Siren with the Best Shade of Red Locks:
Debra Messing — 36 percent
Lindsay Lohan — 20 percent
Julianne Moore — 10 percent
Ashlee Simpson — 7 percent
Marcia Cross — 5 percent
Beer truck driver suspected of DUI
November 16, 2008
A truck driver hauling a load of Coors beer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drunk driving. Police in Wheat Ridge, Colorado say 56-year-old Bobby Dodge took an Interstate exit ramp too fast and flipped his semi-tractor trailer over. He was charged and then taken to a detox center. The exit ramp was shut down for seven hours while highway workers off-loaded the Coors into another trailer. None of the beer was spilled on the highway.
Dead man takes wife with him
November 15, 2008
Everyone knows you can’t take it with you when you die, but some can apparently take a spouse. The BBC reports a 67-year-old Brazilian woman was killed this week when she was struck in the back of the head by her husband’s coffin as they headed to a cemetery.The report says the woman was seated in the passenger seat of a hearse carrying her husband’s coffin when the vehicle was struck from behind by another car. The impact sent the coffin flying forward, striking the widow in the back of the head and killing her instantly. The motorist in the second car was seriously hurt, but the driver of the hearse walked away with minor injuries.
Woman gets ticket while paying respect to Veterans
November 13, 2008
A British woman will certainly remember this past Veteran’s Day — she was given a parking ticket while standing next to her car observing two minutes of silence for those who served.The Guardian newspaper reports Stephanie Jost returned to her parked car within the hour allowed by a meter and stood in silence at 11 a.m. She tells the newspaper a traffic warden was standing with his back to her and was busy writing while others were standing in silence. Moments later, the warden turned around and slapped a 120-dollar ticket on Jost’s windshield. Officials in the town of Chiswick say if Jost wants to fight the fine, she can follow the appeal procedure printed on the back of the ticket.
In Britain, November 11th — Veteran’s Day — is known as Remembrance Day. It marks the official end of World War One, which came on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Woman plunges 100-feet and makes wine?
November 13, 2008
A Ukrainian woman survived a 100-foot plunge from her ninth floor apartment this week by landing in a giant vat of grapes. Published reports say the 29-year-old woman fell from the balcony of her apartment in the city of Uzhgorod and landed in a vat of grapes that had just been harvested from an adjacent vineyard. A police spokesman said the woman walked away without a scratch and also saved the winemakers a lot of work, because she crushed most of the grapes in the vat.
Person lost, spends week at airport
November 11, 2008
It was a case of life imitating the movies recently in Hanover, Germany where a confused traveler from Greece borrowed the script from the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal and wandered around an airport for seven days.Published reports say 38-year-old Christianos Kaklamanis was trying to get back home to Greece but became confused at the Hanover Airport and ended up wandering around for a full week before a travel agent noticed and called police. The travel agent told authorities she saw the Kaklamanis several times over the seven days, but thought he just a frequent flier traveling in and out of the airport a lot. Airport authorities contacted his family in Greece, where he had been reported missing, and put him on a plane home.
Woman dials 911 over 7,000 times
November 11, 2008
A Japanese woman who was angry at police for not taking an assault claim seriously has been arrested for allegedly dialing 911 more than seven thousand times in a month.According to published reports, the Osaka woman made 7,177 calls to 911 between September and October of this year, sometimes yelling “drop dead” at the 911 operator. Investigators say the woman first called police in 2005 to report that a man had hit her, but the officer who responded didn’t take the call seriously. The 38-year-old woman is charged with obstructing police work.
Nice woman jailed for plot to kill hubby
November 10, 2008
A wife who hired a hitman to kill her wealthy Irish husband was sentenced to prison this week, despite her spouse’s plea that she’s, quote, “one of the nicest people you could ever know.”Ireland’s national TV station, RTE, reports Sharon Collins hired a hitman online to kill her wealthy husband and his two grown sons so she could inherit a 76 million-dollar family fortune. The hitman tried to cash in by contacting one son and offering him the opportunity to buy out the murder-for-hire contract for 127 grand. The son contacted authorities and the hitman was found guilty of extortion and sentenced to six years in prison.
At Collins’ sentencing, hubby P.J. Howard told a judge he would never give up on his wife, despite her plot to kill him, and would not hesitate to live with her again. He told the Irish Independent newspaper she’s “one of the nicest people you could ever know.” The missus was sentenced to six years behind bars.
Unruly woman restrained with duct tape on plane
November 9, 2008
A woman is scheduled to appear in a Charlotte, North Carolina courtroom today to answer charges she became so disruptive on a recent United Airlines flight, the crew had to use duct tape to keep her in her seat.Police reports say 45-year-old Maria Castillo of Oswego, New York struck a flight attendant on the butt and fell on top of a blind passenger during a flight last Saturday from Puerto Rico to Chicago. Witnesses say Castillo had several drinks in an airport bar before boarding the plane and had another on board before flight attendants cut her off because of her behavior. The flight crew tried to restrain Castillo with ankle cuffs, but she kept slipping out of them and was eventually secured to her seat with duct tape.
The flight was diverted to Charlotte where Castillo was taken off the plane and charged with resisting arrest and interfering with the operations of a flight crew.
Scariest movies, drum roll please…
November 7, 2008
It’s Halloween, so after you’ve gotten a sugar rush from all the candy you eat, you’ll probably be wide awake, which you’ll need to be if you rent one of these movies guaranteed to frighten. Blockbuster.com asked people to name the top 10 Nightmare-Maker Movies. The site received more than six thousand responses. Here’s a look at the top 10:
1. The Exorcist
2. Halloween
3. The Ring
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. The Grudge
7. The Shining
8. Saw
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. Pet Sematary
Woman takes rabid fox on 1-mile jog
November 6, 2008
Joggers use all sorts of inspiration to keep themselves going, but one Arizona runner had her motivation locked onto her arm — a rabid fox.Published reports say the woman was jogging on a trail near Prescott Monday when a fox attacked and clamped its jaws onto her arm. The woman didn’t try to knock the animal off because she wanted it tested for rabies. She ran a mile to her car with the fox still attached and tossed the animal in her trunk before heading to a local hospital for treatment. The animal tested positive for rabies and the woman is now receiving vaccinations.
AUSSIE HUNTER CHARGED WITH SHOOTING HIMSELF
November 6, 2008
Today’s case of adding insult to injury comes from Australia, where a 31-year-old man was charged with criminal possession of an unlicensed firearm after he shot himself in the arm while hunting.
The Northern Territory News reports the man was walking to retrieve a goose he had just shot when he tripped and his double-barreled shotgun discharged. He managed to drive himself about three miles to restaurant where he received first aid. Police arrived shortly afterwards and charged him after a brief investigation.
NY Woman accused of misleading authorities
November 4, 2008
A New York state woman apparently knows a thing or two about misleading authorities — police say she has provided 30 different addresses for herself, numerous aliases and nine Social Security numbers over the years.
The Buffalo News reports 42-year-old Priscilla Gumpton has been convicted of three felonies and 35 misdemeanors in connection with the false information and now faces a maximum of life in prison for her latest run-in. She was indicted last Thursday on three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and single counts of third-degree grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Prosecutors say Gumpton and an accomplice were arrested last week for trying to shoplift two thousand dollars worth of videogames from a Walmart in Lockport, New York.
Soup kitchen for animals? Where are our priorities?
November 3, 2008
A true sign of the times opened in Berlin Friday. It’s a soup kitchen designed exclusively for the pets of the unemployed and homeless. The director of the soup kitchen for pets dismissed critics who say she would make a bigger impact if she collected money for the animals’ down-and-out owners. Director Claudia Hollm is quoted as saying, “Making sure dogs don’t go hungry is just as important as making sure that people don’t starve.”
6lb Sandwhich - YUMMY!
November 3, 2008
When a business is called Fat Sandwich Company, a customer shouldn’t expect to find items on the menu like pita bread stuffed with alfalfa sprouts.
No, only those ready to eat enough food to kill a moose need walk through the doors of the Fat Sandwich Company, which opened its first shop at the University of Oklahoma two years ago. There’s now another FSC at the University of Illinois.
The restaurant’s pièce de résistance is a sandwich with the appetizing name “Big Fat Ugly.” And this is no exaggeration.
FSC’s “Big Fat Ugly” is the size of a football and weighs six pounds. It costs an eye-popping 25 bucks but they don’t cheat diners on food.
It contains the following:two rolls, four cheeseburgers, a double cheesesteak, a chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon, sausage, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets, mac ‘n cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeño poppers, pizza bites, onion rings, hash browns, American cheese, mayo, and ketchup.
Yummy. And the best part is if you can finish it off in under 15 minutes, the “Big Fat Ugly” is on the house.
Police evidence room in one country a place for drugs
October 22, 2008
Cops in Australia are red-faced after a man stole nearly 11 thousand dollars worth of drugs from a police evidence room. Published reports from Queensland say a worker hired to do repairs in the police station made off with more than two thousand ecstasy pills as well as small amounts of cocaine and amphetamine. Police say he was caught a short time after the theft, but most of the stolen drugs are still missing.
Beauty Shop Mishap in Alabama
October 21, 2008
Police in Alabama say they arrested a 42-year-old man last week after he dressed up as the elderly female owner of a beauty parlor and tried to break into her shop so he could sit in a chair and look at himself in the mirror.
A spokesman for the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office says the business is adjacent to the home of owner Rose Stevens and the 76-year-old called police when she saw an intruder trying to break into the shop. He gave up, but was arrested when a patrol car pulled up as he started to leave. The unidentified man, who was wearing a blonde wig and flowered smock, is charged with third-degree burglary. The man’s brother told police the suspect has mental problems and is obsessed with dressing like a woman.
NEW YORK LEADS THE WORLD IN COMMON COURTESY
October 21, 2008
Readers Digest recently asked reporters for its editions in 35 countries to go undercover and test the politeness of the citizens of some of the world’s biggest cities. And the winner is…New York, New York. So nice, they named it twice.In each city, Reader’s Digest conducted the following common courtesy tests with an equal number of male and female reporters:
– An undercover reporter walked into public buildings 20 times behind people to see if they would hold the door open for them.
– An undercover reporter bought small items from 20 stores and recorded whether the sales assistants said thank you.
– An undercover reporter dropped a folder full of papers in 20 busy locations to see if anyone would help pick them up.
A point was awarded for each positive outcome and nothing for a negative one, giving each city a maximum score of 60. More than two thousand common courtesy tests were conducted. New York finished in the top five in all three tests and was the clear winner. Here are the best and the worst cities for politeness:
The Most Courteous Cities:
New York, USA
Zurich, Switzerland
Toronto, Canada
Berlin, Germany
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Zagreb, Croatia
Auckland, New Zealand
Warsaw, Poland
Mexico City, Mexico
Stockholm, Sweden
Budapest, Hungary
Madrid, Spain
Prague, Czech Republic
Vienna, Austria
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Johannesburg, South Africa
Lisbon, Spain
London, UK
Paris, France
The Least Courteous Cities:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Montreal, Canada
Helsinki, Finland
Manila, Philippines
Milan, Italy
Sydney, Australia
Bangkok, Thailand
Hong Kong, China
Jakarta, Indonesia
Taipei, Taiwan
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Moscow, Russia
Singapore
Seoul, South Korea
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bucharest, Romania
Mumbai, India
Movie star look-a-like robs bank
October 20, 2008
Angelina Jolie made headlines in Italy last Friday and she wasn’t even in the country. A woman robbed a bank in Genoa, but was caught a short time later because police announced they were searching for an Angelina Jolie look-alike.
A police spokesman said, quote, “The resemblance was so uncanny that some witnesses actually thought it was the actress herself and that the robbery was part of a new Hollywood film.” Police say the suspect, 29-year-old Annarita Ottonello, always thought looking like Angelina Jolie was a bonus because she attracted lots of attention, but in this case it was the worst thing to happen to her because she was instantly recognizable.
Do you have a work spouse?
October 20, 2008
Many people develop close relationships with fellow employees and a new survey finds 10 percent of U.S. workers actually feel they have a platonic “work spouse.”The survey also found that among those who are married or attached, 20 percent said their real spouse or significant other gets jealous of their “work spouse.”
Survey participants were also asked to name their favorite television partnerships. Here they are:
1 Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa
2. David Letterman and Paul Shaffer
3. Jay Leno and Kevin Eubanks
4. Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer
The online survey of 6,194 full time workers was conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder.com.
State says man owes $400,000,000 in taxes
October 19, 2008
A New Jersey man could use a little financial bailout himself — the state says he owes 400 million dollars in taxes. Darren Goodman figures he would have to have earned five billion dollars to have a tax bill of 400 million, but he’s not even close. Goodman tells WINS radio he earns about 45 grand a year and doesn’t understand why the state won’t believe him. New Jersey even placed a tax levy against Goodman and took everything in his bank account — all 18 hundred dollars. The Department of Taxation says it will investigate.
Divorce agreement includes DOG visitation rights
October 18, 2008
A Polish woman is facing up to five years in prison for violating a divorce visitation agreement and failing to return her ex-husband’s golden retriever. Published reports say after the couple broke up, the 36-year-old woman begged her ex to let her take their dog for a walk every now and then. He agreed and then called police this week when she failed to return with the animal. The woman told investigators she was distraught and could no longer bear to be separated from the dog. She’s charged with theft.
Employee fired for hunting on job
October 18, 2008
A municipal employee in Italy was fired last week after he was accidentally shot on a hunting trip when he should’ve been working.Published reports from the town of Mallare say the 56-year-old man showed up at work and told his boss at a local water company he’d be gone all day working on broken pipes. He went hunting instead, but then ended up in a hospital for 20 days after being accidentally shot by one of his hunting buddies. He then tried to claim the injuries occurred on the job.
When the employee couldn’t explain how he got blasted with shotgun pellets while working on a water pipe, his boss fired him and called police. The former employee is now facing fraud charges.
NOTICE: Laundry and winning lottery tickets DON’T MIX
October 17, 2008
A man in Costa Rica thought he was set for life after picking the winning numbers in lottery worth 112 thousand dollars. And he would’ve been if he had gone straight to the lottery office instead of washing his pants.Published reports say the man, identified only as Urroz, accidentally left the winning ticket in his pants when he did his laundry and it was later found in shreds. When lottery officials refused to pay because Urroz couldn’t produce the entire ticket, he sued. He lost the suit and Costa Rica’s Supreme Court this week rejected his appeal in favor of the state lottery.
Sign of the times? Man sues GOD…
October 16, 2008
A judge in Nebraska has thrown out a lawsuit filed against God on the grounds the Almighty has an unknown home address and can’t be properly served.Nebraska state Senator Ernie Chambers sued God last year to obtain a permanent injunction against the Deity for making terroristic threats against him and his constituents in Omaha. In his lawsuit, Chambers said God had also caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions…of the Earth’s inhabitants.”
On Tuesday, District Court Judge Marlon Polk rejected the claim, saying, quote, “Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant, this action will be dismissed without prejudice.” In other words, you can’t file a suit unless you serve the defendant with a summons, which Chambers couldn’t do.
However, Chambers thinks the reasoning behind the rejection gives him grounds for an appeal. Chambers said since the court acknowledged the existence of God, a consequence of that is recognition of the Almighty’s omniscience. And that means, says Chambers, quote, “Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit.”
Say What? Strip club offers flu shots…
October 16, 2008
Dozens of senior citizens showed up at a strip club in Casselberry, Florida Tuesday, but the only skin they saw was when they rolled up their sleeves to get a free flu shot.Jim Veigle, the owner of Rachel’s strip club, tells the Orlando Sentinel he decided to offer free flu shots because many seniors in the area need the help. Over the past week, regular health professionals — not naughty nurses in fishnet stockings — have vaccinated more than 300 seniors at the club. Still, the promotion must have appeared strange to some, especially when a senior citizen shuttle bus from a local church is parked outside a strip club.
Most insured dogs
October 13, 2008
True to its name, the Labrador Retriever keeps returning year after year as America’s most popular insured dog breed. Veterinary Pet Insurance, the country’s largest provider of pet health insurance, recently examined its database to find the top ten insured dog breeds. Nearly twice as many labs are insured than any other dog. According to data from the American Kennel Club, the Lab has also been the most commonly registered breed for the past 17 years. Here’s the list of the top insured dog breeds:1. Labrador Retriever
2. Golden Retriever
3. Yorkshire Terrier
4. Shih Tzu
5. Boxer
6. German Shepherd
7. Chihuahua
8. Maltese
9. Pug
10. Cocker Spaniel
Woman dressed as cow BUSTED
October 7, 2008
A Middletown, Ohio woman made an udder food of herself when she got dressed up in a cow suit and chased some kids around the block before urinating on a neighbor’s front steps. Police arrested 32-year-old Michelle Allen for her actions Monday night. When cops initially got wind of Allen’s antics, they merely told her to go home, but later showed up at her house after getting reports she was blocking traffic. The arresting officer says Allen reeked of liquor, was cantankerous and cursed at him, so she was cuffed and charged with disorderly conduct. Authorities say Allen has a rap sheet that includes 50 prior arrests.If you’d like to get a look at Allen’s mug shot — and we can’t encourage that enough — log onto TheSmokingGun.com.
Bullett caught in dentures
October 7, 2008
A man in Croatia may want to think about joining the circus after he recently stopped a bullet with his dentures. Thirty-seven-year-old Stipe Cavlovic got into an argument with another man about some money, prompting the other man to take out a gun and fired a bullet, which grazed the cheek of Stipe’s wife before Stipe caught it in his dentures and dropped it to the ground.Stipe said, quote, “I didn’t even see the bullet hit my wife. I just saw the flash of the gun’s barrel. The next thing I knew was something hit my false tooth and I spat out the hot lead. It hurt like hell but we’re both still alive.”
Authorities say Stipe managed to catch the bullet because it slowed down after hitting his wife’s cheek. The man who fired the gun was so stunned Stipe stopped the shot he tried to run away, but police quickly found him and hauled him off to jail.
TALL tales of job seekers (FUNNY)
October 6, 2008
Many job seekers enhance their résumés with items they think will improve their shot at a position, but often the items are so far-fetched they do the opposite and ruin any chance the applicant had of landing the gig. CareerBuilder.com recently surveyed hiring managers and workers and uncovered some of the more bizarre tall tales people have included on their résumés:1. Candidate claimed to be a member of the Kennedy family.
2. Applicant invented a school that did not exist.
3. Job seeker submitted a résumé with someone else’s photo inserted into the document.
4. Candidate claimed to be a member of Mensa.
5. Applicant claimed to have worked for the hiring manager before, but never had.
6. Job seeker claimed to be the CEO of a company when he was an hourly employee.
7. Candidate listed military experience dating back to before he was born.
8. Job seeker included samples of work, which were actually those of the interviewer.
9. Candidate claimed to have been a professional baseball player.
Tweaking your résumé is okay, but hiring managers responding to the CareerBuilder survey say there’s a line between bending the truth and outright deception. The survey found the following statistics:
– 38 percent of those surveyed indicated they had embellished their job responsibilities.
– 18 percent admitted to lying about their skill set.
– 12 percent indicated they had been dishonest about their start and end dates of employment.
– 10 percent confessed to lying about an academic degree.
– 7 percent said they had lied about the companies they had worked for.
– 5 percent disclosed that they had been untruthful about their job title.
Does lying work? In most cases, no. A majority of companies disqualified applicants after discovering their dishonesty. Thirty-six percent still considered the applicant, but ultimately decided not to hire him or her. Six percent of hiring managers said they overlooked the “flawed résumé” and hired the applicant anyway.
Some industries appear to be more prone to résumé fabrication. Sixty percent of résumés in the hospitality industry were found to contain lies, followed by 59 percent for transportation/utilities. Résumés in the information technology field were found to contain untruths 57 percent of the time. The industry with the fewest résumé liars? The government — 45 percent.
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