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SARATOGA SPRINGS (NY)- A 19-year-old man dressed as a penis was arrested for disturbing a high school graduation today at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Calvin Morett allegedly interrupted the Saratoga Springs High School graduation by marching across SPAC's stage in an inflatable 6-foot penis costume while diplomas were being given out, Saratoga Springs Police Sgt. Sean Briscoe said. Morett purchased the full-body costume and sprayed parts of the 5,000 people in the crowd with Silly String, Briscoe said. His motive? "He thought it would be funny," Briscoe said. Morett was ticketed for disorderly conduct, a violation, and will face the charges in City Court on Tuesday, Briscoe said. Morett graduated from Saratoga Springs High School last year. He tried to streak away from law enforcement, but could not. "Once I stopped laughing, he was pretty easy to catch because he was tripping on the lower portion of the costume," said Briscoe, who made the arrest. Source
JACKSON, Mich. - A man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken. Frederick Duane McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Wednesday in 12th District Court in Jackson. He faces two felony assault charges as well as one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer. Prosecutors said McKaney stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night. About an hour later, he hit a woman in the head with a plastic bag of frozen chicken. They had exchanged rude words while he rode his bicycle. She needed five surgical staples to close her wound. McKaney has no attorney on record with the court. A pre-exam conference is scheduled for July 2. Source
An American woman has been rescued from a German mountain after sending an signal for help using her bra. The woman, who had been missing for more than three days after being hurt while hiking, hooked the brightly coloured sports bra on a cable used for transporting logs to a valley below, hoping it would lead rescuers to her. The 24-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Colorado was hiking alone in the Bavarian Alps hiking alone near Berchtesgaden, close to the border with Austria, last Monday. She lost her way when the weather turned bad and she fell 18 feet down a crevasse, injuring her shoulder, ankle and head. Hoping to attract the attention of rescuers, she sent the bra down the valley on the cable and hung out her underwear on a crag. She then waited, with only a small flask of water and some biscuits to sustain her. The bra's owner, whose name has not been released by police, was found a few hours after the bra was spotted on Thursday by a helicopter crew. But, stuck on the crag, more than 4,000 feet up, winching her to safety was no easy task. Police described her rescue as a "tense situation." "She was saved because she was really clever and in good physical shape," said police chief Adolph Gunther. "Hanging the bra out saved her life because a logger saw it, heard about the search for a missing woman, and called mountain rescue." Her parents flew to Germany on Saturday to be with her. Authorities said she will make a full recovery. Source
Article Submitted by ug7344. br> A further education college is having to protect builders from wolf-whistling girls, in a reversal of traditional gender stereotypes. Officials at West Kent College in Tonbridge, Kent, sent an email to all pupils warning that the behaviour was "totally unacceptable", and saying any students caught harassing contractors would face disciplinary action. The email was sent after a demolition team started work on a £94 million, three-year building project at the campus. The email read: "It has come to the attention of the college that some female students have been making comments to, or whistling at, the builders both whilst on site and as they walk around the campus. Although we are sure no offence is meant, this constitutes harassment and is wholly unacceptable. "We have asked the contractors' representative to pass on all instances of harassment to the college and we will take appropriate action which may include disciplinary action." A spokeswoman for the contractors, Galliford Try, said: "We have no registered complaints on this issue. However we do not condone inappropriate behaviour from any parties on our sites." Meanwhile new laws could see wolf-whistling builders placed on the sex offenders register. The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill will create a new offence of "communicating indecently", punishable by up to 10 years in jail. The legislation is intended to punish sexual harassment by text, emails and letters, but ministers also aim to include sexually explicit comments to strangers. It is expected that the law would only apply to persistent offenders. At the moment, workmen who repeatedly make obscene comments to passers-by can be convicted of a breach of the peace. Source
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman who says she was hurt by her thong panties when a metal clip flew off and hit her in the eye has sued Victoria's Secret, saying in a TV interview on Thursday that the injury caused her "excruciating pain." Macrida Patterson, a 52-year-old Los Angeles traffic officer, told NBC's "Today" show that she suffered cuts to her cornea from the small piece of metal that had been used to secure a rhinestone heart onto the blue thong. "I was putting on my underwear from Victoria's Secret and the metal popped in my eye. It happened really quickly. I was in excruciating pain. I screamed. That's what happened," Patterson told NBC. Patterson's lawyer Jason Buccat, who also appeared on the "Today" show, said the metal staple causes "severe damage" to her cornea that required a topical steroid. The product liability lawsuit, which was filed on June 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court and first reported on the Smoking Gun Web site, seeks unspecified damages. A spokeswoman for Victoria's Secret, which is operated by Limited Brands Inc, could not immediately be reached for comment. Source
OSLO, Norway - A British woman's bulging wig did not fool customs agents in Norway who realized she wasn't just having a bad hair day. The wig was concealing 2.2 pounds of cocaine glued to her head and customs agents detained her on suspicion of cocaine smuggling, authorities said Wednesday. The 32-year-old suspect, whose name was withheld, arrived late Sunday at Vaernes airport near the city of Trondheim on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, the customs service said. "The agent thought she had a great deal of hair and suspected that she was wearing a wig," the agency said. "The wig was examined and the agents found a bag of cocaine." Norway's largest newspaper, Verdens Gang, said the cocaine was glued so firmly to the woman's real hair that police brought her to the local hospital to have it removed. Kjetil Mjoesund, of Trondheim police, confirmed that it was glued to her head, but had no information about how it was removed. He said she was taken for a routine medical check. A court ordered the women held until July 15, pending a formal indictment and trial. Source
NEW ORLEANS - Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said. Keys, 38, of New Orleans was charged Friday by a federal grand jury. He got in trouble June 3 in St. John the Baptist Parish, north of New Orleans, when sheriff's deputies pulled over the car he was in for a traffic violation, according to court documents. The deputies and Drug Enforcement Agency special agents got permission to search the car, and a drug sniffing dog alerted them to the car's passenger side. The occupants were ordered out of the car, and patted down. During the pat-down, "officers felt a large hard object in the pants area on Keys," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office. Keys told officers he was wearing a diaper and when they asked if there was anything in the diaper, he "shook his head affirmatively." Officers then removed a package containing about 257 grams of heroin from the diaper. Source
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Drivers in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland are turning to inflatable passengers to try and beat transit lane rules. Blow-up dolls, shop mannequins and dogs dressed up as children have all been used to try and justify driving in lanes where vehicles are required to have at least three occupants. "There were some odd people that tried these antics," North Shore city council traffic safety manager Andre Dannhauser told Reuters. Drivers caught trying to beat the system are fined $150NZD (112.868USD). Enforcement officers taking pictures of offending cars in transit lanes have been treated to a wide range of excuses from caught-out motorists, Dannhauser said. "The most common one is the imaginary passengers they claim we couldn't see because they were so small," Dannhauser said. For a while some enterprising students charged a small fee to get driven past the enforcement officers, before running back up the road to repeat the trick. "The money they generated from that was not enough to pay for the beer for the thirst they generated," Dannhauser said. (1.00 NZD = 0.752452 USD) Source Thank you Tada for the correct currency conversion.
A Kansas man who had a 2.5 inch nail shot into his skull has told American TV he did not even notice it. Home renovator George Chandler said he only felt a sting. He and his friend Phil Kern were using a nail gun to put up lattice work at his home. The hose of the tool got caught and when Mr Kern tried to free it up, Mr Chandler stood up at the same moment the gun discharged. After searching in vain for the rogue nail, Mr Kern spotted it sticking out of his friend's head. Mr Chandler was taken to an emergency department where a doctor tried using pliers to free the nail, before deciding he need something bigger. "He looked at me and said, 'I need a claw hammer'," Mr Chandler told American channel NBC. "I thought, 'Ah, he's just teasing'. "He got a screwdriver at the same time, and he took the screwdriver and pried the nail up a little bit and got the claw hammer." The nail was eventually removed and Mr Chandler was sent home with several stitches. Source
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A naked man slammed a car into the pumps at a Clayton County gas station Tuesday morning starting a fire. Police used a Taser to subdue the man and arrest him after he ran from the scene. The suspect pulled up to the Race Trac at 7721 Tara Blvd. about 5:30 a.m. and began dancing naked on top of his car, witnesses said. The naked man then climbed back into the car and rammed it into one of the pumps, sparking a fire, according to police. The suspect ran from the scene. U.S. marshals who were in the area on an unrelated matter arrested the man after using a Taser on him. Firefighters doused the fire before it spread to the other gas pumps. Source Have any interesting articles you'd like to share? Article Request Thread.