[eggplant43]

Confused Cops Swarm Woman After Birth


Mar 31, 6:39 AM (ET)

KETTERING, Ohio (AP) - A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way - first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.

Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday.

"I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was the baby's head," said station co-owner Lloyd Goff, who was alerted to the emergency at pump No. 7 by a customer.

Goff said Coleman "threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the rest of the baby came out.

"She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, 'I gotta go,' closed the door, put the van in gear and away she went."

A customer at the gas station in suburban Dayton tried to give police a heads-up about Coleman's situation, but a mix-up involving the license plate number had them thinking the van was stolen.

As officers went looking for her, Coleman headed for the hospital, naked below the waist and with the baby boy in her arm. His umbilical cord was still attached.

"I kept pulling over, making sure (the baby) was all right, breathing," she said.

Meanwhile, police had straightened out the license plate issue. But another caller mistakenly reported someone trying to throw a baby from a van.

Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.

"I opened the door and said, 'I just had a baby' and just let them see everything," she said.

Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.

Coleman was discharged Wednesday. Her 6-pound, 8-ounce son, Richard Lee Coleman Jr., remained in intensive care.

[THoey]

Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.

Sent her on??? What happened to calling an ambulance or driving her there herself???

[angelize56]

I agree Terry! For crying out loud...she could have bled to death had the placenta not delivered itself properly! Not to mention now I wonder why her baby is in the NICU!

[DiSaidSo]

What level of badass is this woman??? She gets her two other YOUNG children into the car while she's in labor, presumably on no drugs, pulls over at a gas station, hikes her leg over the steering wheel and gives birth and then continues on to the hospital all the while dealing with police officers drawing their guns on her? Holy mackerel. They should've ordered her a freakin helicopter instead of phoning in to the hospital to let them know she was on her way.

[THoey]

Hell, sounds like she could have flown there if she wanted.. (Superwoman)

[DiSaidSo]

Not sure if this is too racy for TSG, so I'll just post the headline and if you want to read the whole story, then you can click through (the headline is the best part anyway).

Who Closes a Sex Festival for Lack of Interest?

[DiSaidSo]

Hey, how come Friday's Oddly Enough stories are always the funniest? I couldn't help but laugh as that image was built in my head.

'That's No Camel, That's My Baggage!'


SYDNEY (Reuters) - A baggage handler wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger's luggage has left Qantas Airways red-faced, with Australia's national carrier investigating a potentially embarrassing security lapse.



Passenger David Cox complained after he saw a baggage handler driven across the Sydney airport tarmac Wednesday wearing the camel suit that had been packed into the baggage he had checked in only minutes earlier.


Cox, a marketing manager, had checked the camel suit and a crocodile costume onto Qantas flight 425 from Sydney to Melbourne in a large bag which had been marked to say it was carrying animal costumes.


He said he was standing near his boarding gate and at first thought nothing when a child said "there's a guy with a moose head." But then he looked up and saw his camel costume.


"I obviously was flabbergasted. My jaw dropped to the ground," Cox told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.


Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said Friday the incident was being investigated. A baggage handler had been identified on closed-circuit television and faced disciplinary action that could include dismissal.


"What has happened is completely unacceptable and is unacceptable to the vast majority of decent, hard-working Qantas employees," Dixon said in a statement.


"We are acutely aware of heightened community concerns around the security of baggage," he said.

[DiSaidSo]

It's the Good Intention That Counts

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man drove his car into a wall at the Division of Motor Vehicles building, then walked in and renewed his driver's license, police say.

Police believe the man was driving while impaired on medication and charged him with driving under the influence.

No one was injured.

The man's car went up over a sidewalk Thursday, denting the building's metal siding, cracking the inside of the wall and startling workers sitting nearby in the DMV's accounting department.

"I saw the guy back up, get out of his car and walk into the DMV like nothing happened," DMV employee Michelle Steinman said.

No one in the public area of the DMV noticed the accident. Workers in accounting notified higher-ups and pointed out the driver, who had taken a number, apologizing to a clerk that he had "tapped" the building.

By the time police arrived, the man had paid $20 and renewed his license

[Ciberblade]

**chuckle**

[angelize56]

This is so sad........I feel so sorry for the girl...I doubt she'll ever get over accidentally killing her Mom this way....so sad....

Teen Learning To Drive Accidentally Kills Mother

POSTED: 8:36 am EDT April 15, 2005

MARLBORO, N.J. -- A rite of passage for parents and teenagers turned deadly in New Jersey.

A 16-year-old girl learning to drive accidentally ran over her mother Thursday in Marlboro.

Authorities said the woman was killed while teaching her daughter to parallel park. The mother had set up cones and was outside the car guiding her daughter when the girl accidentally hit the accelerator. The 44-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The girl did have a learner's permit.

Their names have not been released pending notification of relatives.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/4382488/detail.html

[angelize56]

Two men hunting together die of apparent heart attacks
Associated Press

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Two elderly men who had gone turkey hunting together died from apparent heart attacks just minutes apart, authorities said.

Elmer Sapp, 78, and Alfred Hurd, 70, were hunting south of East Wenatchee on Monday when Hurd got out of a pickup truck and chased a bird down an embankment.

Sapp followed and found his hunting partner lying on the ground, according to Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum. Sapp then went back to the pickup, flagged down a motorist, told the motorist what happened and then collapsed.

Autopsies were to be performed on both men.

Clifton Sapp, Sapp's 56-year-old son, said his father had suffered heart problems for several years.

"Al and Dad were just good friends. To lose a friend and a father, it's just crazy," Clifton Sapp said.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3155923

[eggplant43]

SF Gate www.sfgate.com

Man held in killing of friend

Houseguest buried his host, spent his money, police say

- Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Paul William Mazzei wasn't much of a houseguest, police said.

The 45-year-old Canadian citizen killed his Vallejo host earlier this year, buried him in the backyard of his lifelong home, and then spent several weeks spending a "substantial" portion of his nest egg on trips to Texas, New York and Puerto Vallarta, police said Tuesday.

Authorities arrested Mazzei on Monday at the Buffalo Niagra International Airport in Cheektowaga, N.Y., on suspicion of murdering Michael Axhelm, 63, a retired Internal Revenue Service employee.

He had a ticket to Las Vegas, police said. Now he'll be brought back to Solano County to face charges.

Police had been looking for Mazzei since Saturday, when they unearthed a decomposed body -- believed to be Axhelm's -- from the side yard of the Los Gatos Avenue home that Axhelm inherited from his family.

Police officials on Tuesday said they know very little about Mazzei, except that he traveled frequently and had made visits to Axhelm -- who was unmarried and had no children -- for about 10 years.

But neighbors got increasingly suspicious during Mazzei's most recent visit, said Vallejo police Lt. Lori Lee.

Someone was seen digging, and then filling, a hole in the yard. One neighbor asked Mazzei about Axhelm's whereabouts and was told the older man had traveled to Bali to get married.

With no sign of Axhelm since mid-January and chatter increasing in the neighborhood, someone finally reported him missing last Wednesday, Lee said.

Then on Saturday, after determining that Mazzei had been accessing his host's bank accounts for months, police served a search warrant at the house and found the corpse.

Police Lt. Ron Becker said the body had a "great degree of decomposition" and had been dead at least two months. The county coroner found evidence that the death was a homicide, he said.

Police are still trying to confirm through dental records that the body belongs to Axhelm but have yet to find his dentist.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call (800) 488-9383.



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©2005 San Francisco Chronicle

[jimi]

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.

The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him.

Under Norwegian law, all sexual acts with someone who is "unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act" are considered rape.

The court sentenced the woman Wednesday to nine months in jail and ordered her to pay 40,000 Norwegian crowns ($6,355) in compensation.

"This is a very harsh sentence," the woman's lawyer, Per Magne Kristiansen, told the Norwegian news agency NTB. The woman argued the man had been awake and consented.

The prosecutor had sought a 10-month sentence and argued the court should not be more lenient with a woman than a man. It was Norway's first conviction of a woman for rape.

Norway has long traditions of equality -- 40 percent of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, for instance, are women.

uh ? here - how many of us males would report this to the police???

[eggplant43]

Perhaps this had to do with a poor review

[eggplant43]

www.suntimes.com

Back to regular view
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...idsdead29.html


Kids stabbed as many as 500 times

April 29, 2005

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO, ANNIE SWEENEY AND DAN ROZEK Staff Reporters

They moved here with a mission -- to build a Christian community for Bulgarians who had settled in Chicago.

Nikolai Vasilev was the pastor and his wife, Tonya, was the Sunday school teacher. Together they nurtured an evangelical community in the northwest suburbs and created their own family. They had three children and survived the death of one of them in a 2000 fire.

Wednesday night, Nikolai came home to find his two remaining children, a 9-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, stabbed to death -- some 500 times -- and his wife bathed in blood, a source close to the investigation said.

Tonya Vasilev, 34, has given statements to Hoffman Estates police and was expected to be charged in the murders today, the source said.

Investigators believe 3-year-old Gracie was attacked first, around 8:30 p.m., and then her mother brought her to the second floor, where her older brother, Christian, was watching television, the source said, citing the mother's statement to police.

"The boy looks up, sees his sister all bloody, and asked the mother, "What's going on? . . . The mother then attacked the boy. The boy runs from her, flees to the first floor, where she catches up with him, and she then alternates between attacking the boy and the girl.''

Nikolai arrived home around 9:20 p.m. "He sees signs of life in the 9-year-old boy and tries to give him CPR, obviously in vain, and then calls 911," the source said.

The source said it was not clear what set off the stabbing, but added that the mother had been treated for mental illness for "some years.''

Authorities said they are going to re-examine the 2000 fire, the cause of which was never determined.

By most accounts the Vasilevs had few family members here. Those who got to know them here were shocked at what happened inside the tidy two-story house and said it was impossible for Tonya to have been involved.

"This lady, this family, they deserve so much love, so much mercy,'' said a woman who knew the family through the Bulgarian Evangelical Church of God New Life Church, which they founded in Des Plaines. "They have very big hearts, and their hearts are open to people's pain. They are much more than good people.''

Nikolai, 36, had recently decided to leave the Des Plaines church to start his own congregation, said Stan Tanev, pastor of the Des Plaines church. The split was amicable and because of a difference in styles, including that Nikolai was going to preach in English, Tanev said.

Investigators were looking at this as a possible motive in the attacks, the source said.

"The motive is bizarre. . . . The mother feared people in the new religion were going to sexually molest these children,'' the source said.

Tanev, when asked about this, said the new congregation -- which was still part of the Church of God -- included members of the church whom Tonya already knew.

Tanev said the couple came to Chicago in 1995. They met while attending a Bible college in the South and married in 1994. Tanev said Nikolai left his native land in the early 1990s after the fall of communism and came to the United States, where he knew he could study theology and fulfill his dream of being a minister.

"That's what his calling was,'' said Tanev. "They left a comfortable life there just because they felt called to minister to the Bulgarian community.''

Tanev said Tonya's family was from North Carolina. Her calling, he said, was to minister to children.

Together, the couple warmly welcomed members at the Des Plaines church, said the woman who knew them through church. She did not want her name used.

She said Tonya was particularly attentive to children. And she doted on her own constantly, she said.

"She was like a little bird on her children,'' the woman said, her eyes tearing up with each mention of their names. "[They were] always clean. Always happy. Always with a lot of love.''

Christian was a third-grader at Schaumburg Christian School who liked to play with the tools his father used as a carpenter. Friends remember that Gracie was "sweet" and always smiling.

Tanev said the couple sought counseling after another child, 3-month-old Gabrielle, died in 2000 in a fire in the family's Elk Grove Village condominium.

"I was right next to them. It was terrible,'' Tanev said. "She was devastated. Little by little, they were overcoming.''

The fire started in the laundry room, and the infant was found in a baby seat on top of a dryer. Tonya was home at the time but had left the child unattended, Elk Grove Village Deputy Chief Larry Hammar said.

Hammar said there was no sign of foul play at the time and that investigators focused on the furnace as the likely cause of the blaze. But no exact cause was ever found and the manner of death was never determined by the doctor who examined her body. Gabrielle's case file was pulled for review early Thursday, a source said.

Knew of no problems

The family moved out of Elk Grove Village after the fire.

A family friend said there had been some recent strains in the family, largely because of a college classmate of Nikolai's who had been staying at the house.

Tanev said he was not aware of any problems. He said Tonya was the only member of the church who did not speak Bulgarian, which might have made her feel lonely. But neither he nor other members believe she killed her children.

"I liked her from the first moment,'' the woman said. "She was full of life.''

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