[DiSaidSo]

More proof that Germans are crazy........

Hot enough for ya?

Mon Jun 27, 9:09 AM ET



BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man endured scorching temperatures of 110 Celsius (230 Fahrenheit) for almost five minutes to win the nation's first sauna endurance competition
Andreas Kramp, from Lemgo in western Germany, edged out competitors with his 4 minutes 52 seconds inside the blistering sauna in the eastern village of Dolle Saturday, the Magdeburger Volksstimme newspaper Monday.

Kramp's time falls short of the almost 12 minutes set by Finn Leo Pusa to win last year's international championship in Heinola, Finland.

The German sauna competition uses the same rules: participants sit in 110-degree heat, with water poured on the stove every 30 seconds to create more steam.

[angelize56]

What a goof! I wonder if they did a BAL on him!

Charges In Shopping Cart Joyride

DEVILS LAKE, N.D., June 29, 2005

(AP / CBS

(AP) A man is accused of driving an electric-powered shopping cart around a grocery store here while drunk, endangering other customers.

Clifford Mattson, 27, of Lakota, was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, Detective Sue Schwab said Tuesday.

Schwab said police went to the Leevers grocery store Monday afternoon, after reports of a drunken man driving the shopping cart into people and nearly knocking them down.

"He appeared to be actually driving after them," Schwab said. No one was hurt, she said.

The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor charge is 30 days in jail and a $500 fine, Schwab said. A court hearing was set for July 19.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in705016.shtml

[cheese]

ALBANY, N.H. - A 45-year-old man was arrested after a teenage girl found him staring at her from below an outhouse seat, police said. Police said they pulled Gary Moody, from Gardiner, Maine, from the waste tank under a log cabin outhouse on Monday.

"We had to decontaminate him," said Capt. Jon Hebert of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, adding that firefighters hosed the man down before police handcuffed him. "We treated him as if he were hazardous material," Hebert said.

Moody was charged with criminal trespass. Hebert said he could face more charges.

Moody was freed on bail for a July 19 appearance in Northern Carroll County District Court in North Conway.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...se_peeping_tom

[angelize56]

I've heard of others doing that before...talk about having a screw loose...a filthy man down there with the filth!

[eggplant43]

Bigfoot -- Imminent Capture Anticipated
By MarketWire

BURLINGAME, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- "The elusive creature known as Bigfoot may not be elusive for very much longer," according to C. Thomas Biscardi, a Bigfoot explorer and founder of the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization.

In the next few days, Biscardi will begin an investigation into a cavernousarea near Happy Camp, California, in which he expects to find evidence of Bigfoot inhabitation and hopefully be able to contain and capture a live creature.

This particular location has been chosen based on two very recent sightingsfrom very credible witnesses. When Biscardi was contacted to follow up on these sightings, his investigation led to finding footprints indicative of a large primate. An account of this investigation is available in an article by Linda Martin datelined June 27, 2005 in the Happy Camp News at www.happycampnews.com.

Since the public is skeptical of any Bigfoot sightings, Biscardi has invited news organizations and a team of documentary filmmakers from Sweden to join him on this investigation. Joining him will be Megan Landers, a reporter from The Medford News, Medford, Oregon, and filmmakers from Sweden, led by producer, David Sayer. The filmmakers are currently doing a movie about Bigfoot.

In the event that Biscardi and his team will be able to contain and capturea creature, further scientific study is slated to be coordinated under the supervision of Dr. George W. Gill, Ph.D., a professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.

"This is a high stakes, high risk, scientific and commercial expedition," according to Biscardi. A recent two-and-a-half minute videotape of a Bigfoot sighting in Manitoba, Canada, was recently sold for an undisclosed sum to the television program "A Current Affair." The undisclosed sum, according to Biscardi's sources, "is purported to be in the high six figures."

The findings and materials forthcoming from this investigation will also beoffered for commercial sale and distribution. Organizations interested in acquiring the rights for projects such as publishing, television, film, merchandising, lectures and exhibits based on Biscardi's expeditions can submit their inquiries to Robert Barrows, President of R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising and Public Relations at 205 Park Rd., 208, Burlingame, California, 94010, Tel: 650-344-1951. Barrows will be reviewing initial requests and submissions and will be coordinating publicity for the expedition.

Information about previous Bigfoot sightings by Biscardi is available on the web site of the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization at www.greatamericanbigfoot.com.

[angelize56]

Good job!!!

Bloodstained Dollar Bill Leads to Charges

Friday, July 01, 2005 2:33 p.m. ET

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) -- DNA recovered from a bloodstained dollar bill led to murder and robbery charges against a prison inmate in the slaying of a convenience store clerk 21 years ago.

"It's like giving birth to a baby," said Box Elder County sheriff's Detective Scott Cosgrove, who has worked on the case for 10 years.

"It's inside for so long, and finally it's out, and I'm really happy," he said Thursday.

Glenn Howard Griffin, an inmate at a federal prison in California, was charged Thursday with capital murder and aggravated robbery. DNA tests implicated him in the slaying of Bradley Perry in May 1984, according to court documents.

Perry, 22, was bludgeoned and stabbed to death while working the overnight shift at a convenience store. An undisclosed amount of money was taken from the cash register.

Immediately after the slaying, a man pretending to work at the store, apparently the robber or one of the robbers, had given a bloodstained dollar bill to two customers. Last month, the Utah Crime Lab reported that the Griffin's DNA matched that of blood on the bill.

Cosgrove said the investigation remains active.

"We're looking at possibly other people that may be tied to this case," he said. "We're not excluding the others that we've looked at in the past."

A sample of Griffin's DNA had been taken when he entered federal prison in California in 2004 after pleading guilty to possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Court records show he was previously convicted of aggravated burglary and illegal possession of a controlled substance.

The victim's mother, Claudia Perry, said it was comforting to know someone is going to held accountable.

"We thought it might never come," she said. "What else could you think after 21 years? You hope, but you don't know."

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...toryId=1058051

[DiSaidSo]

Hurricane Dennis fixes botched Florida reef

[eggplant43]

That is so neat. Sometimes, all we have to do is stay out of the way.

[DiSaidSo]

Drive-through robber gets bank loot

2 hours, 46 minutes ago


CHICAGO (Reuters) - That was easy.

bank robber behind the wheel of his car on Tuesday sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

The exchange was completed through the bank's pneumatic tube communications system, in which canisters are passed back and forth between motorist and teller.

The FBI said it was investigating the drive-through theft.

[DiSaidSo]

Missing garden gnomes located

08:04 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 19, 2005


Associated Press



GREELEY, Colo. - The mystery of the missing garden gnomes may prove harder to solve after all.

Police found about 80 of the pint-sized figurines stashed in black plastic bags and surrounded by youngsters on Saturday, but investigators don't think the children stole them.

In fact, Sgt. Dave Adams said the children most likely found them, so it's back to square one.

Adams said police will call people who reported their gnomes stolen to come identify the decorative yard items.

Elsie Schnorr, who had 30 gnomes stolen from her front lawn more than a month ago, will be among the first to retrieve her property.

"I could identify every one of them. My name isn't on them, but I know which ones are mine. Most of mine are one-of-kind," she said.

I don't know which is supposed to be the strange part of this story.... That somebody was diligent enough to steal 80 gnomes (of all things) or that this woman had 30 of them and can identify every single one of them....

[jimi]

ok now this is just plain gross, and it takes some extra grossness for it to be gross to me, but one thing they don't mention in this article is that the reason this guy died was not from giving but receiving and since that was the case "hey no animal cruelity there" seems to the way events are proceeding but the small defenseless animals receiving would be.

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.

Investigators first learned of the farm after the man died at Enumclaw Community Hospital July 2. The county Medical Examiner's Office ruled that the death was accidental and the result of having sex with a horse.

A surveillance camera picked up the license plate of the car that dropped the man off at the hospital, which led detectives to the farm and other people involved, said sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart.

Deputies don't believe a crime occurred because bestiality is not illegal in Washington state and the horse was uninjured, said Urquhart.

But because investigators found chickens, goats and sheep on the property, they are looking into whether animal cruelty — which is a crime — was committed by having sex with these smaller, weaker animals, he said.

The farm was talked about in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock, he said.

"A significant number of people, we believe, have likely visited this farm," said Urquhart.

The Humane Society of the United States intends to use the case during the next state legislative session as an example of why sex with animals should be outlawed in Washington, said Bob Reder, a Humane Society regional director in Seattle.

"This and a few other cases that we have will allow us a platform to talk about sex abuse of animals," Reder said.

Thirty-three states ban sex with animals, he said.

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[eggplant43]

latimes.com


Man, 23, Arrested in Bride's Death

The woman's body is found at the bottom of a cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes two weeks after their wedding.

By Natasha Lee
Times Staff Writer

July 28, 2005

A 23-year-old Torrance man has been arrested in connection with the death of his new bride, whose body was discovered by fishermen at the bottom of a cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes, authorities said Wednesday.

Brandon Jason Manai is accused of throwing his wife, Julia Cuevas Rosas, 24, of Norwalk off a 200-foot-high cliff near Calle Entradero and Palos Verdes Drive West, said Sgt. Robert Taylor of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide bureau.

The couple had been married for two weeks.

Rosas' body was found the afternoon of July 3 on rocks near the base of the cliff. Investigators believe that she had been thrown that morning, Taylor said. Detectives believe Rosas approached Manai about a divorce or an annulment, and that may have led to her death, he said.

In the days before her death, Rosas had complained to friends and co-workers about her husband's possessiveness, constant phone calls and text messages to her cellphone, Taylor said. He added that she had also begun asking friends about how to annul her marriage.

The couple began dating in March and wed June 19 but maintained separate residences, Taylor said. Rosas worked for a Bally's Total Fitness corporate office and lived with family members in Norwalk. Manai, who worked for Hertz Corp., lived with his mother in Torrance, authorities said.

"We can only speculate as to what happened to cause such a terrible and heinous act to occur, and it seems from the investigation that what keeps coming up is the spur-of-the-moment marriage. She was now questioning that, and it caused enough rage [for Manai] to throw her off the cliff side," Taylor said.

Manai was on parole for violating a restraining order filed against him in 1999 by his then-girlfriend in San Jose. Manai began harassing her shortly after she broke off their relationship, detectives said.

Authorities said they believed that Rosas may have suffered a miscarriage before her marriage to Manai, who may have been the father.

"We are seeking hospital records to further confirm, but we do know she wasn't [pregnant] at the time of death," Taylor said.

Manai is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today at the Torrance courthouse.





Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times |

[angelize56]

Not exactly a marriage made in Heaven!

[angelize56]

This is actually quite pathetic....a shame a woman would resort to such measures to first draw attention to herself for sympathy...then set herself on fire to draw attention to herself out of guilt...very sad what some people resort to...

Ohio Woman Facing Theft Charges Kills Self

Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:07 a.m. ET

DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) -- A woman accused of tricking people into giving her money by pretending she had cancer died after setting herself on fire, authorities said.

Kara W. Hurt, 30, of Columbus, died Saturday at Ohio State University Medical Center after setting herself on fire in her pickup truck, said sheriff Al Myers.

Myers said some people nearby tried to extinguish the flames after Hurt got out of the truck.

"She did leave a note behind," Myers said. "She felt that she had embarrassed her family, and she felt that nobody would ever trust her again."

Hurt was indicted Friday by a Delaware County grand jury on a charge of theft by deception.

County Prosecutor Dave Yost said Hurt told members of Moms Offering Moms Support in a speech in February last year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had had cervical cancer in 1996.

Hurt did not request money but club members sent her checks and gift certificates totaling about $1,900. A member later talked to one of Hurt's relatives and found out she did not have cancer and alerted police.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...toryId=1069589

[eggplant43]

Homeowner Stabs Burglar; Witnesses Hit Homeowner; Burglar Crashes Truck, Dies
Created: 8/3/2005 5:09:10 PM
Updated: 8/3/2005 10:44:03 PM


By Ann Rubin

KSDK-A homeowner is in critical condition and a burglary suspect is dead following a break in and stabbing in South St. Louis.

Witnesses say the homeowner was chasing down the burglar and trying to take the law into his own hands. That's when a group of construction workers stepped in to break up the fight.

It started on the 7000 block of Morganford. Police say a homeowner walked in on a burglary in progress. He then chased the suspect down the street, armed with a large knife from his kitchen. Neighbor Nicki Ryan says, "I looked out the window and I saw two gentlemen in the alley. One of them was lying on the ground and the other was standing over him with a knife."

While neighbors called 911, a group of workers ran to the rescue. They had been tuckpointing a house down the street when they saw the stabbing in progress. Steven Porter says, "I kept hollering to the gentleman that I called the cops. And he kept repeatedly stabbing the guy."

At the time they had no idea what was going on, but the workers tried desperately to break it up. Porter says, "We tried to scare him off again, tell him we called the cops again and he didn't pay no attention so one of the guys hit him in the head with a shovel and knocked him over."

As the homeowner lay on the ground, the burglary suspect drove away. He made it to the 4700 block of Virginia where he crashed into a fence and a house. Don Harbaugh rushed to help, but it was too late. He says, "I tried a couple times to stand up and then he set back in the truck and kind of slumped foward."

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities don't know if he died from the stab wounds or from injuries sustained in the accident. The homeowner was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The workers didn't find out what had really happened until it was all over. Josh Starz says, "I can understand if a guy breaks into your house and you defend yourself in your home. But you don't have to chase a man down and stab him twenty more times."

So far the names of the homeowner and the suspect have not been released. No word on whether any charges will be filed.

KSDK