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Jerry:
--- Quote from: Associated Press 6:30 a.m. CDT, August 13, 2009 ---FBI: Man gives teller his name, ID before robbing Alaska bank; information leads to his arrest
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank.
The FBI says Jarell Paul Arnold of Anchorage is being held on federal bank robbery charges.
The FBI alleges Arnold walked into an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union branch Friday and inquired about the balance on his account. The teller asked for his name, account number and ID.
Authorities say he complied, and then handed over a receipt with a note on the back that said he had a gun and demanded money.
The FBI says he got away with about $600. Authorities arrested Arnold on Monday. A message left after business hours Wednesday with Arnold's public defender, Michael Dieni, was not immediately returned.
Court records say Arnold was sentenced to 57 months in prison for bank robbery in 2004.
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--- Quote from: Associated Press8:10 p.m. CDT, August 11, 2009 ---Oregon burglary suspect confronted outside garage arrested wearing victim's underwear
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A burglary suspect confronted inside a garage was arrested wearing only underwear, and police said they weren't even his. Marion County sheriff's deputies said they responded to a call from a woman late Monday night who said her boyfriend had caught a burglar in their garage and was holding him for police.
Deputies said the man was wearing nothing but the woman's underwear. They later located large garbage bags full of women's clothing, underwear, shoes and accessories in the suspect's garage in the same neighborhood.
Deputies charged a 47-year-old man with burglary, theft, criminal trespass and possession of illegal fireworks.
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--- Quote from: the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:00 am ---Police: Lincoln man made up robbery story to explain nudity
Police say a 19-year-old man made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around Wilderness Park au naturel Monday afternoon.
Sando Dshaw Hamilton, 2415 S. 9th St., was arrested and jailed Wednesday night on suspicion of making a false statement to police and indecent exposure, said Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood.
After Hamilton was seen naked in Wilderness Park Monday afternoon, he told police a man with a gun tried to rob him, but he had no money so the robber took his clothes.
Flood said police now believe Hamilton took off his clothes because he was hot. He walked around naked for about an hour and then could not find his clothes, so police say he made up the story about being robbed.
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Jerry:
--- Quote from: Chicago Tribune ---Conn. police charge man after he allegedly wandered into wrong home and fell asleep
STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police charged a man with burglary and disorderly conduct after he allegedly wandered into a neighbor's home, stripped off his clothes and fell asleep in a 6-year-old's bed. A man, 26, was arrested early Sunday after a child in a house woke his parents to tell them a man was asleep in his bed. When officers arrived, the residents were screaming for help from a second-floor window.
Officers said the man's clothes, which smelled of urine and alcohol, had been dropped on the floor. They said the man admitted drinking at a New Haven club but denied he was in the wrong house.
The suspect was released on bond and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 1.
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--- Quote from: foxnews.com ---Indian Activists Blast Ritual of Dropping Babies off Mosque Roof
NEW DELHI — Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity for their families.
The ritual at the Baba Umer Durga, a Muslim shrine, is believed to have been followed for nearly 700 years, and each year hundreds of people, both Hindus and Muslims, take part in the ritual.
Local officials told television news stations there had been no reports of injuries.
The infants, mostly under two years old, were dangled Thursday from the roof of the shrine near Sholapur, about 280 miles south of Mumbai, before being dropped about 50 feet onto a bedsheet held aloft by parents and other believers.
Television channels showed the babies screaming as they were shaken in the air before being dropped.
With high child mortality rates, especially in India's rural areas, many people resort to rituals which they believe can ensure their children's health.
Child rights activists expressed outrage after the Headlines Today television channel showed the babies being dropped.
"This shows the complete failure of the local administration to prevent this practice and to create awareness about children's health," said Ranjana Kumari, a civil rights activist in New Delhi.
"It is also a reflection of the lack of access to health services , that forces people to behave in this irrational manner," Kumari told the AP.
India's National Commission for Protection of Child's Rights issued a notice Thursday to the local administration in Sholapur and has begun investigations into the practice.
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--- Quote from: ananova.com ---Drunk driver rang police
A drunk driver was arrested in Germany after he accidentally rang the police instead of a breakdown service when he had a flat tyre.
Before he realised who he was speaking to, the 31-year-old let it slip that he had no licence and was driving under the influence.
The civil servant, who lost his licence eight years ago, had a blow out in the western town of Monheim while driving a car borrowed from a friend.
He had a blood alcohol level that was seven times the legal limit, and when he tried to call the German equivalent of the AA he became confused and dialled the emergency number for the police.
The drunken man phoned and said: "My car is broken and I need you to come and fix it. You better be quick because I'm really pretty drunk and I don't have a licence so it wouldn't be good if the cops drove past."
A Monheim police spokesman said: "He wanted us to come quickly, so we did."
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Buddy:
:jawdrop:
Zadius Sky:
--- Quote from: MC on August 31, 2009, 08:50:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: foxnews.com ---Indian Activists Blast Ritual of Dropping Babies off Mosque Roof
NEW DELHI — Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity for their families.
The ritual at the Baba Umer Durga, a Muslim shrine, is believed to have been followed for nearly 700 years, and each year hundreds of people, both Hindus and Muslims, take part in the ritual.
Local officials told television news stations there had been no reports of injuries.
The infants, mostly under two years old, were dangled Thursday from the roof of the shrine near Sholapur, about 280 miles south of Mumbai, before being dropped about 50 feet onto a bedsheet held aloft by parents and other believers.
Television channels showed the babies screaming as they were shaken in the air before being dropped.
With high child mortality rates, especially in India's rural areas, many people resort to rituals which they believe can ensure their children's health.
Child rights activists expressed outrage after the Headlines Today television channel showed the babies being dropped.
"This shows the complete failure of the local administration to prevent this practice and to create awareness about children's health," said Ranjana Kumari, a civil rights activist in New Delhi.
"It is also a reflection of the lack of access to health services , that forces people to behave in this irrational manner," Kumari told the AP.
India's National Commission for Protection of Child's Rights issued a notice Thursday to the local administration in Sholapur and has begun investigations into the practice.
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:shock:
Who in their right mind would want to throw babies off the roof?! And, this has been going on 700 years? Geez...
Jerry:
--- Quote from: dailyherald.com ---Car set ablaze after Joliet woman used lighter to check gas can level
By Lee Filas | Daily Herald Staff
A 27-year-old Joliet woman is suffering from second-degree burns after using a lighter to check the fuel level in a gas can she was filling while the can was resting inside her car.
Police officials said the woman drove into a 7-11 gas station at 1609 E. Cass St. at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night and climbed out of her car.
She then placed the gas can on the passenger seat of the vehicle, pulled down the nozzle of the pump, and began filling the can.
About halfway through, the woman ignited a lighter to shine some light on the gas can, apparently to see how full the can was, officials said.
The can ignited from the lighter's flame and exploded, setting the vehicle's interior ablaze, officials said.
After the fire started, the woman pushed the car away from the gas pumps to apparently ensure the fire didn't spread to the gas pumps itself.
Officials said, when police and fire officials arrived on the scene, the car was located about 5-feet from the pumps and was completely engulfed in flames.
The woman was transported from the scene to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet with nonlife threatening injuries to her wrist and thigh, authorities said.
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--- Quote from: wtsp.com ---Bank wants thumbprint from man with no hands
Mike Deeson
Tampa, Florida -- While most banks require a thumbprint to cash a check from someone who doesn't have an account, a Tampa man says that policy was impossible to comply with.
Steve Valdez says he was shocked when he was told he had to put his thumbprint on a check written on his wife's Bank of America check. Valdez says the check was written to him with the same address he has on his driver's license. Although he had two forms of identification both with pictures, the bank still required Valdez to give a thumbprint before it would cash the check.
But that was impossible, because Valdez was born without arms and wears prosthetic devices.
According to Valdez, when he gave the teller the check, she said "Obviously you can't give a thumbprint." But Valdez says the manager refused to cash the check unless he did.
When Valdez told the manager giving a thumbprint would be impossible, she suggested he either bring in his wife or open an account. Valdez says that's not the way the bank would treat someone without prosthetic arms, and he refused.
Valdez says he asked the bank if it had ever heard of the American with Disabilities Act and he says they told him they were accommodating him by offering the choices. But the ADA says businesses must comply with basic nondiscrimination requirements that prohibit exclusion, segregation, and unequal treatment.
A spokesman for Bank of America says while the thumbprint is a requirement for those who don't have accounts, the bank should have made accommodations.
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--- Quote from: columbiatribune.com ---Woman fires gun at airport
Police: Neighbor threatened plane.
By T.J. Greaney
A Fulton woman was arrested Saturday after firing a shot and threatening to shoot down a plane that, she said, flew too close to her house.
At about 7:42 p.m., Fulton police were dispatched to the Fulton Municipal Airport, where a woman, later identified as Judy K. Davis, 69, had charged onto the runway brandishing a loaded .22-caliber handgun. Davis’ house is less than a mile west of the airport.
Police said Davis was angered by repeated flyovers by an ultralight aircraft and had entered the terminal of the airport saying that she had a gun and planned to “shoot down the plane.”
She then went onto the runway where a small plane was attempting to land and fired the handgun, police said. It is unknown, police said, whether she fired the handgun at the plane or into the ground.
Fulton police said the shot forced a pilot to abort his landing and circle back around before landing safely, but airport administrator Travis St. John said no landing was aborted. He said the pilot landed as planned but stayed by the aircraft to avoid a confrontation with the woman.
“He landed, and some people intercepted her,” St. John said. “She was at the airport walking out towards the aircraft. And people on the ground kind of waylaid her before she got there so we wouldn’t have a confrontation between them.”
St. John said a little-used grass runway was being used that day by an instructor doing training for novice pilots. The pilots took off and made a rectangular pattern around the area, likely flying at a low altitude above the woman’s house.
“When other people get irritated, what they’ll do is call up and we’ll talk to the pilot and we’ll have them switch runways or maybe discontinue for a bit or alter something,” St. John said. “We don’t want to disrespect anybody or irritate people.”
St. John said the woman never made a formal complaint and, to his knowledge, had never complained previously. “She came” to the airport “already unglued, unfortunately,” he said.
Davis was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and taken to the Callaway County Jail, where she posted a $4,500 bond.
Federal authorities were contacted and will assist in the investigation, Fulton Police Lt. Bill Pruitt said.
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