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Friday, April 29, 2005
 
Temporarily on hold while I work full time on http://www.HitchhikerFan.com and http://hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy.blogspot.com/

Daily updates should resume in a week or so.


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Friday, April 15, 2005
 
Man crashes after receiving safe driving award

A deliveryman crashed his van two hours after his bosses gave him a safe driving award.
Steve Coles, of Ealing, had just received a £100 gift voucher by his employers, reports the News Of The World.

They were impressed at his 12-year accident-free driving record.
The 37-year-old said: "I'll never live it down."


Source: Ananova

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Robber stole Bibles at knifepoint

A man has been arrested in Brazil for robbing two bibles from a priest at knifepoint.

The 18-year-old threatened Francisco Eloi de Souza with a butter knife, reports Terra Noticias Populares.

He stole the two bibles, which the priest had just bought, before fleeing on foot through the streets of Boa Viagem.

But the priest alerted a nearby policeman who quickly caught up with the robber and arrested him.

A police spokesman said: "This is the weirdest robbery I have ever heard of."

Source: Ananova

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Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

A Milford, Connecticut pawn shop owner is credited with directing police to an alleged child porn suspect. Police say a 43-year-old New Haven man left 304 images of child pornography on a computer he brought into a pawn shop.

Gary Bremer was arrested over the weekend. Police say Bremer was trying to get cash when he sold his laptop to National Pawn in November of 2003. The store's owner spotted child pornography on the laptop last June.

Milford police were contacted and Bremer was arrested on child pornography charges Saturday, ending a nine-month investigation.

Bremer faces charges of possession of child pornography and importing child pornography.He was released from police custody on a written promise to appear April 26th in Milford Superior Court.

Source: WINS

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911 caller not amused

A 911 in the Fort Worth Suburb of Watauga has been reprimanded after asking a mother calling for help with an unruly child, “OK. Do you want use to come over to shoot her?”

The dispatcher has apologized for his response, calling it "stupid" and "inexcusable."

The woman says she called 911 after coming home to find her daughters fighting. She told the dispatcher her 12-year-old had kicked a hole in the door.

After dispatcher Mike Forbess' comment, the line went dead for 5 seconds.
"Are you there?" Forbess asked.

"Excuse me?" the woman said before making it clear she was not amused.

After his comment, the dispatcher apologized and told her he was joking. He also told his supervisor what had happened after it became clear that the caller wasn't at all amused.

The police chief has written at letter to the dispatcher saying he'll be fired for "any future unprofessional responses."

Last month, a state trooper in Connecticut was suspended for 15 days without pay, after saying "too bad" to a 911 caller seeking help for the victim of a motorcycle accident.

Source: KWTX

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Man ran over the wrong dentist

A German man with a longheld grudge against a dentist tried to run him over - but got the wrong dentist.

The 47-year-old, from Bielefeld, hated the dentist after he allegedly pulled out the wrong teeth in 1992, and then botched the repair work.

The anger boiled over after a heavy drinking session, and the man climbed into his car to drive to the dental surgery and tell the dentist what he thought of him. But he mixed up his dentist with another dentist who, by chance, was leaving the surgery after work, and on the spur of the moment decided to run him down.

Police said it was a miracle that the injured man suffered only cuts and bruises and had not been killed.

The defendant admitted to trying to kill him and said: "I hate him deeply. I've been in pain for years since he worked on my teeth."

The man is now facing charges of attempted manslaughter and grievous bodily harm.

Source: Ananova

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The shy flasher...

Mesa police arrested a man caught in the act of placing Polaroid photos of his genitals on vehicles. The department has linked the man to about 30 reports of such photos and indecent exposure since December 1999.

Tuesday evening, detectives saw a man placing a Polaroid photo on a woman’s vehicle that was in a parking lot at Gilbert Road and McKellips in Mesa. He was immediately taken into custody.

During an interview, 41-year-old Jeffery Howard Pritchert admitted to indecently exposing himself twice and also admitted to placing up to 100 photos of his genitals on women’s vehicles.

Detectives arrested Pritchert for numerous counts of public display of explicit sexual materials, public sexual indecency, possession of dangerous drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He is currently in custody and is being held on an $18,000 bond in the Maricopa County Jail.
The Mesa Police Department began receiving calls about Polaroid photos left on vehicles showing a man’s genitals in December 1999. The calls continued and police estimate approximately 30 calls have been linked to the same man.

In November and December 2004, the department had two cases reported in which a man exposing and touching himself in front of women. DNA was collected from those scenes and the samples were matched. In March 2005, officers were notified that the DNA entry had been linked to Pritchert.

Source: KTAR

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There's a fine line between village idiot and dumbass

STORY, Ind. - The competition was fierce and foolish, but a man who accidentally sawed through a live wire and topped that by wrecking his truck hours after buying it more than earned the honorary title "Village Idiot."

Mark Carmichael's blunders won him the good-natured award that's been handed out for years in the tiny Brown County town of Story. The winner is whoever gets the most votes from regulars at the Story Inn's saloon.

Carmichael, the inn's maintenance man, won in part for an incident in which he cut through a live wire while using a circular saw to replace the inn's galvanized steel roof. But he also damaged his just-purchased 1998 Dodge truck — the day after he got it — by getting it stuck atop a whiskey barrel planter outside the inn.

His foolishness earned the 27-year-old a $100 bar tab at the Story Still.

Rick Hofstetter, who owns the inn about 40 miles south of Indianapolis, said the competition for this year's award was fierce.

For example, two Story Inn regulars were nominated for knocking themselves unconscious while opening their car doors. Another was nominated for burning down his front porch after not fully extinguishing a cigarette in a full ashtray.

Bartender Evan McMahon was nominated for opening an $80 bottle of Chalk Hill Chardonnay to make a $6.50 wine spritzer for a bar patron.

Not to be outdone, Story Inn housekeeper Kathy Newhall earned her nomination for using French truffle oil from the kitchen, which costs $50 for a 3-ounce bottle, to quiet a squeaky toilet seat.

But it was Carmichael who came out on top. The bar's patrons had more than enough evidence to give him the honor — not least of which was the pig roast incident.

"I cooked a couple of hogs out there on some bed springs once," he explained to a dismayed visitor.

Carmichael had cut the carcasses in half with a chain saw, then used a pitchfork to turn the meat as it cooked. He ended up serving up the portions with a hatchet.

"People loved it," he said. "We called it Louisiana style."

Source: AP

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The devil made him do it... but I guess the naked part was his idea.

BREA, Calif. - A man who awoke Sunday to find an armed and naked intruder standing over his bed subdued the suspect until police arrived, authorities said.

Eric Wall, 45, told police that the intruder — identified as 18-year-old Arthur David Macias — was carrying a kitchen knife and said the anti-Christ had sent him to the house to kill Wall.

Wall grabbed Macias and pulled him onto the bed. After a short struggle, Macias was detained by Wall and his 15-year-old son, who armed themselves with baseball bats.

Police said Macias broke into the Wall's home about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles by removing a screen from an open laundry room window and stole a knife from the kitchen. Police said Macias did not indicate why he chose the residence.

Macias was arrested on attempted murder, making criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary. He was being held at the Orange County Jail on $1 million bail.

Source: AP

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Robber says he was just kidding

CHALMETTE, La. - A man wearing a hooded sweat shirt and a handkerchief over his face entered an all-night diner through a rear door carrying what appeared to be a gun, announced a robbery, then said he was only joking when an employee quickly recognized him. The female employee called Chad Caron, 22, by his first name, authorities said.

Caron told her to relax, then removed his handkerchief and hood and said he was only kidding. He said the gun was a toy, then sat down and stayed for a while and talked to the employee, a St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's report said.

None of the employees called the Sheriff's Office, even though they later learned the phone line to the business had been cut.

But when the restaurant's operators learned what happened, they alerted authorities, who were suspicious of Caron's explanation and booked him with attempted robbery.

Caron, being held in the parish jail Thursday in lieu of $50,000 bond, gave a statement to sheriff's detectives in which he said he "only did this as a joke and didn't mean to scare anyone," the sheriff's report said.

However, authorities said Caron couldn't produce the gun he had said was a toy.

The sheriff's report said a customer, who was outside and saw the early Tuesday morning incident through a window, told the restaurant operators about what he saw.

Source: AP

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