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Bah! Pocket Change!
2007-05-05 05:26:00
I thought you guys would like to know that the General Lee was sold on eBay for the tiny sum of $9,900,500.00Click here
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Wife Used Dog Shock Collar To Keep Porn Addicted Husband in Bed
2007-04-24 04:20:00
A German woman admitted to keeping her husband in bed at night by locking a dog shock collar around his neck.Tuesday on a popular daytime women?s TV show in Germany women discussed the extremes that they have gone to to keep their spouses from spending all of their time looking at porn on the Internet. One lady who chose to wear a mask so not to be identified told of how she had to padlock a dog?s shock collar around the neck of her husband to keep him from getting up.He used to sneak down stairs and get on the computer for hours she said. It was effecting his performance at his job. He would fall asleep at work. ?They even called me at home to see if I would take him to the doctor for his sleep disorder not knowing that he had been up all night masturbating to porn?.The woman described how she kept the controls for the collar on her night stand and would set the range for it to go off at 3 meters. The husband agreed to wear the collar at first but she caught him sneaking it off one...
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Kindergartner Charged With Felony Tantrum
2007-04-13 04:50:00
On March 28, Desre'e Watson, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School, had a bad morning. She cried. She wailed. She kicked. She scratched. She hit a teacher. That's what the police say, anyway.The police? That's right. To subdue the unruly kindergartner, school officials phoned Avon Park's police department ("committed to enhancing the 'Quality of Life' of the community"). When the cops arrived, young Desre'e attempted to resist arrest by crawling under a table. But Avon Park's finest pulled her out, cuffed her, put her in a police cruiser, drove her to the county jail, and charged this 50-pound menace with a felony and two misdemeanors. The police report is below."When there is an outburst of violence," Police Chief Frank Mercurio told a local news station, "we have a duty to protect and make that school a safe environment for the students, staff and faculty. That's why, at this point, the person was arrested regardless what the age."
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V8 engine left on Division street causes wreck
2007-04-03 07:08:00
V8 engine left on Division street causes wreck01:27 PM PDT on Monday, April 2, 2007Washington State PatrolSPOKANE -- The Washington State Patrol in investigating a collision that occurred at approximately 11 pm on Sunday night.A V-8 engine block was left in the left lane of the road on Division northbound just South of Wellesley and was struck by a passing vehicle.
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Man With Sword Confronts Burglars, Gets Shot
2007-03-17 03:32:00
Man With Sword Confronts Burglars, Gets Shot Three Men Enter Home Wearing Ski Masks, Dark ClothingPOSTED: 12:19 pm MDT October 3, 2005UPDATED: 6:50 pm MDT October 3, 2005LONE TREE, Colo. -- A 20-year-old man in Lone Tree is recovering from his injuries after he confronted three burglars in his home with a samurai sword and was shot in the leg.The man is in stable condition at a local hospital. Police have not released his identity, 7NEWS reported.The Douglas County Sheriff's Department said a woman called 911 just after 12:30 a.m. Monday, saying that her boyfriend was jolted awake by a noise inside the home. The woman said when her boyfriend went to investigate the noise, he saw three masked men rifling through the house, grabbing money and other valuables.When the masked men fled the house through a side door in the garage, the victim then grabbed a sword and went out the front door to confront them, 7NEWS reported. That is when one of the burglars turned around and fired a single ...
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Raccoon back on the menu at fundraiser
2007-03-13 05:52:00
Raccoon back on the menu at fundraiserBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSHIBERNIA, Ind. -- HIBERNIA, Ind. (AP) After a four-year absence, raccoon is back on the menu for the Hibernia Community Building's annual fundraiser. LaVeran Lorenz, 86, has agreed to resume cooking duties for the March 24 event - with a little help with the cleaning. "It's not like cleaning a chicken, I'll tell you that," said Dina Woods, one of Lorenz's neighbors who agreed to learn how to clean raccoons for cooking.Allus Franklin and other hunters in the town on Hibernia Road off Indiana 62 about 20 miles north of Louisville, Ky., have bagged 103 raccoons for the event. "When they told us, we'd already caught 40," he said."It's the biggest day in Hibernia, I think," Woods said.But Lorenz, who had handled much of the raccoon cooking duty for every fundraiser since the early 1950s, begged off after the 2002 event. The 21 members of the Owen Township Homemakers since have prepared chili and ham and beans for fundrais...
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Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein
2007-03-03 05:28:00
Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein Fri Mar 2, 8:51 AM ETZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion."We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem," Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helico...
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Cops: Mom Left Kids in Freezing Car While She Went Tanning
2007-02-11 06:11:00
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25129 5,00.htmlCops : Mom Left Kids in Free zing Car While She Went Tanning Saturday , February 10, 2007APADVERTISEMENTSHEBOYGAN, Wis. —Sheboygan police arrested a woman after she allegedly left her two children in a freezing car for 20 minutes while she went tanning.The 27-year-old woman was arrested after two people spotted the children, ages 23 months and 10 years, in the car, the police department said in a news release. The vehicle was locked but not running.Officers responding to the scene Wednesday evening were approached by the children's parents. The father met the mother at the tanning salon and was arguing with her about why the children were in the car, police said.The children were dressed warmly, but they had "goose bumps" from the cold, the release said. They did not require medical attention.The temperature at the time was 12 degrees, with a wind chill index of about minus 2 degrees.The woman could be charged Friday with two counts ...

Woman Fake Heart Attack, Scares off Attacker
2007-02-08 05:16:00
Tue Feb 6, 10:50 PM ETHAMPDEN, Maine - An 80-year-old Hampden woman who was watching the Super Bowl alone faked a heart attack to scare off a man who had broken into her home and was pushing her toward the bedroom, police said.Daniel Thanem, 45, of Winterport was arrested a short time later and charged with aggravated criminal trespass and assault. Thanem is a convicted sex offender in Alabama, police said.The woman was watching Sunday night's Super Bowl when she spotted a man walking through her house, said Hampden police Sgt. Dan Stewart. When she asked the man what he was doing, he grabbed her from behind and began pushing her toward the bedroom.Stewart said the woman pretended she was having a heart attack and told the intruder her heart medication was in her car in the garage. After they retrieved the medication, the man fled."The lady had enough common sense to keep her wits about her to fake a heart attack and avoid becoming another victim," Stewart said.Thanem was arrested ...
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Wookiee Impersonator Arrested in Calif.
2007-02-05 05:24:00
Wookiee Impersonator Arrest ed in Cali f.Feb 4, 7:10 AM (ET)LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.Frederick Evan Young, 44, of Los Angeles was booked Thursday for investigation of misdemeanor battery, police Lt. Paul Vernon said.Police said the 6-foot-4 street performer was seen arguing Thursday afternoon with a tour guide who had expressed concern the Star Wars wookiee impersonator was "harassing and touching tourists" in violation of city law.The city passed ordinances last year seeking to crack down on the colorful assortment of actors who perform outside the landmark theater. The move was prompted by complaints from tourists who said the actors were aggressive and abusive if they refused to pay for pictures.Security guards escorted Young off theater property, but he decided to strike back and head-butted the tour guide, Vernon said."The ...
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Naked Sunday
2007-02-02 21:59:00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/...nd s_nude_gym_1AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Self-conscious about what you wear while working out? A Dutch gym plans to introduce "Naked Sunday " for people who like to huff and puff in the buff.Patrick de Man, owner of Fitworld gym in the town of Heteren, said he got the idea in part from two of his customers who are avid nudists."I heard that some other gyms are offering courses on 'pole-dancing' as a sport, so I thought: Why not bring something new to the market?" de Man said.He said the response had been overwhelming — positive and negative.The 70,000-member Dutch Federation of Naturists was curious to see if Fitworld's plan would work, spokesman Bernd Huiser said."We recently conducted a large survey among our members, and most prefer to exercise with their clothes on," he said. "The most popular activities (for nudists) are things you do outdoors, like walking on the beach, or swimming in a lake, or maybe gardening."De Man said the first qu...

Tijuana police issued slingshots
2007-01-26 04:26:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16763344/?GT1 =8921Tijuana police issued slingshotsGuns confiscated amid allegations of collusion with drug runnersTIJUANA, Mexico - The police department has issued about 60 slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana, where soldiers confiscated police weapons two weeks ago on allegations of collusion with drug traffickers.Municipal police spokesman Fernando Bojorquez said Monday that the slingshots, along with bags of ballbearings, were given to officers patrolling areas of the city visited by tourists.Tijuana’s police force of 2,000 officers has been without guns since Jan. 5, but some patrol alongside armed state police.President Felipe Calderon sent 3,300 soldiers and federal police to Tijuana at the beginning of January to hunt down drug gangs. The soldiers swept police stations and took officers’ guns for inspection amid allegations by federal investigators that a corrupt network of officers supports smugglers who traffic drugs ...
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Mother of 9-year-old runaway expresses pride in son's escapades
2007-01-25 05:05:00
By Associated Press LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) - The mother of the 9-year-old boy who took two flights in an attempt to run away to Dallas said she was stunned but proud to hear about her son's actions, according to a TV interview scheduled to air Wednesday night."He just showed me that, Mom, 'I'm going to achieve anything I want to do. I'm going to just do it.' So he did it, from driving a car to getting on an airplane," said Sakinah Booker on the syndicated TV show "Inside Edition."In the interview, her son, Semaj, describes riding a bus to the airport and using a man's name he overheard on a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport loudspeaker page to get a boarding pass from Southwest Airlines, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the program.Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Beth Harbin said she hadn't heard about Semaj obtaining a passenger's name from a loudspeaker page.Booker's lawyer, Brett Purtzer, said the mother was considering a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines.T...
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Escaped Chimp Gets Snack, Cleans Bathroom
2007-01-18 04:36:00
Escaped Chimp Gets Snack, Clean s Bath roomJan 17, 7:51 AM (ET)LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An escaped chimpanzee at the Little Rock Zoo raided a kitchen cupboard and did a little cleaning with a toilet brush before sedatives knocked her out on top of a refrigerator.The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped yesterday into a service area when a zookeeper opened a door to her sleeping quarters, unaware the animal was still inside.As keepers tried to woo Judy back into her cage, she rummaged through a refrigerator where chimp snacks are stored. She opened kitchen cupboards, pulled out juice and soft drinks and took a swig from bottles she managed to open.Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, so she may have been familiar with housekeeping chores. Judy wrung out a sponge and scrubbed down the fridge.It took a couple of tries, but the zoo sedat...
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Suspect breaks out of police car, tries to hide in sheriff's office
2007-01-15 03:54:00
Suspect breaks out of police car, tries to hide in sheriff's office(1/11/07 - SYRACUSE, NY) - Brian Valentino sure picked the wrong hiding place to elude police. The 33-year-old burglary suspect was being transported yesterday to the Onondaga County jail in Syracuse when he kicked out a back window of the police car and dove headfirst through the opening.Still handcuffed, Valentino ran a short distance and ducked into a building, where he ran down a hallway and hid behind a door.There was one problem. His hiding spot was inside the headquarters of the county sheriff's office. Apparently, Valentino didn't notice the big yellow star on the entrance.A retired deputy working part time in the building noticed the snow-covered, handcuffed man dash into the lobby. He followed him down the hall and held onto Valentino until the officer he escaped from arrived on the scene.Valentino now faces additional charges for the escape attempt. 
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The 2006 Darwin Award Winners!
2007-01-08 04:21:00
THE 2006 DARWIN AWARDS5th RUNNER-UP:Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred about 3:00 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's Department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower he hit was the one with its pad removed. 4th RUNNER-UP: Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out withou...
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Maine OKs Santa, Breasts on Beer Labels
2007-01-06 05:43:00
Maine OKs Santa , Breasts on Beer Labels By CLARKE CANFIELDPosted: Today at 3:21 p.m. PORTLAND, Maine — It's a bit late for the holidays, but the state's beer sellers are now free to let Santa's Butt Winter Porter sit on their shelves.The Maine Bureau of Liquor Enforcement had blocked a beer importer from selling the brew, along with two beers with labels depicting bare-breasted women. Those decisions were reversed after the state attorney general's office determined that the company probably would win the lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union filed on its behalf last month.Chris Taub, an assistant state attorney general, said Friday a court probably would find the beer labels in question to be protected under the First Amendment.State officials had barred the English-made Santa's Butt out of concern its label might appeal to children. It depicts a rear view of a beer-drinking Santa sitting on a "butt," a large barrel brewers once used to store beer.The other previously ba...
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Bra Slows Bullet Fired Into Air in Florida
2007-01-06 05:38:00
Bra Slows Bull et Fire d Into Air in Florida Posted: Today at 5:03 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A woman watching New Year's Eve fireworks from a picnic table found out that her bra can do more than lift and support: It also slowed a falling bullet.The .45-caliber bullet struck Debbie Bingham, 46, after someone fired a gun into the air about 20 minutes before midnight. She still needed stitches, but the wound might have been much worse except for the bra strap, police spokesman George Kajtsa said.Bingham, who was in town from Atlanta, said she is thankful for the undergarment, which she said was "very cheap.""I'd love to have a couple more of those bras," she said.Bingham said she was listening to music and enjoying the fireworks with her daughter and son when she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.Then Solanda Bingham, 30, noticed blood seeping through her mother's white shirt, and they found the bullet lodged halfway into the gold-colored bra. The other half was barely breaking the...
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Burglary thwarted by elderly man, shoe horn
2007-01-05 04:03:00
Burglary thwarted by elderly man, shoe hornTOWN OF LEBANON, WISCONSIN - An attempted home invasion in the early morning hours of New Year's Day was quashed when the homeowner, who is in his 80s, beat one of the perpetrators over the head with a long shoe horn until he fled the residence.A Lebanon woman awoke at 1 a.m. to find a man lurking outside her window. She immediately awakened her husband before the subject allegedly kicked in a door and entered the bedroom demanding money.According to a Dodge County Sheriff's Department press release, the husband told the man to leave or he would be shot. The suspect replied that he was armed and would blow the husband's head off.But before he could make a move, the husband grabbed a long shoe horn and beat the suspect over the head with it until he fled the residence. Dodge County authorities took a 46-year-old Clintonville man into custody and said another subject is in custody in Waukesha County. The names of the suspects have not been...
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Oiled Prisoner Slips Out of Norway Jail
2007-01-04 04:00:00
Oiled Prison er Slips Out of Norway Jail Jan 3, 8:23 AM (ET)OSLO, Norway (AP) - A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody - literally - by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday."He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve," said Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District. The unusual escape made national news in Norway on Wednesday.Another Lithuanian, held as an accomplice in the same cell, also used the technique to try to slip out of a window of the Vadsoe Jail, but failed, apparently because he was too big. The men had managed to bend the bars slightly to gain more space."It was a good effort," Jacobsen said. "But all he did was get his head and part of his shoulder through the bars."A police news release identified the escaped suspect as Yuris Sinkevicius, 25, and said he was 5 feet, 8 inches tall and thin. He remained at large. ...
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Carjacker Gets Lost, Calls 911 On Himself
2006-12-29 05:03:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16380871/Carj acker Gets Lost , Calls 911 On HimselfBOCA RATON, Fla. - Police said a man who carjacked an SUV in Boca Raton drove all the way to Palm Springs before becoming lost and calling 911 on himself. According to police reports, Claude King, 31, approached Caroline Funkey's black GMC Envoy while it was stopped at a red light on the Glades Road exit off Interstate 95 in Boca Raton. Upon stepping up to the car, King smashed the driver's side window and pulled the driver out of the vehicle. Once inside, police said King began to punch the other four passengers. One of Funkey's friends, Kellina Beach, 18, struck her head on the pavement as she fell from the SUV and had to receive stitches at Boca Raton Community Hospital. According to the report, once King removed the passengers from the SUV, he began to drive wildly around the area, finally heading southbound down I-95. Police said that, while heading southbound, King struck a white Chevrolet pickup ...
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Woman allegedly calls 911 for ‘cutie’ deputy
2006-12-28 05:13:00
Woman allegedly calls 911 for ‘cutie’ deputyFaces jail after purportedly asking dispatcher to forward her numberALOHA, Ore. - A woman who called 911 to get "the cutest cop I've seen" sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.The same sheriff's deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system.Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.Thompson said Dudash then called 911, asking that the "cutie pie" deputy return."He's the cutest cop I've seen in a long time. I just want to know his name," Dudash told the dispatcher. "Heck, it doesn't come very often a good man comes to your doorstep."After listening to some more, followed by a bit of silence, the dispatcher asked again why Dudash needed the deputy to return."Honey, I'm just going to be...
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Christmas Brings Strange Seasonal Crimes
2006-12-25 20:57:00
Christmas Brings Strange Season al Crime sNEW YORK (AP) - There's nobody nice on this Christmas list: snowman stabbers, Grinch snatchers, wreath-robbing weasels. 'Tis the season for strange crimes by even stranger people, with police blotters expanding faster than a 6-year-old's wish list of gifts.David Allen Rodgers, 42, was arrested Dec. 3 for driving while intoxicated - at the wheel of a float during the annual Christmas parade in Anderson, S.C. According to witnesses, Rodgers sped down Main Street in the Steppin' Out Dance Studio float with 19 people aboard, ran a red light and led police on a 3-mile chase.Police said that when Rodgers finally stopped, they found an open container of alcohol in his truck. "I made a very bad judgment on my part," Rodgers said at a court hearing.In Chicago, 32 plastic baby Jesus dolls were stolen from nativity scenes set up in people's front yards. The kidnappers then lined up all the dolls along the fence outside a Chicago woman's home; she r...
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Senior's Picture with Sword Nixed Because of No Weapons Policy
2006-12-21 04:44:00
Senior’s picture with sword nixed because of school’s no-weapons policy The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The mother of a high school senior who posed in chain mail and held a medieval sword for his yearbook picture sued after the school rejected the photo because of its "zero-tolerance" policy against weapons. Patrick Agin, 17, belongs to the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international organization that researches and recreates medieval history. He submitted the photo in September for the Portsmouth High School yearbook. But the school's principal refused to allow the portrait as Agin's official yearbook photo because he said it violated a policy against weapons and violence in schools, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. The lawsuit seeks an order that would prevent the yearbook from being published without Agin's senior portrait. Agin's mother, Heidi Farrington, said she and her son believe the...
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School: Boy Put Bodily Fluid In Salad Dressing
2006-12-16 04:21:00
School: Boy Put Bodily Fluid In Sala d Dress ingStudents May Have Eaten Contaminated DressingA senior at an Illinois high school is accused of contaminating food in the cafeteria.The boy at Wheaton North High School ejaculated into a bottle of ranch salad dressing last week and left it on a condiments cart in the cafeteria for upperclassmen, school officials said Thursday.Even though the school's food service provider requires that workers empty condiment containers and wash them every other day, Principal Jill Bullo said the company officials were not sure if the container was washed after lunch, according to the Post-Tribune.If the container as not washed out, students would have been exposed to the ejaculate during two lunch periods Dec. 6, and five lunch periods on Dec. 7, the paper reported.The principal said that after Dec. 7, seven lunch periods after the ejaculation, the container definitely would have been cleaned.But, she said, even if the containers were washed properly an...
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Twelve Year Old Arrested for Opening Christmas Present Early
2006-12-08 06:19:00
Twelve Year Old Arrest ed for Open ing Christmas Present EarlyCOLUMBIA - A fed-up mother was angry that her 12-year-old son had rummaged through his great-grandmother's things and played with his Christmas present early.So she had him arrested.The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it. He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the local police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.The boy's mother says her grandmother had spent months paying for the gift. She says her son has a history of being disobedient "and getting away with it."The boy's case will be presented to juvenile authorities, who will decide what happens to him.. 
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Man Accused of Faking Retardation --- for 20 Years!
2006-12-07 05:38:00
Click here for original story.TACOMA, Wash. -- For nearly 20 years -- ever since Pete Costello was 8 -- his mother has collected disability benefits on his behalf.In meetings with Social Security officials and psychologists, he appeared mentally retarded and unable to communicate. His mother insisted he couldn't read or write, shower, take care of himself or drive a car.But now prosecutors said it was all a huge fraud, and they have video of Costello contesting a traffic ticket to prove it."He's like any other person trying to get out of a traffic ticket," Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Barbosa said Tuesday.Pete and Rosie Marie Costello were indicted in September on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and Social Security fraud, and the case was unsealed Tuesday. The Vancouver pair were scheduled to appear in federal court in Tacoma on Tuesday.Barbosa said he planned to file with the court two videos of Pete Costello taken this year: In one, he allegedly feigns retardat...
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Apparently, she Doesn't Like Warm Beer
2006-12-06 15:50:07
A St. Louis man was shot to death Sunday night over a warm beer, police said.St. Louis police say a woman shot her husband, who was about 70 years old, four to five times in the chest after he tried giving her a warm can of Stag beer.Police said the wife admitted shooting him about 5:40 p.m. in the kitchen of their home in the 5100 block of Terry Avenue. Police said the home had no electricity at the time.Homicide detectives would not identify the man. The woman, whom police also did not identify, was taken into custody.Story here
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Judge Orders Man To Wear 'Sex Offender' T-Shirt
2006-12-02 15:46:05
Judge Orders Man To Wear 'Sex Offender ' T-Shirt Man Has Several Convictions Dating Back To 1976WILMINGTON, Del. -- A sex offender with a history of exposing himself has been ordered by a judge to wear a T-shirt proclaiming "I am a registered sex offender."Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden also sentenced Russell Teeter, 69, to two months in jail Friday for repeatedly exposing himself at his business to a 10-year-old girl.Jurden handed down the unusual sentence at the suggestion of deputy attorney general Donald Roberts, who noted that Teeter has more than 10 convictions dating to 1976 and has been treated for being a compulsive exhibitionist.Roberts told the judge that perhaps the shirt and jail time will "teach him to keep his zipper up."Teeter will have to wear the shirt for almost two years once he gets out of jail and returns to his horticulture business.Defense attorney Arlen Mekler opposed the sentence, describing the T-shirt as "a modern-day scarlet letter," referring to the hu...
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A Byte Out of History
2006-12-02 15:46:05
A BYTE OUT OF HISTORYThe D. B. Cooper Mystery11/24/06On the afternoon of November 24?35 years ago Friday?a non-descript man calling himself Dan Cooper approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland, Oregon. He used cash to buy a one-way ticket on Flight #305, bound for Seattle, Washington. Thus began one of the great unsolved mysteries in FBI history.Cooper was a quiet man who appeared to be in his mid-forties, wearing a business suit with a black tie and white shirt. He ordered a drink?bourbon and soda?while the flight was waiting to take off. A short time after 3:00 p.m., he handed the stewardess a note indicating that he had a bomb in his briefcase and wanted her to sit with him.The stunned stewardess did as she was told. Opening a cheap attaché case, Cooper showed her a glimpse of a mass of wires and red colored sticks and demanded that she write down what he told her. Soon, she was walking a new note to the captain of the plane that demanded four parachutes and...
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