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Gooseys Gabbings-The World of Weird Bizarre and Odd News
Sunday, March 18, 2007
If you are going to give police a false name, Don't give the name of a felon
ANNAPOLIS - Vincent Lloyd Massey should have thought twice before he gave city police a false name this morning. He gave the name of a wanted felon.
City police pulled a vehicle over into a Bay Ridge Avenue Texaco station at 4:30 a.m. and found that the driver had a suspended license. They took the driver into custody and then looked to Mr. Massey, a passenger in the vehicle, to drive the car from the scene.
When officers asked Mr. Massey, 48, for his driver's license, he said he had left it at home but gave officers his name, address and date of birth.
Moments later, dispatchers told the officers they had a man with several felony warrants, including some from the U.S. Marshal's Service. Due to the "serious nature" of the charges, including drug charges and counterfeiting, police said, they called for backup immediately. They obtained a warrant and arrested Mr. Massey.
Once in custody, Mr. Massey told police he had given a false name and that he had identification in his pocket. Police confirmed that he was Mr. Massey, of Annapolis, and not the wanted felon. Mr. Massey has no active warrants.
He was charged with giving a false statement to police.
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Not much you can say about this moron. And, in Annapolis no less. You'd think by osmosis alone this guy would be a little smarter...guess not.
News Anchor apologizes for "feeling like a retard"
Philadelphia, PA- 10 O'Clock News anchor Dawn Stensland had to apologize on air for a "self-deprecating comment" she made on the air that offended people the night before. But, apparently, after a medical report, Stensland said she sometimes feels "like a retard." Dan Gross reports she stayed up until 1 a.m. to answer the 23 -- twenty-three! -- emails she got after the broadcast.
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Aye, here's the rub...If someone who is retarded understands that Stensland's comments were offensive, are they really retarded? Hmmmm...now that's a mystery!
Mom throws tantrum at school after her child is "disruptive"
TAMPA - The mother of a Cannella Elementary student was jailed Friday after throwing a cursing fit in her son’s classroom and threatening the principal, according to an arrest report.
Edna Rose Manchame, 31, was charged with assault on a school employee and disturbing a school function – both misdemeanors. She remained at Orient Road Jail late Friday; bail was set at $750.
Hillsborough County Deputy David Patterson wrote in the arrest report that Manchame was upset because she’d been called to school at 10707 Nixon Road “to pick up her disruptive child.”
“She stormed into her son’s class and began yelling and cursing,” Patterson wrote. She “began throwing books and other school items on the floor.”
The teacher hit a panic button and Manchame took her son to the school’s main office, where she cursed the staff and banged on the counter, Patterson said. The school went into lock down after she allegedly threatened the principal and moved to attack but was restrained by her husband, he said.
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Stupid is as stupid does. --Forrest Gump
Stupidity, like hydrogen, is one of the basic building blocks of the universe.--Frank Zappa
"MY SON IS NOT DISRUPTIVE! WHAT IN THE &*&;%*^r&^% DO YOU THINK *&^&*%* IS ABOUT, YOU *&^*&%*(((%% IDIOT. HOW DARE YOU THINK MY CHILD IS DISRUPTIVE. YOU HAVE NO *^%&% IDEA WHO MY SON IS."--Edna Rose Manchame
BERLIN (Reuters) - A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount for sex in the afternoon.
The "Pascha" in the western city of Cologne has introduced reduced rates for sex sessions for clients aged 66 and above -- provided they can prove they are old enough.
"All clients need to do is show us some proof of age," said a spokesman for the brothel's managing director Armin Lobscheid. "A 'normal session' costs 50 euros with us -- and we're now paying 50 percent of that for these older guests."
"We don't earn as much money, but we're establishing ourselves across a broader range of age groups," he added.
After testing the water with reductions for senior citizens once a week, the Pascha decided earlier this month to offer 50 percent off sex services between midday and 5 p.m every day.
"There's been plenty of demand and people have certainly been taking advantage of the offer," the spokesman said. "Older folks are more active than you think."
The brothel's Web site is keen to stress this point.
"Life begins at 66!" it says in an advert for its "senior citizens afternoon" next to a picture of a motorcycle rider.
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The brothels have also been able to promote some of their lesser known talent, including Viagra Vicky, Orthopedic Ora Lea, Geriatric Gina, and Pruny Petunia.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Merlot can be a variety of grape or a type of red wine, but not an acceptable personalized license plate in the state of Utah.
Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the license plate reading "merlot" for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.
Six or seven-letter words like liquor or whiskey probably wouldn't make it through the state screening process before the plates are issued. But merlot did and Eurick was fine until an anonymous caller told the state that merlot was also an alcoholic beverage.
Eurick's car with the offending plate is dark red, like the wine. He said few people who asked about the plate made the connection. Though one man did ask "if we chose merlot because there were too many letters in cabernet sauvignon," Eurick said.
Eurick said he will challenge the state's decision.
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A question of morals? Basically, I can live in Utah by having seven wives but if I put BUDWSR1 on my license plate I would be imprisoned. Come to think of it, if I had seven wives, I'd probably be LOOKING for ways to be imprisoned, so maybe this is a blessing in disguise for some men....
INDIANAPOLIS, IN-A middle-aged woman who was naked when she surrendered to police after hitting an officer with her car at a convenience store was undergoing a medical evaluation today.
Fishers Police Sgt. Gerry Hepp said Leann E. Orbin, 47, was detained and taken to Community Hospital North for evaluation of a suspected impairment, possibly from drugs or alcohol.
Hepp said the evaluation will help prosecutors decide whether to charge the woman with felony counts of criminal recklessness.
Fishers police officer Jeff Phelps, who was knocked down by Orbin’s Mitsubishi and fired on the car as she fled, was treated for scrapes to his leg at Riverview Hospital and released.
Hepp said the incident began about 4:45 a.m., after police responded to a call from an employee of the Village Pantry at 96th Street and Lantern Road.
The caller was seeking help with the woman, said Hepp.
“We had an officer there very quickly,” he said. “Within seconds he’s on the radio ... shots have been fired.”
Hepp said ongoing investigation shows the woman, an Indianapolis resident and frequent Village Pantry customer, was acting strangely at the store and had asked employees to call police “because they weren’t treating her right.”
Although the woman had left by the time Phelps arrived, he said, she returned and then tried to speed off as he approached, knocking him down as she backed up and then sped north.
“He fires at the vehicle,” said Hepp, adding that one bullet may have hit the car before it headed out of the adjacent Marsh grocery lot and rammed the cruiser of an approaching Fishers officer on Roberts Drive.
Hepp said Orbin tried to push officer Ben Colling’s car out of the way before backing up and turning north into a Kittle’s warehouse lot.
The chase ended – but not immediately – when Orbin drove north on a dead-end lane by the Kittle’s loading dock.
Although she got out of her car and lay down as instructed, she climbed back in and tried to escape again before finally exiting and surrendering, Hepp said.
“She was not wearing any clothes when she was taken into custody,” added Hepp, who said the woman gave no explanation for her sudden lack of attire.
“She was wearing clothes when she came to the store. She was wearing clothes when she returned,” he said.
“In between the time that she struck officer Phelps and fled the area and was taken into custody she had disrobed.”
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Just blocks from a dock where enslaved men and women arrived in chains more than 240 years ago, Maryland's Senate today unanimously approved a resolution apologizing for slavery.
The resolution expresses "profound regret" for the role Maryland played instituting and maintaining slavery and for -- quote -- "the discrimination that was slavery's legacy."
Resolution sponsor Nathaniel Exum says he believes the measure is needed because no one has ever apologized for the pain slavery caused in Maryland from its earliest days as a colony until 1864. The state senator says he feels a formal apology can improve race relations "if everyone takes it to heart."
A similar resolution is pending in the House.
If it passes there, Maryland would be the second state to issue such an apology. Virginia's legislature passed a resolution last month also expressing "profound regret" for that state's role in slavery.
Goosey's Gabbings... Perhaps the race relations can be expected to improve within, say, the 240 years it took to apologize. Is that too much to ask?
One of the more sad things with this is that Maryland is only the 2nd state to do this. And yet in another real story there are protesters to an art exhibit showing the confederate flag being hung in a noose. I'm certainly glad to be alive in 2007!! *Sigh*
A photograph of a young Victoria Police constable exposing her breasts while in uniform, which she sent to her policeman boyfriend, has been circulated through the force's internal email.
The ethical standards department is examining the matter to determine whether an offence has been committed as a result of the circulation of the image, a Victoria Police spokeswoman has confirmed.
It is believed the policewoman, named on the Nine Network tonight as Constable Melissa Scannell, took the image on her mobile phone and passed it on to her boyfriend as an intimate get well message.
The constable was in her police uniform with her name badge visible, her shirt undone and her breasts exposed when she was photographed.
But the image was circulated widely through the force's internal email, landing in the inboxes of top-ranking officers and ethical standards department detectives.
"She has sent an image to her boyfriend and obviously he has done the wrong thing and forwarded it on," a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
"The ethical standards department has been notified. They are aware of the incident, which involved the circulation of a photograph, and they are examining it to see if an offense has been committed."
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Ok, so this guy gets the sniffles and his girlfriend takes a picture of her half-naked for him to get well? Jeesh...All I get is a lousy bowl of soup.
It's a good thing that the people of Victoria are well-defended. That sound you hear is the price values dropping by the second...
What do you get when you mix M and M's, Twizzlers, and Salsa? Theft resulting in murder..
LANCASTER - The case of 18-year-old Joseph Peterson started out as a relatively minor affair involving the alleged theft of M&Ms and Twizzlers from a discount store - but ended up as murder, according to prosecutors.
When the Lancaster man tried to flee after what police called a petty theft, Charles Hairston, a 51-year-old homeless group volunteer, tried to stop him. Peterson threw a bottle of salsa at him, hitting him in the head.
Hairston died three weeks later.
"It's a sad story. (Hairston) was a good Samaritan who tried to help out, and unfortunately with these circumstances, he was killed," Deputy District Attorney Bernie LaForteza said.
Peterson, who is being held in lieu of $986,000 bail, is scheduled to be arraigned next month on one count of murder. His attorney, Tyson Beers, declined to comment on the case.
Hairston, a Lancaster resident, was outside the Lancaster 99 Cents store July 14 collecting donations for a group that assists the homeless when Peterson, his girlfriend and another couple went inside the store, LaForteza said.
Store employees saw them taking candy and tried to stop them, LaForteza said.
Peterson was angry and yelled at the victim as he drove off in his Dodge Neon, LaForteza said.
Afraid that he would return, store staff members called sheriff's deputies and saw Peterson stop across the street to look at the damage to his car, LaForteza said.
A short time later, Peterson did return and got into an argument with Hairston over the car damage. He chased Hairston into the store and hurled a shopping cart that hit an employee, the prosecutor said.
Peterson threw a container of carpet deodorizer at Hairston, hitting him in the back, and then picked up a glass jar of salsa, LaForteza said.
"From 6 to 8 feet away, he throws it, very hard, and strikes the victim on the head," LaForteza said.
Deputies arrived and arrested Peterson, who four days later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor burglary and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and placed on three years' probation.
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I've read that Mexican food is bad for you, but this takes the queso...
WILMINGTON, Del. - A sixth-grade science teacher who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Rachel L. Holt, 35, had pleaded guilty to second-degree rape. She sobbed in court Friday as Superior Court Judge Calvin L. Scott gave her the mandatory minimum sentence.
Prosecutors had wanted Scott to sentence Holt to the maximum of 25 years.
Holt was initially charged with 28 counts of first-degree rape.
Police accused her of having sex with the boy that many times during an intense weeklong affair. She was also accused of plying the boy with alcohol and allowing him to drive her car.
Holt's attorney, John S. Malik, said the sentence was much longer than what teachers convicted in similar cases got. He reviewed 40 such cases and found the average was 18 months to two years.
In her brief comments to the court, Holt apologized "to everyone who suffered" as a result of her actions, including the victim and his family.
"I hope you can forgive me," she said. "I know what I did was wrong."
The victim's uncle, who spoke on behalf of the family, asked for the maximum sentence, saying Holt had tarnished the reputation of teachers and violated his nephew's trust.
"He had his innocence taken away through betrayal," he said.
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What the teacher was really sobbing about was that by the time she gets out of prison, even with good behavior, the boy will be of legal age. Who wants that?
28 times in a week, eh? GOOD LORD! (Ok, one time would be a possible "in the moment" thing, two times would be just bad judgement, but 28 TIMES?? That's--just---WRONG)
