Weird News

Jonathan Lee Riches is believed to be the most prolific lawsuit-filer ever to operate from behind bars. His "docket" now includes more than 1,000 cases in just over two years (with eight more years to go on a federal sentence for fraud), including claims totaling several trillion dollars from "injuries" inflicted on him by such people as President Bush, Martha Stewart, Steve Jobs, Britney Spears, Tiger Woods (luggage theft), Barry Bonds (illegal moonshine production), and football player Michael Vick ($63 billion for allegedly stealing Riches' pit bulls and selling them on eBay so that Vick could in turn buy missiles from Iran).

It definitely was not Ricky Lee Jones' lucky day. Not only did the 53-year-old Iowa City man get robbed of his winnings at an illegal dice game, he got busted when he filed a complaint with police. After Beauhanan Walker allegedly ran off with the pot, Jones called cops and said he wanted his "portion of the winnings." Walker was later arrested as well. Both face a year in jail.

They're the Hansel and Gretel of crime. Cops in Cincinnati tracked a group of confectionery robbery suspects by following a trail of candy wrappers leading to their hideout. Four people were arrested on charges of stealing $400 in sweets.

A firefighter in Poland is in hot water for going on an arson spree to pad his overtime pay. Pawol Leszek, 18, faces 10 years in prison.
He allegedly torched two barns and was caught setting another blaze.
"He said he just wanted to get money to buy his girlfriend a birthday present," a police spokesman reported.

USAF Honor Guard Drill Team

Changing of the Guard

Funny pics

They walk among us

One day I was walking down the beach with some Friends when one of them shouted, "Look at that dead bird!" Someone looked up at the sky and said, "Where?"


While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, "Does the sun rise in the North?" When my brother explained that the sun rises in the East, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, "Oh I don't keep up with all that stuff."

I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?" Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Pacific."

My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.

I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands. "Now," she asked me, has your plane arrived yet?"

While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding. "Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces."

Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join

POSTED: 7:10 pm MDT April 10, 2008
UPDATED: 7:27 am MDT April 11, 2008
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.

After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.

His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.

"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said.

Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.

I say join the gang with the best dental plan!!

Teacher Applied to Marry Student

By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer

(04-10) 01:09 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) --

A woman said her 17-year-old girl daughter was in love with a 27-year-old teacher who lived down the street, and she gave her legal consent for the two to wed.

Now, Randy Arias faces the possibility of a felony conviction and 20 years behind bars under a Texas law that criminalizes student-teacher sexual relationships.

Arias, who taught Spanish and coached track at an Austin high school, was arrested Monday for allegedly having an improper relationship with a student. The arrest came four days after Arias and the teen, accompanied by her mother, applied for a marriage license.

In giving her consent, the girl's mother said the reason was "for love."

Arias, a former track star at Texas State University, took the girl to the movies last month, according to the arrest affidavit. Afterward, he took her to his apartment and the two had sex. The girl told police they had been having sex regularly since, according to the affidavit.

Arias, who has been placed on administrative leave, has no previous run-ins with the law on his record. His attorney, Hermes Flores, did not return phone calls from The Associated Press seeking comment.

The law, passed in 2003, makes it a felony for a teacher to have sexual contact with a student in the same school, regardless of age. The girl in this case was old enough to legally consent when she turned 17, but because he was a teacher at her school, the relationship was illegal.

"Most of these allegations, if they do result in conviction, are usually going to result in probation if the two parties are still in a relationship or parted on good terms," said Shannon Edmonds, director of governmental relations for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.

The law has proven difficult to prosecute. In two similar Dallas-area cases, suspects were cleared by grand juries and never went to trial.

In another case, former Miss Texas contestant Amy McElhenney, then 26, was accused of having a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old in the high school where she taught. A Denton County grand jury declined to indict McElhenney, who lost her teaching certificate.

"The outcome of the case may depend on, obviously, age," Edmonds said. "Doing something with a 15-year-old is different from doing something with a 17-year-old."

What is wrong with these people?

Police Make a DUI Arrest in the Station

(04-10) 01:32 PDT Newport, Ore. (AP) --

The Oregon State Police didn't have to do much when they arrested a woman for allegedly drunken driving. She came to them.

Troopers charged a 42-year-old private contractor with driving under the influence of intoxicants after she came to work to clean the state police office in this coastal town.

A trooper said she showed signs of being intoxicated after driving to the office with her 12-year-old son. A blood-alcohol test showed her level was 0.19 percent — more than twice the legal limit.

She also was charged with recklessly endangering another person and was jailed in lieu of $15,000 bail. A trooper transported her son home.

Drug Rehab

Thats just wrong!!

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Jason Fife was sentenced to probation and community service after harassing his estranged wife's boyfriend with a special package delivery. Fife, said his lawyer, now "understands that in a civilized society, a person cannot send [someone] a severed cow's head ...."

In January, just after police in Tyler, Texas, took Christopher McCuin, 25, into custody on suspicion of killing and eating parts of his girlfriend (an ear was found in water on the stove), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent the sheriff a fax demanding that McCuin receive only a vegetarian diet, suggesting that too much meat-eating had already occurred in the case.

Officials in the Shivpuri district of India's Madhya Pradesh state, needing a promising program to slow the country's still-booming birth rate, announced in March that men who volunteer for vasectomies will be rewarded with certificates that speed them through the ordinarily slow line to obtain gun permits. Said an administrator, the loss, through vasectomy, of a "perceived notion of manliness" would be offset "with a bigger symbol of manliness."

In Durant, Okla., a man convicted of making and selling methamphetamine was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before he was led away to serve his time, however, he asked someone to marry him to his girlfriend. The police chief there was an ordained minister so he married the couple before the convict was led away. It was reportedly very emotional and many people in the courtroom left in tears afterward. WHAT?

“Look, it is no big deal,” Christopher Wilkins told the Fort Worth, Texas, jury trying to decide in March whether to send him to death row or life in prison. “I’m as undecided (about that) as you are.”

Wilkins even belittled his own attorneys for bringing his family in to beg the jury for mercy: “They (my lawyers) sprung that charade on me,” he told the jury. When his attorneys suggested that his murders were not cold-blooded but were the result of drug use, Wilkins said, “I wouldn’t put too much weight on that.”
Before leaving the witness stand, Wilkins complimented the prosecutor (“You’re doing a fine job”) and added, “I haven’t been any good to anybody for the last 20 years, and I won’t be for the next 20 or the 20 after that.”

The jury chose the death penalty.

Shocking Discovery

A Hungarian farmer almost killed one of his employees after connecting the doorknob of his barn to an electrical line in a bid to keep thieves from stealing his feed.

Laszlo Miklos said he got the idea from the electrical fence he has around his property to keep animals from getting out. Problem is, he never told his workers about the knob.

He just watched "Home Alone"

Suspect Took Cab To & From Bank

(04-08) 18:56 PDT EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) --

Police said they easily caught a bank robbery suspect after he had a taxi take him to and from the scene of the crime.

East Point police Captain Russell Popham said officers arrested Marcus Chisholm at his apartment just a few hours after they said he robbed a SunTrust Bank.

Authorities said Chisholm had a cab pick him up at his apartment, take him to the bank and then take him home after the robbery.

The cab driver gave officers Chisholm's address and identified him in the bank's surveillance video.

Someone flies Mexico flag over a U.S. Flag

Doctor made house calls — by parachute

This guy Rocks

Balad Airmen rescue U.S. teachers in Iraq

by Staff Sgt. Ruth Curfman
332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

3/12/2008 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Airmen from the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron here were called out to rescue two American citizens lost on a hiking trip March 2.

"We initially started hearing information about a possibility of American citizens getting lost during a hiking trip at around 4 a.m.," said Navy Lt. Evan Scaggs, a 64th ERQS pilot and the flight lead for the rescue. "The Joint Personnel Recovery Center started to gather information about who the people were, where they were and checking to see if there were any other problems, while we were on stand-by for the call."

The recovery center passed on the information, while the HH-60G Pave Hawk flight crew and pararescue crews started preparing for a possible rescue mission.

"We started by working flight path times, number of people needed, finding out what kind of terrain they were in and making sure we were staying away from hostile areas," said Capt. Jared Ostroski, a 64th ERQS pilot. "These are some of the steps we take in order to make sure that we know what we are going into before we attempt a rescue."

As the crews waited, F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots were relaying information regarding the coordinates to where the hikers, who are American teachers, were last seen. There was also coordination taking place on the ground with the hikers' friends who reported them missing.

Once all of the information was verified, approximately two hours later, the crew got approval to go out and retrieve the hikers.

"We loaded up with our flight crew of four people, plus we also had two pararescue Airmen with us," Lieutenant Scaggs said. "Typically, anytime we go on a mission like this one, pararescue makes sure that they load up their medical bags, climbing kits and anything they may need for rough terrain rescues."

"Basically, we bring the rescuers to the site and we are there to make sure they get in and get out as smoothly as possible," said Senior Airman Mike Arview, a 64th ERQS flight engineer. "We were called in because the ground search was unsuccessful due to the terrain, but we were ready to go."

After traveling to the location, approximately 120 nautical miles north of Balad Air Base, the crew joined in the search with other aircraft to locate the hikers.

"We searched for the hikers for about 30 minutes, talked to the group on the ground, started running low on fuel and had to go refuel, then came back and were able to locate them," Lieutenant Scaggs said. "It took us a while because they were in an area where one side of this mountain was at an 80 degree angle and the other side was a 90 degree angle, so it was hard to see them unless you came in at just the right direction."

Because of the terrain and the area the survivors were in, the helicopter crew had to be extremely careful while they were hovering to make sure they were safe as well.

"Once we dropped the PJs off, we realized that if we came in another way, we would be able to hoist them up from where they were rather than having the rescue team pull them up the side of the mountain," said Senior Airman Evan Miller, a 64th ERQS flight engineer. "So, we basically backed into the ravine and hovered for a while, I then had to swing the hoist into the pararescumen and we were able to hoist one survivor and one PJ up to the helicopter. After that, we hoisted the other survivor and the last PJ, with all of his equipment, into the aircraft."

After everyone was safely in the aircraft, the rescue team checked the survivors for any health issues they may have suffered by being out in the area overnight.

"Other than them being tired, dehydrated and cold, they were fine," Lieutenant Scaggs said. "However, one more night out there at about 4,700 feet and they may have suffered from hypothermia or frost bite."

Although this may have seemed like quite an ordeal for the hikers and their friends, this is what the rescue teams train for and are glad to do, they said.

"This was the most challenging hoist I have ever done," Airman Miller said. "This was my first rescue. It was a great feeling knowing that we were able to get in there, get this done and save two people."

This was the first time the PJs were able to use their high-angle equipment.

"I was told that it was the highest elevation rescue mission that has happened in Iraq," Lieutenant Scaggs said.

There are many steps people should remember when they are going out hiking, camping or participating in any other outdoor activities, said the pararescuemen.

"It was really hard to find these people because they were wearing dark-colored clothing," Lieutenant Scaggs said. "People need to remember that if they are going to be outside, they need to make sure they have something that is made of a bright color so that it is easier to see them."

All members of the flight crew are deployed from the 66th Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and the pararescuemen are deployed from the 38th Rescue Squadron, Moody AFB, Ga.

"They did an outstanding job," said Lt. Col. Chad Franks, the 64th ERQS commander. "They executed this rescue just like they train. It may seem an extraordinary effort, but that is what these people train for every day.

"I hope people realize, it doesn't matter what service or country you are in, the Combat Search and Rescue team will come and get you," Colonel Franks said.

Retiring rescuer exemplified 'selfless service'

AIR NATIONAL GUARD: Many owe their lives to Paul "Red" Reddington.

Not sure if this is true but.....

One of my sons serves in the military. He is stationed stateside, here in
California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming
people were to him and his troops everywhere they go.

Telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being willing
to serve and fight, not only for our own freedoms but so that others may
have them too.

Then he told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that several people were in the line ahead of him, including a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier, she made a loud remark about the
U.S. Flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached
up and touched the pin and said, 'Yes, I always wear it proudly, because
I'm an American.'

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to
stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

Then, a Gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my son, and said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi
woman:
Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR
countrymen.

It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we
wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq , so
you can straighten out the Mess in YOUR country, that you are obviously
here in MY country to avoid.'

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!

A Texan's opinion

I don't know if this is true, but it's funny either way:

T. B. Bechtel, a part-time City Councilman from Midland, TX , was asked
on a local live radio talk show, just what he thought of the allegations of
torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the
studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.

'If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's testicals to a car's battery cables will
save one Texas GI's life, then I have just three things to say,


'Red is positive'
'Black is negative'
'Make sure his testicles are wet.

There was an audience at the radio talk show? Edited for content.