Crime of the Day - Keep it light-hearted

Warhawk

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#91
Dozens injured as boy wreaks havoc by playing trains with city's trams

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Dozens-injured-as-boy-wreaks.3662874.jp

A POLISH schoolboy who turned a city's tram network into a giant toy by manoeuvring rolling stock using a TV-style remote control has been arrested after he caused chaos on the public transport system.

Adam Dabrowski, 14, described by teachers as a model pupil and an electronics genius, hacked into the public transport network in Lodz to change the track points derailing at least four trams and leaving dozens injured.

The teenager had also equipped himself with a hand- drawn map of city tram junctions.

He told police in Lodz in central Poland he had changed the points on tram tracks across the city for a prank. But in one incident alone 12 people were injured.

The giant train set started operating at 1pm on Tuesday when a city tram driver tried to steer his vehicle on to right hand tracks, and found himself helpless to prevent it swerving to the left instead, seemingly of its own accord.

The rear wagon then swung off the rails and crashed into another passing tram, hurling screaming passengers to the floor.

Transport employees said they knew immediately that someone outside their staff had caused the accident.

Miroslaw Micor, spokesman for Lodz police, said: "He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks."

Mr Micor added: "He had converted the TV control into a device capable of controlling all the junctions on the line and wrote in the pages of a school exercise book the best junctions to move trams around and what signals to change.

"He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set – but it was lucky nobody was killed.

"Four trams were derailed, and others had to make emergency stops that left passengers hurt. He clearly did not think about the consequences of his actions."

Dabrowski is to face charges of endangering public safety in a special juvenile court.
 

Warhawk

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#92
OK, so this is an ongoing incident, but....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/16/simpson.bail/index.html

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- A judge doubled O.J. Simpson's bail to $250,000 Wednesday after learning he never paid any money to a bail bondsman when he initially was released.
Attorney Yale Galanter said Simpson planned to use his Miami, Florida, home to secure bond. But the judge insisted that he put down 15 percent in cash -- $37,500.
"There's no 'get-out-of-jail-free card' today.," said Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass. "I don't want him out of the jail until the 15 percent is paid."
The judge scolded Simpson, saying he wasn't taking the matter seriously.
Simpson's bail bondsman, Miguel Pereira of Florida- based You Ring, We Spring, took the witness stand as prosecutors attempted to prove Simpson violated terms of his release on bail as he awaits a robbery trial.
The bail bondsman testified that Simpson had never paid him -- "Not one cent" -- and that he had to pay a $40 filing fee out of his own pocket. He acknowledged he never billed Simpson and expected to be paid "after it was all over."
Simpson, 60, has spent five nights and four days at the Clark County jail, where police said he had been cooperative after arriving late Friday from Florida in the custody of bail bondsman Pereira.

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How the heck does he get the bond company to front the $$$? Nice trick. Of course they are getting lots of publicity out of it. Nice name on the bond company, too. ;)
 

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#94
Duo put stolen Taser on 'Tube, police say

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=708259

Waukesha - A Town of Waukesha man is accused of stealing a Taser stun gun from an East Troy police officer, later videotaping himself and his father "tasing" each other and then putting the video on YouTube, officials said Wednesday.
The video clip of the father/son tasing duo appeared on YouTube hours after the Taser was stolen on New Year's Day.
Police say the 22-year-old man took the Taser when he was warming himself in a squad car after his car had gone into a ditch in Walworth County.
YouTube, which allows anyone to upload and share video clips on the Internet, was founded in 2005; Google acquired it the following year. The company removed the Town of Waukesha man's video clip. Police won't release the video because the case remains under investigation.
The video shows the man and his father, 41, taking turns holding the probes and firing the Taser, according to a Waukesha County search warrant. The Taser never penetrated the skin, Waukesha County Sheriff's Detective Steve Pederson said.
East Troy Police Chief Alan Boyes said his department discovered the Taser was missing a short time after it occurred and the video on YouTube within one or two days of the theft.
Boyes said an East Troy officer was assisting the man's two passengers after their car went into a ditch about 3 a.m. on Highway 20 near Highway L during a snowstorm.
The officer allowed the driver, the 22-year-old man, to sit in the back of her squad. He was not arrested or in custody, so he wasn't handcuffed, Boyes said. While in the squad, the man reached under a cage and stole the Taser off the seat, the chief said.
The officer had gotten the identification of the three people and gave them a lift to a nearby gas station where they could wait for a ride, Boyes said.
The Taser was discovered missing a short time later. East Troy police alerted the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department about the theft because the man lives in the Town of Waukesha.
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department searched a home in the S5100 block of Big Bend Road belonging to the man's father on Jan. 3 where they recovered a Taser and confiscated a camera and computer equipment, according to the search warrant.
The man, 22, is in custody on an unrelated matter, Pederson said.
East Troy police are asking that the Town of Waukesha man be charged with two felonies, disarming a peace officer and possession of an electric weapon, and two misdemeanors, carrying a concealed electronic weapon and theft. The Walworth County District Attorney has not made a decision on charges.
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department has not completed its investigation or determined what charges, if any, would be requested, Pederson said.
 

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#95
Police: Deputy Coroner Stole Gift Cards From Dead Woman

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15125363/detail.html

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A deputy coroner has been arrested on accusations she stole gift cards from the body of a woman who had committed suicide.

Investigators arrested Richmond County Deputy Coroner Charlena Graham on Wednesday. She has been charged with a felony count of theft by taking.

Graham, 43, has also been fired from the coroner's office, where she worked for about four years, officials said.

"I was aware of the investigation," Richmond County Coroner Grover Tuten said. "I knew it was going on, and I cooperated with it and we cleaned our house."

Authorities went into a motel room on Dec. 31 after getting reports of gunshots, a Richmond County sheriff's report said. In the room, deputies found a 29-year-old woman dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A handgun was in the woman's hand and a handwritten note lay nearby, the report says.

Shortly after, all personal items from woman were turned over to Graham, including five gift cards for Macy's, Target, Victoria's Secret and a local steak house, according to Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength.

Authorities later learned from family members of the deceased woman that some gift cards might have been missing, Strength said.

Sheriff's Lt. Jack Francisco said the total value of the gift cards was about $400.

"I'm surprised, but not shocked," he told the Augusta Chronicle.

Investigators have recovered evidence, including tapes of Graham using the gift cards at local stores, Sheriff Strength said.
 

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#96
Big Theft Ends in Shackles for a Young Goth Couple

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/u...ta1&adxnnlx=1201187088-nMaEsVi7qfGbkPvkEnjLeA

CLEVELAND — It was a theft so large and brazen that even law enforcement officials admit some admiration for it.
One suspect, the authorities say, spent nine months working for an armored car company, learning its employee-shift patterns and the access codes for its safes. By the police account, he and his girlfriend waited until the Monday night after Thanksgiving, when the year’s largest receipts from retailers were in those safes, then looted them and drove to the remote hills of southern West Virginia.
There, joined by his mother, they holed up in a mobile home they had found on a scouting trip in October, and counted their haul: $7.4 million in cash and checks.
“It sounds like a good plan, I know,” said Tony Slifka, police chief of Liberty Township, Ohio, the Youngstown-area community where the theft occurred on Nov. 26. “But they left a trail like Hansel and Gretel leaving the crumbs in the forest.”
As a result, the young couple, whom at least one online true-crime site has called the Goth Bonnie and Clyde for their love of fantasy role-playing games and vampire novels, were back in Ohio on Wednesday, pleading not guilty to charges stemming from the theft. All the money they are accused of taking has been recovered, the police say, except for a few hundred dollars.
The pair — Roger L. Dillon, 23, and Nicole D. Boyd, 25 — face up to 25 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to steal money from a bank; conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines; and transporting and aiding and abetting in that transportation. Mr. Dillon’s mother, S. Lee Gregory, 48, faces up to 15 years.
Brought into federal court in Cleveland in hand and leg shackles and orange prison jumpsuits, the three defendants, separated by their court-appointed lawyers, exchanged affectionate smiles with one another. Only Ms. Boyd had relatives among the spectators, and at the end of the hearing she mouthed “I love you” to her mother and grandmother.
After the theft, the working-class couple quickly became suspects, and just as quickly became figures of local lore in Youngstown, where they and Ms. Gregory lived. Talk radio and online chat rooms were filled with admiration for them.
“They are heroes,” one person wrote in an online discussion at the site of The Vindicator, a Youngstown daily. “Nobody was hurt. It’s one for the working man or woman.”
But after they were caught, they became a subject of derision for having made it only as far as Pipestem, W.Va., just 350 miles away. Inspired by discussions on talk radio, Alan Matavich, a lawyer and amateur songwriter, wrote the lyrics for “Dumb as Dillon,” which has been popular on pop and rock stations in the area.
“You hear people now saying that, like, ‘Oh, you’re dumb as Dillon,’ ” said Scott Kennedy, a disc jockey on Y-103, a local rock station that plays the song.
The police rapidly focused on Mr. Dillon. He had, after all, failed to show up to work at the armored car company, AT Systems, the day after the burglary, and he, his girlfriend and his mother could not be found. The authorities also learned that they had bought a 1989 GMC Safari minivan the day of the theft. And Ms. Boyd’s pickup truck was discovered in a parking lot in the town of Salem, just south of Youngstown.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the pickup and found receipts indicating that the couple had been in Beckley, W.Va., the nearest large town to Pipestem, in October. Among the receipts was one for purchase of heating oil that was delivered to the mobile home.
At 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 1, an F.B.I. SWAT team from Pittsburgh surrounded the trailer and ordered the three suspects out. The agents turned more aggressive when Ms. Boyd, her agitated dog refusing to come with her, was slow to respond to their orders, her parents say.
“It almost made it worse for her,” said her mother, Valerie Rosati. “She was scared as it was, and the dog wouldn’t come out of the house with her.”
While Ms. Boyd was worried about her dog, Mr. Dillon was trying to figure out where his plan had gone wrong. “The agents tell me the first thing he asked them was, ‘How’d you get us so fast?’ ” Chief Slifka said.
A more confounding question for some who knew them best was how such a seemingly nice couple — like Mr. Dillon’s mother without a criminal history — could have ended up this way.
No one is more perplexed than their landlord, Cookie Bowman, who said that on the day of the theft, Mr. Dillon, Ms. Boyd and Ms. Gregory all helped tend to Ms. Bowman’s mother, who had just fallen and broken her hip.
“I mean, these are not people you expect to steal $7 million,” Ms. Bowman said.
On the other hand, Ms. Boyd, employed most recently as a seamstress and a stripper, was fonder of spending money than of working, said her former husband, Mike Stuckey, who has had custody of their 5-year-old son since their divorce.
“Her dream job was not working,” Mr. Stuckey said.
Mr. Dillon, who regularly led long sessions of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, dreamed of doing something grand with his life.
“Roger was always looking for a way to break from the everyday and become extraordinary,” said Jared Mason, his best friend since fourth grade.
Friends of Ms. Boyd and Mr. Dillon say they never drank alcohol, took drugs or smoked, preferring books, movies, music and role-playing games for entertainment.
“Would I say she lived at times in a fantasy world in her head?” said her mother, Ms. Rosati. “Yeah, and I don’t think she ever got out of it.”
Friends, family and law enforcement officials say that if Mr. Dillon had a fateful flaw, it was probably his supreme confidence in his own cleverness.
“He thought he was infallible,” Chief Slifka said. “That’s what gets you in trouble. When you’re under stress you make mistakes. And that’s how you get caught.”
 
#97
“They are heroes,” one person wrote in an online discussion at the site of The Vindicator, a Youngstown daily. “Nobody was hurt. It’s one for the working man or woman.”
This person is an idiot. Who does this person think ultimately pays for any loses like this? The consumer, that's who. Any loss to retailers or cost to insurer's will be passed on to the "working man and woman."
 

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#98
Spanish driver sues dead cyclist for damages after fatal crash

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=510396

It must be the last word in callousness.

A Spanish driver who fatally collided with a cyclist is suing the dead youth's family 20,000 Euros (£14,830) for the damage the impact of his body did to his luxury car, a Spanish newspaper reported.
Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of damage to his Audi A8 in the fatal 2004 crash in La Rioja region, the El Pais newspaper reported.
Delgado, who has faced no criminal charges for the incident, wants a further 6,000 Euros (£4,450) to cover the cost of hiring another vehicle while his car was being repaired, El Pais said.
The youth had been cycling alone at night without reflective clothing or a helmet, according to a police report cited by El Pais.
His family won 33,000 Euros (£24,479)compensation from Delgado's insurance company after the firm acknowledged he had been driving at excessive speed and this could have contributed to the incident, El Pais reported.
"I'm also a victim in all of this, you can't fix the lad's problems, but you can fix mine," Delgado told the newspaper, ahead of a January 30 legal decision on his suit.
The family said they had previously pitied Delgado for the guilt he must feel at killing their son but were now disgusted that his greatest concern appeared to be money. "This was the final straw, a kick in the teeth," the youth's mother Rosa Trinidad told El Pais.
 

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Michigan Cops: Drunk Man Runs Out of Wine, Drives Lawn Mower in Snowstorm to Buy More

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326227,00.html

ADRIAN, Mich. — A man was charged with drunken driving after going through two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the center of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said.
Police found Frank Kozumplik, 49, homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag, officials said.
He told officers that his wife had taken their car to work, and that the mower was the only way he could reach the store, two miles from home.
His blood alcohol level was 2 1/2 times Michigan's legal driving limit of 0.08 percent, police told WLEN-FM. They arrested him and confiscated the mower.
Kozumplik declined to comment Monday night.
 

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West Virginia Mayor Uses Magazine to Prove Identity to Airport Security

OK, not exactly "crime of the day", but it does relate to security guards, so I am including it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326152,00.html

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Mayor Danny Jones had a problem as he tried to get through the security gate at a California airport: He had misplaced his driver's license, and the expired one in his wallet wouldn't do.
The guards at John Wayne Airport in Orange County searched his bag, he told the Charleston Daily Mail for a story published Monday.
Then he remembered picking up a copy of Charleston Magazine while on his way to the West Coast for a little rest and relaxation.
Inside was a photograph of him standing in downtown Charleston and an article Jones had written as mayor welcoming visitors to the state capital.
Only then was he allowed to board his flight home.




I like the fact that an expired driver's license wasn't good enough but a photo in a magazine was.... :rolleyes:
 
I like the fact that an expired driver's license wasn't good enough but a photo in a magazine was.... :rolleyes:
That's national security for you. I mean, which is easier to fake, an expired driver's license (which, if you're gonna fake, you don't get an expired one), or a magazine article?

I wonder if the guards that let him through are going to get some sort of reprimand.
 

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Driver drops bid to sue family of boy he killed

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=510396

It must be the last word in callousness.

A Spanish driver who fatally collided with a cyclist is suing the dead youth's family 20,000 Euros (£14,830) for the damage the impact of his body did to his luxury car, a Spanish newspaper reported.
Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of damage to his Audi A8 in the fatal 2004 crash in La Rioja region, the El Pais newspaper reported.
Delgado, who has faced no criminal charges for the incident, wants a further 6,000 Euros (£4,450) to cover the cost of hiring another vehicle while his car was being repaired, El Pais said.
The youth had been cycling alone at night without reflective clothing or a helmet, according to a police report cited by El Pais.
His family won 33,000 Euros (£24,479)compensation from Delgado's insurance company after the firm acknowledged he had been driving at excessive speed and this could have contributed to the incident, El Pais reported.
"I'm also a victim in all of this, you can't fix the lad's problems, but you can fix mine," Delgado told the newspaper, ahead of a January 30 legal decision on his suit.
The family said they had previously pitied Delgado for the guilt he must feel at killing their son but were now disgusted that his greatest concern appeared to be money. "This was the final straw, a kick in the teeth," the youth's mother Rosa Trinidad told El Pais.
Apparently they reconsidered the intelligence of this....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/30/spain.luxury.car/index.html

HARO, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish businessman withdrew a controversial lawsuit Wednesday against the family of a teenage boy he struck and killed while driving a luxury car.
Tomas Delgado had filed a suit asking the dead boy's parents to pay him €20,000 ($29,400) on the grounds that the collision that killed their teenage son also damaged his Audi A-8.
News of the case sparked outrage in Spain and generated deep sympathy for the parents of 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo Trinidad. He was riding his bicycle home to a campground when Delgado's car hit and killed him in August 2004.
Hundreds of people descended on a courthouse in northern Spain in a show of support for the boy's parents Wednesday. They broke into applause when word came that Delgado had dropped the suit.
The businessman had insisted in a recent television interview that he was a victim, too. He was not present for a court hearing Wednesday. His lawyer told the court that Delgado felt that the extensive publicity amounted to a public lynching.
Outside the courthouse, the boy's father -- Antonio Iriondo -- told CNN he was content with the decision. Yet he also said his family will explore the possibility of criminal charges against the man.
"This is just the beginning," the father said.
His son was killed as he cycled back from a nearby village to a campground where his family was vacationing.
Iriondo Trinidad's father told CNN he heard the screeching of the car from the campgrounds. The teen was struck from behind and dragged 106 meters (347 feet) along the rural highway, the father said.
A traffic report said Delgado was traveling 113 km per hour (70 mph) in an area where the speed limit is 90 km (55 mph). An independent expert hired by Trinidad's family said Delgado was going 173 km per hour (107 mph).
Shortly after the collision, a judge dismissed criminal charges against Delgado after concluding that he had committed no criminal infraction, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
The teen's mother, Rosa, told the newspaper that the family was given three days to appeal the judge's ruling, but they were too distraught to pursue it. She also told the newspaper that her family's lawyer advised her and her husband not to pursue criminal charges.
After the collision, Delgado's insurance company paid the family €33,000 ($48,500).
Two years after the wreck, Delgado sued the family for damages to his car and for car rental costs.
The boy's mother told CNN before the hearing that she was indignant that the driver would seek damages after killing her son.
A local prosecutor told reporters that he would take a second look at the case to see whether authorities can file fresh charges against Delgado.
 

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2 Students Expelled for Kissing on South Carolina School Bus

OK, so it's not a criminal case, but they did get punished. ;)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326657,00.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The families of two Richland County high school students kicked out of school for kissing on a school bus are challenging a decision to expel the pair, an attorney said Tuesday.
Dominique Goyner and his girlfriend were expelled by the school board in October for the rest of the academic year, after they sat next to each other on the bus and kissed a few times, said Russell Brown, the boy's attorney.
School officials told Jody Free her son was being removed from school for "sexual misconduct."
"I saw the tape. They kissed maybe two minutes and the rest of bus ride home they leaned back on seat and that was it," Free said. "Had it been anything different, I would have said 'OK you two have to suffer the consequences."'
The district won't comment about the case, but stands by the decisions made by its officials and school board, spokeswoman Theresa Riley said.

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OK, so it's not a criminal case, but they did get punished. ;)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326657,00.html

"I saw the tape. They kissed maybe two minutes and the rest of bus ride home they leaned back on seat and that was it," Free said. "Had it been anything different, I would have said 'OK you two have to suffer the consequences."'
/quote]


:eek: this is just as ridiculous as the girl they kicked out for huggin her friends.

what is society coming to?
we reward cruelty (lest anyone misunderstand i'm talking about crappy game shows like moment of truth)
and punish affection.

i understand they want to make sure inappropriate contact doesn't happen but, a kiss? come on.....
 

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Man Jailed For Creating Crosswalk, Vows More

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15181455/detail.html

MUNCIE, Ind. -- Whitney Stump didn't like watching drivers ignore the stop signs at the intersection outside his home, so he asked the city to paint crosswalks there.

When the city said no, he made one himself. And the city wasn't appreciative.

Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and father, says he was arrested once on a charge of criminal mischief for creating the crosswalk at the intersection of Dicks and North streets. He was arrested a second time when he went back to touch up the paint.

"If they're not going to provide a safe environment for me and my community, then I believe I have a moral obligation," said Stump, who has spent 10 hours in jail for the crosswalk work.

Stump said he first asked the city to do the job, thinking crosswalks would get drivers' attentions and make them aware they needed to slow down.

"I called the street and sign department probably a half-dozen times in the course of six months (to) a year," he told 6News' Ray Cortopassi.

But the city said painting a crosswalk in a residential area is not necessary unless the intersection is near a school. In Stump's case, the intersection isn't.

So Stump bought some paint and used it to create a crosswalk at one of the intersection's four spokes.

"I used spray paint on the outline, and went to Wal-Mart, where they had a sale on ... white paint and rolled it out," he said.

The city hasn't covered up the crosswalk. Stump said he intends to paint crosswalks on the intersection's other three spokes.
 
OK, so it's not a criminal case, but they did get punished. ;)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326657,00.html

"I saw the tape. They kissed maybe two minutes and the rest of bus ride home they leaned back on seat and that was it," Free said. "Had it been anything different, I would have said 'OK you two have to suffer the consequences."'
/quote]


:eek: this is just as ridiculous as the girl they kicked out for huggin her friends.

what is society coming to?
we reward cruelty (lest anyone misunderstand i'm talking about crappy game shows like moment of truth)
and punish affection.

i understand they want to make sure inappropriate contact doesn't happen but, a kiss? come on.....
Do you want the bus driver's eyes and mind on driving or watching kids in the rearview mirror in case they cross the line into inappropriate behavior? Let's face it, the kids could wait till they are off the bus.
 
i understand they want to make sure inappropriate contact doesn't happen but, a kiss? come on.....
Expelling them doesn't keep them from engaging in inappropriate contact.

This is stupid. I never understood suspending or expelling kids for misconduct. They don't to be at school. Wouldn't a more fitting punishment be to make them stay later?

I had too many tardies in one month in my freshman year of high school, and got a Saturday detention. Had to spend six hours of my weekend picking up trash. Never had to do that again in all the rest of my high school years. That's an effective penalty.
 

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NYC-to-Paris Flight Diverted to Boston After Passenger Hits Flight Attendant

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329268,00.html

BOSTON — A passenger struck a flight attendant, causing his New York-to-Paris flight to be diverted to Boston, where the man was arrested, authorities said.

American Airlines Flight 44 landed without incident shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday at Logan International Airport, and no one was injured, Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman Phil Orlandella said.

A French national, Ansoumane Conde, was taken into custody, State Police Lt. Eric Anderson said. It was not immediately clear what charges would be filed.

There were 136 passengers on the plane, which was traveling from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris.
 
Expelling them doesn't keep them from engaging in inappropriate contact.

This is stupid. I never understood suspending or expelling kids for misconduct. They don't to be at school. Wouldn't a more fitting punishment be to make them stay later?

I had too many tardies in one month in my freshman year of high school, and got a Saturday detention. Had to spend six hours of my weekend picking up trash. Never had to do that again in all the rest of my high school years. That's an effective penalty.
I think expelling them is going too far. I agree that a Saturday detention or staying late would be better. How about making them wash the bus? ;)

My son got Saturday dentention for skipping school numerous times (HS). Since I hadn't had any luck making sure he went to school and stayed at school, want to guess how successful I was at getting him to school on a Saturday? Am I glad we both survived his teen years. Whew!
 

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Police: Mom Gave Child Alcohol, Marijuana On Birthday

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15250189/detail.html

ANDERSON, Ind. -- An Anderson woman was arrested this week on suspicion of letting her 11-year-old daughter drink alcohol and smoke marijuana on the child's birthday, police said.

Davita N. Fuller (pictured), 26, was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The girl alleged Fuller gave her the alcohol and marijuana and offered it to three of her 11-year-old friends during the child's birthday party at Fuller's home Feb. 1, police said.

The girl claimed she took one drink of alcohol and puffed on the marijuana once, and that her friends declined her mother's offer, police said.

The three friends corroborated the girl's story, Anderson police Detective Joel Sandefur told 6News' Cheryl Jackson Thursday.

Fuller told investigators that she was smoking marijuana and drinking beer with her adult friends at the child's party, but she denied giving those things to her daughter, police said.

"Fuller claims she gave her daughter a certain look that has been interpreted in past incidents that she (victim) is to leave the room when adults are smoking marijuana," Anderson police said in a news release.

Police said the girl made the allegations to a Department of Child Services worker during an interview at her school. Information on what led to the interview wasn't available.

Fuller had posted bond by Thursday afternoon, police said. Information on who had custody of the girl Thursday wasn't available.
 

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Breach of urinal etiquette leads to assault

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4383922a10.html

A Kaiapoi man punched a man twice in the toilet of a central Christchurch bar because he committed "a breach of urinal etiquette", a court was told today.

Edward Trevor Aldridge, 47, pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court to assault and Judge Raoul Neave told him: "This sort of behaviour would be immature in teenagers or small children. This is exactly the sort of behaviour that makes people afraid to go to town."
Police prosecutor Sergeant Graham Butcher said the victim went gone to the Rock Pool bar with friends on December 16.
When he went to the toilet, he used a urinal next to Aldridge who accused him of looking at him and punched him twice in the face.
Defence counsel Liz Bulger told the court: "This incident arose from a breach of what I understand to be urinal etiquette.
"When (the victim) spoke to the defendant he was effectively smirking. The defendant was outraged."
She said Aldridge was a beneficiary who could not afford to pay anything to the victim for emotional harm.
Judge Neave sentenced him to 50 hours of community work, added to a 300-hour sentence he is already doing.
 

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Peeping Tom Arrested After Hiding Under North Carolina Man's Bed

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – "I was in bed laying with my girl (and) I heard something rumbling underneath my bed. I thought it was my dog."

What Jeremy Lynn heard was not a dog, but from a peeping tom who had broken in hoping to see his girlfriend naked.

"(When) I looked underneath there, I saw these eyes staring back at me. I was like 'what the crap! This ain't normal,'" said Lynn. "So I start(ed) slinging him around. I was upper cutting him, beating him left and right."

Police said after they arrested Donei Zabedra-Ilario, 20, he confessed to spying on eight other houses in Greensboro. He is considered a suspect in a string of cases throughout the city, including houses along Merritt Drive, Creek Ridge Road and West Florida Street. Police said Zabedra-Ilario is suspected of spying on women in a Wal-Mart bathroom on Wendover Avenue.

But his plan came to an end recently inside an apartment along Pineland Street.

"When i dragged him out his belt, his pants were undone the whole nine yards," said Lynn.

Zabedra-Ilario told police it was the first time he's broken into anyone's home, but it was not the first time he's been peeping.

"It was almost something he was proud of, like someone would covet a trophy," said GPD detective David Lyndrup.

Lynn is glad he got to him first.

"I talked to the cop. He told me if I wouldn't have caught him, he planned on spending the night."

Police are in the process of notifying the victims of the other cases and anticipate more charges will be filed.
 

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Twin Brothers Shove Intruder From 2nd Floor Window

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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Seventeen-year-old twin brothers confronted a burglar in their home, shoved him out of a second story window and chased him after he fled, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.

The boys said they arrived at their home near Olympia on Monday night to find a back door window shattered.

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"I thought someone broke into the house, but I didn't think they were still in the house," said Clay Parkman. "I saw the guy right there."

The intruder then ran into a bedroom and to a window. Parkman said he chased the man and then "acted on instinct."

"I jumped over the bed and pushed him out and hard as I could."

The man plunged 20 feet from the second story.

"He didn't scream or anything. He was just looking at me the whole way down," Parkman said.

After landing on his back on the concrete, the man got up and began to run.

Clay Parkman's twin brother Christopher ran out of the house and jumped into his car to chase the man. Christopher Parkman said he chased the man through woods and into a creek.

"I'm about to catch up with him and tackle him and he stops and says, 'I'm going to stab you.' So, I decided to back off a little bit," Christopher said.

Police quickly arrived and arrested the man.

The man complained of back pain but was not seriously hurt.

He is being held in the Thursday County Jail.