It was not a good day for Manheim Township, Pennsylvania resident Michael Hufford. At about 11:00 a.m., he was in an accident, and was busted for suspected DUI. The police released him to his girlfriend. Just 5 hours and 8 minutes later, Mr. Hufford was in another accident, and was again busted for suspected DUI. This time, per Lancaster Online, “Hufford .. was committed to Lancaster County Prison in default of $10,000 cash bail…”
Any parent would be rightfully angry upon learning that their child was bullied. Perhaps, though, stabbing the bully is not the proper response. Say what? Per the Toronto City News:
Here’s what [the police] say happened: two female students at an Oshawa school – which isn’t being named – were engaged in a war of words. The elder of the two was allegedly picking on the 13-year-old, forcing the young girl to kneel in front of her.
So the younger girl told her mom what had happened, pouring out her sad story. But instead of going to the principal, cops allege the mom went straight to the bully.
Uh oh.
Witnesses told them they saw a car pull up on Olive Ave. on Wednesday at about 7:30pm, come to a sudden halt and then heard a woman shouting at the girl who was standing on the street.
As the startled bystanders watched in stunned surprise, the woman allegedly got out of the vehicle, grabbed the youngster by the hair and stabbed her in the left side of her stomach with a pocketknife.
The girl was taken to hospital, where doctors said that the knife luckily hit a bone – otherwise, it would have been much worse.
Mom was busted for assault. The bully was busted for uttering threats. Here’s the source.
Juice devotees know that Sweden really is Big Brother when it comes to names. Apparently that applies to license plates too.
Check this out from The Local: Officials with Sweden’s Road Administration (Vägverket) have denied a driver’s request for a licence place with what at first glance appears to be a completely innocent combination of characters.
Recently, the agency received a request from an individual who wanted a licence plate reading X32IARO.
Despite no obviously offensive reference in the desired combination, Vägverket nonetheless rejected the application.
“It looks like something completely different when seen through a rear-view mirror, and on the road, many end up reading things through the rear-view mirror,” said Vägverket spokesperson Mikael Andersson to the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
When read in reverse, as it would be seen through a rear-view mirror, X32IARO suddenly appears as ORALSEX.
So?
Andersson explained that the agency has no specific set of rules for how applications are reviewed and that the hidden meaning of seemingly harmless set of letters and numbers just happened to be uncovered by a Vägverket employee reviewing the application.
Give that man a … kick in the arse!
“It’s not like we have a checklist for how we check the applications, but it requires a certain degree of creativity to discover inappropriate words,” said Andersson.
So nice to see someone take pride in their work …efilateg…
Just when you thought you’d heard them all… Check out this excuse for speeding, as reported in The Local:
A woman from southern Sweden has lost her bid to have a speeding fine overturned on the grounds that she was suffering from diarrhea at the time of the offence.
The 49-year-old woman from Trelleborg explained to the local district court that she was experiencing stomach problems when she was pulled over for driving 86 kilometres per hour in a 70 km/h zone.
Only 86 in a 70 zone? How bad could it have been? Said the court:
A situation can only be classed as an emergency if somebody’s life is in danger or if a driver hits the gas in an attempt to prevent a serious crime.
As the woman’s desire to get home to her toilet did not fit into either category, the court ordered her to pay the speeding fine.
At least in Germany it is. As reported by Reuters (a few years ago):
A Cologne court fined a man who admitted he was having sex with a hitchhiker sitting astride him when he drove his car into a road sign. But only because he fled the scene of the accident with his naked accomplice.
Said a court spokesman:
“It’s hard to believe but in fact no law was broken with the intercourse on the motorway. It’s a situation lawmakers never thought about.”
Is this a story these folks will be telling their grandkids? Unlikely.
[The driver] did not know the name of the woman who left her clothes behind in the car.
Working on a pig farm must really suck. But why take it out on the pigs? So PETA did some undercover video work at a pig farm in Iowa, resulting in 6 workers being charged with 22 counts of animal cruelty. What did the video show?
… Another worker admitted to sodomizing the animals with metal rods, shoving clothes pins in the eyes and genitals. He said he takes his frustrations out on them.
That worker better hope his cellmates don’t try to give karma a little push …
I’ll give you a hint. Tony Van, of San Francisco, California, went to court to find out what the jury decided in his auto theft case. Here’s another hint, he didn’t take the streetcar to court. (Please, no e-mails if it doesn’t go to the courthouse.) His transportation to court: a stolen Lexus SUV! Here’s how the police discovered this, per the Marin Independent Journal:
While Van was in the courthouse awaiting the verdict, two Civic Center employees on a break noticed some loose Yorkies around a Lexus in the parking lot. As they gathered up the dogs, several puppies were found unattended inside the Lexus on the sweltering day. Authorities suspect some of the dogs jumped out a window.
Sheriff’s deputies were summoned and discovered that the 2005 Lexus had been reported stolen. Then Van came out to the vehicle, with the keys in his possession, authorities said.
Van was arrested, again. And the trial he was there for didn’t turn out so well either.
Van’s jury returned and convicted him in the case of the stolen [$125,000] Porsche [Carrera]. Sentencing is pending.
Doh! Here’s the source.
Hey, I like crunchy foods, probably more than most folks. But I absolutely draw the line at glass. Yes, glass. Ms. Lynette Margaret Quessy thought she would get her husband to deal with his drinking problem by lacing his food with glass! As reported by news.com.au:
Her husband first noticed glass in a roll when he bit into it and chipped a filling on his tooth.
Er, uh, sorry.
A week later he noticed what looked like rock salt on some biscuits.
… he realised it was glass and again found glass in his sandwich the next day.
Wife makes lunch. Glass in lunch. What to do.
He started keeping his lunches in a freezer in his garage and eventually went to the police after discovering a container of crushed glass in the pantry.
AFT, dude. Did she own up to it? Yup.
[Ms. Quessy] admitted putting fragments of a smashed light globe in her husband’s packed lunch five or six times in October and November last year.
Ouchee!
You may recall that, for several years, a google search of “miserable failure” brought up, as the first result, Bush’s White House biography! (Google has since fixed this “problem.”) Now, imagine that the pranksters were in Poland, and the target was the Polish President. Not so good for the prankster. Check this out, from Polskie Radio:
An unusual trial begins at a court in Bielsko Biała, southern Poland. A 24-year old man is accused of offending the president on the Internet. The man created a web positioning program, which linked the official webpage of the President of Poland to one extremely vulgar word. The webpage appeared first on the list of results after typing the obscenity in a search engine.
The police tracked down the man, who was using his own computer. He admitted to the charges. Now he faces up to three years of prison.
Wow. Not so much fun being a Polish prankster.
Of course, if you don’t mind having your head handed to you … As reported in The South Asian Post:
A woman chopped the head off a man who allegedly tried to attack her and then paraded the head through a market in northern India, police said. Police arrested the woman late on Thursday after receiving calls from frightened witnesses, said police officer Ram Bharose. The woman, 35, told police she had gone to a nearby forest to cut grass for fodder for her cattle when a man attacked her from behind. ”In a bid to save her dignity she beheaded him with a sickle,” Bharose said, adding that the woman had bite marks on her neck and cheek.
Safe to say she’ll never be attacked again …
