"A man from Pittston accused of throwing a spider at a Pittston police officer was sentenced Monday in Luzerne County Court.
Judge
Fred Pierantoni III sentenced Joseph R. Thomas, 52, of Mill Street, to
30 months to five years in state prison on charges of aggravated
assault, terroristic threats and resisting arrest. Thomas was also
ordered to serve 12 months probation and was given credit for 390 days
time served in jail.
Pittston police investigated a disturbance at 34 Mill St. on Oct. 25, 2012, and encountered Thomas on a front porch.
Thomas told the officer, ‘Look at my bug,” and threw a spider at the officer, according to the criminal complaint."
"A Michigan
woman says she'll sue a zoo for not taking enough steps to protect her
after she had a bit of her right, middle finger bit off while trying to
pet a lion.
Renae
Ferguson was visiting the Sunrise Side Nature Trail and Exotic Park
outside of East Tawas this Saturday when she she says a worker let
herself and daughter Tina Dobson into a lion's cage.
'I put my hand down there to pet it and it ripped my finger,' Ferguson told WNEM. "
"The 48-year-old woman allegedly demanded ‘cigarettes and a parachute’ so she could jump from the plane.
The woman attacked cabin crew with her prosthetic leg (Picture: SWNS)
She is also reported to have thrown food around the cabin on-board the Thomson flight from Tunisia on Wednesday night.
But airline staff managed to restrain the woman and put her in
handcuffs after she became abusive and took a swing at them with her
fake leg."
Later on in the article they say that the giraffes were blindfolded. :( See more photos and the rest of the article HERE
"According to witnesses one of the giraffes had knocked its head when the truck drove under a bridge.
Rick
Allen MD of Tshwana SPCA told News24 that the SPCA was investigating
the incident, with the intention of laying charges against those
responsible.
Allen said: "The SABS has published a code for
wildlife transport, and it would appear that the open transport with the
giraffes' head sticking out is not acceptable."
The SPCA has ascertained that Nature Conservation has issued permits for the transport of the animals.
Sapa reported that the other giraffe was taken to a wildlife veterinary clinic."
Black cats are lucky - but not if their owners like taking selfies, say the RSPCA.
They
say the popular trend of people taking pictures of themselves with
their pets is leading to a rise in unwanted black moggies and they're
urging pet lovers not to judge their cats by their colour.
Officials
are worried pet owners are dumping the animals simply because they
don't photograph well because of their darker features.
That's why
they believe a whopping 70 per cent of more than one thousand cats
currently in RSPCA care at their 16 national animal centres are black.
SWNS
Abandoned: Black kittens at Millwood Cattery, Nottingham
A spokesman said: "In UK folklore, black cats symbolise good luck, yet sadly in reality they are not so lucky."
"The attendant reportedly said sniffer dogs and inspectors were
waiting, and told passengers to flush "anything you shouldn't have".
Some people were returning from a music festival and the warning reportedly sparked a rush to the toilets.
Jetstar said that the crew member had acted unprofessionally.
The Jetstar flight was travelling from the Gold Coast. Many
of the passengers were reportedly returning from the music festival
Splendour in The Grass which is held near tourist spot Byron Bay.
One passenger told Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph that several people suddenly got up to queue for the toilet."
"A Louisiana woman left her two young children unattended in her SUV
while she performed oral sex on her boyfriend in his vehicle around 12:30 AM Friday, police report.
Cops found the children inside the SUV, which was not running and had its windows down.
Marks’s post-midnight assignation resulted in her arrest for child
desertion. Seen in the adjacent mug shot, Marks was booked into jail and
later released after posting $5000 bond on the felony count.
Following her collar, Marks’s offspring were placed in the custody of
family members. Her beau--whom investigators did not identify--was not
arrested."
Lucky guy. Read the police report, comments and more over at THE SMOKING GUN
"An intoxicated Henson, 36, placed an order at the store at 5515
International Drive before 3:20 a.m. Saturday but ran away before
getting his food, according to his arrest report.
The Orlando man pushed BK's door open with such force, it came off the hinges, a police report said.
An officer responding to a vandalism/criminal mischief call found a
man later identified as Henson standing in the center lane of
International Drive while talking on a cellphone.
As the officer approached, he could overhear Henson saying ' "the police are here" and he had to get off the phone."
Henson ran from the officer, who caught him after a roughly 100-foot chase.
"No force was used to detain Henson and no injuries were sustained by
myself or Henson,'' Officer Matthew Davis said in his report."
"A pet dog's reaction to a family member returning home after 2 years... which in fairness is 14 years in dog years.
The
family member was living and working in Slovenia, and didn't return
home to Murrysville, PA last year, because her whole family (except
Casey) came to Bled for her wedding.
Sidenote: The schnauzer, Casey, was taken to the vet, the vet saw the video, and everything is fine with her. No worries."
"If you’re hoping to help your fat cat slim down, consider getting him
this feline hamster wheel.
It’s still in its funding stages, but a Kickstarter campaign has already vastly exceeded its goal of $10,000. In just a few weeks, supporters of this exercise wheel — called One Fast Cat — have pledged well over $120,000."
"At this very moment, a Russian satellite full of geckos -- (possibly)
having sex -- is floating around in space -- and mission control has
lost the ability to control it.
The Foton-M4 research satellite launched on July 19 with
five geckos on board. The plan: To observe their mating activities in
the zero-gravity conditions of Earth orbit. Several other earthly
creatures, including plants and insects, were also placed on board for
experiments.
But shortly after the satellite made its first few
orbits, it stopped responding to commands from mission control. The
equipment on board, however, is still sending scientific data back to
earth, a spokesman for Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems said."
"Banks' penis was gone when he awoke after surgery, according to the
suit, yet no one ever warned that amputation could result from the
procedure.
Banks and his wife, Zelda Banks, are seeking an
unspecified amount of money in the complaint. The suit accuses the
defendants of medical malpractice, negligence and other wrongdoing.
A statement released by hospital spokeswoman Kate Darden said the allegations lacked merit.
"We
intend to defend all counts aggressively," said the statement from
Baptist Health System Inc., which operates the hospital in Birmingham.
The hospital declined further comment."
" A tree planted to honor of the memory of the Beatles songwriter George Harrison has been killed by actual beetles. As the Los Angeles Times
reports, the living local monument fell victim to an infestation of
insects that couldn't be bested. According to Councilman Tom LaBonge,
the 10-foot-tall pine planted in 2004 bit the dust only recently, and a
new one will be planted in its stead shortly.
Harrison's last
years were spent living in L.A. — he died there at 58 in late 2001, and
was cremated at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The so-called George
Harrison Tree was accompanied by a plaque reading: "In memory of a great
humanitarian who touched the world as an artist, a musician and a
gardener." It includes a quote from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: "For the forest to be green, each tree must be green"
"Sanford police responded to the Wal-Mart on Rinehart Road around 11
a.m. Thursday for a report of a suspicious man. A Wal-Mart employee said
he noticed the man, identified as John Henry Williams of Casselberry, following a woman and her young daughter.
"Williams
looked around nervously, and then, with the use of his small black flip
top Samsung phone, lunged low to the floor and placed the phone between
the still unaware female's legs (the victim was wearing an above the
knee blue skirt)," the arrest affidavit stated.
He allegedly followed the
woman to another aisle and did it again, police said. When an officer
confronted Williams, he said it was a misunderstanding and had done
nothing wrong. The victim said she noticed Williams following her but
did not know what he was doing."
I've been following the unlucky odyssey of the Giant Rubber Ducky for about two years now. It was the victim of an earthquake, a butt explosion, and various other forms of demise. It sounds like it may be gone for good now though:
"Via the BBC:
The 18
metre (50 foot) inflatable duck suddenly collapsed on Tuesday, only 11
days after it had been put on display in the port at Keelung.
Organisers are unsure as to the cause of its demise, but one theory is that it was attacked by eagles.
After a week of heavy rainfall in southwest China, the downtrodden duck
(a replacement after the unfortunate exploding incident) took another
hit as it dislodged from its 10-ton metal platform and washed away,
nowhere to be found.
Yan Jianxin, a coordinator of the duck exhibit on the Nanming River told the Wall Street Journal,
"The duck flopped over and was flushed away really quickly by the
torrential flood. It disappeared right in front of me in several
seconds."
The Wall Street Journal reports
that the wild duck hunt has begun as local radio stations urge
citizens, "If you live along the river and see an 18-meter tall big
yellow duck, please call 5961027." Description: giant, yellow, is a
duck."
A kitty poop parasite has led to a treatment that wipes out cancer in
lab tests, including aggressive melanoma and ovarian cancer,
preliminary studies have found.
By itself, the single-celled parasite, Toxoplasma gondii,
is bad news because it can cause illness in infected people and cats.
It thrives in the intestines of cats and then comes out the other end.
But scientists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have
figured out a way to engineer a new version of the parasite that they
say has remarkable cancer-fighting powers.
“We know biologically this parasite has figured out how to
stimulate the exact immune responses you want to fight cancer,”
explained David J. Bzik, a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at
Dartmouth.
“The biology of this organism is inherently different from
other microbe-based (treatments) that typically just tickle immune cells
from the outside,” said senior research associate Barbara Fox. “By
gaining preferential access to the inside of powerful innate immune cell
types, our mutated strain of T. gondii reprograms the natural power of the immune system to clear tumor cells and cancer.”
The mutated parasite is called “cps.” Lab tests show that it’s
non-replicating and safe to use. Even if the recipient has a weakened
immune system, as often happens with chemotherapy, cps still retains its
cancer-fighting powers in the body.
A man who used a can of spray paint and a lighter as a makeshift
blowtorch to kill a spider in his laundry room started a blaze that
caused $60,000 worth of damage, Seattle fire officials said Wednesday.
The man and his mother got out of the house, and no
injuries were reported in the fire that broke out in the West Seattle
home Tuesday night, said Kyle Moore, a spokesman for the Seattle Fire
Department.
Moore said the man used the spray paint and lighter
as "a self-made blowtorch to kill a spider in the laundry room" of a
rental house.
"I don't want to encourage people to do this, but
that's what he did," Moore said Wednesday. "The spider tried to get into
the wall. He sprayed flames on the wall, lit the wall on fire, and that
extended up to the ceiling."
Antonio Vega Vega, Urologist, was suspended from operating at
Rockhampton Hospital in Queensland after officials were alerted to four
separate cases of surgical malpractice since late 2011.
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said that the Rockhampton
Hospital acting director of medical services and director or surgery
were also suspended.
When the Health Service Board became concerned by some comments made by a
coroner about local health services and they commissioned a review by
Vanguard Health.
The review states that Vega messed up on more than 3 occasions -
including him removing a healthy testicle, nicking an artery, and
removing the wrong kidney in a third.
"A 49-year-old Connecticut man faces threatening charges after a
woman told police he stabbed a watermelon in a passive-aggressive
manner.
The Register Citizen of Torrington reports
(http://bit.ly/1p1L3rS) Carmine Cervellino of Thomaston was arraigned
Monday on charges of threatening and disorderly conduct. He was released
after posting a $500 bond.
Police say the woman had gone to
police on July 4 to report finding drugs, including marijuana, in
Cervellino’s tool box. He was not arrested.
They say she later
returned home to find the watermelon on the counter with a butcher’s
knife in it. She reported that Cervellino then entered the room and
began carving the watermelon."
"Scientists in the UK claim that hydrogen sulfide, the stinky compound
that smells like rotten eggs which contributes to the flatulence stench,
could have amazing health benefits.
Hydrogen sulfide can be toxic, but tiny amounts have been shown to help
protect the mitochondria, which are known as the “powerhouses” of
cells.
Study author Dr. Matt Whiteman of the University of Exeter explained
that diseased cells draw in enzymes to create small quantities of the
compound, which helps keep the mitochondria going and the cell alive.
“If this doesn't happen, the cells die and lose the ability to regulate survival and control inflammation,” he said in a release."
"Dr. Mark Wood, another one of the Exeter researchers, went
so far as to call the compound a “healthcare hero with significant
implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases” in a
university press release.
This research is interesting but preliminary. While no conclusions can be made at this time, may this news let you wince just a little bit less the next time you’re assaulted by a rotten-egg smell."
A bomb squad was called out to destroy an unknown object found in the road Monday.
Around 1pm Monday,
the Sarasota County Hazardous Devices Unit was called to Swift Road near
Grand Cayman Street (just north of Proctor Road) after a ceramic bowl
containing a chicken head and feathers next to a cylindrical object inside of a paper bag was found in the road.
The objects were destroyed after the contents of
the bag could not be determined, other than the fact that it was a
"gel-like" substance.
" The two attempted "cat burglars" grabbed two cats and tried to make
their escape through the woods behind the SAVE animal shelter in
Princeton, N.J., towards a getaway car driven by another teen, according
to ABC station WPVI-TV
in Philadelphia. They were caught after a former wrestler and long-time
volunteer for the shelter ran after the pair and caught one.
"Fortunately this wonderful volunteer of ours pinned one of these guys
down and said, 'Give me back that kitten, I know you're trying to steal
it,'" SAVE Executive Director Piper Burrows told WPVI-TV. "The volunteer
made this young man call his friend who was running through the woods
at this point with the other kitten and managed to get both of them
here."
According to WPVI-TV, John Moore and Hamza Cheema, both 19, have been
charged with burglary and theft. Corey Thompson, 19, turned himself in
and was charged with conspiracy to commit theft and hindering
apprehension, WPVI-TV reported.
One of the cats was adopted after the alleged kidnap attempt, while the other, a golden cat named Casino, still needs a home."
I'm sure the golden cat will be adopted soon. :) SOURCE
"Wal-Mart has apologized after they posted an advertisement for a
poster featuring a sign that hung over a Nazi concentration camp. The
poster read “Arbeit Macht Frie,” which means “work will set you free,”
and was featured hanging at the entrance of the famous Dachau death camp
during World War 2. Wal-Mart’s website stated that it would “make a
great addition to your home or office.”
“We were horrified to see that this item was on our site. We sincerely apologize, and worked quickly to remove it,” Walmart said.
“The item was sold through a third-party seller on our marketplace. We
have shared our disappointment with them and have learned they are
removing the publisher of this item entirely from their inventory.”
46-year old Randolf Turner, manager of a Wendy’s restaurant in
Michigan, is accused of stealing more than 32 tons of bacon from his
employer over the last four years. The man would have elaborated a
complex plot to divert for his personal use, from 20 to 250 kilograms of
meat per week, from shipments destined to his branch of the restaurant
chain. The man allegedly took advantage of his position to falsify
orders and sales in order to hide the disappearance of the bacon from
the company accounts, and used his knowledge and control of the security
cameras to be able to retrieve his loot without appearing on the tapes.
See more at:
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/usa-man-accused-of-stealing-32-tons-of-bacon/#sthash.CSvMxRNK.dpuf
"Police spokeswoman Shannon Haigh says the cow apparently escaped from
a farm outside the city limits. It was first reported in a Wal-Mart
parking lot last Friday.
Haigh says the cow slipped past city
police and Skagit County sheriff's deputies who tried to keep it out of
the street and away from a nearby wedding.
When officers tried to
catch it a few blocks away, Haigh says it charged an officer, tossing
him into the air. He wasn't seriously hurt. The cow escaped again by
jumping on the hood of a patrol car, trotting across it and running off.
Haigh
says police and the cow's owner finally agreed it might need to be
killed to prevent further injury or damage. An officer shot the animal."
Raju was most likely taken from his mother at a young age, and over the
next five decades was subjected to cruel care while shacked in ropes and
chains with spikes that dug into his flesh.
When Raju's rescuers
finally gained approval from the Indian courts to confiscate him from
his handler last week, they went in at night to avoid too many people,
and to protect the elephant from the hot sun.
When rescuers came,
Raju's handler reportedly tried to agitate and provoke the elephant
into becoming violent in order to scare them away. However, the group
stood their ground, saying the situation was "desperate" and Raju needed
to be freed. One doctor said it was as if Raju sensed that change was
coming, and the elephant began to cry:
A woman is facing theft charges after
authorities said she rode a horse to a store while intoxicated and tried
to shoplift items from the store.
Christine Saunders,
45, of Fyffe, was charged with public intoxication and possession of a
prohibited beverage. DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said she will
likely face more charges.
Harris said deputies and Fyffe police were called
to a store at Hammonds Crossroads Saturday, where he said Saunders was
being held with items she allegedly took from the store.
Harris said Saunders had a horse tied up outside
the store, with three cans of Keystone Light beer tied to the saddle
horn in a Walmart bag.
(It ended up costing her an arm and a leg (couldn't resist))
"Apryl Brown says an acquaintance was offering silicone butt injections
at her house, at a cheaper price than a doctor’s office. However, the
real cost would come later.
“I was in pain, my butt was hard, and I was itching,” Brown told a CNN reporter.
It
turned out to be a life-threatening staph infection. When doctors
removed the silicone, they found it was bathroom caulk, the same stuff
you can buy at Home Depot.
Brown needed 27 surgeries, and she lost her hands and feet. At one point, she thought she was going to die.
She is not the only woman seeking discount beauty who ended up paying a high price.
Dr.
Richard Glogau, at the University of California-San Francisco, says one
of his patients thought she was buying an injectable filler to smooth
wrinkles. She bought it from a website, and injected it with the help of
a nurse.
Within a week to ten days, swollen red nodules appeared
on the woman’s face. Dr. Glogau removed the substance, and found it was
glass, or fiberglass.
The website where she bought the injection, pmma.com,
claims to sell dermal fillers for professionals directly to customers. A
similar treatment at a doctor’s office costs nearly $800. The website
sells it for just $100.
The FDA says only licensed medical professionals can legally make these purchases.
Dr.
Glogau says he doesn’t blame the patients, in a time when the web
claims to offer fast and easy access to things customers might
ordinarily not be able to afford.
“People assume that it’s just
as easy as getting your hair colored,” said Dr. Glogau. “But at the end
of the day, it’s a medical procedure.”
Apryl Brown has learned to
walk and write using prosthetics. She says her goal is to educate
others so they don’t make the same mistake as she did."
(Now, if I had $5,400 dollars to blow is sure as HELL wouldn't be on grapes!)
"A wedding hall operator bought the Ruby Roman grapes at auction for a
whopping ¥550,000 ($5,400) on Saturday, the first day of the buying
season in the prefecture, local media said.
The bunch of around 30 grapes weighed some 800 grams (28 ounces), and
individual grapes can reach 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) in diameter,
according to public broadcaster NHK.
The top-notch grapes — costing around $180 a pop — will be served at the wedding hall in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa.
“I was surprised to see a higher price than I had originally
imagined, but I would like bridal couples to savor them and have a
special memory” of the occasion, NHK reported the hall owner as saying.
Around 30 bunches of the Ruby Romans were auctioned Saturday. Some
16,000 bunches are set to be sold this season in Ishikawa, which first
put the grapes on the market in 2008.
The first bunch reportedly went for ¥100,000 ($980)."
A teacher in northwestern China is being crowned a hero after catching a
baby girl falling from the window of an eight-story apartment building
Tuesday night.
The incident happened in Xi'an, the capital of
Shaanxi province, around 7 p.m. when a two-and-a-half-year-old girl
named Chenchen crawled onto a window sill eight story up.
Several
residents noticed the child, including a teacher named Yuan Jian-Pian
who, thinking quick, bolted over in the nick of time and caught the
infant in his outstretched arms.
The impact of her landing was enough to cause him to tumble with the child still in his arms.
Local
residents rushed Chenchen to a nearby hospital. She suffered a
fractured rib and and reportedly has air bubbles in her lungs, but her
injuries were luckily deemed non-life threatening.
"Pallas cats were not discovered until a team of researchers were
looking for snow leopards in Nepal and accidentally stumbled across an
animal that looked half house cat, half snow leopard.
The
majestic, shy, solitary Pallas cats were recorded in the wild for the
first time by camera traps placed in an extreme climate 14,000 feet
above sea level.
One camera trap caused a Pallas cat to experience
an earth-shattering moment, when it realized there was something
strange outside its rock den. The fluffy animal still mustered up enough
courage to investigate."
"A 60-year-old man in Oconee, Georgia, was questioned by the cops
after they discovered that he locked his dog inside his car on a
99-degree day while running into a store. His excuse? The dog had driven him to the store.
There
are a few other pertinent details, like the fact that the dog drove him
there to buy some corn, and that the man—Mark Terrell—was allegedly
incredibly drunk. The cops found his excuse to be lacking.
Not
only was his explanation baffling, it does nothing to answer the initial
question, like why his so-called driving dog was roasting alive in the
inside of a car that was 123 degrees and reeking of gas fumes from a can
left in the back seat.
Terrell got hit with an animal cruelty
charge, and his dog was taken by animal control. If you’re looking to
adopt a dog that can drive, you know where to look."
"A Pennsylvania man was arrested for allegedly stealing ten cents.
Albany
police responded to the 300 block of South Pearl Street June 27 for a
report of a robbery. The female victim said she was approached by a male
subject who demanded money from her.
The victim said the man
displayed a hypodermic needle and forcibly stole ten cents from her. He
then fled the scene, according to police.
Bystanders came to the victim’s aid and followed the suspect to a nearby location. They alerted police to his whereabouts.
Charlie
Phelps, 21, of Broomall, Pa., was taken into custody without incident.
He was charged with Robbery in the First Degree and Criminal Possession
of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree.
Phelps was arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court and remanded to the Albany County Jail."
"A man is locked up in Lackawanna County for flashing customers in a store and spitting at police.
Officers in Taylor arrested Jeremy Owens, 23, from Old Forge Monday
afternoon. They said after he flashed his breast implants inside
Walmart, Owens boarded a COLTS bus and refused to get off.
Police in Lackawanna County said when they put him in a cruiser,
Owens began bleeding after banging his head against the window and then
spat blood at them.
Owens faces a list of charges including aggravated assault, terroristic threats, public drunkenness, and drug possession."
"An Oakland man stopped a would-be burglar with a video game gun Sunday.
Police say a 24-year-old man was at his Ophelia Street home Sunday
morning playing video games when an unknown man came into his house.
The resident told police he felt threatened and pulled out a “prop”
gun, likely used in the video game he was playing, and was able to
detain the intruder until police arrived.
Once on scene, police arrested the man.
The suspect, 23-year-old Kymarr Freeman of Oakland, was charged with
burglary, criminal trespass and possessing an instrument of crime.
He is currently being held in the Allegheny County Jail."
The performances take place later this week and in early August outside the Gherkin in London.
The sets by the band, who describe themselves as playing "an intense and brutal style" of death metal, will be inaudible to the audience.
"The
box is soundproofed, determining and restricting the performance's
duration to the length of time in which the oxygen is expended," according to a description
about the special box. "Outside the cube, viewers observe its strange
vibrations, only viewing the band's entrance and exit to the performance
space."
Onofre has brought the soundproof steel box to other locations in Europe in the past.
"Well
since this is going pretty viral already, we shall see you this
Wednesday at 8:45am then Thursday and Friday at 6pm," the band wrote on
Facebook. "PS- According to the medical professionals who read the Independent, we're all going to die... Challenge Accepted."