Madness Beckons

Santa Cruz Sentinel – A transient claiming to be a covert military operative from Australia was arrested Monday on the Westside because he was drinking from a full-size beer keg and trying to sell the booze to passersby, police reported.

Nothing special, he was in possession of a half empty beer keg and tap that he evidently paid for. He was trying to sell beer by the mason jar full to anyone walking by.
However when the police showed up he got belligerent and told them he was a covert military operative from the Australian army.

So the police busted him on suspicion of being drunk in public. At which point they found about 20 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and a Camelbak bladder with more beer in it. He also had a harmonica and a wetsuit with him, both of which police suspect were stolen.

I was following along fine until they got to the wetsuit.

A Japanese woman who was divorced without warning by her virtual husband has been arrested for killing him. — She was actually arrested for using the real man’s account to kill his avatar.

AP: -The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game “Maple Story” to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

“I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry,” the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.

The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.

She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.

The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.

Excuse me, but she was hauled some six thousand miles from home and detained, just because some putz was stupid enough to give her his logon info and then not change it when he pissed her off ?!?!??

Obviously they don’t have real criminals in Japan leaving the police with so much time on their hands that they travel thousands of miles to bring in a virtual criminal. –Sure.. That makes perfect sense to me.

All that surgery and all that money and this is as good as it gets.

I’ll bet Mick Jagger is jealous.

Jocelyn Wildenstein has spent $4 million on plastic surgery.
According to her husband “She seems to think that you fix a face the same way you fix a house”.

Enough said.

BLUE ASH, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say an 89-year-old woman was facing a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children accused her of refusing to give back their football. Edna Jester was arrested last week in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash.

Police said one child’s father complained that Jester kept the youngsters’ ball after it landed in her yard. Police Capt. James Schaffer said there has been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood over kids’ balls landing in the woman’s yard. (In Cincinnati kids have rights. Old ladies don’t.)

Jester said Monday she has received many calls and didn’t have time to discuss the matter any more.

Jester is to appear in court next month. The maximum penalty for a petty theft conviction in Ohio is six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com

Well they caught the mastermind behind all criminal activity in Cincinnati. This was obviously a nefarious scheme to corner the football market.

Either that or the parents bother to teach their brats about property lines or being considerate of others and finally managed to have an old lady arrested…. For keeping a f***ing football.

Lexington KY, www.lex18.com:

Winchester police say William Poole, 18, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Poole’s home that outline possible acts of violence aimed at students, teachers, and police.

Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.

“My story is based on fiction,” said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. “It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies.”

Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. “Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it’s a felony in the state of Kentucky,” said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.

I know the world is full of stupid people, but why are so many of them allowed to make decisions that affect people’s lives?

The prosecutor in this case also asked for and got an increased bail because of the seriousness of the charges?!?!???