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LMAO....This statement here almost got me terminated!!! ***I had to do a visual on this one!! |
After reading the last 10 posts, I am officially done.
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This was naturally front page in the Metro insert in our paper today, as Sheboygan (sheh-boi-gan) is not too far from Milwaukee. You'll be pleased to know that little Timmy got no toys from the machine, and trust me - no Rashaan would be going up to Sheboygan, they aren't friendly to folks with melanin there.
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Burglar Delivers Himself to House in Box
Wed Jan 7,10:32 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A young Colombian thief hid in a parcel delivered to a wealthy home but his planned burglary went wrong when suspicious security guards called in bomb disposal experts, police said on Tuesday. Guards at the condominium in the city of Medellin feared the strange, heavy package dropped off by a private vehicle could explode and phoned for help in Monday's incident, a police spokesman said. Police got a shock when a hand holding a knife punched through the cardboard as the panicked thief shouted he could not breathe. LMAO LMAO LMAO Police unpacked the parcel to find the gasping 24-year-old criminal, together with a gun, ropes and a ski mask. The house's owners fired their maid, to whom the box had been addressed, police said, although she has not been charged with being an accomplice. |
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Pack rat, from the New Yorker
January 7, 2004 | home
This man got squished by his magazine collection. :eek: COLLECTORS SQUISHED by Ben McGrath Issue of 2004-01-12 Posted 2004-01-05 In retrospect, it almost has the ring of a creative-problem-solving challenge: can you fit more than fifty industrial-size trash bags’ worth of junk in a ten-by-ten room? As we now know, thanks to Patrice Lumumba Moore, the answer is yes—but barely. Moore, who is forty-three, returned from the corner store on the Saturday after Christmas and squeezed, as usual, past the nearly barricaded door to his tiny but stuffed-to-the-ceiling Bronx apartment, which implausibly housed perhaps the city’s largest and most varied private collection of magazines: Advertising Age, Ebony, Harvard Business Review, Penthouse. Moments later, he heard an ominous noise overhead. It was the beginning of a domestic avalanche. “Books were falling everywhere, and I tried to catch some—that’s where I cut my knees,” Moore recalled last week, from a bed in the intensive-care unit at St. Barnabas Hospital. “I had crates up top. Had my books in crates—you know, them metal crates. I’m lucky I was standing up. If I was down, I’d have been crushed. So I’m a lucky guy.” Moore was trapped by his own abundant belongings for two days, before a team of neighbors and firemen, with the help of a crowbar, rescued him, and discovered that he was not merely an eccentric pack rat; he had apparently never thrown anything out. “Compulsive hoarding” was how the Times described Moore’s behavior. “Disposophobia” is Ron Alford’s preferred term. “It’s an affliction, it’s really a disease,” Alford said last week. “It starts in the head of the people and manifests somewhere on the floor and on horizontal surfaces in their dwelling units.” Alford, who is sixty-three, runs Disaster Masters, Inc., a Queens-based “crisis management” service specializing in, among other things, abnormal clutter. He is the author of such articles as “How to Manage Your Disaster Recovery Misery Index” and “Counter-Terrorism for Consumers Against Big Business with Strategic Media,” and he is now at work on a book called “Disposophobia: The Fear of Getting Rid of Stuff.” Alford had recently returned from an emergency decluttering mission in San Francisco. “A guy’s wife left him,” he explained. “She moved out of the house because the bed couldn’t be used, you know, for its intended purpose.” Now, thanks to Ron, the couple was back together. As for Moore’s case, Alford was unimpressed. “Oh, it’s chump change,” he said. “I’m not being derogatory about it. It’s just that this is what I do for a living. What doctors do for broken bones and stuff I do for people who suffer massive clutter.” He paused a moment, then added, “And I only deal with people who are at least a 5-plus on the Clutter Scale.” (Alford assigns all potential clients a score between 1 and 10, using photographic evidence.) “I’m on my way to the Lower East Side right now to go look at a project where this gal is up to her armpits in stuff,” he said. “And she just doesn’t know how to deal with it, but we do. We know that the National Geographics are never going to be worth anything.” To those less familiar with today’s messmakers, Moore called to mind Homer and Langley Collyer, the Hermit Hoarders of Harlem, who in 1947 were discovered dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion amid a hundred and eighty tons of car parts, musical instruments, newspapers, and orange peels. The Collyers, though, were famously shy of publicity. Not so Patrice Moore. “Is there big money in this?” he asked hopefully, still on his back, covered by a hospital blanket. “It’s a big story, right?” A St. Barnabas staffer had just promised to make copies of Tuesday’s Post for him—the headline was “bookworm squished.” “Fifty bags,” Moore said, shaking his head. “There’s still more. I got some stuff in the closet. I don’t know if they checked the closet.” He amassed his collection of magazines, he explained, simply by calling up circulation departments and requesting subscriptions—which he never paid for. “Essence, In Style—they know me,” he said. “All the magazines know me. Vogue. Vogue know me, too. Lucky.” Moore was hoping to stay on at St. Barnabas for another week. He was enjoying the bedside visits: “I thank all the magazines, all the newspapers.” When he got out, he said, he was planning to use his newfound fame to jump-start a rap career. “I do beat box,” he said. He closed his eyes and began making a series of percussive noises with his mouth. A hospital employee came in to see if everything was O.K. “I learned that from Biz Markie and Doug E. Fresh,” Moore said. He was less clear about his future hoarding plans. “I retired from the books” was all he’d say. “The books almost got me.” Should he run into trouble, he might give Disaster Masters a call. Ron Alford offers one-on-one coaching, including diet modification and even hypnosis. “We give them some serious mental tools to use so that they don’t repopulate their place with a bunch of s***,” Alford said. http://www.nypost.com/photos/news12300307.jpg |
compulsive hoarding
That is a real problem. I know someone who suffers from it and it has just destroyed her family. The woman won't go outside of the house too, so no doctor, no prescription.
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Judge leaves year old child home alone and not charged!!
[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 1/3/04 ]
Juvenile court judge probed Fulton jurist's daughter, 4, was found in street By TY TAGAMI The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Atlanta/South Metro community page Atlanta police and the state agency responsible for protecting children are investigating an incident involving the chief judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court after her 4-year-old daughter was found wandering the street shoeless and alone late one night in November. According to police reports, Judge Nina Hickson's child was picked up Nov. 29 on an East Point street while her mother ran an errand at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The child, Wesley Victoria Hickson, was rescued by a passer-by who spotted her and called authorities. East Point police contacted Atlanta police, who returned the girl to her mother. As a juvenile court judge since 1999, Hickson has presided over cases of neglect and decided custody matters involving other parents. She said by telephone Friday that she could not comment on the incident because the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services was investigating. "Because it's still pending, it's not appropriate for me to comment at this point," Hickson said. An East Point Police Department report of the incident said Hickson told an officer that she thought her daughter was asleep when she left the house to go to the airport to pick up luggage. The child left their southwest Atlanta house and wandered a half-mile down the street and into East Point before she was seen by a passing limousine driver, who called the East Point police. The driver waited with the girl until officers arrived. "The juvenile stated that she was scared and walked out the front door," said the East Point police report, which also noted the child said no one was at home. "She [the judge] assumed the child was down for the rest of the night, and she took a chance," Sgt. Tony Mabry, an investigator with the East Point police, said in an interview this week. Mabry said East Point officers let the Atlanta officers take the lead when they arrived on the scene because the case originated in Atlanta. No charges were filed against Hickson, 43. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said Friday that the supervising prosecutor who talked with the Atlanta police just after the incident suggested the police should investigate further. "The supervisor said to the police, 'You probably need to look into it some more, but it is going to be your decision,' " Howard said. "This is the type of case where it looks like you need to follow up." Investigation delayed But the Atlanta police did not investigate immediately. "Unfortunately, the Crimes Against Children unit was not notified when the incident occurred, and an investigator had not been assigned the case," said a statement released Friday by the Atlanta criminal investigation division commander. "However, it will be investigated in the same thorough manner all cases are, particularly those involving children," the statement from Deputy Chief P.N. Andresen said. When asked exactly when the investigation was begun, Atlanta police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley responded: "Very recently." He said there was no evidence from police reports and recordings of conversations that the officers knew they were dealing with a judge. "But they may have. I just couldn't establish it today," he said Friday. Quigley said such cases can result in a misdemeanor charge. "I think in most cases, if you leave a 4-year-old alone, you're going to get charged with reckless conduct," the police spokesman said. "It will be investigated," he said. "It's just unfortunate that it's taken some time." DFCS spokesperson Renee Huie said she could not comment on specific cases but said children can be taken away from parents who neglect them. Huie added that much depends upon the circumstances, such as the age of the child, the reason the child was left alone and whether there is a family history of neglect. "It's kind of a fine line as to what constitutes neglect," said Huie. "We just say never leave a child alone. A child under 10 should never be left alone." Huie said police ordinarily would give a lost child to a DFCS worker who would put the child in foster care. A judge would have to be contacted within 24 hours to determine custody. Huie said the situation is more complicated if a parent arrives on the scene with police, which is what happened in the Hickson case. Then it is up to police discretion, the DFCS spokeswoman said. Hickson's daughter was found by Arthur Conley, a 62-year-old limo driver who was on his way home from work when he saw her running along Hogan Road, a quiet residential street. "That caught my eye. What was she doing out there?" said Conley, an East Point resident who works for Affordable Limousine Service of Lawrenceville. He said the girl looked at him because he was driving a white stretch limo. Conley drove down the street, turned around and pulled up beside her. "Hey sweetie, are you lost?" he said he asked. "I want to catch a ride to the airport," he said the 4-year-old responded. "Can you take me to the airport?" Conley had dialed 911 on his cellphone as he was driving, and he had a dispatcher on the line. He said the girl was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, jeans and socks, with no shoes and no jacket. He said it took about 15 minutes for East Point Police to arrive. Atlanta police also arrived, and so did Hickson, who had returned home from the airport to find her daughter missing. She called Atlanta police at 12:16 a.m. on Nov. 30, two minutes after the East Point police asked Atlanta to send a unit regarding a missing person, Quigley said. The girl was uninjured, and the officers handed her over to her mother, according to the East Point police report. "That was an unbelievable night for me. I got grandchildren," Conley said. "We stay on top of kids, we don't allow that kind of [stuff] to go on." Expert critical A national expert on child abuse said he would have expected DFCS to investigate conditions at Hickson's home before allowing the child to return. Dr. Randall Alexander, the director of the Center on Child Abuse at the Morehouse School of Medicine, said authorities must be careful not to allow sympathy for the parent to overwhelm concern for the child's well-being. "I know people feel bad about the neglect afterward, but from a medical perspective, when the kid is lying on the operating table critically injured, or in a morgue, . . . [parents'] feeling bad doesn't matter," Alexander said. -- Staff writers Steve Visser and Jeffry Scott and news researcher Nisa Asokan contributed to this article |
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By M.R. Kropko Associated Press Writer January 7, 2004, 2:43 PM EST http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/th...1/10889787.jpg CLEVELAND -- A woman who claims she lost the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket and is suing to block payment to the acknowledged winner said Wednesday she was charged previously with credit card fraud and assault. When asked about past run-ins with the law, Elecia Battle said she was charged but not convicted I'm done with that," said Battle, 40. "I paid the fine. That's end of story. It makes me look like I'm a bad person. Everybody has bad in the past. I'm not even worried about that, really. I never did any jail time for that." Battle said Wednesday that she was charged in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid under her former married name, Elecia Dickson. She refused to discuss why or when she was charged. A call to the South Euclid police to try to confirm the charges was not immediately returned. The Ohio Lottery on Tuesday declared Rebecca Jemison, 34, of South Euclid, the winner of the 11-state Dec. 30 drawing, qualifying her for a lump-sum payment of $67.2 million, after taxes. Later Tuesday, Battle sued, asking a judge to block the lottery from paying Jemison. Battle claimed in a police report that she dropped her purse as she left a convenience store after buying the ticket and only realized after the drawing that the ticket was missing. "My ticket was lost. I do recall all the numbers. They are all somehow family related. No one can tell me what I did and did not play. I did it honestly and I have no doubt," Battle told The Associated Press at the office of her attorney, Sheldon Starke. Authorities in South Euclid feel Jemison's winning ticket "obviously draws into question the integrity of Elecia Battle's report," said Lt. Kevin Nietert. Police are now investigating whether she lied in the police report -- a misdemeanor punishable by 30 days to six months in jail. Jemison said Battle's claim prompted her to quit stalling and submit her ticket. "I was angry at first, but not worried at all," Jemison said. "I knew what I possessed." Dennis G. Kennedy, director of the Ohio Lottery, said the lottery was confident Jemison bought the ticket. She provided another lottery ticket bought at the same time and had a ticket from a previous drawing with the same numbers, Kennedy said. The Ohio Lottery says the ticket is a bearer note, which means whoever turns in a valid ticket is legally entitled to the winnings. Jemison, who handles telephone and doctor paging duties at a suburban hospital, said she was looking forward to buying a new home, taking a vacation and sharing her prize with her tight-knit family. She and her husband, Sam, have a 12-year-old daughter. South Euclid is expecting its own windfall of about $1.4 million in taxes from the prize. The Cleveland suburb had been expecting a $1 million deficit for 2004, and Mayor Georgine Welo laid off 11 employees last week. |
Winning Ticket To Be Tested For Fingerprints
Woman Says She Remembers Picking Winning Numbers POSTED: 8:17 a.m. EST January 8, 2004 CLEVELAND -- The attorney representing a woman who claims she lost the winning ticket for the $162 million Mega Millions jackpot but lost it will have the ticket tested, NewsChannel5 reported. Sheldon Starke said he is filing an order demanding to have the ticket tested for fingerprints and DNA to try to prove it was Elecia Battle who originally bought the ticket. NewsChannel5's Joe Pagonakis went head-to-head with Battle about purchasing the ticket. Battle, 40, said she remembers specifically picking the winning numbers. She later said that some of the picks on the ticket were randomly made, even though the Lottery Commission confirmed all five bets on the ticket were made with specific numbers requested by the buyer. When NewsChannel5's Pagonakis showed Battle a copy of the winning ticket given to WEWS by the Ohio Lottery, her eyes began to tear up. At one point, her lawyer asked her if she had ever seen the ticket. The credibility of Battle, however, is being questioned, NewsChannel5 reported. Battle has a criminal record for credit card fraud and assault. Police said Battle used a customer's credit card number to make purchases while working at a Richmond Heights pharmacy in 1999. She paid a $450 fine for misuse of a credit card, and a 10-day jail sentence was suspended. Starke, however, said that Battle's credibility is not the focus of the case. Meanwhile, Rebecca Jemison claimed the winning jackpot. She chose the cash option of $67.2 million. |
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