Ditto! :mad:

Add me to that list! Ole girl gets no love from me! :mad: :mad:

Woman Gets 10 Years for McDonald's Mayo Spat
Fri Dec 5, 9:47 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running over the manager of a McDonald's with her car because she wanted mayonnaise on her cheeseburger.


Waynetta Nolan, 37, showed no emotion Thursday as the sentence was read in court following a trial in which the McDonald's manager, Sherry Jenkins, said she gave Nolan the mayonnaise she requested, but she flew into a rage anyway.


"I gave her everything she asked for -- mayonnaise, no mustard, onions, everything I could possibly do for this lady. Mayo, mayo, mayo, and it's still not good enough," Jenkins told reporters outside the courtroom.


Nolan, who was convicted of aggravated assault for the April 23 incident, became so angry when a McDonald's employee told her she could not get mayonnaise that she threw her cheeseburger into the drive-through the window, witnesses said.


Jenkins tried to placate her by offering a cheeseburger with mayonnaise, but Nolan continued to make demands until Jenkins finally called police.


When she went outside to write down Nolan's license plate number, Nolan ran her over, breaking her pelvis.


Nolan testified that she was putting ketchup on her cheeseburger when she accidentally struck Jenkins.



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"I never intended to hit this lady. I (go) to this McDonald's all the time," Nolan said. "Never in my life would I dream -- this is the worst thing in the world. I was so scared."


"She'd seen me. She laughed when she ran me over," Jenkins said. "She'd seen me. There's nothing wrong with this lady, but she needs to go to a penitentiary."


Jenkins said she is unable to hold her grandchild after the disagreement over a $3.25 order.


Her family is scared to be around her since she was a target.


"They won't allow me to hold my grandbaby when she sees me. She screams and hollers because she (doesn't) know me," Jenkins said. "What she did to my life and my kids' life is horrible and I don't wish that on my worst enemy -- what she (did) to me."

Ummm, they act like there was a mob hit out for her!

Heh?

Did I miss something? Has she been away for years or something? Why wouldn't the kid know her? This may be mean, but do they only not allow her to hold the kid when cars are around? I don't get it. :confused:

You are STOOOOOOPID!! :o

I found this quite funny....maybe it's just me!

White House Wants Kerry to Apologize for Profanity
By RON FOURNIER, AP

WASHINGTON (Dec. 7) - John Kerry used profane language to assess President Bush's Iraq policy, and Bush's chief of staff said Sunday the Democratic presidential candidate was out of line.

The Massachusetts senator uttered a profanity in an interview in the latest Rolling Stone magazine to express his dismay over Bush's handling of Iraq.

When asked in the interview about the success of rival candidate Howard Dean, whose antiwar message has resounded with supporters, Kerry responded: ''When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything?' Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f--- it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did.''

The expletive drew a rebuke from White House, which suggested an apology might be in order.

''That's beneath John Kerry,'' the president's chief of staff, Andrew Card, said on CNN's ''Late Edition.''

''I'm very disappointed that he would use that kind of language,'' Card said. ''I'm hoping that he's apologizing at least to himself, because that's not the John Kerry that I know.''

The Kerry campaign said the Massachusetts senator had no regrets.

''John Kerry saw combat up close, and he doesn't mince words when it comes to politicians who put ideological recklessness ahead of American troops,'' said spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter. ''I think the American people would rather Card and the rest of the White House staff spend more time on fixing Bush's flawed policy in Iraq than on Sen. Kerry's language.''

On the 62nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Kerry laid a wreath in remembrance at the Navy base in Coronado, Calif., where he trained before shipping out to Vietnam, where he was wounded and was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star with combat V. Kerry, a swift boat commander in the war, was joined by his daughter, Vanessa, and two crew mates who served with him in Southeast Asia.

During his CNN appearance, Card also opined, albeit briefly, on the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination.

''Howard Dean is a good governor in Vermont who is no longer governor,'' said Card. ''So he would not be my choice for president of the United States.''


12-07-03 19:11 EST

I think this person deserves a Darwin Award:

Dec 8, 8:56 AM (ET)

By The Associated Press

CLARKSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - Mistake No. 1: Impersonating a police officer. Mistake No. 2: Making a traffic stop. Mistake No. 3: Stopping an off-duty state trooper. Shalom Gelbman, 22, of New Square, N.Y., made all three mistakes, state police said.

Gelbman, with a strobe light on his dashboard and his high beams flashing, pulled a car over Wednesday night on the Palisades Interstate Parkway, police said. Inside the car was state Trooper Seamus Lyons, who arrested Gelbman. It was clear to Lyons that Gelbman wasn't a colleague, authorities said, because of his license plate number and the equipment he had in his car.

Gelbman was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation, police said, and was cited for having unauthorized equipment in his car, a dark blue Mercury Grand Marquis with tinted windows.

Gelbman was also ticketed for driving without a registration or insurance. He was released on $5,000 bail after being arraigned in Clarkstown Justice Court.


What a dumb azz!!!! :rolleyes:

LOL, he pulled over a trooper, LOL

This guy that went to my school did stuff like and got arrested, and he was perpin Kappa to boot...

Waynetta will be on Inside Edition tomorrow to tell her side of the story.

Nope, it wasn't just you...it was funny. I think Kerry's spokesperson made a point. Instead of Bush and the Boyz getting their panties in a bunch over a word, why don't they fix the problems.

Olden Polynice
 

Olden Polynice, a rather mediocre NBA centre, also got in trouble for impersonating a po-lice officer a few years ago.

Two One-Legged Inmates Skip Jail
Tue Dec 9, 9:07 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two one-legged inmates were among 26 prisoners who scaled walls to break out of an overcrowded jail in the Brazilian (news - web sites) city of Niteroi, authorities said Tuesday.



A spokeswoman with the Rio de Janeiro state Security Secretariat said police only managed to recapture 10 of the 26 inmates, including one of the disabled prisoners, in the center of the city, which lies just across the bay from Rio de Janeiro.


In Monday's jailbreak, the inmates sawed metal bars on the windows of two cells in the police detention center, used a rope to get to the ground and then jumped a backyard wall. They exchanged pistol fire with one police officer and then fled.


Police said they were investigating whether the runaways had any help from the guards.


It was the eighth escape from the jail this year. The detention center, built for 150 prisoners, houses about 260 and is due to be shut down in January.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! This sounds like a plot for a comedy movie.

Only in Friggin' New York!!
 

It's some snow job

Only in New York could a guy sell snowballs in a blizzard!



Snowball salesman Gilberto Triplett shows off $1 wares in Times Square Monday.


'I've always wanted a snowball,' said English tourist and happy buyer Christine Rowlatt.

"Snowballs
$1.00 Each"

The sign was neatly lettered on a white cardboard box propped on a coffee cup. Ten snowballs stood in two neat rows before it on the Times Square pavement.

"One dollar, one dollar," a young man in a knit cap and sunglasses was chanting.

The young man was Gilberto Triplitt, a 28-year-old unemployed artist from Queens who attended LaGuardia High School and worked in a furniture store until it closed in the post-Sept. 11 downturn. He went into the snowball business Monday afternoon on Prince St. in SoHo. He reported selling six in 2-1/2 hours.

"It's really easy to sell them," he said, to a reporter's surprise.

Around 6 p.m. Monday, Triplitt discarded his remaining snowballs and headed uptown. He made 14 new ones from a mound in a Times Square traffic island and set up shop on Broadway just above W. 43rd St. He sold four more by 8 p.m.

"One, I sold for 50 cents," he now allowed to a reporter. "A small one."

His total snowball sales stood at $9.50, or $9.50 more than seemed possible in the wake of a big snowstorm. Triplitt fished his proof from his jeans pocket, a modest but indisputable wad of dollar bills.

"See?" he said.

He resumed his chant.

"One dollar, one dollar."

There remained the mystery of what would possess anyone actually to buy a snowball. Many passersby clearly found the prospect hilarious. One woman laughed so hard she might have fallen down had she not grabbed a companion.

"Did you see that?" she asked.

A pink-mittened woman roared into a cell phone.

"There's a guy selling snowballs!"

A visitor from Seattle named Terry Johnson recorded the sight with his camera cell phone.

"It's one of the weirdest things I have seen in my life," Johnson said.

Music producer Gary Pickus paused just after 9 p.m. and became one of the many who took snapshots by more usual means.

"This is funny!" he said.

What could only have been the spirit of pure fun then prompted Pickus to take four quarters from his pocket and make a purchase. He continued downtown, a snowball in his bare hand, a smile on his face.

"Too bad I don't live in a place like Hawaii," Pickus joked.

Another dozen smiles a minute appeared on the faces of the passersby who followed.

"Are those snowballs fresh?" a woman asked.

Just before 9:30 p.m., two visitors from England happened past and erupted into laughter. One, Christine Rowlatt, hooked her two shopping bags on her forearms and took a photo.

"That will make a perfect Christmas card," said the other, Margaret Rann.

The spirit of pure fun then had Rowlatt hand Triplitt a dollar.

"I've always wanted a snowball," she said.

She continued on with one of Triplitt's choicest in her hand.

"That's the best laugh I've had," said her friend Rann.

Triplitt knelt and repacked some of his remaining snowballs.

"A dollar for a snowball?" asked a young woman.

He pointed to the smallest offering.

"I'll give you that one for 50 cents," he said.

The young woman went off laughing. Triplitt looked more delighted than if he had made a sale.

"I like her laugh," he said.

During a lull, Triplitt dashed to the traffic island above W. 44th St. He returned cradling eight new snowballs and discarded an old one that had started to melt. He rearranged his wares into three rows of five.

"Fresh!" he said.

Triplitt did not claim the snowball idea as his own. He had been inspired by an artist who had done much the same in Astor Place some years ago as a bit of performance art.

"Limited edition!" Triplitt now said of his wares.

On the other side of Broadway, a reminder of the continuing terrorist threat appeared in the person of two Emergency Service Unit cops with helmets, flak jackets and automatic weapons. The news zipper above them carried the latest from Iraq as well as the report "Gore to Endorse Dean," which seemed to electrify nobody. The merriment of the people still trooping past Triplitt made his snowballs suddenly seem a bargain.

"One dollar! One dollar!"

I don't know what is more funny, the fact that he sold them or the fact that people bought them!! :D

But he gets points for creativity. (watch, next snowstorm: there will snowball stands on each corner, bwhahaha!)

That was hilarious! I started cracking up here at work! :D

I wish a mofo would sell me a snowball. LOL @ the dumb azz cluckas who bought them.

only in New York
 

gotta love new yorkers for their humor....

Well maybe I should sell, Fresh Autumn Leaves they could be 25 cents....I've got like a billion of them...close out price....any buyers:p :p :p :p

So, If I wanted a Bubblegum Sno-Ball it would cost what? $2.00? :confused:

This is a dayum shame! lol

Man places Internet ad for people who want to be eaten (BARF)
 

I wanted to kill again, says German cannibal
Mon Dec 8, 9:51 AM ET Add World - AFP to My Yahoo!

KASSEL, Germany (AFP) - A German cannibal standing trial for murder admitted that he had been on the hunt for another person to eat when he was arrested for killing and consuming a first victim.

Armin Meiwes, who insists the man he ate had given his consent, wrote to a friend saying that the flesh was nearly all gone. :eek:

The court was due later Monday to view the key evidence -- hours of graphic home-made video tapes showing the killing, dissection and partial consumption of his allegedly willing victim.

It was understood the public would likely be excluded when the footage was shown at the court in Kassel, central Germany.

In evidence Monday, the 42-year-old computer technician, who denies murder but admits killing and eating a man, said he had been looking on the Internet for a fresh victim when he was arrested a year ago.

"I hope I will soon find another victim, the flesh has almost all gone," he wrote in an email to a friend.

Explaining the email, he said: "It was still my wish to slaughter a human, in other words, to dissect a body."

His plan was to share the final remains of his victim, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, with his next prey before proceeding to the killing, he added.

But he insisted he never got that far.

"I'd just like to say that I didn't kill anyone else although I would have done if the chance had presented itself," he told police under interrogation, according to a transcript read out in court.

In another email he gave tips to a contact on how to "chat up" a potential victim.

A police official said in evidence that suggestions of other cannibalistic activities could not be confirmed.

Meiwes said Brandes "disappointed me in many ways."

Brandes, an engineer aged 43 from Berlin, had lied about his age, claiming in emails to be 36, and did not want to get to know Meiwes better before his planned death, the accused said.

He insisted Brandes was a willing accomplice in his own death.

"I saw the killing as helping him, helping him to die, helping him to kill himself," he said. "That is a taboo for which I must justify myself before God and the whole world.

"It was the most terrible moment in my life, far worse that I had imagined it in my fantasies."

He said he wished he had seen a psychologist about his cannibal fantasies, "then things wouldn't have gone so far."

Prosecutors, however, claim Meiwes is guilty of murder for taking advantage of his victim's apparent death wish.

He faces life in jail if convicted of the main charge of murder for sexual satisfaction. He is also accused of disturbing the peace of the dead. (New one to me :confused: )

Defence lawyers argue that he is guilty only of "killing on demand," which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

On the first day of his trial last week, Meiwes explained in graphic detail how he met Brandes over the Internet after advertising for someone willing to be killed and eaten. :eek: (He advertised on the interent? :confused: )

Brandes travelled to his home in Rotenburg, near Kassel. There, Meiwes cut off his victim's penis, which they tried to eat.

Later on the evening of March 10, 2001, Meiwes stabbed Brandes, carved the body into pieces, stored some of the flesh in a freezer, most of which he ate, and buried bones and the skull in the garden.

He was arrested after an Austrian student saw another advertisement Meiwes had posted on the Internet :eek: and alerted police.

Oh those crazy Germans....

People have lost their blasted minds!!

WTH??? I guess he thinks he's the real-life Hannibal Lecther. :eek: :eek:

Nov 19, 2003 11:52 pm US/Eastern

NEW YORK (CBS) What CBS 2 found that some of the most famous stores in our
area are doing is not only disgusting, it's dangerous. Selling used
lingerie. Shame On You went undercover and what we found is shocking. CBS
2's Arnold Diaz has more on this dirty little secret.

Our hidden camera investigation of Victoria's Secret and some other major
retailers has uncovered a dangerous and appalling practice that shocked
customers when we told them.

"It's just disgusting."

"I just think it's pretty gross."

"This is serious. This is real serious."

John, not his real name, is a disgruntled former employee of two Victoria's
Secret stores. He came to us with the revolting allegation that it was store
practice to take back used underwear and then resell it.

"When women would come in, I would be disgusted. I knew they were returning
something they wore out to a date or just wore out to a club and it's like,
you want another woman to buy this?" said John.

Diaz asked John if there were there times that he put back underwear that he
was pretty sure was used, "Yeah, all the time, all the time. I don't even
like touching it, I hold it by the tag because I don't want to put my hands
on that."

Could this be true? To find out we bought thong underwear at two Victoria's
Secret stores, and at Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale's. We took
them home, cut off the sales tags to suggest they'd been worn then marked
each pair with two tiny black dots on the labels.

Every store took back our thongs without the tags, never asking if they'd
been worn. Next our hidden camera caught the sales clerk at a Victoria's
Secret attaching a new price tag on our returned thong, hanging it up and
then putting it back on the floor for sale. We know it's the same thong
because our two dots were on the label. Unbelievably, it's not illegal in
the tri-state area to sell used underwear, but "It could get someone sick."

Microbiologist Dr. Lori Daane says dangerous bacteria like yeast and ecoli
can survive for weeks on lingerie and can be easily transferred. "Given the
fact that you can get these organisms on this clothing, especially thong
underwear, it's pretty likely you're going to get some fecal contamination."

We also found our returned thongs back on the sales floor at another
Victoria's Secret, at Saks Fifth Avenue and at Macy's. Bloomingdale's was
the only store where we didn't see our thong back on sale. Lingerie
customers were horrified at our findings.

"Who the heck wants to wear someone else's underwear. That's not a good
thing."

"I don't think they should take them back at all. I mean I think it should
be, you buy them once and they're done."

One woman approached us claiming to be a customer of Victoria's Secret but
turned out to be an employee.

When asked why she put used underwear back out she responded, "I don't think
we would do that. We would never do that."

But when Diaz pointed out that there were pictures she said, "You do? I
don't think that's fair what you're doing."

"I don't think it's fair you're putting used underwear back out," asked
Diaz. "We would never do that," was the employee's answer.

In an official statement Victoria's Secret says "Our policy is to not sell
used merchandise. Rest assured, we will investigate your allegations
thoroughly."

Bloomingdale's, where we did not find our returned thong back on the sales
floor says, "...any garment that shows any sign of wear, including no
ticket, is marked out of stock."

Macy's East says, "...we have guidelines and practices for merchandise such
as intimate apparel, we train our sales associates to thoroughly inspect all
merchandise [that is returned]. This should insure that only clean, sellable
items are on our selling floor."

Saks Fifth Avenue says, "if merchandise looks like it's in saleable
condition and has not been worn, we do put it back on the sales floor. We
trust our sales associates to make good judgments about the saleability of
returned merchandise and in most cases they do."

But john says it's not always obvious what's been worn, "The only way you
could, like, damage it out, is if it's ripped or if it's really, really
stained and, you know, where it's really noticed. But sometimes you can't
notice it."

So into the CBS 2 Hall Of Shame we induct Victoria's Secret, Saks Fifth
Avenue and Macy's for a filthy practice that puts their customers' health at
risk.

Interestingly, in New York it's illegal to sell hats that have been returned
but not thong underwear.

Some stores do refuse to take back underwear, a policy that should be
posted. But the best protection for consumer s is to wash, wash, wash your
underwear before putting it on.
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This is why I always WASH my new underwear or swimsuit before I even wear it. :o

I know that is the truth, but they still shouldn't do that. How would the people putting this crap out on the sales floor feel if somebody left nasty suprises in there underwear:rolleyes: :rolleyes: ughhhh I think I'm sick.

WTF???
 

Offer of crabs for drugs draws gunfire, police say
By J.R. GONZALES
Staff Writer

Police say a Columbia man serving up crab legs to buy some drugs found himself fleeing gunfire Tuesday night.

Just before 11 p.m., a 46-year-old man offered the seafood to another man in exchange for narcotics at a home in the 2400 block of Washington Street, according to a police report.

A fight ensued and the potential buyer ran out into the street whilethe drug dealer fired shots at him, according to the report.

Police say no one was injured in the shooting, but a 1992 Mazda 929 was hit several times by gunfire when the potential buyer hid behind the car.

Police did not release the names of the two men involved.

No charges have been filed and no arrests have been made, said Columbia police spokesman Skot Garrick. Authorities did not know what type drugs the man tried to buy, or where he got the crab legs.

Crab legs can fetch high prices, said Lucius Moultrie, owner of Palmetto Seafood Co.

“Crab legs are sweet and it’s considered almost a delicacy,” he said.

King crab legs can sell for between $10 and $27 a pound, he said. Snow crab legs sell for less, starting at $5 a pound.

“We don’t know what kind of crabs legs they were,” Garrick sa

*LOL* at this fool trying to buy drugs with crab legs!:eek: :D

I have heard it all........................

Crabs for crack??? CTHU, CTHU.

____________________/\______________________

lord have mercy

*le guffaw*

Man Jailed for Declaring Parents Dead 40 Times
 

Man Jailed for Declaring Parents Dead 40 Times
Fri Dec 12, 3:48 PM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



BERLIN (Reuters) - A German has been jailed for declaring his parents dead 40 times in order to get charity hand-outs, a court said on Friday. Oh yeah -- they are alive and well.



The 31-year-old prevailed upon churches and individuals to part with about 6,000 euros ($7,300) in total to ease the pain of his mother's or father's "passing," a court spokesman in the western city of Bonn said.


He was sentenced to three years in jail for 40 successful acts of fraud.


"He would ask them for money to get to the funeral, usually his mother's, and then spend it on drugs," the spokesman said.


The litany of faked deaths came to an end when a woman he approached for a donation became suspicious.

*SMH* Some people will do anything for money....

Beyond trif... :mad:

How the Grinch Stole...
23 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man claiming to be selling tickets to a Christmas show took $10 each from hundreds of school children then splurged on wine, sunglasses and movies, a state prosecutor said on Friday.



South Florida U.S. Attorney Marcos Daniel Jimenez said David Lee Ellisor collected money from students at schools all around Miami for a "once in a lifetime" Christmas show that never took place.


When the busloads of children turned up to see the "Christmas from around the world" show in the leafy Miami suburb of Coconut Grove in early December, they found the doors of the venue locked and Ellisor nowhere to be found.


"Ellisor collected thousands of dollars in fees for the event, which he then took as cash or used for personal expenses at locations such as a movie theater, a wine shop, a sunglasses store, a video store and a dry cleaner," Jimenez said.


Ellisor's whereabouts are unknown, Jimenez said in a statement. He faces a maximum of five years in jail and a $250,000 fine if convicted of mail fraud.

That it so sad. How can you do that to little kids? :(

:eek: :eek:

That's downright MEAN! I can't believe someone would do that to kids!

:mad: :mad:

That JERK! :mad: Where is a switch when you need one!

Off with their MOUSE CLICKING FINGERS!!!!!!
 

Oddly Enough - Reuters

'Bored' Teens Rack Up $160 Million Internet Bill
Mon Dec 15, 9:42 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



BERLIN (Reuters) - Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent 130 million euros ($160 million) in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were "bored," authorities said Friday.



The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, restaurants and artwork after hacking into an account on an Internet auction site.


"They gave boredom as the motive and made no attempt to disguise what fun they had buying only the most expensive things," according to police in the western town of Limburg.


They said state prosecutors are investigating.