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[Ideal08]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
95-Year-Old Man Drives Through Store Wall
Monday March 08, 2004 2:40pm

Washington (AP) - A 95 year old man is hospitalized after authorities say he drove his car into a supermarket wall.

It happened shortly before two this afternoon at Minnesota Avenue and Dix Street, Northeast. D.C. Fire and EMS says the man apparently lost control and wound up with his Lincoln plowing through a wall and into a Safeway store.

Firefighters had to cut open the back window of the car to free the trapped man, who was taken to Howard University Hospital. Amazingly, no one else was hurt.

This is right up the street from me. This is the parking lot where I hit ol' dude.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Ideal08
This is right up the street from me. This is the parking lot where I hit ol' dude.

There is a driving epidemic in DC.

[toocute]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
There is a driving epidemic in DC.

Word...must be in the water






*running*

[CrimsonTide4]

Marijuana Found in Load of Frozen Chickens
Mon Mar 8, 8:10 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!



RATON, N.M. - Frozen chickens and marijuana — a combination that put the driver of a tractor-trailer rig in jail.

The man, whose name has not been released, was arrested Saturday after an officer from the state's Motor Transportation Division found 1,240 pounds of marijuana hidden in a load of frozen chickens.


The truck was headed for the Midwest when it was pulled over on Interstate 25 near Raton as part of a routine traffic stop. The officer became suspicious and a search of the truck turned up the marijuana.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
95-Year-Old Man Drives Through Store Wall
Monday March 08, 2004 2:40pm

Washington (AP) - A 95 year old man is hospitalized after authorities say he drove his car into a supermarket wall.

It happened shortly before two this afternoon at Minnesota Avenue and Dix Street, Northeast. D.C. Fire and EMS says the man apparently lost control and wound up with his Lincoln plowing through a wall and into a Safeway store.

Firefighters had to cut open the back window of the car to free the trapped man, who was taken to Howard University Hospital. Amazingly, no one else was hurt.

Why is a 95 year old driving in the first place?

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by Ideal08
This is right up the street from me. This is the parking lot where I hit ol' dude.

Wow.

Note to self: take the subway when in DC- both walking and driving are obviously too dangerous!

[taylaur_2000]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Marijuana Found in Load of Frozen Chickens
Mon Mar 8, 8:10 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!



RATON, N.M. - Frozen chickens and marijuana — a combination that put the driver of a tractor-trailer rig in jail.

The man, whose name has not been released, was arrested Saturday after an officer from the state's Motor Transportation Division found 1,240 pounds of marijuana hidden in a load of frozen chickens.


The truck was headed for the Midwest when it was pulled over on Interstate 25 near Raton as part of a routine traffic stop. The officer became suspicious and a search of the truck turned up the marijuana.

What a combination! Well at least he would be able to satisfy the munchies.

[Neosoulchild]

A Georgia woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to use a fake million-dollar note to pay for shopping.

The New York Post reports staff at the Wal-Mart in Covington called police - who say they found two more of the notes in her purse.

The US Treasury does not make million-dollar notes, but toy ones can be bought as novelty gifts.

Police have charged 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike with forgery. She had been trying to pay for $1,671.55 (£915) worth of items at the store.

Staff refused to accept the note - or hand over $998,328.45 (£547,059) in change - and called the manager.

Police say Pike offered to pay in gift vouchers before again trying to cash the fake note.

Covington Police Chief, Stacey Cotton, said: "It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this."

Assistant Police Chief Almond Turner said Pike claimed she thought the notes were real and told officers they were a gift from her husband.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by Neosoulchild
A Georgia woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to use a fake million-dollar note to pay for shopping.

The New York Post reports staff at the Wal-Mart in Covington called police - who say they found two more of the notes in her purse.

The US Treasury does not make million-dollar notes, but toy ones can be bought as novelty gifts.

Police have charged 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike with forgery. She had been trying to pay for $1,671.55 (£915) worth of items at the store.

Staff refused to accept the note - or hand over $998,328.45 (£547,059) in change - and called the manager.

Police say Pike offered to pay in gift vouchers before again trying to cash the fake note.

Covington Police Chief, Stacey Cotton, said: "It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this."

Assistant Police Chief Almond Turner said Pike claimed she thought the notes were real and told officers they were a gift from her husband.

CTFU at this story!! *lol*

First off, what person is going to roll up in WALMART (of ALL places) with a million dollar note!!!! *lol*

She couldn't conterfeit anything smaller? A fifty, or even a hundred?

ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FeeFee]

Meet monkey man!

Cops take away his barrel of fun

By MICHELE McPHEE, RALPH R. ORTEGA and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


One of Orlando Lopez's six monkeys, Michael, clings to owner as police arrest Washington Heights man yesterday.


The pets watched TV from their cages.

A wanna-be Dr. Dolittle was busted yesterday for turning his tiny Manhattan apartment into an urban Animal House.
Orlando Lopez, 26, a veterinary clinic technician, wept as animal control officers seized six monkeys, a Great Dane, a Chihuahua, two cats and a tarantula named Fang from his Washington Heights studio apartment. The only pets that cops let Lopez keep were some fish.

"They're like my kids," Lopez told the Daily News as cops dismantled his menagerie. "I'm going to do the best to get all of these animals back."

Lopez and a male roommate named Simon slept in the kitchen while their animal pals had the main room to themselves.

When Lopez opened the door of his fifth-floor apartment at 34-64 Hillside Ave., near Dyckman St., cops saw the monkeys swinging in three 5-by-4-foot wrought-iron cages.

"It was bizarre," said Animal Control Officer Luis Lebron.

The discovery of Lopez's zoo comes just six months after a 425-pound tiger and a 3-foot alligator were seized from a Harlem apartment. Those animals were discovered after Ming the tiger mauled his owner.

Lopez's monkeys seemed to dread being separated from him, as two of them clung to his waist. "They're scared," said Lopez, who was slapped with a summons for harboring seven illegal animals: the monkeys and the tarantula.

Lebron said the animals, who were taken to a Nassau County animal sanctuary, appeared to be healthy.

Lopez said he and his pets have lived in the apartment for four years. He said he purchased most of the monkeys from Florida breeders.

"I kept them to myself," Lopez said of his monkeys - two capuchins, two marmosets and two squirrel monkeys.

But Maximo Sanchez, a porter in Lopez's building, said neighbors had complained of the smell of monkey urine seeping into the halls. "People knew he had monkeys, but what were they going to do?" Sanchez said. "The monkeys never went out. They were never visible, but you could smell them."

The monkeys - Mandy, Michael, Marley, Chucky, Lulu and Belle - appeared to live in friendly surroundings. Lopez even filled the walls with photos of him and his pets, including one of him with a monkey dressed in clothes.

He said the monkeys liked to watch TV and listen to the radio, which was mostly tuned to Z-100 FM - a station whose rush-hour show is called the Morning Zoo.

The monkeys, weighing 1 to 5 pounds and ranging in age from 3 to 9 years old, never caused a big ruckus, except for switching the lights on and off and harassing the cats by pulling their tails, Lopez said.

Friends and co-workers at the West Side Veterinary Center on W. 83rd St., where Lopez has worked for about a year, were sympathetic.

"Orlando is caring and conscientious about taking care of animals," said a veterinarian at the center, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Pedro Martinez, 26, described his pal as a "great guy."

"He gave the monkeys a home," said Martinez. "He wasn't breeding or selling them. He just loved them."

[toocute]

Originally posted by Neosoulchild
A Georgia woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to use a fake million-dollar note to pay for shopping.

The New York Post reports staff at the Wal-Mart in Covington called police - who say they found two more of the notes in her purse.

COVINGTON, Ga - This is were my mama's from. Oh lawd I can't wait to tell her.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by Neosoulchild
Police have charged 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike with forgery. She had been trying to pay for $1,671.55 (£915) worth of items at the store.

Staff refused to accept the note - or hand over $998,328.45 (£547,059) in change - and called the manager.

so you mean to tell me that she was trying to pay for a $1700 purchase with a million???? that's the crazy part to me! she wanted $100,000 change!!!!!!!!!!

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
so you mean to tell me that she was trying to pay for a $1700 purchase with a million???? that's the crazy part to me! she wanted $100,000 change!!!!!!!!!!

Yes girl, she wanted almost a MILLION dollars back in change! *LOL*

What size purse did she have on her to carry that? CTFU!!!

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Yes girl, she wanted almost a MILLION dollars back in change! *LOL*

What size purse did she have on her to carry that? CTFU!!!

awww you quoted me before i could change that to $1,000,000 rather than 100,000

[ykimber]

She looks like she would try that mess!
Alice Regina Pike, in this undated Newton County Sheriff's Department photo, who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise Friday, March 5, 2004, at Wal-Mart