Man Caught Masturbating At Cheerleader Tryouts
A 47-year-old man was arrested in the woods last night after fleeing when a Dover Middle School janitor caught him masturbating outside of cheerleader tryouts. Police responded to the school 6:48 p.m. after receiving the report from the janitor and immediately started searching the woods for Roy A. Chapman Jr., who had left his vehicle behind at the alleged crime scene. Capt. Michael Raiche said Chapman committed the lewd act from a window outside the school’s gymnasium and none of the cheerleaders witnessed it. “We had numerous officers form a perimeter and got a State Police K9 to respond,” Raiche said. “The K9 wasn’t successful but one of our officers located the subject hiding in the woods.”
Following his arrest, Chapman allowed police to search his vehicle where they located a small amount of marijuana. Chapman, of 52 Longshore Drive in Barrington, was subsequently charged with felony indecent exposure and lewdness, because of a previous conviction, and possession of controlled drug. Raiche said it’s unknown if this incident was premeditated. “We don’t know if he knew there was going to be cheerleader practice or if he was just going by and noticed the girls walking in,” Raiche said. Chapman is being held on $2,500 cash bail and is scheduled for arraignment this afternoon at Dover District Court.
Source: fosters.com
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Florida Governor Accidentally Directed Parents To Call Phone Sex Line
Oops! In an embarrassing blunder, Gov. Charlie Crist mistakenly directed parents of uninsured children to call a toll-free sex line. People calling the governor’s office heard an on-hold recording of Crist promoting the toll-free Florida KidCare line. Except two numbers were transposed. Anyone calling the number Crist gave out was told to call another number. The recording on that second phone number begins, “Hey there sexy guys” and says the caller can have a more graphic conversation with a woman for $2.99 a minute.
The Palm Beach Post discovered the mistake. Crist quickly fixed it.
Source: AP
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Man Applies For Job, Then Steals Two Tracksuits
A thief filled out a job application in a sports shop – then stole two tracksuits on his way out. Police had no trouble tracking down the teenager because he had put his name and address on the application form. The thief popped into his local JJB sports store in the hope of securing an interview for a staff vacancy. But temptation proved too much when he passed the clothes department on his way out. The youth is understood to have changed into two tracksuits in the fitting rooms before fleeing the building. Staff spotted him leaving the shop in Aberdeen and called police.
A source said: “This was a brazen attempt to steal something out of the store. It’s unfortunate for the kid that he left his details before he went. “It did not take police long to trace him at all.” Perhaps he thought he had a better chance of getting a job if he sported some of JJB’s own merchandise at the interview. “It looks highly unlikely that he will get a job.” Police are understood to have interviewed the youth but he has not, so far, been charged. A police spokesman confirmed they were investigating the theft, which happened last month. The spokesman added: “During the incident, two tracksuits, valued at a high two-figure sum, were stolen.
“The investigation into the theft is currently ongoing.”
Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
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Texas Homeowner Ordered To Get Rid Of Fake Grass
A Dallas man who installed artificial turf in his yard after failing to grow grass said he is giving up his battle with City Hall to keep his faux lawn. Jose Escobedo, who said each of his three attempts to grow real grass in his yard had failed, had appealed orders by the Dallas city staff and the city Landmark Commission to remove the turf, which officials said was inappropriate for the historic district, to the City Plan Commission, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday. Brandy Escobedo, Escobedo’s daughter and his translator at Thursday’s commission meeting, said her father decided to give up the fight a short while after members voted 12-1 to uphold the order to remove the turf. “It was just going to cost him too much, and it was just better to let it go,” she said. The order gives Escobedo 30 days to remove the turf or face fines. “He said he’s not going to try to plant any more grass there,” Brandy Escobedo said. “It’s just going to be dirt.”
Source: UPI
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Man Slept With Wife’s Dead Body For 5 Years
A Vietnamese man dug up his wife’s body, molded it with clay into a female figure and put it in his bed so he could hug it every night for the past five years. The man, 55-year-old Le Van from Ha Lam in the central Quang Nam province, is seen below with his wife’s remains and his son. According to reports, Van began by sleeping upon his wife’s grave after she died in 2003. He said that a year and a half later he decided to dig a tunnel next to his wife’s grave so he could sleep beside her away from the rain and wind. However, neighbors and local authorities found out about the practice and persuaded Van to stop. Subsequently in November 2004 Van returned to the grave, dug up his wife’s corpse and brought it home, where it remains today. Van’s son, photographed below with his mother’s corpse, is said to hug her body before going to bed each night. His father told the Lao Dong newspaper that his neighbours dared not visit him for years, but have since grown more accustomed to the idea and will now pay him a visit from time to time. “I’m a person that does things differently. I’m not like normal people,” he was quoted as saying. “My wife’s body only passed away but her spirit still accompanies us. I have no fear when it comes to sleeping with her at all.”
Local authorities are said to be planning an inspection of the case because of new sanitation laws that rule a body must be cremated or buried, and that burials cannot be carried out in residential gardens without approval.
Source:weirdasianews
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The Virgin Mary Appears On Woman’s Pancake
An Arizona woman said she was given peace and comfort from an unlikely source — a pancake bearing an image she said resembles the Virgin Mary. Bianca Lopez said she was cooking Batter Blaster pancakes for her family a few days before Thanksgiving at their Glendale home and she noticed the image of Jesus’ mother looking back at her from the final pancake of the batch, KNXV-TV, Phoenix, reported Thursday. “I think it’s God’s way of telling us that the holidays aren’t just about presents. It’s about … spending time with your family and friends and telling us to not forget about him, that he’s always there watching over us and taking care of us,” Lopez said.
Lopez said she is keeping the pancake safe in her freezer until she can decide what to do with it.
Source: UPI
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