Yahoo! News - Ark. Cops Use Taser to Subdue Nude Jogger: "Wed Jan 12, 6:35 PM ET
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. - Officers have finally arrested a man for making late-night runs in the nude along Airport Road in West Memphis.
Fate Patterson, 39, of West Memphis was apprehended Monday night, West Memphis police said Wednesday. Officers had to use a taser to subdue Patterson, who had dodged police for six months or so.
The jogger was arrested after he ran past a police car and failed to stop when he was ordered to do so by officers on location. After his capture, Patterson was charged with indecent exposure, fleeing and resisting arrest.
'You know, this one has just got me kind of speechless,' said Mike Allen, assistant chief of the West Memphis police department.
Allen said it wasn't known why the man was jogging while nude. "
05:06 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Woman Gets 20 Years for Poisoning Boss: "Fri Jan 21,10:34 AM ET
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A woman received a 20-year prison sentence Thursday for putting rat poison in her boss' soda to cover up the fact that she was stealing his money.
Femesha Foster, 37, was found guilty Jan. 5 of poisoning for dropping the toxic mix into optometrist Mark Caruso's drink in 2000. Caruso realized the drink tasted funny and drove himself to an emergency room, where he was treated and released.
Foster, who worked as a technician for Caruso at a Wal-Mart, said she had discovered that her boss knew she had written checks from his account. Foster said she was not trying to kill him, but only send him home sick so she could have time to cover her tracks.
Foster's lawyer, William Lanphear, said he would appeal the verdict and sentence. He had argued Foster was innocent because there wasn't enough rat poison in the soda to do Caruso harm.
Foster is almost at the end of a five-year prison sentence for grand theft in the case.
A jury convicted Foster in 2001 of attempted poisoning and grand theft, but acquitted her of attempted murder.
In May, a state appeals court overturned the poisoning conviction because 'attempted poisoning' is not a specific crime under Florida law."
05:05 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man Locks Himself in Pizzeria for Beer: "Thu Jan 20, 4:50 PM ET
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - It will be the most expensive keg of beer he's ever had. A 32-year-old Czech man got himself locked up in a pizzeria late Wednesday to have free access to beer overnight.
When the restaurant's staff left, he broke into a cooling box containing a keg, disconnected the pipes leading to the tap, put them in his mouth and drank as much as he could.
The man, drunk and fast asleep, was found by cleaners in the early hours of Thursday.
Police spokesman Vit Cvrcek said he will now have to pay for the beer he drank and faces up to one year in prison or a fine of $346 for the damage he caused to the cooling box."
05:04 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Nev. Man Castrates Himself to Lower Libido: "Fri Jan 21,10:22 AM ET RENO, Nev. - A 50-year-old Reno man who was hospitalized after he castrated himself told police he learned of the procedure on the Internet and did so to lower his libido. The man, whose name was not released, called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. Monday and asked for help because he could not stop the bleeding from a self-castration operation, police said.
Reno police and medics responded to the man's home and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Washoe Medical Center officials cited privacy issues on why they could not release any information on the man, including his condition. But police said hospital officials confirmed Wednesday the man successfully castrated himself.
'The man obviously needs some sort of counseling,' Reno police Lt. Ron Donnelly told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "
05:01 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Husband Commits Suicide, Then Wife Wakes from Coma: "Sat Jan 22, 6:08 AM ET ROME (Reuters) - An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday.
Recalling the end of 'Romeo and Juliet,' the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.
Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him.
The northern town of Padua lies just 40 miles from Verona, where star-crossed lover Romeo killed himself believing Juliet to have died. But minutes later Juliet woke up and seeing Romeo dead, stabbed herself. "
00:47 Posted by David
KATE BECKINSALE - BECKINSALE FORCED TO GIVE MASTURBATING RABBIT AWAY: "BECKINSALE FORCED TO GIVE MASTURBATING RABBIT AWAY
Actress KATE BECKINSALE was forced to give her daughter's randy rabbit to the family cleaning lady - because it wouldn't stop masturbating in its cage.
The PEARL HARBOR star eventually ran out of explanations as to what her daughter LILY's pet was doing as he pleasured himself and 'humped' his food bowl.
She came to the conclusion that the rabbit simply wasn't comfortable in his surroundings.
Beckinsale says, 'I think his own frustrated sexuality just consumed him in a horrid and chilling way.
'I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his food bowl. I was sick of inventing different explanations of what that was.
'Also, he was boring and, other than masturbate, he didn't do anything.'
04/01/2005 08:59"
19:57 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Police Say Man Rages Over French Fries: "Mon Jan 3, 6:49 PM ET DuBOIS, Pa. - A Burger King customer berated the employees and nearly hit one of them with his truck after the clerk at the drive-thru window told him they were out of french fries, police said.
Gregg Luttman, 22, made an obscene gesture at the drive-thru clerk on New Year's Day, then walked into the restaurant and cursed at the staff, Sandy Township police Sgt. Rod Fairman said.
When he returned to his pickup truck, he saw restaurant workers taking down his license number and put the vehicle in reverse, nearly hitting one of them, Fairman said.
After being stopped on a highway a short distance away, Luttman scuffled with police and kicked out the back window of a police car, Fairman said.
Luttman was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and other offenses. He was freed Monday on $2,500 bail. "
19:55 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man Registers Deadly Blood-Alcohol Level: "Tue Jan 4, 5:11 PM ETSOFIA, Bulgaria - Incredulous doctors made five blood tests on a drunken man to confirm he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.914, far above the usual life-threatening range, police and doctors said Tuesday.
The 67-year-old man, whose name was not released, was hospitalized Dec. 20, when a car knocked him down on a street in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.
A breath test showed high blood alcohol level, but police officers thought the result was inaccurate, because the man was conscious and talked with them, said Col. Angel Rangelov, head of police in Plovdiv.
Laboratory analysis of five subsequent blood samples taken the same day confirmed that the man had had a 0.914 blood alcohol content, Rangelov said. An 0.55 blood-alcohol level is usually considered as life-threatening.
Dr. Svetlan Dermendzhiev of Plovdiv's University hospital told state news agency BTA he had not seen such a high level.
The man was reported in stable condition after treatment for head injuries."
19:54 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Wis. Police Search for Wandering KangarooDODGEVILLE, Wis. - Iowa County sheriff's deputies have searched in the past for the occasional wandering emu or bobcat — but never a kangaroo, until now.
Several residents called the sheriff's department Monday night to report seeing a kangaroo along some rural highways in the southwestern Wisconsin Township of Dodgeville.
"The people that reported it were quite apprehensive to report it because they didn't want to be made a fool of," Sheriff Steve Michek said Tuesday.
His department is taking the calls seriously because of the number of people who saw the animal. Deputies are trying to determine whether someone was transporting the animal and it escaped.
In the meantime, the sheriff's department is urging residents to stay on the lookout for a brownish-red, 150-pound animal with large hind legs and a mean kick.
