Sky News : CCTV Shop Raid: Britain's Thickest Thief?: "BRITAIN'S THICKEST THIEF?
A hooded man has been dubbed Britain's thickest thief after stealing from a CCTV shop.
The man was caught on eight separate surveillance cameras as he targeted the shop in Manchester and stole a laptop computer worth 700[pounds].
He chose to raid the store despite numerous signs around the store warning that closed circuit television cameras were in operation.
CCTV images show the man from every single angle - one frame shows him handling a door, which forensic experts believe will provide them with a perfect set of fingerprints.
There are even pictures of him looking through the shop window half an hour earlier, jumping up to get a better look.
Owner of the shop, David Arathoon, 54, has said the thief's actions are proving 'the biggest boost to business imaginable'.
He said: 'I didn't know whether to laugh or be annoyed, and in the end I did both.'
Mr Arathoon told the Daily Star: 'Frame by frame, cameras filmed him around the shop. The stupidity to think stealing from a CCTV shop is a good idea is astonishing.'
Manchester Police have said they will collect any evidence."
09:59 Posted by David
Feds: Inmates Talked Through Toilets - Yahoo! News: "Fri Aug 19, 7:14 PM ET
PHILADELPHIA - Co-defendants in a drug case emptied toilet bowls in their Federal Detention Center cells and yelled to each other through the drainpipes about killing witnesses who might testify against them, prosecutors said.
What Dawud Bey and those he communicated with didn't know was that the FBI was also listening, via wiretaps in and around their cells, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark J. Ehlers said Thursday.
Bey, 36, pleaded guilty in February to a charge of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine. Prosecutors revealed details from the wiretaps in an effort to prove that Bey also threatened government witnesses and their families.
U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin postponed Bey's sentencing Thursday until after Labor Day, saying she wanted to 'take it under advisement.'
Bey's attorney, Joseph C. Santaguida, said Bey's comments were just 'talk' and 'bravado.' But FBI Agent Kevin M. Lewis testified that witnesses had to be relocated because of threats by Bey and others."
09:57 Posted by David
Nev. Intruder Demands Food at Gunpoint - Yahoo! News: "Fri Aug 19, 5:30 PM ET
SPARKS, Nev. - Police have arrested a man they say terrorized a woman and her family when he appeared at the back door, pointed a gun at her and demanded food.
Daniel Peter Jeppsen was arrested Thursday on charges of kidnapping, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, drug and weapons charges.
The 56-year-old woman told police she heard banging in her backyard. When she looked out she saw Jeppsen, who pointed the gun at her.
He demanded food, and eventually put the gun in his pocket as he ate, police said.
Investigators said he then ordered her to leave the house with him, then changed his mind and they went back inside.
The woman's husband and 13-year-old granddaughter initially were unaware Jeppsen was in the house until they encountered him in the living room.
The granddaughter eventually able to leave and called police.
Jeppsen, who has no known address, was under the influence of drugs and had illegal drugs in his possession, police said. He was jailed on $128,000 bail."
09:49 Posted by David
: "Sat Aug 20, 4:24 AM ET
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. - A stalking foray atop a power pole left a lucky feline jolted, frizzled and dazed but otherwise OK after he fell off the 40-foot pole and sparked a fire outside a fire house.
The frazzled cat was discovered when paramedic-firefighters Andrew Chrzanowski and Jeremy Hall responded to the fire Wednesday morning after the lights went out at the Topaz Ranch Estates fire house.
'When we got the fire knocked down we saw this burned cat close to the base of the pole,' Hall said.
They assumed it was dead until Chrzanowski noticed it was breathing. He put it on a blanket and gave it oxygen.
'We both thought that with the amount of burns he had he wasn't going to make it, but then we started to look more closely and we saw it was all superficial,' Hall said. 'The fire just burned all his hair off.'
The firefighters believe the cat was on the pole, because a bird's nest was found on top and there was a large black spot where something had touched a relay switch on the 25,000-volt line.
Animal Control officer Janet Duzan took the cat to Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital, where Veterinarian Steve Talbot said it should make a full recovery.
'The doctor said it looks like he was in a flash fire and got singed from head to toe,' Duzan said.
The cat will be put up for adoption if it is not claimed by its owner, she said."
09:47 Posted by David
Diaper sparks bomb alert - Yahoo! News: "Thu Aug 18,11:54 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - An 'electronic nappy' used to monitor wetness sparked a bomb alert in a German post office when it arrived in a parcel ticking suspiciously, police in the southwestern city of Heilbronn said Thursday.
'They suspected it was a bomb so they put the package into an empty room and called the police,' said a police spokesman. 'It was supposed to respond to wetness with bleeping sounds but this one ticked.'
Two squad cars rushed to the scene and immediately contacted the sender. Police gave the all clear after they contacted the woman who told them the intercepted package contained only a malfunctioning diaper. "
20:47 Posted by David
LancasterOnline.com: Man Fires Gun at Car to Silence Alarm: "SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - A man annoyed by a noisy car alarm fired at least three bullets into a Toyota Camry, silencing the alarm and bringing out police who hauled him away in handcuffs, authorities said.
David Owen Rye, 48, was arrested and booked for investigation of reckless discharge of a firearm and felony vandalism, Sgt. John Adamczyk said. Rye allegedly told officers he grabbed his handgun and went out to put a stop to the car alarm.
The owner of the Camry, a sailor whose ship the USS Theodore Roosevelt just returned from an eight-month cruise, was visiting a friend when he heard the gunfire at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, KCAL-TV reported.
'I mean, that's not a safe guy. I mean, you get upset over an alarm, over a noise like that, (then) there's some little kids making too much noise and he decides to do something awful,' sailor Nicholas Moreno, 25, said.
Police were called to the Yosemite Avenue apartment building and Rye was ordered out of his apartment by an officer with a bullhorn. A Los Angeles Police Department helicopter also responded and Rye was arrested.
Neighbor Ken Davis said he heard gunshots and looked outside to see Rye holding a gun.
'It was little scary,' Davis said. 'I didn't know what kind of mood he was in. I didn't want to say anything to him.'"
09:46 Posted by David
ABC13.com: Court gets last laugh on man who tried to pay fine with pennies: "By The Associated Press
(8/03/05 - MOORHEAD, MN) — A man ticketed for speeding thought he'd get even by paying his fine with 12,000 pennies.
But the judge had the final word by making him wait for the change to be counted.
'If the person is mad at the cop, why take it out on court administration?' said Clay County District Judge John Pearson. 'They're punishing the wrong people.'
Rather than count the small garbage can full of pennies by hand, Court Administrator Jan Cosette took them to the bank, where they were put in a counting machine. She returned with $120 in cash and some extra pennies, which were given to the Seattle man, who waited in the courthouse.
He was cited for driving 70 mph in a 55 mph zone March 5. "
22:54 Posted by David
5 kittens accidentally shipped to Vermont
"By Associated Press
VERGENNES, Vt. --A worker in the returns department at Country Home Products got a return and a surprise when he opened a brush trimmer sent back from South Carolina. Inside the box was the trimmer - and five kittens.
The kittens survived the bumpy and hot two-day trip to Vermont and are doing fine.
The South Carolina customers returned the trimmer, a gas-powered contraption on wheels that cuts grass, weeds and brush, because they wanted a field and brush mower instead, said Deb Peters, who works in the Country Home Products returns department. The box had been stored in a barn a mile from the South Carolinians' home, and they apparently sealed the box without looking inside, Peters said.
FedEx shipped the box containing the trimmer and the kittens from South Carolina, and it arrived in Vergennes about noon Wednesday.
'My co-worker Alan Bean opened the box. Something moved. He jumped; and he looked in again and there was five kittens,' Peters said. 'Three black ones, a gray one and one that looked like a Siamese.'
Country Home employees dashed to the nearby Vergennes Animal Hospital and returned with bottles of kitten formula, which the kittens devoured.
The 3-week-old kittens were taken to Addison County Humane Society in Middlebury, where they met Hazel, a black domestic cat whose kittens had just been weaned. Hazel is a now a surrogate mother to the kittens, providing a steady diet until they can eat solid food, said Jill Tucker, executive director of the Humane Society"
