Friday, October 28, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/28

A man Toronto found a 3-foot-long python coiled up inside his toilet bowl. He called authorities after discovering the snake Tuesday night.  Two police officers removed the python and turned it over to the city's animal services department.



Police in Colorado Springs say when a man's girlfriend unexpectedly came home just before another woman was due to visit he called police to report his new gal pal as a burglar. Police say Kevin Gaylor, 24, invited a woman he had met via Craigslist to his home just after 3 a.m. so they could "get better acquainted." When Gaylor's girlfriend came home unexpectedly, the two-timer called police to report the other woman as a "burglary in progress." Gaylor was cited on suspicion of false reporting to authorities.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/27

Emergency responders in California said a man spent nine hours trapped in a child's swing at a public park after accepting a bet from friends. Police responded Saturday morning to a report of a man screaming at a park around 6 a.m. They found a 21-year-old man with his legs stuck in the leg holes of a swing designed for a small child. The man told police he had used laundry detergent to lube up his legs and squeeze into the swing at 9 p.m. the previous night after accepting a $100 bet from friends.

A woman who was traveling to Ireland said a Transportation Security Administration card in her luggage told her to "GET YOUR FREAK ON." Jill Filipovic, said she found the TSA card, which is frequently left in the luggage of passengers after their checked bags have been searched.  "Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA," Filipovic tweeted. "Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow." Filipovic described the "personal item" as "the most basic lady-thing you can imagine." Filipovic wrote the note was "total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not OK, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room." She said she plans to file a complaint with the TSA when she returns to the United States.


Wednesday, October 26, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/26

For the second time this month, authorities have charged a father with allowing his 9-year-old child to be a designated driver.  Nathan Sikkenga, 31, or Gillette, Wy. told troopers Saturday that he and his wife "were under the influence of alcohol" and instructed their son to drive the van, according to an arrest report released Tuesday.  The van crashed into a security gate arm bar. Sikkenga was charged with felony child endangerment.

A Pennsylvania couple is facing an assortment of criminal charges for having sex on a city bus, carnal activity that was captured by the vehicle’s surveillance camera.  According to a police criminal complaint, Amanda Confer, 24, boarded the bus on a Friday afternoon in August. She was “accompanied by her infant daughter,” a detective reported.  Also riding the bus through Montoursville that day were “Pre-release inmates” part of a work release program that allows inmates to come and go from the county jail at specified times.

Investigators allege that they sat next to each other in the rear of the bus.  In short order, Confer and Peterson (pictured in the above mug shots) moved from hugging and kissing to oral sex (which was provided by Confer). “After a couple of minutes of oral sex,” Detective Alberto Diaz reported, Confer “lowered her underwear” and, “upon sitting on” Peterson’s lap, “both defendants proceeded to have sexual intercourse for several minutes.”

Friday, October 21, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/21

An emergency operator in Clarksville, Tennessee, knew she was dealing with an unusual situation when she answered a recent call. Three-year-old Bailey Rafferty called 911 and told operator Rebecca Blackstop that "mommy fell down the stairs." Blackstop keep little Bailey on the line until help arrived. Medics found Heide Rafferty unconscious, while Bailey was still holding the phone. Mom was taken to a hospital and later released.




A Florida woman who added her brother to her cellphone plan said the two weeks he spent in Canada resulted in a monster phone bill. Celina Aarons said she added her brother, Shamir, a college student who is deaf and mute, to her T-Mobile phone plan recently and she received a bill last month for $201,000. Aarons said she found Shamir had not turned his data roaming off during his two-week vacation in Canada, causing him to incur fines of $10 per megabyte while sending and receiving more than 2,000 texts as well as using the Internet and watching videos on his phone. T-Mobile agreed to drop the bill to $2,500 and give Aarons six months to pay it. The company said Shamir was informed via text message of the fees for data roaming, but his sister said he must not have noticed them.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/19


A bag stolen at gunpoint from the owner of a California check-cashing business would have yielded the thief no more than the victim's lunch, police say. The incident occurred Friday morning at the Fontana Cash Now, when the 35-year-old owner was allegedly approached from behind by a gunman demanding a bag the businessman was carrying. Police said the victim gladly relinquished the bag, which contained only his lunch.






 At age 100, Fauja Singh has run into the record books. He finished a Toronto marathon last week. He's now the oldest runner to complete a full-distance marathon - 26.2 miles - and earns a Guinness record. It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line, six hours after the winner. While the crowd was long gone, family, friends and supporters greeted Singh as he finished the race.


 When Apple released its new iOS5 operating systems to go with its iPhone 4S, it touted a new app called "Find My Friends" as a great way to track and meet up with friends. According to MacRumors.com, a man from New York City said he is "Divorcing wife. Thanks iPhone 4S and Find My Friends." The man apparently found his wife had told him she was going to be with friends but was actually with a guy. The man closed his post with "thankfully, she's the rich one."

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/18

Several Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park visitors participated in a cockroach eating contest to win 2012 season passes to the park. Participants were offered live Madagascar hissing cockroaches with a choice of flavors such as Mexican and barbecue. Anyone who ate a cockroach within two minutes Saturday evening won a 2012 season pass to the park. The event was part of the park's Halloween-inspired Fright Fest that runs through October.



A trooper stopped to help with a flat and ended up making a bust. Maryland State Police say an officer saw a pickup with a flat tire on an I-95 exit ramp. The trooper became suspicious after talking with two men changing the tire. According to officials, the trooper received their permission to search the truck and found nearly 70 pounds of pot. Police say the load is worth more than $300,000. The two Florida men now face a number of drug charges.


Friday, October 14, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/14



Authorities in North Carolina arrested a woman whose wrong-number text about a drug deal was received by a sheriff's deputy. The McDowell County Sheriff's Office said Deputy P.V. Alkire received a text message Thursday night from a number he didn't recognize from a sender who identified herself as "Amy" and asked if he wanted "business tonight." The sender said she was selling "bones," a street term for Xanax, and Alkire arranged to purchase 10 of the pills at a truck stop. Amy Leigh Brown, 35, was arrested and charged with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule IV controlled substance. Investigators said Brown was carrying 25 generic Xanax pills.


Police in New Mexico arrested a woman accused of posting a Craigslist ad saying she was looking to purchase marijuana. Roswell Police said Anamicka Dave, 29, put a posting on the website explaining she was new to the area and looking to purchase marijuana. A shocked Sgt. Ty Sharpe called his boss to "make sure it wasn't one of our guys trying to do a reverse sting." Police said they communicated with Dave via text messages while posing as a potential seller. Officers arranged to meet Dave in a parking lot and she was placed under arrest. Dave was booked on a charge of criminal solicitation.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/13

Authorities in Georgia said a bank robber who used a furnace filter to hide his face from tellers failed to conceal his features from a security camera. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said the man was wearing gloves and carrying the air filter and a toolbox when he entered the Best Bank in the Kroger supermarket in Cumming shortly after 10 a.m. Monday. "He used the air filter to try to conceal his identity from the employees. I guess he didn't see the camera," Deputy Matt Runion said. "He did not produce or threaten to use a weapon during the robbery." Investigators said they are working to identify the man, who got away with an unspecified amount of cash.


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/12


Nike Running ad,
"Already did it."
 Amber Miller accomplished two monumental feats last weekend. Days from her due date, the 27-year-old joined 45,000 other runners to participate in Sunday's Bank of America Chicago Marathon and then gave birth to a baby girl named June hours later. Miller, an avid runner, said she signed up for the 26.2-mile race before finding out she was pregnant. She said she never expected to finish the race, but she did. Miller and her husband started the run and just kept on going. They ran part of the race and walked the second half as her contractions started. It took them 6.5 hours to finish. At 7 pounds, 13 ounces, baby June entered the world just hours after mom and dad crossed the finish line.




(Not that kind of Semen)
 Unconfirmed reports coming from Wyoming County PA where a man is accused of injecting semen into coworkers yogurt containers.  Workers at the Proctor and Gamble facility in Wyoming County.  The people who's food was offended said they, "noticed pin hole sized openings and a smell." coming from their yogurt over several months.  Lab results confirmed that the secret ingredient was in fact, human semen.




Howdy Ho!
Police arrested Florida's alleged serial pooper late Saturday night after an approximately month long investigation into repeated incidents of feces left on the steps of a school classroom.  Police say Kenneth Martin Sorsony is the man who pooped on Ocala's Fort King Middle School property.  Reports show that Sorsony, 23, first struck on Sept. 14, and after four incidents on the classroom steps -- two of which included notes allegedly left by the suspect -- cops decided to install security cameras.

Video here

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/11

Police in Pennsylvania are looking for some bridge-nappers. State troopers say the crooks managed to sneak away with a 40-ton, 50-foot steel bridge. The span was in a wooded area along a railroad line, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. The bridge is made out of corrugated steel. Officials say it's worth about $100,000. Authorities figure the bridge bandits will try to sell it for scrap.





Police in Yuma, Arizona, have arrested a man they say robbed a bank and then spent some of the money on beer and pizza at a nearby restaurant. Police accuse 56-year-old Henry Elmer of robbing a local Wells Fargo Bank with a box-cutter knife Saturday and leaving with cash. Elmer then ordered a beer and a couple slices of pizza at a nearby restaurant. He was arrested before he got his food. The restaurant returned the $20 Elmer had used to pay for his order.

Friday, October 7, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/7

A 17-year-old from southwestern Illinois could be paying Walmart for the rest of his life, following a fire he set in the company's Wood River store last year.
Dustin Walls pleaded guilty Monday to starting a fire in the 24-hour Walmart in September 2010. Surveillance cameras reportedly caught Walls setting shelving units on fire in the cosmetic's section around 2:50 a.m. Several bottles of shampoo ignited and cans of hairspray blew up. The store was closed for days as a crew worked to fix damage to the building.
Walmart claims the fire cost $400,000 in repair fees and that more than $500,000 worth of merchandise was ruined when the store's sprinkler system kicked in to stop the flames. Yesterday, a Madison County judge approved an order for Walls to pay Walmart $983,614.58 in restitution.

A grocery store worker accused of handing out a semen-tainted yogurt sample at an Albuquerque market pleaded guilty Thursday.  Under terms of his plea agreement, Anthony Garcia admitted he tainted a sample of the yogurt he was handing out at Sunflower Market in January. He also admitted putting some of his semen on a plastic spoon that he placed with the yogurt.Garcia then approached a female customer and offered her a sample."The criminal conduct to which Anthony Garcia pleaded guilty today is completely outrageous," U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales said after Garcia's appearance in federal court. "No one should have to endure this type of experience simply because she or he accepts a food sample while shopping for groceries."Garcia, 32, plead guilty to charges of adulterating food and making false statements to federal investigators.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/5

It's a case of mistaken attraction, because the beer bottles happen to possess all of the features that drive male Australian jewel beetles wild. They're big and orangey brown in color, with a slightly dimpled surface near the bottom (designed to prevent the bottle from slipping out of one's grasp) that reflects light in much the same way as female wing covers.

As a result, the beer bottles are irresistible to the male insects, which will die trying to mate with them in the hot Australian sun.




Two thieves in New Jersey made off with a $148,000 Porsche Panamera after taking the car for a test drive with a salesman, and allegedly returning a fake key fob. They then returned later that night and made off with the vehicle. Not bad, guys. I'll give you $1,200 for it.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

What the Hell Theater - 10/4

Police say a 37-year-old drunk man stole an ambulance from a Chicago hospital before crashing it and needing assistance from another ambulance. Paramedics were putting an unoccupied stretcher into an empty ambulance at Norwegian-American Hospital when the man got in and took off. He crashed the ambulance a mile-and-a-half away, hitting several vehicles along the way. The man suffered minor injuries and was transported back to Norwegian-American Hospital in another ambulance. Charges are pending.


The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort plans to give $25,000 worth of plastic surgery to a winner from a player's card contest. The lucky winner can mix and match surgeries including breast enhancements, tummy tucks, liposuction and face lifts, up to $25,000.  Some medical professionals worry the promotion could set a bad precedent by pairing two potentially compulsive behaviors - gambling and excessive plastic surgery.