TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Police are looking for a woman who used what’s believed to have been hairspray as a weapon in a botched purse-snatching in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Police said the would-be thief on Saturday night first asked a 25-year-old shopper for directions, then sprayed the woman in the eyes as she tried to take her purse from her shoulder. But the shopper held on to the purse, and the woman fled empty-handed to a maroon minivan parked nearby.
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PNC Wealth Management said it’ll cost $86,609 to buy everything in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” song this year.
That’s up more than $8,500, or nearly 11 percent, from last year, and includes everything from the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, purchased repeatedly as in the song.
While the price of the whole package is up, some things are actually cheaper than last year. Jim Dunigan, a PNC Wealth Management spokesman, notes how the price of five golden rings is down about 11 percent. Three French hens and six geese-a-laying also cost less this year.But increases in the big items like eight maids-a-milking, 10 lords-a-leaping, 11 pipers piping and 12 drummers drumming is where you’ll pay, thanks to a general wage increase.
Here’s the detailed list, for those of you who actually want to know!
Partridge, $20 (last year: $15) Pear Tree, $200 (last year: $150) Two Turtle Doves, $55 (last year: $40) Three French Hens, $30 (last year: $45) Four Calling Birds (canaries), $600 (last year: same) Five Gold Rings, $350 (last year: $395) Six Geese a-Laying, $240 (last year: $360) Seven Swans a-Swimming, $5,600 (last year: $4,200) Eight Maids a-Milking, $52 (last year: $47) Nine Ladies Dancing (per performance), $4,759 (last year: same) 10 Lords a-Leaping (per performance), $4,414 (last year: $4,285) 11 Pipers Piping (per performance), $2,285 (last year: $2,213) 12 Drummers Drumming (per performance), $2,475 (last year: $2,398)
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Policemen caught short at a shooting range have been given a special car to drive them to a loo – just 250 yards away.
Environmentalists in Salzburg, Austria, have banned them from taking a leak in the bushes at the remote range as it is part of a water purity area.
Now police chief Kurt Berger has put a patrol car on stand-by 24 hours a day to ferry officers to the nearest public lavatory.
“A man in uniform urinating in public in a water protection area – no one wants to see that,” he said.
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A US man was accused of drink driving after a police chase that ended with him running over himself.
The 21-year-old was treated for minor injuries at a Santa Fe hospital and then charged with driving while intoxicated, fleeing a police officer and careless driving.
Police were alerted by a tip to New Mexico’s DrunkBuster hotline which allows people to report drink drivers anonymously.
State Police Officer Grace Romero spotted the man’s pick-up truck swerving across both lanes of a highway, driving slowly and then fast. He refused to stop.
After narrowly missing other vehicles, police said the suspect drove through a ditch and a barbed-wire fence before stopping. He tried to put the truck into park, but it ended up in reverse.
Police said the man fell from the open door of his truck and both of his legs were run over by the front driver’s side tyre.
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Next will be planes, trains and automobiles!
NEW YORK (AP) – People late for school or work because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers or bosses.
The New York City Transit division says it gives passengers the notes so they can prove they’re not lying about being delayed while riding the subway.
Passengers request the delay verification letters over the phone. NYC Transit verifies the date and time of the delay and sends an official note in the mail in one or two weeks. It mails 34,000 notes a year.
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Wow…..wonder how much *that* cost?
MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a “person” seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure.
Officers went to the PNC Bank in Montgomery Township on Thursday night after an alarm went off. They saw what they thought was at least one person through the windows of the bank, which had its blinds drawn.
The area was sealed off and three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution. Meanwhile, authorities used bullhorns and made telephone calls in a bid to make contact with whoever might be in the bank.
After repeatedly failing to get a response, a SWAT team entered the building and discovered the cardboard figure.
It was not immediately clear what set off the bank alarm.
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What a pile of crap:
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) – The Christmas ornaments for sale at the Miller Park Zoo’s gift shop are partly manufactured by reindeer. Honest!
Staffers make decorations out of droppings from the zoo’s two reindeer, Ealu and Rika. The droppings are dried, then clear-coated and either painted or rolled in glitter.
Zoo marketing director Susie Ohley has named the products “magical reindeer gem ornaments,” and each comes with a label of authenticity. They cost $5 at the zoo gift shop.
Staffer Katie Buydos, who makes jewelry as a hobby, donated wire and beads, saying, “Susie asked me to bring some creativity to the table.”
Some folks are surprised at the size of the “gems,” which are only about as big as marbles. “Reindeer are so big,” zoo maintenance worker Sheldon Williams said. But the droppings are “just a big pile of small.”
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What’s with all these naked drivers anyway?!?!?
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – California authorities got a shock of their own when they discovered that a drunken driving suspect they had just stunned with a Taser was completely naked.
Santa Ana police say the naked man was pulled over by police Wednesday night after his van hit a car.
Police Commander Stephen Colon says a driver alerted officers to the van that had just hit his car. He says the driver was fumbling in the front seat and refused to put his hands up.
Policed used a stun gun on his head and neck and then saw he was completely naked.
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Obviously, they’ve never been in a stadium bathroom before.
While the Iowa Hawkeyes were scoring at will on the field Saturday night, two fans from the Hawkeye State were scoring elsewhere in the Metrodome.
Police say a man and woman were “having relations” in a bathroom stall as a crowd cheered them on.
Ross M. Walsh, 26, of Linden, Iowa, and Lois K. Feldman, 38, of Carroll, Iowa, were cited for misdemeanor indecent conduct. Walsh was released to his girlfriend and Feldman to her husband, police said.
MINNEAPOLIS – While police say a high-profile indecent conduct case in the Minneapolis Metrodome Saturday is closed, a Carroll woman involved in it told the Daily Times Herald she believes she was a victim of foul play rather than a willing collaborator.
Lois K. Feldman, 38, of Carroll, and Ross M. Walsh, 26, of Linden, were ticketed for indecent conduct after they were reportedly caught engaging in sexual activity in a Metrodome men’s restroom handicapped stall during the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers game with the Iowa Hawkeyes. More than a dozen people in the restroom were cheering Feldman and Walsh by the time authorities arrived, a University of Minnesota Police report says.
Feldman acknowledged drinking heavily before the game and says she doesn’t remember being in the bathroom.
“I would never ever do that,” Feldman said. “My kids are my life. I go to church every Sunday.”
Information obtained in police reports and during an interview with University of Minnesota Police Chief Greg Hestness revealed no suggestion or evidence that the incident was anything but consensual on the part of both Walsh and Feldman.
But Feldman tells the Daily Times Herald she may have been drugged or otherwise victimized.
“Everybody thinks something got put in my drink,” Feldman said.
She offers no further details as to how that might have happened or who may have been involved.
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