SAGINAW, Mich. – A man has pleaded no contest to indecent exposure after police said he was arrested for performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum. The Saginaw News reported 29-year-old Jason Leroy Savage entered the plea Wednesday in Saginaw County Circuit Court. A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt but will be treated as one at sentencing on March 25.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) – A bungling Australian car thief was nabbed after accidentally locking himself in the vehicle he was trying to steal, police said Wednesday.
Police were called to a house in Adelaide after two thieves were heard trying to steal a car. On arrival they were surprised to find a 53-year old man hiding inside the vehicle.
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The world’s most pierced woman has added yet more metal to her body bringing the grand total to more than 6,000.
When first recognised by Guinness World Records in 2000, Elaine Davidson had 462 piercings, with 192 in her face alone.
Now, nine years later, she has 6,005 including more than 1,500 that are “internal”, reports the Daily Telegraph.
However, Miss Davidson, born in Brazil, claims she doesn’t like being pierced, and suffers for her art.
She said: “I don’t enjoy getting pierced, but to break the record you have to get to a high level. I wanted to break the record.
“My family don’t even like tattoos or piercings. But I am happy. I decided to change myself and be me.”
Miss Davidson, a nurse who now lives in Edinburgh, was speaking in Darlington, Durham, as she opened a new piercing studio.
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A Romanian woman has made herself an entire wardrobe of clothes out of her own hair.
Ioana Cioanca, 71, from Bistrita Nasaud, grew her hair from the age of 16 until it was 40 inches long so she could weave it.
“Long years I had to wait for my hair to grow so as to make clothes from it but I managed and I am very pleased now,” she said.
“Maybe there are other women who did this but I don’t know if they have so many items. I have nine of them: a hat, a shawl, a skirt, a blouse, a raincoat, a purse, a handbag and a pair of gloves.”
Mrs Cioanca explained that some of her clothes are lighter in colour because they were made in the last 10 years after her hair began to turn gray.
She says her hair made clothes are “quite comfortable and warm” and she hopes to get her name in the record books to let other people know how useful human hair can be.
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A pet pig saved its own bacon by jumping in the bath after it burned its owner’s house down in Sweden.
The Vietnamese pot bellied porker had knocked over a table lamp setting fire to curtains and was trapped in the house in Lulea.
But as firefighters searched the property they discovered the terrified, singed pig cowering in the bath.
Fireman Peter Frykman said: “We initially thought it was arson as no-one was home but then we found the scorched but still alive pig and the broken lamp and realised what had happened.”
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VASSALBORO, Maine (AP) – Cup size has more than one meaning at a new central Maine coffeehouse. Servers are topless at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop, which opened its doors Monday on a busy road in Vassalboro. A sign outside says, “Over 18 only.” Another says, “No cameras, no touching, cash only.”
On Tuesday, two men sipped coffee at a booth while three topless waitresses and a bare-chested waiter stood nearby. Topless waitress Susie Wiley said men, women and couples have stopped by.
The coffee shop raised the ire of dozens of residents when it went before the town planning board last month. Town officials said the coffee shop met the letter of the law.
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STUART, Fla. (AP) – A suspected robber in his physical prime thought he saw an easy target outside a Stuart Best Buy. But police said that the 75-year-old victim chased down 29-year-old man, who had just snatched the victim’s brand new laptop computer and printer on Sunday.
The victim told police he was waiting in front of the store for his wife to pick him up when the man grabbed the packages and ran.
Authorities said the suspect made it about 8 feet before the man grabbed him. Moments later, an off-duty deputy saw what was happening and joined the struggle.
The man was charged with robbery by sudden snatching and battery on a person over age 65. He was being held on $12,500 bail.
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ELKTON, Md. (AP) – The Cecil County Sheriff’s Office said a deputy about to take a bathroom break at a gas station smelled crack cocaine and made a quick arrest. Police spokesman Lt. Bernard Chiominto said Deputy John Lines was waiting to use the bathroom Friday at a Wawa convenience store when he smelled crack cocaine from outside the bathroom.
Lines then saw a 27-year-old man come out of the bathroom. Chiominto said Lines went in the bathroom, saw drug paraphernalia and arrested the man, who police said had glassy eyes and dilated pupils.
Police said the man resisted arrest and was subdued using pepper spray. He was charged with assault, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia after police found drug paraphernalia in his pockets.
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) – Sheriff’s officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer’s laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.
Two people in the parking lot tackled the man and held him there until a mall security guard arrived.
The victim got his laptop back and the man was charged Saturday with robbery by sudden snatching, a felony.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – The hairstyle is short on the top and long in the back, and in Green Bay the mullet has it’s very own street signs – at least when the signs haven’t been stolen. Mullet Place may not be named for the kind of hair design that became popular a few decades ago, but fans apparently like to grab the signs anyway because they disappear several times a year.
“We’ve gone through a lot of Mullet Place signs,” said Chris Pirlot of the city Public Works Department. “My only guess is that people are still in love with the ’70s and ’80s when the mullet haircut was prominent. I don’t know.”
At times, every sign on the two-block street has been gone, frustrating some residents.
“When you tell somebody directions how to get to your place, you’ve got to tell them it’s the third road on the left, because there’s no sign to tell them how to get to Mullet Place,” said Richard Fleischfresser.
The city has attempted to stop the thievery by mounting the signs beyond anyone’s reach, about 20 feet from the ground.
Pirlot said it costs $100 each to replace the signs.
Stealing one can cost a lot more. Police say anyone caught taking a street sign can be fined $361 for theft plus $676 for criminal damage to property.
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CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) – If only he had remembered to take the pistol out of a sack of nickels he brought to a bank, he may have remained free and not become a suspect in a recent burglary. An 18-year-old man entered the BancorpSouth branch Wednesday to change $88 worth of nickels to paper money, Camden police said. After spotting the gun, the teller told a supervisor, who called police.
After police questioned him, they had cause to obtain a search warrant for his home, where they found $16,000 worth of allegedly stolen property, including eight firearms. Camden police Capt. Scott Rosson said many of the nickels were from a stolen coin collection.
The Ouachita County Jail said Friday that the man was charged with resisting arrest and possession of a firearm. Police were investigating the burglary aspect of the case. The jail didn’t have information on his bond.
Rosson said the man had no intention of robbing the bank. The .44-caliber handgun was not loaded but ammunition for the gun was also in the bag. Police said the man planned to sell the gun at a pawn shop.
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A Montenegrin man survived a suicide bid after buying a coffin from a funeral director, climbing in and trying to shoot himself. Milo Bogisic, 52, paid cash for the coffin and asked puzzled staff to wait while he wrote out his own obituary. Then he jumped into the casket, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger before the shocked undertakers could stop him. But amazed medics in Podgorica managed to save him when the bullet passed straight through his chin and nose missing his brain, say police. “He was suffering from some family problems and was devastated that he hadn’t managed to end it all,” said a police spokesman. And undertakers Palma Funerals have added insult to injury by refusing to give him a refund on the coffin. “He’ll have to keep it. He’ll get some proper use out of it one day,” said one worker.
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A German robber was caught after he escaped with his loot – but left his trousers behind.
Thomas Kohler, 21, punched taxi driver Daniel Eiffel, 53, in the face and made to run off with his mobile phone at Siegburg, near Cologne.
But as he turned to flee the cabbie grabbed his loose fitting trousers – which were torn free as he fled.
Mr Eiffel said: “My natural reaction as he tried to make off with my phone was to grab for him but I could only reach his trousers. He kept struggling and managed to wriggle out of them and run off half-naked.”
Mr Eiffel called police on a phone he borrowed from a passer-by and gave them a description of the trouserless crook.
“I didn’t think the police would have a hard job catching a man running round the city in his underwear,” he said.
Police successfully arrested the thief at a train station trying to board a train in his underpants.
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A Croatian man says he’s in perfect health – after drinking nothing but Coca-Cola for more than 40 years. Pero Ajtman, 71, of Karanac, started his Coke only diet in 1968 after promising his mum he wouldn’t drink alcohol. “My mum didn’t like me drinking when I was a young man as she was very religious. She made me promise never to drink again and Coca-Coca was the only thing that tasted as good as wine so I started drinking that,” Ajtman told daily 24 Sata. But the pensioner was soon hooked and stopped drinking anything but the fizzy soft drink. “Now I have a glass in the morning, before and after lunch, with my dinner and then before I go to bed. I never drink anything else,” he said. “My mother isn’t here to tell me not to drink anymore but I’m not even tempted to quit coke for alcohol. Coke is my drug now, and I’ll drink it till I die.”
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A two-year-old boy has been ‘married’ to a dog in India to protect him from ghosts and bad luck. Sagula Munda was taken in a highly decorated rickshaw to the house of the dog, called Jyoti, where priests solemnised the ceremony. The “marriage” was held in the tribal-dominated Patarpur village in Jajpur district, reports the BBC. Priests chanted Sankrit prayers and hymns and there was an accompanying feast. The boy’s father, Sanrumula Munda, said the marriages would help ease the bad omen of the tooth rooted in Sagula’s upper gum. Arranging “marriages” with dogs kept children protected from ghosts and bad luck, he said. The owner of the dog, Parakrama Munda, said: “This is just a ceremony to please the tribal deity – in the great epic Mahabharat a dog helped the Pandavas reach heaven.”
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Men and women sin in different ways according to the Vatican which says women are prouder than men, but men are more lustful.
A Catholic survey found that the most common sin for women was pride, while for men, the urge for food was only surpassed by the urge for sex.
The report was based on a study of confessions carried out by Fr Roberto Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar.
The Pope’s personal theologian backed up the report, in the Vatican newspaper.
“Men and women sin in different ways,” Msgr Wojciech Giertych, theologian to the papal household, wrote in L’Osservatore Romano.
“When you look at vices from the point of view of the difficulties they create you find that men experiment in a different way from women.”
Msgr Giertych said the most difficult sin for men to face was lust, followed by gluttony, sloth, anger, pride, envy and greed.
For women, the most dangerous sins were pride, envy, anger, lust, and sloth, he added.
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METAIRIE, La. (AP) – Deputies said they didn’t have to look far to find the person who stole thousands of dollars worth of heating and air conditioning equipment. They say the thief was right behind the counter.
According to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest report, a 44-year-old man, who manages an appliance part store, may have made off with about $203,000 worth of inventory.
On Jan. 9, the manager filed a theft report indicating that 70 rolls of 50-foot copper sheets were missing from his inventory. The report said that further investigation by the company revealed that the manager had been entering the store after hours using his personal alarm code.
Officials said the manager later confessed to selling the equipment and pocketing up to $50,000 in cash on the deals.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – Authorities said a burglary suspect was literally caught with his pants down while trying to run away. A deputy responded to an alarm at a convenient store early Tuesday morning and reported seeing a 37-year-old man exiting through a smashed-out front door while carrying several packs of cigarettes. Deputies said the man tried to flee, but the handfuls of cigarettes prevented him from holding up his pants, which fell down and tripped him before he could make it out of the parking lot. The man was charged with criminal mischief, burglary, theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was being held on $12,000 bail.
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NATICK, Mass. (AP) – All the customer wanted was coffee. Instead, he needs four new tires.
Police say a worker at a Massachusetts Dunkin’ Donuts slashed the tires on a customer’s Jeep after the two got into an argument Tuesday.
Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Zazulak was charged with malicious destruction of property and disturbing the peace.
Police say the dispute broke out when the customer – whose name wasn’t released – started to leave because he was tired of waiting for the cup of coffee he ordered.
Words were exchanged, then Zazulak allegedly followed him outside, pulled out a folding knife and slashed the tires.
Zazulak pleaded not guilty Thursday. His lawyer, Joseph Leone, says he has no history of violence and the truth will come out in the legal process.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has sued on behalf of a man whose company name – “I Choose Hell Productions” – was rejected by the state.
Filmmaker George Kalman’s request in 2007 to register as a business was turned down because of a state law prohibiting names that contain blasphemy or profanity.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday against Pennsylvania’s Department of State contends the statute is unconstitutional because it relies on religious standards and violates Kalman’s freedom of speech rights.
Kalman says he chose the name because he believes it is better to struggle through difficult times – that is, live in “hell” – than to commit suicide.
The lawsuit seeks undetermined damages and use of the name.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – It took a wedgie and a headlock to pin down a man suspected of breaking into a car. Yvonne Morris, a technician at the Brickyard Animal Hospital, said she chased a man who broke into a co-worker’s car, but he kept squirming away from her.
Morris eventually grabbed the man’s boxer shorts and pulled. Salt Lake City police said she then she put a headlock on the man until help could arrive.
The man was booked into the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of vehicle burglary, possession of stolen property and outstanding warrants.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) – A string of motorists have complained to Henry and Washington county sheriffs that they were exposed to a little more love than they cared for near Valentine’s Day. Police are seeking a man they said passes cars on State Highway 78 near Mount Pleasant, pulls over and exposes himself.
A woman told the Washington County Sheriff’s Office she was north of Wayland when the man allegedly passed her and exposed himself. Police said they’ve heard the same story from several people.
Police haven’t released a description of the man or his vehicle and won’t said whether they have a suspect, citing the open investigation.
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A burglar who stole a DVD player in China was arrested – when he went back for the remote.
But the thief was allowed to go free – when police officers ruled the £100 DVD player was not valuable enough for them to press charges.
Song, 25, of Chengdu, first broke into the house in December. He later realised he had forgotten the remote control so broke into the same building again a month later.
But this time he found the owner, Dai, watching television in the living room, reports Chengdu Business Daily.
Under pressure from Dai, Song admitted he had been responsible for the previous raid and Dai escorted him to the police station to report the crime.
But to Dai’s amazement, police said the £100 DVD player was not worth enough to prosecute Song and he was set free.
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A short-sighted Austrian farmer set his house on fire after mistaking the fridge for the fireplace. Adolf Maier, 87, from Angerberg in Tyrol, had left the door of the fridge open. He then decided it was so cold he ought to light a fire in the fireplace which was next to the fridge. Mr Maier said: “I put firelighters and wood in what I thought was the usual place, and suddenly there was smoke everywhere. I thought it was cold when I lit the match – now I know why.” He promised firefighters who extinguished the blaze that he will get better spectacles in the future.
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) – A man in Washington state made sure a pair of burglars didn’t get away with his three flat-screen televisions – he moved their getaway car.
Patrick Rosario was in the basement of his Bellevue home on Tuesday when he heard the burglars upstairs.
The Seattle Times says the 32-year-old Rosario, who had been laid off from his job as a Washington Mutual manager, called 911 while he sneaked out of the house.
He saw a white van sitting in front of his house with the motor running and the keys in the ignition, and he got in and drove it to a friend’s house.
Police say the burglars left the televisions, a laptop computer and a jewelry box by the door and took off on foot.
The sheriff’s office said no arrests had been made.
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PERRY, Ohio (AP) – A northeast Ohio farmer who died of cancer has been laid to rest with the help of some of the llamas he raised on his farm.
Two of Terry McCrone’s llamas made up an honor guard at his funeral Friday at Perry Christian Church. Four others from a statewide drill team joined them, wearing purple ribbons as they lined up outside the church. The llamas also escorted a hearse to Perry Cemetery.
The 61-year-old McCrone died Feb. 7. The Rev. Bob Ladygo of Bible Baptist Church says McCrone’s llamas would visit him at his window after he became sick.
The ribbons the llamas wore were given to McCrone’s wife and daughter.
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LA MARQUE, Texas (AP) – An allegedly intoxicated couple stopped at a police station to try to catch a lift home. La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said the woman collapsed in the lobby. Her 22-year-old boyfriend was arrested after marijuana was found in his shoes.
Price told The Associated Press on Friday he believes the two were under the influence of narcotics and “thought they needed to get a ride home.”
The Galveston County Daily News reports a police dispatcher monitoring security video Wednesday night noticed the pair.
Price said the woman, who received medical attention, recovered and will be cited for public intoxication. Her name was not released.
Michael Carl Bell of Texas City was jailed on a marijuana possession charge. A Galveston County jailer, who declined to allow her name to be used, said bond was $2,592.
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India’s Hindu nationalist movement says it is in the final stages of developing a new soft drink made from cow urine.
The Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India’s biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, is behind the new brew, reports The Times.
Department head Om Prakash said the drink – called “gau jal” or “cow water” – was undergoing lab tests and would be launched “very soon, maybe by the end of this year”.
“Don’t worry, it won’t smell like urine and will be tasty too,” he said. “Its USP will be that it’s going to be very healthy. It won’t be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins.”
Mr Prakash said his drink was made mainly of cow urine, mixed with herbs, and would be “cheap”, but declined to give further details until it was officially launched.
He insisted, however, that it would be able to compete with the likes of Coca Cola and Pepsi.
“We’re going to give them good competition as our drink is good for mankind,” he said. “We may also think of exporting it.”
The drink is the latest attempt by the RSS to cleanse India of foreign influence and promote its Hindu ideology.
Hindus revere cows and slaughtering them is illegal in most of India. The RSS claims cow urine can cure ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer
The movement organised a nationwide boycott of multinational consumer goods, including Pepsi and Coca Cola, in 1994.
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