Animal sacrifices don’t just happen in far off places like Nepal or South Africa, they happen in the mainland United States. too.
Sacrificers: It’s religion, not abuse
By STEPHANIE FARR | Philadelphia Daily News | Philly.com | Dec. 14, 2009 | farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225
ON NOV. 24 in Katmandu, Nepal, more than 200,000 animals were sacrificed as part of an ancient Hindu ritual celebrated just once every five years.
Half a world away and two weeks prior, on Friday the 13th, in Northeast Philadelphia, five beheaded animals – a cat, three chickens and the skeletal remains of a dog – were found near an Olney bike path in what Pennsylvania SPCA officials said was the 11th case of animal sacrifice documented in the city this year.
PSCPA officials said that they often see more animal sacrifices in the city between November and December because it correlates with “high holidays” celebrated by various groups.
At first this story is funny, ha ha ha, duh stupid robbers forgot your kid at the crime scene. Then when you realize this couple brought their child to a violent robbery and the child was supposed to help them and then they left him behind it’s sad, and really fricking messed up.
Good luck kid, good luck. Keep smiling.
Phila. Police Arrest Parents in Bizarre South St. Jewelry Store Heist
KYW.com | Monday, 01 March 2010 12:07PM | by KYW’s Mike DeNardo and John Ostapkovich
Police say they’ve arrested the man and woman who robbed a South Street jewelry store on Saturday and left their four-year-old son behind as they got away.
The couple was arrested together around midnight at a motel in the 7600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. John Benson, 47, and Sheakia Stubbs, 31, are charged with robbery, child endangerment, and attempted murder.
South Detectives captain Laurence Nodiff (right) says the pair had their four-year-old son with them on Saturday when they grabbed more than a dozen rings worth about $50,000 and ran from the “Platinum and Ice” jewelry store at Sixth and South Streets (see related story).
The store owner chased them until, according to police, Stubbs slashed him in the neck with some sort of sharp object. The couple ran away, leaving the boy behind. The store owner required nearly a dozen stitches
DHS is caring for the boy (right), whom Nodiff says helped track down the suspects:
“The child, as a result of a debriefing by the Special Victims Unit, was able to give us some information to help us locate the parents.”
Police say Benson has 24 prior arrests, and Stubbs three.
The stolen rings have not been recovered. Nodiff says that police are willing to waive a charge of receiving stolen property if the items are turned in.
Police: Man rides on car hood in his underwear
www.heraldstandard.com/February 19, 2010
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Police expect to file charges against a 57-year-old man who was wearing only underwear in frigid temperatures when he hopped on the hood of his girlfriend’s moving car during an argument. Police have yet to identify the man or his 28-year-old girlfriend, saying they’ll release the names once they sort out what charges to file.
Police were called about 3:20 a.m. Thursday by someone reporting a man riding on the hood of a car, screaming at the woman driving it.
The woman had a bruise under her left eye and police said they found drug paraphernalia in the car.
Uniontown is about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. The region has been hit by heavy snows and overnight temperatures were in the teens on Thursday.
The pressure of Valentine’s Day is just too much for some people.
Man beaten with high-heel on Waffle House Valentine’s date gone wrong
savannahnow.com | February 18, 2010 | By Michael Atkins
Pooler police say violence erupted during one couple’s Valentine’s Day outing, as the suitor’s former lover burst into the restaurant and beat the man with her high-heel.
Early Sunday morning, officers were called to the Waffle House at 1012 E. U.S. 80, finding a “blood-covered floor and tables in a state of disarray,” according an incident report filed by Pooler police.
A 33-year-old man had suffered cuts and scrapes on his face, marks left by the “spiked heel from a shoe,” police reported.
The victim told officers that he and his girlfriend were at a booth when a pair of sisters – one of whom is the mother of his children – came in and sparked an argument.
He tried to ignore them, police reported, even as they began hitting him. A Waffle House manager told police the women also hurled sugar and salt containers through a window.
At some point, the assailants went to the parking lot and damaged the man’s car, police reported.
They then returned inside, and the man struck at least one of the women, according to the report.
That’s when the women took off in a car; a Savannah-Chatham police officer spotted the getaway vehicle and followed it to a Savannah hospital, Pooler police reported.
One of the women was treated for a cut above her right eye before both were taken to the Pooler police department.
The suspects – identified as Kenya White, 29, of Meldrim; and Marrisha White, 32, of Hinesville – were each charged with battery and criminal damage to private property, according to the incident report. They were taken to the Chatham County jail.
Paramedics treated the victim at the scene, police reported.
The most interesting thing about this prank is that it happened twice, which seems as though it’s a grudge and not random. Alas, no photo available.
Aurora woman’s car slathered in barbecue sauce, pickles
Clifford Ward, Special to the Tribune | www.chicagotribune.com | July 7 2009
Revenge, according to the proverb, is a dish that is best served cold.
But apparently, it also can be served like a pulled pork sandwich.
That’s the speculation of an Aurora woman who found her car slathered
with barbecue sauce and pickles on consecutive nights.
On July 1, the 23-year-old victim, who was not identified by police,
discovered her 2001 Chevrolet Impala had been hit by a condiment
assault.
The woman cleaned her car and moved it to a different part of the
driveway, so it was nearer to the house and blocked from the street by
a family member’s car.
Around 3 a.m., she heard her dog barking. And the next morning, she
found a second helping of sauce and pickles covering her car.
The victim told police that she suspects the source of the tangy
harassment is a woman she had confronted because the woman was
interested in the victim’s boyfriend.
According to the report from the Kane County sheriff’s police, the
sauce and pickles didn’t hurt the car’s finish. The woman hosed them
off as police stood by.
Director Kevin Smith accompanied this mobile photo with 'Look how fat I am on your plane! Quick! Throw me off!' (Credit: Twitter/@thatkevinsmith)
Recently New Jersey raised film director and smart ass Kevin Smith wanted to fly to Oakland to speak at a MAC conference. He booked 2 seats on a Southwest Airlines flight. However, once he checked in he wanted an earlier flight than the one he booked and agreed to “standby” for the desired flight. A standby seat did indeed become available, but it was one single seat.
Once he was seated the trouble began. Smith said he could put the armrests down and buckle his belt once seated on the stand by flight. Then stuff happened. Eventually the pilot told him he could not fit in the seat and could not fly on that flight, and Smith had to get off the plane.
Smith then began to TWEET about the event as did Southwest. Their media interplay will probably continue, with Smith generating many pointed TWEETS about the incident. Since Smith has a new film coming out soon, he will probably milk the free publicity for all it’s worth.
Many articles about this incident focus on the “obese passenger problem.” Smith did initially purchase 2 seats. I understand the desire to have some elbow room, on Southwest I literally can’t move my arms without bumping the person next to me. An extra seat will also put some distance between oneself and the parade of humanity that flies Southwest.As Smith said
“I can fit into a Soutwest Airlines seat,” Smith stated in the podcast, defending his size. “This is the important part of the story. If I have to, I can fly one seat on Southwest. I just opt not to, because it’s more comfortable, and I have enough money to do it.”
but then he also tweeted
“Contrary to their claim that I regularly purchase two seats, I wasn’t a regular 2-seat buyer until just this week. They SEIZED on that. In their ‘apology’ blog, they implied (or flat-out wrote) that I regularly purchase 2 seats. Writing that buttresses their lie: 2 Fat 2 Fly.
“But, by their own guidelines, I was not, in fact, 2 Fat 2 Fly: the arm rests went down & I could buckle my seat belt w/o an extender. So…? Hey @SouthwestAir: you bring that same row of seats to the DailyShow, and I’ll sit in ‘em for all to see on TV.
“If I don’t fit, I’ll donate $10k to charity of your choice. But when I do (& buckle the belt as well)? 1) You admit you lied. 2) Change your policy, or at least re-train your staff to be a lot more human and a lot less corporate.”
in another TWEET
After his flight from Oakland landed in Los Angeles he wrote “Don’t worry: wall of the plane was opened and I was airlifted out.”
in another TWEET
“So, @SouthwestAir, go f*** yourself, I broke no regulation, offered no “safety risk” (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?).”
in another TWEET
“Fuck making it right for me just ’cause I have a platform. I sat next to a big girl who was chastised for not buying an extra ticket because “all passengers deserve their space.” Fucking flight wasn’t even full! Fuck your size-ist policy. Rude..”
Smith is no shrinking violet. In this vid clip from 2007 Smith easily handles a heckler. Alas the sound quality is poor but it shows Smith thinking quickly, sharply and smiling while he hands a critic their ass. Ironically I found this clip when I searched for “Kevin Smith teets” when I mean to search for his tweets.
Kevin Smith peeved after airline says he’s too big for one seat
By Randy McMullen | Contra Costa Times | 02/16/2010
Director and actor Kevin Smith and Southwest Airlines engaged in a war of words Sunday and Monday — on Twitter and on blog posts — after Smith was refused a seat on a Southwest Oakland-to-Burbank flight because he’s too hefty.
“You have messed with the wrong sedentary, processed-foods eater,” snapped the filmmaker in a Twitter post Sunday.
Smith, best known as the director of “Clerks” and for portraying the Silent Bob comedic character, says he tried to board a Sunday flight but was turned away even though, he claims, he could fit in the seat and buckle himself in.
Smith, who has openly talked and joked about his weight problem, acknowledges he normally buys two seats while flying, and did so on an Oakland-Burbank flight on Sunday. But his plans went awry when he tried to snag an earlier flight. He was put on standby and was informed that a single seat had become available. But when he came aboard, the flight’s pilots ruled that he did not fit in the single seat.
I’m a bit surprised they released the name of the kid involved in this. I thought that 17 was considered a minor but am not expert in this area.
Photos of the items found on 17-year-old James Gouge when he was discovered hiding in an igloo. Image wpvi.com
Teen hides in igloo to evade police
wpvi.com | 2/11/2010
17-year-old James Gouge of Wilmington Manor Gardens has been charged with drug related offenses after he tried to dodge police officers as he hid into a homemade igloo while carrying an illegal fixed blade knife, two “bongs” and 7.5 grams of marijuana.
The incident happened Wednesday morning at 8:30 when county officers responded to the Wilmington Manor Gardens community for a report of a male who was walking in the snowstorm possibly carrying a gun. The officers searched the neighborhood for several minutes but originally could not locate the subject.
A neighbor then called 911 and reported seeing a suspicious male hiding inside a snow bank. The officers responded to the area on Notre Dame Avenue and found two black shoes sticking out from the entrance to the igloo.
The officers removed the subject from the igloo and found he was in possession of an 8 inch fixed blade “survival” style knife, two bongs (used for smoking illegal drugs) and 7.5 grams of marijuana.
The teen was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon, three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, carrying a concealed dangerous instrument (a hammer) and possession of marijuana. He has been arraigned and released to his parents pending a Family Court hearing.
This sort of story is usually shortly followed by the fist fight caused by the shoveled and “reserved” city parking space.
Random urban snow shoveling and car image.
Man points gun at neighbor over snow shoveling
AP | Feb. 9, 2010
NEW CASTLE, Del. — New Castle County Police said a man pointed a gun at a neighbor who was shoveling snow on Saturday at the Hampton Walk Apartments. A man told police a neighbor came outside while he was shoveling, pointed a gun and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t stop shoveling snow onto his car.
A man, 43, was arrested and charged with aggravated menacing.
Even though Picasso was prolific his works are still precious. I’m glad it wasn’t a Vermeer. I’m reminded of a story, that I don’t have posted here about a man who stumbled at a British museum and destroyed a giant precious vase.
Woman Collides With a Picasso
By CAROL VOGEL; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS | January 24, 2010 | New York Times
On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into “The Actor,” right, a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner. Immediately after the accident the painting was taken to the Met’s conservation studio so experts could assess the damage, museum officials said. A statement released by the Met on Sunday afternoon said, “The damage did not occur in the focal point of the composition and the curatorial and conservation staffs fully expect that the repair — which will take place in the coming weeks — will be unobtrusive.” The canvas — about 6 ½ feet by 4 feet — was hanging on the wall of a second-floor gallery with other early Picassos. The museum declined to identify the woman, but said she was not injured. Picasso created the painting, which depicts an itinerant acrobat theatrically posed, during the winter of 1904-5. Museum officials said they expected the repair to be completed in time for “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” an exhibition of some 250 works from its collection opening on April 27.
In defense of the authorities, a Teffilin, is an uncommon item and the way it’s worn does appear bizarre. A mysterious black box is strapped to the head and straps wound round the arm. Add some words said in a guttural middle eastern language by a young possibly dark haired man and MAYHEM!
Imagine the confusion and panic when the kid told the crew he was being observant and was just saying his morning prayers. Perhaps the kid was even upset and offended and got belligerent. Can you blame the flight crew for being scared, careful, cautious erring on the side of safety?
Whatever happened, it brought down a plane and educated the news watching populace about Jewish religious objects.
Teffilin.
Teffilin to go!
Teffilin, though uncommon, are safe for kids.
Barbie wearing a mini Teffilin. The author is unsure women are allowed to wear Teffilin.
Prayer Box Confused for Dangerous Device on Plane
Teen praying on plane accidentally seen as a danger
By KAREN ARAIZA | Jan 21, 2010 | www.nbcphiladelphia.com
A Jewish teenager who was praying on a plane and wearing a religious object made one of the flight crew members so nervous the plane was diverted to land immediately at Philadelphia International Airport Thursday morning.
The airport went into Emergency Response mode for what turned out to be a big cultural misunderstanding.
The 17-year-old was wearing a Teffilin — a Jewish religious object that has two boxes attached to leather straps.
One of the flight crew was alarmed. Police said she had no idea what it was and even though the teen tried to explain he was just saying his morning prayers, the pilots decided to take no chances.
The plane was flying from LaGuardia to Kentucky and the crew radioed in to the tower at Philadelphia International explaining the circumstances and asking to land.
All of the passengers — except for the teen — were evacuated.
The bomb squad, anti-terrorism squad, FBI and TSA all swarmed in.
They searched the plane and found nothing out of the ordinary. And when they interviewed the teenager, they figured out quickly that there was no threat at all.
The teen was with his younger sister, who was so distraught she was crying. Their parents were coming down to Philly to drive them home.
This case first came to my attention because the judge ordered a $150 a day makeup artist be hired to cover up Mr. Ditullio many visual, neck and face tattoos. That makeup artist may have prevented an innocent man for paying for a crime he did not commit.
These are truly some of the worst tattoos I’ve ever seen. I have seen kids in elementary school draw stuff on their faces and do a better job. If all his friends had similar tattoos can you imagine how fast they could clear out a Waffle House?
Hung jury in neo-Nazi trial
www.myfoxtampabay.com | 13 Dec 2009, 4:13 AM EST
NEW PORT RICHEY – A jury was unable to come up with a verdict in the case of accused murderer and self professed neo-Nazi John Ditullio.
At 10:40 p.m. Friday night, after almost 11 hours of deliberation, Circuit Judge Michael Andrews declared the jury hung and ordered prosecutors and the defense to return to court at 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning.
The jury told the judge that ten of the jurors believed Ditullio to be innocent. The remaining two were convinced he was guilty of killing 17-year-old Kristopher King and stabbing Tricia Wells at her home three years ago.
It’s been three years since 17-year-old Kristopher King was stabbed to death. John Ditullio has spent as many years in jail accused of the heinous murder. But Friday, one witness said she has known for the past two years who really did it.
His name, she said, is Shawn Plott.
“Shawn said to me that he kinda felt bad because he did this and he feels bad that a kid has to go away for this but it’s okay because he wouldn’t ave made it as a Nazi anyway,” testified Samantha Troupe.
Shawn Plott, a fellow neo-nazi to Ditullio, is the man the defense says committed the crimes.
