Whoops and wow. Read the whole article because everybody else at her house had an outstanding warrant against them. Maybe the 3 year old was the best one to be handling the shot gun.
Ms. Smullen
Teen mom arrested after child, 3, shoots firehouse
2010.08.26 | 6abc.com
An 18-year-old woman is under arrest after, police say, her 3-year-old child fired a shotgun, hitting a firehouse.
Christy A. Smullen, of Seaford, Delaware, was arrested and faces a number of charges including Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
Police say they were called to the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department around 2:10 p.m. Wednesday.
Once there, officers say they saw two bullet holes in a roll-up style door on the west side of the building.
The investigators say they learned the three year old somehow had gotten a shotgun from the home and brought it to an outside porch.
Police say the shotgun went off, hitting the firehouse door.
The Delaware Division of Family Services responded and placed the child with his father.
Smullen was released on $8,000 secured bond.
Meanwhile, two other women inside the house, Keisha A. Griffith, 39 and Stephanie Brittingham, 36, were found at the home and arrested on outstanding court orders.
The Seaford Police Department reminds everyone to properly lock and secure both their firearms and ammunition in a safe location away from children.
Smuggling may not be the oldest profession but its surely in the top 5.
Click an image to view larger. Photographs courtesy TRAFFIC
Tiger Cub: Freed, Fuzzy Headed
National Geographic | August 26, 2010
The cat’s out of the bag—at least for a woman caught smuggling a live, two-month-old, drugged tiger cub in a suitcase full of toys (pictured) at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Sunday.
The 31-year-old Thai national, whose identity has not been revealed by Thai authorities, was scheduled to board a Mahan Air flight to Iran. But when she was seen struggling with a large bag at check-in, airport officials decided to x-ray her luggage.
The x-rays revealed the tranquilized tiger cub among stuffed-tiger toys, according to a statement released Thursday by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network. (Related video: “Tiger Trade Slashes Big Cats’ Numbers.”)
Officials are investigating whether the cub was wild caught or captive-bred, as well as where the woman intended to bring the tiger.
All Asian tigers are listed as endangered or worse by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), mostly due to the illegal trade in tiger parts. (Read about how to save tigers with National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative.)
It is a shame these creative, intelligent, young men fired shots at the police and then died in a shootout. Bank robbery is a crime, no matter if Santa Claus, a Leprechaun or Charles Manson is the perp. Shooting at the police is bad and will get you killed, on the spot or perhaps later after a stint on death row.
I stumbled onto the story of Cotton and Skinner while researching a leprechaun sighting. Ha ha ha Leprechaun robs bank! That tangent lead me to Santa robs bank and Darth Vader robs banks.
I was shocked to discover Cotton and Skinner were the Leprechaun AND Santa Claus bank robbers. The story got deeper and sadder as facts revealed that they fired shots while fleeing the Leprechaun heist and died after a chase and a shootout.
Below are links to video of their story, with comments from close friends as well as a horror film that Cotton helped make.
In this undated photo provided by Gallatin Police Department, David Christopher Cotton is shown. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were Cotton of Brentwood and Jonathan Ryan Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
In this undated photo provided by Gallatin Police Department, Jonathan Ryan Skinner is shown. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were David Christopher Cotton of Brentwood and Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
In this image made from surveillance video provided by Gallatin Police Department, David Christopher Cotton, dressed as a leprechaun, is seen during a robbery of First State Bank in Gallatin, Tenn., Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were David Christopher Cotton of Brentwood and Jonathan Ryan Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)
Brentwood HS Grads Killed In Police Shootout
Families Remember Sons, Not Costumed Robbers
March 19, 2010 | www.wsmv.com
GALLATIN, Tenn. — The man who staged a St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.
Investigators in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin said information from the FBI linked David Christopher Cotton, 20, of Brentwood to the December robbery.
The last footage of Cotton and Skinner is video from the dashboard camera of a Gallatin police vehicle. But that’s unlikely what friends and family will remember most.
The two men were both 20 years old and graduates of Brentwood High School. Skinner was a junior at Western Kentucky University, majoring in meteorology. He had an internship at a Nashville television station last year.
Things are tough all over. Santa needed cash in Tennessee to “pay his elves.” Since that heist was so successful a few months later the same lads dressed as Leprechauns to rob a bank. The luck of the Irish was not with them and they met a bad end. After the jump are more photos and a story about the Santa robbery.
This Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 image made from video released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows a man dressed as Santa robbing the Sun Trust Bank in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
GALLATIN, Tenn. – The man who staged a St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.
Investigators in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin said information from the FBI linked David Christopher Cotton, 20, of Brentwood to the December robbery.
FBI Supervisor Special Agent Scott Augenbaum told The Associated Press that investigators found a Santa suit at Cotton’s home, and that the suspect made similar comments during both robberies.
Lately bank robbers have been using more creative disguises than just a wig and glasses. In this story, Darth Vader needs cash.
Suffolk County Police Major Case detectives are investigating the robbery of a Chase bank branch in Setauket by a man wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape. A man entered the bank, located at 4080 Route 347, at 11:30 a.m. today, displayed a gun and demanded cash. The teller complied with the robbers demands and gave him money from the drawer. The man fled eastbound through the parking lot. The man is between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He was wearing a Darth Vader mask, a blue cape and camouflage pants.
Suffolk County Police Major Case detectives are investigating the robbery of a Chase bank branch in Setauket by a man wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape. A man entered the bank, located at 4080 Route 347, at 11:30 a.m. today, displayed a gun and demanded cash. The teller complied with the robbers demands and gave him money from the drawer. The man fled eastbound through the parking lot. The man is between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He was wearing a Darth Vader mask, a blue cape and camouflage pants.
Man wearing Darth Vader mask and cape robs Long Island bank with gun, shoves customer to floor
BY John Lauinger | DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER | www.nydailynews.com | July 23rd 2010
A lot of robbers use force. This one used the Force.
A bandit decked out in a Darth Vader costume strolled into a Long Island bank on Thursday – and walked out with a wad of cash.
The villain looked ready for Halloween, wearing the “Star Wars” scoundrel’s signature mask and sweeping black cape.
Men accused of beating Porky Pig at theme park
www.wafb | Jul 16, 2010 11:46 AM
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) – Police said authorities at Six Flags Great America ejected two off-duty employees from the theme park after they allegedly attacked a female colleague dressed as “Porky Pig.” Gurnee Police Sgt. Jon Ward says two young men took a photo with Porky on Monday afternoon, and then punched the mascot in the head 10 to 15 times.
Ward said park security detained the men until police arrived. He said the men wereissued local ordinance citations for battery.
He said the suspects denied the attack, but witnesses confirmed the story.
The 24-year-old woman inside the mascot costume suffered headaches and a stiff neck.
Tila Tequila did not do a good job of handling the unruly crowd at The Gathering of the Juggalos, an Insane Clown Posse event. The crowd pelted her with a variety of things that according to various sources may have included, stone, rocks, “stone rocks,” beer bottles, water balloons filled with urine, batteries, feces, various liquids, firecrackers and after she had taken off her shirt at least one hoodie or jacket.
The crowd then chased her offstage, broke out the windows of the trailer where she sought refuge then broke out the windows of the SUV she escaped in.
At first it seems funny. Ms Tequilla is a nebulous celebrity at best and her music skills seem weak and a poor fit for “outsider music” event The Gathering. But violence of this magnitude is not good.
According to some sources, the attack was premeditated by event organizers via TWEET. Classy guys.
Tila Tequila suffers cuts, but escapes juggalos attack
By Alan Duke | CNN | August 15, 2010
(CNN) — Reality TV star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts when she was pelted with rocks and bottles while performing at a music festival in Illinois early Saturday, according to a witness and a law enforcement official.
“She’s pretty cut up,” said a performer who saw the violence at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos.
Tequila, a Playboy model who also sings, posted a Twitter message Saturday, saying she would sue the festival, which is organized for fans of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse.
“Pretty soon, the owners who run the juggalos will be bankrupt,” she tweeted.
The fans are mostly young people who sometimes wear clown make up and are referred to as juggalos and juggalettes.
Festival organizers did not immediately respond to CNN requests for a response.
Seriously, what can go wrong in an old wooden building full of drunk people, alcohol and open flame?
Albert Trummer, Apotheke owner and self-proclaimed artist.
NY barkeep famed for flaming liquor stunt arrested
www.boston.com | June 14, 2010
NEW YORK—A barkeep whose flaming liquor show was featured in “Real Housewives of New York City” has been arrested for performing the fiery feat. Authorities said undercover fire marshals arrested the barkeep about 2 a.m. Sunday after he set alight Apotheke’s bar top, where he had poured various liquors. Chief Fire Marshal Robert Byrnes said the stunt sparked a “huge fireball.”
Air steward Steven Slater shot to notoriety and fame after recently quitting his job with amplified four letter words and an exit on the emergency slide while carrying 2 beers.
While this story is heavily covered, it’s difficult to get a complete time line of events and background on Mr Slater. I’ve cobbled together the following story using a variety of internet sources, newspapers, networks, blogs of eyewitnesses and social networking posts made by Slater prior to his incident.
There are several “video recreations” of the events online but none are accurate when compared to the story the sources tell.
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater after being released from jail in the Bronx on Tuesday night. Heckman for NY Daily News
video of his release from custody after posting bail.
Steven Slater, who is 37 or 38 years old began working as an air steward at age 19. His father was a pilot for American Airlines, and died more than a decade ago. His mother Diane Slater of California, currently has lung cancer.
He had enthusiasm for his work, posting on MySpace page under the moniker NYCFLYER “My airline affiliation allows me amazing travel privileges. And I love to max it out with trips around the world, sometimes on a moment’s notice! Let’s go!”
This March in a series of posts to online forum Airliners.net a user, Skyliner747, who appears to be Slater took a swipe at passengers who try to bring on too many bags. “I hate to be a bag nazi when i work a flight, but I feel if I am not, then I am letting down all those who cooperate and [try] to help out as well, I am frustrated with many of them for their unrealistic approach regarding carry-ons.”
His attorney Howard Turman said Slater was personally affected by the events of TWA Flight 800 and the September 11 attacks. The lawyer pointed out that Slater was scheduled to work on the return voyage of Flight 800 and had lost a lot of friends from the disaster.
ROUGH TIME LINE
-Slater is an air steward on JetBlue Airways Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport August 9, 2010.
-Mr Slater’s attorney, Howard Turman, said his client had been drawn into a fight between two female passengers over space in the overhead bins as the Pittsburgh-to-New York flight was awaiting takeoff. Somehow, Mr Slater was hit in the head, Mr Turman said.
-Passengers report turbulence during the flight was a bit more intense than typical, but nothing to be alarmed over.
-JetBlue Flight 1052 landed at Kennedy Airport in New York around 11:45am EDT
-A women who had been asked to gate-check her bag was reportedly furious that it wasn’t immediately available.
Thumbs up must mean they used cream cheese instead.
Deadly weapon?
Argument over butter gets ugly, police say
By Michele Mihalovich | www.wenatcheeworld.com | Saturday, June 19, 2010
WATERVILLE — A culinary argument between a brother and sister about whether to use butter or margarine turned violent, resulting in an attack with a knife-edged barbecue spatula, police say.
A 21-year-old man called East Wenatchee police on June 6 to say his 17-year-old sister had just attacked him and tried to cut his neck with the serrated edge of the spatula, wrote Officer Carrie Knouf in a police report filed in Douglas County Superior Court.
The sister told Knouf she was making macaroni and cheese when her brother asked if she was using butter.
“They began to argue over the difference of real butter to margarine,” wrote Knouf in the report.
The verbal argument escalated into a shoving match, and then the sister is accused of trying to cut her brother, Knouf wrote.
The girl was charged with fourth-degree assault June 10. She did not show up for a Wednesday hearing, so Douglas County Superior Court Judge John Hotchkiss issued a warrant for her arrest.
Australian Man Fights For Life After Eating Slugs On Dare
May 13, 2010 8:09 a.m. | David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter | www.allheadlinenews.com
Sydney, Australia (AHN) – A young man in Australia learned the hard way that it’s not a good idea to eat raw slugs, even if your friends dare you.
The 21-year-old man from Sydney is now fighting for his life because of a rare form of meningitis caused by a parasite called rat lungworm. Found in rodent feces, it is often eaten by snails and slugs, according to the New South Wales health department.
Airline regulations are made for a reason, but this is surely one of the smallest, quietest pets to fly the friendly skies. BUT it could have been an endangered species or carrying salmonella or other unknown pest that would wreck havoc like kudzu. Or it could have been a trick animal full of C4.
The turtle in question.
In this undated photo provided by Rebecca Helm, Carley Helm, 10, poses with her turtle Neytiri. The caged turtle caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn't bring their pet along. (AP Photo/Rebecca Helm)
Tiny turtle causes taxiing plane to return to gate
KATE BRUMBACK | Jun 25, 2010 | AP
ATLANTA (AP) – A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn’t bring their pet along.
The sisters threw the animal and cage in the trash and returned to their seats crying Tuesday after AirTran Airways employees on the jetway said they couldn’t care for the turtle while their father drove to retrieve it. Two days later, however, Carley Helm was reunited with Neytiri even though at first the family thought the pet was emptied with the trash.
Carley was heading home to Milwaukee after visiting her father in Atlanta with sisters Annie, 13, and Rebecca, 22, when the flap unfolded.
Rebecca said the three were led onto the jetway and told they’d have to get rid of the baby red ear slider – named Neytiri after the princess in the movie “Avatar” – if they wanted to reboard.
