Student Arrested for “Assaulting” Cop with Candies

And now for some lighter reading…
Sean McGuire, a 20-year-old student at Drake U in Iowa, was arrested yesterday for assaulting a police officer.
His weapon of choice? M&Ms
The officer was investigating a hit-and-run accident involving McGuire’s friend, and, in an effort to “stick up” for his pal, he cast a few candies at the cop.
What he [...]

Fritzl Case Update: Underground Prison Lacked Oxygen

Telegraph.co.uk reported today that, “a chronic shortage of oxygen in the cellar Josef Fritzl built for his daughter and their children made them so listless that for most of the time they could only sit or lie down.”
“The windowless bunker … was hermetically sealed by a remote controlled door weighing half a ton and had [...]

Update: Josef Fritzl Wanted to Keep Elisabeth Away from Bad Influences

“The twisted mind of Josef Fritzl has been laid bare in a prison interview in which he defends the 24-year imprisonment and rape of his daughter Elisabeth.”
These are the highlights:
“I grew up in the Nazi times, and that meant the need to be controlled and respect authority. Yet, despite that, I am not the monster [...]

Woman Gets Job Back after being Fired from Donut Chain for Giving Baby a Free Timbit

An “overzealous” (read: idiot) Tim Hortons manager in London, Ontario fired Nicole Lilliman on Wednesday, for giving the 11-month-old child of a regular customer one free Timbit—or “a blob of dough”—as Jennifer O’Brien of cnews, so aptly put it.
But the single mother of four, who’s been employed by the donut chain for three years, was [...]

Josef Fritzl: More Details Emerge

Various sources are reporting that Josef Fritzl is possibly being investigated for an unsolved rape and murder of a teenage girl, who disappeared in 1986—her body found wrapped in plastic and dumped at a lake, close to where Josef and Rosemarie owned a campsite and guesthouse.
Josef may also have had a prior rape conviction in [...]

Roman Catholic Nun Steals Money for Gambling

Sister Barbara Markey, N.D., Ph.D., could face up to 20 years in prison for stealing over $300,000 from the Omaha Archdiocese.
She pleaded guilty yesterday, and admits to having gambled most of the money away, while using the rest for gifts and trips.
Curiously, a June 30, 2007 article in the Omaha-World Herald, says Ms. Markey was [...]

Airport Security Forces Woman to Remove Nipple Rings

This is so outrageous, I can barely contain my anger!
Mandi Hamlin is demanding an apology and a civil rights investigation, after being forced by US Transportation Security staff, at a Texas airport, to remove her nipple rings because she’d set off a hand-held metal detector.
“I felt surprised, embarrassed, humiliated, scared and angry,” Hamlin told reporters [...]