Archive for Crime & Law
October 4, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Crime & Law
This happened a couple of months ago, but I just found out about it: a sting nabbed Daniel "World’s Greatest Dad" Everett trying to set up a sexual encounter with an underaged girl!
This afternoon, Everett was arrested in Novi where he is alleged to have appeared to meet the minor for sex. He was arrested wearing a T-shirt with the words, "Worlds Greatest Dad" on the front, a sad reminder that Internet predators come from all walks of life.
Link
More criminals arrested in funny T-shirts at The Smoking Gun. I hope to God no one is ever arrested wearing a Neatorama T-shirt!
Original post by Alex
October 4, 2008 at 4:32 am · Filed under Home & Garden, Food & Drinks, Crime & Law
Good grief! Bill Teer lost something from his front yard. Something large. Very, very large: his prized 450 lb. pumpkin!
Teer thinks a group of three teenagers drove up on Halsey Road and managed to roll the pumpkin into the back of their pickup truck. The reward is now up to $200.
"I think they absolutely planned it," said neighbor Don Simons. Simons pitched in half the reward money. "We hope we catch these people," he said. "There was a prior attack on the pumpkin a year or two ago. Somebody jumped out with a hammer and punched some holes in one of them."
Meanwhile, police are baffled. "Who knows what they want with it or what they did with it," Simons said.
Maybe it’s for a really, really big pumpkin pie! Link
Original post by Alex
October 3, 2008 at 8:51 pm · Filed under Animal, Baby & Kid, Crime & Law
Many kids throw a fit or temper tantrum when they’re upset, but this one went over the line. Waaaay over:
A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo’s director said Friday.
The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo’s security camera, happened early Wednesday after the boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile Center in central Australia, said zoo director Rex Neindorf.
The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo’s beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile, said Neindorf.
The boy also fed several live animals to Terry by throwing them over the two fences surrounding the crocodile’s enclosure, at one point climbing over the outer fence to get closer to the […]
Original post by Alex
October 2, 2008 at 10:38 pm · Filed under Animal, Crime & Law
The marriage (or relationship, in this case) may be over, but the custody battle has just begun. Kids? Nope … pets!
Who gets the dog, cat, horse or boa constrictor when the relationship ends?
That question has sparked some human catfights; pet custody disputes in divorce are a growing area of the law. In a 2006 survey of 1,600 members of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a quarter said they had noticed an anecdotal uptick in pet-custody cases in the past five years.
You don’t have to be married to get mired in a pet tug-of-war. Adam Karp, an animal rights lawyer in Bellingham, Washington, says most of the calls he fields are from singles in their 20s and 30s.
Even among the unmarried set, these battles can carry high stakes and high drama. Take, for instance, a Washington state case in 2004, when Karp represented Ashley Wilson, the music director of a […]
Original post by Alex
October 2, 2008 at 10:37 pm · Filed under Sports, Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law
We covered the shadowy game of "squirt-gun assassin" before on Neatorama, but this news is rather disturbing: the game is blamed for car crashes as players try really hard to kill each other!
"They keep knocking people out and the last man standing wins the game," she said. "They were playing Assassin, it got really serious. There were squirt guns and a truck drove into someone’s house and they ended up in the hospital."
Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran said that in all, three crashes have been associated with the game. He said his department has responded to half-a-dozen calls this week because of Assasin, and in one case a teen was attempting to get away from his water gun attacker.
"They cut in front of a poor unsuspecting motorist and two people were taken to the hospital, including a student. At least one of those accidents they drove in front of a […]
Original post by Alex
October 2, 2008 at 6:51 am · Filed under Crime & Law
Criminal hackers can do a lot of damage and still end up famous among their peers.
But it’s the ones who go uncaught and unidentified (those who we didn’t highlight in our Cyber Crime Hall Fame that are actually the best. Attempting to cover your tracks is Law-Breaking 101; being able to effectively do so, that’s another story altogether.
When a major cyber crime remains unsolved, though, it probably also means that those of us outside the world of tech crime solving may never even know the crime occurred.
PC Magazine has a rundown on ten of the biggest still-unsolved cyber crimes. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!
Original post by Miss Cellania
September 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm · Filed under Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law
If you want to save a few bucks, skip the car wash and wash your car in your own driveway.
Except if you live in Washington State, that is. There, washing your car in your own driveway is illegal:
Washing your car or boat in the driveway or street is a residential ritual as American as backyard barbecues. But the state of Washington is telling its local governments they must prohibit home car washing unless residents divert the wash water away from storm drains, where they say it causes water pollution.
"I understand this is something people have done for a long time," says Bill Moore, water quality specialist with the Washington state Department of Ecology, which is requiring the ban. "It’s not something we should be doing any longer."
He says the soapy runoff is toxic to salmon and other fish and that small metal particles that wash off cars, such as […]
Original post by Alex
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