Wanted: Someone to kill my boyfriend’s wife
By GrinningFool | January 30, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US woman was arrested this week after she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to murder her married lover’s wife by posting an ad on the popular website craigslist, law enforcement officials said Sunday.
Anne Marie, 48, from Grand Rapids, Michigan offered www.craigslist.org users the chance to kill Carol, a 56-year-old woman in California, in a vaguely worded free ad under the category of “Freelance,” according to court documents.
Two women and one man responded to the ad, with at least one applicant believing it to be an offer for freelance writing work. During subsequent emails, Anne Marie divulged that the task was actually a hit.
“Marie informed (one of the people who responded) that she was looking for ’silent assassins’ and she asked him to eradicate a targeted victim,” offered 5,000 dollars for the job and provided the address, name, age and occupation of the man’s wife.
“Asked what she meant by ‘eradicate,’ Anne Marie said ‘Duh. Well to have her killed,” the court documents said.
The woman, who also goes by the name Anne Marie Linscott, was charged with three counts relating to murder for hire and using interstate commerce to commit a felony.
“This complex investigation was initiated in November 2007 and we have been very concerned for the well being of the victim,” said Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff, according to a statement released by the Sacramento FBI.
The potential victim’s husband “acknowledged meeting Linscott through an on-line college course in 2004 or 2005,” and said “he and Linscott developed a very deep and intimate online relationship,” the FBI statement said.
The pair met for sex on at least two separate occasions in 2005 and 2007, and “have continued to communicate via telephone and email.”
Asked by law enforcement officials how she would feel if her target were murdered by a respondee on craigslist, the suspect “stated she would be scared that law enforcement would track it back to her,” court documents said.
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Why Can’t I have a Friend Like This
By GrinningFool | January 25, 2008
I wish! With the price of gas lately! I could see getting away with it once but every Sunday? Come on, thats just begging to be caught!
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - For people in a West Virginia community, Madeline Jordan may have been the right person to know.
She worked at a gas station — where, police say, she would re-set the price at the pumps every Sunday morning, and sell gasoline to family and friends for just a tenth of a penny per gallon.
The owner of the station says he noticed a significant drop in his income, and found receipts that listed the deeply discounted rate.
Jordan is accused of defrauding her boss out of nearly $50,000 over the course of several months.
Also under arrest: Her mother, her brother, a cousin and two others. They were arrested after police set up a sting operation at the station in South Charleston.
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Didn’t I Used to Have a House Here?
By GrinningFool | January 25, 2008
MOSCOW - Returning home after an absence can mean unpleasant surprises — a leaky roof, a pet’s mess, even a break-in. But a Russian woman got a nastier surprise when she returned from her country house: Her home was gone, torn down mistakenly by construction workers clearing a site, according to a report Thursday on NTV television.
“There was nothing left, not even a log,” Lyudmila Martemyanova said, bundled against the cold and standing on a snow-covered lot in the center of the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod.
A local prosecutor, Nikolai Govorkov, said a construction company tore down the wrong building — Martemyanova’s, instead of one nearby that was marked for demolition.
Many Russians have faced what they say are unfair and inadequately compensated evictions from older housing being torn down amid the country’s oil-revenue-fueled construction boom.
Martemyanova’s case is extreme, however, and she has taken it to court. She refused the builder’s offer of money, saying it wasn’t enough even to get a room on the outskirts of the city, and has sued.
Court hearings started Thursday. Meanwhile, she’s shuttling back and forth between her daughter’s and her sister’s, she told NTV.
Thanks MSNBC
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Aunt’s UnderWear Saves the day!
By GrinningFool | January 3, 2008
Those must have been some bug underwear. from AP.
LONDON - From baggy knickers to the ultimate hotpants: Jenny Marsey’s miraculous underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught alight.
Son John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in her kitchen Sunday when fire broke out and Lines grabbed the nearest thing from a pile of washing to put it out — his aunt’s billowing, extra-large, powder blue underwear.
He doused it with water, tossed it over the fire and put out the flames, said a spokesman for the local Cleveland Fire Brigade, speaking anonymously in line with department policy.
Lines’ swift thinking saved the kitchen of the home at Hartlepool, northeast England, but left Marsey’s underwear slightly scorched.
“It could have been a lot worse,” said Marsey. “My family could have been in hospital but the knickers saved the day. I’m just grateful to the boys.”
The fire brigade spokesman said that the general principle — using a large, wet cloth to cover a grease fire — was a sound one. As for using underwear: “Clearly it depends on what size you are,” he said, “but I don’t want to go there.”
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Eats the All The Frog Legs and Then doesn’t want to Pay Extra
By GrinningFool | January 3, 2008
HOUMA, La. - A 6-foot-3, 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet line, then banned him and a relative because they’re hearty eaters. A spokesman for the restaurant denies the claim.
Ricky Labit, a disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular for eight months at the Manchuria Restaurant in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week.
On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife’s cousin, 44-year-old Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
“She says, ‘Y’all fat, and y’all eat too much,’” Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size. “I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain’t that fat, I only weigh 277,” Borrelli said, adding that a waitress told him he looked like he a had a “baby in the belly.”
Houma accountant Thomas Campo said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
“We have a lot of big people there,” said Campo, who spoke for owner Li Shang, whose English is limited. “We don’t discriminate.”
Labit denied ever being told he would be asked to pay more than the standard adult price.
The argument grew heated, and police were called.
The police report states, “The incident was settled when the management advised that the bill was a mistake and, to appease Ricky, the meal was complimentary.”
Labit said he insisted on paying but was told not to come back. He complained that when seafood on the buffet line runs out, the restaurant only grudgingly cooks more.
Campo said the proprietress tries to reduce waste of quality food, he said.
“Food is for eating, not toys for your child,” reads a sign posted on a wall in typewritten text. A handwritten addition reads “Or 20% added.”
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Don’t Show Up Naked When Responding to A Text Message
By GrinningFool | December 13, 2007
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand woman who sent a naked man to the wrong house on the promise of a good time has been charged with misusing a telephone, local media reported on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old woman sent the man an enticing text message offering him an early Christmas present in the shape of two friendly women and suggested he take off his clothes to save time, the Manawatu Standard reported.
The 31-year old man wasted no time in arriving at the house, and took off his clothes and threw them through the window before entering.
But it was the wrong house and the householder did not see the funny side. The police were called and the man arrested for being unlawfully on a property.
The woman, who sent the tempting but deliberately wayward message, was also tracked down and charged for misusing a phone.
Both the man and the woman escaped prosecution and were cautioned and put on good behavior bonds.
Thanks Reuters
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Million Dollar Bill Counterfeiter!
By admin | November 28, 2007
If you are going to counterfeit money, at least use real denominations. Idiots like this are just asking to be caught!
A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.
The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.
The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.
The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill, Frank said.
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Shotgun Lugnut Remover
By admin | November 25, 2007
I don’t remember learning this technique is school! If it works though, power to him!
SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff’s deputies said.
The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home in Kitsap County northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.
“He’s bound and determined to get that lug nut off,” Wilson said.
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Man Marries Dog in India
By admin | November 25, 2007
NEW DELHI - A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death — an act he believes cursed him — a newspaper reported Tuesday.
P. Selvakumar married the sari-draped former stray named Selvi, chosen by family members and then bathed and clothed for the ceremony Sunday at a Hindu temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the Hindustan Times newspaper said.
Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago
“After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear,” he said in the report.
The paper said an astrologer had told Selvakumar the wedding was the only way he could cure the maladies. It did not say whether his situation had improved.
Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can ward off certain curses.
The paper showed a picture of Selvakumar sitting next to the dog, which was wearing an orange sari and a flower garland.
The paper said the groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun.
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Wheelchair-Bound Woman Tasered 10 Times
By admin | September 19, 2007
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — A Clay County woman’s family said it’s seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.
In April 2006, officers with the police department said they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 400 block of Harrison Street just before 5 p.m. In a 911 call made to the Green Cove Springs, Delafield can be heard telling a dispatcher that she believed she was in danger:
Dispatcher: And what’s the problem?
Delafield: My sister is waiting on my property.
Dispatcher: Your what?
Delafield: My sister (inaudible) is on my property trying to harm me.
Officers said they arrived to find Delafield in a wheelchair, armed with two knives and a hammer. Police said the woman was swinging the weapons at family members and police. Within an hour of her call to 911, Delafield, a wheelchair-bound woman documented to have mental illness, was dead.
Family attorney Rick Alexander said Delafield’s death could have been prevented and that there are four things that jump out at him about the case.
“One, she’s in a wheelchair. Two, she’s schizophrenic. Three, they’re using a Taser on a person that’s in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes,” Alexander said.
According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times for a total of 160 seconds and the other officer discharged his Taser gun once for a total of no more than five seconds. A medical examiner found Delafield died from hypertensive heart disease and cited the Taser gun shock as a contributing factor, the report said. On her death certificate, the medical examiner ruled Delafield’s death a homicide.
The family said it plans to sue the Green Coves Springs Police Department now that it has all the reports regarding their loved one’s death. “We’re going to try to compensate the estate and the family and try to get justice,” Alexander said.
He said he believes the evidence weighs heavily in favor of Delafield’s family and that justice will be served. “I think that this evidence is going to show, along with some of the evidence we’ve collected outside of here, that there is no reason Emily Delafield should have died that day,” Alexander said. He said he plans to file a notice to sue sometime before the end of the year.
Read it here. WJXT-TV
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