The crime spree of 19-year-old Cameron Sands has come to an end in Grand Prairie, Texas, without the help of police. Cameron kicked in the door of a house and pulled a gun out of his pants to shoot the homeowner. The homeowner was uninjured as Cameron pulled the gun and promptly shot himself. He dropped the gun and ran out of the home and made it as far as the driveway before he died.
The Kentucky Theatre in Lexington set up a donation box to raise money to restore their Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. Sadly, seeing numerous $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills inside a Plexiglas box in the lobby was too tempting for thieves, who broke into it, destroying the box and grabbing all the money. Alas, they came away empty handed as they were somehow fooled by the black and white photocopies of bills glued to the Plexiglas. As for the real money inside, they were out of luck there, too, as the box had just been emptied.
Three Central Florida deputies responded to a call about an alligator on the loose. Deputy Keith Baughman threw a towel on the 8-foot gator, jumped on its back and tried to wrestle it. Tried was the operative word as Baughman was thrown off the gator’s back and then bitten. Witness Carlos Martinez said, "His pants ripped up and blood was gushing out and everything. He started limping away and the alligator was laughing at him. The dude then shot it twice in the head." Not laughing was the deputies’ commanding officer who reprimanded the men.
After a Canadian father grounded his 12-year-old daughter for disobeying his orders to stop chatting on Internet websites and caught her posting inappropriate pictures of herself online using a friend's computer, he grounded her. The kid didn’t get mad, she got even. She took her father to Quebec Superior Court. Not only that, she won her case as the court overruled her grounding saying the punishment was ‘too severe.’ The father's lawyer said the disciplinary measures were for the girl's "own protection" and is appealing the ruling.
CRIME WATCH UPDATE
The Botox Bandit has been arrested. Kellie Thomas, 23, has been charged with grand theft after she allegedly received Botox treatments from a Port St. Lucie, Florida cosmetic surgeon and then split without paying. Before and after pictures taken at the clinic did her in. Botox at 23?
NOT EXACTLY ARMED CRIME WATCH
In Deland, Florida, Gelando Olivieri was arrested shortly after he tried to rob a liquor store armed only with a palm frond. "The man came in with the branch. I have never seen anything like this," the storeowner told his local paper. Another customer, armed with a barstool, chased Olivieri from the place and cops picked him up a short time later.
QUICK HITS
In Ferryville, Wisconsin, Penny Gilman, 45, was determined to shoot a woodchuck that had been disturbing her vegetable garden. As she stalked the critter, she shot herself in the foot.
London's Daily Mirror says Queen Elizabeth, 82, stunned guests at a Windsor Castle party by strutting her stuff to Abba's "Dancing Queen".
UPDATE: That sixth foot found along the shore in British Columbia this week turned out to be a hoax.
Headline of the week, courtesy of Britain's Daily Mail: "Killer stingray found off British coast as experts warn of mass invasion due to global warming"
The Tindall family of Manhattan, Kansas was quite lucky last week after a tornado hit their neighborhood. Their house was the only one on their block left standing. On Wednesday morning of this week, it was struck by lightning and went up in flames.
PRICE HILL, OHIO. Two men who were robbing a Domino's Pizza
store panicked when they saw a police cruiser pull up outside.
They tried to escape by running through what they thought was
the back door. It wasn’t the back door. They ran into a
freezer, locking themselves inside.
PHILADELPHIA: Police say some students who moved out of an
apartment near the University of Pennsylvania left a human skull
behind. There is no indication any crime occurred, but Lt. Frank
Vanore says even for police it is "kind of a weird story."
Vanore says the skull may have been a learning tool for medical
students. Or it may have been left as a prank. Jeff Moran of the
Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office says a forensic
anthropologist will check out the abandoned headbone to see if
he can learn more.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA: Police have a message for joggers: A thong
is wrong. They recently arrested a man for running on a bike
trail in his thong underwear. The 26-year-old man was charged
with indecent exposure. Officers say he was wearing socks, shoes
and a very revealing thong.
The Ultimate Travel Experience
In Tampa, a group of over 100 teenagers, all recent high school graduates, had booked a weeklong trip through the Massachusetts tour operator GradCity, which bills itself as offering "the ultimate travel experience". Turns out it was. The 75-foot catamaran they were on began to sink right after dropping anchor between Cancun and Isla Mujeres. Within minutes everybody was in the water living a real life mini-Titanic adventure. Some made it to shore while others were picked up by a passing pleasure boat. Tragically, one 18-year-old girl suffered heart and lung failure after nearly drowning and was later declared brain dead and put on life support. A preliminary report by Mexican authorities said the catamaran was carrying 126 people at the time of the accident, far more than its 80-passenger capacity. And now the lawsuits will surely begin. (St. Petersburg Times)





