July 31, 2019
A prank deemed as ‘heartless’ and ‘disgusting’ has now earned its perpetrator jail time and a hefty fine. In Barcelona, YouTuber ReSet (real name Kanghua Ren) has been given a 15-month jail sentence and has to pay over $22,300 to a homeless man. Ren stupidly recorded himself offering the man an Oreo cookie, which he’d injected with toothpaste to replace the cookie’s usual filling. The best part of the court decision is that the 21-year-old has to take down all of his social media accounts for five years. Ren’s defense to the court: “I do things to mount a show. People like what is morbid.” The judge wasn’t buying that, saying Ren had made nearly $2,500 in ad revenue from the video. Ren agreed that he “may have gone a bit far” but says the one “positive” was the toothpaste would help the man’s teeth: “I don’t think he has cleaned them since he became poor.” Ren likely will not serve any jail-time.
It would generally not be a good idea to use a car-share service as your getaway vehicle. Issa Amer Ishtawi, 20, broke into a mobile home in Portage, IM., fired a gun, took one of the residents outside and then fired more bullets, hitting one person in the foot and hitting several other homes in the process. Then, he calmly ordered a rental vehicle to take him away from the scene. It didn’t take much to track him down. Ishtawi was known to hang out with gang members and was allegedly trying to retrieve pot that had been stolen from him. He faces felony charges incluing aggravated battery with a handgun, intimidation, possession of a pistol with no permit, and possession of marijuana…oh, and he’s been banned from Lyft.
As far as prison escapes go, this was pretty straight-forward. Maxine Feldstein,30, posed as a sheriff’s deputy to free Nicholas Lowe from the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas. She showed up at the prison as Deputy “L.Kershaw” from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California and presented bogus paperwork to have Lowe released which he was. The ruse was not discovered until a few days later when a real deputy called to say he was coming to retrieve Lowe. Their freedom walk lasted a month. Feldstein will pay a heavy price of 15 years in prison. Lowe received an extra year in jail.
An Amish couple with 13 children settled a lawsuit that accused federal officials of violating their constitutional rights by insisting that they provide photos of themselves before considering the Canadian’s wife’s request to become a permanent U.S. citizen. Amish don’t allow photos for any reason, in keeping with their belief that photos of people are “graven images.”
Archeologists have found the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of a villa in a suburb of Pompeii. This particular area had originally been uncovered in the early 20th century, but then covered over again.
Residents of a remote Bering Sea island are celebrating the death of an intruder that had eluded capture for 10 months. It’s ironic that I haven’t heard of a response from PETA after the death of a Norway rat. St. Paul Island is an internationally known breeding habitat for millions of seabirds, including rare migratory species. The seabirds lay eggs on rocks and songbirds lay them in tundra nests. Both are vulnerable to an infestation of voracious rats. A solitary rat (although where there is one there are usually dozens of others) was spotted last fall at a fish processing plant. A dedicated hunt finally yielded success.They had tried not to use pesticide, but it was eventually deemed necessary and the rat was eventually found dead. One authority said, “Keeping rats off St. Paul is ‘a forever war.’”
Shaquille Dukes is a black man who was being treated for pneumonia and asthma at an Illinois hospital but he was arrested with two others. His crime? On doctor’s orders, he had gone for a walk outside the hospital wearing a hospital gown and wheeling his IV equipment. Dukes was stopped by a hospital security guard, who claimed that Dukes would try to sell the IV equipment on eBay. When the cops arrived, Dukes wrote that his IV was removed (“NOT by a doctor”), and his rescue inhaler was taken away from him.I don’t know all the details, but all three were arrested for disorderly conduct, and two face charges of resisting or obstructing a peace officer. It sure seems that this situation got totally out of hand, and it certainly does bring up questions of racial profiling.
Poor 911 decisions from Saskatchewan– Someone was taking up two handicapped parking spots; a guest was cooking ribs in the oven without permission; a stuck door was keeping the caller from being let out to pee; the fast-food order was taking too long; and a dispute over how to cook perogies. A poacher in Missouri, who had allegedly illegally taken hundreds of animals, was ordered by a judge to repeatedly watch the movie, Bambi, at least once a month during his year-long jail sentence. David Berry, Jr., had a habit of killing deer and only taking the heads. Berry and four others also paid fines totaling $51,000 in what authorities called the largest deer poaching case in state history.
