Archive for July, 2007

Plane returns after drunken brawl

CJ July 19th, 2007

Courtesy of Yahoo! 

Three young Russians boarded the plane drunk Thursday and “continued their party on board.”

“One of them took a fancy to a girl but she did not want to socialize with the new admirer,” police said.

On rejection, the passenger slapped the woman on her face several times. Another passenger immediately rose to defend her.

“A fight began, the situation started to get out of hand and the crew made the only right decision — to turn back.”

The three drunk men were detained on landing at /a St Petersburg airport. They faced fines of “dozens of thousands of dollars,” police said.

The woman received medical treatment at the airport and the plane resumed its flight to Turkey.

Some people are just desperate to be part of the Mile High Club!

Dog Vader

CJ July 19th, 2007

Luuuuke….you are my puppy!

Internet Takes Over for Proper Child Care

CJ July 19th, 2007

Once again, the internet is blamed for people’s actions, or in this case, inactions.

A couple in Reno Nevada were so into the internet and playing video games, they couldn’t be bothered to take care of their two children, who suffered from malnutrition, dehydration, infections, and inadequate muscle development. Michael and Iana Straw pled guilty to child neglect and will most likely spend 12 years in jail and never see these children again. Both toddlers are in foster care, have gained weight and are doing well.

Patrick Killen, spokesman for Nevada Child Abuse Prevention, said video game addiction’s correlation to child abuse is “a new spin on an old problem.”

“As we become more technologically advanced, there’s more distractions,” Killen said. “It’s easy for someone to get addicted to something and neglect their children. Whether it’s video games or meth, it’s a serious issue, and (we) need to become more aware of it.”

Sure. This what we teach our children. Blame your irresponsibility on inanimate objects or other people in order to take the blame off of yourself and not own up to your shit.
 
Last month, experts at an American Medical Association meeting backed away from a proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder, saying it had to be studied further. Some said the issue is like alcoholism, while others said there was no concrete evidence it’s a psychological disease.

Once again, we may be able to have a “disease” to blame for our ills. Don’t we have enough?

I think as the parents’ punishment, they should have to sit in a room full of children playing video games or surfing the ‘net and not be able to eat or go to the bathroom for at least two weeks!!!

A Burgler Has Some Wine with the Family

CJ July 15th, 2007

Courtesty of Yahoo! 

WASHINGTON - Police on Capitol Hill are baffled by an attempted robbery that began with a handgun put to the head of a teenager and ended in a group hug.

It started about midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a District of Columbia home. That’s when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the head of a 14-year-old girl.

“Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he said, according to D.C. police and witnesses.

Everyone froze, including the girl’s parents. Then one guest spoke.

“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, told the man. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”

The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”

The girl’s father, Michael Rabdau, 51, told the intruder to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the whole bottle.

The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese. He put the gun in his sweatpants.

The story then turns even more bizarre.

“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said before apologizing. “Can I get a hug?”

Rowan, who works at her children’s school and lives in Falls Church, Va., stood up and wrapped her arms around the armed man. The four other guests followed.

“Can we have a group hug?” the man asked. The five adults complied.

The man walked away a few moments later with the crystal wine glass in hand. Nothing was stolen, and no one was hurt.

Once he was gone, the group walked into the house, locked the door and stared at each other — speechless. Rabdau called 911, and police came to take a report and dust for fingerprints.

Police classified the case as strange but true. Investigators have not located a suspect. The witnesses thought he might have been high on drugs.

“We’ve had robbers that apologize and stuff but nothing where they sit down and drink wine. It definitely is strange,” said Cmdr. Diane Groomes, adding that the hugs were especially unusual. “The only good thing is they would be able to identify him because they hugged him.”