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Yeah Meijer has the 100 count for 35.77 when they have it. Gander mountain had some but was definitely higher priced then it should have been. Keep going back to Meijer and get it when I can.

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Man Who Shot 9-Year-Old Cousin Dressed as Skunk Avoids Jail

You may remember the sad case of Thomas Grant, a Pennsylvania man who last Halloween accidentally shot his 9-year-old cousin with a shotgun after confusing her skunk costume for a real skunk. On Monday, Grant pleaded no contest to charges of reckless endangerment and misdemeanor simple assault and avoided jail time.

The accident occurred last October on Grant's mother's property. Somehow, Grant mistook the nine-year-old girl, who was dressed as a skunk, in a black hat and black shirt with a white tassel running down its middle, for a real skunk, despite the fact that everyone involved was reportedly at a Halloween party.

After the shooting, the girl, who still hasn't been identified, underwent surgery to repair damages to several internal organs and her spine. She still undergoes regular tests for lead poisoning.

Making the accidental shooting even more unbelievable is the fact that toxicology test results revealed that Grant had no drugs or alcohol in his system.

Authorities dropped charges of aggravated assault charges against Grant in February. But on Monday, Beaver County Judge Harry Knafelc sentenced him to two years probation, during which time he is also banned from hunting, and ordered him to pay restitution to the girl.

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2 Va. Boys Suspended For Using Pencils As Guns

SUFFOLK, Va. — Two Suffolk second graders have been suspended for making shooting noises while pointing pencils at each other.

Media outlets report the 7-year-old boys were suspended for two days for a violation of the Suffolk school system’s zero-tolerance policy on weapons. They were playing with one another in class Friday at Driver Elementary.

“When I asked him about it, he said, ‘Well I was being a Marine and the other guy was being a bad guy,’” said Paul Marshall, one of the boys’ fathers. “It’s as simple as that.”

Marshall, a former Marine, said he believes school officials overreacted.

But Suffolk Public Schools spokeswoman Bethanne Bradshaw said a pencil is considered a weapon when it’s pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made.

“Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community,” Bradshaw said. “Kids don’t think about ‘Cowboys and Indians’ anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day.”

Bradshaw said the policy has been in place for at least two decades. It also bans drawing a picture of a gun and pointing a finger in a threatening manner.

Marshall said his son has good grades and no history of being disruptive in class. On the suspension note, the teacher noted that the boy stopped when she told him to do so.

He said school administrators failed to use common sense.

“Enough is enough,” said Paul Marshall. “I see it as the tail is now wagging the dog.”

Bradshaw said the suspensions were effective Monday and Tuesday.

“It’s an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence, even if it’s violent play, into the classroom,” Bradshaw said. “There has to be a consequence because it’s a rule. And it’s a rule that the principals go over.”

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Sheriff: On-duty deputy punched and robbed man

After deputies had responded to a disturbance call at a Bonita Springs restaurant on Sunday morning, one of the deputies, Michael J. Ronga, offered a 20-year-old man a ride home, according to a news release from the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

But instead of giving the man a lift home, the deputy allegedly drove the man to a secluded area where he battered and robbed him, the release stated.

The man was able to escape by fleeing into nearby woods.

At the scene of the attack investigators later found physical evidence verifying the man's story resulting in charging Ronga with Robbery, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Ronga, 41, has been employed at the Lee County Sheriff's Office since 2008

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Mission College Locked Down After Cardboard Cutout Mistaken For Gun

Mission College went into lockdown for about 45 minutes this afternoon after a cardboard cutout of a gun was mistaken for the real thing, a school spokesman said.

As part of a sociology of criminology class project where students were to dress up as criminals, one student wore a ski mask and carried a cardboard cutout of a gun, school spokesman Peter Anning said.

The student was taking pictures before the class began when another student panicked and called Santa Clara police at 2:47 p.m. to report a person with a gun, he said.

Mission College went into lockdown at 2:53 p.m.

Police located and spoke with the student, and the lockdown was lifted about 45 minutes later, Anning said.

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St. Louis Police: Man Beats Other Man With Mallet Over the "Whereabouts of a Lighter"

What is it with hammer fights in St. Louis? And violent disputes related to cigarettes?
Last month, we reported on an argument about a cigarette in which one man allegedly smashed a glass plate over another man's head. That same week, in a separate incident, an apparently angry handyman was accused of beating someone he had done work for...by hitting him with a hammer.

And today, ladies and gentlemen, we give you the story of a confrontation last night on the 4900 block of Arlington Avenue that seems to combine those two bizarre crime incidents. Police say one man knocked out another man...with a metal mallet.

Why? The fight, the police report says, was about the "whereabouts of a light."

Police responded to a call of a 55-year-old man "lying motionless on the street" at around 7 p.m. last night.

They found him on the curb.

Officers later determined that the victim had been engaged in a fist fight with a 54-year-old man over the location of a light.


During the fight, apparently not satisfied with using fists, the 54-year-old man, who police haven't named, went to his car and retrieved a metal mallet, police say.

He then allegedly struck the other man in the head, reentered his car and fled.

After cops arrive, they canvassed the area, found the suspect and arrested him without incident. The mallet was found in the car.

The victim, meanwhile, was taken to the hospital, where cops say he is in critical, but stable condition.

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Unfortunatly these stories are true and these are the people who say we are a road hazard......WOW>>>>

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A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible

Never trust strangers. That is something most of us were taught by our parents or guardians at an early stage of our life, especially if the stranger says he is a sorcerer who can turn you invisible whilst you rob a bank!

Unfortunately, for one man in Iran, he made the mistake of trusting a fake sorcerer who convinced him that he was invisible and could rob a bank safely. The man explained to the court that he had paid five million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave him a set of spells to tie to his arm. The fake sorcerer explained to him that the spells would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks all he wanted.

The man’s ill-fated attempt to rob the bank started to go wrong after he entered the bank and started randomly snatching money from the hands of customers, before they decided to act quickly and overpower the ill-fated thief.

The man told the court, ‘I made a mistake. I understand now what a big trick was played on me.’

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Man who stole, crashed car wished deputies 'peace, love and happiness'

Sean Allen Mulligan, 39, was arrested in the wee hours of Saturday morning after he allegedly stole a car then crashed itnear a I-95 overpass in Flagler County and tried to flee on foot, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

While on the way to a hospital, after a K-9 found Mulligan in the woods, the St. Augustine man
allegedly told deputies ‘peace, love and happiness,’ and ‘I shouldn’t have ran.”

Groovy, dude.

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Har Co. Schools employee indicted on beastiality

tephanie Mikles was hired in 2009 to be the behavioral specialist for Harford County Schools...but it is her behavior that may very well get her fired and did get her indicted.
The child advocacy center of Harford County began investigating Mikles last year, but did not anticipate finding evidence that would lead to the shocking indictment.
According to court records and evidence of still photos, a grand jury indicted Mikles with “unnatural or perverted sexual practice.”
The indictment lacks a lot of detail but does say she had “sexual intercourse with a dog.”
Police say according to evidence it happened in August of 2008 but in Maryland, there is no statute of limitations for beastiality and sources tell ABC2, the pet still lives with the family at their Jarrettsville home.
Mikles is currently on administrative leave without pay from the Harford County Schools System; it could not comment on personnel matters but said part of her job did involve working with children.
Her past job title remains a concern for the state's attorneys office which declined an on camera interview with ABC2 citing the ongoing investigation.
Investigators did say the findings of beastiality were a surprise and that it was a separate investigation by the child advocacy center that led them to this shocking discovery.
Mikles could not be reached for comment at her home outside Bel Air, but her attorney did tell us she is fighting the charge and has filed motions to dismiss the case.
Mikles is currently out on a five thousand dollar bond.
The beastiality charge if convicted is a misdemeanor punishable with up to 10 years in prison and a one thousand dollar fine.

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Lost: Coach's thumb drive with football plays. Found: Coach's thumb drive with kiddie porn

James “Shannon” Arnett, a Polk County high school teacher and an assistant football coach told the School Resource deputy that he had lost a thumb drive-- perhaps in a school restroom -- and was concerned because the device contained defensive football plays, according to a news release from the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

On May 7th a Lake Gibson High School student turned in a thumb drive in to a School Resource deputy, saying he had found the thumb drive in the school’s courtyard and that it had “inappropriate” photos on it, the release stated.

The thumb drive did contain some images of defensive football plays...but also had images of girls between 13-17 years-old fully clothed with the photo focal point being their breasts and butts. Ssome of the girls have been identified as students at the school. --

It gets worse: Detectives also found two kiddie porn images.

The thumb drive was determined to be the one Arnett said he had lost.

On Wednesday detectives busted the 41-year-old Lakeland man and charged him with two counts of Possession of Child Pornography after determining two images to be child pornography.

Questionable pics were also found on his work laptop.

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Plastic surgeon accused of torturing girlfriend

MIAMI -
A South Florida plastic surgeon is in jail after police say he tortured and tried to kill his girlfriend.

Police say Orlando Llorente was mad at his girlfriend because of something she had posted on Facebook.

He reportedly dragged her by the hair into the bathroom, forced her head in the toilet, then poured water over her head in the bathtub -- similar to waterboarding.

The incident allegedly took place on April 21st inside Llorente's apartment at the Brickell First residences in Miami.

After nearly 16 hours of being tortured, the victim convinced him to stop, freed herself and called police.

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St. Louis Police: Man Beats Other Man With Mallet Over the "Whereabouts of a Lighter"

What is it with hammer fights in St. Louis? And violent disputes related to cigarettes?
Last month, we reported on an argument about a cigarette in which one man allegedly smashed a glass plate over another man's head. That same week, in a separate incident, an apparently angry handyman was accused of beating someone he had done work for...by hitting him with a hammer.

And today, ladies and gentlemen, we give you the story of a confrontation last night on the 4900 block of Arlington Avenue that seems to combine those two bizarre crime incidents. Police say one man knocked out another man...with a metal mallet.

Why? The fight, the police report says, was about the "whereabouts of a light."

Police responded to a call of a 55-year-old man "lying motionless on the street" at around 7 p.m. last night.

They found him on the curb.

Officers later determined that the victim had been engaged in a fist fight with a 54-year-old man over the location of a light.


During the fight, apparently not satisfied with using fists, the 54-year-old man, who police haven't named, went to his car and retrieved a metal mallet, police say.

He then allegedly struck the other man in the head, reentered his car and fled.

After cops arrive, they canvassed the area, found the suspect and arrested him without incident. The mallet was found in the car.

The victim, meanwhile, was taken to the hospital, where cops say he is in critical, but stable condition.

Obviously if schools had cracked down long ago on making hammering motions and banned anything looking like a mallet or hammer this would have never happened!!! LOL!!

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Officer accidentally extinguishes burning hippie with riot control pepper spray instead of fire extinguisher

PORTLAND, Ore. - The first Portland Police officer to arrive on the scene of the man who set himself on fire Wednesday outside the Nicholas Ungar Furs store accidentally used pepper spray in an attempt to put out the flames instead of a fire extinguisher, officials at the Portland Police Bureau said Thursday.

Police said the officer, who was nearby, saw 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas on fire, parked her patrol car, went to her trunk and accidentally grabbed pepper spray used for riot control instead of the fire extinguisher.

The canister of pepper spray the officer used is red like many fire extinguishers.

Multiple police sources said the riot-gear-sized spray that they use is very similar in size, appearance and color to the fire extinguishers they carry. They said that any one of them could have made the same mistake in that chaotic moment.

Police said someone else, a motorist who had been driving by, did grab an actual fire extinguisher to help Shaull, but he kept running away.

“They (officer and motorist) attempted to get the young man to roll on the ground to put out the flames,” Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer said. “He kept running away and was uncooperative. Eventually, additional cover units arrived, and they were able to get him on the ground and extinguish the flames.”

Shaull, however, later died at Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

It is not clear if the man was running away because of the effects of the pepper spray.

Sizer said she’s been told by the Portland Fire Bureau that the pepper spray used was water based and was not an accelerant. She said it did not make matters worse but that the use of the spray was regrettable.

“It’s certainly not a mistake of any bad intentions,” Sizer said. “It was an unexpected emergency. It was an officer who observed something opposed to responded to a call for service.

So it was extremely unexpected. Unfortunately, the fire extinguisher and can of pepper spray were both located in the trunk, and we understand now, too similar in appearance.”

Police sources said that there is a huge difference between observing an incident and responding to a call of service, especially in a situation as extreme as a man on fire.

She said she feels sorry for Shaull and his family.

“I just truly regret that anyone could find themselves in such a life and death situation that they would take those actions,” she said.

Sizer said there are no plans to discipline the officer. She said the Bureau will review where materials are placed in the trunk and how they are marked to prevent a similar mistake from happening again.

Witnesses said Shaull poured gasoline on himself and then set himself on fire outside the Nicholas Ungar Furs store at 12th and Yamhill and began screaming: “There are animals dying! Animals dying!”

Daniel Shaull’s father, Warren, said his son wasn’t an animal rights activist but that he had a history of psychological problems. Warren said his son had tried to commit suicide in the past. He said Daniel was smart, sensitive, but frustrated the world wasn’t a better place.

“Because of the way he thinks, maybe he thought that was the only way out. That nothing was ever going to change and there was nothing he could do about it," Warren said.

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Police: Luis Briones drove drunk while having sex

Albuquerque, N.M. (AP) -- A New Mexico man faces multiple charges after police say he was having sex with a woman while driving drunk and crashed, ejecting the woman from the vehicle.

The Albuquerque Journal reports 25-year-old Luis Briones was found with one shoe on and his shorts on inside-out Monday night after he wrecked his ford explorer in Albuquerque.

Police say Briones' female passenger was found naked outside the SUV after being ejected. She had deep cuts to her face and head.

Authorities allege Briones tried to drive away after the crash and leave his passenger behind, but a witness grabbed his keys from the ignition. He also allegedly tried to hide from responding officers behind a cactus.

Briones is charged with aggravated DWI, reckless driving and evading police.

No attorney was listed for him.