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Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:55 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Man Loses Fingers in Quest for Girlfriend Wed Mar 9, 2005 9:40 AM ET WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. Charles Gonsoulin, 41, will have the fingers and toes amputated because of severe frostbite suffered during a 100-hour trek from Pembina, North Dakota, across the border to Emerson, Manitoba, where he was found wandering on a golf course on Feb. 23, suffering from hypothermia. "It is better to have loved and to have lost than never to have loved at all," the Sun quoted Gonsoulin as saying. "It was all worth it for me. It's the difference between sitting around dreaming about things and going out and getting them." Gonsoulin and the Canadian woman met in an Internet chat room in 2002. The woman lives in Quebec, Gonsoulin's lawyer, Mike Cook, told a court hearing. Quebec is about 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles) east of Manitoba. Gonsoulin could not enter Canada legally because he was convicted of robbing a Pizza Hut in Arkansas in 1984, the newspaper said. His girlfriend could not afford to travel to Los Angeles, he told the Sun. So he took a bus to North Dakota where he crossed the border. "Mr. Gonsoulin didn't really know that there was any place on Earth that could be so cold and so inhospitable," Cook told a court hearing Monday, adding his client had never felt temperatures colder than 10 degrees Celsius (50 F). Temperatures dipped below -26 C (-15 F) during his long hike. Gonsoulin is receiving medical treatment in a Winnipeg jail. He still has not met his girlfriend face-to-face but they have spoken on the phone and Gonsoulin said they are still in love. No deportation date has yet been set.</td></tr></table>  If you ask me, he should have tried crossing the Quebec border instead. Not only is it warmer, but when another country is almost right across the street, you're not going to get caught. (The only person to ever get caught illegally crossing the border was entering the US, not leaving it!)

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:15 am

Ouch!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's the last time she complains about a teacher taking away her jelly beans. Important news for those hardened 5 year old criminals:  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mar 18, 1:45 PM EST 5-Year-Old Cuffed, Arrested in Florida ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls. The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School when the little girl began acting silly. That's when her teacher took away her jelly beans, outraging the child. Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a police cruiser, under arrest for battery. Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs. "I don't want to go to jail," she said moments after her arrest Monday. No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother. While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not pleased with the outcome. "We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent. The district's campus police should have been called to help and not local police, he said. Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are trained to calm them in such situations. Under the district's code of student conduct, students are to be suspended for 10 days and recommended for expulsion for unprovoked attacks, even if they don't result in serious injury. But district spokesman Ron Stone said that rule wouldn't apply to kindergartners. "She's been appropriately disciplined under the circumstances," he said. The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney. "She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my babby up." --- Information from: St. Petersburg Times, <a href='http://www.sptimes.com' target='_blank'>http://www.sptimes.com</a> 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:16 am

Good grief. I've never heard of anything like that before. Crazy.

ShadOtterdan · Postby **ShadOtterdan** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:16 am

They set her up? This is a kindergarten class, not a drug deal.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:54 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> They set my babby up</td></tr></table>  must... resist... making... AYB... reference... *ungh.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:36 pm

The poor girl sounds like a regular little Millie, what with all the things she did.

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:13 pm

Well, I don't recall if Millie used unsuccessful violence on Llewellyn during Locke's siege, but she has yet to hit a school authority. That's one way she's not like the 5-year-old.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:06 am

I'm refering to the general attitude that has a certain disregard for authority. And I said the little girl seemed like Millie, not vice versa.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:09 pm

Exactly, what was he thinking? Lesson: drunk people do really stupid things.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mar 24, 7:30 AM EST Drunk Driving Suspect Nabbed at Drive-Thru MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. (AP) -- A yearning for breakfast helped end a police chase. Jeffery Lynn Drinnon, 30, was arrested at the drive-through lane of a Hardee's restaurant about 5 a.m. Tuesday after leading police on a low-speed chase. "He turned into Hardee's, pulls up to the drive-through and rolls the window down like he's going to order a biscuit before he goes to jail," Mount Carmel Assistant Police Chief Mike Campbell said. "They had the car surrounded with guns drawn at the drive-through at Hardee's, and he's wanting breakfast." Police began chasing Drinnon after a market reported he drove away without paying for $7 of gasoline. Officers said they used blue lights and sirens to try to get Drinnon to pull over, but he kept going until he saw the restaurant. Drinnon was charged with driving under the influence, driving on a revoked license, evading arrest, resisting arrest and theft under $500. He was taken into custody before he could place his order. 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [EDIT] With the next reply, this topic will have 400 replies. How'd we manage to make this little lark of a topic go on that long?

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:16 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (VisibilityMissing @ Mar 24 2005, 11:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> How'd we manage to make this little lark of a topic go on that long?  </td></tr></table>  This is Define Cynical, do you really have to ask? <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:19 pm

I guess it just shows the sheer magnitude of crazy people able to get into the news.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:26 pm

Stupid criminal and bananas . . . that means it belongs here.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mar 25, 8:03 AM EST Woman Pelts Robbery Suspect With Bananas By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press Writer BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Crystal Senger stopped at a convenience store to buy pop and cigarettes, and she saw the clerk being choked in a robbery attempt. She ran to call for help. Then she started throwing bananas. Senger, 19, said she grew up playing organized baseball, and used those skills to pelt the suspect in the head with every banana she threw, from about 10 feet away. "I was seven-for-seven," Senger said in a telephone interview Thursday. "They were green bananas - not the ripe mushy ones - so they hurt." Senger said the suspect, whom police said was intoxicated, was stunned from getting hit by the flying fruit. A 17-year-old was arrested after he bolted from the Devils Lake store and tripped over a piece of wood, after a short foot chase, Police Chief Bruce Kemmet said. The teen had no weapon and no money was taken from the store, Kemmet said. Police said the suspect, who was not identified because of his age, stood more than 6 feet tall, and weighed about 300 pounds. He allegedly entered the Holiday Station Store about 1 a.m. Tuesday. "It's pretty simple. The guy walked into the store and said something to the effect of "Give me what I want,"' Kemmet said. "He threw me around like I was nothing," said store clerk Ed Bingham, "and I weigh 220 pounds." Bingham said the suspect kicked and punched him for what "felt like forever." Bingham, 43, said he pushed a button that alerted the store's security company. "When I walked in the store, I saw Ed in a choke hold, yelling for help and gasping for air," Senger said. "There was blood everywhere." She ran out and told her friend to call 911 on her cell phone. "She was in shock, so I had to do it," Senger said. Senger said she came back in the store and "screamed at the top of my lungs at him to stop." When she was sure the suspect was unarmed, she began bombarding him with bananas. Senger said the basket of bananas was the closest thing she could find. "If there would have been cans of soup on the counter, I would have thrown those at him," she said. Bingham, who has worked at the store 15 years, said he had a swollen eye and needed four stitches to close a cut on his eyebrow. He returned to work Wednesday night. Kemmet said the suspect faces a number of charges in juvenile court, including robbery, assault and underage drinking. 2005 The Associated Press.</td></tr></table>

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:44 pm

Animal mayhem!! I'm not sure the bee delay rule is actually on the books, though.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mar 25, 10:49 AM EST Bees Stop Rockies-Diamondbacks Game That wasn't a well-hit ball buzzing past Darren Oliver's head. It was a swarm of bees. The pesky insects sent Oliver running from the mound Thursday and cut short the Colorado Rockies' 3-1 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Tucson, Ariz. "I guess we've got to call that a `Bee' game," Arizona manager Bob Melvin quipped. The bees literally chased Oliver from the mound. He kept trying to go back, but the bees would go after him again. Finally, after a 20-minute delay, he left for good and let Colorado reliever Allan Simpson complete the inning. Oliver said the bees apparently were attracted to the coconut oil in his hair gel. "I guess I must have smelled good. It was kind of funny at first, but after a while I started getting a little nervous and scared out there," he said. The Diamondbacks took the field in the sixth, but by then the bees had spread over the entire field. Shortstop Sergio Santos, who had just entered the game, was chased all the way into deep center field. "There were like little packs moving around," said Arizona's Luis Gonzalez, who hit his first homer of the spring in the first inning and was on third after a triple when play stopped. "They were all over the pitcher, and Santos when he went out. I think it was either their cologne or deodorant or something. They've got to switch it up." There was a brief bee delay at the same ballpark two years ago. But Joe Garagiola Sr., attending the game with his son, Diamondbacks general manager Joe Garagiola Jr., said he had never seen anything like Thursday's invasion. "And I go back to 1942," the elder Garagiola said. [EDITED] 2005 The Associated Press.</td></tr></table>

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:45 pm

How is that thief going to hold his head up proud among fellow cons if he goes to jail, after being knocked unconscious by a banana wielding teen?

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:05 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mar 26, 12:59 PM EST Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) -- The Easter Bunny is hopping mad. Bryan Johnson, who portrays the furry character at the Bay City Mall, says he was pummeled in an unprovoked attack on the job. Police say the attacker was a 12-year-old boy who sat on Johnson's lap the day before the March 18 incident. Johnson, 18, suffered a bloody nose. He kept his cool during the attack, deeming it inappropriate for the Easter Bunny to fight back. But he's not willing to forgive and forget. "They (the sheriff's deputies) told me it was up to me, and I feel that the boy should be prosecuted," Johnson told The Bay City Times. Johnson told Bay County Sheriff's deputies that the boy hit him in the face at least six times before running away. Bay County Sheriff John E. Miller said the youth has been in trouble in the past. The case will be forwarded to the Bay County prosecutor's office next week for action, he said. Johnson, meanwhile, is back on the job at the mall, where he had been working as the Easter Bunny for about a week before the attack. "I just like getting the kids to laugh and have fun," he said. His job is to get his picture taken with children and make them laugh. That can be difficult because he is not allowed to speak while in costume. Johnson said his 12-year-old attacker seemed perfectly happy the day before the incident. "Yeah, he came up and said, 'Hi,' and was sitting on my lap and talking," Johnson said. "He seemed OK." But when he saw Johnson the next day, the boy didn't want to talk. "He just started hitting," Johnson said. --- Information from: The Bay City Times, <a href='http://www.bc-times.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.bc-times.com/</a> 2005 The Associated Press.</td></tr></table>

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