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Man with nowhere to go, goes back to jail

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Now that’s weird, usually inmates spend all of their time thinking how they are either going to get out of jail legitimately or by escape, but not this guy!  He wants to stay there so he can stay off drugs, HUH?
PORTLAND (AP) — A man who had nowhere to go after his release from the Multnomah County jail begged guards to let him stay.

They wouldn’t let him, but he managed to find a way back — just over an hour later.

Donnell Watts, a 34-year-old with a long rap sheet, was arrested Thursday for failing to show up in court on a cocaine charge. County justice workers decided he wasn’t likely to commit a violent crime and ordered him released pending his arraignment.

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1,400-pound bull drags officers down NJ street

Monday, September 28th, 2009

So what is the moral to this story?   If a 1,400 pound bull asks you for your donut, you give him your donut, no questions asked!

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Police say a 1,400-pound bull that escaped from a northern New Jersey slaughterhouse dragged officers with a lasso down a street and ran 10 blocks before being captured and sedated. Chief John DeCando, spokesman for Paterson Police’s animal control division, says the bull was being unloaded at ENA Meat Packing Inc. when it broke loose just before 8:30 a.m. Monday.

Police tried to corral the bull by lassoing a rope around the animal’s neck, but it dragged officers down the street instead.

DeCando says traffic was light during the bull run. He says the area where the officers were dragged was not residential or near a school.

Officers finally corralled the animal and DeCando was able to sedate it.

No injuries were reported. The bull was returned to the slaughterhouse.

Information from: The Record of Bergen County, http://www.northjersey.com

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Mayor defends no-chase policy for police

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Wow I want to live there!  If you can walk faster than the cops, you’re golden!   It’s sad that this cop got hurt but chasing perps is part of the job!   Maybe they should have given orders to SOS if they can’t chase them down.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The mayor of a small South Carolina town says she banned her police officers from chasing suspects on foot after an officer was hurt running after a man.

Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake said Monday she issued the order in August after the city had to pay for an officer who missed work after chasing a “guy who had a piece of crack on him.” She said a drug possession charge was not worth the cost to taxpayers. But her written order said she did “not want anyone chasing any suspects whatsoever.”

The decision came after two town-issued cars were totaled within a month, although her order applies only to foot chases.

When a local TV reporter asked about the policy, Peake would not answer and clapped her hands in mock praise that the reporter had found a story.

Information from: WSPA-TV, http://www.wspa.com

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19.2 Pound giant baby draws spectators to hospital

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Now THAT’s a baby!   Sumo wrestlers world wide are scared today as this 19 pound giant enters the arena of life.   Could you imagine being the mother going “wow and I thought maybe I had added a little weight because of twinkies and ho-hos.

KISARAN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar – or the Great in Arabic – came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds (8.7 kilograms).

Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight and size, Dr. Binsar Sitanggang said.

“I’m very happy that my baby and his mother are in good health,” father Muhammad Hasanuddin said Friday. “I hope I can afford to feed the baby enough, because he needs more milk than other babies.”

Crowds pushed to get a peek of the extraordinary boy, who measured nearly 24 inches (62 centimeters) when he was born Monday, at the Abdul Manan hospital in the northern town of Kisaran on the island of Sumatra.

“This is fantastic,” Dewi Miranti, a mother from a nearby village, said as she peered through a window with about a hundred other people. “He looks very well and is cute.”

The baby’s extreme weight was the result of excessive glucose from his mother during pregnancy, Dr. Sitanggang said.

“He is greedy and has a strong appetite, nursing almost nonstop,” the doctor said.

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