WI makes national news again

[SkinBasket]

A 500-pound man stuck in the St. Croix River in Wisconsin after a tubing accident was rescued Tuesday morning, 12 hours after he fell into the water.
The 39-year-old, whose identity hasn’t been released, was recovering in an area hospital after a nearly 12-hour rescue effort by the Coast Guard and sheriffs.
The man wound up lodged in a rocky, shallow patch of the St. Croix, in Grantsburg, Wis., after his tube apparently deflated during an expedition, according to local TV and newspaper reports.
While he was trying to get out of the water and walk along the shore, he apparently suffered chest pains and a possible heart attack and fell into the river, the local media reported.
The river conditions and the man’s weight complicated the effort to get him out.





I'm sure a story like this won't reinforce certain stereotypes about the people in this part of the country...

[oregonpackfan]

In my younger years in that part of the state, I and friends used to go tubing on the Apple River. That was usually a pretty good time.

One time, the current was a bit swift due to a heavy rain the night before. My date was just lying in her tube with her legs in the water. One of her legs hit a submerged log and she ended up with a leg fracture.

Needless to say, that put a real damper on the trip.

[Joemailman]

Hard to find a good inner tube these days.

[the_idle_threat]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Freak Out]

A 500 pounder would need a very large tube!

[retailguy]

A 500 pounder would need a very large tube!


tractor tube?

[digitaldean]

That's what happens when you pile too many Twinkies on you when you're tubing!

[Harlan Huckleby]

I hope the fat man gets another tube and goes back out again.

A 500 pounder getting some sun and activity is a beautiful thing.

[Joemailman]

Easy for you to say. You're not one of the emergency workers who had to try to get him out of the river.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Easy for you to say. You're not one of the emergency workers who had to try to get him out of the river.


well, maybe some engineering issues. technicalities.

[GBRulz]

Uh, sir? Your partner? She's a he

Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

FOND DU LAC -- Two men received disorderly conduct citations early Wednesday morning after police caught them engaged in a sex act outside a downtown business.


The recipient of the sex act thought the man with him was a woman and officers “did not have the heart” to tell him otherwise, said Major Kevin Lemke of the Fond du Lac Police Department.

An officer patrolling downtown around 2:15 a.m. saw the men engaged in a sexual act in the doorway of a business on Main Street north of Sheboygan Street, Lemke said.

The man told officers other men had shown interest that night in the man who officers said often “poses as a woman” and has feminine features, Lemke said.

“The victim did not know the guy was a man,” Lemke said. “Nonetheless, that is an improper place to be doing that kind of act, regardless of gender.”

Filed by The Reporter of Fond du Lac

[packinpatland]

We're all 'visiting' in Oct., don't be telling us this stuff! :roll:

[oregonpackfan]

We're all 'visiting' in Oct., don't be telling us this stuff! :roll:

That's right, PPL! Cross Fond du Lac off of our guided tour. :)

[GBRulz]

And some freaks from outside of Wausau.........

Don't tease your hair with a pellet gun

Don't invite cops in while rolling a joint, either

Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers


FENWOOD – A 19-year-old Marshfield woman was shot in the forehead with a pellet gun on Thursday evening by a man who thought the gun was unloaded, authorities said this morning.


The woman went to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, where a pellet was found under her skin, Marathon County sheriff’s Lt. Dale Wisnewski said. The pellet did not penetrate the skull.

The man, Michael Coleman, 21, of Stratford, told police that he was trying to blow her hair with a blast of air from the gun at about 6:30 p.m. at Coleman’s home at 1936 Big Rapids Road, Wisnewski said.

When deputies arrived at his home, Coleman told them to come inside. Deputies found him rolling a marijuana cigarette, Wisnewski said.

Coleman was arrested and referred to the Marathon County district attorney’s office on tentative charges of recklessly endangering safety and possession of marijuana.

[KYPack]

I see Marshfield hasn't changed much over the years.

[oregonpackfan]

"Stupid is what stupid does..."

--from the Tom Hanks movie(I'm too stupid or too senior to remember the title) :)

[the_idle_threat]

Happy Gilmore

[packinpatland]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

[the_idle_threat]

Yes ... yes it does. :lol:

[oregonpackfan]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

You're absolutely right, PPL! Thanks for helping my eroding memory. Now, where did I leave my new box of Depends... :)

[packinpatland]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

You're absolutely right, PPL! Thanks for helping my eroding memory. Now, where did I leave my new box of Depends... :)

Neither one of us is that old! :lol:

[GBRulz]

Woah, Hwy 41 near Fond du Lac is shut down right now because a plane had to make an emergency landing on it. No news yet on what size plane is was or of injuries, etc.

I think EAA in Oshkosh starts this week, so I'm guessing it was a small plane.

[packinpatland]

Nothing is happening in Ct. Comared to WS, this is quite the boring place. :wink:

[swede]

Here in Sheerboredom County a mechanic from England, here for the Road America races in Elkhart Lake, was driving a rented SUV merrily along on the British side of the roadway when he struck another vehicle head-on, killing himself and the woman driving the other vehicle. The woman's son was also injured.


Earlier in the summer a 300 pound man from Sheerboredom drowned after becoming stuck in a storm sewer grating while trying to retrieve a cell phone he had dropped.

[retailguy]

Woah, Hwy 41 near Fond du Lac is shut down right now because a plane had to make an emergency landing on it. No news yet on what size plane is was or of injuries, etc.

I think EAA in Oshkosh starts this week, so I'm guessing it was a small plane.


Wow :shock: I just got home from visiting my mother. I usually go that way, but at the last minute decided to drive to Wausau and go down the 39... Crap that could've been me in that damn traffic jam! Whew! Hope no one was hurt.

[Little Whiskey]

heard it was a WWII area airplane that was headed to the flyin but was having engine problems.

[packinpatland]

Couple jailed for locking up boy during Packers games

Source: Associated Press

July 24, 2007

MILWAUKEE — A Greenfield couple who admitted locking a 7-year-old boy in his room with a bucket for a toilet while they watched Green Bay Packers games at a casino received jail sentences Monday.

Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner called the couple’s actions "abhorrent" and ordered them to undergo psychological screening.

"What both of you did certainly shocks the conscience of the community," Wagner said.

Scott Scherer, 39, and Melanie Hardrath, 30, admitted locking Hardrath’s son in his room with a loaf of bread, peanut butter and jelly and a bucket that he would have to clean when they returned.

They had enough money to hire a baby sitter, said Assistant District Attorney Chris Liege, who showed the judge photographs of the couple’s extensive collection of Packers memorabilia.

Wagner scolded Hardrath and Scherer, a former youth counselor, for not thinking about what would happen if the boy got sick or the house caught fire while they were at the casino.

He sentenced Hardrath to seven months in a county jail and Scherer to nine months. Both will serve four years of probation, with a stayed sentence of two years in prison and more extended supervision.

The couple also can’t have contact with each other in the presence of the boy, now 8. He is staying with relatives.

The couple’s defense attorney, Richard Johnson, said he couldn’t explain their behavior.

"What do you do?" he asked the judge. "Maybe this coming football season, lock them in a room with a bucket and make them watch Bears games

[GBRulz]

Wisconsin woman's dog eats nearly US$750; most recovered as piles of cash

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) - Debbie Hulleman's pet dog Pepper likes to chew things.



She's gnawed on lipstick canisters, shampoo bottles, ball point pens, toothpaste and now the list includes nearly US$750 in cash - gobbled right down.

"This is probably the worst," Hulleman said Thursday, recalling the nasty chore of recovering the money from vomit and - you guessed it - dog piles left in the yard.

"We all laughed about it," Hulleman said.

"As long as we were able to recover the money, it was funny. If I wouldn't have been able to recover it, I wouldn't have been happy."

While Hulleman and husband were on a four-day vacation in late June, she asked her mother in Oakdale, Minn., to take care of Pepper and Zach, the family's dogs.

Pepper found a purse belonging to a friend of Hulleman's mother and chewed the cash from an envelope.

Hulleman's mother recovered some of the money that Pepper spit out, thinking she had it all. But when Hulleman returned from the trip and went to clean up her dogs' mess outside, she noticed a $50 bill hanging from one pile.

The family gradually recovered $647 and swapped it for fresh currency at a bank.

"We have a $100 bill that can't be recovered because you need three-fourths of a bill and it is only half of a bill," Hulleman said, laughing.


The nasty chore of sorting through dog feces netted about $400, the 50-year-old dog lover said.

"It wasn't that bad. I soaked it and strained it and rinsed it. I just kept rinsing it and rinsing it."

"I had rubber gloves on of course," she said.

"Everyone said: 'I can't believe you did that.' Well, for $400, yeah, I would do that."

[the_idle_threat]

I'm sure the people at the bank were thrilled. :shtf:

[GBRulz]

haha.... that hitting the fan icon takes on a whole new meaning after that story, eh, Idle? :lol:

[the_idle_threat]

:lol:

[the_idle_threat]

Wisconsin made the front page at abcnews.com! :wow: :bclap: :five:

[/sarcasm]



Accused Grave Robbers Dodge Sex Charges

Wisconsin Court Tosses Sexual Assault Charges Against Accused Grave Robbers

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3419164

The Associated Press By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. Jul 26, 2007 (AP)

Three men who dug up a young woman's corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

A judge was correct to dismiss the charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 21, because lawmakers never intended to criminalize sex with a corpse, the District 4 Court of Appeals said in a 3-0 ruling.

The three men went to a cemetery in Cassville in southwestern Wisconsin on Sept. 2 to remove the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.

The men used shovels to reach her grave. They abandoned their plan and were eventually arrested after a vehicle drove into the cemetery and reported suspicious behavior, authorities said.

They said the men had seen an obituary of Tennessen with her photo and wanted to dig up her body to have sexual intercourse. Such an act is known as necrophilia.

The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor attempted theft charges. But Grant County Circuit Judge George Curry dismissed the sexual assault charges in September, saying no Wisconsin law addressed necrophilia. Prosecutors appealed his ruling.

At issue is a provision in the sexual assault law saying criminal penalties apply "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time of the sexual contact or sexual intercourse."

The appeals court said the law was ambiguous but the most reasonable interpretation was that it does not ban necrophilia. Instead, the court said, the law was meant to make sure prosecutors could bring sexual assault charges in rape-murder cases in which the victim ends up dead.

Outrage over the case might soon change the law.

Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, introduced legislation Wednesday that would make having sex with a corpse a felony with punishment of up to 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The bill would levy the same penalties against anyone who intentionally disturbs a burial site or a buried human corpse.

Comment:

We didn't know we needed a law! Now, I guess we do. :o :(

[GBRulz]

I believe this is a community about 20 miles SW of Milwaukee.....

One man, two OWIs in two hours

The Associated Press

NORWAY — A Franklin man’s plea to "just give me a ride home" instead landed him to the Racine County Jail after he was booked twice in just over two hours for drunken driving.


Clayton J. Paul’s bad day started July 23 when he tried to leave a bar parking lot at 2:17 p.m. and backed his truck into a Racine County Sheriff’s Department cruiser at a high rate of speed, authorities said.

The impact left a large dent in the squad car’s front bumper and Paul’s blood-alcohol level registered a 0.16 — twice the legal limit of 0.08.

Paul, 53, was cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and exceeding the legal limit. He was booked at the Town of Waterford police station and released to the custody of his wife.

Twelve minutes later at 4:38 p.m., a deputy pulled Paul over again.

According to records, the deputy said that Paul told him, "just give me a ride home."
Instead, Paul failed sobriety tests and registered a 0.13 blood-alcohol level.

He received citations again for OWI and exceeding the legal limit. After being taken back to the station, he was transferred to the Racine County Jail.

[Little Whiskey]

a buddy told me while he and a friend were in sturgis for the bike rally he was pulled over for DWI, but the jail was full so they released him and dropped him off on the highway. as he was walking he came upon a tractor and decided it would be quicker it drive the tractor than walk. well same cop sees him driving the tractor and needless to say they make room for him in the jail the second time.

[GBRulz]

I wonder if that was my brother-in-law, j/k but they always go to Sturgis every year and the stories they come back with are hilarious!

[MJZiggy]

32,000 Quarters Leak Onto Wis. Roads
August 3, 2007 - 4:53am

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Imagine the ringing noise of 32,000 quarters hitting the pavement.

An armored car company reported losing $8,000 in quarters along highways in two Wisconsin counties last month. About half has been returned.

"I guess somebody found that and figured it was an early Christmas," Jefferson County Detective Sgt. Lawrence Lee said.

Eight-hundred dollars of loose quarters was found late last month in the Madison area and $3,200 in Jefferson County the next day.

Loomis Fargo officials told authorities that a truck headed for Madison carrying boxes of quarters broke down in the Pewaukee area, so they sent another one. The load was transferred, but someone forgot to secure the door.

The driver was issued a citation for failure to prevent a leaking load.

A Loomis official declined comment Thursday.

[woodbuck27]

Where's Wisconsin MJ?

[oregonpackfan]

Where's Wisconsin MJ?

Woodbuck,

Wisconsin is north of "FIB"-land and east of "Prince"-land. :)

[GBRulz]

ok, this isn't really national news, but the one line in here caught my eye... this is from todays Milwaukee Journal......

Free water park admission today
There will be free admission to Pelican Cove water park tonight as part of National Night Out on Milwaukee's south side.

The event will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at Kosciuszko Park, 2201 S. 7th St.

The Milwaukee Police Department dive team will give a presentation and the the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office bomb squad, K-9 unit, mounted patrol and bike units will also be present.

The movie "El Clown" will be shown at dusk with subtitles in English.

The event is sponsored by the sheriff's office, Milwaukee Police Department, the South Side National Night Out Committee and Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West.

[MJZiggy]

Well, it is the south side... :whist:

[Partial]

Well, it is the south side... :whist:

The only thing I ever go into the barrio for is the Pick'n'save that is just across the bridge on 26th. There is just so much crime and whatnot on the south side.

[GBRulz]

Well, it is the south side... :whist:

The only thing I ever go into the barrio for is the Pick'n'save that is just across the bridge on 26th. There is just so much crime and whatnot on the south side.

I thought the north side was even worse for crime? Then again, other than going to visit my nephew at Marquette, an occassional concert at the Bradley or misc things downtown, I'm not too familiar with Milwaukee these days.

[MJZiggy]

No, you're right. The north side is no picnic either.

[Partial]

Well, it is the south side... :whist:

The only thing I ever go into the barrio for is the Pick'n'save that is just across the bridge on 26th. There is just so much crime and whatnot on the south side.

I thought the north side was even worse for crime? Then again, other than going to visit my nephew at Marquette, an occassional concert at the Bradley or misc things downtown, I'm not too familiar with Milwaukee these days.

I'm kind of a pansy and avoid going to many places :oops: . The north side definitely is not anywhere I would want to be driving around at night, either. Ideally, I try to stay in the hales corners/greendale area as much as possible.

[Kiwon]

Crime wave averted
.................................................. .....

Madison police capture wanted monkey

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities captured a diaper-wearing monkey who led them on a downtown search after biting a woman.

The 20-year-old woman reported being bitten on the thumb as she tried to pet the animal early Wednesday.

The woman was walking by State Street Brats, a popular nightclub, where a man had the monkey on a leash inside its beer garden. People walking by were petting the monkey, who was wearing a white diaper.

But the monkey bit the woman, who suffered four small punctures on her thumb, police said.

The bite sent the woman to the hospital, where a physician said the monkey should be found so that it could be quarantined to determine if it has a disease.

By 7:15 a.m., police found the man and the monkey. But the man lost the handle on the monkey before an animal control officer arrived and it got loose.

Police issued a warning to the public of the foot-tall monkey with a long prehensile tail: "It is now on the lam, presumably still in the State Street area."

About seven hours later, the monkey was captured and taken into custody downtown to be quarantined for 10 days, police said.

[oregonpackfan]

Monkey bites woman? Interesting, but stranger things have happened on Madison's State Street! :)

[packinpatland]

Police issued a warning to the public of the foot-tall monkey with a long prehensile tail: "It is now on the lam, presumably still in the State Street area."

They've probably been waiting a long time to actually say 'on the lam'. :wink:

[the_idle_threat]

Crime wave averted
.................................................. .....

Madison police capture wanted monkey

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities captured a diaper-wearing monkey who led them on a downtown search after biting a woman.

The 20-year-old woman reported being bitten on the thumb as she tried to pet the animal early Wednesday.

The woman was walking by State Street Brats, a popular nightclub, where a man had the monkey on a leash inside its beer garden. People walking by were petting the monkey, who was wearing a white diaper.

But the monkey bit the woman, who suffered four small punctures on her thumb, police said.

The bite sent the woman to the hospital, where a physician said the monkey should be found so that it could be quarantined to determine if it has a disease.

By 7:15 a.m., police found the man and the monkey. But the man lost the handle on the monkey before an animal control officer arrived and it got loose.

Police issued a warning to the public of the foot-tall monkey with a long prehensile tail: "It is now on the lam, presumably still in the State Street area."

About seven hours later, the monkey was captured and taken into custody downtown to be quarantined for 10 days, police said.


Police released the following photo of the man:






http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p53/the_idle_threat/dieter.jpg
"Would you like to touch my monkey?"
"Touch him! Touch my monkey!"

[GBRulz]

Hmmm: What’s the charge for drinking and roof-walking?


It’s no secret that alcohol can cause problems for police in a variety of ways -- it was no different overnight for the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Department.


About 12:22 a.m. today, Ashwaubenon officers on patrol were flagged down and told there was an intoxicated male walking on the roof of the Midway Motor Lodge, 780 Armed Forces Drive.

Officers went up to the roof by a stepladder and got the male down. He was given a citation for disorderly conduct and released, according to a report

[GBRulz]

someone was having a good time after the game last night !

[GBRulz]

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- It was embarrassing enough that Mark Stahnke woke up in a neighbor's yard without his pants. Then he remembered they contained a cashier's check for $41,093, meant for his son, and several hundred dollars in cash.

But he got it all back Friday, including the pants, thanks to a man and his dog.

Stahnke said he doesn't know what happened between when he left the bar and when he woke up the next morning, and police were skeptical when he filed a report on Monday.

"We're used to hearing weird stories, but with his intoxication we figured this one would be different, that the amount of money wouldn't be exact," Police Lt. William Graham said. "How do you get so intoxicated that you lose your pants?"

Stahnke said he had met his son at a bar and doesn't remember much afterward.

"I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn't realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on," he said. "When I got up, I realized, my God, I don't have any pants."

Tim Curzan's dog, Joe, found the pants at an intersection, according to a police report. He found the cashier's check and tried twice, unsuccessfully, to deliver it and the cash to where he thought the owner lived.

On Wednesday, the pants were still at the intersection, so Curzan took them to the police, who contacted Stahnke to claim his belongings

[oregonpackfan]

Hmmm: What’s the charge for drinking and roof-walking?


It’s no secret that alcohol can cause problems for police in a variety of ways -- it was no different overnight for the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Department.


About 12:22 a.m. today, Ashwaubenon officers on patrol were flagged down and told there was an intoxicated male walking on the roof of the Midway Motor Lodge, 780 Armed Forces Drive.

Officers went up to the roof by a stepladder and got the male down. He was given a citation for disorderly conduct and released, according to a report

Maybe he had been listening to Carole King's song, "Up On The Roof." :)

[packinpatland]

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- It was embarrassing enough that Mark Stahnke woke up in a neighbor's yard without his pants. Then he remembered they contained a cashier's check for $41,093, meant for his son, and several hundred dollars in cash.

But he got it all back Friday, including the pants, thanks to a man and his dog.

Stahnke said he doesn't know what happened between when he left the bar and when he woke up the next morning, and police were skeptical when he filed a report on Monday.

"We're used to hearing weird stories, but with his intoxication we figured this one would be different, that the amount of money wouldn't be exact," Police Lt. William Graham said. "How do you get so intoxicated that you lose your pants?"

Stahnke said he had met his son at a bar and doesn't remember much afterward.

"I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn't realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on," he said. "When I got up, I realized, my God, I don't have any pants."

Tim Curzan's dog, Joe, found the pants at an intersection, according to a police report. He found the cashier's check and tried twice, unsuccessfully, to deliver it and the cash to where he thought the owner lived.On Wednesday, the pants were still at the intersection, so Curzan took them to the police, who contacted Stahnke to claim his belongings


The dog tried to deliver the check twice??? :lol:
There's something missing in that last paragraph..........besides a pair of pants. :wink:

[GBRulz]

very good pickup, PIP ! I didn't even notice that!

[packinpatland]

MARSHFIELD, Wis. - How do you become a celebrity? How about being charged with drunken driving while you and a friend are trying to drive the same pickup truck home. It worked for two men, Harvey Miller, 43, and Edwin Marzinske, 55.


"I always thought I'd be famous, just not this way," said Miller, a paraplegic who was steering a pickup truck with Marzinske on the gas pedal and brakes when they were stopped on a Friday night in August.

"Pretty much everywhere we go it's people coming up, 'Hey, can we get our pictures with you? Can we get your autograph?'" he said Wednesday. "We never expected this to escalate."

The news also got twisted somewhat, the men said, blaming it in part on a Colby-Abbotsford police report said Miller had no legs. He has his legs but a logging accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. A message left for the police department wasn't immediately returned Thursday.

Both were cited for drunken driving and driving while revoked. They're planning to defend themselves in court with an argument that neither had control, so neither was driving.

Miller blew a 0.16 percent blood alcohol reading on the breath test and Marzinske was at 0.09 percent, the police report said. The legal limit is .08 percent.

Miller said he takes drunken driving seriously, "but we were doing things as safe as possible."

Police clocked them going 35 mph in a 55 zone.

Marzinske acknowledged the arrest was embarrasing.

"I asked my daughter right out, 'Are you embarrassed about this?'" he said. "She says, 'A little bit Dad, but it sure is funny.' So we just have fun with it. There isn't much else you can do."

[MJZiggy]

Why didn't Marzinske just drive? It doesn't say he was disabled and he only blew a .09 (comparatively). He probably could have made it without getting stopped...

[packinpatland]

Sounds little like 'dumb and dumber' :roll:

[retailguy]

Sounds little like 'dumb and dumber' :roll:


A little? These guys could have been the guys they patterned the movie after...

[mraynrand]

MARSHFIELD, Wis. -
"I asked my daughter right out, 'Are you embarrassed about this?'" he said. "She says, 'A little bit Dad, but it sure is funny.' So we just have fun with it. There isn't much else you can do."

That's good parenting!

[swede]

Load up the kids.
Ride giant trucks.
Listen to big guns explode.
Throw rocks at metal garbage can lids.

It's like Homer and Bart were on the fundraising committee.


http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=658446

[packinpatland]

Load up the kids.
Ride giant trucks.
Listen to big guns explode.
Throw rocks at metal garbage can lids.

It's like Homer and Bart were on the fundraising committee.


http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=658446

At least the proceedes go to a good cause. :wink:

"Since the first Dozer Day, the event has raised a total of $551,410, said Anita Weier, the executive director of the foundation. The money funds various programs and educational items for students and teachers in the district"

[swede]

Load up the kids.
Ride giant trucks.
Listen to big guns explode.
Throw rocks at metal garbage can lids.

It's like Homer and Bart were on the fundraising committee.


http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=658446

At least the proceedes go to a good cause. :wink:

"Since the first Dozer Day, the event has raised a total of $551,410, said Anita Weier, the executive director of the foundation. The money funds various programs and educational items for students and teachers in the district"

Agreed!

I actually think it sounds too fun to be sponsored by a school district. The next logical step for this fundraiser is "Blow a big damn hole in the ground! $20 bucks plus the cost of the dynamite."

[oregonpackfan]

Load up the kids.
Ride giant trucks.
Listen to big guns explode.
Throw rocks at metal garbage can lids.

It's like Homer and Bart were on the fundraising committee.


http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=658446

At least the proceedes go to a good cause. :wink:

"Since the first Dozer Day, the event has raised a total of $551,410, said Anita Weier, the executive director of the foundation. The money funds various programs and educational items for students and teachers in the district"


Dang! That looks like great community fun AND for a good cause!

Why didn't my local PTA think of that during my teaching days!?

[the_idle_threat]

Police find cocaine in man's underwear

Fri Sep 21, 4:27 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_fe_st/odd_coke_in_underwear

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A 31-year-old Sheboygan man was charged with several felonies after police found more than eight grams of cocaine in his underwear. Harvey D. Johnnies was riding in a sport utility vehicle stopped by police Wednesday night, according to a criminal complaint. An officer found a pipe used for smoking crack cocaine in the console area.

Another passenger told an officer that he, Johnnies and the driver got crack cocaine in Milwaukee and shared the pipe in smoking the drug on their way back to Sheboygan, the complaint said. The passenger said Johnnies appeared to hide something in his groin area just before their SUV was pulled over.

Police retrieved 8.2 grams of cocaine from Johnnies' underwear while he was in a holding cell, the complaint said.

Johnnies was charged Thursday with felony possession with intent to deliver cocaine, two felony counts of the manufacture and delivering of cocaine and a misdemeanor charge of possessing drug paraphernalia.

He faces more than 20 years in prison and fines of up to $100,000 if convicted on all charges.

___

Information from: The Sheboygan Press, http://www.sheboygan-press.com

[BallHawk]

FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin (AP) -- Someone is either too cheap to buy his own toilet paper or planning a big prank.

Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel said someone has been repeatedly stealing toilet paper from the men's public bathrooms at the Fond du Lac City County Government Center since June.

Buechel suspects the person comes in once or twice a week around midday and gets about six rolls a week from dispensers. Some rolls weren't even full, he said.

The thefts haven't been a big loss.

"We don't buy the best toilet paper," Buechel said.

He expects the thief to get caught. "Someone is going to walk in on him when he's doing it and we'll catch him," he said.

Courthouse officials are on the lookout for suspicious activity.

County sheriff Capt. Dean Will didn't return a call for comment Friday

[GBRulz]

what the hell is going on with all the nut jobs from Sheboygan and Fond du Lac this year?

[swede]

Well, as a Sheboyganite by marriage--(I carpooled with Bill Schroeder's mom you know)--I can assure you we have a continuous supply of nut jobs.

One of my first grade students climbed into a stuffed animal vending game and was nationally famous for fifteen minutes! I'll see if I can find the image to post.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z236/dsteenswede44/stinabig010603.jpg


wow...I found about four other kids silly enough to do the same thing, but this one was mine. He got to go on Good Morning America and Montel to tell all about his "experience." They forgot to mention that larceny was his original intent.

He later told me he would have been down the hatch and out with about four stuffed animals but some lady started screaming and he played it like he couldn't get out.

I had about three kids that year that were way more trouble than he was.

That was a looong year.

[MadtownPacker]

He later told me he would have been down the hatch and out with about four stuffed animals but some lady started screaming and he played it like he couldn't get out.
HAHAHAHAHA! I knew the lil bastard wasnt stuck!

[MJZiggy]

This one's kinda sweet...If you're into sappy stuff like this.

RACINE, Wis. (AP) - Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs take it as a sign they were meant to get married.

After tying the knot on a Lake Michigan beach on Aug. 18, they released a bottle containing their wedding vows. A few weeks later, the bottle was found by Fred and Lynnette Dubendorf, of Mears, Mich., who were also married on a beach _ exactly 28 years before Kloska and Behrs.

"It was meant to be," Kloska said. "This was a sign to me."

Kloska, 46, and Behrs, 41, have been together for five years, but with several failed marriages between them, they had doubts about remarrying.

They finally did it in a sunrise ceremony near the Wind Point Lighthouse in Wind Point in southern Wisconsin. They invited a few guests, read their own vows and released two balloons.

When it was time to throw the bottle sealed with their name, address and wedding vows into the lake, Behrs went to the rock farthest out in the water.

He threw it underhand, but the bottle landed back on the sand where Kloska was standing.

"After laughing so hard, I tossed it back to him to release it again into the lake," she said. "It landed not too far from where he threw it. My thought was that with our luck, it would wind up in front of the house next-door to the lighthouse."

Instead, it floated across Lake Michigan and landed in the path of Lynnette Dubendorf, who was scanning the beach for trash to clean up while she walked her dogs. She spied the clear plastic bottle partially buried in the sand and noticed the note inside.

"I opened it and read it and said, `Oh, this is pretty cool, it's somebody's wedding vows,'" she said. "I thought, `Wow, how funny, we were married on the beach, too, and on the same day.'"

She initially didn't plan to respond, thinking an answer would only encourage people to toss litter into the lake.

"Then I thought, `That's selfish, I really should respond,'" she said. So she wrote Kloska and Behrs to tell them of her discovery.

The letter read, "We thought you would want to know where your message in a bottle ended up! We picked it up on the beach between Pentwater and Silver Lake on Sept. 19. An ironic note, we were also married on the beach! Here in Michigan by Pentwater. Even more ironic, it was on August 18, 1979. We wish you both the best of luck in your new lives together."

Behrs and Kloska had to read the letter several times to believe it. Kloska was surprised the bottle made it across the lake.

"I took it to mean that there's hope yet," she said.

[the_idle_threat]

Delivery man spots attacker at hospital

Thu Oct 11, 9:15 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_fe_st/odd_er_meeting

MILWAUKEE - A pizza-delivery man who sought treatment in an emergency room after being injured in a holdup attempt recognized one of his attackers when the suspect sought medical attention at the same hospital.

The victim, 28, was trying to deliver a pizza Tuesday when a man pointed a gun at him, Milwaukee police said. The Pizza Hut employee grabbed for the gun and attempted to wrest it from the first suspect when a second suspect hit the victim in the face.

The delivery man managed to pistol-whip the first suspect with the gun, hitting the suspect in the head several times, authorities said.

The victim fled and later sought medical help for injuries that included bruises and bite marks. At the hospital he recognized the suspect, who had sought treatment for injuries he suffered from the pistol-whipping, police said.

Police have asked the district attorney's office to file charges against the suspect. Officers were still looking for the second suspect.

[the_idle_threat]

Burglar steals food, leaves valuables

Thu Oct 11, 10:14 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hungry_burglar

APPLETON, Wis. - This thief apparently had quite the appetite. Appleton police received a call Wednesday of a burglary — not of valuables but of food.

The burglar apparently entered the unlocked apartment and walked away with a pizza, six eggs, a can of beef ravioli, a can of peaches and one chicken-and-broccoli Hot Pocket, authorities said.

The crime apparently occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., the police report said.

Police had no immediate suspects.

[the_idle_threat]

Boy, 3, obeys law during toy car joyride

Thu Oct 11, 10:23 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_fe_st/odd3_year_old_s_joyride

OMRO, Wis. - The candy-apple red Mustang GT is just a toy, but that didn't stop 3-year-old Jordan Will from taking his battery-operated wheels for a brief ride along a busy stretch of highway. Drivers stopped and neighbors chased down the car until an officer could pull over Jordan and his 2-year-old passenger on Sunday.

"Nothing bad happened, so it's kind of cute now when you look at it," said his father, Doug Will. "But at the time, it wasn't cute at all. It was scary. I was really upset."

The Mustang is decked out with all the extras: a rear spoiler, a premium sound system and chrome wheels.

The boys drove the tricked-out ride through their Omro neighborhood and pulled up to a busy intersection.

"He even obeyed the signs, so that was good. He stopped at the red light and got on the cross walk," said neighbor Jaci Bauer.

Another neighbor, Jason Bauer, panicked when he saw the boys cross over a highway, onto a sidewalk and over a bridge. He gave chase for a few blocks until an officer pulled the boys over.

"By the time we stopped them, they probably made it five or six blocks from home before anyone even noticed they had been wandering around town," Jason Bauer said.

Doug Will had been searching for the boys when he got the call to come get the car.

"He just said, 'We went for a ride, daddy,'" Will said.

All Jordan can do now is sit in the little car. His father has taken away the keys and removed the battery.

Officers said Jordan's dad won't be cited.

Omro is in east-central Wisconsin, about 10 miles west of Oshkosh.

[the_idle_threat]

Woman drops bid on bin Laden name change

Fri Oct 12, 9:51 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071013/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ms__bin_laden

APPLETON, Wis. - A woman who petitioned to change her last name to bin Laden did not appear in court on Friday and her case was dismissed. Caren Ann Burke, 49, of Seymour, failed to show for a name change hearing in front of Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Dee Dyer.

Burke had filed a name change petition on Aug. 23. She wanted to change her name to Caren Ann bin Laden. She listed her reason as "divorce from Rory S. Burke."

Dyer said in court that he received a letter from Burke stating she did not file a required third legal notice and was not intending to appear for the hearing.

Dyer then dismissed her petition.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Burke for comment Friday were unsuccessful.

[K-town]

Two-year old boy videotaped smoking a blunt by mother, friends
OCTOBER 11--The mother of a two-year-old Wisconsin boy shared a marijuana blunt with her child as friends laughed, filmed the child smoking, and asked, "Hey buddy, are you stoned?" Krystle Leigh Weber, 20, was charged yesterday along with two male friends with pot possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (Weber was also hit with a child neglect rap, also a misdemeanor). According to a Circuit Court complaint, after a confidential source told police about the smoking incident, cops seized a cell phone from defendant Sean Held, 19, and discovered three videos of the August incident. On the clips, the boy is seen holding and apparently puffing on a blunt, and "staggering around a bedroom in what appears to be a confused and altered state." In a police interview, Weber, who is pictured above in a Menomonee Falls Police Department mug shot, said that she initially rejected Held's suggestion to have her son "hit it," but eventually relented and agreed to let the two-year-old take a "small one." The complaint notes that Weber told police that she "knew what she did was wrong, and she would do anything to keep her son."

Edit - here's the link:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1011072pot1.html

[GrnBay007]

Two-year old boy videotaped smoking a blunt by mother, friends
OCTOBER 11--The mother of a two-year-old Wisconsin boy shared a marijuana blunt with her child as friends laughed, filmed the child smoking, and asked, "Hey buddy, are you stoned?" Krystle Leigh Weber, 20, was charged yesterday along with two male friends with pot possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (Weber was also hit with a child neglect rap, also a misdemeanor). According to a Circuit Court complaint, after a confidential source told police about the smoking incident, cops seized a cell phone from defendant Sean Held, 19, and discovered three videos of the August incident. On the clips, the boy is seen holding and apparently puffing on a blunt, and "staggering around a bedroom in what appears to be a confused and altered state." In a police interview, Weber, who is pictured above in a Menomonee Falls Police Department mug shot, said that she initially rejected Held's suggestion to have her son "hit it," but eventually relented and agreed to let the two-year-old take a "small one." The complaint notes that Weber told police that she "knew what she did was wrong, and she would do anything to keep her son."

Edit - here's the link:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1011072pot1.html

Kinda crazy that this can be considered neglect, rather than abuse. And a misdemeanor?? That's a slap on the hand. They always say they'll do anything to keep their child. Why weren't they thinking of that beforehand?

[Freak Out]

I read through two pages of this stuff and never came across any bestiality or necrophilia. What the hell? Things must be slowing down in Wisconsin.

[Freak Out]

I read through two pages of this stuff and never came across any bestiality or necrophilia. What the hell? Things must be slowing down in Wisconsin.

That's because they headed west....

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7009262

[GBRulz]

Man accused of guzzling alcohol in Wal-Mart liquor aisle

The Associated Press

MUKWONAGO — A man told police he couldn’t help himself when he took seven bottles of a spiked lemonade drink from the shelf at a Wal-Mart Supercenter and drank them in the liquor aisle.


Police Chief Fred Winchowky said the 43-year-old town of Eagle man claimed he was a recovering alcoholic and had been dry for 16 months before he went to the store Oct. 14 with his wife, who was not aware of what he was doing.

“He went down that aisle and he said ’I just couldn’t control myself,“’ Winchowky said. “He stated he was upset he broke his 16-month streak and he didn’t know how he was going to tell his wife.”

The chief said security video caught the man drinking the 12-ounce bottles of Jack Daniels Lynchburg Lemonade over a 15-minute period. He placed the empty bottles back on the shelf.

Confronted by a store official, he first denied it but smelled of intoxicants, Winchowky said.

The man was cited for retail theft.

[GBRulz]

Is Milwaukee trying to upstage Detroit?


MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee police said 11 people were shot in three separate incidents in a 90-minute period on the city's north side.

The first shooting occurred just after 1 a.m. Saturday morning.

Police said four people were shot at the Autumn Lounge near Teutonia Avenue and Clarke Street.

The fight started inside the bar then spilled out into the street.

The second shooting occurred just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

Police said six people were shot at Ike's Lounge near 24th Street and Garfield Avenue.

One of the victims is in critical condition.

The last shooting also happened near Teutonia Avenue and Clarke Street.

Police said a 45-year-old man was shot in the stomach while walking down the street.

Police have no suspects in custody.

They said they do not believe the shootings were related.

Another report on JSO... http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=2/9/2008&id=35407

[Partial]

I hate this city. Last spring I remember commenting to Nutz about the crime and how I didn't think it was so bad. Boy, was I ever wrong. Now that I am down there 12+ hours a day you truly see and hear the horror stories. I would be lieing if I said I wasn't scared walking from the physics building to my car after my Thursday night class gets out at 9:20. I typically end up having to park around Cramer and Locust and it seems judging by the emails the university sends out that people are mugged around that area pretty much weekly.

[the_idle_threat]

I hate this city. Last spring I remember commenting to Nutz about the crime and how I didn't think it was so bad. Boy, was I ever wrong. Now that I am down there 12+ hours a day you truly see and hear the horror stories. I would be lieing if I said I wasn't scared walking from the physics building to my car after my Thursday night class gets out at 9:20. I typically end up having to park around Cramer and Locust and it seems judging by the emails the university sends out that people are mugged around that area pretty much weekly.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Buck up, little guy ... THEY can smell your fear.

[Harlan Huckleby]

nm

[GBRulz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQCE2917NE

Wausau-area cops bust underage root beer keg party

By Brian Reisinger
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

ROTHSCHILD -- The Zebro home in Kronenwetter showed all the signs of an underage drinking party March 1: cars blocking the road, dozens of rowdy kids and a keg.


And yet, every partyer's breath test revealed an alcohol-free gathering.

Dustin Zebro, 18, and his friends said they threw the party after D.C. Everest High School administrators suspended their friends from sports.

"We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," Zebro said of the plan to poke fun at the administrators by throwing a root beer kegger.

However amusing, the event -- which partyers posted on the video Web site YouTube -- highlights serious differences in attitudes about underage drinking.

Zebro and his friends said they think underage drinking is between students and police, not schools.

Principal Tom Johansen disagrees.

"I think we have an obligation as an educational institution," he said, explaining that schools investigate cases of underage drinking carefully. Violations at school can lead to suspension or expulsion, while those at other venues can lead to expulsions from sports.

Debra Burgess, drug free communities coordinator for the Wausau School District, said the root beer party, and its motivations, downplay the consequences of underage drinking, which include harmful decisions and stalled brain development.

Zebro's mother, Ruthie, said she didn't know the motivation behind the gathering.

She also said a group on the social networking Web site Facebook that suggests she supports underage drinking is easily misunderstood. Although they had no proof, Everest Metro police have spoken to Ruthie Zebro about anonymous complaints they received about her hosting an underage drinking party.

"I don't promote it," she said.

But a drinking age of 21, she said, isn't fair with kids going to war at 18.

Burgess said there's little room for mixed messages.

"Parental approval or disapproval is often more powerful than we realize," she said.


You be the judge

Watch the video of the party at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQCE2917NE

[Scott Campbell]

We always had a decoy cooler, and the beer carefully protected.

[swede]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQCE2917NE

Wausau-area cops bust underage root beer keg party

By Brian Reisinger
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

ROTHSCHILD -- The Zebro home in Kronenwetter showed all the signs of an underage drinking party March 1: cars blocking the road, dozens of rowdy kids and a keg.


And yet, every partyer's breath test revealed an alcohol-free gathering.

Dustin Zebro, 18, and his friends said they threw the party after D.C. Everest High School administrators suspended their friends from sports.

"We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," Zebro said of the plan to poke fun at the administrators by throwing a root beer kegger.

What a brew of cynicism, irony, and sarcasm! Ahh, the humor of intelligent young anti-authoritarians.

These kids sound like future Packer Rats,

[Joemailman]

On a much more serious note, an 11-year-old Wausau-area girl died of untreated diabetes because her parents prayed for her recovery rather than seek medical attention. First link is a general article about the story. Second link is about clergy reaction to the story.

http://wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080326/WDH0101/803260643&theme=WDHNEUMANN
http://wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080326/WDH0101/803260645&theme=WDHNEUMANN

[oregonpackfan]

A root beer keg party? What is this younger generation coming to?

Why, when I was a boy, we never...ah, well...never mind! :lol:

[Cheesehead Craig]

Those kids set the cops up good. You know damn well they wanted the cops to show up so they could make their protest famous.

[Scott Campbell]

Those kids set the cops up good. You know damn well they wanted the cops to show up so they could make their protest famous.



And I'd bet they celebrated with a few real cold ones after the boys in blue left.

[GBRulz]

Wausau man chokes on steak, dies at birthday dinner

Gannett Wisconsin Media

WAUSAU – A Wausau man celebrating his 84th birthday died Wednesday night after he choked on a piece of steak, according to the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department.


Deputies were called at 7:05 p.m. to The Loading Zone, where Donald J. Builer was reported to be choking, Sheriff’s Lt. Randy Albert said.

Deputies and restaurant customers tried the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the meat, but were unsuccessful, he said.

Builer was celebrating his birthday with family members, police said.

Filed by the Wausau Daily Herald

[GBRulz]

A stabbing in Milwaukee...shocker :shock:

Snowball fight turns into stabbing

The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — A 21-year-old man is in the hospital after he was stabbed following a snowball fight in Milwaukee.


Police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz says the snowball fight between a 19-year-old and the 21-year-old started innocently. Then the 21-year-old put the younger man in a headlock.

The 19-year-old threatened retribution.

When he escaped the head lock, he stabbed the 21-year-old in the stomach.

Schwartz says the 21-year-old was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover.
She says the 19-year-old is in jail awaiting charges.

[GBRulz]

Those kids set the cops up good. You know damn well they wanted the cops to show up so they could make their protest famous.



And I'd bet they celebrated with a few real cold ones after the boys in blue left.

LOL - you're probably right!!

[GrnBay007]

OK, this is not national news but it is Wisconsin news and I thought it was cute when I came across it.


Scouts sell box of cookies to Depp
Troop 235 gets to take pictures, shake hands with the 'Public Enemies' star



DARLINGTON, Wis. -- A tri-state area Girl Scout troop got a special treat earlier this month, setting their cookie-selling sights on a Hollywood star.

With famed actor Johnny Depp filming scenes at the Lafayette County courthouse in Darlington for his upcoming movie "Public Enemies," the girls of Girl Scout Troop 235 of the Green Hills Council put their best sales skills to use and sold their most expensive box of cookies to date.

Carly Reilly and her friend Andrea McGowan, both 11, arranged the meeting with the movie star March 18, when they ran into Depp's bodyguard at the courthouse.

Rallying the troops, the girls came back the next day dressed in their full Girl Scout attire to sell some cookies and meet the star.

After nearly a four-hour wait, a black SUV pulled up alongside the girls and Depp rolled down the window.

He purchased one box of Girl Scout cookies, handing the girls a $100 bill and telling them to keep the change on the $3.50 order. Depp then proceeded to shake hands and take pictures with his giddy fans.

Out of all 125-some boxes of cookies Reilly sold this year, that one box of Lemonades is sure to be a hard one to forget.

[packinpatland]

OK, this is not national news but it is Wisconsin news and I thought it was cute when I came across it.


Scouts sell box of cookies to Depp
Troop 235 gets to take pictures, shake hands with the 'Public Enemies' star



DARLINGTON, Wis. -- A tri-state area Girl Scout troop got a special treat earlier this month, setting their cookie-selling sights on a Hollywood star.

With famed actor Johnny Depp filming scenes at the Lafayette County courthouse in Darlington for his upcoming movie "Public Enemies," the girls of Girl Scout Troop 235 of the Green Hills Council put their best sales skills to use and sold their most expensive box of cookies to date.

Carly Reilly and her friend Andrea McGowan, both 11, arranged the meeting with the movie star March 18, when they ran into Depp's bodyguard at the courthouse.

Rallying the troops, the girls came back the next day dressed in their full Girl Scout attire to sell some cookies and meet the star.

After nearly a four-hour wait, a black SUV pulled up alongside the girls and Depp rolled down the window.

He purchased one box of Girl Scout cookies, handing the girls a $100 bill and telling them to keep the change on the $3.50 order. Depp then proceeded to shake hands and take pictures with his giddy fans.

Out of all 125-some boxes of cookies Reilly sold this year, that one box of Lemonades is sure to be a hard one to forget.

Seems we don't hear enough of the good stuff.....thanks for posting this one!

"A root beer keg party? What is this younger generation coming to?

Why, when I was a boy, we never...ah, well...never mind! "


OPF........did you have taffy pulls too? :lol:

[Freak Out]

Now its Alaska's turn.....and Kansas

April 15, 2008

KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- A registered sex offender has been charged with two counts of criminal mischief after reportedly having sex with a dog that he tied to a tree. This marks the second reported case of sexual misconduct with an animal in recent months, as reported by Pet Pulse.

Last Wednesday, April 9, a witness allegedly saw Harold Simpson, 26, lead a white dog into the woods using a green rope; the dog was later seen running out of the forest.

The witness said she later saw Simpson do the same with a black Labrador retriever, persuading it to come up to him before tying a green rope around its neck, then leading it into the woods outside the small Alaskan village of Klawock.

In an affidavit, two other witnesses said they went looking in the woods and discovered a man having sex with the dog.

It was tied to a tree by a rope, and apparently had white tape restraining its muzzle.

According to Klawock Police Officer Chris Paulson’s report, he found the green rope and tape with black hair on it from the scene.

Simpson was later arrested and is being held on $10,000 bail. He has a previous history of sexual abuse, and is a registered sex offender after raping a young boy, twice, when he was only 16. The age of the boy he assaulted could not be confirmed.

There is no law in Alaska prohibiting sex with a canine.

“Mr. Simpson, however, poses perhaps the greatest threat to the community of any defendant that we will see in this court, or any other in Southeast, for some time,” said Scott.

It is well established that those who have a propensity for abusing animals, whether sexually, physically or otherwise, are likely to abuse humans as well.

In Paulson’s case, he is guilty of both.

The attorney went on to say that had a small child been present during the time of the incident instead of a dog, “the small child would have been found taped (and) ties in the woods.”

Pet Pulse calls to the Klawock police department and the Ketchikan Animal Protection concerning the sex, status and whereabouts of the dogs were not returned by press time.

In late February of this year, a Wichita man was arrested for a similar crime. Josh Coman, 20, was arrested after breaking into a woman’s garage. When she heard the commotion, the home owner went into the garage to find Coman sexually assaulting her female Rottweiler.

He was later charged with a misdemeanor sodomy charge. Coman also had a previous charge for sexually assaulting a dog. However, Magnum’s Law, which protects animals from abuse, does not include sexual assault.


Matt Van Hoven, Pet Pulse, and The Associated Press contributed to this article.

[BallHawk]

There is no law in Alaska prohibiting sex with a canine.

At least one state has it right..

[GBRulz]

There is no law in Alaska prohibiting sex with a canine.

At least one state has it right..

You have issues if you think that's right. :shock:

[GoPackGo]

I hate this city. Last spring I remember commenting to Nutz about the crime and how I didn't think it was so bad. Boy, was I ever wrong. Now that I am down there 12+ hours a day you truly see and hear the horror stories. I would be lieing if I said I wasn't scared walking from the physics building to my car after my Thursday night class gets out at 9:20. I typically end up having to park around Cramer and Locust and it seems judging by the emails the university sends out that people are mugged around that area pretty much weekly.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Buck up, little guy ... THEY can smell your fear.

no idle, they smell his mangina

[the_idle_threat]

Yeah that too.

[the_idle_threat]

Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks in Wis.

MADISON, Wis. - Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday.

The children — a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — cried hysterically Wednesday after a deputy who came to their Necedah home looking for Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth ordered them out because of the stench from her body.

The children were in foster care Friday. Their mother, Tammy Lewis, and self-described "bishop" Alan Bushey remained in custody on felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child.

"It's a sad case, and we'll continue to investigate it and try to ascertain just what occurred up there," Juneau County Sheriff Brent Oleson said. He said he had no further information on Bushey's religious affiliation.

According to the criminal complaint, Middlesworth's sister called sheriff's officials Wednesday and asked them to go to the home about 80 miles north of Madison to check on the woman, who had not been heard from for some time.

When Deputy Leigh Neville-Neil arrived at the house, she encountered Lewis, also known as Sister Mary Bernadett, the complaint said. Lewis, 35, initially refused to allow the deputy to check on Middlesworth, telling her that Middlesworth was on vacation and saying she had to check with her "superior" first.

But she eventually let the deputy in. The house smelled of incense and burned wood, and had religious materials everywhere and hymns playing on the stereo, according to the complaint.

When the deputy opened the last closed door, she smelled "decaying matter" and noticed something piled on what appeared to be a toilet. Lewis told her it was Middlesworth's body, the complaint said.

Lewis told the deputy that Middlesworth had died about two months earlier, but that God told her Middlesworth would come to life if she prayed hard enough.

She said she couldn't say anything more until she spoke with her "superior" — Bushey, 57, also known as Bishop John Peter Bushey.

When Bushey (pronounced "boo-SHAY") arrived, Lewis told the deputy that Middlesworth had appeared to pass out as Lewis helped her into her underwear.

She said she propped Middlesworth on the toilet and left the room to call Bushey, who told her to leave the woman alone and pray for her, the complaint said. He said he had received signs that God would raise her from the dead with a miracle.

Lewis went on to say she thought Middlesworth was still breathing when she put her on the toilet and called Bushey, instead of an ambulance. She later told a detective she put the woman on the toilet on March 4.

An autopsy has been performed, but results won't be available for some time, Oleson said.

"At this time we don't know what the cause of death was," he said. "Quite frankly, it might have been natural causes."

He described the one-story home in the town of Necedah as in decent repair, although the residents had been using "makeshift" toilet facilities because of the situation in the one bathroom.

The boy at the house told a detective he had considered running away because he was uncomfortable with the situation. He said Bushey told him that demons were trying to make it look as if Middlesworth wouldn't come back to life, and that if she were to be discovered he and the girl would have to go to public school and get jobs because Middlesworth paid the bills.

The boy referred to Middlesworth as "grandmother," the complaint said.

Oleson said Middlesworth was unrelated to Bushey.

"She believed in the same faith as self-proclaimed Bishop Bushey, and that was the connection there," he said.

Oleson said that Middlesworth and Lewis lived at the residence with the children since fall of 2004, and that Bushey lived elsewhere.

Bushey and Lewis are scheduled to make an initial court appearance May 19. Aside from the felony counts, Lewis also was charged with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.

The sheriff said cash bond was set Friday at $50,000 each, but Lewis was allowed to post 10 percent for her release.

Computerized state court records had no attorney listed for either suspect on Friday.

[GBRulz]

from the headlines on Yahoo......

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years.

Fifty-four-year-old Don Gorske says he hit the milestone last month, continuing a pleasurable obsession that began May 17, 1972 when he got his first car.

Gorske has kept every burger receipt in a box. He says he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald's track its number of customers motivated him to track his own consumption.

The only day he skipped a Big Mac was the day his mother died, to respect her request.

The correctional-institution employee says he doesn't care when people call his Big Mac obsession crazy. He says he's in love with the burgers, which are the highlights of his days.

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[Scott Campbell]

He better get obsessed with Lipitor and exercise.

[oregonpackfan]

from the headlines on Yahoo......

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years.

Fifty-four-year-old Don Gorske says he hit the milestone last month, continuing a pleasurable obsession that began May 17, 1972 when he got his first car.

Gorske has kept every burger receipt in a box. He says he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald's track its number of customers motivated him to track his own consumption.

The only day he skipped a Big Mac was the day his mother died, to respect her request.

The correctional-institution employee says he doesn't care when people call his Big Mac obsession crazy. He says he's in love with the burgers, which are the highlights of his days.

Holy cholesterol, Batman! :shock: I just wonder what his cholesterol levels happen to be...

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