WI makes national news again

[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.

"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.

"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.

"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.




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]

From the Smoking Gun: Hey Buddy are you Stoned?

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]

Re: From the Smoking Gun: Hey Buddy are you Stoned?

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...11072pot1.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?