Man blames parking lot peep show on “explosive diarrhea”

COLLIER COUNTY — A van, a light and a lack of clothes landed a Lehigh Acres man in jail Monday after Collier Sheriff’s officials said he exposed himself to two women in the parking lot of a store off Juliet Boulevard.

According to Sheriff’s reports, deputies arrived at the store’s parking lot after a woman and her daughter reported seeing a naked man, later identified as David Todd Napodano, 42, stand-up inside a white van and shake his hips at them.

Once on the scene, deputies located Napodano’s 2004 Chevrolet box-truck van in the parking lot.

Reports said deputies spotted a still naked Napodano inside "in plain view" an hour after he flashed the victims.

When deputies spoke with Napodano, he told them he had “explosive diarrhea” and he was using his underwear to clean himself, according to the report. But upon examining Napodano’s underwear, deputies found no evidence of uncontrolled bowels, according to the report.

Napodano, of the 200 block of Ivan Avenue N., Lehigh Acres, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure.

Source: Naples News

A giant fork in the road (literally)

PASADENA - Right where Pasadena and St. John avenues divide, there's a fork in the road.
It's about 18 feet tall and looks like stainless steel.

The fork's appearance a few days ago, tines firmly stuck into a little Caltrans-owned median, was a bit of a mystery at first.

"It's a guerilla installation," guessed Rochelle Branch, the city's cultural affairs manager, who oversees the public art program. "I don't know if it's through Caltrans, but it is clever."

Caltrans spokeswoman Maria Raptis, who said Caltrans leases the small plot of land to the city, was equally baffled.

"Sometimes we do put art up. We have context-sensitive art off some freeways," she said. "But I don't know about this."

Source: Pasadena Star News

Man makes $90,000 a year by selling advertising on his t-shirts

A T-SHIRT a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $A90,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

Jason Sadler, 26, a former marketing professional from Florida, founded his own company, http://www.iwearyourshirt.com/, in 2008 with the idea to wear a T-shirt supplied by any company and then use social media tools to promote the firm.

For his human billboard service, Mr Sadler charges the "face value" of the day so January 1 costs $1, while December 31 costs $365.

Mr Sadler said this may not sound like a lot but it adds up to $66,795 a year if he sells out every day, which he did this year.

He also sells monthly sponsorships for $1500, adding another $18,000 to his income.
"I walk around, take photos, wear the shirt all day," he told Reuters.

"I blog about those photos, I put 'em up on Twitter, I change my Facebook profile ... and then I do a Youtube video.

"I made about $83,000 this year."

The average US wage is about $615 a week or about $32,000 a year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Mr Sadler has already begun filling his 2010 calendar so, in true entrepreneurial fashion, he is expanding services by hiring another individual to wear a shirt a day on the west coast of the United States - and is doubling his price.

Source: couriermail.com.au

Man says image of Jesus keeps appearing on his pickup truck

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Jim Stevens says he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

Stevens — of Jonesborough — says nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ has appeared in the condensation on the driver's side window of his Isuzu truck.

A Johnson City Press photo of the truck showed a facial image.
Stevens said when he first saw the image, he figured it would evaporate and not return. But it kept reappearing for two weeks now.

Stevens said folks at the grocery store he goes to were amazed to see the image.

He says he isn't going to wash the truck for a while.

Source: Gaston Gazette

Dog kills man with one bite during a game of fetch

A father died after being nipped by his dog during a game of fetch.

Steven Sewell, 55, was on holiday in the Scottish Highlands with his wife Angela and teenage son

David when the family’s partially blind dog Judy bit him.

The retired teacher patched up the small wound with tissue and carried on as normal because he was not in any pain.

However, an inquest has heard how he began complaining of shivers and sickness a few days later.

He was taken to hospital, where doctors diagnosed blood poisoning, and he died a few days later after the infection spread to his brain.

The family say the dog has never behaved aggressively, and are keeping her in spite of the freak accident.

Mrs Sewell, 53, said of the incident: ‘It was not vicious. It was just bad eyesight and tragic, but you have to accept it and move on.’

The inquest heard Mr Sewell, of Hipperholme, West Yorkshire, had been fishing with his son and throwing sticks for the dogs.

He was playing with nine-year-old labrador, Harry, and Alsatian-Doberman cross Judy, ten, in Grantown-on-Spey, near Inverness, when Judy accidentally bit his finger as she jumped to take a stick.

Mr Sewell felt the bite go through to his bone, but did not think it serious enough to seek treatment.

Once back in their holiday cottage, the Sewells searched for antiseptic but could not find any.
They used a sticking plaster to cover the wound.

But six days later, they became increasingly worried as Mr Sewell complained of feeling hot and experiencing ‘strange dreams’.

The family then headed home, where he began suffering from diarrhoea and a loss of feeling in his fingers. He was taken to hospital and immediately transferred to intensive care after doctors discovered he had contracted septicaemia from the bite.

This led to inflammation of the brain – or encephalitis – and he died on May 31 from organ failure – just a week after receiving the apparently minor injury.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, coroner Roger Whittaker called it ‘almost a fluke situation’.

Mrs Sewell, also a teacher, paid tribute to her late husband after the inquest. She said: ‘He was very caring. He would give everything away. He was so kind.’

Her son David, who is a student, said: ‘It wasn’t a vicious attack so she didn’t need to be put down. She is a family pet and she is loved.’

He added: ‘Dad was a loving, friendly and very caring person. He would do anything for anyone and would offer support and help to anyone.

Source: Our dog killed my husband with one bite during a game of fetch, but I'm still keeping her.

Man reportedly killed in car crash shocks mourning family by arriving at funeral

A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night in Parana state in southern Brazil, police said.

As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day, which happened to be the holiday of Finados, when Brazilians visit cemeteries to honour the dead.

What family members didn't know was that Goncalves had spent the night at a truck stop talking with friends and drinking a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca, his niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper. He did not hear about his own funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning.

A police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina said Goncalves rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not dead.

"The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing," said the police spokesman, who talked on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorised to discuss the case. "People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case."

Sampaio told O Globo that some family members were not sure the body was Goncalves.

"My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification," she told O Globo. "But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral."

The police spokesman confirmed there were doubts: "His mum looked at the body in the casket and thought something was strange. She looked and looked and couldn't believe it was her son," Sampaio said. "Before long, the walking dead appeared at the funeral. It was a relief."

The body was correctly identified later on Monday, the police spokesman said, and had been buried in another state. He declined to release the actual victim's name.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Half-million worth of feminine products stolen

Conway Police Department investigators are tracking down leads in the theft of two 53-foot shipping containers belonging to Kimberly Clark, according to Conway Chief of Police A. J. Gary, and “it will be very interesting when they get to the bottom of it.”

According to a police report, officers were told by a representative of Exel Logistics at 1475 William J. Clark Drive that at some point between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, someone cut a lock and entered the property. The thief or thieves broke into seven trailer containers, removing the seals that secure them in the process, eventually stealing two of them and leaving behind a seal that didn’t seem to belong on any of Exel’s containers.

Inside the containers, according to the report, were 9,064 cases of Kotex- and Poise-brand feminine hygiene products of every description, 152 cases of Huggies Soft Skin baby wash and 380 cases of baby wipes — each case containing 10 to 20 individual consumer packages. The total value of the containers and their contents is listed in the report at over $474,000.

Gary said the thief or thieves may have been after only the containers and trailers, as their contents wouldn’t seem to be easily marketable through illegal means.
“It isn’t like a trailer load of flatscreen TVs,” he said.

Given the weight of the trailers, containers and their contents, it’s inconceivable that regular pickup trucks could have been used to pull them away, Gary said, and so the thieves must have used at least one — and more likely two — semi-tractors in the theft.

The containers are those commonly seen on the decks of container ships. One may be marked with the Wabash National brand, the other with the SINC brand. The trailers on which the boxes were mounted were orange in color, both carrying Oklahoma trailer plates, and are the property of J.B. Hunt Transport Services.

Source: thecabin.net

Drunk clown nabbed after crash

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A Vancouver-area man has learned that if driving erratically in a clown suit is not enough to signal intoxication, then crashing into a police car certainly is.

A police officer in suburban West Vancouver was searching for suspects involved in a reported fight early on Sunday when he spotted a man, later found to be wearing a brightly colored clown costume, driving at him on the wrong side of the road.

The officer stopped his own car and turned on its emergency lights to warn the other driver, who nonetheless crashed head-on into the cruiser at 20-30 km per hour (12-19 mph).

There were no injuries.

A 29-year-old man is facing charges including impaired driving. He "will have some explaining to do in court," police said in a statement.

Source: Reuters

One-legged man held after one shoe goes missing from shop

Police say a one-legged suspect was caught after only one shoe went missing in a store in Belgium.

An amputee was an immediate suspect when a store attendant found one shoe missing from a shop in the western Belgian town of Maldegem.

Police spokesman Rik Decraemer said Monday authorities were alerted and quickly found the man who fit the description by shopkeepers. The shoe was also recovered.

Source: Metro.co.uk

Man Accidentally Shoots Woman Through Wall

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Palm Bay police say a man accidentally shot a woman in the head through a wall. The shooting happened at an apartment off Palm Bay Road and Babcock Street Sunday afternoon.

Officers say a man was showing off a new shotgun he just bought when the shots when through a wall and hit a woman in the head in the apartment next-door.
The woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.

Source: WFTV

Man smuggles snakes in his clothing

A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes.

Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.

Breilid said the non-venomous snakes - the smallest species in the python family - were hidden in stockings duct-taped to the man's abdomen. The geckos were in boxes taped to his thighs.

Customs officials found the reptiles, which are not endangered, Sunday during a search following the discovery of a tarantula in one of the man's bags.

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Man prefers prison to house arrest with wife

PALERMO, Sicily - A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.

Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.

Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.

Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and made him go home and patch things up with his wife.

Source: Calgary Herald