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