8^) BECKER'S BITZ!: July 2010

Eye Rolling Against The Law ?

Elmhurst officials are considering creating a "disturbance and disorderly conduct" violation after a resident accused of rolling her eyes and sighing was ejected from a public meeting. City Attorney Don Storino has been directed by the city’s finance and council affairs committee to look at various sources including “Robert’s Rules of Order,” Illinois state statutes and policies adopted by other municipalities for a legal definition of disorderly conduct and disruptive behavior.

Ald. Stephen Hipskind said Darlene Heslop rolled her eyes and sighed while attending a June 14 committee meeting. Heslop, who was asked to leave the meeting, said she favours adding a definition of disorderly conduct to the municipal code. “I’d like for them (city officials) to have a better understanding of the open meetings act and its meaning and to understand what disorderly conduct is,” she said.

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Some People Have A Favorite Place For Crime

An Athens, Georgia man was barred from a local Kroger supermarket after he was found drinking mouthwash while sitting in a patio swing display at the store.

The Athens man, who was not named, was spotted trying to use a knife to crack open a bottle of Kroger brand mouthwash while in the store last week, Online Athens reports.

Athens-Clarke police said the man told them in slurred speech that he had a “couple of beers” and was not drinking the mouthwash but using the two bottles in his possession for “oral hygiene.”

The man has had previous brushes with the law, including an arrest in November when he brandished a knife at Kroger employees who caught him shoplifting.

He was barred from the supermarket for two years.

Mayan Symbol or WHAAAAAT !

Oh look! Is that a stone Mayan symbol there stuck in the dirt wall?

Got to have that. It might bring thousands at auction. Let's dig that out.

Wait a sec. What is that on the left edge?

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Cyclocosmia is a genus of spiders in the Ctenizidae family which is a type of Cork-lid trapdoor spiders.

The abdomen of spiders in this genus is abruptly truncated and ends in a hardened disc which is strengthened by a system of ribs and grooves. They use this to clog the entrance of their 7 to 15 cm deep vertical burrows when threatened, a phenomenon called phragmosis. Strong spines are located around the edge of the disc. The four spinnerets are found just anterior to it, with the posterior, retractable spinnerets particularly large. C. ricketti females are 28 mm long, with a disc diameter of 16 mm. Only the bottom portion of the burrow is silk lined.

The individual species are separated from each other by the pattern of the abdominal disc, the number of hairs on its seam, and the shape of the spermathecae.

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Underwear Bandit Arrested

This is a followup to a previous post about the robbery where a woman wearing what was described as panties covering her face - - - LINK to original post

Midwest City, Okla. - Midwest City police say they have arrested the so-called "underwear bandit" - a woman who wore a girdle to cover her face while robbing a McDonald's restaurant.

Police Chief Brandon Clabes says Sharon Lain was taken into custody Wednesday on burglary and drug complaints.

Surveillance video showed someone reach through a drive-through window at the restaurant and take money from an unattended cash register early Tuesday. The woman had underwear on over her face that was attached with yellow paper clips.

Clabes says when officers arrested Lain at her residence, which had been condemned, they found drugs, a girdle, yellow paper clips and dark clothing that matched what the burglar was wearing in the video.

He says Lain told police she had a gambling problem and stole the money to spend at Remington Park.

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Bull Fighter-0 Bull-1 (warning graphic)

That's not the bull fighter's tongue sticking out

Julio Aparicio, one of Spain's most famous matadors, was gored in the throat today during a bullfight. The horrific injury has left him in critical condition:

The horn went though the tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone," one of the medics who worked on Aparicio told AFP news in Madrid.

After two operations, it appears leading surgeon Maximo Garcia Pedros has saved Aparicio's life. The bull, however, was quickly killed by other matadors.

The incident took place during the Festival of Saint Isidro, considered to be the most important event in the bullfighting calendar, at the Plaza de Toros las Ventas bull ring, which can seat up to 24,000 people.

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Woman Thief Hides Face With Panties

MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma -- A middle-aged woman wearing what appeared to be underwear over her face is wanted in connection to an overnight drive-thru burglary.

On Tuesday morning around 3 a.m., an employee of the 24 hour McDonald's, at 7025 S.E. 15th Street, noticed that money was missing from the cash register in the drive-through.

When the manager reviewed the surveillance video, it showed a white female dressed in a black shirt, black pants, most likely a blonde wig, gloves and underwear over her face held in place with yellow paperclips, walking toward the drive-thru window. A car then pulls around the business and the female walks off.

A short time later, the same suspect walked up to the drive through window, slid it open, reached into the business with a cash drawer key and opened up the register. The woman stole money from the cash drawer and walk off. The employee who was working the drive-through was somewhere else in the business at the time of the theft.

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Followup arrest article HERE

Man Get Ticket For Having Stone Chickens In Yard

Code enforcers cited a metro Atlanta man for having livestock on his property, but the only livestock chickens in the man’s front yard were ceramic.

Robert Sosebee, of Austell, told Channel 2 Action News that when he came home Monday to his home on Clay Road, he found the citation taped to his front door.

Sosebee believes that one of his neighbors might have seen his ceramic chickens on the front lawn and called the county, thinking that the chickens were real.

“The code enforcement officers brought me a paper violation saying I had some chickens, but I didn’t," said Sosebee.
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Forty-ton whale lands on sailing yacht

A couple decide to go for a brief sail on their 33 foot sailing yacht.

While out there a 40 ton sperm whale leaps out of the ocean landing on the yacht.

The large mammal thrashed about for a bit before falling back into the water leaving bits of its flesh all over the vessel.

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See a video of the happening HERE

The Evolution of Steve Jobs Wardrobe

His attire is just like his ability to change his concept of self importance

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Man With Horns Tries To Run Over His Landlord

Could you say he didn't give a toot?

A Tulsa man has bonded out of jail after he was arrested early Wednesday morning on a complaint of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Tulsa Police say 28-year-old Jesse Thornhill tried to run down his landlord in his '96 Ford Windstar van Tuesday evening in the 1200 block of South Delaware Place.

Thornhill's mother told police she and her neighbor, who is Jesse Thornhill's landlord, "had been having problems with her son."

She told police there was an altercation Tuesday evening and that Jesse left the residence, but then came back and tried to hit his landlord with his van.

The landlord jumped out of the way and was not injured.

Tulsa Police located Thornhill and took him to the Tulsa County jail on a complaint of assault with a deadly weapon, in this case his van.

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