Mouse Hunt

Remember that old movie? Well something like that really happened and I have to say it was probably funnier than the movie it self. Apparently a German man who is afraid of rodents saw a mouse running through his house and scared to death ran out in his underwear and slippers in the middle of the night.

According to local news agencies, he panicked when he saw a mouse and ran out into the snowy night wearing only boxer shorts and slippers. He then called a police from a nearby Pay-phone.

Surprisingly enough they came and actually tried to catch the little fellow.

“He alerted the police from a public call box,” police in the central city of Göttingen said in a statement released late on Tuesday. “The 23-year-old man told the amazed officers that there was a mouse in his flat and that there was nothing he was more afraid of than the little rodents.”

Armed with traffic cones police officers ran through his house trying to catch the sneaky creature, while the freaked owner waited outside, but they failed.

The owner of the apartment decided he couldn’t share his home with the mouse and went to a friend’s house. “How the mouse spent the rest of the night remains a mystery,” police said. “Maybe it came out of hiding and spent the night dancing on the table.”

Something tells me the police came only because they needed something to laugh at.

Guy Eats Pot To Escape Arrest

When Durant police officers arrived to the Shady Brook Apartments on North 7th Street answering a call about a loud party they were in for a big surprise.

According to local news officers said that Tony Pelayo ate two marijuana joints trying to hide it from them. He was of course arrested for destroying the evidence.

Apparently, at the arrival they found two marijuana joints on the table, but Pelayo quickly took them. Officers said they asked him to hand them over but Pelayo said he couldn’t because he ate the evidence. He then proceeded to show police a leafy smile.

According to specialist ingesting and smoking cannabis does not have the same effect. It takes about one or two hours for ingested marijuana to start working but unlike the short term effect of smoked marijuana the effect of eaten lasts up to 10 hours. Also it can be far more potent than smoking the same amount.

One of the the most important effect of cannabis is an intensification of the emotional situation you are in. I think Pelayo is in for a long depressing night in jail.

Holland Kid Headed For China By Bike

Collin Baker is an average 16-year-old. Or is he? According to latest news Collin has been finally caught in Poland on his way to China. Apparently Colin ran away from home on a bike with nothing but £6 and a bag of crisps.

Police have been looking for him for six days since he set out by bike from his home in Holland.

He managed to pedal through Germany and into Poland unnoticed. He had only a book, a map, some crisps and a bottle of mineral water.

That’s where his journey has ended. Residents in Przemkow, noticed him and phoned the local police. According to local news “residents reported discovering a boy who ‘looked lost’, and spoke no Polish, at a bus stop.”

“It turned out that he had been cycling for 6 days and had covered 600 miles cycling along small country roads,” said the local police spokesperson Daria Solinska.

Collin Said that he had left home and is heading for China because he did not like his mother’s new husband. He was determined to get to China by bike even though he had only £6 with him: “I want to go there, because I’ve never been there,” he said.

At the moment he is in a care center for minors, before local police decides what they’ll do with him.

Drug Lord Wins Lottery

They say good things happen to good people, but apparently these days even the bad guys have luck. An alleged drug kingpin Khanh Nhat Bui won $1.35 million on lotto, just as the police investigation closed in on him for involvement in international heroin trafficking syndicate.

Police targeted Bui and his family for a long time. During the raids on the family properties in 2005, $350,000 was seized in cash. The investigation continued after that and finally in December last year Bui was charged for Heroin trafficking.

The investigators believe he brought blocks of heroin from Vietnam and distributed it to his dealer network.

His former associate revealed the win: “Everyone in the community knows that Ca (Bui’s nickname) won the Lotto. Ca told me that he won $1.35 million,” and legal sources confirmed that Bui won lotto prize in 2006 in the middle of police investigation.

I guess money really does stick to money.

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Modern Hermits

A hermit (from the Greek erēmos, signifying “desert”, “uninhabited”, hence “desert-dweller”; adjective: “eremitic”) is a person who lives in seclusion and/or isolation from society. According to Sociologist Isacco Turina modern hermits no longer wear long beards and hide away in caves, they live in apartments and surf the Internet just like you or me.

“At the risk of sounding like a caricature, the average hermits are the sort of people who belong on the plains,” he said. “However,” he added, “many have found it is perfectly possible to be totally alone in the middle of a bustling city.”

While working on his new book ‘The New Hermits, The Flight from the World in Modern Italy’ Professor Turina tracked down 37 hermits. He said that most of them were “around 55 years old, and that they had decided to drop out of the rat race when they were between 35 and 50.”

“More people are opting to lead a hermit’s life and turn their backs from the modern world, “although there is no institutional guide on how to do it,” adding that “around 60% of hermits are female.”

As professor Turina said there are now as many as 1000 hermits in Italy, with several hundred more dotted across Europe and the US. According to him, their return started in 1983 when the Vatican offered “full recognition” to hermits who were willing to devote their lives to the solitary “praise of God”.

A company called Spiritour even offers “hermit holidays” in the dunes of Morocco, while Ictus Voyages have a similar retreat in the Sinai desert. Who knows, maybe we could use a break from our lives. I know I certainly would.

Blinding Fate

According to reports at least 48 people from India’s Kottayam district have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary that allegedly appeared above the house of a former hotel owner in Erumeli.

The house has been the subject of rumors for months. The hotel owner, who has since moved, reportedly claimed other miracles happenings in his home, like the statues of the Virgin Mary in his house crying with tears of honey, and bleeding oils and perfumes.

Despite the warnings from the city, the health authorities and church officials regarding the dangers of looking at the sky and exposing the eyes to the sun, 48 cases of sight-loss caused by photochemical burns on the retina have been recorded since Friday.

“All our patients have similar history and symptoms,” said Dr. Anamma James Isaac, an ophthalmologist at the St. Joseph’s ENT and Eye hospital. “they have developed photochemical, not thermal, burns after continuously gazing at the sin.”

According to Dr James Isaac the patients are mostly girls in 12-26 age group. The youngest patient is 12 and the oldest 60. “Most of them were looking at the sun between 2 and 4 pm, when UV1 and UV2 rays are harshest,”
“Most patients may hopefully improve their vision. But there may be long-term effects on the retina,” he added.

All churches in the area have disowned the miracle, but despite warnings, and the potentially harmful effects of the sun to their eyes, believers are still flocking in front of the house where the divine image is said to have appeared. Apparently there are quite a few people still seeking the miracle.

Can fate really be that blinding?

I will walk out of here on my own two feet

And he did. November 4th wasn’t a good day for documentary filmmaker John Andrews but yesterday certainly was. A little bit over 4 months after the accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, Andrews walked out of Madonna Rehabilitation Center.

A bike crash bruised his spinal cord and he found out about his condition while in MRI chamber: “I started insisting that they unstrap me, and then the doctor explained to me I wasn’t strapped. That’s how I found out I was paralyzed,” Andrews said.

He was really worried about his family, and how he was going to care for his nine year old son, but he was determent to get back on his feet.

“I decided after a while, if my body didn’t work, I would have to use my mind,” he said.

Only two days later, the plastic surgeon who was working on Andrews’ face noticed his toes moving.

On January 3rd he took his first steps and made a promise that he’d walk out of the hospital. Remembering the first time he felt his weight supported on his feet Andrews said: “That was the day I began to have hope I would walk again.”

In a TV interview Andrews said that a work on a documentary about his wife’s battle with stage 3 breast cancer helped a lot, and “mentally prepared him to take on this challenge.”

“Even though the odds are against you beating something like that, you can face a challenge and be able to overcome it,” he said.

He made a promise, and he kept it. But as he said, his recovery wasn’t always easy: “There were times I felt frustrated, but I was able to just chip away little by little. Eventually, you see the big picture,” Andrews said. “I think what I lost physically, I was able to gain some things mentally.”

John’s case is the best proof that the power of mind is really an amazing thing. So before you quit to fast think is it really impossible? Maybe there really isn’t anything we can’t do once we set our minds to it.

Dallas Police Say Mom Throws 2 Kids From Overpass, Then Jumps

A woman threw her two young children from a freeway overpass during Wednesday’s morning rush before leaping off herself, police said, and all three somehow survived the 22-foot fall into traffic.

The 27-year-old woman and her sons, ages 8 and 6, were in stable condition at Dallas hospitals, said Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse, a police spokesman.

Janse said he didn’t know if any of the three had been hit by a vehicle. Sgt. David Burroughs said in Wednesday’s online edition of The Dallas Morning News that the woman was struck.

“I don’t really have an explanation” for how the three survived, Janse said.

Janse said the mother and her sons were in a vehicle with her father when they stopped for gas. The woman took her two sons to the overpass while her father was paying for gas, Janse said.

Investigators were still trying to find out what led to the incident, Janse said. He said police weren’t immediately releasing identities.

Person of Interest in Missing S.C. Couple Case Found Dead

The man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of a Hilton Head Island couple appears to have committed suicide, authorities said Tuesday.

The body of Dennis Ray Gerwing was found by his lawyer around 4 p.m. in the bathroom of a resort condominium unit his company manages, according to a news release from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.

Gerwing left behind two notes that are being examined by state agents, said deputies, who refused to release the contents of the notes.

An autopsy has been schedule for Wednesday. Authorities called the death an apparent suicide, but would not disclose any other details.

Gerwing, 54, was named a person of interest earlier Tuesday and was not cooperating with officers investigating the disappearance last week of John and Elizabeth Calvert, deputies said.

The couple remains missing.

Investigators searched Gerwing’s home, office and vehicles Saturday. Police would not say what, if anything, was found.

Gerwing was listed as chief financial officer of The Club Group, a realty group that manages property on Hilton Head Island. According to the group’s Web site, that includes boat slips for the Harbour Town marina leased and managed by the Calverts.

The phone at the office of Gerwing’s lawyer, Dan Saxton, was not being answered Tuesday night.
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Aquarium hospital gets seal of approval

The animal hospital at the New York Aquarium won’t officially open until summer, but the $14.5 million facility already had to admit a few patients.

Fonzie, the aquarium’s 22-year-old California sea lion, had an eye problem that needed immediate attention; Danny, the California sea otter, developed a serious fur condition; and JD, one of the aquarium’s female fur seals, had an upset stomach that could have been contagious.

There were also a few short-term patients at the new hospital last week. A green iguana and a red-footed tortoise both needed complete physicals before moving on to other Wildlife Conservation Society zoos.

“We always check and do X-rays before animals are transferred from one location to another,” said Catherine McClave, who is in charge of aquatic health sciences at the aquarium.

The new hospital is one-of-a-kind in the area, said newly appointed aquarium director John Dohlin. For the first time, all 10,000 animals in the collection — from a 20-gram sea horse to a 4,000-pound walrus — can be cared for under one roof.

“In the past, the smaller animals in our collection could be treated here in small, makeshift buildings we had outfitted for medical use, but we had none specifically designed for that purpose,” said Dohlin.

“The larger animals sometimes had to be transported to the Bronx Zoo, which was very stressful to the animals and to the staff,” Dohlin added.

Just about anything you’d find in a hospital for humans can be found at the aquarium facility. There’s an operating room, X-ray machines, plus a kitchen for preparing special meals and infant formulas.
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Calif. Firefighter

Murrieta Fire Capt. Matt Moore, a 17-year veteran of the department who had been hospitalized for months with a rare infection from a parasitic amoeba, died Monday. He was 43.

“Matt was one of our best,” Murrieta Fire Chief Paul Christman said Tuesday. “He was involved in just about every aspect of our department. We’re going to miss his presence within our ranks greatly.

“He maintained hope and courage right to the end, as we knew he would,” Christman said. “Matt was that kind of a guy.”

Mr. Moore died at about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the critical care unit at UC San Diego Medical Center Hillcrest from complications of meningoencephalitis, the Fire Department announced Tuesday in a news release.

Mr. Moore had been hospitalized on and off since November, but doctors confirmed only recently that his illness was caused by the parasite Balamuthia mandrillaris. Infection by this amoeba, which invades the brain, is usually fatal.

Fire officials said Mr. Moore was surrounded by family, including his wife, Sherry; his teenage children Alyssa, Trent and Branden; his parents, Carol and Phil Moore; brother, Mark, also a Murrieta fire captain, and many friends.

A formal procession to the England Family Mortuary in Temecula will depart from the hospital in San Diego about 10 a.m. today. The procession will exit the freeway at Murrieta Hot Springs Road, travel south on Jefferson Avenue to Buecking Drive and east to Madison Avenue. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Illinois Mother on Trial for Leaving Child in Car

Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away.

But that was long and far enough to land her in court after a police officer spotted her sleeping 2-year-old daughter alone in the vehicle; Coyne had taken her two older daughters to pour $8.29 in coins into a Salvation Army kettle.

Minutes later, she was under arrest — the focus of both a police investigation and a probe by the state’s child welfare agency. Now the case that has become an Internet flash point for people who either blast police for overstepping their authority or Coyne for putting a child in danger.

The 36-year-old suburban mother is preparing to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer. If convicted, she could be sentenced to a year in jail and fined $2,500, even though child welfare workers found no credible evidence of abuse or neglect.

On Dec. 8 Coyne decided to drive to Wal-Mart in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood so her children and a young friend could donate the coins they’d collected at her husband’s office.

Even as she buckled 2-year-old Phoebe into the car, the girl was asleep. When Coyne arrived at the store, she found a spot to park in a loading zone, right behind someone tying a Christmas tree onto a car.

“It’s sleeting out, it’s not pleasant, I don’t want to disturb her, wake her up,” Coyne said this week. “It was safer to leave her in the safety and warmth of an alarmed car than take her.”
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NYPD sting hits doctors in $6M insurance scam

Scheming Manhattan doctors and medical workers who ran up $6 million in fraudulent insurance billings were busted yesterday, police said.

The fraud ring, run out of the St. Nicholas Ave. Medical Center in Washington Heights, unraveled after it was infiltrated by two undercover cops last fall, officials said.

Word had spread in the neighborhood that anyone visiting the clinic could make a quick buck if they were willing to milk minor car accidents for big medical bills, NYPD Lt. Edwin Martinez said.

The undercover cops, introduced to the St. Nicholas doctors by a confidential informant, only had to show the clinic’s personnel an NYPD accident report.

They were then coached through getting $10,000 worth of bogus treatment - billed to the insurance companies with kickbacks all around, Martinez said.

Everyone took a piece of the pie, Martinez said, with the lion’s share going to the accused owner and operator Gregory Vinarsky, who lives in a luxe pad on the upper East Side.

Vinarsky, along with two doctors and 11 other participants - including medical technicians and an acupuncturist - were swept up yesterday. All pleaded not guilty to insurance fraud charges.
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Flawless, tablespoon-size diamond up for sale

NEW YORK — A 72.22-carat diamond, so large it could fill a tablespoon, is expected to bring up to $13 million when it goes on auction next month.

Cut from an original rough diamond, the D-color, flawless gem is prized for its pear shape and GIA-graded excellent polish and symmetry. D-color is actually colorless and considered the most highly valued.

It was previewed in Manhattan on Monday and will be offered on April 10 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong galleries, which estimates its value at $10 million to $13 million. The buyer has the privilege of naming the stone.

Sotheby’s said the most expensive diamond and jewel sold at auction, the pear-shaped, 100.10 carat Star of Season, brought $16.5 million in May 1995.

12-year-old boy wanted to succeed Rodriguez as West Virginia coach

Joshua Irizarry is all of 12 years old. That hardly stopped him from applying for the job of football coach at West Virginia University.

Insisting it was a “completely serious offer,” the Connecticut boy outlined his skills in a letter to West Virginia president Mike Garrison when the job opened in December. They included “making up new plays to fool defenses in local sandlot games.”

The kid also has an eye for marketing.

“Consider the publicity your campus would receive,” he wrote in the letter. “I understand this would be a move more suited for a team like Temple, but I am just asking for your consideration.

“Don’t think of this as hiring a 12-year-old kid from a nowhere town, but think of this as hiring a dedicated football mind trying to help a team,” he said. “I would work for any conditions you would wish to provide.”

In the end, Garrison settled for what he assured the boy was “an equally qualified candidate” to succeed Rich Rodriguez, who quit in December for the same post at Michigan. Former WVU assistant coach Bill Stewart now holds the title.

But in February, the president honored the boy’s two alternative requests — a written response and an autographed photo of his favorite Mountaineer, freshman running back Noel Devine.
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