MEDICS CALLED AFTER BLEACH FIGHT IN BALTIMORE WALMART:
Police, medics and a hazardous materials unit had to be called in to a Baltimore County Wal-Mart store after two women who have an ongoing feud got into a bleach fight inside. Baltimore County Police arrived at the store on Saturday (October 8th) after 33-year-old Theresa Monique Jefferson and another woman started throwing bleach and disinfectant at one another. Three Wal-Mart employees had to be treated for respiratory problems while 16 others reportedly needed treatment as well. Jefferson has been charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, theft under $100 and malicious destruction of property. Authorities say she turned herself in. A Wal-Mart spokesperson said in a statement, “This is obviously not the type of behavior we would expect from people at our stores. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused to our customers.” (AP)
MARIJUANA-SHAPED CANDY ON THE MARKET:
A new marijuana-shaped candy on the market is attracting negative attention from some shop owners in Buffalo, New York. The “Pothead Lollipop” ring pops are distributed by Pennsylvania-based Kalan LP. A Buffalo city councilman said, “We’re already dealing with a high amount of drug abuse and drug activity and trying to raise children so they don’t think using illegal substances is acceptable. So to have a licensed store sell candy to kids that depicts an illegal substance is just ignorant and irresponsible.” The president of Kalan responded to the complaint, saying, “It does pretty well. This is the first complaint I’ve heard and people are usually not shy. I’m actually surprised this is the first.” He added, “We just look at what the marketplace wants and respond to it. It’s just candy . . . It’s sour apple flavor, it doesn’t claim to be pot in disguise or anything like that.” (ABC)
GIRL GETS CAR SHE WAS BORN IN FOR SWEET SIXTEEN:
A Cincinnati, Ohio girl who was born in her family’s 1989 Toyota Corolla has been given the same car as a present for her 16th birthday. When Nancy Kearns and her husband realized that they weren’t going to make it to the hospital back in 1995, they pulled over and Johanna was born in the 22-year-old car that the family bought just weeks before the birth. Johanna says the car is a step up from what she was driving before, adding, “It was very nice in its day. It had electric windows and doors. I was very excited to get it, because it was a step up from the car I had been driving.” (Daily Mail)
MOVIE-GOER SUES ‘DRIVE’ FOR MISLEADING TRAILER:
A Michigan woman who feels the movie preview for the Drive — starring Ryan Gosling — was misleading is suing the movie’s distributor, FilmDistrict Distribution LLC. Sarah Deming claims that the distributor violated Michigan’s Consumer Protection Act by promoting the movie as a “race action film . . . similar to the Fast and Furious, or similar series of movies.” She states in her lawsuit that Drive “bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film . . . having very little driving in the motion picture.” Deming says she may initiate a class action lawsuit to bring an end to misleading movie trailers. In the meantime, she wants her money back. (Washington Post)
‘TEXT NECK’ IS A REAL CONDITION:
Back and neck specialists say the rise of smartphones and tablet computers has given way to an increasing number of patients suffering from neck pain due to spending too much time hunched over the devices. Chiropractor Rachael Lancaster said, “Imagine sitting on your ankle sideways for 10 minutes. It would feel stiff and sore when you returned it to its natural position. That is what people are doing with their necks.” British Chiropractor Tim Hutchful agrees that overuse of cell phones contributes to neck and shoulder pain. He said, “Our muscles are designed to flex and retract. If you stay in a fixed posture for too long like peering over a phone you are putting those muscles under stress.” (AHN)
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He’s Once, Twice, 100 Times Arrested
Joseph Wilson joined the 100 Club late last week but there weren’t any bells and whistles. Just police sirens after authorities said he was caught walking out of a department store in Port St. Lucie, Florida with nearly 175 bucks worth of socks and underwear.
The Broward-Palm Beach NewsTimes reports the 50-year-old suspect, who stuffed the merchandise under his shirt, first climbed into a waiting van that didn’t take off, then fled on foot with police in hot pursuit. Wilson was finally nabbed hiding out behind a dumpster, claiming that he had gotten winded from jogging. What made the arrest special – if that’s the way to describe it – was that it was the 100th time Wilson has been collared for an alleged crime. His rap sheet is nothing if not impressive: 37 felonies, 47 misdemeanors and 15 other charges leading to 35 convictions. Wilson’s latest offense resulted in charges of theft and resisting recovery of property. Last anyone checked, he was still being held on $20,000 bond.
Australia Boasting World’s First Shark Infested Golf Course
Every golfer knows you want to avoid the water hazards around your local links. However, thanks to flooding some time ago, the hazards in an Australian golf course have gone from hazardous to potentially deadly. Pushed along by a rain-swollen river, bull sharks wound up inside a lake at the Carbook Golf Club in Brisbane, and biologists are amazed that since they wound up on the course some years ago near the 14th tee, they have begun breeding.
There are nearly a half dozen 8-10 foot-long sharks now swimming about at the lake, which have become something of local celebrities for golfers, Sky News reports. The ecological quirk, however has had a chilling effect: no kids dare jump in the lake to recover lost balls for resale as they traditionally had.
Idaho Mom Sets “Planking” Record
Don’t tell an Idaho mom that the Internet-spawned “planking” craze may be waning: she just set a world’s record for holding the position. According to ABC affiliate KIVI-TV, Eva Bulzomi set the record by holding her body straight over a gym floor for over 40 minutes Sunday, besting the previous Guinness World Record of 33 minutes and 40 seconds set by a 71-year-old Australian woman in September. Mind you, this isn’t the kind of planking where you lie face-down on the floor — this is the hard-core fitness maneuver where you hold your body ramrod straight parellel to the floor, supported only by your forearms and toes.
Bulzomi, a 39-year-old mother of five, boasts other astonishing feats on her twitter stream, @PlankGirl, like crushing a melon between her forearm and bicep.
Massive Sculpture Stolen from California Park
A 700-pound brass pelican sculpture managed to fly out of a park in Novato, California, taken from its monument by thieves over the weekend. It’s not yet known if it was snatched by metal thieves hungry to resell it for brass scrap, but cops in Marin County say that’s a possibility, according to the Marin Independent Journal.
The 9-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide statue of the sea bird was named “Omay” — the Miwok Indian word for pelican — by its sculptor David Clemons, who installed it at Novato’s Scottsdale Pond in 2010. Police are asking anyone with information about the theft to contact them. Novato Mayor Madeline Kellner said, “I hope they find whoever took it and bring our pelican back to our pond.”
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