FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A 300-pound prostitute robbed a man of $100 before pedaling away on a blue bicycle, according to a police report.
The case of the hefty hooker happened about 1:10 a.m. Monday as the 32-year-old man rode his bicycle when the assailant came up to him. “The female approached asking (the alleged victim) did he want a date, which meant she wanted him to pay for some sex,” the report states.
The man told investigators he felt sorry for the woman and pulled $10 from his wallet to give to her. That’s when she allegedly pushed him off his bicycle and wrestled him down. She snatched his wallet, stole $100 and then pedaled off. The alleged victim, who wasn’t injured, described his assailant as weighing 300 pounds and clad in blue jeans and a white T-shirt. An officer searched the area but couldn’t find the woman.
There are so many things wrong with this.
Felt sorry?
No one saw a 300 lb woman on a bicycle?
That means she got far.
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police burst into the room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss, investigators said Friday.
Police said Michele Catalano was watching the concluding chapter late Thursday of the TV mini-series “The Boss of Bosses,” recounting the arrest in 1993 of real-life Cosa Nostra leader Salvatore “Toto” Riina, when he was detained.
They Catalano, 48, was suspected of being a senior commander serving under the latest “boss of bosses” Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who was arrested this month after nearly 25 years on the run.
DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - More Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil than Darwin’s theory of evolution, according to a new Harris poll released on Thursday. It is the latest survey to highlight America’s deep level of religiosity, a cultural trait that sets it apart from much of the developed world.
It also helps explain many of its political battles which Europeans find bewildering, such as efforts to have “Intelligent Design” theory — which holds life is too complex to have evolved by chance — taught in schools alongside evolution.
The poll of 2,455 U.S. adults from Nov 7 to 13 found that 82 percent of those surveyed believed in God, a figure unchanged since the question was asked in 2005.
It further found that 79 percent believed in miracles, 75 percent in heaven, while 72 percent believed that Jesus is God or the Son of God. Belief in hell and the devil was expressed by 62 percent.
Wow! Forget Macy’s - if anyone wants to buy me a holiday gift, it’s one-stop-shopping:
Those with loftier ambitions might enjoy the Vatican’s answer to Monopoly, a board game in which the winner is elected the pontiff.
Up to six “cardinals” play the game, rolling the dice in the quest to become papabile, and encountering all the usual Catholic preoccupations on the way, from theological censorship and Latin liturgical texts to beatification politics and visions of long-dead saints.
Perfect for our MRev “game nites” though I’m sure Alex will somehow find a way to make it Strip-Vaticanopoly …
it’s a marshmallow world!
These are among gifts of questionable taste included in a “12 days of Kitschmas” list unveiled yesterday by Ship of Fools, a satirical Christian website. The items have been selected by Stephen Goddard, a former Church of England press officer, and Simon Jenkins, the website’s editor, to highlight the absurdity of religious kitsch.
One of the favourites is a calendar in which scantily clad models pose in front of a range of wood coffins, created by a firm of undertakers in Rome. Described by the website as the “Pirelli Calendar for morticians”, it is on sale for 3.50 euros.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Dr. Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade and sparked the multibillion-dollar sports drink industry, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80.
His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school’s football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.
A question from former Gator Coach Dwayne Douglas sparked their research, Cade said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. He asked, “Doctor, why don’t football players wee-wee after a game.”
“That question changed our lives,” Cade said.
Cade’s researchers determined a football player could lose up to 18 pounds during the three hours it takes to play a game. They also determined 90 to 95 percent of the weight loss was water. Plasma volume decreased by 7 percent and blood volume about 5 percent. Sodium and chloride were excreted in the sweat.
Using their research, and about $43 in supplies, they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football.
“It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,” said Dana Shires, one of the researchers who sampled the first batch.
Can’t say I was a fan of Quiet Riot. I’ve listened to my share of metal, but I never really dug QR’s bland contribution to the genre.
But I worked in a record store in Simi Valley of all places when “Cum on Feel the Noize” hit the charts and I probably sold about a million copies of Metal Health to head-bangin’ Simi Kids who couldn’t tell the difference between Riot and, say, Judas Priest. They weren’t popular long and whatever popularity they had was as much due to the fact that they made a couple of appealing videos right at the time when MTV was becoming and important player in the music biz.
Despite all that, I’m sad to note that Keven Dubrow, Quiet Riot’s leather-lunged lead singer has died at the age of 52.
DuBrow died at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to TMZ.com. The Clark County coroner’s office was examining the body to determine the cause of death, according to TMZ.
“I’m at a loss for words. I’ve just lost my best friend,” Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali told CNN. “Out of respect for both Kevin and his family, I won’t comment further. There’s going to be a lot of speculation out there, and I won’t add to that. I love him too much.”
Quiet Riot hit the top of the charts with its 1983 album, “Metal Health,” considered by some sources as the first heavy metal album to hit No. 1. The album was driven by the group’s cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize,” which hit the Top 40.
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife as she wrapped Christmas presents last year.
Rafael Robb says he “lost it” during an argument with his wife.
Rafael Robb, once a tenured economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faces a prison sentence of no more than seven years for bludgeoning his wife, Ellen, on December 22. Robb, 57, said Monday that he got into an argument with his wife about a trip she was taking with their daughter and whether they would be returning in time for the daughter to return to school.
“We started a discussion about that. The discussion was tense,” Robb said. “We were both anxious about it. We both got angry. At one point, Ellen pushed me. … I just lost it.”
Ellen Robb, 49, described as a stay-at-home mother who doted on their only child, died in the kitchen of their home in Upper Merion Township, outside Philadelphia.
Detectives believed the scene had been staged to look like a burglary. The murder weapon, which Robb described as an exercise bar, was not found. The couple married in 1990 but had long been estranged, keeping separate bedrooms.
Rafael Robb apologized to his daughter and family in court Monday.
“I know she liked her mother. … And now she doesn’t have a mother,” he said, stifling tears.
