Miscellaneous

Four people, including a toddler and an infant, were ejected from their car when it struck a 15-year-old girl who blew a stop sign. The girl was fleeing another accident she caused minutes earlier.

According to Watsonville police officer Donny Thul, the unlicensed driver rear-ended a Chevrolet Trailblazer at Freedom Boulevard and Stanford Avenue just before the injury crash. She was being chased by the driver of the Chevrolet and speeding when she blew through a stop sign at Sudden Street and Palm Avenue and was broadsided by a Toyota Landcruiser, Thul said.

The force of the crash, which happened just after 1 p.m. at 211 Sudden St., caused the Explorer the 15-year-old was driving to spin. The out-of-control vehicle hit a parked van, sending debris and broken glass over a half-block area. Baby supplies, a car seat, clothes and trash littered the residential street.

Who can blame this woman? Why such grisly photos need to be released in the first place, we don’t know.

The mother of the so-called “D.C. Madam” wants to stop the release of police photos taken after her daughter’s suicide in Pinellas County, Fla.

In May, 52-year-old Deborah Palfrey hanged herself with a nylon rope in a shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Tarpon Springs. Her 76-year-old mom, Blanche Palfrey, discovered the body.

The St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday that Blanche Palfrey’s attorney Serbo Simeoni filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that releasing the pictures would be “inappropriate, unacceptable and personally harmful” to his client.

This is the second boy to lose an arm from an alligator bite in less than a month. Alligators, you’re on notice!

An alligator has bitten off an 11-year-old boy’s arm in Louisiana, sheriff’s deputies say.

Devin Funck was playing in a neighborhood pond in a subdivision about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans when the alligator pulled him under, deputies say. The alligator was described as between 10 and 12 feet long.

Relatives told The Times-Picayune that he managed to free himself. He was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition was not available.

After a neighbor’s dog bit her son in the face and police supposedly refused to take action, a mom took matters into her own hands.

“You’re —– dead,” [Holly Leach] was heard saying as she stormed into the house.

“Holly, stop it. Stop it,” a concerned neighbor yelled. “Come on you guys.”

Neighbors pulled Leach’s daughter away in tears, as the enraged mother lashed out against the woman apparently responsible for the pit bull that bit her boy.

Both women emerged from the home after a minute, “looking roughed up,” Toledo reporter Rob Packer said. The pit bull, however, was still being kept safe inside the home.

A new Barbie doll slated for release in September has some folks howling loudly. Why? Apparently the doll will be wearing fishnet stockings and a leather jacket, which in turn is being dubbed the “S&M Barbie”. Hmmm, that gives us an idea…

Makers Mattel say Black Canary Barbie, out in September, is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name.

But religious group Christian Voice said: “Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far.

A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

MT headquarters is along a river, and we routinely see fox around town, even in our yard. We always thought they were so cute, but now we’re going to stay even farther away from the critters.

Three residents of the Berkshires, including a 10-year-old girl, received medical treatment after an encounter with a rabid fox.

The fox was smothered and killed shortly after Sunday’s incident by the girl’s father and a visiting friend. The fox’s body was transported to the state Department of Public Health laboratory in Boston, where testing confirmed it had rabies.

Police have ended their search for the 5-month-old fetus that was supposedly buried by a Texas teen.

The teenager told police her mother demanded an abortion in June after discovering the pregnancy, Galena Park Police Chief Robert Pruett said. The girl allegedly told police her mother gave her drugs to end the pregnancy, then buried the fetus after it was born.

No criminal charges have been filed.

Pruett said cadaver dogs detected a scent while searching for the corpse in the backyard of the girl’s suburban Houston home. Dirt from that area will be examined by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office, Pruett said.

Fans of the short-lived show Airline know that Southwest Airlines routinely denies people from boarding for being disruptive. So it’s no surprise to learn that a mom and her four kids were booted from a connecting flight from Phoenix to Seattle because the children were bothering other passengers. What is surprising, is that Southwest actually gave them a refund instead of some BS vouchers.

[Wendy] Slaughter said this was the first flight for her children and admits the kids were loud and kept getting up and walking around the plane.

“The children were a little bit out of control on the flight. They were restless and excited and worked up, and they’re kids.”

Her 10-year-old son Henry is autistic with a short attention span. Her daughter Gracie suffers from cerebral palsy. The family said flight attendants asked them to quiet the children twice. They didn’t expect to be booted off the flight.

“And for the safety of our customers and flight crew decided to not allow them to travel on to Seattle at that time,” [Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Christi] Day said. “Typically if it’s a threatening behavior, it’s not safe to travel at 30,000 feet in the air in a contained environment.”

Officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are investigating a day care there after a toddler in their care was supposedly left behind at a park.

Excellent Little Angels Daycare is still on a probationary license and has only been open a few months.

Investigators say workers left the child at a splash pad in Brown Deer’s Algonquin Park, near 51st and Bradley.

He reportedly fel off a swing set at the park.

Lauren Watson say she was playing with her child when the boy came up to her.

“He kind of tagged along with us to the pool,” said Lauren.

A sex shop has opened in the trendy Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and they’re billing themselves as “kid-friendly”.

Unlike the older sex shops, which are dark and dingy, the Babeland store has upbeat music, well-dressed saleswomen and infant changing tables — marketing itself as a fun place for couples to shop. It’s part of a growing trend that has been spreading from Louisville to Los Angeles in an attempt to take the sleaze out of this part of the sex industry.

“If you walk into a mainstream sex store, you’ll probably be greeted with explicit imagery and a sort of artificial sexuality, like a woman with blonde hair with her head thrown back, something that’s meant to titillate in the moment,” said Babelands’s owner Claire Cavanah.

This store, which officially opens its doors Sunday, is the fifth Babeland for Cavanah, who opened the first store in Seattle, Wash., with friend and business partner Rachel Venning in 1993. Since then, the two have opened shops in New York City and one in Los Angeles, which closed this year.

It’s just like that Mean Joe Green commercial, but with a decidedly worse ending.

A shirtless [soccer star David] Beckham approached the boys February 20, after the Galaxy’s exhibition loss to Japan’s Gamba Osaka in the Pan-Pacific Championship, and reached over a sign with his right hand and gave away his white jersey.

Eric and Yoshika Kerr said it was their 10-year-old son that held a sign all game and eventually lured Beckham over. The jersey, they say, was intended for their son because the soccer star pointed to him.

Wilfred and Yoshika Ho said their 9-year-old son had possession first and that a police officer stepped in during a scrum for the jersey and resolved the issue by handing it to their son.

“My son got the shirt, their kid started trying to pry it away,” said Wilfred Ho, who considers a front-page photo in Thursday’s edition of The Honolulu Advertiser proof.

Anyone who has lived on Chicago’s north side know the ruthlessness of the tow truck drivers there. Seriously, if you park somewhere you are not supposed to you can walk five feet away, realize you forgot something in the car, turn around and it will already be gone. Looks like Dallas is just as bad:

Melissa Jio left her 7-year-old son in the car for just a minute as she ran upstairs to her apartment Monday night, she said. He was splayed across the back seat asleep.

As she descended the stairs, she realized her silver four-door Saturn was no longer there.

“My baby is gone! I’ve lost my baby!” she screamed, thinking a thief had stolen the car with her son in it.

But it wasn’t stolen; it had been towed.

A few minutes later – as police were investigating what they thought could be a kidnapping and as Ms. Jio remained in hysterics – another strange thing happened. The tow truck driver returned to the parking lot with the car and the still-sleeping boy, unhooked his load in a hurry and sped away.

It’s a real life Lassie!

A barking dog helped save an infant Monday evening by alerting his mother that the child was floating in a pool, according to an incident report.

The child, 10-month-old Lios Kelaidis of Ontario, was breathing when pulled from the pool, but Stuart Fire Rescue paramedics transported him to Martin Memorial North as a precaution, according to the report.

Hospital officials said Lios was in good condition Tuesday morning, and he has since been released from the hospital.

After federal prison officials received cards and emails from around the nation pleading to allow Jason Yaeger, who is in prison on meth-related charges, to visit his dying daughter, Jayci, they finally agreed. Jayci is suffering from terminal brain cancer.

On Wednesday afternoon, prison guards drove Jason Yaeger to a Lincoln hospice, where he spent several hours at her bedside. No one else was allowed in the room except Jason Yaeger, Jayci and the escorts.

Sources said Yaeger did leave the girl’s side to consult with hospice counselors and get some direction on how to speak with the girl about what she was going through.

Prior to Wednesday, the prison warden had allowed Jason Yaeger three visits to his daughter, but had denied requests for a longer furlough or an early transfer to a halfway house in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The warden told Yaeger it was not viewed as an extraordinary circumstance.

The python stole the dingo that stole my baby! Call us pussies, but we don’t think we’re tough enough to live in Brisbane, Australia, where “scrub pythons” slither around waiting to slurp down a tasty terrier or two. The field mice problem in our house is about as close to nature as we want to get. Although having a few snakes around would help take care of that… hmmm, maybe we need to rethink.

A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.

The boy and girl, aged 5 and 7, watched as the scrub python devoured their silky terrier-Chihuahua crossbreed Monday at their home near Kuranda in Queensland state.

Stuart Douglas, owner of the Australian Venom Zoo in Kuranda, said scrub pythons typically eat wild animals such as wallabies, a smaller relative of the kangaroo, but sometimes turn to pets in urban areas.

“It actively stalked the dog for a number of days,” Douglas said.

“The family that owned the dog had actually seen it in the dog’s bed, which was a sign it was out to get it,” he added.