A Bulgarian customs officer who stole a gadget-packed phone was caught when its owner, the US Ambassador, activated the GPS program.
According to Ananova, Ambassador John Beyrle activated the phone’s GPS – Global Positioning System – to locate it in the officer’s pocket.
The man and his accomplice have now been arrested, and both face the sack as well as malpractice and theft charges.
A Kentucky man was trying to “booby trap” his home to protect his marijuana plants when he accidentally shot himself, local police have reported.
According to Kentucky.com, police were called to the Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown to investigate a patient suffering from a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigation revealed that Danny Walden was attempting to protect his marijuana plants when he accidentally shot himself, police said.
Police searched Walden’s home at 950 Bowman Lane in Taylorsville, finding 115 marijuana plants — 37 growing in a closet and 78 in a crawl space.
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Deputies and a SWAT team surrounded a plane at the Georgetown County Airport after one of the pilots accidentally entered a code saying the aircraft has been hijacked.
According to ABC7, State Ports Authority Chairman Harry Butler was flying the plane from Georgetown to Columbia on Thursday morning when he lost both radios. The weather wasn’t good enough to land in Columbia without the radio, so he turned back to the coast, where it was clear.
En route, his co-pilot sent a message on a signal device. He was supposed to type 7600, which means “lost communications.” But instead, he punched in …read more
Mount Healthy High School’s head football coach and athletic director said Tuesday they did not support an officiating crew’s decision to keep Bobby Martin, a senior at Dayton’s Colonel White High School who has no legs, from playing in last Friday night’s game.
Martin participated in one play on the punting team in the first half before officials decided it was unsafe for him to be on the field. They cited a mandatory equipment rule from the National Federation of State High School Associations’ rule book that stipulates players must wear shoes, thigh pads and knee pads, Mount Healthy coach Kurry …read more
50 years after the rest of the world, the United States has broken through the 80% rate for seatbelt wearing.
According to the Houston Chronicle, The compliance rate, at 82 percent, helped highway fatalities drop to the lowest rate since record keeping began 30 years ago, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said. He estimated that seat belts annually save nearly 16,000 lives, prevent hundreds of thousands of injuries and save the economy $67 billion a year. A decade ago, just six in 10 drivers wore seat belts.
“The fact that safety belts save lives is starting to click with the American …read more
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A fugitive who escaped from prison in Hungary was caught when he unwittingly went out on a date with a policeman.
According to AFP, the unidentified man, sentenced for robbery and fraud, had posted an ad with his own photo in an online dating website.
He set up a date for Thursday at a pastry shop with someone who he thought was a woman.
“At the place of the rendez-vous the surprised man was caught and that is when he realized that the woman with whom he had exchanged emails and for whom he brought a ring was actually a man and on …read more
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