Seeing that she was old and a likely target, a thief acted like he wanted to buy candy from a 91 year old pharmacy worker in East Northport, New York. The thief stole a bunch of bills when the cashier opened the register and ran.
The ripped off pharmacy worker didn’t even want to go to the hospital although she said that the thief punched her in the chest when she actually reached over and took him by the hand. Police arrived to find the elderly worker back at work at which post she stayed at for an additional 6 hours following the theft.
The grandmother of 13 told her story on WPIX television. She said on air, “First he came up with a dollar and he had piece of candy in his hand, so I rang up the, and I opened up the register, and he went to grab the money. So I grabbed his arm to stop him, but he hit me in the chest. I wasn’t scared because I tried to stop him. Hit me good.”
Later, the celebrity grandmother told the New York Post that the thief, “hit me good, it didn’t hurt.”
Not only did the confused grandmother continue to work but she also refused to listen to her manager who asked her to call her son to drive her home.
The grandmother works 35 hours a day and has worked at the pharmacy for 17 years. The amount of money stolen has not yet been determined.
The Louis Majesty a cruise ship flying under a Maltese flag was hit by three enormous waves on Wednesday March 3rd. The waves crashed hard into the ship breaking 5 windows in public areas. The wave killed two men and injured several other passengers.
The men that were killed were from different countries. One was from German decent the other was Italian. Of the 14 injuries there is no life threatening but some were serious. One 62 year old woman sustained two broken legs.
The cruise ship was travelling off the coast of Cabo de San Sabastian close to the city of Palafrugell Spain when hit by the large waves. It was on a journey from Barcelona Spain to Italy.
There was passengers from 27 countries on the large cruise ship including three from the United States. The ship held 1350 passengers and a staff that numbered over 500 when the wave hit.
The weather could be the blame of this terrible incident. Winds were clocked at 45 miles per hour in the area where the ship was.
All of the passengers were to be flown home at the expense of the cruise company on Thursday. The next cruise has been cancelled as the ship is being repaired.
The man being dubbed “Granddad Bandit” is still on the loose, after having robbed numerous banks across at least ten different states over the past year. He is an older gentleman, probably between fifty and sixty years old, and the authorities just can’t seem to catch him.
The FBI is determined to catch the six-foot tall man, weighing between 210-230 pounds. Due to success of catching a serial bank robber last year through electronic billboards, they have decided to go that route again. The Granddad Bandit’s face will be plastered on electronic billboards in many different states, using pictures from surveillance cameras.
The bank robber’s typical method of robbery involves entering a bank and handing over a note demanding money. Some banks have said that he claims to have a weapon, while other reports show he was extremely polite and made it hard for the bank tellers to realize he was serious about robbing the bank.
Regardless of his either threatening or surprisingly calm, kind way of trying to rob banks, the FBI is hoping to put an end to his charade. There is also a $10,000 reward for any information that may lead to the arrest of the man.
Thomas Beatie Pregnant With Third Child
Thomas Beatie shocked the world when he became the first pregnant man back in 2008. Beatie was born a woman but underwent partial gender reassignment surgery, making him a man legally. Beatie underwent the surgery in order to legally wed his wife Nancy in the state of Oregon.
His wife was not able to carry a pregnancy after undergoing a hysterectomy. The couple desperately wanted children of their own and opted for Beatie to carry the pregnancies. Beatie kept his internal reproductive organs during his reassignment surgery making it possible for him to carry a child. The couple faced countless obstacles in their quest to become pregnant. They resorted to buying sperm from a sperm bank and doing home insemination.
Their first attempt ended in a life threatening ectopic pregnancy that cost Beatie his right ovary. The couple did not give up hope and were rewarded with the birth of their daughter in June of 2008. July 2009 the couple welcomed a son into their rapidly growing family. In what would seem to be extremely private information, the couple has revealed that Beatie gave birth naturally, which has led to even more scrutiny.
The 35 year old Beatie is pregnant with their third child due in July of this year. His 46 year old wife will be breastfeeding this child as she did with the first two. The couple has been condemned repeatedly for their choices and many choose not to recognize Beatie as a man, but as a lesbian woman living as a man.
Oscar was a kitten that was adopted by the Rhode Island facility in 2005, as part of the rehabilitation program. Oscar’s upbringing on the 3rd floor nursing home for residents with end-stage dementia is how he may have learned when a patient will pass. He paces the hallways making his rounds, sniffing the air. If he believes a patient will pass he lays down next to them.
There have been articles and a book written about Oscar. Veterinarians have theories on how it is that he knows when death is near. It is believed that Oscar can predict death is imminent within 2 hours.
A bodies dying cells give off an odor that may be familiar. Therefore lying with the patient until they pass. It is also noted that the patients Oscar has layed next to have passed from an infection, carbapenem-resistent Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Some of the patient’s relatives have asked that Oscar be removed when a patient is dying. He will wait outside meowing in protest. Almost as if he wants to be there to comfort the patient in the last hours of life. The staff at the medical facility now call family when he is seen sleeping next to a patient.
Air New Zealand is playing a very skeptical ad on television. The ad refers to older women as ‘cougars’ and goes into detail about how they chase younger men. It makes fun of their orange skin, high heels and many other attributes of a ‘cougar.’
The bizarre ad is part of a contest to get a free vacation. Grabaseat is suggesting that women 35 and older send in a photograph of themself with a younger man (or a cub.) The cub has to be at least 10 years younger than the women. The winners will be sent to Wellington Sevens rugby tournament next month. The winners will get a free flight and free tickets to the contest.
Some people are concerned that the ad is going to far and is being harsh towards older women that are dating younger males. It’s not too uncommon these days to see that happen. New Zealand’s Rape Prevention Education has said the ad is appalling, disgusting and degrading to women.
“They find it degrading and that it is encouraging potentially harmful behavior, so my question is why is our national carrier promoting sexually predatory behavior?” director Kim McGregor stated to a New Zealand newspaper.
A radio DJ in northern England has been criticized for playing the 1984 song “Jump” by Van Halen while police were trying to talk a suicidal woman down from a highway overpass, but has refused to apologize for his actions.
DJ Steve Penk, of Manchester’s Revolution Radio, said that he played the song in response to a request by a driver frustrated by traffic delays. Traffic was stalled on Manchester’s ring highway when the police blocked part of the road to keep cars away from the 30-year-old woman. Penk has said, “I don’t regret playing the song for a minute,” although he expressed sympathy for the woman. One listener called Penk’s actions “pathetic and nasty,” and a representative of the suicide hotline The Samaritans said, “It shows a lack of compassion and understanding.”
The woman did jump and fell about 30 feet, but suffered only minor injuries. Police say she could not have heard the song.
There is a British woman by the name of Annette Edwards who has tried to do everything she can in her life to try to look like Jessica Rabbit. She has tried everything she can in order to look like the cartoon character. This including going on what is known as the “Jessica diet” in order to get some of the similar body curves that the cartoon character has shown in the movies. Annette Edwards is a great grandmother, but she still chooses to dress in these revealing outfits.
She has been interviewed on the matter numerous time. The people who interview her, ask her way she does this to her body. She is not a very old woman, but people still raise questions. Edwards says she does things like the Jessica diets and spends thousands of dollars on other improvements because it makes her feel good. In fact at the mere age of fifty seven we can expect Ms. Edwards to keep making these alterations for years to come. It is hard to say whether some surgeon or doctor will ever advise her that the operation is silly or not necessary. She does have a right to do what she wants.
Is it smart for a cruise line’s business model to ban cougars? We will soon find out. Carnival Cruise Lines took some negative press for having a self described cougar cruise where it was particularly encouraged for older women to mingle younger men. Despite the immense popularity of the event and the large profits that Carnival received stemming from it.
It appears that several groups that represent women on a national basis took some offense over the event, given that some people viewed the events as something which was too sexually charged.
The woman’s organizations do not want women to be viewed as some sort of sex object who is constantly on the hunt, This is typically what a cougar is labeled as and generally where the name comes from.
The current Chief Executive Officer Mickey Arison agrees with the decision to stop the cougar events. This is an admission that he does not want the company Carnival Cruises to have to suffer through the bad publicity attached to these events. Royal Caribbean may be next to ban the cougar cruises.
Royal is worried that there may be some incidents which occur on board that they simply won’t be able to handle. This is despite several singles groups calling for more cougar events.
Fifty one year old, Orangeburg South Carolina resident Mark Zachary was arrested August 26th of last year after a jaunt to Reid’s grocery store in the same city. Mr. Zachary was holding a New York Strip and other meats under his arm and underneath his shirt. When accosted by the store manager, he ran for the door and landed safely into the loving arms of an off-duty police officer. He had taken an eighty dollar hunk of meat!
When it came time for Mr. Zachary to testify in a court hearing, he pleaded that he was “Messaging” the meat and not stealing it. He was given the verdict of “Guilty” by a panel of his peers. This was the mans ninth offense for stealing. As such, he received the maximum sentence allowed by law, which worked out to ten years in prison.
It just goes to show. If you want to massage packages of meat, you have to buy them first!