All that was left on the property was the foundation that the 45 foot double wide home had stood on. His home was too large to easily move so he was quite puzzled as to how someone could have stolen his home.

He went to the closest provincial police department in Southgate Township to make a complaint about the theft of his home.

As it turns out once the police were aware of the homes theft it didn’t take too long to find the missing $30,000 house. It was on a property not too far from its former location – how it got there is still unknown. Ownership documents found at the scene were found to be fraudulent.

Jeffrey LaForest of Southgate Township is charged with theft over $5,000, mischief, and uttering a forged document.

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Jeremy Wheeler and his father William were arrested on Sunday evening after deputies found 116 pot plants growing in the sons home. Jeremy tried to eat some of the plants while he was being booked.

I don’t know if he was high when he was arrested, but how could he have even thought about eating the evidence … I mean, there were 116 plants in the house – how could you eat them all – in front of the cops? LOL

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Police were flagged down last Friday by a man who stated that there was a stench coming from his sister’s apartment.

When police entered the apartment they found 50 year old William Drake dead on a couch. He appeared to have been dead at least a week. The woman apparently didn’t want to leave the apartment.

Burr said Drake died of natural causes and had recently stopped his dialysis treatments. He said Drake had lived for 10 years with the woman, who had been hospitalized for mental illness before. Burr declined to reveal her name.

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Usually when a plane makes an unscheduled stop it’s because there’s a fire onboard, it has engine trouble or there’s some kind of medical emergency … but not in Canada! Nope! A beer theft on board an Air Canada Jazz flight on Tuesday caused the plane to divert.

Even the Mounties got involved!

Steve Holmes, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable told AFP that a passenger had stolen beer from a beverage cart and then tried to flush the empty cans down the jet’s toilet in order to dispose of the evidence. (Yeah like him wobbling around the craft drunk wouldn’t be noticed!)

The flight from Vancouver to Fort McMurray, Alberta was diverted to Kelowna, British Columbia, and police arrested the 23-year-old suds thief.

The man now faces charges of causing a disturbance on an aircraft, Holmes said.

Well folks, now you know what will happen if you steal booze on a Canadian flight!

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Apparently the family had made a giant silver coated balloon and when it floated away from the families yard early this morning the family couldn’t find their young son so they assumed the boy had walked into the balloon and was trapped inside as it floated up to 7,000 feet in the air!

A frantic rescue operation took place that involved military helicopters and briefly shut down the Denver International Airport!

The boy’s father, Richard Heeney, said the family was tinkering with the balloon Thursday and that he scolded Falcon, the young boy who’d been presumed missing, for getting inside a compartment on the craft. He said Falcon’s brother had seen him inside the compartment before it took off and that’s why they thought he was in there when it launched.

But the boy fled to the attic at some point after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour, 50-mile journey through two counties. “I yelled at him. I’m really sorry I yelled at him,” Heene said as he hugged his son during a news conference.

“I was in the attic and he scared me because he yelled at me,” Falcon said. “That’s why I went in the attic.”

The balloon looks a bit like a flying saucer. It tipped precariously a few times before it eventually glided to the ground in a field. When the child wasn’t found inside the balloon or near it’s place of landing investigators began searching the balloons path. Apparently several people had reported seeing something fall from the craft while it was in the air, so I presume the searchers thought that the boy had fallen out of the balloon.

Apparently the boys parents are Storm Chasers and “When the Heene family aren’t chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm,”.

While the balloon was airborne, Colorado Army National Guard sent a UH-58 Kiowa helicopter and was preparing to send a Black Hawk UH-60 to try to rescue the boy, possibly by lowering someone to the balloon. They also were working with pilots of ultralight aircraft on the possibility of putting weights on the homemade craft to weigh it down.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much the search operation cost. Capt. Troy Brown said the Black Hawk helicopter was in the air for nearly three hours, and the Kiowa helicopter was airborne for about one hour. The Black Hawk costs about $4,600 an hour to fly, and the Kiowa is $700 an hour, Brown said.

While the balloon was afloat and rescue operations were underway the FAA canceled all northbound takeoffs between 1 pm and 1:15 pm (the balloon was about 15 miles northwest of the airport in that time period). Prior to the departure shutdown, controllers had been vectoring planes taking off in that direction away from the balloon.

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A Wendy’s Restaurant employee in Langley, British Columbia, was handing food to a customer at the takeout window to a customer waiting in her car when a naked man ran between the car and takeout window and snatched the fries!

The two women were hard pressed to describe the man other than to give an approximate age range.

The naked thief jumped into a waiting van which sped away from the scene of the crime.

Sounds like a dare to me!

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A mother was accused on Wednesday of driving a getaway minivan with her two young children inside after burglaries at two New York City homes.

Prosecutors said Erika Santana, 23, drove the van with her four-year-old and five-month-old children inside after Hugo Lantigua, 22, who is the baby’s father, and Pedro Camillo, 19, broke into two houses in the borough of Queens.

Santana, Lantigua and Camillo face charges including burglary, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child, and face up to 25 years in prison.

“It is unthinkable that a mother and father would put their children in harm’s way while allegedly committing these crimes. It is even more unimaginable that they would allegedly do so with a loaded handgun in their vehicle,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

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For some reason he thought it might be a good idea to teach his girlfriend to drive a van on an Airport runway … sure, nice long stretch of pavement … but what about the planes!

As it happens just when the woman took to the runway a Philippine plane with 80 passengers on board was coming in for a landing! The quick thinking pilot managed to avert a crash.

The Cebu Pacific plane briefly touched down at Legazpi airport in the central Philippines Saturday but took off again as the van being driven by the couple crossed the runway.

Apparently the man is the son of a local aviation official – perhaps that’s why he thought teaching his girlfriend to drive on a runway was a good idea?

Luckily the pilot was on the ball and averted what could have been a tragic accident.

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Police are looking for a man they say stole two rings worth nearly $25,000 from a woman after grabbing her dog. Brunswick police Detective William Collins said a woman was walking her Shih Tzu on Monday when a man picked up the dog and demanded the rings if she wanted the dog back.

Police said the victim gave up her rings, and that the suspect fled on foot after returning the dog. The rings were a 6.57-carat sapphire with diamonds valued at $18,500 and a .96-carat diamond solitaire valued at $5,000.

The suspect was described as a professional-looking, clean-shaven white man in his late 20s or early 30s

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NASA has been busy preparing to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing may do more for crew bonding than a machine that was launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in November.

It’s a water-recycling device that will process the crew’s urine for communal consumption.

Again … EWwwww!

“We did blind taste tests of the water,” said NASA’s Bob Bagdigian, the system’s lead engineer. “Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water.”

“I’ve got some in my fridge,” he added. “It tastes fine to me.”

The new wasterwater recycling gear is said to cost about $250 million wastewater.

NASA wants to make sure the water recycling system is working well before adding another three astronauts to the station’s crew.

Reusing water will become essential once NASA retires its space shuttles, which produce water as a byproduct of their electrical systems. Rather than dumping the water overboard, NASA has been transferring it to the space station.

NASA expects to process about six gallons (23 liters) of water per day with the new device. The goal is to recover about 92 percent of the water from the crew’s urine and moisture in the air.

The wastewater is processed using an extensive series of purification techniques, including distillation — which is somewhat tricky in microgravity — filtration, oxidation, and ionization.

The final step is the addition of iodine to control microbial growth, Bagdigian said.

The device is intended to process a full day’s worth of wastewater in less than 24 hours.

“Today’s drinking water was yesterday’s waste,” Bagdigian said.

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