Wordless Wednesday
Meet Midnight, my best (furry) friend. She just turned a year old on August 25th, but she’s still very much a puppy – a silly and quirky one at that!
Do you have any silly pictures of your pet?
Parrot and Kitten take a nap
Handicapped man tackles robbery suspect
Perhaps the young PA woman thought that the 71 year old veteran, whose friend happened to be in a wheelchair would make an easy target. Unfortunately for her, she thought wrong. Oh so wrong.
Harry Kopenis managed to chase and tackle the 22 year old woman whom he says robbed him at an ATM machine. Then, with help from his wheelchair bound friend they held her until police arrived.
“Maybe she thought I was easy prey. She didn’t think I was going to get her. Well, senior citizens aren’t easy prey,” Kopenis said.
Police charged Erin Vanmatre, of Kingston PA, with robbery, harassment and other offenses.
Vanmantre was on probation for conspiracy to commit theft was locked up on $10,000 bail.
Kopenis suffered a stroke five years ago and is on a variety of prescription meds. He says he’s not really sure how he was able to catch the girl, yet pointing to the sky he said “It was a source up there who gave me the energy.”
He had gone to an ATM near his Kingston home Monday morning and withdrew $100 when Vanmatre allegedly knocked him down, took his money and fled.
Kopenis’ friend, Kevin Lamb, was nearby in his electric wheelchair. Both men took off after her. Kopenis got her to the ground and Lamb grabbed her leg.
“She wasn’t going anyplace then,” said Lamb, 56, who uses the wheelchair due to breathing problems.
Kopenis said he thought about not pressing charges, but she continued to resist and gave him a kick to the leg.
The men weren’t seriously injured.
Crumbling graves and wrinkly prostitutes
Grave Danger
Schollevaar: A Dutch woman, Monique Zuydendorp, 40, of Capelle aan de Ijssel was watering flowers on her uncle’s grave in Schollevaar when the grave collapsed.
Suddenly, a neighboring grave subsided and Ms Zuydendorp fell in, landing on the coffin. The grave was that of a woman who had died in September 2005. “It was a horrifying experience,†she told Algemeen Dagblad.
Fortunately she was with a friend who, with other cemetery visitors, managed to pull her out of the grave. Ms Zuydendorp needed medical attention for bruises but says the emotional shock was the only lasting damage.
Hmmm I thought you weren’t supposed to stand on graves when visiting a cemetery? Something about disrespecting the dead?
Old Prostitute, New landmark
Berlin: A prostitute who has been working the streets of a German city for almost 50 years is to feature in a promotional film about the region.
Blonde working girl Brigitte is in her sixties but says, after 47 years on the job in Koblenz, she still has no plans to give up.
“Brigitte is probably the only prostitute in the world who is also a town landmark,†said tour guide Manfred Gniffke.
And she is so well known that producers of a short film promoting the city titled You Are Koblenz hired Brigitte to star in it alongside other local celebrities.
But she says she has no idea why everyone is so interested in her: “I’m just doing my job,†she said.