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Lawn Chair mistaken for gun?

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Police and Swat team gets carried away? You decide:

A parent attempting to record a middle school football game from the school’s roof was misidentified as a sniper, causing police to evacuate hundreds of people from the field. Is this the type of thing that could only occur in Utah? Midvale, Utah to be exact.

The accused parent, James Kranz wanted to shoot video of his children playing on Saturday. But an officer spotted him climbing a ladder onto the school’s roof with what looked like a rifle, said police Sgt. Gregg Olsen. How can you mistake a video camera for a rifle?

“An officer saw a man on top of the roof, walking around, pacing back and forth,” Olsen said. “He was acting extremely suspicious.”

It turned out to be a lawn chair that Kranz had with him — not a gun. Oh yes, lawn chairs really look like guns these days. Maybe it was one of those folding ones that come in their own bag?

The SWAT team was called in after Kranz was spotted on the roof.

Parent Andres Dominguez reported hearing someone screaming, “Shooting! Shooting!” when officials ordered the field cleared. He was skeptical, but followed fans off the field.

Another spectator spotted SWAT team members scanning the rooftop with rifles and figured it wasn’t a false alarm.

“When I saw the police looking through their scopes, following this guy across the roof, I thought it was for real,” Ron Watkins a spectator at the game said.

Kranz jumped down from the roof and ran when officers tried to get him to drop to his knees and show his hands, Olsen said. Kranz told police he didn’t respond because he didn’t believe they were really officers. What did he think they were? Early Halloween’ers?

Authorities ticketed Kranz for trespassing, then ordered him off the school grounds.

I know the world is a scary place at times but I still don’t understand how this small crowd could have thought the parent had a gun. If I was there I would have been more concerned that he was a pedophile watching the kids.






Man Pees in bottle – Disgusting!

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Did you hear the story about the man who was jailed for urinating in a soda that sickened a convenience store customer could be in trouble again, this time because he can’t produce the bodily fluid. Right.

The accused urinator, Anthony Mesa, 22, was sentenced to six months in jail for urinating in the bottle of Mountain Dew and must also periodically take a urine drug test.

Unfortunately, he failed to take a court-ordered test Sept. 19, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday.

He said he has a condition called shy bladder that affects his ability to urinate in public and therefore to take the drug test. He has offered to take the test another way, including with a blood sample. I guess he’s trying?

Mesa, a former convenience store clerk in Deltona, pleaded no contest last year to tampering with a consumer product. A construction worker who purchased the soda he urinated in began vomiting after drinking it. Well I guess so if someone peed in it.

Gross!

Lucky Lady!

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A Tennessee woman whose doubting husband predicted she wouldn’t have any luck gem hunting at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park made a sparkling discovery: a 1.3-carat diamond. Can you imagine being so lucky?

Melissa Lacey of Knoxville said when interviewed “I wasn’t expecting to find anything and was just picking up pretty rocks,”. Yes but this park has a history of good finds doesn’t it?

When she first came upon the diamond in the rough, she thought the light yellow diamond was “a piece of dirty quartz.” After it was identified by park staff, Lacey said she couldn’t wait to show it to her husband. She probably showed it to her husband with a big “So there!” since he’d been negative about the possibility of her finding anything in the State park in the first place.

The diamond that Lacey found was the size of a piece of candy corn. Hers however was not the largest diamond to have been found on the grounds, no, the largest diamond ever discovered in the U.S. was unearthed at the state park in 1924. Named the Uncle Sam, the white diamond weighed 40.23 carats. Now that’s a huge gem!

Lacey found her diamond in soil from the freshly dug trench that was recently opened to the public. The soil from that trench has been spread out over parts of the diamond field.

The Crater of Diamonds State Park is the world’s only publicly operated diamond site where the public is allowed to search and keep any gems found, regardless of their value.

A 1.22-carat diamond found last year was estimated to be worth $1,000 uncut. The value could be increased depending on the way the diamond cut and the quality of the stone.

I don’t know about you, but I’m heading to Diamonds State Park, ARK sometime in the near future. I’m a former jeweler and I didn’t know about the Diamonds State Park or that there was even such a thing as a publicly operated diamond site. Now I do and so do you!

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Lightning flew out her ass!

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She was just brushing her teeth

Squirrel brushing teeth? A woman suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.

She said: “I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.

I don’t remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had traveled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.

It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don’t remember much at all.”

Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: “The accident is bizarre but not impossible”.

Of course it’s bizarre. Have you ever heard of such a thing happening before? I guess this is a lesson to all of us. Don’t brush your teeth (or shower, bathe etc) during a lightening storm. Or perhaps don’t bend down to sip water from the tap, use a plastic cup instead.

She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside,” a medic told local television news. Ok, so I guess if you really must brush your teeth during a storm where you rubber soled shoes then. You might still get hurt but not as badly.

“It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast.”

I wonder how long it will take the poor girl to recover. I wonder if her friends will call her “Lightening Butt” from now on? 😉

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