Jogger saved by Dog In Saugus, Massachusetts, police say a local woman may have been saved by her barking dog. The woman was jogging with her dog when a man approached her holding a knife. The woman’s dog started barkinig, causing other dogs in the area to join in. All the barking appears to have spoked the suspect, who ran away. (USA Today, 10-3-2014)
Continue reading →Stop That Fork Lift! In Fort Worth, Texas, a local man was sentenced to 8 years in prison for leading police on a slow-speed chase down Interstate 30. Timothy Raines, 47, had apparently stolen a fork lift and was driving it down I-30 while throwing beer bottles at authorities.
Continue reading →Girl Falls From Chair Lift In Salt Lake City, Utah, a 4-year-old girl was in serious condition after falling 30 to 40 feet from a chair lift while at the Alta Ski Area. The girl was found face down in the snow and not breathing when ski patrol arrived, but was revived with CPR. (USA Today 12-21-2009, p.14A)
Continue reading →Firefighter Accidentally Shoots A Man in the Face In Hartford, Connecticut, a firefighter was showing another man a handgun when it accidentally discharged, shooting the man in the face. The firefighter was placed on administrative leave.
Continue reading →In Denver, Colorado, police say a 27-year-old teachers aide was found unconscious in the bathroom of the elementary school where she worked, apparently the result of a drug mishap. She was found with a syringe hanging from her arm and a bag containing an unknown white powder. The woman was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance. When you’re shooting up in the school bathroom, just to make it through the day, either A) the kids at that … Continue reading →
Bullets Dropping From The Sky In Memphis, Tennessee, a 9-year-old child was hit in the head with a bullet during a 4th-of-July party at Tom Lee Park. Police said a bullet from a high powered rifle hit the child’s head, and then struck a 33 year-old woman before landing on the blanket. The round did not pierce the skin of either, likely because it had lost its velocity and was free-falling from the sky – but I’m sure it hurt … Continue reading →
Preschoolers Shot While walking With Family In Logansport, Louisiana, a four year old boy was shot in the face by a stray buckshot pellet while visiting family. Tanner Myers was walking a rural path in North Desoto Parish when two nearby hunters fired several shots at a deer. He was expected to survive. (12-28-2009 p. 9A) Stray Bullet Kills Toddler In Swan Lake, New York, a sixteen month old girl was fatally shot inside her rural mobile home, apparently by … Continue reading →
When firefighters tracked down the source of a house fire in Washington that caused around $200,000 worth of damage, they came upon an unusual culprit: the dogs water bowl. It turns out that sunshine beaming through the dog’s glass water bowl apparently acted like a magnifying glass; beaming intense sunlight that ignited a fire on the wooden deck, according to fire department Lieutenant Eric Keenan. “It’s so unusual,” remarks Keenan, who says he’s never seen a fire start this way. … Continue reading →
A family trip to a ski-resort almost ended in tragedy, after a 4-year-old girl fell off a ski lift. She was riding on the Sunnyside lift with an adult woman at the Alta Ski resort, when she somehow tumbled out of the chair and fell 30 to 40 feet to the ground below. (The woman’s relationship to the child was not known, and authorities weren’t releasing the names of either her or the child to the public.) The incident occurred … Continue reading →
In another example of school officials gone mad while enforcing “zero-tolerance” policies toward students, a 12-year-old New York girl in Queens was hauled out of school in handcuffs for doodling on her desk with a lime-green erasable marker. Alexa Gonzales, a student at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, wrote across her desk: “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10” along with a smiley face. She busied herself with the doodling while waiting for her … Continue reading →