Teen Accused of Nude Drive-Thru Ordering
Teen Accused of Nude Drive-Thru Ordering
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (AP) – A teen accused of ordering from at least three fast food drive-thrus nude faces an indecent exposure charge. David Gatton, 18, of Columbia City, was found in the parking lot of a McDonald’s by a sheriff’s deputy after police received a call that the teen had been nude when he ordered from his car at the Arby’s drive-thru, police said.
“Maybe it was a way to enjoy the last of the warm weather,” joked Capt. Brian Anspach of the Columbia City Police Department.
Sgt. Mike Engle of the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department passed the car Tuesday night in Columbia City, 20 miles west of Fort Wayne. Engle said he turned around to stop the car and saw that Gatton had driven into the McDonald’s lot.
When Engle got to the car, Gatton was putting his clothes back on. Police said Gatton had a clothed male passenger in the car and the pair had been making the stops as part of a joke. Gatton faces a misdemeanor charge.
No telephone listing was available for Gatton in Columbia City.
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The Golden Age of Bacon
We are living in the Golden Age of Bacon.
Never have so many wondrous varieties of bacon graced our table. Applewood smoked, hickory smoked, maple smoked, corncob smoked, dry cured, salt cured, sugar cured, brown-sugar cured, honey cured, molasses cured, peppered, peamealed, cottage bacon, cinnamon bacon, bourbon-vanilla bacon, wild boar bacon, pancetta. Not to mention all the bacon wannabes made from turkey, beef, duck and the like.
Flip through almost any of the holiday-season gourmet wish books, and you’ll find bacon. Here, in Zingerman’s Just in Catalog for Food Lovers, is “Bacon by the Month,” September-to-April deliveries of Nueske’s Applewood Smoked, and Arkansas Peppered, and Irish Back Bacon, and such. Or check out the foodie Web sites. At gratefulpalate.com there’s the “Bacon of the Month,” a whole year of Williams FatBack, Dan Philips Secret Special Cure Bacon, Benton’s Bacon and others. The site has declared 2007 the year of the pig.
How to scar your kid for life
Like millions of teenagers, Ben Atkins spends hours on social networking websites. So he was delighted when he met his perfect girl online, she shared his love of philosophy and bass guitars, and thought he was wonderful … But the lovely Cheshakitten was actually Ben’s mother, Anne, posing as a teenager to find out more about this internet phenomenon. Here she, and Ben, reveal what they learned from this incredible social experiment …
It started with a bet. I can never resist a challenge and this one, posed by a mischievous friend, was a humdinger: could I befriend one of my own children on one of those ’social networking’ websites for teenagers without being caught out? Could I make a convincing youngster and engage my son in online conversations?
While it was an intriguing idea, a little like a scenario from a Shakespeare comedy in which a character disguises himself to try to discover his lady’s true character, I felt torn. After all, no challenge is worth jeopardising one’s relationship with one’s children. I said I would do it only if it was a bit of fun ñ an amusing jape rather than a sinister deceit to uncover any dark secrets.
And the sociological implications held some appeal. The internet, that vast anonymous behemoth, provides us with endless opportunities for knowledge, and mischief.
Man Allegedly Tries to Put Wife in Oven
Man Allegedly Tries to Put Wife in Oven
CONYERS, Ga. (AP) – A man has been arrested after allegedly trying to force his estranged wife into an oven on Thanksgiving in front of their five children.
Martin Luther Jackson, 31, of Decatur, has been charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, cruelty to children and possession of marijuana after the Nov. 23 incident, said Sgt. Jodi Shupe of the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office.
Jackson and his 29-year-old wife, who have been separated since July, have five children ranging in age from 1 to 13 years old, Shupe said. Jackson apparently started fighting with his wife after she and the children returned to their Conyers home on Thanksgiving.
At one point during the fight, Jackson allegedly attempted to stuff his wife inside the kitchen oven, which had been left on to heat the house, Shupe said. The woman escaped and went to the sheriff’s office with visible head injuries, Shupe said.
Investigators found Jackson hiding under a bed at his mother’s house in Decatur, where he had been living since the separation, Shupe said.
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33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
1. AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.2. ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing.3. CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.7. FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.26. ROWEL
The revolving star on the back of a cowboy’s spurs.
Legally Blind Woman, 94, Bowls a 244
CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) – Esther Medley of Centralia is legally blind, but when she bowls she can glimpse a bit of the floor to line up with the lane.
Medley, 94, can’t see straight ahead, so her 86-year-old husband Ralph tells her which pins are left after her first ball.
That’s how Medley recently bowled a score of 244, which included eight strikes, at Fairway Lanes in Centralia. It was the second-highest score of the year for her league.
The Medleys have been bowling in the senior league since 1979.
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1200-year-old problem ‘easy’
Schoolchildren in Caversham have become the first in the country to learn about a new number – ‘nullity’ – which solves maths problems neither Newton nor Pythagoras could conquer.
Dr James Anderson, from the University of Reading’s computer science department, says his new theorem solves an extremely important problem – the problem of nothing.
“Imagine you’re landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot’s working,” he suggests. “If it divides by zero and the computer stops working – you’re in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you’re dead.”
But Dr Anderson has come up with a theory that proposes a new number – ‘nullity’ – which sits outside the conventional number line (stretching from negative infinity, through zero, to positive infinity).