3 years olds can't hold their liquor like they used to

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A 37-year-old man was charged with child endangerment after one of two toddlers he was baby-sitting was found drunk, authorities said.
Suffolk County sheriff’s deputies investigating a family court case peered through the window of a Patchogue home Tuesday and saw Juan Reyes passed out with the children wandering around the house.
They managed to rouse Reyes, who was the only adult at home with the two toddlers, ages 2 and 3, according to the sheriff’s office. The deputies said Reyes appeared extremely intoxicated.

The deputies also noticed the 2-year-old was having difficulty standing, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and was lethargic.
The toddler was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed he was legally intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.094 percent, the sheriff’s office said. In New York, a driver is considered drunk with an alcohol content of 0.08 percent or greater.
The second child was taken into the custody of Child Protective Services.
At the time, the children’s parents were at a hospital, where the mother was giving birth.
Reyes was arraigned Wednesday in First District Court in Central Islip and ordered held on $5,000 bail. He was scheduled to return to court on Jan. 3.
Robert Clifford, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney, said the children’s family lives at the house where the toddlers were found. Reyes also gave that as his address during his arraignment.
The district attorney’s office said Reyes was being represented by the Legal Aid Society. Calls to the society went unanswered Wednesday evening.

If you sprinkle....

12-27) 14:54 PST CLIVE, Iowa (AP) --
A Nebraska man has been arrested in central Iowa for allegedly delivering some unwanted Christmas gifts. Reno Tobler, 54, was arrested Thursday in Clive after police caught him lobbing urine bottles into backyards.
"We've got a Grinch that has been lobbing urine," said Clive Police Chief Robert Cox. "Since this fall, we've had eight to 10 incidents reported where people have found containers full of urine thrown into their backyards."
Tobler is a truck driver whose route regularly takes him to the Clive area. He was charged with littering and harassment for allegedly tossing detergent-sized bottles of his urine over fences.
Tobler told police that it was a longtime hobby of his to deliver the bottles. Police searched his vehicle and found several other urine-filled bottles ready for delivery.
Tobler was taken to the Polk County Jail and was released on a $500 bond.
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Information from: The Des Moines Register,
www.desmoinesregister.com

*** It was a HOBBY!!!! ROFLMAO!!!

Alleged Shredding?!?!?!

By Felix Doligosa Jr., Rocky Mountain News December 29, 2005
LOVELAND - An employee of a tree-trimming company was found dead at work Wednesday afternoon after an apparent accident with a wood chipper.
Police have not released the victim’s name or age.
A wood chipper with blood stains was taped off near where the body was found. Police said they were awaiting the results of an autopsy before confirming that the employee was killed because of the wood chipper. Investigators characterized the death as an industrial accident.
The victim was part of a two-man crew trimming a tree using a wood chipper and chainsaws at a house at in the 2300 block of Fountain Drive, said Sgt. Rae Bontz of the Loveland Police Department. A wood chipper is a machine that shreds wood into compost.
An accident occured at about 1:30 p.m. and the partner ran up to the house to call 911.
The victim was dead when authorities arrived. A chaplain arrived to comfort the co-worker who was "as well as one can expect," said Bontz. The homeowners declined to comment.
Signs on trucks parked at the scene bore "Brian’s Trimming Service." Messages left with the company were not returned.
Investigators with the coroner’s office, the police department and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the death.

*** Hmmmm now I don't want to speculate without knowing all the facts but this one looks cut and dried. Wait isn't Loveland near Boulder? I wonder if the investigators frome Loveland are better than the ones from Boulder?!?! Hmmm time shall tell!

Man Electrocuted while trying to steal copper wire

Tim Woods Tribune-Herald staff writer
Saturday, December 24, 2005
A man was electrocuted by 69,000 volts of electricity after he tried to steal copper wire from an electrical substation near Bellmead on Friday.
The man, who police have yet to identify, was cutting the copper wire off functional transformers at the substation behind the old General Tire plant on U.S. Highway 77, about a half mile north of Orchard Lane shortly after noon when he was hit by the surge, according to Steve Anderson of the Waco Police Department.
The Waco Fire Department was called at 12:28 p.m. to put out a small grass fire at the location, presumably ignited by the electrical surge, and found the man's body near the transformer, Anderson said.
The amount of electricity pumped through the man was so powerful that it blew the man out of one of his shoes and threw him several feet from the transformer, Anderson said.
Anderson said that he was told by a TXU employee at the scene that the man “never even knew what hit him” and was killed instantly. That was confirmed by TXU district manager Tony Flores, who said that the power lines that run in front of people's houses – carrying either 7,200 or 14,000 volts – are more than potent enough to be lethal.
“It's like a blast of fire going through you, essentially,” Flores said.
Anderson said he was amazed at the man's disregard of posted warning signs.
“If you're going to be stupid, you'd better be tough,” he said.
Flores said the substation belongs to the owner of the General Tire plant, which has been closed since the mid-1980s, and not to TXU.
The man was apparently stealing strips of copper wire from the facility, Anderson said, as investigators found about a dozen strips of the copper wire and wire cutters near the man's body. Copper theft has become more and more common lately as copper prices have seen a marked increase of late.
“I don't know what (the amount of copper the man had) is worth,” Anderson said. “I know it's not worth his life.”


*** That sounds pretty painful!!

Smoking Gun's Top 15 Mug Shots of the year

Click on the headline to see all the pictures but they didn't post my favorite. hehehe