120-ton freight train taken on joyride

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities are investigating who took a 120-ton freight train for a weekend joy ride.

The CSX diesel locomotive disappeared from the Kendall area late Sunday night. The locomotive was parked in storage while awaiting assignment.

Following the track southward, railroad personnel and Miami-Dade police located the missing train early Monday about 7 miles away, near Homestead.

CSX officials don’t think it was an amateur who took the train. They believe it would take someone with experience and a solid knowledge of trains to pull off such a caper.

Or a stoner….

Friendly neighbor 🙂

Scott Laughlin pulled a firearm on Wilmer Orengo on Sunday evening because Orengo’s dog defecated on his yard, Hillsborough County deputies say.

Deputies arrested Laughlin, 57, of Riverview, on Sunday. He was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm.

The incident began Sunday when Laughlin was sitting outside his home with a friend, sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. Orengo was walking a dog, which defecated on Laughlin’s yard, causing Laughlin to become angry, Carter said.

Carter didn’t know which type of dog it was, and she didn’t know the dog’s name.

Orengo later identified the firearm to authorities, according to a criminal arrest affidavit.

Laughlin’s bail was set at $2,000. He has since been released from jail.

I hope it was a big turd…

Wrong Shorts Get Naked Man In Deeper Trouble, Police Say

TAMPA – Of all the shorts in Joshua Andrew Burnett’s home, he grabbed the pair with drugs in the pockets when police surprised the naked man early today, an affidavit states.

It all started about 12:45 a.m., when Tampa police received a 911 call from Burnett’s home with a woman screaming in the background, police said.

Officers arriving at 2633 Belmont Oaks Lane discovered Burnett, 18, naked, and his pregnant girlfriend accusing him of trying to smother her with a pillow, police said.

The officers told Burnett he was under arrest for felony aggravated battery on a pregnant woman. In response, Burnett picked a pair of jean shorts off the floor to get dressed.

For safety reasons, an officer asked to search the shorts to ensure there wasn’t a weapon in the pockets, an affidavit states.

The officer found in the left front pocket $506 wrapped around Burnett’s driver’s license and in the right front pocket a plastic baggie of marijuana and a bag of crack cocaine, an affidavit states.

In addition to the battery charge, Burnett is charged with felony possession of crack cocaine, felony possession of cocaine with intent to sell, misdemeanor possession of marijuana and misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia, records show.

Wow

Supermarket Defends Refusal To Make Hitler Cake

A supermarket is defending itself for refusing to a write out 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell’s name on his birthday cake.

Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the store denied similar requests from the Campbells the past two years, including a request for a swastika.

“We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate,” Meleta said. “We considered this inappropriate.”

The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said Tuesday.

A Wal-Mart spokesman told The Associated Press today that in light of the incident, the company would review its guidelines regarding cake decorations and other requests.

“It’s clear that in serving this customer, some people were offended,” spokesman Greg Rossiter said. “As a result, we’re going to review our policies.”

Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.”

The Campbells’ two other children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in a few months, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who will be 1 in April.

Campbell said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.

“Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That’s fine, I don’t really care,” he said. “That’s his choice.”

He said about 12 people attended the birthday party Sunday, including several children of mixed race.

These hicks HAVE to be from Florida……

Strip Club Patron Used Counterfeit Money

PALMETTO – Even though he had $2,300 cash on him, a Palmetto man tried to use funny money to pay for services at a strip club, and his scheme backfired, deputies say.

Deputies were called to Pandora’s Box on U.S. 41 North in Palmetto on Saturday night by an employee who said a customer had passed seven phony $20 bills and that the man was still drinking in the club.

A deputy approached Anthony Lamar King, 44, of the 2600 block of Sixth Avenue East, and asked him to come outside and talk.

King complied, and he was asked about the counterfeit bills, which a deputy noted were not the right type of paper and did not have the security strip present in legitimate currency.

During questioning, King tried to walk away and resisted arrest, so he was stunned with an electric shock weapon, tackled and eventually handcuffed.

Deputies determined King’s car was in the parking lot, and his girlfriend gave permission to search it. Inside, deputies found baggies of marijuana, packages of powder and rock cocaine, and blue prescription pills, according to the arrest report. They also found 18 more fake bills, the report states.

King was arrested on felony charges of possessing and using forged bills and possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to deliver.

Hmm, actually sounds fair to me for some odd reason… Fake cash for fake boobs LOL

Teens Arrested Trying To Steal Undercover Cop Car

Three teenagers shined a flashlight into a blue Dodge Stratus on Monday night and prepared to steal the vehicle.

Unfortunately for them, two Tampa police officers had been hiding inside the unmarked car. The officers jumped out as the juveniles were about to smash out the vehicle’s right rear passenger window, police say.

The incident initially began about 11 p.m. when Tampa police’s street anti-crime squad saw the juveniles looking into parked cars near Columbus Drive and Oakdale Avenue. Officers Colin McCoy and Gary Saunders were in the Dodge Stratus and followed the juveniles to the area near Columbus and Rome Avenue.

The officers parked in a parking lot of Columbus Court Apartments and continued to watch the teeenagers.

The suspects had flat tip screw drivers, a piece of concrete rock and a flashlight as they came to the Dodge, police said. After trying to smash out a window, the officers jumped out. The juveniles ran, and two were caught after a chase.

“The suspects admitted that they were unaware that the officers were inside of the car or that the Dodge Stratus was a police vehicle,” a Tampa police news release states. “The third suspect was not apprehended, but detectives are working on leads. There was no damage to the unmarked police vehicle.”

The suspects arrested are 17- and 15-year-old Tampa residents. The teens were charged with auto burglary, possession of burglary tools and resisting arrest without violence.