Both a naked motorist and her passenger face drunken-driving charges following an incident that began with a traffic stop for speeding and ended with the passenger behind the wheel during a seven-mile chase.
The episode unfolded Sunday night when a police officer stopped a Volvo for speeding and discovered that the driver was wearing no clothes.
Because the motorist said she needed to use the bathroom, the officer allowed her to follow his cruiser to a campground. Instead, her passenger took the wheel and led police on a chase that ended on Main Street in Fryeburg, police said.
Douglas H. Litchfield, 59, and Patricia Buck, 61, both of Harrison, were charged with drunken driving and driving to endanger, police said.
The pair said they had been in the woods and Buck's clothes had washed away in a stream, leaving her buck naked
according to Fryeburg police administrator Ann Perante.
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Old, ugly people shouldn't get naked, period. Or perhaps, just for their sponge bath.
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Reminds me of a story my brother tells. He was at the beach at night, examining the waves and noticed the clothes of a couple skinny dipping. It was fun he couldn't resist - so he stole their clothes and towels and put them in a trash can somewhere.
In college one of my apt-roommates and his hot girl friend liked to do daring things...
One day about 2 or 3 pm they left their clothes on the front porch and went for a ride in his Triumph TR-6 convertible.
I came home about 4pm and the girls on the first floor asked whose clothes were on the porch. I looked and determined whose they were. I then searched the apt and didn't find them. The girls asked me to put the clothes in the apt then locked the front door. Next called all their friends for a party and put a beer keg on the porch. Soon my friends noticed the party and started coming by. Neighbors asked what was going on and came over too. It turned into sort of a block party but nobody left their cars in front.
About 6:30 the Triumph raced to the front and parked. Without looking they raced to the front door and couldn't get in.
Then people showed up.
Neither one of them spoke to any of us for a few months. Strange, now that I think about it we never saw clothes laying outside after that either.
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During questioning, the man said that he could not remember anything about the incident, said Granberg.
"He remembered that he had been at the airport and he remembered how he had got there. But after that the next thing he was aware of was being in custody," said Granberg.
According to Metro, the man was later found to have buprenorphine, a narcotics class preparation used for treating drug addicts, in his blood.
The man has no previous convictions and is said to be shocked by the incident.
A blood-soaked house of horrors greeted Revere police and firefighters when they answered an Elvis impersonators 911 call and found that the homicidal King had pinned a half-naked guest to his living room floor with a 2-foot-long machete.
It doesnt get more serious than this, grim-faced assistant Suffolk District Attorney John Powers said yesterday as the first-degree murder trial of Robert Daigle, 71, got underway - a murder, Powers said, that was without justification and excuse.
The Sept. 19, 2003, killing of James Surette, 39, was so grisly Superior Court Judge Linda Giles cautioned jurors to steel themselves against letting pity for the dead man cloud their objectivity.
His black pompadour, mutton-chop sideburns and white leisure suit replaced with shoulder-length gray hair and casual business attire, Daigle listened intently as Powers described how Surettes blood sprayed on the ceiling and walls of the Frye Street apartment hed stopped by for drinks.
Powers told of how Daigle later shared with investigators seeing chunks flying off the body of Surette as he allegedly hacked him with the blade 27 times, having already plunged a kitchen knife through his heart.
Daigle, looking more like Neil Diamond yesterday than Elvis, admits he did the deed, but claimed self-defense.
There is no more powerful human emotion than the will to live, his defense attorney, J.W. Carney Jr., said in his opening statement. Mr. Daigle felt that terror in his own home. He did what he had to do so that he would not die.
The ill-fated fast friends allegedly met at a bus stop on Sept. 18, 2003, and Surette, who also lived in Revere, accepted Daigles invitation to come by that night and party.
By the following morning, Sept. 19, 2003, Daigle contends, Surette was drunk and becoming affectionate in a non-sexual way. Daigle told him to leave; Surette allegedly refused and settled onto a couch to sleep clutching a kitchen knife to his bare chest after picking Daigle up and slamming him onto a glass table.
Mr. Daigle thought the only thing he could do was to act to save himself, Carney said.
Daigle snatched the knife from Surette and buried it in his chest - a wound that proved fatal, but not before Surettes skull was crushed and he was butchered with a mail-order machete during a frenzied, two-minute attack.
Robert Daigle was so frightened that he would be killed, Carney said, that he could not stop until he was absolutely, positively sure that hed killed the man who was going to kill him.
Dismissing the urgency, Powers noted that Daigle took a shower and changed his clothes before summoning help.
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Reminds me of Kevin Costner's Elvis flick [paraphrased] > "Before I die, I just gotta know - *cough * dyin'* cough* - was Elvis really your [ilegitimate] father?
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"Love me tender,
Love me true,
Pin me to the wall.
All your wishes now fulfilled.
I'd like to kick you in the balls"
/ thank you, thank you, thank you very much....
Funding for tertiary courses in prostitution could be considered under changes aimed at boosting quality and relevance in the sector, New Zealand education officials say.
But MPs on parliament's education and science select committee were told today that although courses in the world's oldest profession might be considered if providers put them forward, they would still have to meet tight criteria to get funding.
The questions on prostitution, posed by New Zealand First MP Brian Donnelly, surfaced as MPs were quizzing Tertiary Education Commission officials on changes to how tertiary education was funded.
Under the changes, from next year, institutions will be bulk funded on the basis of agreed three-year plans rather than on the number of students enrolled in specific approved courses.
Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen has said the changes are aimed at increasing the "quality and relevance" of courses.
However, they have raised questions regarding the TEC's actual control over individual courses.
National Party education spokeswoman Katherine Rich said she was concerned by the TEC's apparent "agnostic" attitude towards the content of courses under the new system.
She questioned whether it might lead to a continuing proliferation of courses such as twilight golf seen under the old system.
TEC chief executive Janice Shiner said under the new system a request to provide prostitution courses would be assessed against the same criteria as any other course.
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You wont ever see preparatory courses for the sex trade at most American colleges because they have actual relevance to a form of viable employment. Masters level course work in Latin will continue for several more generations until it is replaced by English.
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Several Ukrainian villages are at risk from a giant poisonous cloud that formed after a train carrying a toxic chemical caught fire and derailed. The cloud covers an area of 90sq km (56sq miles) above some 14 villages near the town of Lviv. Hundreds of villagers from the area have been evacuated and at least 20 people have been taken to hospital.
The fire aboard the train carrying highly flammable yellow phosphorus was put out late on Monday, reports say.
The train was travelling from Kazakhstan to Poland and Ukrainian rescue teams are still said to be working at the site of the accident. While hundreds of villagers have been evacuated, those who remain in the area have been advised to stay indoors and avoid eating vegetables or animal produce sourced locally.
Dad loses visitation rights after taking son to bull run
A Spanish judge has taken away visiting rights from a man who took his 10-year-old son to a running of the bulls during the annual Pamplona festival last week, Spanish media reported on Tuesday.
The boy's mother filed a police complaint after seeing a photograph published in a newspaper of her smiling ex-husband leading their son by the arm just a few steps ahead of the bulls, private radio Cadena Ser reported. A judge in the town of Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid, then ruled that police locate the man and return the boy to his mother in order to prevent him from continuing to put the child's life in danger, it said.
Pamplona city officials, meanwhile, slapped the man with a fine of 150. Participants in the bull run must be at least 18 years old.
The man has since told Spanish media that he would run with his son in front of the bulls, which weigh between 500kg and 700kg, again.
Planning to be a secondary Darwin candidate?
Runners are sometimes caught and either gored or trampled by the bulls during the nine-day festival and 14 people have been killed since 1911 in the event, made world famous by Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The most recent death was that of an American in 1995. More than 25 people were injured during this year's festival, which wrapped up on Saturday.
A Whidbey Island Naval officer, missing since May 26, has now been labeled a deserter. Whidbey Island Naval Air Station spokeswoman Kimberly Martin said Tuesday that paperwork has been filed on 31-year-old U.S. Lieutenant junior grade Jennifer Kincaid.
The Navy believes Kincaid is out of the country, possibly in Canada, since her car was seen crossing the border at Blaine a day after she was reported missing. Martin said Kincaid will remain a deserter until she is found or turns herself in. She could face charges for desertion.
Kincaid was commissioned into the Navy three years ago and had been stationed at Whidbey Island.
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WTF! UCMJ says 30+ days then declare as deserter. That's right, this is an "officer" so they get more leeway! Friggin' yacht club! Been out 20 years this August and those one-way effers still piss me off.
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True, UCMJ does say that. However commanders are given the leeway on when to officially start the AWOL process. After being 30 days on AWOL then they are dropped from the rolls as a deserter.
I personally have extended two soldiers leave to delay the AWOL process. Was I being soft? Nope. I was building a case for a future prosecution that showed my 1SG and I did everything possible to help these two soldiers out... bending over backwards if you will.
It worked. When they both came to trial, they didnt have a legal leg stand on. Most defense lawyers will try to show the commad is against them. That, in our case, was impossible.
Also, Commanding Generals reserve the right of UCMJ for all officers under their command. I would imagine it is similar in the Navy. The reason I bring this point up is that you can not really appreciate the time paperwork requires to get it right and through all the protocal hoops to get in front a Commanding General for approval.
With those two points, the timeline is not that unrealistic.
In the military, paperwork is our biggest enemy.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Whidbey Island Naval officer, missing since May 26, has now been labeled a deserter. Whidbey Island Naval Air Station spokeswoman Kimberly Martin said Tuesday that paperwork has been filed on 31-year-old U.S. Lieutenant junior grade Jennifer Kincaid.
