This is my idea of a Idaho R.V.

I goes anywhere and gets great mileage

Deer Invades Basement Of Mich. Home

 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Dec. 15, 2007 (AP)

 When Jody Fabry descended the basement stairs to her seasonal home and saw broken glass on the floor, then spied what caused the mess, she didn't know who was more frightened _ her, or the deer that was the culprit.A young doe apparently got into the basement through a window, then couldn't get out. Fabry called officers to her home, but it was more difficult than it looked to remove the animal. Officers eventually ended up chasing it around the basement until it jumped back out the way it came, then bounded off.The deer, which Fabry guessed had been in the unoccupied home for a day, appeared to be unhurt.

See it's not just the bucks rutting you have to worry about. Its the doe's looking for new digs

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2007(AP)

 Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers' fees to five families who sued the school over its dress code. The parents went to court after a student was disciplined for wearing socks with the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon character Tigger on the first day of school last year. The district's superintendent said Thursday that the settlement money is for the plaintiffs' lawyers; the district is also on the hook to pay the lawyers it hired. The settlement also says Redwood Middle School may no longer require students to wear only solid-color clothing.

Fricking lawyers always win

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2007(AP)

A construction worker who fell about 40 feet down an elevator shaft is nearly unhurt, with no serious injuries. District of Columbia Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter said the man, who's about 25 years old, was working on a house under construction in Southeast Washington Friday morning.The worker, who Etter says weighs more than 300 pounds, was standing on a plywood platform in the elevator shaft at the top level of the house.The board couldn't support his weight and the man fell 40 feet down the shaft before he crashed into the basement. He broke two more platforms on his way down.The worker wasn't wearing safety equipment, Etter said."It is unbelievable that the guy first of all survived, and secondly survived with what appear to be minor injuries," Etter said.He said it took a concerted effort on behalf of the fire department to secure the man and get him out of the basement. Etter said he suspects the man was OK because the platforms may have broken his fall.
The man has not been identified, and Etter said the hospital was probably not going to admit him

OBERLIN, Kan., Dec. 14, 2007(AP)

A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don't know."
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin _ the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said."We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
Owe our postal servise

BURLINGTON, Maine, Dec. 14, 2007(AP)

A fire chief in Penobscot County has been charged with being drunk behind the wheel while driving a fire truck with its lights on and its sirens going.
Russell Banks of Burlington was arrested around midnight Saturday after a resident complained that Banks was racing a fire tanker by his home even though there was no fire in the area.
Banks, 34, is chief of the Triangle Fire Department, a volunteer association that provides service for Burlington, Lowell and Grand Falls Township.
When a Penobscot County sheriff's deputy responded, he located the truck and noticed that Banks smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes. A blood alcohol test showed Banks was at twice the legal limit.Deputy Chief Troy Morton said the resident told police that Banks was blasting his siren in retaliation for a neighborhood dispute.
And of corse cant leave out the fire deparment

By Claire Sibonney Fri Dec 14, 11:43 AM ET TORONTO (Reuters) -

A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting themPiotr Staniaszek, a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta, became a figure of international media attention this week when his father went to the press to complain about the size of his son's bill.Staniaszek's father, also named Piotr Staniaszek, said his son thought he could use his new phone as a modem for his computer as part of his C$10 unlimited browser plan from Bell Mobility, a division of Bell Canada.He downloaded movies and other high-resolution files unaware of the charges they would incur."He's working in the field sometimes, alone, in the shack. What to do? Drink vodka or go on the Internet?" Staniaszek senior told Reuters on Thursday from Calgary, Alberta."Now it's $85,000 and nobody told him," he said.According to his invoice, the son rang up C$60,000 in charges in November, and they have since climbed to C$85,000.Staniaszek senior said Bell has agreed to reduce the charges to C$3,400 for "goodwill.""It's still high...Who can afford it?" he said, adding his son can barely make payments on a new truck he bought for work, and will continue to fight the charges.A Bell spokesman said the plan is not intended for downloading files to a computer, and that's clear in his contract.

Staniaszek said his son did not want to talk to the press after the interest his story has received and that he is afraid to use his cell phone and incur more long-distance charges.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 13, 2007 (AP)

Today's crime tip: don't steal police officers' tips. Police arrested Vincent Balough, 46, on on charges of theft and obstructing official business. Police said Balough took a $12 tip two Cincinnati police officers left after eating at a restaurant downtown.Balough was jailed Wednesday night pending a court hearing.

 Now just what official business is he obstructing ??????

  I don't know why but I am getting so tired of some of these t.v. shows like the Everest one on discovery. Did you know the expedition passed a climber in distress going up and did not help him because they had to make the summit. Even Sir Hillary denounced that as not the way climbing should be and Everest is becoming a tourist trap, the climbers just want to make the top and will pass dieing climbers on the way without even a blink. The Discovery climbing and film crew had to step over this guy to keep going. It was in the Everest news 2 yrs ago. I am trying to get the original news relies. But thats why they waited a year to televise this show the first time.

    I also don't really like the SWAT shows it seems half the time they got the wrong house or there suspect is not there or they committed suicide.But it is OK to tear the heck out of the house. I seen one where they had the wrong house riped the door off  broke the window's and then just left. What are the home owners supposed to do. It's not that I don't respect what they do it is that I think the cameras might affect them some and make them be more of a hot dog being t.v. stars and all.

I do think some of them are kind of sad.

 On the first 48 they had one homicide victim they identified by finger prints only to find out he was dead for years ( they Id. the wrong guy ) and had to go to F.B.I. to get an Id. So I guess finger prints are not all that reliable either.

    It is just that some of these supposed reality shows are so fake like Man vs Wild that show is great if you do everything just the opposite of what he dose and you might survive in the wild. Like the time he floated down the ice cold river ( witch would kill you in minuets) and you could see the life vest under his sweatshirt. Or when ha was catching some ranchers old sway back mare that was just grazing in the pasture. The nice thing about that show is you know most of it is staged. I don't know why they don't just shoot it in a Hollywood sound stage .(would be just as real ).

 Well enough of my rantings for one day!!!!!

LEWISTON, Idaho, Dec. 13, 2007(AP)

Police didn't have to look far to find a man suspected of stealing a woman's wallet _ just an inch down the page. On the front page of its Thursday edition, The Lewiston Tribune ran a photo of a man in a blue and black checkered coat standing in a convenience store. The photo was taken from the store's surveillance video, which reportedly shows the man slipping the wallet in his coat pocket and walking away. The picture of the possible purloiner ran along with a story explaining that a woman had forgotten her wallet at the store, and that police were now trying to identify the man in the video.Also on the front page ran a festive photo of a holiday scene taken by the newspaper's photographer, Kyle Mills. That photo showed a man _ in a blue and black coat _ painting decorative Christmas greetings on storefront windows. The caption identified the man as Michael Millhouse of Millhouse Signs in Lewiston. Some sharp-eyed copy editors at the newspaper first noticed the matching photos as they were laying out the newspaper Wednesday night and wondered if they showed the same man, managing editor Paul Emerson said Thursday. "They were pointing it out and laughing about it," Emerson said. A newspaper employee called the nearby Clarkston, Wash., police department early the next morning to report their suspicions.Police Chief Joel Hastings said that after picking up a copy of the paper, Officer Jeremy Maguire contacted Millhouse and asked about the wallet. Millhouse was subsequently arrested and charged with felony second-degree theft. He is scheduled for a hearing on Monday, Asotin County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Nichols said, and he was released from custody after posting $5,000 bond. Nichols said Thursday that it wasn't a simple case of finders, keepers. "We've got a signed, written confession from him where he says, 'What I did was wrong, it was stupid,' blah, blah blah," Nichols said.Police also located the wallet, which still contained the owner Jami Johnson's driver's license and three credit cards. But Johnson says $600 in cash _ money from her paycheck that she planned to use for Christmas _ was missing.If convicted, Millhouse could be sentenced to up to five years in prison and fined up to $10,000.The only phone listing for M. Millhouse in the region is an unlisted number, and The Associated Press could not reach Millhouse for comment.

Cracker jack police work there A

HAGERSTOWN, Md., Dec. 13, 2007(AP)

 A judge has granted a man convicted of armed robbery a new trial because the jury that found him guilty in October also found a wad of cash in his coat during the trial that police and prosecutors overlooked.A money roll totaling $1,300, a rubber glove and a bandage apparently went unnoticed by police, prosecutors and the defense until jurors detected them while examining the garment during deliberations in October.Circuit Judge Theresa M. Adams granted the defense motion Wednesday for a new trial in Frederick at what was to have been Moses M. Streete's sentencing hearing. She ordered Streete held without bail. "You would think with all the law enforcement people that had been involved with the case that everything would have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb _ and then that fine-toothed comb would have had another fine-toothed comb going over it," said Christine Bowersox, one of the jurors in Streete's trial. Frederick County State's Attorney J. Charles Smith said Thursday that Assistant State's Attorney Deborah Kemp had checked the coat pockets before the trial and found no money. He said it must have been in hidden pockets or in holes in the pockets of the charcoal gray parka.Defense attorney Scott L. Rolle said he had seen the coat before the trial but hadn't gone through the pockets.Gregory Shipley, a spokesman for the Maryland State Police, which had custody of the coat, declined to comment because a new trial is pending.Although the overlooked evidence resulted in a new trial for Streete, the cash and glove, had they been offered as evidence, would have helped prosecutors more than Streete because his defense relied partly on the absence of any cash or fingerprints. Rolle said he planned to fight the admissibility of the new evidence.

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