GREEN BAY, Wis. – A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter’s identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman.
Wendy Brown, of Green Bay, faces a felony identity theft charge after enrolling in Ashwaubenon High School as her 15-year-old daughter, who lives in Nevada with Brown’s mother.
According to the complaint, Brown wanted to get her high school degree and become a cheerleader because she didn’t have a childhood and wanted to regain a part of her life that she’d missed.
Brown allegedly attended cheerleading practices before school started, received a cheerleader’s locker and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach’s house.
The $134.50 check Brown gave to the cheerleading coach for her uniform bounced, the complaint said.
A high school employee, Kim Demeny, told authorities that the woman, posing as the teen, seemed very timid. Demeny said she told her she was not good at math and even cried when she talked about moving from Pahrump Valley High School in Nevada. Demeny said she looked older than a student but had the demeanor of a high school girl.
A school liaison officer started investigating after Brown only attended the first day of classes last week, the complaint said.
Assistant Principal Dirk Ribbins later learned Brown’s daughter was enrolled at Pahrump Valley High School. Ribbins also spoke with Brown’s mother, who told him she had custody of the girl. She said Brown has a history of identity theft crimes, the complaint said.
Brown made her first court appearance Friday by video conference. The judge set bond at $8,000.
If convicted, she could face up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
There was no attorney listed in Brown’s online court records. Her home number could not be found.
Personal Opinion: Wow, a feeling of nostalgia could cause up so much trouble heh!
Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal’s blessing, news.com.au reported Friday.
Inspector Humayun Kabir said Rubel Sheikh and his mother traveled to the Muslim Khan Jahan Ali shrine, where hundreds of people visit every day to offer hens and goats to the crocodiles living there.
Part of the shrine ritual involves bathing in the water with the crocodiles, but devotees are very rarely approached by the animals, according to Kabir.
“He went into the pond hoping to be blessed when a crocodile attacked him and dragged him into the deep part of the pond,†Kabir told the Australian Associated Press.
“This is a very unusual incident. Normally, the crocodiles are very friendly and do not harm people.â€
About 25 people dove into the pond to try and rescue Sheikh, but could not find his body. It washed ashore Thursday and had been largely eaten, Kabir said.
One animal started to develop the “wings” during a period of hot weather in Sichuan, a large province in southern China where a devastating earthquake struck this spring.
Although the growths appear fluffy, they contain bone. But veterinary experts say that despite the hard inner core, the flaps do not harm the cat’s quality of life or safety.
Several animals were photographed with the furry protuberances by a local newspaper photographer.
“At first they were just two bumps, but they started to grow quickly, and after a month there were two wings,” said one cat’s owner, who was only identified as Feng.
“Many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow,” she told the local Huashang News.
Although Feng attributed her pet’s condition to the stress of a feline love life and the hot Sichuan summer. However, scientists said the wings had a less romantic explanation.
In fact, the hairy growths probably developed because of unusual grooming habits, a genetic defect or a hereditary skin condition.
Rich Fasi of Traverse City ( Michigan ) says he found a dead 2-foot shark in the water while fishing on West Grand Traverse Bay on Wednesday.
The saltwater fish was a juvenile blacktip shark, said Mark Tonello, a fisheries biologist from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Tonello said someone might have caught the shark off the Atlantic Coast and kept it on ice while bringing it to northern Michigan, or it could have been dumped by someone who had kept it as a pet.
Personal Opinion : Fishing did really cause some miracles recently, like this.
“Pizzaioli” or pizza chefs in Naples, given out free pizzas in protest at high prices charged by rivals who they say, use the spike in commodity prices to rip off consumers.
In the city where the classic “Margherita” with mozzarella, tomato and basil topping was invented in the 19th century — and named in honor of a queen with a taste for fast food — 30 cooks lit up six wood-burning ovens to cook 5,000 thin-crusted Neapolitan pizzas for queues of local people and tourists.
The group staged the protest in Piazza Dante to demand stricter price controls to defend the reputation of a traditional Neapolitan product which they said should be “the synthesis of quality and low cost.”
Commodity prices, like fuel prices, have fallen back from record highs in the past month on worries about global consumer and business demand as the world economy heads into a slowdown. But retail prices have so far failed to reflect that trend.
“Everything has become more expensive now, including pizza, for people who need to watch what they spend,” said 19-year-old Arianna Masiello, taking advantage of the free pizza offer.
Pizzaioli in Naples favor fixing the price of a slice at 3-3.50 euros ($4.40-$5.15) — when most pizza outlets charge a minimum of 4 euros and often nearly twice that much.
“In Naples and elsewhere in Italy that should be enough to cover costs and give a profit margin, without damaging quality,” Sergio Miccu, president of the Association of Neapolitan Pizza Cooks, told Reuters.
The Treasury says that in June the price of pasta jumped more than 30 percent and that of bread more than 13 percent, and consumers are feeling the pinch.
Italians are likely to spend an additional 2,000 euros per family on food and energy bills this year.
Italy’s biggest consumer group wants shoppers to observe a “bread strike” on September 18 after last year’s “pasta strike.”
Chris Cocker, 36, from Blackburn laughed so hard while watching BBC TV’s Have I Got News For You that he fell off the sofa. A neighbour in the flat below heard the thud and called police.
“I fell off the settee in hysterics and hit the floor and got myself up and started carrying on watching the telly and the next thing I know there was a knock on the door,” Mr Cocker said.
The knock was from police officers, but Mr Cocker was not happy to see them and refused to co-operate.
“The bit where I lost it the most was when I shut the door and the policeman had stuck his foot in the doorway and was refusing to let me shut my own front door,” he said.
Police then pepper-sprayed Mr Cocker, bundled him into a police van and took him to a police station where he said he was stripped naked and made to spend a night in a jail cell.
Lancashire Police said the officers used the pepper spray after fearing for their safety when Mr Cocker became aggressive.
Mr Cocker admitted in court that he had resisted a police officer. He was given a conditional discharge for assault.
A Singapore man with a penchant was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for for sniffing woman’s armpits and molesting his victims. The 36-year-old, who the Straits Times said was mentally unstable, had previous convictions for drug and sex-related offenses.
He molested 23 women over the course of 15 months, smelling their armpits and touching them in lifts, staircase landings and their homes. He was finally caught after a housewife reported him to the police.
Caning on the buttocks is an additional punishment for male criminals in Singapore for offences ranging from vandalism to illegal possession of drugs and rape.
Personal Opinion :Wow that act is suprisingly rare! Sniffing armpits haha.
A Florida woman, Darra Kollios was fired by a restaurant owner for laughing. She said her boss approached her in front of a customer with one of the oddest requests she had ever heard. One day the restaurant owner came up to her and said ‘please stop laughing’ and threatened her to stop laughing or else she will be fired on the spot.
However, Kollios said she was then fired on the spot. She was truly shocked by her employer’s actions. She herself admit that she doesn’t has an odd laugh while several person that were questioned agreed. So far no one made a complaint about the laughing but somehow the restaurant owner perfers to have the restaurant quiet and cozy and Kollios laughter prevented that from happening.
Personal Opinion : This may be too much for Kollios as laughing isn’t something rude or vulgar, it’s just mere natural reaction, perhaps a conversation could prevent this odd act from being known by the world? Haha
We’ve seen tons of odd stuff in our life everyday, but have you seen someone odd enough to blend his iPhone? The remains of the iPhone are being sold on ebay (click here) and the money will be go into Primary Children’s Medical Center.
Being dumb enough isn’t what that amazed, in fact the person who intended to buy the remains of the iPhone is only something outrageous.
Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal’s blessing, news.com.au reported Friday.
However, Kollios said she was then fired on the spot. She was truly shocked by her employer’s actions. She herself admit that she doesn’t has an odd laugh while several person that were questioned agreed. So far no one made a complaint about the laughing but somehow the restaurant owner perfers to have the restaurant quiet and cozy and Kollios laughter prevented that from happening.