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[FONT=arial][SIZE=3][FONT=arial][SIZE=5]73-year-old man attacks an 81-year-old man with a pricing gun[/SIZE][/FONT] 
ROYAL PALM BEACH — A 73-year-old man attacked an 81-year-old man with a pricing gun Sunday inside the Belvedere Road Wal-Mart, according to an arrest report.
Dennis O’Brien and John Esposito began arguing, and O’Brien swung at Esposito with the tool in his right hand, the report says. Esposito sustained a swollen left eye and cuts on his nose and mouth.
Esposito said he and O’Brien work at the Wal-Mart. He would not discuss the nature of their argument. Wal-Mart officials also would not comment.
O’Brien told a sheriff’s deputy he acted in self-defense, but security tape showed O’Brien raising his hand first, striking Esposito in the face and then pushing him to the ground, according to the report.
Officials booked O’Brien into the Palm Beach County Jail on aggravated battery charges. He was released Monday on $3,000 bond.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Florida cops taser naked old timer[/SIZE][/FONT] Florida cops last Saturday administered a solid tasering to a 65-year-old man who decided to go for a naked wander through a Sarasota neighbourhood.
According to Tampa Bay Online, Duncan Kirk (right), of Bradenton, was spotted in his birthday suit about 7.30pm making his way through locals’ back gardens. When deputies duly arrived, he was found “sitting inside a home’s screened-in patio”, as Sgt Darin Bankert later explained.
The old timer then decided to make a run for it, but was quickly apprehended. He resisted officers’ attempts to cuff him, even when hit with a dose of gel-based pepper spray, so cops tasered him twice.
Kirk was charged with “prowling and resisting arrest with violence”, and released on Sunday from Manatee County Jail after coughing $1,200 bail.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Woman, 80, Punches Cop, Throws Handcuffs[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 80-year-old woman went down swinging when a police officer tried to arrest her.
A Tavares police officer pulled the woman over at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Huffstetler Drive for an improper lane change.
Authorities said Thalia Logas refused to sign a ticket and punched the officer in the stomach and chest several times when he tried to place her under arrest.
The officer called for back up and a Lake County Sheriff’s deputy arrived.
The two officers said they finally got the handcuffs on her, and she managed to wiggle out of them and threw them out the window of the police car.
“Obviously we want to make sure we handle somebody of that age with care,” Jody Maltzman of the Tavares Police Department said.
“If it was my mom, I’d be wanting to have it out with that policeman,” Tavares resident Ralph Smith said.
Logas was out of jail on bond Friday morning.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Ballet dancer, 88, takes to stage[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 88-year-old man is set to star in his first ballet show after taking up dance at the age of 79. Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of Witchford, Cambs, took up dancing having watched his daughter Alison become a professional dancer.
The retired teacher said: “It’s a wonderful thing to do and I can’t understand why more men don’t do it.” Mr Lowe is due to appear with the Lantern Dance Theatre Company, in Ely, on Sunday evening.
Read the full story, with video, at this URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7185908.stm
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]What old people do for fun[/SIZE][/FONT]
Thanks, MIB from the PLA Forums, for finding this one!
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Elderly Man Flooded With Calls For Brad Pitt[/SIZE][/FONT]
A Concord, New Hampshire man’s phone keeps ringing at random hours with people looking for Brad Pitt. But 77-year-old Richard Perkins doesn’t know the movie star and has only seen one film with the 43-year-old actor.
Someone posted the retired teachers’ home phone number in a Web site chat room and claimed it was contact information for Pitt. For the last six days, Perkins’ phone keeps ringing at times as late as 2 a-m.
“I thought it was my daughter calling me,” Perkins told the Concord Monitor. “I thought she was saying ‘Dad? Dad? Dad?’ and I thought there was something wrong with the line. Then I realized she was saying ‘Brad.’ ”
A frustrated Perkins disconnected his phone once, but firefighters - summoned by Perkins’s Life Alert system - burst into his home to find him sitting peacefully in the living room.
They “weren’t too pleased,” Perkins told the newspaper.
Perkins says he doesn’t want to change his phone number because he’s afraid he’ll forget his new one.
We decided to give Mr. Perkins a call and gauge his reaction to a typical call asking for Brad Pitt. Here’s what he had to say.
SOURCE: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_116115014.html
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Two elderly muggers are robbing bank customers after squirting them with liquid POO.[/SIZE][/FONT] The dirty duo - believed to be a husband and wife aged around SEVENTY - offer to help clean up their victims before snatching their cash.
Albert and Doreen Croucher lost £4,000 as they left a bank after making a withdrawal at Eastbourne, East Sussex, last month.
Mr Croucher, 58, said: “I felt this blast from the buildings above us. The smell was instant and vile.
“Just then a lady came over with tissues and helped clean it off. It was only later that I realised she had fleeced me.”
The theft is the third in a few weeks in Sussex.
Other attacks in Brighton have netted £11,500.
A police spokeswoman said: “This is a such a shitty crime.”
Just kidding, the police spokeswoman actually said: “This is a totally repulsive crime.” But it would have been funnier the other way.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Elderly woman unscathed after being run over by a train[/SIZE][/FONT] LISBON (AFP) - An elderly woman has walked away without a scratch after being run over by a train in Portugal.
Maria Delores Ramos, 77, slipped as she attempted to cross the railway near her home in the northern village of Barroselas, the daily Jornal de Noticias reported.
She could not get up on her own as she suffers from arthritis in her legs, so she sat in the middle of the track to wait for someone to pass by.
But when a train approached she decided to lay down after her frantic waving failed to get the attention of the conductor, Ramos told the newspaper
“I started to pray and ask God for forgiveness for my sins. But when I saw that the first carriage passed over me and didn’t touch me, I realized I was safe. And I survived,” she said.
The train stopped a little further ahead and the conductor got out of the train and helped Ramos, a mother of seven, to crawl out from under one of the carriages.
“Other people quickly arrived and raised me off the ground and held on to me but I told them I didn’t need need them to hold on to me, that I could stay up on my own,” she said. “I can brag that I survived being run over by a train.”
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]89-year-old man likes to drive in the nude[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 89-year-old man is charged with public indecency after police said he was driving completely nude.
Police said this was the third time John Welday was caught driving around naked.
Martins Ferry police said a search of the vehicle also yielded over 100 photos of Welday in the nude. The photos had been altered to remove identifying characteristics, such as Welday’s face and license plate.
Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter said there is nothing illegal about the photographs, but he is worried Welday may have been leaving the photos in public places.
“We find concern with it when he is traveling past a park where children are known to frequent,” Welday said.
Friday night a neighbor of Jack Welday’s told NEWS9 she is shocked to hear of the arrest.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, said Welday would never be a threat to any children.
“What upset me was when they mentioned the fact he maybe would exhibit himself in front of children,” said the woman. “There’s no way, like I said, I grew up around him, my children grew up around him, and anybody you talk to that knows Jack, will tell you the same.”
Anyone who may have found one of the photos is asked to contact police immediately.
Welday pleaded not guilty Friday.
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ROYAL PALM BEACH — A 73-year-old man attacked an 81-year-old man with a pricing gun Sunday inside the Belvedere Road Wal-Mart, according to an arrest report.Dennis O’Brien and John Esposito began arguing, and O’Brien swung at Esposito with the tool in his right hand, the report says. Esposito sustained a swollen left eye and cuts on his nose and mouth.
Esposito said he and O’Brien work at the Wal-Mart. He would not discuss the nature of their argument. Wal-Mart officials also would not comment.
O’Brien told a sheriff’s deputy he acted in self-defense, but security tape showed O’Brien raising his hand first, striking Esposito in the face and then pushing him to the ground, according to the report.
Officials booked O’Brien into the Palm Beach County Jail on aggravated battery charges. He was released Monday on $3,000 bond.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Florida cops taser naked old timer[/SIZE][/FONT] Florida cops last Saturday administered a solid tasering to a 65-year-old man who decided to go for a naked wander through a Sarasota neighbourhood.
According to Tampa Bay Online, Duncan Kirk (right), of Bradenton, was spotted in his birthday suit about 7.30pm making his way through locals’ back gardens. When deputies duly arrived, he was found “sitting inside a home’s screened-in patio”, as Sgt Darin Bankert later explained.The old timer then decided to make a run for it, but was quickly apprehended. He resisted officers’ attempts to cuff him, even when hit with a dose of gel-based pepper spray, so cops tasered him twice.
Kirk was charged with “prowling and resisting arrest with violence”, and released on Sunday from Manatee County Jail after coughing $1,200 bail.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Woman, 80, Punches Cop, Throws Handcuffs[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 80-year-old woman went down swinging when a police officer tried to arrest her.A Tavares police officer pulled the woman over at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Huffstetler Drive for an improper lane change.
Authorities said Thalia Logas refused to sign a ticket and punched the officer in the stomach and chest several times when he tried to place her under arrest.
The officer called for back up and a Lake County Sheriff’s deputy arrived.
The two officers said they finally got the handcuffs on her, and she managed to wiggle out of them and threw them out the window of the police car.
“Obviously we want to make sure we handle somebody of that age with care,” Jody Maltzman of the Tavares Police Department said.
“If it was my mom, I’d be wanting to have it out with that policeman,” Tavares resident Ralph Smith said.
Logas was out of jail on bond Friday morning.
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Ballet dancer, 88, takes to stage[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 88-year-old man is set to star in his first ballet show after taking up dance at the age of 79. Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of Witchford, Cambs, took up dancing having watched his daughter Alison become a professional dancer.The retired teacher said: “It’s a wonderful thing to do and I can’t understand why more men don’t do it.” Mr Lowe is due to appear with the Lantern Dance Theatre Company, in Ely, on Sunday evening.
Read the full story, with video, at this URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7185908.stm
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]What old people do for fun[/SIZE][/FONT]
Thanks, MIB from the PLA Forums, for finding this one!
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Elderly Man Flooded With Calls For Brad Pitt[/SIZE][/FONT]
A Concord, New Hampshire man’s phone keeps ringing at random hours with people looking for Brad Pitt. But 77-year-old Richard Perkins doesn’t know the movie star and has only seen one film with the 43-year-old actor.Someone posted the retired teachers’ home phone number in a Web site chat room and claimed it was contact information for Pitt. For the last six days, Perkins’ phone keeps ringing at times as late as 2 a-m.
“I thought it was my daughter calling me,” Perkins told the Concord Monitor. “I thought she was saying ‘Dad? Dad? Dad?’ and I thought there was something wrong with the line. Then I realized she was saying ‘Brad.’ ”
A frustrated Perkins disconnected his phone once, but firefighters - summoned by Perkins’s Life Alert system - burst into his home to find him sitting peacefully in the living room.
They “weren’t too pleased,” Perkins told the newspaper.
Perkins says he doesn’t want to change his phone number because he’s afraid he’ll forget his new one.
We decided to give Mr. Perkins a call and gauge his reaction to a typical call asking for Brad Pitt. Here’s what he had to say.
SOURCE: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_116115014.html
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Two elderly muggers are robbing bank customers after squirting them with liquid POO.[/SIZE][/FONT] The dirty duo - believed to be a husband and wife aged around SEVENTY - offer to help clean up their victims before snatching their cash.
Albert and Doreen Croucher lost £4,000 as they left a bank after making a withdrawal at Eastbourne, East Sussex, last month.
Mr Croucher, 58, said: “I felt this blast from the buildings above us. The smell was instant and vile.
“Just then a lady came over with tissues and helped clean it off. It was only later that I realised she had fleeced me.”
The theft is the third in a few weeks in Sussex.
Other attacks in Brighton have netted £11,500.
A police spokeswoman said: “This is a such a shitty crime.”
Just kidding, the police spokeswoman actually said: “This is a totally repulsive crime.” But it would have been funnier the other way.
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]Elderly woman unscathed after being run over by a train[/SIZE][/FONT] LISBON (AFP) - An elderly woman has walked away without a scratch after being run over by a train in Portugal.
Maria Delores Ramos, 77, slipped as she attempted to cross the railway near her home in the northern village of Barroselas, the daily Jornal de Noticias reported.
She could not get up on her own as she suffers from arthritis in her legs, so she sat in the middle of the track to wait for someone to pass by.
But when a train approached she decided to lay down after her frantic waving failed to get the attention of the conductor, Ramos told the newspaper
“I started to pray and ask God for forgiveness for my sins. But when I saw that the first carriage passed over me and didn’t touch me, I realized I was safe. And I survived,” she said.
The train stopped a little further ahead and the conductor got out of the train and helped Ramos, a mother of seven, to crawl out from under one of the carriages.
“Other people quickly arrived and raised me off the ground and held on to me but I told them I didn’t need need them to hold on to me, that I could stay up on my own,” she said. “I can brag that I survived being run over by a train.”
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[FONT=arial][SIZE=5]89-year-old man likes to drive in the nude[/SIZE][/FONT]
An 89-year-old man is charged with public indecency after police said he was driving completely nude.Police said this was the third time John Welday was caught driving around naked.
Martins Ferry police said a search of the vehicle also yielded over 100 photos of Welday in the nude. The photos had been altered to remove identifying characteristics, such as Welday’s face and license plate.
Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter said there is nothing illegal about the photographs, but he is worried Welday may have been leaving the photos in public places.
“We find concern with it when he is traveling past a park where children are known to frequent,” Welday said.
Friday night a neighbor of Jack Welday’s told NEWS9 she is shocked to hear of the arrest.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, said Welday would never be a threat to any children.
“What upset me was when they mentioned the fact he maybe would exhibit himself in front of children,” said the woman. “There’s no way, like I said, I grew up around him, my children grew up around him, and anybody you talk to that knows Jack, will tell you the same.”
Anyone who may have found one of the photos is asked to contact police immediately.
Welday pleaded not guilty Friday.
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I have a box of matches right here but I can't bring myself to do it.
Welcome.
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DRIVE TILL YOU DROP
In Florida, geezers rule. If a politician wants to stop us from driving, we just shoot him. It’s the law.[/SIZE][/FONT]
In Florida, geezers rule. If a politician wants to stop us from driving, we just shoot him. It’s the law.[/SIZE][/FONT]
By Frank Kaiser
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few weeks back, a local 93-year-old driver struck a pedestrian, severing his leg, and killing him instantly. The driver never slowed.
Three miles later he reached our Sunshine Skyway Bridge where a toll taker happened to notice the victim's body lodged in the car's windshield, a single leg jutting out like some huge, bloody hood ornament.
When questioned, the driver said that the body had simply "dropped in from the sky."
This incident is all the talk at my retirement-center swimming pool. Questions abound
Will the driver be charged with "leaving an accident" when, in reality, he took it with him? And as there were no witnesses, isn't it possible the pedestrian was at fault? Perhaps instead of "Suicide by Cop," this could well have been "Suicide by Coot."
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few weeks back, a local 93-year-old driver struck a pedestrian, severing his leg, and killing him instantly. The driver never slowed.
Three miles later he reached our Sunshine Skyway Bridge where a toll taker happened to notice the victim's body lodged in the car's windshield, a single leg jutting out like some huge, bloody hood ornament.
When questioned, the driver said that the body had simply "dropped in from the sky."
This incident is all the talk at my retirement-center swimming pool. Questions abound
Will the driver be charged with "leaving an accident" when, in reality, he took it with him? And as there were no witnesses, isn't it possible the pedestrian was at fault? Perhaps instead of "Suicide by Cop," this could well have been "Suicide by Coot."
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Well, couldn't it?The driver, many of my fellow swimming-pool bobbers conjecture, drove on in search of a uniform to whom he could report the accident. Clear thinking would dictate: where better to find an official than at a tollbooth.
Today, the State Attorney's Office reports that the driver is unlikely to face charges because "he did not appear to know what happened or where he was."
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From: Norfolk, Va.
This thread passed through my mind today during my mental meanderings and I thought *pretty soon now I'm going to have to look for the bright side of this Apple/Mini/Granny/Skillet event* Ya'know in case Apple was just funnen with NAM and particularly Skillet, maybe having a little Christmas joke on him and the rest of us.
Well I decided I'm not looking for the bright side just yet, as someone pointed out, (sorry forget who) it's only been 2 weeks, it's the holidays, Granny hasn't been here that long and umm well thats all I can think of but I'm certain theres more reasons.
So here we go:
Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
Skillet waits for his Mini
and not a mouse.
Do I hear groans? Okay if anyone cares to, the next verse is yours.
Well I decided I'm not looking for the bright side just yet, as someone pointed out, (sorry forget who) it's only been 2 weeks, it's the holidays, Granny hasn't been here that long and umm well thats all I can think of but I'm certain theres more reasons.
So here we go:
Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
Skillet waits for his Mini
and not a mouse.
Do I hear groans? Okay if anyone cares to, the next verse is yours.
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From: Washington State
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From: greater Philly area
Just got home from a reunion of sorts,,, had a great time but need a nightcap---reaching up and taking #64 off of the wall.
Does anyone know the tune _ "All I want for Christmas?"
All I want for Christmas
is my orange mini, my classic mini, my orange mini
All I want for Christmas is my classic mini
Saaaandy won't you call?????
Does anyone know the tune _ "All I want for Christmas?"
All I want for Christmas
is my orange mini, my classic mini, my orange mini
All I want for Christmas is my classic mini
Saaaandy won't you call?????
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From: San Joaquin Valley
I Spy an Orange Classic? "Martha is that you?"
It appears to be a right hand drive alright, and it looks like it might be a classic.... 
but I cannot tell if it has an automatic transmission... 
Could this be Grandma Martha's car?
Maybe not, I better keep looking.
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From: St. Charles county (STL)
She does not qualify to work at HOOTERS!
My guess is she GAVE the manager or the owner a CLASSIC MINI!!! 
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From: Lake Orion, MI
Well, I had 3 pages to catch up on and I still see we are waiting
Skillet - If you have the address, send a disposable camera with a self addressed, stamped return box with a note....
"Shoot some stealth pictures and send it back"....
My guess is that we will have those pictures, before you have a car
I see we had a volunteer to be Molly Ringwald, but no other takers. The video clip almost makes we want to rent the movie for the weekend.
I am heading to Florida next week to take my kids to Disney and to stay with my mother in law for Christmas. I'll be sure to take the post office pictures of senior criminals that are still at large
I think our waitress actually has a family resemblance to Yoda. There is definitely a facial resemblance, but it appears that Yoda might even be "amply sized" to get hired at at least one Hooters
Skillet - Have some more popcorn
But at this rate you may need a machine!
I sure hope Apple hasn't split on you..
Skillet - If you have the address, send a disposable camera with a self addressed, stamped return box with a note....
"Shoot some stealth pictures and send it back"....
My guess is that we will have those pictures, before you have a car
I see we had a volunteer to be Molly Ringwald, but no other takers. The video clip almost makes we want to rent the movie for the weekend.
I am heading to Florida next week to take my kids to Disney and to stay with my mother in law for Christmas. I'll be sure to take the post office pictures of senior criminals that are still at large
I think our waitress actually has a family resemblance to Yoda. There is definitely a facial resemblance, but it appears that Yoda might even be "amply sized" to get hired at at least one Hooters
Skillet - Have some more popcorn
But at this rate you may need a machine!
I sure hope Apple hasn't split on you..
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From: greater Philly area
from Okmini~~~~
"I see we had a volunteer to be Molly Ringwald, but no other takers. The video clip almost makes we want to rent the movie for the weekend."
At least miniola stepped up to be the guy lighting matches with his teeth!!
On a positive note- The UNDINE should be sliding into her unloading berth sometime today!! I hope my MA communicates with me better than Apple is communicating with Skillet!!
"I see we had a volunteer to be Molly Ringwald, but no other takers. The video clip almost makes we want to rent the movie for the weekend."
At least miniola stepped up to be the guy lighting matches with his teeth!!
On a positive note- The UNDINE should be sliding into her unloading berth sometime today!! I hope my MA communicates with me better than Apple is communicating with Skillet!!