[Herald Standard]

“I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun,” Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.

“I said, ‘What are you doing in my house?’” Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. “He just kept saying he didn’t do it.” 

“It was exciting,” Smith said of the incident. “I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here.” 

[JS Online]

A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.

“I’ll tell you the truth,” a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. “I got p****** because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it.

“I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want,” Walendowski told police.

Read more here.

[From me]

Actually I’ve wanted to do that myself.

In related news the grass at Jordan-Hare Stadium at Auburn University has been replaced by artificial turf due to the cheerleaders grazing on the field.

[Written from my Treo]

I’m @ Carowinds with our students by the wavepool. A short while ago the Life guards made everyone get out because of a “Code 10-7″. I joked it was probably a “Caddyshack” moment! Now there was no Baby Ruth but there was the “real thing.” I couldn’t make this up.

The onlything missing is a scuba diver. One brave Life Guard went out & skimmed “it” up with a cup. People ask me where I get some of my stories-LIFE! You gotta love it!

BTW: I’m done swimming today.

[Update] you won’t believe this-they shocked the pool & let people back in only to have another Code 10-7! I have pictures for when I get home!

Here is the Lifeguard skimming the wave pool.

[Cleveland Plain Dealer]

The easy way out would have been to tell the graduates of Westlake High School that the misspelling on their diplomas was a final test.

A test. Yeah, that’s it.

Instead, Principal Timothy Freeman fell on his red pen, shouldering responsibility for the diplomas issued to 330 Westlake graduates at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland on Saturday that read board of “educaiton,” not “education.”

Read more here.

[From me]

I’m sure Bob Cleveland will love this one!  I’m just thankful it isn’t a school in my home state!

What do you think?

[BBC News]

A Church of England vicar accused of spitting at and intimidating his parishioners has been ordered to leave his Cambridgeshire post by his bishop.

Rev Dr Tom Ambrose, 61, of St Mary and St Michael Church in Trumpington, has been disqualified from carrying out any of the functions of his office. A church tribunal last year recommended the move citing “pastoral breakdown”. Dr Ambrose has issued a denial he ever spat at parishioners and said the allegation was never put to him. Dr Ambrose had clashed with parishioners over his plans to modernise the church.

The tribunal heard evidence of “arrogant, aggressive, rude, bullying, high-handed, disorganised and at times petty behaviour of Dr Ambrose”.

In the decision letter to the vicar and those who brought the tribunal, the Bishop of Ely Dr Anthony Russell wrote: “I am astonished and dismayed that there are recorded two occasions on which it is said that Dr Ambrose spat at parishioners, allegations which were not challenged in cross-examination.”

Read about it here.

[From me] 

Maybe it is way of baptizing his parishioners!

What to you think?