Fact-checking is good, isn't it? On this principle, Canada's Brian
Paré, 30, decided to test officials' claims that climate-change-linked
dry conditions have produced an especially severe fire season in
Quebec. Believing that the government had set numerous forest fires
itself, he hypothesised that the land isn't really that dry.
Therefore, he set 14 fires, expecting them not to spread. They did,
prompting several evacuation orders.
Thanks in part to a tracking device attached to his vehicle after
he'd been found near one of the fires and 'demonstrated a certain
interest in fires', he was arrested and has admitted his guilt.
After a transgender individual in Italy had received a mastectomy, medics began preparing for the next step in the gender-reassignment process, a hysterectomy. They found that 'Marco' was five months pregnant. The uterus removal has been suspended, and endocrinologist Giulia Senofonte reports that the same is true of hormone treatments. As for the legal side of matters, La Repubblica has stated that Marco will be declared not just the baby's mother but also, 'because at the registry office he now has a male identity', the father.
Florida anger-management counsellor Travis McBride's search for local homeless man Clinton Dorsey led him to a Deland woman's home, where, livid, he claimed that Dorsey had set out a jarful of glass to harm nearby dogs. A few hours later, the woman reported having witnessed McBride find his quarry - and shoot him. Authorities recovered the corpse held in the boot of the 46-year-old therapist's hatchback, and his employees at Starting Point Mental Health will cover his duties while he is being held in jail.
The figure at the centre of our next story too is in police custody;
however, he has received rather more public support. Passengers
scheduled to fly to Guatemala from Mexico City had been sitting
on the tarmac for more than three hours without water or fresh air
amid 'maintenance issues' when one of them had had enough. He opened
the emergency door and walked out onto the wing for fresh air.
Fellow flyers' hand-written note to Aeromexico stated that all
passengers regarded his action to have been 'for the protection of
everyone, with the support of everyone'. In a document circulated via
social media, they went further, attaching their names to the claim
'He saved our lives'.
The parents of a Wisconsin boy were displeased with the attention he'd
received from his teacher, who had given him a Glock for his 13th
birthday. Sifting through his mobile phone's message history while he
was asleep, they discovered that the teacher, 35-year-old Tyesha
Bolden, had also sent him a picture of her bare chest and professions
of unconditional love. Once detectives entered the picture, Bolden
told school supervisors that she'd let the boy stay at her home, later
admitting that sex was included.
She stated also that she had called an end to the illicit relations
by refusing to supply a second handgun alongside the cash the boy had
requested. She nonetheless faces the prospect of 40+ years in prison.
In 2015, West London couple Arti Dhir, 59, and Kaval Raijada, 35,
ran an 'adoptive child wanted' advert in Gujurat. It wasn't long
before they had had adopted and taken out a 150,000-pound insurance
policy on 11-year-old Gopal Sejani. For the next two years, the farm
boy weathered various delays and two attempts on his life. The third
attempt, by two men on motorbikes, was successful; however, the
insurers - but not the police - found the circumstances suspicious.
The husband and wife have now been sentenced to 33 years in prison
but in connection with another matter entirely: airport workers
checking six unusually heavy toolboxes that the pair had shipped to
Australia. They found 514 kilos of cocaine within. Authorities then
uncovered 15 further shipments of this nature, the couple's
money-laundering car wash, its associated 22 bank accounts, and a
punching bag full of bullion bars in their Ealing flat.
Two sheriff's officers on a domestic-dispute call in Okaloosa County,
Florida, bundled suspect Marquis Jackson into their patrol car before
taking further evidence. While walking back to the car, deputy Jesse
Hernandez heard a gunshot and hit the ground, breaking his sunglasses
in the process. He proceeded to empty an entire clip of ammunition
toward the handcuffed man, with his colleague echoing his live-fire
response. The rear window shattered, but Jackson, 22, was unharmed.
He later described slumping over 'to prevent getting shot in the head'.
Medics later refuted Hernandez's adrenaline-fuelled assertion 'I'm
hit! I'm hit!', and video analysis revealed why he'd feared for his
life: a falling acorn had hit the vehicle's roof.
An eight-week internal investigation cleared both officers of
criminal wrongdoing. Still, they were deemed to have used excessive
force, and Hernandez no longer works with the department.
A Bellevue, Ohio, man purchased a rocket at an estate sale. Upon his
own death, his neighbour, unsure what to do with the rusty item,
contacted the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in hopes of
donating it. He didn't expect a bomb squad to arrive at his home to
handle what turned out to be a Douglas AIR-2 Genie air-to-air missile,
an interceptor last produced in 1962.
Since the device is 'just basically a gas tank for rocket fuel' when
separate from the 1.5 kt nuclear warhead for which it's designed, the
police left the man to dispose of it on his own, according to Bellevue
Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler.
In response to the FBI's online request for information on the identify of three hoodie-wearing bank robbers, a woman contacted them to report that her 11- and 16-year-old grandson had visited the Wells Fargo bank in Harris County, Texas, over their school's spring break and received 'play money' from the teller in exchange for passing a threatening note to the teller. The parents of the other boy, 12, corroborated her account, and all three youths have been arrested. In summary, the grandmother concluded that her progeny have 'learned a lesson'.
Upon arrival at Quebec's Sainte-Croix Hospital early in the morning, a
woman about to give birth found the doors locked. Though the
emergency entrance a few minutes' walk away was unlocked, the security
guard was unable to convey this information to the woman and her
husband - the doors proved too great a barrier also to him. Nurses,
alerted by a patient who then spotted the agitated couple through a
fifth-storey window, reached the woman moments after she'd delivered
the baby on a park bench.
Hospital vice-president of operations Éric Cantin stated that the
problem was a lack of signage outside and also blamed the security
guard. Signs have been added, and the guard has been removed.
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ourists fled in the wake of a spiked-club-wielding woman on the
boardwalk of California's Venice Beach, until a naked lady challenged
her. This goaded the aggressor into not only swinging the club but
also hurling it at her challenger. As the nude woman hefted the
weapon and began advancing, her now-clubless antagonist reached behind
a rubbish bin for a stick. So the nude woman snatched that from her
grasp, thus eliciting cheers from onlookers. Now wielding two weapons,
the naked woman chased off her former pursuer, then collected the
clothes she'd left scattered on the ground.
Area resident Joe Ayala later commented that many local beachgoers
'have a mental issue or some kind of trauma that has pushed them to
like where their limits get exceeded' and that, while 'somebody should
have stopped it, [...] a lot of people were probably freaked out'.
No charges have been filed with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The attorney for physician E. Scott Sills explained to jurors that migraine medicine may have left his client's wife so disoriented that she fell to her death at the bottom of the couple's California home. However, those painkillers' side effects do not typically include losing clumps of one's hair, developing strangulation marks, and leaving blood stains on the bedroom wall and curtains. Accordingly, jurors have sentenced Sills to a prison term of 15 years upward for murder.
Before leaving for a holiday on Puerto Rico's beaches, Ohio's
Kristel Candelario told her former partner that her mother
would be caring for their daughter Jailyn at home. Upon returning and
finding the girl dead in her cot, she told the emergency services a
different story: 16-month-old Jailyn had been refusing to eat for the
last 10 days.
Despite Candelario's explanation that she'd left the girl unattended
on account of 'emotional stress', she was sentenced to life in prison.
Candelario, 32, mused that the situation is a bit hard to understand
'in particular for the people who question and point out that I have
committed a diabolical act, as was mentioned in court'.
While Texas's Justin Ray Kidwell, 20, intended to check on his
eight-month-old daughter while she was bathing, he wanted to reach a
certain point in an online adventure first. After months of
sleuthing, police detectives and Texas Rangers investigating her death
announced that she had been 'sadly left unattended in the bathtub with
the water running' and that, according to electronic evidence, 'the
only adult home at the time was engrossed in video games'.
A year earlier, Kidwell had bargained himself down to probation after
having placed his girlfriend's child in a car seat within eating range
of THC edibles and then, once the obvious events had unfolded, failing
to 'deliver the child to a designated emergency infant care provider'.
A Taiwanese university student kept his feet submerged in a bucket of
dry ice for 10+ hours in anticipation of an insurance payout of
millions upon the frostbitten appendages' amputation. What ended up
happening is that medics flagged the situation as inconsistent with
his account of motorbiking at night - for instance, there were no
signs that he'd been wearing socks or shoes, and the weather had been
well above freezing. Then investigators found the bucket, a bag
from dry ice, and insurance policies Zhang had bought days earlier.
At this point, the student, identified as Zhang, revealed that he'd
undertaken the scam on the advice of high-school friend Liao, who
had demanded a cut of the profits so as to repay cryptocurrency-related
losses. The only repayment on the cards now is to an insurer that
had swiftly paid out the equivalent of 7,000 euros to Zhang.
Ultrasound and x-ray scans of a cramp-afflicted 34-year-old man admitted to a hospital in Vietnam's Quang Ninh Province revealed intestinal perforation, peritonitis, and a 'foreign body'. Once they'd opened him up for surgery, medics discovered that the foreign body in his belly belonged to a 30 cm eel. Though the man remained tight-lipped as to how it had reached said location, Dr Pham Manh Hung speculated that the creature - still alive at the time of its extraction - had slithered up a less tight orifice, then entered his abdomen after biting through the man's intestine.