Who doesn't like a wedding?...
Our second item too is from Australia. Upon arrival at a social-media
friend's party in Sydney, a Melbourne woman found that she was the
only one obeying the 'wear white' dress code. At the venue, a church,
he asked her to act as the bride in a prank wedding to boost his
17,000-strong following on Instagram. She honoured the request, after
ringing a friend to be sure a ceremony without banns etc. holds no
legal weight. When he asked her, two months later, to add him to her
application for permanent Australian residency, she did not love
hearing that she was really his wife. She then found documents
bearing her 'signature'.
A family court found little credence in the man's claims that videos
from the church prove the devoutly religious woman was willing, that
she'd moved in with him, and that he wasn't even an online influencer.
Accepting the unwitting bride's explanation 'we had to make it look
real', the judge declared the wedding unreal - i.e., annulled.
On the opposite side of the world, we find Florida's Donald Calloway,
arrested by Polk County sheriff's officers for sexual contact with a
horse. Responding to a woman's report of having found the 53-year-old
Lake Wales man masturbating next to the head of her 24-year-old horse
and seen him try to shove his penis into one of the animal's nostrils,
they sought clarification. The witness - Calloway's girlfriend -
therefore supplied a video that Sheriff Grady Judd characterised as
accurately showing the actions described.
After he was read his rights, Calloway shrugged off his 'dumb
decision' by stating that 'I haven't had any sex in probably two
months' and 'maybe it was just a sexually frustrated moment'. It is
unclear whether he is less sexually frustrated in jail.
Responding to reports of vandalism, police officers in Deltona, Florida, encountered two paint-dappled teenagers attacking a vehicle with yellow spray paint and eggs. The elder of the two, aged 18, explained that she'd been getting back at her ex-boyfriend. The cops, in turn, explained that the car belonged to the ex's neighbour. In addition to reporting her for vandalism and contributing to the delinquency of the 16-year-old girl accompanying her, Volusia Sheriff's Office '[d]eputies witnessed her driving her vehicle with two open containers of Four Loko in plain view' and under their contents' influence. The other girl was busted for having marijuana.
Family fun...
When California's Jamison Webster failed to return home after
visiting son Richard Leyva at a Motel 6 in El Cajon, California, her
other son visited the motel and promptly rang the police to report
that only her Hyundai Sonata was there - with her corpse in the boot.
Before officers arrived, 'Leyva got into the Hyundai and drove off,
striking his brother in the process', prompting an attempted traffic
stop, then a pursuit that ended with a crash into two other vehicles
and a stun-gun deployment. Both Leyva, 24, and Webster, 51, were
removed from the scene for further investigation.
Off to a good start...
When a couple at a restaurant in Livingston, Tennessee, complained
about foreign matter in their food, manager Patrick Jones apologised
profusely. He recalls telling the refund-seeking pair: 'It looks like
somebody pulled a wad of hair out of their head and placed it right on
your plate. That's awful.' After Jones issued a refund, a fellow
Steel Coop customer alerted him that the woman had passed the man a
chunk of hair from behind her head to spice up the meal. So Jones ran
outside in pursuit. Around a corner, the man was on one knee
proposing marriage to the woman.
That did not deter Jones from informing them that they are personae
non gratae at the eatery or stop owner Cindy Cooper from posting the
incriminating CCTV evidence online. She reports that a relative later
paid the pair's $20 bill.
A charming relationship...
Plotting to get his former girlfriend deported, Jose Pablo Romero piled
pressure on his 19-year-old wife for help in framing her. This
included punching his wife, cutting her hair off, and stabbing her in
the abdomen. As soon as she'd made it through emergency surgery, he
asked her to blame the stabbing on his ex. The attempts to secure her
testimony ultimately succeeded, after he carved an 'X' from her
shoulders to her waist with a box-cutter and left her in a field;
however, she testified against him rather than on his behalf.
Romero was convicted of numerous offences and locked up. That was 10
years ago. Romero, now 48, has now sought and been denied parole, with
District Attorney Krishna Abrams reminding the California Parole Board
that his victim is suffering for life.
And family values...
One of the roughly 200 children adopted or fostered by a Winfield,
Missouri, woman complained to authorities about frequent beatings and
paddlings with various household items. They followed up only after
the girl's absence from school revealed rumours that the 70-year-old
woman had exchanged her for a monkey owned by a fellow exotic-animal
collector. Child-welfare officials in Texas found the girl and have
placed her in a group home, where she is reportedly thriving.
Lincoln County Prosecutor Mike Wood, reports that the foster mother
is in jail, at least for the moment. Though two witnesses admit to
having obeyed requests to take the girl to Texas and bring back a
monkey, this does not constitute proof of a trade, Wood pointed out.
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