Imagine That

What would you do if you walked into your house while it was being robbed? I’ve thought about that many times, especially after my Grandparents’ home was robbed years ago by men who came back two nights in a row and were actually seen by the neighbors who did NOTHING. But I digress.

Of course it all depends upon what kind of person is robbing your house as to what you would probably do, but one couple in Montgomery, Alabama, forced the intruder to clean up the huge mess he had made — at gunpoint.

Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned to their home near Montgomery, Alabama, after a week off to find that their home had been plundered.

Mrs McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser: “Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home.”

Her husband suggested she go to see her sister while he checked what was missing.

But as he walked into another room he came face to face with the burglar - who was wearing one of his hats.

Mrs McKinnon said: “My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home. And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband’s hat sitting right on his head.”

Her husband then held the suspect, Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and made him sit down until he decided what to do.

His wife said: “We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor.”

When the police arrived, 33-year-old Bullock had another surprise in store - he complained to the officers about being made to clean up at gunpoint.

“This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house,” said Mrs McKinnon.

“The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead.

LOL!! Imagine that!

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Jane Balogh, 66, who lives in Seattle, registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix, Duncan M. McDonald, to vote in April 2006 by putting her telephone bill in the dog’s name and using that as identification when she mailed the form to election officials. She said she did it to protest a change in the law that she believed made it too easy for non-citizens to vote. Seems like a cool idea to me. The government didn’t think so. They charged her with a crime!

Back in November she wrote “VOID” across the first ballot sent to the dog and returned it with an image of a paw print on the signature line. An election official called and she admitted what she had done, but the dog still was sent absentee ballots for school bond elections in February and May (That’s the government for you. Duh!).

Duncan M. McDonald was removed from the voter rolls in July, three weeks after the charge was filed against Balogh, who pleaded not guilty.

Seems to me the government should be grateful to her pointing out a serious flaw in their voter registration laws. But noooo, as with all governmental agencies, they can NEVER admit they’re wrong in any way, shape or form, so they filed charges against a 66 year old woman who meant no harm whatsoever, and who actually told them herself what she had done, probably expecting them to be a little bit grateful, if not amused. Poor woman. I bet she doesn’t hold such a strong belief in her city’s government anymore, do you?

Well, in the end she agreed to a deal that could remove the charge from her record. She won’t be prosecuted if she does 10 hours of community service, pays a $250 fine and avoids violating the law for the next year.

Geez …. imagine that.

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Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 gave a, shall we say, less than coherent answer to the question posed to her during last Friday night’s Miss Teen USA pageant in Pasadena, California. Unfortunately for her, it was a live broadcast. She is the poster child for why girls should stay in school and out of pageants!

Do you think she thought that made sense, or was she simply panicking and trying to find words? That must have felt reeaally scary. Wow. Just think of how embarrassed she must have been. Hopefully. If she wasn’t, then … wow, I don’t even want to imagine that!

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From Yahoo News:

“In Tacoma, Washington, a man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on an animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville’s Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.

Lawton said he was trying to milk the goat.

Lawton missed a scheduled arraignment on August 3rd but turned himself in last night to Pierce County sheriff’s deputies.

He’s the second person charged in the county since the Legislature made bestiality a crime in response to the fatal injury to a man having sex with a horse in Enumclaw.

A man accused of having sex with the family pit bull dog was acquitted in May.”

Ummm … what’s up with the people in Washington state??? Now don’t go gettin’ your shorts all in a bunch you Washingtonians. I’m not sayin’ you’re ALL pervs. But really, what’s up? I mean, is it the water? WTF? Obviously it was bad enough that your legislators felt they had to go make a new law against it! I’m just sayin’.

*making mental note to skip the trip to Washington …. or just leave all the dogs at home*

Oh man! I don’t even WANT to imagine that!

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A British woman gave birth to identical triplets in Austria — something that occurs only once in every 200 million births. Wow!

She gave birth to her triplet daughters, Zoe, Kim and Amy, in her 32nd week of pregnancy by Cesarean section on Monday. They each weighed in at 3.3 pounds and were 15.7 inches in length, and are reported to be doing well. They will, however, have to remain on respirators for the next several weeks to ensure no complications set in.

The babies were conceived naturally and without any kind of fertility treatment whatsoever. What is rare about the birth is that the original egg split into two and one of these cells split again during the initial days of the pregnancy, then all three developed without deformities or other complications which, if you ask me, is a miracle in and of itself. Apparently in most cases only two of three triplets are identical siblings.

Wow … three little girls who look exactly alike. Imagine that!

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I found a few stories I thought were completely amazing, and wanted to share them with you all. I wonder if your mouth will fall open like mine did!

Story #1: In El Paso, Texas, a 71-year-old woman survived after her pickup hit a boulder and tumbled over a 150-foot cliff!

“It was a miracle that someone saw her vehicle,” Sheriff’s spokesman Rick Glancey said. “It is one of these days when God was on her side.”

Helene Crosser told authorities that she was driving on Loop 375 to watch the sunrise early Sunday when her shoe fell off and got jammed beneath the brake pedal.

Crosser said she tried to pull off the road, but couldn’t slow down because the shoe stopped the brake from fully working.

She was trapped in the Texas heat for seven hours until a driver spotted glint of light reflecting from afar and called 911. Authorities said Crosser didn’t have a cell phone with her.

Crosser was taken to a hospital with dehydration and non-life-threatening injuries.

Unbelievable!!

Story #2: In Myrtle Beach, S.C., a teen fell six stories off a hotel balcony and walked away with only scrapes and bruises!

Matthew Savage, 17, was reaching up to a balcony one floor above to grab a bathing suit that had fluttered down from the 11th floor when he tumbled over the railing Friday.

The teen, from Gainesville, Ga., hit other balconies on his way down and slammed onto a slanted rooftop, then slid into bushes.

“I just closed my eyes,” Savage said, nursing scrapes and bruises on his back and legs.

After landing in the bushes, he got up and started walking back to his room. But paramedics strapped him to a board and flew him to a hospital, where tests showed he was fine.

“This was a ‘God is real’ event,” his sister, Mandy Baker, said.

Amazing!!

Story #3: In Berlin, a 59-year-old woman had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused.

Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.

“The pencil went right through my skin — and disappeared into my head,” Wegner told the newspaper.

It narrowly missed vital parts of her brain. At the time no one dared operate, but now technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able to remove it.

Most of the pencil, some three inches long, was taken out in an operation at a private Berlin clinic, but the tip had grown in so firmly that it was impossible to remove.

I’m stunned!

Wow … unbelievable, amazing and stunning. Imagine that!

(all stories found at Dave’s Daily)

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