[Green Squall]

A Framingham man will be summoned to court after he admitted to stealing a $4,000, one-of-a-kind bong from an Old Connecticut Path home on Oct. 16, police said.

Lucas Torres, 18, of 6 Mill St., will be summoned to appear in Framingham District Court at an undetermined date. Police charged Torres with breaking and entering, larceny from a building and larceny of property worth more than $250, the MetroWest Daily News reported.

Police began an investigation into the theft on Oct. 16. The homeowner told police that someone broke into his home and stole the bong, police spokesman Lt. Stephen Cronin said. The bong, the homeowner said, had been handmade in Japan.

He said that whoever stole it must have known its value.

Then, on Oct. 18, a drunk Torres went to the Framingham Police station and admitted to the theft, police said.

"He came to the station and said, 'I'm here to turn myself in,'" said Cronin. "His speech was thick and slurred, and he was trying to confess to something."

Due to Torres' level of intoxication, it was difficult for police to understand what he was trying to confess to. Torres used his phone to show the officers a MetroWest Daily News article about the break-in and bong theft and said he was responsible, Cronin said.

Torres said he knew the bong was worth a lot of money because someone he knew told him about it. He refused to say who told him, the lieutenant said.

Police went to Torres' Mill Street home to get the bong, and they found it outside on the front stairs.

Torres' arraignment date is not set.

[Robrites]

DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A California city has voted to remove and re-locate an increasing number of aggressive turkeys.

One particularly aggressive Turkey, known as "Downtown Tom," prompted several residents of Davis, Calif., to call local police for help, according to KCRA.

"Yes, this is almost embarrassing. I am trying to get into my office on G Street in Davis and I have this huge turkey surrounding my car, circling me and I don't know what to do," one caller said. "I don't want to run it over but I can't stay in my car all morning, is there any advice you can give me?"

The Davis City Council voted 4-1 in favor of a more than $20,000 trap-and-release program in response to the presence of up to 40 aggressive wild turkeys, the Davis Enterprise reported.

"We can either proactively be a part of the solution...or we can have it come back to us when people have taken (the issue) into their own hands or someone seriously gets hurt," Councilwoman Rochelle Swanson said.

The ordinance allows for lethal removal of the turkeys, including Downtown Tom, who managed to escape capture by wildlife officials.

The city also placed signs in the downtown area giving residents tips for dealing with the aggressive fowl.

"Be the dominant species, essentially," City Wildlife Resource Specialist John McNerney said, summarizing the advice. "Don't let it intimidate you, which can be difficult for some folks."

[Robrites]

If we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times: when trying to evade police, do not jump into a badger hole.

One Oregon man, Gregory Morrow, 22, of Ontario, apparently hadn't received this advice when he ended up in a badger hole on Bureau of Land Management land in Malheur County Thursday after leading police on a chase.

It appears that Morrow, and another man, Jerry Boatman, also of Ontario, attempted to evade police when an officer tried to pull them over in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box. Boatman and Morrow, opting not to comply with officers, jumped the curb in a 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe and led the Ontario Police Department on a short chase, which was terminated "due to safety concerns," according to a release from the Oregon State Police.

At the time, officers noted there were two men and a dog in the car.

A couple of hours later, police said, Boatman was found "traveling by foot on the BLM land." He was arrested.

A couple hours after that, a police aircraft spotted the Tahoe in a ravine. Officers followed tracks leading away from the SUV for over a mile, when they came across the dog from the earlier chase. When the officers approached the dog, he ran into a badger hole and wouldn't leave.

Finally, the officers got the dog out. Then, they heard a man "screaming for help from within the hole."

Morrow was trapped in the hole, approximately 8 feet underground. He was feet first and starting to lose feeling in his arms.

It took officers about an hour and a half to dig Morrow out of the hole. He was identified as the driver of the vehicle, which was stolen, and arrested for that as well as a parole violation. He was also taken to an area hospital and treated for minor injuries. Police say further charges are pending.

"Most likely," said police, "Morrow would have died from exposure as he would not have been able to free himself."

And that is why you don't try to escape into a badger hole.

[Midnight Tokar]

Originally Posted by Robrites

DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A California city has voted to remove and re-locate an increasing number of aggressive turkeys.

One particularly aggressive Turkey, known as "Downtown Tom," prompted several residents of Davis, Calif., to call local police for help, according to KCRA.

"Yes, this is almost embarrassing. I am trying to get into my office on G Street in Davis and I have this huge turkey surrounding my car, circling me and I don't know what to do," one caller said. "I don't want to run it over but I can't stay in my car all morning, is there any advice you can give me?"

The Davis City Council voted 4-1 in favor of a more than $20,000 trap-and-release program in response to the presence of up to 40 aggressive wild turkeys, the Davis Enterprise reported.

"We can either proactively be a part of the solution...or we can have it come back to us when people have taken (the issue) into their own hands or someone seriously gets hurt," Councilwoman Rochelle Swanson said.

The ordinance allows for lethal removal of the turkeys, including Downtown Tom, who managed to escape capture by wildlife officials.

The city also placed signs in the downtown area giving residents tips for dealing with the aggressive fowl.

"Be the dominant species, essentially," City Wildlife Resource Specialist John McNerney said, summarizing the advice. "Don't let it intimidate you, which can be difficult for some folks."

And just in time for Thanksgiving. Not much of a problem.

[Robrites]

SHOCKING claims aliens have a secret base here on Earth have been made after a "classic 1950s B Movie style flying saucer" was allegedly snapped hovering over a mountain.

The image, said to have been taken over the mountain in Waikane, Hawaii, is being probed by paranormal investigators from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

It was taken by an unnamed photographer on October 23 before he submitted it the the US-based organisation, which is the biggest in the world devoted to the investigation of aliens and UFOs.

In a report to MUFON, the eyewitness said: "I was taking pictures at Kaneoha Bay at lunch time of the mountains.

"I had on the "multiple pictures" setting which means if I hold down the button of my camera then it will continuously snap photos with not even a second in between shots.

"I had this option on and took multiple picture of the mountains.



I went to go look back at my pictures when I noticed one of them was not like the others.

"At first I thought a wood chip was on my lens, but I looked closer and I realised I had spotted a UFO."

The man said he had previously been a sceptic.

He added: "I don't really believe in stereotypical UFOs but this creeped me out so much that I'm reporting it just in case it really is one.

“The unidentified object I saw was a disk, football shape and it was yellow/orange.

"When I zoom up on my camera, there seems to be a dome on the top as well.

"As soon as I saw the picture and realised it wasn't a football or wood chip I got a very eerie feeling.

"I showed my brother and dad the photo right when I saw but they didn't seem to be worried much about it.

"I attached the photos in this report as well.

"The first one should be a plain picture of the mountains and the second one has the weird object in it.

"It seems to be hovering over the mountain in the middle right side of the photo."

It has also been picked up on by Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, who made the shock claims about it being evidence for an alien base.

He wrote: "UFOs are often seen around mountain tops because their exits from the underground bases need to be in locations where few people ever venture.

[atk7]

Originally Posted by Robrites

If we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times: when trying to evade police, do not jump into a badger hole.

One Oregon man, Gregory Morrow, 22, of Ontario, apparently hadn't received this advice when he ended up in a badger hole on Bureau of Land Management land in Malheur County Thursday after leading police on a chase.

It appears that Morrow, and another man, Jerry Boatman, also of Ontario, attempted to evade police when an officer tried to pull them over in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box. Boatman and Morrow, opting not to comply with officers, jumped the curb in a 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe and led the Ontario Police Department on a short chase, which was terminated "due to safety concerns," according to a release from the Oregon State Police.

At the time, officers noted there were two men and a dog in the car.

A couple of hours later, police said, Boatman was found "traveling by foot on the BLM land." He was arrested.

A couple hours after that, a police aircraft spotted the Tahoe in a ravine. Officers followed tracks leading away from the SUV for over a mile, when they came across the dog from the earlier chase. When the officers approached the dog, he ran into a badger hole and wouldn't leave.

Finally, the officers got the dog out. Then, they heard a man "screaming for help from within the hole."

Morrow was trapped in the hole, approximately 8 feet underground. He was feet first and starting to lose feeling in his arms.

It took officers about an hour and a half to dig Morrow out of the hole. He was identified as the driver of the vehicle, which was stolen, and arrested for that as well as a parole violation. He was also taken to an area hospital and treated for minor injuries. Police say further charges are pending.

"Most likely," said police, "Morrow would have died from exposure as he would not have been able to free himself."

And that is why you don't try to escape into a badger hole.

Hope that guy realizes the dog probably saved his life

[armedoldhippy]

jump in a badger hole, LOL! he is lucky the damn badger was not gnawing on his ankles. "lessee here, i can keep running & probably get away, or i can crawl down in this vicious animals den & hide...hmmmm. i think i'll hide out with the badgers. " THERE is a thought process with which i am not familiar...

[WelderDan]

There's a retention pond near where I work. My supervisor told me one day this guy came running up to one of the loading docks, his head all bloody. He was homeless, and was washing his face in the retention pond when an alligator grabbed him by the head. He was pretty pretty freaked out (so was my supervisor), and his head looked like, well it looked like he was grabbed by an alligator.

When I first moved here, like the first week, I was watching the news. A 10 foot alligator had parked himself in the street a few blocks away to get some sun. Of course someone called the cops, and a female officer showed up. She had the brilliant idea of grabbing it by the tail to try to get it out of the street. It promptly slapped her with its tail breaking both her legs. So she's laying in the street with two broken legs next to a 10 foot alligator. Lucky for her he wasn't hungry and just wandered away.

[Meraxes]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mysteriou...122235861.html

[Robrites]