Thursday, December 16, 2010

Its cold outside for NY weather forecaster.

DECEMBER 16, 2010

December 16 is … National Chocolate Covered Anything Day One of my favorite days!

Heidi Jones, a New York weather forecaster who works at the ABC affiliate in New York City, WABC, and is occasionally a fill in forecaster for Good Morning America was arrested Monday on charges she fabricated a sexual assault. She filed a police report in November claiming she was assaulted by a Hispanic male while jogging on Sept. 24th in Central Park. It was never clear why she had waited over two months to file the charges. Police found inconsistencies in her story and she has now admitted she made the entire story up. She has been suspended by WABC. You have to figure her credibility as a journalist has been destroyed. You have to believe even the weather forecaster. Credibility and honesty count in this world. If only the politicians and Santa Claus actors would learn that.

Six crimes committed by Santa Claus. These have been gathered by researching the internet. I have no personal involvement in any aspect of any of these cases. I do not vouch for the accuracy of the stories. They are just amusing to read.

1) Motorcycle Kidnapper Santa
Don’t trust a Santa on a motorcycle. A family stopping for gas in Columbia, South Carolina in December 2006 noticed an innocuous-looking Santa refueling his motorcycle. He asked if the children wanted to see the stuffed Rudolph in the sidecar, then drove off with the family’s 8-year-old daughter. The girl’s father chased the kidnapping Santa, who eventually stopped and turned over the uninjured girl. Police later found John Michael Barton, 55, hiding out in the utility room of a local bar. Apparently Barton had been playing Santa in the area for several weeks, posing for pictures with local children, and got carried away. He apologized to the family, saying he got “caught up” in his role.
2) Pedophile Hiding in the Bushes Santa
Another failed Santa Claus kidnapping occurred in 2009 in Parma, Ohio. Anthony Russo, 46, was dressed as in a red Santa suit and carrying a box of candy canes and a unicycle decorated with bows, bells, and a Santa gift bag. He jumped out of some bushes and began following a 12-year-old girl, whom he tried to grab several times. The girl got away and called police from a nearby convenience store. The Pedo Santa was arrested on a Cleveland bus, still in full costume.
3) Psycho 2×4 Santa
Christmas shopping got a little out-of-hand in Atlanta in 2004, when a man dressed as Santa attacked a 74-year-old woman with a 2×4 board at a shopping mall. Elkin Donnie Clarke told police he knocked the woman unconscious because she had taken 29 boxes of Hershey’s chocolates from him.
4) Swedish Robber Santa
A thief dressed as Santa seems to be doing fairly well for himself in Sweden. Santa and two of his helpers robbed a perfume store in Falkenberg, a garage in Hylte and a clothing store in  Kungsbacka, Sweden, in 2007. Each time the trio escaped in a different car: witnesses reported seeing a white Volvo, a silver Volvo and a blue Audi at the various crime scenes.
5) Nashville Bank Robber Santa
In Nashville Tennessee Santa Claus robbed a bank December 22, 2009. When bank officials asked Santa to remove his sunglasses, he pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun and demanded cash. Witnesses described the thief as “jovial” and heard him explain that he had to pay his elves.
6) DUI Santa
Santa works hard, so it’s not surprising he might want to relax with a little Christmas spirit once in a while. Unfortunately in Sparta, Wisconsin in 2009, Santa was cited for violating the state’s open container law. Witnesses called police after noticing an alleged drunken driver; Santa, aka 47-year-old Kevin Arnold,  was in the passenger seat. When the car stopped, Santa stumbled out of the car, hugged several nearby children and asked if they knew where his reindeer were.

Notable births on this date:
1775 Jane Austen England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
1850 Fred Morley cricketer (legendary Notts & England bowler 1880-83)
1882 Sir John Berry Hobbs England, 1st cricket player knighted (1953)
1890 Harlan Sanders founder/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
1901 Margaret Mead Philadelphia PA, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
1929 Ian Board barkeeper Who is he?
1941 Lesley Stahl Lynn MA, White House correspondent (CBS-TV)
1962 William "The Refrigerator" Perry NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)

Notable deaths on this date:

1858 Richard Bright British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69
1859 Wilhelm Grimm writer (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 73
1916 Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin a powerful Russian monk is murdered at 45
1945 Fumimaro Konu Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits hara-kiri
1976 George a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies. THAT IS AN OLD GOOSE
1980 Harland "Colonel" Sanders founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90. CHECK OUT WHO WAS BORN TODAY.
1985 Paul Castellano Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York NY restaurant. John Gotti bit off more than he could chew.
1989 Lee Van Cleef US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 64

Notable events on this date:

0882 John VIII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0882 Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. No grass growing under his feet.
1773 Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome (Boston Tea Party). I like tea.
1892 Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, South Africa vs New South Wales
1915 Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
1918 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
1929 1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium; Chicago Blackhawks beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
1944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
1953 Charles E Yeager flies over 2,575 kph (1,650 mph) in Bell X-1A (first man to fly at nearly two and one-half times the speed of sound)
1971 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
1975 Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
1994 Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI

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