Christmas time is supposed to be the time for peace, brotherhood, love...all those sappy states of nirvana humans try for but never seem to achieve. So given that Christmas is also a time when criminals and bad brotherhood also continue to rear their heads, I think we should look at some of the not so sweet and syrupy Christmas moments that have happened this year. Instead of "ho ho ho" times you might call them all them "oh no, oh no. oh no" moments.
- South Carolina woman, Patty White, confessed to killing her friend Michele O' Dowd the other day and then burying her body under a pile of Christmas presents in the victim's home. The motive? Patty wanted to use O'Dowd's debit card. I wonder if Santa will bypass Patty's jail cell this Christmas or maybe just drop in with some Christmas coal.
- If you are ever in the state of Georgia and looking for that Christmas mistletoe to put over your doorway beware of a mistletoe hunter named William E. Robinson. Mistletoe Bill was out looking for some of that smooch plant that he saw outside a shopping mall. "Every year I go somewhere to get some mistletoe to decorate the house ... I get some for my friends that can't get mistletoe. The best way to get it is with a shotgun." Yep! He tried to shoot it down from the tree right there next to the mall. Too bad. When in prison this Christmas Bill will probably be kissed by more of the inmates than he would liked to be.
- Most people think Christmas ornaments are pretty representations of the beauty of the holidays. But not one Christmas shopping attendee named Ruth Wagner. Ruth believes in receiving, not giving....as in stealing ornaments at Christmas fare sales she attends. After being chased and caught by one vendor who watched Ruth steal an ornament from his display, Ruth decided to use the ornament as a weapon and stabbed the pursuing vendor. Now Ruth will have to spend Christmas decorating the jail house tree.
- Terry Trent of Ohio was eager to get a jump on the Christmas season and, I suppose, wanted to show he could fly higher than Santa himself. The 44-year-old, allegedly got very high and out of his mind smelling bath salts, and was arrested for breaking into a Dayton home and putting up Christmas decorations. He was discovered watching television on the couch by the 11-year-old boy who lives there and no doubt thought Terry's imitation of Santa in the sky was quite convincing. Police are unconvinced.
- Even guys dressed like Frosty the Snowman can overdo their Christmas spirit with bad behavior. One guy dressed as Frosty at a Maryland Christmas parade made a threatening "kicking motion" at one of the police department's K-9 dogs. Kevin Walsh (aka Frosty) then pushed and cursed out an officer while still in his costume and was arrested before he could melt and dissolve into dew.
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