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David In Indy:
Woman Tearfully Apologizes During Hold Up, Police Say
Woman Told Cashier She Is Down And Out
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Police arrested a woman they said robbed a South Bend restaurant while tearfully apologizing to the cashier.
The woman, whose identity wasn't released, was taken to the St. Joseph County Jail on a charge of theft Tuesday night.
According to a police report, the woman told the cashier at the Long John Silver's restaurant she had a gun and needed money, then began crying and said, "If I wasn't down and out, I wouldn't be doing this."
As the woman waited at the counter, a customer in the drive-through line called police. The woman was running across a nearby parking lot as police arrived and arrested her. Police said no weapon was found.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/18646155/detail.html
David In Indy:
Repeat Voyeur Accused Of Exposing Himself Outside Home
Police: Man Was Looking Into Apartments, Cut Screen Door
INDIANAPOLIS -- A man with prior convictions of voyeurism was arrested Thursday morning for exposing himself and looking inside apartments on Indianapolis' south side, police said.
Police were called to an apartment complex on Stone Crossing Drive just after 7 a.m. after a woman reported a man looking into her apartment, said Lt. Jeffrey Duhamell.
Officers said they found William Newhouse, 50, of New Whiteland, exposing himself nearby. He had also cut the screen to an outside door in an attempt to gain access to the apartment, Duhamell said.
There have been several reports of a person looking into windows in the area.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/18650122/detail.html
David In Indy:
Beast of a roadside prank merely attack of a hacker
CARMEL, Ind. -- Rush-hour traffic, construction cones, restricted lanes, lowered speed limits and higher speeding fines are stressful enough for drivers along Keystone Avenue.
But level-headed motorists remained calm for three days as "RAPTORS AHEAD CAUTION" blinked from a portable electronic sign in the southbound lanes north of 116th Street.
At least it wasn't a warning of a zombie attack, as with signs displayed in recent days in Austin, Texas, and a St. Louis suburb.
"They are so clever," city spokeswoman Nancy Heck said about the creativity of the warnings. "They are so outrageous."
A warning about extinct velociraptors was a better prank than putting up a message to send motorists the wrong way amid construction to add roundabouts to Keystone, Heck said.
Despite the giggles, transportation officials nationally have expressed concern about online instructions for the signs. An automobile blogger at jalopnik.com on Jan. 28 posted "How to Hack an Electronic Road Sign." Posted a week earlier on i-hacked.com was "Inside programmable road signs," with photos showing how to change the messages.
Carmel's sign normally rotates the messages "106TH CLOSED AHEAD," "PROCEED WITH CAUTION" and "SPEED LIMIT 40 MPH," said Keystone project manager Jeremy Kashman.
"I did not hear of accidents happening from rubber-necking or gawking (at the sign)," Heck said.
Neither, she said, were there any raptor attacks.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090205/LOCAL0101/902050457/1001/NEWS
karen1129:
This started in AUstin with the Zombies! ::)
I would bet anything it was some college student here that did that.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: karen1129 on February 05, 2009, 10:39:55 pm ---This started in AUstin with the Zombies! ::)
I would bet anything it was some college student here that did that.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I heard it all all started in Austin. But you gotta admit, it's pretty funny! :laugh:
I wish I could have seen one of those "Caution Zombie Attack" signs. I never saw that raptor sign here either, although I live close to where it happened.
Kids these days sure are clever and full of imagination, aren't they? :)
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