For UK and UofL fans, the rivalry often runs deep. But police say, they never expected to get called to a dialysis clinic for a fight between fans!
In fact, police are calling it a flagrant foul.
“I think this is a first at a dialysis center,” Lt. Robert Swanigan commented while handing over the police reports.
Officers were called after a UK and UofL fan gave each other a full court press during treatment at the Georgetown Dialysis Clinic Monday.
“He just happened to think UofL would beat UK and he started to run his mouth,” explained dialysis patient Ed Wilson. Wilson also happens to be a self-proclaimed die hard UK fan. “That’s what started it.”
But Charles Taylor, who was waiting to get hooked up to a machine saw things differently. “I didn’t talk to him about the ball game; I was talking to another guy about the game,” The UofL fan exclaimed. “He was meddling. And told me to shut up and gave me the finger!”
Both men admit they were in the zone, but never anticipated there’d be a power forward.
“I wasn’t gonna take no more from him,” UofL fan Taylor said.
UK fan Wilson explained “I’m sitting there hooked up to a machine and I can’t do anything.”
So, offended by Wilson, Taylor took action. “I went up to him and I hit him, ” he said. “Didn’t hit him that hard, but I hit him.”
By the time police arrived, the fight was over.
“I’m sorry it even happened,” Wilson said. “Hopefully, he won’t come at the same time as me anymore.”
Georgetown Police say their case is now closed and they investigated it as harassment.
Wilson says he’s not filing charges against Taylor, but he does hope the Cats win.
The Campbellsville Police Department responded Saturday, February 11 at 9:35am to a request for a “welfare check” from Matt Wayn of Cincinnati, Ohio reporting he had not heard from his mother, Elizabeth Arimsmier. Ms. Arimsmier, 78, resided at 105 Daisy Drive in Campbellsville. Officers responded to the address Saturday morning at 9:30 AM and did not receive a response. Entry was gained and the victim – Ms. Arimsmier was found unresponsive. The Coroner was notified and pronounced the victim deceased. An autopsy was performed by the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville on Sunday, February 12th, which determined the victim died as a result of blunt force trauma sustained days earlier.
The investigation continued Sunday resulting in the arrest of Jessie James Durham, age 20 of Campbellsville. Durham is the great-grandson of the victim. Durham was charged with Murder and lodged in the Taylor County Regional Jail.
The investigation is continuing by Officer David Tucker.
Rumor has it the grandson has confessed to murdering his grandmother through blunt force trauma brought on by smashing his grandmother repeatedly in the head with a hammer.
Give a male garter snake a taste of estrogen and watch out, as the hormone turns these lads into the sexiest thing on the block, attracting dozens of other males eager to mate.
The finding, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, has implications for understanding the environmental impact of compounds that mimic the effect of estrogen, found in some chemicals and pesticides.
Estrogen, the researchers found, is key to a female’s release of pheromones and thus, reproduction.
Here’s how it works: For the red-sided garter snake, picking up a mate takes but a second and a flick of the tongue. When a male detects a possible mate nearby, he licks the female with a quick flick of his tongue. The chemical cues, called pheromones, exuded by the females are so strong it takes but an instant, the researchers say, for the male to determine the other snake’s species, sex, population, reproduction condition, size and age. In fact, the males are totally dependent on these pheromones for snake reproduction.
Every spring, tens of thousands of these garter snakes emerge from their limestone caves north of Manitoba, Canada, for mating. Intense competition ensues, as males swarm (and tongue) female snakes in an effort to be the first to mate with her. The frenzy appears as twisting balls of snakes called mating balls.
The males tend to choose the larger, more mature gals, because these females can produce more babies; they also have a slightly different chemical signature in their pheromones. While young, small females do get action, they aren’t the preferred mates.
Once they mate, the females emit a different pheromone, confirming “no more sex,” causing other males to lose interest and leave the area.
In the new study, the researchers implanted male garter snakes in their natural environment, each with a capsule that raised their estrogen levels to approximately match those of female snakes. After one year of these estrogen supplements, the male snakes started secreting a pheromone that seemed to cause other males to swarm to them, forming clumps of writhing snakes tangled together. Apparently, the estrogen caused the males to secrete “female” pheromones.
“We thought this might work, but we were surprised the results were so compelling,” study researcher Robert Mason, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University, said in a statement. “The amount of estrogen the male snakes received was nothing unusual, just about what a normal female would produce.”
The other males, in fact, preferred the male snakes with boosted estrogen levels to the small female snakes, the researchers found.
When the researchers stopped giving the males estrogen, they reverted back to their normal behaviors.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Agovernment minister in Zimbabwe says work has stopped on new reservoirs because workers have been scared off by mermaids, a report has said.
According to orangenews.com, Minister of Water Resources Samuel Sipepa Nkomo reportedly told a parliamentary committee that terrified workers were refusing to return to the sites, near the towns of Gokwe and Mutare.
He said the only way to solve the problem was to brew traditional beer and carry out rites to appease the spirits.
“All the officers I have sent have vowed not to go back there,” Zimbabwe’s state-approved Herald newspaper quoted him as saying.
The senior politician allegedly said mermaids were also present in other reservoirs around the country.
The building of the reservoirs is long overdue, but is considered essential if Zimbabwe is to provide adequate water for its population and boost agricultural production.
The belief in mermaids and other mythical creatures is widespread in the country, where many people combine a Christian faith with traditional beliefs.
Chinese scientists are investigating a bizarre case in which a cockerel apparently started laying eggs after all the hens were eaten.
The birds owner Huang Li, 47, kept the rooster together with seven hens on his small farm at Chumiao village, Mengcheng city, in central China’s Anhui province.
He said that his family had been gradually eating the chickens over winter until only the rooster was left – and he was amazed when he went into the cage the next day to discover an egg.
He said: “I thought it was a joke and that one of my neighbours had put the egg in there for fun. But the next day there was another egg and so on the third day I waited – and was amazed when I saw that the rooster laid an egg.”
He said word quickly spread to the local TV station which did a story on the egg laying rooster and after that scientists from the local agricultural ministry office turned up and borrowed the rooster to carry out tests.
He said: “They want to find out if it was a hen all the time that simply looked like a rooster or whether it actually changed to become a hen as a result of the fact that all the females had vanished.
“All I can say is that it did a good job waking us up every morning like every other rooster and it certainly treated the hens as if it was a rooster.”
Police were able to lure a naked man who spent hours atop a downtown radio tower with McDonald’s hamburgers.
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The man climbed to the top of the tower Wednesday night. At one point, police sources said, he asked for hamburgers from McDonald’s. Officials complied, and he agreed to come down after eating his meal.
The 45-year-old Arizona resident was uninjured. It was unclear why he climbed the structure, which is part of a city personnel building just east of the downtown skyline.
He removed items of clothing after he began scaling the tower about 4 p.m.
“He started taking his clothes off as he climbed,” Officer Karen Rayner told The Times.
It is one of the most elusive creatures on earth and it is one of the most hunted creatures on earth if for no other reason than to prove its existence.
According to cryptozoologists, it roams the forests of the great Northwest to the brush land of Southwest Texas, it is known to the world as Bigfoot.
“I’m very convinced by all the evidence that I’ve studied for years and years. There’s got to be something to it,” said Ken Gerhard a local cryptozoologist who has written numerous books on the subject.
Gerhard has spent half of his life years in search of the creature that stands from 6 feet to 9 and-a-half feet tall. The body is covered with hair and the face has man-like features.
Texas is in the top 10 when it comes to states with Bigfoot sightings, which is why Gerhard is in area.
He said there have been numerous sightings in South Texas and even in Bexar and surrounding counties.
“In a Big Foot report on the West Side of San Antonio here a couple of years ago, it was described that a Big Foot creature came out and took a road kill deer and dragged it off to the woods,” Gerhard said.
The abundance of wilderness in South Texas is one reason Big Foot could be in our midst. With an abundance of food and hiding places, it’s just the way Big Foot likes it.
“To avoid human beings, they have chosen these remote and inaccessible areas,” Gerhard said.
Structures in woods, alleged hair samples and talk of soon-to-be released DNA lend credibility to Big Foot’s existence.
But some of the most compelling evidence are casts of footprints, much larger and flatter than a human foot.
Gerhard said he has never laid eyes on Big Foot, but felt he was in its presence one time while on a hunt in North Texas.
“I believe I was within 50 yards of Big Foot creature that was making these loud noises or vocalizations,” he said.
Even coming that close, Gerhard says as a scientist, he has to remain somewhat skeptical; however, he will keep looking for definitive proof.
A naked man was arrested inside an eastern Kentucky supermarket after police found him covered in peanut butter and chocolate.
It happened January 31 at a Food World IGA in Letcher County, KY, which borders Virginia. According to a court citation, 22-year-old Andrew Toothman was wearing only a pair of black boots.
Troopers said the store’s front door was broken and that several fire extinguishers had been discharged. Toothman appeared to be contrite. Investigators said he spelled the word “sorry” on the floor with Nyquil.
Toothman admitted breaking into the store. He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and indecent exposure.
The social media giant is facing a new wave of concerns over privacy protection after launching its latest feature, which allows users to identify their friends automatically in photos without their permission.
The photo tagging tool, called Tag Suggestions, was put into place in December, but it was listed as unavailable until recently.
Here’s how it works: When a user uploads new photos to his or her Facebook profile, the new feature then scans them with facial recognition software to match the people in the photos with other photos in which they might have been previously tagged.
The feature also offers “group tagging,” which allows users to type in a person’s name and “apply it to multiple photos of the same person,” according to Facebook’s blog post on the subject.
The problem is that users can do this without their friend’s permission.
Facebook said on its blog Tuesday that it has been rolling out the Tag Suggestions feature over the course of several months. While it was originally just available in the United States, they also said it is now activated in several countries, which has already caused some headaches.
Bloomberg.com reported that a group of European Union data-protection regulators announced Wednesday they have launched a probe into the new feature, which was enabled as an active default setting, to see if it violated any privacy rules.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, a British Internet security firm, called the new feature “creepy” and said that one of Facebook’s biggest offenses was not telling its users this feature was being launched, as well as not explaining to them how to opt out of it.
“There’s a huge backlash in response…. [Facebook users] don’t really like the idea of Internet companies, Facebook in particular, gathering data of what we look like,” he said. “It makes me uncomfortable…especially when they turn on features like this without even telling us.”
Cluley said the potential danger with this feature is your Facebook friends can upload any photo and tag it with your name, and Facebook doesn’t give you the option to pre-approve your name being attached to that photo.
“It’s encouraging people to tag you even more,” he said. “Over time, that’s going to be a very valuable lump of data so they should allow people to opt into it, but that’s not Zuckerberg’s way.”
“Personally, I’m going through all my photos and tagging them Mark Zuckerberg,” he joked.
Another concern with Facebook gathering this data, Cluley said, is what the company might do with it five or ten years down the road.
“Maybe in the future [Facebook] will sell this information to third parties,” he said. “There’s so much information we’ve already given away willingly to Facebook. They have slowly eroded away our control over that data.”
Facial recognition technology is nothing new, and has been used in other photo editing software, such as Apple’s iPhoto and Google’s Picasa Web Albums.
Jim Tiller, the vice president of security for BT Global Services, which handles IT network security for multiple companies, said that facial recognition technology has been used for some time — for instance, by law enforcement and terrorism experts to help track suspects.
In the realm of Facebook, Tiller said one advantage of this technology is that it “could be helpful in just managing digital media,” depending on how it was used, and he felt that what Facebook was attempting to do was simply streamline the photo tagging process.
Two men are accused of driving around Denver with a dead friend, running up a bar tab on his account and using his ATM card at a strip club in what appeared to be a disturbing reflection of the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s.”
Robert Young, 43, and Mark Rubinson, 25, have been charged with abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation.
It’s unclear how Jeffrey Jarrett, 43, died, but the men are not charged in his death. The coroner said toxicology tests were pending. Young and Rubinson are free on bond but couldn’t be reached for comment Friday.
In the 1989 Hollywood comedy, two ne’er-do-wells find their boss dead at his ritzy beachfront home and escort his body around town, attempting to save the weekend of luxury they had planned.
In Denver last month, according to a police affidavit that gives an account of a story first reported by the Denver Post (), Young arrived at Jarrett’s home and found him unresponsive.
But rather than call the authorities, police say, Young went to find Rubinson.
The duo returned to Jarrett’s home and put his lifeless body into Rubinson’s SUV and headed to a nightspot where they spent more than an hour drinking – leaving Jarrett’s body in the vehicle, according to police documents. Police say the two men used Jarrett’s card to pay for the drinks on Aug. 27, noting “they did not have Jarrett’s consent.”
Rubinson and Young then drove to another restaurant to hang out, Jarrett’s body slumped in the back along for the ride, police say.
They then returned to Jarrett’s home, carried him in and put him in bed, according to court papers.
From there, police say, Rubinson and Young went to get gas and made a stop at a burrito joint, again using Jarrett’s card. The two men then went to a strip club, where authorities say they used Jarrett’s card to take out $400 from an ATM.
As the men left the Shotgun Willie’s strip club parking lot, one told the valet and a police officer standing nearby that “they were driving around with a dead guy and they didn’t know what to do with it and they were just going to go home really fast,” general manager Matthew Dunafon said.
Police went to Jarrett’s home and found the body.
Police say Young told them Jarrett was obviously dead while they were at the first stop of the night.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office said Young posted a $2,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in Denver County Court for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 27.
Rubinson posted a $3,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in Denver County Court on Oct. 4.
