ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - A woman stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife following an argument that began when she accused him of opening a Christmas present early, authorities said Friday.
Lumps of coal for her!
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Sounds like my 1st wife. She stabbed me with scissors because of potatoes. Bought wrong potatoes, she were saying. Yep, potato rage, apparently. Crazy as a loon she was.
He should just get away from her as far as possible. Else she may pull a Lorena Bobbitt on him.
Bungling crooks hijacked a FedEx truck filled with Christmas packages Friday - but left empty-handed because they couldn't figure out how to open containers holding $1 million in merchandise, police said. All the valuables were still in the 18-wheeler when police recovered it on a desolate Brooklyn street early Friday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
In a bizarre twist, the failed robbers gave the kidnapped driver $60 after freeing him - offering no explanation for the apparent tip, a police source said.
The FedEx driver, Robert McGary, 47, told police he was driven around for three hours in the SUV and the robbers even stopped at a fast-food drive-thru window. The hijackers' plan was thwarted by their own stupidity when they were unable to detach the six large cargo containers from the floor of the truck.
McGary told investigators he believes his captors were Albanian because of their accents and the conversation he overheard, Kelly said.
Cops found the abandoned truck about 5:30 a.m. at the corner of India and West Sts. in Greenpoint. Investigators were reviewing its inventory last night.
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That would not happen to many long haul truckers. The hijackers would be facing the business end of a shotgun.
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The comments on that site are very enlightening. According to them, you'd have to take the containers (weighing thousands of pounds) off the truck before they could be opened (their doors face the sides of the truck, not the rear). Might need a special forklift or other type of equipment, too.
So their stupidity lay mainly in not realizing that would happen.
I would think there wouldn't be much percentage in heisting a large, general cargo like this, even if the packages were just piled randomly in the truck. You'd get fruitcakes, clothes, books, other stuff it wouldn't be worth your while to unload. But I guess they're not petty crooks because they were the brightest bulbs on the string.
I always figure that if our Christmas presents are stolen, the thieves are in for one hell of a disappointment. Robert Rich CDs and books about the Age of Sail aren't going to bring very much down at Ye Olde Fence.
Occasionally the U.N., in its bumbling way, gets one right. Mostly thanks to the Brits on this one.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to wrap up the U.N. peacebuilding mission in Sierra Leone in September 2008, praising this year's democratic elections and efforts to professionalize its armed forces.
A U.N. peacekeeping force helped put the West African nation back on the path to peace and stability after a bloody 11-year civil war, which lasted from 1991 to 2002. But poverty continues to plague the country, which has some of the world's lowest life expectancy and literacy rates. The peacekeeping force was replaced in January 2006 by a small peacebuilding mission of about 350 people - mainly civilians - along with 14 military observers and 26 international police.
The resolution adopted unanimously by the council extends the mandate of the peacebuilding mission until Sept. 30, well beyond local elections scheduled for June 21. It calls for a staff reduction of at least 20 percent by March 31, the continuation of the mission at 80 percent of the current strength until June 30, and the termination of its mandate by Sept. 30.
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JERSEY CITY, USA: Three Pakistan natives were charged on Wednesday with running a multi-million-dollar credit card scam out of phony perfume stores in Jersey City, Bayonne, North Bergen and outside Hudson County, officials were quoted as saying by the Jersey Journal on Thursday. The small group sent part of the money it bilked from the companies to Pakistan and the FBI is working to determine if the money was sent to fund nefarious activities such as terrorism, officials said. The Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio cautioned that there was no connection, as of now, to any particular group or organization. It could be it was just sent over there to be used for personal purposes in the future but the FBI is investigating.
On Wednesday, investigators arrested Abdul Razzaq Bhatti, 50, of Fords, and Iselin residents Zahida Anjum Qayyum, 36, and her brother, Mazhar Qayyum, on charges that include identity theft, money laundering, theft by deception and conspiracy, DeFazio said. A fourth suspect is sought, but his identity was not released. Bhatti and Zahida Qayyum appeared in court Wednesday, but Mazhar Qayyum complained of health problems and was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center to be cleared for incarceration, officials said. A Superior Court judge set Bhatti's bail at $2 million cash and Zahida Qayyum's at $1 million cash.
"Operation Dollars and Scents" determined the group set up phony perfume businesses such as Kosmo Traders in Jersey City on Newark Avenue, Prestige Fragrances in Bayonne on Broadway, and Unique Traders in North Bergen on Kennedy Boulevard, and several in Iselin, DeFazio said. Officials believe the group never sold any products at the stores. The group set up corporate accounts with credit card companies for each fake business and then used credit cards in others names some real people, some fictitious and rung up sales until the cards were maxed out, DeFazio said.
When a credit card company got wise, the ring would drop that company name and create a new one. So far, investigators have identified 15 to 20 fake businesses used at some time by the ring, said Lt Tom Cooney of the Prosecutor's Office's Special Investigations Unit. Eventually the credit card companies saw the pattern and contacted the Prosecutor's Office, which began an investigation six months ago. On Wednesday, warrants were executed at a dozen locations, including banks, as a result of the investigation by the Prosecutor's Office, the Postal Inspection Service, the Secret Service, the FBI, Customs and Immigrations Enforcement, the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and police from Woodbridge and Jersey City, DeFazio said.
A number of bank accounts were frozen and as investigators sorted through the information, the scope of the ring continued to grow, DeFazio said. In court, Zahida Qayyum proclaimed her innocence before the judge could caution her that anything she said would be used against her. "I don't have anything to do with this case," she told the judge. "I wish I could prove that somehow. I've not even been here long enough for that. I worked as an AmeriCorps worker for a year and then I started studying paralegal."
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