Woman arrested after calling cops to report fire in her crotch
An Ohio woman was placed under arrest after reportedly calling 911 to ask for help extinguishing a fire in her crotch.
Katrina Morgan, 50, called the cops in Port Clinton at about 10 p.m. Saturday, to allegedly falsely report her “p—y” ablaze, the Port Clinton News-Herald reported.
Morgan asked the cops if the fire department’s “hose is working” and said, “I need somebody to come put it out with their hose,” according to the outlet.
Police arrived to find Morgan at her friend’s home, where she and others had been drinking, residents told the officers.
Cops moved to arrest Morgan for false reports and disrupting police operations, according to the newspaper.
Morgan became agitated and yelled at the officers as she resisted arrest, only relenting when an officer threatened her with a stun gun, the report said.
Morgan faces charges of disrupting public services, making false alarms, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to the police department.
Her friends during police questioning denied seeing Morgan on the phone, the News-Herald reported.
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Mexican mob storms hospital, claiming coronavirus is government conspiracy
An angry mob stormed a Mexican hospital to “rescue” a coronavirus patient, claiming the global pandemic is a lie and a government conspiracy, according to news reports.
A crowd of nearly 300 people, egged on by chatter from a local Facebook group, rushed the hospital in Motozintla, in the southern Mexican province of Chiapas, on Monday, demanding to examine the unnamed patient themselves, Mexican News Daily reported.
“Coronavirus is a lie,” one member posted on the Mercado Libre de Motozintla Facebook page. “Let’s not fall for it.”
The crowd also demanded an end to coronavirus lockdown restrictions, claiming the virus doesn’t really exist, according to the report, originally published Tuesday in the Mexican newspaper El Universal. Family members of the patient, who were part of the mob, said they feared for his safety.
The man was the third resident of the town to be hospitalized with COVID-19 ,the outlet said.
Hospital officials blocked the entrance and called in the national guard, which secured the scene and cordoned off the building and part of a nearby park, the report said.
Mexico had more than 26,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Wednesday, with 2,507 dead from the global pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Fake Charmin: $40 for worthless baby rolls
If you are struggling to find hand sanitizer, face masks or toilet paper, ads on Facebook and Instagram can be very tempting during the COVID-19 pandemic. But one man has a cautionary tale.
Ben Hart thought it was his lucky day when he spotted a pop-up Facebook ad for 30 rolls ofCharmin for $40. It was more expensive than the store price, but desperate times call for desperate measures, so Hart bought the rolls
Four weeks later, what arrived at Hart’s home was nothing like what the ad showed.
It looked like someone had squeezed the Charmin, really squeezed it.
“I said, ‘You’re kidding me’ … That’s a roll of toilet paper?” Hart said, pointing to a tiny roll that looked like it held 25 squares of paper. For his $40, he got 30 toddler-sized rolls. “That’s what they sent.”
What showed up in a box was not even close to the ad photo, or real P&G-brand Charmin.
Not only was each roll about one-fifth the size of a real roll, and much narrower, the paper was not stamped with the Charmin logo, which P&G embosses on the real paper.
“This is a scam, an out-and-out scam,” Hart said.
We tried to trace down the source.
The return address links to a warehouse in the Los Angeles area that is home to almost a dozen questionable mail-order firms which sell facial creams, vitamin supplements and cheap clothing. Each firm has multiple complaints about poor quality on the Better Business Bureau website.
It was impossible to figure out which of those online vendors may have shipped the bogus Charmin.
Toy Charmin or used rolls?
Hart calls this a life lesson, though he is still trying to figure out where these tiny rolls came from.
The rolls look like they were from a hotel and removed from their holder before all the paper ran out. Hart certainly hopes they were not used, as he touched them and opened them in his kitchen.
The good news is that stores are now restocking their paper products, and chain stores said they believe the toilet paper shortage is just about over.
Which means Hart won’t have to track down Charmin online much longer.
As always, don’t waste your money.
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UK’s obese residents may be forced to stay home once lockdown ends
Obese Britons may be forced to work from home even as others return after the coronavirus lockdown, according to reports.
Leaked government documents show that the obese are being treated as “vulnerable” people — along with those over 70 and pregnant women — who will be told to stay home even when the general lockdown is lifted, the Sun said.
Companies may even have to find new roles for the workers who need to stay home, the report says.
Almost a third of adults in England are clinically obese — one of the highest rates in the Western world — and the stringent rules could be enforced for up to a year, the paper says.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock spoke Monday of the possible relationship between obesity and becoming critically ill if infected by the coronavirus.
“Emerging data from around the world suggests there could possibly be a relationship between obesity and the impact of COVID-19 on individuals,” he said, according to the report.
“It’s too early to say if obesity in itself is a factor or conditions associated with it — or there is not enough data yet to rule it out — so we need to approach any assumptions with caution.”
A study of coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system found 42 percent of them were obese.
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Ohio lawmaker refuses to wear mask because faces are the ‘likeness of God’
An Ohio lawmaker says he refuses to wear a mask to protect himself amid the coronavirus pandemic because he believes that faces are the “likeness of God.”
Republican state Rep. Nino Vitale argued Monday against Gov. Mike DeWine’s recommendation to wear face coverings in public on religious grounds.
“This is the greatest nation on earth founded on Judeo-Christian Principles,” Vitale said in a Facebook video. “One of those principles is that we are all created in the image and likeness of God. That image is seen the most by our face. I will not wear a mask.”
He continued that it was important to him to be able to see others’ faces without a mask obscuring them.
“When we think of image, do we think of a chest or our legs or our arms? We think of a face,” Vitale said. “That’s the image of God right there, and I want to see it in my brothers and sisters.”
DeWine issued an order for face masks to be worn in public but rescinded the mandate last week following backlash.
The governor acknowledged Sunday that the order went “too far,” saying that the government can’t control the public’s behavior.
“It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far. People were not going to accept the government telling them what to do,” DeWine said on ABC’s “This Week.”
DeWine said though he has walked back the order, he continues to recommend Ohioans wear face coverings in retail stores.––
“At the same time we pulled this back, I said this is highly recommended,” DeWine said.
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Miami Beach park closes after nearly 9,000 Covidiots violate face mask policy
A popular Miami Beach green space was reportedly closed Monday — five days after reopening — because nearly 9,000 people were caught violating the park’s mask policy.
South Pointe Park had initially opened back up Wednesday, along with other green spaces in Miami-Dade County, after being closed for over six weeks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
With the reopening, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered parkgoers to wear facial coverings, a policy largely ignored by those at South Pointe Park.
From Wednesday to Sunday, park rangers issued 8,880 verbal warnings to people at South Pointe Park for going maskless, according to the Miami Herald, citing police.
The majority of those warnings, 5,261, occurred over the weekend — even after the city closed the parking lot Sunday in an effort to control the crowds.
City Manager Jimmy Morales told the paper in a statement that other city parks reopened successfully, but South Pointe Park “is the most egregious exception.”
“We have had city staff in the park to encourage people to comply, but they were met with hostility and non-compliance,” he said
“There is no way to effectively enforce social distancing when hundreds of individuals refuse to do so. The best way to protect our residents and first responders is to keep it closed until further notice.”
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Nearly $1 million dumped on roadside during California police chase
LOS BANOS, Calif. — Nearly $1 million in cash was dumped on a Central California road during a police chase that ended with the arrests of two New York men who apparently planned to buy marijuana with the money, the California Highway Patrol said.
Frank Capraro, 23, and Desmond McDay, 25, both of Medford, were arrested Friday evening, the Merced Sun-Star reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether they had obtained lawyers.
The chase began shortly before 6:30 p.m. when a CHP officer tried to stop one of three black SUVs that appeared to be traveling together on Interstate 5 south of Los Banos in Merced County, authorities said.
During the chase, one SUV straddled lanes to block the patrol car, which maneuvered around it and kept chasing the first car, a Chevrolet Suburban.
The Suburban stopped on the shoulder of the road at one point and the driver got out, dumped two cardboard boxes and then took off again before finally stopping for good, the CHP said.
The driver of the Suburban and a second SUV that was stopped in traffic were both taken into custody, but the SUV that had tried to block the officer escaped, authorities said.
The cardboard boxes contained $915,000 in cash, and a police dog alerted to the odor of drugs on the money, authorities said.
Officers also found walkie-talkies that the drivers apparently had been using to communicate during the chase, the CHP said.
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5-year-old boy pulled over while trying to drive to California to buy a Lamborghini with $3 in his pocket
(CNN) — A 5-year-old boy with $3 in his pocket was pulled over by Utah police while driving his parent’s car to California to buy a Lamborghini.
The boy left in the SUV after arguing with his mother, who said she would not buy the luxury car for him, Utah Highway Patrol said on Twitter.
A trooper spotted the vehicle weaving on Interstate 15 at 30 mph, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
Troopers told CNN affiliate KSL-TV they initially thought the boy was an impaired driver.
“How old are you? You’re 5 years old?” Trooper Rick Morgan says in dash camera footage of the traffic stop. “Wow … Where did you learn to drive a car?”
Morgan said he initially thought the boy was older.
“At first, I thought he might be 8 or even 9 years old,” Morgan said during a press conference. “He insisted he was 5, and his family confirmed he’s 5 years old. He’ll be 6 next month.”
Morgan told KSL-TV he had to help the child get the SUV into park.
“He was sitting on the front edge of the seat so that he could reach the brake pedal to keep the car stopped while I was standing there,” he said.
Once he was pulled over, the child told the trooper he had intended to drive to California to purchase a Lamborghini for himself. He had $3. The starting price for a new Lamborghini is around $200,000.
Morgan says no one was hurt, and it will be up to the local prosecutor to decide whether to file charges against the parents, who had left the boy in his sibling’s care while they were away from home.
CNN’s Andy Rose contributed to this report.
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Child eats parent’s entire stash of edible marijuana in Richmond Heights, MO
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (KMOV.com) — A young child is recovering after police say the child ate their parent’s entire stash of edible marijuana.
The Richmond Heights Police Department said the edibles were left on a table and the child mistook them for regular candy. Paramedics say the child’s heart rate became dangerously elevated.
Police said the parent is facing charges of child endangerment.
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Michigan security guard shot and killed after telling customer to put on a face mask
(CNN) — A security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, was shot and killed after telling a customer to wear a state-mandated face mask, police said.
Calvin Munerlyn, 43, died at a local hospital after he was shot in the head Friday, said Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser.
The shooter and a second suspect remain at large, Kaiser told CNN on Monday.
Witnesses at the store told police that Munerlyn got into a verbal altercation with a woman because she was not wearing a mask, said Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton. Surveillance video confirms the incident, Leyton said.
Under an executive order from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, all retail employees and customers have to wear a mask.
Footage also shows that immediately after the altercation, the woman left in an SUV.
But about 20 minutes later, the SUV returned.
Two men entered the store and one of them yelled at Munerlyn about disrespecting his wife, Leyton said. The other man then shot the security guard.
“This is senseless. Over a mask. Over a mask?” Munerlyn’s cousin, Tina James, told CNN affiliate WJRT. “This is not the way to do things right now. We need to come together.”
Family Dollar did not respond to a request for comment.
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