Dude kidnaps ex-girlfriend to iron and wash dishes

An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.

The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said. Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.

The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.

Dude pissed, throws frozen burrito, steals chips.

Deputies said they are looking for a man who assaulted a clerk with a frozen burrito. The clerk at New Country Market on North Wilson Way said the man tried to buy the burrito that cost $2.

The man only had $1 on him, and when the clerk refused to lower the price, the man got upset and threw the burrito at the clerk. The junk food thief then stole a bag of chips, officials said. The clerk wasn't hurt, and the burrito was recovered, they said.

Skunks stink up family's house, $75k damage

A family's dream home became a stinky nightmare after skunks moved in. They chewed underneath Kerry McCullough's house, and started their own family. McCullough said the odor from the four skunks is like the stench of burning plastic, so bad that it hurt his lungs.

The squatters went unnoticed until the heat was turned on last winter. The McCulloughs' house uses hot water heat with exposed pipes running under the floors. When a skunk brushed up against the pipes, it would spray.

"It would be 30 degrees, and I'd have the windows open," said Karen McCullough, 46. "I'd go to the grocery store and people would say, 'It smells like skunk.'" What's really foul is how much damage the critters can cause. The McCulloughs had to replace doors and walls and take their kitchen apart, for a total cost of about $75,000.

Dude orders python to attack girlfriend and cops

A man found himself in a tight spot with the law Monday after he allegedly ordered his 9-foot-long albino python to attack his girlfriend and two police officers.

Officers dispatched to investigate a domestic dispute and were confronted by a man and his huge pet reptile, "and he was saying, 'Get them!' " according to Lt. James Viadero, the police spokesman. Victor Rodriguez, 21, was threatening his girlfriend with the reptile and refused to open the door for the officers. After the building superintendent opened the apartment door for the officers, Rodriguez threatened them with the snake, Viadero said.

No one was attacked by the snake, and Rodriguez was taken away in handcuffs. He was charged with disorderly conduct and threatening police. He was held in lieu of $10,000 bond.

Dude gets DWI on motorized cooler.

Leslie J. "Bomber" Marr, 57, was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after the police saw him swerving on the street and driving on the sidewalk in his "Cruzin Cooler," Whitehall Police Chief Richard LaChapelle told the Post Star newspaper.

Marr's electric-powered cooler was filled with 14 beers and has room for 24 cans and ice, Fox News reported.

Under New York state law, driving any motorized vehicle must be done without alcohol, including motorized coolers. In various states, other modes of transportation in which driving is prohibited while intoxicated include lawnmowers, boats, bicycles, golf carts, wheelchairs and horses.

Couple found having sex in confessional during church

An Italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being said have repented and made peace with the local bishop.

The couple, in their early 30s, were detained by police earlier this month after they had made love in the confessional box in the cathedral in northern Cesena. They were cautioned for obscene acts in public and disturbing a religious function.

Their lawyer said they had been drinking all night and realized they had gone too far.

Dude wears diaper full of heroin.

Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said.

Keys, 38, of New Orleans was charged. The occupants were ordered out of the car, and patted down. During the pat-down, "officers felt a large hard object in the pants area on Keys," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.

Keys told officers he was wearing a diaper and when they asked if there was anything in the diaper, he "shook his head affirmatively." Officers then removed a package containing about 257 grams of heroin from the diaper.

Electrician's attempt to electrocute wife in shower fails

A 60-year-old man who works as an electrician is facing numerous charges after allegedly trying to electrocute his wife and then leading police on a high-speed chase in his car.

Police say that the victim was taking a shower Sunday morning when she received several electric shocks while adjusting the taps. When she called her husband into the bathroom, he told her it was a build-up of static electricity. The woman found the drywall missing in the master bedroom, which adjoins the bathroom. An extension cord with open wires ran to the plumbing. Police did not lay attempted murder charges because while they determined it was dangerous, the woman would not have died from the incident.

When she confronted her husband early at about 12:15 a.m. Monday, he attacked her and choked her almost to unconsciousness, police say. The man then left the house and drove off. His wife called police.

Woman drives car with cinder block as a seat -- no brakes.

A woman learned the hard way that a car with a cinder block for a seat should not be trusted. The 51-year-old woman got in the stripped-down Nissan sedan and backed out of the driveway of her Oleander Street home, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report.

When she applied the brakes, she realized there were none -- the car didn't even have a brake pedal. So the woman jumped out, ran around back and tried to stop the car by pushing against it, the report stated.

The car continued to roll, pinning her against a palmetto tree. A sheriff's deputy happened to drive by within a couple of minutes and noticed the woman waving him down as she lay near the car on a bike path.

She was taken to the emergency room. Her son pushed the car back up the driveway. The deputy described the vehicle as completely empty inside, except for the cinder block seat.

Couple "divorced without their knowledge"

A happily married couple in northern India got the shock of their lives when they learnt they had divorced 10 years ago.

Meena Verma, a mother of two children, tried to file a case against her in-laws for violence, only to be told by a court in Haryana state that she had been divorced for a decade.

Her husband Virender, his brother, a lawyer, had apparently forged the divorce a decade earlier, when the couple were contemplating making a similar complaint. "It seems the divorce was doctored to defeat Meena's possible complaint," he said.

Inmate had $173K, guns, TV, fridge in cell.

The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173,000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday.

Police raided the cell Monday in a statewide crackdown on drug trafficking. He said Tuesday authorities have ordered an investigation of how of Genilson Lins da Silva got 280,000 reals ($173,000), two .38-caliber pistols and other amenities into his cell at the Bahia's Lemos Brito Penitentiary.

Club hoppers now slathering on Preparation H to give themselves that "ripped" look to impress the ladeez.

Of all the drugs young people can use at clubs, the latest trend in New York may be the least hip among all circles: Preparation H.

New York bouncer, blogger and author Rob Fitzgerald has noticed a trend among many of the macho young men waiting outside his clubs. He says the guys are slathering up their torsos with the hemorrhoid cream Preparation H to make themselves look "ripped" for the ladies.

The idea is a bad imitation of a flab spot-treatment secret used by bodybuilders before a competition. But the clubbers who lube up may not like to hear what the medicine in Preparation H actually does to their frame or the real health risks it can pose.

Preparation H contains a medication called phenylephrine HCL that -- when used for the drug's intended purpose -- will shrink the swollen tissues of hemorrhoids. It works by constricting the nearby blood vessels that feed blood and fluid to the area.

But the ingredient doesn't discriminate what kind of tissue it will shrink, hence the underground beauty tips of applying Preparation H under the eyes, on love handles or other places. None of which Wyeth, the makers of Preparation H, support.

Man assaults stranger with fish. Victim unsure if it was battered.

A resident reported that he was with his girlfriend at the gas pumps while a third friend with them pumped gas into the girlfriend's SUV. A male subject who was not acquainted with the three friends walked out of the store and verbally challenged the male who was pumping gas, then threw a rock at him which struck him in the neck.

The reporting party ran towards the subject and the subject grabbed a fish out of his car and threw it at him, hitting him in the face. The subject next grabbed a beer bottle and threw it at the SUV; he then pulled his pants down and exposed himself to the three friends before leaving the area in a blue car.

A slow news day = this story

Someone stuffed a large wad of hair into the tailpipe of a car parked in the 1300 block of Grandview Court, complex at the northwest corner of K and North West streets in Carlisle., Carlisle police said.

Police said they don't know when the culprit plugged the exhaust, but it prevented the car, owned by a 40-year-old woman, from running properly.

Woman in car accident runs around naked.

A woman was arrested on Tuesday after authorities said she caused a car accident -- and then jumped from her vehicle, and ran around the street completely naked.

According to investigators, Rachel Hanson, 38, was driving the wrong way on a street, when she crashed into a car. Witnesses said Hanson got out of her car completely naked. Officers said Hanson was apparently upset with the driver of the other vehicle, and began an argument. Police said she jumped into his car and tried to drive away.

However, the car would not move, so she reportedly started to walk down the street -- still naked.

Dude poops himself during martial arts fight.

In Saturday's match against Corey Wethey, Mitchell struck his opponent so hard that Wethey lost control of his bowels. The incident required a 10-minute intermission while officials scrubbed down the ring. Mitchell went on to win the fight by Wethey's disqualification.

As the fight prolonged, Mitchell said the smell continued to worsen. Eventually, he removed his mouth piece and expressed his concerns to the ring official.

"He s--- himself," Mitchell said repeatedly.

It was at that point Wethey gained the advantage and locked Mitchell's head between his thighs.

Teen DUI; 'I didn't drink! I was kissing a boy who was drunk'

They say a lover's kiss can be intoxicating. Gianna Vigliotti, who was pulled over by police as she swerved in and out of her lane on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset Friday night, said that's exactly what happened to her, according to court documents.

After the 17-year-old from Glen Cove recorded a 0.15 percent blood-alcohol level in a portable breath test -- nearly the twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent -- she told the officer who pulled her over, "I didn't drink! I was kissing a boy who was drunk," according to the police report.

Teacher tapes student to chair instead of yelling

A teacher said in court that he taped a special ed student's arms and legs together and mouth shut to send a message "in a fun way." He added that "my other option would have been to yell at the students."

Mathew Konetski who admitted taping student's arms and legs together and mouth shut, trying send a message to the student "in a fun way."

"I was trying to get the point across to the boys that they needed to follow the instructions of the adults in charge," Konetski said. "It was not to scare them, to punish them or to make them feel uncomfortable." Konetski said he taped two boys after they acted up in gym class while roller-skating. One of the boys wouldn't obey orders to slow down and knocked over another girl, he said. After the boys failed to comply with a time out, Konetski said he decided to tape them.

Woman attacks her 93-year-old neighbor with a vacuum cleaner and steals money from her purse.

Authorities are accusing a Cincinnati woman of using a vacuum cleaner to attack her 93-year-old neighbor.

Police say 57-year-old Dora Nance has been charged with aggravated robbery and felonious assault for entering Florence Holmes' apartment, hitting her with a vacuum and stealing money from the woman's purse. Police say Holmes suffered cuts and broken bones in the attack early Monday. Police say Nance has confessed to the crime. She could face 20 years in prison.

Two drunk Navy sailors hail cab, offer to drive, take cabbie on a reckless joyride, go on a beer run, watch the cabbie escape, then torch the cab.

Sailors Aaron Couch, 21, and Terry Gappa, 20, hailed a cab near Chicago's Union Station and told the driver to take them to the Great Lakes Naval Station. As the cabbie was approaching Great Lakes, the sailors told him to pull over and let them take over the cab, or they would kill him, Sheriff's Deputy Chief Kevin Parker said. They did not display a weapon.

The cabdriver, he pulled over on an unknown street sometime before 10 p.m. and Gappa began driving, with the cabbie in the passenger seat and Couch in the back. The men -- who police say already appeared inebriated -- stopped to buy beer.

They then began driving north, while they were driving the cabbie became concerned for his safety, because Gappa was driving erratically. As the cab began to slow near Thoroughbred Drive, the cabbie jumped out and ran to nearby home where police were called, Parker said. Read more.