Here is your Tuesday morning dose of news and information about life and
times in the USA, circa 2013.

The USA is such a great, happy place these days - isin't it !?

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Sacramento California: A man intentionally drowned his father’s dog in
the pond at Fairfield’s Civic Center—and he doesn’t know why he did it,
Fairfield Police say. Witnesses reported seeing a man carrying a
medium-sized dog into a pond at the civic center and dunking it into the
water until it didn’t come back up for air. The dog was described as a
brown female pit bull with a chain around its neck. She was retrieved
from the water by officers on a small boat. Bryan Cavanah, 21, of
Fairfield admitted to drowning the dog, though he said he didn’t know
why he did it. Cavanah was arrested for felony cruelty to an animal and
violation on probation. He is on probation currently through Solano
County for assault with a deadly weapon.


Newport News, Va. – A Newport News man has been charged with felony
animal cruelty after a dog was found dead in a home over the weekend.
On Sunday police received a call regarding a dead animal at a home in
the 400 block of Tyler Avenue. Police and Animal Control officers
responded to the home and found a dog with what appeared to be stab
wounds. According to the dog’s owner, it was a 10-month-old German
Shepard/Golden Retriever mix named Zoey. Officers spoke to witnesses,
and police identified the suspect as 24-year-old Joseph C. Justesen of
the 400 block of Tyler Avenue. He was arrested and charged with one
count of felony animal cruelty. Justesen is a roommate of the friend of
the owners who had been taking care of the puppy. He is a Petty Officer
Third Class, assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln. According to a Navy
spokesperson, he enlisted in 2009.


HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police are trying to determine why a man fatally
shot himself while in his wife’s hospital room just hours after she gave
birth. Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva says the husband, whose name hasn’t
been released, died Monday at Memorial Hermann Hospital. A spokesman for
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, where the shooting happened
Sunday afternoon, says police promptly secured the area and people in
the vicinity were not in danger. While the hospital has a no-gun
policy, one hospital visitor expressed concern that maybe more should be
done to keep the area safe and secure. Silva says the woman gave birth
around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Police say the husband and wife were in her
room hours later when he pulled a gun and shot himself. The wife wasn’t
hurt. Silva had no details on the gender of the baby, who wasn’t in the
room during the incident.

And just to show you how the average american will jump at the chance to
thieve if they think they can get away with it:

San Francisco (CBS SF) — A woman who dined at a Newark seafood
restaurant on her birthday and was handed the wrong credit card by the
waitress at the end of her meal was arrested after she took the card and
headed to a nearby mall on Sunday evening, police said. Jheline Demesa,
22, of San Leandro, ate dinner at Ray’s Crab Shack at 5989 Mowry Ave.,
where the waitress mistakenly gave her a credit card from an adjacent
table, police said. Instead of returning the card, Demesa allegedly
left the restaurant with it, police said. The real cardholder tried to
cancel the credit card a short time later but learned that transactions
had been made on it at the NewPark Mall across the street, Newark police
Cmdr. Mike Carroll said. The victim notified police about the incident
at 6:20 p.m., Carroll said. The restaurant owner managed to find an
image of Demesa captured by a surveillance camera inside the eatery and
gave it to the victim, who went to the mall to look for her, Carroll
said. The victim and mall security located Demesa then notified police,
Carroll said. Officers arrested Demesa shortly after 8 p.m. on
suspicion of commercial burglary and credit card fraud, Carroll said.
Demesa was booked into the Santa Rita Jail, police said.



http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/...why-he-did-it/

http://wtkr.com/2013/08/12/newport-n...-dead-in-home/

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/08/12/m...hospital-room/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...aurant-mix-up/

What's the matter? You 'tards can't make your own cheese?

Cop charged in cheese-smuggling case

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/27...smuggling-case

Heh heh heh! Even your cops are crooks.

Perp's name is Cheese-us. He writes childrens
books under the name of Hay Seuss.

..
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

On 8/13/2013 12:06 PM, Big Al wrote:
What's the matter? You 'tards can't make your own cheese?

Cop charged in cheese-smuggling case

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/27...smuggling-case

Heh heh heh! Even your cops are crooks.

What HomeGuy isn't telling you is that just about a week ago two young brothers in New Brunswick, Canada were killed by an African Rock Python in their sleep. They were buried in the same casket just a few days ago.

The brothers had been playing with ducks and goats at a family farm earlier in the day, and it's suspected that they smelled like food to the python.

The 12 foot long python was housed in a cage on the main floor of a pet store, and the two brothers were sleeping in the apartment above the store. Apparantly the python got out of it's enclosure and slithered up the heating vents into the room where the boys were sleeping and strangled one, then the other.
The two boys, 4 and 6 years old were laid to rest last Sunday (I think).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...oys-vigil.html

You see, HomeGuy, stuff like this can happen anywhere, even right here in Canada. The US has 10 times as many people as we do, and so it's not surprising that they have 10 times as many bizarre incidents as we do. Pointing them out doesn't make Americans inferior or Canadians superior to any other nationality on this planet.

I made an 18 inch long x 2 inch diameter cheese log once. Man that hurt! Had a heck of a time flushing it too.

On 08/13/2013 12:26 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Perp's name is Cheese-us. He writes childrens
books under the name of Hay Seuss.

.
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

On 8/13/2013 12:06 PM, Big Al wrote:
What's the matter? You 'tards can't make your own cheese?

Cop charged in cheese-smuggling case

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/27...smuggling-case

Heh heh heh! Even your cops are crooks.

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:38:06 -0700, nestork
wrote:


Yes, but you're always going to have bizarre news in a country of 300
million people.

Any of those stories could have happened here in Canada as well.

And besides, pointing out the most bizarre crimes doesn't prove
anything. For the most part, Americans live their lives just the same
way we Canadians do; without killing dogs or shooting themselves, both
for no apparant reason.

Don't forget the 'funny' story...When Feinstein was mayor of San
Francisco, she and her husband went out to dinner. At the restaurant they
turned over their keys to the 'valet' parking attendant. However, when
they cae out later, they discovered the restaurant had NO valet parking
and their car had been stolen.

On 8/13/2013 11:06 AM, Big Al wrote:
What's the matter? You 'tards can't make your own cheese?

Cop charged in cheese-smuggling case

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/27...smuggling-case

Heh heh heh! Even your cops are crooks.

That was such a cheesy story. O_o

TDD

On 8/13/2013 2:25 PM, Monterrey Jack wrote:
I made an 18 inch long x 2 inch diameter cheese log once. Man that
hurt! Had a heck of a time flushing it too.


With the medication I'm taking, that happens to me all the time. ^_^

TDD