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Talk about overstepping your bounds … 

A Georgia woman took her twin autistic sons and their service dog and went to a local McDonald’s. As they were getting ready to leave the establishment, an off duty manager (with her own child in tow) approached the woman and told her that the dog was not permitted in the restaurant. By the time the incident was over, the off duty manager had punched the customer in her face.

Jennifer Schwenker explained that Barkley is a service dog, allowed by federal law in all public places including restaurants. Schwenker offered to provide proof of the permit for the dog, Marietta police said.

It wasn’t enough for Allen, they said. The tape shows her following the family around the McDonald’s, even down the hall to the restroom.

When Schwenker tried to leave, she lost track of one of the boys. In a panic, she threw her drink on the floor and it splashed on Allen, police said.

The tape shows Allen running after Schwenker in a rage, police said. Marietta police Detective Gwen Lewis told Davis that she has never seen anything like it.

Schwenker did not want to speak to Davis about the incident, but her husband said they are talking to a lawyer.

Allen is charged with battery assault and disorderly conduct.

JM and Jan Owens, who run the store where the incident occurred, released a statement:

“At our McDonald’s restaurant, we respect and value our customers. Their safety and well-being is always a top priority.

“We strive to comply with all applicable laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is our policy to make our restaurants accessible to all customers, including those with disabilities and special needs, whether or not they need the assistance of service animals.

“We are fully cooperating with the police department in their investigation, and the individual involved is no longer employed by our company. ”

Thankfully, the owners are handling it right.  The video showing it all unfold can be found here on WSBTV.

And no, we’re not talking Casey Anthony.

Instead, we’re talking 28-year old Olga Zajac. Olga runs her own hair salon, and she just happens to have a black belt in karate.  So, when 32-year old Victor Jasinski decided he was going to rob Olga’s hair salon, he wound up with a whole lot more than what he bargained for.

After a single, debilitating blow to the head, Olga dragged her semi-conscious robber to a back room, stripped him, tied him up with hair dryer cable, and then force fed him nothing but water and Viagra while using him as a sex slave for the next three days.

She released him after he “learned his lesson” she said, adding, “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left.”

Both now face charges in Meshchovsk, Russia.

I dunno … what she did was wrong, sure, but he kinda deserved whatever he got, didn’t he? If she’d shot him, would she face charges now? Seriously, does “kidnapping” even apply (SHOULD it even apply) when the person you’re kidnapping was intent on doing you harm?

Atlanta Journal Constitution

And multiple levels of sick.

I’m not entirely certain which aspect of this story is the strangest …

Where to start?  A 19-year old West Virginia man has been charged with cruelty to animals after police found him with a neighbor’s dead pygmy goat in his bedroom.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak …

He told police that he had been high on bath salts for going on three days straight. (I didn’t know you could get high off bath salts — how the hell do you discover this?)

But wait, there’s more!

I mentioned the pygmy goat was dead — it was, of at least one stab wound — but I didn’t mention that the dead male goat was for some reason wearing a pink collar.

But it gets better.

See, Mark — that’s the 19-year old guy, Mark Thompson — was himself wearing a bra and women’s panties.

And still, there’s more.

Laying on the floor near the goat’s carcass was a pornographic magazine photo.

They’re holding Mark on $50,000 bail.

MSNBC

This guy could write a book on how NOT to do it!

Nothing was happening the way Jonathan Huntley had planned. He’d just gotten out of jail in November, here it was the end of March and he was trying to finesse a home invasion. He and his buddy moved the occupants — a man and a woman — from room to room so they could keep an eye on them while they were gathering things up.

As they left with their loot, the man came running out of the house after them. A struggle ensued and as they drove off, a shirt fell out of the car onto the pavement. The man picked up the photo t-shirt and gazed upon the visage of one of the home invaders. After cops publicized the photo, Jonathan decided it was probably best to just turn himself in.

Note to criminals: vanity shirts are probably not a good idea at crime scenes, just in case.

Charlotte Observer

Honestly, I don’t think even the death penalty would be out of line.

If you’re so depraved and heartless that you could do this to an animal, you deserve whatever you get.

The backstory: maintenance workers at a Newark, NJ apartment complex were pulling garbage out of a chute and putting it into a compactor on Tuesday when they noticed one of the bags moving. Inside the bag, they found a dog, a pit bull about one to two years old, who was literally almost nothing but skin and bones. The poor dog was dehydrated, starving, covered with pressure sores, and had been so brutalized his bones were protruding from his skin and his body temperature was so low it would not register. He cried and moaned during his ambulance ride to the vet’s office.

But his eyes! The vet decided to give him a chance, wrapping him in heated blankets and starting him on antibiotics and fluids along with some pain meds. Would he make it through the night? A mere 24-hours later, the vet named him Patrick, since he’d made it through St. Patrick’s Day.

He continues to improve, eating on his own and standing. He flat out refuses to relieve himself indoors, so they help him outside and let him do his business. He’s got a long road ahead of him, but they’re expecting him to make a full recovery. Despite the way humans treated this poor boy, he absolutely loves people. The 550-unit apartment complex where Patrick was disposed of is notorious for drug trade, and since he’s a pit bull he was probably supposed to be someone’s guard dog — and he probably failed at his job because he was too kind and loving, which is probably why he was abused and starved and ultimately disposed of.

Here’s how Patrick looks now, barely a week after his dramatic rescue:

And here’s a short video about Patrick.

Under the fold, you can see a shot of how Patrick looked the day he was rescued. It’s a pretty gruesome shot, so be sure you really want to see it before you click. (If you don’t want to see the picture, but do want to read the comments, just click on the comment link below and don’t scroll up.)

FOX News, Humane Society pages on Patrick

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Chicks wielding pink handguns can be deadly …

Meghan Brown, a 25-year old former beauty queen who tips the scales at a whopping 110-pounds knew just what to do when the home invader started beating her fiancee about the head …

[42-year old Albert Franklin] Hill barged into the home at around 3 a.m. after Brown responded to a knock at the front door, according to a police report. He allegedly grabbed the 110-pound Brown around her nose and mouth and dragged her to an upstairs bedroom.

The woman’s fiance, Robert Planthaber, said in an interview that he was quickly awakened by the altercation and ran to Brown’s side.

“I attacked him and took a severe beating to the head,” Planthaber told FoxNews.com. “But I got him off of her long enough for her to scramble to the room where she keeps her pink .38 special.”

Meghan shot the suspect several times — hitting him in the chest, groin, thigh and back. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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FOX News

It had nothing to do with the will …

A 28-year old Philadelphia man killed a 70-year old man with a rock stuffed in a sock. He told cops he killed the man because in the Bible, it says to stone homosexuals to death.  He claimed the old man made sexual advances at him.

The fact that he’s the executor and sole beneficiary of the old man’s will was entirely unrelated, I’m sure.

FOX News

Do not deserve to be parents

Jeanette tipped me to this one.

Steven Demink, 41, of Redford Township, Mich., appeared in federal court in Detroit to enter his plea on six charges related to the sexual exploitation of children. Seven charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. He faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in June.

Court documents paint a picture of a man who targeted single mothers, and in some cases, promised them a date if they followed through with his directions. He would identify himself in conversations as Dalton St. Clair, a single father of a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said, and posted pictures of male models as his headshots.
He connected with mothers in New Hampshire, Idaho, Florida and elsewhere from April 2009 until September 2010, authorities say, and got them to engage in sexual acts with their children and send images via e-mail or through a live web stream. The children ranged in age from 3 to 15.

In one case, Demink started online chats with an Oregon woman about the sexual development of her eight-year-old autistic son, according to a plea agreement. He told her to engage in sexually explicit conduct with her son as a way to teach him about sex, and she did so while Demink watched on a web camera, prosecutors say.

The mother of a woman who had been chatting with him called sheriff’s officials in late 2009. Sheriff’s officials tipped off federal agents who then led the probe.

So far, seven children have been identified and three moms have been arrested.

Yahoo News

Three bodies have been found in Knox County

They’re believed to be those of Tina Hermann, her ten-year old son Kody Maynard and a family friend, Stephanie Sprang, who have been missing since November 10.

Sarah Maynard, 13, was initially missing with her family as well. She was found on November 14, bound and gagged in the basement of a home about ten miles from her home.

The owner of that home, 30-year old Matthew Hoffman, is in custody. Sheriff’s officials revealed that they believe Hoffman had been stalking the family for at least a few days before the 10th.  He’s currently being held in lieu of a one million dollar bond.  Neighbors report that they’ve had concerns about him for quite some time — Hoffman was known for, among other things, sitting in trees watching his neighbors and shooting (and eating) squirrels.

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