A woman had 37 items in her cart when she went to the checkout at the Piggly Wiggly in Saukville, Wisconsin. There was no one waiting or in line at the 10 items or less register, so she asked the clerk if she could take her and the clerk said yes. Soon another customer came up and strenuously objected with "Can't you (bleeping) read?"
"The female subject, the complainant then turned back toward the man (and said) 'I got permission here. Is there a problem?' That's when the person said to her, 'Yeah, the problem is that you're ugly and fat,' " Saukville police officer Barry Effinger told WTMJ.
The woman called 911. The man was issued a citation for disorderly conduct with a $429 fine. It was the man's second such incident investigated by the same officer in two years. He was ticketed and handed a $429 dollar fine.
Allan and Scott Roach lived with 178 cats and kept several dead kitties in the freezer of a home that stank so badly of urine it was hard to breathe.
But finally, after two years, Allan Roach has made his first court appearance on 20 charges related to animal neglect. When officers got into the Roach's Fond du Lac home two years ago, the air was so rank it made their eyes water. Some of the cats were missing patches of hair, and some had eye infections or were missing eyeballs. One cat was so malnourished that its tongue stuck out even with its mouth closed. Some cats were wrapped in tin foil in the freezer.
The case was turned over to the Fond du Lac District Attorney, and charges were filed earlier this year after the case languished due to various bureaucratic missteps. Allan Roach told the court last week that Scott Roach has died since the charges were filed. Their home has been torn down.
Allan Roach faces faces a possible nine months behind bars on each of the 20 counts against him. He's due back in court Sept. 20.
Patricia Torres of Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin, awoke at 5:30 AM back on May 17 to the sound of the bear in distress only 15 feet from her bedroom window. "She was making a really weird gurgling noise like she was choking," Torres said. "When I looked, she was lying down and I could see a lot of saliva." Torres lives with her fiance, Tony Milia. "I told Tony, 'Honey, I gotta do it, man. I cannot let this bear die in my yard'," Torres said. Tony replied, "Do what you gotta do." She donned a pair of leather gloves and went outside, where she found the bear unresponsive. She shoved her hand in the bear's mouth until she could feel an object, which she grabbed and yanked out. It was a ham bone she had bought for her dog. As the bear very slowly recovered, Torres brought her some water. When the bear recovered, it began looking up a tree. Torres figured she had some cubs up in the tree. Torres and her fiance grabbed their fishing poles and went fishing for a few hours. When they returned, the bear and cubs were gone.
