Tuesday - November 22, 2005

Psycho III

Seven years in prison? This splodeydope needs to be in a funny farm for life. Mark my words, as soon as he gets out he’ll be opening a motel on a remote highway and beautiful blondes (played by Janet Leigh in the eventual movie) will be slashed and gashed. Even worse, before you know it Hollywood will make a really bad sequel .... starring Ben Affleck ....

Man Who Kept Dead Mom in Freezer Sentenced
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP)

A recluse who kept his dead mother in his freezer and shot at his neighbors when they came to his door was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday. Philip Schuth, 53, was sentenced for attempted homicide, reckless endangerment and concealment of a corpse.

Schuth told investigators that his mother died of natural causes in 2000, and an autopsy confirmed that. Schuth, who never had held a real job, said he hid her death because he was afraid authorities would blame him and because he wanted to keep collecting her Social Security checks.

He was arrested in April after an all-night standoff with police at his house on French Island, which lies in the Mississippi River just outside La Crosse. The standoff began when Schuth shot at a couple and their 10-year-old son after they confronted him over whether he had hit the boy.

During negotiations with police, Schuth said he had his dead mother in a freezer in the basement. Officers found her encased in a block of ice.

“Obviously it’s a very serious crime. On the other hand, he had some unique issues in his upbringing that contributed to it which are probably treatable,” District Attorney Scott Horne said, referring to Schuth’s isolated childhood and hermit-like existence as an adult. “We all learned how to deal with minor conflicts because we’re taught and brought up to do that. He wasn’t.”

Schuth has said he fantasized about being married to “Alias” star Jennifer Garner. At his sentencing, he said: “I apologize to Jennifer Garner and her pool boy Ben Affleck for involving them in my fantasies.”

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   Friday - November 18, 2005

Plastic Lover

Quick! Try to imagine your worst nightmare! .... Nope, not even close. The gentleman in the story below has got to be having the worst day of his life because: (1) he lives in Iowa, (2) he was discovered having “relations” with a female mannequin, (3) the mannequin appears to have been “molested” several times previously, (4) the Iowa newspaper and website not only printed his name but his address, and finally (5) thousands of readers at BMEWS will have the rest of the day to talk about him. Sometimes, suicide is actually a viable option ....

Police Find Semi-Nude Man Inside Pavilion
SIOUX FALLS, Iowa (ARGUSLEADER.COM)

A Sioux Falls man is charged with indecent exposure after being found partially unclothed and lying on the floor with a female mannequin in the Washington Pavilion.

Michael James Plentyhorse, 18, 708 N. Dakota Ave., was discovered by a Pavilion security officer at 4:35 p.m. Monday in the Washington High School Alumni Room, police said.

The guard observed Plentyhorse with his pants and underclothing down and lying next to the half-naked female mannequin, a police report states.

“There was inappropriate activity between him and the mannequin. That’s the only way I know how to put it,” Sioux Falls police officer Loren McManus said.

Security staff at the Pavilion say they have noticed the same mannequin has previously been found undressed on several occasions, McManus said.

No drugs or alcohol appear to have been involved.

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   Thursday - November 17, 2005

Help Wanted

The Skipper will be moving to Nevada shortly to take up a new position with a new company. He has just completed the interview process and salary negotiations are underway. It seems Skipper was number one on the list of new hires for this new venture. In fact, spokesmen for the company said The Skipper was the model used to lay out the standards for all new hires. In a related story, scientists have proven that pigs can fly ....

Fleiss Plans Makeover for Nevada Brothel
LAS VEGAS (AP)

Former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss says she’s bound for a brothel in the southern Nevada desert that she wants to help remake into a resort featuring male prostitutes serving female customers. “I am moving to Crystal,” Fleiss said Wednesday of a desert crossroads 20 miles north of Pahrump and about 80 miles outside Las Vegas. It features two bordellos and little else.

“I am opening up a stud farm,” Fleiss declared from her Hollywood home overlooking the Sunset Strip. “I am going to have the sexiest men on earth. Women are going to love it.” Joe Richards, who owns the Cherry Patch Ranch and Mabel’s Ranch in Crystal, said he sent a “courtesy” letter Tuesday to inform the Nye County Commission that Fleiss will work for him.

“She’s going to be madam hostess of Cherry Patch Ranch,” Richards told The Associated Press by telephone. He called her an employee rather than a partner. There’s one possible problem, though. County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said that because Fleiss is a convicted felon, she could be banned from the county’s legal sex trade. DeMeo sits with the five county commissioners on a six-member brothel licensing board.

Fleiss, 39, was released from a California prison in 1999 after serving 21 months for money laundering, tax evasion and attempted pandering. Fleiss was convicted in 1995 of running a prostitution ring in which models-turned-prostitutes were flown around the world to meet wealthy actors and clients who paid as much as $10,000 for a single meeting.

DeMeo said he’d heard several reports in his three years as sheriff about Fleiss’ plans, including a failed proposal by an Australian firm that hired Fleiss in 2003 to promote a 50-room brothel-hotel. “This is different,” Fleiss insisted Wednesday, describing movers packing her belongings and her plan to arrive in Nevada later this week. “I’m moving.”

Nye County is among 10 rural Nevada counties in which prostitution is legal under county and state oversight. Prostitution is illegal in Clark County surrounding Las Vegas, and Washoe County around Reno.

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   Monday - November 14, 2005

Hell Hath No Fury …

... like a female political boss who has been spurned. Especially in the concrete jungles of New York politics. The jury found her guilty of sexual harassment but awarded him no money. I guess they assumed he got his money’s worth over an 18-month long period of “harassment”.

This story wins our “Sleaze Award Du Jour” (unless something better comes along before close of business this afternoon - which is why we wait patiently for San Francisco to trump this one with another ace in the hole - so to speak). For those who cherish the really sleazy stuff, skip ahead to paragraph six ...

HARBOR STUD: POL WANTED SEX FIVE TIMES PER WEEK
November 14, 2005
NEW YORK (NY POST)

A Long Island jury found that Huntington ex-Councilwoman Susan Scarpati-Reilly coerced harbormaster Bill Perks into sex but awarded him no money. The Long Island harbormaster at the center of a scintillating sex scandal is speaking for the first time since a court found he was sexually harassed by his former boss — calling the woman “insatiable.” During their 18-month affair, Huntington ex-Councilwoman Susan Scarpati-Reilly lusted for kinky sex in public places and “was a sexual-predator politician,” said former Huntington harbormaster Bill Perks, breaking his silence in an exclusive interview with The Post.

“She had an appetite that could not be believed. She had an insatiable desire for sex.” The interview came after a federal jury found Perks, 53, was “subjected to unwelcome sexual advances or demands” by Scarpati-Reilly. The jury also determined that the married 53-year-old councilwoman’s advances “resulted in a tangible employment action” affecting his job — but it did not award Perks a dime.

“I was the hunted harbormaster, and the jury found that I was the sexually harassed harbormaster,” Perks said, looking over Centerport Harbor from the deck of his home.  Perks said the secret affair began when Scarpati-Reilly became his protector in the rough-and-tumble world of Huntington politics and they began “going out for beers,” which led to a friendship and, later, sex up to five times a week, he claims.

Over 18 months, Perks said they had consensual sex more than 200 times — in Town Hall, on his houseboat, “in the weeds” at a nude beach on Fire Island, in cars and in motels. In their first after-hours erotic encounter, Perks said he was “extremely nervous” when Scarpati-Reilly led him to a Town of Huntington attorney’s office, closed the door and told him: “I need to be hugged.”

“The next thing you know,” Perks said, “the groping began and the clothes were coming off.” He said they had sex “on the floor and on the desk. Having sex in Town Hall is more complicated than it sounds.” He said the politician and former prosecutor swore him to secrecy. They were never caught and all went well — until Perks found a girlfriend, fell in love and tried to end the affair with the councilwoman in the summer of 1998.

Perks claims that, when he tried to bail out of the relationship, the politician threatened to scuttle his job — unless he kept servicing her. In one encounter, he said, Scarpati-Reilly showed him an order demanding his termination.  “She demanded that I drop to my knees and beg her to keep my job, which I did,” said Perks. That incident in her office, he said, also led to oral sex — but he could not perform because of the pressure.

“She said, ‘What? Have you turned gay on me?’ I begged her” to continue the alleged affair, said Perks. “Make no mistake — in her office, she forced me to have sex.” At the four-week federal civil trial, Scarpati-Reilly, her husband, Steve, and their 22-year-old son all testified that the politician spent a weekend at upstate Mohonk resort with her husband — not Perks. But Perks insists that it was he, not Steve Reilly, who was with the councilwoman at the hotel that weekend.

“I was shtupping his wife. We had a blowout. It was a beautiful spot,” Perks said. “And I was not reading a book,” he said, with a grin, referring to Reilly’s testimony that that’s how he himself spent that weekend. Perks said he will not give up the ship and he and his lawyer Ed Yule said they will appeal the verdict. Yule called the verdict “inconsistent” and said he hoped an appeals court will recognize that, as well as several other “errors,” and grant Perks a new trial.

Scarpati-Reilly at first agreed to an interview and then canceled it, citing a lawyer’s advice, her husband said. She has denied she ever had sex with Perks and claims he made up the sensational claims after she accused him of slapping her during a confrontation in 1999.

kieran.crowley@nypost.com

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   Saturday - November 12, 2005

Drunk Moose Alert

When we finally caught up with Bullwinkle and Rocky, who were in Canada on a secret mission to stop Boris and Natasha from destroying the entire Canadian Navy (three rowboats and a rubber ducky), our hero moose only had this to say about the behavior of his wife and daughter back home, “The missus has been having stress-related problems lately after Rocky came out of the closet and broke off his engagement to my daughter. I have Mrs. B booked at the Betty Ford Clinic. No further comment.” Our hero then proceeded to compliment Rocky on his new pink dress before the pair of crime-fighters were viciously attacked by Fearless Leader’s dastardly duo. Stay tuned ....

Drunk Moose Invade Swedish Seniors Home
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)

They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of a retirement home in southern Sweden had to deal with both: A pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises.

The moose—a cow and her calf—had become drunk over the weekend by eating fermented apples they found outside the home in Sibbhult, said employee Anna Karlsson.

Police managed to scare them off once, but the tipsy mammals returned to get more of the tempting fruits. This time the moose were drunk and aggressive, forcing police to send for a hunter with a dog to make them leave.

Police did not pursue the culprits, but made sure all apples were picked up from the area, police chief Bengt Hallberg said. No one was hurt.

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Cheerleader Bar Room Brawl, Part II

I have to admit, I too have often been mistaken for being engaged in sexual activity when I was actually crying. I mean, both are forms of releasing tension, both usually involve making strange faces, and tears can easily be mistaken for perspiration, right? Most importanly, a bathroom stall at your local neighborhood bar is usually the best place to indulge in either one ... or maybe not ...

Cheerleader Says She Was Crying, Not Having Sex
TAMPA (TBO)

One of two former Carolina Panthers cheerleaders arrested in a Channelside nightclub bathroom said Thursday she was crying over an ex-boyfriend - not having sex with her teammate - when a fracas erupted over the women sharing a stall. Angela Keathley, 26, of Charlotte, N.C., released the statement through Tampa attorney Joe Episcopo. ``She just wanted to make clear there was no sex,’’ he said.

At least two women alleged in a Tampa police report they heard moaning in a Banana Joe’s bathroom stall about 2 a.m. Sunday and thought Keathley and Victoria Renee Thomas, 20, of Pittsboro, N.C., were having sex. Another woman thought Thomas was drunk and ill. Episcopo offered another version of events: that Keathley became ``emotional’’ over talking about her ex-boyfriend in the bar. ``The blond was comforting her,’’ he said.

When the women emerged, Thomas punched Melissa Holden, a woman waiting to use the bathroom, police said. Thomas identified herself to police using another cheerleader’s driver’s license, for which she faces a felony charge, in addition to misdemeanor battery. Police are still investigating how she obtained the license. Keathley faces two misdemeanor charges, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She has retained a labor attorney because she is concerned she may lose her full-time job as a nurse, Episcopo said.

Keathley and Thomas lost their slots on the cheerleading squad, known as the TopCats, after posting bail. Meanwhile, to capitalize on its sudden notoriety, Banana Joe’s is offering no cover charge on Fridays and Saturdays to patrons who dress like cheerleaders. Actual cheerleaders who are 21 or older can drink free, said Bridgette Collier, director of operations.

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   Friday - November 11, 2005

Open Season, No Bag Limit

The only catch is that no one has ever seen one of them in the four hundred years since the creature’s existence was first reported. That’s the Swedes for you though. Give me a crew of good ol’ boys from Alabama, a decent pick-em-up truck, several cases of beer and lots of ammo. We’ll have that sucker mounted on the wall at the local VFW Club by noon ....

Hunting Season Opens for Mythical Creature
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)

A mythical monster, believed by some to have lived for hundreds of years in the murky depths of a Swedish lake, is now fair game for hunters—if they can find it. Authorities have agreed to lift its endangered species protection. Hundreds of people claim to have spotted a large serpent-like creature in Lake Storsjon in the northwestern province of Jamtland, and in 1986 the regional council put it on a list of endangered animals.

But a government watchdog challenged the decision, saying such protection was hardly necessary for a creature whose existence has not been proven. The regional council agreed to remove the listing this month, but declined to rule out that a monster lives in the 300-foot deep lake. “It exists, inasmuch as it lives in the minds of people,” the council’s chief legal adviser Peter Lif said about the purported beast. “But I guess we’ll have to agree that it cannot be proved scientifically, and then it should not be listed as an endangered species.”

The so-called Storsjo monster was first mentioned in print in 1635. Hundreds of sightings have been reported since then. Some people describe the creature as a snakelike animal with a dog’s head and fins on its neck. But no clear image of it has been captured on camera. Storsjo monster aficionados said lifting the endangered species protection was a mistake, and appeared insulted by the decision.

“We are not fanatics,” said Christer Berko, of the Storsjo monster association. “We see this as very interesting phenomenon that we unfortunately have not been able to document.”

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   Wednesday - November 09, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

In keeping with the somewhat low standards we sometimes stoop to here, we present for your reading pleasure a story involving a professional football cheerleader, sex with another woman in a bathroom stall and ultimately a bar-room brawl and several arrests. A veritable cornucopia of sleaze to start your day. Don’t worry, though. The day is still young ....

Warrant Issued for
Ex-Panthers Cheerleader
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP)

A fugitive arrest warrant was issued for a Carolina Panthers cheerleader who allegedly gave a false name during her arrest at a bar where witnesses said she had sex with another cheerleader in a restroom stall.

Renee Thomas (pictured at left) was charged with giving a false name and causing harm to another, a third-degree felony punishable by probation or a jail term of up to five years, Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Tuesday.

Thomas, 20, was released before police learned she had given them a driver’s license belonging to another Panthers cheerleader, who was not in Tampa. “She was bonded out on the false name she gave us,” McElroy said, adding that detectives are trying to determine how Thomas got the license.

McElroy said witness accounts that Thomas and fellow cheerleader Angela Keathley (pictured at right) were having sex with each other in a bathroom stall “led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges. The charge is that she (Thomas) punched someone in the face and then she chose to give police a fake ID,” she said.

Keathley was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Repeated attempts to reach the women were unsuccessful Tuesday. The cheerleaders were not in town to perform at the game, and the team said both were fired from the TopCats squad for violating a signed code that bans conduct embarrassing to the Panthers.

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   Sunday - November 06, 2005

Too Much Wood

I have absolutely nothing to say about this story. Nothing. Not a single word. Nada. Zip. The gentle, civilized BMEWS readers will have to carry the .... “two-by-four” .... on this one .... and no comments about a “smoking gun”, OK?

Penis Size Used As Defence In Trial
Accused claims he’s too large to have committed sexual assault
NEWMARKET, Canda (TORONTO SUN)

A Superior Court judge must decide whether to believe a 21-year-old accused who says he could not have committed a sexual assault because his penis is too big. Mischa Beutling, a second-year engineering student at McMaster University in Hamilton, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault on a friend who spent the night with him after partying at a Barrie bar during study week in February 2004.

Earlier in the trial, which has been in and out of court for months, a urologist testified that Beutling’s penis is in the top 5% range for size in comparison to the doctor’s other patients. The urologist showed the court a plastic model of a penis approximating the accused’s member at a semi-relaxed state, which measured 8 1/2 inches in length and 6 1/2 inches in girth.

He said a woman who has not given birth might have discomfort or tearing if she had intercourse with a penis that size, especially if she was not sexually aroused. But Crown attorney Bhavna Bhangu scoffed at the account, noting that Beutling’s reference to his size as a “two-by-four” is an exaggeration compared to the size of the plastic model.

“It’s hardly a two-by-four,” she said. She also noted that he has never actually measured himself. Bhangu also said the “size theory” was never put to the complainant on the witness stand for her account. Bhangu said the woman was traumatized when Beutling, who is 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds and who she believed was her close friend, forced himself on her. Justice Margaret Eberhard must weigh the evidence, including the plastic model. A verdict is expected next month.

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   Saturday - November 05, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Week (so far)

If you’re gonna deface public buildings and highways in Las Vegas, be careful. The mayor wants to cut off your thumb for doing it. This ought to really increase sales of Wendy’s Chili ....

Oscar does it again!
The happiest mayor calls for cutting off the thumbs of graffiti artists on television and caning and whipping children
(LAS VEGAS SUN)

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman suggested Wednesday that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television. Goodman, appearing on the television program “Nevada Newsmakers” in Reno, said: “In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes.

“You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it. “I’m saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb,” the mayor added. “That may be the right thing to do.”

Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble. “I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown,” Goodman said. “I’m dead serious,” said Goodman, a guest on the panel show.

Parents are supposed to take care of their children, but government replaces them on some occasions, Goodman said. “Some of these (children) don’t learn,” he said. “You have got to teach them a lesson, and this is coming from a criminal defense lawyer.” Goodman then added: “They would get a trial first.”

Another panelist on the show, Howard Rosenberg, a member of the university Board of Regents, responded by saying that Goodman should “use his head for something other than a hat rack.” Cutting off the thumbs of taggers will not solve the problem, Rosenberg said.

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Super-Glue Follow-Up

Remember the psycho girlfriend from hell? She’s been ordered to pay over $46k to her ex-boyfriend. Her lawyer’s defense came unglued before the jury ....

Jury Rules Against Woman in Genital Gluing
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP)

A Westmoreland County jury on Friday ordered a woman to pay $46,200 to her ex-boyfriend for gluing his genitals to his abdomen. Jurors found in favor of Kenneth Slaby of Pittsburgh in his civil case against Gail O’Toole of Murrysville after three days of testimony and ordered the payment for pain, suffering and emotional distress, according to television station KDKA.

“For all the pain and suffering I’ve been through, and the embarrassment, I don’t think it’s enough,” Slaby told reporters after the verdict. Slaby’s lawsuit said the two broke up in 1999 after dating for 10 months, and he began dating someone else. After he broke up with his other girlfriend, Slaby said, O’Toole invited him over to her home on May 7, 2000, where he fell asleep.

He said he woke up to find that O’Toole had used Super Glue to stick his genitals to his abdomen, glued his buttocks together and spelled out a profanity on his back in nail polish.

Slaby said O’Toole told him that her actions were payback for their breakup, and he had to walk a mile to a gas station to call for help. He pressed charges and O’Toole pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and spent six months on probation.

But O’Toole’s attorney contended that the incident was nothing more than part of the couple’s adventurous, consensual sex.

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   Thursday - November 03, 2005

A Sticky Wicket

Today’s psycho girlfriend from hell story is brought to you by Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

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Two-Fer On E-Bay

Gents, if you have at least $600k laying around and are in the market for a new home in Denver that comes complete with an outstandingly beautiful blonde wife ... then we have a deal for you. Let the bidding begin ....

For Sale: House With Bride

The idea of “House With Bride” began while I was contemplating selling my house in Denver, Colorado. Although my company is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a few years ago I bought a house in Denver. My life in Albuquerque had solely revolved around my work, and I felt that I needed to make some changes to improve my social life and hopefully meet my “soul mate”.

Denver was an attractive choice for several reasons. First, it was a nearby major metropolitan city (so I could commute back and forth), and other factors included the wonderful downtown area for socialization, the great climate, beautiful scenery and overall energy of the area.

One of the most beautiful and desirable neighborhoods in Denver is Washington Park. I purchased an old home there and spent over a year remodeling and decorating my home. I loved working on my home and took pride in my remodeling accomplishments. There was only one problem…I had not met that special someone to share this house with. My attempts included dating services, blind dates and connections through friends, but I still had not met the man to build a life with.

Finally I decided to give my best effort towards something whereby that special man could “find me”. eBay offered an opportunity for a “non-binding” transaction, which provides a means to advertise my house (and myself), with neither party being obligated to complete the transaction.

You might be wondering why I have my listing at $600,000.00 plus myself for bid as “priceless”. First, I estimate the value of the house with furnishings at approximately $600,000.00. When I asked my girlfriends their advice on what I (the “bride”) was worth, most responded that I was “priceless”.

- Read More And Place Your Bid Here

Disclaimer From The Skipper: I have my suspicions about this but I’ll withhold judgement until the young lady provides proof that she is indeed “priceless”. Besides, how do I know the roof doesn’t leak?

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   Friday - October 28, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day

OK, gang! It’s that time again to play ”Punchline”. Here’s the way we play: (1) I provide the totally bizaare news story and then (2) you have to come up with a suitable punchline to cap it off. Ready ... Set ... GO!

Cat Ran Off With Severed Toe
LUEBECK, Germany (ANANOVA)

A cat ran off with its owners toe after he accidentally chopped it off and then left it on the floor while he called an ambulance.

Udo Ried, 41, was slicing bread in his kitchen in Luebeck, Germany, when he dropped a large kitchen knife onto his bare foot, chopping off his second toe.

While Ried was hopping to the bathroom to get a bandage and at the same time using his mobile phone to call emergency services, his cat Fritz pounced on the bloody toe and ran off with it into the garden.

Ried tried to get the toe back but after a few minutes he was forced to abandon the search to seek medical attention.

A spokesman for Luebeck hospital said they would have been able to reattach the toe if the cat had not stolen it.

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