An 85 year-old woman has appeared in a video, wearing a black mask, holding a handgun and threatening to shoot all the pigs. Her 18 year old grandson, Michael Alfinez, who made the video, is now in a juvenile detention center after admitting that he coaxed his grandma into appearing in the gangster rap movie.

That might seem a stiff sentence - grandma wasn't hurt and she may well have enjoyed the whole event. that's what the Alfinez family are claiming. They think the case has been blown out of proportion. There's more to this story than first meets the eye, however.

The tape also included footage of him and others shooting a pistol around town. Alfinez not only pleaded guilty to elder abuse, he also pleaded guilty to charges of firing out of a moving vehicle and into a building.

Seems to me he got off lightly.

First Coast News

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A security guard at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is suing Courtenay Semel for allegedly pummeling him while she was in a drunken stupor.

Jaroslaw Jarczok claimed in a lawsuit, filed in LA County Superior Court yesterday, that Semel was "quite intoxicated due to alcohol and/or chemical or other substances" when the alleged offense took place at PURE Nightclub back in August. Having taken enough of Semel's drunken abuse, Jarczok eventually handcuffed her - which is when she got all physical with him.

Now, I have never heard of this woman before and neither had the poor security man; apparently though, Semel thought we should all have her name emblazoned on our hearts. When she allegedly struck Jarczok in the face, she is reported to have said - and I quote: Do you even know who I am. f***king idiot? Google Me, You Dumb F**ck.

Just in case you belong to the same ignoramus club as Jarczok and me, Semel is the daughter of Terry Semel.

Still none the wiser? He was the leading light at Yahoo.

Jarczok wants unspecified damages to compensate for his humiliation.

TMZ

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Cory Eugene Gill was a bank robber with style - his getaway car was a limo. Sadly though, style is no protection from the law and Gill was caught and arrested in Tulsa on Friday afternoon, just hours after having robbed a bank in Irving, Texas. He sped away in a black limo.

Oh - and it was his fortieth birthday on Monday. So, if you're reading this, Happy Fortieth, Cory!

Chron

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Officer Charles Brocker, of the Thomas Township Police Department in Saginaw, approached a man at the local Fill-N-Wash Car Wash to see what he was up to. He had watched the man arrive at the car wash on his pushbike and he was now apparently searching for change in the waste excess door of the installation.

However, as he got close enough to see what the man, one Jason Savage, was really up to, Officer Brocker realized that he certainly wasn't looking for change.

Savage, from Michigan, was, to put it delicately, servicing himself with the commercial car vacuum attachment; his response when confronted by Brocker was a simple, "Oh, shit."

Savage was arrested for indecent behaviour.

The Smoking Gun

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After catching a man trying to break into her home at dead of night, Robin Antin, founder of the Pussy Cat Dolls (and even I know who these are), called 911 last week.

When the LA County Sheriffs hightailed it round to Antin's home they found an apparently drunken guy hanging out in the front yard. Theory is that, in his drunken state, all he was guilty of is trying to enter the wrong home.

The man was arrested and booked on one misdemeanor count of being drunk in public.

TMZ

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Australian customs officials found more than they bargained for when the frisked a Samoan passenger on Wednesday. Whether by watching the woman's gait or by some other, more magical means, the officers suspected that the fifty-six year old from the Czech Republic might be concealing something on her body. The examining female officer found the women had secreted three banana plants in her underpants.

Quarantine officers seized the plants, which Customs say are a threat to Australia's banana industry because they can carry black sigatoka disease, fusarium wilt, or moko disease.

You can even see a picture of the recently released plants if you follow the link.

Yahoo

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A Colorado couple got a side dish they hadn't ordered with their take-out taco meal- a baggie of weed.

The couple were waited on by 26 year old Dennis Klermund, who now faces charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia following the dining couple's call to the police.

Oh, and before y'all rush off to the Del Taco Restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado. Klermund no longer works there.

9 News

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A man suspected of being involved in an armed robbery at an alleged brothel in Washington's Columbia Heights left his thumb behind.

Police say the 22-year-old man and an accomplice made off with hundreds of dollars in cash. However, one of the victims took hold of a silver machete used in the raid and hacked off the right thumb of one of the robbers.

Two hours later, a man with just one thumb reported to an ER; police were called and brought the severed thumb to the hospital. A doctor told police that the thumb 'fits like a puzzle piece' and the man was transferred to Baltimore hospital to have it reattached.

The man is now being held without bond.

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Y'all remember Lynyrd Skynyrd don't you - I'm sure I'm not the only aging hippie around here who used to hang out to a back track of Free Bird! Well, it seems the baby boomers' chickens are coming home to roost.

One of the founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Rossington, was arrested on DUI charges last month in Milton, Ga. Here are some of the highlights the arrest:

-- "Mr. Rossington was very unsteady on his feet and almost fell over multiple times."
-- "I had Mr. Rossington sit in his vehicle so he would not fall."
-- "Mr. Rossington stated 'I know I am drunk , I do not want take the evaluations.'"

Needless to say, Rossington was charged with DUI.

Lordy, what a generation we are; a generation who knows how to do things in style!

The Smoking Gun

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Thomas Riccio, who recorded the tape of OJ Simpson committing robbery in Las Vegas, is claiming he's been stitched up. He says that his interview with Dr Phil was a patchwork quilt of film segments put together in such a way as to imply he agreed withwith McGraw's statements, which he says he never did in the interview.

He is also suing for being tarred with he sobriquet "The Shady Deal Maker;" other labels with which he takes offense are "puppet master who would sell his soul for a coin," and "The ring leader of this crime."

Take a look at the comments section on this post - gosh, folks get a bit heated, don't they?

TMZ

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Well, that's what Lil' Wayne's court case turned into.

When the rapper's assistant was on the stand he found himself explaining the finer points of pot to the DA and the rest of the court.. Of Lil' Wayne's touring entourage, he said that pot is something they always have on the bus. He followed this with information about the star's pot habits - word on the street is that he only smokes hydroponically grown weed; well what he really said was that Wayne only smokes 'dro' - the good sh*t.

Lil' Wayne himself apparently sat with his head in his hands.

TMZ

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89 year-old Edna Jester from Blue Ash, Ohio, is facing charges for petty theft after taking the football belonging to her teenage neighbor that was in her yard.

Mother of the boy who owns the ball, Kelly Tanis, said she called the police because Jester has taken balls from her children before. She also said, "This time it was a ball that my son had just bought with his own money. He works and he makes his own money, and he bought that ball, and six days later she took it."

Blue Ash police said all they wanted was for Jester to give the ball back, they did not want to arrest her. However, she refused, saying "I was giving it back sooner or later, but not right now, so they could make a laughing stock out of me."

Jester appears in court November 12th.

Newsnet 5

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I had promised myself that I would steer clear of Madge's divorce because, after all, she is such an easy target. That was until I read that her divorce has to be timed for a maximum publicity.

It appears that the marriage was declared finally over back in July, however, the couple planned to leak bits and pieces of news until Madonna's movie was released and her concerts were over. This, they believed, would hype the concert tour, thus selling more tickets. Only afterwards would the authorized announcement of impending divorce be made.

Apparently, the couple are 'friends' who realized it was in both of their interests to make a pile of cash from fake reconciliation claims whilst she was on tour. One person said, "She is simply playing the media - and the public - as usual."

The plan was to push Madonna back into the news and then make a big announcement around November time. Well, other than being a month out, that is exactly what happened.

Given that rather sick and cynical ploy to manipulate her fans, I declare open season on the self-absorbed narcissist who, if truth be told, can't even sing!

TMZ

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Gus Young Jr stands accused of smashing up a grocery store in protest at the rising cost of living. Young apparently
entered Dixon's Food Mart in Fort Pierce, on the east Florida coast, and smashed a counter partition and DVD case.

When police turned up to arrest him, they say he smelled of alcohol, and was 'challenging people to fight.' When questioned he said he was angry about the fact that the price of a rock of crack cocaine had risen from ten dollars to twenty dollars.

Young claims he had actually been trying to punch a drug dealer in the store, but that the dealer ducked, causing him to hit the partition instead.

Metro

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A McCain hating 45-year-old has been ticketed for unlawful dumping after admitting to putting dog feces in his neighbor's truck.

Donald Esmay, a 19-year-old from St Cloud complained to police about the small bags of dog poo that had been appearing in the back of his pickup in the few weeks since he had put a McCain supporting sign there.

Eventually, after weeks of unsuccessfully watching for the culprit, a neighbor was seen approaching the truck on Wednesday. The neighbor was confronted and he admitted to being the Poo Depositor, he also agreed that it was a childish thing to do.

When police later spoke with the neighbor, he told officers he did it because he "hates McCain."

The unlawful dumping ticket comes with a $183 fine.

My Way News

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Yesterday morning, in the lobby of the Mondrian Hotel, an argument started between lead singer from the country band Big and Rich , John Rich, and 'two tattooed, large gentlemen.' One of the two gentlemen was Jerry Montano, a former bassist of the rock band Danzig. According to reports, Rich swung a beer bottle and hit Montano in the face. The report says that his nose was visibly broken and there was 'blood all over the place.'

Apparently, Montano was heard mumbling over and over again, 'The little guy hit me.' But it seems that neither guy wanted to press charges against the other

It obviously wasn't a good week for Rich, who was involved in another fight on another night - the previous night, in fact.

The first fight took place Wednesday night at a bar just across the street from the Mondrian. According to Rich, he was minding his own business when a lady he was talking to went to the restroom, then out of the blue he was socked in the ear by a stranger.

John made a citizen's arrest and waited for the cops, who arrested the alleged assailant, a guy named Chris Poggi.

So that's what they mean by 'Battle of the Bands.'

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After years of evasion, Batman has finally been brought down by disapproving police officers. It was in Tampa, a long way from Gotham City, that the real identity of the caped crusader was finally revealed.

You may have thought it was mild-mannered Clark Kent but, no, behind the Batman Mask was 21 year old Walsh Ian Nichols, who apparently likes a night on the town and often patrols the nightclubs of Ybor City in his mask and cloak.

Still unaware that all the Caped Crusader's actions are made for the greater good, police arrested batman for wearing his mask on a public right of way.

Nichols was released a few hours after his arrest on $500 bail. But his alter-ego, Batman, is prepared for all eventualities, and undeterred by police keeping his mask as evidence, he told the St. Petersburg Times that he has a spare.

Wink News

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Sean Combs, aka P Diddy, his arm still in a sling following shoulder surgery, was just passing the time of day on Tuesday, cruising Miami Beach in his jeep, listening to his sounds. But, thinking those sounds were a tad too loud, a cop pulled up and asked Diddy to turn it down. Rapper, Diddy, ignored the officer's request because he couldn't hear him. All of which proves that the officer was right!

Once the Bad Boy CEO had turned down the sounds he remained co-operative, despite being ticketed.

Celebrity Cars

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It was Saturday night when a 27 year old man broke into an office building in Berlin. He collected four laptop computers and took the elevator to leave the building. No doubt, he was praising himself for such a successful heist.

Meanwhile, in another part of town, an elevator company received an emergency call from a man stuck in the lift at a Berlin office building. They followed procedure and alerted the Berlin Fire Department, who attended the scene to rescue the trapped man.

Following the rescue, the firemen noticed there were four laptops stashed in the elevator. They called in the police.

After his arrest the man admitted to attempted-theft.

Moral: Robbers should never use elevators.

Spiegel Online

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A Port St Lucie man, who's name is given only as Franco, was being held on $10,000 bail last Tuesday for trying to attract the attention of his partner - well that's his story anyway.

The woman at the center of the story told deputies that she woke up on Friday morning to find Franco on top of her - nothing strange there. However, he was binding her hands with plastic ties and putting duct tape over her mouth. When Franco left the room to go to the kitchen, the unnamed woman managed to dial 911 on her cellphone.

On his arrest, Franco told deputies that he didn't want to live without his victim and he was just trying to get her attention. In that respect, I suppose, he was highly successful.

First Coast News

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Did you know that San Diego lobsters do not have pincers?

No neither did I but I suspect thirty-three-year-old Binh Quang Chau did - he was caught with six of the newspaper-wrapped creatures stuffed down his pants as he attempted to poach them from La Jolla State Marine Conservation Area in San Diego.

Department of Fish and Game warden Daryl Simmons says wardens arrested Chau when they noticed "odd bulges" in his pants. All six lobsters were, surprisingly, still alive and were returned to the ocean.

cbs13.com

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On Thursday night a thief broke into a cemetery and drained 200 gallons of water, worth about $50, from a tank. Thing is, he thought he was draining gasoline.

Back in July, 225 gallons of gasoline was drained from the same tank and police believe the thief returned to repeat his crime. Sadly for him, however, following the July theft, the cemetery maintenance supervisor decided to move the gasoline elsewhere, and the tank is now used to store water.

Police are looking for whoever stole the water; $600 in damages was caused when the meter attached to the tank was smashed.

West Volusia News

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Andrew Vactor was fond of listening to rap music (is that a contradiction of terms?) in his car, and he had a habit of turning the volume up high. Eventually, of course, he had to face the music. Literally.

Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott, Champaign County Municipal Court Judge, imposed a fine of $150 on Vactor for playing his music too loudly, but offered to reduce the fine to $35 if the accused would spend 20 hours listening to composed by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

Well, to be fair, the twenty-four-year-old gave it a go but, according to a probation office, he lasted about 15 minutes before giving up and paying the full fine.

Vactor said that the classical music wasn't the problem, he just wanted to be at a practice session with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team.

Judge Fornof-Lippencott says she was trying to make him understand that people don't like to be forced to listen to music they don't fully appreciate.

She says she's also taped TV shows for defendants in other cases to watch on topics such as financial responsibility. As she sees it, they get the chance to have their fine reduced "and at the same time broaden their horizons."

My Way News

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Well, that's what he says, anyway.

Interviewed last night by Barbara Walters, Up Town Girl Christie Brinkley's ex-husband, Peter Cook, claimed he's not a womanizing, sex-crazed pervert. He's just drawn that way. So that's okay then.

Cook went on to tell Walters he just wants his kids to know the real him. Surely the real him is the Scumbag Pervert who gets his kicks from online pornography and buys the affections of eighteen-year-old girls.

ABC News

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A 76-year-old convicted burglar in Britain is retiring. The reason for hanging up his swag bag is, he says, because modern technology has made it so hard to commit crimes.

Richard Blaylock was released from jail last week. On his release, the great-grandfather said that technological advancements, such as DNA testing and high-quality surveillance equipment, make a life of crime unsustainable.

Blaylock was a career criminal, with a total of 69 convictions under his belt, he has spent more than half of his life in 14 different prisons. His final conviction came when he was carrying his burglary tools and was stopped by police.

He said he hopes any young and aspiring criminals would learn from his experiences.

UPI

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A six-foot blue rabbit carrying a bucket and accompanied by a gun-wielding sidekick has been arrested in Sweden. The rabbit and his pal made an unsuccessful attempt to rob a currency exchange office in Farsta, just outside Stockholm.

They attempted to force their way through security doors in the exchange, but staff managed to shut the second of two doors in their face. And that was when Bungle and his buddy ran away.

Police captured two suspects a short while later, and held them on suspicion of attempted robbery. Authorities believe that the bunny suit may itself have been stolen earlier in the day.

Now, if it had been a 6 foot invisible rabbit named Harvey, it would have been believable. But, a blue bunny...

Metro

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 07:40 AM | Permalink

it's best not to tell them you've been drinking!

Apparently overtaken by passion, 23-year-old Dennis Cullen and his girlfriend were having sex in their car when they were surprised by a tap-tap-tap on the windscreen. They looked up to see a uniformed police officer, whether or not they also saw the several marked police cars in surround parking spaces is not reported.

To make matters worse, the couple was also parked in a disabled space. With the engine running.

Cullen made the mistake of telling the officer that he and his female companion had been drinking at a university function. He was charged with drink driving. Neither he nor his companion were charged in connection with having sex in the car.

Silly boy!

Ananova

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In Australia, the wife of a diplomat who got drunk and then squeezed the bottom of a Victorian policeman, has avoided a criminal conviction - despite the fact that following her arrest she injured a prison guard.

Muna Mawrid, 31, whose Norwegian husband is posted to Vietnam, staggered from the bar Amnesia at 5am on May 10 and grabbed the officer's left butt cheek.

She apparently remarked, "I love you guys. You look so f***# ing hot with your nine-millimetres." Reportedly, Mawrid's eyes were glazed and her speech was slurred.

After her arrest, Mawrid requested her asthma inhaler. She then lunged at a female guard and pulled her into the cell and, in the struggle, the guard suffered a lacerated finger which needed stitches.

The Norwegian avoided a criminal conviction because, two days after the event, a doctor diagnosed her as suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

Mawrid was put on a non-conviction 12-month undertaking to be of good behavior, ordered to pay $500 to the court fund, and to continue counseling for her condition.

It seems to me that her actions were more the result of feeling 'hot' than of PTSD but what do I know.

The Age

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In these days of CCTV it doesn't pay to have your name and date of birth tattooed on the back of your neck.

Aaron Evans, an illiterate 21 year old, attempted to steel a car in Bristol, UK. Unfortunately for him, he was caught when police used CCTV images showing the tattooed details on the back of his neck to pick him up.

Even more unfortunately for Evans, the car had been left by Avon and Somerset Police officers with a covert camera concealed inside, which took the damning pictures.

Evans pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates' Court and was sentenced to seven months in prison.

BBC

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 09:36 AM | Permalink

Juan Briceno has has been caught driving drunk four times - in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2007.

On May 1, 2007, Briceno was taken in for reported drunk driving and, perhaps wanting to prove beyond doubt that he's whiter than white, drunk a bottle of Wite Out correctional fluid!

He was seen drinking from correctional fluid on a surveillance video - he had been left alone in a room at the police station, thinking that officers had gone to get the breath-testing equipment. Whether he was attempting to cover the fumes on his breath is not known - he's wiped the event from his mind. Hey - perhaps the stuff works!!

In the event, police spent a happy few minutes watching as Briceno attempted unsuccessfully to correct his mime-artist lips - perhaps he should have used Tippex to cover his mistake.

Later, at the hospital, Briceno's blood alcohol level was found to be three and a half times the legal limit.

Omaha World Herald

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When Heidi Kohl, an 89 year old grandmother from Western Germany, became fed up with all the cars parked in her neighborhood, she extracted her revenge by slashing tires - 50 of them.

One of Kohl's neighbors spotted her mid-slash and reported her activities to the police and, subsequently, Granny Kohl was told she would face a fine. However, when Kohl told the authorities she couldn't afford to pay the fine, they came up with a rather unusual punishment - they ordered her to knit jumpers for her victims.

A spokeswoman confirmed: "When she's knitted the sweaters, then the matter will be over for us."

All that knitting will keep her off the streets as well.

Digital Spy

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The former head mistress at Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls has launched a lawsuit against She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Nomvuto Mzamane claims Oprah launched a defamatory campaign against her late last year. In her lawsuit she claims that Oprah implied the former headmistress is "untrustworthy, failed the students of the academy, did not care about the students at the academy, knew of alleged physical and sexual abuse at the academy and participated in a cover-up of the alleged abuse."

She is asking for a quarter million dollars in damages, seems like a small price to pay for a cover up...

People

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:25 AM | Permalink

David J. Cook, one of the attorneys for the Goldman family. When question on Orange Juice's 12 guilty verdicts, Cook is reported to have commented:

Finders keepers, losers weepers. Going to that Las Vegas hotel room was a very bad idea. Robbing those two snookes was a worse idea. But going to jail for beating Fred Goldman out of a payment for the wrongful death judgment ... priceless

TMZ

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:17 AM | Permalink

Croatian couple, Stipe Cavlovic and his wife Mirna, unintentionally got caught up in a disagreement between two men, and one of the men fired at them.

Amazingly, the bullet ricocheted off Mirna's cheek and got stuck in Stipe's false teeth.

By surprise, rather than by intention, Stipe spat out the hot bullet, causing the attacker to run off in fright.

The Croatian superman is quoted as telling the police, " I thought I was dead for sure, I didn't even see the bullet hit my wife. I just saw the flash of the gun's barrel. The next thing I knew was something hit my false tooth and I spat out the hot lead. It hurt like hell but we're both still alive." Wife Maria was also uninjured.

Police believe he survived because the bullet lost so much speed when it grazed Marla's cheek.

The gunman was arrested.

Metro

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:39 AM | Permalink

Oscar Robertson, a celebrity to all basketball fans out there, allegedly fleeced a company he controlled of 90% of its funds, which he used for himself and his family. The money went on living, as well as on travel and entertainment.

Leo Kelly makes this astounding claim in a Federal lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania. Kelly claims he was in partnership with Robertson in the ex-basketball player's document management company. We are not told what documents they managed or how they managed them.

When the apparently upstanding Kelly complained about Robertson's extravagant use of company funds, he was fired.

But hang on - this can't be right, can it?

Robertson is the guy who changed the face of basketball forever, ironically in another lawsuit. The Oscar Robertson suit was an antitrust lawsuit filed by Robertson against the National Basketball Association. Filed in 1970, the lawsuit was settled in 1976 and resulted in the free agency rules now used in the NBA.

Also ironic is the fact that the University of Cincinnati honored the basket ball player last year, saying he was an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Well, it seems he is certainly philanthropic in the eyes of his family.

TMZ

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University of Cincinnati

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 08:15 AM | Permalink

In Cincinnati, thirty-two-year-old Michelle Allen was charged with disorderly conduct after chasing children and urinating on a neighbor's porch. She was wearing a cow suit at the time.

Police were called when the 'cow' blocked traffic in a busy street. The arresting officer reported that Allen's breath smelled of alcohol, she slurred her speech, and she was belligerent, apparently cussing at him.

I've never been to Cincinnati, maybe I should go.

Local 12

Posted by Dianne Sandland at 03:42 AM | Permalink

Sharon Stone apparently suggested that her son, Roan, should have Botox injections in his feet to resolve a problem he had with foot odor. Stone's ex-husband, Phil Bronstein, thought the issue could be resolved more readily by ensuring that their son wore socks with his shoes.

Such are the issues that trouble the lives of celebrities except, in this case, this was just one instance of Stone's 'alarmist' parenting disclosed by the judge who rejected her request to move her son down to LA.

In response to the actress' assertion that she put her career on hold for Roan, the judge commented, "If Mother has, in fact, limited her career to make herself available for Roan, she has done little to make this evident to Roan, his school or this Court."

What exciting lives they lead.

TMZ

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