CAROLINA NATURALLY

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Shoplifter assaults Rock Hill Walmart worker, flees police

Police say a Rock Hill, South Carolina man stole $245 in steaks from Walmart, assaulted a worker and then led officers on a foot chase into the woods.

Reginald Brice, 47, is accused of stealing the steaks from the Old York Road Walmart near Newport around 3 p.m. Thursday, according to a Rock Hill Police report.
A store security worker confronted the thief in the parking lot when the man shoved and hit him, the report states. The store employee told police the shoplifter also attempted to bite him.
Brice ran away into the woods behind Walmart. Police found some of the steaks in his car in the parking lot, the report states.
He was later found hiding behind a garbage bin after an employee of a nearby pizza store noticed Brice looking suspicious and informed police.
Brice ran from officers back into the woods before he was arrested.
He is charged with resisting arrest, shoplifting and assault and battery, the report states.

Attempted theft at Bi-Lo

In an unrelated case, police are reviewing surveillance video to try to identify two women accused of attempting to steal nearly $800 worth of groceries from the Cherry Road Bi-Lo on Thursday.
Bi-Lo’s store manager told police that two women tried to leave the store with two grocery carts full of food around 6:40 p.m., according to a Rock Hill Police report.
The manager stopped the women and asked if they paid for their groceries.
One woman showed him an old store receipt from Charlotte, the manager told police.
They abandoned the shopping carts and ran to a gray Ford Taurus in the parking lot.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/14/3529368/police-shoplifter-assaults-rock.html#storylink=cpy

Man smashed up neighbor's camper because 'it looked like he was going to get froggy'

Curtis Leatherberry of New Port Richey, Florida, told deputies he grabbed a soda and a pastry from the house next door. It was an agreement he had with his neighbor. He didn't think there would be any trouble. At 1:45 on Tuesday morning, his neighbor came over. Tony Barney struck up an argument. He said food had been missing from his house and blamed Leatherberry, 52, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states.

Barney, 31, punched out a window of Leatherberry's live-in camper. Leatherberry told Barney that if he put his hand in again, he would stab it. Authorities say Barney then punched out every other window. He lobbed a cinder block into the trailer, breaking Leatherberry's dresser and microwave.

Barney broke off the supports to the camper's out-board sleeping area, then he began "literally tearing the walls off the trailer." He then stuck a water hose in the camper, turned it on and left. Deputies wrote they arrived to find shards of glass around the trailer and clinging to its window frames.

A 32-inch TV lay in its face nearby. The camper's siding was torn off, the frame broken, the inside soaked. In the middle of the floor sat the cinder block. Asked why he did it, Barney told deputies, "while I was talking with Curtis, it looked like he was going to get froggy. That is the only way I can describe it." Barney was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief. He remained on Wednesday at Land O'Lakes jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Bigoted filmmaker who triggered deaths has shady past

Besides being a hateful bigot, the filmmaker behind the new movie that has triggered riots and the death of a US ambassador is no stranger to trouble. He may have also violated the terms of his probation and is under investigation following the outbreak of violence. NBC News:

A 55-year-old Egypt-born Coptic Christian man living in the Los Angeles area was a key figure behind the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," blamed for sparking riots and protests in the Middle East, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News Thursday.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who is on probation after being convicted of financial crimes, also was twice sentenced to jail on drug charges in the late 1990s, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office said.

Court records show that Nakoula was convicted on federal fraud charges in Los Angeles in 2010. Among the conditions of his probation, Nakoula was barred from using "any online service at any location" without the prior approval of his probation officer, according to a copy of court records in the case.

Indian laborer's hand cut off for asking for wages

In an instance of extraordinary brutality, a laborer's hand was chopped off by his employers infuriated over his seeking outstanding wages.

Lalman Yadav and his brother Uday Yadav, who run an illicit liquor business in Sikhnadi village in Jharkhand's Garhwa district, had hired Aliyar Rajwar (40) for supplying water to their production unit.

Rajwar was hired by the Yadav brothers at Rs 3,000 (£34, $55) per month. When he did not get his dues for three straight months, he approached the brothers for payment. But instead of giving Rajwar the Rs 9,000 they owed him, they first beat him up and then cut-off his hand with an axe.

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The attack on Rajwar took place late on Sunday and the Yadav brothers have absconded, while their accomplice, a man called Ramchandra, has been arrested. Garhwa SP Michael Raj admitted that the incident was serious.

Exploring the Abandoned Island of Drug Lord Pablo Escobar

Scattered around small islands off Colombia's Caribbean coast, these crumbling homes were once the playground of powerful drug lords – not least Pablo Escobar. More

Inside Auschwitz

Haunting Mementos of the Nazis' Largest Death Camp

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The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is notorious for its gas chambers and human experiments. Today, it still has tremendous power to elicit horror and sadness. More

Massive German War Plane Wreck Found

The six-engined plane, known as Messerschmitt 323 "Giant," was the largest land-based transport aircraft used in World War II. Read more

Awesome Pictures

Little Cold Spell Grows Massive Ice Sheet

A new study shows glaciers can respond swiftly to climatic shifts.
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'Lava Junkies' Hike Volcanos

When a volcano calls to this man, he answers by laying down on the rim and watching for hours at a time. Read more

Tatey: The Ancient Monastery of Armenia

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Armenia has a number of monasteies dated the IX-XI centuries. Many of them have been important spiritual centers of the country. In the epoch of feudalism development they even had high schools where students were taught historiography, literature, philosophy, theology, music, miniature painting and other sciences. That's why they had to build special houses for books storage. Such houses were characterized by folk architecture made with stone. Tatev monastery was exactly one of them.It's the monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church situated in the south-east of Armenia, near Tatev village and not so far from Yerevan - the capital of Armenia. More

TV Show Says Aliens Visited Easter Island

Archaeologists know who built the Moai statues and they weren't Martians.

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TV Show Says Aliens Visited Easter Island

Alien Looking Desert Landscapes As Seen From Above

Although deserts are known as dry, dusty and desolate places, these pictures of desert landscapes taken from the air show that they can also be stunningly beautiful. More

Astronomical News

Dawn's Last Look Back at Vesta

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft departs Vesta, it sends back one last view of the surprisingly complex little world. Read more

Suspected Asteroid Smashes into Jupiter

Amateur astronomer George Hall sure was looking at the right place at the right time on Monday. Read more

Holey Moley, Batman: A real-life man-made bat cave

Created as a possible solution to the epidemic of white-nose syndrome:

...the conservation group, working with the state wildlife agency, decided to build a bat hibernaculum that could be scrubbed out with ammonia each autumn and spring, keeping the cave clean of the deadly fungus...

Made out of pre-cast concrete modules, the cave is about 24 metres long. That size space could easily accommodate 200,000 bats. "But I'd be happy with 10,000 to 15,000," Holliday said.

The cave was engineered to draw a continual supply of winter air from a concrete shaft to provide the chilly temperatures favoured by hibernating bats. Stale air is released through a chimney. The shaft also serves as the entrance for the bats.

The ceiling is scored with ridges and rough edges, the better to give bat claws a tight grip. Walls are lined with sheets of open mesh and fine screens – even a slab of board, with a gap for crevice-loving bats to roost in...

But there are no guarantees the bats will even deign to use the artificial space. "It's a neat idea for sure but the trick will be seeing whether bats will use it first of all. The second thing will be seeing how they regulate the micro-climate inside, which is super-important for bat hibernation," said Craig Willis, a bat expert at the University of Winnipeg.

The Exotic Beauty Of Hummingbird Clearwing Moths

Have you ever done a double take when you're out in the garden admiring your honeysuckles and a quick-flying creature came up to suck the nectar? If it was too small to be a hummingbird and had tell-tale antennae, you may have seen a common clearwing moth.

Common clearwing moths (Hemaris thysbe) are both beautiful and bird-like, but despite all appearances to the contrary, they are bugs. These unusual moths are about 1.5 inches long, and they can be found in gardens and nectar-bearing bushes from central and eastern USA, all the way up to Alaska.