A) DNA Test Stuns Man Who Wants All-White Town
A neo-Nazi who wants to found an
all-white enclave in North Dakota has been shown evidence of racial diversity
where he least expected it: in his own DNA. Craig Cobb agreed to the test as
part of the Trisha Goddard Show's "Race in America" series, but he
rejected the result as "short science" and "statistical
noise" when it revealed he is 14% sub-Saharan African and 86% European,
the Daily Mail reports. "Sweetheart, you have a little black in you,"
the show's British host told Cobb, who recoiled when she attempted to fist-bump
him.
Cobb, whose white supremacist plans for Leith, ND, have met
with protests and attempts to thwart him with building codes, says that even if
a test he respects proves that he's not white enough for his own standards, he
will "continue on either way," and consider himself a "border
guard for the purebreds." Bobby Harper, a black man who lives in the tiny
North Dakota town, says he finds the test results hilarious. "I knew there
was one other black person in town," he tells the Bismarck Tribune.
"Is he going to want to kick his own self out of town and discriminate
against himself?"
B) Death of UK Spy Found in Gym Bag 'Probably an Accident'
The MI6 spy whose naked body was
found inside a zipped, padlocked gym bag probably died ... by accident, UK
police have decided. The coroner said last year Gareth Williams was probably
killed by someone else in a criminal act, but now the Metropolitan Police have
completed an evidence review and say it's "more probable" no one else
was in his apartment when he died in his bathroom in 2010, the BBC reports. The
deputy assistant commissioner said today it's "theoretically
possible" Williams locked himself into the bag.
Not surprisingly, Williams' family is sticking with the
coroner's initial finding, saying in a statement, "We consider that on the
basis of the facts at present known, the coroner's verdict accurately reflects
the circumstances of Gareth's death." And the AP notes that the police department's
"tentative conclusion" is "unlikely to calm conspiracy theories
around the bizarre case." Police say they found little evidence of foul
play in the code-breaker's death, no signs of a struggle or forced entry, and
no evidence that the apartment had been forensically cleaned to remove DNA.
Click for more on the strange case.
C) Florida man gets stuck in chimney during attempted robbery
A Florida
man who was doing a mean-spirited Santa Claus impression might be spending
Christmas behind bars after getting caught in the chimney of a Naples home
during an attempted burglary.
Richard Tyler Brandon, 25,
got trapped in a chimney early Wednesday morning after running out of cash
during a night out. His friend, Derek Grenfell, alerted two Naples police
officers about the situation after it became apparent Brandon was stuck.
A team of police officers
and local fire department officials broke into the home and saw Brandon’s foot
hanging in the fireplace.
“I said, ‘Dude, you’re not
Santa Claus, what are you doing?’” Grenfell reportedly said to the police.
It took two hours, but
Brandon was freed from the chimney and taken to the hospital for treatment of
issues including leg pain and trouble breathing. It could have been worse.
“There is a chance he could
have died,” said Naples Detective Robert Young. “That space he was jammed into
was really tight. He couldn’t move.”
Brandon was hit with two
burglary charges and Grenfell was charged as an accessory to the crime after
the fact.
D)
Man attempts to rob gun range in mid daylight
A California man attempted to steal guns from a gun range in
Los Angeles last Tuesday at 12:00 pm. He was shot in the leg twice, and taken
to the Hollywood Community Hospital for treatment.
Officer Paul Gomez, a Los Angeles Police officer, who was
off duty at the time shot the armed robber twice in the thigh, “I just came to
practice my shooting, and the suspect was holding up the manager. When he saw
me he aimed his pistol at me, and I took immediate action in subduing him.”
As it turns out, the suspect, 24 year old James Hroeth, did
not even have a loaded gun. His pistol was in fact a toy airsoft BB gun that he
had spray painted black.
“What an idiot,” said range manager, Joe Thomas, “I cannot
believe that someone would try to rob real guns with a plastic toy”.
The attempted robbery was also quite traumatizing for a 13
year old girl, Ashley Russell, who was with her father, Chris shooting an AR-15
at the time of the robbery. “It is a real shame,” said Chris, “that my daughter
had to witness a man get shot in front of her. Hopefully it will teach her to
be more cautions of people in the world today.”
James Hroeth will be held at the Los Angeles county jail without bail until his arraignment on July 17. He is charged with armed robbery.
