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A 31-year-old man dressed as the comic book Caped Crusader was arrested today in Petoskey after he was seen hanging from the top wall of a downtown business.

The Petoskey News-Review reports officers went up on the roof about 12:40 a.m. and pulled the 31-year-old man back onto the building.

Public Safety Director John Calabrese says he believes the man “enjoys doing this.”

Officers confiscated a baton-like weapon, a can of chemical irritant spray and lead-lined gloves.

The Harbor Springs man is awaiting arraignment on charges of trespassing and possession of a dangerous weapon. He’s being held in the Emmet County jail.

Petoskey is in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, about 225 miles northwest of Detroit.

via Man dressed as Batman charged with trespassing | Detroit Free Press | freep.com.

A 48-year-old drunk Illinois grandmother reportedly called 911 to complain about her family members who would withheld her car keys.

Authorities said Geneva Ward told them she was being held hostage and her family would threaten her with a gun.

As deputies arrived, it turned out that the woman was immensely drunk and had intended to drive her grandchildren somewhere. Therefore, her family did not hand over her car keys. Ward now faces disorderly conduct charges.

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This exclusive 33% off offer is available to all current Eye-Fi customers until Dec 31st, 2010 11:59PM PST only. $32.99 instead of $49.99 – that’s less than $2/month for automatic & unlimited backups from your camera and iPhone, and access of your full resolution content from anywhere. So what are you waiting for? Add Eye-Fi Premium today!

via This week only: 33% off Eye-Fi Premium | Eye-Fi.

Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t less than $2/month be $24 or less?  Guess it’s a new math I’m not familiar with…I did check the duration and it is for one year.

Power company makes slight mistake
Thankfully no one was injured during this fiasco.

A 24-year-old Coleman man accused of stealing money from a police-owned doughnut shop in mid-Michigan has been sentenced to spend the next five weekends in jail.

WNEM-TV says Brent Kenyon was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days in jail and will serve two days at a time. Kenyon pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge of larceny of less than $1,000.

Police said Kenyon was a nightshift employee at the Cops and Doughnuts Bakery in Clare, about 130 miles northwest of Detroit, when the theft happened. They say surveillance cameras caught him breaking into the office area overnight and stealing cash.

Kenyon also was ordered pay back nearly $800 in restitution to the shop.

via Man sentenced in cop-owned doughnut shop theft | freep.com | Detroit Free Press.

Smile – In line with the many protests taking place in Europe and England associated with those Nations having now to face fiscal reality (likely coming to America in the near term), even Muslim suicide bombers are getting into the “season”:

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement. The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut by 25% this February, from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.

The suicide bomber’s union, the British Organization of Occupational Martyrs (BOOM) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, “Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don’t ask for much in return, and to be treated like this is like a kick in the teeth.”

Speaking from his shed in Tipton in the West Midlands, in which he currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden explained, “We sympathize with our workers concerns, but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day Jihad in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It’s a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don’t like cutting wages but I’d hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff that they won’t be able to blow themselves up.”

Spokespersons for the Union in the north east of England, Ireland, Wales, and the entire Australian continent stated that the strike would not affect their operations, as “there are no virgins in their areas anyway.”

Apparently the drop in the number of suicide bombings has been put down to the emergence of Scottish singing star Susan Boyle – now that Muslims know what an actual virgin looks like they are not so keen on going to paradise.

Woman smashes into salon, then stays to get her hair cut – WMBFNews.com | Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC | News, Weather, Sports.

(NBC) – A Grand Rapids, MI, hair salon had a hair-raising Saturday afternoon.

According to police, 82-year-old Marion Zock stepped on the accelerator pedal instead of the brake as she was attempting to park outside of the shop.

“It didn’t take any length of time at all, and all I kept thinking was, ‘Where’s the brake?’ I thought the store would stop me but it didn’t,” Zock said.

Two people were injured, an employee who returned to work after being treated, and a young girl who suffered a bruised arm.

Zock, who said she hasn’t had a ticket in 60 years, is a regular customer at the salon and stayed to go through with her appointment.

“I sat there with my face in my hands because I was so embarrassed,” Zock said.

Another vehicle crashed through the same storefront about eight years ago.

“When you’re behind the wheel of a car, you pay attention and you’re focused on your driving task,” Kent County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Kevin Kelley said.

“Quite often in cases like this, it is the result of inattentiveness,” said Kelley. 

Zock had cataract surgery not too long ago, but said her vision is fine and not at issue.  She will likely receive a ticket for reckless driving, a four-point citation.

Zock’s family still has confidence in her driving skills and isn’t encouraging her to give up her license, she said.

Classic Hair Design remained open as the car was removed.

Illinois: 29-year-old Carly Houston has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, theft of labor or services, and criminal trespass to land after she became aggressive and abusive toward a taxi driver who asked her for specific directions.

The taxi driver pulled over at a petrol station with his passenger flipping the bird with both hands, screaming, and threatening him. Alarmed bystanders called police who arrested Houston when she wouldn´t pay for her ride.

Not content with her earlier efforts, Houston opted to make her permitted phone call from jail to call 911, telling the operator that she was “trapped inside the detention facility”. Unimpressed police added a charge of making a false 911 report.

via Arrested Woman Calls 911 to Report She´s Trapped in a Dentention Facility.

Time Warner Cable in North Carolina accidentally beamed previews of adult shows from the Playboy Channel onto kids programming, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Due to an equipment malfunction between 6:14 and 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, some children´s channels had previews of the Playboy Channel in the right corner of their television sets.

The cable operator only learned of the problem when parents called to report the switch, but it wasn´t known if they waited the full two hours before calling.

via Playboy Channel Accidentally Shown on Kids TV.