An 11-year-old attacked her baby sitter with a machete during a
struggle that included attempts by the girl to grab a
baseball bat, a shovel and a BB gun, investigators said.
The girl fled on a bicycle after the attack but was arrested about an
hour later and booked for investigation of assault
with a deadly weapon, said Sgt. Doug Hubbard, of the San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Department.
The 34-year-old sitter telephoned deputies after fending off the
Tuesday attack and locking herself and the girl's
12-year-old sister in the bathroom of the Mojave Desert home, Hubbard said.
No serious injuries were reported.
The girl and the sitter had gotten into an argument over feeding a
dog, and the girl began to beat and choke the animal,
Hubbard said. The sitter tried to pry the girl off the dog.
The scuffle moved to the front yard, where the girl grabbed a shovel
and then a baseball bat in an attempt to attack the
woman, Hubbard said. The girl next found a BB gun, but the woman got
it away from her, he said.
The altercation continued until the girl found the machete lying in
the yard and began to chase the woman, who took refuge
in the bathroom, Hubbard said.
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After a long night at work as a radio DJ, Junko Suzuki likes to
snuggle at bedtime - and she says she's found the perfect
partner: a man-shaped pillow.
Linen maker Kameo Corp.'s new "Boyfriend's Arm Pillow" -
which consists of a headless torso and a stuffed arm that
curls around the sleeper - might make some people uneasy.
But not Suzuki, or about 1,000 others in Japan who have bought the
pillow, which Kameo says is the first of its kind.
The product went on the market last December.
"I like to sleep holding someone's hand," Suzuki, 34.
"And this pillow makes me feel relaxed because I can hold the arm
and feel something warm at my side."
Kameo, based in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, says the
pillow is not only an emotional comfort, but that its
shape keeps the body balanced by supporting the sleeper from both sides.
Sleepers typically curl up in between the body of the pillow and the
crooked arm, with the sleeper's head resting on the
pillow's "bicep."
"My grandmother used to say that there is nothing more
comfortable pillow than human," said Kameo President
Tomoki Kakehashi. "So, I thought that maybe women would want to
sleep on an arm-shaped pillow."
The pillow is only on sale in Japan, where customers can buy one for
$80. Covered in a shirt-shaped pillow cover, it comes
in blue, pink or green.
For Suzuki, who is estranged from her husband, the pillow has
definite advantages: It doesn't squirm or thrash in the night,
and you know it'll be there in the morning.
"It keeps holding me all the way through," she said in her
home outside of Tokyo. "I think this is great because this does
not betray me."
One-size pillows do not fit all.
So Kameo is working up new models: muscular pillows for sleepers who
like their pillows well-built; slender models for
those after a more sensitive, vulnerable partner.
The company also has a prototype for its next big project: a female
pillow for men. This one will be shaped like a woman's
lap, with a "skirt" cover.
"I always thought someone's lap would the best pillow for me," said Kakehashi.
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A New York man has been arrested for not leaving a big enough tip at a restaurant.
Humberto Taveras, 41, from Long Island, faces a misdemeanor charge of theft of services.
He had refused to leave a mandatory 18% service charge added on for
parties of six or more at Soprano's Restaurant in
Lake George.
Restaurant owner Joe Soprano said the menu stated that an 18% charge is added for parties of six or more.
He said the waitress told Taveras' party of 12 that the tip was
automatically included. Soprano said the party should have
left $93 in total, but left just $80.
Taveras claimed his party didn't see the notice on the menu and was
not told about it. He said they weren't satisfied with
the food, and intended to leave a 10% tip.
"They chased us down like a bunch of criminals," Taveras was quoted as telling the Glens Falls Post-Star.
Soprano insisted that didn't happen. He said he just asked police who were outside to come in and straighten things out.
Taveras is due in a local court later this week.
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A 67-year-old woman was killed when a three-meter tall metal crucifix
fell on her head in a small southern Italian town
on Wednesday, police said.
The cross, which has been in the main square on Sant'Onofrio for
decades, fell on Maddalena Camillo while workers
were setting up lights for an annual religious festival.
Italy, home to the Vatican City, is a predominantly Roman Catholic
country where crucifixes and religious icons and
effigies are a common sight in most towns and villages.
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A vibrator that makes it easier for a woman to give perfect oral sex, has gone on sale in Moscow.
The device nicknamed the 'lazy thing' is designed to make oral sex effortless and consists of a vibrating latex cylinder.
It fits inside a woman's mouth and once it's switched on "gives
extra oral pleasure to a partner", according to the Pravda
website.
The vibrator also means that the person performing the sexual act does not have to move his or her head at all.
"The vibrator will bring the act to its end by itself. A woman
may relax and think about a new pair of shoes she has seen
in a store, for instance," adds Pravda.
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