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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A band of drunk Dutch students taking a break from exams had to be rescued at sea after a raft they built from empty jerrycans went adrift on the North Sea, the Hague police said Friday.
"The students had made a kind of floating island and ventured out to sea under the influence of alcohol. They were carried into the open sea by the current and had to be rescued," a police statement said.
The group of 15 to 20 students was let
off with little more
than a stern warning from police who accused them of
"irresponsible behavior."
June 01, 2004
A lawyer in Portland, Ore. Plans to argue that his client beat his two-year-old son to death because his ancestors were abused as slaves hundreds of years ago, reports the Portland Oregonian.
Lawyer Randall Vogt plans says his client, Isaac Cortez Bynum, whipped and broke his son’s neck and ribs because he suffers from post-traumatic slave syndrome.
The syndrome’s main proponent, Portland academic Joy DeGruy-Leary, claims that because African Americans never got a chance to heal from slavery and still face racism, oppression and societal inequality, they suffer from multigenerational trauma.
07:09 AM
The
Legacy
PORTLAND, Maine - A Portland woman accused of spreading dog feces at Deering Oaks Park as part of a vendetta against its weekly farmer's market has been banned from the park and charged with criminal mischief.
Lora Leland, 53, was caught early Saturday emptying 16 bags of dog feces in the road that winds through the center of the park, police said. She explained that she was angry at the Saturday morning farmer's market because it interfered with her ability to ride her bicycle through the park, police said.
Farmers who arrived to the mess every Saturday for the better part of two summers were elated at the news of the arrest.
"When the farmers came in to set up, they just had to clean up the whole road," said officer Dan Knight, who staked out the park with a fellow officer Friday night into Saturday in an effort to apprehend the culprit.
At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the officers
spotted a woman walking a miniature German shepherd down the middle of
the park's interior road. The woman was reaching into a large plastic
shopping bag, removing smaller bags which she would open and then dump
the contents onto the roadway, Knight said.
Confronted by the officers, Leland said she was angry at the farmer's market.
"She told us that she doesn't like that they take up that whole road because she can't ride her bike there," Knight said.
The woman said she would collect the small baggies with dog feces from city garbage cans over the course of the preceding week as well as stockpile it from her own dog, then spread it to disrupt the market, police said.
"There was some old stuff, like it's been in the trash for a while and a fair amount of fresh stuff," Knight said. "Sixteen bags in all."
Leland, who could not be reached for comment, faces a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief and has been served a criminal trespass order barring her from the park for a year. If found guilty, she faces up to a year in jail, though authorities say a fine is more likely.
Police found the man naked and intoxicated.
He has been charged with being intoxicated in a public place.
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