Bizarre News - October 24, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

You hear a lot about how unmotivated young people are these days. Wasting their time with video games and social media until they find themselves at 30-years-old still living in their mothers' basements with no skills and no careers.

But one teenage boy in Washington showed what he could do with a little ambition and his mother's basement.

15-year-old Dionte Hunter ran a successful business out of his mother's house with his older brother Thaishaun. So successful, in fact, that the boys were able to cut their mother in for a 25 percent of the profits.

The only problem is that the business they were running was a prostitution ring. An under-age prostitution ring.

The young brothers were doing pretty well, until the 17-year-old was arrested in connection with a shooting.

If it weren't for that pesky shooting.

After the older Thaishaun Hunter was arrested, officers tapped the phones of the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center and heard conversations between the 15-year-old boy and his jailed 17-year-old brother about their little enterprise.

Dionte Hunter was arrested on charges including promoting prostitution of minors, promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor, possessing sexually explicit photos of minors and first-degree robbery.

But to add a touch of sentiment to the sordid tale, the mother of the boys allegedly did save her share of the profits to post bail for her 17-year-old.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Police: Burglary suspect found covered in cake, frosting --*
ALPENA, Mich. - Police in Michigan said it wasn't hard to recognize a drunken burglary suspect a few blocks away from the crime as she was covered in cake and frosting. Alpena Police said officers responded Sunday to a home where a resident reported finding an unknown woman making a commotion in their kitchen. The homeowner said the woman had knocked over or broken several items, including a tray of cupcakes. Alpena officers and Michigan State Police searched the area and discovered the suspect a few blocks away from the home covered in cake and frosting. The police report said the woman was "highly intoxicated and had cupcake frosting and cake all over her torso and legs." The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with unlawful entry and malicious destruction of property. She was taken to the Alpena County Jail.


*-- Police: Woman fed up with 'noisy' kids sent 'tasty children' threats --*
CHAMPLIN, Minn. - Police in Minnesota arrested a woman accused of sending anonymous threats to a neighbor family saying she wanted to "taste" their "delicious children." Champlin police said Carrie Pernula, 38, was arrested Friday after an investigation into anonymous threats received by a family living in her neighborhood. The first note, received by the family Sept. 27, was addressed to "sir or madam" and said simply, "The children look delicious. May I have a taste?" The children's mother posted a picture of the letter in a Champlin community Facebook group. The parents said they soon started receiving magazine subscriptions addressed to "Your Tasty Children." Police said they tracked the magazine subscriptions back to Pernula, who admitted to sending the mail. "She was angry because the kids were leaving things in her yard and I think being a little noisy, being kids, the way kids are," Champlin Deputy Police Chief Ty Schmidt told WCCO-TV. Police said the Champlin city attorney is reviewing the case for potential charges of gross misdemeanor terroristic threats and stalking.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
If you have ever been to Oakland the day of a Raider game, you would not even look twice at a machete wielding person. I was at Oakland airport leaving one day, and I saw at least 50 fans in full makeup, costumes, and very bizarre attire waiting to leave to wherever they lived. And it has never been safe to be on the streets of Oakland, more so after midnight. -Michelle

Lewis, Wouldn't you think that the performers would have 'separate' weapons that are only used for the performances and not be using their own personal weapons for this?

I caught your story about the Tombstone re-enactor being shot. The poor guy shot was named Ken Curtis. I remember that being the person's name who played "Festus" on the old Gunsmoke series. Life imitating art I guess. -Gary
[If only there were some kind of reasonable, common sense controls on gun 'props' and so-called blank ammunition, accidents like this wouldn't happen so often.]

Bless your heart! Check history- Hitler disarmed everyone as did Stalin and there are a few others that have done the same. It is not the gun, Lewis, it is the 'heart of man' that is evil. Our forefathers gave us the 2nd amendment to protect ourselves FROM THE GOVERNMENT. If you choose to be unarmed, please, be so. The rest of us have made other choices that makes us citizens instead of 'subjects'. The Utopian idea of no guns, no violence would require that people be sedated. not for me.
[I never said I'm unarmed. All I said was that if the citizens are disarmed the police and the government should be too. I postulated that was the only way gun control would really work. Why has almost everybody completely misinterpreted me?]

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