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Drunken drivers collide in Aptos

APTOS - A woman driving drunk rear-ended the car of a man who was also driving drunk Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Lisa Beck, 50, of Soquel was westbound on Central Avenue at El Camino del Mar when she rear-ended the vehicle driven by David Atkinson.
Atkinson, 50, of Aptos, had stopped in the road for pedestrians in a crosswalk. Beck and Atkinson were both arrested for driving under the influence.
**Talk about an eye for an eye**

Danville driver charged with killing cyclist flees to China

**This is disturbing**

Man steals 8-foot whale tooth from Norway museum
08/31/2011 - OSLO, Norway -- The tooth fairy in disguise? No, just a simple tooth thief. A man dressed in a black leather hat and a dark coat on Wednesday ran off with an eight-foot

**Are you kidding??? WHY?? Was he planning on putting it on display in his living room?**

San Mateo Woman pleads not guilty in lizard stabbing

**I am just going to state right now, C R A Z Y** now read on...

The events of the case were touched off about 3:40 a.m. Aug. 13 when Apour got up from watching a movie with her boyfriend and retrieved a knife, Wagstaffe said. She then went into a room where her boyfriend keeps his pet lizards and closed the door.

When he heard the top of a terrarium open, he asked Apour through the door what she was doing and she replied, “Nothing. Don’t worry about it,” Wagstaffe said.
After she walked out of the room, the boyfriend saw blood on the inside of the terrarium. Fourteen-year-old Speedy had been stabbed deeply in the shoulder, Wagstaffe said.
Apour left the home in the 1000 block of Crestview Drive, the knife still in her hand, and slashed the 1958 show Buick belonging to her boyfriend’s brother, Wagstaffe said. She then pierced the tires of two nearby cars and carved “hate crime” into the hood of one, he said.
Sheriff’s deputies who arrived at the scene ordered Apour to drop the knife but she waved it at them, Wagstaffe said. They used a Taser to take her into custody. Apour was charged with felony domestic violence, animal cruelty and vandalism, as well as misdemeanors for brandishing a weapon and resisting arrest. She was released on $25,000 bail the same day.
A few days later, a railroad employee called authorities to report a woman, Apour, walking on the tracks near the San Carlos Caltrain station. Her mother was also nearby and had called 911.
When sheriff’s Deputy Bridget Hensley tried to lead Apour away from the tracks, she went for the deputy’s gun and Taser, Wagstaffe said. Hensley held her off until backup arrived to arrest her on suspicion of obstructing and trying to disarm an officer, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor resisting arrest and trespassing.

**Did her boyfriend see any of this coming??**

Adult children's 'bad mothering' lawsuit dismissed

CHICAGO -- Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad mothering" that alleges damages caused when she failed to buy toys for one and sent another a birthday card he didn't like.

The alleged offenses include failing to take her daughter to a car show, telling her then 7-year-old son to buckle his seat belt or she would contact police, "haggling" over the amount to spend on party dresses and calling her daughter at midnight to ask that she return home from celebrating homecoming.
Last week, at which point the court record stood about a foot tall, an Illinois appeals court dismissed the case, finding that none of the mother's conduct was "extreme or outrageous." To rule in favor of her children, the court found, "could potentially open the floodgates to subject family childrearing to ... excessive judicial scrutiny and interference."
In 2009, the children, represented by three attorneys including their father, Steven A. Miner, sued their mother, Kimberly Garrity. Steven II, now 23, and his sister Kathryn, now 20, sought more than $50,000 for "emotional distress."
Among the exhibits filed in the case is a birthday card Garrity sent her son, who in his lawsuit sought damages because the card was
"inappropriate" and failed to include cash or a check. He also alleged she failed to send a card for years or, while he was in college, care packages.

On the front of the American Greetings card is a picture of tomatoes spread across a table that are indistinguishable except for one in the middle with craft-store googly eyes attached.
"Son I got you this Birthday card because it's just like you ... different from all the rest!" the card reads. On the inside Garrity wrote "Have a great day! Love & Hugs, Mom xoxoxo." **Spoiled Brats!! Are you kidding?? Suing your mother because you did not get what you want?  Someone did not get spanked as children!!! wow, I can't believe they had a carrying mother who actually loved them! How rude she is! **