Footprints match suspect accused of car vandalism

If you get drunk one night and feel like doing a little local vandalism just remember that the police can probably track your footprints!

In Olympia Washington a man spent some time jumping on the hoods of several cars in a used car lot causing approximately $3,400 in damage to five cars.

More cars would have likely been damaged but the man ran away when witnesses called out for him to stop what he was doing.

Shortly after the incident a Thurston County Sheriff’s deputy stopped an 18 year old who was intoxicated. He denied jumping on the cars, but the deputy was able to match the footprints on the cars hoods to the suspects shoes.

The man was also later identified by witnesses and jailed for malicious mischief.



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One of these things doesn’t belong

Wordless Wednesday

Can you find the odd man out in this picture?

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Spell-check run amok changes names in Pa. yearbook

Did you hear about the computer spell checker that went buggy and changed the names of several Pennsylvania High School students in June? It gave some of them quite unflattering last names!

The spell checker automatically changed names like that of Max Zupanovic to Max Supernova and Kathy Carbaugh to Kathy Airbag! Alessandra Ippolito’s name was changed to Alexandria Impolite. I guess the spell checker was searching for synonyms and if you’ve ever tried to use synonyms to replace words in a document using a computer program you know you can get some awfully strange results!

Unfortunately these names made the yearbook lists. Ed Patrick of Taylor Publishing, which printed the book, said his company is responsible for the errors and will provide free stickers printed with the correct names.

“It happens all the time, every year,” Patrick said. “Look at any yearbook in the country.”

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