Story by Pilar Stevensonnews@abc4.com LOGAN, Utah (ABC 4 News) – A woman has been charged with telephone harassment for sending her sister a text message.The text message to Anna Hansen from her sister Jennifer Willhite was meant to be a joke about Hansen’s cosmetic surgery, according to Willhite’s attorney. “I think people need to get a thicker skin… there’s no crime that has been committed, we just think it’s ridiculous quite frankly,” attorney Shannon Demler told ABC 4 on Thursday. The text said that because of Hansen’s new breast implants, she could now apply for a job at the Hooter’s restaurant. Hansen was offended by the text and went to Smithfield City Police Department with her complaint. Authorities charged Willhite with Electronic Communications Harassment, a Class B Misdemeanor.A bench trial has been set for July 9
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Story by Pilar Stevensonnews@abc4.com LOGAN, Utah (ABC 4 News) – A woman has been charged with telephone harassment for sending her sister a text message.The text message to Anna Hansen from her sister Jennifer Willhite was meant to be a joke about Hansen’s cosmetic surgery, according to Willhite’s attorney. “I think people need to get a thicker skin… there’s no crime that has been committed, we just think it’s ridiculous quite frankly,” attorney Shannon Demler told ABC 4 on Thursday. The text said that because of Hansen’s new breast implants, she could now apply for a job at the Hooter’s restaurant. Hansen was offended by the text and went to Smithfield City Police Department with her complaint. Authorities charged Willhite with Electronic Communications Harassment, a Class B Misdemeanor.A bench trial has been set for July 9
Drunken, naked man arrested after foot chase
June 25, 2010
A Howell man is facing charges after he allegedly urinated in public and then ran from police, who found him a short time later walking around wearing only shoes.
Howell police initially responded to a 10 p.m. Wednesday 911 call about a man urinating in public on Michigan Avenue in the Holiday Lane area.
Officers spotted the man, later identified as a 47-year-old Howell resident, urinating, but the suspect fled when police began approaching him, Chief George Basar said.
Officers found the Howell man a short time later near the Department of Public Works property near Dearborn and Marion streets. The man was naked except for his tennis shoes.
Basar said the man, who has a known alcohol problem, had been sober for 10 years before falling off the wagon, presumably as he tries to handle a divorce.
Basar said the a preliminary breath test indicated the man’s blood-alcohol level was at 0.19, which is more than two times the legal limit had the man been driving a vehicle.
Police arrested the man, who was lodged in the Livingston County Jail after treatment at Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital
June 25, 2010
A Howell man is facing charges after he allegedly urinated in public and then ran from police, who found him a short time later walking around wearing only shoes.
Howell police initially responded to a 10 p.m. Wednesday 911 call about a man urinating in public on Michigan Avenue in the Holiday Lane area.
Officers spotted the man, later identified as a 47-year-old Howell resident, urinating, but the suspect fled when police began approaching him, Chief George Basar said.
Officers found the Howell man a short time later near the Department of Public Works property near Dearborn and Marion streets. The man was naked except for his tennis shoes.
Basar said the man, who has a known alcohol problem, had been sober for 10 years before falling off the wagon, presumably as he tries to handle a divorce.
Basar said the a preliminary breath test indicated the man’s blood-alcohol level was at 0.19, which is more than two times the legal limit had the man been driving a vehicle.
Police arrested the man, who was lodged in the Livingston County Jail after treatment at Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital
Anger counselor who pulled out gun gets jail
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former priest and anger-management counselor who pulled a gun in a traffic dispute on two men who happened to be U.S. Marshals has been sentenced to a year in prison. Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Luis Avila of Annandale pleaded guilty earlier this year in U.S. District Court to assaulting a federal officer.
In January, Avila was driving by the marshals near his home. He honked his horn because he believed they were standing in the road. When he thought one of the marshals made an obscene gesture at him, he pulled out a loaded handgun.
The 12-month sentence was in line with what prosecutors had sought. Defense lawyers wanted probation or time served; Avila has been jailed since January.
Avila has also been ordered to undergo anger management.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former priest and anger-management counselor who pulled a gun in a traffic dispute on two men who happened to be U.S. Marshals has been sentenced to a year in prison. Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Luis Avila of Annandale pleaded guilty earlier this year in U.S. District Court to assaulting a federal officer.
In January, Avila was driving by the marshals near his home. He honked his horn because he believed they were standing in the road. When he thought one of the marshals made an obscene gesture at him, he pulled out a loaded handgun.
The 12-month sentence was in line with what prosecutors had sought. Defense lawyers wanted probation or time served; Avila has been jailed since January.
Avila has also been ordered to undergo anger management.
Man accused of 'humping' police cruiser
CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A Cincinnati man was arrested Monday on a disorderly conduct charge, and police say he humped a cruiser before he was taken to jail.
Lespaul Stuckey, 27, faces one count of disorderly conduct. According to court documents, he caused an annoyance by making unreasonable noise or an offensively obscene utterance, gesture or display.
Police say when they told him to stop, he pulled in front of the police car and began humping it and cursing at police.
He was taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center. He will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.
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CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A Cincinnati man was arrested Monday on a disorderly conduct charge, and police say he humped a cruiser before he was taken to jail.
Lespaul Stuckey, 27, faces one count of disorderly conduct. According to court documents, he caused an annoyance by making unreasonable noise or an offensively obscene utterance, gesture or display.
Police say when they told him to stop, he pulled in front of the police car and began humping it and cursing at police.
He was taken to the Hamilton County Justice Center. He will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
An 18-year-old Indonesian man says he was seduced by a cow, and that’s why he was having sex with it. A neighbour caught Gusti Ngurah Alit allegedly wooing the farm animal on Sunday, the village chief on the resort island of Bali said, the Times newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa reported Friday. Well maybe the cow was beautiful?
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To ease the crowds entering the Texas Capitol building in Austin, officials recently opened an "express" line, bypassing most security precautions, for selected visitors and personnel. Obviously, members of the legislature use the express line, along with Capitol employees presenting ID. A third category of favored visitors: anyone with a Texas concealed-weapons carry permit. The Houston Chronicle reported in June that the lobbyists frustrated with the long security lines have been applying for concealed-weapons permits even if they expect never to touch a firearm. [Houston Chronicle, 6-2-10]
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Though he reportedly hacks more frequently lately, 2-year-old Ardi Rizal of Banyuasin, Indonesia, continues to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, according to a May dispatch in London's Daily Mail and other news reports. Local officials offered Ardi's parents a new car if they convinced him to quit, but the mother warned that her son throws massive, head-banging tantrums if deprived of his smokes, and his fisherman father, noting Ardi's generous girth, says the kid looks fine to him. (Unfortunately for the parents, Ardi prefers only a certain high-end brand, which costs the equivalent of about $2.75 a pack.) [Daily Mail, 5-26-10]
Sydney's Daily Telegraph reported in May that Qantas Airways has acknowledged re-using plastic knives and forks from its in-flight meals as many as 30 times before discarding them. One supplier who visited Qantas' Q Catering center in the Sydney suburb of Mascot was told that the Qantas cutlery's plastic is "more robust" than ordinary plastic utensils and is completely safe (after special cleaning). [Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 5-17-10]
In this latest collection of men who accidentally shot themselves recently, private parts were the center of attention. University of Illinois campus police officer Bryan Mallin accidentally shot himself in the butt while shopping in Chicago (March), and Timothy Davis, 22, digging through a drawer in Fort Myers, Fla., last October, also accidentally shot himself in the butt. And four other men (a shopper at a Lowe's Home Improvement store in Lynnwood, Wash., a 17-year-old in Vallejo, Calif., 20-year-old Jeffrey Disney in Hamilton, Ohio, and 50-year-old David Blurton, in Dillon, Colo.) accidentally shot themselves in what for men is their most cherished spot. [Chicago Tribune, 3-24-10] [Fort Myers News-Press, 10-8-09] [Seattle Times, 5-30-10] [Contra Costa Times, 3-5-10] [Oxford (Ohio) Press, 5-5-10] [Summit Daily News, 5-8-10]
Recurring Theme: Once again, the larger question in a "swindling psychic" case is not how Portland, Ore., "psychic" Cathy Stevens managed to separate Mr. Drakar Druella, 42, from his $150,000 (which she needed, to cure Druella's "negative energy"). The larger question is how did a man so totally lacking in street smarts manage to amass $150,000 to begin with. Explained Druella, "(Stevens) could cry @ will. (She) becomes what you want and need her to be." [Austin American-Statesman, 5-14-10] [The Oregonian, 5-7-10]
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According to a May report by Seattle's KOMO-TV, former Oregon National Guardsman Gary Pfleider II is awaiting the results of his latest appeal to end the garnishment of his disability checks to cover $3,175 for gear he supposedly "lost" when he was shot in Iraq. Pfleider was hit in the leg by a sniper in 2007, bled profusely and was evacuated (and is awaiting his ninth surgery on the leg), but the Oregon Guard apparently believes that, despite the trauma, Pfleider somehow should have paused to inventory the equipment he was carrying and to make arrangements for its safekeeping during his imminent hospitalization. [KOMO-TV (Seattle), 5-28-10]
Monday, June 28, 2010
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Cops: Drunk pair push stroller with kids, bayonet
YPSILANTI, Mich. – Authorities said a drunken man and woman were arrested after they were found pushing a baby stroller holding two young boys, open containers of alcohol and a bayonet inside. Police said in a statement that the 30-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were arrested after police were called about 1:30 a.m. Friday when the woman tried to take a bike off a porch.
The statement said security guards had been watching the pair and initially detained the woman. Police said officers found the woman's one- and four-year-old sons in the stroller along with alcohol and the "double-edged bayonet."
AnnArbor.com reported the children were turned over to a relative. Charges were pending.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. – Authorities said a drunken man and woman were arrested after they were found pushing a baby stroller holding two young boys, open containers of alcohol and a bayonet inside. Police said in a statement that the 30-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were arrested after police were called about 1:30 a.m. Friday when the woman tried to take a bike off a porch.
The statement said security guards had been watching the pair and initially detained the woman. Police said officers found the woman's one- and four-year-old sons in the stroller along with alcohol and the "double-edged bayonet."
AnnArbor.com reported the children were turned over to a relative. Charges were pending.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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Tourists watch as croc eats shark
Two tourist groups in northern Australia got an unexpected bonus -- the sight of a large saltwater crocodile making a meal of a bull shark.
Dean Cameron, a guide on one of the tour boats in Kakadu National Park, told The Northern Territory News the shark was about 10 feet long, although that was just an estimate because it was already in two pieces. The crocodile was more than 15 feet from snout to tip of tail.
The two boats, each carrying about 45 passengers, were on the appropriately named South Alligator River when the crocodile and its catch were spotted at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday.
"Nearly 100 people saw it all ... and they were jumping for joy," he said. "They said this had made their Kakadu trip."
Cameron said crocodiles catch sharks fairly often, and he spots one about once a year. He said sharks frequently swim far up freshwater rivers in the area where the "saltie' is at the top of the food chain.
"With the wildlife here you just don't know what you'll get to see," he said. "That's the beauty of it."
Two tourist groups in northern Australia got an unexpected bonus -- the sight of a large saltwater crocodile making a meal of a bull shark.
Dean Cameron, a guide on one of the tour boats in Kakadu National Park, told The Northern Territory News the shark was about 10 feet long, although that was just an estimate because it was already in two pieces. The crocodile was more than 15 feet from snout to tip of tail.
The two boats, each carrying about 45 passengers, were on the appropriately named South Alligator River when the crocodile and its catch were spotted at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday.
"Nearly 100 people saw it all ... and they were jumping for joy," he said. "They said this had made their Kakadu trip."
Cameron said crocodiles catch sharks fairly often, and he spots one about once a year. He said sharks frequently swim far up freshwater rivers in the area where the "saltie' is at the top of the food chain.
"With the wildlife here you just don't know what you'll get to see," he said. "That's the beauty of it."
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Roller coaster riders swallow too many flies
June 25, 2010 1:00 PM
A theme park is being forced to spray a roller coaster with insect repellent -- because open-mouthed riders are swallowing flies.
Bosses at Alton Towers say too many people riding TH13TEEN ended up chewing insects because it's located in a wooded area.
And after looking into the impact of eating bugs - the majority carry illness-causing bacteria - they decided to do something about it.
The park will now trial the use of natural essential oil of the lemon eucalyptus in a bid to minimise the amount of insects swallowed and killed.
A spokesperson said flies are also surprisingly calorific… 20 flies are apparently the equivalent of a small bag of jelly beans.
Morwenna Angove, of Alton Towers Resort, added: "We’ve had a reported increase in the number of people swallowing insects, particularly on TH13TEEN as it’s based in a wooded area.
"We’re hoping the new repellant will help make our visitors’ experience more pleasant and also go some way to protecting British insect life"
June 25, 2010 1:00 PM
A theme park is being forced to spray a roller coaster with insect repellent -- because open-mouthed riders are swallowing flies.
Bosses at Alton Towers say too many people riding TH13TEEN ended up chewing insects because it's located in a wooded area.
And after looking into the impact of eating bugs - the majority carry illness-causing bacteria - they decided to do something about it.
The park will now trial the use of natural essential oil of the lemon eucalyptus in a bid to minimise the amount of insects swallowed and killed.
A spokesperson said flies are also surprisingly calorific… 20 flies are apparently the equivalent of a small bag of jelly beans.
Morwenna Angove, of Alton Towers Resort, added: "We’ve had a reported increase in the number of people swallowing insects, particularly on TH13TEEN as it’s based in a wooded area.
"We’re hoping the new repellant will help make our visitors’ experience more pleasant and also go some way to protecting British insect life"
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'Angry women' detain accused changing room peeper
CHURCH HILL, Tenn. – Police say 10 "angry women" detained an accused changing room peeper at a thrift store in East Tennessee until officers arrived. Twenty-year-old Bradley J. Wallen was charged with two misdemeanors, observation without consent and photographing in violation of privacy.
Church Hill police chief Mark Johnson told the Kingsport Times-News that a small hole between the men's and women's changing rooms at the Flashbacks and Reruns thrift store was allegedly discovered by a woman who dropped something on the floor.
Johnson said "10 angry women" prevented Wallen from leaving by blocking a rear door.
Wallen was released after his arrest Tuesday. Jail records do not show that he has hired a lawyer and a Thursday telephone call to his residence was not answered.
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CHURCH HILL, Tenn. – Police say 10 "angry women" detained an accused changing room peeper at a thrift store in East Tennessee until officers arrived. Twenty-year-old Bradley J. Wallen was charged with two misdemeanors, observation without consent and photographing in violation of privacy.
Church Hill police chief Mark Johnson told the Kingsport Times-News that a small hole between the men's and women's changing rooms at the Flashbacks and Reruns thrift store was allegedly discovered by a woman who dropped something on the floor.
Johnson said "10 angry women" prevented Wallen from leaving by blocking a rear door.
Wallen was released after his arrest Tuesday. Jail records do not show that he has hired a lawyer and a Thursday telephone call to his residence was not answered.
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Frenchman who ate cellmate's lung gets 30 years jail
ROUEN, France (Reuters) – A French convict who killed his cellmate and ate his lung was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday.
Nicolas Cocaign and Thierry Baudry had a fight when Cocaign asked Baudry to wash his hands after he had used the toilet during the night of January 2, 2007. Cocaign strangled Baudry and cut open his chest with a razor blade.
Thinking it was the heart, Cocaign then ripped out a piece of Baudry's lung and ate part of it raw before cooking the rest.
"What I did, I liked doing," said Cocaign, 37, who has a shaved head and whose face is covered in tattoos.
He will have to serve at least 20 years of his sentence.
Aware of his impulses, Cocaign had requested psychiatric help in 1998 and asked to be placed in isolation in 2006.
"It's exceptional to see a psychologically disturbed person say: I have to be treated," said defense lawyer Fabien Picchiottino, noting the "failure of the psychiatric, penitentiary and social system."
(Reporting by Marc Parrad; Writing by Sophie Taylor)
ROUEN, France (Reuters) – A French convict who killed his cellmate and ate his lung was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday.
Nicolas Cocaign and Thierry Baudry had a fight when Cocaign asked Baudry to wash his hands after he had used the toilet during the night of January 2, 2007. Cocaign strangled Baudry and cut open his chest with a razor blade.
Thinking it was the heart, Cocaign then ripped out a piece of Baudry's lung and ate part of it raw before cooking the rest.
"What I did, I liked doing," said Cocaign, 37, who has a shaved head and whose face is covered in tattoos.
He will have to serve at least 20 years of his sentence.
Aware of his impulses, Cocaign had requested psychiatric help in 1998 and asked to be placed in isolation in 2006.
"It's exceptional to see a psychologically disturbed person say: I have to be treated," said defense lawyer Fabien Picchiottino, noting the "failure of the psychiatric, penitentiary and social system."
(Reporting by Marc Parrad; Writing by Sophie Taylor)
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Kangaroo knocks jogger unconscious in Australia
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
25-year-old man David Striegl was knocked unconscious by a kangaroo on the Mount Ainslie nature reserve in the Australian capital Canberra on Thursday. He received cuts and bruises and a black eye after being scratched and hit by the kangaroo. Mount Ainslie is located near the centre of the Australian capital, with Australia's parliament houses designed to be viewed from the top of the mountain.
He does not remember much about the incident, only that he turned around and saw the kangaroo which hit him in the face. He said that the kangaroo scratched him at first then guessed that it must have hit him which caused him to lose consciousness. He was taken to hospital by a motorist who was passing by. At the hospital he was given x-rays and a tetanus shot before being discharged.
Striegl had been jogging up the mountain during his lunch break. Joggers and cyclists are common on the mountain, which is located a few kilometres from the city centre. He was a former Australian rules footballer, and says he had never been in a fight, until being hit by the kangaroo. He had seen kangaroos box each other before but didn't know they would box people. He said he would not have thrown a punch back if he had the chance because of their status as a national symbol, and he has no hard feelings against kangaroos. His colleagues at the United Group Ltd. real estate office where he works have given him the nickname Skippy, after the famous television show. He said he will continue jogging at the reserve, but with company next time.
Injuries from kangaroos in Australia are rare, and it is almost unheard of for someone to be knocked out by one. This attack comes a year after a kangaroo crashed through a window of a house in Canberra before rampaging through the house.
Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
25-year-old man David Striegl was knocked unconscious by a kangaroo on the Mount Ainslie nature reserve in the Australian capital Canberra on Thursday. He received cuts and bruises and a black eye after being scratched and hit by the kangaroo. Mount Ainslie is located near the centre of the Australian capital, with Australia's parliament houses designed to be viewed from the top of the mountain.
He does not remember much about the incident, only that he turned around and saw the kangaroo which hit him in the face. He said that the kangaroo scratched him at first then guessed that it must have hit him which caused him to lose consciousness. He was taken to hospital by a motorist who was passing by. At the hospital he was given x-rays and a tetanus shot before being discharged.
Striegl had been jogging up the mountain during his lunch break. Joggers and cyclists are common on the mountain, which is located a few kilometres from the city centre. He was a former Australian rules footballer, and says he had never been in a fight, until being hit by the kangaroo. He had seen kangaroos box each other before but didn't know they would box people. He said he would not have thrown a punch back if he had the chance because of their status as a national symbol, and he has no hard feelings against kangaroos. His colleagues at the United Group Ltd. real estate office where he works have given him the nickname Skippy, after the famous television show. He said he will continue jogging at the reserve, but with company next time.
Injuries from kangaroos in Australia are rare, and it is almost unheard of for someone to be knocked out by one. This attack comes a year after a kangaroo crashed through a window of a house in Canberra before rampaging through the house.
Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Wis. man gets probation in dirty diaper theft
STEVENS POINT, Wis. – An Amherst man accused of trying to steal dirty diapers from a home has been sentenced to 30 months of probation. Dillon Makuski, 20, was convicted of possession of burglary tools. The Stevens Point Journal reports Makuski also must serve 200 hours of community service and undergo a psycho-sexual examination.
Makuski was detained by the homeowner after entering an Amherst home last September. A Portage County sheriff's deputy found six dirty diapers in Makuski's pockets.
The complaint said Makuski entered the house because he likes to wear diapers and thought there might be some in the house.
According to the complaint, when asked whether he intended to steal dirty diapers, Makuski said "yes."
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. – An Amherst man accused of trying to steal dirty diapers from a home has been sentenced to 30 months of probation. Dillon Makuski, 20, was convicted of possession of burglary tools. The Stevens Point Journal reports Makuski also must serve 200 hours of community service and undergo a psycho-sexual examination.
Makuski was detained by the homeowner after entering an Amherst home last September. A Portage County sheriff's deputy found six dirty diapers in Makuski's pockets.
The complaint said Makuski entered the house because he likes to wear diapers and thought there might be some in the house.
According to the complaint, when asked whether he intended to steal dirty diapers, Makuski said "yes."
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ACLU sues to protect right to swear
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – An American rights group is suing the police in Pennsylvania for issuing tickets, which carry a jail sentence, to people for swearing.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed the lawsuits earlier, argues that the right to use profanity is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“Unfortunately, many police departments in the commonwealth do not seem to be getting the message that swearing is not a crime,” said Marieke Tuthill of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “The courts have repeatedly found that profanity, unlike obscenity, is protected speech.”
Obscenity, under the Supreme Court’s definition, refers to speech that mainly appeals to the “prurient interest” in sex, according to the ACLU.
One lawsuit involves an unidentified woman in Luzerne County in northeast Pennsylvania who was given a citation which carries a maximum penalty of $300 and 90 days in jail after she yelled an offensive word at a motorcyclist who swerved close to her in October 2008.
In a separate case a man was arrested, cited for disorderly conduct and briefly jailed after shouting a double expletive at a policeman who was writing him a parking ticket.
The two are among at least 750 people in Pennsylvania a year who face illegal disorderly conduct charges because of the use of profanity in Pennsylvania, the ACLU said.
Citations for swearing have also been handed out in other states including Michigan and New York, according to the ACLU, which said it has successfully defended about a dozen people in profanity prosecutions.
But the group added that there are more citations given out in Pennsylvania than other states.
“Cops don’t understand that there’s a legal definition of obscenity and therefore issue citations for profanity,” said Sara Mullen, a spokeswoman for the ACLU.
Tuthill added that the ACLU will continue to bring lawsuits until the practice of issuing citations for swearing is stopped.
Pennsylvania state police were not immediately available for comment.
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