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Mother and Grandmother of the yearBEDFORD, N.H. - A woman turned herself in to police after a store surveillance video captured footage of two small children apparently sneaking behind display cases to steal thousands of dollars in jewelry, apparently on instructions from their mother and grandmother.
Police made the video public this week and started getting tips minutes after it first aired on local television.
Police Chief David Bailey said the woman, whom he declined to identify, was not arrested when she turned herself in Wednesday because there was no warrant. She promised to return when one was prepared, which Bailey said could happen by the end of the day.
The woman said she lives in the area and has four children, one age 14 and three under 10, Bailey said. All are believed to have been involved, he said.
The video, taken at a store called the Consignment Gallery, shows one woman, possibly the children's mother, directing them to pocket certain items. An older woman, believed to be the grandmother, stuffs items down her shirt.
A woman who identified herself as the older woman on the video talked with WMUR-TV on Wednesday and denied stuffing merchandise down her shirt, saying that is where she carries her cell phone, money and other belongings.
She said she was shopping for a bed with her daughter when her grandchildren began to misbehave. The woman, whom the station did not identify, said her daughter was not stealing jewelry but rather trying to get her children to put back items they had taken.
"I was browsing around the store and the children were wild in the store," she said. "My granddaughter did take a ring, but we didn't realize it until we saw the news."
Detective Matt Fleming said more than $2,000 in jewelry was stolen from the store.
"It's pretty upsetting," Fleming said. "Watching the children methodically move through that jewelry area and take the items out for the mother is just astonishing."
How close is the jewelry department to the beds in most stores? They were trying to get her children to put back items they had taken. Yes, notice in the picture how Mom is pointing probably saying that ring goes there, that bracelet goes there and the earrings, let me see, maybe there. Man Uses Slingshot on Brother's Cars
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A 64-year-old man admitted to using a slingshot to vandalize his brother's car dealership Wednesday. William Gault, of Brackney, Pa., pleaded guilty to one count of felony third-degree criminal mischief.
He was frustrated with the circumstances of the family estate and expressed his unhappiness with a pattern of vandalism that spanned eight years. He declined Wednesday to further elaborate on his motives.
The damage has cost the dealership as much as $500,000 over the years, but Gault's plea involved a single incident that occurred Feb. 8. Gault will be sentenced Oct. 27. He will avoid jail time if he maintains good behavior leading up to his sentencing.
Gault is expected to be sentenced to five years probation and $6,655.45 in restitution, with a 5 percent surcharge.
I wonder if the real issue here is his brother sold him a lemon and gouged him on the price?Man Makes 37,760 Calls to OperatorTOKYO - A Japanese man was arrested this week after making 37,760 silent calls to directory inquiries because he wanted to listen to the "kind" voices of female telephone operators.
The 44-year-old has admitted to allegations of obstructing the operations of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. by making up to 905 calls a day from his mobile phone.
"When I made a complaint call once, the operator dealt with it very kindly, so I wanted to hear these women's voices," the paper quoted him as telling police.
Police believe the calls, made between March and July this year, caused psychological distress to more than 100 telephone operators, the Mainichi said.
Obviously this guy never heard of the 900 numbers. I'm told the girls on the 900 numbers will have the "kind" voices of female telephone operators or anything else you want them to be!!! Notice the calls he made were from a mobile phone - one has to wonder what that bill was.Drunken Man Hands Out Savings
BERLIN - A drunken man withdrew more than $16,700 from his bank account and then started handing out the money to passers-by in a western German town Tuesday, police said.
Police in Darmstadt said they were alerted at lunchtime to a man sitting on a bench in front of a bank and handing out notes. He had the money stuffed into plastic bags and his pockets, and some of it blew away.
Officers took the 63-year-old back into the bank and counted the money. They said in a statement that he had handed out $1,935, but that he "didn't care because he had enough."
Police decided to hold on to the rest of the money temporarily. They told the man to come back and collect it once he sobered up.
Wait until his wife hears about this!!!!!!Woman Wakes Up, Finds Tattoo on Ankle
DES MOINES, Iowa - Hillary Snyder said she isn't going to let her boyfriend's antics get under her skin. Snyder, 20, awoke recently to find she had been tattooed by her boyfriend while she slept.
She said she took a painkiller with a sleeping pill before she went to bed Saturday night. When she awoke, she discovered a tattoo of a five-pointed star on her right ankle.
Snyder said she had previously told her boyfriend she didn't want a tattoo. He wanted her to get a tattoo of a five-pointed star to match one of his own, she said.
"At least he didn't flub it up," she said.
The boyfriend wasn't identified. No arrests had been made. The investigation was continuing.
A police report accuses the now-former boyfriend of domestic assault. But Snyder isn't so sure.
"I mean it's not like he beat me up. There were no bruises or blood or anything. I'm just not going to see him again."
Right, she took a painkiller with a sleeping pill and did not feel him twisting her foot and sticking it over and over with needles!!! Man that's some good stuff! Woman Gets 70 Speeding Tickets in Five MonthsPHOENIX, Arizona - As a mortgage broker in Arizona, Francesca Cisneros is used to working with big numbers. It's the double-digit speed limits she has trouble with.
Cisneros racked up 70 speeding tickets in the last five months.
Speeding cameras in Scottsdale snapped pictures of the 32-year-old woman as she tore through the sun-baked city in her Honda Civic.
She told arresting officers she was speeding because "she seemed to be late for client meetings all the time."
Police said Cisneros said she threw her speeding tickets away because she thought nothing could happen to her if she didn't pay them.
Cisneros faces some $11,000 in fines and could have her license suspended.
She has to be a blonde because she thought nothing could happen to her if she didn't pay them. That's it for today. Please join me Friday on the blog that brings you all the news you can use @
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