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Edward and Cheryl Patton of Lake View, New York, tried for three years to identify who was throwing used paper cof- fee cups — some with cigarette butts inside — on their front yard nearly every night, but they could never get a good look at the minivan as it drove by. Edward began keeping re- cords of the littering and col- lecting the cups, eventually fill- ing 10 garbage bags, reported The Buffalo News. They even installed a surveillance camera, but it wasn’t until neighbors set up a stakeout and captured the license plate number that the mystery was solved.
On April 18, police set up their own stakeout and pulled over Larry Pope, 76, a former co-worker of Cheryl’s whom she had disagreements with. Pope was charged with harass- ment and throwing refuse onto a roadway. The Pattons said the littering has stopped since his arrest.
Vengeful Litterbug Caught After 3-year Spree
All In The Family
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
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the Associated Press reported on April 15.
Take Your Vows Elsewhere
his wedding. Finkel said no, but Wilson and his betrothed, Shenita Jones, sent out online invitations anyway, with fes- tivities beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday and continuing through brunch on Sunday at what they called “the Wilson estate.”
An anonymous New York resident seeking to marry their adult child filed suit in federal court in Manhattan on April 1 (no joke) asking that laws barring incestuous marriage be overturned, Fox News re- ported. In court papers, the petitioner claims such a mar- riage is a matter of “individual autonomy” and asks to remain unnamed because “a large seg- ment of society views (the re- quest) as morally, socially and biologically repugnant.”
A family-owned patisserie in Veresegyhaz, Hungary, is offering its customers sweet relief from COVID-19 angst with colorful layered mousses, each topped with a decorative syringe. The Sulyan family’s special desserts are colored with jelly toppings represent- ing the different COVID-19 vaccinations available in Hun- gary: citrus yellow for As- traZeneca, darker yellow for Sinopharm, green for Pfizer, orange for Sputnik V and blue for Moderna, Reuters reported.
McLean had designed the coffin with his cousin, Ross Hall, owner of Dying Art, a business in Auckland special- izing in custom coffins. Over the last 15 years, Hall has fash- ioned a firetruck, a chocolate bar and Legos, among others.
Nathan Finkel called 911 on April 17 to report that Court- ney Wilson and another person showed up at the gate of his expansive mansion in subur- ban Fort Lauderdale, Florida, claiming that they were having a wedding there that day.
“The guy figured it was a vacant house and didn’t realize (Finkel) lived on the property in a different home,” explains town attorney Keith Poliakoff.
The petitioner is a parent of an adult child, but court documents do not reveal the couple’s genders, ages, home- town or relationship. The filing does detail that the “proposed spouses are unable to procreate together.”
“Anyone can try these,” says confectioner Katalin Benko, and “the only possible side ef- fect would be a little smile on their face.”
For himself, Hall plans to be buried in a clear coffin, with him wearing nothing but a leopard-patterned G-string.
According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Wilson, the groom, had inquired about buying the estate, listed for $5.7 million, several weeks ago, then asked Finkel if he could use the backyard for
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Manhattan family and mat- rimonial law attorney Eric Wrubel predicts, “It’s never gonna fly.”
Mourners at Phil McLean’s funeral in Wellington, New Zealand, first gasped, then laughed as his coffin, shaped like a giant cream doughnut, was brought into the chapel,
McLean’s widow, Debra, says her husband considered himself a connoisseur of cream doughnuts, and the cof- fin demonstrated “Phil’s sense of humor.”
“I have people trespass- ing on my property,” Fin- kel says. “They say they’re having a wedding here and it’s God’s message. I don’t know what’s going on.”
Wilson was told to vacate the property and was not charged with a crime.
“The kids say they’re not going,” he says.
Going Out In Style
Leila
Dental Assistant
Leila moved to the mainland at 17 to finish high school. While finishing high school, she picked up a trade in dental assisting. Working in her campus’s dental office and at two other internships, she was also finishing her classes part time at night school. After graduating in August of 2019 and earning her certifications, she made her way back to Hawai’i in December. Now, Leila is a new member of Tropical Smiles Dental, learning and growing with an amazing team.
If Leila is not at work, she is most likely at the beach with her two sons, Ka’eo and Hau’oli, or at home watching AHS on Netflix.