Last week, Milwaukee police found 130 felines and a dog in house where trash and cat feces was found up to 3 feet deep. Inspectors came to the house last week after neighbors complained about smells coming from the three-bedroom house. When they arrived, they found the sinks and bathtubs filled with cat food. The cats had crawled into the walls, ducts and ceilings, said Donn Jacobson, an animal control officer for the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission. The cats drank water from the house's three toilets and a leaky basement pipe, he said. The house has been condemned by the city and may have to be razed. The house's owner died in 1997, but the woman's adult son returned regularly to feed the animals, said Martin Collins, head of the Department of Neighborhood Services. Jacobson has been trudging through the house twice a day for a week, luring cats into metal cages baited with canned tuna.
"I'm hoping it will end soon," he said. "I'm sick of coming down here."
The rescue smashes the city record of 82 removed from a home in the late 1980s.
Saddam Attempting To Bribe US
Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, a British tabloid newspaper said today. According to the Sunday Mirror report, Saddam was demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus in exchange for information on weapons of mass destruction and his bank accounts.
US President George W Bush was being kept up to date on the talks by his national security adviser Condoleeza Rice who was coordinating negotiations led by US general Ricardo Sanchez, the Sunday Mirror said.Drunk GI Shoots Iraqi Tiger
A U.S. soldier shot dead a rare Bengal tiger at Baghdad zoo after the animal injured another soldier who was trying to feed it through the cage bars, the zoo's manager said on Saturday. Adil Salman Mousa told Reuters a group of U.S. soldiers were having a party in the zoo on Thursday night after it had closed. 'Someone was trying to feed the tigers,' he said. 'The tiger bit his finger off and clawed his arm. So his colleague took a gun and shot the tiger.' The night watchman said the soldiers had arrived in military vehicles but were casually dressed and were drinking beer.
Gay Couple Denied Entry to US
A Canadian gay couple has been refused entry into the United States after filling out joint customs forms as a family. The two men -- Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa who are legally married under Ontario law -- refused to fill out separate forms and cancelled their trip, to a human rights conference in Georgia. The US Embassy in Ottawa defended the action by US immigration officials at Toronto airport, saying that the 1996 US Defence of Marriage Act defined marriage as 'only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
Britney Pees Where Britney Wants
The pop princess has been re-named Pissy Spears by so-called friends and shocked waiters, who watched her drop her drawers and wee on a beach a few days ago. ... Britney and her pal Clarissa Jones summoned Clarissa's fella Joshua Clephas and Joshua's pal Tom Witchey to Santa Barbara's Four Seasons Hotel for some fun. ... Britney and the gang went for a smoke on the beach below. 'It was unbelievable. The four of them were huddled at the water's edge, then Britney dropped her jeans and had a wee on the sand. Her friend also went and they didn't seem embarrassed doing it front of the boys -- or waiters!
Downloading Suits Helping Child Molesters
US telco giant SBC has hit back at the Recording Industry Association of America's legal blitz against music lovers. In testimony before the Senate this week, SBC's counsel Jim Ellis said that the RIAA was making an end run around the constitution by issuing a blitz of subpoenas with no judicial oversight. Ellis argued that the legal tactics deployed by the RIAA could be adopted by Net stalkers and child molesters.
Wanna-be Child Molestor Released From Prison
A man imprisoned for writing fictitious stories of child torture and molestation has been released from jail two months after an appeals court threw out his child pornography conviction. ... Dalton, 24, is believed to be the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography for writings rather than images. The stories, which prosecutors say were made-up and never acted on, were about three children, ages 10 and 11, being caged in a basement, molested and tortured.
Girl Injured by Exploding Jaw Breaker
A nine-year-old girl was injured when a Jaw Breaker she had just opened expanded, then exploded in her face. The explosion left what appeared to be chemical burns on her face and upper arms. The link also contains the police report from the incidnet.
Man Injured While Singing Timberlake Song
A man was injured while singing a Justin Timberlake song and driving. He apparently inhaled a bee which cause "lacerations and neck pain." Its not apparent from the police report what song he was singing, but he has told Oregon reporters that it was "Rock Your Body."
Law School Graduate A Real Asshole
Matthew Toll is in his final year at the Tulane University School of Law and, like many fellow students approaching graduation, is seeking an associate's position paying at least $70,000 per year. The 25-year-old, though, has taken a unique approach to that hunt. Last month, he sent 20-30 law firms his resume and a five-page interview request drafted to resemble a legal filing. Noting that, "I am VERY hungry right now," Toll promised prospective employers that, "If my mother's funeral was the day of a key deposition, I would do the eulogy via teleconference after the deposition." And if his wedding was on the date of a key trial, "the wedding would be postponed. If the wife to be did not like it, I would inform her that work comes before EVERYTHING ELSE and that if she does not like this, she is free to find a competing husband." And, considering the tight job market, the kid is not afraid of getting his hands dirty: "If a piece of evidence was accidentally dropped into the garbage, I would have no problem going to the local dump and spending days covered knee-deep in the worst foul-smelling sludge imaginable to search for the evidence." When TSG caught up with him, Toll said he was not embarrassed by the letter and had good relationships with his mother and girlfriend, though Mom ribbed him, "So, you're not gonna come to my funeral?" As word of his letter ricocheted through the legal community this week, Toll began receiving phone messages and e-mails offering criticism and job interviews. While Toll said the "vast majority" of the feedback has been negative, "I don't care if everybody hates me, I only have to get one job."