One good turn usually deserves another, but one prankster decided to steal two policemen’s hats while they were doing him a favour. Police officers had offered Angus Budge, 20, labourer of Napier and a friend a lift home when he pulled off the funny pranks of stealing the police hats.
He was intoxicated and standing with a friend on the corner of Carlyle St and Thackeray St in Napier when police offered them a lift home on September 3 at 3am. They were taken to an address in Edmundson St and as he was getting out of the police car, Budge took the hats.
He appeared in the Napier District Court yesterday, he pleaded guilty to stealing the hats, that valued at $78.17. He told police he did not know why he did it. Defense lawyer Alan Cressey said Budge wanted to sincerely apologize for his actions which were committed after police did him a huge favour.
Judge Bridget Mackintosh said Budge accepted it was drunken, stupid stuff behavior and was suitably embarrassing’. She convicted him on one count of theft and remitted $5250 of fines, built up by driving on a learner licence, for 70 hours’ community work. A decision on Budge’s remaining $3440 fines will be made on November 11.
Nate Brown, unlike many of his teammates, has been with the varsity club of Forest Park football team for the last four years. It’s not just his tenure that sets him apart, but his temperament on the field and in the huddle.
The Jets’ starting quarterback rookie Mark Sanchez, the fifth overall pick of this year’s NFL draft, is very excited and can’t wait for the 2009 NFL season to officially begin. He is about to get a true educational experience since the defensive schemes and the speed of the game would ramped up more than just a notch compared to the preseason games on Sunday when they face the Houston Texans in Texas.
A woman called Lincoln police Sgt. Todd Beam just before 7 p.m. Thursday evening to report a disturbing incident. The caller said she was waiting to turn south onto 40th Street when she saw a man who was bound and gagged to get out of a blue SUV run into the intersection, which got caught and pulled back into the SUV by another man heading east on Van Dorn street.
Police reported receiving a call from a Virginia Crisis Link Hotline operator who reported an adolescent male caller “stated that he was tired of his parents abusing him and that he was going to take his father’s shotgun and shoot them.” Saturday, Aug. 15 at 3:31 p.m. The hotline was able to trace the cell phone number to Winchester and provide police with the address of its owner.
