The singer who dressed as a policeman in the flamboyant late 1970s disco band “Village People” has been arrested after disappearing while drug and gun charges against him were pending, officials said on Monday. Victor Willis, who co-wrote some of the band’s hits such as “In the Navy” and “YMCA” has had a number of run-ins with the law since he left the group in 1980 and now faces as much as five years in prison, said Morley Pitt, assistant district attorney in San Mateo County south of San Francisco. “It’s just sad that his life has spiralled down to the point where in all likelihood he’s going to go to prison,” Pitt, who said he enjoys the song “YMCA”, told Reuters. “You never like to see anybody go to prison, let alone somebody who is 54 years old.”
Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost George Beane a whopping $4,334.33. Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled up to the drive-through window last Tuesday. The cashier, however, forgot that she’d entered the $4.33 charge on his debit card and punched in the numbers again without erasing the original ones - thus creating a four-figure bill. The electronic charge went through to George and Pat Beane’s Bank of America checking account and left the couple penniless. Their mortgage payment was due and they worried checks they had written would bounce, Pat Beane said. “We were thinking, ‘No, not now!’” she said of the overcharge. Burger King did not charge the Beanes for their meal, and the couple got their $4,334.33 back on Friday. “For those three days, those were the most expensive value burgers in history,” Pat Beane said.
Up to a third of telephone users in Britain make calls in the nude, with men more prone to do it without clothes than women, a survey revealed on Thursday. Research commissioned by Britain’s Post Office, which offers a fledgling home phone service, revealed that 40 percent of men admitted to nattering naked compared with 27 percent of women. The results were based on a survey of 1,500 telephone users. The research also showed that people were so busy that one in 10 people admitted to wandering off and leaving the caller talking to themselves.
A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband “divorced” his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported. Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word “talaq,” or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers Monday. When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab’s words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as “triple talaq.” The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split. The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.
A man found stuck in a Washington bank chimney didn’t try to cover up his intent. “We asked him what he was doing down there and he said, ‘What do you think? I’m trying to rob the bank,” said Police Chief Robert Perales Firefighters threw down a rope and pulled out a soot-covered 26-year-old man, who was arrested on the spot. He was booked into the municipal jail in nearby Wapato. Police in this lower Yakima Valley town had been summoned Thursday morning to the U.S. Bank because of an apparent break-in attempt. They discovered the stuck suspect after finding the top had been removed from the ventilation shaft for the furnace.
Sonia Goldstein was flattered by the nice recruiting letter asking her to consider becoming one of “the few, the proud.” But at age 78, she believes she’s just a little old to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. I couldn’t believe it,” Goldstein told KCAL-TV on Friday. “My girls were sitting here … we were in hysterics, we laughed so hard.” The letter told her the corps could use her unique language skills, but also warned that life as a Marine would test her physical and mental abilities “beyond anything you’ve ever known.” “There I am with my walker. I can’t maneuver from here to there without it,” said Goldstein, who added that her only language is English. “I’ll do whatever I could for this wonderful country we live in,” she said. “But you know, this is kind of stretching it a bit.” The Marines ordinarily recruit people 18 to 27, said Maj. Joseph Kloppel, a corps spokesman. He said the letter must have been sent by mistake. “Seventy-eight is obviously too old,” Kloppel added.
