Friday, March 25, 2011
oddly enough
Montana man gets year for fraud; used female voice
BOISE, Idaho
A Montana man who mimicked a female voice is exchanging his ill-gotten Tempur-Pedic mattress for a cot in a federal prison.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Idaho says 60-year-old Ricky Vaughn Barry of Hamilton, Mont., was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for impersonating his ex-wife when speaking to company representatives.
The calls to open a line of credit and order a $4,000 bed and sheets were recorded.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mitchell in Boise said the case against the former Coeur d’Alene resident developed after his ex-wife pulled her credit report and found accounts used to purchase the bed and a laptop.
The federal charges did not include the laptop purchase, but both items were sold to help pay just over $7,700 in restitution.
Va. couple gets hitched at Pa. rink where they met
SENECA, Pa.
A Virginia couple has gotten their married life rolling at a northwestern Pennsylvania roller-skating rink.
Twenty-four-year-old Shelly Everett and 23-year-old Travis Rodgers met as preteens at the Seneca Skating Rink, where they were married Wednesday.
Everett wore a traditional gown and traded a “first dance” with her new husband for a “first skate” instead.
Everett graduated from nearby Oil City High School, while Rodgers went to Franklin High School, both about 70 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Rodgers tells The Derrick of Oil City that instead of a standard church wedding, they wanted to do “something special.”
The couple is returning to Virginia Beach, Va., where Rodgers is stationed in the Navy and expects to be deployed overseas later this year.
Their first child is due in September.
Maine man uses toilets to pooh-pooh town decision
KITTERY, Maine
A Maine plumber has put more than a dozen toilets on his lawn to protest a town decision that he feels led to more parking on the street where he lives.
David Linscott says the 17 toilets of various designs and colors outside his Kittery home are meant to show his disdain for the closing of an elementary school, which led to more parking near a now-expanded middle school.
Linscott tells Foster’s Daily Democrat that people now wander onto his properties.
He’s been displaying the toilets on his lawn since the fall.
Associated Press