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In separate incidents on Tuesday, July 26, mothers in Virginia and Florida punished their young sons (ages four and seven respectively) by making them get out of the car on busy thoroughfares, then driving away. According to Virginia state troopers, Channoah Green, 22, abandoned her son on the Capital Beltway near Falls Church because he wouldn’t stay in his seat. And police in Zephyrhills, Florida, said that following a dispute over McDonald’s Happy Meals, Lori Heine, 46, left her son on State Road 54 and told him she was never coming back.
In incidents two weeks apart in July, 43-year-old men arrived for trysts arranged online with “teenage girls” (in reality police officers operating stings) even though they apparently had been unable to find babysitters. Alan Schaefer, a schoolteacher from Queens, New York, was arrested at the Greenwich Village rendezvous site he and the “13-year-old” had agreed on; police said he had grabbed a very young-looking female undercover officer by the hand and was carrying his 14-month-old son in his other arm. And in Trenton, Ohio, Columbus-area politician Hank Hill was arrested when he showed up to meet a “14-year-old girl”; according to WEWS TV, he had with him in his truck condoms, Viagra, lubricant, and his 22-month-old son.
Adam Tyson, 18, Jason Krueger, 20, and two younger friends suffered multiple bee stings after an incident of alleged vandalism in Lake County, Florida, in July. They’d deliberately backed their truck into a yard of beehives, but then got stuck in the sand just as the hundreds of thousands of bees they’d agitated began to swarm. Also in July in Sparta, Wisconsin, 43-year-old Darkalena Large told police that she and her car were fine, but they arrested her anyway on suspicion of drunk driving: the car was stuck on a curb with its right front tire missing and the wheel’s rim badly mangled; witnesses had seen flames coming from the wheel as she drove by, and a jagged chunk of it (still too hot to touch 20 minutes later) had broken off and hurtled through a nearby second-story bedroom window.
