Something old, something new, something black, something blue
A Wisconsin woman who appeared as an out-of-control bride on the reality show “BridezillasÓ ended up behind bars for her antics.
Karee Gibson Hart, 21, was booked into the jail Monday after a probation officer saw an episode that appeared to show her violating her probation — a 2005 assault with a baseball bat charge in which a woman required 12 staples to her head.
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During the reality show, the bride-to-be threatened her groom, burned her bridesmaid’s shoes, pushed her mother-in-law into a snowbank and made a false police report that she was being stalked — which resulted in a police escort to her own wedding. Hart said she was just acting.
Hart was released from jail two days later and ordered to avoid contact with the husband she married in January. The two are already estranged.
Should have stayed in sundae school
Mr. Softee could be doing hard time.
Police in New York accused an ice cream truck driver of selling cocaine right out of his freezer.
Detectives in an unrelated drug case were keeping surveillance on a home in Long Island when ice cream vendor Kenneth Leiton, 22, pulled up to the house in his Mr. Softee ice cream truck, blaring the trademark jingle. Police said they cold busted Leiton dropping off a bag of cocaine for cash. He was arrested on drug charges and for endangering the welfare of a child.
International House of Packing Heat
And you thought your boss was a hard case. An IHOP manager who couldn’t get his employees to work tried a new motivation technique. He pulled a gun on them, police said.
Steven Brooks, 49, of New Jersey, told three employees on break to go back into the restaurant or he was going to shoot them. When one of them made a wisecrack, Brooks walked to his car and pulled out a silver handgun. Brooks allegedly told them to step back or he would shoot. He then fled the restaurant.
Brooks was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, making terrorist threats and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
Stuck in neutral is no way to go through life
A 23-year-old carjacker returned his victim’s keys when he couldn’t figure out how to drive a stick shift.
The man approached a 57-year-old woman driving a Hyundai in a parking lot, demanded the keys and flashed a gun. He got inside the car, tried to put the car in gear, got out and tossed the keys back to the woman, saying, “I don’t need these anymore.Ó Police found him nearby and arrested him.
Huff love
A driver involved in an accident was arrested after crash investigators saw him duck down and inhale, or “huff,Ó harmful chemicals.
Florida police said they moved the 23-year-old man to the passenger seat because he looked woozy and called his sister to pick him up. When she opened the passenger-side door, police said they saw the brother remove an aerosol can from his face and hide it under his shoes.
The officer identified the can as being Office Depot Dust Cleanser, which would explain his erratic behavior, the officer noted.
