U.S. woman cited for yelling obscenities at overflowing toilet in her home
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SCRANTON, Pa. - Talk about a potty mouth.
A Scranton woman who allegedly shouted profanities at her overflowing
toilet within earshot of a neighbour was cited for disorderly conduct,
authorities said. Dawn Herb could face up to 90 days in jail and a
fine of up to $300.
"It doesn't make any sense. I was in my house. It's not like I was
outside or drunk," Herb told The Times-Tribune of Scranton. "The
toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was
yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop."



Herb doesn't recall exactly what she said, but she admitted letting
more than a few choice words fly near an open bathroom window Thursday
night.
Her next-door neighbour, a city police officer who was off-duty at the
time, asked her to keep it down, police said. When she continued, the
officer called police.
Mary Catherine Roper, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union
in Philadelphia, took issue with the citation.
"You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet," she said.

Zany Zany World staff acquired transcripts of the verbal exchange in question.

Woman: Oh F**K! Oh F**K!
Daughter: Shut the f**k up. I'm trying to watch Reba.
Woman: Pause that mother f**ker. I'm up to my knees in s**t right
now. Get me a f**king mop or something.
Daughter: For f**ks sake. Can't you go 5 minutes without s*%ting
all over yourself?
Woman: G**damit! If you don't get your fabutan'd a*s up here right
now, I'm going to...(interrupted)
Neighbour: Would you quiet the f**k down? I'm trying to watch Reba.
Daughter: B*tch please! You're not the only one trying to watch
Reba. And just like you, I can't hear all the funny s*it going on
because my mom can't SOLVE HER OWN F**KING PROBLEMS WITHOUT A F**KING
MOP!



Woman: Go f**k yourself.
Daughter: I wish you were dead, you witch.
Neighbour: If you two don't shut the f**k up right now, I'm calling
the ma-f**kin' po-po.
Daughter: What's wrong officer b**ch-t*ts? You can't solve this case yourself?
Neighbour: F*#k it! (starts calling the police)
Woman: S*it! What a f**king mess. This is a f**king sh*tstorm disaster. F**k!

I'm not sure what's dirtier: the bathroom or their mouths.

Fake Cops

...From the Canadian Press...

Two teenage girls are accused of posing as police officers in a carjacking outside a Winnipeg cultural centre over the weekend.

The victim, a 46-year-old man, was sitting in a pickup truck in the parking lot at the Ukrainian National Home early Sunday when the teens convinced him to get out of the vehicle by claiming they were cops.

The pair then allegedly managed to bind the man's hands, and raided his pockets before taking off in the truck, police said.

Eventually, the man broke free and called police. Less than two hours later, officers found his stolen pickup and one of the suspects in the same neighbourhood.

Calling it an unusual but "quite brazen" incident, Winnipeg police spokeswoman Const. Jacqueline Chaput said police aren't sure why the man listened to the teens.

"I don't know what the circumstances were and why he felt compelled to do it. Probably because they did state they were police officers," she said.

The alleged driver of the stolen truck, a 16-year-old girl, was charged with robbery, forcible confinement, impersonating a police officer, driving without a licence, and drug possession. She's being held at the Manitoba Youth Centre.

The other teen, who is 15, was released on a promise to appear in court. Police said they have charged her with robbery and driving without a licence.

Surely this must have been a traumatizing event for the 46-year-old man, but there’s still something confusing about the whole scenario.
Mistaking someone’s identity is very normal. Once I confused a guy wearing a white collared shirt with no tie for being a waiter. If he would have asked me for my order, I would have given it to him.
But how a grown man can be convinced a 15 year old girl is a cop is beyond me.



Now I wasn’t there, but I have been to Winnipeg. And I can say for sure that people in Winnipeg don’t regularly walk around in police costumes, unless of course it’s Halloween.
So one can only assume the girls weren’t dressed like cops.
Also, I noticed both girls were charged with driving without a licence. Did they rotate drivers? Usually, just one person drives the getaway car.
Anyway, let this be a lesson: next time a cop asks you to get out of your car, ask the cop to name 4 of 5 Spice Girls. If the cop can do it in under 7 seconds, you have a teenage girl on your hands, not a cop. Anything over 7 seconds, well...your guess is as good as mine.