DBH'S DumbAsses Of the Day x 4

Judge Sentences Man 10 Days Per Word
Tenn. Judge Sentences Man to 10 Days Per Word After Threatening CommentsThe Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. Mar 26, 2008 (AP)

A man has talked himself into nearly two years in jail after threatening to kill a Shelby County criminal court judge. Joshua Beadle has been held in contempt and sentenced to 10 days per word after a judge ordered him to stop the threatening comments.

Judge Lee Coffee stopped counting at 70 words and sentenced Beadle to 700 days in jail.

Beadle was shackled and outfitted in a special hooded spit mask during the hearing Monday after spitting at the judge at a hearing in January. Beadle missed the judge and instead hit a clerk's computer.

Through his nylon-and-mesh spit mask, he apologized to the clerk on Monday and assured her that his intended target was the judge.

Beadle was appearing in court on burglary and rape charges




“I Was Looking For A Salt Lick!”

That’s the excuse that a man hiding in the woods gave police in Westlake, Ohio, early on the morning of March 26.

The man, identified as Ernest Harte, of Cleveland, now faces a laundry list of charges after he was caught stealing copper piping from a home under construction on Waterfall Way in Westlake.

A local resident noticed Harte around 12:30 AM March 26 and called the cops. Officers got there and Captain Guy Turner says that they found Harte hiding in the trees behind the home.

He gave officers a couple of stories about his activity in the area. First, Harte said that he was looking for a salt-lick for deer hunting purposes. Turner points out that deer hunting is illegal in Westlake.

Harte also told officers that he was having a diabetic fit. Paramedics looked him over and he was deemed fine, which poked a hole in that story.

Harte then claimed to know nothing about the Infiniti G20 parked on the street that he was seen getting into and out of. Yet Turner says keys to it “were mysteriously found on his person.” The car was impounded.

Police also found several items in his possession, including a reciprocating saw, a pipe cutter, and a bolt cutter. He’s charged with attempted theft, breaking and entering, obstructing official business and possession of criminal tools.

Ironically, hart was out on bond for burglary and car theft. He is standing trial on those charges March 31.


“So, Why Did You Carjack That Woman?” “I Didn’t Feel Like Walking!”

A man in West Palm Beach, Florida, was called stupid by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on March 25. But it’s as though the man, identified as 21-year-old Frank Singleton, could write a book on how to morph a misdemeanor into a felony within the confines of the jail’s parking lot.

“This is one of the stupid criminals,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman Paul Miller said.

Singleton got released from the county jail that day after being arrested on a charge of misdemeanor trespassing.

He immediately ran out into the visitors’ parking lot, and in an apparent effort to get away as quickly as possible, attempted to carjack a 2006 Nissan 350Z, Miller said.

Justine Lapierre, the woman who was driving the vehicle, was just getting out of it when Singleton ran at her saying, “I want your car,” Miller said.

He pushed Lapierre out of the way, grabbed the keys and jumped into the Nissan. But, naturally, it was a manual transmission and Singleton couldn’t operate it, according to Miller.

Hearing the commotion, Sheriff’s Office Pastor Leo Krug walked up and, holding his handgun by his side, ordered the barely free Singleton to the ground so that a deputy could slap the cuffs on him.

Needless to say, Singleton was booked on a charge of carjacking.

“I don’t think he wanted to go back to jail,” Miller said. “I think he really wanted to get away and was looking for a car.” When the detective was making the arrest, he asked Singleton why he did this.

“I didn’t feel like walking,” Singleton said.