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Got damn shame
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A topless woman has been arrested for stealing a bulldozer and crashing it into an apartment complex.
Heather Houston, 34, allegedly stole the front end loader from a construction site and drove it 5.5 miles across town to the apartments in Great Falls, Montana, on Sunday morning.
Police say Houston then ran over a fence, damaged a car and hit the side of the complex.
Records show that this was not Houston's first brush with law enforcement.
Last November police who were responding to reports of suspicious activity in Fergus County came across Houston and noticed there was a warrant out for her arrest in connection with drug charges.
When they tried to arrest her, Houston reportedly became hostile, kicking and biting the officers, according to Fox Montana.
A glass pipe, methamphetamine and marijuana were found in her purse.
She was charged with two counts of Criminal Possession of Dangerous Drugs, two counts of Assault on Peace Officer or Judicial Officer and one count of Criminal Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
An Ohio woman is claiming that boredom and a lapse in judgment drove her to steal 12 packages from neighbors' homes in a bizarre two-day crime spree.
Melissa Bergman, 30, drove around the town of Mason with her two young children in the car, and strolled right up to the targeted homes last July.
She was eventually caught when she swiped one package with an officer just a few feet away according to court records.
The mother-of-two entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity during her trial, but was still found guilty on 12 counts of theft last month, landing her in prison for 30 days and on probation for the next three years.







There was applause and cheering outside Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM) on Tuesday evening, though not for the Robert Lepage-directed show about to begin inside. The cheering was for speakers who denounced Lepage and singer Betty Bonifassi, both of whom are white, as “racists,” for presenting a program of songs that originated among blacks in the American South.
About 100 people assembled on St. Catherine Street to hear speeches and songs against SLĀV, which is part of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. After about 45 minutes of invective from a number of speakers, including organizer Lucas Charlie Rose, the protestors surged toward the theatre entrance and its crowded restaurant terrasse, chanting “Shut it down!” and “Shame!”
Lepage, Bonifassi and the jazz festival were accused of “profiting from our pain” and fuelling exploitative capitalism, although both the festival and TNM are not-for-profit entities. The protest channeled frustrations not only about what one speaker called “a blatant act of neo-colonialism,” but also about a lack of opportunity for black artists and police violence against black people
SLĀV is billed as “a theatrical odyssey inspired by and focused on traditional African-American slave and work songs, from cotton-field plantation to railroad yards.” The initial plan was for five shows, but after those quickly sold out, the run was extended to 16 performances through July 14.
Bonifassi is best known for her soundtrack performance in the 2003 Oscar-nominated film The Triplets of Belleville and as the powerhouse vocalist for a popular Montreal band led by DJ Champion (Maxime Morin). Her collaboration with Lepage grew out of two albums of her interpretations of songs collected in southern black communities during the 1930s, by white ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax.
A war of words over SLĀV has been heating up since last November, when dramaturge and activist Marilou Craft criticized the whiteness of the production in a Facebook post. Bonifassi responded with a defence of her right to tell slave stories, based on her own heritage. “’Slave’ comes from the word ‘Slav,’” she wrote. “The first people sold were from Slavic countries east of my mother’s country of Serbia.” She also wrote that she had spent 18 years researching the material for SLĀV.
Earlier this week, the singer told the Montreal Gazette: “I waited a long time to find the right way to make this work. I don’t see colour. To me, it doesn’t exist, physically or in music. … All cultures and ethnicities suffer the same.”
A war of words over SLĀV has been heating up since last November, when dramaturge and activist Marilou Craft criticized the whiteness of the production in a Facebook post. Bonifassi responded with a defence of her right to tell slave stories, based on her own heritage. “’Slave’ comes from the word ‘Slav,’” she wrote. “The first people sold were from Slavic countries east of my mother’s country of Serbia.” She also wrote that she had spent 18 years researching the material for SLĀV.
“a theatrical odyssey inspired by and focused on traditional African-American slave and work songs, from cotton-field plantation to railroad yards.”
What dude goes for a late night "snack" with his boys?
We late night "snacking" now?
