DeKalb County police are looking for two home invaders who tied up a wife and husband in their house Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. in a neighborhood near Emory University, police said. A woman living in the 2800 block of Laurelgate Drive on the DeKalb side of Atlanta pulled into her driveway to [...]
Two Upper Hutt men charged Roy Samways, 82, $1246 to clean the windows of his small villa after charging him $24 the first time and $600 in January before the exorbitant amount this week.
A bank teller queried Mr Samways cheque when the two men presented it, and though he told the teller to honour it, [...]
Mr Samways, 82, paid $1240 to have the windows of his small Waikanae villa cleaned and was shocked to discover the job should have cost no more than $120.
Though initially a bit uneasy about paying two men the %26quot;hell of a price%26quot;, he felt reassured when they told him they charged other clients the same [...]
The thing that gets him?
He called her.
Not just the first time, either. The first three. Or four times, even.
%26quot;Hello,%26quot; he said. He dialled her number and everything. He had to get it from her friend.
Later, when he thinks about it, its this that gets him: the irony. Well: theirs is an ironic generation. Irony squared.
He [...]
After three nights in a freezing, powerless home, Jeanetta Plunkett couldn’t take any more. She picked up her two young grandchildren and sought refuge at a shelter for people who lost electricity after a huge ice storm.
“We’ve been at home trying to endure, but it wasn’t working,” said Plunkett, who feared she was getting a [...]