QUIRKY WORLD ... Is their TV frozen? Family watches film 500 times
The 26-year-old and her sons Owen, 4, Corey, 2, and one-year-old Jay, from Middlesbrough, are obsessed with the Disney movie, and it sometimes gets played five times a day. Ms Dryden, a former nursery nurse, stressed that she does not simply sit the boys in front of the television for hours on end, and the children happily play, colour, and go for days out.
But when they are at home, they love to have Frozen on in the background and they sing along to the hits like ‘Do You Want To Build A Snowman?’ and ‘Let It Go’.
Reunited
A stolen British bulldog said to be worth £16,000 has been reunited with its owner following a tip-off to police.
An offender ran off with the rare lilac puppy, named Lila, after calling at the owner’s home expressing an interest in buying it. When the man was given the animal to hold, he ran out of the property, allegedly assaulting a relative of the dog breeder on his way out.
The theft in Surrey on October 17 prompted a public appeal for information by police. The puppy was found at a property in Oxfordshire.
Undone by dinner
Police arrested a bank robbery suspect when he stopped for a chicken meal at a restaurant two blocks away from the scene of the heist.
Shane Lindsey, 32, was arrested about 20 minutes after he allegedly robbed the Citizens Bank in the centre of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Witnesses saw a bald man matching Lindsey’s description run towards the restaurant after the robbery.
Police knew the business had surveillance video and went inside to view it hoping for clues as to where the suspect went – only to find Lindsey still inside, eating in a booth. Police said the video showed the suspect run past the restaurant and then pause before coming back and going inside.
Fatal fall
A teenage student taking photographs from a Philadelphia building’s eighth-floor window ledge slipped and fell to her death — landing on a pedestrian on the pavement below.
Police said the Temple University student slipped as she tried to re-enter the window from the ledge of the building near Rittenhouse Square Park. She was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later.
She landed on a 44-year-old pedestrian outside an H&M store in Chestnut Street, who is in hospital with broken vertebrae and missing teeth.
ABCs of justice
Sheila Kearns showed the film, The ABCs of Death, during five periods of a Spanish class at East High School in Columbus in April 2013, prosecutors said. The movie consists of 26 chapters, each depicting some form of grisly death and representing a letter of the alphabet, such as “E is for Exterminate”, ‘’O is for Orgasm”, and “T is for Toilet.”
A jury convicted Kearns of four felony counts. The convictions carry possible jail sentences, but Kearns, 58, is expected to get probation when she’s sentenced in March.
Kearns contended she didn’t watch the movie beforehand or while showing it and was unaware of its content, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Her attorney said she never would have knowingly showed it.
But a student testified at Kearns’ trial the teacher did watch the 129-minute movie. The student said the movie was “disturbing” and said students went “crazy” while watching it.
An assistant principal who saw the DVD playing in the classroom confiscated it.
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