This Week in Weird
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Sat Jul 19, 2008, 05:56 PM CDT
Hacker makes $15,000 worth of calls from library
DUXBURY, Mass. -- One call to India cost $7,000. Add the calls to the Philippines and Jordan, and the bill on the Duxbury Public Library phone line came to more than $15,000.
A hacker got into the computerized phone system at the library in March. The FBI, among others, is now investigating.
“Someone, somehow, tapped into a phone at the library,” said Town Manager Richard MacDonald. “There’s a potential we will not have to pay. We’re still looking into this. We have no intent of paying any bills.”
MacDonald said the phone calls included one 30-hour connection to India that cost more than $7,000.
Manny Santos, director of engineering for CranCom Inc., then the library’s phone company, said a hacker or hackers gain access to the phone system through an employee’s voice mail. They then linked an library extension to a phone number elsewhere in the world so that calls from the outside phone passed through the library phone system and appeared to be coming from a library phone.
The library has since installed a new phone system.
What’s that in your mouth?
CANTON, Ohio -- A Canton woman found talking to a man in a van in the street had more than words spilling from her mouth.
Police said Dee Dee M. Jewell, 30, had crack cocaine hidden there.
Stark County Jail records said Jewell was approached by police Wednesday when they found crack cocaine in her mouth and a crack pipe in her pants.
She was charged with cocaine and drug paraphernalia possession, and criminal/aggravated trespassing.
Burglar to chiropractor: ‘Adjust this’
WINCHESTER, Mass. -- Police received a report of a burglary from McGarry Family Chiropractic, and according to the police report, a stack of files in the office had been thrown to the floor and a cash box with about $200 in it had been emptied.
Only a single $1 bill remained in the box with pink writing on it stating, “Adjust this.”
The incident remains under investigation.
Bear enters home to grab a bag of bird seed
FREMONT, N.Y. - - Carol and Harold Bates got a bit of a surprise recently — a bear had done a little shopping at their home.
Harold said late Tuesday night, Carol went into the back room of the home and found a bear had made off with a 50-pound bag of bird seed.
“The bear came in one door, knocked over a garbage can with sunflower seeds in it, and then broke through a window carrying a 50-pound bag with it,” Harold Bates said. “That bear has been a pain in the neck.”
Having the bear on their property is one thing, but Harold said there’s a real concern with the animal entering their home, especially since they have their 5- and 7-year-old grandsons staying with them. So he called the state Department of Conservation offices in Bath, but didn’t get the response he was hoping for — someone to come trap the bear and take it away.
“Their attitude was to take the stuff out of the house and to take our bird feeders down,” Harold Bates said. “They won’t do anything, and they had the gall to tell me to take the stuff out of the back room.”
“To keep him from coming back in, we had to put plywood up,” he added.
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