Boys accused of stealing shopping trolley, joy riding around supermarket parking lot

American Police have charged three boys with stealing a shopping trolley from a Target store in Newport News, Virginia and going on a joy ride around the store's car park.

Police allege two 12 year olds and an 11 year old took the shopping cart at 2:00am (EDT) on Wednesday.

CCTV footage from the store shows they stole a four-wheel metal shopping cart while the 12 year old and 11 year old sat in it and the other 12 year old began pushing the cart around the store's parking lot.

Police say about 30 minutes later they got bored and went home. It is further alleged the boys stole shopping receipts that were discarded across the parking lot.

All three are to appear before Newport News Circuit Court where they will have to explain their actions to Chief Justice Judge Timothy S. Fisher.

UFO sightings reported to Coastguard across Kent

More than 20 UFO sightings have been reported to Kent Coastguard in the past three years because the witnesses were high on drugs and a various number of spiked drinks from Medway's nightclubs and thought the Coastguard was the service to deal with UFO sightings and alien-related matters.

A Freedom of Information Act request revealed the agency has had 22 calls about alien spacecrafts in the county since September 2010.

Maidstone was second only to Medway as a hotspot for the UFOs, with four reported. There were three unidentified LGM (little green men) sightings and in January Medway Coastguard were called after enormous crop circles were discovered in a field between Sittingbourne and Rainham.

Unfortunately the police were too busy buying doughnuts at the Tesco Express in Gillingham after their doughnut supply was running dangerously low, as a result the Coastguard were called to deal with the problem.

The calls were among 13 cases where the Coastguard took no further action, but twice patrols were sent to search for LGM or their spacecrafts.

In 2010 the Coastguard went to look for one in Dartford, but when they checked local CCTV cameras, they saw nothing but a drunk and/or high person on the phone describing a spaceship but was actually staring at a helicopter that was in the sky.

In June last year a suspected alien was spotted in the Folkestone area, prompting Dover Coastguard to get in touch with the MOD (Ministry of Defense) in case of an attack, it turned out their suspicions were wrong, it was just a guy who was very angry and his skin turned green as a result, similar to the Hulk.

The following September, MOD was also contacted after the Coastguard received reports of a round, alien spacecraft flying over Canterbury – but CCTV showed there was nothing but another helicopter flying over the city skies.

Coastguard spokesman Michael Granger said the Coastguard is getting sick of all these calls.

He said: “Every weekend we have an uncountable amount of phone calls that there are UFOs over the skies of Kent. It's not funny and we are getting sick of it to be frank. Why do people think UFO sightings are our problem? We are the Coastguard, not the fricken UFO Spotters.”

"99.97% of these calls are from people who sound like they are either drunk or high, it just proves that Kent is going down the pan. It seems like half of the county's population belong in a loony bin."

The number of annual sightings has remained constant since 2008.

UFO expert and blogger George Graham, who has had witnesses referred to him from the Coastguard, says there is evidence in Kent dating back hundreds of years.

He believes the only explanation is that there is in fact no explanation at all, since UFOs have neither been proved or disproved.

He added: “Kent seems to be the UK's Roswell. I urge anyone who sees a UFO to contact the Coastguard immediately."

Murderer Kevin Williams walks out of prison in Eastchurch on Sheppey, Kent

A convicted murderer walked out of an open prison by "asking the prison guards nicely to open the gate" and went to stay with a friend, a court heard.

Police tracked down Kevin Williams at flats in Sheerness and instead of going back to Standford Hill Category D Prison in Eastchurch, he has been transferred to secure Category B/C Elmley Prison nearby with guards who are more strict and who won't open the gate just because "he asks nicely."

Maidstone Crown Court heard the 43-year-old - jailed for life at the Old Bailey in London in February 1997 - failed to attend a roll call at Standford Hill on Tuesday, September 17.

When arrested three days later, he claimed he absconded because he was sick of the decor in his cell and he had asked the prison manager to change it but he had refused telling him "this is not a hotel." He said he intended to return after he went to B&Q to get some Dulux paint to redecorate his cell.

Judge Charles Byers heard Williams, of Maidstone, Kent, was cooperative and not a danger to the public.

Passing a concurrent sentence of 12 months for escape, the judge told him in a TV link with Elmley: "I appreciate you have pleaded guilty and you have been sensible. The worst punishment you will receive really is it may affect your release date, which is stupid.

"Since it is in my best judgement that you seem like a nice guy I have spoken with the manager of the new prison I am sending you to and he is going to decorate your cell just how you want it, in fact I just got off the phone with him and he wants you to go to B&Q with him this Friday to choose the paint.

The Judge continued: "Oh and don't worry about the bill for the paint, the taxpayer will take care of that!"

Two police officers full after eating too many doughnuts in Tunbridge Wells

Two police officers were reportedly 'very full' in Tunbridge Wells on Saturday lunchtime after eating loads of doughnuts.

They had been on patrol in Monson Road, near Prezzo restaurant. Unconfirmed witness reports suggested the police officers had eaten over fifty doughnuts each, other reports said it was more than one hundred.

The two officers had eaten so many doughnuts that they became very full. Doughnuts are a popular processed food article among police officers.

Both have fully recovered and it is expected they will be purchasing more doughnuts soon.

Drunken man pulled out water pistol before chasing victim after dispute over packet of crisps

A frightened crime victim ran into traffic to escape an "alcoholic" man wielding a water pistol following a dispute over the sale of a packet of crisps, a court heard.

Drunken Stephen Fletcher sat next to the man on a bus, acted in a way that worried him then followed him shouting: “Oi. Oi.”

He caught up with the victim and swung a punch at his face, Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday.

The victim avoided the blow and pushed Fletcher away, then saw him take an AK47 Super Soaker from his backpack.

Prosecutor David Crook said Fletcher brandished the water pistol on August 15 and threatened to spray his victim with water.

The victim was so concerned he ran into traffic to get away and sought refuge in a shop.

Fletcher, 52, followed and lingered outside the shop, and was aggressive to concerned teenagers.

He told a 14-year-old boy “I’ll spray you too” before police arrived and arrested him as well as confiscating the water pistol.

He and the victim had contact before “due to a transaction about a packet of crisps which the victim was going to buy”, said Mr Crook.

Fletcher, of Falston Close, Billingham, admitted possession of an offensive weapon on High Grange Avenue, Billingham and threatening behaviour.

He was in breach of a suspended prison sentence imposed in March for possessing an inflatable children's hammer, where he threatened to hit another man with it during an argument in Stockton.

He had a 32-year criminal record but had only been jailed once in 1986, for two months, said his barrister Paul Wishlade.

Mr Wishlade said: “He is unfortunately an alcoholic. It’s a little difficult really to know where to start.

“He had been drinking that day because that is a daily occurrence.

“I’ve seen him many, many times in a state where he has no idea what he’s doing, what day it is or anything.

“He is to be pitied rather than anything else. He doesn’t appear to be capable of giving up alcohol. His liver is on its last legs.”

The judge, Recorder Michael Camp, said prison would at least give Fletcher some time without alcohol.

He said a report showed Fletcher didn’t understand the serious, frightening and inconvenient nature of his behaviour.

Fletcher was jailed for eight months for the latest offences, plus 26 weeks for breaching the suspended sentence.

David Walker almost scared to death in High Halden after vandals draw a scary face on the meter box

High Halden, Kent

A man with a heart condition says he is lucky to be alive after suffering a shock from a piece of graffiti on the meter box at his flat.

David Walker went to check his electricity reading without realizing the horror that awaited him on the other side of the box's panel - a piece of graffiti resembling a scary face with sharp pointy teeth (pictured below).

Mr Walker reckons the graffiti had been drawn by youths who were probably bored.

Mr Walker, 36, who has an enlarged heart that only works at 14% capacity, said the discovery shocked him so much that he still can't get over it. The face had been drawn on the door on the inside of the meter box in the hallway at The Chennels, High Halden.

And as if that's not bad enough, he says when he called Ashford Borough Council (ABC) out-of-hours line to report the problem, he was told to just paint over it.

“I was disgusted by the man’s attitude,” said Mr Walker, who has lived at the ABC flats for three years.

“I am lucky to be alive after coming face to face with that... thing. It really put my heart out of kilter and I still felt strange a day or so afterwards. I still have nightmares now about that face. On top of that the local council told me to just 'paint over it'. This is an evil, disgusting face that nearly killed me, if I had even attempted the suicidal task of painting over it it might have jumped out, materialized and attacked me.”

Mr Walker said it was probably teenage youths because "An adult would not receive gratification from drawing graffiti."

He receives benefits as he cannot work due to his heart condition, and went to check his meter reading at 1.10am on Friday, September 20, as his payments went into his account at midnight.

He said: “I was going to pay my electricity bill online.

“I opened the meter cupboard and that face was staring right at me. It had sharp teeth and it was red. I was scared to death.

“I quickly closed the meter box door and locked it. After getting nowhere with the council on the phone I went straight onto their website and reported the problem directly to the grafitti department.”

Mr Walker called the Ashford Borough Council out-of-hours line and said he was told by a worker there was nothing he could do, and to paint over it with Dulux so that it wouldn't scare other residents.

He then decided to go onto www.ashford.gov.uk/graffiti and demand that they remove the face before it materializes out of the meter box and kills everyone.

Mr Walker said: “As it turns out the graffiti department did listen to me and sent someone out straight away to remove the face, despite the fact it was the early hours of Friday morning they deemed that it was a 'threat to the residents' and they had to get rid of it straight away.

“Two workers from Ashford Borough Council came and painted over the face, wiping it from existence and sending it straight to hell.”

Ashford council said it is investigating the incident.

A council spokesman said: “There was an incident reported at The Chennels on High Halden that a face was lurking inside the meter box, placed there as a result of anti-social behaviour.

“Two workers from the graffiti department were called out at about 1:40am in the early hours of Friday 20th September 2013. They attended the property in The Chennels, High Halden and carried out essential work to remove the scary face.”

Man sent threats and abuse to Santa Clause for not receiving the Xmas present he wanted

A MAN has admitted sending offensive and threatening letters to Santa Clause in the North Pole because he didn't get the present he wanted for Christmas.

Darren Colney, 38, of New Town Road, Bishops Stortford, admitted pursuing a course of conduct amounting to harassment from January 15 to February 1.

Colney's defense attorney Richard Jones told Hertford Magistrates Court that he made the threats to Mr Clause because he did not receive the Christmas present that he had asked for. "Mr Colney had written to Mr Clause earlier in 2012 and asked for a Ferrari for Christmas. On the morning of December 25th 2012 he woke up but found no Ferrari."

"Mr Colney was very angry and upset and after New Year he wrote a series of threatening and insulting letters to Mr Clause. He understands now that he acted in a very childish manner and is now remorseful and feels shame over his behaviour."

Hertford Magistrates Court imposed a community order, with a mental health treatment requirement.

He will get help from a doctor at an offender personality disorder clinic as a non-resident patient for 12 months. He was also ordered to pay £250 compensation to Mr Clause as well as a £15 victim surcharge.

A restraining order prohibits him from contacting Mr Clause or travelling to the North Pole.

This site attempted to contact Mr Santa Clause to get his views on the threatening literature he received, but he could not be reached for comment.