While Max the Cat is working slavishly in the hole I’ve dug for him in the basement, from time to time I like to jump in here and throw out some interesting stories that catch my eye.

Rape Roulette

A few New Guinea women living in a refuge in Western Highlands Provence are experiencing a disturbing series of attacks.

While living in a donated house in a small town, the 13 women have reported numerous attacks by local men, who apparently love to get their drunk on.

According to the women, they’re constantly being attacked by the local men, who are forcing their way into the house to rape – despite the fact that all 13 women in the house are HIV or AIDS positive.

Aaron Hunter

This is 29-year-old Aaron Hunter.

Aaron Hunter is a raging alcoholic, and like many alcoholics he has a problem realizing when he’s had enough to drink.

On the 20th of April, 2008, Aaron Hunter had a few too many to drink while he was at the home of a woman that he knew. Aaron Hunter got a little belligerent, started throwing his weight around and generally made himself a bad house guest. When the woman asked him to leave, Aaron Hunter refused.

The woman’s three-year-old son came out of his room to see what all the commotion was, which you’d expect. It’s hard to sleep when mommy’s arguing with a drunk idiot in your living room.

It’s True, Maude; 11-year-old girls do lie!

On the 16th of January, 2008, an 11-year-old student at Perry Hall Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland, went to the principals office at about 2:30 in the afternoon. She regaled the staff with a story about how, between classes, she had been followed into a restroom by a man who matched the description of a construction worker who was working on a renovation project at the school. This man sexually assaulted her in the restroom before she was able to fight him off and run out of the restroom.

Once out of the restroom, she reported the attack to the school police officer.

Groping For God

20-year-old Nicholas Jason Nolting was arrested on Tuesday, the 25th of September, 2007 for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

A police officer came across the 14-year-old girl and Nicholas Nolting while they were groping each other inside his Nissan pickup at 4 in the morning on the 11th of July. The girl admitted to what they were doing, but insisted she was 17…for a while. After a while she admitted to being only 14.

Pastor Mickey Lohr, the pastor of the church the two lovebirds were a member of,, quickly pointed out to the press that the incident didn’t happen anywhere near church property and that Nicholas Nolting wasn’t a youth pastor, or on staff in any way with the church.

Baby – It’s what’s for dinner

In May of 2007, Kristi Willis was warned about her dog, an 80-pound pit bull named Swisher. It had finally bitten one of her neighbors, and was known to be a rather aggressive beast.

That’s why these idiots keep these dogs, of course.

Pit bulls are “badass” and make people feel tough when they own them. Nevermind that these animals can very easily bite and kill your own kids, it’s important that mommy or daddy feels that he or she has an unstoppable force of nature on a short leash.

Well, as you can imagine, Swisher eventually got out again, this time on Wednesday, the fifth of September.

Dude, you killed a nun!

31-year-old Martin Rondeau is accused of killing an 81-year-old nun who worked in a community center connected to her convent.

She helped people who suffered from drug and alcohol problems.

Martin Rondeau lived in the community center for a little less than a year and is believed to suffer from psychiatric problems.

Like the desire to kill a nun.

Dude, he had Alzheimer’s!

Crystal Gordon, a waitress in Florida, was lucky enough to make friends with a 76-year-old man with Alzheimers who liked to eat alone in the Denny’s that she worked at.

Crystal says that she and the old guy were friends and that he willingly gave her over $100,000 of his life savings in less than 4 months.

Family Issues

Two brothers, 46-year-old Kevin Dewick and 50-year-old Wayne Dewick, are facing a number of charges for a series of sexual assaults and rapes on local children in Leicester, England.

Kevin Dewick has 26 charges that he’ll be answering for. His charges involve four boys and four girls that he molested between the years of 1981 and 1998.

Wayne Dewick has been charged with eight crimes involving two children, one boy and one girl, between 1986 and 1996.

Investigators are looking for more information regarding the brothers’ sexual activities and believe there may be more victims.

Ok That’s It, We’re Breaking Up

23-year-old Falon Gonzales was creeping out her 26-year-old husband, Juan Carlos Gonzales, so about a month ago, he told her that he wanted a divorce and moved out.

Don’t Tease The Kid With The Baseball Bat

On the 12th of April in 2005, 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke, a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than 13-year-old Greg Harris, shoved the smaller boy into a concession stand twice.

Greg Harris hefted his baseball bat and swung twice at Jeremy Rourke, hitting him first in the knee. As Rourke doubled over in pain, Greg Harris hit him as hard as he could in the head – a strike that killed the older boy.

Originally convicted of second-degree murder, in January of 2007, an appeals court decided that Greg Harris had acted “In the heat of passion” and dropped the severity of the charge from murder to voluntary manslaughter.