Sunday night Saturdays

I'm off on Sundays and Monday...cops generally don't have regular weekends off but I do enjoy fall Sundays. Sleep in, football with family and friends and catching up on stuff. Three articles caught my eye.

I told Beth we are not doing this to finance the wedding....we'll prostitute ourselves first. We have standards. They are low but they are there! ;<)

September 27, Associated Press – (Pennsylvania) Police: Pa. couple stole copper to pay for wedding.

Police said September 27 a couple from North Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania, cut down copper wire from 18 utility poles because they claimed they needed money to pay for their wedding. Police said the couple sold the wire to a salvage company the day after they allegedly stole it. PennPower officials told the Beaver County Times it will cost nearly $400 each to repair each pole.

Now this couple should take a tip from these guys. As a HOG rider I'm glad to see fellow motorcycle riders expanding their business horizons.

September 28, San Francisco Chronicle – (California) Hells Angels accused of mortgage fraud.

A Bay Area mortgage broker was charged September 27 with conspiring to arrange more than $10 million in fraudulent home loans for clients who included two leaders of the Hells Angels, federal prosecutors in California said. A newly unsealed federal grand jury indictment accuses the motorcycle club leaders, the mortgage broker, and five other defendants of taking part in a scheme to defraud banks by falsifying loan applications for real estate in San Francisco and several North Bay communities in 2006 and 2007. The applications misrepresented the borrowers' incomes, bank balances, and employment histories, and falsely stated they would live at the properties, some of which were later used for marijuana growing, the indictment said. .... The indictment said he and his clients submitted fraudulent applications for loans, some for more than $1 million, to buy property in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Healdsburg. The clients included two local Hells Angels leaders prosecutors said.

And again, we have more banking services.

Kalispell – (Montana) Bike Bandit strikes again.

The robber who likes to wear a helmet during his holdups and escape on a motorcycle has struck again in Lakeside, Montana. Flathead County Sheriff's detectives said a man matching the same description as the suspect who robbed the Glacier Bank branch office in Lakeside hit the same bank around 2:30 p.m. September 28. Detectives said the suspect entered the bank wearing a helmet, demanded cash, and made his getaway on a motorcycle. They are not sure if a weapon was displayed, but no one was hurt. Deputies were searching a wide area in the mountains west of Lakeside for the suspect the afternoon of September 28. A detective commander said that includes logging roads in the Bierney Creek area, which go deep into the mountains west of Flathead Lake. The Flathead County sheriff said investigators are sure this is the same suspect that is wanted in the earlier holdups. Earlier in September, the FBI put forth a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the "Bike Bandit," who had already committed 5 holdups. Those include the robbery in Lakeside November 2010, robberies in Big ForkSeptember 2010, at Muralt's Truck Stop at the Wye west of Missoula in September 2009, the First Valley Bank in Seeley Lake April 2010, and May 2011 in St. Regis.

Makes you feel good to call yourself an American!

As I'm watching the Jets-Ravens (fights breaking out...you'd swear this was hockey) my girl Adele is talking about a new bike. I tell her she has to show me she can ride the older one before she gets a new one. She never really got comfortable without training wheels. I guess I have a date tomorrow afternoon...and a little Little League with the Godson and family tomorrow evening.

Life is good.

Have a great week!

PS: Another great football weekend...Saints, LSU, even Army kicked ass!