Man sues after being locked in toilet
NORFOLK, Va. “”mdash; William Tremmel, 68, needed to go. Badly.
So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach
boardwalk.
Problem was, it belonged to construction workers for Weeks
Marine, a company hired by the city to replenish the beach. And
those workers were fed up with outsiders using the company can.
They retaliated, Tremmel claims in a lawsuit filed last month, by
driving a bulldozer or front-end loader to the toilet and blocking
the doorway, pinning him “inside the rank tomb.”
Weeks doesn’t deny its employee blocked Tremmel in the
toilet but says the worker was within his rights.
Tremmel says the “abduction and false imprisonment”
caused him “humiliation, mortification, shame, vilification,
injury to his feelings, mental suffering, insult and
indignity.” Tremmel and his wife were celebrating their
anniversary.
Man steals ID of sex offender
CLINTON, Conn. “”mdash; A good rule of thumb for an identity
thief is not to steal the name of someone whose reputation is worse
than yours, such as a sex offender.
Police said James Perry stole the name and identity of a
neighbor who turned out to be a convicted sex offender. Perry stole
the identity of Robert Kowalski in order to obtain a drivers
license, police said. Perry was living in Florida at the time and
Kowalski was his neighbor.
Perry had four drunken driving arrests which he believed would
make it difficult to get a license legally in Connecticut, police
said.
Perry moved to Connecticut about a year ago and things went well
until he was arrested for disorderly conduct.
A computer check found that “Kowalski” was a
convicted sex offender.
Every bit of identification in his possession labeled the
suspect as “Kowalski,’ but the man himself was adamant
that he was not a convicted sex offender, police said.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.