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The University Daily Kansan Oddities
Monday, November 16, 1998
Romantic escapade gets baby sitter arrested
WATERBURY, Conn. — An 18-year-old baby sitter was arrested after authorities found her five young charges unattended, and the woman naked in a closet with her boyfriend.
Three of the children, who ranged in age from 2 months to 13 years old, were wearing nothing more than soiled diapers, police said.
The baby sitter, Angelica Cartegena, faces three counts of risk of injury to a minor, police said. The mother of the three youngest children, Maria Ruiz, 18, faces similar charges.
A truant officer went to the apartment February 8 after one of the children, a 10-year-old boy, didn't show up for school, police said.
Man offers reward for his perfect mate
MEDIA. Pa. — Know a woman who enjoys go-cart racing, learning about Russian culture and protecting animals?
If she turns out to be the perfect mate for 34-year-old Ed Ryder, he'll pay at least $25,000 to the matchmaker.
"I'm not at all lonely. I am not at all unhappy. I am not at all desperate. I am merely unfulfilled," Ryder said. "I hope to be married by the end of the year."
The suburban Philadelphia native launched his search last month with a Web site (www.searchingforher.com) seeking help to find his special woman.
The seven-page Web site — including fastidious details about his hobbies and childhood — said Ryder will
pay a matchmaker $25,000 to $100,000, depending on Ryder's stock portfolio. Ryder will pay out if he gets into a satisfying committed relationship or if his dream lady marries him.
Ryder, a free-lance copy editor, decided to make the romantic appeal in cyberspace after what he describes as a 10-year dry spell in his love life.
Woman delivers baby, husband declines pizzas
MONROE, Mich. — Amy Janssen didn't suspect anything amiss when she began experiencing cramps and
Then the astonishing happened:
While in the tub Feb. 4, Amy Janssen delivered a baby girl. She didn't even know she was pregnant.
had to lie down. When she took a bath about three hours later, the cramps worsened.
"When the baby came, I called my husband," Janssen, 32, said Saturday while resting in Mercy Memorial Hospital. "I think [he] was more shocked than I was."
Tim Janssen agreed. "It was quite an ordeal. When I walked in, she was holding a baby, and I knew something was wrong," he said. "I thought she had put on a little weight with the holidays."
Janssen sent his 8-year-old son from a previous marriage to get his uncle and called 911. "I told the operator 'there's a baby that's born in our house.' I'm sure it didn't make much sense," he said.
The ambulance arrived just after the fire trucks arrived, followed by a delivery man from Gino's Pizza & Sub Station. The couple had forgotten they had ordered pizza.
"I told him he had to leave. He
looked at me and couldn't understand why I didn't want the pizzas," Janssen said.
The baby, the couple's first child,
weighed 4 pounds, 3 ounces, measured
17.5 inches long and arrived
about seven weeks early.
Stolen toilets lead to Florida man's arrest
CEDAR GROVE, Fla. — A man has been charged with stealing four portable toilets after his managers thought his alibi stank.
Managers at Hall Septic Tank Service began sniffing around and found the missing potties hidden behind a store at nearby Panama City Beach before reporting the matter to police.
Cedar Grove police on Sunday arrested Timothy Dale Hardenbrook, 33, of neighboring Springfield and charged him with grand theft of cash, checks and the toilets.
He was released on bond Tuesday. Hardenbrook, who drove a truck for Hall Septic Tank Service, is accused of asking customers to pay for the toilets in cash or with checks made out to him and then keeping part of the money.
Woman has her ashes blasted into the sky
FAIRFIELD, Iowa — Carol Dillman wanted to go out with a bang — and she did.
The 54-year-old Fairfield woman, who died of cancer Jan. 5, had her wish granted Feb. 6, when her ashes were blasted into the southern Iowa sky in a brief, but deafening, fireworks show.
"We do about 75 percent of the big fireworks shows in Iowa and work in about 20 states," said fireworks expert Mark Johnson, of J&M Displays of Yarmouth. "We've heard of people saying they wanted to do this, but never have actually had anybody go through with it, until now."
"She told us she wanted to go out with a bang," said Shirley Rigler, Dillman's daughter.
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