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SANTA FE, NM – A surveillance camera at the First Judicial District courthouse downtown captured a strange image Friday morning that left sheriff’s deputies, lawyers, clerks and judges scratching their heads as to what it might have been.

Some thought it was the ghost of a man killed at the courthouse more than 20 years ago after bringing a rifle to the building and taking several people hostage. Others felt it had to be a reflection from a passing car or a piece of cottonwood tree fluff. Still others threw their hands in the air, but somehow liked the image anyway or at least the hullabaloo it prompted.

“I don’t know what it is, but I think it’s neat that it showed up on a Friday,” said Sally Saunders, assistant to District Judge Stephen Pfeffer. “Now we have something to talk about.”

Deputy Alfred Arana first noticed the image when he arrived at the courthouse early Friday morning and began reviewing the surveillance video from the night before, said Sgt. Vanessa Pacheco of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department. Pacheco arrived half an hour later, and Arana said he’d seen something he couldn’t explain on the digital video and asked Pacheco to rewind it, she said.

When she watched the video, Pacheco was stunned. “It’s something unexplainable,” said Pacheco, who watched the 12-second clip over and over Friday. “I don’t believe in ghosts so I don’t think that’s what it is.”

The image, which starts at 7:27:11 a.m., shows a bright spot of light that comes from either the roof or near the courthouse’s back door on Catron Street — which is used only by law enforcement personnel. The light flits with buglike movements toward the west, appears to move across the front bumper of a parked police car and then traces a small semicircle in a gravel area in the frame’s foreground before leaving the frame at 7:27:23.

“To me, it looks like a person walking, but I don’t know why they have this neon light on their head,” said Steve Aarons, a lawyer.

The light looked a bit like a crab and seemed to crawl like a bug, though Pacheco and others who regularly look at the video said they’ve seen bugs on the lens before, and they don’t look like Friday’s image.

Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the image is that it appears to cast shadows that look a bit like the movements of the invisible movie monster in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator. Many who watched the video said the shadows looked like legs. Mary Marlowe, another lawyer, said she saw hands in the image.

Courthouse employees debated whether it might have been a reflection. However, the angle of the sun didn’t fit with the image, and a large tree outside the door shaded most of the area from above.

“It looks like a reflection of something but the angle of the sun is all wrong,” said Juanita Sena-Shannon, a court clerk.

District Judge Michael Vigil said he, too, thought it was a reflection at first, perhaps from a passing car. But when he looked closer, he realized a reflection would have moved in a straight line, which the light did not. “It doesn’t make sense,” the judge said. “It is bizarre.”

Arana said the footage was clearer when he first watched it than when it was replayed over and over Friday. During that first viewing, he said, it looked as if the light had stars in the shape of a diamond that were each spinning clockwise. Arana said he had no idea what the cameras might have captured.

“But after I saw it, I even went to the door to see if anything was there,” he said.

Deputy Anthony Maes, however, had no problem venturing a guess. “I say it’s a ghost,” he said. “What makes us think we’re the only beings on this planet? It’s too weird.”

Maes said he thought it might be the ghost of convicted murderer Andy Lopez, who took nine people hostage at the courthouse in February 1985 after killing the wife of his original victim. Lopez, who had a rifle at the time, was shot by a sheriff’s deputy when he peaked his head out the back door, said Judge Vigil. Deputies originally thought the incident might have taken place in June, and the alleged ghost was making an appearance on the anniversary of Lopez’s death, though that proved false.

Joanna Salazar, a victim’s advocate for the District Attorney’s Office, said she believed the image was of a spirit. “It’s a little girl, and she can’t find where she needs to be,” Salazar said. “Somebody disturbed her.”

Candy Sisneros, a clerk, said she thought it might have been a ghost disturbed by the construction of the city’s new convention center across the street. She said her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, used to work in the courthouse at night when the county’s dispatch center was located there, and he used to hear footsteps, doors opening and closing and elevators going up and down.

Jude Torres, 29, has worked at the court house as a janitor for four years and said he sometimes hears noises at night in the building.

“You sometimes hear the cells — like the doors closing.” he said.

He also hears the sound of water around the building but figured the Judge Steven Herrera Courthouse is an old building. However, the noises mainly originate from the same side of the building where the light was seen, Torres said.

To Torres, the image looked like an insect or a spider. He said he’s puzzled by what he saw on the video and would dismiss it outright if it wasn’t for the Predator-like shadow. “There’s just no explanation for that,” he said.

Earl Rhoads, a public defender, had a different take. “I think what you have is a piece of material from a cottonwood tree,” Rhoads said. “I’m not willing to say it’s proof of paranormal activity. I think it’s totally explainable.”

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• FreeNewMexican.com

ROME, GA – It doesn’t get much more ironic that this folks: an arsonist broke into a convenience store, stole some lottery tickets, then started to torch the place.

In the process, he set himself on fire!

Safarez Chunara surveyed his store on Friday, the first time he and his family had seen the damage.

The inside is completely torched.

“We’re trying to work and serve the community,” Chunara said.

“And somebody just come and set up the fire.”

Chunara says the store is a complete loss.

But how it happened is not.

The surveillance video was left intact.

Within seconds the burglar began to douse the store with lighter fluid.

At one point he spotted the surveillance camera above him and sprayed it.

When he got to the point of igniting it, the fumes had already built up, so when he tried to set the store on fire, he set himself on fire as well.

While still on fire, the suspect grabbed rolls of lottery tickets.

“Working with the state fire marshal’s office, we found that there are some connections with other surrounding areas,” says Rome Fire Marshal Scott Silvey.

“The same coming in, smashing in door, lighter fluid and stealing lottery tickets.”

That’s a precise method that investigators said he has down to 27 seconds.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is testing the lighter fluid container for the suspect’s fingerprints.

In the meantime, the fire marshal has notified local hospitals in Georgia and Tennessee to look out for a man with facial, neck and possibly wrist burns.

JOKESTARTERS:

• Maybe Mr. Pitty Smaat will finally be able to afford a large vat of Aloe Vera for his burns now that he’s got some lottery tickets to scratch. That is, if he can still scratch…
• In addition to asking local hospitals to look for burn victims, authorities are also speaking with local Mensa clubs.
• Apparently this guy has single-handedly moved the Burning Man Festival to Rome, Georgia.
• Knowing this stooge’s luck, none of the stolen lottery tickets will be winners.

SOURCE:

• First Coast News

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Phillip Wellman went from minor league baseball coach to infamous internet video star after his totally-psychotic on-field tirade Friday night.

The Mississippi Braves’ manager was ejected from his team’s 7-6 loss to Chattanooga in an outburst that makes Lou Pinella look like a corpse.

Wellman’s tantrum included throwing his hat, yanking up third and second bases and tossing them into the outfield. He also crawled through the infield to the pitcher’s mound, where he took the resin bag and threw it at the umpire like it was a grenade.

He later said he expects to be fined for his actions.

Three Braves players were also suspended for their own actions during the game, including pitcher Kelvin Villa, who was suspected of applying a foreign substance to the ball.

“There were some issues that needed to be addressed,” Wellman told The Clarion-Ledger. “There were several things going on during the game, and when some of your players are getting the short end, there comes a time when you’ve got to stand up.”

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JOKESTARTERS:

• Kinda ironic that this psycho’s last name is Wellman ain’t it?
• Phillip Wellman, say hello to your new career as an Internet video star. Your life will never be the same. Thanks for the laughs! Now go get some therapy.
• Hey Phil…Lou Pinella called. He wants his shtick back. And some intense one-on-one lessons.

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• WLWT

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What Happens When You Pour Coke On Raw Pork? – Amazing videos are here

Sorry folks – this is a famous hoax. I was taken in as well. Oops.

Notice in the video that a transition is used before showing the alleged maggots in/on the pork. This allowed the filmmaker the chance to add them off-camera. Unfortch alert.

Now, show me a true time-lapse video of the lil’ buggers crawling out and I’ll believe it. Maybe.

Full debunking available at http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/porkworm.asp

UPDATE: Here’s what really happens when you pour Coke on raw pork: