You can't run forever.......

"I just want to get this behind me.  I want to be done," stated Clarence David Moore.




Ronnie T Dickinson, 66, called the Frankfort County Sheriff's office in Frankfort KY on April 20 2015 and told them he wanted to turn himself in.  He told the sheriff's office that he had been living there since 2009 as Dickinson but he was really Clarence D Moore and he had escaped from from prison in the 1970's.  He added that he wanted to finally return to prison because he could not afford the medical care that he now needs.

The police arrived at his home that he has lived in for several years and found Moore unable to walk, unable to speak well, partially paralyzed from a recent stroke and suffering from diabetes.  They arrested him and removed him by stretcher to begin unraveling the tale he told.  It seems that Moore had been sentenced to up to seven years in prison for theft of more than $200 in 1967.  His first escape came when he was working on a road crew in the Asheville NC area in 1971 and he was captured within hours of his running.

Moore escaped again the next year and managed to stay free until he was caught in Texas in 1975.  On Aug 6 1976, he made his final escape from the Henderson County prison and he has been on the run ever since.  He stated that he had used several aliases during that time but had been using the Dickinson one all of the time he has been in Frankfort KY.

The woman who had been living with him there was shocked to find out about Moore's past and neighbors stated that they had never suspected anything like that.  Most describe him as a quiet, private man who did little but sit on his porch and wait for his mail or talk with neighbors.  Moore was involved in a traffic accident in 2009 in Frankfort and was cited for not having a driver's license as well as having a contempt of court charge for no appearing for the court date.  Moore has waived extradition back to North Carolina and there was no report of whether the motor vehicle charges will be handled in the future.

What is obvious is that Moore did not turn himself in out of remorse or because he had gotten tired of the guilt of running all these years.  Moore has finally turned himself in so that he can now become a burden to the state by having his medical problems treated while he is in prison.  He was unable to receive Medicare because he did not have a matching social security card for the alias he has been using for years but now, he will manage to secure those checks.

Moore's crime may sound as though it doesn't fit the sentence he originally received but he was sentenced for stealing more than $200 which today would be equivalent to about $1,500.  He was sentenced to a maximum of seven years but it could have been less.  When Moore escaped the first time, he was about four years into that sentence and he most certainly tacked on extra time for the escape.  He followed that by another escape which probably lengthened his stay in prison as well.

Now he wants back behind those same walls so that he can get his medical care covered, food and lodging.  It may be behind prison walls but from the description of his condition, he would be living in a nursing home if he could afford it so prison may not seem so bad a choice for him.  I am not sure that the state of North Carolina should be forced to pay for his upkeep and maybe the best choice would be to put him under house arrest and let him use his actual SSN to get whatever care he can.

On Nov 8 1977, inmate 0283128 climbed onto the back of a yellow prison bus leaving the Triangle Correctional Center in NC where he had several other inmates were heading out for road repairs.  When the bus stopped at an intersection, Walter Miller opened the back door, jumped out and ran.  He had civilian clothes hidden under his prison clothes that he had saved from a previous time when he was working outside the prison while supervised.

Miller headed to the bus station in Raleigh NC and paid a man $10 to buy him a ticket to New York City.  He had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a pair of bank robbery convictions, one on Aug 13 1971 and the other a year later.  Miller was looking at least another ten years in prison before parole when he ran.  Miller began a new life in NYC by changing his name to Bobby Love, forging a birth certificate and using that to get a driver's license.

He did keep in touch with family and called his sister in 1979 for her wedding.  He told her about his escape but didn't reveal any of the details of his new life.  He worked an assortment of jobs and in the mid eighties he met his future wife Cheryl while they were both working at the Baptist Medical Center in Brooklyn NY.  They were married on March 30 1985 and he invited his family to the wedding that was held in the community center.  He was 34 and identified on the marriage license as Bobby Allen Love with a DOB of 11/6/50 and she was only 21 years old and pregnant with their first child.

In the next 11 years, Miller worked hard at multiple jobs to support his wife and four children that had arrived but he never did tell her about his past.  He did ask his sister to tell his wife about it if he should die because he felt that if he told Cheryl, she would insist that he turn himself in.

Family and friends describe him as an introvert who was not paranoid or overly concerned about his past coming out.  He was active in charity work, community meetings and the Coney Island Cathedral Church and he claims that in 2004, he claimed a $50,000 Pick 5 prize from the state lottery.  While he was cautious early  on, he became bolder as time went on.  He traveled back to North carolina with his family to visit  as well as attending two funerals for two of his nine siblings.

Miller believes that it was at one of those weddings that someone recognized him and contacted the police.  He was arrested in Jan 22 2015 at his home in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartments and planned to fight extradition back to North Carolina.  His family did not know anything about his past prison escape or that he had been living under an assumed name all those decades.

They do hope that he can avoid going back to prison because he has shown that he could rehabilitate himself after escaping.  Many people who knew him had very nice things to say but there are cracks in that facade as well.  A former landlord, Pansi McFarlane stated that she had to evict them a few years ago and they still owed her $7,000 in rent.  She described them as anything but friendly when it came time to collect the rent.

It does not look as though Miller will be able to just walk away from prison time even with the seemingly crime free life he has lived since his escape.  He probably will have to serve at least ten years from the original sentence and faces additional time for the escape.  Sadly, even though he has shown that people can change their ways and life, he still owes the time he was sentenced to.





http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/extradition-warrant-served-escaped-article-1.2195264

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3051693/Fugitive-escaped-police-THREE-TIMES-tearfully-turns-four-decades-thanks-sheriff-kindness.html

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102608727

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/16/family-shocked-as-escaped-convict-is-picked-up-in-brooklyn-after-decades-on-the-run/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-cops-nab-bank-robber-escaped-prison-1977-article-1.2115791

Slightly inconvenienced.......

"You can't live life in fear of what might happen.  You have to get out and enjoy the gift you've been given," stated Tom McTevia.





Tom McTevia, 42, a Navy veteran, father of one son and former Orofino Idaho police officer was involved in a life changing ATV accident in 2004.  The accident fractured his spine and ended his police career by leaving him paralyzed in his legs and only having partial use of his arms and hands.  The accident did not paralyze his spirit though as he proved over the next 11 years of his life.  He had been very active before the accident serving four years as a steelworker in the Navy Seabees before becoming a police officer as well as volunteering with the Clearwater Police Department.

He moved to Coeur d'Alene in 2006 and volunteered in the police department's records department there as well as continuing to camp, kayak, hunt, skydive, UTV and handcycle.  He participated in the 2009 National Veteran's Wheelchair Games in Spokane WA and remained competitive in handcycle racing.  This past year he convinced the city to make a 1,500 foot section of the Tubbs Hill Trail wheelchair accessable by lowering the grade on it.  He had been passionately working on the Coeur d'Alene Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee to open up a part of the trail so that more people could enjoy the freedom and the view.

"I don't like the word "handicap."  I don't like the word "disability."  Disability is a state of mind, or a broken down vehicle on the side of the road.  I'm slightly inconvenienced," stated Tom McTevia.






On April 19 2015, at about noon, Tom and his close friend Tina Hoisington, 45, of Lewiston Idaho, slid off the trail while setting up for a photo in Bonner County, just east of Farragut State Park.  The 2013 Polaris UTV plunged down a cliff and both of them died at the scene.  Neither one of them was wearing a helmet and reports from those that were at the scene state that one of them fell 500 feet down the cliffside while the other fell almost 1,100 feet down.  Others in the group added that they were setting up for a photograph overlooking the 2,000 cliff and they just got too close to the edge with the UTV.

People immediately made their way down the cliffside to render aid but they stated that both of them had not survived the fall.  A helicopter was used to airlift the two from the cliffside later.  It was not surprising that Tina was with Tom on that trip since she had gone on many trips with Tom in the past.  Her co workers at the Lewis Clark Credit Union where she had worked as a loan officer for 15 years are stunned that she is gone so soon and will miss her very much.

similar UTV

The service for Tina will be held on April 27th at 11 am at the Cross Point Alliance Church in Lewiston.

The Celebration of Life for Tom will be held at 2:30 pm on May 2nd and will be followed by a potluck.  People have been asked to bring stories and memories of Tom.








http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/apr/20/2-die-when-atv-goes-over-cliff-lake-pend-oreille/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-idaho-best-friend-die-atv-falls-cliff-article-1.2194908

http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/bonner-county/2015/04/20/two-die-after-driving-atv-off-bernard-overlook/26077195/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050945/Paralyzed-advocate-wheelchair-users-dies-accidentally-driving-ATV-cliff-plunging-500-feet.html

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2015/apr/20/atv-goes-over-cliff-lake-pend-oreille-2-killed/

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_fd173d96-4966-5858-98eb-032b88743371.html

Temper tantrums may work for two year olds........

"I got a good vibe from them," stated Elizabeth Bentivegna.







Elizabeth, a computer science major at Oberlin College in Oberlin OH, was contacted by a recruiter for a job interview with OnShift.  The company makes scheduling software for nursing homes and they had set up a 4pm interview with her at their Euclid Ave office in Cleveland OH.  She agreed to the appointment but adds that she told them that she probably would be a little late.  Elizabeth does not graduate until December 2015 so the interview was set up for a summer internship position.

She states that she finished with the interviews with two male engineers and a female hiring manager there by 4:20 pm and headed back to her dorm room expecting to hear good news in a few days.  Elizabeth received a phone call from Julie Maurer of Silverline Consulting in Akron OH and it was not the good news she had been expecting.  Elizabeth reports that Julie told her that they would have loved to hire her based on her personality and technical abilities but they couldn't overlook several things.  According to Elizabeth, Julie told her that she looked as though she was going clubbing and not to an interview, she had a huge run in her tights and she had been late even though she had told them that beforehand.  She added that Julie told her that she just wasn't "put together."

Many people have gotten rejected after an interview or not chosen after applying for a job but for some reason, Elizabeth took a huge offense to what she claims she heard over the phone.  She stated that she holds four jobs as a resident assistant, webmaster for the theatre and dance department, grader in an algorithms class and a lab assistant for an intro to programming class.  Her LinkedIn profile contains what looks to a long list of accomplishments and accolades but if you start to look at them closely, it almost appears to be a very puffed out skeleton of experience.

Regardless of whether she had been qualified for the position, they chose not to hire her.... that happens a lot in the real world.  Elizabeth chose not to take the advice she was given or had been hinted at and instead, took her beef public with a swear filled tirade online.  There has been no comment from either Silverline Consulting or OnShift as to what exactly had been told to Elizabeth but most, if not all companies will use the standard response of picking another person who was more qualified.  It can be seen from her online temper tantrum that she may well have pestered julie as to what she felt was so wrong with her interview and julie may have suggested some things to change in the future for interviews.

Whatever their reason for not hiring her, she was wrong in her choice of what to wear to the interview.  Even if a company has a very casual attire in the office, you have to dress for success and an office setting would require business attire unless specified that business casual is accepted.  The objective is to get in the door so that you can enjoy the environment you will work in.

Unfortunately it seems that we are living in a nation filled with an increase of entitlement and Elizabeth seems to be just one more example of that.  her tirade online though will certainly come back to bite her many times over in the future.  I could take a wild guess here and state that maybe the attitude she shows in her posting may be a good indicator of the attitude she had when she was interviewed.

A business can also check through many online services to get more of an idea of the kind of person you may be through your postings.  If you constantly show that you are out partying, doing illegal things or just have an attitude that no one will mess with me or my attitude, why would a company take a chance on you?  I am glad that she felt that she did so well in answering the one programming question that was posed to her but she has no idea as to how well any others answered it.  If this is a very small office or team that she was possibly going to join, temperament and personality may well play a part in the choice of employee because they will want to stay a cohesive unit.

There are few guarantees in life Elizabeth and you just hit one on the head with a sledgehammer........ your posting is sure to have future employers running for the hills before they even think about hiring you.  There are ways to publicly post your dissatisfaction with that interview and you found a very incorrect way of doing it.  Naming the company you felt dissed you only points out the fact that you have no fear of splashing another company's name all over the internet if they do something you don't like in the future.

Take this lesson and learn from it and hope that someday you will be able to get beyond the temper tantrum stage of your life and see that it is competitive out there........... an interview begins almost from the moment you leave your car......



Related stories on this blog:

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/04/entitlements-again.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/04/set-me-up-to-whine-through-life.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/11/but-you-have-to-pay-stomp-stomp.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/03/but-i-am-right.html




Hat tip to the Advice Goddess for the story idea


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-vents-anger-facebook-being-5555094

http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2015/04/sexism_or_lack_of_professional.html

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/girl-goes-on-profanity-laced-rant-over-job-rejection-because-of-unprofessional-clothes/

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/04/what_oberlin_college_senior_el.html

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/01/10_most_outrageous_things_you.html

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/programmer-denied-job-clubbing/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebentivegna

You can't outrun the lie.......

Kendall Schler was the first to cross the finish line on April 12 2015 during the running of the Go! St Louis Marathon in St Louis MO.  She was awarded a medal, $1,500 and a picture at the finish line with Jackie Joyner Kersee.  Schler had placed third in the same marathon last year and her times had earned a coveted invitation to run in the Boston marathon this year.

Race officials had figured out by April 15th, that Schler had not won the race.  In fact, they could find no proof that she had done anything more than start the race and then show up at the finish line.  They stripped her of her win as well as the time from the previous year and awarded the win to Andrea Karl who they had placed as second when the race had ended.  She has also been banned from competing in any future Go! St Louis events and the Boston Marathon has rescinded their invitation.

The officials now believe that Schler was at the start line and then immediately left the course to return after the last checkpoint to finish with the win.  The start and finish of the marathon are within three blocks of each other so she had to have found somewhere to hang out for the two plus hours for the win.

Schler can be seen running up towards the finish line but her racing bib is no where to be seen.  She had attached it to the back of her shorts and had removed the timing chip, both violations of the race rules.  She did not give a reason as to why she did this but it is obvious that she was able to avoid the electronic checks by removing it.  Schler admitted that she had done that as well the previous year and officials could find no photos of her during the race that year either.  The officials also stated that she was not very defensive about them questioning her winning of the race, which they found a bit strange.

The video of Schler winning the race shows that she was not all that pleased that she had won.  She may have planned to slip in and gain another second or third place and escape the scrutiny that came with winning this year.  What she did do is steal the attention from the true winner this year, Andrea Karl, who finished in a time of 2:54:28.  The race officials were more than fair though by offering to allow Schler to keep the placings if she could produce photographic evidence that she had run the entire race, even though she had admitted tampering with the race bibs.  In the end though, she will go down in history as another marathon cheater.




Probably the most famous cheater in recent times is Rosie Ruiz who "won" the 1980 Boston marathon only a few years after women were allowed to compete.  She won the race with a time of 2:31:56 which at the time was the fastest ever run by a woman in the Boston marathon and the third fastest in the world.  Suspicion soon was raised from the comments she made in her after race interviews and her lack of knowledge in basic training methods.  It had also been noticed that she did not look as though she had the build of a long distance runner nor was she showing the common signs of running such a long distance.

Ruiz's time was a whopping 25 minutes faster than her time in the New York Marathon about six months before and that finish was also called into question.  They could find no evidence of her actually running the whole race but they did find a photographer who stated that she had ridden the subway with Ruiz towards the finish line.  Ruiz claimed to be an injured runner but when she got to the finish line area, she stated that she was injured and managed to clock a finish time.

Ruiz was disqualified from the win and Jacqueline Gareau, who had the fastest time ever for a woman at 2:34:28 was awarded the win.  Officials did go to great lengths to make sure that Gareau was properly awarded the win and had her stay for a recreation of the race finish and receiving her award at the official press conference.

In 2012, Rob Sloan of Washington, Tyne and Wear, was disqualified from a half marathon after he had entered the race under a friend's name and ran most of the race wearing sunglasses.  He had already been banned from several races after he had been caught cheating the year before.

He finished third in the Kielder Marathon that year but had been spotted getting onto a bus around the 20 mile mark of the race and exiting in time to run across the finish line in third place.  His excuse for running under another name was that he did not want the press bothering him before or after the race.  He could now be banned from running as well as the friend whose name he used to register with.

In 2014, Jason Scotland Williams finished the London Marathon in a time of 3:08:47 which put him in 2,162nd place and solidly among the top six percent of the elite runners.  His race has been called into question because that time is a huge improvement over his time in 2013 of seven hours and twenty four minutes.  Not only that, the first half of the race his times clocked him in as a fairly normal two hours and seven minutes.  The second half of the race he finished in a blistering one hour and one minute that puts his second half of the marathon only three minutes slower than the world record for a half marathon.

Witnesses have stated that they saw Jason squeezing between a barrier after the Tower Bridge and disappear off course.  That point of the race is where the 13 mile marker and the 22 mile marker are very close and most have speculated that he shortened his marathon run in order to gain the finish time that he did.

Jason has publically stated that he did nothing wrong and that he did not cheat but it is difficult to look at his recorded times and not wonder how he was that fast for the second half of a marathon.

Probably the most brazen cheater was Kip Litton, a Michigan dentist who spent a couple of years running marathons and then suddenly vaulted into the elite class of runners.  He ran in the masters class because he was over 40 years old and pushed the fact that he was running for the benefit of Cystic Fibrosis.  He had set up his own website to collect donations as well as tout his marathon feats called WorldRecordRun.com which posted his links for donations and his race results.  His aim was to raise money as well as run sub 3 hour marathons in each of the 50 states.

His downfall began in 2009 and is very well documented in a New Yorker article published in 2012.  Litton was found to have cut the races that he ran in, many times there was no record of him except at the start and of course, for the finish.  He was found to be starting near the ends of the pack most times so that he would have had to make up incredible amounts of race time yet runners do not remember him ever passing them.

After an intense investigation, it was found that not only were his times incredibly fast but that he would begin a race in one outfit and finish sometimes in a completely different one.  It is not unheard of for a runner to change during a race but it takes valuable time to change everything, including your running shoes.  The investigation also found that the links for the donations did not send the money to charity as he claimed.  People were instructed to make the checks payable to his website or to donate straight through a paypal account.  The charities have stated that they did not receive any money from Litton's fundraising.

The most brazen cheat that he had attempted to pull off was the creation of an entirely fake marathon, the West Wyoming Marathon.  He had created the event himself, it never took place and he still added it to his online list of sub 3 hour wins.  Litton had gone to such lengths as to create a website for it, name a fictitious staff and added dozens of fake runners for his win there.  No one is quite sure what drove Litton to cheat as well as the others who have done so in marathons.  What it does do is cheat those people who have trained hard to legitimately run and finish a race out of their personal piece of glory.










http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2434944-kendall-schlers-st-louis-marathon-win-overturned-in-cheating-scandal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214741/Marathon-cheat-banned-racing-riding-bus-caught-Great-North-Run-disguised.html

http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/05/runner_disqualified_for_cheati.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/london-marathon/10780357/London-Marathon-fresh-cheating-claims-against-miracle-runner.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/cheaters-never-win-the-bizarre-story-of-marathon-runner-kip-litton

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/marathon-man

Now you will pay.........

Walter Scott was stopped driving a 1991 Mercedes on April 4 2015 by Officer Michael Slager for having a brake  light out in North Charleston SC.  Scott chose to run from the officer and was shot dead in what was first reported as a suspect fleeing.

Scott was reported as being afraid of being sent to jail for the outstanding warrants for him which were mostly for non payment of child support and failure to appear.  Slager had reported that Scott had tried to grab the officer's taser and he had feared for his life when he shot Scott.

Several days later a video surfaced that showed the end of Scott's life and it showed a very different story than the one Slager had put into his report.  Feidin Santana had filmed that part of the chase with his cellphone without anyone knowing it.  He later turned the video over to the Scott family who in turn, gave it to the New York Times.  He claimed that he feared for his life from the police because the video he had taken did not confirm what Slager had reported to have happened.  It shows a very different story of Slager taking aim at the fleeing Scott and rapidly firing eight shots at his back.  It also does not show any officer attempting to give Scott CPR as had been reported.

The video hit the airwaves and was show hundreds of times in varying lengths while it accompanied reporters stories.  Several versions of it as well as the dashcam video at the beginning of the traffic stop have been uploaded to media sharing sites like Youtube and it went viral in hours.

Now comes the announcement by Markson Sparks, an Australian celebrity and publicity management, that they own the rights to that video now and plan to charge a one time fee of $10,000 for the use of the video.  Markson Sparks CEO Max Markson has stated that the price is based on a case by case basis and could go over $10,000 at times.  It has been reported that cease and desist letters have already been mailed out to various outlets asking for that fee to be paid for further use of the video.  Santana states that he did not know or have anything to do with demanding payment for further use of the video.

Some news media outlets are reprinting the NY Times story of this new development without paying much attention to the full content of the article.  The announcement has brought the discussion of copyrights and fair use to the forefront again.  Markson's view of the issue is that the news media has been allowed to use the video for free for a week or so which is long enough for fair use and now that he is copyrighting it, they will have to pay to use it.  He could not be further off the mark in how the US interprets fair use of a video or image.

"In the US, using the video of the shooting, a very news worthy event, as part of news coverage is almost certainly a fair use, meaning that no payment is required," stated Mark Stoltz, a copyright attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Fair use is not just a group of clauses in the law, it is an entire legal doctrine that predates the current Copyright Law being used now.  Recent Supreme Court decisions in regards to fair use have shown that it is what prevents the copyright law from infringing on First Amendment rights in the US.  Fair use is such an integral part of freedom of the press in the US that section 17 U.S.C. 107 specifically addresses news reporting and copyright infringement.

The case most commonly compared to the Scott video is the filming of Reginald Denny by LANS a news company.  They sued for copyright infringement from the use of their video and at least one lawsuit was successful but most were lost on the basis of fair use.  They had more merit that the Scott video does because they did have to pay for the use of a helicopter to make the film.  Markson's claim though will not have even that to back him as people do not invest in a cellphone for the only use of filming news worthy items.  There is also no time limit as to when an item can still be called news worthy.  The Zapruder film is still newsworthy decades after the shooting of JFK and the Scott video is still news worthy as this case continues through the court system.

The Times article also states that they are allowed to use the video without payment because they have the permission of the Scott family.  This does not make any sense because the Scott family does not hold the copyright to the video.  It is believed that Santana holds that copyright and they would need his permission to show it for free if they keep the same interpretation of the copyright law as Markson is using.  What most probably will happen is that they can try to strong-arm payments from various news agencies for continued use of the video but they will most likely fail because of the fair use law and the media's abilities to use it.  They may prevent or gain financially from the use of the video by commercial venues in the future.

Fair use is a grey area though and there certainly are times that it can only be settled in court.  One has to remember though, just because they own the copyright on a video of photograph, that item can still be used without compensation through fair use.  They would have to prove that they were damaged by the use or their ability to gain financially was diminished as well as whether the item was used in the reporting of the news.

I recently had my own encounter with a strong-arm business owner.  The photo I had used in another blog story.... a news story was used without the "owner's" permission.  The new Copyright Law states that a photographer does not have to watermark or mark their copyrighted material with the symbol anymore though, they strongly suggest that the artist do that as a further protection.  It alerts someone that it has been copyrighted and if that symbol had been removed from the work when it was used by another, the violation is very obvious.

Back to my story though..........   It is also suggested that the owner of the item contact the "offender" by email or mail to notify them of your stand on the usage of their work.  This would not be the very unprofessional contact through comments made on the post which included the F bomb.  The strange thing was that the photo used had been published in a newspaper and was attributed to a person other than the F bomb king.  My reply was to apologize openly and remove the photo he claimed to own but had not taken.  This could have been true because he lists a photography company that may well purchase photos for resale and therefore, copyrights them.

I felt that my use on a totally non funded, non profit news oriented blog was within the fair use laws but I won't argue it if they want their work taken down.  Imagine my surprize when the F bomb king returned to post another comment using what I imagine was his favorite word starting in F and ending in K.  In that comment he stated that he was offended that I had apologized, compared my "theft" of his photo to breaking into my home and stealing things but having no job, he couldn't pay for replacement and ended with another threat to sue me for payment for the use of his photo.

I was more than surprised to read the comments because all I could think was here is someone who lists themselves as a business owner and they are using this kind of language on an open forum.  It did nothing to impress me and actually made me feel sorry for the future of his business.  Seriously...... you searched the web for an "illegal" posting of a photo, which was already old news when the newspaper used it in their story and frankly, there is a miniscule chance it will ever be used again by anyone who will pay.  The photo was the basically of a guy sitting in court.

The odd thing is........ after firing off two F bomb loaded comments and the threat to take it to his lawyer, he removed the first two posts and left one that was sternly warned me to stop stealing photos.  My guess is that someone explained the foolishness of even trying to spend the kind of money it would take to go to court over something that probably will prevail through fair use.   Yes F bomb king.... photos are protected by copyrights but the first amendment also protects the right of fair use of that copyrighted material.  Seriously.... get over it...... the photo was not a significant piece of art nor was it it in the running for a national news or photography award this year.  It has been removed so it will not keep you awake all night now.






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Unlucky in love.......... not.

"The devil himself is a pot of gold compared to her," stated ex husband Shane Chessman.





In July 2011, inmate 277206 was enjoying the hospitality of the Alabama state penitentiary system and granted an interview to try and dispel some of the rumors about her.  The inmate known by almost thirty names including the "Military Mistress" was finally serving time for some of her crimes.  Bobbi Ann Finley, then 35, had married 14 men, had nine children and drained the bank accounts of dozens of other men besides her husbands.

Finley was serving a three year sentence after pleading guilty to theft by deception and she was wanted in several others states on similar charges.  Finley had been working hard for the past two decades but not at any company we would know.  She was busy meeting and marrying men, especially military men and then cleaning out their bank accounts.  Finley also did not always take the time to get divorced from the men she left in her wake when she ran either.  In the process of marrying these men, she also managed to have 9 children which she had adopted out to others, family members and various guardians.  Many times she did not even inform the men that they had become fathers and she did not allow them to even meet their children or have any say in who adopted them.

Finley has tried to blame her behavior on her childhood, as if she is the only person who can claim to have a "bad" childhood.  She stated in her interview that she grew up poor and sheltered so if anyone was going to offer her something, she wasn't going to turn them down.  She added that it was an abusive home where her mother jumped from boyfriend to boyfriend and she thinks that is why she has the same pattern with the men in her life.  When Finley was asked why she seemed to choose military men, she stated that they are heros and she wanted to be loved.

She went on to state that she ran away from home at age 13 and she is now doing time for taking advantage of some of the people she screwed over.  Finley has also stated that she may not be the greatest person on earth but she definitely was not running a con on the people she met.  What is true is that for almost two decades, Finley has crisscrossed the country and haunting military bases to prey on military men stationed there.

She has used numerous tales to gain the sympathy of men or at least grab their attention long enough to wiggle her way into their lives and bank accounts.  Finley has used several tales from being a the daughter of a wealthy four star general who stood to inherit $750,000 to being a fifteen year veteran of the military who had been wounded in Iraq.  She has also used the tale of being a divorced mother who was in the military and her ex husband had stolen her children from her.  She even had women she befriended believing her tales and would borrow money from them only to repay it with bad checks.

Many of the men that Finley married admit that she made them feel special and was a good cook, kept a clean house, was smart, charming and was all that you would want for a wife.  They often found out early on in their relationship that she was pregnant or claimed that she was already pregnant but it was from a rape and she wanted to keep the child.  The men all report though that it was very soon after marrying them that money disappeared from their bank accounts and when it went dry, Finley was gone as well.

The charges she faced in Alabama stem from an incident in 2009 when she befriended a woman she met at a bar.  Finley used the Iraq veteran story on her and added that she had saved a lot of money while she was overseas but was now stuck because she only had out of state checks.  She convinced the woman to lend her money and Finley wrote the woman four checks totaling $2,455 but neglected to tell her that the account had already been closed.  At some point, Finley wrote her another two checks but the woman did not even bother to try and deposit them.

Diane Boheler told a very similar story about meeting Finley in the Spanaway Bar and befriending her after hearing the wounded vet story.  She invited Finley to move in and stay with her for awhile and even loaned her some money.  After a couple of weeks though, Finley had disappeared along with about $3,000 from Boheler.  Finley's gravy train hit a serious roadblock in 2004 when she met Rodney Wegg in Texas and he like so many before him, fell for her charm and lies.

His impression of her changed radically after he returned from a weekend away and found she had drained his bank accounts.  Rodney's mother made it her personal mission to hunt down the truth about the woman who stole her son's heart and funds.  Katie Wegg spent six years tracking down ex husbands of Finley's and anyone else who had been taken advantage by her.  She contacted dozens of victims nationwide and found a trail of fraud, serial bigamy and multiple sentences.  Fortunately the wedding was cancelled but Katie believes that her son fathered a child with her and the grandson was adopted out without his knowledge or consent.

Katie stated that she contacted over 40 victims of Finley's money scams and not all of them were male.  Finley evidently is an equal opportunity thief as shown by the amount of money she stole from women as well.  Fay Neigut, a former teacher, took out loans for Finley in 2007 and ended up losing close to $20,000 when Finley disappeared on her before ever repaying it.  Katie also found evidence that Finley attempted to buy a house in San Antonio for $2.5 million and $200,000 worth of custom made furniture with money she did not even have.

There are at least four men including her son Rodney who believe they fathered some of the nine children Finely gave birth to.  The children who range in age from 4 years old to 16 years old are scattered across the US and living with Finley's family and friends.  The men have wanted to meet and get to know their children but so far have been unable to gain the information they need to do so.

Finley was reported to have returned to the Tacoma WA area in 2013 after finishing up her jail sentence in Alabama.  She has warrants for her arrest in several states and by now had been known to use many different names as well as being suspected of scamming at least 30 military men.  Jeff White hired her to work in his Tacoma bar and he stated that she had a bubbly personality which the military guys like.

He added that she was promiscuous and he never saw her with the same guy very often.  She told him that she was in the Marine Corps, had gotten shot there, was very wealthy and was going to inherit a lot more money.  White stated that she eventually ran up a $600 bar tab which she paid with a bad check and she once again disappeared.  She does not have any qualms about scamming anyone for money and some of the charges she has been running from include running out on a $240 bar tab in New Orleans LA and writing bad checks to a plumber and a cabbie in Alabama.

Finley, 39 and her new husband Zackerie House, 27 are now on the run from her last known address in Dallas OR.  The Marion County authorities have stated that the pair opened a checking account at Wells Fargo and then proceeded to write bad checks totalling $13,500 in less than a month.  They wrote checks to Cabela's, Bi-Mart and Safeway as well as a $1,500 check at Universal Auto Sales in Salem OR.  The couple is said to have made purchases for a lot of camping gear and groceries as well as the down payment on a blue Cadillac Escalade that is now listed as stolen.

The pair was stopped this past week in Mobile AL but instead of being taken into custody, the pair was released after a quick check found that they were not wanted locally for any crimes.  It was later on April 14th that the Sheriff's office received word that they had been stopped and released.  The police at the time did seize the stolen Escalade that reportedly the pair had been living in.

They are back on the now and at least three states are hoping that the next time they are in custody, they will be held for extradition.  House's mother has stated that she does not understand how he can be involved in this and wishes that he just turn himself in to face the music.  It certainly sounds as though Finley has no intentions of ever changing her ways but incarceration may soften her up as to releasing information about the many children she has had and where they are.






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