From: usteen@asdf.fi   
      
   Monthly audits of phone calls to the emergency number in Texas revealed   
   an unusually large number of short calls.  It emerged that operator   
   Crenshanda Williams, 44, had racked up thousands of under-20-second   
   calls in her 1.5 years as a Houston 911 dispatcher, by hanging up on   
   callers.  In one case, involving a report of a robbery in which a   
   shop-owner was killed, Williams was heard to sigh before ending the   
   call.   
     As for the other side of the story, her attorney, Franklin Bynum,   
   explained that she was 'going through a hard time in her life'.   
   Williams has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of   
   probation.   
      
     Crenshanda Williams   
     = 'Answer calls? I hid, man!'   
     = Law: 'And she's criminal.'   
      
      
   Michael Taylor Pinkham visited the police in Nova Scotia in hopes of   
   securing the release of a friend who was in police custody.  Officers   
   with the Antigonish detachment recognised that Pinkham, 27, was   
   heavily intoxicated and determined that he had driven to the station.   
   Furthermore, Pinkham had been ordered by a court not to consume   
   alcohol.  The net result of his venture is -1 people being released   
   from custody.   
      
     Michael T. Pinkham = Him, thick? Amen, pal.   
   	   
      
      
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