WhiteBoard News for Friday, October 31, 2003

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Reuters):

A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said on Friday. 

Rudy Susanto, 25, who had exposed himself to teen-age girls on as many as seven occasions outside St. Maria Goretti School, struck again on Thursday just as students were being dismissed, police said. 

But this time, a group of girls in school uniforms angrily confronted Susanto with help from some neighbors, police said. When Susanto tried to run, more than 20 girls chased him down the block. Two men from the neighborhood caught him and the girls took their revenge. 

"The girls came and started kicking him and punching him, so I wasn't going to stop them," neighbor Robert Lemons told The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Susanto was later treated for injuries at a local hospital. Police said he would be charged with 14 criminal counts including harassment, disorderly conduct, open lewdness and corrupting the morals of a minor. 
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Mironeasa, Romania (National):

A Romanian man who spent 11 years in his basement trying to avoid an eight year jail sentence has been arrested.

The man, from Mironeasa village, Iasi county, was sentenced for trying to kill one of his neighbours.

He claimed he was innocent and hid under his house. Police couldn't find him and even issued an international search warrant.

The 31-year-old told National newspaper: "I stayed 11 years underground because I consider myself innocent. I don't want to go to jail for something I never did.

"I hid under the house and went out only a few times for food supplies. But there were people who knew where I was and I think somebody betrayed me".
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Adiyaman, Turkey (Ananova):

A Turkish woman is about to give birth to her sixth set of triplets.

Fatma Saygi, 28, from the Turkish province of Adiyaman and her husband Mehmet are already parents of five sets of triplets and the sixth set is due in just a matter of weeks.

Fatma, who gave birth to her first three children at the age of 18, said: "We wanted children but we didn't really want that many. But Allah has always given us three at a time."

The family of 17 lives in a two-room flat and on an income of about $20 a week, which Mehmet earns as a wedding singer.
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Bremen, Germany (Ananova):

A driver stopped by police for talking on his mobile phone told them his cousin had rung to warn him police were stopping cars ahead.

The police team was on the lookout for speeding cars in Bremen.

But when they noticed a driver talking on his mobile phone while driving, they also stopped him.

The 30-year-old, who was driving a blue Fiat, told officers his phone had started ringing just before he reached the control point.

When he picked it up, his cousin was at the other end of the line, warning him of the police control ahead and telling him to drive carefully.

The man had to pay a fine, which he told officers he would demand back from his cousin.
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