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DRUNK PRESTWICK TEENAGE MISTAKES AIRPORT RUNWAY FOR A CAB RANK!!
A drunk teenager scaled a nine-foot air- port fence then raced across the runway - to catch a cab.
The Scottish Sunday Mail reports that Michael Elder,
17,
thought he was taking a short cut to the taxi rank through the yard of a DIY store after a night out at a boozy party.
Unfortunately he ended up sparking a security alert on the runway of Prestwick Airport.
His lawyer Tony Currie said: “Mr Elder hadn’t a clue where he was and in fact he told me he thought he was in the yard of B&Q - which is about a mile and a half away.
“The fence is nine feet high with barbed wire so how he got over it remains a complete mystery. “And what is perhaps something of a miracle is that he wasn’t injured.
“He was caught on CCTV as he approached the run- way but had no idea how he managed to get there.” Elder, of Dalrymple, Ayrshire, made his way towards what he thought were lights on the main road but was actually the run- way.
Depute Fiscal Isobel Vincent told Ayr Sheriff Court: “At 1.55 in the morning security staff at the airport saw the
accused running towards the runway.” They tackled Elder and held him until police arrived and took him to a station in Ayr.
Elder admitted tres- passing. Sheriff Colin Miller asked if first Sheriff Miller branded Elder’s behaviour as “daft boy syndrome”. He deferred sentence on Elder for three months for good behaviour. Four years ago the Sunday Mail exposed lax security at Prest- wick Airport when investigators were allowed to wander past checkpoints on to the runway and stand beside a packed holi- day jet.
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THIEF STEALS MOBILE FROM TORQUAY CABBIE... THEN CALLS HIS FIRM FOR TAXI!!
A burglar stole a mobile phone from the house of a taxi driver - and then was caught when he used it to call the victim’s firm to order a cab.
Jake Ormerod broke into Don Smith’s home during the driver’s night-shift and stole a laptop, a phone and car keys.
Ormerod, 18, then drove off in Don’s girl- friend’s car which was parked outside. But the next day the thief used the stolen phone to ring Don’s firm, Price First Taxis and ordered a cab to pick him up from home. Staff, who knew about the robbery, recognised the phone number and told him a taxi would be round shortly.
But instead they called police who sent offi- cers to his home and Ormerod - who was waiting for a taxi - was arrested.
He pleaded guilty to burglary and a charge of being a passenger of a vehicle taken with-
Cabbie Don Smith, with his partner Val Thomson out consent.
Alex Allsop, prosecuting at Torquay Magistrates Court, told how Omerod broke into the home of Don and his girlfriend Val Thomson on March 27. He told the Daily Mail: “The theft occurred in the early hours of the morning. [The girlfriend] was on her own while her part- ner was out. “A laptop, mobile phone and car keys were taken to the Vauxhall Zafira parked outside. The victim of the burgla- ry was the woman’s partner a taxi driver. “Someone phoned his taxi company from his phone. Ringing for the
taxi was Mr Ormerod.” Ormerod, of Torquay, also admitted two charges of theft from a motor vehicle and shoplifting.
Speaking after the hearing Val Thomson said it was a ‘million to one’ chance that Ormerod was caught as there are dozens of taxi firms in the resort. She said: “I don’t think people realise how they can mess up your life doing something like this.”
Ormerod was given conditional bail and was to be sentenced on July 20. He was warned he could face at least 18 months in prison.
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A taxi driver in the United States popped out to his local petrol station to buy a pack of cigarettes - only to find his card charged $23,148,855,308,184, 500.
That is $23 quadrillion (£14 quadrillion) - many times the US national debt.
“I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card,” said Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire. He says his appeals to his bank first met with little understanding, though it eventually corrected the error. It also waived the usual $15 overdraft fee.
“It was all back to nor- mal,” Mr Muszynski told his local television station, WMUR. “They reversed the negative balance fee, which was nice.”
BBC News reports that his nightmare began when he checked his online bank account a few hours after buying the cigarettes.
He thought he would be a couple of hun- dred dollars in the black. But his over- draft had pushed him into the red - by an amount equivalent to many times the entire US national debt. “It is a lot of money in the negative,” he said. “Something I could
never, ever, afford to pay back.
“My children could not afford it, grandchil- dren, nothing like that.”
In panic, Mr Muszyns- ki rushed back to the petrol station, but they were unable to help. He says he then spent two hours on the phone with the Bank of America trying to resolve the situation. Eventually, it assured him it would be fixed - and the next morning, it had been.
But no-one has yet explained to Mr Muszynski how such an astonishing error could have been made in the first place.
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