Buster Archive

The Illinois woman charged last month with assaulting a cop with a “rigid feminine pleasure device” was arrested yesterday for failing to appear in court on the misdemeanor rap.

After Carolee Bildsten did not show for a December 23 court date, a judge issued an arrest warrant for the 56-year-old defendant. Bildsten, pictured above in a mug shot, was collared yesterday afternoon and booked into the Lake County jail. Bildsten is scheduled for a court appearance--for which she is guaranteed to appear--this afternoon.

As reported here, Bildsten was busted November 9 after she allegedly walked out on a bill at a Gurnee restaurant. When a cop accompanied her home so she could supposedly retrieve money to pay the tab, Bildsten allegedly removed a sex toy from a dresser drawer. Holding the device over her head “in a threatening manner,” she advanced on the officer, who knocked the “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” out of the way.

A 65-year-old Florida man called Florida cops on Christmas Eve to report that an unknown perpetrator had repositioned plastic lawn reindeer so that the holiday decorations appeared in a “compromising position, because one was male and the other female.”

In addition to the simulated copulation, the man also found it necessary to report that a chair had been moved from his front porch to his front lawn. No damage was done to his property, “but the complainant wants the incident documented,” according to a police report excerpted here.

Sadly, the senior citizen was not arrested for wasting police resources in his drive to keep others off his lawn.

The military veteran who was just humiliated by a vile telephone prank orchestrated by a pair of online deviants is too embarrassed to pursue criminal charges, according to Texas police.

The man, a 22-year-old former Army paratrooper who served in Iraq, was victimized during a December 5 call to his room at a Motel 6 in Amarillo. That prank call, which TSG previously detailed here, was placed by Steven Brown, 43, and Tariq Malik, 26, mainstays with Pranknet, the notorious online collective.

Brown, a McHenry, Illinois resident who works as a computer programmer, is pictured above in a webcam image he recently broadcast in Pranknet’s chat room. Malik, the group’s founder, is an unemployed Canadian who lives in Windsor, Ontario.

In an e-mail, Amarillo Police Department Corporal Jerry Neufeld reported that the prank’s target--whom TSG has only identified by his first name, Sam--“doesn’t want to pursue charges…I don’t think he wants all the publicity we would need in order to file charges. He would have to be willing to testify in court about what took place that night, and he is too embarrassed to relive it again.”

During the prank, Brown (who posed as a hotel manager) and Malik told Sam that a prior occupant of his room had tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Malik, pretending to be a doctor who was following instructions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, convinced Sam to consume his own bodily waste as a way of combating the swine flu’s onset.

Neufeld said that if Sam were to change his mind about pressing charges, he would have to contact Amarillo cops before the statute of limitations expires. For example, Neufeld added, the statute on limitations on telephone harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, is two years.

What kind of a person allegedly urinates in a convenience store freezer, ruining $508 worth of cookies, bagels, and other baked goods?

Meet Carrie Harkness.

The 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman was charged today with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct in connection with the incident early Saturday at the Country Fair store near her home in Meadville, according to a court docket. A preliminary court hearing has been scheduled for January 12.

Harkness, pictured at right, reportedly became upset when workers asked her to leave the business. A store worker today described the befouled freezer as the walk-in variety.

In a Facebook posting last night, Harkness, a mother of two, wrote, “Omg have you ever liked someone so much and go out with them and make a fool of yourself????? wish I could take back friday night!!!!! But youngstown is on point wish my friend could forgive me!!!!!!”

Meet Michael Bass.

The Illinois man, 24, was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in a series of burglaries over the past couple of months.

As seen above, when Bass was collared Wednesday he was wearing a t-shirt bearing the image of Elmo, the lovable Sesame Street character with the infectious giggle.

Luckily for Bass, he had to change out of the shirt when he was booked into the Madison County jail, where he is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond.

[On a related note, a perp recently featured in these pages showed a fondness for Kermit the Frog.]