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MINEOLA, N.Y. - The estranged wife of a pastor claims her husband blended his professional and personal finances so thoroughly that his church should be counted as an asset in their divorce.
A judge agreed in a decision published this week to hear arguments on the claim, and he ordered a financial appraisal of the church. Lawyers said it could represent the first time anyone in New York state has tried to treat a religious institution as a marital asset.
The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a “personal piggy bank,” setting his own income, spending the congregation’s tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building, according to the decision by state Supreme Court Judge Arthur M. Diamond. The couple’s names were redacted from the decision.
The wife said $50,000 of the couple’s money went into starting the church, and that the church property is partly hers.
“That church is no different than any other business he might have opened,” said the wife’s lawyer, Robert Pollack.
The pastor maintains he is simply a church employee, and the institution’s funds should not be considered his, according to Diamond’s decision.
“My client can’t own the church,” said the minister’s lawyer, Eleanor Gery.
[Via - AZCentral]
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Hey, how’s that for “the home of the free”. Libertry rings its bell once again:
FORT WORTH, Texas — Police issued a citation for a man accused of watching pornography on his car DVD player. Cameron J. Walker, 24, of Irving, was issued misdemeanor citations for obscene display or distribution, not having a driver’s license and having an open container of alcohol, Fort Worth police said.
An officer on patrol noticed the pornographic images inside the car as it drove by and then parked near a club about 2 a.m. Monday, Fort Worth police Lt. Dean Sullivan said. The images of “multiple naked people” on the 10-inch screen could be seen by someone walking outside the car, Sullivan said.
“Seen by someone walking outside”? Give me a break
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MARYSVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A 54-year-old woman was recovering in the hospital after being hit by a Union Pacific freight train south of Marysville.
Deborah Thompson told authorities afterward that she drank a bottle of whiskey before she wandered to the railroad tracks and tried to wave the train to a stop. When asked why, she told Yuba County sheriff’s deputies she was just being silly.
Instead, the train hit her and knocked her 20 to 30 yards.
Thompson suffered head injuries and a fractured thigh bone but was conscious and talking after the accident.
[Via - Excite News]
University Of Georgia Asks Stadium Fans Not to Flush
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday.
“He just forgot about it and walked off home,” said a spokesman for police in the western city of Wuppertal.
After the car had sat blocking the pump for about an hour, a woman working at the petrol station became suspicious and alerted authorities.
Officers contacted the 63-year-old from Remscheid, who came straight back to fetch the vehicle. He had paid to fill up the car before walking off.
[Via - Reuters]
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Fans who have had their fill of beer at the University of Georgia’s homecoming football game on Saturday be warned — no flushing allowed.
Earlier this week, crews put up signs in bathrooms asking people not to flush “if it’s yellow” and to leave the handle-pulling to attendants, who will do the job for the estimated 93,000 people at Saturday’s game.
It’s part of the university’s “Every Drop Counts” water conservation effort in the drought that’s struck Georgia and much of the Southeast.
The university is considering replacing all of the stadium’s old toilets, which use 3.5 gallons of water per flush, with new ones that use less than half that amount — 1.6 gallons — per flush, said Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director for internal operations.
But two old-fashioned trough urinals that have constant running water will be open beneath the west end stands during the game against Troy University.
“We’ve got a lot of fans in that area that would need to use the restroom and it would be impractical to ask them to go to another part of the stadium,” he said.
The drought has worsened with sweltering temperatures and a drier-than-normal hurricane season. Now drought in almost one-third of the Southeast has been deemed “exceptional” — the most severe drought category.
[Via Weird Odd News]
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