November 15, 2005
Great Moments in the History of White Trash: A White Trash Wedding
This was an awful story; a poor bride nearly carjacked on her wedding day, and still in her wedding dress no less. Her new husband, in his tux, had just left the car.
Bride testifies about wedding night carjack
Dave Murphy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
SNIP!On Monday, barely two weeks after their Oct. 29 wedding, Zahn was testifying in a South San Francisco courtroom at the preliminary hearing of Alan Ticas-Soto, the 21-year-old man accused of carjacking and being under the influence of methamphetamines.
SNIP!
Zahn testified calmly about how she saw Ticas-Soto jump into their car and, without saying a word, start backing it up.
"I tried to get out, but my seat belt stopped me," she said. "I screamed, 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' "
But what you really need to know is that...
...wait for it...
THEY WERE PICKING UP FAST FOOD AT TACO BELL. ON THEIR WEDDING DAY.
Now, it's not like they deserved to be carjacked or anything, but you know if they had just gone for a nice lamb shawarma that none of this would have happened. I'm just saying.
Posted by kyle at 1:24 PM
September 27, 2005
Great Moments in the History of White Trash: Part Deux
Almost Heaven...
Cuffed Man Jumps in River, Then Swims BackTuesday, September 27, 2005
(09-27) 12:52 PDT Charleston, W.Va. (AP) --
A man arrested for allegedly breaking into a Cross Lanes store broke free from deputies and jumped into the Kanawha River, only to come back when he apparently realized he would not get far because his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
Deputies waited for him on the riverbank and took him into custody again, according to a criminal complaint filed by Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy J.R. Powell.
David Douglas Griffy II, 23, of Cross Lanes was arrested around midnight Sunday. Police believe he smashed the Dollar General store window with a tire tool so another man could steal cold medicine used to make methamphetamine.
He was charged with breaking and entering and fleeing deputies, both felonies. He was being held in the South Central Regional Jail on Tuesday on a $45,000 bond.
Posted by kyle at 1:53 PM
September 21, 2005
Great Moments in the History of White Trash
I suppose I could think of a worse place to be born out of wedlock than Fresno, but....
Wrong man paying Scott Peterson's mistress child supportWednesday, September 21, 2005
09-21) 12:55 PDT Fresno, Calif. (AP) --
The mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson is back in the spotlight after a DNA test showed that her first child was not fathered by the man who has been paying child support.
Fresno hairstylist Anthony Flores, 29, has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years, his attorney, Glenn Wilson, said Wednesday.
The father of the 4-year-old girl is actually Fresno restaurant owner Christopher Funch, Wilson said.
No one answered the telephone at Porky's Rib House on Wednesday, and Funch did not have a listed home number.
"You'd think that Amber Frey's notoriety would have died down," Wilson said. "Unfortunately, she's like a bad penny, she keeps coming back."
Wilson said Flores was preparing to file a court motion seeking visitation rights, which he has been denied, when the man received word last week that he was not the child's father.
"Amber always asserted to him that he was the only guy she was sleeping with during that time period so Anthony's never had any reason to question it," Wilson said. "Anthony's big thing is that his reputation has been harmed. This poor guy can't go anywhere without people pointing at him."
Flores said he feels duped.
"She was very convincing when she told me I was the only person who could be the father," he said. "I want an apology."
Frey, a massage therapist from Fresno, was Peterson's mistress when he killed his pregnant wife, Laci, in December 2003. Her testimony helped prosecutors convict the fertilizer salesman, who was sentenced to death.
Frey's attorney, Gloria Allred, said Wednesday that her client never intended to deceive Flores.
"Amber, in good faith, always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father," Allred said.
Frey also has another child by a different man.
Posted by kyle at 2:47 PM