Ballet dancer, 88, takes to stage

January 18th, 2008 - An 88-year-old man is set to star in his first ballet show after taking up dance at the age of 79. Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of Witchford, Cambs, took up dancing having watched his daughter Alison become a professional dancer.

The retired teacher said: "It's a wonderful thing to do and I can't understand why more men don't do it." Mr Lowe is due to appear with the Lantern Dance Theatre Company, in Ely, on Sunday evening.

Read the full story, with video, at this URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7185908.stm

What old people do for fun

Thanks, MIB from the PLA Forums, for finding this one!

Elderly Man Flooded With Calls For Brad Pitt

April 27th, 2007 - A Concord, New Hampshire man's phone keeps ringing at random hours with people looking for Brad Pitt. But 77-year-old Richard Perkins doesn't know the movie star and has only seen one film with the 43-year-old actor.

Someone posted the retired teachers' home phone number in a Web site chat room and claimed it was contact information for Pitt. For the last six days, Perkins' phone keeps ringing at times as late as 2 a-m.

"I thought it was my daughter calling me," Perkins told the Concord Monitor. "I thought she was saying 'Dad? Dad? Dad?' and I thought there was something wrong with the line. Then I realized she was saying 'Brad.' "

A frustrated Perkins disconnected his phone once, but firefighters - summoned by Perkins's Life Alert system - burst into his home to find him sitting peacefully in the living room.

They "weren't too pleased," Perkins told the newspaper.

Perkins says he doesn't want to change his phone number because he's afraid he'll forget his new one.

We decided to give Mr. Perkins a call and gauge his reaction to a typical call asking for Brad Pitt. Here's what he had to say.

SOURCE: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_116115014.html

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Two elderly muggers are robbing bank customers after squirting them with liquid POO.

March 17th, 2007 - The dirty duo - believed to be a husband and wife aged around SEVENTY - offer to help clean up their victims before snatching their cash.

Albert and Doreen Croucher lost £4,000 as they left a bank after making a withdrawal at Eastbourne, East Sussex, last month.

Mr Croucher, 58, said: "I felt this blast from the buildings above us. The smell was instant and vile.

"Just then a lady came over with tissues and helped clean it off. It was only later that I realised she had fleeced me."

The theft is the third in a few weeks in Sussex.

Other attacks in Brighton have netted £11,500.

A police spokeswoman said: "This is a such a shitty crime."

Just kidding, the police spokeswoman actually said: "This is a totally repulsive crime." But it would have been funnier the other way.

 

Elderly woman unscathed after being run over by a train

March 5th, 2007 - LISBON (AFP) - An elderly woman has walked away without a scratch after being run over by a train in Portugal.

Maria Delores Ramos, 77, slipped as she attempted to cross the railway near her home in the northern village of Barroselas, the daily Jornal de Noticias reported.

She could not get up on her own as she suffers from arthritis in her legs, so she sat in the middle of the track to wait for someone to pass by.

But when a train approached she decided to lay down after her frantic waving failed to get the attention of the conductor, Ramos told the newspaper

"I started to pray and ask God for forgiveness for my sins. But when I saw that the first carriage passed over me and didn't touch me, I realized I was safe. And I survived," she said.

The train stopped a little further ahead and the conductor got out of the train and helped Ramos, a mother of seven, to crawl out from under one of the carriages.

"Other people quickly arrived and raised me off the ground and held on to me but I told them I didn't need need them to hold on to me, that I could stay up on my own," she said. "I can brag that I survived being run over by a train."

89-year-old man likes to drive in the nude

Feb 3rd, 2007 - An 89-year-old man is charged with public indecency after police said he was driving completely nude.

Police said this was the third time John Welday was caught driving around naked.

Martins Ferry police said a search of the vehicle also yielded over 100 photos of Welday in the nude. The photos had been altered to remove identifying characteristics, such as Welday's face and license plate.

Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter said there is nothing illegal about the photographs, but he is worried Welday may have been leaving the photos in public places.

"We find concern with it when he is traveling past a park where children are known to frequent," Welday said.

Friday night a neighbor of Jack Welday's told NEWS9 she is shocked to hear of the arrest.

The woman, who did not want to be identified, said Welday would never be a threat to any children.

"What upset me was when they mentioned the fact he maybe would exhibit himself in front of children," said the woman. "There's no way, like I said, I grew up around him, my children grew up around him, and anybody you talk to that knows Jack, will tell you the same."

Anyone who may have found one of the photos is asked to contact police immediately.

Welday pleaded not guilty Friday.

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