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LARRY: You may have seen this in the PD. Dumb rule!

http://www.cleveland.com/timstake/index ... rk_co.html

We are still waiting to find out if he gets to go to the meet of champions. They take all of the division winners along with the remaining top 5. Wait & see. Unfortunately I will not be able to be there. Back to the pizza shop & winding down the umpiring season.

Three Ohio women found alive after being missing for a decade; 3 men arrested

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Amanda Berry (right) was reunited with her sister on Monday after Berry and two other women were found alive in a house in Cleveland, Ohio.

By Andrew Rafferty and Matt DeLuca, NBC News
“Help me, I’m Amanda Berry.”
With one frantic 911 call on Monday evening, three women missing for years were found in a Cleveland house where they had been held against their will, police in Ohio said.
“I’ve been kidnapped,” Berry, who disappeared a decade ago, told the dispatcher. “I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m out here. I’m free now.”
Berry and two other women, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, went missing between 2000 and 2004 in separate incidents. The women were all between the ages of 14 and 20 when they vanished.
Neighbors and relatives celebrated the happy ending, but for some, the years had taken their toll. Berry’s mother died in 2006, not knowing whether her daughter was alive or dead.
Three suspects are under arrest, the Cleveland Division of Police reported. The men were identified as Hispanic males aged 50, 52, and 54. A search warrant related to the arrest was executed by police at an address on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, police said. Police are expected to hold a news conference Tuesday to provide more details.
The three women were taken to nearby Metro Health Medical hospital. At a news conference on Monday evening, Dr. Gerald Maloney of Metro Health Medical declined to comment on whether the child brought out of the house by Berry had also been admitted.
All three women were released from the hospital Tuesday morning, the hospital said in a statement, after reporting earlier in the morning that they had been in "fair condition."

Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were all kidnapped roughly ten years ago in the Cleveland area and were held captive in a home until yesterday when a neighbor heard Berry screaming for help. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports and former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt discusses the case.
The three disappearances had stumped police in Cleveland and shaken the community for years. Berry, now 27, was reported missing on April 21, 2003 after she phoned her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a fast food restaurant. About one year after that, 14-year-old DeJesus vanished while walking home from school.
Neighbor Charles Ramsey said he was at home when he saw a man from across the street running to the house next door. When Ramsey went outside, he said, he saw a young woman who said she was trying to escape the house.
“This girl is kicking the door and screaming,” Ramsey said. “She says, ‘I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been in this house a long time and I want to leave right now.’”

Police in Cleveland made an amazing discovery -- three young women who went missing a decade ago were found alive and safe. Rachel Dissell, a reporter for Cleveland Plain Dealer, who's been following this story for 10 years, shares the latest details in the case.
When the door would not open Ramsey helped kick it down, he said, then allowed Berry to call 911. The young woman carried out a child through the broken door, and told Ramsey it belonged to her captor. Police then entered the house and brought out DeJesus and Knight, according to Ramsey.
Shocked relatives could hardly believe that their missing family members had been found after so many years.
Michele Knight’s mother Barbara told The Plain Dealer newspaper that she prayed police had correctly identified her daughter.
"I'm praying that if it is her, she will come back with me so I can help her recover from what she has been through," the hopeful mother said. "So much has happened in these 10 years. She has a younger sister she still has not met. I missed her so much while she was gone."
Destiny Berry, cousin to Amanda, told WKYC: "I just want to see her; I just want to see what she looks like. I just want to hold her."
Destiny and her sister were best friends with Amanda before her disappearance. "We were so close, inseparable. And when she came up missing it killed us. Going 10 years without knowing what happened to her, not knowing anything tears us apart,” she said.
Another of Berry’s cousins, Tasheena Mitchell, told WKYC that she was "so excited.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer file
Amanda Berry (left) and Gina DeJesus (right) went missing about a decade ago.

"I thought about her every day. I prayed about her every night. I’m just so excited that we’re here. And we’re so close but so far away because they won’t let us in," she said. "I knew that she would come one day. I just don’t understand why it took so long. I’m just happy that she’s here."
The DeJesus family continued to hold out hope, holding vigils for her. DeJesus' mother, Nancy Ruiz, told WKYC at one in April: "She's still out there, and we need to bring her home.”
Earlier this year a prison inmate was sentenced for admitting he gave authorities fraudulent tips about Berry's remains.
Robert Wolford, who is serving time for killing a homeless man, told police the woman was buried under a Cleveland lot, which was then dug up by backhoes.
And two men arrested for questioning about DeJesus' disappearance were released in 2006 after police failed to find the woman's remains during a search of their house.
NBC News' Ian Johnston and John Newland and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

If you have not seen the video of the interview between Anderson Cooper and Charles Ramsey then you need to.

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/ ... sive-invu/





10:10 PM ET
TRANSCRIPT & VIDEO – Charles Ramsey @AC360 EXCLUSIVE invu
Tonight on AC360°, Charles Ramsey – the man who freed Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight, spoke with Anderson Cooper.
Ramsey tells Cooper that his neighbor of about a year was “cool, he was no freak of nature” but yesterday he heard a girl scream “like a car had hit her kid.” Amanda Berry told him “I’ve been trapped in here and he won’t let me out. It’s me and my baby.” Berry, he tells Cooper "was well-groomed. She didn't look like she was kidnapped… That's what threw me off."
Ramsey says he doesn’t feel like a hero, and when asked about a rumored reward, he shows Cooper his paycheck and says “give it to them (the girls).”
Video link to the interview and rough transcript below. Please credit all usage to Anderson Cooper 360°

THIS IS A RUSH FDCH TRANSCRIPT. IT MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

COOPER: Well, I just came back from interviewing Charles Ramsey just a short time ago. Here's some of that interview.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: And so you moved in about a year ago. You'd seen Ariel Castro around, right?

CHARLES RAMSEY: When I moved there, only because he was my neighbor.

COOPER: Right.

RAMSEY: You know what I mean?

COOPER: What was he like?

RAMSEY: Cool. He wasn't no freak of nature. He was like me and you, because he talked about the same things you talk about.

COOPER: Right.

RAMSEY: You talk about you. You know what I mean? You know, regular stuff, bro.

COOPER: So yesterday, what happened?

RAMSEY: I'm going to tell it all. Around 3:00, I was on my porch and the mailman put his mail in my mail. I looked at it like here's his mail when he come home. Couple of minutes later, he pulled up. He checked the mailbox, grabbed his paper. Before he went in the house, I said Ariel, here goes your mail. We just had the same conversation when I hand him the mail. He said, they can't get it right. I said, damn postal service. That's it.

He left. I jumped on my bike, went to McDonald's. Came back home, I'm in my house, but I'm in the living room and I'm right by the front door, because I'm looking out the front door, and man, this girl screamed like a car had hit a kid, which made me, you know, stop eating, what the hell was that. You know, so when I got up, I saw this - my neighbor across the street, he run across the street and I'm, like - I'm thinking, where you going, because ain't nobody next door because I just saw Ariel leave.

And I know ain't nobody over there. Heard that girl scream and saw him run across the street, and I went outside and wondered what he was doing, and - Amanda said, I'm stuck in here, help get me out. So he - guy don't know English that well or panicked, he just looked at me and it's a girl. And that's all he did. So here I come with my, you know, half eaten Big Mac and I looked and I said well, what's up.

And she's like I've been trapped in here, he won't let me out, me and my baby. I said well, we ain't going to talk no more, come on. I'm trying to get the door open, I can't, because he torture chambered it some kind of way and locked it up, right? So I did what I had to do and kicked the bottom of the door, and she crawled out of it. She grabs her baby, which threw me off, all right, so fine. I got some girl and her kid.

COOPER: What did she look like? I mean, what was she wearing?

RAMSEY: Jumpsuit. She had a white tank top on, rings on, mascara. You know, she was well groomed. She didn't look like she was kidnapped. That's what I'm saying. That's what threw me off. She was like I'm in here trapped. I'm like, well, you don't look kidnapped so maybe you got a boyfriend problem. But I'm thinking I know who lives here and he's 50 something. You can't be the boyfriend problem. You know? It can't be him. Maybe you're dating his son.

COOPER: And you'd never seen her before?

RAMSEY: Bro –

COOPER: In the year that you had been there?

RAMSEY: Bro, that man, listen, never. That woman didn't come out the house. The only kids that came out the house were two little girls. They played in the backyard. He had two dogs and my - where I live naturally is next door, my bedroom was upstairs so when I hear kids playing, I know it's them. They did the same thing, play in the backyard for a couple of hours, go back in the house. Same thing every day.

The neighborhood knows them as his grandchildren. So no big deal. He had his grandkids over all the time, I thought.

COOPER: Amanda Berry then, what, asked to call 911?

RAMSEY: Mm-hmm. And I took her to my house. Now I'm nervous as hell so I'm fumbling with my phone, so I finally get it right. She can't wait and I don't blame her. So what I do was tell her go across the street and use their phone. Now we're both calling 911. Now she gets through and I get through. She deal with a moron, me, too.

COOPER: You said there - what do you mean, a moron?

RAMSEY: Idiot.

COOPER: I heard the 911 call for her –

RAMSEY: Imbecile.

COOPER: And the woman kept –

RAMSEY: Shouldn't have a damn job.

COOPER: The woman was like hang up and wait for the police.

RAMSEY: Really. How about stay on and I will talk to you until they get there?

COOPER: Right.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: That's Charles Ramsey. I'll have more of my interview with Charles Ramsey after this break.

Let us know what you think. Follow me on Twitter right now @andersoncooper. So many questions still to be answered here.

Also ahead, we're going to hear from a young woman who along with her friends once called 911 because they say they saw a naked woman in the suspect's backyard. She says police thought they were joking, didn't take it seriously. We'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RAMSEY: Heard her screaming, I'm eating my McDonald's, I come outside, and I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house. So I go on the porch. I go on the porch and she says, help me get out, I've been here a long time. So you know, I figured it's a domestic violence dispute. So I opened the door and we can't get in that way because how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through, only your hand. So we kicked the bottom and she comes out with a little girl, and she says call 911, my name is Amanda Berry.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COOPER: If not for the actions of Charles Ramsey and another neighbor who helped him, the three women may still be in that house here in Cleveland.

Here's more of my exclusive interview with Charles Ramsey.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: So you call 911.

RAMSEY: Sure did.

COOPER: How quickly did the police get there?

RAMSEY: You know what, they got there so fast because I said moron. Because I said hey, Amanda Berry is right in front of me right now. Here's what she got on and I told him white tank top, blue sweatpants, nice tennis shoes, nice ponytail. What else? Oh, right. She's panicking, idiot. Put yourself in her shoes. Like I said, Amanda Berry, that don't ring no damn bells, you being a cop and all?

COOPER: But you - when you first saw her and she said the name Amanda Berry, did it –

RAMSEY: It didn't - I didn't know. Because I forgot. Bro, this is Cleveland. Since they haven't found that girl.

COOPER: Right.

RAMSEY: And I guess stopped looking for that girl, we figured that girl was - met her demise.

COOPER: Right.

RAMSEY: So Berry didn't register with me until I was on the phone like, wait a minute, I thought this girl was dead.

COOPER: What does it - what does it feel like to have been living next to this for a year?

RAMSEY: See, that's why now I'm having trouble sleeping. See, up until yesterday, the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money. See what I'm saying? So now that that's going on, and I could have done this last year, not this hero stuff, just do the right thing –

COOPER: Do you feel like a hero?

RAMSEY: No.

COOPER: Because there's a lot of people, they're saying you're a hero.

(CROSSTALK)

RAMSEY: No, no, no. Bro, I'm a Christian, an American, and just like you. We bleed same blood, put our pants on the same way. It's just that you got to put that - being a coward, and I don't want to get in nobody's business. You got to put that away for a minute.

COOPER: Because you know how it is. There's a lot of people who turn away.

(CROSSTALK)

RAMSEY: You have to have cajones, bro.

COOPER: Keep walking down on the street.

RAMSEY: That's all what it's about. It's about cajones on this planet.

COOPER: Has the FBI said anything about a reward or anything? Because there was that - there was a reward for finding her.

RAMSEY: I tell you what you do, give it to them. Because if folks been following this case since last night, you been following me since last night, you know I got a job anyway. Just went picked it up, paycheck. What that address say? That say?

COOPER: I don't have my glasses. I'm blind as a bat.

RAMSEY: 2203 Seymour. Where are them girls living? Right next door to this paycheck. So yes, take that reward and give it to - that little girl came out the house and she was crying. And I'm looking at her, right, I'm like your mama trying to help you, girl, shut up. I don't know, right. And she's like I want my daddy. And I said, who's her daddy? She said Ariel.

COOPER: She said that.

RAMSEY: Yes. I said well, how's that possible? Because you wouldn't - if you got kidnapped, he was having sex with you? Oh, Jesus. That little girl is his? Now we want to hurt you.

COOPER: You felt that?

RAMSEY: Bro, this will be a different interview, I told you that, if we had known that. Man, I would be facing triple life.

COOPER: Wow. I'm glad it turned out this way.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER: Charles Ramsey.

(END)

Great clip from Jay Leno:

http://now.msn.com/leno-gas-station-pra ... -sensation

Rusty is seemingly a pasty white fat laden white guy.


Just posted that to get the conversation going after getting touts at my gym this evening.


Get your bodies in shape, guys and girls.


Don't be a Rusty who hides from public vision and pics.

Trying to work off those chipmunk cheeks !

A young TFISC before hair loss and cheek gain.

I made my plays to beat The Favorite in The Preakness, tomorrow.

If Orb wins, I can be happy. HE would be the favorite. Good bloodlines, and good racing families.

I'm going with a jockey I have met and know, and a horse I think is ready to perform.

I've got Governor Charlie boxed with Itsmyluckyday in tri's, and both boxed on top with the field in supers.


Monday is my Anniversary with this particular wife.

Twenty plus anniversaries in total in marriages. Thirty Three years of committed relationships, in total.

I do indeed LOVE my current wife. No sanity tests required.......

16 Reasons Cleveland Is Not As Bad As You Think

http://www.buzzfeed.com/timl23/16-reaso ... think-7j1m

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:I made my plays to beat The Favorite in The Preakness, tomorrow.

If Orb wins, I can be happy. HE would be the favorite. Good bloodlines, and good racing families.

I'm going with a jockey I have met and know, and a horse I think is ready to perform.

I've got Governor Charlie boxed with Itsmyluckyday in tri's, and both boxed on top with the field in supers.


Monday is my Anniversary with this particular wife.

Twenty plus anniversaries in total in marriages. Thirty Three years of committed relationships, in total.

I do indeed LOVE my current wife. No sanity tests required.......

I walked in Friday night to throw down a quick Preakness play and asked the female ticket seller if I could glance at her program for a quick play at the next dog race about to go off. I chose one, and picked up a $160 profit.

Next day I had another Preakness angle and went it to bet a bit more and asked the same female ticket seller to let me glance at her program for an immediate fast bet.

She displayed her goods, and I chose the dogs.


Picked up $500 on that particular wager.

That female ticket seller was impressed that I could glance at a program and pull out a three digit winner two nights in a row.


Personally, I a am most impressed with me because MY WIFE fell in love with me and still thinks I am worthy to have fun with and keep around.

Gillian Anderson is on Jimmy Fallon tonight.

She has aged well, indeed.

One reason I'm glad to be a retired teacher:

They are talking about eliminating cursive out here. They are teaching these kids to spell words by sounding them out not how they are actually spelled. They don't have to know the multiplication tables. They allow calculators in class as a replacement for brain power. We have a bunch of idiots teaching our kids to be a bunch of idiots.

We have a bunch of idiots teaching our kids to be a bunch of idiots.

I'm sure all of our existing teachers, retired teachers, those married to teachers, and those with children that teach or are pursuing degrees to teach greatly appreciate your lack of knowledge of their profession.