Peeping Tom Strikes Four Local Colleges

Posted on May 2, 2012 by atomictv

(ABC 2 News, 5/1/2012)

Essex, Md – It’s happened twice at the Essex campus once in March and here in building B on the lower level, and again less than ten days ago in building A on the third floor.

Women reported that while they were using the stall a man stuck his head underneath to watch them.

Monisha says it happened to her friend.

“My friend told me that she was in the bathroom and a guy just peeped under her stall and she asked him what he was doing and he just ran off she was very shocked at what happened and it was kind of shocking that a guy even got into a female bathroom and is walking around doing things like that. ” Freshman Monisha Williams says.

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Related:

  • CCBC Essex in Search of Peeping Tom: Two women have reported a man peeking under their stalls while using campus restrooms — Essexpatch.com

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Wallenda to Walk over Inner Harbor

Posted on May 2, 2012 by atomictv

Descendant of famed tightrope walkers to launch Ripley’s ‘odditorium’

By Jean Marbella, (The Baltimore Sun 5/1/2012)


Karl Wallenda tightrope walks 60 feet above the harbor, 1973.

Believe it or not, a seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallenda family plans to walk a high wire above Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on May 9.

Nik Wallenda’s feat will promote the opening next month of a new Ripley’s Believe It or Not “odditorium” in Harborplace’s Light Street Pavilion. It’s also a tip of the hat to a similar wire act by his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda, who walked between two cranes above the harbor in 1973 to open the fourth annual City Fair.

“When I was approached about this, I was so excited because of just that,” the 33-year-old Wallenda said. “I’ve re-enacted many of his walks, even the one where he fell to his death.”

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BINGO!

Posted on May 1, 2012 by atomictv

Photograph by Lloyd Pearson (The Baltimore Sun, 9/4/1971)

“BINGO — That’s what the photographer at Ocean City said, too, when he spotted Priscilla Lyn Knop.”

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Picnic Halted As Jealous Man Murders Pal at Turkey Point, 1939

Posted on April 26, 2012 by atomictv

(The Afro-American, 8/2/1930)

20-Year-Old Youth is Nearly Decapitated by Friend.

What was intended to be a happy event when a number of former high school students gave a bathing party, was turned into tragedy when Robert Turner, 20, 2102 Division Street, was nearly decapitated with a weapon by his chum and classmate, Leonard Smith, 1300 block Presstman Street, Sunday.

The two men with several others went to Turkey Point on the Back River Neck for a bathing party early Sunday afternoon. The group consisting mostly of former high school students were having a jovial time when Smith and Turner engaged in an altercation, said by police to have been over a Miss Della Thomas. Smith drew a knife and started slashing at Turner, who attempted to escape the fury of the man. With a swiping slash Smith struck Turner across the throat with the knife nearly decapitating him.

Rushed 20 Miles, Dead

The party was thrown in an uproar over the tragedy. The Essex police were called and had the injured man transferred to the Baltimore City Hospital, twenty miles from the shore, where he was pronounced dead.

Essex police authorities treated the matter with considerable secrecy and failed to disclose the major facts involved in the fatal quarrel. Smith is being held by the county officers on charge of murder pending a coroner’s investigation.

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