COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER& BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JuLY 29, 2021
New living arrangement includes a proposition
we are very close friends from
college.
Josie, her husband and I
often BBQ together and hang
out watching movies. One night
recently, Josie had to work late,
and her husband and I had dinner
and wine. We got pretty drunk,
and I decided to turn in early.
Before I went to bed, Josie’s hus-
band asked me to have a three-
some. He said Josie was going
to ask me, but she was nervous
about it, so she chickened out. I
think my jaw must have hit the
ground. I didn’t know what to
say, so I told him I’d “think about
it.”
A week has passed and Josie
hasn’t mentioned anything about
Dear Abby: Six months into
the pandemic I was furloughed,
then laid off a few months later.
Because of the loss of income,
I could no longer afford my rent
and was forced to move. It was
tough finding anything affordable
in the area. A good friend from
college (“Josie”) and her husband
own a big home with a detached
guest house, and offered me the
opportunity to rent for next to
nothing until I found a new job. I
was super happy about it because
inform your old college chum,
pack your bags and go to your
parents’.
Dear Abby: My husband’s
daughter “Crystal” is married to
“Jeremy,” who is a racist. I know
this because of comments he has
made over the past five years. At
our only granddaughter’s first
birthday celebration, my hus-
band and Jeremy got into a heated
argument (a little politics, a little
racism). Since we live out of state,
we were supposed to stay with
them, but we had to leave. Jeremy
started screaming at my husband,
calling him a pedophile and some
other awful names.
Crystal is demanding an
apology from us and refuses to
the threesome, but I’m scared to
bring it up. I don’t know if her
husband was telling the truth.
They may want a threesome, but
I’m not into it. If I say “no” it
might make things weird between
us. What should I do? Should I
ask Josie about it, or move out
back home with my parents till
I find a new job? — Not What I
Bargained For
Dear Not: The husband’s
drunken proposition has already
made things weird, but let it go
— for now. I doubt this is some-
thing Josie is “too chicken” to
ask you. If he raises the subject
again, make it plain that you are
not into threesomes and not to
ask again. If he presses further,
communicate or send photos of
the baby until he does. My hus-
band feels that Crystal’s mind
is made up and she will defend
her husband no matter what, so
there’s no point. I hate that we’re
at an impasse. She has cut me off
as well. Do you have any sugges-
tions? — Cut Off in the South
Dear Cut Off: Crystal, whose
views on race seem to coincide
with her husband’s, has you side-
lined already. When your hus-
band craves contact with his
daughter and his grandchild,
he will hold his nose, reach out
and offer to mend fences. Until
that happens, listen to what he
is telling you and stay out of this
mess.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
‘Barney’ eludes capture for days after farm escape
was not going anywhere, the
report said.
Deputies took her to the
Charlotte County Jail, but she
refused to tell them her name.
Officials eventually identi-
fied her through previous jail
booking photos. The 42-year-old
woman was charged with tres-
passing and resisting a law
enforcement officer without
violence
The Associated Press
MASTIC, N.Y. — An
escaped bull has eluded capture
for several days on Long Island
despite searchers employing
a helicopter and night-vision
equipment along with attempts
to lure the roaming animal with
grain and a cow.
Police in Suffolk County say
they began responding to calls
about the 1,500-pound bull run-
ning loose Tuesday, July 20,
after it broke through the fence
of a local farm.
Residents have spotted the
dark-coated bull, since nick-
named Barney, walking across
fields, roads and suburban front
yards.
And it briefly shut down a
portion of Sunrise Highway.
Teams have searched the area
about 50 miles east of New York
City on foot and on horseback.
They’ve used drones. A “bull
trap” baited with the same feed
Barney eats on the farm did not
work, nor did other would-be
traps.
“We’ve tried luring him with
a cow, with horses,” Frankie
Floridia of Strong Island Animal
Rescue told Newsday. “I’m
out here with a (tranquilizer
gun), looking for him, and I’m
thinking, ‘I’m hunting cows in
an Indiana Jones movie.’ It’s just
frustrating. The longer it goes,
you wonder what happens.”
The bull is roaming around
a part of Long Island that fea-
tures dense underbrush and pine
barrens. Floridia said the dense
vegetation has hindered the
search.
Rescuers said they hope
to have the bull moved to a
sanctuary.
“I’m not afraid of him being
Woman convicted of
swapping pebbles
for gems in London heist
LONDON — A woman who
secretly swapped seven pebbles
for $5.7 million worth of dia-
monds has been sent to prison
for her role in the audacious
heist at a luxury jewelry store in
London’s tony Mayfair district.
Lulu Lakatos, 60, was sen-
tenced Wednesday, July 28, to
5-1/2 years in prison after a jury
at Southwark Crown Court in
London found her guilty of con-
spiracy to steal.
Lakatos was part of an inter-
national gang that fled to France
after stealing the diamonds from
Boodles on New Bond Street on
March 10, 2016. The gems hav-
en’t been recovered.
“This was an audacious theft,
carried out in plain view of
experienced and professional
staff at a renowned jewelers,”
Detective Sgt. William Man of
London’s Metropolitan Police
Service said in a statement.
“The meticulous planning and
execution of this theft reveals
to me that those involved were
highly skilled criminals.”
In the days leading up to the
heist, the criminals held a series
of meetings with Boodles staff
on the pretense that they rep-
Suffolk County Police Department/Contributed Photo
This photo provided by Suffolk County Police Department, Friday July 23, 2021,
shows a bull on the loose in Mastic, N.Y. The bull has eluded capture for several days
on Long Island despite attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow
in heat.
aggressive to humans,” Floridia
said. “He doesn’t have horns,
he’s not an aggressive animal.
I think he’s going to see people
and he’s going to run away. I’m
just afraid, with the color of his
coat, he’s going to wander into a
road in the dark and some driver
won’t see him.”
Woman arrested after
skinny-dipping in
strangers’ pool
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A
Florida man returning home
from a doctors appointment
found a stranger skinny dipping
in his backyard swimming pool,
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sheriff’s officials said.
At first, the man only noticed
clothes scattered across his lanai
earlier this week, Charlotte
County Sheriff’s officials said
in a social media post Tuesday,
July 20.
Then, he saw the woman in
his pool and called deputies,
sheriff’s officials said.
The woman was hostile and
told sheriff’s deputies to leave
her alone, the report said.
They asked her several times
to get out of the pool and get
dressed. She finally followed
their orders, but resisted when
the deputies tried to detain her.
She pulled away and said she
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resented a wealthy Russian
investor who was looking to
purchase gems, police said.
Lakatos, who was born in
Romania and lived in France,
posed as a gem expert named
“Anna” who then went to Boo-
dles to value seven diamonds for
the buyer.
After she inspected the gems,
which included a 20-carat heart-
shaped diamond valued at more
than 2.2 million pounds, they
were individually wrapped and
placed in a locked bag that was
supposed to be held in the jew-
eler’s vault until payment was
received.
But when Boodles’ own
expert became suspicious the
next day, the bag was X-rayed
and the store discovered it held
nothing but seven ordinary
pebbles.
Lakatos had used a distrac-
tion to swap the bag containing
the diamonds for an identical
one containing the pebbles
before it was locked in the vault,
according to security camera
video released by police.
After leaving the store,
Lakatos handed the bag con-
taining the diamonds to one of
her female accomplices, before
ditching the long coat, hat and
scarf she wore as a disguise and
boarding a high-speed Eurostar
train to France.
She was arrested on a Euro-
pean arrest warrant last Sep-
tember and returned to Britain
to stand trial.
Two men who worked with
Lakatos previously pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to steal
and were sentenced to 3 years
and eight months in prison.
Police are still investigating
the involvement of two other
women.
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