🔫 CRIME - Kingston man spits in cop's face after failed robbery with plastic gun

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 DATING - Whitby woman spends $50k to ‘hypnotize’ gym crush

🧒 PARENTING - Toronto woman turns 12-year-old son into drug mule on flight home from Aruba

Happy Friday. 

I’m trying something new this week. You’ll notice today’s title story is further down than usual. That’s because I’m seeing how far you’ll scroll to read it.

Don’t worry: I’m aware the average person’s attention span is only 8.25 seconds long, so I kept this week’s stories brief.

Now scroll, piggy, scroll.

-Peter

⏰ Today’s read should only take you 2.5 minutes to complete. No pressure.

CRIME

DON’T POINT THAT THING AT ME!

A Kingston man spat in a police officer’s face last week after he was apprehended for flashing a plastic gun outside of a gas station.

The man was prowling outside of a gas station around 8:30 AM, waving a “white handgun” across his face and neck area.

He pointed it at the window and the gas pumps before somebody called 9-11.

The man ran off, but police found him down the road just eight minutes later. They detained him and seized his handgun, which turned out to be a piece of plastic cut from a recycled takeout container.

Police charged the man with harassment, then assault after he spat in an officer’s face.

After further investigation, police also determined the man was in breach of a release order with several conditions, one of which was not to possess any “imitation firearms.”

No wonder his plastic gun looked so realistic—this guy has been carving them out of takeout boxes for years.

DATING

$50K TO HYPNOTIZE GYM CRUSH

A Whitby woman coughed up $50,000 to a psychic who promised to make her gym crush fall in love with her.

Joanne Whalen was in the habit of visiting psychics because it was “fun and entertaining,” she said.

After her husband died in 2013, she began visiting a psychic in Oshawa named Julia.

After “reading” her future, Julia told Whalen that she “found a man” in her life.

“I can bring this man closer to you for $550,” said Julia.

Whalen handed her the money. Over the following months, Julia requested more and more money to complete the love spell.

Whalen said, “I transferred $12,000 to $15,000, but she wanted cash, so I was dropping off lots and lots of cash at her house.”

Julia also instructed Whalen to buy gold bars from Costco, which the psychic used in ceremonies with lit candles to push the spell along.

In the end, Whalen paid Julia $50,232 over the course of a year. Her gym crush never fell for her.

Whalen said to Julia, “If everything is going so great why isn’t anything happening? I’m paying you thousands and thousands of dollars and I’m getting nothing.”

Whalen now believes she was scammed.

“I was so trapped in it mentally because I was so scared,” she said.

Julia says she is returning Whalen’s money, but so far Whalen has only received $2,000 back.

“Don’t start anything with a psychic,” Whalen said. “Because once you start, it’s a trap.”

_{(Source: CTV News Toronto)}

PARENTING

NOT YO MAMA’S MULE

Parents, don’t try this at home.

A Toronto mom has been jailed for over three years after using her 12-year-old son to smuggle cocaine into the country.

Cassandra Gordon taped 1.5 kilograms of cocaine to her son and 2 kilograms to herself on their flight home from Aruba in November 2019. Both were caught and detained by authorities at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

In April, a jury found Gordon guilty of importing cocaine. The Crown wanted her locked up for seven years, but Gordon’s lawyers argued for three.

In the end, the judge sentenced Gordon to 3.5 years in jail and recommended she be given “some form of early release” so that she can take care of her two sons.

I know this might be insensitive, but would it be such a bad thing if somebody else raised these kids?

Somebody who—I don’t know—wouldn’t use them as drug mules?

_{(Source: National Post)}

Enjoy your weekend. 🍻 

-Peter