Playboy Prison Guard Reinstated

Berks County hero/prison guard Heather Hull has returned to her job as a prison guard; she was fired last year for posing in Playboy.

Though citing a lack of moral judgment, Arbitrator Charles Long said Hull did not besmirch the county’s reputation by posing in a simulated correctional officer’s uniform.

Yes, a lack of moral judgment. Oh, no, you can’t pose in Playboy — what will we tell the children about prison guards, their greatest heroes?

Officer Fired For Posing In Playboy Gets Second Chance [NBC 10]

Pa. Fun: Hungry Burglars And Buggy Joyriding

NBC 10 is apparently your source for local wacky crime news, and what better way to get a Friday afternoon post out of the way than to summarize it! Woohoo!

• In Chester County, in a town allegedly called “Honey Brook,” police were involved in a high-speed chase against a buggy. After stopping Joshua McElyea, the man allegedly fled and somehow commandeered an Amish buggy before eventually being caught by the cops.

• And, even further out there in Berks County — which may or may not be just a SimCity file — a woman’s been breaking into homes and stealing all their food. “The hungry burglar,” police are calling her, as that sounds better than “Bonnie and Clyde of 2007, only without Clyde, and with stealing food.”

Something Besides A Cougar On Loose

Usually, when people in the area see a wild animal, it’s a cougar. (Well, usually, it’s not, but they think they see a cougar.)

But in Berks County right now, there’s apparently a wallaby on the loose. Wallabies are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, and the Lehigh Valley Zoo said they are not currently missing any of them.

So how’d the animal get to the Philadelphia exurbs? A member of the Berks Co. humane society said somebody probably bought the animal on the Internet as a pet. How the hell does that work? Does the postal service ship wallabies? (Maybe there’s a special “Wallaby Rate.”)

Anyway, if you see the wallaby, be sure to go up and hug it. Or, ahh, not.

“They’re violent when confined or restrained,” humane society officer Dylan Heckart said Tuesday, noting wallabies’ powerful kicking legs. “They can definitely injure a human being badly.”

Sounds like a great pet!

Where’s That Wiley Wallaby? [CBS 3]