Police seek help tracking park vandals
Graffiti was painted on a dumpster, ramps and blacktop in McLaughlin Park earlier this month. The tags include: CHAP, POET, RISK, BELL, MHA, BE. The department requests any help from residents who recognize the tags or have information. Anonymity will be protected if requested. Call 412-221-6052.
A black male dressed in a dark coat and hat attempted to take an extension ladder from a home in the 200 block of Liberty Street Dec. 7. A resident confronted the man and he dropped the ladder and fled.
An unknown actor(s) shattered the drivers' side rear window of a white 2005 Dodge Stratus Dec. 10. The vehicle was parked in the 1200 block of Union Street.
DUI
Lucinda Dunlap, 25, of Belasco Avenue in Pittsburgh, 15216, was charged with DUI Dec.
Big Island police warn of scam
Big Island police are warning residents of another recently discovered scam. Most people are familiar with scams offering large sums of unclaimed money or lottery winnings available for a processing fee or the like, but advance fee fraudsters have come up with a new tool to trick people out of their money.
Scammers operating out of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have created copies of the Websites of express transportation companies to lure victims into paying transportation and advance fees for used motorcycles and cars that are never delivered.
In the recent cases seen, the scammers offer a used Suzuki Katana GSX-600 or a BMW Z3 roadster at several used vehicle sales Websites for next to nothing. After the buyers respond, they are usually told that the vehicles are currently in Spain or another European county and that they (the buyer) will have to pay transportation costs.
The Bond cars dossier
There have been many Bond cars, and the brand which sticks out most has got to be Aston Martin. But there have been a lot more James Bond cars - and motor bikes - than you think!
James Bond and his cars are like, well James Bond and his women and James Bond and his vodka. Shaken, but never stirred.
That said, the first Bond car was a bit of a boneshaker - a light blue 1961 Sunbeam Alpine Series 5 sports car which Sean Connery drove in Dr. No (1962).
Next up came the only car which was true to the original Ian Fleming books - in From Russia with Love (1963) there was a Bentley Derby Sports Tourer right at the beginning.
And then the fun began, with that VERY special Aston Martin DB5. Until Fleming's third book, Goldfinger, Bond had always driven Bentleys, but now the author put him into another iconic British brand, Aston Martin.
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