Hot cakes' sales come to hault during bomb scare at Huddle House. More weird news in Todd Morehead's regional briefs...

ANDERSON

Firefighter accused of road rage in fire truck
An Anderson County man told authorities last week that a county volunteer fireman tried to run him over with a fire truck after he complained about the noise from the lights and sirens. 
Brandon Massey, 30, of Anderson told the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office that firefighter Daniel Fanning, 25, tried to hit him with a Hopewell Fire Department truck after he complained of the noise and lights caused by firefighters giving rides to Young Life Youth Ministry teens for a scavenger hunt. Two witnesses reportedly corroborated Massey’s story.
Fanning told authorities he was simply returning to the fire station, but admitted that he did “get close” to Massey with the fire truck. Massey has so far not pressed charges and Fanning has been briefly suspended from the department.

GREENVILLE

Outlaw musclewoman to be extradited to South Carolina

North Dakota authorities have captured and plan to extradite a 270 pound South Carolina musclewoman who once appeared on “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” pulling a school bus. Easley native Shannon Pole-Summers, 23, faces charges of first-degree burglary, assault with intent to kill, grand larceny and identity theft in Pickens County. Pole-Summers had been working in a bar near Minot, N.D. since last July.
Arresting officer and Deputy U.S. Marshall, Kevin Howe, said he didn’t pack lightly for the bust. 
“I might be 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds,” he told the Greenville News “but I made sure I had my Taser ready.”
Easley man renounces U.S. citizenship at tax evasion sentencing

Charles Atwell, 57, of Easley renounced his U.S. citizenship in front of a federal judge in Greenville last week after being convicted of evading taxes on more than $2 million he cleared in commissions selling mutual funds and life insurance.

U.S. District Judge Henry Herlong asked Atwell to what country he belonged.

“Right here, the country of South Carolina,” Atwell replied. “My beliefs are that states are separate, foreign nations.”

Atwell—who served in the U.S. Air Force and marked himself as a U.S. citizen when applying for monetary loans—also cited the biblical Ten Commandments when renouncing his citizenship, claiming that God instructs man to “put no other Gods before him.”

Judge Herlong instructed that U.S. Immigration and Customs officials be notified of Atwell’s decision.

ORANGEBURG

Huddle House temporarily closed after bomb scare

An Orangeburg area Huddle House restaurant was temporarily closed after a customer reported what appeared to be a live hand grenade laying in the parking lot. S.L.E.D. bomb technicians, using a robot to inspect the device, later determined that it was a cigarette lighter designed to look like a grenade and believe the lighter was accidentally dropped and not placed in the lot to create panic. And somewhere in Orangeburg a forlorn Insane Clown Posse fan is likely bumming a light.

SPARTANBURG

Man shot in leg while collecting roadside cans
According to the Spartanburg Public Safety Dept., Charles Dillard Leake, Jr., 48, of Spartanburg picked up more metal than just aluminum cans last week; he also collected a few grams of lead. Leake told police he was walking along Pierpont Ave. searching for cans when two young men robbed him of $3 and a bottle of prescription pills. When he attempted to flee his assailants Leak says one of the men shot him in the leg. Leake is being treated at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and the suspects remain at large.      
 


 

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