VISTA, California (AP) – A San Diego County jury says the former chief operating officer of a sex doll company must pay his former employer nearly $300,000 after breaking away to form his own love doll company.
Jurors decided Wednesday that Matt Krivicke broke his contract with Abyss Creations LLC and used material from Abyss to start his own firm, Knighthorse LLC.
Krivicke was laid off from Abyss in 2008 and sued Abyss and its owner last year for a share of the company’s profits. Abyss then countersued, alleging Krivicke stole material and information to create its life-sized sex dolls Yvette and Adam.
Abyss says it will seek a court injunction next month to stop Krivicke from selling his dolls.
Aussie woman jailed over cheeseball slay
CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian woman who ran down and killed a man who threw cheese-flavored snacks at her car was jailed for 25 years.
Sydney woman Sarah May Ward intended to injure Eli Westlake for throwing the snacks at her vehicle, judge Roderick Howie told the New South Wales Supreme Court, describing the 21-year-old’s murder as “a senseless act of anger.”
“She clearly wanted to teach the young men a lesson,” the Australian Associated Press quoted judge Howie as saying as he sentenced Ward to jail for a minimum 18 years.
The jury was told Ward, 39, had drunk two bottles of wine and used cannabis, amphetamine drugs and anti-depressants before getting into her car in Sydney’s northern suburbs on June 7, 2008.
She decided impulsively to use the vehicle as a weapon after Westlake threw the snacks at her car as a joke while walking home with his brother and a group of friends.
Man steals 45 fire hydrants
SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) – A Riverside County man was arrested for allegedly stealing dozens of fire hydrants to sell for scrap. Authorities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties say the 45-year-old suspect stole 45 hydrants.
They believe he posed as a repairman, shut off the water, unbolted the 80- to 100-pound hydrants and hauled them away in broad daylight.
Authorities said they got a break when a water district employee in San Bernardino became suspicious of a man in an orange safety vest driving a white utility truck — the description witnesses gave for the hydrant thief.
Authorities said the hydrants were cut up and sold for scrap for about $1.60 a pound but they cost up to $1,800 to replace.
Unfit for job as cop
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia’s Papua if you have had your organ enlarged. You won’t get it, according to local media reports citing the Papua police chief.
An applicant “will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged,” said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto.
“If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the military.”
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