Willard Burgess, 83, of California was at his La Puenta house when a suspect police were chasing stood on his roof, refusing their orders to come down for hours, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Tim Murakami. The suspect was jumping on several rooftops in the neighborhood evading police.

Burgess, finally fed up with the ordeal, eventually grabbed his neighbor’s ladder and told officers he was climbing onto the roof, KABC reported.

“That sucker’s coming off,” he promised police.

The grandfather then shoved the man off his roof, ending the hours-long standoff. It’s unclear whether the unidentified man, was seriously injured. Police said he was taken to the hospital for a mental health and physical health evaluation.

“You come to my house, you don’t have to worry about him because I’ll be all over it ’cause I’m going to load up,” Burgess told KABC.

Burgess’ granddaughter, Ashley Wrenn, recorded cell phone video of the moment Burgess tossed the man off his roof. “It was a crazy morning,” she said.

“I tell everybody: ‘Just because you’re old, that don’t mean you got to sit down. As long as you’re able to move, move,” Burgess later told the news station.

Nathan French, 19, took to the highest peak in England and Wales in his Superman underwear to raise money for charity. Unfortunately, French climbed the peak wearing only undergarments and required medical assistance on the way back down. Paramedics were called to meet the Liverpool student after his descent.

French, of Halewood, Merseyside, decided to take on the challenge to raise money for a dementia charity after his grandmother developed the condition.

He said he became unwell at the summit after completing the 3,559ft climb on 9 September and returned to the bottom on the Snowdon Mountain Railway.

“I keep fit and I am healthy but I was taken by surprise by how cold I got,” he said. “I was shaking uncontrollably and they covered me in tin foil. On the train down I started to feel really sick and I started going deaf and my eyesight started going funny. I started getting really emotional so my dad, who was with me, decided to call an ambulance. The paramedic who met me checked me over and said I was showing early signs of hypothermia.” he added.

The Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed it responded to the call. “We sent a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle and a first responder and a man was checked over at the scene, but did not require hospital treatment,” a spokesman added.

Phil Benbow, of North Wales Mountain Rescue Association, said they were seeing more unprepared visitors. Benbow, who also volunteers with Llanberis Mountain Rescue – the team that covers Snowdon – said while it was “laudable” to undertake charity treks up Snowdon, it was essential that people dressed appropriately for the conditions, planned their trip and checked the weather forecast.

MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges he threatened a judge by sending her a letter including a picture of movie cannibal Hannibal Lecter.
Gregg Tchirkow, of Monessen, claimed at Thursday’s preliminary hearing that the picture was a “cry for help” and a way to tell the court he needed psychiatric help when transitioning from prison to freedom. Lecter is the criminally insane psychiatrist who helps an FBI agent track a serial killer in the film “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Westmoreland County Judge Meagan Bilik-Defazio sent Tchirkow to prison for 18 to 36 months in 2015 for growing marijuana in his home. Prosecutors contend the letter was sent in retaliation and to terrorize the judge.
Tchirkow, acting as his own attorney during a contentious two-hour hearing, called charges of retaliation, stalking and terroristic threats “ridiculously frivolous” but couldn’t persuade the district judge who heard that case that he meant no harm with the letter he sent to Bilik-Defazio from state prison in July.
He even invoked the name of the actor who played Lecter and offered a play on words on one of the movie’s most memorable lines, “Put the lotion in the basket,” in arguing his case Thursday.
“First of all, I’d like to subpoena Sir Anthony Hopkins,” Tchirkow told the court. “Did you put the motion in the basket?”
In the movie, a vicious serial killer named Buffalo Bill makes one of his victims rub lotion on her skin to keep is soft so he can, eventually, kill her and use the skin to create a female body suit for himself.
Tchirkow promised to fight the charges at trial, saying he knew he was “doomed from the beginning” because a judge is the alleged victim.