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Close encounters of the nerd kind: Smiling troopers in 2 states pull over 'out of this world' vehicle heading to UFO Festival
Smiling troopers in two states performed traffic stops in recent days on a spaceship-like vehicle heading to the UFO Festival in — of course — Roswell, New Mexico, Fox News reported.
A couple of close encounters of the nerd kind, one might say, to borrow from a sitcom episode from the last century.
The first took place in Missouri, as the Crawford County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post last Friday about a pair of "friendly humanoids, who have come in peace."
'He was also warned about our strict enforcement of warp speed on the interstate and to keep his phasers on stun only while traveling.'
The sheriff's office noted that the traffic stop "was a little out of this world," but law enforcement was assured that the vehicle's occupants — as the below dashcam image indicates — were "heading west to Roswell, NM for a festival."
The sheriff's office added in its post that "there was a brief conversation about his out of space, correction, out of state registration, but he assured us that he would take care of that issue when he returned to Krypton. He was also warned about our strict enforcement of warp speed on the interstate and to keep his phasers on stun only while traveling."
Fox News, citing an email from the sheriff's office, said the vehicle's driver was observed committing a lane violation; the vehicle's Indiana tag also was expired.
Considering the "wind/traffic of the interstate plus the size and aerodynamics of his vehicle, he understood that the potential for lane violations existed," a Crawford County Sheriff's Office official added in a statement to Fox News.
"Given the good nature of the driver and the interesting nature of the vehicle, we opted to provide a fun social media post for our community," the official added in the statement, the cable news network said. "It was a great interaction, and we wished him safe travels to his destination."
There was a second close encounter with same vehicle Monday in Oklahoma, Fox News said.
"It's not every day you pull over a UFO," the Oklahoma Highway Patrol wrote Tuesday on its Facebook page. "Trooper Ryan Vanvleck #722 pulled over this vehicle on the Turner Turnpike yesterday for an obstructed tag. They were on their way to a UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico. Trooper Vanvleck let them go with a warning."
The event to which the vehicle's occupants apparently were headed looks to be the "UFO Festival" set to take place in Roswell from July 5 through July 7. The annual gathering promises attendees that they can participate in a "cosmic extravaganza filled with out-of-this-world events, including the renowned Roswell Galacticon, family fun at the AlienFest, the gripping Roswell Incident, the captivating Roswell Film Festival, and enlightening experiences at the International UFO Museum and Research Center."
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Why didn't the Pentagon order the Chinese surveillance balloon to be shot down before it got to the nuclear arsenal?Mother gets 'weird feeling,' checks live video of her son's preschool classroom — and catches teachers abusing students, ages 2 and 3
Two preschool teachers were arrested and charged with cruelty to children after a mother of a student in the Roswell, Georgia, preschool classroom caught the teachers on live video allegedly abusing other students.
What are the details?
Gloria Barghi told WXIA-TV she picked up her phone last Thursday to check on her son using the live video feed inside the Parker-Chase preschool classroom.
"I just told my husband, I said, 'I've got a weird feeling; I've got to check on our son,'" Barghi recalled to the station. "Call it mother's intuition. I said, 'I just want to see if he's okay.' So I picked up the phone, I pulled up the app. I picked it up right when the lead teacher was assaulting the first victim."
WXIA said video shows students, ages two and three, sitting on a rug when one teacher approaches a student, kneels, and gets right in the student's face.
A second teacher then walks up from behind, steps on another child's hand, then uses her knee to shove the back of the student who's face to face with the first teacher.
The first teacher then uses her index finger to tap the forehead of the first child.
What happened next?
WXIA said Barghi and her husband, Brant Duncan, raced to the preschool, checked on their son, demanded to see the entire video of what they'd just seen live, and then viewed it.
"It was intentional. It was thought out. It was malicious," Barghi told the station. "These are defenseless little kids."
The parents told WXIA school administrators didn't seem to believe it.
"It almost came across as defensive, not believing that it really happened. They had no policies in place; there was no if-this-happens-these-are-the-procedures-we-go-by, to the point that I had to demand that the teachers be removed from the classroom," Duncan told the station. "And we would not leave until they were removed. The director looked at me and even questioned, 'So you want me to remove them?' And I said, 'You better believe it. Remove them now.'"
Duncan and Barghi also called police, and detectives watched the video and later arrested Zeina Alostwani, 40, and Soriana Briceno, 19, for cruelty to children in the first degree, WSB-TV reported.
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Fulton County Jail records accessed Thursday show Alostwani was released Wednesday, presumably after posting a $75,000 bond, and that Briceno remained behind bars. WSB said Briceno was not given bond due to her asylum and immigration status.
'My stomach was just in my throat'
WSB spoke to the mother of one of the young victims; she didn't want to be identified.
“It was a matter of seconds, and [I] knew what we had seen was deliberate, and my stomach was just in my throat at that point,” the mother told WSB.
Several other victims at the school have come forward since the arrests, WSB added, and now police are looking at a possible larger investigation.
“So we have several weeks of video to go back and review to make sure there are no other instances of this kind of behavior,” a Roswell police representative told WSB.
Anything else?
The preschool’s parent company told WSB the teachers in question were fired and that the teachers carried out "inappropriate disciplinary actions."
“While we are extremely grateful that the children are well, we take this matter seriously, and our investigation is ongoing,” officials said, according to WSB. “We expect our staff to adhere to the highest standards of care, and any failure to do so will not be tolerated.”
In addition, WXIA said an official with the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning confirmed the agency is investigating "allegations of inappropriate discipline."
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