A Florida woman was duped into changing an adult man’s diapers and bottle feeding him for three months when she thought he was disabled and needed care.

Janet Schulte of Melbourne said she agreed for $600 a week to look after the 40-something, disabled man whose brother placed an ad on Craigslist seeking care, Florida Today reports.

The brother, who only communicated with Schulte by phone, told her his sibling had diminished mental capacity but was able to come to her house on his own because he lived with an aunt nearby and knew the neighborhood.

She later discovered the man and the brother were the same person after her husband noticed some personality changes in the supposedly disabled man. Schulte’s husband then followed him and saw the man get into a car two blocks from their house and drive away.

Schulte said never once during the three months of care did the man break character while she “rubbed his head while he was falling asleep,” or changed his diapers. She added that his behavior was never sexual in any way.

When confronted by police, the man, who was not identified or charged, admitted to the scam but blamed it on post-traumatic stress.

Authorities are continuing the investigation into the case.

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Originally posted 2009-08-11 09:33:59.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A surveillance picture released by police Wednesday afternoon shows a man armed with what appears to be a small Klingon sword, holding up a 7-Eleven convenience store.

That same man robbed another 7-Eleven store store a half-hour later, and remains at large, Colorado Springs police Lt. David Whitlock said.

The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white man in his 20s, wearing a black mask, black jacket, and blue jeans, entered the store with a weapon the clerk recognized from the Star Trek TV series.

The robber demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.

A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N. Union Blvd., where a man matching the previous description entered the store with a similar weapon. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused and the robber “transported” himself out of the store on foot.

Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon-type sword, called a “bat’leth.”

Neither clerk was injured in the robberies.

The Startrek.com Web site describes the Klingon weapon as crescent-shaped and about a yard long. However, the weapon that the man was wielding appears to be smaller than that. The bat’leth has points on both ends, two points in between and a handle on the outside.

Police said they don’t know if the sword used by the robber was made of metal.

Klingons were warlike enemies of the good-guy United Federation of Planets in the original “Star Trek” series but were allies in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

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Originally posted 2009-02-05 10:57:46.

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MILFORD, Conn. – It’s no April Fools joke. The baby bunny really does have two noses. A Connecticut pet shop worker found the nosey bunny in a delivery of 6-week-old dwarf rabbits that arrived at the Milford store last week. Both noses have two nostrils. The owner of the Purr-Fect Pets shop says he’s never seen anything like it in 25 years in the business. He says the bunny eats, drinks and hops around like the rest of the litter.

Beardsley Zoo director Gregg Dancho says the deformity could be the result of too much inbreeding or the parents’ exposure to pesticides or poisons.

Store workers have begun a naming contest with Cyrano de Bergerac and Deuce among the contenders so far.

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Originally posted 2009-04-02 09:54:37.

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