Friday, October 22, 2010

Moron kicks Gumby, then posts it to Youtube

It was a YouTube moment that John Scamlon probably would prefer to forget: Scamlon, dressed in a Gumby costume and waving to passersby on Miller Road, is attacked and kicked in the groin by another man.

But that YouTube video was the key to locating and arresting the attacker, thanks to some out-of-the-box thinking and online research by a Flint Township Police Department communications officer.

An Owosso teenager has been charged with misdemeanor assault in the Friday incident.


Read more here.

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