Duct Tape

Giant Food in Dorsey's Search was robbed Sunday night at gunpoint by a man who returned after making a purchase, Howard County police said.Police said a customer entered the supermarket on Dorsey Hall Drive shortly before 11 p.m. and bought several items, including duct tape.Five minutes after leaving, he returned, telling employees he left something behind. He then produced a semiautomatic handgun and the duct tape he had purchased."He told the male employee to duct-tape the two female employees," said Sgt. Morris Carroll, Howard County police spokesman.

Is there any way to get rid of warts other than duct tape? I have more than 20 of these ugly things on my hands, and I can't imagine trying to get on with daily life with that much duct tape on. I have had these warts frozen off, burnt off and surgically removed, but they still grow back. I am desperate, but I must say the duct tape really does not appeal to me. There are many home remedies for warts besides duct tape. We will skip some of the stranger ones. That still leaves taping a piece of banana peel to the wart, with the inside of the peel against the skin.

Duct tape stretched across road damages vehicleA Howard County police officer driving on Route 144 early Sunday morning drove into a strip of duct tape that had been stretched across the road. The tape bent the car's antennae, which struck the windshield and cracked it.The officer was not injured, but police said the stunt could have seriously hurt someone."That's extremely dangerous," said police spokesman Sgt. Gary L. Gardner. "Even if kids think it's a childhood prank, they may not realize the implications."

SALISBURY State police and the Wicomico Bureau of Investigation said yesterday that a Salisbury man died after he was bound with duct tape during a home invasion. Police said three masked men forced their way into a home in the 600 block of Dennis St. in Salisbury just before midnight Friday. Police said the men bound Brookes Harmon, 27, who was visiting the home, with duct tape and ordered everyone else into a back room. Witnesses told police the men did not display weapons but after they left 20 minutes later, Harmon was found unresponsive, and they called 911. He was pronounced dead at Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

An Ellicott City family was bound with duct tape in their home last week by thieves who stole cash and other valuables, police said. A woman and her three children were at home in the 8500 block of Ellicott View Road about 11:30 p.m. Saturday when two masked men armed with handguns entered through an unlocked door, said Cpl. Lisa Myers, a department spokeswoman. The thieves bound the victims' hands with duct tape and then went through the home, taking an undisclosed amount of cash, jewelry and other valuables, Myers said.

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Kicking back TOSS OFF the crazy quilt of modern life and wiggle your toes in the sun. Last week's solstice makes it official: Summer time, and the living's easy. Singing cicadas, rich-red tomatoes, lush lilies, sticky-sweet breezes: They all conspire to help us busy folk slow down. This is especially good for children, who, experts say, are becoming less able to entertain themselves by doing "nothing" (something, by the way, most adults swear was an art when they were kids). Computers, television, camps, lessons, activities so compete for youngsters' time that fun stuff like bike riding and cloud watching get lost in the crowd.

Two men wearing uniforms resembling those worn by Baltimore police officers forced their way into a Southeast Baltimore apartment yesterday, handcuffed the owner and repeatedly beat him, police said.George Vasiliades, 53, who owns the Sip & Bite diner in the 2200 block of Boston St., was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital for injuries to his head and face and released late yesterday.Agent Robert W. Weinhold Jr., a police spokesman, said investigators believe that robbery was the motive.But they were unsure if anything had been taken from the apartment -- above the diner -- because interviews with Mr. Vasiliades were incomplete.

As Katy Perry sang raunchy songs and simulated sex acts on the Merriweather stage, she had some pipsqueaks in her audience, including Howard County Executive Ken Ulman's two little girls. "There were moments when my wife [Jaki] and I looked at each other and hoped that the girls didn’t comprehend the lyrics," Ulman said. "But it was a great show and they were into it, dancing the whole time. It was like one big Candy Land party. " Ulman said the concert was a little like "Madagascar" and other kids' movies that have jokes only grown-ups can grasp.

Police today sought two men who invaded the exclusive home of a Greenspring Valley couple yesterday and terrorized them before escaping with an estimated $200,000 in jewelry, furs, cash and a luxury car.Police said Sheldon Goldseker, 51, and his wife, Shelley, 41, were handcuffed by the robbers -- one of whom was armed with a chrome-plated handgun -- and bound with duct tape.One of the men also sprayed a chemical irritant in Mrs. Goldseker's face before the pair fled in the victim's black Lexus automobile.