REALLY STUPID PARENTS!!!

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EVANSVILLE, IND. -- A Vincennes man convict of hiding crack cocaine from police during a traffic stop by stuffing it in his son's diaper has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Walter H. Martin, 30, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Evansville.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Brookman argued that Martin should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison, given the case's aggravating factors.

Those included the use of a child in a crime _ in Martin's case, the use of a diaper-clad baby to try to hide crack cocaine.

Martin was convicted in March on charges of dealing in crack cocaine.

He was pulled over in June 2003 for speeding on U.S. 41. His wife was in the car, as were two children, aged 8 and 18 months.

The couple was arrested after police officers found marijuana hidden in the woman's socks.

When another trooper took the children to his squad car while the parents were being booked at the county jail, he noticed the baby boy apparently needed changing.

The officer found inside the diaper a plastic bag filled with 5 ounces of crack cocaine that prosecutors said was worth about $140,000 on the street.

Police also reported finding a loaded gun in the car within reach of the children.

Information from: The Evansville Courier & Press

 

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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - After shopping at Wal-Mart and Home Depot, Playboy's latest craving is for McDonald's -- or rather for the women who work there.

Playboy.com is set to announce Wednesday that it is seeking America's sexiest McDonald's (MCD: Research, Estimates) employees "to serve a little shake with their fries" and pose for the upcoming "Women of McDonald's" online pictorial.

The online publication of the adult men's magazine has previously run pictorials of the women of Enron, the collapsed energy trading company, of Starbucks (SBUX: Research, Estimates), the No. 1 coffee chain, of Wal-Mart (WMT: Research, Estimates), the world's largest retailer and of home improvement chain Home Depot (HD: Research, Estimates).

"We're going after companies with an enormous brand name where there is also a likelihood of finding the 'girl next door' who has the potential to become a model," said John Thomas, editor of Playboy.com.

"With these pictorials, we're also picking the unexpected companies because it adds fun and drama. When you go to Home Depot or Wal-Mart to shop, you don't think of their employees appearing in Playboy. That zig-zag mentality works very well."

So well, apparently that the Wal-Mart and Home Depot pictorials turned into two of the Web site's most successful features to date, Thomas said.

"When we first announced the Wal-Mart pictorial, the news media didn't take us seriously and thought we were doing this as a joke,'" said Thomas. "But the response to the features has been tremendous. Some of the women even told us that this was the most glamorous thing that has happened to them."

For those employees at McDonald's interested in applying for the feature, Playboy.com said they can send a head shot and a full-body shot, bikini-clad or nude, and a few sentences about themselves no later than Sept. 29.

Playboy.com said it doesn't matter if the employee is a part-time cashier or a corporate officer. But they will have to supply a copy of a government-issued ID proving they are 18 or older, and a recent pay stub to show they indeed work at McDonald's.

McDonald's officials were not immediately available for comment.