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  • Sunbathers fear death as plane clashes and falls in front of them

    Sunbathers fear death as plane clashes and falls in front of them

    A small plane made a stunning crash landing in front of stunned beachgoers in the US state of New Hampshire, then somersaulted into the water.

    The aeroplane is captured in a video taken by one of the people enjoying themselves on Hampton Beach on Saturday as it slowly approaches the sea before flipping over its own nose.

    Just after noon, emergency personnel were sent to the location where they discovered the car bobbing around 30 yards (27 metres) offshore.

    The pilot was helped out of the sea by New Hampshire State Lifeguards, who were unharmed. There was no one else on the aircraft with them.

    The cause of the collision was not immediately apparent.

    The aeroplane was flying a flag, however it was not specified what it said, according to local TV news station WMUR.

    According to Liane McNamara, a local woman who has been recording her brother on the beach, the incident occurred just outside of where people were swimming.

    Some individuals asked, “Is this a joke?,” she continued. Is it an act? It seemed quite bizarre. Even now, it seems absurd.

    According to the newspaper, Eugene Grey, a local businessman and owner of Sky Lines Banners & Biplanes, owned the aircraft.

    The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated it would conduct an inquiry, according to Hampton Fire & Rescue.

    Deputy Fire Chief William Paine came to the incident and stayed there until the FAA Investigator arrived and cleared the area, according to a statement.

    The owner of the property was given the plane once more by an FAA investigator.

    This morning at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, a second banner plane crashed into the ocean further along the east coast.

    The pilot was brought to a local hospital for medical attention.

  • Police arrest elderly Alabama woman over unpaid $77 trash bill

    Police in the US state of Alabama have arrested an 82-year-old woman over an outstanding rubbish bill.

    Martha Louis Menefield said she was confused as officers handcuffed her and arrested her on Sunday.

    The amount that led to her arrest was reportedly $77.80 (£63.28).

    In a statement on Facebook, City of Valley police said they treated Ms Menefield respectfully and that they had notified her several times that she had not paid the bill for three months.

    “Ms Menefield was treated respectfully by our officers in the performance of their duties and was released on a bond as prescribed by the violation,” said Mike Reynolds, police chief for the City of Valley in Alabama, in the statement, which has drawn significant criticism online.

    People from Alabama and across the country denounced the police department in the comments section.

    “Everybody who played a role in arresting this 82-year-old Valley, Alabama resident must be held accountable for their actions,” wrote Donald Watkins, a former attorney in the state, in one example.

    “You’re not kidding?” she asked the officer. But when the police explained that he was indeed there to arrest her over the unpaid bill, Ms Menefield said, “I was upset because I didn’t know why they would come and arrest me.”

    Once in handcuffs, one of the officers “kind of whispered it to me: ‘Don’t cry’”, she said. She recalled telling an officer: “How would you feel if they came and arrested your grandmama?”

    Following her arrest, she was taken to the Valley police department and temporarily held before she was released on bond.

    “I was in a little cage-like thing at the police station,” Ms Menefield told CBS News. “And I said, ‘Y’all put me in this cage? You ought to be ashamed of yourself.”

    Mr Reynolds did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.

    In his Facebook statement, Mr Reynolds wrote that city officials had attempted to contact Ms Menefield about her bill multiple times.

    He said that she had received a citation in August for the unpaid bills, and that the city’s code enforcement department “tried to call Ms Menefield several times and attempted to contact her in person at her residence.”

    Officials left a notice on her door, Mr Reynolds said, providing contact information and an advisory that she was required to appear in court in September.

    “A warrant for Failure to Pay Trash was issued when she did not appear in court,” Mr Reynolds said, adding that Ms Menefield also had her trash services suspended three times in the past two years.

    Ms Menefield told CBS News that she did not know the bill in question had not been paid, and that she had never received a notice to appear in court.