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Jon to spend winnings on sending dad to visit dying brother in Oz: Kind-hearted game show winner Jon Goodall will use his prize money to send his father half-way round the world to see his dying brother. The self-employed window cleaner received £10,000 when he won the action-packed BBC1 show Total Wipeout. Immediately after winning the show, the 34 year old, from Roath, in Cardiff, called his parents to tell them to pack their bags. He had planned to send them to India – where dad Joss is from – until his father said he would like to see his sick half-brother Collin Scott in Australia. Collin, 84, who lives in a Sydney suburb, is suffering from diabetes and gangrene. The pair last saw each other seven years ago – they were reunited in the mid-1990s after 48 years apart. The family was split up in India when Joss’ mother died in 1946. “What Jon has done for us is take all the stress out by saying the money is there as soon as you need the tickets.”

Seattle Window Cleaner Shot By Police Wants To Know Why?: A man who was shot in the face by Seattle police in May is speaking out for the first time and wants to know why officers shot him. Seattle police were called to an apartment at Greenwood Avenue North and North 125th Street in Seattle back in May for a report of a possibly suicidal man who may be holding his son hostage.
Nathaniel Caylor was the man the report was referring to. Caylor insists he was not suicidal and that his only gun was an old shotgun dismantled and in a closet. "I've fought long and hard to make it to 29, and there's no way I could take my own life, ever. I'm a high-rise window cleaner. I've had millions of opportunities to do that and it's never even been an issue,” Caylor said. He said he was despondent after the sudden death of his longtime girlfriend and mother to his 20-month-old son Wyatt. He was sad and wanted to be left alone, so when he didn’t return phone calls an out-of-state brother asked police check on Caylor. When officers arrived he wouldn't let them in. "The reason why I didn’t let them in is I wanted to be alone. I didn’t want a bunch of uneducated jerks out there who had nothing to offer me. They weren't therapists, they weren’t grief counselors, they couldn’t understand the pain I was feeling. They couldn’t imagine what I was going through," he said.
Police persisted and they said Caylor threatened them. “The individual said he had a gun on the table, out of sight of the officers and said if you come in it's gonna be a bloodbath," said Sean Whitcomb of the Seattle Police Department in May, just after the incident. Police talked with Caylor in the patio behind his apartment. At one point when he tried to re-enter his apartment an officer fired one shot, hitting the side of his face, Whitcomb said. Police said they feared he was going for a gun. The bullet hit Caylor in the jaw and exited through the opposite side. "The fact is he shot me in the face and I was unarmed," Caylor said. An X-ray showed his jawbone replaced by something that looks like a chain. "It's incredibly painful all the time," he said. More than the physical agony, Caylor said he is hurt by the knowledge that he was shot within view of his son.
"And fell literally at my son's feet spitting out pieces of my jaw and teeth and tongue and blood all the while my son's standing over me sobbing like I'd never seen him cry like that in my life. It will haunt me forever," Caylor said. Nathaniel's father, Steve Caylor, said he and his wife are livid that a police welfare check resulted in their son being shot. "I think they grossly misinterpreted whatever was going on that day. There's no way that Wyatt was in danger from anyone except perhaps from the police," Steve Caylor said. "I feel they went in with blinders on their eyes. They had a preconceived notion, they had expectations and they acted on those. They didn’t see reality," said Nathaniel’s mother, Anne MacAlpin.
After undergoing surgery and spending a month at Harborview Medical Center, Nathaniel was transferred to jail and charged with criminal mistreatment, unlawful imprisonment and felony harassment. In a plea deal that would allow him to leave jail and return to his son, Caylor pleaded guilty to harassment last month. He said he felt trapped. "I have these cops all ganging up on me saying one thing and I have no one to say anything for me," Nathaniel said. Now out, he is starting the process of getting his son back. He still doesn’t understand why police shot him. It's a question he asked the officer right after it happened.
“I was holding my face and talking like this and saying ‘Why did you shoot me?’ He just told me to be quiet. I said you could have tazed me or maced me. He just kept saying be quiet," Nathaniel said. Seattle police continue to defend what happened that day. The officers had reason to believe Caylor might have a gun and they feared Nathaniel was a threat to himself, the child, or to the officers themselves. An internal police shooting review board found the shooting to be justified.

JB’s to clean school windows free of charge: JB’s Professional Window Cleaning Service is helping the Steamboat Springs School District by cleaning the windows at all the schools and Horizons for free this year, JB’s owner Jon Smalley said. JB’s has been cleaning windows in Steamboat for 33 years and has eight employees, Smalley wrote in an e-mail. The company usually offers the schools window-cleaning services at cost. But the schools’ budgets were tight, so JB’s is providing cleaning for free at each Steamboat campus and at Christian Heritage School, Smalley said.

Lyndon V. "Lynn" Fleming, 69, of Great Falls, a Navy veteran, died Aug. 6 at a local hospice facility from injuries he received in a fall. Lyndon was a window washer and served a great many downtown businesses throughout the years. He also had worked at the Meadow Lark Country Club.

Licence fees go up/Scotland: Highland councillors have approved increases in public entertainment licence fees, which may mean rises in ticket prices for the region’s biggest music events. The increases, which are also being applied to street traders, window cleaners and tattooists, have been prompted because of a shortfall in council income from licensing. Under the current fee system, the council would have a deficit of £33,788 each year.

CANADA - RCMP warn of fraudster window cleaners: Revelstoke RCMP are warning the business community about a couple of cases of fraud over the last few days. Seems some men have been claiming to be with a window washing company, and invoicing businesses for work they never did. Mounties have two suspect descriptions. Tne is a 40 year old caucasian man, six feet tall with a shaved head. The other is a five foot 8 man, late 20's with olive skin and a thin build. If you're approached by anyone representing Clearview Window Cleaning, you're asked to call the police right away.

UK - Window cleaner conman is targeting elderly in Grantham: A Conman is posing as a window cleaner to steal from pensioners in Grantham, say police. On Thursday (Aug 13), police received five separate reports about the man from people living in Manthorpe Road, Grantley Street and Agnes Street area of town. The criminal is knocking on people's doors and then telling them he has cleaned their windows in the past couple of days and is demanding payment for the work. Police believe he is deliberately targeting pensioners and vulnerable people. Grantham sector inspector Nigel Storey said: "What this man is trying to do is fraud and we suspect he is also looking to enter properties and steal as well. We need people to ring us immediately with a description of this man if he approaches them. "Under no circumstances should anyone give him any money. Just shut the door on him and call us straight away."

Window cleaning uses less water than taking a shower (Canada): While the Comox Valley is in Stage 2 water restrictions few residents are aware of how this affects businesses. As stated on the Regional District Website residents cannot wash sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, exterior windows, or exterior building surfaces; however, businesses in the valley are exempt from this bylaw. Dwayne Robertson, owner of Shine-Eze Window Care, continues to work during this period, but has adjusted his business to restrict his water usage. On average Dwayne's crew of six uses 8 to 10 gallons of water a day - about the same or less than an average shower and far less than what a business such as a restaurant would use in a day. Dwayne also offers siding cleaning as part of his business but suggests customers not to have it cleaned during the summer months when water usage is a concern. In light of the Stage 2 restrictions Dwayne urges you to stick with the professionals when cleaning windows. Dwayne is offering $10 off any interior/exterior window cleaning booked during the month of August. He can be contacted by phone at 250-897-6282.