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Tall carjacker foiled by small car

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A New York woman said an attempted carjacker took off on foot because he probably wouldn't have fit into her small car.

Anne Justima, 31, said she was driving home Monday evening with her husband, Peter, 33, in the passenger seat when a knife-wielding man walked up to their black Volkswagen, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

"We stopped at the light, and he came right over," Peter Justima said. "He was 6-foot, thin."

The man forced the driver's side window down and shoved his arm into the car, cutting Anne Justima's hand with the knife and snatching her iPhone.

Anne Justima said she relented to the attacker's demand she vacate the car and kicked the suspect upon exiting. She said the man then took a look at her vehicle and ran off.

"I'm small -- he cannot fit in my car," she said. "And I don't think he could drive the stick shift!"

Justima said the thief ran off with her iPhone. Police are investigating.

Lawsuit: Woman pressured into buying car

CLIVE, Iowa, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A 77-year-old Iowa woman said in her lawsuit against a car dealership she was pressured into buying a new car when she only wanted an oil change.

Audrey McKnight of Carlisle said she took her 2006 Hyundai Sonata to an auto dealership in Clive for an oil change Oct. 21 and a saleswoman pressured her into looking at cars despite her protests that she could not afford a trade-in, the Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported Tuesday.

"I told them I cannot do a bigger payment," McKnight said. "I just kept telling that. They didn't care."

McKnight said her repeated protests that she had to leave were ignored and sales staff aggressively showed her cars for eight hours until she agreed to "try out" a 2008 Hyundai Azera with the promise that she could return it the next day if she was not satisfied. However, she said the dealership told her the next day that the sale was final and she could not trade back for her 2006 Sonata.

Max Holmes, owner of the dealership, said his business "tries to be straightforward and honest" and he is working to find a resolution to the lawsuit.

"The important thing to me is that, since the day after she purchased her car, we've been working with her to try to accomplish her objectives," Holmes said. "We still will, and that's really our first and only objective here -- to end up with a satisfied customer."

Billboard seeks potential dates

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida man whose Web site promises $1,000 to a matchmaker who can help him find love has expanded his campaign to the side of the highway.

John Smith, 41, put up a billboard at the Michigan Street exit off westbound Interstate 4 in Orlando advertising his Web site, HelpJohnFindLove.com, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported Tuesday.

The billboard, which went up Saturday and is scheduled to remain in place for a month, implores potential matchmakers to submit photos and biographies of available women to the Web site. Smith said submissions will close in April when he turns 42. The women's information will then be posted on the site for visitors to vote on their favorites.

Smith said the winning girl will be offered the opportunity to become his serious, long-term girlfriend and the matchmaker who refers her will be awarded $1,000. The Web site says the prize will be paid in singles "to commemorate John's former single status."

Dentist plagued with phone sex calls

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida dentist said his office is bombarded with 400 to 500 phone calls a day from an unknown source playing a recording of a 1-900 phone sex line.

Dr. Robert Thousand said his St. Johns County office estimated the calls are costing him tens of thousands of dollars due to the lines being too busy for many patients to get their calls through, WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, reported Tuesday.

"If you are gay, press 1. If you are a lesbian, press 2," the recording begins. Thousand and his staff said the rest of the recording is too obscene to repeat.

The dentist said he does not know who would want to target his office.

"No enemies come to mind," he said. "Nothing has changed in our lives dramatically that would have provoked this."

Authorities have been unable to trace the origin of the calls and AT&T, the office's service provider, said the company "has been able to stop many of the unwanted incoming calls to Dr. Thousand's business line. We take this very seriously and are continuing to investigate the matter in order to identify the source of these calls and stop them."